N-Nitroso-N-methylurea elicits mammary cancer in resistant and sensitive rat strains.

abstract：:The D1 reaction center protein of photosystem II (PSII) is subject to light-induced damage. Degradation of damaged D1 and its replacement by nascent D1 are at the heart of a PSII repair cycle, without which photosynthesis is inhibited. In mature plant chloroplasts, light stimulates the recruitment of ribosomes specifi...

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

authors： Chotewutmontri P,Barkan A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many higher level avian clades are restricted to Earth's lower latitudes, leading to historical biogeographic reconstructions favoring a Gondwanan origin of crown birds and numerous deep subclades. However, several such "tropical-restricted" clades (TRCs) are represented by stem-lineage fossils well outside the ranges...

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

authors： Saupe EE,Farnsworth A,Lunt DJ,Sagoo N,Pham KV,Field DJ

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli invade bladder epithelial cells (BECs) by direct entry into specialized cAMP regulated exocytic compartments. Remarkably, a significant number of these intracellular bacteria are subsequently expelled in a nonlytic and piecemeal fashion by infected BECs. Here, we report that expulsion of...

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

authors： Song J,Bishop BL,Li G,Grady R,Stapleton A,Abraham SN

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule family 3 (SLAMF3/Ly9) is a coregulatory molecule implicated in T-cell activation and differentiation. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by aberrant T-cell activation and compromised IL-2 production, leading to abnormal regulatory T-cell (Treg) development/fun...

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

authors： Comte D,Karampetsou MP,Kis-Toth K,Yoshida N,Bradley SJ,Mizui M,Kono M,Solomon JR,Kyttaris VC,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a highly lethal disease in critical need of new therapeutic strategies. Here, we report that the stress-inducible 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78/HSPA5), a key regulator of endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis and PI3K/AKT signaling, is overexpressed in the acini an...

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

authors： Shen J,Ha DP,Zhu G,Rangel DF,Kobielak A,Gill PS,Groshen S,Dubeau L,Lee AS

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydroisohistrionicotoxin inhibits acetylcholine receptor-dependent 22Na+ uptake of cultured chick muscle cells with a KI of 0.2 micrometer. The inhibition is noncompetitive with respect to agonists. The toxin enhances desensitization of the receptor by agonists which is accompanied by a 10-fold increase in receptor ...

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

authors： Burgermeister W,Catterall WA,Witkop B

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HUMAN LIVER ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (ALCOHOL: NAD(+) oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.1), homogeneous by physicochemical criteria, has been available in quantity only recently [Lange, L. G. & Vallee, B. L. (1976) Biochemistry 15, 4681-4686]. Until now, the biochemical basis of human alcohol metabolism had to be extrapolated fro...

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

authors： Li TK,Bosron WF,Dafeldecker WP,Lange LG,Vallee BL

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Euplotes raikovi of the wild-type strain 13 was found to be heterozygous (mat-1/mat-2) for the genetic locus mat, which is supposed to control the mating-type specificity of freely released mating pheromones ("euplomones"), and capable of yielding the two types of corresponding homozygotes (mat-1/mat-1, mat-2/mat-2). ...

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

authors： Luporini P,Raffioni S,Concetti A,Miceli C

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has become apparent that N = 2 supersymmetric quantum field theory has something to do with cluster algebras. I review one aspect of the connection: supersymmetric quantum field theories have associated hyperkähler moduli spaces, and these moduli spaces carry a structure that looks like an extension of the...

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

authors： Neitzke A

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The vaccinia virus early transcription factor (VETF), a heterodimeric protein composed of 82- and 70-kDa subunits, interacts with viral early promoters at both a sequence-specific core region upstream and a sequence-independent region downstream of the RNA start site. To determine the VETF subunit-promoter interaction...

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

authors： Cassetti MA,Moss B

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human beta-globin locus control region (LCR) consists of four erythroid-specific DNaseI hypersensitive sites (HSs) at the 5' end of the beta-globin cluster. The LCR functions over a long distance on chromosome 11 to regulate transcription and replication of the beta-globin genes. To determine whether the HSs funct...

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

authors： Bresnick EH,Tze L

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to be synchronized by light-dark cycles is a fundamental property of circadian clocks. Although there are indications that circadian clocks are extremely light-sensitive and that they can be set by the low irradiances that occur at dawn and dusk, this has not been shown on the cellular level. Here, we demo...

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

authors： Bachleitner W,Kempinger L,Wülbeck C,Rieger D,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinatorial antibody libraries have the potential to display the entire immunological record of an individual, allowing one to detect and recover any antibody ever made, irrespective of whether it is currently being produced. We have termed this the "fossil record" of an individual's antibody response. To determine ...

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

authors： Felding-Habermann B,Lerner RA,Lillo A,Zhuang S,Weber MR,Arrues S,Gao C,Mao S,Saven A,Janda KD

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural studies of the minimal core DNA-binding domain of p53 (p53DBD) complexed to a single consensus pentamer sequence and of the isolated p53 tetramerization domain have provided valuable insights into their functions, but many questions about their interacting roles and synergism remain unanswered. To be...

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

authors： Balagurumoorthy P,Sakamoto H,Lewis MS,Zambrano N,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM,Appella E,Harrington RE

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal specificity in retinal ganglion cells of Xenopus subserves the orderly connections of the optic nerve fibers in the tectum. This specificity derives from positional information acquired by the developing retina at embryonic stages 28-31. Here we report that ganglion cells of embryonic stage 28 eyes can acquir...

