L-SIGN (CD 209L) is a liver-specific capture receptor for hepatitis C virus.

abstract：:The yeast auxiliary transcription factor GAL11, a candidate for the coactivator, was partially purified from yeast cells, and its function was characterized in a cell-free transcription system. The partially purified GAL11 protein stimulated basal transcription from the CYC1 core promoter by a factor of 4-5 at the ste...

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

authors： Sakurai H,Hiraoka Y,Fukasawa T

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A high molecular weight protein (HMWP) with properties similar to those of both actin-binding protein (ABP) and filamin has been isolated from cultured baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells. The protein was present in an actomyosin-depleted sucrose extract of the cells and was eluted, upon gel chromatography on Sepharose...

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

authors： Schloss JA,Goldman RD

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s,...

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

authors： Schulz Paulsson B

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of biomolecular isomerization processes, such as protein folding, is governed by a free-energy surface of high dimensionality and complexity. As an alternative to projections into one or two dimensions, the free-energy surface can be mapped into a weighted network where nodes and links are configurations ...

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

authors： Gfeller D,De Los Rios P,Caflisch A,Rao F

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are phototrophic prokaryotes that evolved oxygenic photosynthesis ∼2.7 billion y ago and are presently responsible for ∼10% of total global photosynthetic production. To cope with the evolutionary pressure of dropping ambient CO2 concentrations, they evolved a CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) to augment...

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

authors： Selim KA,Haase F,Hartmann MD,Hagemann M,Forchhammer K

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with photosystem II (PSII) of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2 have been detected. The larger of the two complexes, CPVI-1, contained a 71-kDa and a 42-kDa protein. The 71-kDa protein was determined to be the anchor protein of the phycobilisomes (the light-harvestin...

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

authors： Pakrasi HB,Riethman HC,Sherman LA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that the bacterial transposon Tn7 can recognize and preferentially insert adjacent to triple-helical nucleic acid structures. Both synthetic intermolecular triplexes, formed through the pairing of a short triplex-forming oligonucleotide on a plasmid DNA, and naturally occurring mirror repeat sequences kn...

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

authors： Rao JE,Miller PS,Craig NL

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of p53 is initiated by first-order processes that generate an aggregation-prone state with parallel pathways of major or partial unfolding. Here, we elaborate the mechanism and explore its consequences, beginning with the core domain and extending to the full-length p53 mutant Y220C. Production of large li...

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

authors： Wang G,Fersht AR

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Erickson [Erickson CL (2000) Nature 408 (6809):190-193] interpreted features in seasonal floodplains in Bolivia's Beni savannas as vestiges of pre-European earthen fish weirs, postulating that they supported a productive, sustainable fishery that warranted cooperation in the construction and maintenance of perennial s...

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

authors： McKey DB,Durécu M,Pouilly M,Béarez P,Ovando A,Kalebe M,Huchzermeyer CF

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the ATRX gene on the human X chromosome cause X-linked alpha-thalassemia and mental retardation. XY patients with deletions or mutations in this gene display varying degrees of sex reversal, implicating ATRX in the development of the human testis. To explore further the role of ATRX in mammalian sex diffe...

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

authors： Pask A,Renfree MB,Marshall Graves JA

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:DBA/2 mice immunized with poly(A).poly(U) complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin and emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant were protected against challenge with Friend leukemia virus. There was no correlation between the level of antibody to the immunogen in the prechallenge serum and induced resistance to ...

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

authors： Nahon-Merlin E,Lacour F,Friend C,Revoltella R

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular basis of the magnetic sense remains an unsolved scientific mystery. One theory that aims to explain how animals detect the magnetic field is the magnetite hypothesis. It argues that intracellular crystals of the iron oxide magnetite (Fe3O4) are coupled to mechanosensitive channels that elicit neuronal act...

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

authors： Edelman NB,Fritz T,Nimpf S,Pichler P,Lauwers M,Hickman RW,Papadaki-Anastasopoulou A,Ushakova L,Heuser T,Resch GP,Saunders M,Shaw JA,Keays DA

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity is presumed to be involved in adaptive change toward species diversification. We thus examined how candidate genes underlying natural variation across populations might also mediate plasticity within an individual. Our implementation of an integrative "plasticity space" approach revealed that the...

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

authors： Rosas U,Cibrian-Jaramillo A,Ristova D,Banta JA,Gifford ML,Fan AH,Zhou RW,Kim GJ,Krouk G,Birnbaum KD,Purugganan MD,Coruzzi GM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have inserted a fourth protein ligand into the zinc coordination polyhedron of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) that increases metal affinity 200-fold (Kd = 20 fM). The three-dimensional structures of threonine-199-->aspartate (T199D) and threonine-199-->glutamate (T199E) CAIIs, determined by x-ray crystallographic met...

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

authors： Ippolito JA,Baird TT Jr,McGee SA,Christianson DW,Fierke CA

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear import of classical nuclear localization sequence-bearing proteins is mediated by karyopherin alpha/beta1 heterodimers. A second nuclear import pathway, mediated by karyopherin beta2 (transportin), recently was described for mRNA-binding proteins. Here we report the cloning and characterization of human karyop...

