Phenotypic conversion of drug-resistant bacteria to drug sensitivity.

abstract：:Activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3), originally identified in a functional screen for mammalian proteins that activate heterotrimeric G protein signaling, is known to be involved in drug-seeking behavior and is up-regulated during cocaine withdrawal in animal models. These observations indicate a potential role ...

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

authors： Groves B,Gong Q,Xu Z,Huntsman C,Nguyen C,Li D,Ma D

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping biological pathways across microbial genomes is a highly important technique in functional studies of biological systems. Existing methods mainly rely on sequence-based orthologous gene mapping, which often leads to suboptimal mapping results because sequence-similarity information alone does not contain suffi...

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

authors： Mao F,Su Z,Olman V,Dam P,Liu Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2006-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein famously noted that the formation of semantic representations requires more than a simple combination of verbal and nonverbal features to generate conceptually based similarities and differences. Classical and contemporary neuroscience has tended to focus upon how diff...

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

authors： Lambon Ralph MA,Sage K,Jones RW,Mayberry EJ

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-step purification procedure for the isolation of heart muscle chalones is described. The method uses ultrafiltration followed by concanavalin A-Sepharose affinity chromatography and subsequent sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Analytical ultracentrifugation of the highly purified chalone fraction indica...

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

authors： Kriek JA,van der Walt BJ,Bester AJ

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the catalytically inactive mutant (C215S) of the human protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) has been solved to high resolution in two complexes. In the first, crystals were grown in the presence of bis-(para-phosphophenyl) methane (BPPM), a synthetic high-affinity low-molecular weight nonpeptidic s...

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

authors： Puius YA,Zhao Y,Sullivan M,Lawrence DS,Almo SC,Zhang ZY

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastogenesis is a hierarchical process by which cells form functional elastic fibers, providing elasticity and the ability to regulate growth factor bioavailability in tissues, including blood vessels, lung, and skin. This process requires accessory proteins, including fibulin-4 and -5, and latent TGF binding protein...

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

authors： Kumra H,Nelea V,Hakami H,Pagliuzza A,Djokic J,Xu J,Yanagisawa H,Reinhardt DP

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-metal oxides play a very important role in many areas of chemistry, physics, materials science, and geochemistry. Recently, there has been a strong interest in understanding phenomena associated with the deposition of oxide nanoparticles on the surface of a second (host) oxide. Here, scanning tunneling microscop...

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

authors： Park JB,Graciani J,Evans J,Stacchiola D,Ma S,Liu P,Nambu A,Sanz JF,Hrbek J,Rodriguez JA

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is an adipocytokine that plays a key role in the modulation of immune responses and the development and maintenance of inflammation. Circulating levels of leptin are elevated in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, but it is not clear whether this association can reflect a direct influence of leptin on ...

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

authors： Lourenço EV,Liu A,Matarese G,La Cava A

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense investigation of possible non-Fermi liquid states of matter has been inspired by two of the most intriguing phenomena discovered in the past quarter century, namely, high-temperature superconductivity and the fractional quantum Hall effect. Despite enormous conceptual strides, these two fields have develope...

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

authors： Jain JK,Anderson PW

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Utrophin levels have recently been shown to be more abundant in slow vs. fast muscles, but the nature of the molecular events underlying this difference remains to be fully elucidated. Here, we determined whether this difference is due to the expression of utrophin A or B, and examined whether transcriptional regulato...

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

authors： Chakkalakal JV,Stocksley MA,Harrison MA,Angus LM,Deschenes-Furry J,St-Pierre S,Megeney LA,Chin ER,Michel RN,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We stabilize nematic droplets with handles against surface tension-driven instabilities, using a yield-stress material as outer fluid, and study the complex nematic textures and defect structures that result from the competition between topological constraints and the elasticity of the nematic liquid crystal. We uncov...

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

authors： Pairam E,Vallamkondu J,Koning V,van Zuiden BC,Ellis PW,Bates MA,Vitelli V,Fernandez-Nieves A

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in hippocampal function seem critical for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there is eventual loss of synapses in both AD and animal models of AD, deficits in spatial memory and inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) precede morphological alterations in the models, suggesting earli...

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

authors： Vitolo OV,Sant'Angelo A,Costanzo V,Battaglia F,Arancio O,Shelanski M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy, a chromosome content other than a multiple of the haploid number, is a common feature of cancer cells. Whole chromosomal aneuploidy accompanying ongoing chromosomal instability in mice resulting from reduced levels of the centromere-linked motor protein CENP-E has been reported to increase the incidence of...

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

authors： Silk AD,Zasadil LM,Holland AJ,Vitre B,Cleveland DW,Weaver BA

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Social decisions require evaluation of costs and benefits to oneself and others. Long associated with emotion and vigilance, the amygdala has recently been implicated in both decision-making and social behavior. The amygdala signals reward and punishment, as well as facial expressions and the gaze of others. Amygdala ...

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

authors： Chang SW,Fagan NA,Toda K,Utevsky AV,Pearson JM,Platt ML

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes malignant and inflammatory diseases in ∼10% of infected people. A typical host has between 10(4) and 10(5) clones of HTLV-1-infected T lymphocytes, each clone distinguished by the genomic integration site of the single-copy HTLV-1 provirus. The HTL...

