Symmetrical dimer of the human dopamine transporter revealed by cross-linking Cys-306 at the extracellular end of the sixth transmembrane segment.

abstract：:We lack a clear understanding of the enzootic maintenance of the bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that causes plague and the sporadic epizootics that occur in its natural rodent hosts. A key to elucidating these epidemiological dynamics is determining the dominant transmission routes of plague. Plague can be acquired from ...

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

authors： Webb CT,Brooks CP,Gage KL,Antolin MF

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvey and Kirsten murine sarcoma viruses each encode a structurally and functionally related 21-kilodalton protein (p21), which is the transforming protein of each virus. Using probes from the 0.9-kilobase (kb) p21-coding region of each virus (called v-Ha-ras and v-Ki-ras, respectively), we have molecularly cloned fr...

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

authors： Chang EH,Gonda MA,Ellis RW,Scolnick EM,Lowy DR

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor activity of p53 is regulated by interactions with the ubiquitin ligase HDM2 and the general transcriptional coactivators CBP and p300. Using NMR spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry, we have dissected the binding interactions between the N-terminal transactivation domain (TAD) of p53,...

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

authors： Ferreon JC,Lee CW,Arai M,Martinez-Yamout MA,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeling of being observed or merely participating in an experiment can affect individuals' behavior. Referred to as the Hawthorne effect, this inconsistently observed phenomenon can both provide insight into individuals' behavior and confound the interpretation of experimental manipulations. Here, we pursue both t...

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

authors： Schwartz D,Fischhoff B,Krishnamurti T,Sowell F

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of full-thickness damage to hyaline cartilage is hampered by the limited availability of autologous healthy cartilage and the lengthy, cost-prohibitive cell isolation and expansion steps associated with autologous cartilage implantation (ACI). Here we report a strategy for de novo engineering of ectopic auto...

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

authors： Emans PJ,van Rhijn LW,Welting TJ,Cremers A,Wijnands N,Spaapen F,Voncken JW,Shastri VP

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Golgi-associated cytoplasmic proteins, such as the coatomer protein complex, are required for vesicle budding and trafficking. We have previously described a cytoplasmic phosphoprotein, p200, which binds dynamically and specifically to Golgi membranes. The p200 protein is dissociated from Golgi membranes in the presen...

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

authors： Narula N,Stow JL

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal host from which to obtain high levels of posttranslationally modified eukaryotic proteins for x-ray crystallography. However, extensive replacement of methionine by selenomethionine for anomalous dispersion phasing has proven intractable in yeast. We report a general method to inco...

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

authors： Malkowski MG,Quartley E,Friedman AE,Babulski J,Kon Y,Wolfley J,Said M,Luft JR,Phizicky EM,DeTitta GT,Grayhack EJ

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete state models are a common tool of modeling in many areas. E.g., Markov state models as a particular representative of this model family became one of the major instruments for analysis and understanding of processes in molecular dynamics (MD). Here we extend the scope of discrete state models to the case of s...

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

authors： Gerber S,Horenko I

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Under particular circumstances like lactation and fasting, the blood-borne monocarboxylates acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate represent significant energy substrates for the brain. Their utilization is dependent on a transport system present on both endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier and o...

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

authors： Pellerin L,Pellegri G,Martin JL,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) have a progressive and often fatal course, and their enigmatic etiology has complicated approaches to effective therapies. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common of IIPs and shares with IIPs an increased incidence with age and unexplained scarring in the lung. ...

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

authors： Alder JK,Chen JJ,Lancaster L,Danoff S,Su SC,Cogan JD,Vulto I,Xie M,Qi X,Tuder RM,Phillips JA 3rd,Lansdorp PM,Loyd JE,Armanios MY

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates quantitatively the characteristics of the local folding code. The overlapping four-residue fragments which make up the amino acid sequences of 114 proteins are divided into classes on the basis of the physical properties of their constituent amino acids. The distribution of structural types ass...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial carriers are believed widely to be homodimers both in the inner membrane of the organelle and in detergents. The dimensions and molecular masses of the detergent and protein-detergent micelles were measured for yeast ADP/ATP carriers in a range of different detergents. The radius of the carrier at the mi...

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

authors： Bamber L,Harding M,Butler PJ,Kunji ER

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VII is a precursor to a serine protease that is present in mammalian plasma. In its activated form, it participates in blood coagulation by activating factor X and/or factor IX in the presence of tissue factor and calcium. Clones coding for factor VII were obtained from two cDNA libraries prepared from poly(A) ...

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

authors： Hagen FS,Gray CL,O'Hara P,Grant FJ,Saari GC,Woodbury RG,Hart CE,Insley M,Kisiel W,Kurachi K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) fate decisions between proliferation and multilineage differentiation are unclear. Members of the Wnt family of ligands that activate the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, which utilizes beta-catenin to relay the signal, have been demonstrated to regulate HSC f...

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

authors： Nemeth MJ,Topol L,Anderson SM,Yang Y,Bodine DM

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen bond networks are key elements of protein structure and function but have been challenging to study within the complex protein environment. We have carried out in-depth interrogations of the proton transfer equilibrium within a hydrogen bond network formed to bound phenols in the active site of ketosteroid is...

