Biosynthesis of a D-amino acid in peptide linkage by an enzyme from frog skin secretions.

abstract：:The voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel Kv1.5 mediates the I(Kur) repolarizing current in human atrial myocytes and regulates vascular tone in multiple peripheral vascular beds. Understanding the complex regulation of Kv1.5 function is of substantial interest because it represents a promising pharmacological target f...

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

authors： Benson MD,Li QJ,Kieckhafer K,Dudek D,Whorton MR,Sunahara RK,Iñiguez-Lluhí JA,Martens JR

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy (H) chain binding protein (BiP), which binds to free immunoglobulin H chain of the mu and gamma classes, can be demonstrated in pre-B-cells. It is proposed that the displacement of BiP from H chain by light (L) chain terminates the activity of the enzyme system, L-generase, which catalyzes DNA rearrangement at t...

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

authors： Wabl M,Steinberg C

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overlapping cDNAs derived from the chicken alpha-fibrinogen mRNA have been sequenced, beginning from within the coding region for the signal peptide of this subunit and terminating within the poly(A) extension. The predicted size of chicken alpha-fibrinogen is 54,187 daltons, which is the smallest of any alpha chain r...

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

authors： Weissbach L,Grieninger G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated eight mAbs (MW1-8) that bind the epitopes polyglutamine (polyQ), polyproline (polyP), or the C terminus of exon 1 in huntingtin (htt) protein. In the brains of Huntington's disease (HD) mouse models, the anti-polyQ mAbs bind to various cytoplasmic compartments, whereas the anti-polyP and anti-C termi...

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

authors： Khoshnan A,Ko J,Patterson PH

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptionally silent genes are maintained in inaccessible chromatin. Accessibility of these genes requires their modification by chromatin remodeling complexes (CRCs), which are recruited to promoters by sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins. Early B-cell factor (EBF), which is crucial for B-cell lineage specific...

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

authors： Gao H,Lukin K,Ramírez J,Fields S,Lopez D,Hagman J

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when communication is successful, close temporal dependencies arise between adult speakers' and listeners' neural activity. However, it is not known whether s...

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

authors： Leong V,Byrne E,Clackson K,Georgieva S,Lam S,Wass S

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae can cause disease in various human tissues and organs, including the ear, the brain, the blood, and the lung, and thus in highly diverse and dynamic environments. It is challenging to study how pneumococci control virulence factor expression, because cues of natural environments and the presen...

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

authors： Sorg RA,Gallay C,Van Maele L,Sirard JC,Veening JW

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous lymphoblastoid cell lines representing Dw subtypes of the DR2 serotype were studied for structural polymorphism at DR beta. These subtypes included Dw2, Dw12, and non-Dw2/non-Dw12. Analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis showed that two DR beta genes were expressed in each cell line studied. One of ...

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

authors： Lee BS,Rust NA,McMichael AJ,McDevitt HO

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic, a curative agent for acute promyelocytic leukemia, induces cell apoptosis and degradation of BCR-ABL in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). We demonstrated that ubiquitination and degradation of BCR-ABL was mediated by c-CBL, a RING-type E3 ligase that was also shown to be involved in ubiquitination for many ...

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

authors： Mao JH,Sun XY,Liu JX,Zhang QY,Liu P,Huang QH,Li KK,Chen Q,Chen Z,Chen SJ

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To find the native conformation (fold), proteins sample a subspace that is typically hundreds of orders of magnitude smaller than their full conformational space. Whether such fast folding is intrinsic or the result of natural selection, and what is the longest foldable protein, are open questions. Here, we derive the...

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

authors： Lin MM,Zewail AH

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five years ago this month, Thomas Gold published a seminal manuscript suggesting the presence of a "deep, hot biosphere" in the Earth's crust. Since this publication, a considerable amount of attention has been given to the study of deep biospheres, their role in geochemical cycles, and their potential to infor...

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

authors： Colman DR,Poudel S,Stamps BW,Boyd ES,Spear JR

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrosome reorientation to the immunological synapse maintains the specificity of T-cell effector function by facilitating the directional release of cytokines and cytolytic factors toward the antigen-presenting cell. This polarization response is driven by the localized accumulation of diacylglycerol, which recruits...

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

authors： Liu X,Kapoor TM,Chen JK,Huse M

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircle of trypanosomatids initiates at a conserved 12-nt sequence, 5'-GGGGTTGGTGTA-3', termed the universal minicircle sequence (UMS). A sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Crithidia fasciculata binds the heavy strand of the 12-mer UMS. Whereas this ...

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

authors： Avrahami D,Tzfati Y,Shlomai J

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII is a lysosomal storage disorder resulting from inherited deficiency of beta-glucuronidase (GUS). Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII is characterized by glycosaminoglycan storage in most tissues, including brain. In these disorders, enzyme delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the ...

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

authors： Urayama A,Grubb JH,Sly WS,Banks WA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:n-Type Si electrodes in MeOH solvent with 0.2 M (1-hydroxyethyl)ferrocene, 0.5 mM (1-hydroxyethyl)ferricenium, and 1.0 M LiClO(4) exhibit air mass 2 conversion efficiencies of 10.1% for optical energy into electricity. We observe open-circuit voltages of 0.53 V and short-circuit quantum efficiencies for electron flow ...

