A virion-specific inhibitory molecule with therapeutic potential for human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

abstract：:Trafficking and turnover of transmitter receptors required to maintain and modify the strength of chemical synapses have been characterized extensively. In contrast, little is known regarding trafficking of gap junction components at electrical synapses. By combining ultrastructural and in vivo physiological analysis ...

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

authors： Flores CE,Nannapaneni S,Davidson KG,Yasumura T,Bennett MV,Rash JE,Pereda AE

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Intergroup conflict is a persistent feature of many human societies yet little is known about why individuals participate when doing so imposes a mortality risk. To evaluate whether participation in warfare is associated with reproductive benefits, we present data on participation in small-scale livestock raids among ...

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

authors： Glowacki L,Wrangham R

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic analysis of dynamic-contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI data yields K(trans) and k(ep), two parameters independently measuring the capillary wall contrast reagent transfer rate. The almost universally used standard model (SM) embeds the implicit assumption that equilibrium transcytolemmal water exchange is...

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

authors： Huang W,Li X,Morris EA,Tudorica LA,Seshan VE,Rooney WD,Tagge I,Wang Y,Xu J,Springer CS

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

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

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus encodes a multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.6) that is packaged in the infectious virus particle. This polymerase was found to contain a submolar polypeptide of approximately 85 kDa in addition to the core subunits, which consist of two larger and several smaller polypeptides. The poly...

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

authors： Ahn BY,Moss B

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural differences between dynein and kinesin suggest a unique molecular mechanism of dynein motility. Measuring the mechanical properties of a single molecule of dynein is crucial for revealing the mechanisms underlying its movement. We measured the step size and force produced by single molecules of active cytop...

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

authors： Toba S,Watanabe TM,Yamaguchi-Okimoto L,Toyoshima YY,Higuchi H

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic transcriptional activators may function by stimulating formation of RNA polymerase II preinitiation complexes at the core promoter of genes. In this case, their mode of action will intrinsically depend on how these complexes assemble on promoters in living cells, an issue that remains largely unexplored. He...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Couto E,Klages N,Strubin M

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between mutations in the tumor-suppressor genes Apc and p53 was studied in congenic mouse strains to minimize the influence of polymorphic modifiers. The multiplicity and invasiveness of intestinal adenomas of Apc(Min/+) (Min) mice was enhanced by deficiency for p53. In addition, the occurrence of desm...

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

authors： Halberg RB,Katzung DS,Hoff PD,Moser AR,Cole CE,Lubet RA,Donehower LA,Jacoby RF,Dove WF

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dead and dying cells release nucleic acids. These extracellular RNAs and DNAs can be taken up by inflammatory cells and activate multiple nucleic acid-sensing toll-like receptors (TLR3, 7, 8, and 9). The inappropriate activation of these TLRs can engender a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The redundan...

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

authors： Lee J,Sohn JW,Zhang Y,Leong KW,Pisetsky D,Sullenger BA

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The F(1)F(0) ATP synthase is the smallest motor enzyme known. Previous studies had established that the central stalk, made of the gamma and epsilon subunits in the F(1) part and c subunit ring in the F(0) part, rotates relative to a stator composed of alpha(3)beta(3)deltaab(2) during ATP hydrolysis and synthesis. How...

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

authors： Tsunoda SP,Rodgers AJ,Aggeler R,Wilce MC,Yoshida M,Capaldi RA

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor-stimulated cell death of developing, immature T cells plays an important role in shaping the repertoire of antigens to which mature T cells will respond, but a role for receptor-stimulated death in controlling responses of mature T cells is controversial. Mutant lpr/lpr mice exhibit an autoimmune synd...

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

authors： Russell JH,Rush B,Weaver C,Wang R

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal mucosa exists in dynamic balance with trillions of luminal microbes. Disruption of the intestinal epithelial barrier, commonly observed in mucosal inflammation and diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), is often associated with dysbiosis, particularly decreases in species producing short-c...

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

authors： Wang RX,Lee JS,Campbell EL,Colgan SP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation of HbCO by a single 6-psec 530-nm pulse results in photodissociation with a first-order constant of 0.89 X 10(11) sec-1. The kinetics of photodissociation, monitored by following absorbance changes in the Soret band at 440 nm, are interpreted as corresponding to predissociation followed by a corssing into a...

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

authors： Noe LJ,Eisert WG,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, in which the death of mutant rod photoreceptors leads secondarily to the non-cell autonomous death of cone photoreceptors. Gene therapy is a promising treatment strategy. Unfortunately, current methods of gene delivery treat only a fraction of diseas...

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

authors： Koch SF,Duong JK,Hsu CW,Tsai YT,Lin CS,Wahl-Schott CA,Tsang SH

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks are widely used in the biological, physical, and social sciences as a concise mathematical representation of the topology of systems of interacting components. Understanding the structure of these networks is one of the outstanding challenges in the study of complex systems. Here we describe a general techniq...