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

authors： Sigala PA,Fafarman AT,Schwans JP,Fried SD,Fenn TD,Caaveiro JM,Pybus B,Ringe D,Petsko GA,Boxer SG,Herschlag D

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroglobin (Ngb), a vertebrate globin expressed primarily in neurons, is induced by and protects against neuronal hypoxia and cerebral ischemia. To investigate the spectrum and mechanism of Ngb's neuroprotective action, we studied the effect of transgenic overexpression of Ngb on NMDA and beta-amyloid (Abeta) toxicit...

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

authors： Khan AA,Mao XO,Banwait S,Jin K,Greenberg DA

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oscillations suppress mitochondrial movements along the microtubules to support on-demand distribution of mitochondria. To activate this mechanism, Ca(2+) targets a yet unidentified cytoplasmic factor that does not seem to be a microtubular motor or a kinase/phosphatase. Here, we have studied the dependence of...

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

authors： Saotome M,Safiulina D,Szabadkai G,Das S,Fransson A,Aspenstrom P,Rizzuto R,Hajnóczky G

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A high proportion of human B cells carry B-cell receptors (BCRs) that are autoreactive. Inhibitory receptors such as CD22 can downmodulate autoreactive BCR responses. With its extracellular domain, CD22 binds to sialic acids in α2,6 linkages in cis, on the surface of the same B cell or in trans, on other cells. Sialic...

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

authors： Müller J,Obermeier I,Wöhner M,Brandl C,Mrotzek S,Angermüller S,Maity PC,Reth M,Nitschke L

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons vary in their capacity to produce, store, and release neuropeptides packaged in dense-core vesicles (DCVs). Specifically, neurons used for cotransmission have terminals that contain few DCVs and many small synaptic vesicles, whereas neuroendocrine neuron terminals contain many DCVs. Although the mechanistic ba...

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

authors： Bulgari D,Zhou C,Hewes RS,Deitcher DL,Levitan ES

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumorigenic properties of Rous sarcoma virus are attributable to a 60,000-dalton protein, pp60v--src, encoded by a single viral gene, v-src. A homologous gene, c-src, that contains the information for a 60,000-dalton protein, pp60c--src, has been identified in all tested vertebrate cells. By screening a recombinan...

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

authors： Parker RC,Varmus HE,Bishop JM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loads on molecular motors regulate and coordinate their function. In a study that directly measures properties of internally strained myosin 2 heads bound to actin, we find that human nonmuscle myosins 2A and 2B show marked load-dependent changes in kinetics of ADP release but not in nucleotide binding. We show that t...

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

authors： Kovács M,Thirumurugan K,Knight PJ,Sellers JR

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of p53 in regulating diverse cellular processes dictates that it must respond to multiple signaling mechanisms, thus coordinating the response to various "stress conditions." Genotoxic stress has served as a paradigm to dissect the transactivation-dependent branch of the pathway by which p53 can induce...

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

authors： Ruaro EM,Collavin L,Del Sal G,Haffner R,Oren M,Levine AJ,Schneider C

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative ribosome subunit proteins are prevalent in the genomes of diverse bacterial species, but their functional significance is controversial. Attempts to study microbial ribosomal heterogeneity have mostly relied on comparing wild-type strains with mutants in which subunits have been deleted, but this approach ...

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

authors： Chen YX,Xu ZY,Ge X,Sanyal S,Lu ZJ,Javid B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory is proposed to study the sensitivity of cylindrical explosives. Using the equations governing the conservation of mass, energy, and momentum, the equation of state, and Newtonian mechanics, we have derived the expression D = D(o)e(-a2/d), in which the apparent length of the reaction zone, a, takes into accoun...

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

authors： Eyring H,Walker FE,Ma SM,Coon N

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate, activates N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors to induce long-lasting synaptic changes through alterations in gene expression. It is believed that these long-lasting changes contribute to learning and memory, drug tolerance, and ischemic preconditioning. To identify NMDA-in...

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

authors： Hong SJ,Li H,Becker KG,Dawson VL,Dawson TM

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional wisdom regarding mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis holds that pathogens arise by external acquisition of distinct virulence factors, whereas determinants shared by pathogens and commensals are considered to be functionally equivalent and have been ignored as genes that could become adapted specifically...

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

authors： Sokurenko EV,Chesnokova V,Dykhuizen DE,Ofek I,Wu XR,Krogfelt KA,Struve C,Schembri MA,Hasty DL

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To test for direct and indirect effects of a top predator on three lower trophic levels, we conducted two multiyear predator addition experiments in a tropical wet forest. Periodic additions of a top predator (predatory clerid beetle) to a wet forest understory shrub caused a reduction in the predatory beetle's prey (...

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

authors： Dyer LA,Letourneau DK

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In savannas, predicting how vegetation varies is a longstanding challenge. Spatial patterning in vegetation may structure that variability, mediated by spatial interactions, including competition and facilitation. Here, we use unique high-resolution, spatially extensive data of tree distributions in an African savanna...

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

authors： Staver AC,Asner GP,Rodriguez-Iturbe I,Levin SA,Smit IPJ

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00