High-resolution tandem mass spectrometry of large biomolecules.

abstract：:Quantitative studies of protein abundance rarely span more than a small number of experimental conditions and replicates. In contrast, quantitative studies of transcript abundance often span hundreds of experimental conditions and replicates. This situation exists, in part, because extracting quantitative data from la...

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

authors： Khan Z,Bloom JS,Garcia BA,Singh M,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the range of applicability of Forster long-range energy transfer in the determination of macromolecular dimensions and conformational dynamics is given. Emphasis is laid on the effect of restrictions in the orientational freedom of donor and acceptor and on the importance of the orientational averaging...

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

authors： Dale RE,Eisinger J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery plays a key role in the regulation of the activity and function of many biomolecules. And although many ligands act through allostery, no systematic use is made of it in drug design strategies. Here we describe a procedure for identifying the regions of a protein that can be used to control its activity thro...

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

authors： Laine E,Goncalves C,Karst JC,Lesnard A,Rault S,Tang WJ,Malliavin TE,Ladant D,Blondel A

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled free fatty acid receptor-1 (FFA1/GPR40) plays a major role in the regulation of insulin secretion by fatty acids. GPR40 is considered a potential therapeutic target to enhance insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes; however, its mode of regulation is essentially unknown. The aims of this study were...

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

authors： Kebede M,Ferdaoussi M,Mancini A,Alquier T,Kulkarni RN,Walker MD,Poitout V

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence motifs that affect RNA polymerase transcription elongation are well studied in prokaryotic organisms and contribute directly to regulation of gene expression. Despite significant work on the regulation of eukaryotic transcription, the effect of DNA template sequence on RNA polymerase I (Pol I) transcripti...

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

authors： Clarke AM,Engel KL,Giles KE,Petit CM,Schneider DA

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast RNA polymerase II initiation factor e was purified to homogeneity and identified by biochemical criteria as the counterpart of human transcription factor IIB. Factor e was essential for initiation of transcription from yeast and mammalian promoters in a reconstituted yeast transcription system. Activity resided ...

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

authors： Tschochner H,Sayre MH,Flanagan PM,Feaver WJ,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light microscopy autoradiography has been used to visualize neuroanatomical patterns of brain opiate receptor upregulation in response to chronic naltrexone administration. Slide-mounted brain sections of frozen rat brain were labeled in vitro with dihydro[3H]morphine, a relatively selective mu opioid ligand. The grea...

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

authors： Tempel A,Gardner EL,Zukin RS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many plants, osmotic stress induces a rapid accumulation of proline through de novo synthesis from glutamate. This response is thought to play a pivotal role in osmotic stress tolerance [Kishor, P. B. K., Hong, Z., Miao, G.-H., Hu, C.-A. A. and Verma, D. P. S. (1995) Plant Physiol. 108, 1387-1394]. During recovery ...

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

authors： Verbruggen N,Hua XJ,May M,Van Montagu M

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER) is a transcriptional repressor, which, because of alternate promoter use, is generated from the 3' region of the cAMP response modulator (Crem) gene. Its expression and nuclear occurrence are elevated by high cAMP levels in naturally occurring regulatory T cells (nTregs). Using tw...

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

authors： Vaeth M,Gogishvili T,Bopp T,Klein M,Berberich-Siebelt F,Gattenloehner S,Avots A,Sparwasser T,Grebe N,Schmitt E,Hünig T,Serfling E,Bodor J

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and lethal genetic muscle disorder, caused by recessive mutations in the dystrophin gene. One of every 3,500 males suffers from DMD, yet no treatment is currently available. Genetic therapeutic approaches, using primarily myoblast transplantation and adenovirus-medi...

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

authors： Wang B,Li J,Xiao X

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The S1-nuclease analysis was used to investigate the pattern of inhibin expression in the rat. In a first series of experiments, expression of the alpha, beta A, and beta B subunits of inhibin were monitored in various tissues from male and female rats. Two observations emerge from these studies. First, expression of ...

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

authors： Meunier H,Rivier C,Evans RM,Vale W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a tryptophan synthase gene and the flanking 5' and 3' regions has been determined for Arabidopsis thaliana. The sequence encodes only the beta subunit domain, indicating that alpha and beta subunits are specified by separate genes. The gene contains four introns and encodes 470 amino acid residues....

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

authors： Berlyn MB,Last RL,Fink GR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV buds from lipid rafts and requires cholesterol for its egress from and entry into cells. Viral accessory protein Nef plays a major role in this process. In this study, it not only increased the biosynthesis of lipid rafts and viral particles with newly synthesized cholesterol, but also enriched them. Furthermore, ...

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

authors： Zheng YH,Plemenitas A,Fielding CJ,Peterlin BM

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured Hodgkin disease (HD) cells with neuraminidase results in decreased reactivity of monoclonal antibody VIM-D5 with its antigen, the X hapten, a fucosyl-N-acetyllactosamine. The other feature characteristic of HD cells is the expression of high levels of ectosialyltransferase activity. We present ev...

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

authors： Paietta E,Stockert RJ,Morell AG,Diehl V,Wiernik PH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine methylation has emerged as a widespread and reversible protein modification with the potential to regulate a multitude of cellular processes, but its function is poorly understood. Endolysosomes play an important role in Wnt signaling, in which glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) becomes sequestered inside mult...

