Altering dimerization specificity by changes in surface electrostatics.

abstract：:Seed germination is a complex trait of key ecological and agronomic significance. Few genetic factors regulating germination have been identified, and the means by which their concerted action controls this developmental process remains largely unknown. Using publicly available gene expression data from Arabidopsis th...

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

authors： Bassel GW,Lan H,Glaab E,Gibbs DJ,Gerjets T,Krasnogor N,Bonner AJ,Holdsworth MJ,Provart NJ

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described in which the interference of radiated second-harmonic electric fields generated by a pair of oriented molecules intercalated into double-stranded DNA is controlled and measured. The results show that the relative molecular orientation of the two molecules significantly changes the magnitude of th...

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

authors： Doughty B,Rao Y,Kazer SW,Kwok SJ,Turro NJ,Eisenthal KB

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) plays a crucial role in facilitating the entry of macrophage-tropic strains of the HIV-1 into cells, but the mechanism of this phenomenon is completely unknown. To explore the role of CCR5-derived signal transduction in viral entry, we introduced mutations into two cytoplasmic domai...

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

authors： Gosling J,Monteclaro FS,Atchison RE,Arai H,Tsou CL,Goldsmith MA,Charo IF

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of all Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi genes still remain unannotated. Although pathogenesis of S. Typhi is incompletely understood, treatment of typhoid fever is complicated by the emergence of drug resistance. Effectiveness of the currently available vaccines is also limited. In search of novel viru...

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

authors： Ghosh S,Chakraborty K,Nagaraja T,Basak S,Koley H,Dutta S,Mitra U,Das S

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of activated T cells to apoptosis must be tightly regulated to ensure sufficient T cell progeny for an effective response, while allowing a rapid depletion of them at the end of the immune response. We show here that a previously isolated, NF-kappa B/rel target gene IEX-1 (Immediate Early response gene ...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Schlossman SF,Edwards RA,Ou CN,Gu J,Wu MX

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Crises in science concern not only methods, statistics, and results but also, theory development. Beyond the indispensable refinement of tools and procedures, resolving crises would also benefit from a deeper understanding of the concepts and processes guiding research. Usually, theories compete, and some lose, incent...

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

authors： Ellemers N,Fiske ST,Abele AE,Koch A,Yzerbyt V

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lufenuron is an insect growth regulator insecticide mainly used for the control of the cat flea. To understand mechanisms of resistance to lufenuron, we have characterized lufenuron resistance in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. In this study we have used precise genetic mapping to identify a mechanism...

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

authors： Bogwitz MR,Chung H,Magoc L,Rigby S,Wong W,O'Keefe M,McKenzie JA,Batterham P,Daborn PJ

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally believed that the old quantum theory, as presented by Niels Bohr in 1913, fails when applied to few electron systems, such as the H(2) molecule. Here, we find previously undescribed solutions within the Bohr theory that describe the potential energy curve for the lowest singlet and triplet states of H(...

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

authors： Svidzinsky AA,Scully MO,Herschbach DR

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the receptor binding moiety of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (EtxB) can completely prevent autoimmune disease in a murine model of arthritis. Injection of male DBA/1 mice at the base of the tail with type II collagen in the presence of complete Freund's adjuvant normally leads to arthrit...

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

authors： Williams NA,Stasiuk LM,Nashar TO,Richards CM,Lang AK,Day MJ,Hirst TR

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:MS2 RNA binds at 0 degrees to 30S subunits from E. coli and, to a smaller extent, to those of a Pseudomonas species, as judged by filtration on nitrocellulose membranes; this mRNA does not bind to 30S subunits from Bacillus brevis or Caulobacter crescentus. Binding does not depend on the presence of initiation factors...

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

authors： Szer W,Leffler S

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion of the sciatic nerve caused a rapid increase in c-fos and c-jun mRNA that was followed about 2 hr later by an increase in nerve growth factor (NGF) mRNA. To evaluate whether the initial increase in c-fos mRNA is causally related to the subsequent increase in NGF mRNA, we performed experiments with fibroblasts o...

