Determinants of the selective toxicity of alloxan to the pancreatic B cell.

abstract：:IFN-gamma is well known as the signature cytokine of CD4+ T helper 1, CD8+, and natural killer cells, but recent studies demonstrate that antigen-presenting cells, in particular dendritic cells (DCs), are another potent source for this proinflammatory cytokine. T-bet, a transcription factor that controls IFN-gamma exp...

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

authors： Lugo-Villarino G,Maldonado-Lopez R,Possemato R,Penaranda C,Glimcher LH

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/APO-1 cytotoxic pathway plays an important role in the regulation of peripheral immunity. Recent evidence indicates that this regulatory function operates through deletion of activated T and B lymphocytes by CD4+ T cells expressing the Fas ligand. Because macrophages play a key role in peripheral immunity, we ...

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

authors： Ashany D,Song X,Lacy E,Nikolic-Zugic J,Friedman SM,Elkon KB

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-Tac monoclonal antibody is known to bind to the p55 chain of the human interleukin 2 receptor and to inhibit proliferation of T cells by blocking interleukin 2 binding. However, use of anti-Tac as an immunosuppressant drug would be impaired by the human immune response against this murine antibody. We have th...

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

authors： Queen C,Schneider WP,Selick HE,Payne PW,Landolfi NF,Duncan JF,Avdalovic NM,Levitt M,Junghans RP,Waldmann TA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants constantly undergo external mechanical loads such as wind or touch and respond to these stimuli by acclimating their growth processes. A fascinating feature of this mechanical-induced growth response is that it can occur rapidly and at long distance from the initial site of stimulation, suggesting the existence...

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

authors： Louf JF,Guéna G,Badel E,Forterre Y

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes control essential male functions in many species, including sex determination and fertility. However, because of obstacles posed by repeat-rich heterochromatin, knowledge of Y chromosome sequences is limited to a handful of model organisms, constraining our understanding of Y biology across the tree of l...

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

authors： Hall AB,Papathanos PA,Sharma A,Cheng C,Akbari OS,Assour L,Bergman NH,Cagnetti A,Crisanti A,Dottorini T,Fiorentini E,Galizi R,Hnath J,Jiang X,Koren S,Nolan T,Radune D,Sharakhova MV,Steele A,Timoshevskiy VA,Windbich

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the pathways that control epithelial carcinogenesis is vital to the development of effective treatments. The Polycomb group family member Bmi1 is overexpressed in numerous epithelial tumors, but its role in their development has not been established. We now show a key role for Bmi1 in lung adenocarcinoma...

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

authors： Dovey JS,Zacharek SJ,Kim CF,Lees JA

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies and maps the water footprint (WF) of humanity at a high spatial resolution. It reports on consumptive use of rainwater (green WF) and ground and surface water (blue WF) and volumes of water polluted (gray WF). Water footprints are estimated per nation from both a production and consumption perspe...

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

authors： Hoekstra AY,Mekonnen MM

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the unliganded opening and closing rate constants of neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor-channels (AChRs) having mutations that increased the gating equilibrium constant. For some mutant combinations, spontaneous openings occurred in clusters. For 25 different constructs, the unliganded gating equilibriu...

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

authors： Purohit P,Auerbach A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 14-3-3 family of phosphoserine/threonine-recognition proteins engage multiple nodes in signaling networks that control diverse physiological and pathophysiological functions and have emerged as promising therapeutic targets for such diseases as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Thus, small molecule modulator...

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

authors： Zhao J,Du Y,Horton JR,Upadhyay AK,Lou B,Bai Y,Zhang X,Du L,Li M,Wang B,Zhang L,Barbieri JT,Khuri FR,Cheng X,Fu H

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:30S ribosomal proteins from Bacillus stearothermophilus (B. proteins) have been fractionated and characterized with respect to their ability to replace various E. coli 30S proteins (E. proteins) in the E. coli 30S ribosome reconstitution system. The functional counterparts of all the E. proteins, except S1, S6, S9, an...

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

authors： Higo K,Held W,Kahan L,Nomura M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing global temperature and sea-level rise have led to concern about expansions in the distribution and prevalence of complex-lifecycle parasites (CLPs). Indeed, numerous environmental variables can influence the infectivity and reproductive output of many pathogens. Digenean trematodes are CLPs with intermediat...

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

authors： Huntley JW,Fürsich FT,Alberti M,Hethke M,Liu C

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the recombinant squid kinesin head domain in Escherichia coli and studied its interaction with microtubules. The head is active as a microtubule-stimulated ATPase and binds to microtubules, but it does not support microtubule gliding by itself. The head binds to both microtubules and depolymerized tu...

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

authors： Song YH,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an unconventional agent, a normal cellular protein is converted to an abnormal form that copurifies with infectivity and aggregates to form deposits of amyloid. We have used immunocytochemistry and methods that enhance detection of amyloidog...

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

authors： Diedrich JF,Bendheim PE,Kim YS,Carp RI,Haase AT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator 1 (A1; also called replication factor C), in conjunction with proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), is essential for the elongation of primed DNA templates by DNA polymerases delta and epsilon. A1 contains five distinct subunits of 145, 40, 38, 37, and 36.5 kDa. Here we describe the isolation, sequence,...

