Correlated dynamics of consecutive residues reveal transient and cooperative unfolding of secondary structure in proteins.

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the photochemical deposition of Co-based oxygen evolution catalysts on a semiconductor photoanode for use in solar oxygen evolution. In the photodeposition process, electron-hole pairs are generated in a semiconductor upon illumination and the photogenerated holes are used to oxidize Co(2+) ions t...

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

authors： Steinmiller EM,Choi KS

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription-translation into cell-sized compartments, such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The dynamic synthesis and proper self-assembly of macromolecular structures inside liposomes, the cytoskeleton in particular, stands as a c...

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

authors： Garenne D,Libchaber A,Noireaux V

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialyl Lewis x (sLe(x)) and sialyl Lewis a (sLe(a)) glycans are expressed on highly metastatic colon cancer cells. They promote extravasation of cancer cells and tumor angiogenesis via interacting with E-selectin on endothelial cells. Recently, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been noted as a critical pheno...

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

authors： Sakuma K,Aoki M,Kannagi R

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of natural killer (NK) cell function in vivo have been challenging primarily due to the lack of animal models in which NK cells are genetically and selectively deficient. Here, we describe a transgenic mouse with defective natural killing and selective deficiency in NK1.1(+) CD3(-) cells. Despite functionally ...

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

authors： Kim S,Iizuka K,Aguila HL,Weissman IL,Yokoyama WM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A yeast gene has been identified by screening for DNA replication mutants using a permeabilized cell replication assay. The mutant is temperature sensitive for growth and shows a cell cycle phenotype typical of DNA replication mutants. RNA synthesis is normal in the mutant but DNA synthesis ceases upon shift to the no...

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

authors： Budd ME,Campbell JL

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SLAM (signaling lymphocyte activation molecule)-associated protein (SAP) is a Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing adaptor expressed in T cells and natural killer cells. Its essential role in immune responses is underscored by the recent finding that mutations in SAP result in a rare but fatal X-linked lymphoprolife...

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

authors： Gu C,Tangye SG,Sun X,Luo Y,Lin Z,Wu J

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges an...

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

authors： Danziger S,Levav J,Avnaim-Pesso L

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicases are molecular motor enzymes that unwind and translocate nucleic acids. One of the central questions regarding helicase activity is whether the process of coupling ATP hydrolysis to DNA unwinding requires an oligomeric form of the enzyme. We have applied a pre-steady-state kinetics approach to address this qu...

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

authors： Nanduri B,Byrd AK,Eoff RL,Tackett AJ,Raney KD

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies from three different lines of monoclonal hybridomas crossreact with both the beta subunit of spectrin and the 90-kDa peptide present in highly purified preparations of the heme-controlled eIF-2 alpha (initiation factor 2 alpha-subunit) kinase from rabbit reticulocytes. Antibodies from two of the three lines...

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

authors： Kudlicki W,Fullilove S,Kramer G,Hardesty B

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the range of applicability of Forster long-range energy transfer in the determination of macromolecular dimensions and conformational dynamics is given. Emphasis is laid on the effect of restrictions in the orientational freedom of donor and acceptor and on the importance of the orientational averaging...

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

authors： Dale RE,Eisinger J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic vessel growth or lymphangiogenesis occurs during embryonic development and wound healing and plays an important role in tumor metastasis and inflammatory diseases. However, the possibility of noninvasive detection and quantification of lymphangiogenesis has been lacking. Here, we present the Vegfr3(EGFPLuc) ...

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

authors： Martínez-Corral I,Olmeda D,Diéguez-Hurtado R,Tammela T,Alitalo K,Ortega S

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodistribution profiles in mice of two pyrrole-imidazole polyamides were determined by PET. Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides are a class of small molecules that can be programmed to bind a broad repertoire of DNA sequences, disrupt transcription factor-DNA interfaces, and modulate gene expression pathways in cell cul...

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

authors： Harki DA,Satyamurthy N,Stout DB,Phelps ME,Dervan PB

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over a field, whose antipodes have arbitrary even orders >/=4 as mappings, are furnished. The dimension of the Hopf algebra is q(n+1), where the antipode has order 2q, q >/= 2, and n is an arbitrary positive integer. The algebras are not semisimple, and neither they nor the...

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

authors： Taft EJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 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：:The enzymic activity of acetylcholinesterase can be photoregulated through the mediation of photochromic inhibitors of the enzyme. N-p-phenylazophenyl-N-phenylcarbamyl fluoride, an irreversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase, exists as two geometric isomers which are interconvertible through the action of light. Th...

