Spermidine but not spermine is essential for hypusine biosynthesis and growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: spermine is converted to spermidine in vivo by the FMS1-amine oxidase.

abstract：:The mammalian anx7 gene codes for a Ca(2+)-activated GTPase, which supports Ca(2+)/GTP-dependent secretion events and Ca(2+) channel activities in vitro and in vivo. To test whether anx7 might be involved in Ca(2+) signaling in secreting pancreatic beta cells, we knocked out the anx7 gene in the mouse and tested the i...

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

authors： Srivastava M,Atwater I,Glasman M,Leighton X,Goping G,Caohuy H,Miller G,Pichel J,Westphal H,Mears D,Rojas E,Pollard HB

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays an important role in peroxisome biogenesis; some peroxisomal membrane proteins are inserted into the ER and trafficked to peroxisomes in vesicles. These vesicles could also provide the phospholipids required for the growth of peroxisomal membranes, because peroxisomes lack phosphol...

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

authors： Raychaudhuri S,Prinz WA

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal rat kidney cells were nonproductively infected either with CP27, a mutant of Moloney sarcoma virus that is temperature-sensitive for maintenance of transformation, or with the parental wild-type virus. The nonproducer cells were inoculated into the tails of athymic nude mice that were subsequently incubated at ...

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

authors： Klarlund JK,Forchhammer J

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central questions of bacterial ecology and evolution require a method to consistently demarcate, from the vast and diverse set of bacterial cells within a natural community, the groups playing ecologically distinct roles (ecotypes). Because of a lack of theory-based guidelines, current methods in bacterial systema...

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

authors： Koeppel A,Perry EB,Sikorski J,Krizanc D,Warner A,Ward DM,Rooney AP,Brambilla E,Connor N,Ratcliff RM,Nevo E,Cohan FM

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of glycosylation and protein synthesis in the maintenance of insulin receptor levels and turnover rates in 3T3-L1 adipocytes were investigated. The heavy isotope density-shift technique was employed to determine the effects of inhibitors of these processes on the rates of synthesis and degradation of cellula...

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

authors： Reed BC,Ronnett GV,Lane MD

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubc13 is a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme responsible for noncanonical ubiquitination of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-family adapter proteins involved in Toll-like receptor and TNF-family cytokine receptor signaling, which are regulators of innate immunity. Gene ablation was used to study the function of Ubc13 ...

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

authors： Fukushima T,Matsuzawa S,Kress CL,Bruey JM,Krajewska M,Lefebvre S,Zapata JM,Ronai Z,Reed JC

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic pigs were generated that produced human protein C in their milk at up to 1 g/liter. The gene construct was a fusion gene consisting of the cDNA for human protein C inserted into the first exon of the mouse whey acidic protein gene. These results demonstrate that the mouse whey acidic protein gene contains r...

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

authors： Velander WH,Johnson JL,Page RL,Russell CG,Subramanian A,Wilkins TD,Gwazdauskas FC,Pittius C,Drohan WN

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diradical form of thiol-activated neocarzinostatin chromophore resides in the minor groove of DNA, where it has access to hydrogen atoms at the C-5', C-1', and C-4' positions of deoxyribose on each strand. In a dodecamer oligodeoxyribonucleotide containing the sequence AGC.GCT, a bistranded lesion staggered two nu...

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

authors： Kappen LS,Goldberg IH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E1A gene of adenovirus type 5 encodes two major proteins of 289 and 243 amino acid residues, which are identical except that the larger protein has an internal stretch of 46 amino acids required for efficient trans-activation of early viral promoters. This domain contains a consensus zinc finger motif (Cys-Xaa2-Cy...

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

authors： Culp JS,Webster LC,Friedman DJ,Smith CL,Huang WJ,Wu FY,Rosenberg M,Ricciardi RP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of phospholipase Cgamma1 (PLCgamma1) by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) in endothelial cells in part is responsible for angiogenesis in vivo. The cellular mechanisms exerting negative control over PLCgamma1 activation, however, remain unaddressed. Here by using in vitro and in vivo b...

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

authors： Singh AJ,Meyer RD,Navruzbekov G,Shelke R,Duan L,Band H,Leeman SE,Rahimi N

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transfer at metallo-molecular interfaces may be used to design multifunctional hybrids with an emergent magnetization that may offer an eco-friendly and tunable alternative to conventional magnets and devices. Here, we investigate the origin of the magnetism arising at these interfaces by using different techni...

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

authors： Al Ma'Mari F,Rogers M,Alghamdi S,Moorsom T,Lee S,Prokscha T,Luetkens H,Valvidares M,Teobaldi G,Flokstra M,Stewart R,Gargiani P,Ali M,Burnell G,Hickey BJ,Cespedes O

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to neonatal mice resulted in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of specific substrates in liver, kidney, lung, bladder, skin, and brain as detected by Western blot analysis of tissue homogenates with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. In the liver, three prominent ...

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

authors： Donaldson RW,Cohen S

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We stabilize nematic droplets with handles against surface tension-driven instabilities, using a yield-stress material as outer fluid, and study the complex nematic textures and defect structures that result from the competition between topological constraints and the elasticity of the nematic liquid crystal. We uncov...

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

authors： Pairam E,Vallamkondu J,Koning V,van Zuiden BC,Ellis PW,Bates MA,Vitelli V,Fernandez-Nieves A

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta) signaling has been shown to play a role in cardiac development as well as in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Prior studies have suggested a relationship between cholesterol metabolism and TGFbeta signaling. Here we demonstrate that induction of the cholesterol meta...

