Substrate binding and catalysis by ribonuclease P from cyanobacteria and Escherichia coli are affected differently by the 3' terminal CCA in tRNA precursors.

abstract：:Proteins potentiated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) to induce a transformed phenotype in non-neoplastic rat kidney fibroblasts in cell culture have been isolated from many non-neoplastic tissues of the adult mouse, including submaxillary gland, kidney, liver, muscle, heart, and brain. They resemble previously descri...

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

authors： Roberts AB,Anzano MA,Lamb LC,Smith JM,Sporn MB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A joint analysis of all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) calculations and picosecond time-resolved x-ray structures was performed to gain single-molecule insights into mechanisms of protein function. Ensemble-averaged MD simulations of the L29F mutant of myoglobin after ligand dissociation reproduce the direction, amplitu...

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

authors： Hummer G,Schotte F,Anfinrud PA

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-globin locus control region (LCR) consists of four erythroid-specific DNase I-hypersensitive sites, which are necessary for high-level expression of the beta-like globin genes in erythroid tissues. One of these sites, designated 5'HS-2, functions as an erythroid-specific enhancer element in transfection and t...

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

authors： Liu D,Chang JC,Moi P,Liu W,Kan YW,Curtin PT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a series of anions to inhibit [(3)H]strychnine binding to spinal cord synaptic membranes correlates closely with their neurophysiologic capacity to reverse inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in the mammalian spinal cord. Seven neurophysiologically active anions are also effective inhibitors of [(3)H]str...

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

authors： Young AB,Snyder SH

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinococcus radiodurans is among a small number of bacterial species that are extremely resistant to ionizing radiation, UV light, toxic chemicals, and desiccation. We measured proteome oxidation (i.e., protein carbonylation, PC) in D. radiodurans as well as in standard and evolved resistant strains of Escherichia col...

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

authors： Krisko A,Radman M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway by mutations can cause xeroderma pigmentosum, a syndrome predisposing affected individuals to development of skin cancer. The xeroderma pigmentosum C (XPC) protein is essential for initiating global genome NER by recognizing the DNA lesion and recruiting downs...

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

authors： Ming M,Shea CR,Guo X,Li X,Soltani K,Han W,He YY

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane protein complex between the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) and phospholamban (PLN) controls Ca(2+) transport in cardiomyocytes, thereby modulating cardiac contractility. β-Adrenergic-stimulated phosphorylation of PLN at Ser-16 enhances SERCA activity via an unknown mechanism. Using solid-sta...

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

authors： Gustavsson M,Verardi R,Mullen DG,Mote KR,Traaseth NJ,Gopinath T,Veglia G

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular membranes are a heterogeneous mix of lipids, proteins and small molecules. Special groupings enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol form liquid-ordered domains, known as "lipid rafts," thought to serve as platforms for signaling, trafficking and material transport throughout the secretory pathway. Quest...

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

authors： Ursell TS,Klug WS,Phillips R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase 65 (GAD65Ab) are commonly believed to be a major characteristic for type 1 diabetes (T1D). We investigated the presence of GAD65Ab in healthy individuals (n = 238) and first-degree relatives (FDRs) of T1D patients (n = 27) who tested negative for GAD65Ab in conventional RIAs. ...

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

authors： Oak S,Gilliam LK,Landin-Olsson M,Törn C,Kockum I,Pennington CR,Rowley MJ,Christie MR,Banga JP,Hampe CS

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Local tissue stem cells have been described in airways of the lung but their contribution to normal epithelial maintenance is currently unknown. We therefore developed aggregation chimera mice and a whole-lung imaging method to determine the relative contributions of progenitor (Clara) and bronchiolar stem cells to ep...

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

authors： Giangreco A,Arwert EN,Rosewell IR,Snyder J,Watt FM,Stripp BR

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the endothelin receptor type B (EDNRB) produce congenital aganglionic megacolon and pigment abnormalities in mice and humans. Here we report a naturally occurring null mutation of the EDNRB gene in spotting lethal (sl) rats, which exhibit aganglionic megacolon associated with white coat ...

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

authors： Gariepy CE,Cass DT,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of monoclonal antibodies was used to define three discrete stages of human intrathymic T-cell differentiation. The earliest stage was confined to <10% of thymocytes, which were.reactive with both OKT9 and OKT10. Subsequently, approximately 70% of human thymocytes acquired a thymocyte-restricted antigen, OKT6,...

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

authors： Reinherz EL,Kung PC,Goldstein G,Levey RH,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) recently has been shown to give rise to genetic interference in Caenorhabditis elegans and also is likely to be the basis for phenotypic cosuppression in plants in certain instances. While constructing a plasmid vector for transfection of trypanosome cells, we serendipitously discovered tha...

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

authors： Ngô H,Tschudi C,Gull K,Ullu E

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenodoxin reductase (AR; ferridoxin: NADP+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.18.1.2) is a flavoprotein that mediates electron transport from NADPH to all known mitochondrial forms of cytochrome P450. AR mRNA was found in all human adult and fetal tissues examined; however, it was vastly more abundant in tissues that synthesize s...

