The Parkinson's disease protein DJ-1 is neuroprotective due to cysteine-sulfinic acid-driven mitochondrial localization.

abstract：:The density of corn pollen on leaves of milkweed plants inside and outside of cornfields was measured in several studies from different localities. The purpose was to obtain a representative picture of naturally occurring pollen densities to provide a perspective for laboratory and field studies of monarch larvae feed...

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

authors： Pleasants JM,Hellmich RL,Dively GP,Sears MK,Stanley-Horn DE,Mattila HR,Foster JE,Clark P,Jones GD

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Simian virus 40 (SV40)-transformed hamster cells were relatively resistant to the lytic effect of activated macrophages from animals with chronic intracellular infections. Conversely, SV40-transformed mouse and rat cells and adenovirus 2-transformed hamster cells were highly susceptible to destruction by tumoricidal a...

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

authors： Cook JL,Hibbs JB Jr,Lewis AM Jr

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)-sensitive kinases are thought to play a role in long-term potentiation (LTP). To test the involvement of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaM-K II), truncated, constitutively active form of this kinase was directly injected into CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells. Inclusion of CaM-K II in the recording pipette...

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

authors： Lledo PM,Hjelmstad GO,Mukherji S,Soderling TR,Malenka RC,Nicoll RA

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of normal-mode analyses are in accord with the proposal that a low-frequency motion of the HhaI methyltransferase enzyme is responsible for base flipping in bound DNA. The vectors of the low-frequency normal mode of residues Ser-85 and Ile-86 point directly to the phosphate and ribose moieties of the DNA b...

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

authors： Luo J,Bruice TC

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. It is made in the cytosol as a precursor (pLHCP), imported into chloroplasts, and subsequently integrated into thylakoids. Integration of pLHCP into thylakoids requires a stromal protein factor that functions in part to main...

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

authors： Yuan J,Henry R,Cline K

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of human cells by laboratory strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) can be blocked readily in vitro by recombinant soluble CD4 and CD4-immunoglobulin hybrid molecules. In contrast, infection by primary isolates of HIV-1 is much less sensitive to blocking in vitro by soluble CD4-based mole...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Smith DH,Marsters SA,Riddle L,Gregory TJ,Ho DD,Capon DJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-sensitive syndrome (UVsS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by photosensitivity and mild freckling but without neurological abnormalities or skin tumors. UVsS cells show UV hypersensitivity and defective transcription-coupled DNA repair of UV damage. It was suggested that UVsS does not belong to ...

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

authors： Horibata K,Iwamoto Y,Kuraoka I,Jaspers NG,Kurimasa A,Oshimura M,Ichihashi M,Tanaka K

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the molecular control of many disease pathologies requires the identification of direct substrates targeted by specific protein kinases. Here we describe an integrated proteomic strategy, termed kinase assay linked with phosphoproteomics, which combines a sensitive kinase reaction with endogenous ...

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

authors： Xue L,Wang WH,Iliuk A,Hu L,Galan JA,Yu S,Hans M,Geahlen RL,Tao WA

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is now the most common cause of progressive kidney failure leading to dialysis or transplantation. The central pathological feature of diabetic nephropathy is accumulation of extracellular matrix within the glomeruli. The factors in the diabetic milieu responsible for extracellular matrix accumulation are not...

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

authors： Yamamoto T,Nakamura T,Noble NA,Ruoslahti E,Border WA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of nerve cells to synaptic inputs and the propagation of this activation is critically dependent on the cell-surface distribution of ion channels. In the hippocampus, Ca2+ influx through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) and/or voltage-dependent calcium channels on dendrites is thought to be critical...

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

authors： Benke TA,Jones OT,Collingridge GL,Angelides KJ

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoS gene of Escherichia coli encodes a putative RNA polymerase sigma factor that is considered to be the central regulator of gene expression in stationary phase. The gene product (sigma 38) was overproduced using the cloned rpoS gene and purified to homogeneity. Reconstituted RNA polymerase holoenzyme (E sigma 3...

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

authors： Tanaka K,Takayanagi Y,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An unsaturated fatty acid-requiring mutant derived from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells has been isolated and characterized. This mutant grows normally when oleate or other unsaturated fatty acids are supplemented in the growth medium. Unlike the wild-type CHO cells, growth stops when medium is deprived of unsaturat...

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

authors： Chang TY,Vagelos PR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable interest in engineering plant cell wall components, particularly lignin, to improve forage quality and biomass properties for processing to fuels and bioproducts. However, modifying lignin content and/or composition in transgenic plants through down-regulation of lignin biosynthetic enzymes can i...

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

authors： Gallego-Giraldo L,Liu C,Pose-Albacete S,Pattathil S,Peralta AG,Young J,Westpheling J,Hahn MG,Rao X,Knox JP,De Meester B,Boerjan W,Dixon RA

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface topography profoundly influences cell adhesion, differentiation, and stem cell fate control. Numerous studies using a variety of materials demonstrate that nanoscale topographies change the intracellular organization of actin cytoskeleton and therefore a broad range of cellular dynamics in live cells. However,...

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

authors： Lou HY,Zhao W,Li X,Duan L,Powers A,Akamatsu M,Santoro F,McGuire AF,Cui Y,Drubin DG,Cui B

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a measurement of the transverse momentum correlation between two photons by detecting only one of them. Our method uses two identical sources in an arrangement in which the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission is observed. In this way, we produce an interference pattern in the superpositi...

