The P450-1 gene of Gibberella fujikuroi encodes a multifunctional enzyme in gibberellin biosynthesis.

abstract：:In response to insect attack, many plants exhibit dynamic biochemical changes, resulting in the induced production of direct and indirect defenses. Elicitors present in herbivore oral secretions are believed to positively regulate many inducible plant defenses; however, little is known about the specificity of elicito...

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

authors： Schmelz EA,Engelberth J,Alborn HT,Tumlinson JH 3rd,Teal PE

更新日期：2009-01-13 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：:Charybdotoxin (ChTX), a K+ channel blocker, depolarizes human peripheral T lymphocytes and renders them insensitive to activation by mitogen. We observed four types of K+ channels in human T cells: one voltage-activated, and three Ca(2+)-activated. To discern the mechanism by which ChTX depolarizes T cells, we examine...

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

authors： Leonard RJ,Garcia ML,Slaughter RS,Reuben JP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions catalyzed by Mo enzymes each find the product differing from the substrate by two electrons and two protons (or some multiple thereof). The coordination chemistry of Mo suggests that there is a distinct relationship between acid-base and redox properties of Mo complexes, and that a coupled electron-proto...

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

authors： Stiefel EI

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report establishes that increasing the activity of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A; PKA) potentiates glucocorticoid-mediated signaling in embryonic day 5.5 (E5.5) chicken retina. Expression of a glutamine synthetase-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) fusion gene is not induced by treatm...

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

authors： Zhang H,Li YC,Young AP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using antibodies that react selectively with peptide sequences unique to endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), we demonstrate localizations to neuronal populations in the brain. In some brain regions, such as the cerebellum and olfactory bulb, eNOS and neuronal NOS (nNOS) occur in the same cell populations, though...

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

authors： Dinerman JL,Dawson TM,Schell MJ,Snowman A,Snyder SH

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding, and more. Current methods for entropy estimation suffer from a high computational cost, lack of gen...

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

authors： Nir A,Sela E,Beck R,Bar-Sinai Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug discovery in psychiatry has been limited to chemical modifications of compounds originally discovered serendipitously. Therefore, more mechanism-oriented strategies of drug discovery for mental disorders are awaited. Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder with synaptic disconnectivity involved in its path...

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

authors： Hayashi-Takagi A,Araki Y,Nakamura M,Vollrath B,Duron SG,Yan Z,Kasai H,Huganir RL,Campbell DA,Sawa A

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) requires proteolytic processing of the replicase polyprotein by two viral cysteine proteases, a chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) and a papain-like protease (PLpro). These proteases are important targets for development of antiviral drugs...

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

authors： Ratia K,Saikatendu KS,Santarsiero BD,Barretto N,Baker SC,Stevens RC,Mesecar AD

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing evidence for perceptual interactions between motion and position, no unifying framework exists to account for these two key features of our visual experience. We show that percepts of both object position and motion derive from a common object-tracking system--a system that optimally integrates sensory...

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

authors： Kwon OS,Tadin D,Knill DC

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects impact human health through vector-borne diseases and cause major economic losses by damaging crops and stored agricultural products. Insect-specific growth regulators represent attractive control agents because of their safety to the environment and humans. We identified plant compounds that serve as juvenile...

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

authors： Lee SH,Oh HW,Fang Y,An SB,Park DS,Song HH,Oh SR,Kim SY,Kim S,Kim N,Raikhel AS,Je YH,Shin SW

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal macrophysiology is an established research field that has led to well-described patterns in the global structuring of climate adaptation and risk. However, since it was developed primarily in animals, we lack information on how general these patterns are across organisms. This is alarming if we are to understa...

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

authors： Lancaster LT,Humphreys AM

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Imbalances between proinflammatory and proresolving mediators can lead to chronic inflammatory diseases. The balance of arachidonic acid-derived mediators in leukocytes is thought to be achieved through intracellular localization of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX): nuclear 5-LOX favors the biosynthesis of proinflammatory leuko...

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

authors： Fredman G,Ozcan L,Spolitu S,Hellmann J,Spite M,Backs J,Tabas I

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Four mouse POU domain genomic DNA clones--Brain-1, Brain-2, Brain-4, and Scip--and Brain-2 cDNA, which are expressed in adult brain, were cloned and the coding and noncoding regions of the genes were sequenced. The amino acid sequences of the four POU domains are highly conserved; sequences in other regions of the pro...

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

authors： Hara Y,Rovescalli AC,Kim Y,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of chylomicron remnants rat liver plasma membranes was studied. Liver membranes bound up to 8 times more remnants than they bound chylomicrons. The remnant particle appeared to bind to the membrane as a unit. Remnant binding was greatest to liver plasma membrane; only one third as much binding was observed...

