Cytolytic and antibacterial activity of synthetic peptides derived from amoebapore, the pore-forming peptide of Entamoeba histolytica.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathological hallmarks include senile plaques with aggregated amyloid beta as a major component, neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) containing truncated and hyperphosphorylated Tau, extensive neuronal loss, and chronic neuroinflammation. However, the key molecular mechanism that dominates the ...

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

authors： Wang H,Liu X,Chen S,Ye K

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Proalbumins are rare genetic variants of human serum albumin containing a basic propeptide that is not removed during post-transcriptional processing because of a mutation in the site of excision, an Arg-Arg sequence. We have identified the amino acid substitutions in three different types of proalbumins designated Ga...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Takahashi Y,Putnam FW

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation results in increased nitrogen monoxide (.NO) formation and the accumulation of nitrite (NO(2-)). Neutrophils stimulated by various inflammatory mediators release myeloperoxidase to produce the cytotoxic agent hypochlorous acid (HOCl). Exposure of chondrocytic SW1353 cells to HOCl resulted in a con...

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

authors： Whiteman M,Hooper DC,Scott GS,Koprowski H,Halliwell B

更新日期：2002-09-17 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：:Cytochrome c maturation in Escherichia coli requires the ccm operon, which encodes eight membrane proteins (CcmABCDEFGH). CcmE is a periplasmic heme chaperone that binds heme covalently and transfers it onto apocytochrome c in the presence of CcmF, CcmG, and CcmH. In this work we addressed the functions of the ccmABCD...

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

authors： Schulz H,Fabianek RA,Pellicioli EC,Hennecke H,Thöny-Meyer L

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, but it is poorly quality assured. Quality assurance was performed in eight VL endemic districts in Bihar State, India, in 2014. Residual dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was sampled from walls using Bostik tape discs, and DDT ...

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

authors： Coleman M,Foster GM,Deb R,Pratap Singh R,Ismail HM,Shivam P,Ghosh AK,Dunkley S,Kumar V,Coleman M,Hemingway J,Paine MJ,Das P

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously metal-ion sites have been used as structural and functional probes in seven transmembrane receptors (7TM), but as yet all the engineered sites have been inactivating. Based on presumed agonist interaction points in transmembrane III (TM-III) and -VII of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, in this paper we cons...

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

authors： Elling CE,Thirstrup K,Holst B,Schwartz TW

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional model of the expansion of a crack in an elastic medium is considered in which friction depends on the slip rate and the modulus of cohesion depends on the speed of expansion of the crack. Elastic waves are neglected (quasi-static model). Under some conditions, the expansion of the crack is realized b...

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

authors： Barenblatt GI,Keilis-Borok VI,Vishik MM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetric and asymmetric dimethylation of arginine are isomeric protein posttranslational modifications with distinct biological effects, evidenced by the methylation of arginine 3 of histone H4 (H4R3): symmetric dimethylation of H4R3 leads to repression of gene expression, while asymmetric dimethylation of H4R3 is as...

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

authors： Sun L,Wang M,Lv Z,Yang N,Liu Y,Bao S,Gong W,Xu RM

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than a decade of experiments generating and studying the physics of quantized vortices in atomic gas Bose-Einstein condensates, research is beginning to focus on the roles of vortices in quantum turbulence, as well as other measures of quantum turbulence in atomic condensates. Such research directions have ...

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

authors： White AC,Anderson BP,Bagnato VS

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interaction of ethanol with the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic system in neurons of slices of the rat central amygdala nucleus (CeA), a brain region thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Brief superfusion of 11-66 mM ethanol significantly increased GABA type A (GABA(A)) re...

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

authors： Roberto M,Madamba SG,Moore SD,Tallent MK,Siggins GR

更新日期：2003-02-18 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：:Dual inactivation of PTEN and INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor genes is a common feature observed in a broad spectrum of human cancer types. To validate functional collaboration between these genes in tumor suppression, we examined the biological consequences of Pten and/or Ink4a/Arf deficiency in cells and mice. Relative t...

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

authors： You MJ,Castrillon DH,Bastian BC,O'Hagan RC,Bosenberg MW,Parsons R,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein Ib is a surface membrane glycoprotein of platelets that functions as a receptor for von Willebrand factor. It is a heterodimer composed of an alpha and a beta chain linked by a disulfide bond(s). A phage lambda gt11 cDNA expression library prepared from mRNA from a human erythroleukemia cell line, HEL, wa...

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

authors： Lopez JA,Chung DW,Fujikawa K,Hagen FS,Papayannopoulou T,Roth GJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic pigment accumulated in 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine-treated rats, which has been reported to inhibit ferrochelatase, has been isolated and purified. The pigment has been resolved into one major, one minor, and two trace components, all of which appear to be isomeric porphyrins. The major fract...

