Nitric oxide mediates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-induced activation of p21ras.

abstract：:The pattern of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very distinctive: neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau selectively affect pyramidal neurons of the aging association cortex that interconnect extensively through glutamate synapses on dendritic spines. In contrast, primary se...

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

authors： Carlyle BC,Nairn AC,Wang M,Yang Y,Jin LE,Simen AA,Ramos BP,Bordner KA,Craft GE,Davies P,Pletikos M,Šestan N,Arnsten AF,Paspalas CD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are eukaryotic organelles critical for plant and human development because they house essential metabolic functions, such as fatty acid β-oxidation. The interacting ATPases PEX1 and PEX6 contribute to peroxisome function by recycling PEX5, a cytosolic receptor needed to import proteins targeted to the pero...

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

authors： Gonzalez KL,Ratzel SE,Burks KH,Danan CH,Wages JM,Zolman BK,Bartel B

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that healthy cells degrade their own mitochondria. Here, we report that retinal ganglion cell axons of WT mice shed mitochondria at the optic nerve head (ONH), and that these mitochondria are internalized and degraded by adjacent astrocytes. EM demonstrates that mitochondria are shed through f...

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

authors： Davis CH,Kim KY,Bushong EA,Mills EA,Boassa D,Shih T,Kinebuchi M,Phan S,Zhou Y,Bihlmeyer NA,Nguyen JV,Jin Y,Ellisman MH,Marsh-Armstrong N

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory transduction is thought to take place in the outer dendritic membrane of insect olfactory receptor neurons. Here we show that the outer dendritic plasma membrane of silkmoth olfactory receptor neurons seems to be exclusively equipped with a specific ion channel activated by low concentrations of the species-...

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

authors： Zufall F,Hatt H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas producing human monoclonal IgM antibodies (mAbs) against bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were generated by fusion of B lymphocytes from sensitized human spleen with heteromyeloma cells. The splenocytes were from patients undergoing splenectomy during staging for Hodgkin disease after vaccination with the...

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

authors： Teng NN,Kaplan HS,Hebert JM,Moore C,Douglas H,Wunderlich A,Braude AI

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal-dominant disease characterized by the development of hundreds of adenomatous polyps of the colorectum. Approximately 80% of FAP patients can be shown to have truncating mutations of the APC gene. To determine the cause of FAP in the other 20% of patients, MAMA (mono...

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

authors： Laken SJ,Papadopoulos N,Petersen GM,Gruber SB,Hamilton SR,Giardiello FM,Brensinger JD,Vogelstein B,Kinzler KW

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray structure of rubredoxin has been refined by energy minimization. The computed structure is constrained to have standard bond lengths, bond angles, and planar trans peptide groups. Also, since most of the steric overlaps have been relieved, it has a very low energy. As judged by the root mean square (RMS) dev...

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

authors： Rasse D,Warme PK,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lck gene encodes a membrane-associated protein tyrosine kinase (p56lck) that is believed to participate in lymphocyte-specific signal transduction pathways. To investigate the function of this molecule, transgenic mice were generated carrying the wild-type lck gene or a mutated lck gene encoding a constitutively a...

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

authors： Abraham KM,Levin SD,Marth JD,Forbush KA,Perlmutter RM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of the interferon- (IFN) gammaR2 chain in IFN-gamma signaling and immune function, IFN-gammaR2-deficient mice have been generated and characterized. Cells derived from IFN-gammaR2 -/- mice are unable to activate either JAK/STAT signaling proteins or gene transcription in response to IFN-gamma. The la...

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

authors： Lu B,Ebensperger C,Dembic Z,Wang Y,Kvatyuk M,Lu T,Coffman RL,Pestka S,Rothman PB

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified two species of the low-affinity human Fc receptor for IgE, Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb, which differ only in a short stretch of amino acids at the N-terminal cytoplasmic end. Their differential expressions on B cells and monocytes suggest that Fc epsilon RIIa and Fc epsilon RIIb a...

