The hepatitis B virus X protein targets the basic region-leucine zipper domain of CREB.

abstract：:Phospholamban (PLN) is an effective inhibitor of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+) ATPase (SERCA). Here, we examined PLN stability and degradation in primary cultured mouse neonatal cardiomyocytes (CMNCs) and mouse hearts using immunoblotting, molecular imaging, and [(35)S]methionine pulse-chase experiments, tog...

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

authors： Teng AC,Miyake T,Yokoe S,Zhang L,Rezende LM Jr,Sharma P,MacLennan DH,Liu PP,Gramolini AO

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimers of bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchla) with optical absorption maximum at 853 nm and a nonconservative circular dichroism spectrum are formed in a solution of formamide/water that contains micelles of Triton X-100. The apparent equilibrium constant and the corresponding Gibbs energy change for the Bchl self-organizat...

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

authors： Scherz A,Rosenbach-Belkin V

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C4B isotype of the fourth component of human complement (C4) displays 3- to 4-fold greater hemolytic activity than does its other isotype C4A. This correlates with differences in their covalent binding efficiencies to erythrocytes coated with antibody and complement C1. C4A binds to a greater extent when C1 is on ...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Fathallah DM,Bergamaschini L,Alicot EM,Isenman DE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension, a remediable risk factor for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and renal failure, affects 50 million individuals in the United States alone. African Americans (blacks) have a higher incidence and prevalence of hypertension and hypertension-associated target organ damage compared with Caucasian Americans (w...

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

authors： Suthanthiran M,Li B,Song JO,Ding R,Sharma VK,Schwartz JE,August P

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncompliance with social distancing during the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a great challenge to the public health system. These noncompliance behaviors partly reflect people's concerns for the inherent costs of social distancing while discounting its public health benefits. W...

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

authors： Xie W,Campbell S,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The basolateral membranes of Aplysia californica foregut absorptive cells contain both Cl(-)-stimulated ATPase and ATP-dependent Cl- transport activities, and each was inhibited by orthovanadate. Both of these orthovanadate-sensitive activities were reconstituted into proteoliposomes. The reaction sequence kinetics we...

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

authors： Gerencser GA,Zelezna B

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helper T (Th) cells are classified as Th1 or Th2 cells by virtue of cytokine secretion and function as mediators of cellular or humoral immunity, respectively. Cytokines also regulate the differentiation of Th cells. For example, interleukin (IL)-12 promotes Th1 and suppresses Th2 cell development, suggesting that IL-...

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

authors： Milich DR,Wolf SF,Hughes JL,Jones JE

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional myosin 15 is a molecular motor expressed in inner ear hair cells that transports protein cargos within developing mechanosensory stereocilia. Mutations of myosin 15 cause profound hearing loss in humans and mice; however, the properties of this motor and its regulation within the stereocilia organelle a...

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

authors： Bird JE,Takagi Y,Billington N,Strub MP,Sellers JR,Friedman TB

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The RIG-G gene, originally isolated from an acute promyelocytic leukemia cell line NB4, codes for a 60-kDa cytoplasmic protein that is induced by all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment along with the induction of morphological differentiation of NB4 cells. Here, we provide evidence that ectopic expression of Rig-G i...

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

authors： Xiao S,Li D,Zhu HQ,Song MG,Pan XR,Jia PM,Peng LL,Dou AX,Chen GQ,Chen SJ,Chen Z,Tong JH

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in this study establish that liposome formulations incorporating a synthetic polyethylene glycol-derivatized phospholipid have a pronounced effect on liposome tissue distribution and can produce a large increase in the pharmacological efficacy of encapsulated antitumor drugs. This effect is substa...

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

authors： Papahadjopoulos D,Allen TM,Gabizon A,Mayhew E,Matthay K,Huang SK,Lee KD,Woodle MC,Lasic DD,Redemann C

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a set of regulatory mutants defective in transcription termination at the attenuator in the leader region of the Escherichia coli tryptophan (trp) operon. In vivo the mutants have 2- to 4-fold increased levels of expression of the trp operon above the level of the trpR parental strain. These levels ar...

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

authors： Stauffer GV,Zurawski G,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone is a critical mediator of central nervous system (CNS) development, acting through nuclear receptors to modulate the expression of specific genes. Transcription of the rat hairless (hr) gene is highly up-regulated by thyroid hormone in the developing CNS; we show here that hr is directly induced by thy...

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

authors： Thompson CC,Bottcher MC

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Filtration through the kidney eliminates toxins, manages electrolyte balance, and controls water homeostasis. Reabsorption of water from the luminal fluid of the nephron occurs through aquaporin-2 (AQP2) water pores in principal cells that line the kidney-collecting duct. This vital process is impeded by formation of ...

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

authors： Whiting JL,Ogier L,Forbush KA,Bucko P,Gopalan J,Seternes OM,Langeberg LK,Scott JD

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant baculovirus-derived interleukin 6 (IL-6) disrupts the attachment of human ductal breast carcinoma subline ZR-75-1-Tx cells to neighbors and the substratum in culture without inhibiting the proliferation of the cells. The nonadherent cells lack pseudopodia and do not translocate directionally. These finding...

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

authors： Tamm I,Kikuchi T,Cardinale I,Krueger JG

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that ancestral mechanisms are often duplicated, repurposed, and differentially regulated to support social behavior. Focusing on recent research from no...

