The CCR5 receptor acts as an alloantigen in CCR5Delta32 homozygous individuals: identification of chemokineand HIV-1-blocking human antibodies.

abstract：:The output of the cerebellar cortex is controlled by two main inputs, (i.e., the climbing fiber and mossy fiber-parallel fiber pathway) and activations of these inputs elicit characteristic effects in its Purkinje cells: that is, the so-called complex spikes and simple spikes. Target neurons of the Purkinje cells in t...

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

authors： Hoebeek FE,Witter L,Ruigrok TJ,De Zeeuw CI

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Helping and sharing among humans is often motivated by empathy and accompanied by a sense of satisfaction. To determine whether similar self-rewarding mechanisms may underpin assistance among nonhuman primates, eight female brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) underwent testing in a simple choice paradigm. Paired wit...

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

authors： de Waal FB,Leimgruber K,Greenberg AR

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of fluorescent probes to give continuous readouts of the structural states of mitochondrial membranes during energy coupling seems a logical extension of their use in the study of protein structural changes. A clear correlation of the probes' fluorescence characteristics with the acquisition of energy coupling...

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

authors： Chance B

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant baculovirus-derived interleukin 6 (IL-6) disrupts the attachment of human ductal breast carcinoma subline ZR-75-1-Tx cells to neighbors and the substratum in culture without inhibiting the proliferation of the cells. The nonadherent cells lack pseudopodia and do not translocate directionally. These finding...

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

authors： Tamm I,Kikuchi T,Cardinale I,Krueger JG

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that polyelectrolyte complexes and coacervates can form on mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, due to mainly electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged polymers. Here, we report the first (to the best of our knowledge) complexation and coacervation of two posi...

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

authors： Kim S,Huang J,Lee Y,Dutta S,Yoo HY,Jung YM,Jho Y,Zeng H,Hwang DS

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Because most human squamous carcinoma cell lines of the aerodigestive and genital tracts are refractory to the antiproliferative action of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) in vitro, we have begun to identify the causes for resistance of squamous carcinoma cell lines to TGF beta 1 by using somatic cell ge...

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

authors： Reiss M,Muñoz-Antonia T,Cowan JM,Wilkins PC,Zhou ZL,Vellucci VF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most Gram-positive bacteria, serine-46-phosphorylated HPr (P-Ser-HPr) controls the expression of numerous catabolic genes ( approximately 10% of their genome) by acting as catabolite corepressor. HPr kinase/phosphorylase (HprK/P), the bifunctional sensor enzyme for catabolite repression, phosphorylates HPr, a phosp...

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

authors： Mijakovic I,Poncet S,Galinier A,Monedero V,Fieulaine S,Janin J,Nessler S,Marquez JA,Scheffzek K,Hasenbein S,Hengstenberg W,Deutscher J

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the origin of and the degree of T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) diversity of Thy-1+ dendritic epidermal cells (Thy-1+ dECs) in mice, we have developed a monoclonal antibody (mAb 536) to the gamma delta TCR. mAb 536 binds to and stimulates interleukin 2 secretion from Thy-1+ dEC but not cells that express TCR co...

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

authors： Havran WL,Grell S,Duwe G,Kimura J,Wilson A,Kruisbeek AM,O'Brien RL,Born W,Tigelaar RE,Allison JP

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assayed carbonic anhydrase activity (carbonate dehydratase, carbonate hydro-lyase, EC 4.2.1.1) and bicarbonate permeability in suspensions of broken and intact guinea pig mitochondria by monitoring the disappearance of C16O18O. We found significant activity in preparations from liver and skeletal muscle, but n...

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

authors： Dodgson SJ,Forster RE 2nd,Storey BT,Mela L

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the Gossypium hirsutum sucrose synthase (SuSy) gene under the control of 2 promoters was examined in hybrid poplar (Populus alba x grandidentata). Analysis of RNA transcript abundance, enzyme activity, cell wall composition, and soluble carbohydrates revealed significant changes in the transgenic lin...

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

authors： Coleman HD,Yan J,Mansfield SD

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferators cause rapid and coordinated transcriptional activation of genes encoding peroxisomal beta-oxidation system enzymes by activating peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) isoform(s). Since the thyroid hormone (T3; 3,3',5-triiodothyronine) receptor (TR), another member of the nuclear ho...

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

authors： Chu R,Madison LD,Lin Y,Kopp P,Rao MS,Jameson JL,Reddy JK

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections are often polymicrobial. Two of the most important bacterial opportunistic pathogens of humans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, frequently are coisolated from infections of catheters, endotracheal tubes, skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract, including the airways of people w...

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

authors： Hoffman LR,Déziel E,D'Argenio DA,Lépine F,Emerson J,McNamara S,Gibson RL,Ramsey BW,Miller SI

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic markers associated with the major internal protein of RNA tumor viruses of the C-type have proven extremely useful in natural history studies of these viruses. This protein possesses species-specific antigenic determinants, and, in the case of mammalian C-type viruses, the protein possesses crossreactive det...

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

authors： Gilden RV,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful protozoan parasite that infects all warm-blooded animals and causes severe disease in immunocompromised and immune-naïve humans. It has an unusual global population structure: In North America and Europe, isolated strains fall predominantly into four largely clonal lineages, bu...