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

authors： Yokota A,Yukawa K,Yamamoto A,Sugiyama K,Suemura M,Tashiro Y,Kishimoto T,Kikutani H

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:Galectin-3 is a glycan-binding protein (GBP) that binds β-galactoside glycan structures to orchestrate a variety of important biological events, including the activation of hepatic stellate cells and regulation of immune responses. While the requisite glycan epitopes needed to bind galectin-3 have long been elucidated...

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

authors： Joeh E,O'Leary T,Li W,Hawkins R,Hung JR,Parker CG,Huang ML

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well documented that human modification of the hydrological cycle has profoundly affected the flow of liquid water across the Earth's land surface. Alteration of water vapor flows through land-use changes has received comparatively less attention, despite compelling evidence that such alteration can influence th...

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

authors： Gordon LJ,Steffen W,Jönsson BF,Folke C,Falkenmark M,Johannessen A

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I multimer technology has become an indispensable immunological assay system to dissect antigen-specific cytotoxic CD8(+) T cell responses by flow cytometry. However, the development of high-throughput assay systems, in which T cell responses against a multitude of epitopes...

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

authors： Bakker AH,Hoppes R,Linnemann C,Toebes M,Rodenko B,Berkers CR,Hadrup SR,van Esch WJ,Heemskerk MH,Ovaa H,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:When histones in chromatin core particles were crosslinked with dimethylsuberimidate, the resulting particles had properties closely similar to those of native core particles. A crosslinked octameric histone complex was isolated from these particles under nondenaturing conditions. Upon reaction with DNA, this octameri...

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

authors： Stein A,Bina-Stein M,Simpson RT

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants of A/PR/8/34 (HON1) influenza virus, having hemagglutinin molecules with probably a single altered antigenic determinant, were isolated by growing the virus in the presence of the monoclonal hybridoma antibody PEG-1. The variants were analyzed by peptide mapping and characterized antigenically by using PEG-1 ...

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

authors： Laver WG,Gerhard W,Webster RG,Frankel ME,Air GM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under various conditions, specific genetic areas of the phage T4 DNA molecule are preferentially and repeatedly replicated, resulting in the amplification of these areas. These areas are found to lie in the vicinity of the known origins of DNA replication. ...

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

authors： Kozinski AW,Ling SK,Hutchinson N,Halpern ME,Mattson T

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose receptor (MR) is an endocytic receptor involved in serum homeostasis and antigen presentation. Here, we identify the MR as a direct regulator of CD8(+) T-cell activity. We demonstrate that MR expression on dendritic cells (DCs) impaired T-cell cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. This regulatory effect of th...

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

authors： Schuette V,Embgenbroich M,Ulas T,Welz M,Schulte-Schrepping J,Draffehn AM,Quast T,Koch K,Nehring M,König J,Zweynert A,Harms FL,Steiner N,Limmer A,Förster I,Berberich-Siebelt F,Knolle PA,Wohlleber D,Kolanus W,Beyer M

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhard metals are of interest as possible replacements with enhanced properties over the metal carbides commonly used in cutting, drilling, and wear-resistant tooling. Of the superhard metals, the highest boride of tungsten--often referred to as WB4 and sometimes as W(1-x)B3--is one of the most promising candidates...

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

authors： Lech AT,Turner CL,Mohammadi R,Tolbert SH,Kaner RB

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaE intein in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 is the first and only naturally split intein that has been identified so far. It is capable of catalyzing a protein trans-splicing mechanism to assemble a mature protein from two separate precursors. Therefore, it is a powerful tool for protein modification and engin...

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

authors： Yang J,Fox GC Jr,Henry-Smith TV

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult naive T cells, which are at rest in normal conditions, proliferate strongly when transferred to lymphopenic hosts. In neonates, the first mature thymocytes to migrate to the periphery reach a compartment devoid of preexisting T cells. We have extensively analyzed the proliferation rate and phenotype of periphera...

