Synthesis and biological activity of human inhibin-like peptide-(1-31).

abstract：:Protein kinases play key roles in the induction by human interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) of specific gene expression and biological activity in various human cell lines. We now report that IFN-alpha increased the 7-kb transcript for the epsilon isotype of protein kinase C (PKC-epsilon) and the cellular content of PKC-eps...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wang C,Constantinescu SN,MacEwan DJ,Strulovici B,Dekker LV,Parker PJ,Pfeffer LM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid. The biomagnification of BMAA through the Guam ecosystem fits a classic triangle of increasing concentrations of toxic compounds up the food chain. However, because BMAA is ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murch SJ,Cox PA,Banack SA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of what is a perceptual object is one of the most central and also controversial issues in cognitive science. According to the topological approach to perceptual organization, the core intuitive notion of an object--the holistic identity preserved over shape-changing transformations--may be characterized ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zhou K,Luo H,Zhou T,Zhuo Y,Chen L

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for increasing the length of DNA sequence data that can be read off a polyacrylamide gel are described. We have developed a rapid way to pour a buffer concentration gradient gel that, by altering the vertical band separation on an autoradiograph, allows more sequence to be obtained from a gel. We also show...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Biggin MD,Gibson TJ,Hong GF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogeny of marine Rhodophyta has been inferred by a number of methods from nucleotide sequences of nuclear genes encoding small subunit rRNA from 39 species in 15 orders. Sequence divergences are relatively large, especially among bangiophytes and even among congeners in this group. Subclass Bangiophycidae appears...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ragan MA,Bird CJ,Rice EL,Gutell RR,Murphy CA,Singh RK

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense granules of platelets contain a high content of diadenosine 5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A). We have previously demonstrated an antithrombotic effect of this compound in a live rabbit model. In the present study we find that certain synthetic Ap4A analogues are superior to Ap4A in inhibiting ADP-induced aggr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zamecnik PC,Kim B,Gao MJ,Taylor G,Blackburn GM

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The exemplary search capabilities of flying insects have established them as one of the most diverse taxa on Earth. However, we still lack the fundamental ability to quantify, represent, and predict trajectories under natural contexts to understand search and its applications. For example, flying insects have evolved ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kaushik PK,Renz M,Olsson SB

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decapeptide Boc-Aib-Glu(OBzl)-Leu-Aib-Ala-Leu-Aib-Ala-Lys(Z)-Aib-OMe (where Aib is alpha-aminoisobutyryl, Boc is t-butoxycarbonyl, OBzl is benzyl ester, and Z is benzyloxycarbonyl) illustrates a parallel zipper arrangement of interacting helical peptide columns. Head-to-tail NH...OC hydrog...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Karle IL,Flippen-Anderson JL,Uma K,Balaram P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of the number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws but often show strong deviations from such laws. Previously, these deviations were attributed to finite-time effects in a continuous-time branching process at the generic level. Inste...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chu J,Adami C

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) causes neurotoxicity related to an irreversible inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Management of this intoxication includes: (i) pretreatment with reversible blockers of AChE, (ii) blockade of muscarinic receptors with atropine, and (iii) facilitation of GABA(A) receptor signa...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Pibiri F,Kozikowski AP,Pinna G,Auta J,Kadriu B,Costa E,Guidotti A

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal-dominant disease characterized by the development of hundreds of adenomatous polyps of the colorectum. Approximately 80% of FAP patients can be shown to have truncating mutations of the APC gene. To determine the cause of FAP in the other 20% of patients, MAMA (mono...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Laken SJ,Papadopoulos N,Petersen GM,Gruber SB,Hamilton SR,Giardiello FM,Brensinger JD,Vogelstein B,Kinzler KW

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which cells select one of several specific programs of genetic information in development was examined in homoeotic mutant Antennapedia of Rappaport in Drosophila melanogaster. The results show that the alteration of determination from antenna to leg induced by this homoeotic mutation occurs in a popula...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Postlethwait JH,Schneiderman HA

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ipl (Tssc3) gene lies in an extended imprinted region of distal mouse chromosome 7, which also contains the Igf2 gene. Expression of Ipl is highest in placenta and yolk sac, where its mRNA is derived almost entirely from the maternal allele. Ipl encodes a small cytoplasmic protein with a pleckstrin-homology (PH) d...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Frank D,Fortino W,Clark L,Musalo R,Wang W,Saxena A,Li CM,Reik W,Ludwig T,Tycko B

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of thyroid hormone to the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) mediates important physiological effects. However, the transcriptional effects of TR mediated by the thyroid response element (TRE) cannot explain many actions of thyroid hormone. We postulate that TR can initiate rapid, non-TRE-mediated effects in th...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hiroi Y,Kim HH,Ying H,Furuya F,Huang Z,Simoncini T,Noma K,Ueki K,Nguyen NH,Scanlan TS,Moskowitz MA,Cheng SY,Liao JK

