Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing a modified bacterial merA gene.

abstract：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently demonstrated that amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide vaccination was effective in reducing the Abeta burden in Alzheimer model mice. However, the clinical trial was halted because of the development of meningoencephalitis in some patients. To overcome this problem, anti-Abeta antibody therapy and other types...

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

authors： Okura Y,Miyakoshi A,Kohyama K,Park IK,Staufenbiel M,Matsumoto Y

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha) is a critical transcription factor that regulates epithelial cell proliferation and ductal morphogenesis during postnatal mammary gland development. Tissue recombination and transplantation studies using the first generation of ERalpha knockout (ERKO) mice suggested that this ster...

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

authors： Feng Y,Manka D,Wagner KU,Khan SA

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosylation, the selective modification of cysteine residues in proteins to form S-nitrosocysteine, is a major emerging mechanism by which nitric oxide acts as a signaling molecule. Even though nitric oxide is intimately involved in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions, the potential protein tar...

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

authors： Greco TM,Hodara R,Parastatidis I,Heijnen HF,Dennehy MK,Liebler DC,Ischiropoulos H

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane contact sites known as triads. JPHs are anchored to the membrane of the SR by a C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and bind the T-tubule mem...

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

authors： Rossi D,Scarcella AM,Liguori E,Lorenzini S,Pierantozzi E,Kutchukian C,Jacquemond V,Messa M,De Camilli P,Sorrentino V

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult repertoire of antibody specificities is acquired in a developmentally programmed fashion that, in mouse and man, parallels the ordered rearrangement of a limited number of germ-line heavy chain variable region (VH) gene segments during development. It has been hypothesized that this developmental bias is a c...

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

authors： Willems van Dijk K,Milner LA,Sasso EH,Milner EC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs; termed ZIF-1 to -12) have been synthesized as crystals by copolymerization of either Zn(II) (ZIF-1 to -4, -6 to -8, and -10 to -11) or Co(II) (ZIF-9 and -12) with imidazolate-type links. The ZIF crystal structures are based on the nets of seven distinct aluminosilicate zeo...

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

authors： Park KS,Ni Z,Côté AP,Choi JY,Huang R,Uribe-Romo FJ,Chae HK,O'Keeffe M,Yaghi OM

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a specific form of thyroid hormone receptor expressed in human liver, kidney, placenta, and brain was isolated from a human kidney library. Identical clones were found in human placenta and HepG2 cDNA libraries. The cDNA encodes a 490-amino acid protein (Mr, 54,824). When expressed and translated in vi...

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

authors： Nakai A,Seino S,Sakurai A,Szilak I,Bell GI,DeGroot LJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In binocular rivalry, a subject views two incongruent stimuli through each eye but consciously perceives only one stimulus at a time, with a switch in perceptual dominance every few seconds. To investigate the neural correlates of perceptual dominance in humans, seven subjects were recorded with a 148-channel magnetoe...

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

authors： Tononi G,Srinivasan R,Russell DP,Edelman GM

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases are not well-understood. They represent a number of different diseases that are characterized by the development of severe organ fibrosis without any obvious cause, such as the devastating diseases idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and scleroderma. These diseases have a poor prognosis comparable wi...

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

authors： Wernig G,Chen SY,Cui L,Van Neste C,Tsai JM,Kambham N,Vogel H,Natkunam Y,Gilliland DG,Nolan G,Weissman IL

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma delta (γδ) T cells represent a major IL-17 committed T-cell population (γδT17 cells) in the mouse dermis. Following exposure to the inflammatory agent imiquimod (IMQ) the Vγ4(+) subset of γδT cells produce IL-17 in the skin and expand rapidly in draining lymph nodes (LNs). Local IMQ treatment in humans is known ...

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

authors： Ramírez-Valle F,Gray EE,Cyster JG

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding is the molecular basis for several human diseases. How the primary amino acid sequence triggers misfolding and determines the benign or toxic character of the misfolded protein remains largely obscure. Among proteins that misfold, polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion proteins provide an interesting case:...

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

authors： Duennwald ML,Jagadish S,Muchowski PJ,Lindquist S

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of commercial catches reveals a serial depletion of some oceanic fish stocks over time, resulting in fisheries focusing on increasingly smaller species closer to the base of the food chain. This effect, described as fishing down the marine food web, is observed when the trophic level of the catch declines ove...

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

authors： Dunlop ES,Goto D,Jackson DA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been widely reported that intrinsic brain activity, in a variety of animals including humans, is spatiotemporally structured. Specifically, propagated slow activity has been repeatedly demonstrated in animals. In human resting-state fMRI, spontaneous activity has been understood predominantly in terms of zero-l...

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

authors： Mitra A,Snyder AZ,Blazey T,Raichle ME

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Early acquisition of mate preferences or mate-preference learning is associated with signal diversity and speciation in a wide variety of animal species. However, the diversity of mechanisms of mate-preference learning across taxa remains poorly understood. Using the butterfly Bicyclus anynana we uncover a mechanism t...

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

authors： Westerman EL,Hodgins-Davis A,Dinwiddie A,Monteiro A

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of chicken embryo fibroblasts with mitogenic concentrations of insulin for 24 hr or with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate for 6 hr stimulated lactate release and 3-O-methylglucose uptake. Insulin also increased the Vmax of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase (ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotrans...