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

authors： Carrella M,Cooper AD

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein fraction from B. subtilis infected with phage SP01 (fraction LGG) stimulates the activity of RNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.6; nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase) core from uninfected bacteria. Fraction LGG contains a protein (P-28, molecular weight 28,000) that is labeled after phage infection and ...

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

authors： Duffy JJ,Petrusek RL,Geiduschek EP

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and characterization of a cancer-associated cell membrane glycoprotein recognized by mAb NCC-3G10. The antibody showed strong reactivity to a wide variety of cancer cells, but only to a limited number of normal cells including lymphocytes, endothelial cells, and basal cells of stratified squamous...

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

authors： Ino Y,Gotoh M,Sakamoto M,Tsukagoshi K,Hirohashi S

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal goal of cancer nanomedicine is to deliver therapeutics effectively to cancer cells within solid tumors. However, there are a series of biological barriers that impede nanomedicine from reaching target cells. Here, we report a stimuli-responsive clustered nanoparticle to systematically overcome these multip...

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

authors： Li HJ,Du JZ,Du XJ,Xu CF,Sun CY,Wang HX,Cao ZT,Yang XZ,Zhu YH,Nie S,Wang J

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection in the brain induces neuronal apoptosis leading to HIV-associated dementia. To explore the underlying mechanism, we developed a murine model by using human peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC)-transplanted nonobese diabetic (NOD)-severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) (hu-PBMC-NOD-SCID) mice. Admi...

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

authors： Miura Y,Misawa N,Kawano Y,Okada H,Inagaki Y,Yamamoto N,Ito M,Yagita H,Okumura K,Mizusawa H,Koyanagi Y

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of cells with various peptide growth factors induces the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) through activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The action of this enzyme is reversed by that of the tumor suppressor PTEN. With the use of cells overexpressing NADPH oxidase 1 or per...

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

authors： Kwon J,Lee SR,Yang KS,Ahn Y,Kim YJ,Stadtman ER,Rhee SG

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence implicates dysregulation of metabotropic glutamatergic receptor 5 (mGluR5) in pathophysiology of PTSD and suicidality. Using positron emission tomography and [18F]FPEB, we quantified mGluR5 availability in vivo in individuals with PTSD (n = 29) and MDD (n = 29) as a function of suicidal ideation (SI) t...

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

authors： Davis MT,Hillmer A,Holmes SE,Pietrzak RH,DellaGioia N,Nabulsi N,Matuskey D,Angarita GA,Carson RE,Krystal JH,Esterlis I

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (antihemophilic factor) is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates in the blood clotting cascade. The recent cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA encoding human factor VIII revealed an obvious domain structure for the protein, which can be represented as A1-A2-B-A3-C1-C2. We now ...

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

authors： Toole JJ,Pittman DD,Orr EC,Murtha P,Wasley LC,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated, cloned, and characterized two cDNAs corresponding to the mRNAs for cationic peroxidases synthesized by cultured peanut cells. The first clone was obtained from a phage lambda gt11 library screened with antibodies directed against the major secreted isozyme. Its predicted amino acid sequence, deduced ...

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

authors： Buffard D,Breda C,van Huystee RB,Asemota O,Pierre M,Ha DB,Esnault R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Raf-1 protein kinase plays a central role in the mitogenic response of cells to growth factors, cytokines, and many oncogenes. Despite the critical importance of this enzyme, very little is known of its biochemical properties or mechanisms of regulation. In these experiments, we used the only candidate physiolog...

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

authors： Force T,Bonventre JV,Heidecker G,Rapp U,Avruch J,Kyriakis JM

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding modulation of memory, as well as the mechanisms underlying memory formation, has become a key issue in neuroscience research. Previously, we found that the formation of long-term, but not short-term, memory for a nonassociative form of learning, sensitization, was modulated by the circadian clock in the ...

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

authors： Lyons LC,Rawashdeh O,Katzoff A,Susswein AJ,Eskin A

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) and periclase (MgO) in Fe-Mg-Ca carbonate in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were studied by using transmission electron microscopy to understand their origin and evaluate claims that the magnetites were made by Martian microorganisms. In magnesian carbonate, periclase occurs ...

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

authors： Barber DJ,Scott ER

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers' reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013-2014. Usi...

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

authors： Nittrouer CL,Hebl MR,Ashburn-Nardo L,Trump-Steele RCE,Lane DM,Valian V

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the cloning, sequencing, and partial characterization of Kid-1, a zinc finger-encoding cDNA from the rat kidney. The Kid-1 protein and approximately one-third of all other zinc finger proteins contain a highly conserved region of approximately 75 amino acids at their NH2 terminus named Krüp...

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

authors： Witzgall R,O'Leary E,Leaf A,Onaldi D,Bonventre JV

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00