Molecular abnormality of an inactive aldehyde dehydrogenase variant commonly found in Orientals.

abstract：:CD45, a protein tyrosine phosphatase that regulates Src family kinases, is important for regulating T cell and B cell receptor signaling; however, little is known about how CD45 regulates immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-dependent natural killer (NK) cell receptor signaling and the resulting effec...

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

authors： Hesslein DG,Takaki R,Hermiston ML,Weiss A,Lanier LL

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such ecoevolutionary dynamics have not been empirically investigated. Using 70 y of da...

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

authors： Eikeset AM,Richter A,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental work in animals has shown that memory formation depends on a cascade of molecular events. Here we show that variability of human memory performance is related to variability in genes encoding proteins of this signaling cascade, including the NMDA and metabotrobic glutamate receptors, adenylyl cyclase, CAM...

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

authors： de Quervain DJ,Papassotiropoulos A

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal chromaffin granules contain at least 10 peptides, ranging in size from 3 to 5 kilodaltons, that yield, upon digestion with trypsin, peptides that show specific binding to opiate receptors. All are distinctly different from beta-endorphin. Two of these peptides have been purified to homogeneity and subjected to...

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

authors： Kimura S,Lewis RV,Stern AS,Rossier J,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) most frequently occurs in southern China and southeast Asia. Epidemiology studies link NPC to genetic predisposition, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, and environmental factors. Genetic studies indicate that mutations in chromatin-modifying enzymes are the most frequent genetic altera...

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

authors： Ke L,Zhou H,Wang C,Xiong G,Xiang Y,Ling Y,Khabir A,Tsao GS,Zeng Y,Zeng M,Busson P,Kieff E,Guo X,Zhao B

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) serum levels were measured in 49 patients with asthma and/or rhinoconjunctivitis and/or urticaria-angioedema. Clinical and biochemical parameters, such as bronchial reactivity, total and specific serum IgE levels, and circulating eosinophil cationic protein levels, were evaluated in relation ...

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

authors： Bonini S,Lambiase A,Bonini S,Angelucci F,Magrini L,Manni L,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation is a dynamic process in which RNA polymerase (RNAP) and promoter DNA act as partners, changing in response to one another, to produce a polymerase/promoter open complex (RPo) competent for transcription. In Escherichia coli RNAP, region 1.1, the N-terminal 100 residues of sigma(70), is thought...

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

authors： Hook-Barnard IG,Hinton DM

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of bacterial multidrug resistance to antibiotics threatens to cause regression to the preantibiotic era. Here we present the crystal structure of the large ribosomal subunit from Staphylococcus aureus, a versatile Gram-positive aggressive pathogen, and its complexes with the known antibiotics linezolid a...

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

authors： Eyal Z,Matzov D,Krupkin M,Wekselman I,Paukner S,Zimmerman E,Rozenberg H,Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear porphyrin arrays self-assembled by either hydrogen bonding or metal ion coordination self-organize into lipid bilayer membranes. The length of the transmembrane assemblies is determined both by the thermodynamics of the intermolecular interactions in the supermolecule and by the dimension and physical chemical ...

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

authors： Drain CM

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific low-affinity receptors for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), oncostatin M (OSM; gp130), and ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF; receptor alpha, CNTFR alpha) may be utilized in various combinations to generate high-affinity binding sites and signal transduction. We have tested the ability of combinations of the...

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

authors： Gearing DP,Ziegler SF,Comeau MR,Friend D,Thoma B,Cosman D,Park L,Mosley B

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences predicted from all three reading frames of the nucleotide sequence of the third internal repeat array (IR3) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome were synthesized chemically. All five peptides elicited antipeptide antibodies in rabbits. The antiserum raised against ...

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

authors： Dillner J,Sternås L,Kallin B,Alexander H,Ehlin-Henriksson B,Jörnvall H,Klein G,Lerner R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outside of the tropics, environmental conditions fluctuate in a generally predictable manner across the year. Many small mammals have evolved mechanisms, such as seasonal breeding and annual adjustments in physiology, morphology, and behavior, that promote winter survival when food is scarce and thermoregulation is ch...

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

authors： Weil ZM,Norman GJ,DeVries AC,Berntson GG,Nelson RJ

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we quantified 249 mature micro-RNA (miRNA) transcripts in estrogen receptor-positive (ER(+)) primary breast tumors of patients with lymph node-negative (LNN) disease to identify miRNAs associated with metastatic capability. In addition, the prognostic value of the candidate miRNAs was determined in ER(-...

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

authors： Foekens JA,Sieuwerts AM,Smid M,Look MP,de Weerd V,Boersma AW,Klijn JG,Wiemer EA,Martens JW

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of IκB kinase (IKK) β-dependent NF-κB signaling in hematopoietic cells is associated with increased granulopoiesis. Here we identify a regulatory cytokine loop that causes neutrophilia in Ikkβ-deficient mice. TNF-α-dependent apoptosis of myeloid progenitor cells leads to the release of IL-1β, which promotes Th17 ...

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

authors： Mankan AK,Canli O,Schwitalla S,Ziegler P,Tschopp J,Korn T,Greten FR

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of receptor-rich membrane fragments from Torpedo marmorata to carbamylcholine causes a slow (half-time of 5--10 min) and reversible change of properties of the cholinergic receptor protein manifested by a decrease of the initial rate of Naja nigricollis alpha-[3H]toxin binding in the presence of carbamylcholi...

