Identification of a region of beta 2-glycoprotein I critical for lipid binding and anti-cardiolipin antibody cofactor activity.

abstract：:Mathematical models have been developed to explore the population dynamics of viral diseases among wildlife. However, assessing the predictions stemming from these models with wildlife databases adequate in size and temporal duration is uncommon. An epizootic of raccoon rabies that began in the mid-Atlantic region of ...

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

authors： Childs JE,Curns AT,Dey ME,Real LA,Feinstein L,Bjørnstad ON,Krebs JW

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Motifs of neural circuitry seem surprisingly conserved over different areas of neocortex or of paleocortex, while performing quite different sensory processing tasks. This apparent paradox may be resolved by the fact that seemingly different problems in sensory information processing are related by transformations (ch...

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

authors： Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection, stabilization, and repair of stress-induced damage are essential requirements for cellular life. All cells respond to osmotic stress-induced water loss with increased expression of genes that mediate accumulation of organic osmolytes, solutes that function as chemical chaperones and restore osmotic home...

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

authors： Lamitina T,Huang CG,Strange K

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces with patterned wettability contrast are important in industrial applications such as heat transfer, water collection, and particle separation. Traditional methods of fabricating such surfaces rely on microfabrication technologies, which are only applicable to certain substrates and are difficult to scale up a...

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

authors： Chen D,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in understanding enzyme regulation is to define the conformational states that account for allosteric changes in catalytic activity. For Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC) the active, relaxed (R state) holoenzyme is generally assumed to be represented by the crystal structure o...

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

authors： Endrizzi JA,Beernink PT,Alber T,Schachman HK

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of trocars, needles, and catheters into unintended tissues or tissue compartments results in hundreds of thousands of complications annually. Current methods for blood vessel cannulation or epidural, chest tube, and initial trocar placement often involve the blind pass of a needle through several layers of t...

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

authors： Bassett EK,Slocum AH,Masiakos PT,Pryor HI 2nd,Farokhzad OC,Karp JM

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-1-Antitrypsin is a serum protein that inhibits many proteolytic enzymes. Recently, it was suggested that the alpha-1-antitrypsin-trypsin complex is an acyl ester analogous to the acyl intermediate that forms between trypsin and its substrates. In previous work we showed that the alpha-1-antitrypsin-trypsin compl...

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

authors： Cohen AB,Gruenke LD,Craig JC,Geczy D

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is preceded by the development of insulin resistance, in which the action of insulin is impaired, largely in skeletal muscles. Caveolin-3 (Cav3) is a muscle-specific subtype of caveolin, an example of a scaffolding protein found within membranes. Cav is also known as growth signal inhibitor, although i...

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

authors： Oshikawa J,Otsu K,Toya Y,Tsunematsu T,Hankins R,Kawabe J,Minamisawa S,Umemura S,Hagiwara Y,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane receptors regulate numerous intracellular functions. However, the molecular underpinnings remain poorly understood because most receptors initiate multiple signaling pathways through distinct interaction interfaces that are structurally uncharacterized. We present an integrated computational and experimental ...

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

authors： Young M,Dahoun T,Sokrat B,Arber C,Chen KM,Bouvier M,Barth P

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Allosteric regulation of oxygen delivery by RBCs may have significant effects on tumor growth. Indeed, angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is induced in growing tumors by low oxygen partial pressure. Hypoxia-inducible genes are switched on, among which are the VEGF gene and its receptors. Most important,...

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

authors： Kieda C,Greferath R,Crola da Silva C,Fylaktakidou KC,Lehn JM,Nicolau C

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear-cut inherited Mendelian traits, such as familial adenomatous polyposis or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, account for <4% of colorectal cancers. Another 20% of all colorectal cancers are thought to occur in individuals with a significant inherited multifactorial susceptibility to colorectal cancer tha...

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

authors： Fearnhead NS,Wilding JL,Winney B,Tonks S,Bartlett S,Bicknell DC,Tomlinson IP,Mortensen NJ,Bodmer WF

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of in vivo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy have been established over the past two decades. Recent applications of these methods to study human brain function have become a rapidly growing area of research. The development of methods using standard MR contrast agents within the cerebral...

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

authors： Shulman RG,Blamire AM,Rothman DL,McCarthy G

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical evidence is presented for the disintegration of the lens fiber plasma membrane in human cataracts. The intrinsic membrane proteins are found in both the water-soluble and water-insoluble nonmembrane fractions of the cataract lens but not in the normal tissue. Furthermore, in contrast to the normal lens, no...

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

authors： Garner MH,Roy D,Rosenfeld L,Garner WH,Spector A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is implicated in multiple biological processes including metabolism, gene expression, cell fate determination, proliferation, and survival. GSK-3 activity is inhibited through phosphorylation of serine 21 in GSK-3 alpha and serine 9 in GSK-3 beta. These serine residues of GSK-3 have ...

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

authors： Fang X,Yu SX,Lu Y,Bast RC Jr,Woodgett JR,Mills GB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The paradigmatic example of a continuous quantum phase transition is the transverse field Ising ferromagnet. In contrast to classical critical systems, whose properties depend only on symmetry and the dimension of space, the nature of a quantum phase transition also depends on the dynamics. In the transverse field Isi...

