A peptide-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer assay for Bacillus anthracis lethal factor protease.

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant, GA 907/7, was isolated after mutagen treatment of avian myeloblastosis virus. When bone marrow cells or secondary yolk sac macrophages were infected with GA 907/7, the expression of transformation was greatly reduced at 41 degrees C. The results of temperature-shift experiments sug...

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

authors： Moscovici MG,Moscovici C

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is recognized as a physiological state associated with learning, with studies showing that knowledge acquisition improves with naps. Little work has examined sleep-dependent learning in people with developmental disorders, for whom sleep quality is often impaired. We examined the effect of natural, in-home naps ...

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

authors： Spanò G,Gómez RL,Demara BI,Alt M,Cowen SL,Edgin JO

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses enter cells via a process of membrane fusion between the viral envelope and a cellular membrane. For influenza virus, mutational data have shown that the membrane-inserted portions of the hemagglutinin protein play a critical role in achieving fusion. In contrast to the relatively well-understood ect...

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

authors： Pabis A,Rawle RJ,Kasson PM

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand non-trivial biological functions, it is crucial to develop minimal synthetic models that capture their basic features. Here, we demonstrate a sequence-independent, reversible control of transcription and gene expression using a photosensitive nucleic acid binder (pNAB). By introducing a pNAB whose affini...

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

authors： Estévez-Torres A,Crozatier C,Diguet A,Hara T,Saito H,Yoshikawa K,Baigl D

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy is commonly used to investigate photophysical phenomena such as light harvesting in photosynthesis in which the system returns back to its ground state after energy transfer. By contrast, we introduce multidimensional spectroscopy to study ultrafast photochemical proce...

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

authors： Ruetzel S,Diekmann M,Nuernberger P,Walter C,Engels B,Brixner T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence complementary to Trypanosoma brucei mRNAs coding for the synthesis of the variant-specific antigens AnTat 1.1 and AnTat 1.8 have been cloned and characterized. These sequences have been used as probes to analyze the corresponding genes in the nuclear DNA. The two genes seem to be represented in several (t...

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

authors： Pays E,Van Meirvenne N,Le Ray D,Steinert M

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancers caused by activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are initially responsive to small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but the efficacy of these agents is often limited because of the emergence of drug resistance conferred by a second mutation, T790M. Threonine 790 is ...

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

authors： Yun CH,Mengwasser KE,Toms AV,Woo MS,Greulich H,Wong KK,Meyerson M,Eck MJ

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the complexity of anisotropic turbulent processes over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales in engineering shear turbulence as well as climate atmosphere ocean science is a grand challenge of contemporary science with important societal impact. In such inhomogeneous turbulent dynamical systems there is ...

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

authors： Majda AJ

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemia is a heritable human anemia caused by a variety of mutations that affect expression of the alpha- or the beta-chain of hemoglobin. The expressivity of the phenotype is likely to be influenced by unlinked modifying genes. Indeed, by using a mouse model of alpha-thalassemia, we find that its phenotype is str...

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

authors： Leder A,Wiener E,Lee MJ,Wickramasinghe SN,Leder P

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase I (top1) is the target of potent anticancer agents, including camptothecins and DNA intercalators, which reversibly stabilize (trap) top1 catalytic intermediates (cleavage complexes). The aim of the present study was to define the structural relationship between the site(s) of covalently bound interc...

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

authors： Pommier Y,Laco GS,Kohlhagen G,Sayer JM,Kroth H,Jerina DM

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two regions of human thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone, TSH) receptor (TSHR) (residues 12-44 and 308-364) were selected on the basis that they exhibit no sequence resemblance to luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor. Five synthetic overlapping peptides (12-30, 24-44, 308-328, 324-344, and 339-364)...

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

authors： Atassi MZ,Manshouri T,Sakata S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In phylogenetic reconstruction, two types of bacterial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases (TyrRS) form distinct clades with many bacterial phyla represented in both clades. Very few taxa possess both forms, and maximum likelihood analysis of the distribution of TyrRS types suggests horizontal gene transfer (HGT), rather than an...

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

authors： Andam CP,Williams D,Gogarten JP

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In preeclampsia (PE), cytotrophoblast (CTB) invasion of the uterus and spiral arteries is often shallow. Thus, the placenta's role has been a focus. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that decidual defects are an important determinant of the placental phenotype. We isolated human endometrial stromal cells from no...

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

authors： Garrido-Gomez T,Dominguez F,Quiñonero A,Diaz-Gimeno P,Kapidzic M,Gormley M,Ona K,Padilla-Iserte P,McMaster M,Genbacev O,Perales A,Fisher SJ,Simón C

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic animals can be cloned using techniques such as embryo splitting and nuclear transfer to produce genetically identical individuals. Although embryo splitting is limited to the production of only a few identical individuals, nuclear transfer of donor nuclei into recipient oocytes, whose own nuclear DNA has been...

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

authors： Keefer CL

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is an important biological process that occurs in all organisms and facilitates genome rearrangements and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Eukaryotic Rad51 proteins (Rad51sp or Rhp51 in fission yeast) are functional and structural homologs of bacterial RecA protein, an evolutionarily conser...

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

authors： Akamatsu Y,Dziadkowiec D,Ikeguchi M,Shinagawa H,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in activating various plant defense responses, including expression of the pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and systemic acquired resistance. A critical positive regulator of the SA signaling pathway in Arabidopsis is encoded by the NPR1 gene. However, there is growing eviden...

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

authors： Kachroo P,Shanklin J,Shah J,Whittle EJ,Klessig DF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a conserved meiotic structure that regulates the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) into crossovers or gene conversions. The removal of any central-region SC component, such as the Drosophila melanogaster transverse filament protein C(3)G, causes a complete loss of SC structure and ...