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

authors： Weber M,David-Pfeuty T,Changeux JP

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular diversity of ion channel structure and function underlies variability in electrical signaling in nerve, muscle, and nonexcitable cells. Regulation by variable auxiliary subunits is a major mechanism to generate tissue- or cell-specific diversity of ion channel function. Mammalian large-conductance, voltage- ...

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

authors： Yan J,Aldrich RW

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant alleles at the dilute unconventional myosin heavy chain locus cause diluted coat color, opisthotonic seizures, and death. The dilute coat color phenotype is caused by irregular clumping of pigment in the hair, but amounts of melanin are unchanged from wild-type controls. The melanocyte phenotype has been descri...

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

authors： Provance DW Jr,Wei M,Ipe V,Mercer JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse p19Arf (human p14ARF) tumor suppressor protein, encoded in part from an alternative reading frame of the Ink4a (Cdkn2a) gene, inhibits the Mdm2 E3 ubiquitin ligase to activate p53. Arf is not expressed in most normal tissues of young mice but is induced by high thresholds of aberrant hyperproliferative signa...

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

authors： van Oosterwijk JG,Li C,Yang X,Opferman JT,Sherr CJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and thus serve as useful tools to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms involved in keratinocyte-specific transcription. Prev...

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

authors： Sinha S,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation spectrum induced by the widely used antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP) showed that cisDDP[d(ApG)] adducts, although they account for only 25% of the lesions formed, are approximately 5 times more mutagenic than the major GG adduct. We report the construction of vectors bearing a sin...

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

authors： Burnouf D,Gauthier C,Chottard JC,Fuchs RP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain, ts-rnp5, originally described in 1975 by G. D. Burdick and H. Berger, is shown to possess an RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase) sigma subunit with an activity 4--6 times less thermostable at 45 degrees than sigma from wild-type strains. This defect remains associated with the sigm...

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

authors： Gross C,Hoffman J,Ward C,Hager D,Burdick G,Berger H,Burgess R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-sensing ion channel-1 (ASIC1) contributes to synaptic plasticity and may influence the response to cerebral ischemia and acidosis. We found that cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylated heterologously expressed ASIC1 and endogenous ASIC1 in brain slices. ASIC1 also showed significant phosphorylation under...

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

authors： Leonard AS,Yermolaieva O,Hruska-Hageman A,Askwith CC,Price MP,Wemmie JA,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1999, the population of Vancouver Island, Canada, began to experience an outbreak of a fatal fungal disease caused by a highly virulent lineage of Cryptococcus gattii. This organism has recently spread to the Canadian mainland and Pacific Northwest, but the molecular cause of the outbreak remains unknown. Here we s...

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

authors： Ma H,Hagen F,Stekel DJ,Johnston SA,Sionov E,Falk R,Polacheck I,Boekhout T,May RC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are important effector cells in immunity to microorganisms, particularly bacteria. Here, we show that the process of neutrophil apoptosis is delayed in several inflammatory diseases, suggesting that this phenomenon may represent a general feature contributing to the development of neutrophilia, and, theref...

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

authors： Dibbert B,Weber M,Nikolaizik WH,Vogt P,Schöni MH,Blaser K,Simon HU

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid North Atlantic cooling events during the last deglaciation caused atmospheric reorganizations on global and regional scales. Their impact on Asian climate has been investigated for monsoonal domains, but remains largely unknown in westerly wind-dominated semiarid regions. Here we generate a dust record from sout...

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

authors： Safaierad R,Mohtadi M,Zolitschka B,Yokoyama Y,Vogt C,Schefuß E

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses a multiisotope (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium) approach to examine early animal management in the Maya region. An analysis of faunal specimens across almost 2,000 years (1000 BC to AD 950) at the site of Ceibal, Guatemala, reveals the earliest evidence for live-traded dogs and possible captiv...

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

authors： Sharpe AE,Emery KF,Inomata T,Triadan D,Kamenov GD,Krigbaum J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain reduction and enhancement can be produced by means of conditioning procedures, yet the role of awareness during the acquisition stage of classical conditioning is unknown. We used psychophysical measures to establish whether conditioned analgesic and hyperalgesic responses could be acquired by unseen (subliminall...

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

authors： Jensen K,Kirsch I,Odmalm S,Kaptchuk TJ,Ingvar M

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput gene expression data are one of the primary resources for exploring complex intracellular dynamics in modern biology. The integration of large amounts of public data may allow us to examine general dynamical relationships between regulators and target genes. However, obstacles for such analyses are stu...

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

authors： Vandenbon A,Dinh VH,Mikami N,Kitagawa Y,Teraguchi S,Ohkura N,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine embryonic stem (ES) cells are permanent blastocyst-derived cell lines capable of contributing to a wide variety of tissues, including the germ line, after injection into host blastocysts. Recently, we have shown that ES cells can produce all of the cells of the developing fetus after aggregation with developmen...

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

authors： Forrester LM,Bernstein A,Rossant J,Nagy A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MARCKS protein is a widely distributed cellular substrate for protein kinase C. It is a myristoylprotein that binds calmodulin and actin in a manner reversible by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation. It is also highly expressed in nervous tissue, particularly during development. To evaluate a possible devel...

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

authors： Stumpo DJ,Bock CB,Tuttle JS,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00