Funnel sculpting for in silico assembly of secondary structure elements of proteins.

abstract：:Oriented assemblies of small crystals forming larger structures are common in nature and crucial for forthcoming technologies as they circumvent the difficulties of structural manipulation at microscopic scale. We have discovered two distinctive concentric assemblies of zinc oxide rods, wherein each rod has an intrins...

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

authors： Gautam UK,Imura M,Rout CS,Bando Y,Fang X,Dierre B,Sakharov L,Govindaraj A,Sekiguchi T,Golberg D,Rao CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated CaKRE9, a gene from Candida albicans, that is a functional homologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae KRE9 gene involved in beta-1,6-glucan synthesis. Disruption of the CaKRE9 gene in C. albicans shows that CaKre9p is required for the synthesis or assembly of this fungal polymer. Homozygous null disrup...

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

authors： Lussier M,Sdicu AM,Shahinian S,Bussey H

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A glucose-responsive "closed-loop" insulin delivery system mimicking the function of pancreatic cells has tremendous potential to improve quality of life and health in diabetics. Here, we report a novel glucose-responsive insulin delivery device using a painless microneedle-array patch ("smart insulin patch") containi...

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

authors： Yu J,Zhang Y,Ye Y,DiSanto R,Sun W,Ranson D,Ligler FS,Buse JB,Gu Z

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarthrodial joints are essential for load bearing and locomotion. Physiologically, articular cartilage sustains millions of cycles of mechanical loading. Chondrocytes, the cells in cartilage, regulate their metabolic activities in response to mechanical loading. Pathological mechanical stress can lead to maladaptive ...

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

authors： Lee W,Leddy HA,Chen Y,Lee SH,Zelenski NA,McNulty AL,Wu J,Beicker KN,Coles J,Zauscher S,Grandl J,Sachs F,Guilak F,Liedtke WB

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human, cone photoreceptors (L, M, and S) and the melanopsin-containing, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are active at daytime light intensities. Signals from cones are combined both additively and in opposition to create the perception of overall light and color. Similar mechanisms ...

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

authors： Spitschan M,Jain S,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A preparative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel system was used to separate and purify the major Coomassie blue-stained proteins from the isolated rat liver nuclear matrix. Approximately 12 major proteins were consistently found. Of these, 5 proteins represented identified proteins, including nuclear lamins A, B, and...

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

authors： Nakayasu H,Berezney R

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A pluripotent cell line, C3H10T1/2, is induced to undergo adipogenesis by a mixture of factors that includes a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone. We found that expression of myostatin (MSTN), a TGF-beta family member extensively studied in muscle, was induced by dexamethasone under those differentiation conditions....

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

authors： Feldman BJ,Streeper RS,Farese RV Jr,Yamamoto KR

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although infection by primary HIV type 1 (HIV-1) isolates normally requires the functional interaction of the viral envelope protein with both CD4 and the CCR-5 coreceptor, a subset of such isolates also are able to use the distinct CCR-3 receptor. By analyzing the ability of a series of wild-type and chimeric HIV-1 e...

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

authors： Ross TM,Cullen BR

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex II inhibitors 3-nitropropionic acid (3NP) and malonate cause striatal damage reminiscent of Huntington's disease and have been shown to involve oxidative stress in their pathogenesis. Because nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-dependent transcriptional activation by means of the antioxidant res...

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

authors： Calkins MJ,Jakel RJ,Johnson DA,Chan K,Kan YW,Johnson JA

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryonic zeta-globin chains are alpha-globin-like chains that are normally present during the first three months of gestation. In this investigation, zeta-globin chains measured by a specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay and by an electrophoretic technique were found to be present in all 7 patients studied wi...

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

authors： Chung SW,Wong SC,Clarke BJ,Patterson M,Walker WH,Chui DH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin core particle DNA conformation deduced in broad outline by Finch et al. [Finch, J. T., Lutter, L. C., Rhodes, D., Brown, R. S., Rushton, B., Levitt, M. & Klug, A. (1977) Nature 269, 29-36] can be described in detail using other available experimental results. Histone binding sites compatible with the pat...

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

authors： Carter CW Jr

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of human skin collagenase and of an enzyme from an invasive tumor were studied by using types I, II, III, IV, and V (AB) collagen as substrates. Human skin collagenase degraded types I, II, and III collagen, producing the characteristic 3/4 and 1/4 cleavage products, but failed to degrade type IV or V ...

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

authors： Liotta LA,Abe S,Robey PG,Martin GR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations arise in a single individual and at a single point in time and space. The geographic distribution of mutations reflects both historical population size and frequency of migration. We employ coalescence-based methods to coestimate effective population size, frequency of migration, and level of recombination c...

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

authors： Morrell PL,Lundy KE,Clegg MT

更新日期：2003-09-16 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：:One of the factors required for the antiviral activity of the synthetic nucleoside, ribavirin (1-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide), is the ability of the molecule to adopt the substrate conformation specified by the enzyme for which it is a competitive inhibitor, inosine 5'-phosphate dehydrogenase (IM...

