Expression cloning of a CMP-NeuAc:NeuAc alpha 2-3Gal beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1'Cer alpha 2,8-sialyltransferase (GD3 synthase) from human melanoma cells.

abstract：:This report provides direct evidence that strigolactone (SL) positively regulates drought and high salinity responses in Arabidopsis. Both SL-deficient and SL-response [more axillary growth (max)] mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to drought and salt stress, which was associated with shoot- rather than root-related t...

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

authors： Ha CV,Leyva-González MA,Osakabe Y,Tran UT,Nishiyama R,Watanabe Y,Tanaka M,Seki M,Yamaguchi S,Dong NV,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K,Herrera-Estrella L,Tran LS

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hatchlings of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) are unique as the only reptile and highest vertebrate life form known to tolerate the natural freezing of extracellular body fluids during winter hibernation. Turtles survived frequent exposures to temperatures as low as -6 degrees C to -8 degrees C in their...

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

authors： Storey KB,Storey JM,Brooks SP,Churchill TA,Brooks RJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of previously published sets of DNA microarray gene expression data by singular value decomposition has uncovered underlying patterns or "characteristic modes" in their temporal profiles. These patterns contribute unequally to the structure of the expression profiles. Moreover, the essential features of a giv...

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

authors： Holter NS,Mitra M,Maritan A,Cieplak M,Banavar JR,Fedoroff NV

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and sequelae of disorders that lead to hypoxic spells such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) exhibit daily variance. This prompted us to examine the interaction between the hypoxic response and the circadian clock in vivo. We found that the global transc...

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

authors： Manella G,Aviram R,Bolshette N,Muvkadi S,Golik M,Smith DF,Asher G

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly selective alpha 1-adrenergic receptor antagonist prazosin was used to identify binding sites having alpha-adrenergic specificity in rat hepatic plasma membranes. Solubilization of the membrane-bound receptors was achieved by incubation with the nonionic detergent digitonin, and binding activity was assayed ...

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

authors： Graham RM,Hess HJ,Homcy CJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrying premature termination codons in 1 allele of the ABCA7 gene is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). While the primary function of ABCA7 is to regulate the transport of phospholipids and cholesterol, ABCA7 is also involved in maintaining homeostasis of the immune system. Since inflamm...

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

authors： Aikawa T,Ren Y,Yamazaki Y,Tachibana M,Johnson MR,Anderson CT,Martens YA,Holm ML,Asmann YW,Saito T,Saido TC,Fitzgerald ML,Bu G,Kanekiyo T

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) has a segmented genome, which (i) allows for exchange of gene segments in coinfected cells, termed reassortment, and (ii) necessitates a selective packaging mechanism to ensure incorporation of a complete set of segments into virus particles. Packaging signals serve as segment identifiers and e...

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

authors： White MC,Tao H,Steel J,Lowen AC

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a paradigm for understanding viral infections. As an opportunistic pathogen exploiting the cellular endocytic machinery for infection, influenza is also a valuable model system for exploring the cell's constitutive endocytic pathway. We have studied the transport, acidification, and fusion of single influ...

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

authors： Lakadamyali M,Rust MJ,Babcock HP,Zhuang X

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between mitochondrial fusion and fission influences the reticular shape of mitochondria in yeasts. Little is known about whether mitochondria fusion occurs in plants. Plant mitochondria are usually more numerous and more grain-shaped than animal mitochondria. BLAST searches of the nuclear and mitochondrial...

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

authors： Arimura S,Yamamoto J,Aida GP,Nakazono M,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeostatic maintenance of the genomic DNA is crucial for regulating aging processes. However, the role of RNA homeostasis in aging processes remains unknown. RNA helicases are a large family of enzymes that regulate the biogenesis and homeostasis of RNA. However, the functional significance of RNA helicases in ag...

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

authors： Seo M,Seo K,Hwang W,Koo HJ,Hahm JH,Yang JS,Han SK,Hwang D,Kim S,Jang SK,Lee Y,Nam HG,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic horizontal axon collaterals in the striate cortex of adult cats specifically link columns having the same preferred orientation; consequently, retrograde tracer injections result in intrinsic labeling that is sharply clustered. We have previously shown that the normal development of this circuitry involves t...

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

authors： Callaway EM,Katz LC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanism of action of compounds capable of inhibiting amyloid-fibril formation is critical to the development of potential therapeutics against protein-misfolding diseases. A fundamental challenge for progress is the range of possible target species and the disparate timescales involved, since the a...

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

authors： Michaels TCT,Šarić A,Meisl G,Heller GT,Curk S,Arosio P,Linse S,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When T cells become infected by the parasite Theileria parva, they acquire a transformed phenotype and no longer require antigen-specific stimulation or exogenous growth factors. This is accompanied by constitutive interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-2 receptor expression. Transformation can be reversed entirely by eliminatio...

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

authors： Galley Y,Hagens G,Glaser I,Davis W,Eichhorn M,Dobbelaere D

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nonclassical major histocompatibilty antigens (class Ib molecules) have emerged as key players in the early immune response to pathogens or stress. Class Ib molecules activate subsets of T cells that mount effector responses before the adaptive immune system, and thus are called innate T cells. MR1 is a novel ...

