Evasion of protective immunity by Borrelia burgdorferi by truncation of outer surface protein B.

abstract：:The role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes mellitus was tested in the nonobese mouse (NOD) model system. The effects of TNF-alpha were assessed on three levels: (i) insulitis development, (ii) development of overt diabetes, (iii) adoptive transfer of diabetes by sple...

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

authors： Jacob CO,Aiso S,Michie SA,McDevitt HO,Acha-Orbea H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein database searches frequently can reveal biologically significant sequence relationships useful in understanding structure and function. Weak but meaningful sequence patterns can be obscured, however, by other similarities due only to chance. By searching a database for multiple as opposed to pairwise alignment...

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

authors： Altschul SF,Lipman DJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the vertebrate central nervous system, the retina has been a useful model for studies of cell fate determination. Recent results from studies conducted in vitro and in vivo suggest a model of retinal development in which both the progenitor cells and the environment change over time. The model is based upon the not...

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

authors： Cepko CL,Austin CP,Yang X,Alexiades M,Ezzeddine D

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) recognize antigens in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I gene products. The T-cell receptor (TCR) that mediates this MHC-restricted antigen recognition recognizes short peptide fragments rather than the intact antigen. Presentation of peptides to the TCR may th...

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

authors： Kievits F,Wijffels J,Lokhorst W,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase I (top1) is the target of potent anticancer agents, including camptothecins and DNA intercalators, which reversibly stabilize (trap) top1 catalytic intermediates (cleavage complexes). The aim of the present study was to define the structural relationship between the site(s) of covalently bound interc...

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

authors： Pommier Y,Laco GS,Kohlhagen G,Sayer JM,Kroth H,Jerina DM

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthetic origin of the 10,000 molecular weight neurophysins, carriers of the peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, has been studied by cell-free synthesis, Poly(A)-RNA was isolated from bovine hypothalamus and translated in a wheat germ system containing (35)S- or (3)H-labeled amino acids. A number of uni...

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

authors： Giudice LC,Chaiken IM

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptojanin 1 is a polyphosphoinositide phosphatase concentrated in presynaptic nerve terminals, where it dephosphorylates a pool of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate implicated in synaptic vesicle recycling. Like other proteins with a role in endocytosis, synaptojanin 1 undergoes constitutive phosphorylation in ...

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

authors： Lee SY,Wenk MR,Kim Y,Nairn AC,De Camilli P

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostasis of intravascular volume, Na(+), Cl(-), and K(+) is interdependent and determined by the coordinated activities of structurally diverse mediators in the distal nephron and the distal colon. The behavior of these flux pathways is regulated by the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; however, the mechanisms ...

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

authors： Ring AM,Cheng SX,Leng Q,Kahle KT,Rinehart J,Lalioti MD,Volkman HM,Wilson FH,Hebert SC,Lifton RP

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-cycle, night administration of the pineal hormone melatonin in drinking water to aging mice (15 months of age) prolongs survival of BALB/c females from 23.8 to 28.1 months and preserves aspects of their youthful state. Similar results were seen in New Zealand Black females beginning at 5 months and C57BL/6 males ...

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

authors： Pierpaoli W,Regelson W

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) undergo self-renewal divisions to support spermatogenesis throughout life. Although several positive regulators of SSC self-renewal have been discovered, little is known about the negative regulators. Here, we report that F-box and WD-40 domain protein 7 (FBXW7), a component of the Skp...

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

authors： Kanatsu-Shinohara M,Onoyama I,Nakayama KI,Shinohara T

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Puf proteins bind RNA sequence specifically and regulate translation and stability of target mRNAs. A "code" for RNA recognition has been deduced from crystal structures of the Puf protein, human Pumilio1, where each of eight repeats binds an RNA base via a combination of three side chains at conserved positions. Here...

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

authors： Cheong CG,Hall TM

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a common autosomal recessive disorder of iron metabolism that leads to excessive iron storage in the liver and other organs. Recently, between 83 and 100% of HH patients have been found to be homozygous for the same mutation in a novel major histocompatibility complex class I-like ge...

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

authors： Parkkila S,Waheed A,Britton RS,Feder JN,Tsuchihashi Z,Schatzman RC,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A close correlation was observed between intracellular Ca2+ pool depletion and refilling and the onset of DNA synthesis and proliferation of DDT1MF-2 smooth muscle cells. The intracellular Ca2+ pump inhibitors 2,5-di-tert-butyl-hydroquinone (DBHQ) and thapsigargin (TG) specifically emptied identical inositol 1,4,5-tri...

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

authors： Short AD,Bian J,Ghosh TK,Waldron RT,Rybak SL,Gill DL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Wingless (Wg)/Wnt signaling has been implicated in heart development of multiple organisms, conflicting results have been reported regarding the role of Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in cardiac myogenesis: Wg/armadillo signaling promotes heart development in Drosophila, whereas activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signa...

