Unveiling functional protein motions with picosecond x-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations.

abstract：:Social ties are crucial for physical and mental health. However, psychiatric patients frequently encounter social rejection. Moreover, an increased reactivity to social exclusion influences the development, progression, and treatment of various psychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, the neuromodulatory substrates of rej...

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

authors： Preller KH,Pokorny T,Hock A,Kraehenmann R,Stämpfli P,Seifritz E,Scheidegger M,Vollenweider FX

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonnative species richness typically declines along environmental gradients such as elevation. It is usually assumed that this is because few invaders possess the necessary adaptations to succeed under extreme environmental conditions. Here, we show that nonnative plants reaching high elevations around the world are n...

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

authors： Alexander JM,Kueffer C,Daehler CC,Edwards PJ,Pauchard A,Seipel T,MIREN Consortium.

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly homologous Rnf2 (Ring1b) and Ring1 (Ring1a) proteins were identified as in vivo interactors of the Polycomb Group (PcG) protein Bmi1. Functional ablation of Rnf2 results in gastrulation arrest, in contrast to relatively mild phenotypes in most other PcG gene null mutants belonging to the same functional gro...

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

authors： Voncken JW,Roelen BA,Roefs M,de Vries S,Verhoeven E,Marino S,Deschamps J,van Lohuizen M

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin plays an essential role in growth of mycobacteria. Synthesis of the cofactor is essential for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish and maintain chronic infections in a murine model of tuberculosis. Although the late steps of mycobacterial biotin synthesis, assembly of the heterocyclic rings, are thought to f...

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

authors： Hu Z,Cronan JE

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of bacterial multidrug resistance to antibiotics threatens to cause regression to the preantibiotic era. Here we present the crystal structure of the large ribosomal subunit from Staphylococcus aureus, a versatile Gram-positive aggressive pathogen, and its complexes with the known antibiotics linezolid a...

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

authors： Eyal Z,Matzov D,Krupkin M,Wekselman I,Paukner S,Zimmerman E,Rozenberg H,Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptors (CRs), expressed notably on myeloid and lymphoid cells, play an essential function in the elimination of complement-opsonized pathogens and apoptotic/necrotic cells. In addition, these receptors are crucial for the cross-talk between the innate and adaptive branches of the immune system. CR3 (also...

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

authors： Bajic G,Yatime L,Sim RB,Vorup-Jensen T,Andersen GR

更新日期：2013-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational effects of different amino acid substitutions (lysine, serine, proline, and D-valine) for glycine at position 12 in the p21 oncogene-encoded proteins have been investigated by using conformational energy calculations. The normal cellular gene codes for a glycine at position 12 in the amino acid sequ...

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

authors： Pincus MR,Brandt-Rauf PW

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During zebrafish development, zygotic gene expression initiated at the midblastula transition converts maternal information on embryo polarity into a transcriptional read-out. Expression of a homeobox gene, vega1, is activated at midblastula transition in all blastomeres, but is down-regulated dorsally before gastrula...

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

authors： Kawahara A,Wilm T,Solnica-Krezel L,Dawid IB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The fact that animal introns are not spliced out in plants suggests that recognition of pre-mRNA splice sites differs between the two kingdoms. In plants, little is known about proteins required for splicing, as no plant in vitro splicing system is available. Several essential splicing factors from animals, such as SF...

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

authors： Lopato S,Mayeda A,Krainer AR,Barta A

更新日期：1996-04-02 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

abstract：:In order to study the mutagenic effects of site-specific, covalent modifications of biologically active DNA, we need host cells that are permissive for any type of mutation that might be produced in vivo from the modified DNA. Specifically, we require a general, in vivo complementation system for the bacteriophage phi...

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

authors： Humayun MZ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that, in the adult visual cortex, visual inputs modulate levels of mRNAs coding for neurotransmitter receptors in an activity-dependent manner. To investigate this possibility, we performed a monocular enucleation in adult rabbits and, 15 days later, collected their left and right visual cortice...

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

authors： Nguyen QT,Matute C,Miledi R

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher-level cognitive processes strongly depend on a complex interplay between mediodorsal thalamus nuclei and the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Alteration of thalamofrontal connectivity has been involved in cognitive deficits of schizophrenia. Prefrontal serotonin (5-HT)2A receptors play an essential role in cortical net...

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

authors： Barre A,Berthoux C,De Bundel D,Valjent E,Bockaert J,Marin P,Bécamel C

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypernociceptive effects of cytokines [TNF-alpha, keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC), and IL-1beta] and their participation in carrageenan (Cg)-induced inflammatory hypernociception in mice were investigated. Nociceptor sensitization (hypernociception) was quantified with an electronic version of the von Frey fil...

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

authors： Cunha TM,Verri WA Jr,Silva JS,Poole S,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutases (SODs; superoxide: superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) play a key role in protection against oxygen radicals, and SOD gene expression is highly induced during environmental stress. To determine the conditions of SOD induction, the promoter of the cytosolic copper/zinc SOD (Cu/ZnSODcyt) gene w...

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

authors： Hérouart D,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that play a regulatory role in numerous and diverse eukaryotic cellular processes. Virus-encoded miRNAs have garnered much interest, although the functions of most remain to be deciphered. To date, readily detectable, evolutionarily conserved natural miRNAs have only been identified f...

