Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi.

abstract：:Concepts and methods [Karlin, S. & Ghandour, G. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 5800-5804] for the analysis of patterns and relationships are extended to multiple DNA and protein sequences. Functionals include multiple sequence common word occurrence distributions, characterizations of high frequency shared word...

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

authors： Karlin S,Ghandour G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are some ∼1,100 known antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which permeabilize microbial membranes but have diverse sequences. Here, we develop a support vector machine (SVM)-based classifier to investigate ⍺-helical AMPs and the interrelated nature of their functional commonality and sequence homology. SVM is used to ...

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

authors： Lee EY,Fulan BM,Wong GC,Ferguson AL

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Most transmissible spongiform encephalopathies arise either spontaneously or by infection. Mutations of PRNP, which encodes the prion protein, PrP, segregate with phenotypically similar diseases. Here we report that moderate overexpression in transgenic mice of mPrP(170N,174T), a mouse PrP with two point mutations tha...

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

authors： Sigurdson CJ,Nilsson KP,Hornemann S,Heikenwalder M,Manco G,Schwarz P,Ott D,Rülicke T,Liberski PP,Julius C,Falsig J,Stitz L,Wüthrich K,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-1,2-Dioctanoylglycerol (1,2-DiC8) added to human peripheral resting T lymphocytes was rapidly metabolized to produce octanoic acid and further to small molecules, probably by the action of diacylglycerol lipase and/or nonspecific esterase. Only a small portion was converted to the corresponding phosphatidic acid or...

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

authors： Asaoka Y,Oka M,Yoshida K,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sorLA (Sorting protein-related receptor) is a type-1 membrane protein of unknown function that is expressed in neurons. Its homology to sorting receptors that shuttle between the plasma membrane, endosomes, and the Golgi suggests a related function in neuronal trafficking processes. Because expression of sorLA is redu...

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

authors： Andersen OM,Reiche J,Schmidt V,Gotthardt M,Spoelgen R,Behlke J,von Arnim CA,Breiderhoff T,Jansen P,Wu X,Bales KR,Cappai R,Masters CL,Gliemann J,Mufson EJ,Hyman BT,Paul SM,Nykjaer A,Willnow TE

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Hedgehog (Hh) signaling regulates cell differentiation during pancreas organogenesis, the consequences of pathway up-regulation in adult β-cells in vivo have not been investigated. Here, we elevate Hh signaling in β-cells by expressing an active version of the GLI2 transcription factor, a mediator of the Hh p...

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

authors： Landsman L,Parent A,Hebrok M

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate binding specificity of leukoagglutinin (La; Phaseolus vulgaris isolectin L4) was studied by using quantitative precipitation and precipitation-inhibition. A series of purified glycopeptides and synthetic oligosaccharides were used as inhibitors. The minimal structural unit required for La binding was ...

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

authors： Hammarström S,Hammarström ML,Sundblad G,Arnarp J,Lönngren J

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of proteins to locate specific targets among a vast excess of nonspecific DNA is a fundamental theme in biology. Basic principles governing these search mechanisms remain poorly understood, and no study has provided direct visualization of single proteins searching for and engaging target sites. Here we us...

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

authors： Gorman J,Wang F,Redding S,Plys AJ,Fazio T,Wind S,Alani EE,Greene EC

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change is expected to have broad ecological consequences for species and communities. Attempts to forecast these consequences usually assume that changes in air or water temperature will translate into equivalent changes in a species' organismal body temperature. This simple change is unlikely because a...

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

authors： Gilman SE,Wethey DS,Helmuth B

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a diverse collection of small molecules we recently found that compound sets from different sources (commercial; academic; natural) have different protein-binding behaviors, and these behaviors correlate with trends in stereochemical complexity for these compound sets. These results lend insight into structural ...

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

authors： Clemons PA,Wilson JA,Dančík V,Muller S,Carrinski HA,Wagner BK,Koehler AN,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor that participates in the formation of a covalent complex between the 80,000-dalton precursor of the adenovirus (Ad) terminal protein (pTP) and 5'-dCMP has been isolated and characterized. This 47,000-dalton protein, isolated from nuclear extracts of uninfected HeLa cells, has been designated nuclear f...

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

authors： Nagata K,Guggenheimer RA,Enomoto T,Lichy JH,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant efforts have been directed to understanding the factors that influence the lineage commitment of stem cells. This paper demonstrates that cell shape, independent of soluble factors, has a strong influence on the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow. When exposed to compet...

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

authors： Kilian KA,Bugarija B,Lahn BT,Mrksich M

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DO (DO) is a nonclassic class II heterodimer that inhibits the action of the class II peptide exchange catalyst, HLA-DM (DM), and influences DM localization within late endosomes and exosomes. In addition, DM acts as a chaperone for DO and is required for its egress from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). These recip...

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

authors： Yoon T,Macmillan H,Mortimer SE,Jiang W,Rinderknecht CH,Stern LJ,Mellins ED

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat-86 gene in plasmid pPL603 specifies chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) and is selectively expressed in Bacillus subtilis at a stage in sporulation in which internal spores are first observed (approximately T8). The gene is unexpressed in vegetatively growing cells. cat-86 expression and spore formation ar...

