Mutations in the clathrin-assembly gene Picalm are responsible for the hematopoietic and iron metabolism abnormalities in fit1 mice.

abstract：:During the last several decades corals have been in decline and at least one-third of all coral species are now threatened with extinction. Coral disease has been a major contributor to this threat, but little is known about the responsible pathogens. To date most research has focused on bacterial and fungal diseases;...

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

authors： Vega Thurber RL,Barott KL,Hall D,Liu H,Rodriguez-Mueller B,Desnues C,Edwards RA,Haynes M,Angly FE,Wegley L,Rohwer FL

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the multiplication rate of blood stage malaria parasites is often positively correlated with the severity of the disease they cause. The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii has strains with marked differences in multiplication rate and pathogenicity in the blood. We have used genetic analysis...

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

authors： Pattaradilokrat S,Culleton RL,Cheesman SJ,Carter R

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair is central to the maintenance of genomic stability. It is initiated by the recognition of base-base mismatches and insertion/deletion loops by the family of MutS proteins. Subsequently, ATP induces a unique conformational change in the MutS-mismatch complex but not in the MutS-homoduplex complex th...

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

authors： Wang H,Yang Y,Schofield MJ,Du C,Fridman Y,Lee SD,Larson ED,Drummond JT,Alani E,Hsieh P,Erie DA

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests hold most of Earth's biodiversity. Their continued loss through deforestation and agriculture is the main threat to species globally, more than disease, invasive species, and climate change. However, not all tropical forests have the same ability to sustain biodiversity. Those that have been disturbed...

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

authors： Hedges SB,Cohen WB,Timyan J,Yang Z

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of glucokinase in hepatocytes and pancreatic 6-cells is of major physiologic importance to mammalian glucose homeostasis. Liver glucokinase catalyzes the first committed step in the disposal of glucose, and beta-cell glucokinase catalyzes a rate-limiting step required for glucose-regulated insulin release. ...

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

authors： Heimberg H,De Vos A,Moens K,Quartier E,Bouwens L,Pipeleers D,Van Schaftingen E,Madsen O,Schuit F

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a strategy to "revive" putatively pathogenic T cells from frozen specimens of human inflammatory target organs. To distinguish pathogenic from irrelevant bystander T cells, we focused on cells that were (i) clonally expanded and (ii) in direct morphological contact with a target cell. Using CDR3 spectratyp...

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

authors： Seitz S,Schneider CK,Malotka J,Nong X,Engel AG,Wekerle H,Hohlfeld R,Dornmair K

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation and association of an immobilized preparation of the octameric enzyme porphobilinogen synthase [5-aminolevulinate hydro-lyase (adding 5-aminolevulinate and cyclizing), EC 4.2.1.24] is described. On treatment of the immobilized preparation with 4 M urea, four subunits per octamer are removed which can ...

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

authors： Gurne D,Chen J,Shemin D

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shell shape and shell thickness of the intertidal snail Littorina obtusata changed markedly between 1871 and 1984 in northern New England. Shells collected prior to 1900 were high-spired with thin walls, whereas shells collected in 1982-84 were low-spired with thick walls. An intertidal crab (Carcinus maenas) which pr...

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

authors： Seeley RH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The gluconate (gnt) operon of Bacillus subtilis consists of four gnt genes; the second and third genes code for gluconate kinase (gluconokinase, EC 2.7.1.12) and gluconate permease, respectively. A fragment carrying the promoter of this operon (gnt promoter) and the first gene (gntR) was subcloned into a promoter prob...

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

authors： Fujita Y,Fujita T

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium myosin II is activated by phosphorylation of its regulatory light chain by myosin light chain kinase A (MLCK-A), an unconventional MLCK that is not regulated by Ca2+/calmodulin. MLCK-A is activated by autophosphorylation of threonine-289 outside of the catalytic domain and by phosphorylation of threonine...

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

authors： Silveira LA,Smith JL,Tan JL,Spudich JA

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine that can protect against HIV infection does not exist. A major reason why a vaccine is not available is the high mutability of the virus, which enables it to evolve mutations that can evade human immune responses. This challenge is exacerbated by the ability of the virus to evolve compensatory mut...

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

authors： Murakowski DK,Barton JP,Peter L,Chandrashekar A,Bondzie E,Gao A,Barouch DH,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins internalized into the endocytic pathway are usually degraded. Efficient proteolysis requires denaturation, induced by acidic conditions within lysosomes, and reduction of inter- and intrachain disulfide bonds. Cytosolic reduction is mediated enzymatically by thioredoxin, but the mechanism of lysosomal reducti...

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

authors： Arunachalam B,Phan UT,Geuze HJ,Cresswell P

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of food restriction (FR) and substitution of fish oil (FO; omega 3) for corn oil (CO; omega 6) on breast tumor incidence and survival in mouse mammary tumor virus/v-Ha-ras transgenic (Onco) mice. The diets were as follows: group 1, 5% (wt/wt) CO fed ad libitum (AL); group 2, 5% CO, restrict...

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

authors： Fernandes G,Chandrasekar B,Troyer DA,Venkatraman JT,Good RA

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme p-cresol methylhydroxylase [4-cresol: (acceptor) oxidoreductase (methyl-hydroxylating), EC 1.17.99.1] contains two subunits: a cytochrome c (electron transfer) subunit (cytochrome cpc) and a flavin (catalytic) subunit. When these subunits are separated by isoelectric focusing, a stable cytochrome subunit is...

