Endogenously opsonized particles divert prostanoid action from lethal to protective in models of experimental endotoxemia.

abstract：:The cytosolic concentration of free Ca2+ in bovine neutrophils was monitored by using the intracellular Ca2+ indicator quin2, 2-[[2-bis(acetylamino)-5-methylphenoxy]methyl-6-methoxy-8- bis(acetylamino)]quinoline. Neutrophils at rest have a cytosolic Ca2+ concentration of 85 +/- 5 nM, which in 2-4 min increases to 300-...

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

authors： Gennaro R,Pozzan T,Romeo D

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usual human livers contain two major aldehyde dehydrogenase [(ALDH) aldehyde:NAD+ oxidoreductase] isozymes--i.e., a cytosolic ALDH1 component and a mitochondrial ALDH2 component--whereas approximately equal to 50% of Orientals are "atypical" and have only the ALDH1 isozyme and are missing the ALDH2 isozyme. We previou...

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

authors： Yoshida A,Huang IY,Ikawa M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many naturally occurring habitats, bacteria live in micrometer-size confined spaces. Although bacterial growth and motility in such constrictions is of great interest to fields as varied as soil microbiology, water purification, and biomedical research, quantitative studies of the effects of confinement on bacteria...

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

authors： Männik J,Driessen R,Galajda P,Keymer JE,Dekker C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats fed the liver carcinogen 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF), the two most abundant types of DNA adduct are N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-2-acetylaminofluorene and its deacetylated derivative. When plasmids carrying AAF adducts replicate in bacteria, the predominant mutations are frameshifts, whereas with deacetylated (AF) a...

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

authors： Mah MC,Boldt J,Culp SJ,Maher VM,McCormick JJ

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial distribution of plant defenses within a leaf may be critical in explaining patterns of herbivory. The generalist lepidopteran larvae, Helicoverpa armigera (the cotton bollworm), avoided the midvein and periphery of Arabidopsis thaliana rosette leaves and fed almost exclusively on the inner lamina. This fee...

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

authors： Shroff R,Vergara F,Muck A,Svatos A,Gershenzon J

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of chylomicron remnants rat liver plasma membranes was studied. Liver membranes bound up to 8 times more remnants than they bound chylomicrons. The remnant particle appeared to bind to the membrane as a unit. Remnant binding was greatest to liver plasma membrane; only one third as much binding was observed...

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

authors： Carrella M,Cooper AD

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increasing interest in cyanobacteria because these photosynthetic organisms convert solar energy into biomass and because of their potential for the production of biofuels. However, the exploitation of cyanobacteria for bioengineering requires knowledge of their transcriptional organization. Using di...

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

authors： Mitschke J,Georg J,Scholz I,Sharma CM,Dienst D,Bantscheff J,Voss B,Steglich C,Wilde A,Vogel J,Hess WR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of esterase 3 confer two forms of organophosphate resistance on contemporary Australasian Lucilia cuprina. One form, called diazinon resistance, is slightly more effective against commonly used insecticides and is now more prevalent than the other form, called malathion resistance. We report here that the si...

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

authors： Hartley CJ,Newcomb RD,Russell RJ,Yong CG,Stevens JR,Yeates DK,La Salle J,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent Schrödinger equation is a cornerstone of quantum physics and governs all phenomena of the microscopic world. However, despite its importance, its origin is still not widely appreciated and properly understood. We obtain the Schrödinger equation from a mathematical identity by a slight generalization...

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

authors： Schleich WP,Greenberger DM,Kobe DH,Scully MO

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV photodissociation kinetics of tryptophan amino acid, Trp, attached to the membrane of bacteria, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, have been studied by means of normal and synchronous fluorescence. Our experimental data suggest that the fluorescence intensity of Trp increases during the first minute of irr...

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

authors： Li R,Dhankhar D,Chen J,Cesario TC,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax lethal toxin (LT) is a protease virulence factor produced by Bacillus anthracis that is required for its pathogenicity. LT treatment causes a rapid degradation of c-Jun protein that follows inactivation of the MEK1/2-Erk1/2 signaling pathway. Here we identify COP1 as the ubiquitin E3 ligase that is essential f...

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

authors： Ouyang W,Guo P,Takeda K,Fu Q,Fang H,Frucht DM

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as important cellular-signaling agents for cellular survival. Herein, we demonstrate that ROS-mediated oxidation of DNA to yield 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in gene promoters is a signaling agent for gene activation. Enhanced gene expression occurs when OG is formed in guan...

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

authors： Fleming AM,Ding Y,Burrows CJ

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A promising strategy for DNA sequencing exploits transposons to provide mobile sites for the binding of sequencing primers. For such a strategy to be maximally efficient, the location and orientation of the transposon must be readily determined and the insertion sites should be randomly distributed. We demonstrate an ...

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

authors： Strausbaugh LD,Bourke MT,Sommer MT,Coon ME,Berg CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed the biochemical and biophysical characterization of a red fluorescent protein, eqFP611, from the sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor cloned in Escherichia coli. With an excitation maximum at 559 nm and an emission maximum at 611 nm, the recombinant protein shows the most red-shifted emission and the largest...

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

authors： Wiedenmann J,Schenk A,Röcker C,Girod A,Spindler KD,Nienhaus GU

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells mediate vital control of cancer and viral infection. They rely on MHC class I (MHC I)-specific self-receptors to identify and lyse diseased cells without harming self-MHC I-bearing host cells. NK cells bearing inhibitory self-receptors for host MHC I also undergo education, referred to as lic...

