Masada, Kimiya, Takahiro Nagayama, Akio Hosokawa, Makoto Yoshida, Mizue Suzuki-Kusaba, Hiroaki Hisa, Tomohiko Kimura, and Susumu Satoh. Effects of adrenomedullin and PAMP on adrenal catecholamine release in dogs. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1118–R1124, 1999.—We examined the effects of proadrenomedullin-derived peptides on the release of adrenal catecholamine...

The gene for adrenomedullin (AM), a multifunctional peptide hormone, is expressed in mammalian renal tissue and has been shown to stimulate renin release. The exact cell source of this peptide and its gene-related partner, proadrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP), in kidney is still uncertain. In the present study we have identified PAMP-immunoreactive cells in the kidney of different mam...

Pathogen/microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs/MAMPs) trigger plant immunity that forms the first line inducible defenses in plants. The regulatory mechanism of MAMP-triggered immunity, however, is poorly understood. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3 (EIN3) and ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3-LIKE1 (EIL1), previously known to mediate ethylene signa...

Viral infection of mammalian cells triggers the innate immune response through non-self recognition of pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) in viral nucleic acid. Accurate PAMP discrimination is essential to avoid self recognition that can generate autoimmunity, and therefore should be facilitated by the presence of multiple motifs in a PAMP that mark it as non-self. Hepatitis C virus...

To assess whether preload-adjusted maximal power (PAMP), which is calculated as W(max)/V (where W(max) is maximal power and V(ed) is end-diastolic volume with beta = 2) is an index of right ventricular (RV) contractility, we measured RV pressure (P) and volume (V) and pulmonary artery pressure and flow in 10 dogs at baseline and after inotropic stimulation. PAMP was derived from steady-state da...

Adrenomedullin (AM) and proadrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP) are two multifunctional peptides processed from a common precursor which have been described in numerous mammalian organs, including the pituitary gland. Previous studies have found AM immunoreactivity in neurohypophysis nerve fibers of amphibian pituitary. In the present study, immunocytochemical and Western blot analysis i...

Plant cells have two defense systems that detect bacterial pathogens. One is a basal defense system that recognizes complex pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). A second system uses disease-resistance (R) proteins to recognize type lll effector proteins that are delivered into the plant cell by the pathogen's type III secretion system. Here we show that these two pathways are linked....

The host immune response is initiated by pattern recognition receptors (PRR) when triggered by specific ligands known as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMP). Toll-like receptor 9 is highly expressed in plasmacytoid dendritic cells and is well described as a PRR for CpG DNA which induce the production of cytokines and type I interferons. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Rigby et al i...

Primer Approximation Multiplex PCR (PAMP) is a recently introduced experimental technique for detecting large-scale cancer genome lesions such as inversions and deletions from heterogeneous samples containing a mixture of cancer and normal cells. In this paper we give integer linear programming formulations for the problem of selecting sets of PAMP primers that minimize detection failure probab...

Heterologous bacteriocin production in Propionibacterium freudenreichii is described. We developed an efficient system for DNA shuttling between Escherichia coli and P. freudenreichii using vector pAMT1. It is based on the P. freudenreichii rolling-circle replicating plasmid pLME108 and carries the cml(A)/cmx(A) chloramphenicol resistance marker. Introduction of the propionicin T1 structural ge...