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

authors： Newman ME,Leicht EA

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular localization of DARPP-32, a dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of Mr 32,000 that appears to mediate certain actions of dopamine in the mammalian brain by acting as an inhibitor of protein phosphatase 1, was studied in the kidney of several species. DARPP-32 mRNA and DARPP-32-like immunoreactivity...

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

authors： Meister B,Fryckstedt J,Schalling M,Cortés R,Hökfelt T,Aperia A,Hemmings HC Jr,Nairn AC,Ehrlich M,Greengard P

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic islands, large potentially mobile regions of bacterial chromosomes, are a major contributor to bacteria evolution. Here, we investigated the fitness cost and phenotypic differences between the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and a derivative carrying one integrated copy of the clc element, a 103-kb genom...

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

authors： Gaillard M,Pernet N,Vogne C,Hagenbüchle O,van der Meer JR

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Homing endonucleases stimulate gene conversion by generating site-specific DNA double-strand breaks that are repaired by homologous recombination. These enzymes are potentially valuable tools for targeted gene correction and genome engineering. We have engineered a variant of the I-AniI homing endonuclease that nicks ...

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

authors： McConnell Smith A,Takeuchi R,Pellenz S,Davis L,Maizels N,Monnat RJ Jr,Stoddard BL

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread occurrence of spliceosomal introns in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, their origin remains controversial. One model proposes that the duplication of small genomic portions could have provided the boundaries for new introns. If this mechanism has occurred recently, the 5' and 3' boundaries of e...

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

authors： Zhuo D,Madden R,Elela SA,Chabot B

更新日期：2007-01-16 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：:Most current gene transfer methods function satisfactorily in specialized systems involving established cell lines but are often not applicable with nonadherent, primary hematopoietic cells, which are notoriously difficult to transfect. To approach this problem, we have investigated an alternative method of gene trans...

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

authors： Zenke M,Steinlein P,Wagner E,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments reported here show that some UV-irradiated wild-type T7 phage markers can be rescued efficiently by coinfection with T7 amber mutant phage in a permissive host. Other results show that the segments of a UV-irradiated genome that replicate efficiently are those that also are rescued efficiently during a mar...

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

authors： Burck KB,Miller RC Jr

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is the primary target for HIV-1-specific antibodies. The native HIV-1 envelope spike on the virion surface is a trimer, but trimeric gp140 and monomeric gp120 currently are believed to induce comparable immune responses. Indeed, most studies on the immunogenicity of HIV-1 envelope oligomers...

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

authors： Kovacs JM,Nkolola JP,Peng H,Cheung A,Perry J,Miller CA,Seaman MS,Barouch DH,Chen B

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-protein interactions are important mediators of cellular-signaling events. Consensus binding motifs (also known as short linear motifs) within these contacts underpin molecular recognition, yet have poor pharmacological properties as discrete species. Here, we present methods to transform intact peptides into ...

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

authors： Lawson KV,Rose TE,Harran PG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin and its downstream transcriptional effector nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) are important regulators of inducible gene expression in multiple cell types. In T cells, calcineurin-NFAT signaling represents a critical event for mediating cellular activation and the...

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

authors： Bueno OF,Brandt EB,Rothenberg ME,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The single-stranded mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) displacement-loop initiation sequence (7S mtDNA) is hydrogen-bonded at the origin of replication in animal cell mtDNA. Analysis of 7S mtDNA from several cell sources indicates that this initiation sequence exists as a family of fragments of relatively discrete lengths. mtD...

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

authors： Gillum AM,Clayton DA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine site-directed mutagenesis was used to create variants of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L7/L12 that have single cysteine substitutions, at residues 63 or 89, located in different exposed loops in the structure of the globular C-terminal domain indicated by the crystallographic structure. That structure sh...

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

authors： Oleinikov AV,Jokhadze GG,Traut RR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about genetic regulation of the development of white matter. This knowledge is critical in understanding the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with altered cognition as well as in elucidating the genetics of normal human cognition. The hemideletion of approximately 25 genes on ...

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

authors： Marenco S,Siuta MA,Kippenhan JS,Grodofsky S,Chang WL,Kohn P,Mervis CB,Morris CA,Weinberger DR,Meyer-Lindenberg A,Pierpaoli C,Berman KF

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Friction is caused by dissipative lateral forces that act between macroscopic objects. An improved understanding of friction is therefore expected from measurements of dissipative lateral forces acting between individual atoms. Here we establish atomic resolution of both conservative and dissipative forces by lateral ...

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

authors： Giessibl FJ,Herz M,Mannhart J

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (CN), an encapsulated, ubiquitous environmental yeast, is pathogenic for humans, primarily those with compromised immune function. CN is believed to be a facultative intracellular pathogen. Time-lapsed video microscopy revealed that yeast began to replicate and divide 2 hours after ingestion by...

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

authors： Tucker SC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00