Biochemical evidence for membrane disintegration in human cataracts.

abstract：:Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2 (MIF) and several structural analogues, all injected in 50-microgram doses daily in mice receiving morphine chronically, were found to prevent development of physical dependence as measured by changes in body temperature associated with naloxone-induced withdrawal. Dose-response studies, using again a ...

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

authors： Walter R,Ritzmann RF,Bhargava HN,Flexner LB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtractive library construction and differential screening were used to identify a cDNA for a cell type-specific immediate early gene induced in rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. Sequencing identified the protein product of this gene as rat synaptotagmin IV (SytIV). Synaptotagmins are synaptic vesicle proteins thought...

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

authors： Vician L,Lim IK,Ferguson G,Tocco G,Baudry M,Herschman HR

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new members of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family, referred to as fibroblast growth factor homologous factors (FHFs), have been identified by a combination of random cDNA sequencing, data base searches, and degenerate PCR. Pairwise comparisons between the four FHFs show between 58% and 71% amino acid seque...

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

authors： Smallwood PM,Munoz-Sanjuan I,Tong P,Macke JP,Hendry SH,Gilbert DJ,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA,Nathans J

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus marinus CCMP 1375, a ubiquitous and ecologically important marine prochlorophyte, was bound to possess functional genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of a phycobiliprotein. The latter is similar to phycoerythrins (PE) from marine Synechococcus cyanobacteria and bind a phycourobilin-like pigmen...

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

authors： Hess WR,Partensky F,van der Staay GW,Garcia-Fernandez JM,Börner T,Vaulot D

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How did human cooperation evolve? Recent evidence shows that many people are willing to engage in altruistic punishment, voluntarily paying a cost to punish noncooperators. Although this behavior helps to explain how cooperation can persist, it creates an important puzzle. If altruistic punishment provides benefits to...

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

authors： Fowler JH

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatid RNA editing is a unique process and essential for these organisms. It therefore represents a drug target for a group of protozoa that includes the causative agents for African sleeping sickness and other devastating tropical and subtropical diseases. Here, we present drug-like inhibitors of a key enzyme...

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

authors： Amaro RE,Schnaufer A,Interthal H,Hol W,Stuart KD,McCammon JA

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant genetic engineering led to the production of plant-derived mAb (mAbP), which provides a safe and economically feasible alternative to the current methods of antibody production in animal systems. In this study, the heavy and light chains of human anti-rabies mAb were expressed and assembled in planta under the c...

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

authors： Ko K,Tekoah Y,Rudd PM,Harvey DJ,Dwek RA,Spitsin S,Hanlon CA,Rupprecht C,Dietzschold B,Golovkin M,Koprowski H

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeat proteins contain short, tandem arrays of simple structural motifs (20-40 aa). These stack together to form nonglobular structures that are stabilized by short-range interactions from residues close in primary sequence. Unlike globular proteins, they have few, if any, long-range nonlocal stabilizing interactions...

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

authors： Javadi Y,Main ER

更新日期：2009-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectra have been obtained of 1-myristoyl 2-(14,14,14-trideutero)myristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayers at 34.1 MHz by using the quadrupole echo pulse technique. Thereby, we have investigated the effects upon the deuterated dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayers...

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

authors： Oldfield E,Gilmore R,Glaser M,Gutowsky HS,Hshung JC,Kang SY,King TE,Meadows M,Rice D

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining active growth and effective immune responses is often costly for a living organism to survive. Fine-tuning the shared cross-regulators is crucial for metazoans and plants to make a trade-off between growth and immunity. The Arabidopsis regulatory receptor-like kinase BAK1 complexes with the receptor kinase...

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

authors： Lin W,Lu D,Gao X,Jiang S,Ma X,Wang Z,Mengiste T,He P,Shan L

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein that specifically binds leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) has been isolated from normal mouse serum by using four successive fractionation steps: chromatography on a LIF affinity matrix, anion-exchange chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, and preparative native gel electrophoresis. The purified LIF-...

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

authors： Layton MJ,Cross BA,Metcalf D,Ward LD,Simpson RJ,Nicola NA

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum was prepared in rabbits against an antigen obtained by density gradient sedimentation of centrifuged medium from monolayer cultures of spleens involved by Hodgkin's disease. The antiserum was tested by isotopic antibody techniques with cells from each of eight cultures derived from spleens involved by Hod...

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

authors： Long JC,Aisenberg AC,Zamecnik PC

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of antimicrobials is critical in this time of increasing antibiotic resistance of most clinically relevant bacteria. To date, all current antibiotics focus on inhibiting crucial enzymatic activities of their protein targets (i.e., trimethoprim for dihydrofolate reductase), thus disrupting in vitro esse...

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

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Hung DT,Pierson E,Lee K,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical removal of one or both atrial appendages was employed in rats to reduce the intrinsic stores of atriopeptin (AP). In conscious rats (with intact baroreceptor reflexes), bilateral or unilateral atrial appendectomy suppressed the diuresis and natriuresis produced by acute volume expansion. Surprisingly, volume ...

