Carbon monoxide binding kinetics in "capped" porphyrin compounds.

abstract：:The human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene encodes a cytokine whose activities have been implicated in many immunopathological processes, including the activation and differentiation of lymphocytes. Originally identified as a monocyte factor, our studies and those of others have demonstrated that B and T l...

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

authors： Goldfeld AE,Flemington EK,Boussiotis VA,Theodos CM,Titus RG,Strominger JL,Speck SH

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital droplet assays-in which biological samples are compartmentalized into millions of femtoliter-volume droplets and interrogated individually-have generated enormous enthusiasm for their ability to detect biomarkers with single-molecule sensitivity. These assays have untapped potential for point-of-care diagnosti...

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

authors： Yelleswarapu V,Buser JR,Haber M,Baron J,Inapuri E,Issadore D

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference, mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), is a conserved regulatory process that has evolved as an antiviral defense mechanism in plants and animals. It is not known whether host cells also use siRNAs as an antibacterial defense mechanism in eukaryotes. Here, we report the discovery of an endogeno...

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

authors： Katiyar-Agarwal S,Morgan R,Dahlbeck D,Borsani O,Villegas A Jr,Zhu JK,Staskawicz BJ,Jin H

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly homologous Rnf2 (Ring1b) and Ring1 (Ring1a) proteins were identified as in vivo interactors of the Polycomb Group (PcG) protein Bmi1. Functional ablation of Rnf2 results in gastrulation arrest, in contrast to relatively mild phenotypes in most other PcG gene null mutants belonging to the same functional gro...

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

authors： Voncken JW,Roelen BA,Roefs M,de Vries S,Verhoeven E,Marino S,Deschamps J,van Lohuizen M

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile ectothermic animals can control their body temperatures by selecting specific thermal conditions in the environment, but embryos--trapped within an immobile egg and lacking locomotor structures--have been assumed to lack that ability. Falsifying that assumption, our experimental studies show that even early sta...

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

authors： Du WG,Zhao B,Chen Y,Shine R

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common congenital heart disease that results when the ductus arteriosus, a muscular artery, fails to remodel and close after birth. A syndromic form of this disorder, Char syndrome, is caused by mutation in TFAP2B, the gene encoding a neural crest-derived transcription factor. Estab...

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

authors： Mani A,Radhakrishnan J,Farhi A,Carew KS,Warnes CA,Nelson-Williams C,Day RW,Pober B,State MW,Lifton RP

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Klotho is a circulating protein, and Klotho deficiency disturbs endothelial integrity, but the molecular mechanism is not fully clarified. We report that vascular endothelium in Klotho-deficient mice showed hyperpermeability with increased apoptosis and down-regulation of vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin because of ...

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

authors： Kusaba T,Okigaki M,Matui A,Murakami M,Ishikawa K,Kimura T,Sonomura K,Adachi Y,Shibuya M,Shirayama T,Tanda S,Hatta T,Sasaki S,Mori Y,Matsubara H

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-Cyclohexyl[3H]adenosine ([3H]CHA) and 1,3-diethyl-8-[3H]phenylxanthine ([3H]DPX) to bind to adenosine receptors in brain membranes. The agonist [3H]CHA has high affinity in both bovine and guinea pig brain (Kd, 0.7 nM and 6 nM, respectively). [3H]CHA binding kinetics are slow (dissociation t1/2;60 min); binding is ...

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

authors： Bruns RF,Daly JW,Snyder SH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the polypentapeptide of elastin, (L-Val-L-Pro-Gly-L-Val-Gly)n, and appropriate analogs when suitably cross-linked, it has been previously demonstrated that development of elastomeric force at fixed length and length changes at fixed load occur as the result of an inverse temperature transition, with the temperatur...

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

authors： Urry DW,Haynes B,Zhang H,Harris RD,Prasad KU

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "supercooled" liquid develops when a fluid does not crystallize upon cooling below its ordering temperature. Instead, the microscopic relaxation times diverge so rapidly that, upon further cooling, equilibration eventually becomes impossible and glass formation occurs. Classic supercooled liquids exhibit specific id...