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

authors： Hochrainer A,Lahiri M,Lapkiewicz R,Lemos GB,Zeilinger A

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins and inhibins, members of the type beta transforming growth factor superfamily of growth regulatory proteins, are produced in multiple tissues and affect diverse physiologic processes. Using embryonic stem cell technology, we previously demonstrated that inhibin can function as a gonadal tumor suppressor. In t...

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

authors： Matzuk MM,Finegold MJ,Mather JP,Krummen L,Lu H,Bradley A

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain reduction and enhancement can be produced by means of conditioning procedures, yet the role of awareness during the acquisition stage of classical conditioning is unknown. We used psychophysical measures to establish whether conditioned analgesic and hyperalgesic responses could be acquired by unseen (subliminall...

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

authors： Jensen K,Kirsch I,Odmalm S,Kaptchuk TJ,Ingvar M

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a thermophilic fungus, Thermomyces lanuginosus, contains a tandemly arranged cluster of sequences that are approximately equal to 50% homologous with the cytoplasmic 5S RNA and that are selectable by hybridization techniques. Unlike typical pseudogenes, these sequences are not truncated; rather, they bea...

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

authors： Wong WM,Abrahamson JL,Nazar RN

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As chips further shrink toward smaller scales, fabrication processes based on the self-assembly of individual particles into patterns or structures are often sought. One of the most popular techniques for two-dimensional assembly (self-assembled monolayers) is based on capillary forces acting on particles placed at a ...

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

authors： Aubry N,Singh P,Janjua M,Nudurupati S

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluids may store and manipulate information, enabling complex applications ranging from digital logic gates to algorithmic self-assembly. While controllable hydrodynamic chaos has previously been observed in viscous fluids and harnessed for efficient mixing, its application to the manipulation of digital information h...

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

authors： Gilpin W

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement of living systems and an essential feature of many pharmaceutical therapies. However, applications of membrane-enclosed solutions of proteins, DNA, and other biologically active compounds have been limited by the difficulty of for...

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

authors： Stachowiak JC,Richmond DL,Li TH,Liu AP,Parekh SH,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carboxymethylase, an enzyme capable of methylating proteins and polypeptides, was purified from bovine pituitary. The anterior pituitary hormones, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, and prolactin, were found to be substra...

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

authors： Diliberto EJ Jr,Axelrod J

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily rhythmic processes are coordinated by circadian clocks, which are present in numerous central and peripheral tissues. In mammals, two circadian clocks, the food-entrainable oscillator (FEO) and methamphetamine-sensitive circadian oscillator (MASCO), are "black box" mysteries because their anatomical loci are unk...

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

authors： Pendergast JS,Oda GA,Niswender KD,Yamazaki S

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sessile marine organisms are prolific sources of biologically active natural products. However, these compounds are often found in highly variable amounts, with the abiotic and biotic factors governing their production remaining poorly understood. We present an approach that permits monitoring of in vivo natural produ...

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

authors： Esquenazi E,Jones AC,Byrum T,Dorrestein PC,Gerwick WH

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation that confers resistance to the drug paromomycin is shown to be in the structural gene that codes for the ribosomal RNA in Tetrahymena. This observation was made by exploiting a variant of the ribosomal DNA that distorts amplification of this locus when a new somatic nucleus develops during conjugation. Beca...

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

authors： Bruns PJ,Katzen AL,Martin L,Blackburn EH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational processes of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in complex genomes are poorly understood. We examined these processes by introducing a two-phase mutation model. In this model, most mutations are single-step changes, but infrequent large jumps in repeat number also occur. We used computer simulations to determin...

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

authors： Di Rienzo A,Peterson AC,Garza JC,Valdes AM,Slatkin M,Freimer NB

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For a series of different proteins, including a structural protein, enzyme, inhibitor, protein marker, and a charge-transfer system, we have quantified the higher affinity of Na+ over K+ to the protein surface by means of molecular dynamics simulations and conductivity measurements. Both approaches show that sodium bi...

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

authors： Vrbka L,Vondrásek J,Jagoda-Cwiklik B,Vácha R,Jungwirth P

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Across North America, human activities have been shown to cause river incision into unconsolidated alluvium. Human-caused erosion through bedrock, however, has only been observed in local and isolated outcrops. Here, we test whether splash-dam logging, which decreased in-stream alluvial cover by removing much of the a...

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

authors： Schanz SA,Montgomery DR,Collins BD

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA (tRNA) is essential for decoding the genome sequence into proteins. In Archaea, previous studies have revealed unique multiple intron-containing tRNAs and tRNAs that are encoded on 2 separate genes, so-called split tRNAs. Here, we discovered 10 fragmented tRNA genes in the complete genome of the hyperther...

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

authors： Fujishima K,Sugahara J,Kikuta K,Hirano R,Sato A,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Following carcinogen exposure in vitro, normal rat tracheal epithelial cells are transformed in a multistage process in which the cultured cells become immortal and, ultimately, neoplastic. Five cell lines derived from tumors produced by neoplastically transformed rat tracheal epithelial cells were examined for the ex...

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

authors： Walker C,Nettesheim P,Barrett JC,Gilmer TM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00