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

authors： Park HJ,Galper JB

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygenation of the atmosphere ∼2.45-2.32 billion years ago (Ga) is one of the most significant geological events to have affected Earth's redox history. Our understanding of the timing and processes surrounding this key transition is largely dependent on the development of redox-sensitive proxies, many of which re...

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

authors： Chi Fru E,Rodríguez NP,Partin CA,Lalonde SV,Andersson P,Weiss DJ,El Albani A,Rodushkin I,Konhauser KO

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) is known to have important roles in sperm chemotaxis, although the relationship between intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) and modulation of the swimming and chemotactic behavior of spermatozoa has not been elucidated. Using a high-speed Ca(2+) imaging system, we examined the chemotactic behavior ...

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

authors： Shiba K,Baba SA,Inoue T,Yoshida M

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used low magnesium concentrations and the specific antagonist D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate (D-AP5) to estimate the effects of long-term potentiation (LTP) on the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptor-mediated components of postsynaptic responses. LTP induction resulted in a considerably larger p...

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

authors： Muller D,Lynch G

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of bovine TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone), LH (luteinizing hormone), and their subunits to the TSH receptor of beef thyroid membranes was compared to stimulation by these agents of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase(cyelizing), EC 4.6.1.1] in the same membranes, glucose oxidation in dog thyroid s...

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

authors： Wolff J,Winand RJ,Kohn LD

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was proved that the protoplasts prepared from mesophyll of Nicotiana tabacum are infected by tobacco mosaic virus. The infection occurred when purified tobacco mosaic virus particles were added to a protoplast suspension in the presence of poly-L-ornithine. The virus multiplied in these protoplasts to a level of 10...

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

authors： Takebe I,Otsuki Y

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SecA, the translocation ATPase in Escherichia coli, undergoes cycles of conformational changes (insertion/deinsertion) in response to ATP and a preprotein. The membrane-embedded portion of protein translocase, SecYEG, has crucial roles in the SecA-driven preprotein translocation reaction. We previously identified a se...

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

authors： Matsumoto G,Mori H,Ito K

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors are functionally coupled to ryanodine receptors of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in triadic or diadic junctional complexes. In cardiac muscle direct physical or functional couplings have not been demonstrated. We have tested the hypothesis of functional coupling of L-type Ca2...

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

authors： Sham JS,Cleemann L,Morad M

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent attachment of heme to apocytochrome c, and therefore the import of cytochrome c into mitochondria, is dependent on both NADH plus a cytosolic cofactor that has been identified to be FMN or FAD. NADH in concert with flavin nucleotides mediates the reduction of heme. Heme in the reduced state is a prerequis...

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

authors： Nicholson DW,Neupert W

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid (HAA), a compound generated during tryptophan metabolism initiated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, is known to induce T cell death, but its molecular target is not known. Here we report that HAA inhibits NF-kappaB activation upon T cell antigen receptor engagement by specifically targeting PD...

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

authors： Hayashi T,Mo JH,Gong X,Rossetto C,Jang A,Beck L,Elliott GI,Kufareva I,Abagyan R,Broide DH,Lee J,Raz E

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We advance a theory of resilience as it applies to the challenges of international development. The conceptualization we advance for development resilience focuses on the stochastic dynamics of individual and collective human well-being, especially on the avoidance of and escape from chronic poverty over time in the f...

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

authors： Barrett CB,Constas MA

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular dominance (OD) plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex (V1) declines during postnatal development and is absent beyond postnatal day 110 if mice are raised in standard cages (SCs). An enriched environment (EE) promotes OD plasticity in adult rats. Here, we explored cellular mechanisms of EE in mouse V1 and th...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Pielecka-Fortuna J,Kalogeraki E,Krempler K,Favaro PD,Schlüter OM,Löwel S

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes experiments in which cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) and catecholamine release were measured in two populations of chromaffin cells stimulated with a solution enriched in K+ (100 mM). Once depolarized, external Ca2+ or Ba2+ ions were offered to cells either as a single 2.5 mM step or as a ...

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

authors： Michelena P,García-Pérez LE,Artalejo AR,García AG

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri causes bacillary dysentery in humans by invading coloncytes. Upon contact with epithelial cells, S. flexneri elicits localized plasma membrane projections sustained by long actin filaments which engulf the microorganism. The products necessary for Shigella entry include three s...

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

authors： Ménard R,Prévost MC,Gounon P,Sansonetti P,Dehio C

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen atoms constitute about half of all atoms in proteins and play a critical role in enzyme mechanisms and macromolecular and solvent structure. Hydrogen atom positions can readily be determined by neutron diffraction, and as such, neutron diffraction is an invaluable tool for elucidating molecular mechanisms. Jo...

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

authors： Blum MM,Mustyakimov M,Rüterjans H,Kehe K,Schoenborn BP,Langan P,Chen JC

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade or more, contradictory evidence of Martian climate, indicating that surface temperatures seldom if ever approach the melting point of water at midlatitudes, and geomorphic features, consistent with liquid flows at these same latitudes, have proven difficult to reconcile. In this article, we demons...

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

authors： Shinbrot T,Duong NH,Kwan L,Alvarez MM

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Downstream placement of a strong transcriptional termination signal has made possible the cloning of bacteriophage T5 promoters known to exhibit high signal strength. The cloning system constructed contains two easily assayable indicator functions whose expression is controlled by the integration of promoters and term...

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

authors： Gentz R,Langner A,Chang AC,Cohen SN,Bujard H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00