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

authors： Brentano ST,Black SM,Lin D,Miller WL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing 5-azacytosine (azaC) has previously been shown to be a potent inhibitor of DNA-cytosine methyltransferases. In this report, we describe experiments which demonstrate that azaC-DNA forms a covalent complex with Hpa II methylase, a bacterial enzyme that methylates the internal C of C-C-G-G sequences. The ...

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

authors： Santi DV,Norment A,Garrett CE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A powerful way to deal with a complex system is to build a coarse-grained model capable of catching its main physical features, while being computationally affordable. Inevitably, such coarse-grained models introduce a set of phenomenological parameters, which are often not easily deducible from the underlying atomist...

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

authors： Invernizzi M,Valsson O,Parrinello M

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The major small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) U1, U2, U4/U6, and U5 share a set of common proteins denoted B/B', D1, D2, D3, E, F, and G which play an important part in the biogenesis of the snRNPs. In addition, there is a link between the common proteins and autoimmunity; the three D proteins, together with B/B...

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

authors： Lehmeier T,Raker V,Hermann H,Lührmann R

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous reciprocal mitotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, associated with heteroallelic recombination, occurs almost exclusively at the two-strand stage and involves recombination of unduplicated chromosomes (i.e., during G1) or the unduplicated regions of chromosomes during the S phase of mi...

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

authors： Esposito MS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SgrS RNA is a model for the large class of Hfq-associated small RNAs that act to posttranscriptionally regulate bacterial mRNAs. The function of SgrS is well-characterized in nonpathogenic Escherichia coli, where it was originally shown to counteract glucose-phosphate stress by acting as a repressor of the ptsG mRNA, ...

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

authors： Papenfort K,Podkaminski D,Hinton JC,Vogel J

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report light-induced electron paramagnetic resonance triplet spectra from samples of chloroplasts or digitonin photosystem I particles that depend upon the dark redox state of the bound acceptors of photosystem I. If the reaction centers are prepared in the redox state P-700 A X- FdB-FdA-, then upon illumination at...

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

authors： Frank HA,McLean MB,Sauer K

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the usual Darwinian case in which struggle for existence leads to density limitations on the environment's carrying capacity, R. A. Fisher's reproductive-value concept reduces to zero for every initial age group. To salvage some meaning for Fisher's notion, two variant reproductive-value concepts are defined here: ...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a hormone derived from the preproglucagon molecule and is secreted by intestinal L cells. It is the most potent stimulator of glucose-induced insulin secretion and also suppresses in vivo acid secretion by gastric glands. A cDNA for the GLP-1 receptor was isolated by transient expres...

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

authors： Thorens B

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both necessary and sufficient to account for learning and memory. However, network dynamics depends on the complex interacti...

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

authors： Marder E,Abbott LF,Turrigiano GG,Liu Z,Golowasch J

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this era of continued emergence of zoonotic virus infections, the rapid development of rodent models represents a critical barrier to public health preparedness, including the testing of antivirus therapy and vaccines. The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was recently identified as the causat...

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

authors： Zhao J,Li K,Wohlford-Lenane C,Agnihothram SS,Fett C,Zhao J,Gale MJ Jr,Baric RS,Enjuanes L,Gallagher T,McCray PB Jr,Perlman S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on proteins whose N and C termini are in close proximity have demonstrated that folding of polypeptide chains and assembly of oligomers can be accomplished with circularly permuted chains. As yet no methodical study has been conducted to determine how extensively new termini can be introduced and where ...

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

authors： Graf R,Schachman HK

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical removal of one or both atrial appendages was employed in rats to reduce the intrinsic stores of atriopeptin (AP). In conscious rats (with intact baroreceptor reflexes), bilateral or unilateral atrial appendectomy suppressed the diuresis and natriuresis produced by acute volume expansion. Surprisingly, volume ...

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

authors： Sakata M,Greenwald JE,Needleman P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much confusion recently about the relative merits of different approaches, osmotic stress, preferential interaction, and crowding, to describe the indirect effect of solutes on macromolecular conformations and reactions. To strengthen all interpretations of measurements and to forestall further unnecess...

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

authors： Parsegian VA,Rand RP,Rau DC

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitation of proteins extracted from metabolically labeled human glioblastoma and fibrosarcoma cells with antiserum to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) showed that these cells express and secrete proteins that are recognized specifically by the antiserum. The molecular masses of immunoprecipitated prote...

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

authors： Pantazis P,Pelicci PG,Dalla-Favera R,Antoniades HN

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheal antimicrobial peptide (TAP) is a member of the beta-defensin family of antibiotic peptides found in the tracheal mucosa of the cow. TAP gene expression in the bovine airway is inducible by lipopolysaccharide and inflammatory mediators, suggesting that it functions to protect the upper airway from infection. L...

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

authors： Yarus S,Rosen JM,Cole AM,Diamond G

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00