Switch from a type 2 to a type 1 T helper cell response and cure of established Leishmania major infection in mice is induced by combined therapy with interleukin 12 and Pentostam.

abstract：:The complexity and specificity of metazoan transcription are determined by combinatorial control of the composition and activity of regulatory complexes. To investigate the basis of this specificity, we focused on the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), a single regulatory factor that integrates multiple signals to give ris...

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

authors： Chen SH,Masuno K,Cooper SB,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-evoked Ca(2+) influx is the fastest and most ubiquitous chemical trigger for cellular processes, including neurotransmitter release, muscle contraction, and gene expression. The voltage dependence and timing of Ca(2+) entry are thought to be functions of voltage-gated calcium (CaV) channels composed of a ce...

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

authors： Pantazis A,Savalli N,Sigg D,Neely A,Olcese R

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumor suppressor protein and the MDM2 oncoprotein form a feedback-control loop that up-regulates cellular MDM2 production, blocks p53 activity, and promotes p53 decay. tsg101 was discovered as a gene whose deficiency results in neoplastic transformation of NIH 3T3 cells and the ability to generate metastatic t...

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

authors： Li L,Liao J,Ruland J,Mak TW,Cohen SN

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Productive T cell recognition of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) is normally accompanied by the formation of a cell-cell contact called the "immunological synapse." Our understanding of the steps leading up to this formation has been limited by the absence of tools for analyzing 3D surfaces and surface distributions a...

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

authors： Moss WC,Irvine DJ,Davis MM,Krummel MF

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An argument is presented in favor of the hypothesis that, bovine carboxypeptidases A and B fit by and large, the concept of homology on the levels of both amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure. Two peptide sequences from carboxypeptidases A and B, comprising 46 amino acid residues, display structural hom...

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

authors： Bradshaw RA,Neurath H,Walsh KA

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PsaF-deficient mutant 3bF of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was used to modify PsaF by nuclear transformation and site-directed mutagenesis. Four lysine residues in the N-terminal domain of PsaF, which have been postulated to form the positively charged face of a putative amphipathic alpha-helical structure were altere...

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

authors： Hippler M,Drepper F,Haehnel W,Rochaix JD

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent of a large group of related proteinopathies for which there is currently no cure. Here, we used Drosophila to explore a strategy to block Aβ42 neurotoxicity through engineering of the Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), a chaperone that has demonstrated neuroprotective activit...

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

authors： Fernandez-Funez P,Sanchez-Garcia J,de Mena L,Zhang Y,Levites Y,Khare S,Golde TE,Rincon-Limas DE

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two endocytic receptors, the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) and the LDLR-related protein (LRP), are thought to act in concert in the hepatic uptake of partially metabolized dietary lipoproteins, the chylomicron remnants. We have evaluated the role of these two receptors in the hepatic metabolism of chyl...

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

authors： Herz J,Qiu SQ,Oesterle A,DeSilva HV,Shafi S,Havel RJ

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Many "workers" in north temperate colonies of the eusocial paper wasp Polistes fuscatus disappear within a few days of eclosion. We provide evidence that these females are pursuing an alternative reproductive strategy, i.e., dispersing to overwinter and become nest foundresses the following spring, instead of helping ...

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

authors： Reeve HK,Peters JM,Nonacs P,Starks PT

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is strongly associated with obesity in most, but not all, ethnic groups, suggesting important ethnic differences in disease susceptibility. Although it is clear that insulin resistance plays a major role in the pathogenesis of T2DM and that insulin resistance is strongly associated with...

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

authors： Petersen KF,Dufour S,Feng J,Befroy D,Dziura J,Dalla Man C,Cobelli C,Shulman GI

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The five alpha genes of herpes simplex virus 1 are the first set of genes to be expressed after infection. Previous studies have shown that alpha genes resident in eukaryotic cells are induced by infection with herpes simplex virus 1 or 2 but not by other herpesviruses and indicate that the alpha trans-inducing factor...

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

authors： Pellett PE,McKnight JL,Jenkins FJ,Roizman B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies directed against the native beta 2 subunit of Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase [L-serine hydro-lyase (adding indoleglycerol-phosphate), EC 4.2.1.20], one recognizing the C-terminal F1 domain and the other the N-terminal F2 domain, were used to detect immunoreactive intermediates in the fo...

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

authors： Blond S,Goldberg M

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irrigation of the dog's oxyntic glandular mucosa contained in a chronically prepared, vagally denervated, separated pouch of the dog's stomach with a solution (0.5 mg ml-1) of lyophilized venom of the hooded cobra (Naja naja) increases the permeability of the mucosa. If irrigation with venom solution is repeated at we...

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

authors： Davenport HW

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a new genetic distance for microsatellite loci, incorporating features of the stepwise mutation model, and test its performance on microsatellite polymorphisms in humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. We find that it performs well in determining the relations among the primates, but less well than other dist...

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

authors： Goldstein DB,Ruiz Linares A,Cavalli-Sforza LL,Feldman MW

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage phi 29 DNA cannot be phosphorylated with polynucleotide kinase and [gamma-32P]ATP because of the presence of a viral protein covalently linked to the 5' termini. The 5' ends can, however, be made susceptible to phosphorylation by treatment with alkali and alkaline phosphatase. Restriction fragments Hpa II C and ...

