COX-2, a synaptically induced enzyme, is expressed by excitatory neurons at postsynaptic sites in rat cerebral cortex.

abstract：:In most cervical carcinoma cells the E6 and E7 genes of specific human papillomaviruses are transcribed from viral sequences integrated into host cell chromosomes. Glucocorticoids activate the promoter elements of various human papillomaviruses in transient-expression assays. We have analyzed the effect of dexamethaso...

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

authors： von Knebel Doeberitz M,Bauknecht T,Bartsch D,zur Hausen H

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diabetogenic agent alloxan exerts a preferential cytotoxic effect on the pancreatic B cell. The determinants of such a tissue specificity were investigated. Alloxan accumulated rapidly in liver and pancreatic islets but much more slowly in muscle. The activity of glutathione peroxidase and the resistance to exogen...

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

authors： Malaisse WJ,Malaisse-Lagae F,Sener A,Pipeleers DG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent oscillations in the theta-to-gamma frequency range have been proposed as a mechanism that coordinates neural activity in large-scale cortical networks in sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. Whether this mechanism also involves coherent oscillations at delta frequencies (1-4 Hz) is not known. Rather, delta os...

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

authors： Nácher V,Ledberg A,Deco G,Romo R

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier reported conditions that support the axenic development in vitro of a complete asexual erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum. Up to 30% of merozoites showed initial differentiation into trophic forms (rings) viable at 14 hr. However, only approximately 1% of the merozoites would develop further i...

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

authors： Williams JH,Gill GS,Trager W

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of high-throughput protein interaction data coupled with large-scale investigations of evolutionary properties of interaction networks have left some unanswered questions. To what extent do protein interactions act as constraints during evolution of the protein sequence? How does the type of interactio...

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

authors： Mintseris J,Weng Z

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Probasin, a rat prostatic protein, is statistically related to members of a protein family that includes serum, cellular, and nuclear proteins. In vivo, probasin appears both in the secretions and in the nucleus of prostatic epithelial cells. Using primer extension and S1 nuclease protection assays we detected only on...

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

authors： Spence AM,Sheppard PC,Davie JR,Matuo Y,Nishi N,McKeehan WL,Dodd JG,Matusik RJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro DNA synthesis was studied in HeLa cell nuclei, with emphasis on the question of whether newly replicated DNA is associated with nucleosomes. The newly replicated DNA was twice as sensitive to digestion by micrococcal nuclease as mature chromatin DNA, reaching a limit digest at 20-25% acid-insoluble product. E...

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

authors： Seale RL

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological processes often require that a single gene product participate in multiple types of molecular interactions. Viruses with quasiequivalent capsids provide an excellent paradigm for studying such phenomena because identical protein subunits are found in different structural environments. Differences in subunit...

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

authors： Johnson JE

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:MurG is an essential glycosyltransferase that forms the glycosidic linkage between N-acetyl muramyl pentapeptide and N-acetyl glucosamine in the biosynthesis of the bacterial cell wall. This enzyme is a member of a major superfamily of NDP-glycosyltransferases for which no x-ray structures containing intact substrates...

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

authors： Hu Y,Chen L,Ha S,Gross B,Falcone B,Walker D,Mokhtarzadeh M,Walker S

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed the spontaneous, pH-dependent insertion of a water-soluble peptide to form a helix across lipid bilayers [Hunt, J. F., Rath, P., Rothschild, K. J. & Engelman, D. M. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 15177-15192]. We now use a related peptide, pH (low) insertion peptide, to translocate cargo molecules...

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

authors： Reshetnyak YK,Andreev OA,Lehnert U,Engelman DM

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A 900-base-pair (bp) sequence from a cDNA clone of the rye endosperm-storage-protein gene Sec-1 was labeled with biotin and hybridized to Secale cereale 'Blanco' chromosomes. Hybridization was seen on the satellite part of the short arm of chromosome 1R, where the Sec-1 gene has been genetically mapped, in approximate...

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

authors： Gustafson JP,Butler E,McIntyre CL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of human angiogenin (reported in the preceding paper in this issue) reveals that the site that corresponds to the pyrimidine binding site of RNase A is obstructed by Gln-117. Mutation of this residue to Ala and Gly is here found to increase activity 11- to 18-fold and 21- to 30-fold, respectively...

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

authors： Russo N,Shapiro R,Acharya KR,Riordan JF,Vallee BL

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are highly dynamic and complex lipid bilayers, responsible for the fate of living cells. To achieve this function, the hydrating environment is crucial. However, membrane imaging typically neglects water, focusing on the insertion of probes, resonant responses of lipids, or the hydrophobic core. O...

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

authors： Tarun OB,Hannesschläger C,Pohl P,Roke S

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:For reasons that are unclear the production of embryonic stem cells from ungulates has proved elusive. Here, we describe induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) derived from porcine fetal fibroblasts by lentiviral transduction of 4 human (h) genes, hOCT4, hSOX2, hKLF4, and hc-MYC, the combination commonly used to create...

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

authors： Ezashi T,Telugu BP,Alexenko AP,Sachdev S,Sinha S,Roberts RM

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a strategy to "revive" putatively pathogenic T cells from frozen specimens of human inflammatory target organs. To distinguish pathogenic from irrelevant bystander T cells, we focused on cells that were (i) clonally expanded and (ii) in direct morphological contact with a target cell. Using CDR3 spectratyp...