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

authors： Chang SW,Brent LJ,Adams GK,Klein JT,Pearson JM,Watson KK,Platt ML

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The proinflammatory cytokine interleukin 1 (IL-1) activates the transcription of many genes encoding acute phase and proinflammatory proteins, a function mediated primarily by the transcription factor NF-kappaB. An early IL-1 signaling event is the recruitment of the Ser/Thr kinase IRAK to the type I IL-1 receptor (IL...

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

authors： Huang J,Gao X,Li S,Cao Z

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The main sources of information regarding ancient Mesopotamian history and culture are clay cuneiform tablets. Many of these tablets are damaged, leading to missing information. Currently, the missing text is manually reconstructed by experts. We investigate the possibility of assisting scholars, by modeling the langu...

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

authors： Fetaya E,Lifshitz Y,Aaron E,Gordin S

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP kinase-interacting kinase 1 and 2 (Mnk1 and Mnk2) are protein-serine/threonine kinases that are activated by ERK or p38 and phosphorylate eIF4E, which is involved in cap-dependent translation initiation. However, Mnk1/2 double knockout (Mnk-DKO) mice show normal cell growth and development despite an absence of eI...

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

authors： Ueda T,Sasaki M,Elia AJ,Chio II,Hamada K,Fukunaga R,Mak TW

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the insolubility of the scrapie prion protein (PrP(Sc)) has frustrated structural studies by x-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy, we used electron crystallography to characterize the structure of two infectious variants of the prion protein. Isomorphous two-dimensional crystals of the N-terminally trunca...

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

authors： Wille H,Michelitsch MD,Guenebaut V,Supattapone S,Serban A,Cohen FE,Agard DA,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic neurophysiological research with monkeys has shown how neurons in the motor cortex have firing rates tuned to movement direction. This original finding would have been difficult to uncover without the use of a behaving primate paradigm in which subjects grasped a handle and moved purposefully to targets in diffe...

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

authors： Kennedy SD,Schwartz AB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1944, Freeman Dyson conjectured the existence of a "crank" function for partitions that would provide a combinatorial proof of Ramanujan's congruence modulo 11. Forty years later, Andrews and Garvan successfully found such a function and proved the celebrated result that the crank simultaneously "explains" the thre...

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

authors： Mahlburg K

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The I-J subregion of the mouse major histocompatibility complex has been reported to encode antigenic determinants expressed by suppressor T cells. Previously, cosmid clones were obtained from mouse sperm DNA that contain all of the sequences between the I-A and I-E subregions, where I-J has been mapped genetically. H...

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

authors： Kronenberg M,Steinmetz M,Kobori J,Kraig E,Kapp JA,Pierce CW,Sorensen CM,Suzuki G,Tada T,Hood L

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental constraint is indicated when one finds that similar genetic mechanisms are responsible for independent origins of the same derived phenotype. We studied three independent origins of rosette flowering within the mustard family and attempted to evaluate the extent to which the same mechanisms were involved...

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

authors： Yoon HS,Baum DA

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium actin was shown to become phosphorylated on Tyr-53 late in the developmental cycle and when cells in the amoeboid stage are subjected to stress but the phosphorylated actin had not been purified and characterized. We have separated phosphorylated and unphosphorylated actin and shown that Tyr-53 phosphory...

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

authors： Liu X,Shu S,Hong MS,Levine RL,Korn ED

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of urea in renal medullary cells is high enough to affect enzymes seriously by reducing Vmax or raising Km, yet the cells survive and function. The usual explanation is that the methylamines found in the renal medulla, namely glycerophosphocholine and betaine, have actions opposite to those of urea a...

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

authors： Burg MB,Peters EM,Bohren KM,Gabbay KH

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cutin monomers trigger, and glucose suppresses, the expression of the cutinase gene of pathogenic fungi. To identify the cutinase promoter region responsible for induction by the unique plant components, a promoter analysis was done with transformants. Plasmids were constructed that contained (i) the 5' flanking...

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

authors： Bajar A,Podila GK,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a 2-step phospho/dephosphorylation cycle for the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole proprionic acid receptor (AMPAR), as used in in vivo learning experiments to assess long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and establishment, exhibits bistability for a wide range of parameters, consistent with val...

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

authors： Castellani GC,Bazzani A,Cooper LN

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, blood donors are being screened for infection with human T cell lymphotropic viruses I and II (HTLV-I/II) by serologic means, which detect antibodies to the structural proteins of these viruses. Because patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) usually do not have such antibodies even though their cel...

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

authors： Zucker-Franklin D,Pancake BA,Marmor M,Legler PM

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling pathways regulating proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis are commonly mediated through protein-protein interactions as well as reversible phosphorylation of proteins. To facilitate the study of regulated protein-protein interactions in cells and living animals, we optimized firefly luciferase protei...

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

authors： Luker KE,Smith MC,Luker GD,Gammon ST,Piwnica-Worms H,Piwnica-Worms D

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In nonneuronal cells, several plasma membrane proteins such as exofacial enzymes, receptors, and ion channels recycle between their intracellular compartment(s) and the cell surface via an endosomal pathway. In neurons, however, this pathway has not been extensively characterized. In particular, it remains unclear whe...

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

authors： Thoidis G,Chen P,Pushkin AV,Vallega G,Leeman SE,Fine RE,Kandror KV

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00