Cofilin expression induces cofilin-actin rod formation and disrupts synaptic structure and function in Aplysia synapses.

abstract：:The role of endocytosis in the control of EGF receptor (EGFR) activation and cell signaling was explored by using mouse fibroblasts in which dynamin was conditionally depleted. Dynamin is a GTPase shown to play an important role in the control clathrin mediated endocytosis of EGFR and other cell surface receptors. In ...

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

authors： Sousa LP,Lax I,Shen H,Ferguson SM,De Camilli P,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

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

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate (PIP3) plays a key role in neuronal polarization and axon formation. PIP3-containing vesicles are transported to axon tips by the kinesin KIF13B via an adaptor protein, centaurin α1 (CENTA1). KIF13B interacts with CENTA1 through its forkhead-associated (FHA) domain. We solved th...

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

authors： Tong Y,Tempel W,Wang H,Yamada K,Shen L,Senisterra GA,MacKenzie F,Chishti AH,Park HW

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate (HS) are heteropolysaccharides implicated in the pathology of protein aggregation diseases including localized and systemic forms of amyloidosis. Among subdomains of sulfated GAGs, highly sulfated domains of HS, called HS S-domains, have been highlighted as be...

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

authors： Iwahashi N,Ikezaki M,Nishikawa T,Namba N,Ohgita T,Saito H,Ihara Y,Shimanouchi T,Ino K,Uchimura K,Nishitsuji K

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained activity of mammalian methionine synthase (MS) requires MS reductase (MSR), but there have been few studies of the interactions between these two proteins. In this study, recombinant human MS (hMS) and MSR (hMSR) were expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells and purified to homogeneity. hMSR maintained...

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

authors： Yamada K,Gravel RA,Toraya T,Matthews RG

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a soil fungus that causes life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients and is a facultative intracellular pathogen capable of replication inside macrophages. The mechanism by which environmental fungi acquire and maintain virulence for mammalian hosts is unknown. We hypothe...

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

authors： Steenbergen JN,Shuman HA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule formation from lamb brain tubulin isolated by affinity chromatography and freed of exchangeable nucleotide requires GTP for maximal rate and extent of polymerization. The nucleotide analogs guanylylmethylenediphosphate and guanylylimidodiphosphate fail to replace GTP; in addition, neither the presence of m...

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

authors： Maccioni R,Seeds NW

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin V is an unconventional myosin proposed to be processive on actin filaments, analogous to kinesin on a microtubule [Mehta, A. D., et al. (1999) Nature (London) 400, 590-593]. To ascertain the unique properties of myosin V that permit processivity, we undertook a detailed kinetic analysis of the myosin V motor. W...

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

authors： De La Cruz EM,Wells AL,Rosenfeld SS,Ostap EM,Sweeney HL

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of a single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), the elongation of primed DNA templates by DNA polymerase delta (pol delta) is dependent on ATP and two protein factors, activator 1 (A1) and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). We have examined the interaction of these proteins with (dA)4500.(dT)12...

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

authors： Lee SH,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor is a cell surface receptor that mediates the actions of LIF and other IL-6 type cytokines through the formation of high-affinity signaling complexes with gp130. Here we present the crystal structure of a complex of mouse LIF receptor with human LIF at 4.0 A resolution. The str...

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

authors： Huyton T,Zhang JG,Luo CS,Lou MZ,Hilton DJ,Nicola NA,Garrett TP

更新日期：2007-07-31 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：:A coenzyme B12-dependent ribonucleotide reductase was purified from the archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophila and partially sequenced. Using probes derived from the sequence, the corresponding gene was cloned, completely sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The deduced amino acid sequence shows that the cat...

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

authors： Tauer A,Benner SA

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although advances in microfluidic technology have enabled increasingly sophisticated biosensing and bioassay operations to be performed at the microscale, many of these applications employ such small amounts of charged biomolecules (DNA, proteins, and peptides) that they must first be preconcentrated to a detectable l...

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

authors： Shaikh FA,Ugaz VM

更新日期：2006-03-28 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 CD8 dimer interacts with the alpha 3 domain of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules through two immunoglobulin variable-like domains. In this study a crystal structure-informed mutational analysis has been performed to identify amino acids in the CD8 alpha/alpha homodimer that are likely to be involv...

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

authors： Giblin PA,Leahy DJ,Mennone J,Kavathas PB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently no consensus on the importance of climate change in Mesoamerican prehistory. Some invoke drought as a causal factor in major cultural transitions, including the abandonment of many sites at 900 CE, while others conclude that cultural factors were more important. This lack of agreement reflects the f...

