Dynamical principles in biological processes: a model of charge migration in proteins and DNA.

abstract：:Circadian pacemaking requires the orderly synthesis, posttranslational modification, and degradation of clock proteins. In mammals, mutations in casein kinase 1 (CK1) epsilon or delta can alter the circadian period, but the particular functions of the WT isoforms within the pacemaker remain unclear. We selectively tar...

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

authors： Meng QJ,Maywood ES,Bechtold DA,Lu WQ,Li J,Gibbs JE,Dupré SM,Chesham JE,Rajamohan F,Knafels J,Sneed B,Zawadzke LE,Ohren JF,Walton KM,Wager TT,Hastings MH,Loudon AS

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:CD95 type I and II cells differ in their dependence on mitochondria to execute apoptosis, because antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family render only type II cells resistant to death receptor-induced apoptosis. They can also be distinguished by a more efficient formation of the death-inducing signaling complex in ty...

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

authors： Algeciras-Schimnich A,Pietras EM,Barnhart BC,Legembre P,Vijayan S,Holbeck SL,Peter ME

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:5-enol-Pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSP synthase; phosphoenolpyruvate:3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.19) is an enzyme on the pathway toward the synthesis of aromatic amino acids in plants, fungi, and bacteria and is the target of the broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate. The three-dim...

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

authors： Stallings WC,Abdel-Meguid SS,Lim LW,Shieh HS,Dayringer HE,Leimgruber NK,Stegeman RA,Anderson KS,Sikorski JA,Padgette SR,Kishore GM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Max gene encodes a protein that interacts specifically with the Myc protein to form a heterodimer with high affinity for the specific cognate DNA binding site of Myc. Here we examine the expression of Max RNA in comparison to Myc RNA during cell growth and differentiation. Two species of RNA, a major 2.0- and a mi...

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

authors： Wagner AJ,Le Beau MM,Diaz MO,Hay N

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the function of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) requires detailed knowledge of the structure of its primary protein, apolipoprotein A-I (APOA1). However, APOA1 flexibility and HDL heterogeneity have confounded decades of efforts to determine high-resolution structures and consistent models. Here, molecula...

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

authors： Pourmousa M,Song HD,He Y,Heinecke JW,Segrest JP,Pastor RW

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In solid-state physics, "doping" is a pivotal concept that allows controlling and engineering of the macroscopic electronic and optical properties of materials such as semiconductors by judiciously introducing small concentrations of impurities. Recently, this concept has been translated to two-dimensional photonic sc...

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

authors： Coppolaro M,Moccia M,Castaldi G,Engheta N,Galdi V

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An enconuclease activity that reacts with x-irradiated DNA is present in extracts of E. coli. By using centrifugal methods to monitor the conversion of the supercoiled, circular double-stranded DNA for phage phi-x-174 (replicative form) or PM2 to the relaxed circular form it was possible to quantitate the rate of radi...

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

authors： Strniste GF,Wallace SS

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic initiator proteins form origin recognition complexes (ORCs) that bind to replication origins during most of the cell cycle and direct assembly of prereplication complexes (pre-RCs) before the onset of S phase. In the eubacterium Escherichia coli, there is a temporally similar nucleoprotein complex comprisin...

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

authors： Miller DT,Grimwade JE,Betteridge T,Rozgaja T,Torgue JJ,Leonard AC

更新日期：2009-11-03 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：:It was recently demonstrated that amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide vaccination was effective in reducing the Abeta burden in Alzheimer model mice. However, the clinical trial was halted because of the development of meningoencephalitis in some patients. To overcome this problem, anti-Abeta antibody therapy and other types...

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

authors： Okura Y,Miyakoshi A,Kohyama K,Park IK,Staufenbiel M,Matsumoto Y

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

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：:To evade host immune mechanisms, many bacteria secrete immunomodulatory enzymes. Streptococcus pyogenes, one of the most common human pathogens, secretes a large endoglycosidase, EndoS, which removes carbohydrates in a highly specific manner from IgG antibodies. This modification renders antibodies incapable of elicit...

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

authors： Trastoy B,Lomino JV,Pierce BG,Carter LG,Günther S,Giddens JP,Snyder GA,Weiss TM,Weng Z,Wang LX,Sundberg EJ

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis of protein-encoding sequences occurs ubiquitously; it enables evolution, accumulates during aging, and is associated with disease. Many biotechnological methods exploit random mutations to evolve novel proteins. To quantitate protein tolerance to random change, it is vital to understand the probability tha...

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

authors： Guo HH,Choe J,Loeb LA

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha and beta subunits of Na-K-ATPase are up-regulated by hypertonicity in inner-medullary collecting duct cells adapted to survive in hypertonic conditions. We examined the regulation of the gamma subunit by hypertonicity. Although cultured inner-medullary collecting duct cells lacked the gamma subunits, both va...

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

authors： Capasso JM,Rivard C,Berl T

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation in the Escherichia coli dsbA gene (coding for a periplasmic disulfide oxidoreductase) reduces the rate of disulfide bond formation in the enzyme pullulanase and also reduces the rate at which the enzyme is secreted to the cell surface, as measured by protease accessibility. The enzyme did not become proteas...

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

authors： Pugsley AP

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullvalene is a structurally unique dynamic molecule thought to interconvert among 1.2 million degenerate isomers. The incorporation of different chemical substituents onto the bullvalene core should lead to a "shape-shifting" molecule that can interconvert among thousands of discrete structural isomers. Previous NMR ...

