How native-state topology affects the folding of dihydrofolate reductase and interleukin-1beta.

abstract：:Previously metal-ion sites have been used as structural and functional probes in seven transmembrane receptors (7TM), but as yet all the engineered sites have been inactivating. Based on presumed agonist interaction points in transmembrane III (TM-III) and -VII of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, in this paper we cons...

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

authors： Elling CE,Thirstrup K,Holst B,Schwartz TW

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 encodes an essential inhibitor of the Escherichia coli host RNA polymerase (RNAP), the product of gene 2 (Gp2). We determined a series of X-ray crystal structures of E. coli RNAP holoenzyme with or without Gp2. The results define the structure and location of the RNAP σ(70) subunit domain 1.1(σ(1.1)(7...

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

authors： Bae B,Davis E,Brown D,Campbell EA,Wigneshweraraj S,Darst SA

更新日期：2013-12-03 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：:The DNA end-joining protein Ku70 is one of several proteins that inhibit apoptosis by sequestering the proapoptotic factor Bax from the mitochondria. However, the molecular mechanism underlying Ku70-dependent inhibition of Bax is not fully understood. Here, we show that the absence of Ku70 results in the accumulation ...

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

authors： Amsel AD,Rathaus M,Kronman N,Cohen HY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse motivations for preserving nature both inspire and hinder its conservation. Optimal conservation strategies may differ radically depending on the objective. For example, creating nature reserves may prevent extinctions through protecting severely threatened species, whereas incentivizing farmland hedgerows may...

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

authors： Karp DS,Mendenhall CD,Callaway E,Frishkoff LO,Kareiva PM,Ehrlich PR,Daily GC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta plays a pivotal role in regulation of progression of cancer through effects on tumor microenvironment as well as on cancer cells. TGF-beta inhibitors have recently been shown to prevent the growth and metastasis of certain cancers. However, there may be adverse effects caused by T...

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

authors： Kano MR,Bae Y,Iwata C,Morishita Y,Yashiro M,Oka M,Fujii T,Komuro A,Kiyono K,Kaminishi M,Hirakawa K,Ouchi Y,Nishiyama N,Kataoka K,Miyazono K

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is a common factor linking several metabolic perturbations in Alzheimer's disease (AD), including iron metabolism, mitochondrial complex IV, heme oxygenase, and bilirubin. Therefore, we determined whether heme metabolism was altered in temporal lobes obtained at autopsy from AD patients and age-matched nondemente...

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

authors： Atamna H,Frey WH 2nd

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that immunization with hepatitis C virus-like particles (HCV-LPs) generated in insect cells can elicit both humoral and cellular immune responses in BALB/c mice. Here, we evaluate the immunogenicity of HCV-LPs in HLA2.1 transgenic (AAD) mice in comparison to DNA immunization. HCV-LP immun...

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

authors： Murata K,Lechmann M,Qiao M,Gunji T,Alter HJ,Liang TJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is an important cellular effector whose functions include the regulation of ion channels and membrane trafficking. Aberrant PIP2 metabolism has also been implicated in a variety of human disease states, e.g., cancer and diabetes. Here we report that familial Alzheimer's dis...

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

authors： Landman N,Jeong SY,Shin SY,Voronov SV,Serban G,Kang MS,Park MK,Di Paolo G,Chung S,Kim TW

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of amyloid fibers in the brain, which can occur when a protein misfolds into an extended beta-sheet conformation. The nucleation of these beta-sheet aggregates is of particular interest, not only because it is the rate-determining step toward fiber ...

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

authors： Petty SA,Decatur SM

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid North Atlantic cooling events during the last deglaciation caused atmospheric reorganizations on global and regional scales. Their impact on Asian climate has been investigated for monsoonal domains, but remains largely unknown in westerly wind-dominated semiarid regions. Here we generate a dust record from sout...

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

authors： Safaierad R,Mohtadi M,Zolitschka B,Yokoyama Y,Vogt C,Schefuß E

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite structural knowledge of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (NMAbs) complexed to HIV-1 gp120 and gp41 envelope glycoproteins, virus inactivation mechanisms have been difficult to prove, in part because neutralization assays are complex and were previously not understood. Concordant with recent evidence ...

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

authors： Platt EJ,Gomes MM,Kabat D

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Local levels of active thyroid hormone (3,3',5-triiodothyronine) are controlled by the action of activating and inactivating iodothyronine deiodinase enzymes. Deiodinases are selenocysteine-dependent membrane proteins catalyzing the reductive elimination of iodide from iodothyronines through a poorly understood mechan...

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

authors： Schweizer U,Schlicker C,Braun D,Köhrle J,Steegborn C

更新日期：2014-07-22 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：:The FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also called RAFT1/mTOR) regulates translation initiation and entry into the cell cycle. Depriving cells of amino acids or treating them with the small molecule rapamycin inhibits FRAP and results in rapid dephosphorylation and inactivation of the translational regulators ...

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

authors： Peterson RT,Desai BN,Hardwick JS,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of C57BL/6 or NOD mice with a monoclonal antibody to the CSF-1 receptor resulted in depletion of the resident macrophages of pancreatic islets of Langerhans that lasted for several weeks. Depletion of macrophages in C57BL/6 mice did not affect multiple parameters of islet function, including glucose response...