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

authors： Kassner ER,Eyvazov AB,Pichler B,Munsie TJ,Dabkowska HA,Luke GM,Davis JC

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes are blue-light receptors mediating various light responses in plants and animals. The photochemical mechanism of cryptochromes is not well understood. It has been proposed that photoactivation of cryptochromes involves the blue-light-dependent photoreduction of flavin adenine dinucleotide via the electro...

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

authors： Li X,Wang Q,Yu X,Liu H,Yang H,Zhao C,Liu X,Tan C,Klejnot J,Zhong D,Lin C

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome translocations between Ig (Ig) and non-Ig genes are frequently associated with B-cell lymphomas in humans and mice. The best characterized of these is c-myc/IgH translocation, which is associated with Burkitt's lymphoma. These translocations are caused by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which p...

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

authors： Jankovic M,Robbiani DF,Dorsett Y,Eisenreich T,Xu Y,Tarakhovsky A,Nussenzweig A,Nussenzweig MC

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNA clones encoding the entire rat 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were isolated, and the total 423-amino acid sequence was deduced. The amino acid sequence of the rat receptor is similar but not identical to the reported human receptor sequence. The cysteine-rich DNA-binding domain is completely conse...

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

authors： Burmester JK,Wiese RJ,Maeda N,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of the nucleotide analog adenosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (ATP[gamma S]), effects of Ca2+ on stiffness and equatorial x-ray diffraction patterns of single skinned fibers of the rabbit psoas muscle were studied. It is shown that cross-bridges in the presence of ATP[gamma S] have properties of the w...

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

authors： Kraft T,Yu LC,Kuhn HJ,Brenner B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After pair-bonding, male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) display aggression toward novel females but not toward their female partner. Here we show that this selective aggression in pair-bonded male prairie voles is associated with increased release of vasopressin (AVP) in the anterior hypothalamus (AH). Pharmacol...

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

authors： Gobrogge KL,Liu Y,Young LJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We define an integer invariant [Formula: see text] of a smooth, compact, closed 4-manifold X by minimizing a certain complexity of a trisection of X over all trisections. The good feature of [Formula: see text] is that when [Formula: see text] and X is a homology 4-sphere, then X is diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere. Natu...

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

authors： Kirby R,Thompson A

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy is emerging as one of the most effective methods for treating many cancers. However, immunotherapy can still introduce significant off-target toxicity, and methods are sought to enable targeted immunotherapy at tumor sites. Here, we show that relatively large (>100-nm) anionic nanoparticles administered ...

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

authors： Haber T,Cornejo YR,Aramburo S,Flores L,Cao P,Liu A,Mooney R,Gilchrist M,Tirughana R,Nwokafor U,Abidi W,Han E,Dellinger T,Wakabayashi MT,Aboody KS,Berlin JM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether gravity is required for normal amphibian development, Xenopus laevis females were induced to ovulate aboard the orbiting Space Shuttle. Eggs were fertilized in vitro, and although early embryonic stages showed some abnormalities, the embryos were able to regulate and produce nearly normal larvae. These...

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

authors： Souza KA,Black SD,Wassersug RJ

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific transcriptional coactivator OCA-B is required for antigen-dependent B cell differentiation events, including germinal center formation. However, the identity of OCA-B target genes involved in this process is unknown. This study has used large-scale cDNA arrays to monitor changes in gene expression ...

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

authors： Kim U,Siegel R,Ren X,Gunther CS,Gaasterland T,Roeder RG

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenoviral mediated delivery of suicide and cytokine genes has been investigated as a treatment for hepatic metastases of colon carcinoma in mice. Liver tumors were established by intrahepatic implantation of a poorly immunogenic colon carcinoma cell line (MCA-26), which is syngeneic in BALB/c mice. Intrat...