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercritical fluids are a unique class of nonaqueous media in which biocatalytic reactions can occur. The physical properties of supercritical fluids, which include gas-like diffusivities and liquid-like densities, can be predictably controlled with changing pressure. This paper describes how adjustment of pressure, ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kamat SV,Iwaskewycz B,Beckman EJ,Russell AJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of the v-Myc oncoprotein on gene expression in myelomonocytic cells. We find that v-Myc dramatically down-regulates the expression of myelomonocytic-specific genes, such as the chicken mim-1 and lysozyme genes, both of which are known targets for C/EBP transcription factors. We present ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Mink S,Mutschler B,Weiskirchen R,Bister K,Klempnauer KH

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral axonal branch of primary sensory neurons readily regenerates after peripheral nerve injury, but the central branch, which courses in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord, does not. However, if a peripheral nerve is transected before a spinal cord injury, sensory neurons that course in the dorsal column...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Neumann S,Skinner K,Basbaum AI

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two of them, the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain to Green Program (GTGP), are among the biggest programs in the world becau...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Liu J,Li S,Ouyang Z,Tam C,Chen X

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:mAbs against tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens have the potential to play a prominent role in cancer immunotherapy. However, it has not been possible to fully exploit the clinical utility of such antibodies primarily, because those of adequate affinity could be derived only from murine sources. To address this pr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Mao S,Gao C,Lo CH,Wirsching P,Wong CH,Janda KD

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (apoE), a plasma apolipoprotein that plays a central role in lipoprotein metabolism, is localized in the senile plaques, congophilic angiopathy, and neurofibrillary tangles of Alzheimer disease. Late-onset familial and sporadic Alzheimer disease patients have an increased frequency of one of the three...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Strittmatter WJ,Weisgraber KH,Huang DY,Dong LM,Salvesen GS,Pericak-Vance M,Schmechel D,Saunders AM,Goldgaber D,Roses AD

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent transgene insertions differ in expression based on their location in the genome; these position effects are of interest because they reflect the influence of genome organization on gene regulation. Position effects also represent potentially insurmountable obstacles to the rigorous functional comparison of...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Siegal ML,Hartl DL

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol-17beta administration to young (10- to 12-week-old) rabbits to produce the "estrogen-dominated" uterus increased the uterine contractile response to both oxytocin and methacholine in vitro. In "progesterone-dominated" uteri, obtained from rabbits that received progesterone for 4 days after estrogen pretreatm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nissenson R,Fluoret G,Hechter O

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are of major importance in information processing and memory formation in central neurons. Estradiol has been shown to induce an increase of dendritic spine density on hippocampal neurons in vivo and in vitro. The neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) recently has been implicated in ne...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murphy DD,Cole NB,Segal M

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormones and nutrients often induce genetic programs via signaling pathways that interface with gene-specific activators. Activation of the cAMP pathway, for example, stimulates cellular gene expression by means of the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) at Ser-133. Here, we us...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zhang X,Odom DT,Koo SH,Conkright MD,Canettieri G,Best J,Chen H,Jenner R,Herbolsheimer E,Jacobsen E,Kadam S,Ecker JR,Emerson B,Hogenesch JB,Unterman T,Young RA,Montminy M

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscope images were obtained of fractions of poly(1-tetradecene sulfone) and poly(cyclohexene sulfone) cast from very dilute solutions (0.007%, wt/vol) and rapidly freeze-dried on a mica surface. The samples were then vertically platinum-carbon (Pt-C) replicated with 9 +/- 0.3-A Pt-C and held ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ruben GC,Stockmayer WH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many nearshore fish and invertebrate populations are overexploited even when apparently coherent management structures are in place. One potential cause of mismanagement may be a poor understanding and accounting of stochasticity, particularly for stock recruitment. Many of the fishes and invertebrates that comprise n...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Siegel DA,Mitarai S,Costello CJ,Gaines SD,Kendall BE,Warner RR,Winters KB

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice immunized with myeloma proteins 315 or 460 made antibodies to the individually specific ("idiotypic") determinants of these proteins and suppressed growth of the corresponding transplanted tumor cells (MOPC-315 or MOPC-460). Stable, variant MOPC-315 tumors that produce only the light chain of protein 315 g...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lynch RG,Graff RJ,Sirisinha S,Simms ES,Eisen HN

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most higher plants develop severe toxicity symptoms when grown on ammonium (NH(4)(+)) as the sole nitrogen source. Recently, NH(4)(+) toxicity has been implicated as a cause of forest decline and even species extinction. Although mechanisms underlying NH(4)(+) toxicity have been extensively sought, the primary events ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Britto DT,Siddiqi MY,Glass AD,Kronzucker HJ

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual transduction in Drosophila is a G protein-coupled phospholipase C-mediated process that leads to depolarization via activation of the transient receptor potential (TRP) calcium channel. Inactivation-no-afterpotential D (INAD) is an adaptor protein containing PDZ domains known to interact with TRP. Immunoprecipi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Shieh BH,Zhu MY,Lee JK,Kelly IM,Bahiraei F

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00