Anticoagulant repertoire of the hookworm Ancylostoma caninum.

abstract：:The mechanical properties of engineering structures continuously weaken during service life because of material fatigue or degradation. By contrast, living organisms are able to strengthen their mechanical properties by regenerating parts of their structures. For example, plants strengthen their cell structures by tra...

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

authors： Yu K,Feng Z,Du H,Xin A,Lee KH,Li K,Su Y,Wang Q,Fang NX,Daraio C

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The kappa-selective opioid peptide dynorphin A (DYN) inhibits neuronal adenylate cyclase activity and reduces neuronal voltage-dependent calcium currents. It is not yet known, however, whether the regulation of calcium channel activity is dependent on or independent of the adenylate cyclase/cAMP system. We used the wh...

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

authors： Gross RA,Moises HC,Uhler MD,Macdonald RL

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies reactive with a cleavage site in human proinsulin (HPI) (C-peptide-A-chain junction) have been raised (rabbit, guinea pig) using a synthetic peptide antigen coupled with keyhole limpet hemocyanin. These antisera recognize native HPI and des-31,32-HPI equally well but react 20-50 times less well w...

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

authors： Steiner DF,Michael J,Houghten R,Mathieu M,Gardner PR,Ravazzola M,Orci L

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fishers with individual catch quota, but limited control over the mix of species caught, depend on trade and catch-quota balancing allowances to fully utilize their quota without discarding. However, these allowances can theoretically lead to overfishing if total allowable catches (TACs) are consistently exceeded. Thi...

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

authors： Oostdijk M,Byrne C,Stefánsson G,Santos MJ,Woods PJ

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest challenges in contemporary condensed matter physics is to ascertain whether the formation of glasses from liquids is fundamentally thermodynamic or dynamic in origin. Although the thermodynamic paradigm has dominated theoretical research for decades, the purely kinetic perspective of the dynamical ...

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

authors： Mishra CK,Hima Nagamanasa K,Ganapathy R,Sood AK,Gokhale S

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have applied a molecular biology approach to the identification of human monoclonal antibodies. Human peripheral blood lymphocyte mRNA was converted to cDNA and a select subset was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction. These products, containing coding sequences for numerous immunoglobulin heavy- and kappa li...

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

authors： Mullinax RL,Gross EA,Amberg JR,Hay BN,Hogrefe HH,Kubitz MM,Greener A,Alting-Mees M,Ardourel D,Short JM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin, a potent inducer of neovascularization in the chicken chorioallantoic membrane and rabbit cornea, promotes endothelial cell invasion of Matrigel basement membrane. A transformed bovine aortic endothelial cell line, GM 7373, is 5 times more invasive when cultured in the presence of 1 microgram of bovine ang...

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

authors： Hu G,Riordan JF,Vallee BL

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of cathepsin B activity (EC 3.4.22.1) in three murine melanomas of increasing metastatic potential (Cloudman less than B16-F1 less than B16 amelanotic) was determined. Cathepsin B activity was localized in the heavy mitochondrial fraction of normal murine liver but in the light mitochondri...

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

authors： Sloane BF,Rozhin J,Johnson K,Taylor H,Crissman JD,Honn KV

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor beta (ER-beta) regulates diverse physiological functions in the human body. Current studies are confined to ER-beta1, and the functional roles of isoforms 2, 4, and 5 remain unclear. Full-length ER-beta4 and -beta5 isoforms were obtained from a prostate cell line, and they exhibit differential expres...

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

authors： Leung YK,Mak P,Hassan S,Ho SM

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsyndromic clefting of the lip and palate in humans has a highly complex etiology, with both multiple genetic loci and exposure to teratogens influencing susceptibility. Previous studies using mouse models have examined only very small portions of the genome. Here we report the findings of a genome-wide search for s...

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

authors： Diehl SR,Erickson RP

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterosis is widely applied in agriculture; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms for superior performance are not well understood. Ethylene biosynthesis and signaling genes are shown to be down-regulated in Arabidopsis interspecific hybrids. Ethylene is a plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening and maturati...

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

authors： Song Q,Ando A,Xu D,Fang L,Zhang T,Huq E,Qiao H,Deng XW,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by cells present an attractive strategy for developing new therapies, but progress in the field is limited by several issues: The quality of the EVs varies with the type and physiological status of the producer cells; protocols used to isolate the EVs are difficult to scale up; an...

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

authors： Kim DK,Nishida H,An SY,Shetty AK,Bartosh TJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal macrophages were obtained from DBA/2 mice that were untreated or after the injection of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), thioglycollate broth, proteose-peptone broth, or gamma-irradiated P-815 tumor cells. These macrophages were "activated" to become cytotoxic for a fibroblast cell line (L 929) by the additi...

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

authors： Blumenthal EJ,Roberts WK,Vasil A,Talmage DW

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

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

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytochrome family of informational photoreceptors has a central role in regulating light-responsive gene expression, but the mechanism of intracellular signal transduction has remained elusive. In a genetic screen for T DNA-tagged Arabidopsis mutants affected in early signaling intermediates, we identified poc1 (...