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

authors： Le Campion A,Bourgeois C,Lambolez F,Martin B,Léaument S,Dautigny N,Tanchot C,Pénit C,Lucas B

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense (up to 20 muA/cm(2)) steady electrical current enters the anterior or nurse cell end of the growing follicle (or oocyte-nurse cell complex) of the Cecropia moth and is balanced by a more diffuse current leaving elsewhere. In late growth stages, the total transfollicular current is about 100 nA. Moreover, a ...

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

authors： Jaffe LF,Woodruff RI

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylvalyl-tRNA1Val (AcVal-tRNA1Val) was bound to the P site of uniformly 32P-labeled 70S ribosomes from Escherichia coli and crosslinked to 16S RNA in the 30S ribosomal subunit by irradiation with light of 300-400 nm. To identify the crosslinked nucleotide in 16S RNA. AcVal-tRNA1Val-16S [32P]RNA was digested compl...

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

authors： Prince JB,Taylor BH,Thurlow DL,Ofengand J,Zimmermann RA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coatomer, the coat protein of coat protein complex (COP)I-vesicles, is a soluble protein complex made up of seven subunits, alpha-, beta-, beta'-, gamma-, delta-, epsilon-, and zeta-COP. Higher eukaryotes have two paralogous versions of the gamma- and zeta- subunits, termed gamma1- and gamma2-COP and zeta1- and zeta2-...

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

authors： Moelleken J,Malsam J,Betts MJ,Movafeghi A,Reckmann I,Meissner I,Hellwig A,Russell RB,Söllner T,Brügger B,Wieland FT

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the chimaerin family of Rac-GTPase-activating proteins possess a single C1 domain with high homology to those present in protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes. This domain in PKCs is involved in phorbol ester and diacylglycerol (DAG) binding. We previously have demonstrated that one of the chimaerin isoforms,...

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

authors： Caloca MJ,Garcia-Bermejo ML,Blumberg PM,Lewin NE,Kremmer E,Mischak H,Wang S,Nacro K,Bienfait B,Marquez VE,Kazanietz MG

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of aptamers from nucleic acid libraries by in vitro evolution represents a powerful method of identifying high-affinity ligands for a broad range of molecular targets. Nevertheless, a sizeable fraction of proteins remain difficult targets due to inherently limited chemical diversity of nucleic acids. We have...

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

authors： Davies DR,Gelinas AD,Zhang C,Rohloff JC,Carter JD,O'Connell D,Waugh SM,Wolk SK,Mayfield WS,Burgin AB,Edwards TE,Stewart LJ,Gold L,Janjic N,Jarvis TC

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays comprising approximately 95% of the Bacillus subtilis annotated protein coding ORFs were deployed to generate a series of snapshots of genomewide transcriptional changes that occur when cells are grown under various conditions that are expected to increase or decrease transcription of the trp operon se...

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

authors： Berka RM,Cui X,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all democratic societies evolved socially and politically out of authoritarian and nondemocratic regimes. These changes not only altered the allocation of economic resources in society but also the structure of political power. In this paper, we develop a framework for studying the dynamics of political and soc...

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

authors： Acemoglu D,Egorov G,Sonin K

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of crystallographic difference maps at 3.0-A resolution of complexes of metal-nucleoside triphosphates with aspartate carbamoyltransferase (carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli. The complexes Gd3+-ATP, Al3+-ATP, and Gd3+-CTP bind to the allosteric...

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

authors： Honzatko RB,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive success is widely used as a measure of fitness. However, offspring quantity may not reflect the genetic contribution to subsequent generations if there is nonrandom variation in offspring quality. Offspring quality is likely to be an important component of human fitness, and tradeoffs between offspring qu...

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

authors： Zietsch BP,Kuja-Halkola R,Walum H,Verweij KJ

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00