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

authors： Yaseen NR,Blobel G

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alu element has been a major source of new exons during primate evolution. Thousands of human genes contain spliced exons derived from Alu elements. However, identifying Alu exons that have acquired genuine biological functions remains a major challenge. We investigated the creation and establishment of Alu exons ...

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

authors： Shen S,Lin L,Cai JJ,Jiang P,Kenkel EJ,Stroik MR,Sato S,Davidson BL,Xing Y

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An early and a late histone H2B gene from the sea urchin Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus were linked in a single plasmid and injected into the eggs of the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus. The levels of transcripts of injected early and late genes and of endogenous early genes were monitored during development by a ribonucl...

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

authors： Colin AM,Catlin TL,Kidson SH,Maxson R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II gene expression is directly involved in the control of normal and abnormal immune responses. In humans, HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP class II heterodimers are encoded by a family of alpha- and beta-chain genes clustered in the major histocompatibility complex. Their ...

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

authors： Reith W,Barras E,Satola S,Kobr M,Reinhart D,Sanchez CH,Mach B

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous mutations in the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) receptor occur in most individuals with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) and dominantly interfere with apoptosis by an unknown mechanism. We show that local or global alterations in the structure of the cytoplasmic death domain from nine independent ALPS CD9...

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

authors： Martin DA,Zheng L,Siegel RM,Huang B,Fisher GH,Wang J,Jackson CE,Puck JM,Dale J,Straus SE,Peter ME,Krammer PH,Fesik S,Lenardo MJ

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant kingdom contains vastly untapped natural product chemistry, which has been traditionally explored through the activity-guided approach. Here, we describe a gene-guided approach to discover and engineer a class of plant ribosomal peptides, the branched cyclic lyciumins. Initially isolated from the Chinese wol...

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

authors： Kersten RD,Weng JK

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have highlighted the importance of peripheral induction of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the dominant control of immunological tolerance. However, Foxp3(+) Treg differentiation from naïve CD4(+) T cells occurs only under selective conditions, whereas the classical T helper (Th) 1 and 2 ...

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

authors： Wei J,Duramad O,Perng OA,Reiner SL,Liu YJ,Qin FX

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of anther and pollen is important for male reproduction, and this process is coordinately regulated by many external and internal cues. In this study, we systematically examined the male reproductive phenotypes of a series of brassinosteroid biosynthetic and signaling mutants and found that, besides th...

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

authors： Ye Q,Zhu W,Li L,Zhang S,Yin Y,Ma H,Wang X

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent transforming activity of membrane-targeted Raf-1 (Raf-CAAX) suggests that Ras transformation is triggered primarily by a Ras-mediated translocation of Raf-1 to the plasma membrane. However, whereas constitutively activated mutants of Ras [H-Ras(61L) and K-Ras4B(12V)] and Raf-1 (DeltaRaf-22W and Raf-CAAX) ca...

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

authors： Oldham SM,Clark GJ,Gangarosa LM,Coffey RJ Jr,Der CJ

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the successful fabrication on CaF2 substrates of FeSe(1-x)Tex films with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, including the region of 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.4, which is well known to be the "phase-separation region," via pulsed laser deposition that is a thermodynamically nonequilibrium method. In the resulting films, we observe a giant en...

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

authors： Imai Y,Sawada Y,Nabeshima F,Maeda A

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin, the hormone that is the primary regulator of erythrocyte production, has been purified from anemic-sheep plasma, with a purification factor of more than 1 million. Gel electrophoresis shows that the major contaminant is desialated erythropoietin. ...

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

authors： Goldwasser E,Kung CK

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of crystallographic difference maps at 3.0-A resolution of complexes of metal-nucleoside triphosphates with aspartate carbamoyltransferase (carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli. The complexes Gd3+-ATP, Al3+-ATP, and Gd3+-CTP bind to the allosteric...

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

authors： Honzatko RB,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions are ubiquitous in a biological cell. Here, we report a comprehensive study of the distribution of protein-ligand interaction sites, namely ligand-binding pockets, around protein-protein interfaces where protein-protein interactions occur. We inspected a representative se...

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

authors： Gao M,Skolnick J

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor-stimulated cell death of developing, immature T cells plays an important role in shaping the repertoire of antigens to which mature T cells will respond, but a role for receptor-stimulated death in controlling responses of mature T cells is controversial. Mutant lpr/lpr mice exhibit an autoimmune synd...

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

authors： Russell JH,Rush B,Weaver C,Wang R

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An earthquake of magnitude M and linear source dimension L(M) is preceded within a few years by certain patterns of seismicity in the magnitude range down to about (M - 3) in an area of linear dimension about 5L-10L. Prediction algorithms based on such patterns may allow one to predict approximately 80% of strong eart...

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

authors： Keilis-Borok VI

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic is a shocking reminder of how our world would look in the absence of vaccination. Fortunately, new technologies, the pace of understanding new and existing pathogens, and the increased knowledge of the immune system allow us today to develop vaccines at an unprecedented speed. Some of the vaccine...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,De Gregorio E,Del Giudice G,Phogat S,Pecetta S,Pizza M,Hanon E

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00