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

authors： Naito AT,Shiojima I,Akazawa H,Hidaka K,Morisaki T,Kikuchi A,Komuro I

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that elevate amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide levels are associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Insulysin has been identified as one of several proteases potentially involved in Abeta degradation based on its hydrolysis of Abeta peptides in vitro. In this study, in vivo levels of brain Abeta40 ...

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

authors： Miller BC,Eckman EA,Sambamurti K,Dobbs N,Chow KM,Eckman CB,Hersh LB,Thiele DL

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia is a ravaging condition of progressive lung scarring and destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies including corticosteroids have limited efficacy in this ultimately fatal disorder. An important unmet need is to identify new agents that interact with key ...

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

authors： Henderson WR Jr,Chi EY,Ye X,Nguyen C,Tien YT,Zhou B,Borok Z,Knight DA,Kahn M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay functions of individual, specifically labeled tRNAPhe molecules exhibit nonexponential character as a result of conformational dynamics occurring during the measurement on a single molecule. tRNAPhe conformational states that interchange much more slowly are evidenced by the distribution of life...

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

authors： Jia Y,Sytnik A,Li L,Vladimirov S,Cooperman BS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating exosomal microRNA (miR) represents a new class of blood-based biomarkers for cancer liquid biopsy. The detection of miR at a very low concentration and with single-base discrimination without the need for sophisticated equipment, large volumes, or elaborate sample processing is a challenge. To address this...

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

authors： Canady TD,Li N,Smith LD,Lu Y,Kohli M,Smith AM,Cunningham BT

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-recognizing Ig-like lectins (Siglecs) are signaling receptors that modulate immune responses, and are targeted for interactions by certain pathogens. We describe two primate Siglecs that were rendered nonfunctional by single genetic events during hominin evolution after our common ancestor with the chimpan...

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

authors： Wang X,Mitra N,Secundino I,Banda K,Cruz P,Padler-Karavani V,Verhagen A,Reid C,Lari M,Rizzi E,Balsamo C,Corti G,De Bellis G,Longo L,NISC Comparative Sequencing Program.,Beggs W,Caramelli D,Tishkoff SA,Hayakawa T,Gree

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues modulate a variety of intracellular pathways whose signaling is integrated by the molecular mechanism that constitutes the circadian clock. Although the essential gears of the circadian machinery have been elucidated, very little is known about the signaling systems regulating it. Here, we report th...

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

authors： Yujnovsky I,Hirayama J,Doi M,Borrelli E,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a major blue-light receptor for phototropism in seed plants, exhibits blue-light-dependent autophosphorylation and contains two light, oxygen, or voltage (LOV) domains and a serine/threonine kinase domain. The LOV domains share homology with the PER-ARNT-SIM (PAS) superfamily, a diverse group of sensor pr...

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

authors： Crosson S,Moffat K

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences between early and late passage cell cultures on the organelle and macromolecular levels have been attributed to cellular "aging". However, concern has been expressed over whether changes in diploid cell populations after serial passage in vitro accurately reflect human cellular aging in vivo. Studies were ...

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

authors： Schneider EL,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are polymers assembled from αβ-tubulin heterodimers that display the hallmark behavior of dynamic instability. MT dynamics are driven by GTP hydrolysis within the MT lattice, and are highly regulated by a number of MT-associated proteins (MAPs). How MAPs affect MTs is still not fully understood, par...

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

authors： Zhang R,LaFrance B,Nogales E

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal 392 amino acids of the Drosophila kinesin alpha subunit (designated DKH392) form a dimer in solution that releases only one of its two tightly bound ADP molecules on association with a microtubule, whereas a shorter monomeric construct (designated DKH340) releases > or = 95% of its one bound ADP on asso...

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

authors： Hackney DD

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of phage lambda in vivo have indicated that its own recombination enzymes, beta protein and lambda exonuclease, are capable of catalyzing two dissimilar pathways of homologous recombination that are widely distributed in nature: single-strand annealing and strand invasion. The former is an enzymatic splicing o...

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

authors： Rybalchenko N,Golub EI,Bi B,Radding CM

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

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

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:I measured the strength of interaction between a marine herbivore and its growing resource over a realistic range of absolute and relative abundances. The herbivores (hermit crabs: Pagurus spp.) have slow and/or weak functional and numerical responses to epiphytic diatoms (Isthmia nervosa), which show logistic growth ...

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

authors： Ruesink JL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

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

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managing excess nutrients remains a major obstacle to improving ecosystem service benefits of urban waters. To inform more ecologically based landscape nutrient management, we compared watershed inputs, outputs, and retention for nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in seven subwatersheds of the Mississippi River in St. Pa...

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

authors： Hobbie SE,Finlay JC,Janke BD,Nidzgorski DA,Millet DB,Baker LA

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is regulated by the induction of growth promoting genes and the suppression of growth inhibitory genes. Malignant growth can result from the altered balance of expression of these genes in favor of cell proliferation. Induction of the transcription factor, c-Myc, promotes cell proliferation and tran...

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

authors： Lee TC,Li L,Philipson L,Ziff EB

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00