Circulating nerve growth factor levels are increased in humans with allergic diseases and asthma.

abstract：:Cryoelectron microscopy and X-ray crystallography have recently been used to generate structural models that likely represent the unliganded closed-channel conformation and the fully liganded open-channel conformation of different members of the nicotinic-receptor superfamily. To characterize the structure of the clos...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Gutierrez G,Cuello LG,Nair SK,Grosman C

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels from rabbit skeletal muscle were reconstituted into phosphatidylcholine vesicles to evaluate the effect of phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PK-A) on their function. Both the rate and extent of 45Ca2+ uptake into vesicles containing reconstitute...

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

authors： Nunoki K,Florio V,Catterall WA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A derivative of Tn917 was constructed, referred to as Tn917-lac, which is capable of generating fusions that connect the transcripts of Bacillus subtilis chromosomal genes to the coding sequence of the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli. Two independent insertions of Tn917-lac into the gltA gene and one insertion into the ...

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

authors： Perkins JB,Youngman PJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NK cells use surface NK receptors to discriminate self from non-self. The NK receptor ligand-binding domain (NKD) has been considered the sole regulator of ligand binding. Using a prototypic murine NK receptor, Ly49A, we show that the membrane proximal nonligand binding ecto-domain (the stalk region) is critical to li...

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

authors： Ito D,Iizuka YM,Katepalli MP,Iizuka K

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Global agricultural emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased by around 20% over the last 100 y, but regulation of these emissions and their impact on bacterial cellular metabolism are poorly understood. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate in soils to inert di-nitrogen gas (N2) via N2O and t...

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

authors： Sullivan MJ,Gates AJ,Appia-Ayme C,Rowley G,Richardson DJ

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating sulfanyl substituents into copper-bonded phenoxyls significantly alters their optical and redox properties and provides insight into the influence of cysteine modification of the tyrosine cofactor in the enzyme galactose oxidase. The model complexes [1(SR2)](+) are class II mixed-valent Cu(II)-phenoxyl-phe...

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

authors： Verma P,Pratt RC,Storr T,Wasinger EC,Stack TD

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), are of great importance for plant growth and development. BRs signal through a cell surface receptor kinase, BRI1, and a GSK3-like kinase, BIN2, to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which directly bind to target gene promoters to activate or repress...

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

authors： Yu X,Li L,Li L,Guo M,Chory J,Yin Y

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type newborn mice are characterized by the ability of certain liver-specific genes encoding various enzymes and mapping on different chromosomes to respond to glucocorticoid induction. Newborn mice homozygous for deletions at and around the albino locus on chromosome 7 fail to develop this competence for hormone-...

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

authors： DeFranco D,Bali D,Torres R,DePinho RA,Erickson RP,Gluecksohn-Waelsch S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are at the base of current nanoelectronics because of their exceptional mobilities. Often the accumulation layer forms at polar interfaces with longitudinal optical (LO) modes. In most cases, the many-body screening of the quasi-2DEGs dramatically reduces the Fröhlich scattering ...

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

authors： Chen Z,Sjakste J,Dong J,Taleb-Ibrahimi A,Rueff JP,Shukla A,Peretti J,Papalazarou E,Marsi M,Perfetti L

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transport by the excitatory amino acid carrier EAAC1 is known to be reversible. Thus, glutamate can either be taken up into cells, or it can be released from cells through reverse transport, depending on the electrochemical gradient of the co- and countertransported ions. However, it is unknown how fast and ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Tao Z,Gameiro A,Barcelona S,Braams S,Rauen T,Grewer C

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a common cause of vision loss or blindness and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) has been proven beneficial in a large fraction of glaucoma patients. The IOP is maintained by the trabecular meshwork (TM) and the elevation of IOP in open-angle glaucoma is associated with dysfunction and loss of the po...

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

authors： Zhu W,Gramlich OW,Laboissonniere L,Jain A,Sheffield VC,Trimarchi JM,Tucker BA,Kuehn MH

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, a rhizosphere-inhabiting bacterium that suppresses several soilborne pathogens of plants, produces the antibiotics pyrrolnitrin, pyoluteorin, and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol. A gene necessary for pyrrolnitrin production by Pf-5 was identified as rpoS, which encodes the stationary-phase sig...

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

authors： Sarniguet A,Kraus J,Henkels MD,Muehlchen AM,Loper JE

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is a central organ for the synthesis and storage of nutrients, production of serum proteins and hormones, and breakdown of toxins and metabolites. Because the liver is susceptible to toxin- or pathogen-mediated injury, it maintains a remarkable capacity to regenerate by compensatory growth. Specifically, in ...

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

authors： Goh YP,Henderson NC,Heredia JE,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Lehwald N,Nguyen KD,Sheppard D,Mukundan L,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:With high-dimensional data, variable-by-variable statistical testing is often used to select variables whose behavior differs across conditions. Such an approach requires adjustment for multiple testing, which can result in low statistical power. A two-stage approach that first filters variables by a criterion indepen...