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

authors： Kincaid RP,Burke JM,Sullivan CS

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin preparations from pig intestinal mucosa and from bovine lung were separated by chromatography on antithrombin-Sepharose into a high-affinity fraction (with high anticoagulant activity) and a low-affinity fraction (with low anticoagulant). Antithrombin-binding heparin fragments (12-16 monosaccharide units) were...

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

authors： Lindahl U,Bäckström G,Höök M,Thunberg L,Fransson LA,Linker A

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membraneless organelles contain a wide spectrum of molecular chaperones, indicating their important roles in modulating the metastable conformation and biological function of membraneless organelles. Here we report that class I and II Hsp40 (DNAJ) proteins possess a high ability of phase separation rendered by the fle...

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

authors： Gu J,Liu Z,Zhang S,Li Y,Xia W,Wang C,Xiang H,Liu Z,Tan L,Fang Y,Liu C,Li D

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An intermolecular intercalation of base pairs was found at the CA step in the I222 crystal structure of the RNA.DNA hybrid, r(CAAAGAAAAG).d(CTTTTCTTTG), which contains two-thirds of the polypurine tract sequence of HIV-1 with a substitution of cytosine for the initial adenine. This sequence crystallized in both P21212...

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

authors： Han GW,Kopka ML,Langs D,Sawaya MR,Dickerson RE

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal particles with directional interactions are key in the realization of new colloidal materials with possibly unconventional phase behaviors. Here we exploit DNA self-assembly to produce bulk quantities of "DNA stars" with three or four sticky terminals, mimicking molecules with controlled limited valence. Sol...

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

authors： Biffi S,Cerbino R,Bomboi F,Paraboschi EM,Asselta R,Sciortino F,Bellini T

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of Ca2+-dependent protein-protein interaction and enzyme activation by calmodulin was investigated with the phosphoprotein phosphatase, calcineurin. Dimethylaminonaphthalene (dansyl)-calmodulin, a fluorescent derivative used to monitor complex formation, produced similar maximal activation (10- to 12-fol...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Vaughan M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogen isotopic composition (15N/14N) of forested ecosystems varies systematically worldwide. In tropical forests, which are elevated in 15N relative to temperate biomes, a decrease in ecosystem 15N/14N with increasing rainfall has been reported. This trend is seen in a set of well characterized Hawaiian rainfor...

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

authors： Houlton BZ,Sigman DM,Hedin LO

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate side chains of proteoglycans, resulting in disassembly of the extracellular matrix underlying endothelial and epithelial cells and associating with enhanced cell invasion and metastasis. Heparanase expression is induced in carcinomas and sarcomas, often ass...

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

authors： Weissmann M,Arvatz G,Horowitz N,Feld S,Naroditsky I,Zhang Y,Ng M,Hammond E,Nevo E,Vlodavsky I,Ilan N

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reconstructions of marine fishing fleets have aggregated data without regard to the artisanal and industrial sectors. Engine power has often been estimated from subsets of the developed world, leading to inflated results. We disaggregated data into three sectors, artisanal (unpowered/powered) and industrial, ...

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

authors： Rousseau Y,Watson RA,Blanchard JL,Fulton EA

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have asked here how the remarkable variation in maize haplotype structure affects recombination. We compared recombination across a genetic interval of 9S in 2 highly dissimilar heterozygotes that shared 1 parent. The genetic interval in the common haplotype is approximately 100 kb long and contains 6 genes intersp...

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

authors： He L,Dooner HK

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the permanency of response to selection for a quantitative character in finite populations and the nature of the genetic effects that contribute to this response, we have used the covariance between ancestors and descendents within populations. Effects and variances are defined for an initial equilibrium rand...

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

authors： Cockerham CC,Tachida H

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of the estrogen receptor/ligand complex with a DNA estrogen response element is known to regulate gene transcription. In turn, specific conformations of the receptor-ligand complex have been postulated to influence unique subsets of estrogen-responsive genes resulting in differential modulation and, ultima...

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

authors： Grese TA,Sluka JP,Bryant HU,Cullinan GJ,Glasebrook AL,Jones CD,Matsumoto K,Palkowitz AD,Sato M,Termine JD,Winter MA,Yang NN,Dodge JA

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:From a genomic library constructed from sperm DNA of the inbred BALB/c mouse, we previously isolated 54 cosmid clones that contain 36 class I genes and can be divided by restriction map analyses into 13 gene clusters. We have isolated single- and low-copy DNA probes from each of these clusters to visualize restriction...

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

authors： Winoto A,Steinmetz M,Hood L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imprinted gene expression associated with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) is controlled by two imprinting centers (ICs), the PWS-IC and the AS-IC. The PWS-IC operates in cis to activate transcription of genes that are expressed exclusively from the paternal allele. We have created a conditional ...

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

authors： DuBose AJ,Smith EY,Johnstone KA,Resnick JL

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional groups found among the RNA bases and in the phosphoribose backbone represent a limited repertoire from which to construct a ribozyme active site. This work investigates the possibility that simple RNA phosphodiester and hydroxyl functional groups could catalyze amide bond synthesis. Reaction of amine gr...

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

authors： Chamberlin SI,Merino EJ,Weeks KM

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00