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

abstract：:The differentiation of skeletal myoblasts is characterized by permanent withdrawal from the cell cycle and fusion into multinucleated myotubes. Muscle cell survival is critically dependent on the ability of cells to respond to oxidative stress. Base excision repair (BER) is the main repair mechanism of oxidative DNA d...

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

authors： Narciso L,Fortini P,Pajalunga D,Franchitto A,Liu P,Degan P,Frechet M,Demple B,Crescenzi M,Dogliotti E

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, the most frequent form of hereditary mental retardation, is due to a mutation of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene on the X chromosome. Like fragile X patients, FMR1-knockout (FMR1-KO) mice lack the normal fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) and show both cognitive alterations ...

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

authors： Restivo L,Ferrari F,Passino E,Sgobio C,Bock J,Oostra BA,Bagni C,Ammassari-Teule M

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymic microenvironment involves complex cell interactions among different types of epithelial cells, macrophages, tissue histiocytes, and immature and maturing T cells. We describe the isolation of a subset of thymic epithelial cells by selective primary culture followed by cotransfection with a simian virus 40 r...

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

authors： Mizutani S,Watt SM,Robertson D,Hussein S,Healy LE,Furley AJ,Greaves MF

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (2-methylmalonyl-CoA CoA-carbonylmutase, EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial enzyme whose deficiency in man leads to several biochemically and clinically heterogenous++ forms of methylmalonic acidemia. Intact fibroblasts from 21 patients with mutase apoenzyme deficiency have been pulse-labeled wit...

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

authors： Fenton WA,Hack AM,Kraus JP,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NIH 3T3 mouse cells were transfected with plasmids that induce efficient expression of either (i) the Rous sarcoma virus v-src gene, (ii) the chicken c-src gene, or (iii) a recombinant gene combining the 5' portion of c-src with the 3' end of v-src. Focus formation in tissue culture and formation of large colonies in ...

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

authors： Shalloway D,Coussens PM,Yaciuk P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HetR is an essential regulator of heterocyst development in cyanobacteria. Many mutations in HetR render Anabaena incapable of nitrogen fixation. The protein binds to a DNA palindrome upstream of hetP and other genes. We have determined the crystal structures of HetR complexed with palindromic DNA targets, 21, 23, and...

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

authors： Kim Y,Ye Z,Joachimiak G,Videau P,Young J,Hurd K,Callahan SM,Gornicki P,Zhao J,Haselkorn R,Joachimiak A

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ovaries of the mosquito Aedes aegypti cultured in vitro secrete material that behaves like ecdysone in a radioimmunoassay. The material was identified as alpha-ecdysone by high-resolution liquid and gas-liquid chromatography. Secretion reached a maximum 16 hr after a blood meal as shown by bioassay and direct dete...

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

authors： Hagedorn HH,O'Connor JD,Fuchs MS,Sage B,Schlaeger DA,Bohm MK

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forest degradation emits carbon at a rate of approximately 0.5 Pgxy(-1), reduces biodiversity, and facilitates forest clearance. Understanding degradation drivers and patterns is therefore crucial to managing forests to mitigate climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. Putative patterns of degradation aff...

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

authors： Ahrends A,Burgess ND,Milledge SA,Bulling MT,Fisher B,Smart JC,Clarke GP,Mhoro BE,Lewis SL

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biocompatible gold nanoparticles designed to absorb light at wavelengths of high tissue transparency have been of particular interest for biomedical applications. The ability of such nanoparticles to convert absorbed near-infrared light to heat and induce highly localized hyperthermia has been shown to be highly effec...

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

authors： Rastinehad AR,Anastos H,Wajswol E,Winoker JS,Sfakianos JP,Doppalapudi SK,Carrick MR,Knauer CJ,Taouli B,Lewis SC,Tewari AK,Schwartz JA,Canfield SE,George AK,West JL,Halas NJ

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are of major importance in information processing and memory formation in central neurons. Estradiol has been shown to induce an increase of dendritic spine density on hippocampal neurons in vivo and in vitro. The neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) recently has been implicated in ne...

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

authors： Murphy DD,Cole NB,Segal M

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface of embryonic peripheral neurons provides a mitogenic stimulus for Schwann cells. We report (i) the solubilization of this mitogenic activity from rat dorsal root ganglion neurons grown in tissue culture and (ii) the solubilization and partial purification of mitogenic activity from neonatal rat brains...

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

authors： Ratner N,Hong DM,Lieberman MA,Bunge RP,Glaser L

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen metabolism in bacteria and archaea is regulated by a ubiquitous class of proteins belonging to the P(II)family. P(II) proteins act as sensors of cellular nitrogen, carbon, and energy levels, and they control the activities of a wide range of target proteins by protein-protein interaction. The sensing mechanis...

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

authors： Rajendran C,Gerhardt EC,Bjelic S,Gasperina A,Scarduelli M,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS,Merrick M,Souza EM,Winkler FK,Huergo LF,Li XD

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high-resolution satellite analyses, we studied the forest damage caused by recent logging operations and the likelihood that logged forests wou...

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

authors： Asner GP,Broadbent EN,Oliveira PJ,Keller M,Knapp DE,Silva JN

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian Islands are renowned for some of the most spectacular species radiations in the world. Most of these radiations have been attributed to single colonization events, although the evidence supporting monophyletic origins is often poorly resolved and/or ambiguous. Without a concrete understanding of the origi...

