Structure of a two-domain chitotriosidase from Serratia marcescens at 1.9-A resolution.

abstract：:Ecosystem restoration aims to restore biodiversity and valuable functions that have been degraded or lost. The Coral Triangle is a hotspot for marine biodiversity held in its coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests, all of which are in global decline. These coastal ecosystems support valuable fisheries and...

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

authors： Williams SL,Ambo-Rappe R,Sur C,Abbott JM,Limbong SR

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18) infects genital squamous epithelium and is an etiological agent of cervical cancer. Cell-type-specific expression of HPV-18 is directed by the region upstream of the viral early genes that contains a transcriptional enhancer whose function is dependent solely on cellular factors. ...

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

authors： Mack DH,Laimins LA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interbacterial interaction pathways play an important role in defining the structure and complexity of bacterial associations. A quantitative description of such pathways offers promise for understanding the forces that contribute to community composition. We developed time-lapse fluorescence microscopy methods for qu...

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

authors： LeRoux M,De Leon JA,Kuwada NJ,Russell AB,Pinto-Santini D,Hood RD,Agnello DM,Robertson SM,Wiggins PA,Mougous JD

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a theoretical prediction that patterns of excitatory input activity that consistently fail to activate target neurons sufficiently to induce synaptic potentiation will instead cause a specific synaptic depression. To realize this situation experimentally, the Schaffer collateral projection to area CA1 in rat...

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

authors： Dudek SM,Bear MF

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic effects of alkylating agents have been attributed to their ability to damage DNA. Reaction at the O6 position of guanine results in miscoding during DNA replication, has been shown to be mutagenic in both bacteriophage and bacteria, and may be responsible for malignant transforma...

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

authors： Brennand J,Margison GP

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphodiester bond formation by DNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase, nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6) can in principle result in retention, inversion, or racemization of configuration at the alpha-phosphorus of the nucleoside 5'-triphosphate being polymerized. As...

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

authors： Eckstein F,Armstrong VW,Sternbach H

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the use of our bis(sulfonamide) diol ligand (1) in the asymmetric addition of phenyl groups to cyclic alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones. Good to excellent enantioselectivities have been obtained with cyclic enones bearing alkyl substituents in the 2 position (71-97% enantiomeric excess). Furthermore, exc...

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

authors： Li H,García C,Walsh PJ

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:All available complete mitochondrial genomes (21 species) are evaluated for dinucleotide over- and under-representation. The CpG dinucleotide is pervasively under-represented in all animal mitochondria, but it is of variable relative abundance in fungal, protist, and plant mitochondrial genomes. Interpretations and hy...

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

authors： Cardon LR,Burge C,Clayton DA,Karlin S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of tail-anchored (TA) protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) depends on the Guided Entry of Tail-Anchored (Get) protein targeting machinery. The fate of TA proteins that become inappropriately inserted into other organelles, such as mitochondria, is unknown. Here, we identify Msp1, a conserve...

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

authors： Okreglak V,Walter P

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the success of Plasmodium falciparum in establishing persistent infections is attributed to immune evasion through antigenic variation. This process involves periodically exchanging variants of the major surface antigen PfEMP1, a protein also responsible for parasite cytoadherence. PfEMP1 is encoded by genes o...

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

authors： Ralph SA,Scheidig-Benatar C,Scherf A

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of derepressed synthesis of a membrane protein required for lactose transport (M protein) by Escherichia coli is increased in response to increased gene dosage to the same extent as the rates of synthesis of beta-galactosidase and galactoside acetylase. However, elevated gene dosage does not increase beta-gal...

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

authors： Fox CF

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane channels and receptors exhibit adaptive, or desensitized, response to a strong sustained input stimulus. A key mechanism that underlies this response is the slow, activity-dependent removal of responding molecules to a pool which is unavailable to respond immediately to the input. This mechanism is imple...

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

authors： Friedlander T,Brenner N

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Type-1 reactions (T1R) are pathological inflammatory episodes and main contributors to nerve damage in leprosy. Here, we evaluate the genewise enrichment of rare protein-altering variants in 7 genes where common variants were previously associated with T1R. We selected 474 Vietnamese leprosy patients of which 237 were...

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

authors： Fava VM,Xu YZ,Lettre G,Van Thuc N,Orlova M,Thai VH,Tao S,Croteau N,Eldeeb MA,MacDougall EJ,Cambri G,Lahiri R,Adams L,Fon EA,Trempe JF,Cobat A,Alcaïs A,Abel L,Schurr E

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans routinely formulate plans in domains so complex that even the most powerful computers are taxed. To do so, they seem to avail themselves of many strategies and heuristics that efficiently simplify, approximate, and hierarchically decompose hard tasks into simpler subtasks. Theoretical and cognitive research has...

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

authors： Huys QJ,Lally N,Faulkner P,Eshel N,Seifritz E,Gershman SJ,Dayan P,Roiser JP

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune regulator (aire) is a transcription factor that controls the self-reactivity of the T cell repertoire. Although previous results indicate that it exerts this function in part by promoting ectopic expression of a battery of peripheral-tissue antigens in epithelial cells of the thymic medulla, recent data arg...

