Self-assembly of synthetic peptides control conformation and optical properties of a zwitterionic polythiophene derivative.

abstract：:Many pathological conditions of the central nervous system involve damage to and removal of myelin membrane. Very little is known about initiation of this membrane damage and the mechanisms of disposal of the damaged tissue. We are interested in the interaction between complement (the components of complement are desi...

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

authors： Vanguri P,Koski CL,Silverman B,Shin ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogeochemical reactions occur unevenly in space and time, but this heterogeneity is often simplified as a linear average due to sparse data, especially in subsurface environments where access is limited. For example, little is known about the spatial variability of groundwater denitrification, an important process in...

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

authors： Kolbe T,de Dreuzy JR,Abbott BW,Aquilina L,Babey T,Green CT,Fleckenstein JH,Labasque T,Laverman AM,Marçais J,Peiffer S,Thomas Z,Pinay G

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebae of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum possess an extensive and dynamic endomembrane system that includes many types of acidic vacuoles. A light membrane fraction from Dictyostelium, rich in vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase, has been described [Padh, H., Lavasa, M. & Steck, T.L. (1989) J. Cell Biol. 108,...

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

authors： Rooney EK,Gross JD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging are promising methods that eventually may enhance or replace existing technologies for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. These techniques are based on highly sensitive, quantitative measurements of optical and functional contrast between healt...

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

authors： Shah N,Cerussi A,Eker C,Espinoza J,Butler J,Fishkin J,Hornung R,Tromberg B

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi produce numerous low molecular weight molecules endowed with a multitude of biological activities. However, mining the full-genome sequences of fungi indicates that their potential to produce secondary metabolites is greatly underestimated. Because most of the biosynthesis gene clusters are silent under laborato...

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

authors： Schroeckh V,Scherlach K,Nützmann HW,Shelest E,Schmidt-Heck W,Schuemann J,Martin K,Hertweck C,Brakhage AA

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza virus genes that confer efficient transmission of epidemic and pandemic strains in humans have not been identified. The rapid spread and severe disease caused by the 1918 influenza pandemic virus makes it an ideal virus to study the transmissibility of potentially pandemic influenza strains. Here, we use...

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

authors： Van Hoeven N,Pappas C,Belser JA,Maines TR,Zeng H,García-Sastre A,Sasisekharan R,Katz JM,Tumpey TM

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a simple and easily manipulatable Escherichia coli-based genetic system that permits us to identify bacterial gene products that modulate the sensitivity of bacteria to tumoricidal agents, such as DMP 840, a bisnaphthalimide drug. To the extent that the action of these agents is conserved, these studi...

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

authors： Chatterjee PK,Sternberg NL

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteolytic cleavage of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) is regulated by SREBP cleavage-activating protein (SCAP), which forms complexes with SREBPs in membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In sterol-depleted cells, SCAP facilitates cleavage of SREBPs by Site-1 protease, thereby initiatin...

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

authors： Nohturfft A,DeBose-Boyd RA,Scheek S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic crossing over in flies heterozygous for a dominant Minute mutant may result in two cells, homozygous for wild type and Minute, respectively. If both cells took part in development, a twin spot of two genotypes, different from the rest of the body, would result. Two-hundred wild type spots were found, none of w...

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

authors： Stern C,Tokunaga C

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of legume nodules have indicated that formation of the heme moiety of leghemoglobin is a function of the bacterial symbiont. We now show that a hemA mutant of Bradyrhizobium japonicum that cannot carry out the first step in heme biosynthesis forms fully effective nodules on soybeans. The bacterial mut...

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

authors： Guerinot ML,Chelm BK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein 2 kinase (MAP kinase), which exists in several forms, is a protein serine/threonine kinase that participates in a growth factor-activated protein kinase cascade in which it activates a ribosomal protein S6 kinase (pp90rsk) while being regulated itself by a cytoplasmic factor (MAP kinase ...

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

authors： Seger R,Ahn NG,Boulton TG,Yancopoulos GD,Panayotatos N,Radziejewska E,Ericsson L,Bratlien RL,Cobb MH,Krebs EG

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several of the best-studied sex differences in the mammalian brain are ascribed to the hormonal control of cell death. This conclusion is based primarily on correlations between pyknotic cell counts in development and counts of mature neurons in adulthood; the molecular mechanisms of hormone-regulated, sexually dimorp...

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

authors： Forger NG,Rosen GJ,Waters EM,Jacob D,Simerly RB,de Vries GJ

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:E2A helix-loop-helix proteins are involved in the control of various developmental pathways. We show here by in situ hybridization that E2A transcripts are present in most embryonic and adult tissues. However, no E2A expression is detectable in heart and nonproliferative regions of the brain and spinal cord. Highest l...

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

authors： Roberts VJ,Steenbergen R,Murre C

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 10 out of 26 patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released IgE-binding factors, as determined by two independent assays. The formation of the factors by the mononuclear cells was enhanced by incubation of the cells with homologous IgE. In the presence of IgE, ...