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

authors： Albrecht LV,Ploper D,Tejeda-Muñoz N,De Robertis EM

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptadecapeptide orphanin FQ (OFQ) is a recently discovered neuropeptide that exhibits structural features reminiscent of the opioid peptides and that is an endogenous ligand to a G protein-coupled receptor sequentially related to the opioid receptors. We have cloned both the human and rat cDNAs encoding the OFQ p...

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

authors： Nothacker HP,Reinscheid RK,Mansour A,Henningsen RA,Ardati A,Monsma FJ Jr,Watson SJ,Civelli O

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as Burgess Shale-type deposits (BSTs), show the evolution of the euarthropod stem lineage during the Cambrian from 518 million years ago (Ma). The s...

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

authors： Daley AC,Antcliffe JB,Drage HB,Pates S

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from gram-negative bacteria and many of mitochondria and chloroplasts are β-barrels. Insertion and assembly of these proteins are catalyzed by the Omp85 protein family in a seemingly conserved process. All members of this family exhibit a characteristic N-terminal polypep...

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

authors： Sommer MS,Daum B,Gross LE,Weis BL,Mirus O,Abram L,Maier UG,Kühlbrandt W,Schleiff E

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The semaphorins comprise a large family of membrane-bound and secreted proteins, some of which have been shown to function in axon guidance. We have cloned a transmembrane semaphorin, Sema W, that belongs to the class IV subgroup of the semaphorin family. The mouse and rat forms of Sema W show 97% amino acid sequence ...

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

authors： Encinas JA,Kikuchi K,Chedotal A,de Castro F,Goodman CS,Kimura T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies on human insulins prepared by semisynthetic and biosynthetic methods have recently been undertaken. Human insulin differs from porcine insulin only at the COOH terminus of the B-chain. The present study reports the crystal structure of 4-zinc human insulin, which is used clinically as a slow-acting prepa...

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

authors： Smith GD,Swenson DC,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Reynolds CD

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli gene encoding protein n' has been isolated and named priA for primosomal protein A. Protein n' is absolutely required for the conversion of single-stranded phi X174 DNA to the duplex replicative form in an in vitro-reconstituted system. The gene maps to 88.7 minutes on the chromosome adjacent to t...

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

authors： Lee EH,Masai H,Allen GC Jr,Kornberg A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemia is a heritable human anemia caused by a variety of mutations that affect expression of the alpha- or the beta-chain of hemoglobin. The expressivity of the phenotype is likely to be influenced by unlinked modifying genes. Indeed, by using a mouse model of alpha-thalassemia, we find that its phenotype is str...

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

authors： Leder A,Wiener E,Lee MJ,Wickramasinghe SN,Leder P

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is most often due to point mutations in the beta-isoform of the thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR-beta). The majority of mutations involve the ligand-binding domain, where they block TH binding and receptor function on both stimulatory and inhibitory TH response elements. In contras...

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

authors： Machado DS,Sabet A,Santiago LA,Sidhaye AR,Chiamolera MI,Ortiga-Carvalho TM,Wondisford FE

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase from Escherichia coli and mammalian cells provides the deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates for DNA synthesis. The active enzyme contains a tyrosyl free radical whose formation requires oxygen. Earlier genetic evidence suggested that the enzyme is not required for anaerobic growth of ...

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

authors： Fontecave M,Eliasson R,Reichard P

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of Ca ions into the presynaptic nerve terminal through ion channels is a key link between the action potential and the release of chemical transmitters. It is not clear, however, which types of Ca channel are involved in neurosecretion at vertebrate synapses. In particular, there is disagreement as to wheth...

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

authors： Stanley EF,Atrakchi AH

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyco-immune checkpoint receptors, molecules that inhibit immune cell activity following binding to glycosylated cell-surface antigens, are emerging as attractive targets for cancer immunotherapy. Defining biologically relevant ligands that bind and activate such receptors, however, has historically been a significant...

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

authors： Wisnovsky S,Möckl L,Malaker SA,Pedram K,Hess GT,Riley NM,Gray MA,Smith BAH,Bassik MC,Moerner WE,Bertozzi CR

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectra of biological polymers contain important information about their structure and function in living organisms. This information can be accessed by extracting an optical interaction of monomers, i.e., their exciton coupling, from experimental data. This coupling is sensitive to molecular structure, geomet...

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

authors： Burin AL,Armbruster ME,Hariharan M,Lewis FD

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for increasing the length of DNA sequence data that can be read off a polyacrylamide gel are described. We have developed a rapid way to pour a buffer concentration gradient gel that, by altering the vertical band separation on an autoradiograph, allows more sequence to be obtained from a gel. We also show...

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

authors： Biggin MD,Gibson TJ,Hong GF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of human monocyte-macrophages to as little as 50 microliters of cultured medium from lymphocytes stimulated by concanavalin A (Con A) resulted in a dramatic decrease in the activities of the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor pathway, the LDL-dextran sulfate pathway, and the scavenger receptor pathway. Th...

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

authors： Fogelman AM,Seager J,Haberland ME,Hokom M,Tanaka R,Edwards PA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00