Anti-idiotypic antibodies to anti-HLA receptors induced by pregnancy.

abstract：:Here we report the development of an in vivo system to study the interaction of stem cells with drugs using a tumor model in the adult Drosophila intestine. Strikingly, we find that some Food and Drug Administration-approved chemotherapeutics that can inhibit the growth of Drosophila tumor stem cells can paradoxically...

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

authors： Markstein M,Dettorre S,Cho J,Neumüller RA,Craig-Müller S,Perrimon N

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of rare copy number variants (CNVs), including both deletions and duplications, have been associated with developmental disorders, including schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Pathogenicity may derive from dosage sensitivity of one or more genes contained within the CNV locus. To un...

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

authors： McLysaght A,Makino T,Grayton HM,Tropeano M,Mitchell KJ,Vassos E,Collier DA

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulates membrane protein phosphorylation in a human cell line, A-431. The known hepatic mitogenic action of EGF and the reduction in EGF receptor number that occurs during liver regeneration led us to study whether EGF-dependent protein kinase activity was present in rat liver and whet...

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

authors： Rubin RA,O'Keefe EJ,Earp HS

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of electrophoresis were used in a search for evidence of mutation affecting protein structure, the indicators being hemoglobin and a set of serum proteins and erythrocyte enzymes. Among 94,796 locus tests on Amerindians from Central and South America, there was no evidence for mutation. Among 105,649 lo...

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

authors： Neel JV,Mohrenweiser HW,Meisler MH

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2)-deficient (IL-2-/-) mice develop hemolytic anemia and chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Importantly, the induction of disease in IL-2-deficient mice is critically dependent on CD4+ T cells. We have studied the requirements of T cells from IL-2-deficient mice for costimulation with B7 antigens. S...

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

authors： Razi-Wolf Z,Höllander GA,Reiser H

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved mammalian two-hybrid system designed for interaction trap screening is described in this paper. CV-1/EBNA-1 monkey kidney epithelial cells expressing Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) were stably transfected with a reporter plasmid for GAL4-dependent expression of the green fluorescent protein ...

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

authors： Shioda T,Andriole S,Yahata T,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：2000-05-09 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：:A long-term electrophoretic survey of genetic variants of serum albumin has identified an alloalbumin in 589 unrelated individuals in Italy. The alloalbumins were classified electrophoretically into 17 types. The number of unrelated carriers for each type varied from 1 for several variants reported here to 103 for alb...

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

authors： Galliano M,Minchiotti L,Porta F,Rossi A,Ferri G,Madison J,Watkins S,Putnam FW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper summarizes future needs in information and tools, technology, infrastructure, training, funding, and bioinformatics, to provide the genomic knowledge and tools for breeding and biotechnological goals in maize. The National Corn Genome Initiative (NCGA) has developed through actions taken by the Natio...

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

authors： Coe EH

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are etiologically linked to cervical cancer. Their transforming capacity is encoded by a polycistronic premRNA, where alternative splicing leads to the translation of functional distinct proteins such as E6, E6*, and E7. Here we show that splicing of HPV16 E6/E7 ORF casse...

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

authors： Rosenberger S,De-Castro Arce J,Langbein L,Steenbergen RD,Rösl F

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the cellular context, BCL2-like proteins promote mitochondrial fusion or fission. What determines which of these two opposing processes they promote has so far been unknown. Furthermore, the mechanisms through which BCL2-like proteins affect mitochondrial dynamics remain to be fully understood. The BCL2-l...

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

authors： Lu Y,Rolland SG,Conradt B

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A change in the conformation of the active site of scallop myosin under the influence of regulatory amounts of Ca2+ has been identified by use of the ADP photoaffinity analog 2-[(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)amino]ethyl diphosphate (NANDP). NANDP, trapped at the active site with Mn2+ and vanadate, photolabeled preferentially...

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

authors： Kerwin BA,Yount RG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the forces that shape the structure of prokaryotic genomes: the order of genes, their proximity, and their orientation? Coregulation and coordinated horizontal gene transfer are believed to promote the proximity of functionally related genes and the formation of operons. However, forces that influence the str...

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

authors： Kolesov G,Wunderlich Z,Laikova ON,Gelfand MS,Mirny LA

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The transformation of new experiences into lasting memories is thought to be mediated by postencoding reactivation or the reexpression of activity patterns that characterize prior encoding experiences during subsequent offline periods. Although hippocampal reactivation has been well-described in the rodent, evidence f...