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

authors： Gamache A,Cronk JM,Nash WT,Puchalski P,Gillespie A,Wei H,Gray L,Hammarskjold ML,Xu W,Brown MG

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated changes in gene expression underlie the early patterning and cell-type specification of the central nervous system. However, much less is known about how such changes contribute to later stages of circuit assembly and refinement. In this study, we employ single-cell RNA sequencing to develop a detailed, wh...

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

authors： Kalish BT,Cheadle L,Hrvatin S,Nagy MA,Rivera S,Crow M,Gillis J,Kirchner R,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute and chronic injuries to the heart result in perturbation of intracellular calcium signaling, which leads to pathological cardiac hypertrophy and remodeling. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has been implicated in the transduction of calcium signals in the heart, but the specific isoforms o...

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

authors： Backs J,Backs T,Neef S,Kreusser MM,Lehmann LH,Patrick DM,Grueter CE,Qi X,Richardson JA,Hill JA,Katus HA,Bassel-Duby R,Maier LS,Olson EN

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequences of wheat Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci, encoding the plastid and cytosolic forms of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase, were analyzed with a view to understanding the evolution of these genes and the origin of the three genomes in modern hexaploid wheat. Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci from each of the wheats Triticum ur...

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

authors： Chalupska D,Lee HY,Faris JD,Evrard A,Chalhoub B,Haselkorn R,Gornicki P

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rigidity of numerous biological filaments and crafted microrods has been conveniently deduced from the analysis of their thermal fluctuations. However, the difficulty of measuring nanometric displacements with an optical microscope has so far limited such studies to sufficiently flexible rods, of which the persist...

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

authors： Gerbal F,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite morphogenesis is regulated by neuronal activity or neurotrophins, which may function by activating intrinsic signaling proteins, including Rho family GTPases. Here we report that activity- and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent dendritic morphogenesis requires activation of geranylgeranyltrans...

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

authors： Zhou XP,Wu KY,Liang B,Fu XQ,Luo ZG

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate cytokinesis it is thought that contractile ring constriction is driven by nonmuscle myosin II (NM II) translocation of antiparallel actin filaments. Here we report in situ, in vitro, and in vivo observations that challenge this hypothesis. Graded knockdown of NM II in cultured COS-7 cells reveals tha...

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

authors： Ma X,Kovács M,Conti MA,Wang A,Zhang Y,Sellers JR,Adelstein RS

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic anthrax, caused by inhalation or ingestion of Bacillus anthracis spores, is characterized by rapid microbial growth stages that require iron. Tightly bound and highly regulated in a mammalian host, iron is scarce during an infection. To scavenge iron from its environment, B. anthracis synthesizes by independe...

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

authors： Abergel RJ,Wilson MK,Arceneaux JE,Hoette TM,Strong RK,Byers BR,Raymond KN

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the Ig superfamily (IgSF), intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAMs) form a subfamily that binds the leukocyte integrin alphaLbeta2. We report a 1.65-A-resolution crystal structure of the ICAM-3 N-terminal domain (D1) in complex with the inserted domain, the ligand-binding domain of alphaLbeta2. This high-resolu...

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

authors： Song G,Yang Y,Liu JH,Casasnovas JM,Shimaoka M,Springer TA,Wang JH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) associated with plasma membranes of lymphocytes differs in terminal sugar content and binding specificity from the cerebellar receptor, which is localized to endoplasmic reticulum. Lectin column chromatography reveals that 30% of IP3R in the thymus contains sialic acid,...

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

authors： Khan AA,Steiner JP,Snyder SH

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) produces neuropathological and clinical abnormalities in humans, monkeys, and mice that closely resemble idiopathic parkinsonism. N-Methyl-4-phenylpyridine (MPP+), a metabolite of MPTP formed by monoamine oxidase B, is accumulated into striatal and cerebral cortical ...

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

authors： Javitch JA,D'Amato RJ,Strittmatter SM,Snyder SH

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli chaperonins GroEL and GroES facilitate the refolding of polypeptide chains in an ATP hydrolysis-dependent reaction. The elementary steps in the binding and release of polypeptide substrates to GroEL were investigated in surface plasmon resonance studies to measure the rates of binding and dissocia...

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

authors： Lin Z,Eisenstein E

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin becomes reorganized during mitosis each cell cycle. To identify genes potentially involved in these supramolecular events, we have used a colony-color assay to screen temperature-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When a sequence that mediates attachment to the nuclear matrix in vitro was inserte...

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

authors： Fishel BR,Sperry AO,Garrard WT

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of garlic is inversely correlated with the progression of cardiovascular disease, although the responsible mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that human RBCs convert garlic-derived organic polysulfides into hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), an endogenous cardioprotective vascular cell signaling molecule. ...

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

authors： Benavides GA,Squadrito GL,Mills RW,Patel HD,Isbell TS,Patel RP,Darley-Usmar VM,Doeller JE,Kraus DW

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus population growth depends on contacts between viruses and their hosts. It is often unclear how sufficient contacts are made between viruses and their specific hosts to generate spikes in viral abundance. Here, we show that copepods, acting as predators, can bring aquatic viruses and their algal hosts into contac...

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

authors： DeLong JP,Al-Ameeli Z,Duncan G,Van Etten JL,Dunigan DD

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic absorption spectra of oxidized and reduced spinach ferredoxins have been measured between 1200 and 600 nm at low temperature in D(2)O/ethylene glycol glasses. Relatively weak absorption bands are observed at 720, 820, and 920 nm in oxidized ferredoxin, and at 652, 820, and 920 nm in reduced ferredoxin. ...

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

authors： Rawlings J,Siiman O,Gray HB

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00