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

authors： Ortiz de Montellano PR,Beilan HS,Kunze KL

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex plays a fundamental role in the working memory functions of the cerebral cortex and is also the site of dysfunction in several neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Prefrontal neurons are distinguished by their capacity for sustained activity during the time a stimulus ...

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

authors： Gao WJ,Krimer LS,Goldman-Rakic PS

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out partial amino acid sequence analysis of a putative nuclear pore complex protein (nucleoporin) of rat that reacts with wheat germ agglutinin and with the polyspecific monoclonal antibody 414. Surprisingly, these partial amino acid sequence data revealed a high degree of similarity with the human CAN...

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

authors： Kraemer D,Wozniak RW,Blobel G,Radu A

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) generates millions of short sequence tags corresponding to transcripts from a single RNA preparation. Most MPSS tags can be unambiguously assigned to genes, thereby generating a comprehensive expression profile of the tissue of origin. From the comparison of MPSS data fro...

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

authors： Chen YT,Scanlan MJ,Venditti CA,Chua R,Theiler G,Stevenson BJ,Iseli C,Gure AO,Vasicek T,Strausberg RL,Jongeneel CV,Old LJ,Simpson AJ

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), T helper cells exhibit increased and prolonged expression of cell-surface CD40 ligand (CD154), spontaneously overproduce interleukin-10 (IL-10), but underproduce interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). We tested the hypothesis that the imbalance of these gene products reflects skewed expre...

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

authors： Mishra N,Brown DR,Olorenshaw IM,Kammer GM

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 enzymes are monooxygenases that contain a functional heme b group linked to a conserved cysteine with a thiolate bond. In the native state, the central iron atom is hexacoordinated with a covalently bound water molecule. The exclusion of solvent molecules from the active site is essential for efficient...

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

authors： Oprea TI,Hummer G,Garcia AE

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Src homology 2 (SH2) domains are phosphotyrosine-binding modules found within various signal-transducing proteins. We have determined by 125I competition assay and surface plasmon resonance that the SH2 domains of Src and Lck bind to a variety of phosphopeptides with similar affinity and specificity. Both bound with h...

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

authors： Payne G,Shoelson SE,Gish GD,Pawson T,Walsh CT

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes that are unexpressed in somatic cells have been activated by injecting cultured cell nuclei of the frog Xenopus laevis into oocytes of the newt Pleurodeles waltlii. The genes that were activated are normally expressed in oocytes but not in cultured cells. Conversely, genes that are normally expressed in cultured...

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

authors： De Robertis EM,Gurdon JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (approximately 21 nt), noncoding RNAs that negatively regulate target mRNAs at the posttranscriptional level that are involved in development. In plants, virus-induced disease symptoms often result in developmental abnormalities resembling perturbation of miRNA-mediated function. Here, we ...

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

authors： Chellappan P,Vanitharani R,Fauquet CM

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments investigate the capacity of thalamic and cortical structures in a sensory system to process information of a modality normally associated with another system. Retinal ganglion cells in newborn Syrian hamsters were made to project permanently to the main thalamic somatosensory (ventrobasal) nucleus. W...

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

authors： Métin C,Frost DO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenodoxin reductase (AR; ferridoxin: NADP+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.18.1.2) is a flavoprotein that mediates electron transport from NADPH to all known mitochondrial forms of cytochrome P450. AR mRNA was found in all human adult and fetal tissues examined; however, it was vastly more abundant in tissues that synthesize s...

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

authors： Brentano ST,Black SM,Lin D,Miller WL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies on human insulins prepared by semisynthetic and biosynthetic methods have recently been undertaken. Human insulin differs from porcine insulin only at the COOH terminus of the B-chain. The present study reports the crystal structure of 4-zinc human insulin, which is used clinically as a slow-acting prepa...

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

authors： Smith GD,Swenson DC,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Reynolds CD

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc13 mediates lysine-63-specific protein ubiquitination involved in signal transduction by immune receptors; however, the in vivo physiological functions of Ubc13 remain incompletely understood. Using Ubc13 conditional knockout mice, we show that somatic deletion of the Ubc13 gene cau...

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

authors： Wu X,Yamamoto M,Akira S,Sun SC

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical coupling between pyramidal cell axons, and between interneuron dendrites, have both been described in the hippocampus. What are the functional roles of the two types of coupling? Interneuron gap junctions enhance synchrony of gamma oscillations (25-70 Hz) in isolated interneuron networks and also in network...

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

authors： Traub RD,Pais I,Bibbig A,LeBeau FE,Buhl EH,Hormuzdi SG,Monyer H,Whittington MA

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00