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

authors： Johnnidis JB,Venanzi ES,Taxman DJ,Ting JP,Benoist CO,Mathis DJ

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the human major histocompatibility complex class II genes requires at least two upstream elements, the X and Y boxes, located in the -50- to -150-base-pair region of all class II promoters. The DRA and DPB promoters contain phorbol ester-responsive elements overlapping the 3' side of thei...

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

authors： Ono SJ,Bazil V,Levi BZ,Ozato K,Strominger JL

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary muscle cell culture derived from newborn rabbit muscle and growing on microcarriers in suspension was established. When cultured for several weeks, the myotubes in this model develop the completely adult pattern of fast myosin light and heavy chains. When Ca2+ ionophore is added to the culture medium on day ...

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

authors： Kubis HP,Haller EA,Wetzel P,Gros G

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble extracts of adenovirus-infected HeLa cell nuclei support DNA replication on exogenous adenovirus DNA templates. Conditions of synthesis using both wild-type and temperature-sensitive extracts have been defined. Nuclear extracts prepared from cells permissively infected with the adenovirus mutant H5ts125 expres...

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

authors： Kaplan LM,Ariga H,Hurwitz J,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the mouse trigeminal ganglia (TG) is the most commonly used model for the study of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency. Its popularity is caused, at least in part, by the perception that latent infection can be studied in this system in the absence of spontaneous viral reactivation. However, this ...

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

authors： Feldman LT,Ellison AR,Voytek CC,Yang L,Krause P,Margolis TP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive brain stimulation protocols induce plasticity in the stimulated site in brain slice models. Recent evidence from network models has indicated that additional plasticity-related changes occur in nonstimulated remote regions. Despite increasing use of brain stimulation protocols in experimental and clinical s...

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

authors： Abe M,Fukuyama H,Mima T

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocardin family proteins (myocardin, MRTF-A, and MRTF-B) are serum response factor (SRF) cofactors and potent transcription activators. Gene-ablation studies have indicated important developmental functions for myocardin family proteins primarily in regulation of cardiac and smooth muscle development. Using Xenop...

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

authors： Meadows SM,Warkman AS,Salanga MC,Small EM,Krieg PA

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Various enzymatic derivatives of the murine myeloma protein IgA(MOPC-315) were subjected to hapten-binding quantitation and circular dichroic analysis in an attempt to ascertain the structural localization and functional definition of the immunoglobulin active site. The extrinsic Cotton effects observed with near satu...

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

authors： Merz DC,Litman GW,Good RA

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanted mouse blastocysts were microinjected in the blastocoel cavity with simian virus 40 (SV40) viral DNA. After surgical transfer to the uteri of pseudopregnant surrogate mothers, approximately 40% of the blastocysts developed to term and became healthy adults without apparent tumors at 1 year of age. Molecular h...

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

authors： Jaenisch R,Mintz B

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report potent inhibition of the Mg(II).ATP-dependent protein phosphatase, Fc.M, by the regulatory subunit dimer of type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase, RII2. The protein kinase catalytic subunit has no effect on phosphatase activity and is unable to substitute for kinase FA in the kinase FA- and Mg(II).ATP-mediat...

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

authors： Jurgensen SR,Chock PB,Taylor S,Vandenheede JR,Merlevede W

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancing immune responses with immune-modulatory monoclonal antibodies directed to inhibitory immune receptors is a promising modality in cancer therapy. Clinical efficacy has been demonstrated with antibodies blocking inhibitory immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) or PD-1/...

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

authors： Romano E,Kusio-Kobialka M,Foukas PG,Baumgaertner P,Meyer C,Ballabeni P,Michielin O,Weide B,Romero P,Speiser DE

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A further study is made of the intertwining operators for the representations of the simple Lie groups of real rank one. We extend and apply this to the higher rank case, obtaining various results dealing with reducibility of principal series and existence of complementary series. ...

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

authors： Knapp AW,Stein EM

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major DNA double-strand break repair pathways exist in all eukaryotes, nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). Although both pathways can function throughout the cell cycle, NHEJ predominates in G0/G1) (when a replicated sister chromatid is unavailable), whereas HR makes a more subs...

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

authors： Convery E,Shin EK,Ding Q,Wang W,Douglas P,Davis LS,Nickoloff JA,Lees-Miller SP,Meek K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A power-law distribution of the length of perfectly conserved sequence from mouse/human whole-genome intersection and alignment is exhibited. Spatial correlations of these elements within the mouse genome are studied. It is argued that these power-law distributions and correlations are comprised in part by functional ...

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

authors： Salerno W,Havlak P,Miller J

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental lemurs either were infected orally with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or were maintained as uninfected control animals. Immunohistochemical examination for proteinase-resistant protein (prion protein or PrP) was performed on tissues from two infected but still asymptomatic lemurs, ki...

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

authors： Bons N,Mestre-Frances N,Belli P,Cathala F,Gajdusek DC,Brown P

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00