High-resolution structures of a chitinase complexed with natural product cyclopentapeptide inhibitors: mimicry of carbohydrate substrate.

abstract：:Detailed molecular definition of the WAGR region at chromosome 11p13 has been achieved by chromosome breakpoint analysis and long-range restriction mapping. Here we describe the molecular detection of a cytogenetically invisible 1-megabase deletion in an individual with aniridia, cryptorchidism, and hypospadias but no...

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

authors： van Heyningen V,Bickmore WA,Seawright A,Fletcher JM,Maule J,Fekete G,Gessler M,Bruns GA,Huerre-Jeanpierre C,Junien C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 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：:Single-stranded (ss) RNA viruses infect all domains of life. To date, for most ssRNA virions, only the structures of the capsids and their associated protein components have been resolved to high resolution. Qβ, an ssRNA phage specific for the conjugative F-pilus, has a T = 3 icosahedral lattice of coat proteins assem...

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

authors： Gorzelnik KV,Cui Z,Reed CA,Jakana J,Young R,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver membrane adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1) that has been stimulated more than 10-fold by cholera toxin (choleragen) has a 3-fold greater sensitivity to stimulation by glucagon. Choleragen similarly increases the sensitivity of cyclase to other peptide (ACTH, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide) and nonpeptide (ca...

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

authors： Bennett V,O'Keefe E,Cuatrecasaş P

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most striking aspects of the movement of many animal groups are their sudden coherent changes in direction. Recent observations of locusts and starlings have shown that this directional switching is an intrinsic property of their motion. Similar direction switches are seen in self-propelled particle and othe...

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

authors： Yates CA,Erban R,Escudero C,Couzin ID,Buhl J,Kevrekidis IG,Maini PK,Sumpter DJ

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane protein complex between the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) and phospholamban (PLN) controls Ca(2+) transport in cardiomyocytes, thereby modulating cardiac contractility. β-Adrenergic-stimulated phosphorylation of PLN at Ser-16 enhances SERCA activity via an unknown mechanism. Using solid-sta...

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

authors： Gustavsson M,Verardi R,Mullen DG,Mote KR,Traaseth NJ,Gopinath T,Veglia G

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual cAMP signaling system mediates many of the events that prepare spermatozoa to meet the egg. Its components include the atypical, bicarbonate-stimulated, sperm adenylyl cyclase and a cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) with the unique catalytic subunit termed Calpha(2) or C(s). We generated mice that lack Ca...

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

authors： Nolan MA,Babcock DF,Wennemuth G,Brown W,Burton KA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic has played a key medicinal role against a variety of ailments for several millennia, but during the past century its prominence has been displaced by modern therapeutics. Recently, attention has been drawn to arsenic by its dramatic clinical efficacy against acute promyelocytic leukemia. Although toxic reactiv...

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

authors： Chou WC,Jie C,Kenedy AA,Jones RJ,Trush MA,Dang CV

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Atg20 and Snx4/Atg24 proteins have been identified in a screen for mutants defective in a type of selective macroautophagy/autophagy. Both proteins are connected to the Atg1 kinase complex, which is involved in autophagy initiation, and bind phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate. Atg20 and Snx4 contain putative BAR dom...

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

authors： Popelka H,Damasio A,Hinshaw JE,Klionsky DJ,Ragusa MJ

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent single-molecule experiments reveal that mechanical tension on DNA can control both the speed and direction of the DNA polymerase motor. We present a theoretical description of this tension-induced "tuning" and "switching." The internal conformational states of the enzyme motor are represented as nodes, and the ...

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

authors： Goel A,Astumian RD,Herschbach D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodules harboring nitrogen-fixing rhizobia are a well-known trait of legumes, but nodules also occur in other plant lineages, with rhizobia or the actinomycete Frankia as microsymbiont. It is generally assumed that nodulation evolved independently multiple times. However, molecular-genetic support for this hypothesis ...

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

authors： van Velzen R,Holmer R,Bu F,Rutten L,van Zeijl A,Liu W,Santuari L,Cao Q,Sharma T,Shen D,Roswanjaya Y,Wardhani TAK,Kalhor MS,Jansen J,van den Hoogen J,Güngör B,Hartog M,Hontelez J,Verver J,Yang WC,Schijlen E,Repin

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified by cDNA cloning 5 mRNAs that appear in resting BALB/c 3T3 cells soon after growth stimulation by serum or platelet-derived growth factor. Five additional mRNAs of this class are described in this report. The mRNAs reached peak levels between 40 and 120 min after serum addition and rapidly...

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

authors： Lau LF,Nathans D

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence for human erythrocyte band 4.2 has been derived from the nucleotide sequence of a full-length 2.35-kilobase (kb) cDNA. The 2.35-kb cDNA was isolated from a human reticulocyte cDNA library made in the expression vector lambda gt11. Of the 2348 base pairs (bp), 2073 bp encode 691 amino a...

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

authors： Korsgren C,Lawler J,Lambert S,Speicher D,Cohen CM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray (SNP-chip) is a useful tool to define gene dosage levels over the whole genome, allowing precise detection of deletions and duplications/amplifications of chromosomes in cancer cells. We found that this new technology can also identify breakpoints of ch...

