Structure and topological symmetry of the glyphosate target 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase: a distinctive protein fold.

abstract：:Besides ethanol, acetic acid is produced in naturally fermenting sweet resources and is a significant environmental stress for fruit-breeding Drosophila populations and species. Although not related to the presence of an active alcohol dehydrogenase, adult acetic acid tolerance was found to correlate with ethanol tole...

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

authors： Chakir M,Peridy O,Capy P,Pla E,David JR

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron flow is increasingly recognized as being essential in plant growth, generating a pH gradient across thylakoid membrane (ΔpH) that contributes to ATP synthesis and triggers the protective process of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) under stress conditions. Here, we report experiments demonstrating the i...

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

authors： Joliot P,Johnson GN

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a widely accepted hypothesis that the molecular clock slows down during evolution of higher primates. By molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence comparison of a rhesus macaque alpha-globin gene to its homologs in man, orangutan, olive baboon, and other mammals, we demonstrate a burst of evolution of the ...

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

authors： Shaw JP,Marks J,Shen CC,Shen CK

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection is usually considered to be the dominant force controlling viral variation; the large population sizes suggest that deterministic population genetic models are appropriate. To investigate their validity for HIV, samples of env gene sequences were tested for departure from neutrality because of mutation-selec...

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

authors： Brown AJ

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major surprises of the molecular analysis of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes is the large number of class I (K/D)-related sequences in the genome. Both restriction fragment length polymorphisms and cosmid cloning experiments showed them all to be closely linked to the MHC. Until now little info...

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

authors： Schepart BS,Woodward JG,Palmer MJ,Macchi MJ,Basta P,McLaughlin-Taylor E,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical studies suggest that high-level cognitive decisions (e.g., choosing between financial options) are suboptimal. In contrast, low-level decisions (e.g., choosing where to put your feet on a rocky ridge) appear near-optimal: the perception-cognition gap. Moreover, in classical tasks, people appear to put too mu...

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

authors： Jarvstad A,Hahn U,Rushton SK,Warren PA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein CopC from Pseudomonas syringae has been found capable of binding copper(I) and copper(II) at two different sites, occupied either one at a time or simultaneously. The protein, consisting of 102 amino acids, is known to bind copper(II) in a position that is now found consistent with a coordination arrangeme...

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

authors： Arnesano F,Banci L,Bertini I,Mangani S,Thompsett AR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pediatric adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) in southern Brazil is 10-15 times higher than that of pediatric ACC worldwide. Because childhood ACC is associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, we examined the cancer history and p53 status of 36 Brazilian patients and their families. Remarkably, 35 of 36 patie...

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

authors： Ribeiro RC,Sandrini F,Figueiredo B,Zambetti GP,Michalkiewicz E,Lafferty AR,DeLacerda L,Rabin M,Cadwell C,Sampaio G,Cat I,Stratakis CA,Sandrini R

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeatability of evolutionary change is difficult to quantify because only a single outcome can usually be observed for any precise set of circumstances. In this study, however, we have quantified the frequency of parallel and divergent genetic changes in 12 initially identical populations of Escherichia coli that...

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

authors： Woods R,Schneider D,Winkworth CL,Riley MA,Lenski RE

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:During protein synthesis, elongation factor G (EF-G) binds to the ribosome and promotes the step of translocation, a process in which tRNA moves from the A to the P site of the ribosome and the mRNA is advanced by one codon. By using three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy, we have visualized EF-G in a ribosome-EF-...

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

authors： Agrawal RK,Penczek P,Grassucci RA,Frank J

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During the developmental process of the Gram-negative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, vegetatively growing rod cells differentiate to ultimately become metabolically quiescent and environmentally resistant myxospores encased within fruiting bodies. This program, initiated by nutrient deprivation, is propagated by b...

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

authors： Tzeng L,Singer M

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the potassium channel gene KCNQ4 underlie DFNA2, an autosomal dominant form of progressive hearing loss in humans. In the mouse cochlea, the transcript has been found exclusively in the outer hair cells. By using specific antibodies, we now show that KCNQ4 is situated at the basal membrane of these sensor...

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

authors： Kharkovets T,Hardelin JP,Safieddine S,Schweizer M,El-Amraoui A,Petit C,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter-transcription factor (COUP-TF) genes encode transcription factors belonging to the orphan subfamily of the steroid/thyroid hormone receptor superfamily. Two COUP-TF counterparts have been cloned from mouse. In an attempt to study the function of these genes in the developing central...

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

authors： Qiu Y,Cooney AJ,Kuratani S,DeMayo FJ,Tsai SY,Tsai MJ

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological interactions shape adaptations through coevolution not only between pairs of species but also through entire multispecies assemblages. Local coevolution can then be further altered through spatial processes that have been formally partitioned in the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. A major current c...

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

authors： Medeiros LP,Garcia G,Thompson JN,Guimarães PR Jr

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and normal kidney tissues have been examined from 34 patients with sporadic, nonhereditary RCC. Eighteen of the 21 cytogenetically examined tumors (86%) had a detectable anomaly of chromosome arm 3p distal to band 3p11.2-p13, manifested as a deletion, combined with the nonreciprocal transloc...