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

authors： Caruso M,Pham-Nguyen K,Kwong YL,Xu B,Kosai KI,Finegold M,Woo SL,Chen SH

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inadequate resolution is the principal limitation of radiocarbon dating. However, recent work has shown that exact-year precision is attainable if use can be made of past increases in atmospheric radiocarbon concentration or so-called Miyake events. Here, this nascent method is applied to an archaeological site of pre...

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

authors： Kuitems M,Panin A,Scifo A,Arzhantseva I,Kononov Y,Doeve P,Neocleous A,Dee M

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The aldosterone-induced augmentation of Na+ transport in toad bladder was analyzed by comparing the hormonal actions on the transepithelial short-circuit current and on the amiloride-sensitive 22Na+ uptake in isolated membrane vesicles. Incubating bladders with 0.5 microM aldosterone for 3 hr evoked more than a 2-fold...

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

authors： Asher C,Garty H

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native cytochrome c (cyt c) has a compact tertiary structure with a hexacoordinated heme iron and functions in electron transport in mitochondria and apoptosis in the cytoplasm. However, the possibility that protein modifications confer additional functions to cyt c has not been explored. Disruption of methionine 80 (...

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

authors： Godoy LC,Muñoz-Pinedo C,Castro L,Cardaci S,Schonhoff CM,King M,Tórtora V,Marín M,Miao Q,Jiang JF,Kapralov A,Jemmerson R,Silkstone GG,Patel JN,Evans JE,Wilson MT,Green DR,Kagan VE,Radi R,Mannick JB

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bones of the flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) from 14 archaeological sites along the California coast indicate that humans hunted the species for at least 8,000 years before it was driven to extinction. Direct (14)C dates on Chendytes bones show that the duck was exploited on the southern California islands as ear...

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

authors： Jones TL,Porcasi JF,Erlandson JM,Dallas H Jr,Wake TA,Schwaderer R

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA from noninfectious virions produced by two established clonal lines of sarcoma positive-leukemia negative (S+L-)-transformed 3T3 cells has been characterized. RNA from virions or nucleoids of S+L--(C243) cells consisted of three to four sizes: +/-44 S (6%), 28 S (17%), 18 S (38%), and <18 S (39%). 28S virion RNA c...

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

authors： Phillips LA,Hollis VW Jr,Bassin RH,Fischinger PJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological carbon fixation is limited by the supply of Fe in vast regions of the global ocean. Dissolved Fe in seawater is primarily sourced from continental mineral dust, submarine hydrothermalism, and sediment dissolution along continental margins. However, the relative contributions of these three sources to the Fe...

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

authors： Horner TJ,Williams HM,Hein JR,Saito MA,Burton KW,Halliday AN,Nielsen SG

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood-degrading brown rot fungi are essential recyclers of plant biomass in forest ecosystems. Their efficient cellulolytic systems, which have potential biotechnological applications, apparently depend on a combination of two mechanisms: lignocellulose oxidation (LOX) by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and polysaccharid...

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

authors： Zhang J,Presley GN,Hammel KE,Ryu JS,Menke JR,Figueroa M,Hu D,Orr G,Schilling JS

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical evidence is presented for the disintegration of the lens fiber plasma membrane in human cataracts. The intrinsic membrane proteins are found in both the water-soluble and water-insoluble nonmembrane fractions of the cataract lens but not in the normal tissue. Furthermore, in contrast to the normal lens, no...

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

authors： Garner MH,Roy D,Rosenfeld L,Garner WH,Spector A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of molecular tension probes for real-time mapping of piconewton forces in living systems has had a major impact on mechanobiology. For example, DNA-based tension probes have revealed roles for mechanics in platelet, B cell, T cell, and fibroblast function. Nonetheless, imaging short-lived forces transmitted...

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

authors： Ma R,Kellner AV,Ma VP,Su H,Deal BR,Brockman JM,Salaita K

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00