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

authors： Chen M,Pan ZQ,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which stratospheric intrusions on synoptic scales influence the tropospheric ozone (O3) levels remains poorly understood, because quantitative detection of stratospheric air has been challenging. Cosmogenic 35S mainly produced in the stratosphere has the potential to identify stratospheric air masses at ...

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

authors： Lin M,Su L,Shaheen R,Fung JC,Thiemens MH

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella and establishes latency in sensory ganglia. VZV reactivation results in herpes zoster. We developed a model using human dorsal root ganglion (DRG) xenografts in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice to investigate VZV infection of differentiated neurons and satellite...

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

authors： Zerboni L,Ku CC,Jones CD,Zehnder JL,Arvin AM

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aqueous gel sieving chromatography on Sephadex G-10 of the Group IA cations (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+) plus NH4+ as the Cl- salts, in combination with previous results for the halide anions (F-, Cl-, Br-, I-) as the Na+ salts [Washabaugh, M.W. & Collins, K.D. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 12477-12485], leads to the followi...

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

authors： Collins KD

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 16S rRNA genes of Pyrobaculum aerophilum and Pyrobaculum islandicum were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction, and the resulting products were sequenced directly. The two organisms are closely related by this measure (over 98% similar). However, they differ in that the (lone) 16S rRNA gene of Pyrobaculum aer...

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

authors： Burggraf S,Larsen N,Woese CR,Stetter KO

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Forests and their soils contain the majority of the earth's terrestrial carbon stocks. Changes in patterns of tree growth can have a huge impact on atmospheric cycles, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, and biodiversity. Recent studies have shown increases in biomass across many forest types. This increase has bee...

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

authors： McMahon SM,Parker GG,Miller DR

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A perversion in an otherwise uniform helical structure, such as a climbing plant tendril, refers to a kink that connects two helices with opposite chiralities. Such singularity structures are widely seen in natural and artificial mechanical systems, and they provide the fundamental mechanism of helical symmetry breaki...

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

authors： Liu S,Yao Z,Chiou K,Stupp SI,Olvera de la Cruz M

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxynitrite is harmful to the host, the beneficial effects of peroxynitrite are less well understood. We explored the role of peroxynitrite in the host immune response to Coxsackievirus infection. Peroxynitrite inhibits viral replication in vitro, in part by inhibiting viral RNA entry into the host cell. Ni...

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

authors： Padalko E,Ohnishi T,Matsushita K,Sun H,Fox-Talbot K,Bao C,Baldwin WM 3rd,Lowenstein CJ

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulinomas are pancreatic islet tumors that inappropriately secrete insulin, producing hypoglycemia. Exome and targeted sequencing revealed that 14 of 43 insulinomas harbored the identical somatic mutation in the DNA-binding zinc finger of the transcription factor Yin Yang 1 (YY1). Chromatin immunoprecipitation seque...

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

authors： Cromer MK,Choi M,Nelson-Williams C,Fonseca AL,Kunstman JW,Korah RM,Overton JD,Mane S,Kenney B,Malchoff CD,Stalberg P,Akerström G,Westin G,Hellman P,Carling T,Björklund P,Lifton RP

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges (Porifera), the simplest and earliest multicellular organisms, are thought to have evolved from their unicellular ancestors about 1 billion years ago by developing cell-recognition and adhesion mechanisms to discriminate against "non-self." Consequently, they are used as models for investigating recognition ph...

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

authors： Haseley SR,Vermeer HJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide variations, including SNPs, in the coding regions of disease genes are important targets for RNAi treatment, which is a promising medical treatment for intractable diseases such as triplet repeat diseases. However, the identification of such nucleotide variations and the design of siRNAs conferring disease ...

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

authors： Takahashi M,Watanabe S,Murata M,Furuya H,Kanazawa I,Wada K,Hohjoh H

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The default mode network (DMN) has been suggested to support a variety of self-referential functions in humans and has been fractionated into subsystems based on distinct responses to cognitive tasks and functional connectivity architecture. Such subsystems are thought to reflect functional hierarchy and segregation w...

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

authors： Hsu LM,Liang X,Gu H,Brynildsen JK,Stark JA,Ash JA,Lin CP,Lu H,Rapp PR,Stein EA,Yang Y

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver provides for long-term energy needs of the body by converting excess carbohydrate into fat for storage. Insulin is one factor that promotes hepatic lipogenesis, but there is increasing evidence that glucose also contributes to the coordinated regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver by mechanis...

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

authors： Iizuka K,Bruick RK,Liang G,Horton JD,Uyeda K

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia in animals are colonized by complex communities of microbes. Although a topic of long-standing interest, understanding the evolution of the microbial communities and their role in triggering innate immune responses has resisted analysis. Cnidaria are among the simplest animals at the tissue grade of organiza...

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

authors： Fraune S,Bosch TC

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the synthesis of a probe that permits the visualization by electron microscopy of acidic organelles in intact cells. This probe, 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyldipropylamine (DAMP), is a basic congener of dinitrophenol that readily diffuses into intact cells. Its primary and tertiary amino groups (a...

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

authors： Anderson RG,Falck JR,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00