Crystal structure of human T cell leukemia virus type 1 gp21 ectodomain crystallized as a maltose-binding protein chimera reveals structural evolution of retroviral transmembrane proteins.

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a cognate ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) receptor, mediates neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, BDNF has a poor pharmacokinetic profile that limits its therapeutic potential. Here we report the identification of...

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

authors： Jang SW,Liu X,Yepes M,Shepherd KR,Miller GW,Liu Y,Wilson WD,Xiao G,Blanchi B,Sun YE,Ye K

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of human chromosome 22q11 is prone to rearrangements. The resulting chromosomal abnormalities are involved in Velo-cardio-facial and DiGeorge syndromes (VCFS and DGS) (deletions), "cat eye" syndrome (duplications), and certain types of tumors (translocations). As a prelude to the development of mouse models...

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

authors： Puech A,Saint-Jore B,Funke B,Gilbert DJ,Sirotkin H,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA,Kucherlapati R,Morrow B,Skoultchi AI

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caenorhabditis elegans, pre-mRNA for the essential splicing factor U2AF65 sometimes is spliced to produce an RNA that includes an extra 216-bp internal exon, exon 3. Inclusion of exon 3 inserts an in-frame stop codon, yet this RNA is not subject to SMG-mediated RNA surveillance. To test whether exon 3 causes RNA to...

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

authors： MacMorris MA,Zorio DA,Blumenthal T

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated near-threshold depolarized states in cortical and striatal neurons may contribute to form functionally segregated channels of information processing. Recent anatomical studies have identified pathways that could support spiraling interactions across corticostriatal channels, but a functional outcome of suc...

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

authors： Kasanetz F,Riquelme LA,Della-Maggiore V,O'Donnell P,Murer MG

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes (LTs) are signaling molecules derived from arachidonic acid that initiate and amplify innate and adaptive immunity. In turn, how their synthesis is organized on the nuclear envelope of myeloid cells in response to extracellular signals is not understood. We define the supramolecular architecture of LT syn...

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

authors： Mandal AK,Jones PB,Bair AM,Christmas P,Miller D,Yamin TT,Wisniewski D,Menke J,Evans JF,Hyman BT,Bacskai B,Chen M,Lee DM,Nikolic B,Soberman RJ

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed development in plants involves the coordinated growth of the embryo, endosperm, and maternal tissue. Several genes have been identified that influence seed size by acting maternally, such as AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR2, APETALA2, and DA1. However, given the lack of gain-of-function effects of these genes on seed size,...

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

authors： Adamski NM,Anastasiou E,Eriksson S,O'Neill CM,Lenhard M

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of an organism reflects its metabolic rate, growth rate, mortality, and other important characteristics; therefore, the distribution of body size is a major determinant of ecosystem structure and function. Body-size distributions often are multimodal, with several peaks of abundant sizes, and previous studies...

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

authors： Lampert A,Tlusty T

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term synaptic plasticity requires both gene expression in the nucleus and local protein synthesis at synapses. The effector proteins that link molecular events in the cell body with local maintenance of synaptic strength are not known. We now show that treatment with serotonin (5-HT) that produces long-term facil...

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

authors： Giustetto M,Hegde AN,Si K,Casadio A,Inokuchi K,Pei W,Kandel ER,Schwartz JH

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other primates are distinct among placental mammals in having exceptionally slow rates of growth, reproduction, and aging. Primates' slow life history schedules are generally thought to reflect an evolved strategy of allocating energy away from growth and reproduction and toward somatic investment, particul...

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

authors： Pontzer H,Raichlen DA,Gordon AD,Schroepfer-Walker KK,Hare B,O'Neill MC,Muldoon KM,Dunsworth HM,Wood BM,Isler K,Burkart J,Irwin M,Shumaker RW,Lonsdorf EV,Ross SR

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The O(2)-reaction chemistry of 1:1 mixtures of (F(8))Fe(II) (1; F(8) = tetrakis(2,6-diflurorophenyl)porphyrinate) and [(L(Me(2))N)Cu(I)](+) (2; L(Me(2))N = N,N-bis(2-[2-(N',N'-4-dimethylamino)pyridyl]ethyl)methylamine) is described, to model aspects of the chemistry occurring in cytochrome c oxidase. Spectroscopic inv...

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

authors： Kim E,Helton ME,Wasser IM,Karlin KD,Lu S,Huang HW,Moenne-Loccoz P,Incarvito CD,Rheingold AL,Honecker M,Kaderli S,Zuberbuhler AD

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigations have focused on DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation; however, photoionization threshold energies of nucleic acid components in aqueous solution are not known. Herein, data from gas-phase photoelectron experiments have been combined with results from self-consistent field and post-self-cons...

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

authors： Fernando H,Papadantonakis GA,Kim NS,LeBreton PR

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For brain functions such as working memory and motor planning, neuronal circuits are able to sustain persistent activity after transient inputs. Theoretical studies have suggested that persistent activity can exist in recurrently connected networks as active reverberation. However, the actual cellular processes underl...

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

authors： Lau PM,Bi GQ

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To help reach the target of tuberculosis (TB) disease elimination by 2050, vaccine development needs to occur now. We estimated the impact and cost-effectiveness of potential TB vaccines in low- and middle-income countries using an age-structured transmission model. New vaccines were assumed to be available in 2024, t...

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

authors： Knight GM,Griffiths UK,Sumner T,Laurence YV,Gheorghe A,Vassall A,Glaziou P,White RG

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Various tissues and cells in culture contain a specific inhibitor of DNase I (EC 3.1.4.5). In this paper evidence is presented that this inhibitor is actin, one of the major structural proteins of muscle and nonmuscle cells. (a) The inhibitor is a major cellular component constituting 5-10% of the soluble protein. (b)...

