Cloning of a human complement component C4 gene.

abstract：:The recent discovery of superconductivity with relatively high transition temperature (Tc) in the layered iron-based quaternary oxypnictides La[O(1-x)F(x)] FeAs by Kamihara et al. [Kamihara Y, Watanabe T, Hirano M, Hosono H (2008) Iron-based layered superconductor La[O1-xFx] FeAs (x = 0.05-0.12) with Tc = 26 K. J Am C...

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

authors： Hsu FC,Luo JY,Yeh KW,Chen TK,Huang TW,Wu PM,Lee YC,Huang YL,Chu YY,Yan DC,Wu MK

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The suggested role of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate as the "second messenger" in the neurite outgrowth from chick embryonic sensory ganglia mediated by nerve growth factor was examined. Although N(6),O(2)-dibutyryl adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate induces fiber outgrowth at concentrations of 1-5 mM, this re...

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

authors： Frazier WA,Ohlendorf CE,Boyd LF,Aloe L,Johnson EM,Ferrendelli JA,Bradshaw RA

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN) and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) were isolated from lysates of human eosinophil granules by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography on heparin-Sepharose. Radioimmunoassay, using monoclonal antibodies, of fractions from the heparin-Sepharose chromatography showed one peak...

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

authors： Gleich GJ,Loegering DA,Bell MP,Checkel JL,Ackerman SJ,McKean DJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing interest in collective phenomena such as "swarm intelligence" and "wisdom of the crowds," little is known about the mechanisms underlying decision-making in vertebrate animal groups. How do animals use the behavior of others to make more accurate decisions, especially when it is not possible to ide...

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

authors： Ward AJ,Sumpter DJ,Couzin ID,Hart PJ,Krause J

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research and theory suggest that two stable personality dimensions, extroversion and neuroticism, differentially influence emotional reactivity to a variety of pleasurable phenomena. Here, we use event-related functional MRI to address the putative neural and behavioral associations between humor appreciation...

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

authors： Mobbs D,Hagan CC,Azim E,Menon V,Reiss AL

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Costimulation is required for optimal T cell activation, yet it is unclear whether poxviruses dedicatedly subvert costimulation during infection. Here, we report that the secreted M2 protein encoded by cowpox virus (CPXV) specifically interacts with human and murine B7.1 (CD80) and B7.2 (CD86). We also show that M2 co...

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

authors： Wang X,Piersma SJ,Elliott JI,Errico JM,Gainey MD,Yang L,Nelson CA,Yokoyama WM,Fremont DH

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils were concentrated from the kidney, thyroid, and peripheral nerve of six patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). The fibril concentrates were solubilized in 6 M guanidine.HCl and fractionated on Sephadex G-100 columns. The elution profile of all FAP amyloid fibril concentrates revealed ...

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

authors： Costa PP,Figueira AS,Bravo FR

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C.B-17 severe combined immunodeficient (scid) mice carry the scid mutation and are severely deficient in both T cell- and B cell-mediated immunity, apparently as a result of defective V(D)J joining of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene elements. In the present studies, we have defined the tissue, cellular, an...

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

authors： Biedermann KA,Sun JR,Giaccia AJ,Tosto LM,Brown JM

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop species experienced strong selective pressure directed at genes controlling traits of agronomic importance during their domestication and subsequent episodes of selective breeding. Consequently, these genes are expected to exhibit the signature of selection. We screened 501 maize genes for the signature of select...

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

authors： Vigouroux Y,McMullen M,Hittinger CT,Houchins K,Schulz L,Kresovich S,Matsuoka Y,Doebley J

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A densely packed granular system is an example of an out-of-equilibrium system in the jammed state. It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether this class of systems can be described by concepts arising from equilibrium statistical mechanics, such as an effective temperature and compactivity. The measureme...

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

authors： Song C,Wang P,Makse HA

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that the T-cell compartment has more CD4 helper than CD8 cytotoxic T cells, and this is most evident looking at T-cell development in the thymus. However, it remains unknown how thymocyte development so favors CD4 lineage development. To identify the basis of this asymmetry, we analyzed dev...

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

authors： Sinclair C,Bains I,Yates AJ,Seddon B

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics simulation of the gramicidin A channel in an explicit dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayer was generated to study the details of lipid-protein interactions at the microscopic level. Solid-state NMR properties of the channel averaged over the 500-psec trajectory are in excellent agreement with a...

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

authors： Woolf TB,Roux B

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual speech facilitates auditory speech perception, but the visual cues responsible for these benefits and the information they provide remain unclear. Low-level models emphasize basic temporal cues provided by mouth movements, but these impoverished signals may not fully account for the richness of auditory informa...

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

authors： Plass J,Brang D,Suzuki S,Grabowecky M

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report potent inhibition of the Mg(II).ATP-dependent protein phosphatase, Fc.M, by the regulatory subunit dimer of type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase, RII2. The protein kinase catalytic subunit has no effect on phosphatase activity and is unable to substitute for kinase FA in the kinase FA- and Mg(II).ATP-mediat...

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

authors： Jurgensen SR,Chock PB,Taylor S,Vandenheede JR,Merlevede W

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately estimating human mobility and gauging its relationship with virus transmission is critical for the control of COVID-19 spreading. Using mobile device location data of over 100 million monthly active samples, we compute origin-destination travel demand and aggregate mobility inflow at each US county from Mar...

