A novel type of RNA editing occurs in the mitochondrial tRNAs of the centipede Lithobius forficatus.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that has a progression that is closely associated with oxidative stress. It has long been speculated that the reactive oxygen species (ROS) level in AD brains is much higher than that in healthy brains. However, evidence from living beings is scarc...

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

authors： Yang J,Zhang X,Yuan P,Yang J,Xu Y,Grutzendler J,Shao Y,Moore A,Ran C

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of the Escherichia coli hemolysin polypeptide (HlyA) is used to predict intramolecular structures involved in the secretion and cytolytic activity of the molecule. The C-terminal region of HlyA contains a repeated, 8-amino acid chain represented by the consensus sequence Leu-Xaa-Gly-Gly-Xaa-Gly-A...

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

authors： Felmlee T,Welch RA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal-binding motif in the sequence of leukotriene A4 (LTA4) (EC 3.3.2.6), a bifunctional zinc metalloenzyme, contains a glutamic acid that is conserved in several zinc hydrolases. To study its role for the two catalytic activities, Glu-296 in mouse leukotriene A4 hydrolase was replaced by a glutamine or alanine r...

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

authors： Wetterholm A,Medina JF,Rådmark O,Shapiro R,Haeggström JZ,Vallee BL,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a significant fraction of the Escherichia coli cytosolic proteins, the N-terminal methionine residue incorporated during the translation initiation step is excised. The N-terminal methionine excision is catalyzed by methionyl-aminopeptidase (MAP). Previous studies have suggested that the action of this enzyme could...

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

authors： Hirel PH,Schmitter MJ,Dessen P,Fayat G,Blanquet S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a fracture network is a key process for many geophysical and industrial practices from energy resource recovery to induced seismic management. We focus on the initial stage of a fracture network formation using experiments on the symmetric coalescence of two equal coplanar, fluid-driven, penny-shaped ...

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

authors： O'Keeffe NJ,Zheng Z,Huppert HE,Linden PF

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome photoreceptors control plant growth, development, and the shade avoidance response that limits crop yield in high-density agricultural plantings. Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are distantly related photosensory proteins that control cyanobacterial metabolism and behavior in response to light. Photoreceptors...

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

authors： Lim S,Yu Q,Gottlieb SM,Chang CW,Rockwell NC,Martin SS,Madsen D,Lagarias JC,Larsen DS,Ames JB

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that laminar flow activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) in vascular endothelial cells in a ligand-dependent manner that involves phospholipase A2 and cytochrome P450 epoxygenases. In this study, we investigated whether epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), the cataly...

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

authors： Liu Y,Zhang Y,Schmelzer K,Lee TS,Fang X,Zhu Y,Spector AA,Gill S,Morisseau C,Hammock BD,Shyy JY

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 18- to 24-nt RNA molecules that regulate messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Posttranscriptional mechanisms regulate miRNA abundance during development as well as in cancer cells where miRNAs frequently exhibit dysregulated expression. The molecular mechanisms that govern the global efficiency of miRNA biog...

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

authors： Hwang HW,Wentzel EA,Mendell JT

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is an interferon (IFN)-inducible multifunctional protein. Recent evidence from high-throughput analyses indicates that most IFN-inducible proteins, including viperin, are intrinsically expressed in specific tissues; however, the respective intrinsic functions are unknown. Here we show that the intrinsic expres...

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

authors： Eom J,Kim JJ,Yoon SG,Jeong H,Son S,Lee JB,Yoo J,Seo HJ,Cho Y,Kim KS,Choi KM,Kim IY,Lee HY,Nam KT,Cresswell P,Seong JK,Seo JY

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective therapeutics for nuclear receptors would revolutionize treatment for endocrine disease. Specific control of nuclear receptor activity is challenging because the internal cavities that bind hormones can be virtually identical. Only one highly selective hormone analog is known for the thyroid receptor, GC-24, ...