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

authors： Kawamata N,Ogawa S,Zimmermann M,Niebuhr B,Stocking C,Sanada M,Hemminki K,Yamatomo G,Nannya Y,Koehler R,Flohr T,Miller CW,Harbott J,Ludwig WD,Stanulla M,Schrappe M,Bartram CR,Koeffler HP

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual (retinoid) cycle, the enzymatic pathway that regenerates chromophore after light absorption, is located primarily in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and is essential for rod photoreceptor survival. Whether this pathway also is essential for cone photoreceptor survival is unknown, and there are no data ...

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

authors： Jacobson SG,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Heon E,Golczak M,Beltran WA,Sumaroka A,Schwartz SB,Roman AJ,Windsor EA,Wilson JM,Aguirre GD,Stone EM,Palczewski K

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermolecular electronic coupling dictates the optical properties of molecular aggregate systems. Of particular interest are photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes that absorb sunlight then efficiently direct energy toward the photosynthetic reaction center. Two-dimensional (2D) ultrafast spectroscopy has been used...

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

authors： Read EL,Engel GS,Calhoun TR,Mancal T,Ahn TK,Blankenship RE,Fleming GR

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy landscape theory provides a general framework for describing protein folding reactions. Because a large number of studies, however, have focused on two-state proteins with single well-defined folding pathways and without detectable intermediates, the extent to which free energy landscapes are shaped up by t...

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

authors： Calosci N,Chi CN,Richter B,Camilloni C,Engström A,Eklund L,Travaglini-Allocatelli C,Gianni S,Vendruscolo M,Jemth P

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The callipyge mutation (CLPG) is an A to G transition that affects a muscle-specific long-range control element located in the middle of the 90-kb DLK1-GTL2 intergenic (IG) region. It causes ectopic expression of a 327-kb cluster of imprinted genes in skeletal muscle, resulting in the callipyge muscular hypertrophy an...

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

authors： Takeda H,Caiment F,Smit M,Hiard S,Tordoir X,Cockett N,Georges M,Charlier C

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Global agricultural emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased by around 20% over the last 100 y, but regulation of these emissions and their impact on bacterial cellular metabolism are poorly understood. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate in soils to inert di-nitrogen gas (N2) via N2O and t...

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

authors： Sullivan MJ,Gates AJ,Appia-Ayme C,Rowley G,Richardson DJ

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-phase random textures abound in a host of contexts, including porous and composite media, ecological structures, biological media, and astrophysical structures. Questions surrounding the spatial structure of such textures continue to pose many theoretical challenges. For example, can two-point correlation function...

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

authors： Jiao Y,Stillinger FH,Torquato S

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP-4) induces ventral mesoderm but represses dorsal mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos. We show that BMP-4 inhibits two signaling pathways regulating dorsal mesoderm formation, the induction of dorsal mesoderm (Spemann organizer) and the dorsalization of ventral mesoderm. Ectopic expr...

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

authors： Re'em-Kalma Y,Lamb T,Frank D

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization of optical fields is a crucial degree of freedom in the all-optical analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). However, the physical origins of EIT and polarization-induced phenomena have not been well distinguished, which can lead to confusion in associated applications such as slow ligh...

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

authors： Wang C,Jiang X,Sweeney WR,Hsu CW,Liu Y,Zhao G,Peng B,Zhang M,Jiang L,Stone AD,Yang L

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A loss-of-function mutation in the APC gene initiates colorectal carcinogenesis. Although the molecular mechanism of tumor initiation is complex, several modifier genes have been identified using mouse models, including the ApcMin mouse. Among the familial adenomatous polyposis mouse lines carrying a truncation mutati...

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

authors： Shibata H,Takano H,Ito M,Shioya H,Hirota M,Matsumoto H,Kakudo Y,Ishioka C,Akiyama T,Kanegae Y,Saito I,Noda T

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite morphogenesis is regulated by neuronal activity or neurotrophins, which may function by activating intrinsic signaling proteins, including Rho family GTPases. Here we report that activity- and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent dendritic morphogenesis requires activation of geranylgeranyltrans...

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

authors： Zhou XP,Wu KY,Liang B,Fu XQ,Luo ZG

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The NOVH protein belongs to the emerging CCN [Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), Cyr61/Cef10, nephroblastoma overexpressed gene] family of growth regulators sharing a strikingly conserved multimodular organization but exhibiting distinctive functional features. Two members of the family (CYR61 and CTGF) are posit...

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

authors： Perbal B,Martinerie C,Sainson R,Werner M,He B,Roizman B

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman primates possess a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is typically tested by having subjects compare facial images, whereas there has been virtually no attention to how they connect these images to reality. C...

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

authors： Pokorny JJ,de Waal FB

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a lipid-enveloped, pleomorphic virus. We combine electron cryotomography and analysis of images of frozen-hydrated virions to determine the structural organization of filamentous influenza A virus. Influenza A/Udorn/72 virions are capsule-shaped or filamentous particles of highly uniform diameter. We show...

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

authors： Calder LJ,Wasilewski S,Berriman JA,Rosenthal PB

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We establish size limitations for assembling structures of controlled size and shape out of colloidal particles with short-ranged interactions. Through simulations we show that structures with highly variable shapes made out of dozens of particles can form with high yield, as long as each particle in the structure bin...

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

authors： Zeravcic Z,Manoharan VN,Brenner MP

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00