Characterization of Mbb1, a nucleus-encoded tetratricopeptide-like repeat protein required for expression of the chloroplast psbB/psbT/psbH gene cluster in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

abstract：:The plasma iron turnover was measured in 19 normal subjects. A correlation was found between plasma iron concentration and plasma iron turnover. In addition to the turnover of 55Fe at normal plasma iron concentration (predominantly monoferric transferrin), a second turnover in which the labeled plasma was saturated wi...

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

authors： Skarberg K,Eng M,Huebers H,Marsaglia G,Finch C

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen isotherms of human hemoglobin measured in distilled water and in solutions of sodium chloride in the concentration range from 0.02 to 3.0 M indicate that the oxygen affinity decreases up to about 1 M salt and then begins to increase. The isotherms obtained in the range from 0.02 to 0.6 M sodium chloride, at 37 ...

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

authors： Haire RN,Hedlund BE

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells require N-linked carbohydrates for survival. However, the biosynthetic intermediate Man5GlcNAc2Asn, in place of mature N-linked structures, allows glycoprotein synthesis and somatic cell growth to proceed normally. To determine whether the same would be true in a complex biological situation, the gene...

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

authors： Ioffe E,Stanley P

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analysis of Plasmodium parasites has indicated that their modern-day distribution is a result of a series of human-mediated dispersals involving transport between Africa, Europe, America, and Asia. A major outstanding question is the phylogenetic affinity of the malaria causing parasites Plasmodium vivax ...

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

authors： Gelabert P,Sandoval-Velasco M,Olalde I,Fregel R,Rieux A,Escosa R,Aranda C,Paaijmans K,Mueller I,Gilbert MT,Lalueza-Fox C

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat skeletal muscle selenoprotein W cDNA was isolated and sequenced. The isolation strategy involved design of degenerate PCR primers from reverse translation of a partial peptide sequence. A reverse transcription-coupled PCR product from rat muscle mRNA was used to screen a muscle cDNA library prepared from selenium-...

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

authors： Vendeland SC,Beilstein MA,Yeh JY,Ream W,Whanger PD

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its theoretical prominence and sound principles, integrated pest management (IPM) continues to suffer from anemic adoption rates in developing countries. To shed light on the reasons, we surveyed the opinions of a large and diverse pool of IPM professionals and practitioners from 96 countries by using structur...

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

authors： Parsa S,Morse S,Bonifacio A,Chancellor TC,Condori B,Crespo-Pérez V,Hobbs SL,Kroschel J,Ba MN,Rebaudo F,Sherwood SG,Vanek SJ,Faye E,Herrera MA,Dangles O

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants of isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase (IVDHase, EC 1.3.99.10) in 15 isovaleric acidemia fibroblast lines were analyzed using [35S]methionine labeling, immunoprecipitation with anti-rat IVDHase antiserum, and NaDodSo4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Five distinct variants of IVDHase were detected. The molecular ...

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

authors： Ikeda Y,Keese SM,Tanaka K

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of proteolysis lies at the heart of our understanding of biocatalysis, enzyme evolution, and drug development. To understand the degree of natural variation in protease active sites, we systematically evaluated simple active site features from all serine, cysteine and threonine proteases of independent linea...

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

authors： Buller AR,Townsend CA

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccades are rapid eye movements that orient the visual axis toward objects of interest to allow their processing by the central, high-acuity retina. Our ability to collect visual information efficiently relies on saccadic accuracy, which is limited by a combination of uncertainty in the location of the target and mot...

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

authors： Lisi M,Solomon JA,Morgan MJ

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral neural plate border (NPB), the neural part of the vertebrate neural border, is composed of central nervous system (CNS) progenitors and peripheral nervous system (PNS) progenitors. In invertebrates, PNS progenitors are also juxtaposed to the lateral boundary of the CNS. Whether there are conserved molecula...