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

authors： Hengerer B,Lindholm D,Heumann R,Rüther U,Wagner EF,Thoenen H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal stress exposure is associated with risk for psychiatric disorders later in life. This may be mediated in part via enhanced exposure to glucocorticoids (GCs), which are known to impact neurogenesis. We aimed to identify molecular mediators of these effects, focusing on long-lasting epigenetic changes. In a hum...

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

authors： Provençal N,Arloth J,Cattaneo A,Anacker C,Cattane N,Wiechmann T,Röh S,Ködel M,Klengel T,Czamara D,Müller NS,Lahti J,PREDO team.,Räikkönen K,Pariante CM,Binder EB

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mosquitoes feed sequentially on carbohydrates (nectar) and proteins (blood) during each gonadotrophic cycle to become reproductively competent and effective disease vectors. Accordingly, metabolism is synchronized to support this reproductive cyclicity. However, regulatory pathways linking metabolism to reprodu...

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

authors： Ling L,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmural stimulation of the isolated adrenal gland of the rat and guinea pig results in secretion of catecholamine. The secretion is due to activation of cholinergic receptors of the adrenal medulla by acetylcholine released from splanchnic nerve terminals after transmural stimulation. Our aim was to see whether the...

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

authors： Wakade AR,Wakade TD

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiota is pivotal in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated inflammation-induced colorectal cancer (CRC), yet mechanisms for these effects remain poorly characterized. Here, we demonstrate that aberrant inflammasome-induced microbiota plays a critical role in CRC development, where mic...

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

authors： Hu B,Elinav E,Huber S,Strowig T,Hao L,Hafemann A,Jin C,Wunderlich C,Wunderlich T,Eisenbarth SC,Flavell RA

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most teenage fears subside with age, a change that may reflect brain maturation in the service of refined fear learning. Whereas adults clearly demarcate safe situations from real dangers, attenuating fear to the former but not the latter, adolescents' immaturity in prefrontal cortex function may limit their ability t...

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

authors： Lau JY,Britton JC,Nelson EE,Angold A,Ernst M,Goldwin M,Grillon C,Leibenluft E,Lissek S,Norcross M,Shiffrin N,Pine DS

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive lower bounds for pseudo-differential operators with nonnegative symbols are derived; the bounds in particular yield subelliptic estimates for operators arising as sums of squares of vector fields. ...

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

authors： Fefferman C,Phong DH

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal promoter of the Xenopus laevis oocyte-type 5S RNA gene is preferentially cleaved by S1 and Bal-31 nucleases in plasmid DNA. S1 nuclease sensitivity is largely dependent on supercoiling; however, Bal-31 cleaves within the 5S RNA gene in linear as well as in supercoiled DNA. The S1 nuclease-hypersensitive s...

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

authors： Reynolds WF,Gottesfeld JM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma resistance to glucocorticoid treatment is a major health problem with unclear etiology. Glucocorticoids inhibit adrenal androgen production. However, androgens have potential benefits in asthma. HSD3B1 encodes for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (3β-HSD1), which catalyzes peripheral conversion from adrenal de...

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

authors： Zein J,Gaston B,Bazeley P,DeBoer MD,Igo RP Jr,Bleecker ER,Meyers D,Comhair S,Marozkina NV,Cotton C,Patel M,Alyamani M,Xu W,Busse WW,Calhoun WJ,Ortega V,Hawkins GA,Castro M,Chung KF,Fahy JV,Fitzpatrick AM,Israel

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:SsrA/SsrB is a primary two-component system that mediates the survival and replication of Salmonella within host cells. When activated, the SsrB response regulator directly promotes the transcription of multiple genes within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2). As expression of the SsrB protein is promoted by se...