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

authors： Bosca L,Rousseau GG,Hue L

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also called RAFT1/mTOR) regulates translation initiation and entry into the cell cycle. Depriving cells of amino acids or treating them with the small molecule rapamycin inhibits FRAP and results in rapid dephosphorylation and inactivation of the translational regulators ...

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

authors： Peterson RT,Desai BN,Hardwick JS,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GATA4 during the earliest stages of cardiogenesis has not been defined because Gata4 knockout embryos suffer an early developmental arrest caused by deficiencies in extraembryonic visceral endoderm function. We have used tetraploid embryo complementation to rescue these defects and generated clonal embryon...

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

authors： Watt AJ,Battle MA,Li J,Duncan SA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunophilin FK506 binding protein 12 (FKBP12) is associated with and modulates the ryanodine receptor calcium release channel of skeletal muscle. Ryanodine receptor has amino acid homology and functional similarity with another intracellular Ca2+ release channel, the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R). ...

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

authors： Cameron AM,Steiner JP,Sabatini DM,Kaplin AI,Walensky LD,Snyder SH

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs that have important regulatory roles in multicellular organisms. The public miRNA database contains 321 human miRNA sequences, 234 of which have been experimentally verified. To explore the possibility that additional miRNAs are present in the human genome, we hav...

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

authors： Cummins JM,He Y,Leary RJ,Pagliarini R,Diaz LA Jr,Sjoblom T,Barad O,Bentwich Z,Szafranska AE,Labourier E,Raymond CK,Roberts BS,Juhl H,Kinzler KW,Vogelstein B,Velculescu VE

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution conformations of 2-substituted derivatives of 1-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)benzimidazole have been determined by circular dichroism spectroscopy in aqueous solutions. It is shown that analogs with methyl, amino, or methylamino substituents at position 2 of the benzimidazole ring (position 8 of the purine ring)...

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

authors： Miles DW,Townsend LB,Miles DL,Eyring H

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the development of an optical imaging technique, confocal light absorption and scattering spectroscopic (CLASS) microscopy, capable of noninvasively determining the dimensions and other physical properties of single subcellular organelles. CLASS microscopy combines the principles of light-scatteri...

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

authors： Itzkan I,Qiu L,Fang H,Zaman MM,Vitkin E,Ghiran IC,Salahuddin S,Modell M,Andersson C,Kimerer LM,Cipolloni PB,Lim KH,Freedman SD,Bigio I,Sachs BP,Hanlon EB,Perelman LT

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who are treated for congenital cataracts later exhibit impairments in configural face analysis. This has been explained in terms of a critical period for the acquisition of normal face processing. Here, we consider a more parsimonious account according to which deficits in configural analysis result from the ...

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

authors： Vogelsang L,Gilad-Gutnick S,Ehrenberg E,Yonas A,Diamond S,Held R,Sinha P

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Following carcinogen exposure in vitro, normal rat tracheal epithelial cells are transformed in a multistage process in which the cultured cells become immortal and, ultimately, neoplastic. Five cell lines derived from tumors produced by neoplastically transformed rat tracheal epithelial cells were examined for the ex...

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

authors： Walker C,Nettesheim P,Barrett JC,Gilmer TM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is characterized by severe headaches that can be preceded by an aura likely caused by cortical spreading depression (SD). The antiepileptic pregabalin (Lyrica) shows clinical promise for migraine therapy, although its efficacy and mechanism of action are unclear. As detected by diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI)...

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

authors： Cain SM,Bohnet B,LeDue J,Yung AC,Garcia E,Tyson JR,Alles SR,Han H,van den Maagdenberg AM,Kozlowski P,MacVicar BA,Snutch TP

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The role played by oligodendrocytes (OLs), the myelinating cells of the CNS, during brain development has not been fully explored. We have addressed this question by inducing a temporal and reversible ablation of OLs on postnatal CNS development. OL ablation in newborn mice leads to a profound alteration in the struct...

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

authors： Collin L,Usiello A,Erbs E,Mathis C,Borrelli E

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine decarboxylase (L-histidine carboxylase, EC 4.1.1.22) activity of whole W/W mouse embryos, which are devoid of mast cells, remained very low and did not show the rapid increase before birth (17-20 days of gestation) seen in wild-type +/+ embryos. During the same period, the histamine content also remained...

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

authors： Watanabe T,Kitamura Y,Maeyama K,Go S,Yamatodani A,Wada H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse beta-globin in encoded in a discontinuous structural gene interrupted by a 550-base pair intervening sequence of DNA. Correspondingly, the mature beta-globin mRNA appears to be synthesized via a 15S precursor, the length of which roughly equals the total length of the coding and intervening sequences of the beta...

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

authors： Tilghman SM,Curtis PJ,Tiemeier DC,Leder P,Weissmann C

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crises in science concern not only methods, statistics, and results but also, theory development. Beyond the indispensable refinement of tools and procedures, resolving crises would also benefit from a deeper understanding of the concepts and processes guiding research. Usually, theories compete, and some lose, incent...

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

authors： Ellemers N,Fiske ST,Abele AE,Koch A,Yzerbyt V

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work shows that arachidonic acid and some other long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is abundant in fish oil, produce a direct open channel block of the major voltage-dependent K+ channel (Kv1.5) cloned in cardiac cells. The inhibitory action of these selected fatty ac...

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

authors： Honoré E,Barhanin J,Attali B,Lesage F,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00