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

authors： Carrero JA,McCarthy DP,Ferris ST,Wan X,Hu H,Zinselmeyer BH,Vomund AN,Unanue ER

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid compartments of plant chloroplasts are a vital destination for copper. Copper is needed to form holo-plastocyanin, which must shuttle electrons between photosystems to convert light into biologically useful chemical energy. Copper can bind tightly to proteins, so it has been hypothesized that copper part...

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

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Kandias NG,Robinson NJ,Spyroulias GA,Su XC,Tottey S,Vanarotti M

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice lacking major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens were generated by mating beta 2-microglobulin-deficient, and therefore class I-deficient, animals with MHC class II-deficient animals. When housed under sterile conditions, the resulting MHC-deficient mice appear healthy, survive for many months, and breed s...

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

authors： Grusby MJ,Auchincloss H Jr,Lee R,Johnson RS,Spencer JP,Zijlstra M,Jaenisch R,Papaioannou VE,Glimcher LH

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies specific for allelic determinants of the cell membrane alloantigen Ly-17 were found to react with genetically determined polymorphic sites on the murine IgG Fc receptor (Fc gamma R). Monoclonal antibodies specific for Ly-17.2 and the Fc gamma R detected identical populations of cells in thymus, spleen, lymp...

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

authors： Holmes KL,Palfree RG,Hammerling U,Morse HC 3rd

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-pressure investigation of the Xe*H(2)O chemical system was conducted by using diamond-anvil cell techniques combined with in situ Raman spectroscopy, synchrotron x-ray diffraction, and laser heating. Structure I xenon clathrate was observed to be stable up to 1.8 GPa, at which pressure it transforms to a new Xe...

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

authors： Sanloup C,Mao Hk HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei parasites successfully evade the host immune system by periodically switching the dense coat of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) at the cell surface. Each parasite expresses VSGs in a monoallelic fashion that is tightly regulated. The consequences of exposing multiple VSGs during an infection, in ...

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

authors： Aresta-Branco F,Sanches-Vaz M,Bento F,Rodrigues JA,Figueiredo LM

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic receptors (ARs) (subtypes alpha 1, alpha 2, beta 1, and beta 2) are a prototypic family of guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors that mediate the physiological effects of the hormone epinephrine and the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. We have previously assigned the genes for ...

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

authors： Yang-Feng TL,Xue FY,Zhong WW,Cotecchia S,Frielle T,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Francke U

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the ribosomal-stalk protein L7/12 (L12) and initiation factor 2 (IF2) is essential for rapid subunit association, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, we have characterized the L12-IF2 interaction on Escherichia coli ribosomes using site-directed mutagenesis, fast kinetics, and molecu...

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

authors： Ge X,Mandava CS,Lind C,Åqvist J,Sanyal S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been found as monomers but also as dimers or higher-order oligomers in cells. The relevance of the monomeric or dimeric receptor state for G protein activation is currently under debate for class A rhodopsin-like GPCRs. Clarification of this issue requires the availability of w...

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

authors： White JF,Grodnitzky J,Louis JM,Trinh LB,Shiloach J,Gutierrez J,Northup JK,Grisshammer R

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether interleukin 3 (IL-3) supports the growth of cells of different lineages by the same mechanism(s). The experiments were carried out with Ea3 cells, a mouse pre-B cell line, and S-480-3 cells, a mouse basophil cell line, both of which are totally IL-3 dependent. We found that Ea3 lymphocytes...

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

authors： Palacios R,Garland J

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Veratridine or high potassium concentration increased guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) levels in neuroblastoma cells of clone N1E-115 without affecting levels of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP). The increases in cGMP appear to be a direct result of the depolarizing action of these agents and not...

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

authors： Study RE,Breakefield XO,Bartfai T,Greengard P

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S100A8/S100A9 heterodimer calprotectin (CP) functions in the host response to pathogens through a mechanism termed "nutritional immunity." CP binds Mn(2+) and Zn(2+) with high affinity and starves bacteria of these essential nutrients. Combining biophysical, structural, and microbiological analysis, we identified ...

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

authors： Damo SM,Kehl-Fie TE,Sugitani N,Holt ME,Rathi S,Murphy WJ,Zhang Y,Betz C,Hench L,Fritz G,Skaar EP,Chazin WJ

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is an adipocytokine that plays a key role in the modulation of immune responses and the development and maintenance of inflammation. Circulating levels of leptin are elevated in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, but it is not clear whether this association can reflect a direct influence of leptin on ...

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

authors： Lourenço EV,Liu A,Matarese G,La Cava A

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional microfluidic systems were fabricated and used to pattern proteins and mammalian cells on a planar substrate. The three-dimensional topology of the microfluidic network in the stamp makes this technique a versatile one with which to pattern multiple types of proteins and cells in complex, discontinuou...

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

authors： Chiu DT,Jeon NL,Huang S,Kane RS,Wargo CJ,Choi IS,Ingber DE,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00