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

authors： Bieth J,Vratsanos SM,Wassermann N,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody modulation of T-cell coinhibitory (e.g., CTLA-4) or costimulatory (e.g., 4-1BB) receptors promotes clinical responses to a variety of cancers. Therapeutic cancer vaccination, in contrast, has produced limited clinical benefit and no curative therapies. The E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papilloma virus (HPV)...

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

authors： Bartkowiak T,Singh S,Yang G,Galvan G,Haria D,Ai M,Allison JP,Sastry KJ,Curran MA

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) requires proteolytic processing of the replicase polyprotein by two viral cysteine proteases, a chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) and a papain-like protease (PLpro). These proteases are important targets for development of antiviral drugs...

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

authors： Ratia K,Saikatendu KS,Santarsiero BD,Barretto N,Baker SC,Stevens RC,Mesecar AD

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin's action in renal cells to regulate water transport depends on protein phosphorylation. Here we used mass spectrometry-based quantitative phosphoproteomics to identify signaling pathways involved in the short-term V2-receptor-mediated response in cultured collecting duct cells (mpkCCD) from mouse. Using St...

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

authors： Rinschen MM,Yu MJ,Wang G,Boja ES,Hoffert JD,Pisitkun T,Knepper MA

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance dependence is a complex environmental and genetic disorder that results in serious health and socioeconomic consequences. Many studies have reported and implicated genes associated with various substance dependence outcomes, including addiction to nicotine and addiction to alcohol. Using data from several ge...

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

authors： Chen X,Cho K,Singer BH,Zhang H

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron flow is increasingly recognized as being essential in plant growth, generating a pH gradient across thylakoid membrane (ΔpH) that contributes to ATP synthesis and triggers the protective process of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) under stress conditions. Here, we report experiments demonstrating the i...

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

authors： Joliot P,Johnson GN

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage N4 minivirion RNA polymerase (mini-vRNAP), the RNA polymerase (RNAP) domain of vRNAP, is a member of the T7-like RNAP family. Mini-vRNAP recognizes promoters that comprise conserved sequences and a 3-base loop-5-base pair (bp) stem DNA hairpin structure on single-stranded templates. Here, we defined the ...

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

authors： Davydova EK,Santangelo TJ,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide containing 31 amino acids with inhibin-like activity has been synthesized by the solid-phase method. The synthetic product was shown to be homogeneous in high-performance liquid chromatography and paper electrophoresis. In the mouse pituitary incubation system, the follitropin-suppressing activity of the syn...

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

authors： Yamashiro D,Li CH,Ramasharma K,Sairam MR

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using tunicamycin, we have investigated the role of glycoproteins in membrane transport. Tunicamycin is a glucosamine-containing antibiotic that specifically inhibits dolichol pyrophosphate-mediated glycosylation of asparaginyl residues of glycoproteins. Inhibition of protein glycosylation in chick embryo fibroblasts ...

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

authors： Olden K,Pratt RM,Jaworski C,Yamada KM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PKC eta is expressed predominantly in the epithelial tissues; however, its role in the regulation of epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is unknown. We present evidence that PKC eta phosphorylates occludin on threonine residues (T403 and T404) and plays a crucial role in the assembly and/or maintenance of TJs in Caco-2 a...

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

authors： Suzuki T,Elias BC,Seth A,Shen L,Turner JR,Giorgianni F,Desiderio D,Guntaka R,Rao R

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple drug resistance of tumor cells is a common problem in cancer therapy. We have demonstrated that membrane vesicles from highly multidrug-resistant human KB carcinoma cell lines exhibit increased specific and saturable binding of vinblastine. To identify the molecules that bind vinblastine, membrane vesicles fr...

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

authors： Cornwell MM,Safa AR,Felsted RL,Gottesman MM,Pastan I

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-free culture of dissociated neurons from embryonic rat hippocampus has been established as a rapid and quantitative in vitro test system for neurotrophic signals in the mammalian brain. By means of this cell culture bioassay, a novel low molecular weight neurotrophic factor (NTF) could be identified. NTF is es...

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

authors： Müller HW,Beckh S,Seifert W

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-hairpin-helix DNA glycosylases are typically small proteins that initiate repair of DNA by excising damaged or mispaired bases. An invariant aspartic acid in the active site is involved in catalyzing the excision reaction. Replacement of this critical residue with an asparagine severely reduces catalytic activit...

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

authors： Choi Y,Harada JJ,Goldberg RB,Fischer RL

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00