Time-course changes of nerve growth factor, corticotropin-releasing hormone, and nitric oxide synthase isoforms and their possible role in the development of inflammatory response in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.

abstract：:We report a machine-learning strategy for design of organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) for zeolite beta. We use machine learning to replace a computationally expensive molecular dynamics evaluation of the stabilization energy of the OSDA inside zeolite beta with a neural network prediction. We train the neural...

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

authors： Daeyaert F,Ye F,Deem MW

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere syndromes have their most common manifestation in lung disease that is recognized as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. In both conditions, there is loss of alveolar integrity, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. We tested the capacity of alveolar epithelial and stromal cells from mice with...

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

authors： Alder JK,Barkauskas CE,Limjunyawong N,Stanley SE,Kembou F,Tuder RM,Hogan BL,Mitzner W,Armanios M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGRPs) are pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune system that bind and, in some cases, hydrolyze bacterial PGNs. We determined the crystal structure, at 2.30-A resolution, of the C-terminal PGN-binding domain of human PGRP-Ialpha in complex with a muramyl tripeptid...

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

authors： Guan R,Roychowdhury A,Ember B,Kumar S,Boons GJ,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When the dog kidney Na+/K+-transporting ATPase (EC 3.6.1.37, formerly EC 3.6.1.3) was labeled with an ATP analogue, 5'-(p-fluorosulfonyl)benzoyladenosine (FSBA), there was a concomitant loss of ATPase activity. The presence of ATP protected the enzyme from both labeling and inactivation. The ATP-sensitive incorporatio...

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

authors： Ohta T,Nagano K,Yoshida M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the intradiscal polypeptide loops in bovine rhodopsin has been investigated by deletions in the N-terminal tail and in loops B-C, D-E, and E-F as well as by single amino acid substitutions in the D-E loop. Mutants with three types of phenotypes were observed. Type I mutants showed a rhodopsin-like chromoph...

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

authors： Doi T,Molday RS,Khorana HG

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tridymite, a low-pressure, high-temperature (>870 °C) SiO2 polymorph, was detected in a drill sample of laminated mudstone (Buckskin) at Marias Pass in Gale crater, Mars, by the Chemistry and Mineralogy X-ray diffraction instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity The tridymitic mudstone has ∼40 wt....

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

authors： Morris RV,Vaniman DT,Blake DF,Gellert R,Chipera SJ,Rampe EB,Ming DW,Morrison SM,Downs RT,Treiman AH,Yen AS,Grotzinger JP,Achilles CN,Bristow TF,Crisp JA,Des Marais DJ,Farmer JD,Fendrich KV,Frydenvang J,Graff TG,Mo

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels and subcellular distribution of connexin 43 (Cx43), a gap junction protein, were studied in hamster leukocytes before and after activation with endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) both in vitro and in vivo. Untreated leukocytes did not express Cx43. However, Cx43 was clearly detectable by indirect immunofluores...

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

authors： Jara PI,Boric MP,Sáez JC

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bufonid anurans of the genus Atelopus contain both steroidal bufadienolides and various guanidinium alkaloids of the tetrodotoxin class. The former inhibit sodium-potassium ATPases, whereas the latter block voltage-dependent sodium channels. The structure of one guanidinium alkaloid, zetekitoxin AB, has remained a mys...

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

authors： Yotsu-Yamashita M,Kim YH,Dudley SC Jr,Choudhary G,Pfahnl A,Oshima Y,Daly JW

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of a 360-nucleotide segment of the mitochondrial control region for 63 individuals from an Amerindian tribe, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of the Pacific Northwest, revealed the existence of 28 lineages defined by 26 variable positions. This represents a substantial level of mitochondrial diversity for a small local p...

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

authors： Ward RH,Frazier BL,Dew-Jager K,Pääbo S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane contains primarily β-barrel transmembrane proteins and lipoproteins. The insertion and assembly of β-barrel outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) is mediated by the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex, the core component of which is the 16-stranded transmembrane β-barrel Ba...

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

authors： Lundquist K,Bakelar J,Noinaj N,Gumbart JC

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The 8;21 translocation is one of the most common specific rearrangements in acute myelogenous leukemia. We have identified markers (D21S65 and a Not I boundary clone, Not-42, referred to as probe B) flanking the chromosome 21 translocation breakpoint (21q22.3) that demonstrate physical linkage in normal genomic DNA, b...

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

authors： Gao J,Erickson P,Gardiner K,Le Beau MM,Diaz MO,Patterson D,Rowley JD,Drabkin HA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

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

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium marinum, a natural pathogen of fish and frogs and an occasional pathogen of humans, is capable of inducing actin tail formation within the cytoplasm of macrophages, leading to actin-based motility and intercellular spread. Actin tail formation by M. marinum is markedly reduced in macrophages deficient in...

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

authors： Stamm LM,Pak MA,Morisaki JH,Snapper SB,Rottner K,Lommel S,Brown EJ

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding two human receptors for retinoic acid (RA), RAR-alpha and RAR-beta, have been characterized recently. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the cDNA-deduced amino acid sequences unique to RAR-alpha and RAR-beta were used to generate anti-RAR-alpha antiserum (SP171) and anti-RAR-beta antisera (SP172 an...

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

authors： Gaub MP,Lutz Y,Ruberte E,Petkovich M,Brand N,Chambon P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin, a bone-specific protein and marker of the mature osteoblast, is expressed only in nonproliferating osteoblasts in a mineralizing extracellular matrix, while type I collagen is expressed in proliferating cells. The nuclear proteins encoded by the c-fos and c-jun protooncogenes are expressed during the prol...