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

authors： Gronet CM,Lewis NS,Cogan G,Gibbons J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two molecular forms of pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase (PP(i)-PFK; pyrophosphate:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase; EC 2.7.1.90) have been found whose activity depends upon association and dissociation characteristics regulated by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate (Fru-2,6-P(2)). PP(i)-PFK was purified 2...

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

authors： Wu MX,Smyth DA,Black CC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HUMAN LIVER ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (ALCOHOL: NAD(+) oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.1), homogeneous by physicochemical criteria, has been available in quantity only recently [Lange, L. G. & Vallee, B. L. (1976) Biochemistry 15, 4681-4686]. Until now, the biochemical basis of human alcohol metabolism had to be extrapolated fro...

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

authors： Li TK,Bosron WF,Dafeldecker WP,Lange LG,Vallee BL

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The default mode network (DMN) has been suggested to support a variety of self-referential functions in humans and has been fractionated into subsystems based on distinct responses to cognitive tasks and functional connectivity architecture. Such subsystems are thought to reflect functional hierarchy and segregation w...

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

authors： Hsu LM,Liang X,Gu H,Brynildsen JK,Stark JA,Ash JA,Lin CP,Lu H,Rapp PR,Stein EA,Yang Y

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive amyloid deposition in senile plaques and cortical blood vessels may play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have used x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the molecular organization and morphology of macromolecular assemblies formed by three synthetic peptides homolog...

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

authors： Kirschner DA,Inouye H,Duffy LK,Sinclair A,Lind M,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) or the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a simulation algorithm that has made modern Bayesian statistical inference possible. Nevertheless, the efficiency of different Metropolis-Hastings proposal kernels has rarely been studied except for the Gaussian proposal. Here we propose a unique ...

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

authors： Yang Z,Rodríguez CE

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock factors (HSFs) are the master regulators of transcription under protein-damaging conditions, acting in an environment where the overall transcription is silenced. We determined the genomewide transcriptional program that is rapidly provoked by HSF1 and HSF2 under acute stress in human cells. Our results rev...

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

authors： Vihervaara A,Sergelius C,Vasara J,Blom MA,Elsing AN,Roos-Mattjus P,Sistonen L

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar emission produces copious nitrosonium ions (NO(+)) in the D layer of the ionosphere, 60 to 90 km above the Earth's surface. NO(+) is believed to transfer its charge to water clusters in that region, leading to the formation of gaseous nitrous acid (HONO) and protonated water cluster. The dynamics of this reactio...

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

authors： He R,Li L,Zhong J,Zhu C,Francisco JS,Zeng XC

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc1-like transposable elements from teleost fish have been phylogenetically examined to determine the mechanisms involved in their evolution and conserved domains of function. We identified two new functional domains in these elements. The first is a bipartite nuclear localization signal, indicating that transposons c...

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

authors： Ivics Z,Izsvak Z,Minter A,Hackett PB

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric ulcer healing is a well recognized problem associated with the use of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. In contrast, NO-releasing COX inhibitors do not interfere with ulcer healing. These divergent effects may in part be due to differences in their effects on platelets, which are known to influence ulce...

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

authors： Ma L,del Soldato P,Wallace JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-valent iron-oxo species are thought to be intermediates in the catalytic cycles of oxygenases and peroxidases. An attractive route to these iron-oxo intermediates involves laser flash-quench oxidation of ferric hemes, as demonstrated by our work on the ferryl (compound II) and ferryl porphyrin radical cation (com...

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

authors： Ener ME,Lee YT,Winkler JR,Gray HB,Cheruzel L

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:MuB is an ATP-dependent nonspecific DNA-binding protein that regulates the activity of the MuA transposase and captures target DNA for transposition. Mechanistic understanding of MuB function has previously been hindered by MuB's poor solubility. Here we combine bioinformatic, mutagenic, biochemical, and electron micr...

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

authors： Mizuno N,Dramićanin M,Mizuuchi M,Adam J,Wang Y,Han YW,Yang W,Steven AC,Mizuuchi K,Ramón-Maiques S

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The first definitive/adult-type hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the mouse aorta-gonad-mesonephros region emerge between embryonic days 10.5 and 11.5. The discovery of clusters of hematopoietic cells on the ventral luminal surface of the dorsal aorta in various vertebrate species has led to speculation that the floo...

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

authors： Taoudi S,Medvinsky A

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:(3)H-actinomycin D, a guanine-binding agent, labels fixed human chromosomes nonrandomly. Actinomycin D added in G2 inhibits secondary constrictions and breaks chromosomes. There is some tendency for label to be concentrated at the ends of chromosomes and near the centromere. Labeling with (3)H-thymidine in the late st...

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

authors： Miles CP

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical transitions of a chiral, three-substituted polythiophene with an amino acid function can be tuned by interactions with synthetic peptides. The addition of a positively charged peptide with a random-coil formation will force the polymer to adopt a nonplanar conformation, and the intensity of the emitted lig...

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

authors： Nilsson KP,Rydberg J,Baltzer L,Inganäs O

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electrophoretic transport of single-stranded RNA molecules through 1.5-nm-wide pores of carbon nanotube membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. From approximately 170 individual RNA translocation events analyzed at full atomic resolution of solvent, membrane, and RNA, we identify key factors in membr...

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

authors： Yeh IC,Hummer G

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00