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

authors： Bhattacharya T,Byrne R,Böhnel H,Wogau K,Kienel U,Ingram BL,Zimmerman S

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental intramolecular vibrational dephasing transients for several large organic molecules are reanalyzed. Fits to the experimental data, as well as full numerical quantum calculations with a factorized potential surface for all active degrees of freedom of fluorene indicate that power law decays, not exponentia...

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

authors： Gruebele M

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity responses to ongoing climate and atmospheric changes will affect both ecosystem processes and the delivery of ecosystem goods and services. Combined effects of co-occurring global changes on diversity, however, are poorly understood. We examined plant diversity responses in a California annual grassland t...

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

authors： Zavaleta ES,Shaw MR,Chiariello NR,Mooney HA,Field CB

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative relaxases are the proteins that initiate bacterial conjugation by a site-specific cleavage of the transferred DNA strand. In vitro, they show strand-transferase activity on single-stranded DNA, which suggests they may also be responsible for recircularization of the transferred DNA. In this work, we show t...

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

authors： Draper O,César CE,Machón C,de la Cruz F,Llosa M

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface functionalization of semiconductors has been the backbone of the newest developments in microelectronics, energy conversion, sensing device design, and many other fields of science and technology. Over a decade ago, the notion of viewing the surface itself as a chemical reagent in surface reactions was introdu...

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

authors： Bent SF,Kachian JS,Rodríguez-Reyes JC,Teplyakov AV

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The virB operon of the Agrobacterium tume-faciens pTiA6NC plasmid likely plays a role in directing T-DNA transfer events at the bacterial membrane, as determined previously by mutagenesis and cellular fractionation studies and by DNA sequence analysis of the approximately 12-kilobase-pair operon. The DNA sequence anal...

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

authors： Christie PJ,Ward JE Jr,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we established that satellite III (TGGAA)n tandem repeats, which occur at the centromeres of human chromosomes, pair with themselves to form an unusual "self-complementary" antiparallel duplex containing (GGA)2 motifs in which two unpaired guanines from opposite strands intercalate between sheared G.A base p...

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

authors： Zhu L,Chou SH,Reid BR

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cardiac contraction by neurotransmitters and hormones is often correlated with regulation of the L-type Ca2(+)-channel current (ICa) through the opposite actions of two second messengers, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. While cyclic AMP stimulation of ICa is mediated by the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent ...

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

authors： Méry PF,Lohmann SM,Walter U,Fischmeister R

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Organelles in the axoplasm from the squid giant axon move along exogenous actin filaments toward their barbed ends. An approximately 235-kDa protein, the only band recognized by a pan-myosin antibody in Western blots of isolated axoplasmic organelles, has been previously proposed to be a motor for these movements. Her...

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

authors： Bearer EL,DeGiorgis JA,Jaffe H,Medeiros NA,Reese TS

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned segment of yeast DNA containing the structural gene for imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase (D-erythro-imidazoleglycerolphosphate hydro-lase, EC 4.2.1.19) is transcribed and translated in Escherichia coli with sufficient fidelity to produce functional enzyme. This segment of yeast DNA was isolated as a via...

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

authors： Struhl K,Davis RW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations with the image tube scanner at the Shane 3-m telescope are combined with data obtained with the International Ultraviolet Explorer to assess the spectrum of the remarkable high-excitation planetary nebula NGC 6537. We have analyzed the spectrum of this nitrogen-rich object with the aid of the theoretical ...

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

authors： Feibelman W,Aller LH,Keyes CD,Czyzak SJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Austronesian expansion had a major impact on the languages of Island Southeast Asia, controversy still exists over the genetic impact of this expansion. The coexistence of both Asian and Papuan genetic ancestry in Eastern Indonesia provides a unique opportunity to address this issue. Here, we estimate rec...

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

authors： Xu S,Pugach I,Stoneking M,Kayser M,Jin L,HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium.

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to intrinsic aggressiveness and lack of effective therapies, prognosis of pancreatic cancer remains dismal. Because the only molecular targeted drug approved for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a kinase inhibitor specific to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and this receptor collaborates with anoth...

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

authors： Maron R,Schechter B,Mancini M,Mahlknecht G,Yarden Y,Sela M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative distributions of the number of doublings undergone by mixed megakaryocytic/erythroblastic colonies and by pure megakaryocytic colonies were determined from plasma clot cultures of bone marrow (from C57BL/6 mice) supplemented with erythropoietin. Analysis of these distributions suggests that these colonies a...

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

authors： Paulus JM,Prenant M,Deschamps JF,Henry-Amar M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00