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

authors： Carini C,Margolick J,Yodoi J,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular nature of the cell surface-cytoskeleton interaction in microvilli isolated from ascites 13762 rat mammary adenocarcinoma sublines with immobile (MAT-C1) and mobile (MAT-B1) receptors was investigated by extraction and fractionation studies on the microvillar membranes. Extraction of membranes from MAT-C1...

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

authors： Carraway CA,Jung G,Carraway KL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of the roles of adaptation and chance in determining genetic diversity and evolution has received attention in the last 50 years, but our understanding is still incomplete. All statements about the relative effects of evolutionary factors, especially drift, need confirmation by strong demograph...

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

authors： Chiaroni J,Underhill PA,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton tyrosine kinase (EC 2.7.1.112) [Btk, encoded by Btk in mice and BTK in humans (formerly known as atk, BPK, or emb)], which is variously mutated in chromosome X-linked agammaglobulinemia patients and X-linked immunodeficient (xid) mice, has the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain at its amino terminus. The PH domain...

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

authors： Yao L,Kawakami Y,Kawakami T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon, R2, encodes a sequence-specific endonuclease responsible for its insertion at a unique site in the 28S rRNA genes of arthropods. Although most non-LTR retrotransposons encode an apurinic-like endonuclease upstream of a common reverse transcriptase domain, R2 and many...

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

authors： Yang J,Malik HS,Eickbush TH

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-selective mortality inevitably leads to a decrease in population density and exerts a direct negative effect on targeted size classes. But density and population size structure are also shaped by food-dependent processes, such as individual growth, maturation, and reproduction. Mortality relaxes competition and t...

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

authors： Schröder A,Persson L,de Roos AM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between swimming cells and surfaces are essential to many microbiological processes, from bacterial biofilm formation to human fertilization. However, despite their fundamental importance, relatively little is known about the physical mechanisms that govern the scattering of flagellated or ciliated cells ...

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

authors： Kantsler V,Dunkel J,Polin M,Goldstein RE

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many and diverse modifications of the myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) increase (modulate) its ATPase activity, including interaction of this particle with actin; a recent addition to these modifications is the extensive lysine modification of S-1 that seems prerequisite to crystallizing it for structure analysis. In this s...

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

authors： Bivin DB,Ue K,Khoroshev M,Morales M

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing cerebellum, switching of the subunit composition of NMDA receptors occurs in granule cells from NR2B-containing receptors to NR2C-containing ones. We investigated the mechanisms underlying switching of NR2B and NR2C subunit composition in primary cultures of mouse granule cells at the physiological K...

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

authors： Iijima K,Abe H,Okazawa M,Moriyoshi K,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile), the active form of the plant hormone jasmonate (JA), is sensed by the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1 (COI1), a component of a functional Skp-Cullin-F-box E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. Sensing of JA-Ile by COI1 rapidly triggers genome-wide transcriptional changes that are largely r...

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

authors： An C,Li L,Zhai Q,You Y,Deng L,Wu F,Chen R,Jiang H,Wang H,Chen Q,Li C

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of previous preclinical and clinical studies have identified angiogenin (ANG) as a potentially important target for anticancer therapy. Here we report the design and implementation of a high-throughput screening assay to identify small molecules that bind to the ribonucleolytic active site of ANG, which is...

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

authors： Kao RY,Jenkins JL,Olson KA,Key ME,Fett JW,Shapiro R

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence for an interaction between mouse class I major histocompatibility complex antigens and insulin receptors. Antibodies against class I but not class II major histocompatibility complex antigens immunoprecipitate photoaffinity-labeled hepatic insulin receptors. Haplotype specificity is demonstrated by...

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

authors： Phillips ML,Moule ML,Delovitch TL,Yip CC

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the androgen receptor (AR) may play a role in androgen-independent progression of prostate cancer. Multiple mechanisms of AR activation, including stimulation by tyrosine kinases, have been postulated. We and others have recently shown involvement of activated Cdc42-associated tyrosine kinase Ack1 in adv...

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

authors： Mahajan NP,Liu Y,Majumder S,Warren MR,Parker CE,Mohler JL,Earp HS,Whang YE

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating 3T3 mouse fibroblasts contain higher levels of the lectin carbohydrate-binding protein 35 (CBP35) than do quiescent cultures of the same cells. An immunofluorescence study was carried out with a rabbit antiserum directed against CBP35 to map the cellular fluorescence distribution in a large population of...

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

authors： Moutsatsos IK,Wade M,Schindler M,Wang JL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To adapt to habitat temperature, vertebrates have developed sophisticated physiological and ecological mechanisms through evolution. Transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) serves as the primary sensor for cold. However, how cold activates TRPM8 and how this sensor is tuned for thermal adaptation remain larg...

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

authors： Yang S,Lu X,Wang Y,Xu L,Chen X,Yang F,Lai R

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00