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

authors： Hunt RK,Jacobson M

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons vary in their capacity to produce, store, and release neuropeptides packaged in dense-core vesicles (DCVs). Specifically, neurons used for cotransmission have terminals that contain few DCVs and many small synaptic vesicles, whereas neuroendocrine neuron terminals contain many DCVs. Although the mechanistic ba...

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

authors： Bulgari D,Zhou C,Hewes RS,Deitcher DL,Levitan ES

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared intron-exon structures in 1,560 human-mouse orthologs and 360 mouse-rat orthologs. The origin of differences in intron positions between species was inferred by comparison with an outgroup, Fugu for human-mouse and human for mouse-rat. Among 10,020 intron positions in the human-mouse comparison, we found u...

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

authors： Roy SW,Fedorov A,Gilbert W

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that short-term immobilization stress of rats causes increased colonic mucin release, goblet cell depletion, prostaglandin E2 secretion, and colonic mast cell activation, as well as increased colonic motility. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether neurotensin (NT), a peptide expre...

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

authors： Castagliuolo I,Leeman SE,Bartolak-Suki E,Nikulasson S,Qiu B,Carraway RE,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective blockade of gene expression by designed small molecules is a fundamental challenge at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine. Transcription factors have been among the most elusive targets in genetics and drug discovery, but the fields of chemical biology and genetics have evolved to a point where...

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

authors： Kushal S,Lao BB,Henchey LK,Dubey R,Mesallati H,Traaseth NJ,Olenyuk BZ,Arora PS

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal vision requires the precise control of vascular growth to maintain corneal transparency. Here we provide evidence for a unique mechanism by which the Forkhead box transcription factor FoxC1 regulates corneal vascular development. Murine Foxc1 is essential for development of the ocular anterior segment, and in h...

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

authors： Seo S,Singh HP,Lacal PM,Sasman A,Fatima A,Liu T,Schultz KM,Losordo DW,Lehmann OJ,Kume T

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint ensures the accuracy of chromosome segregation during mitosis. The protein serine/threonine kinase, Mps1, is a critical component of the spindle checkpoint in human cells and regulates the kinetochore localization of key checkpoint proteins. The kinase activity of Mps1 is required for the spindl...

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

authors： Kang J,Chen Y,Zhao Y,Yu H

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The type-III secretion (T3S) systems of bacteria are part of self-assembling nanomachines: the bacterial flagellum that enables cells to propel themselves through liquid and across hydrated surfaces, and the injectisome that delivers pathogenic effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. Although the flagellum and i...

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

authors： Wee DH,Hughes KT

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines often deliver simultaneous, yet distinct, cell growth and cell survival signals. The 70-kDa ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70S6K) is known to regulate cell growth by inducing protein synthesis components. We purified membrane-based p70S6K as a kinase responsible for site-specific phosphorylation of BAD, which...

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

authors： Harada H,Andersen JS,Mann M,Terada N,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular activation of trypsinogen, which is both pH- and calcium-dependent, is an important early step in the development of acute pancreatitis. The cellular compartment in which trypsinogen activation occurs currently is unknown. We therefore investigated the site of intracellular trypsinogen activation by ...

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

authors： Sherwood MW,Prior IA,Voronina SG,Barrow SL,Woodsmith JD,Gerasimenko OV,Petersen OH,Tepikin AV

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a collection of multilinear Littlewood-Paley estimates, which we then apply to two problems in partial differential equations. The first problem is the estimation of the square root of an elliptic operator in divergence form, and the second is the estimation of solutions to the Cauchy problem for nondivergen...

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

authors： Fabes EB,Jerison DS,Kenig CE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling pathways regulating proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis are commonly mediated through protein-protein interactions as well as reversible phosphorylation of proteins. To facilitate the study of regulated protein-protein interactions in cells and living animals, we optimized firefly luciferase protei...

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

authors： Luker KE,Smith MC,Luker GD,Gammon ST,Piwnica-Worms H,Piwnica-Worms D

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface distributions of three different membrane integral proteins, beta2-microglobulin (part of the histocompatibility antigen complex), aminopeptidase (alpha-aminoacyl-peptide hydrolase; EC 3.4.11.2), and the Na+,K+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase; EC 3.6.1.3) on human fibroblasts grown in monolayer culture have b...

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

authors： Ash JF,Louvard D,Singer SJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive mapping of interactions among Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) proteins and interactions of EBV proteins with human proteins should provide specific hypotheses and a broad perspective on EBV strategies for replication and persistence. Interactions of EBV proteins with each other and with human proteins were as...

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

authors： Calderwood MA,Venkatesan K,Xing L,Chase MR,Vazquez A,Holthaus AM,Ewence AE,Li N,Hirozane-Kishikawa T,Hill DE,Vidal M,Kieff E,Johannsen E

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon budget and dynamics of the Earth's interior, including the core, are currently very poorly understood. Diamond-bearing, mantle-derived rocks show a very well defined peak at δ(13)C ≈ -5 ± 3‰ with a very broad distribution to lower values (∼-40‰). The processes that have produced the wide δ(13)C distribution...

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

authors： Horita J,Polyakov VB

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00