A new high molecular weight immunoglobulin class from the carcharhine shark: implications for the properties of the primordial immunoglobulin.

abstract：:Arteriovenous (AV) malformation (AVM) is a devastating condition characterized by focal lesions of enlarged, tangled vessels that shunt blood from arteries directly to veins. AVMs can form anywhere in the body and can cause debilitating ischemia and life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke. The mechanisms that underlie AVM...

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

authors： Murphy PA,Kim TN,Huang L,Nielsen CM,Lawton MT,Adams RH,Schaffer CB,Wang RA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) A chain, B chain/c-sis, and the PDGF receptor are expressed in human malignant glioma cell lines. In the present investigation we have studied the expression of these genes in biopsy specimens from human glioblastomas. Hyperplasia of the vascular endothelium is a pro...

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

authors： Hermansson M,Nistér M,Betsholtz C,Heldin CH,Westermark B,Funa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons are FRET-based target-activatable probes. They offer control of fluorescence emission in response to specific cancer targets, thus are useful tools for in vivo cancer imaging. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a cell-killing process by light activation of a photosensitizer (PS) in the presence of oxygen....

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

authors： Zheng G,Chen J,Stefflova K,Jarvi M,Li H,Wilson BC

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins and consequences of a regulatory T cell (Treg) disorder in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are poorly understood. In the (NZBxNZW) F(1) mouse model of lupus, we found that CD4(+)Foxp3(+) Treg failed to maintain a competitive pool size in the peripheral lymphoid organs resulting in a progressive homeosta...

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

authors： Humrich JY,Morbach H,Undeutsch R,Enghard P,Rosenberger S,Weigert O,Kloke L,Heimann J,Gaber T,Brandenburg S,Scheffold A,Huehn J,Radbruch A,Burmester GR,Riemekasten G

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hetR gene plays a very important role in cell differentiation of heterocystous cyanobacteria. To understand the mechanism of the hetR gene product in regulation of heterocyst differentiation, the recombinant HetR protein (rHetR) was overproduced in Escherichia coli. Purified rHetR was unstable and degraded easily ...

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

authors： Zhou R,Wei X,Jiang N,Li H,Dong Y,Hsi KL,Zhao J

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+ glycohydrolase activity is found at high levels in submitochondrial particles. It leads to the reaction products ADP-ribose, nicotinamide, and small amounts of 5'-AMP. Furthermore, submitochondrial particles catalyze the exchange reaction: [adenosine-14C]ADP-ribose + NAD+ in equilibrium [adenosine-14C]-NAD+ + ADP...

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

authors： Richter C,Winterhalter KH,Baumhüter S,Lötscher HR,Moser B

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocytic protein trafficking is directed by sorting signals on cargo molecules that are recognized by cytosolic adaptor proteins. However, the steps necessary to segregate the variety of cargoes during endocytosis remain poorly defined. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, we demonstrate that multiple plasma membrane endocy...

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

authors： Mayers JR,Wang L,Pramanik J,Johnson A,Sarkeshik A,Wang Y,Saengsawang W,Yates JR 3rd,Audhya A

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of founder events in promoting evolutionary changes on islands has been a subject of long-running controversy. Resolution of this debate has been hindered by a lack of empirical evidence from naturally founded island populations. Here we undertake a genetic analysis of a series of historically documente...

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

authors： Clegg SM,Degnan SM,Kikkawa J,Moritz C,Estoup A,Owens IP

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Some dinosaurs reached masses that were approximately 8 times those of the largest, ecologically equivalent terrestrial mammals. The factors most responsible for setting the maximal body size of vertebrates are resource quality and quantity, as modified by the mobility of the consumer, and the vertebrate's rate of ene...

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

authors： McNab BK

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax toxin is an intracellularly acting toxin in which sufficient information is available regarding the structure of its transmembrane channel, allowing for detailed investigation of models of translocation. Anthrax toxin, comprising three proteins-protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor-tran...

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

authors： Das D,Krantz BA

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior incubation of quiescent cultures of Swiss 3T3 cells with vasopressin leads to loss of mitogenic stimulation on its subsequent addition in the presence of a synergistic growth factor. This desensitization is selective for vasopressin, requires prolonged incubation (half-maximal desensitization after 12 hr of trea...

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

authors： Collins MK,Rozengurt E

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation is a major mechanism regulating the activity of ion channels that remains poorly understood with respect to T-type calcium channels (Cav3). These channels are low voltage-activated calcium channels that play a key role in cellular excitability and various physiological functions. Their dysfunction has ...

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

authors： Blesneac I,Chemin J,Bidaud I,Huc-Brandt S,Vandermoere F,Lory P

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms of neural circuit assembly is far from complete. Identification of wiring molecules with novel mechanisms of action will provide insights into how complex and heterogeneous neural circuits assemble during development. In the Drosophila olfactory system, 50 classes of olfactory recep...

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

authors： Xie Q,Wu B,Li J,Xu C,Li H,Luginbuhl DJ,Wang X,Ward A,Luo L

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The p6 domain of HIV-1 Gag contains highly conserved peptide motifs that recruit host machinery to sites of virus assembly, thereby promoting particle release from the infected cell. We previously reported that mutations in the YPXnL motif of p6, which binds the host protein Alix, severely impair HIV-1 replication. Pr...

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

authors： Van Duyne R,Kuo LS,Pham P,Fujii K,Freed EO

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is triggered in eukaryotic organisms by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), and it destroys any mRNA that has sequence identity with the dsRNA trigger. The RNAi pathway in Anopheles gambiae can be silenced by transfecting cells with dsRNA derived from exon sequence of the A. gambiae Argonaute2 (AgAgo2...