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

authors： Kovacs G,Erlandsson R,Boldog F,Ingvarsson S,Müller-Brechlin R,Klein G,Sümegi J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressional waves that sample the lowermost mantle west of Central America show a rapid change in travel times of up to 4 s over a sampling distance of 300 km and a change in waveforms. The differential travel times of the PKP waves (which traverse Earth's core) correlate remarkably well with predictions for S-wave ...

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

authors： Sun X,Song X,Zheng S,Helmberger DV

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Noniridescent coloration by the spongy keratin in parrot feather barbs has fascinated scientists. Nonetheless, its ultimate origin remains as yet unanswered, and a quantitative structural and optical description is still lacking. Here we report on structural and optical characterizations and numerical simulations of t...

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

authors： Yin H,Dong B,Liu X,Zhan T,Shi L,Zi J,Yablonovitch E

更新日期：2012-07-03 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：:Gastrulation is a fundamental process in early development that results in the formation of three primary germ layers. During avian gastrulation, presumptive mesodermal cells in the dorsal epiblast ingress through a furrow called the primitive streak (PS), and subsequently move away from the PS and form adult tissues....

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

authors： Zamir EA,Czirók A,Cui C,Little CD,Rongish BJ

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the central nervous system, myelin proteolipid protein isoforms (PLP and DM20) play an essential structural role in myelination. It has been shown in several species that myelination is impaired by molecular defects resulting from single base mutations in the PLP gene. We have used DNA amplification by polymerase c...

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

authors： Pham-Dinh D,Popot JL,Boespflug-Tanguy O,Landrieu P,Deleuze JF,Boué J,Jollès P,Dautigny A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of selective translation of T4 template RNA by ribosomes from T4-infected cells, or factors derived therefrom, has been extended to studies on the initiation of protein synthesis. A high-salt extract derived from T4-infected ribosomes inhibits the formation of initiation complexes of MS2 and Escherichia...

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

authors： Klem EB,Hsu WT,Weiss SB

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational engineering methods can be applied with reasonable success to optimize physicochemical characteristics of proteins, in particular, antibodies. Here, we describe a combined CDR3 walking randomization and rational design-based approach to enhance the affinity of the human anti-gastrin TA4 scFv. The application ...

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

authors： Barderas R,Desmet J,Timmerman P,Meloen R,Casal JI

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nit-2 major nitrogen regulatory gene of Neurospora crassa turns on the expression of various unlinked structural genes that specify nitrogen-catabolic enzymes under nitrogen-limitation conditions. The nit-2 gene encodes a protein of 1036 amino acid residues with a single zinc finger and a downstream basic region t...

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

authors： Fu YH,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExoU is a type III-secreted cytotoxin expressing A2 phospholipase activity when injected into eukaryotic target cells by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa The enzymatic activity of ExoU is undetectable in vitro unless ubiquitin, a required cofactor, is added to the reaction. The role of ubiquitin in facilitating Ex...

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

authors： Tessmer MH,Anderson DM,Pickrum AM,Riegert MO,Moretti R,Meiler J,Feix JB,Frank DW

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that nuclear transcripts of the multifunctional enzyme, carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase, aspartate transcarbamylase, dihydroorotase RNA can be released from nuclei of Syrian hamster cells as compact ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles that sediment at the 200S region in a sucrose gradient. The 20...

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

authors： Spann P,Feinerman M,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We created a high-throughput modality of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) that enables automated 3D PALM imaging of hundreds of synchronized bacteria during all stages of the cell cycle. We used high-throughput PALM to investigate the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ in l...

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

authors： Holden SJ,Pengo T,Meibom KL,Fernandez Fernandez C,Collier J,Manley S

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat-86 gene in plasmid pPL603 specifies chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) and is selectively expressed in Bacillus subtilis at a stage in sporulation in which internal spores are first observed (approximately T8). The gene is unexpressed in vegetatively growing cells. cat-86 expression and spore formation ar...

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

authors： Mongkolsuk S,Lovett PS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies can block cellular interactions that negatively regulate T-cell immune responses, such as CD80/CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD1-L, amplifying preexisting immunity and thereby evoking antitumor immune responses. Ibrutinib, an approved therapy for B-cell malignancies, is a covalent inhibitor of BTK, a member of...

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

authors： Sagiv-Barfi I,Kohrt HE,Czerwinski DK,Ng PP,Chang BY,Levy R

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased DNA levels in centrally located endosperm nuclei are shown to be related to endosperm development in Zea mays. Mitotic activity sharply decreases in endosperm cells 10-12 days after pollination. At this time nuclear size and DNA content per nucleus (where C = haploid content) sharply increase until peak leve...

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

authors： Kowles RV,Phillips RL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of phospholipase C regulation by inhibitory receptors was analyzed both in intact and in permeabilized rat thyroid cells (FRTL5). In this system, the muscarinic agonist carbachol inhibited phospholipase C, as indicated by the decrease in the basal levels of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate as well as by the ...

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

authors： Bizzarri C,Di Girolamo M,D'Orazio MC,Corda D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00