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

authors： Owen TA,Bortell R,Yocum SA,Smock SL,Zhang M,Abate C,Shalhoub V,Aronin N,Wright KL,van Wijnen AJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of cholera toxin to membrane particles prepared from sarcoma 180 cells gives rise to a variety of fragments which are capable of activating adenylate cyclase [ATP:pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1]. A major component of these fragments has an apparent molecular weight in the 8,000-10,000 range. The ...

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

authors： Matuo Y,Wheeler MA,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant liquid-structure theory has been used to calculate the transport properties of the alkali metals. Unlike previous calculations, the volume and temperature dependence of the solid-like structure has been taken into consideration. Equations for the potential energy as a function of volume of the alkali metal...

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

authors： Hsu CC,Eyring H

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most higher plants develop severe toxicity symptoms when grown on ammonium (NH(4)(+)) as the sole nitrogen source. Recently, NH(4)(+) toxicity has been implicated as a cause of forest decline and even species extinction. Although mechanisms underlying NH(4)(+) toxicity have been extensively sought, the primary events ...

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

authors： Britto DT,Siddiqi MY,Glass AD,Kronzucker HJ

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for potent toxins that inhibit neuronal calcium channels in Drosophila melanogaster has resulted in the identification of a presynaptic neurotoxin from the venom of the hunting spider Hololena curta. Using Drosophila neuromuscular junction as an assay, presynaptic inhibitory activity was purified using gel fi...

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

authors： Bowers CW,Phillips HS,Lee P,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In regulating gene expression in mammalian tissues, steroid hormones bind to cytoplasmic receptors and the resulting complex associates with the nucleus. In an attempt to study this nuclear association under more precisely controlled conditions, we examined the binding of receptor-[(3)H]steroid complexes to isolated n...

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

authors： Higgins SJ,Rousseau GG,Baxter JD,Tomkins GM

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) is a mechanism of genomic instability characterized by the joining and subsequent tearing apart of sister chromatids. When this process is repeated during multiple rounds of cell division, it leads to patterns of copy number increases of chromosomal segments as well as fold-back inversions...

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

authors： Zakov S,Kinsella M,Bafna V

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of human purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) stops growth of activated T-cells and the formation of 6-oxypurine bases, making it a target for leukemia, autoimmune disorders, and gout. Four generations of ribocation transition-state mimics bound to PNP are structurally characterized. Immucillin-H (K*i(1/4)...

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

authors： Ho MC,Shi W,Rinaldo-Matthis A,Tyler PC,Evans GB,Clinch K,Almo SC,Schramm VL

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a combined thermodynamic and structural characterization of a DNA tetraplex. Using spectroscopic and calorimetric techniques, we demonstrate that d(TG3T) and d(TG3T2G3T), in the presence of K+, form stable tetramolecular complexes. From differential scanning calorimetry measurements, we obtain the following ...

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

authors： Jin R,Gaffney BL,Wang C,Jones RA,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are wrapped in inelastic membranes, yet they can sustain large mechanical strains by regulating their area. The area regulation in cells is achieved either by membrane folding or by membrane exo- and endocytosis. These processes involve complex morphological transformations of the cell membrane, i.e., invaginati...

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

authors： Staykova M,Holmes DP,Read C,Stone HA

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate fertilization, mouse sperm bind to Ser- (O-) linked oligosaccharides located at the sperm combining site of zona pellucida glycoprotein mZP3. Apparently, the oligosaccharides are present on one or more of five Ser residues clustered in the carboxyl-terminal region of the mZP3 polypeptide. Here, each of the...

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

authors： Chen J,Litscher ES,Wassarman PM

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) influx through L-type Ca(2+) channels (LTCCs) influences numerous physiological processes ranging from contraction in muscle and memory in neurons to gene expression in many cell types. However, the spatiotemporal organization of functional LTCCs has been nearly impossible to investigate because of methodologic...

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

authors： Navedo MF,Amberg GC,Votaw VS,Santana LF

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II gene expression is directly involved in the control of normal and abnormal immune responses. In humans, HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP class II heterodimers are encoded by a family of alpha- and beta-chain genes clustered in the major histocompatibility complex. Their ...

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

authors： Reith W,Barras E,Satola S,Kobr M,Reinhart D,Sanchez CH,Mach B

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe the identification and characterization of a nuclear body (matrix-associated deacetylase body) whose formation and integrity depend on deacetylase activity. Typically, there are 20-40 0.5-microM bodies per nucleus, although the size and number can vary substantially. The structure appears to contain ...

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

authors： Downes M,Ordentlich P,Kao HY,Alvarez JG,Evans RM

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating elicits two major changes in the reproductive behavior of many insect females. The egg-laying rate increases and the readiness to accept males (receptivity) is reduced. These postmating responses last approximately 1 week in Drosophila melanogaster. Males that do not transfer sperm but transfer seminal fluid du...

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

authors： Liu H,Kubli E

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Type-1 reactions (T1R) are pathological inflammatory episodes and main contributors to nerve damage in leprosy. Here, we evaluate the genewise enrichment of rare protein-altering variants in 7 genes where common variants were previously associated with T1R. We selected 474 Vietnamese leprosy patients of which 237 were...

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

authors： Fava VM,Xu YZ,Lettre G,Van Thuc N,Orlova M,Thai VH,Tao S,Croteau N,Eldeeb MA,MacDougall EJ,Cambri G,Lahiri R,Adams L,Fon EA,Trempe JF,Cobat A,Alcaïs A,Abel L,Schurr E

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00