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

authors： Halliday KJ,Hudson M,Ni M,Qin M,Quail PH

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate remains recovered from a limestone fissure filling on Antigua, Lesser Antilles, are associated with radiocarbon dates ranging from 4300 to 2500 yr B.P., contemporaneous with the earliest aboriginal human occupation of the island. Nine taxa of lizards, snakes, birds, bats, and rodents (one-third of the total...

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

authors： Steadman DW,Pregill GK,Olson SL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose stimulates insulin secretion from β-cells by increasing intracellular Ca(2+). Ca(2+) then binds to synaptotagmin-7 as a major Ca(2+) sensor for exocytosis, triggering secretory granule fusion and insulin secretion. In type-2 diabetes, insulin secretion is impaired; this impairment is ameliorated by glucagon-li...

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

authors： Wu B,Wei S,Petersen N,Ali Y,Wang X,Bacaj T,Rorsman P,Hong W,Südhof TC,Han W

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that, under certain standard assumptions, such as extended Riemann hypotheses, the scattering matrix varphi(s) for generic Gamma

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

authors： Deshouillers JM,Iwaniec H,Phillips RS,Sarnak P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to understand the factors that influence protein glycosylation, we are studying the expression of the chicken ovalbumin gene in a heterologous cell. Ovalbumin synthesized in mouse L-353 cells is glycosylated, as judged by incorporation of [3H]mannose and susceptibility to endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase...

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

authors： Sheares BT,Robbins PW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methylcholanthrene-induced glioblastoma of the C57BL/6 inbred mouse strain was used to raise antibodies in C57BL/6 and C57BL/10 inbred mice and in (C57BL/6 x DBA/2) and (C57BL/6 x Balb/c) F(1) hybrids. When examined by the cytotoxicity test, these antibodies define a cell-surface component (or components) found excl...

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

authors： Schachner M

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The day we understand the time evolution of subcellular events at a level of detail comparable to physical systems governed by Newton's laws of motion seems far away. Even so, quantitative approaches to cellular dynamics add to our understanding of cell biology. With data-guided frameworks we can develop better predic...

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

authors： Ronquist S,Patterson G,Muir LA,Lindsly S,Chen H,Brown M,Wicha MS,Bloch A,Brockett R,Rajapakse I

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The live cold-adapted (ca) A/AA/6/60 influenza vaccine is being commercially developed for worldwide use in children and is being used as a model for other live vaccines. Although it has been proven safe and immunogenic, the molecular basis of cold adaptation has never been determined. To identify sequence changes res...

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

authors： Herlocher ML,Maassab HF,Webster RG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of messages initiated by one receptor on the covalent modification of a second receptor were studied by use of a technique for rapidly separating the receptors. Methylation of the bacterial-chemotactic serine receptor increases as a result of aspartate binding to the aspartate receptor. The aspartate-induc...

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

authors： Sanders DA,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between cell survival and cell death is critical for normal lymphoid development. This balance is maintained by signals through lymphocyte antigen receptors and death receptors such as CD95/Fas. In some cells, ligating the B cell antigen receptor can protect the cell from apoptosis induced by CD95. Here we...

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

authors： Yankee TM,Draves KE,Ewings MK,Clark EA,Graves JD

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed to search for homologous members of a protein family in databases, and the reliability of results and conclusions may be compromised if only one method is used, neglecting the others. Here we introduce a general scheme for combining such methods. Based on this scheme, we implemented a ...

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

authors： Alam I,Dress A,Rehmsmeier M,Fuellen G

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacteria alter their phycobilisome composition in response to changes in light wavelength in a process termed complementary chromatic adaptation. Mutant strains FdR1 and FdR2 of the filamentous cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon are characterized by aberrant chromatic adaptation. Instead of adjusting to di...

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

authors： Chiang GG,Schaefer MR,Grossman AR

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We searched for germ-line mutations of the APC gene in 79 unrelated patients with familial adenomatous polyposis using a ribonuclease protection analysis coupled with polymerase chain reaction amplifications of genomic DNA. Mutations were found in 53 patients (67%); 28 of the mutations were small deletions and 2 were ...

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

authors： Miyoshi Y,Ando H,Nagase H,Nishisho I,Horii A,Miki Y,Mori T,Utsunomiya J,Baba S,Petersen G

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The superficial gray layer of the superior colliculus contains a map that represents the visual field, whereas the underlying intermediate gray layer contains a vector map of the saccades that shift the direction of gaze. These two maps are aligned so that a particular region of the visual field is represented directl...

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

authors： Lee PH,Helms MC,Augustine GJ,Hall WC

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Let X(0) be an unknown M by N matrix. In matrix recovery, one takes n < MN linear measurements y(1),…,y(n) of X(0), where y(i) = Tr(A(T)iX(0)) and each A(i) is an M by N matrix. A popular approach for matrix recovery is nuclear norm minimization (NNM): solving the convex optimization problem min ||X||*subject to y(i) ...

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

authors： Donoho DL,Gavish M,Montanari A

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00