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

authors： Sakata M,Greenwald JE,Needleman P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are among the most common causes of diarrheal illness and death due to diarrhea among young children in low-/middle-income countries (LMICs). ETEC have also been associated with important sequelae including malnutrition and stunting, placing children at further risk of death...

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

authors： Sheikh A,Tumala B,Vickers TJ,Alvarado D,Ciorba MA,Bhuiyan TR,Qadri F,Singer BB,Fleckenstein JM

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution studies disclosed that all major cerebral arteries and cortical arterioles of the cat were invested with fine varicose nerve fibers that contained calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity; the trigeminal ganglia likewise contained CGRP immunoreactivity. Sequential immunostaining with a...

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

authors： McCulloch J,Uddman R,Kingman TA,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-environment interactions are important determinants of cancer risk. Traditionally, gene-environment interactions are thought to contribute to tumor-suppressor-gene penetrance by facilitating or inhibiting the acquisition of additional somatic mutations required for tumorigenesis. Here, we demonstrate that a disti...

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

authors： Cook JD,Davis BJ,Cai SL,Barrett JC,Conti CJ,Walker CL

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, blood donors are being screened for infection with human T cell lymphotropic viruses I and II (HTLV-I/II) by serologic means, which detect antibodies to the structural proteins of these viruses. Because patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) usually do not have such antibodies even though their cel...

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

authors： Zucker-Franklin D,Pancake BA,Marmor M,Legler PM

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat beta-lipotropin was isolated from 40 anterior pituitaries using high efficiency chromatography columns and sensitive fluorometric methods. The beta-lipotropin was characterized as to molecular weight, amino acid composition, and generation of opioid activity by trypsinization. Other opioid peptides, as well as a p...

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

authors： Rubinstein M,Stein S,Gerber LD,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of growth factors and cytokines has been implicated in a variety of physiological and developmental processes within the cardiovascular system. Smad proteins are a recently described family of intracellular signaling proteins that transduce signals in response...

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

authors： Topper JN,DiChiara MR,Brown JD,Williams AJ,Falb D,Collins T,Gimbrone MA Jr

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The connexin 43 (Cx43) hemichannel (HC) in the mechanosensory osteocytes is a major portal for the release of factors responsible for the anabolic effects of mechanical loading on bone formation and remodeling. However, little is known about how the Cx43 molecule responds to mechanical stimulation leading to the openi...

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

authors： Batra N,Burra S,Siller-Jackson AJ,Gu S,Xia X,Weber GF,DeSimone D,Bonewald LF,Lafer EM,Sprague E,Schwartz MA,Jiang JX

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exist in large numbers per cell but can be selected very rapidly as a result of unequal partitioning of mtDNA between germ cells during embryogenesis. However, empirical studies of this "bottlenecking" effect are rare because of the apparent scarcity of heteroplasmic individu...

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

authors： Van Leeuwen T,Vanholme B,Van Pottelberge S,Van Nieuwenhuyse P,Nauen R,Tirry L,Denholm I

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the successful fabrication on CaF2 substrates of FeSe(1-x)Tex films with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, including the region of 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.4, which is well known to be the "phase-separation region," via pulsed laser deposition that is a thermodynamically nonequilibrium method. In the resulting films, we observe a giant en...

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

authors： Imai Y,Sawada Y,Nabeshima F,Maeda A

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantum mechanical problem of the hydrogen atom is treated by use of a finite difference equation in place of Schrödinger's differential equation. The exact solution leads to a wave vector energy expression that is readily converted to the Bohr-Rydberg formula. (The calculations here reported are limited to spheri...

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

authors： Wall FT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal locations of members of the xenotropic-related env gene family in the mouse genome have been determined. Endonuclease restriction site polymorphisms detected by molecular hybridization were used to study the inheritance of mink cell-focus inducing and xenotropic env gene-related sequences in recombinant in...

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

authors： Blatt C,Mileham K,Haas M,Nesbitt MN,Harper ME,Simon MI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of two-dimensional (2D) vibrational spectroscopy, which uses two ultrafast IR laser pulses, is used to examine the structure of a cyclic penta-peptide in solution. Spectrally resolved cross peaks occur in the off-diagonal region of the 2D IR spectrum of the amide I region, analogous to those in 2D NMR spectrosc...

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

authors： Hamm P,Lim M,DeGrado WF,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously that the heat-stable polypeptide of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system of reticulocytes, designated APF-1, forms covalent conjugates with protein substrates in an ATP-requiring process. We now describe an enzyme that carries out the activation by ATP of the polypeptide with pyrophosphate...

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

authors： Ciechanover A,Heller H,Katz-Etzion R,Hershko A

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly purified fraction obtained from scrapie (263-K strain)-infected hamsters' brains by an alternative procedure without proteinase K treatment contained a protease-resistant form of the scrapie precursor protein (PrPSc) and infectivity of 9.9 +/- 0.7 log LD50/ml. Polyclonal antibodies produced against hamster sc...

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

authors： Safar J,Wang W,Padgett MP,Ceroni M,Piccardo P,Zopf D,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of cytosolic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase [3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA acetoacetyl-CoA-lyase (CoA-acylating), EC 4.1.3.5] and microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase[mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1.1.34], two sequential enzymes in the chole...

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

authors： Balasubramaniam S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00