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

authors： He M,Bode JW

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant inhibition of spermatogenesis and appearance of antibodies against spermatogenic cells identified by cytotoxicity and immunofluorescence reactions were observed in mice of inbred strains 129/Sv and BALB/c and in albino guinea pigs after syngeneic, allogeneic, and xenogeneic immunization with mouse F9 embry...

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

authors： Vojtiskova M,Pokorna Z,Draber P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod-like colloids distort fluid interfaces and interact by capillarity. We explore this interaction at the free surface of aligned nematic liquid crystal films. Naive comparison of capillary and elastic energies suggests that particle assembly would be determined solely by surface tension. Here, we demonstrate that, u...

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

authors： Liu IB,Gharbi MA,Ngo VL,Kamien RD,Yang S,Stebe KJ

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a conserved meiotic structure that regulates the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) into crossovers or gene conversions. The removal of any central-region SC component, such as the Drosophila melanogaster transverse filament protein C(3)G, causes a complete loss of SC structure and ...

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

authors： Billmyre KK,Cahoon CK,Heenan GM,Wesley ER,Yu Z,Unruh JR,Takeo S,Hawley RS

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies previously used for immunofluorescence localization of a myosin heavy chain-like polypeptide to the nuclear envelope in higher eukaryotic cells crossreact with both muscle and nonmuscle isoforms of Drosophila myosin heavy chain. Analyses of Drosophila tissue culture cells and premyogenic embryos suggest tha...

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

authors： Berrios M,Fisher PA,Matz EC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircle of trypanosomatids initiates at a conserved 12-nt sequence, 5'-GGGGTTGGTGTA-3', termed the universal minicircle sequence (UMS). A sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Crithidia fasciculata binds the heavy strand of the 12-mer UMS. Whereas this ...

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

authors： Avrahami D,Tzfati Y,Shlomai J

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17A is a therapeutic target in many autoimmune diseases. Most nonhematopoietic cells express IL-17A receptors and respond to extracellular IL-17A by inducing proinflammatory cytokines. The IL-17A signal transduction triggers two broad, TRAF6- and TRAF5-dependent, intracellular signaling pathways to produce represen...

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

authors： McGowan J,Peter C,Kim J,Popli S,Veerman B,Saul-McBeth J,Conti H,Pruett-Miller SM,Chattopadhyay S,Chakravarti R

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Interindividual differences in hepatic metabolism, which are mainly due to genetic polymorphism in its gene, have a large influence on individual drug efficacy and adverse reaction. Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have the potential to predict interindividual...

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

authors： Takayama K,Morisaki Y,Kuno S,Nagamoto Y,Harada K,Furukawa N,Ohtaka M,Nishimura K,Imagawa K,Sakurai F,Tachibana M,Sumazaki R,Noguchi E,Nakanishi M,Hirata K,Kawabata K,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood oxygen level-dependent functional MRI (fMRI) constitutes a powerful neuroimaging technology to map brain-wide functions in response to specific sensory or cognitive tasks. However, fMRI mapping of the vestibular system, which is pivotal for our sense of balance, poses significant challenges. Physical constraints...

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

authors： Leong ATL,Gu Y,Chan YS,Zheng H,Dong CM,Chan RW,Wang X,Liu Y,Tan LH,Wu EX

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to the design of immunotherapeutics and vaccines for cancer is the idiosyncratic nature of many tumor antigens and the possibility that T cells may be tolerant of broadly distributed antigens. We have devised an experimental strategy that exploits species differences in protein sequences to circumvent ...

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

authors： Theobald M,Biggs J,Dittmer D,Levine AJ,Sherman LA

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that it is possible to direct particles entrained in a fluid along trajectories much like rays of light in classical optics. A microstructured, asymmetric post array forms the core hydrodynamic element and is used as a building block to construct microfluidic metamaterials and to demonstrate refractive, focusi...

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

authors： Morton KJ,Loutherback K,Inglis DW,Tsui OK,Sturm JC,Chou SY,Austin RH

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ovaries of the mosquito Aedes aegypti cultured in vitro secrete material that behaves like ecdysone in a radioimmunoassay. The material was identified as alpha-ecdysone by high-resolution liquid and gas-liquid chromatography. Secretion reached a maximum 16 hr after a blood meal as shown by bioassay and direct dete...

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

authors： Hagedorn HH,O'Connor JD,Fuchs MS,Sage B,Schlaeger DA,Bohm MK

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three classes of heterogeneous nuclear RNA (HnRNA) alpha, beta, and gamma, with different chemical and physical properties, can be identified in the early sea urchin embryo by hybridization with poly(U). The relative amounts of these classes vary as a function of embryonic development. It is demonstrated here that the...

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

authors： Dubroff LM

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the reconstitution of a pathway that leads to the apoptotic changes in nuclei by using recombinant DNA fragmentation factor (DFF), a heterodimeric protein of 40 and 45 kDa. Coexpression of DFF40 and DFF45 is required to generate recombinant DFF, which becomes activated when DFF45 is cleaved by caspase-3...

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

authors： Liu X,Li P,Widlak P,Zou H,Luo X,Garrard WT,Wang X

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the resonance Raman spectrum of bacteriorhodopsin's primary photoproduct K with a novel low-temperature spinning sample technique. Purple membrane at 77 K is illuminated with spatially separated actinic (pump) and probe laser beams. The 514-nm pump beam produces a photostationary steady-state mixture ...

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

authors： Braiman M,Mathies R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00