Brain-blood barrier? Yes and no.

abstract：:The interaction of human high density lipoproteins (HDL) with isolated human monocytes from control and Tangier patients was studied in tissue culture experiments. It was observed that normal monocytes, similar to mouse peritoneal macrophages, bind HDL to a cell surface receptor, internalize the bound HDL particles, t...

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

authors： Schmitz G,Assmann G,Robenek H,Brennhausen B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the purified human erythrocyte glucose transporter specifically precipitated four proteins from normal and Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo cells: a major protein of Mr 41,000 and minor proteins of Mr 68,000, 73,000, and 82,000. The Mr 41,000 and 82,000 proteins were found only in ...

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

authors： Salter DW,Baldwin SA,Lienhard GE,Weber MJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrin is an important structural component of the plasma membrane skeleton. Heretofore-unidentified isoforms of spectrin also associate with Golgi and other organelles. We have discovered another member of the beta-spectrin gene family by homology searches of the GenBank databases and by 5' rapid amplification of c...

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

authors： Stankewich MC,Tse WT,Peters LL,Ch'ng Y,John KM,Stabach PR,Devarajan P,Morrow JS,Lux SE

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogen exit is a key stage in the spread and propagation of infectious disease, with the fecal-oral route being a common mode of disease transmission. However, it is poorly understood which molecular pathways provide the major modes for intracellular pathogen exit and fecal-oral transmission in vivo. Here, we use th...

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

authors： Szumowski SC,Botts MR,Popovich JJ,Smelkinson MG,Troemel ER

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge density distribution of a protein has been refined experimentally. Diffraction data for a crambin crystal were measured to ultra-high resolution (0.54 A) at low temperature by using short-wavelength synchrotron radiation. The crystal structure was refined with a model for charged, nonspherical, multipolar a...

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

authors： Jelsch C,Teeter MM,Lamzin V,Pichon-Pesme V,Blessing RH,Lecomte C

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila heteroneura and D. silvestris are sympatric species living on the island of Hawaii, while D. planitibia is allopatric on the nearby island of Maui. A pronounced ethological isolation is found between the sympatric species, and none between allopatric ones, except that D. planitibia females discriminate agai...

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

authors： Ahearn JN,Carson HL,Dobzhansky T,Kaneshiro KY

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately after adsorption, phages T4 and T5 induce a partial depolarization of the host cytoplasmic membrane. Infected bacteria respond to this phage-induced effect by a repolarization that leads to a new steady state of reduced membrane potential. The rate and extent of repolarization are adjusted to the intensity...

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

authors： Labedan B,Letellier L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flatworm Macrostomum lignano features a duo-gland adhesive system that allows it to repeatedly attach to and release from substrates in seawater within a minute. However, little is known about the molecules involved in this temporary adhesion. In this study, we show that the attachment of M. lignano relies on the ...

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

authors： Wunderer J,Lengerer B,Pjeta R,Bertemes P,Kremser L,Lindner H,Ederth T,Hess MW,Stock D,Salvenmoser W,Ladurner P

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis-specific homologs of RecA protein have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and higher eukaryotes including mammals, but their enzymatic activities have not been described. We have purified the human protein HsDmc1 produced in Escherichia coli from a cloned copy of the cDNA. The recombinant enzyme had D...

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

authors： Li Z,Golub EI,Gupta R,Radding CM

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a fractionation and purification scheme for the Drosophila RNA polymerase II general transcription factors. Drosophila TFIIE, TFIIF, TFIIH, and RNA polymerase II have been purified to greater than 50% homogeneity from Drosophila embryo nuclear extracts. TFIID has been purified 80-fold and is not significan...

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

authors： Austin RJ,Biggin MD

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent trauma (AT) is a common risk factor for adult-onset posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the vulnerability to AT among different individuals varies dramatically, indicating that other cofactors are important. Despite extensive studies, the identification of those cofactors has had little success. ...

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

authors： Joseph A,Tang M,Mamiya T,Chen Q,Yang LL,Jiao J,Yu N,Tang YP

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine mammary tumor virus (MMTV) expression is analyzed in a T-lymphoid cell line (T1M1) sensitive to the killing effect of glucocorticoids and in two of its variants, one resistant (T1M1r) and one supersensitive (T1M1ss) to glucocorticoid-induced lymphocytolysis. In the T1M1 line, MMTV is expressed and induced appro...

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

authors： Mermod JJ,Bourgeois S,Defer N,Crépin M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific molecules are needed across diverse areas of oncology for use in early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Large and growing public databases of transcriptome sequencing data (RNA-seq) derived from tumors and normal tissues hold the potential of yielding tumor-specific molecules, but because th...

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

authors： Barrett CL,DeBoever C,Jepsen K,Saenz CC,Carson DA,Frazer KA

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A short interspersed nuclear element, Mg-SINE, was isolated and characterized from the genome of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Mg-SINE was isolated as an insertion element within Pot2, an inverted-repeat transposon from M. grisea and shows typical features of a mammalian SINE. Mg-SINE is present as a 0.47...

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

authors： Kachroo P,Leong SA,Chattoo BB

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes engage in a multitude of beneficial and deleterious interactions with bacteria. Hamiltonella defensa, an endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects, protects its aphid host from attack by parasitoid wasps. Thus H. defensa is only conditionally beneficial to hosts, unlike ancient nutritional symbio...