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

authors： Billmyre KK,Cahoon CK,Heenan GM,Wesley ER,Yu Z,Unruh JR,Takeo S,Hawley RS

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast with speciation in terrestrial organisms, marine plankton frequently display gradual morphological change without lineage division (e.g., phyletic gradualism or gradual evolution), which has raised the possibility that a different mode of evolution dominates within pelagic environments. Here, we reexamine ...

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

authors： Hull PM,Norris RD

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin cofactor in photoenzyme photolyase and photoreceptor cryptochrome may exist in an oxidized state and should be converted into reduced state(s) for biological functions. Such redox changes can be efficiently achieved by photoinduced electron transfer (ET) through a series of aromatic residues in the enzyme. ...

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

authors： Liu Z,Tan C,Guo X,Li J,Wang L,Sancar A,Zhong D

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular stimuli regulate neuronal differentiation and subtype specification during brain development, although the intracellular signaling pathways that mediate these processes remain largely unclear. We now show that the PDK1-Akt pathway regulates differentiation of telencephalic neural precursor cells (NPCs). ...

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

authors： Oishi K,Watatani K,Itoh Y,Okano H,Guillemot F,Nakajima K,Gotoh Y

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are composed solely of an alternatively folded isoform of the prion protein (PrP), designated PrP(Sc). N-terminally truncated PrP(Sc), denoted PrP 27-30, retains infectivity and polymerizes into rods with the ultrastructural and tinctorial properties of amyloid. We report here that some polyoxometalates (POMs) ...

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

authors： Wille H,Shanmugam M,Murugesu M,Ollesch J,Stubbs G,Long JR,Safar JG,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-base-pair palindrome from the Agrobacterium tumefaciens octopine synthase gene functions as a constitutive enhancer in plant protoplasts. Degenerate oligonucleotide mutagenesis provided single base substitutions at every position in the element and a number of multiple base substitutions. The effects of these cha...

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

authors： Singh K,Tokuhisa JG,Dennis ES,Peacock WJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-1027 is an enediyne antitumor antibiotic composed of four distinct moieties: an enediyne core, a deoxy aminosugar, a beta-amino acid, and a benzoxazolinate moiety. We now show that the benzoxazolinate moiety is derived from chorismate by the sequential action of two enzymes-SgcD, a 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate (ADIC...

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

authors： Van Lanen SG,Lin S,Shen B

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated macrophages are described as classically activated or M1 type and alternatively activated or M2 type, depending on their response to proinflammatory stimuli and the expression of genetic markers including iNOS, arginase1, Ym1, and Fizz1. Here we report that Akt kinases differentially contribute to macrophage...

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

authors： Arranz A,Doxaki C,Vergadi E,Martinez de la Torre Y,Vaporidi K,Lagoudaki ED,Ieronymaki E,Androulidaki A,Venihaki M,Margioris AN,Stathopoulos EN,Tsichlis PN,Tsatsanis C

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic DNA replication fidelity relies on the concerted action of DNA polymerase nucleotide selectivity, proofreading activity, and DNA mismatch repair (MMR). Nucleotide selectivity and proofreading are affected by the balance and concentration of deoxyribonucleotide (dNTP) pools, which are strictly regulated by r...

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

authors： Schmidt TT,Reyes G,Gries K,Ceylan CÜ,Sharma S,Meurer M,Knop M,Chabes A,Hombauer H

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular communities in living tissues act in concert to establish intricate microenvironments, with complexity difficult to recapitulate in vitro. We report a method for docking numerous cellularized hydrogel shapes (100-1,000 µm in size) into hydrogel templates to construct 3D cellular microenvironments. Each shape ...

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

authors： Eng G,Lee BW,Parsa H,Chin CD,Schneider J,Linkov G,Sia SK,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear growth delay (stunting) affects roughly 155 million children under the age of 5 years worldwide. Treatment has been limited by a lack of understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Stunting is most likely associated with changes in the microbial community of the small intestine, a compartment...

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

authors： Vonaesch P,Morien E,Andrianonimiadana L,Sanke H,Mbecko JR,Huus KE,Naharimanananirina T,Gondje BP,Nigatoloum SN,Vondo SS,Kaleb Kandou JE,Randremanana R,Rakotondrainipiana M,Mazel F,Djorie SG,Gody JC,Finlay BB,Rubbo PA,

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the complete genome sequence of a common avian clone of Pasteurella multocida, Pm70. The genome of Pm70 is a single circular chromosome 2,257,487 base pairs in length and contains 2,014 predicted coding regions, 6 ribosomal RNA operons, and 57 tRNAs. Genome-scale evolutionary analyses based on pairwise...

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

authors： May BJ,Zhang Q,Li LL,Paustian ML,Whittam TS,Kapur V

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that is a serious global health problem. Evasion of IFN-mediated antiviral signaling is a common defense strategy that pathogenic viruses use to replicate and propagate in the...

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

authors： Miorin L,Kehrer T,Sanchez-Aparicio MT,Zhang K,Cohen P,Patel RS,Cupic A,Makio T,Mei M,Moreno E,Danziger O,White KM,Rathnasinghe R,Uccellini M,Gao S,Aydillo T,Mena I,Yin X,Martin-Sancho L,Krogan NJ,Chanda SK,Schot

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat protein coded by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a strong activator of viral gene expression from the long terminal repeat (LTR). It appears that Tat-mediated trans-activation of the HIV LTR is predominantly a transcriptional event. It has been reported that Tat acts at the level of both transcriptional ...

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

authors： Kamine J,Subramanian T,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00