Lazaroids improve the survival of grafted rat embryonic dopamine neurons.

abstract：:Pertussis toxin, a protein composed of five different subunits (S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5), is the major virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis. We have cloned and sequenced a DNA fragment of 4.7 kilobases that contains the genes coding for the five subunits. The genes are clustered within 3.2 kilobases in the followin...

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

authors： Nicosia A,Perugini M,Franzini C,Casagli MC,Borri MG,Antoni G,Almoni M,Neri P,Ratti G,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the protein structure-function relationship, we propose a method to efficiently create three-dimensional maps of structure space using a very large dataset of > 30,000 Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) domains. In our maps, each domain is represented by a point, and the distance between any two poi...

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

authors： Osadchy M,Kolodny R

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothetical gene with similarity to the ispD gene of Escherichia coli was cloned from Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA. The ORF of 909 bp specifies a protein of 302 amino acid residues. The cognate chromosomal gene consists of 2,071 bp and comprises 11 introns with a size range of 78-202 bp. A fragment comprising amino ac...

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

authors： Rohdich F,Wungsintaweekul J,Eisenreich W,Richter G,Schuhr CA,Hecht S,Zenk MH,Bacher A

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:l-tryptophan (Trp), an essential amino acid for mammals, is the precursor of a wide array of immunomodulatory metabolites produced by the kynurenine and serotonin pathways. The kynurenine pathway is a paramount source of several immunoregulatory metabolites, including l-kynurenine (Kyn), the main product of indoleamin...

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

authors： Mondanelli G,Coletti A,Greco FA,Pallotta MT,Orabona C,Iacono A,Belladonna ML,Albini E,Panfili E,Fallarino F,Gargaro M,Manni G,Matino D,Carvalho A,Cunha C,Maciel P,Di Filippo M,Gaetani L,Bianchi R,Vacca C,Iamandii

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We document male-biased sex ratios among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 U.S. Census. This male bias is particularly evident for third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. By contrast, the sex ratios of eldest and younger children with a...

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

authors： Almond D,Edlund L

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies binding the influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein to neutralize viral infectivity is of key importance in the design of next-generation vaccines and for prophylactic and therapeutic use. The two antibodies CR6261 and CR8020 have recently been shown to efficiently neutralize influenza A infecti...

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

authors： Otterstrom JJ,Brandenburg B,Koldijk MH,Juraszek J,Tang C,Mashaghi S,Kwaks T,Goudsmit J,Vogels R,Friesen RH,van Oijen AM

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar type II (AT2) cell dysfunction contributes to a number of significant human pathologies including respiratory distress syndrome, lung adenocarcinoma, and debilitating fibrotic diseases, but the critical transcription factors that maintain AT2 cell identity are unknown. Here we show that the E26 transformation...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Newton K,Kummerfeld SK,Webster J,Kirkpatrick DS,Phu L,Eastham-Anderson J,Liu J,Lee WP,Wu J,Li H,Junttila MR,Dixit VM

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are often associated with pathologic processes such as in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but can also underlie physiological processes such as pigmentation. Formation of pathological and functional amyloidogenic substrates can require precursor processing by proteases, as exemplified by the generation of Aβ peptid...

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

authors： Rochin L,Hurbain I,Serneels L,Fort C,Watt B,Leblanc P,Marks MS,De Strooper B,Raposo G,van Niel G

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequestration, the adherence of infected erythrocytes containing late developmental stages of the parasite (trophozoites and schizonts) to the endothelium of capillaries and venules, is characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum infections. We have studied two host factors, the spleen and antibody, that influence sequest...

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

authors： David PH,Hommel M,Miller LH,Udeinya IJ,Oligino LD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long QT syndrome (LQT) is an autosomal dominant disorder that can cause sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias. We recently discovered that mutations in HERG, a K+-channel gene, cause chromosome 7-linked LQT. Heterologous expression of HERG in Xenopus oocytes revealed that HERG current was similar to a well-characteriz...

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

authors： Sanguinetti MC,Curran ME,Spector PS,Keating MT

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) processes the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor by posttranslational cleavage. In this study we have demonstrated by site-specific mutagenesis (Asp----Thr) and by pepstatin A inhibition that the recombinant HIV protease is an aspartic-type protease. ...

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

authors： Seelmeier S,Schmidt H,Turk V,von der Helm K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) is a major mediator of lymphangiogenesis. Recently, VEGFR-3 ligands, VEGF-C, and VEGF-D were reported to promote tumor lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic metastasis, and these processes were inhibited by blocking of the VEGFR-3-signaling pathway. Here, we have adapt...

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

authors： Kubo H,Cao R,Brakenhielm E,Mäkinen T,Cao Y,Alitalo K

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering time (i.e., heading date in crops) is an important ecological trait that determines growing seasons and regional adaptability of plants to specific natural environments. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a short-day plant that originated in the tropics. Increasing evidence suggests that the northward expansion of cu...

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

authors： Wu W,Zheng XM,Lu G,Zhong Z,Gao H,Chen L,Wu C,Wang HJ,Wang Q,Zhou K,Wang JL,Wu F,Zhang X,Guo X,Cheng Z,Lei C,Lin Q,Jiang L,Wang H,Ge S,Wan J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members interact with inositol trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R) Ca(2+)release channels in the endoplasmic reticulum to modulate Ca(2+)signals that affect cell viability. However, the molecular details and consequences of their interactions are unclear. Here, we found that Bcl-xL activates sin...