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

authors： Borngraeber S,Budny MJ,Chiellini G,Cunha-Lima ST,Togashi M,Webb P,Baxter JD,Scanlan TS,Fletterick RJ

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 emerged on the Indian subcontinent in October 1992 to become the first non-O1 V. cholerae serogroup documented to cause epidemic cholera. Although related to V. cholerae El Tor O1 strains, O139 strains have unique surface structures that include a capsular surface layer and lipopolysacch...

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

authors： Waldor MK,Colwell R,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian leukosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J) is an important concern for the poultry industry. Replication of ALV-J depends on a functional cellular receptor, the chicken Na+/H+ exchanger type 1 (chNHE1). Tryptophan residue number 38 of chNHE1 (W38) in the extracellular portion of this molecule is a critical amino acid for...

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

authors： Koslová A,Trefil P,Mucksová J,Reinišová M,Plachý J,Kalina J,Kučerová D,Geryk J,Krchlíková V,Lejčková B,Hejnar J

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the primary visual cortex (V1) of many mammalian species, neurons are spatially organized according to their preferred orientation into a highly ordered map. However, whether and how the various presynaptic inputs to V1 neurons are organized relative to the neuronal orientation map remain unclear. To address this i...

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

authors： Zhang QF,Li H,Chen M,Guo A,Wen Y,Poo MM

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human populations have undergone dramatic expansions in size, but other than the growth associated with agriculture, the dates and magnitudes of those expansions have never been resolved. Here, we introduce two new statistical tests for population expansion, which use variation at a number of unlinked genetic markers ...

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

authors： Reich DE,Goldstein DB

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal domain of the vaccinia virus protein E3L (Z alpha(E3L)) is essential for full viral pathogenicity in mice. It has sequence similarity to the high-affinity human Z-DNA-binding domains Z alpha(ADAR1) and Z alpha(DLM1). Here, we report the solution structure of Z alpha(E3L) and the chemical shift map of it...

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

authors： Kahmann JD,Wecking DA,Putter V,Lowenhaupt K,Kim YG,Schmieder P,Oschkinat H,Rich A,Schade M

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In many eukaryotic systems during immune responses, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) link cytoplasmic signaling to chromatin events by targeting transcription factors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and the RNA polymerase machinery. So far, knowledge on these events is scarce in plants and no attempts have b...

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

authors： Rayapuram N,Jarad M,Alhoraibi HM,Bigeard J,Abulfaraj AA,Völz R,Mariappan KG,Almeida-Trapp M,Schlöffel M,Lastrucci E,Bonhomme L,Gust AA,Mithöfer A,Arold ST,Pflieger D,Hirt H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotiana tabacum cv. Turkish Samsun NN plants were transformed with a modified and truncated replicase gene encoded by RNA-2 of cucumber mosaic virus strain Fny. The replicase gene had been modified by deleting a 94-base-pair region spanning nucleotides 1857-1950; the deletion also caused a shift in the open reading ...

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

authors： Anderson JM,Palukaitis P,Zaitlin M

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, family 18 chitinases have been validated as potential targets for the design of drugs against human pathogens that contain or interact with chitin during their normal life cycles. Thus far, only one potent chitinase inhibitor has been described in detail, the pseudotrisaccharide allosamidin. Recen...

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

authors： Houston DR,Shiomi K,Arai N,Omura S,Peter MG,Turberg A,Synstad B,Eijsink VG,van Aalten DM

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of the controls on carbon storage and losses is essential for our capacity to predict and mitigate human impacts on the global carbon cycle. Plant litter decomposition is an important first step for carbon and nutrient turnover, and litter inputs and losses are essential in determining soil...

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

authors： Austin AT,Méndez MS,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many paleoredox proxies indicate low-level and dynamic incipient oxygenation of Earth's surface environments during the Neoarchean (2.8-2.5 Ga) before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) at ∼2.4 Ga. The mode, tempo, and scale of these redox changes are poorly understood, because data from various locations and ages sugges...