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

authors： Xiong C,Hu S,Yang M,Luo W,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glc3Man9GlcNAc2 is the preferred substrate of the oligosaccharyltransferase of N-linked glycosylation of proteins, but nonglucosylated oligosaccharides can be transferred to proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutations affecting the addition of the three terminal glucose residues lead to accumulation of Man9GlcNAc2...

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

authors： Stagljar I,te Heesen S,Aebi M

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The λ exonuclease is an ATP-independent enzyme that binds to dsDNA ends and processively digests the 5'-ended strand to form 5' mononucleotides and a long 3' overhang. The crystal structure of λ exonuclease revealed a toroidal homotrimer with a central funnel-shaped channel for tracking along the DNA, and a mechanism ...

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

authors： Zhang J,McCabe KA,Bell CE

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Components in cerebrospinal fluid that are antigenically related to myelin basic protein have been identified by a technique described recently [Barbarese, E., Braun, P. E. & Carson, J. H. (1977) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74, 3360-3364] involving separating the cerebrospinal fluid proteins by sodium dodecyl sulfate/p...

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

authors： Carson JH,Barbarese E,Braun PE,McPherson TA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) preparations contain activity against HIV type 1 (HIV-1). However, there has been controversy about whether some biological activities of hCG beta-subunit (hCGbeta) preparations are caused by the beta-subunit itself or other proteins present in the preparations. We report here the pu...

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

authors： Lee-Huang S,Huang PL,Sun Y,Huang PL,Kung HF,Blithe DL,Chen HC

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty percent of the 189 tumors studied to date express DNA polymerase beta variants. One of these variants was identified in a prostate carcinoma and is altered from isoleucine to methionine at position 260, within the hydrophobic hinge region of the protein. Another variant was identified in a colon carcinoma and i...

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

authors： Sweasy JB,Lang T,Starcevic D,Sun KW,Lai CC,Dimaio D,Dalal S

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A duplex 21 nucleotide small interfering RNA (siRNA) against human Keap1 is described that represents a unique class of cancer chemopreventive agent. This siRNA can knockdown Keap1 mRNA and thereby relieve negative regulation of nuclear factor erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-mediated gene expression. The siRNA...

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

authors： Devling TW,Lindsay CD,McLellan LI,McMahon M,Hayes JD

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenylated Rab GTPases regulate intracellular vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells by associating with specific membranes and recruiting a multitude of Rab-specific effector proteins. Prenylation, membrane delivery, and recycling of all 60 members of the Rab GTPase family are regulated by two related molecules, Rab...

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

authors： Wu YW,Tan KT,Waldmann H,Goody RS,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite nearly four decades of effort, broad inhibition of oncogenic RAS using small-molecule approaches has proven to be a major challenge. Here we describe the development of a pan-RAS biologic inhibitor composed of the RAS-RAP1-specific endopeptidase fused to the protein delivery machinery of diphtheria toxin. We s...

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

authors： Vidimar V,Beilhartz GL,Park M,Biancucci M,Kieffer MB,Gius DR,Melnyk RA,Satchell KJF

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Is there a sense of chance shared by all individuals, regardless of their schooling or culture? To test whether the ability to make correct probabilistic evaluations depends on educational and cultural guidance, we investigated probabilistic cognition in preliterate and prenumerate Kaqchikel and K'iche', two indigenou...

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

authors： Fontanari L,Gonzalez M,Vallortigara G,Girotto V

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nations in the 21st century face a complex mix of environmental and social challenges, as highlighted by the on-going Sustainable Development Goals process. The "planetary boundaries" concept [Rockström J, et al. (2009) Nature 461(7263):472-475], and its extension through the addition of social well-being indicators t...

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

authors： Cole MJ,Bailey RM,New MG

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined effects of two drugs present simultaneously are usually expressed as summation, synergism or potentiation, and antagonism. When the sum of the effects of each drug present separately equals the combined effect of the two drugs present simultaneously, the action is called additive or summation. However, the ex...

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

authors： Kamaya H,Ueda I,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between DNA polymerases and sliding clamp proteins confers processivity in DNA synthesis. This interaction is critical for most DNA replication machines from viruses and prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. The clamp proteins also participate in a variety of dynamic and competing protein-protein interacti...

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

authors： Dalrymple BP,Kongsuwan K,Wijffels G,Dixon NE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise genome editing is a valuable tool to study gene function in model organisms. Prime editing, a precise editing system developed in mammalian cells, does not require double-strand breaks or donor DNA and has low off-target effects. Here, we applied prime editing for the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and...

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

authors： Bosch JA,Birchak G,Perrimon N

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is a pivotal regulator of energy and glucose homeostasis, and defects in leptin signaling result in obesity and diabetes. The ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channels couple glucose metabolism to insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells. In this study, we provide evidence that leptin modulates pancreatic β-cell...

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

authors： Park SH,Ryu SY,Yu WJ,Han YE,Ji YS,Oh K,Sohn JW,Lim A,Jeon JP,Lee H,Lee KH,Lee SH,Berggren PO,Jeon JH,Ho WK

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00