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

authors： Tambini A,Davachi L

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is a common pediatric malignancy of muscle, with relapse being the major clinical challenge. Self-renewing tumor-propagating cells (TPCs) drive cancer relapse and are confined to a molecularly definable subset of ERMS cells. To identify drugs that suppress ERMS self-renewal and induce...

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

authors： Chen EY,DeRan MT,Ignatius MS,Grandinetti KB,Clagg R,McCarthy KM,Lobbardi RM,Brockmann J,Keller C,Wu X,Langenau DM

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Various reconstructive procedures have been attempted to restore a cosmetically acceptable phallus that would allow normal reproductive, sexual, and urinary function in patients requiring penile reconstruction. However, these procedures are limited by a shortage of native penile tissue. We previously demonstrated that...

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

authors： Chen KL,Eberli D,Yoo JJ,Atala A

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of talin, a component of the cytoskeleton localized in the focal adhesions and, therefore, a potential substrate of p60v-src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. p60v-src is a tyrosine kinase that induces high levels of phosphotyrosine and the disorga...

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

authors： Pasquale EB,Maher PA,Singer SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor NFAT5/TonEBP, a member of the NFAT/Rel family of transcription factors, has been implicated in diverse cellular responses, including the response to osmotic stress, integrin-dependent cell migration, T cell activation, and the Ras pathway in Drosophila. To clarify the in vivo role of NFAT5, we...

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

authors： López-Rodríguez C,Antos CL,Shelton JM,Richardson JA,Lin F,Novobrantseva TI,Bronson RT,Igarashi P,Rao A,Olson EN

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction of deletion derivative plasmids and cloning of restriction fragments from plasmids containing the Salmonella typhimurium origin of replication (ori) were used to locate the functional origin to within a DNA fragment of 296 base pairs between the genes uncB and asn. The nucleotide sequence of the S. typhim...

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

authors： Zyskind JW,Smith DW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzyme for transcription of protein-encoding genes in eukaryotes is RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). The recruitment of this enzyme during transcription initiation and its passage along the template during transcription elongation is regulated through the association and dissociation of several complexes. Elongator...

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

authors： Nelissen H,Fleury D,Bruno L,Robles P,De Veylder L,Traas J,Micol JL,Van Montagu M,Inzé D,Van Lijsebettens M

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 92-amino acid polypeptide, alpha-inhibin-92 (alpha-IB-92), has been isolated and characterized from human seminal plasma and found to be active in suppressing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) release in vitro. In the present in vivo study, intravenous injection of synthetic alpha-IB-92 (4 and 20 micrograms) signif...

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

authors： Yu WH,McCann SM,Li CH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line mutations of tumor suppressor genes confer strong predisposition to tumor formation. In the rat, a form of dominantly inherited renal carcinoma (RC) results in multiple chromophobe cell tumors that resemble the human disease, and heterozygous carriers (RC/+) are highly susceptible to environmental agents (ra...

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

authors： Yeung RS,Buetow KH,Testa JR,Knudson AG Jr

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific gene silencing by short hairpin (sh) RNAs has recently emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding gene function and a promising avenue for drug discovery. However, a wider biomedical use of this approach is hindered by the lack of straightforward methods for achieving uniform expression of sh...

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

authors： Khandelia P,Yap K,Makeyev EV

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Zn2+ is critical for the functional and structural integrity of cells and contributes to a number of important processes including gene expression. It has been shown that NO exogenously applied via NO donors resulting in nitrosative stress leads to cytoplasmic Zn2+ release from the zinc storing protein metallothionein...

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

authors： Spahl DU,Berendji-Grün D,Suschek CV,Kolb-Bachofen V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium oxide, D(2)O, increases the temperature-tolerance of Drosophila pseudoobscura when it is administered to adult flies as a sucrose solution. The effect is very rapidly exerted; it is detected within 10 min after the flies have a brief (10 min) opportunity to drink. This increased resistance to heat-death sure...

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

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Cosbey ES

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two human B-cell differentiation antigens, Bp35 and Bp50, apparently play distinct roles as signal receptors in B-cell activation. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to either Bp35 or Bp50 deliver positive signals to B cells that stimulate their transition through the cell cycle. mAb to Bp35, like anti-immunoglobulin antibo...

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

authors： Clark EA,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genetic factors that interact with social environments to impact human health, we used a bioinformatic strategy that couples expression array-based detection of environmentally responsive transcription factors with in silico discovery of regulatory polymorphisms to predict genetic loci that modulate transc...

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

authors： Cole SW,Arevalo JM,Takahashi R,Sloan EK,Lutgendorf SK,Sood AK,Sheridan JF,Seeman TE

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00