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

authors： Keene KM,Foy BD,Sanchez-Vargas I,Beaty BJ,Blair CD,Olson KE

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Some strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum produce rhizobitoxine, a phytotoxin that causes foliar chlorosis on susceptible host plants. We have previously obtained Tn5-induced rhizobitoxine null mutants of B. japonicum. DNA sequence analysis of the region surrounding two Tn5 insertions identifies two overlapping open re...

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

authors： Ruan X,Zhang C,Peters NK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeling of being observed or merely participating in an experiment can affect individuals' behavior. Referred to as the Hawthorne effect, this inconsistently observed phenomenon can both provide insight into individuals' behavior and confound the interpretation of experimental manipulations. Here, we pursue both t...

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

authors： Schwartz D,Fischhoff B,Krishnamurti T,Sowell F

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:NAPVSIPQ (NAP), an active fragment of the glial-derived activity-dependent neuroprotective protein, is protective at femtomolar concentrations against a wide array of neural insults and prevents ethanol-induced fetal wastage and growth retardation in mice. NAP also antagonizes ethanol inhibition of L1-mediated cell ad...

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

authors： Wilkemeyer MF,Chen SY,Menkari CE,Brenneman DE,Sulik KK,Charness ME

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Three preparations of purified papain-solublized HL-A antigens have been radiolabeled by reductive methylation using formaldehyde and potassium boro[3H]hydride, and their reaction with specific HL-A antisera has been investigated. Greater than 99 percent of the radioactivity in the [3H]HL-A2 preparation could be compl...

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

authors： Parham P,Terhorst C,Herrmann H,Humphreys RE,Waterfield MD,Strominger JL

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been demonstrated that coupled enzymatic processes may possess, for a particular choice of the state variables, multidimensional inflection points in thermodynamic force-flow space. The conditions for reciprocity in the linear region near such a reference state, which may be far from equilibrium, are o...

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

authors： Caplan SR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term memory relies on modulation of synaptic connections in response to experience. This plasticity involves trafficking of AMPA receptors (AMPAR) and alteration of spine morphology. Arc, a gene induced by synaptic activity, mediates the endocytosis of AMPA receptors and is required for both long-term and homeost...

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

authors： Peebles CL,Yoo J,Thwin MT,Palop JJ,Noebels JL,Finkbeiner S

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar-cell axon terminals receive direct synaptic input from amacrine-cell processes, suggesting a possible pathway for modulation of transmitter release. In retinal slices, bath-applied baclofen, a gamma-aminobutyrate type B (GABAB) receptor agonist, reduced a patch-clamp-recorded L-type calcium channel current in ...

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

authors： Maguire G,Maple B,Lukasiewicz P,Werblin F

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons perceive environmental cues and are important of organismal survival. Peripheral sensory neurons interact intimately with glial cells. While the function of axonal ensheathment by glia is well studied, less is known about the functional significance of glial interaction with the somatodendritic compart...

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

authors： Yadav S,Younger SH,Zhang L,Thompson-Peer KL,Li T,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Seemingly similar individuals often experience drastically different success trajectories, with some repeatedly failing and others consistently succeeding. One explanation is preexisting variability along unobserved fitness dimensions that is revealed gradually through differential achievement. Alternatively, positive...

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

authors： van de Rijt A,Kang SM,Restivo M,Patil A

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation by paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of the photoreduction of ferredoxin, oxygenically by water and anoxygenically by a direct electron donor to photosystem I, led to the unexpected findings that different reductive mechanisms may be involved. Ferredoxin photoreduced by water was not reoxidized in t...

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

authors： Arnon DI,Tsujimoto HY,Tang GM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling regulates glucose homeostasis through the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3). The dual-specificity phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) blocks PI3K signaling by dephosphorylating PIP3, and is inhibited...

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

authors： Hodakoski C,Hopkins BD,Barrows D,Mense SM,Keniry M,Anderson KE,Kern PA,Hawkins PT,Stephens LR,Parsons R

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most transmissible spongiform encephalopathies arise either spontaneously or by infection. Mutations of PRNP, which encodes the prion protein, PrP, segregate with phenotypically similar diseases. Here we report that moderate overexpression in transgenic mice of mPrP(170N,174T), a mouse PrP with two point mutations tha...

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

authors： Sigurdson CJ,Nilsson KP,Hornemann S,Heikenwalder M,Manco G,Schwarz P,Ott D,Rülicke T,Liberski PP,Julius C,Falsig J,Stitz L,Wüthrich K,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed 26-amino acid transmembrane proteins that specifically transform cells but consist of only two different amino acids. Most proteins are long polymers of amino acids with 20 or more chemically distinct side-chains. The artificial transmembrane proteins reported here are the simplest known proteins w...

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

authors： Heim EN,Marston JL,Federman RS,Edwards AP,Karabadzhak AG,Petti LM,Engelman DM,DiMaio D

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We partially purified a preparation from Escherichia coli that proteolytically degrades the enzyme glutamine synthetase [L-glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.1.2]. The degradation is at least a two-step process. First, the glutamine synthetase undergoes an oxidative modification. This modification leads to...

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

authors： Levine RL,Oliver CN,Fulks RM,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene encodes a cytokine whose activities have been implicated in many immunopathological processes, including the activation and differentiation of lymphocytes. Originally identified as a monocyte factor, our studies and those of others have demonstrated that B and T l...

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

authors： Goldfeld AE,Flemington EK,Boussiotis VA,Theodos CM,Titus RG,Strominger JL,Speck SH

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00