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

authors： Yang J,Vais H,Gu W,Foskett JK

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of interleukin 2 receptors (IL-2R) is a critical step leading to normal lymphocyte proliferation. Since thymosin fraction 5 (TF5), a thymic hormone preparation, enhances lymphoproliferative responses of human cells, we examined the effects of TF5 on the expression of IL-2R on mitogen-stimulated human ly...

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

authors： Sztein MB,Serrate SA,Goldstein AL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-base-pair region required for normal CYC1 mRNA 3' end formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was shown to be necessary for the termination of transcription in vivo by examining the stability of CEN3 plasmids. CEN3 plasmids were stably maintained during vegetative growth, unless a GAL1 transcript impinged on the CE...

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

authors： Russo P,Sherman F

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of two phylogenetically distinct symbiont species within a single cell, a condition not previously known in any metazoan, is demonstrated in the gills of a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent mussel (family Mytilidae). Large and small symbiont morphotypes within the gill bacteriocytes are shown to be ...

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

authors： Distel DL,Lee HK,Cavanaugh CM

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent muscarinic photoaffinity reagent N-methyl-4-piperidyl p-azidobenzilate (azido-4NMPB) was used to covalently label specific muscarinic binding sites in various brain regions and in the heart. In the cortex and hippocampus, a single specifically labeled protein with an apparent molecular mass of 86,000 dalton...

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

authors： Avissar S,Amitai G,Sokolovsky M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal movements result from a complex balance of many different forces. Muscles produce force to move the body; the body has inertial, elastic, and damping properties that may aid or oppose the muscle force; and the environment produces reaction forces back on the body. The actual motion is an emergent property of th...

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

authors： Tytell ED,Hsu CY,Williams TL,Cohen AH,Fauci LJ

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, microtubules are essential for cellular plasticity and dynamics. Here we show that P300/CBP-associated factor (PCAF), a kinetochore-associated acetyltransferase, acts as a negative modulator of microtubule stability through acetylation of EB1, a protein that controls the plus ends of microtubules. PCAF ...

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

authors： Xia P,Wang Z,Liu X,Wu B,Wang J,Ward T,Zhang L,Ding X,Gibbons G,Shi Y,Yao X

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific molecules are needed across diverse areas of oncology for use in early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Large and growing public databases of transcriptome sequencing data (RNA-seq) derived from tumors and normal tissues hold the potential of yielding tumor-specific molecules, but because th...

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

authors： Barrett CL,DeBoever C,Jepsen K,Saenz CC,Carson DA,Frazer KA

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor V is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates as a cofactor in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin by factor Xa. A phage lambda gt11 Hep G2 cell cDNA expression library was screened by using an affinity-purified antibody to human factor V, and 11 positive clones were isola...

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

authors： Kane WH,Davie EW

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver alkaline phosphatase [ortho-phosphoric monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] was purified, and some of its physical and chemical properties were examined and compared to those of human placental alkaline phosphatase. The results indicated a different peptide structure for each, based u...

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

authors： Badger KS,Sussman HH

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is described for calculating the electrostatic energy of lipid domains at the air-water interface, taking account of dipole-dipole repulsions between the lipid molecules themselves, as well as interactions between the molecular dipoles and image dipoles in the subphase. The model assumes that the molecu...

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

authors： McConnell HM,Bazaliy YB

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadal steroids have traditionally been found to have short-term effects on the mating behavior of adult vertebrates, such that increased steroid hormone levels influence behavior over the course of a few days. Long-term effects also have been observed in which embryonic exposure to steroid hormone influences the sex...

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

authors： Crews D

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of the isoaccepting species of leucyl-tRNA in protein synthesis has been examined in E. coli. Two minor leucyl-tRNA species, isoacceptors tRNA3Leu and tRNA4Leu, are the predominant species found bound to ribosomes during exponential growth in minimal medium. In rich medium, an increased proportion of t...

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

authors： Holmes WM,Goldman E,Miner TA,Hatfield GW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical distributions of genetic distance between reproductively isolated taxa are derived by means of computer simulation, taking into account mutation and random genetic drift. The distributions obtained are in good agreement with the observed distributions of interracial and interspecific genetic distances for ...

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

authors： Nei M,Tateno Y

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA viruses are notorious for their genetic plasticity and propensity to exploit new host-range opportunities, which can lead to the emergence of human disease epidemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, AIDS, dengue, and influenza. However, the mechanisms of host-range change involved in most of these viral ...

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

authors： Anishchenko M,Bowen RA,Paessler S,Austgen L,Greene IP,Weaver SC

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of physiological and pathological processes, including cancer. In prostate cancer, prostate cancer gene expression marker 1 (PCGEM1) is an androgen-induced prostate-specific lncRNA whose overexpression is highly associated with prostate tumors. PCGEM1's t...

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

authors： Hung CL,Wang LY,Yu YL,Chen HW,Srivastava S,Petrovics G,Kung HJ

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus flagellum is formed at a specific time in the cell cycle and its assembly requires the ordered expression of a large number of genes. These genes are controlled in a positive trans-acting hierarchy that reflects the order of assembly of the flagellum. Using plasmids carrying transcriptional ...

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

authors： Xu H,Dingwall A,Shapiro L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00