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

authors： Maharaj AV,Rosenberg EW,Hristov AT,Berg E,Fernandes RM,Fisher IR,Kivelson SA

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies found that increased risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common human heart arrhythmia, is associated with noncoding sequence variants located in proximity to PITX2 Cardiomyocyte-specific epigenomic and comparative genomics uncovered 2 AF-associated enhancers neighboring PITX2 w...

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

authors： Zhang M,Hill MC,Kadow ZA,Suh JH,Tucker NR,Hall AW,Tran TT,Swinton PS,Leach JP,Margulies KB,Ellinor PT,Li N,Martin JF

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil organisms, as recorded by trace fossils in paleosols of the Willwood Formation, Wyoming, show significant body-size reductions and increased abundances during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Paleobotanical, paleopedologic, and oxygen isotope studies indicate high temperatures during the PETM and shar...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Hasiotis ST,Kraus MJ,Woody DT

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful adaptation to changes in an animal's emotional and motivational environment depends on behavioral flexibility accompanied by changes in bodily responses, e.g., autonomic and endocrine, which support the change in behavior. Here, we identify the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as pivotal in the flexible regulatio...

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

authors： Reekie YL,Braesicke K,Man MS,Roberts AC

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is assumed to contribute to goal-directed episodic encoding by exerting cognitive control on medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory processes. However, it is thus far unclear to what extent the contribution of PFC-MTL interactions to memory manifests at a structural anatomical level. We combined...

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

authors： Schott BH,Niklas C,Kaufmann J,Bodammer NC,Machts J,Schütze H,Düzel E

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome is the photoreceptor that controls red light-mediated morphogenesis in higher plants. It exists in two photointerconvertible forms, a red light-absorbing form, Pr, and a far-red light-absorbing form, Pfr. Because photoconversion of Pr to Pfr by a brief light pulse decreases the in vivo half-life of this ch...

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

authors： Shanklin J,Jabben M,Vierstra RD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast fatty acid synthetase consists of two multifunctional proteins, alpha and beta, which are arranged in a complex of alpha(6)beta(6). Electron microscopic studies of this complex led to a model for the synthetase as an ovate structure consisting of an equatorial plate-like structure to which six arches are equally...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signals required for rapid internalization of the bovine cation-dependent mannose 6-phosphate receptor have been localized to two distinct regions of the 67-amino acid cytoplasmic domain. One signal includes phenylalanine 13 and phenylalanine 18, while the other involves tyrosine 45. The former signal is more pote...

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

authors： Johnson KF,Chan W,Kornfeld S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are commonly used antiinflammatory agents whose use is limited by side effects. We have developed a series of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) ligands that retain the strong antiinflammatory activity of conventional glucocorticoids with reduced side effects. We present a compound, LGD5552, that binds the r...

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

authors： Miner JN,Ardecky B,Benbatoul K,Griffiths K,Larson CJ,Mais DE,Marschke K,Rosen J,Vajda E,Zhi L,Negro-Vilar A

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in nuclear K+ electrochemical activity and total nuclear K+ content in salivary glands of Chironomus tentans were measured with ion-selective microelectrodes based on valinomycin and with flameless atomic absorption spectrometry, respectively. The K+ activity increased by a factor of 2.6 and the total K+, by a...

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

authors： Wuhrmann P,Ineichen H,Riesen-Willi U,Lezzi M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal deletion provides an important mechanism for the elimination of autoreactive T cells. Deletion is accomplished by programmed cell death directed by interaction of the T-cell receptor (TCR) of the developing thymocyte with major histocompatibility complex elements in the thymic environment. In this report we pre...

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

authors： Russell JH,White CL,Loh DY,Meleedy-Rey P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus RNA polymerase requires a host factor to initiate RNA synthesis in vitro. The host factor was previously purified to near homogeneity from HeLa cells but was not assigned an enzymatic activity. This report describes the purification of a terminal uridylyltransferase that can act as host factor. By all crite...

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

authors： Andrews NC,Baltimore D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid cells have unusual responses to an increase in the external calcium concentration--a reduction in secretion and a depolarization. In an attempt to explain this behavior, we have studied voltage-clamped inside-out patches from bovine parathyroid cells. We found a potassium-selective channel that requires in...

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

authors： Jia M,Ehrenstein G,Iwasa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both human patients and murine models, the progression from insulitis to diabetes is neither immediate nor inevitable, as illustrated by the innocuous versus destructive infiltrates of BDC2.5 transgenic mice on the nonobese diabetic (NOD) versus C57BL/6.H-2g7 genetic backgrounds. Natural killer (NK)-cell-specific t...

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

authors： Poirot L,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic vesicles release neurotransmitter by following a process of vesicle docking and exocytosis. Although these steps are well established, it has been difficult to observe and measure these rates directly in living synapses. Here, by combining the direct imaging of single synaptic vesicles and synaptic ribbons, I...

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

authors： Zenisek D

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00