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

authors： Minot S,Melo MB,Li F,Lu D,Niedelman W,Levine SS,Saeij JP

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of miR-15/16 is the most common genetic lesion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), promoting overexpression of BCL2, which factors in leukemia pathogenesis. Indeed, an inhibitor of Bcl2, venetoclcax, is highly active in the treatment of patients with CLL. However, single-agent venetoclcax fails to eradicate mi...

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

authors： Rassenti LZ,Balatti V,Ghia EM,Palamarchuk A,Tomasello L,Fadda P,Pekarsky Y,Widhopf GF 2nd,Kipps TJ,Croce CM

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of contrast enhancement of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging was investigated in MCF7 human breast cancer implanted in nude mice. Dynamic contrast-enhanced images recorded at high spatial resolution were analyzed by an image analysis method based on a physiological model, which included the blood c...

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

authors： Furman-Haran E,Margalit R,Grobgeld D,Degani H

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Container-shaped molecules provide structured environments that impart geometric bounds on the motions and conformations of smaller molecular occupants. Moreover, they provide "solvation" that is constrained in time and space. When inwardly directed functional groups are present, they can interact chemically with the ...

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

authors： Purse BW,Rebek J Jr

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 14 was transferred into tumorigenic nasopharyngeal carcinoma and esophageal carcinoma cell lines by a microcell-mediated chromosome transfer approach. Functional complementation of defects present in the cancer cells suppressed tumor formation. A candidate tumor-suppressor gene, cysteine-rich intestinal pro...

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

authors： Cheung AK,Ko JM,Lung HL,Chan KW,Stanbridge EJ,Zabarovsky E,Tokino T,Kashima L,Suzuki T,Kwong DL,Chua D,Tsao SW,Lung ML

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental and anthropogenic factors often drive population declines in top predators, but how their influences may combine remains unclear. Albatrosses are particularly threatened. They breed in fast-changing environments, and their extensive foraging ranges expose them to incidental mortality (bycatch) in multipl...

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

authors： Pardo D,Forcada J,Wood AG,Tuck GN,Ireland L,Pradel R,Croxall JP,Phillips RA

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:If X(1), X(2),... are independent random variables with zero expectation and finite variances, the cumulative sums S(n) are, on the average, of the order of magnitude S(n), where S(n) (2) = E(S(n) (2)). The occasional maxima of the ratios S(n)/S(n) are surprisingly large and the problem is to estimate the extent of th...

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

authors： Feller W

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time of flight mass spectrometry was used to detect and order DNA fragments generated by Sanger dideoxy cycle sequencing. This was accomplished by improving the sensitivity and resolution of the MALDI method using a delayed ion extraction technique (DE-MALDI). The cy...

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

authors： Roskey MT,Juhasz P,Smirnov IP,Takach EJ,Martin SA,Haff LA

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific gangliosides to function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus was investigated by using Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which become resistant to infection upon treatment with Vibrio cholerae sialidase. Sialidase-treated cells were incubated for 20 min at 37 degrees C with individual, highly...

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

authors： Markwell MA,Svennerholm L,Paulson JC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All cell functions that involve membrane deformation or a change in cell shape (e.g., endocytosis, exocytosis, cell motility, and cytokinesis) are regulated by membrane tension. While molecular contacts between the plasma membrane and the underlying actin cytoskeleton are known to make significant contributions to mem...

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

authors： Nambiar R,McConnell RE,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimers of bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchla) with optical absorption maximum at 853 nm and a nonconservative circular dichroism spectrum are formed in a solution of formamide/water that contains micelles of Triton X-100. The apparent equilibrium constant and the corresponding Gibbs energy change for the Bchl self-organizat...

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

authors： Scherz A,Rosenbach-Belkin V

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zfp57 is a maternal-zygotic effect gene that maintains genomic imprinting. Here we report that Zfp57 mutants exhibited a variety of cardiac defects including atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), thin myocardium, and reduced trabeculation. Zfp57 maternal-zygotic mutant embryos displayed more sev...

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

authors： Shamis Y,Cullen DE,Liu L,Yang G,Ng SF,Xiao L,Bell FT,Ray C,Takikawa S,Moskowitz IP,Cai CL,Yang X,Li X

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic fungal hyphae are generally assumed to elongate at steady linear rates when grown under constant environmental conditions with ample nutrients. However, patterns of pulsed hyphal elongation were detected during apparent steady growth of hyphal tips in fungi from several major taxonomic groups (Oomycetes, Pythi...

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

authors： López-Franco R,Bartnicki-Garcia S,Bracker CE

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, utilization of galactose requires four inducible enzyme activities. Three of these activities (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase, EC 2.7.7.10; uridine diphosphogalactose 4-epimerase, EC 5.1.3.2; and galactokinase, EC 2.7.1.6) are specified by three tightly linked genes (GAL7, GAL10,...

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

authors： Hopper JE,Broach JR,Rowe LB

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrable models form pillars of theoretical physics because they allow for full analytical understanding. Despite being rare, many realistic systems can be described by models that are close to integrable. Therefore, an important question is how small perturbations influence the behavior of solvable models. This is ...

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

authors： Žnidarič M,Ljubotina M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium, a universal second messenger, regulates diverse cellular processes in eukaryotes. Ca2+ and Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphorylation play a pivotal role in amplifying and diversifying the action of Ca(2+)-binding domain was cloned and characterized from lily. The cDNA clone contains an open reading fr...

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

authors： Patil S,Takezawa D,Poovaiah BW

更新日期：1995-05-23 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