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

authors： Huang S,Martin E,Kim S,Yu L,Soudais C,Fremont DH,Lantz O,Hansen TH

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend and apply theories of filled foam elasticity and failure to recently available data on foods. The predictions of elastic modulus and failure mode dependence on internal pressure and on wall integrity are borne out by photographic evidence of distortion and failure under compressive loading and under the loca...

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

authors： Warner M,Thiel BL,Donald AM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently determined that high calcium concentrations, in parallel with their suppressive effects on parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion, reversibly and specifically decrease preproPTH mRNA in cultured bovine parathyroid cells. In order to determine whether vitamin D metabolites also regulate the content of pre...

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

authors： Silver J,Russell J,Sherwood LM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary diversity often varies inversely with prey resource abundance. This pattern, although typically measured at the population level, is usually assumed to also characterize the behavior of individual animals within the population. However, the pattern might also be produced by changes in the degree of variation a...

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

authors： Tinker MT,Bentall G,Estes JA

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in clearing apoptotic debris disrupt tissue and immunological homeostasis, leading to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Herein, we report that macrophages from lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice have impaired lysosomal maturation, resulting in heightened ROS production and attenuated lysosomal acidification. Impaire...

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

authors： Monteith AJ,Kang S,Scott E,Hillman K,Rajfur Z,Jacobson K,Costello MJ,Vilen BJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea (archaebacteria) are a phenotypically diverse group of microorganisms that share a common evolutionary history. There are four general phenotypic groups of archaea: the methanogens, the extreme halophiles, the sulfate-reducing archaea, and the extreme thermophiles. In the marine environment, archaeal habitats ...

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

authors： DeLong EF

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) plays a pivotal role in cellular energy production. It employs a series of redox cofactors to couple electron transfer to the generation of a proton-motive force across the inner mitochondrial or bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Complex I contains a noncovalently bound flavin mon...

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

authors： Yakovlev G,Reda T,Hirst J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma norepinephrine and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (EC 1.14.17.1) activity were measured in rats. Adrenergic neuron blockade with bretylium for 4 hr and ganglion blockade with chlorisondamine for 72 hr lowered plasma norepinephrine. Neither treatment altered plasma dopamine beta-hydroxylase activity. Phenoxybenzamine...

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

authors： Reid JL,Kopin IJ

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA is dependent upon a single viral protein [tumor (T) antigen] and multiple cellular proteins. To define the required cellular proteins, we have made use of a cell-free system that supports the replication of plasmid DNA molecules containing the SV40 origin of replication. W...

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

authors： Virshup DM,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, which is a form of potentially fatal pneumonia. To identify genes required for virulence of the bacterium, a library of 1,386 L. pneumophila signature tagged transposon mutants was studied for guinea pig virulence. The mutants were screened in pools of 96 e...

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

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA,Higa F,Falkow S

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody against carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was conjugated with p-[1,2-dicarba-closo-[1-3H]do-decaboran(12)-2-yl] benzenediazonium ion by an azo-coupling reaction, resulting in 30 boron atoms per IgG molecule with no loss of antibody protein. Antibody immunoreactivity was not appreciably affected by this conjugati...

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

authors： Goldenberg DM,Sharkey RM,Primus FJ,Mizusawa E,Hawthorne MF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum RNase (ribonuclease) of normal persons and of patients with pancreatitis, carcinoma of pancreas, or other neoplasms was determined with poly(C) as substrate. Strikingly abnormal elevations occur in the serum RNase of patients with pancreatic cancer. There is no elevation in the serum RNase level of patients with...

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

authors： Reddi KK,Holland JF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regular spacing of somites during vertebrate embryogenesis involves a dynamic gradient of FGF signaling that controls the timing of maturation of cells in the presomitic mesoderm (PSM). How the FGF signal is transduced by PSM cells is unclear. Here, we first show that the FGF gradient is translated into graded act...

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

authors： Delfini MC,Dubrulle J,Malapert P,Chal J,Pourquié O

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a role for ECM as a biosensor for inflammatory microenvironments that plays a critical role in peripheral immune tolerance. We show that hyaluronan (HA) promotes induction of Foxp3- IL-10-producing regulatory T cells (TR1) from conventional T-cell precursors in both murine and human systems. This is, to ou...

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

authors： Bollyky PL,Wu RP,Falk BA,Lord JD,Long SA,Preisinger A,Teng B,Holt GE,Standifer NE,Braun KR,Xie CF,Samuels PL,Vernon RB,Gebe JA,Wight TN,Nepom GT

更新日期：2011-05-10 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：:Climate change and resource exploitation have been shown to modify the importance of bottom-up and top-down forces in ecosystems. However, the resulting pattern of trophic control in complex food webs is an emergent property of the system and thus unintuitive. We develop a statistical nondeterministic model, capable o...

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

authors： Lynam CP,Llope M,Möllmann C,Helaouët P,Bayliss-Brown GA,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The elevation of Ca2+ levels in the cytoplasm inactivates inward-rectifying K+ channels that play a central role in regulating the apertures of stomatal pores in higher plants. However, the mechanism for the Ca(2+)-mediated inhibition of K(+)-channel function is unknown. Using patch-clamp techniques, we show that cycl...

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

authors： Luan S,Li W,Rusnak F,Assmann SM,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00