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

authors： Gillespie RG,Croom HB,Palumbi SR

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spleen from a patient with adult Gaucher's disease was shown to be deficient in a beta-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.21) isoenzyme that has optimal activity at pH 4.0-4.3, and is stimulated by 0.02% Triton X-100. A mixture of spleen homogenates from a control and from the patient contained beta-glucosidase activity equiva...

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

authors： Ho MW,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative understanding of nucleic acid hybridization is essential to many aspects of biotechnology, such as DNA microarrays, as well as to the structure and folding kinetics of RNA. However, predictions of nucleic acid secondary structures have long been impeded by the presence of helices interior to loops, so-c...

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

authors： Isambert H,Siggia ED

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system has evolved to annul pathogens, but its improper regulation is linked with diseases. Efficient regulation of the system is primarily provided by a family of proteins termed regulators of complement activation (RCA). The knowledge of precise structural determinants of RCA proteins critical for imp...

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

authors： Gautam AK,Panse Y,Ghosh P,Reza MJ,Mullick J,Sahu A

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We created a high-throughput modality of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) that enables automated 3D PALM imaging of hundreds of synchronized bacteria during all stages of the cell cycle. We used high-throughput PALM to investigate the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ in l...

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

authors： Holden SJ,Pengo T,Meibom KL,Fernandez Fernandez C,Collier J,Manley S

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring evolutionary relationships among highly divergent protein sequences is a daunting task. In particular, when pairwise sequence alignments between protein sequences fall <25% identity, the phylogenetic relationships among sequences cannot be estimated with statistical certainty. Here, we show that phylogenetic...

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

authors： Chang GS,Hong Y,Ko KD,Bhardwaj G,Holmes EC,Patterson RL,van Rossum DB

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have produced a soluble form of a mouse alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) by shuffling its variable (V) and constant (C) domains to the C region of an immunoglobulin kappa light chain. These chimeric molecules composed of V alpha C alpha C kappa and V beta C beta C kappa chains were efficiently secreted (up ...

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

authors： Grégoire C,Rebaï N,Schweisguth F,Necker A,Mazza G,Auphan N,Millward A,Schmitt-Verhulst AM,Malissen B

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because most human squamous carcinoma cell lines of the aerodigestive and genital tracts are refractory to the antiproliferative action of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) in vitro, we have begun to identify the causes for resistance of squamous carcinoma cell lines to TGF beta 1 by using somatic cell ge...

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

authors： Reiss M,Muñoz-Antonia T,Cowan JM,Wilkins PC,Zhou ZL,Vellucci VF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a major blue-light receptor for phototropism in seed plants, exhibits blue-light-dependent autophosphorylation and contains two light, oxygen, or voltage (LOV) domains and a serine/threonine kinase domain. The LOV domains share homology with the PER-ARNT-SIM (PAS) superfamily, a diverse group of sensor pr...

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

authors： Crosson S,Moffat K

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens with the ability to establish chronic infections have evolved strategies to actively modulate the host immune response. Brucellosis is a disease caused by a Gram-negative intracellular pathogen that if not treated during the initial phase of the infection becomes chronic as the bacteria persist for...

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

authors： Spera JM,Ugalde JE,Mucci J,Comerci DJ,Ugalde RA

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dentinal repair in the postnatal organism occurs through the activity of specialized cells, odontoblasts, that are thought to be maintained by an as yet undefined precursor population associated with pulp tissue. In this study, we isolated a clonogenic, rapidly proliferative population of cells from adult human dental...

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

authors： Gronthos S,Mankani M,Brahim J,Robey PG,Shi S

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A)+ mRNA was isolated from the brains of C57BL/6J (B6), DBA/2J (D2), and F1 hybrid mice (B6 X D2) of 16-17 days of age. The yield of polysomal RNA, both poly(A)+ and poly(A)-, from the three strains of mice was comparable. When translated in vitro in a reticulocyte lysate system, the mRNA preparations had the sam...

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

authors： Miskimins R,Ebato H,Seyfried TN,Yu RK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-β activated kinase 1 (TAK1) is a critical signaling hub responsible for translating antigen binding signals to immune receptors for the activation of the AP-1 and NF-κB master transcriptional programs. Despite its importance, known substrates of TAK1 are limited to kinases of the MAPK and IKK families and include ...

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

authors： Levin RS,Hertz NT,Burlingame AL,Shokat KM,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The v-jun oncogene encodes a nuclear DNA binding protein that functions as a transcription factor and is part of the activator protein 1 complex. Oncogenic transformation by v-jun is thought to be mediated by the aberrant expression of specific target genes. To identify such Jun-regulated genes and to explore the mech...

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

authors： Kruse U,Iacovoni JS,Goller ME,Vogt PK

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of calmodulin (CaM) on target proteins is important for a variety of cellular functions. We demonstrate here, however, that the presence of a CaM-binding site on a protein does not necessarily imply a functional effect. The alpha-subunit of the cGMP-gated cation channel of human retinal cones has a CaM-bind...

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

authors： Grunwald ME,Zhong H,Lai J,Yau KW

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) oxygenates arachidonic acid (AA) and its ester analog, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), to prostaglandins (PGs) and prostaglandin glyceryl esters (PG-Gs), respectively. Although the efficiency of oxygenation of these substrates by COX-2 in vitro is similar, cellular biosynthesis of PGs far excee...

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

authors： Mitchener MM,Hermanson DJ,Shockley EM,Brown HA,Lindsley CW,Reese J,Rouzer CA,Lopez CF,Marnett LJ

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00