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

authors： Choi J,Shin D,Yoon H,Kim J,Lee CR,Kim M,Seok YJ,Ryu S

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) receptor controls a pathway supporting the differentiation and survival of a wide range of neural cell types during development and in adulthood. Cardiotrophin-like cytokine (CLC)-cytokine-like factor 1 (CLF) composite cytokine is a second ligand for the CNTF alpha-component receptor...

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

authors： Rousseau F,Gauchat JF,McLeod JG,Chevalier S,Guillet C,Guilhot F,Cognet I,Froger J,Hahn AF,Knappskog PM,Gascan H,Boman H

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide ligand selection by MHC class I molecules, which occurs by iterative optimization, is the centerpiece of immunodominance in antiviral and antitumor immune responses. For its understanding, the molecular mechanisms of peptide binding and dissociation by class I molecules must be elucidated. To this end, we have...

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

authors： Saini SK,Schuster H,Ramnarayan VR,Rammensee HG,Stevanović S,Springer S

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:ClpB is a ring-forming, ATP-dependent protein disaggregase that cooperates with the cognate Hsp70 system to recover functional protein from aggregates. How ClpB harnesses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to facilitate the mechanical unfolding of previously aggregated, stress-damaged proteins remains unclear. H...

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

authors： Biter AB,Lee S,Sung N,Tsai FT

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the Escherichia coli secB gene is required for efficient export of proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. The studies described in this report show that in wild-type growing cells, SecB protein associates with precursor forms of exported proteins, such as the periplasmic maltose-binding protein (MBP)...

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

authors： Kumamoto CA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is central to calcium homeostasis and bone maintenance in vertebrates, and as such it has been used for treating osteoporosis. It acts primarily by binding to its receptor, PTH1R, a member of the class B G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family that also includes receptors for glucagon, calci...

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

authors： Pioszak AA,Xu HE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphoma-inducing potential of Ig heavy-chain enhancer- and promoter-regulated Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) was evaluated in three transgenic FVB mouse lineages. EBNA1 was expressed at a higher level in transgenic B220(+) splenocytes than in EBV-infected lymphoblastoid cell lines. EBNA1 was a...

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

authors： Kang MS,Lu H,Yasui T,Sharpe A,Warren H,Cahir-McFarland E,Bronson R,Hung SC,Kieff E

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammation is an important contributor to neuronal pathology and death in neurodegenerative diseases and neuronal injury. Therapeutic interventions blocking the activity of the inflammatory kinase IKKβ, a key regulator of neuroinflammatory pathways, is protective in several animal models of neurodegenerative di...

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

authors： Ochaba J,Fote G,Kachemov M,Thein S,Yeung SY,Lau AL,Hernandez S,Lim RG,Casale M,Neel MJ,Monuki ES,Reidling J,Housman DE,Thompson LM,Steffan JS

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A pentapeptide open reading frame equipped with a canonical ribosome-binding site is present in the Escherichia coli 23S rRNA. Overexpression of 23S rRNA fragments containing the mini-gene renders cells resistant to the ribosome-inhibiting antibiotic erythromycin. Mutations that change either the initiator or stop cod...

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

authors： Tenson T,DeBlasio A,Mankin A

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are molecular motors that power diverse cellular processes, such as rapid organelle transport, muscle contraction, and tension-sensitive anchoring. The structural adaptations in the motor that allow for this functional diversity are not known, due, in part, to the lack of high-resolution structures of highly t...

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

authors： Shuman H,Greenberg MJ,Zwolak A,Lin T,Sindelar CV,Dominguez R,Ostap EM

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium sulfate fractionation of crude extracts of E. coli yields a soluble enzyme fraction (about 25-fold purification) that catalyzes the conversion of phiX174 single-stranded DNA to duplex DNA. The reaction is rifampicin-resistant, requires single-stranded DNA, Mg++, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ATP, and is ...

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

authors： Schuster H,Mikolajczyk M,Rohrschneider J,Geschke B

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00