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

authors： Bourgon R,Gentleman R,Huber W

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute-phase plasma protein that functions in innate immunity and lipid homeostasis. SAA is a protein precursor of reactive AA amyloidosis, the major complication of chronic inflammation and one of the most common human systemic amyloid diseases worldwide. Most circulating SAA is protected f...

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

authors： Jayaraman S,Gantz DL,Haupt C,Gursky O

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In a metabolic study of human and mouse preimplantation embryos (preembryos), we measured glucose uptake and phosphorylation with nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose (DG) as tracer. Initial experiments indicated an active hexose transport capacity, a property thought to be restricted in mammals to intestinal villi and kidne...

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

authors： Chi MM,Manchester JK,Basuray R,Mahendra S,Strickler RC,McDougal DB Jr,Lowry OH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that proteasome inhibitors were able to overcome Bcl-2-mediated protection from apoptosis. Here we show that inhibition of the proteasome activity in Bcl-2-overexpressing cells accumulates the proapoptotic Bax protein to mitochondria/cytoplasm, where it interacts to Bcl-2 protein. This event was...

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

authors： Li B,Dou QP

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial virulence factors are typically surface-associated or secreted molecules that in Gram-negative bacteria must cross the outer membrane (OM). Protein translocation across the bacterial OM is not well understood. To elucidate this process we studied P pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli. We present high-resolu...

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

authors： Thanassi DG,Saulino ET,Lombardo MJ,Roth R,Heuser J,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) represent the two central intermediates in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. The recently discovered deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate pathway generates a mixture of IPP and DMAPP in its final step by reductive dehydroxylation of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4...

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

authors： Gräwert T,Span I,Eisenreich W,Rohdich F,Eppinger J,Bacher A,Groll M

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique neuronal system was detected in the rat central nervous system by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay with antibodies to salmon melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH). MCH-like immunoreactive (MCH-LI) cell bodies were confined to the hypothalamus. MCH-LI fibers were found throughout the brain but were most...

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

authors： Zamir N,Skofitsch G,Bannon MJ,Jacobowitz DM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) and DNA were assembled into nucleosome-like particles at physiological ionic strengths either by an extract of chromatin rich in nicking-closing activity or by the purified nicking-closing enzyme itself. When histone-DNA complexes were assembled in vitro from relaxed circu...

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

authors： Germond JE,Rouvière-Yaniv J,Yaniv M,Brutlag D

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an automated laser tracking and optogenetic manipulation system (ALTOMS) for studying social memory in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). ALTOMS comprises an intelligent central control module for high-speed fly behavior analysis and feedback laser scanning (∼40 frames per second) for targeting two lase...

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

authors： Wu MC,Chu LA,Hsiao PY,Lin YY,Chi CC,Liu TH,Fu CC,Chiang AS

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 10 out of 26 patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released IgE-binding factors, as determined by two independent assays. The formation of the factors by the mononuclear cells was enhanced by incubation of the cells with homologous IgE. In the presence of IgE, ...

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

authors： Carini C,Margolick J,Yodoi J,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor for granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is composed of an alpha and beta subunit, which together form the high-affinity receptor. The alpha subunit by itself binds ligand at low affinity, whereas the isolated beta subunit does not bind GM-CSF. It is generally believed that the high-a...

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

authors： Ding DX,Rivas CI,Heaney ML,Raines MA,Vera JC,Golde DW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cancer cells that had had high (greater than 160) tissue culture passages, when transplanted into antithymocyte-treated F344 newborn rats, caused induction of rat sarcomas in the rats within 2 or 3 subcultures, whereas human cancer cells with low (5-33) passages in vitro did not cause overt induction of rat sarc...

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

authors： Huebner RJ,Fish DC,Djurickovic D,Trimmer RW,Bare AL,Bare RM,Smith GT

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of computer predictions of RNA secondary structure from sequence data and free energy parameters has been increased to roughly 70%. Performance is judged by comparison with structures known from phylogenetic analysis. The algorithm also generates suboptimal structures. On average, the best structure withi...

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

authors： Jaeger JA,Turner DH,Zuker M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with reading impairments have deficits in phonological awareness, phonemic categorization, speech-in-noise perception, and psychophysical tasks such as frequency and temporal discrimination. Many of these children also exhibit abnormal encoding of speech stimuli in the auditory brainstem, even though response...

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

authors： Hornickel J,Skoe E,Nicol T,Zecker S,Kraus N

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroactive steroids dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), its sulfate ester DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), and allopregnanolone (Allo), produced by the CNS and the adrenals, appear to exert a protective effect in hippocampal and cortical neuron ischemia- and excitotoxicity-induced injury. We hypothesized that they may also play ...

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

authors： Charalampopoulos I,Tsatsanis C,Dermitzaki E,Alexaki VI,Castanas E,Margioris AN,Gravanis A

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Most evidence supports the view that ER alpha is responsible for estrogen (ovarian estradiol, E(2))-induced proliferation in the epithelial cells of the mammary gland, but despite this, proliferating epithelial cells do not express ER alpha. We have examined this apparent paradox by studying the role of ER alpha and E...

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

authors： Cheng G,Weihua Z,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00