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

authors： Mongkolsuk S,Lovett PS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) contributes to approximately 80% of all Merkel cell carcinomas (MCCs), a highly aggressive neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin. MCV-positive MCC expresses small T antigen (ST) and a truncated form of large T antigen (LT) and usually contains wild-type p53 (TP53) and RB (RB1). In contras...

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

authors： Park DE,Cheng J,Berrios C,Montero J,Cortés-Cros M,Ferretti S,Arora R,Tillgren ML,Gokhale PC,DeCaprio JA

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies capable of decarboxylating orotate were sought by immunization with a hapten designed to elicit antibodies with combining sites that resemble the orotate-binding and catalytic portion of the active site of the enzyme orotidine 5'-monophosphate (OMP) decarboxylase (orotidine-5'-monophosphate carboxy-lyase, E...

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

authors： Smiley JA,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to several soluble antigens were compared between B6.C-H-2bm12 mutant and wild-type B6 mice by using a lymph node T-cell proliferation assay. B6.C-H-2bm12 mice failed to respond to beef insulin whereas other IA gene-controlled responses, such as response to poly(L-Tyr, L-Glu)--poly(DL-Ala, L-Lys) and ...

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

authors： Lin CC,Rosenthal AS,Passmore HC,Hansen TH

更新日期：1981-10-01 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

abstract：:The remarkable strength of glasses is examined using the random first order transition theory of the glass transition. The theory predicts that strength depends on elastic modulus but also on the configurational energy frozen in when the glass is prepared. The stress catalysis of cooperative rearrangements of the type...

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

authors： Wisitsorasak A,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of anticodon loop replacement has been used to make derivatives of yeast tRNAPhe. By constructing tRNAs with a CUA anticodon, complementary to the amber (UAG) terminator, functional amber suppressor tRNAs were produced. The activity of these tRNAs was assayed in a mammalian cell-free protein synthesizing sy...

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

authors： Bruce AG,Atkins JF,Wills N,Uhlenbeck O,Gesteland RF

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) method for phase evaluation is now widely used in macromolecular crystallography. Successful MAD structure determinations have been carried out at the K or L absorption edges of a variety of elements. In this study, we investigate the anomalous scattering properties of u...

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

authors： Liu Y,Ogata CM,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma-aminobutyrate-synthesizing enzyme glutamate decarboxylase (GAD; L-glutamate 1-carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.15) is a major target of autoantibodies associated with both early and late stages of pancreatic beta-cell destruction and development of type 1 diabetes. We have used five monoclonal anti-islet-cell antibod...

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

authors： Richter W,Shi Y,Baekkeskov S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pressure up to 175 kilobars on the electronic structure of three ferric hydroxamates and on ferrichrome A has been studied by optical absorption and Mössbauer resonance. The ferric ion was reduced to ferrous ion with pressure, as has been previously observed for various compounds. For the hydroxamates, t...

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

authors： Grenoble DC,Drickamer HG

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-electron oxidation of cobaltous octaethylporphyrin [Co(II)(Et)(8)P] yields a stable pi-cation radical [Co(III)(Et)(8)P](2+.), the optical spectrum of which exhibits spectral changes dependent upon the nature of the counterion. Comparison of these spectra with those of Compounds I of horseradish peroxidase and cata...

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

authors： Dolphin D,Forman A,Borg DC,Fajer J,Felton RH

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RAD6 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) that is required for DNA repair, damage-induced mutagenesis, and sporulation. We have cloned the two human RAD6 homologs, designated HHR6A and HHR6B. The two 152-amino acid human proteins share 95% sequence identity with each other a...

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

authors： Koken MH,Reynolds P,Jaspers-Dekker I,Prakash L,Prakash S,Bootsma D,Hoeijmakers JH

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some trypanosomatid protozoa (order Kinetoplastida) are well known to harbor bacterial endosymbionts. Their phylogenetic positions and evolutionary relationships with the hosts were deduced by comparing the rRNA gene sequences. Earlier, we observed that these symbionts from three Crithidia spp. are identical and are c...

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

authors： Du Y,Maslov DA,Chang KP

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A polypeptide was isolated from acid extracts of porcine hypothalami on the basis of its high ability to stimulate the release of corticotropin from superfused rat pituitary cells. After an initial separation by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25, further purification was carried out by reversed-phase HPLC. The isolated ...

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

authors： Patthy M,Horvath J,Mason-Garcia M,Szoke B,Schlesinger DH,Schally AV

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent linkage of supramolecular monomers provides a powerful strategy for constructing dynamic polymeric materials whose properties can be readily tuned either by the selection of monomers or the choice of functional linkers. In this strategy, the stabilities of the supramolecular monomers and the reactions use...

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

authors： Zhang M,Li S,Yan X,Zhou Z,Saha ML,Wang YC,Stang PJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proteins generally fold to their thermodynamically most stable state, some metastable proteins populate higher free energy states. Conformational changes from metastable higher free energy states to lower free energy states with greater stability can then generate the work required to perform physiologically ...

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

authors： Chandrasekhar K,Ke H,Wang N,Goodwin T,Gierasch LM,Gershenson A,Hebert DN

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptual color qualities of hue, saturation, and brightness do not correspond in any simple way to the physical characteristics of retinal stimuli, a fact that poses a major obstacle for any explanation of color vision. Here we test the hypothesis that these basic color attributes are determined by the statistic...

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

authors： Long F,Yang Z,Purves D

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00