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

authors： Li Y,Zhao D,Horie T,Chen G,Bao H,Chen S,Liu W,Horie R,Liang T,Dong B,Feng Q,Tao Q,Liu X

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to measure the lateral diffusion coefficient and mobile fraction of surface immunoglobulin (sIg), Thy-1 antigen, and a lipid probe in the plasma membrane of mouse lymphocytes. The lipid probe (3,3'-dioctadecylindocarbocyanine) had a mean (+/-SD) diffusion coefficient of (1...

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

authors： Dragsten P,Henkart P,Blumenthal R,Weinstein J,Schlessinger J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic activity, having the properties expected of a B-specific host-controlled modification enzyme, has been purified from an extract of Escherichia coli strain B. This activity renders the unmodified replicative form of phage fd resistant to B-specific restriction and is only present in strains carrying intact...

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

authors： Kühnlein U,Linn S,Arber W

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation in eukaryotes is controlled by nucleoprotein complexes formed through cooperative interactions among multiple transcription regulatory proteins. These complexes may be assembled via stochastic collisions or defined pathways. We investigated the dynamics of Fos-Jun-NFAT1 complexes by using a mu...

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

authors： Ramirez-Carrozzi VR,Kerppola TK

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological state of matter and lithium batteries are currently two hot topics in science and technology. Here we combine these two by exploring the possibility of using all-carbon-based porous topological semimetal for lithium battery anode material. Based on density-functional theory and the cluster-expansion method...

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

authors： Liu J,Wang S,Sun Q

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-shock protein of 90 kDa (Hsp90) is an essential molecular chaperone that adopts different 3D structures associated with distinct nucleotide states: a wide-open, V-shaped dimer in the apo state and a twisted, N-terminally closed dimer with ATP. Although the N domain is known to mediate ATP binding, how Hsp90 sense...

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

authors： Sung N,Lee J,Kim JH,Chang C,Joachimiak A,Lee S,Tsai FT

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) represents a serious threat to the health of hospitalized patients. Attempts to reduce the spread of MRSA have largely depended on hospital hygiene and patient isolation. These measures have met with mixed success: although some countries have almost eliminated MRSA o...

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

authors： Cooper BS,Medley GF,Stone SP,Kibbler CC,Cookson BD,Roberts JA,Duckworth G,Lai R,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although heparin and low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWH) have been widely used clinically as anticoagulants, their broader use has been limited by the lack of noninvasive delivery methods for this class of molecules. In this study, we demonstrate an efficient, rapid, and reproducible delivery system for heparin throu...

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

authors： Qi Y,Zhao G,Liu D,Shriver Z,Sundaram M,Sengupta S,Venkataraman G,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polymorphisms of the transcription factor 4 (TCF4) have been shown to increase the risk for schizophrenia, particularly TCF4 rs9960767. This polymorphism is associated with impaired sensorimotor gating measured by prepulse inhibition--an established endophenotype of schizophrenia. We therefore investigated whe...

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

authors： Quednow BB,Brinkmeyer J,Mobascher A,Nothnagel M,Musso F,Gründer G,Savary N,Petrovsky N,Frommann I,Lennertz L,Spreckelmeyer KN,Wienker TF,Dahmen N,Thuerauf N,Clepce M,Kiefer F,Majic T,Mössner R,Maier W,Gallinat J,D

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological realm has inherited symmetries from the physicochemical realm, but with the increasing complexity at higher phenomenological levels of life, some inherited symmetries are broken while novel symmetries appear. These symmetries are of two types, structural and operational. Biological novelties result from...

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

authors： García-Bellido A

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1, SDF-1, is an important regulator of leukocyte and hematopoietic precursor migration and pre-B cell proliferation. The receptor for SDF-1, CXCR4, also functions as a coreceptor for T-tropic HIV-1 entry. We find that mice deficient for CXCR4 die perinatally and display profou...