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

authors： McLendon GL,Bagby S,Charman JA,Driscoll PC,McIntire WS,Mathews FS,Hill HA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450(BioI) (CYP107H1) from the biotin operon of Bacillus subtilis forms a seven-carbon diacid through a multistep oxidative cleavage of a fatty acid linked to acyl carrier protein (ACP). Crystal structures of P450(BioI) in complex with three different length fatty acyl-ACP (Escherichia coli) ligands show th...

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

authors： Cryle MJ,Schlichting I

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The F(1)F(0) ATP synthase is the smallest motor enzyme known. Previous studies had established that the central stalk, made of the gamma and epsilon subunits in the F(1) part and c subunit ring in the F(0) part, rotates relative to a stator composed of alpha(3)beta(3)deltaab(2) during ATP hydrolysis and synthesis. How...

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

authors： Tsunoda SP,Rodgers AJ,Aggeler R,Wilce MC,Yoshida M,Capaldi RA

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing 5-azacytosine (azaC) has previously been shown to be a potent inhibitor of DNA-cytosine methyltransferases. In this report, we describe experiments which demonstrate that azaC-DNA forms a covalent complex with Hpa II methylase, a bacterial enzyme that methylates the internal C of C-C-G-G sequences. The ...

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

authors： Santi DV,Norment A,Garrett CE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1,942-base-pair DNA segment encoding the structural gene for diphtheria toxin was sequenced, and the primary structure of the toxin was deduced. Restriction enzyme fragments corresponding to nontoxic or hypotoxic peptides of the toxin were isolated from corynebacteriophage beta and cloned into Escherichia coli on pl...

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

authors： Greenfield L,Bjorn MJ,Horn G,Fong D,Buck GA,Collier RJ,Kaplan DA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To modify the lac permease of Escherichia coli for fluorescence spectroscopy, six tryptophan residues at positions 10, 33, 78, 151, 171, and 223 were first replaced individually with phenylalanine by using oligonucleotide-directed site-specific mutagenesis. None of the tryptophan residues is critical for activity, as ...

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

authors： Menezes ME,Roepe PD,Kaback HR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system (MICOS) is a multisubunit protein complex that is essential for the proper architecture of the mitochondrial inner membrane. MICOS plays a key role in establishing and maintaining crista junctions, tubular or slit-like structures that connect the cristae mem...

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

authors： Pape JK,Stephan T,Balzarotti F,Büchner R,Lange F,Riedel D,Jakobs S,Hell SW

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causal agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite and invades and proliferates within different eukaryotic cells, including human alveolar macrophages. After several 100-fold multiplication within host cells, the pathogens are released for new invasion by induction of apop...

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

authors： Belyi Y,Niggeweg R,Opitz B,Vogelsgesang M,Hippenstiel S,Wilm M,Aktories K

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known to be important signal molecules that are involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses as well as in growth regulation. However, the molecular mechanisms by which ROS act as a growth regulator, as well as how ROS-dependent growth regulation relates to its roles in stress resp...

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

authors： Mabuchi K,Maki H,Itaya T,Suzuki T,Nomoto M,Sakaoka S,Morikami A,Higashiyama T,Tada Y,Busch W,Tsukagoshi H

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive activity of Trypanosoma lewisi was strikingly enhanced and sometimes prolonged for 2 days when sublethal doses of adenine were given to rats. The drug was effective when given for 5 or 7 days in the diet and/or intraperitoneally, starting one or two days before infection through two days after infecti...

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

authors： Taliaferro WH,D'Alesandro PA

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned segment of yeast DNA containing the structural gene for imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase (D-erythro-imidazoleglycerolphosphate hydro-lase, EC 4.2.1.19) is transcribed and translated in Escherichia coli with sufficient fidelity to produce functional enzyme. This segment of yeast DNA was isolated as a via...

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

authors： Struhl K,Davis RW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent major conceptual advance has been the recognition of the importance of immune system-neuronal interactions in the modulation of brain function, one example of which is spinal pain processing in neuropathic states. Here, we report that in peripheral nerve-injured rats, the lysosomal cysteine protease cathepsin...

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

authors： Clark AK,Yip PK,Grist J,Gentry C,Staniland AA,Marchand F,Dehvari M,Wotherspoon G,Winter J,Ullah J,Bevan S,Malcangio M

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropospheric O(3) and sulfate both contribute to air pollution and climate forcing. There is a growing realization that air quality and climate change issues are strongly connected. To date, the importance of the coupling between O(3) and sulfate has not been fully appreciated, and thus regulations treat each pollutan...

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

authors： Unger N,Shindell DT,Koch DM,Streets DG

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The SCF ubiquitin ligase complex of budding yeast triggers DNA replication by catalyzing ubiquitination of the S phase cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor SIC1. SCF is composed of three proteins-ySKP1, CDC53 (Cullin), and the F-box protein CDC4-that are conserved from yeast to humans. As part of an effort to identify co...

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

authors： Lyapina SA,Correll CC,Kipreos ET,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells expand after transfer into lymphopenic H-2(b) A(beta)-/- mice (I-A(beta)-, I-E(alpha)-deficient mice) but not after transfer into lymphopenic MHC II(Delta/Delta) mice (I-A(alpha)-, I-A(beta)-, I-E(alpha)-, and I-E(beta)-deficient mice), implying that in H-2(b) A(beta)-/- mice, A(alpha) chain and E(beta)...

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

authors： Martin B,Bourgeois C,Dautigny N,Lucas B

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation of diacylglycerol (DG), a reaction catalyzed by DG kinase, may be critical in the termination of effector-induced signals mediated by protein kinase C. Synapsin I is a principal target of intracellular protein kinases and is thought to be involved in the release of neurotransmitter from axon termin...

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

authors： Kahn DW,Besterman JM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00