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

authors： Escarmís C,Salas M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed Differential Specificity and Energy Landscape (DiSEL) analysis to comprehensively compare DNA-protein interactomes (DPIs) obtained by high-throughput experimental platforms and cutting edge computational methods. While high-affinity DNA binding sites are identified by most methods, DiSEL uncovered nu...

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

authors： Bhimsaria D,Rodríguez-Martínez JA,Pan J,Roston D,Korkmaz EN,Cui Q,Ramanathan P,Ansari AZ

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals and plants use modified cell cycles to achieve particular developmental strategies. In one common example, most animals and plants have tissues in which the cells become polyploid or polytene by means of an S-G cycle, but the mechanism by which mitosis is inhibited in the endo cycle is not understood. The Dros...

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

authors： Kashevsky H,Wallace JA,Reed BH,Lai C,Hayashi-Hagihara A,Orr-Weaver TL

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) occupies a central position in the cascade of events involved in the immune response. We were interested in determining whether IL-2 could function as an adjuvant to vaccination, to increase the immune response to vaccine immunogens. Using the National Institutes of Health test for rabies vaccine ...

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

authors： Nunberg JH,Doyle MV,York SM,York CJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the primary visual cortex, neurons with similar response preferences are grouped into domains forming continuous maps of stimulus orientation and direction of movement. These properties are widely believed to result from the combination of ascending and lateral interactions in the visual system. We have tested this...

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

authors： Galuske RA,Schmidt KE,Goebel R,Lomber SG,Payne BR

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones specific for the light subunit of porcine calpain I have been isolated from a porcine kidney cDNA library. The complete primary structure of the light subunit has been revealed by nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNA clones isolated and amino acid sequence analysis of peptides isolated from the purifie...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Kakidani H,Zenita K,Yumoto N,Kikuchi T,Sasaki T,Kannagi R,Nakanishi S,Ohmori M,Takio K

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinational repair of double-stranded DNA gaps was investigated in Ustilago maydis. The experimental system was designed for analysis of repair of an autonomously replicating plasmid containing a cloned gene disabled by an internal deletion. It was discovered that crossing over rarely accompanied gap repair. The s...

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

authors： Ferguson DO,Holloman WK

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Volcanic eruptions caused major weather and climatic changes on timescales ranging from hours to centuries in the past. Volcanic particles are injected in the atmosphere both as primary particles rapidly deposited due to their large sizes on time scales of minutes to a few weeks in the troposphere, and secondary parti...

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

authors： Boulon J,Sellegri K,Hervo M,Laj P

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China's Huai ...

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

authors： Chen Y,Ebenstein A,Greenstone M,Li H

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants born prematurely risk significant life-long cognitive disability, representing a major pediatric health crisis. The neuropathology of this cohort is accurately modeled in mice subjected to sublethal postnatal hypoxia. Massively parallel transcriptome analysis using cDNA microchips (9,262 genes), combined with ...

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

authors： Curristin SM,Cao A,Stewart WB,Zhang H,Madri JA,Morrow JS,Ment LR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of matrix isolation has been used to investigate mechanisms of gas-phase chemical reactions, in particular the pyrolysis of some organomercury compounds. A molecular beam of pyrolysis products was condensed simultaneously with a large excess of rare gas at temperatures from 5 to 15 degrees K to form a matri...

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

authors： Maltsev AK,Mikaelian RG,Nefedov OM,Hauge RH,Margrave JL

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the kinetics of vitellogenin mRNA accumulation in rooster liver after a primary injection of 17beta-estradiol. The levels of vitellogenin mRNA have been determined both by hybridization of total cellular RNA to vitellogenin cDNA and by translation of vitellogenin mRNA in a wheat germ cell-free system. ...

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

authors： Burns AT,Deeley RG,Gordon JI,Udell DS,Mullinix KP,Goldberger RF

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita is a premature aging syndrome characterized by muco-cutaneous features and a range of other abnormalities, including early greying, dental loss, osteoporosis, and malignancy. Dyskeratosis congenita cells age prematurely and have very short telomeres. Patients have mutations in genes that encode ...

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

authors： Vulliamy T,Beswick R,Kirwan M,Marrone A,Digweed M,Walne A,Dokal I

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligothiophenes incorporating MM quadruple bonds have been prepared from the reactions between Mo(2)(TiPB)(4) (TiPB = 2,4,6-triisopropyl benzoate) and 3',4'-dihexyl-2,2'-:5',2''-terthiophene-5,5''-dicarboxylic acid. The oligomers of empirical formula Mo(2)(TiPB)(2)(O(2)C(Th)-C(4)(n-hexyl)(2)S-(Th)CO(2)) are soluble in...

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

authors： Burdzinski GT,Chisholm MH,Chou PT,Chou YH,Feil F,Gallucci JC,Ghosh Y,Gustafson TL,Ho ML,Liu Y,Ramnauth R,Turro C

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformationally compromised oncogenic mutants of the tumor suppressor protein p53 can, in principle, be rescued by small molecules that bind the native, but not the denatured state. We describe a strategy for the rational search for such molecules. A nine-residue peptide, CDB3, which was derived from a p53 binding pr...

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

authors： Friedler A,Hansson LO,Veprintsev DB,Freund SM,Rippin TM,Nikolova PV,Proctor MR,Rüdiger S,Fersht AR

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00