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

authors： Ma Q,Jones D,Borghesani PR,Segal RA,Nagasawa T,Kishimoto T,Bronson RT,Springer TA

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently determined set of 20 NMR-derived conformations of a 48-residue all-alpha-helical protein, (PDB ID code 2JVD), is validated here by comparing the observed (13)C(alpha) chemical shifts with those computed at the density functional level of theory. In addition, a recently introduced physics-based method, aimed...

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

authors： Vila JA,Aramini JM,Rossi P,Kuzin A,Su M,Seetharaman J,Xiao R,Tong L,Montelione GT,Scheraga HA

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in a number of stress granule-associated proteins have been linked to various neurodegenerative diseases. Several of these mutations are found in aggregation-prone prion-like domains (PrLDs) within these proteins. In this work, we examine the sequence features governing PrLD localization to stress granules u...

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

authors： Boncella AE,Shattuck JE,Cascarina SM,Paul KR,Baer MH,Fomicheva A,Lamb AK,Ross ED

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glu-126 (helix IV) and Arg-144 (helix V) are charge paired and play a critical role in substrate binding in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli. When Glu-126 is replaced with Asp, the permease has relatively high activity, implying that helix V has sufficient flexibility to allow Arg-144 to accommodate the decrea...

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

authors： Weinglass AB,Kaback HR

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell lines were established from canine long-term marrow cultures, cloned by limiting dilution, and maintained in stromal cell-conditioned medium. These cells grew adherent, maintained stable growth rate and morphology under standard conditions (in 20-30% conditioned medium; confluency, 70-90%), and supported ...

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

authors： Huss R,Hong DS,McSweeney PA,Hoy CA,Deeg HJ

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:An homologous in vitro assay for yeast nonsense suppressors was used to examine the effect of the cytoplasmically inherited genetic determinant [psi] on the efficiency of in vitro nonsense suppression. The efficiency of all three types of yeast tRNA-mediated nonsense suppressor (ochre, amber, and UGA) is much greater ...

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

authors： Tuite MF,Cox BS,McLaughlin CS

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the human pituitary contains a previously unidentified, nonprolactin (non-hPRL), non-growth-hormone (non-hGH) factor capable of stimulating mammary development, we tested the effects of whole human pituitary extract (hPE) and pituitary extracts depleted of hPRL and hGH ("stripped hPE") in hypophys...

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

authors： Newman CB,Cosby H,Friesen HG,Feldman M,Cooper P,De Crescito V,Pilon M,Kleinberg DL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance dependence is a complex environmental and genetic disorder that results in serious health and socioeconomic consequences. Many studies have reported and implicated genes associated with various substance dependence outcomes, including addiction to nicotine and addiction to alcohol. Using data from several ge...

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

authors： Chen X,Cho K,Singer BH,Zhang H

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD) refers to the diaphragm muscle weakness that occurs following prolonged controlled mechanical ventilation (MV). The presence of VIDD impedes recovery from respiratory failure. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms accounting for VIDD are still not fully understo...

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

authors： Matecki S,Dridi H,Jung B,Saint N,Reiken SR,Scheuermann V,Mrozek S,Santulli G,Umanskaya A,Petrof BJ,Jaber S,Marks AR,Lacampagne A

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible binding of the haptens 2,4-dinitrophenyllysine (DNP-lysine) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyllysine (TNP-lysine) to either the nitrophenyl-binding myeloma protein MOPC-315 or to pooled mouse anti-DNP or anti-TNP antibodies produces large and characteristic extrinsic Cotton effects (in the circular dichroic spect...

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

authors： Glaser M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-like tyrosine kinase (Ryk), a Wnt receptor, is important for cell fate determination during corticogenesis. During neuronal differentiation, the Ryk intracellular domain (ICD) is cleaved. Cleavage of Ryk and nuclear translocation of Ryk-ICD are required for neuronal differentiation. However, the mechanism...

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

authors： Chang WH,Choi SH,Moon BS,Cai M,Lyu J,Bai J,Gao F,Hajjali I,Zhao Z,Campbell DB,Weiner LP,Lu W

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00