Comparison of the protein-unfolding pathways between mitochondrial protein import and atomic-force microscopy measurements.

abstract：:DNA heteroduplexes with single unpaired bases of the four different kinds were prepared by annealing separated strands of bacteriophage lambda DNA and used to transfect Escherichia coli. Genetic analysis of the progeny phages obtained from transfected bacteria indicates that the E. coli mismatch repair system can reco...

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

authors： Dohet C,Wagner R,Radman M

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the human beta amyloid peptide (A beta) in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans animals can lead to the formation of intracellular immunoreactive deposits as well as the formation of intracellular amyloid. We have used this model to identify proteins that interact with intracellular A beta in vivo. Mass spe...

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

authors： Fonte V,Kapulkin WJ,Taft A,Fluet A,Friedman D,Link CD

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:After pair-bonding, male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) display aggression toward novel females but not toward their female partner. Here we show that this selective aggression in pair-bonded male prairie voles is associated with increased release of vasopressin (AVP) in the anterior hypothalamus (AH). Pharmacol...

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

authors： Gobrogge KL,Liu Y,Young LJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolite of estradiol, 2-methoxyestradiol (2ME), inhibits angiogenesis in the chicken embryo chorioallantoic membrane assay. Since 2ME causes mitotic perturbations, we examined its interactions with tubulin. In our standard 1.0 M glutamate system (plus 1.0 mM MgCl2 at 37 degrees C), superstoichiometric concentrati...

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

authors： D'Amato RJ,Lin CM,Flynn E,Folkman J,Hamel E

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural mechanisms used by the human brain to identify phonemes remain unclear. We recorded the EEG signals evoked by repeated presentation of 12 American English phonemes. A support vector machine model correctly recognized a high percentage of the EEG brain wave recordings represented by their phases, which were ...

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

authors： Wang R,Perreau-Guimaraes M,Carvalhaes C,Suppes P

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary game dynamics describe not only frequency-dependent genetic evolution, but also cultural evolution in humans. In this context, successful strategies spread by imitation. It has been shown that the details of strategy update rules can have a crucial impact on evolutionary dynamics in theoretical models and...

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

authors： Traulsen A,Semmann D,Sommerfeld RD,Krambeck HJ,Milinski M

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing, but largely indirect, evidence pointing to an effect of commensal gut microbiota on the central nervous system (CNS). However, it is unknown whether lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus rhamnosus could have a direct effect on neurotransmitter receptors in the CNS in normal, healthy animals. ...

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

authors： Bravo JA,Forsythe P,Chew MV,Escaravage E,Savignac HM,Dinan TG,Bienenstock J,Cryan JF

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) is a recently recognized illness characterized by debilitating fatigue as well as immunological and neurological abnormalities [Straus, S.E. (1988) J. Inf. Dis. 157, 405-412]. Once thought to be caused by Epstein-Barr virus, it is now thought to have a different but ...

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

authors： DeFreitas E,Hilliard B,Cheney PR,Bell DS,Kiggundu E,Sankey D,Wroblewska Z,Palladino M,Woodward JP,Koprowski H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well described in model membranes, little is known about phase separation in biological membranes. Here, we provide evidence for a coexistence of at least two different lipid bilayer phases in the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells. Phase connectivity was assessed by measuring long-range diffusi...

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

authors： Meder D,Moreno MJ,Verkade P,Vaz WL,Simons K

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual deficits caused by abnormal visual experience during development are hard to recover in adult animals. Removal of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans from the mature extracellular matrix with chondroitinase ABC promotes plasticity in the adult visual cortex. We tested whether chondroitinase ABC treatment of adult...

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

authors： Pizzorusso T,Medini P,Landi S,Baldini S,Berardi N,Maffei L

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main differences between bacteria and archaea concerns their membrane composition. Whereas bacterial membranes are made up of glycerol-3-phosphate ester lipids, archaeal membranes are composed of glycerol-1-phosphate ether lipids. Here, we report the construction of a stable hybrid heterochiral membrane thr...

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

authors： Caforio A,Siliakus MF,Exterkate M,Jain S,Jumde VR,Andringa RLH,Kengen SWM,Minnaard AJ,Driessen AJM,van der Oost J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbance changes in untreated intact leaf discs, produced upon excitation with high-intensity red light, were shown to be due to the photooxidation of cytochrome b-559. At low intensities (<100 W/m2), photooxidation was almost undetectable. Photooxidation occurred with a half-time of 4.3 sec and an extent of 0.64 mo...

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

authors： Canaani O,Havaux M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyproline-containing proteins (hyproproteins) synthesized by cultured human fibroblasts have been partially characterized. The hyproprotein extracted from the cell layer was found to be similar to the collagen extracted from skin in the ratio of hydroxyproline to proline, chain composition, solubility, and re...

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

authors： Layman DL,McGoodwin EB,Martin GR

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are multidomain proteins responsible for the attachment of specific amino acids to their tRNA substrates. Prolyl-tRNA synthetases (ProRSs) are notable due to their particularly diverse architectures through evolution. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ProRS possesses an N-terminal extens...

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

authors： SternJohn J,Hati S,Siliciano PG,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptors on the T-cell surface are noncovalently associated with at least four invariant polypeptide chains, CD3-gamma, -delta, -epsilon, and -zeta. The mouse CD3-gamma gene, consisting of seven exons, was found to be highly homologous to the CD3-delta gene described earlier. Both the high level of sequence h...