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

authors： Seitz S,Schneider CK,Malotka J,Nong X,Engel AG,Wekerle H,Hohlfeld R,Dornmair K

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of antisense oligonucleotides was used to investigate the function of c-mos in murine oocytes. Oocytes injected with antisense c-mos oligonucleotides completed the first meiotic division but failed to initiate meiosis II. Instead, loss of c-mos function led to chromosome decondensation, reformation of a nucl...

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

authors： O'Keefe SJ,Wolfes H,Kiessling AA,Cooper GM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets are best known for their vasoprotective responses to injury and inflammation. Here, we have asked whether they also support vascular integrity when neither injury nor inflammation is present. Changes in vascular barrier function in dermal and meningeal vessels were measured in real time in mouse models using...

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

authors： Gupta S,Konradt C,Corken A,Ware J,Nieswandt B,Di Paola J,Yu M,Wang D,Nieman MT,Whiteheart SW,Brass LF

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding a delayed-rectifier-type K+ channel were cloned from both neonatal rat heart and ovariectomized, diethylstilbestrol-primed rat uterus by using the polymerase chain reaction. Both clones have nucleotide sequences identical to that encoding the rat kidney IsK channel [Takumi, T., Ohkubo, H. & Nakanishi, S...

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

authors： Folander K,Smith JS,Antanavage J,Bennett C,Stein RB,Swanson R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of amyloid-beta protein (Abeta) is initiated by a beta-secretase that cleaves the Abeta precursor protein (APP) at the N terminus of Abeta (the beta site). A recently identified aspartyl protease, BACE, cleaves the beta site and at residue 11 within the Abeta region of APP. Here we show that BACE2, a BACE h...

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

authors： Farzan M,Schnitzler CE,Vasilieva N,Leung D,Choe H

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common genetic cause of renal failure in humans. Several proteins that are encoded by genes associated with PKD have recently been identified in primary cilia in renal tubular epithelia. These findings have suggested that abnormalities in cilia formation and function may pla...

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

authors： Lin F,Hiesberger T,Cordes K,Sinclair AM,Goldstein LS,Somlo S,Igarashi P

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone corresponding to a portion of the catalytic subunit of calmodulin (CaM)-dependent phosphoprotein phosphatase (calcineurin) was isolated from a murine brain library by expression vector immunoscreening. A beta-galactosidase fusion protein that reacted on Western blots with anti-calcineurin antibodies and b...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Nightingale MS,Martin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cells are traditionally regarded as elements for structural support and ionic homeostasis, but have recently attracted attention as putative integral elements of the machinery involved in synaptic transmission and plasticity. Here, we demonstrate that calcium-binding protein S100B, which is synthesized in consid...

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

authors： Nishiyama H,Knopfel T,Endo S,Itohara S

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:NK cells are promising effectors for tumor adoptive immunotherapy, particularly when considering the targeting of MHC class I low or negative tumors. Yet, NK cells cannot respond to many tumors, which is particularly the case for nonhematopoietic tumors such as carcinomas or melanoma even when these cells lose MHC cla...

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

authors： Kruschinski A,Moosmann A,Poschke I,Norell H,Chmielewski M,Seliger B,Kiessling R,Blankenstein T,Abken H,Charo J

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In virtually all multicellular eukaryotes, mitochondria are transmitted exclusively through one parent, usually the mother. In this short review, we discuss some of the major consequences of uniparental transmission of mitochondria, including deleterious effects in males and selection for increased transmission throug...

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

authors： Perlman SJ,Hodson CN,Hamilton PT,Opit GP,Gowen BE

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutS gene product is involved in mismatch correction in this organism. We have purified a biologically active form of the 97,000 Mr protein to near homogeneity from an overproducing strain. Enzymatic and chemical protection ("footprinting") experiments have demonstrated that mutS-encoded protein s...

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

authors： Su SS,Modrich P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the spontaneous clustering of solitons in partially coherent wavefronts during the final stages of pattern formation initiated by modulation instability and noise. ...

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

authors： Chen Z,Sears SM,Martin H,Christodoulides DN,Segev M

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo biological activities of IgG antibodies result from their bifunctional nature, in which antigen recognition by the Fab is coupled to the effector and immunomodulatory diversity found in the Fc domain. This diversity, resulting from both amino acid and glycan heterogeneity, is translated into cellular respo...

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

authors： Smith P,DiLillo DJ,Bournazos S,Li F,Ravetch JV

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The "WD40" domain is a widespread recognition module for linking partner proteins in intracellular networks of signaling and sorting. The clathrin amino-terminal domain, which directs incorporation of cargo into coated pits, is a beta-propeller closely related in structure to WD40 modules. The crystallographically det...

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

authors： ter Haar E,Harrison SC,Kirchhausen T

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the angle-resolved transverse resistivity (ARTR), a sensitive indicator of electronic anisotropy, in high-quality thin films of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 grown on various substrates. The ARTR signal, heralding the electronic nematicity or a large nematic susceptibility, is present and ...

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

authors： Wu J,Nair HP,Bollinger AT,He X,Robinson I,Schreiber NJ,Shen KM,Schlom DG,Božović I

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00