Cis-acting, orientation-dependent, positive control system activates pheromone-inducible conjugation functions at distances greater than 10 kilobases upstream from its target in Enterococcus faecalis.

abstract：:Tropomyosin is a key component of the contractile systems found in muscle and nonmuscle cells of higher eukaryotes. Based on properties common to all tropomyosins, we have purified a protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that resembles tropomyosins from higher cells. The yeast protein remains soluble after heat treatm...

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

authors： Liu HP,Bretscher A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited trypsinization of the fatty acid synthetase multienzyme complex from rat mammary gland results in the release of a protein, molecular weight 32,000, with thioesterase activity. The other components of the multienzyme complex--the acyl carrier protein, acetyl and malonyl transferases, condensing enzyme, keto re...

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

authors： Smith S,Agradi E,Libertini L,Dileepan KN

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and gene mapping studies reveal that chloroplast DNA from geranium (Pelargonium hortorum) has sustained a number of extensive duplications and inversions, resulting in a genome arrangement radically unlike that of other plants. At 217 kilobases in size, the circular chromosome is about 50% larger than the typ...

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

authors： Palmer JD,Nugent JM,Herbon LA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CHD7 encodes an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factor. Mutation of this gene causes multiple developmental disorders, including CHARGE (Coloboma of the eye, Heart defects, Atresia of the choanae, Retardation of growth/development, Genital abnormalities, and Ear anomalies) syndrome, in which conotruncal anomalies a...

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

authors： Yan S,Thienthanasit R,Chen D,Engelen E,Brühl J,Crossman DK,Kesterson R,Wang Q,Bouazoune K,Jiao K

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the murine Fab S-20-4 from a protective anti-cholera Ab specific for the lipopolysaccharide Ag of the Ogawa serotype has been determined in its unliganded form and in complex with synthetic fragments of the Ogawa O-specific polysaccharide (O-SP). The upstream terminal O-SP monosaccharide is sh...

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

authors： Villeneuve S,Souchon H,Riottot MM,Mazie JC,Lei P,Glaudemans CP,Kovác P,Fournier JM,Alzari PM

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to intercept uncooperative targets is key to many diverse flight behaviors, from courtship to predation. Previous research has looked for simple geometric rules describing the attack trajectories of animals, but the underlying feedback laws have remained obscure. Here, we use GPS loggers and onboard video ...

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

authors： Brighton CH,Thomas ALR,Taylor GK

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) comprise the major group of Ca2+-regulated kinases in plants and protists. It has long been assumed that CDPKs are activated, like other Ca2+-regulated kinases, by derepression of the kinase domain (KD). However, we found that removal of the autoinhibitory domain from Toxoplas...

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

authors： Ingram JR,Knockenhauer KE,Markus BM,Mandelbaum J,Ramek A,Shan Y,Shaw DE,Schwartz TU,Ploegh HL,Lourido S

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical birds are relatively long-lived and produce few offspring, which develop slowly and mature relatively late in life, the slow end of the life-history axis, whereas temperate birds lie at the opposite end of this continuum. We tested the hypothesis that tropical birds have evolved a reduced basal metabolic rate...

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

authors： Wiersma P,Muñoz-Garcia A,Walker A,Williams JB

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1, the cause of AIDS, is composed of four phylogenetic lineages, groups M, N, O, and P, each of which resulted from an independent cross-species transmission event of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) infecting African apes. Although groups M and N have been traced to geographically distinct chimpanzee commun...

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

authors： D'arc M,Ayouba A,Esteban A,Learn GH,Boué V,Liegeois F,Etienne L,Tagg N,Leendertz FH,Boesch C,Madinda NF,Robbins MM,Gray M,Cournil A,Ooms M,Letko M,Simon VA,Sharp PM,Hahn BH,Delaporte E,Mpoudi Ngole E,Peeters M

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Global increases in population, consumption, and gross domestic product raise concerns about the sustainability of the current and future use of natural resources. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) provides a useful measure of human intervention into the biosphere. The productive capacity of la...

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

authors： Krausmann F,Erb KH,Gingrich S,Haberl H,Bondeau A,Gaube V,Lauk C,Plutzar C,Searchinger TD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analysis of complete eukaryotic genome sequences has revealed that gene duplication has been rampant. Moreover, next to a continuous mode of gene duplication, in many eukaryotic organisms the complete genome has been duplicated in their evolutionary past. Such large-scale gene duplication events have been assoc...

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

authors： Maere S,De Bodt S,Raes J,Casneuf T,Van Montagu M,Kuiper M,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA photolyase is a pyrimidine-dimer repair enzyme that uses visible light. Photolyase generally contains two chromophore cofactors. One is a catalytic cofactor directly contributing to the repair of a pyrimidine-dimer. The other is a light-harvesting cofactor, which absorbs visible light and transfers energy to the c...

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

authors： Komori H,Masui R,Kuramitsu S,Yokoyama S,Shibata T,Inoue Y,Miki K

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant vaccinia virus that directs the synthesis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase provides the basis for the expression of genes that are regulated by T7 promoters in mammalian cells. The T7 transcripts, which account for as much as 30% of the total cytoplasmic RNA at 24 hr after infection, are largely uncapp...

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

authors： Elroy-Stein O,Fuerst TR,Moss B

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of 26 mouse-human somatic cell hybrids containing different human chromosome complements was analyzed with a cloned human pepsinogen cDNA probe to determine the chromosomal location and the number of genes encoding these proteins. A complex containing variable numbers of pepsinogen genes was localized to the c...