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

authors： Saito H,Koyama T,Georgopoulos K,Clevers H,Haser WG,LeBien T,Tonegawa S,Terhorst C

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTPase-activating protein (GAP) has been postulated to function either as a negative regulator or as a possible target protein of Ras in mammalian cells and Xenopus oocytes. Ras must be localized in the plasma membrane of vertebrate cells to function, but GAP is localized in the cytosol. To test whether Ras functi...

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

authors： Gibbs JB,Schaber MD,Schofield TL,Scolnick EM,Sigal IS

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' flanking sequences and the intron of the mouse Hoxa-7 gene were searched for regulatory elements that can function in Drosophila. Only the intron is able to activate a lacZ fusion gene in various tissues of Drosophila embryos. This enhancer function requires a cluster of three homeodomain binding sites (HB1-ele...

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

authors： Haerry TE,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones of the human non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) glutamate receptor subunit GluR5 were isolated by high-stringency screening of a cosmid library using the rat cDNA as a probe. The chromosomal localization of the human GluR5 gene has been established. Southern hybridization of DNA isolated from mapping p...

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

authors： Eubanks JH,Puranam RS,Kleckner NW,Bettler B,Heinemann SF,McNamara JO

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A near-full-length casbene synthase cDNA clone, pCS7, was isolated by using a partial cDNA clone, pCS4, to probe a lambda gt10 library constructed from poly(A)+ RNA from elicited castor bean seedlings. The cDNA insert had a length of 1983 bases with a polyadenylate tail of 19 bases. Translation of the cDNA sequence re...

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

authors： Mau CJ,West CA

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of general anesthesia have shifted in focus from bulk lipid effects to specific interactions with membrane proteins. Target receptors include several subtypes of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels; however, structures of physiologically relevant proteins in this family have yet to define anesthetic binding ...

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

authors： Heusser SA,Lycksell M,Wang X,McComas SE,Howard RJ,Lindahl E

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Although introduced hemosporidian (malaria) parasites (Apicomplexa: Haemosporida) have hastened the extinction of endemic bird species in the Hawaiian Islands and perhaps elsewhere, little is known about the temporal dynamics of endemic malaria parasite populations. Haemosporidian parasites do not leave informative fo...

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

authors： Soares L,Latta SC,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit articular chondrocytes synthesize type II collagen [3alpha(1)(II)] in vivo and type I collagen [2alpha(1)(I).alpha(2)] in monolayer cultures. In suspension culture the nature of phenotype depends on extracellular Ca(2+). The relationship of Ca(2+) and 3':5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) in regulation of collagen synthesis ...

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

authors： Deshmukh K,Sawyer BD

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis for the 200-fold difference in affinity between two hybridoma antibodies specific for the hapten p-azophenylarsonate (Ars) that have diversified by somatic hypermutation was examined. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to sequentially convert the nucleotide sequence of the lower-affinity antibody ...

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

authors： Sharon J

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, how its activation in individual tissues contributes to TZD's therapeutic action remains controversial. As TZDs are known to have receptor-independent effects, we s...

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

authors： Sugii S,Olson P,Sears DD,Saberi M,Atkins AR,Barish GD,Hong SH,Castro GL,Yin YQ,Nelson MC,Hsiao G,Greaves DR,Downes M,Yu RT,Olefsky JM,Evans RM

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a group of peptides, originally isolated from the cardiac atria, that have a number of important effects on blood pressure, renal function, and salt balance. In the current study, expression of the ANF gene in certain extra-atrial tissues of the rat has been examined by radioimmunoas...

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

authors： Gardner DG,Deschepper CF,Ganong WF,Hane S,Fiddes J,Baxter JD,Lewicki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the critical role of the process of adaptation in evolution, there are few detailed studies of the genotypic and molecular basis of the process. Drosophila melanogaster flies selected for increased tolerance to ethanol exhibited higher levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1....

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

authors： McDonald JF,Chambers GK,David J,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson, the prion-related diseases, and non-neurodegenerative disorders such as type II diabetes are characterized by abnormal amyloid fiber aggregates, suggesting a common mechanism of pathogenesis. We have discovered that a class of systematically designe...

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

authors： Hauser CA,Deng R,Mishra A,Loo Y,Khoe U,Zhuang F,Cheong DW,Accardo A,Sullivan MB,Riekel C,Ying JY,Hauser UA

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules of keystone significance are relatively rare, yet mediate a variety of interactions between organisms. They influence the distribution and abundance of species, the transfer of energy across multiple trophic levels, and thus they play significant roles in structuring ecosystems. Despite their potential impor...

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

authors： Kicklighter CE,Kamio M,Nguyen L,Germann MW,Derby CD

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The methyl-CpG dinucleotide containing a symmetrical 5-methylcytosine (mC) is involved in gene regulation and genome stability. We report here that methylation-mediated transcriptional repressor methylated DNA-binding domain 1 (MBD1) interacts with methylpurine-DNA glycosylase (MPG), which excises damaged bases from s...

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

authors： Watanabe S,Ichimura T,Fujita N,Tsuruzoe S,Ohki I,Shirakawa M,Kawasuji M,Nakao M

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00