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

authors： Miles DL,Miles DW,Redington P,Eyring H

更新日期：1976-12-01 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：:High-resolution mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in animals has proved to be difficult because the large effect sizes detected in crosses between inbred strains are often caused by numerous linked QTLs, each of small effect. In a study of fearfulness in mice, we have shown it is possible to fine map small-effe...

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

authors： Mott R,Talbot CJ,Turri MG,Collins AC,Flint J

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Processing of a protein antigen into fragments is believed to be a prerequisite for its presentation by the antigen-presenting cell to the T cell. This model would predict that, in oligomeric proteins, T cells prepared with specificity for regions that are buried within subunit association surfaces should recognize th...

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

authors： Atassi MZ,Yoshioka M,Bixler GS Jr

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardin and the myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs) A and B act as coactivators for serum response factor, which plays a key role in cardiovascular development. To determine the functions of MRTF-B in vivo, we generated MRTF-B mutant mice by targeted inactivation of the MRTF-B gene. We show that mice hom...

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

authors： Oh J,Richardson JA,Olson EN

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small 19- to 24-nt noncoding RNAs that have the capacity to regulate fundamental biological processes essential for cancer initiation and progression. In cancer, miRNAs may function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Here, we conducted global profiling for miRNAs in a cohort of stage 1 nonsmall ...

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

authors： Peng Y,Dai Y,Hitchcock C,Yang X,Kassis ES,Liu L,Luo Z,Sun HL,Cui R,Wei H,Kim T,Lee TJ,Jeon YJ,Nuovo GJ,Volinia S,He Q,Yu J,Nana-Sinkam P,Croce CM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited electronic states created by UV excitation of the diribonucleoside monophosphates ApA, ApG, ApC, ApU, and CpG were studied by the femtosecond transient-absorption technique. Bleach recovery signals recorded at 252 nm show that long-lived excited states are formed in all five dinucleosides. The lifetimes of the...

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

authors： Takaya T,Su C,de La Harpe K,Crespo-Hernández CE,Kohler B

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are fundamental for human behavior, but the quantification of their neural underpinnings remains challenging. Here, we used hyperscanning functional MRI (fMRI) to study information flow between brains of human dyads during real-time social interaction in a joint attention paradigm. In a hardware se...

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

authors： Bilek E,Ruf M,Schäfer A,Akdeniz C,Calhoun VD,Schmahl C,Demanuele C,Tost H,Kirsch P,Meyer-Lindenberg A

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate racemase is the first enzyme known to possess a metal pincer active site. The enzyme interconverts d- and l-lactic acid, which is important for the assembly of cell walls in many microorganisms. Here, we report a synthetic model of the active site of lactate racemase, which features a pyridinium-based SCS pinc...

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

authors： Xu T,Wodrich MD,Scopelliti R,Corminboeuf C,Hu X

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Art forgeries have existed since antiquity, but with the recent rapidly expanding commercialization of art, the approach to art authentication has demanded increasingly sophisticated detection schemes. So far, the most conclusive criterion in the field of counterfeit detection is the scientific proof of material anach...

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

authors： Hendriks L,Hajdas I,Ferreira ESB,Scherrer NC,Zumbühl S,Smith GD,Welte C,Wacker L,Synal HA,Günther D

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Preincubation of quiescent BALB/C3T3 cells with uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) in conditioned medium resulted in a time- and concentration-dependent stimulation of uptake of 2-deoxyglucose, uridine, and alpha-aminoisobutyric acid over that seen in conditioned medium alone. The apparent Km values ...

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

authors： Natraj CV,Datta P

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The most common symptoms include progressive lung disease and chronic digestive conditions. CF is the first human genetic disease to benefit from having five different species of animal models. De...

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

authors： Kim K,Lane EA,Saftien A,Wang H,Xu Y,Wirtz-Peitz F,Perrimon N

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a drop of liquid a few hundred microns in diameter placed under a solid, elastic, thin film (∼10 μm thick) causes it to bulge by tens of microns. The deformed shape is governed by equilibrium of tensions exerted by the various interfaces and the solid film, a form of Neumann's triangle. Unlike Young's equ...

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

authors： Nadermann N,Hui CY,Jagota A

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of neurotransmitter vesicle dynamics (transport, capacity, release) has been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. Here, we report a novel mouse model of enhanced vesicular function via bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-mediated overexpression of the vesicular mon...

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

authors： Lohr KM,Bernstein AI,Stout KA,Dunn AR,Lazo CR,Alter SP,Wang M,Li Y,Fan X,Hess EJ,Yi H,Vecchio LM,Goldstein DS,Guillot TS,Salahpour A,Miller GW

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental changes, the connections ("arrows") in gene regulatory networks determine which genes modulate their expression, but the quantitative parameters of the network ("the numbers on the arrows") are equally important in determining the resulting phenotype. What are the objectives and constraint...

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

authors： Chubukov V,Zuleta IA,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work showed that cultured human pancreatic cancer cells overexpress the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. In the present study, we sought to determine whether some of these cell lines produce transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). Utilizing a radiolabeled TGF-alpha cDNA in hybridization experimen...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Derynck R,Korc M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00