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

authors： Koehler MC,Buick R,Kipp MA,Stüeken EE,Zaloumis J

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on label-free imaging, detection, and mass/size measurement of single viral particles in solution by high-resolution surface plasmon resonance microscopy. Diffraction of propagating plasmon waves along a metal surface by the viral particles creates images of the individual particles, which allow us to detect...

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

authors： Wang S,Shan X,Patel U,Huang X,Lu J,Li J,Tao N

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase D (PTPRD) is a neuronal cell-adhesion molecule/synaptic specifier that has been implicated in addiction vulnerability and stimulant reward by human genomewide association and mouse cocaine-conditioned place-preference data. However, there have been no reports of effects of re...

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

authors： Uhl GR,Martinez MJ,Paik P,Sulima A,Bi GH,Iyer MR,Gardner E,Rice KC,Xi ZX

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, biosynthesis of the essential thiol antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), is plastid-regulated, but many GSH functions, including heavy metal detoxification and plant defense activation, depend on cytosolic GSH. This finding suggests that plastid and cytosol thiol pools are closely integrated and we...

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

authors： Maughan SC,Pasternak M,Cairns N,Kiddle G,Brach T,Jarvis R,Haas F,Nieuwland J,Lim B,Müller C,Salcedo-Sora E,Kruse C,Orsel M,Hell R,Miller AJ,Bray P,Foyer CH,Murray JA,Meyer AJ,Cobbett CS

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic expansion of plant cells requires organized arrays of cortical microtubules. Mutations in microtubule-associated proteins and a particular mutation in alpha-tubulins were reported to cause abnormal microtubule arrays and result in helical growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the way in which these muta...

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

authors： Ishida T,Kaneko Y,Iwano M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Colocalization of proteins that are part of the same signal transduction pathway via compartmentalization, scaffold, or anchor proteins is an essential aspect of the signal transduction system in eukaryotic cells. If interaction must occur via free diffusion, then the spatial separation between the sources of the two ...

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

authors： Batada NN,Shepp LA,Siegmund DO

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:WOPR-domain proteins are found throughout the fungal kingdom where they function as master regulators of cell morphology and pathogenesis. Genetic and biochemical experiments previously demonstrated that these proteins bind to specific DNA sequences and thereby regulate transcription. However, their primary sequence s...

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

authors： Lohse MB,Rosenberg OS,Cox JS,Stroud RM,Finer-Moore JS,Johnson AD

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) are important physiological means to regulate the activities and structures of central regulatory proteins in health and disease. Small GTPases have been recognized as important molecules that are targeted by PTMs during infections of mammalian cells by bacterial pathogens. The e...

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

authors： Barthelmes K,Ramcke E,Kang HS,Sattler M,Itzen A

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of active immunization with the cocaine immunogen GNC-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in preventing cocaine self-administration reinstatement was assessed in rats. An animal model of relapse was used where rats were trained to self-administer cocaine, subjected to a period of extinction by substituting th...

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

authors： Carrera MR,Ashley JA,Zhou B,Wirsching P,Koob GF,Janda KD

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized 175-nucleotide-long probes for the DNA of human histocompatibility antigens HLA-DR alpha and beta by extending on poly(A)+ mRNA from B-cell lines with short synthetic deoxyribonucleotide primers complementary to the predicted nucleotide sequence of the NH2 terminus of both polypeptides. The synthes...

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

authors： Das HK,Biro PA,Cohen SN,Erlich HA,von Gabain A,Lawrance SK,Lemaux PG,McDevitt HO,Peterlin BM,Schulz MF,Sood AK,Weissman SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vaccine capable of stimulating protective antiviral antibody responses is needed to curtail the global AIDS epidemic caused by HIV-1. Although rarely elicited during the course of natural infection or upon conventional vaccination, the membrane-proximal ectodomain region (MPER) of the HIV-1 glycoprotein of M(r) 41,0...

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

authors： Song L,Sun ZY,Coleman KE,Zwick MB,Gach JS,Wang JH,Reinherz EL,Wagner G,Kim M

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00