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

authors： Satou Y,Miyazato P,Ishihara K,Yaguchi H,Melamed A,Miura M,Fukuda A,Nosaka K,Watanabe T,Rowan AG,Nakao M,Bangham CR

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains that overproduce endonuclease III were found in a colony bank containing hybrid ColE1-Escherichia coli plasmids. The enzyme was identified in crude extracts by the degradation of partially depyrimidinated DNA in the presence of EDTA, by its sedimentation velocity, and by its associated thymine glycol-DNA g...

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

authors： Cunningham RP,Weiss B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological polymers such as nucleic acids and proteins are constructed of only one-the d or l-of the two possible nonsuperimposable mirror images (enantiomers) of selected organic compounds. However, before the advent of life, it is generally assumed that chemical reactions produced 50:50 (racemic) mixtures of enantio...

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

authors： Cooper G,Rios AC

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular basis of the magnetic sense remains an unsolved scientific mystery. One theory that aims to explain how animals detect the magnetic field is the magnetite hypothesis. It argues that intracellular crystals of the iron oxide magnetite (Fe3O4) are coupled to mechanosensitive channels that elicit neuronal act...

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

authors： Edelman NB,Fritz T,Nimpf S,Pichler P,Lauwers M,Hickman RW,Papadaki-Anastasopoulou A,Ushakova L,Heuser T,Resch GP,Saunders M,Shaw JA,Keays DA

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The MAL6 locus is one of five closely related unlinked loci, any one of which is sufficient for fermentation of maltose in Saccharomyces. Previous genetic analysis indicated that this locus is defined by two complementation groups, MALp and MALg. MALp reportedly is a regulatory gene required for inducible synthesis of...

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

authors： Needleman RB,Kaback DB,Dubin RA,Perkins EL,Rosenberg NG,Sutherland KA,Forrest DB,Michels CA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid cells which are homogeneous with regard to stage of maturation are naturally available from the circulation of chick embryos at various times of development. This provides a convenient system for examining the changes in plasma membrane protein composition during red cell maturation. Plasma membranes are iso...

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

authors： Chan LL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate how T cells recognize allogeneic class I proteins encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), we examined the human cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) elicited in a mixed lymphocyte reaction against a lymphoblastoid B-cell line (JY) whose MHC-class I proteins are HLA-A2 and -B7. By panning the res...

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

authors： Elliott TJ,Eisen HN

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine is densely populated by a microbial consortium whose metabolic activities are influenced by, among others, bifidobacteria. However, the genetic basis of adaptation of bifidobacteria to the human gut is poorly understood. Analysis of the 2,214,650-bp genome of Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010, a stra...

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

authors： Turroni F,Bottacini F,Foroni E,Mulder I,Kim JH,Zomer A,Sánchez B,Bidossi A,Ferrarini A,Giubellini V,Delledonne M,Henrissat B,Coutinho P,Oggioni M,Fitzgerald GF,Mills D,Margolles A,Kelly D,van Sinderen D,Ventura M

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of polyglutamine repeats in several unrelated proteins causes neurodegenerative diseases with distinct but related pathologies. To provide a model system for investigating common pathogenic features, we have examined the behavior of polyglutamine expansions expressed in Caenorhabditis elegans. The expression...

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

authors： Satyal SH,Schmidt E,Kitagawa K,Sondheimer N,Lindquist S,Kramer JM,Morimoto RI

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the drivers and processes that determine globally the geographic range size of species is crucial to understanding the geographic distribution of biodiversity and further predicting the response of species to current global changes. However, these drivers and processes are still poorly understood, and no e...

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

authors： Carvajal-Quintero J,Villalobos F,Oberdorff T,Grenouillet G,Brosse S,Hugueny B,Jézéquel C,Tedesco PA

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-2-PE40 is a chimeric protein composed of human interleukin 2 (IL-2) genetically fused to the amino terminus of a modified form of Pseudomonas exotoxin lacking its cell recognition domain. IL-2-PE40, which is extremely cytotoxic to IL-2 receptor-positive cells, was examined for its ability to prevent graft rejection...

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

authors： Lorberboum-Galski H,Barrett LV,Kirkman RL,Ogata M,Willingham MC,FitzGerald DJ,Pastan I

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous bird species varies from 0% to 76% extra-pair offspring. The causes of this remarkable interspecific variation are largely unknown, although intraspecific analyses suggest that females seek extra-pair matings to improve the genetic quality of their offspring. I...

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

authors： Petrie M,Doums C,Moller AP

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-efficiency nucleic acid delivery system that uses receptor-mediated endocytosis to carry DNA macromolecules into cells. We accomplished this by conjugating the iron-transport protein transferrin to polycations that bind nucleic acids. Human transferrin, as well as the chicken homologue conalbu...

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

authors： Wagner E,Zenke M,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that platelets express high levels of the tyrosine protein kinase pp60c-src. By a quantitative immunoblot assay, it is shown in this report that pp60c-src represents 0.2-0.4% of total platelet protein. The expression of high levels of pp60c-src in platelets correlated with high levels of tot...

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

authors： Golden A,Brugge JS

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present data that demonstrate that three MR elements isolated from wild populations of Drosophila melanogaster on two continents can cause large deletions of the X chromosome in males. The deleted chromosomes, termed mini-X chromosomes, are induced at a frequency of approximately 1:4000 in chromosomes that are init...

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

authors： Green MM,Yamamoto MT,Miklos GL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cells are required for the successful propagation of sexually reproducing species. Understanding the mechanisms by which these cells are specified and how their totipotency is established and maintained has important biomedical and evolutionary implications. Freshwater planarians serve as fascinating models for s...

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

authors： Wang Y,Zayas RM,Guo T,Newmark PA

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00