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

authors： Taggart RT,Mohandas TK,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a local mechanical perturbation is applied to the surface of a thin film of a mechanically interlocked molecule (a rotaxane), the molecules self-organize into periodic arrays of discrete dots or lines. The dimensionality of the nanostructures depends on whether the mechanical stimulus acts along a 1D line or over...

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

authors： Biscarini F,Cavallini M,Kshirsagar R,Bottari G,Leigh DA,León S,Zerbetto F

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H(2)O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770 °C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shal...

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

authors： Mibe K,Kawamoto T,Matsukage KN,Fei Y,Ono S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies directed against the cell surface receptors for insulin are found in some patients with extreme insulin resistance. These antibodies specifically inhibit the binding of insulin to its receptor. A purified IgG fraction from one patient's plasma was labeled with 125I. The 125I-labeled antireceptor antibod...

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

authors： Jarrett DB,Roth J,Kahn CR,Flier JS

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of bacterial cell morphogenesis remains largely an open question. Here we discover a morphogenic protein, RodZ, which is widely conserved across the bacterial kingdom. In Caulobacter crescentus, RodZ is essential for viability and is involved in all aspects of this organism's complex morphology. De...

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

authors： Alyahya SA,Alexander R,Costa T,Henriques AO,Emonet T,Jacobs-Wagner C

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving label-free, molecular-specific imaging with high spatial resolution in deep tissue is often considered the grand challenge of optical imaging. To accomplish this goal, significant optical scattering in tissues has to be overcome while achieving molecular specificity without resorting to extrinsic labeling. W...

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

authors： Yakovlev VV,Zhang HF,Noojin GD,Denton ML,Thomas RJ,Scully MO

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyproline-containing proteins (hyproproteins) synthesized by cultured human fibroblasts have been partially characterized. The hyproprotein extracted from the cell layer was found to be similar to the collagen extracted from skin in the ratio of hydroxyproline to proline, chain composition, solubility, and re...

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

authors： Layman DL,McGoodwin EB,Martin GR

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of proteins can be a signal for a variety of cellular processes beyond the classical role in proteolysis. The different signaling functions of ubiquitylation are thought to rely on ubiquitin-binding domains (UBDs). Several distinct UBD families are known, but their functions are not understood in detail...

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

authors： Tyrrell A,Flick K,Kleiger G,Zhang H,Deshaies RJ,Kaiser P

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein 4.1R (4.1R) is a multifunctional component of the red cell membrane. It forms a ternary complex with actin and spectrin, which defines the nodal junctions of the membrane-skeletal network, and its attachment to the transmembrane protein glycophorin C creates a bridge between the protein network and the membran...

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

authors： Salomao M,Zhang X,Yang Y,Lee S,Hartwig JH,Chasis JA,Mohandas N,An X

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of transforming growth factor beta 1 on the skin in vivo, we have targeted its expression to the epidermis of transgenic mice. To ensure that active TGF-beta 1 was expressed, we used a porcine TGF-beta 1 cDNA with mutations of Cys-223-->Ser and Cys-225-->Ser, which allow constitutive activation. M...

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

authors： Sellheyer K,Bickenbach JR,Rothnagel JA,Bundman D,Longley MA,Krieg T,Roche NS,Roberts AB,Roop DR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rising atmospheric CO2 in modulating estuarine carbonate system dynamics remains poorly characterized, likely due to myriad processes driving the complex chemistry in these habitats. We reconstructed the full carbonate system of an estuarine seagrass habitat for a summer period of 2.5 months utilizing a co...

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

authors： Pacella SR,Brown CA,Waldbusser GG,Labiosa RG,Hales B

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:By using differential display PCR, we have identified 98 cDNA fragments from the rat dorsal hippocampus that are expressed differentially between the fast learners and slow learners in the water maze learning task. One of these cDNA fragments encodes the rat serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (sgk) gene. North...

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

authors： Tsai KJ,Chen SK,Ma YL,Hsu WL,Lee EH

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We perform a generalized-ensemble simulation of a small peptide taking the interactions among all atoms into account. From this simulation we obtain thermodynamic quantities over a wide range of temperatures. In particular, we show that the folding of a small peptide is a multistage process associated with two charact...

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

authors： Hansmann UH,Masuya M,Okamoto Y

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanidinium group of arginine-166 has been postulated to act as an electrophilic species during phosphorylation of alkaline phosphatase. Its role could be either to stabilize the developing negative charge on the oxygen of the leaving group or the pentacoordinate transition state or to help bind the -PO2-3 group. ...

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

authors： Butler-Ransohoff JE,Kendall DA,Kaiser ET

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-15 and its specific receptor chain, IL-15Rα, support the development of various effector cells, including NK and CD8 T cells via a mechanism called trans-presentation. Whereas the dynamic of trans-presentation has been shown to involve the recycling of IL-15Rα by presenting cells, the way responding c...

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

authors： Tamzalit F,Barbieux I,Plet A,Heim J,Nedellec S,Morisseau S,Jacques Y,Mortier E

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Most paleo-episodes of ocean acidification (OA) were either too slow or too small to be instructive in predicting near-future impacts. The end-Cretaceous event (66 Mya) is intriguing in this regard, both because of its rapid onset and also because many pelagic calcifying species (including 100% of ammonites and more t...

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

authors： Tyrrell T,Merico A,Armstrong McKay DI

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells mediate vital control of cancer and viral infection. They rely on MHC class I (MHC I)-specific self-receptors to identify and lyse diseased cells without harming self-MHC I-bearing host cells. NK cells bearing inhibitory self-receptors for host MHC I also undergo education, referred to as lic...

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

authors： Gamache A,Cronk JM,Nash WT,Puchalski P,Gillespie A,Wei H,Gray L,Hammarskjold ML,Xu W,Brown MG

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00