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

authors： Lazarides E,Lindberg U

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small number of analytes by the spectral overlap of their signals. We have developed an NMR-based xenon biosensor that capital...

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

authors： Spence MM,Rubin SM,Dimitrov IE,Ruiz EJ,Wemmer DE,Pines A,Yao SQ,Tian F,Schultz PG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of carbon in Earth's mantle greatly exceeds its modest abundance of approximately 1,000-4,000 ppm. Carbon is a constituent of key terrestrial volatiles (CO, CO(2), CH(4)), it forms diamonds, and it may also contribute to the bulk electrical properties of the silicate Earth. In contrast to that of the ma...

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

authors： Hayden LA,Watson EB

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The active conformation of native peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolases (EC 2.3.1.16) is homodimeric. We have previously shown that a truncated Saccharomyces cerevisiae thiolase lacking its first 16 N-terminal amino acids fails to be translocated into peroxisomes but assembles into an enzymatically active form in the c...

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

authors： Glover JR,Andrews DW,Rachubinski RA

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Much recent attention in the study of adaptation of organismal form has centered on developmental regulation. As such, the highly conserved respiratory machinery of eukaryotic cells might seem an unlikely target for selection supporting novel morphologies. We demonstrate that a dramatic molecular evolutionary rate inc...

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

authors： Jobson RW,Nielsen R,Laakkonen L,Wikström M,Albert VA

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change is expected to have broad ecological consequences for species and communities. Attempts to forecast these consequences usually assume that changes in air or water temperature will translate into equivalent changes in a species' organismal body temperature. This simple change is unlikely because a...

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

authors： Gilman SE,Wethey DS,Helmuth B

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both stem cells and mast cells express c-kit and proliferate after exposure to c-kit ligand. Mutations in c-kit may enhance or interfere with the ability of c-kit receptor to initiate the intracellular pathways resulting in cell proliferation. These observations suggested to us that mastocytosis might in some patients...

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

authors： Nagata H,Worobec AS,Oh CK,Chowdhury BA,Tannenbaum S,Suzuki Y,Metcalfe DD

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabinose-binding protein, maltose-binding protein, and lambda receptor are synthesized in vitro on membrane-bound polysomes from Escherichia coli. All three proteins are exported from the cytoplasm of E. coli and all three are made in vitro in a form a few thousand daltons larger than the authentic protein. The large...

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

authors： Randall LL,Hardy SJ,Josefsson LG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin IC (myo1c), a widely expressed motor protein that links the actin cytoskeleton to cell membranes, has been associated with numerous cellular processes, including insulin-stimulated transport of GLUT4, mechanosensation in sensory hair cells, endocytosis, transcription of DNA in the nucleus, exocytosis, and membr...

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

authors： Greenberg MJ,Lin T,Goldman YE,Shuman H,Ostap EM

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral malaria is the most deadly manifestation of infection with Plasmodium falciparum. The pathology of cerebral malaria is characterized by the accumulation of infected erythrocytes (IEs) in the microvasculature of the brain caused by parasite adhesins on the surface of IEs binding to human receptors on microvasc...

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

authors： Claessens A,Adams Y,Ghumra A,Lindergard G,Buchan CC,Andisi C,Bull PC,Mok S,Gupta AP,Wang CW,Turner L,Arman M,Raza A,Bozdech Z,Rowe JA

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A renin promoter-large tumor antigen (T antigen) fusion gene was constructed to provide a reporter function for renin expression in transgenic mice. These transgenic mice gave rise to tumors in subcutaneous soft tissue, which was attributed to transgene expression at this site. An immunohistochemical analysis of trans...

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

authors： Sigmund CD,Jones CA,Mullins JJ,Kim U,Gross KW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many and diverse modifications of the myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) increase (modulate) its ATPase activity, including interaction of this particle with actin; a recent addition to these modifications is the extensive lysine modification of S-1 that seems prerequisite to crystallizing it for structure analysis. In this s...

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

authors： Bivin DB,Ue K,Khoroshev M,Morales M

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The POT1-TPP1 heterodimer, the major telomere-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein in mammalian cells, protects chromosome ends and contributes to the regulation of telomerase. The recent discovery of telomeric RNA raises the question of how POT1 faithfully binds telomeric ssDNA and avoids illicit RNA binding ...

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

authors： Nandakumar J,Podell ER,Cech TR

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous integration vectors have been used to demonstrate the feasibility of insertional mutagenesis in haploid tachyzoites of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Mutant clones resistant to 5-fluorouracil were identified at a frequency of approximately 10(-6) (approximately 2 x 10(-5) of the stable transfo...

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

authors： Donald RG,Roos DS

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When T cells become infected by the parasite Theileria parva, they acquire a transformed phenotype and no longer require antigen-specific stimulation or exogenous growth factors. This is accompanied by constitutive interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-2 receptor expression. Transformation can be reversed entirely by eliminatio...

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

authors： Galley Y,Hagens G,Glaser I,Davis W,Eichhorn M,Dobbelaere D

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Early abstract reasoning has typically been characterized by a "relational shift," in which children initially focus on object features but increasingly come to interpret similarity in terms of structured relations. An alternative possibility is that this shift reflects a learned bias, rather than a typical waypoint a...

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

authors： Carstensen A,Zhang J,Heyman GD,Fu G,Lee K,Walker CM

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the cell-surface molecules involved in T-cell immune responses are N-linked glycoproteins. We have investigated the effects of inhibitors of glycoprotein processing on specific T-cell functions, with the dual aims of examining the functional role of carbohydrate and of testing the usefulness of such compounds ...

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

authors： Wall KA,Pierce JD,Elbein AD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00