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

authors： Degnan PH,Yu Y,Sisneros N,Wing RA,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian eggs and embryos as well as mammalian cells have been reported to contain an activity that unwinds double-stranded RNA. We have now found that adenosine residues have been modified in the RNA products of this unwinding activity. Although the modified RNA remains double-stranded, the modification causes the R...

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

authors： Wagner RW,Smith JE,Cooperman BS,Nishikura K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular fibrillation is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death. In fibrillation, fragmented electrical waves meander erratically through the heart muscle, creating disordered and ineffective contraction. Theoretical and computer studies, as well as recent experimental evidence, have suggested that fibrillation ...

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

authors： Garfinkel A,Kim YH,Voroshilovsky O,Qu Z,Kil JR,Lee MH,Karagueuzian HS,Weiss JN,Chen PS

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of cross-linguistic variation follow from a hypothetical principle that dependency length--the distance between syntactically related...

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

authors： Futrell R,Mahowald K,Gibson E

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro data show that the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein associates with the mitotic spindle and that mouse embryonic stem cells with biallelic Apc mutations are karyotypically unstable. These findings led to suggestions that APC acts in chromosomal segregation and that APC inactivation leads to chromosoma...

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

authors： Sieber OM,Heinimann K,Gorman P,Lamlum H,Crabtree M,Simpson CA,Davies D,Neale K,Hodgson SV,Roylance RR,Phillips RK,Bodmer WF,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when autoantibodies complex with self-antigen and form immune complexes that accumulate in the glomeruli. These immune complexes initiate an inflammatory response resulting in glomerular injury. LN often concomitantly affects the tubulointerstitial compartment ...

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

authors： Hao W,Rovin BH,Friedman A

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a classic model of mammalian brain formation, precursors of principal glutamatergic neurons migrate radially along radial glia fibers whereas GABAergic interneuron precursors migrate tangentially. These migration modes have significant implications for brain function. Here we used clonal lineage tracing of active r...

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

authors： Sun GJ,Zhou Y,Stadel RP,Moss J,Yong JH,Ito S,Kawasaki NK,Phan AT,Oh JH,Modak N,Reed RR,Toni N,Song H,Ming GL

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging genetic and clinical evidence suggests a link between Gaucher disease and the synucleinopathies Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Here, we provide evidence that a mouse model of Gaucher disease (Gba1(D409V/D409V)) exhibits characteristics of synucleinopathies, including progressive accumulation...

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

authors： Sardi SP,Clarke J,Kinnecom C,Tamsett TJ,Li L,Stanek LM,Passini MA,Grabowski GA,Schlossmacher MG,Sidman RL,Cheng SH,Shihabuddin LS

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The flux of solvent water coupled to the transit of ions through protein pores is considerable. The effect of this electroosmotic solvent flow on the binding of a neutral molecule [beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD)] to sites within the staphylococcal alpha-hemolysin pore was investigated. Mutant alpha-hemolysin pores were us...

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

authors： Gu LQ,Cheley S,Bayley H

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite an important role in vascular development and repair, the origin of endothelial progenitors remains unknown. Accumulating evidence indicates that cells derived from the hematopoietic system participate in angiogenesis. However, the identity and functional role of these cells remain controversial. Here we show ...

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

authors： Bailey AS,Willenbring H,Jiang S,Anderson DA,Schroeder DA,Wong MH,Grompe M,Fleming WH

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a generally occurring short-range mobility of nucleosome cores on DNA in relatively low ionic strength conditions. Here we report that this mobility of histone octamers positioned on constructs of 5S rDNA is suppressed by the binding of histone H1 or H5 to the nucleosome. Histone H5 is th...

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

authors： Pennings S,Meersseman G,Bradbury EM

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial capsules are surface layers made of long-chain polysaccharides. They are anchored to the outer membrane of many Gram-negative bacteria, including pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Pasteurella multocida. Capsules protect pathogens from host defenses includ...

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

authors： Willis LM,Stupak J,Richards MR,Lowary TL,Li J,Whitfield C

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental hemoglobin switching involves sequential globin gene activations and repressions that are incompletely understood. Earlier observations, described herein, led us to hypothesize that nuclear ferritin is a repressor of the adult beta-globin gene in embryonic erythroid cells. Our data show that a ferritin-f...

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

authors： Broyles RH,Belegu V,DeWitt CR,Shah SN,Stewart CA,Pye QN,Floyd RA

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular weight of the major glycoprotein from the human erythrocyte membrane is 29,000, of which 55% is carbohydrate and 45% is protein. The binding of sodium dodecyl sulfate to this glycoprotein is anomalous when compared to water soluble proteins and leads to migration rates in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacryl...

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

authors： Grefrath SP,Reynolds JA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrochemistry is an old but still flourishing field of research due to the importance of the efficiency and kinetics of electrochemical reactions in industrial processes and (bio-)electrochemical devices. The heterogeneous electron transfer from an electrode to a reactant in the solution has been well studied for m...

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

authors： Wijeratne K,Ail U,Brooke R,Vagin M,Liu X,Fahlman M,Crispin X

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) is one of the most abundant and enigmatic enzymes of the CNS. Based on existing UCH-L1 knockout models, UCH-L1 is thought to be required for the maintenance of axonal integrity, but not for neuronal development despite its high expression in neurons. Several lines of evidence...

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

authors： Reinicke AT,Laban K,Sachs M,Kraus V,Walden M,Damme M,Sachs W,Reichelt J,Schweizer M,Janiesch PC,Duncan KE,Saftig P,Rinschen MM,Morellini F,Meyer-Schwesinger C

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00