Changes produced by bound tryptophan in the ribosome peptidyl transferase center in response to TnaC, a nascent leader peptide.

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate racemase is the first enzyme known to possess a metal pincer active site. The enzyme interconverts d- and l-lactic acid, which is important for the assembly of cell walls in many microorganisms. Here, we report a synthetic model of the active site of lactate racemase, which features a pyridinium-based SCS pinc...

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

authors： Xu T,Wodrich MD,Scopelliti R,Corminboeuf C,Hu X

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified an ATP-dependent DNA helicase activity intrinsic to the human minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex, composed of MCM subunits 4, 6, and 7 [Ishimi, Y. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 24508-24513]. In contrast to the presence of multiple MCM genes (at least six) in eukaryotes, the archaeon...

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

authors： Kelman Z,Lee JK,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have combined standard micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion of nuclei with a modified protocol for constructing paired-end DNA sequencing libraries to map both nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles at single base-pair resolution throughout the budding yeast genome. We found that partially unwrapped nucleo...

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

authors： Henikoff JG,Belsky JA,Krassovsky K,MacAlpine DM,Henikoff S

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic beta cells respond to changes in blood glucose by secreting insulin and increasing insulin synthesis. To identify genes used in these responses, we have carried out expression profiling of beta cells exposed to high (25 mM) or low (5.5 mM) glucose by using oligonucleotide microarrays. Functional clustering ...

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

authors： Webb GC,Akbar MS,Zhao C,Steiner DF

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human placental alkaline phosphatase gene has been cloned and reintroduced into mammalian cells. When a plasmid carrying the gene under control of the simian virus 40 early promoter (pSV2Apap) is transfected into a variety of different cell types, placental alkaline phosphatase activity can readily be detected by ...

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

authors： Henthorn P,Zervos P,Raducha M,Harris H,Kadesch T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately estimating human mobility and gauging its relationship with virus transmission is critical for the control of COVID-19 spreading. Using mobile device location data of over 100 million monthly active samples, we compute origin-destination travel demand and aggregate mobility inflow at each US county from Mar...

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

authors： Xiong C,Hu S,Yang M,Luo W,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Five different selectively deuterated analogs of staphylococcal nuclease (Foggi) were prepared having all but a selected few hydrogen atoms in the enzyme molecule replaced by deuterium. The (1)H-NMR spectra of these analogs are extremely simplified, since they consist of lines arising only from the remaining protonate...

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

authors： Putter I,Barreto A,Markley JL,Jardetzky O

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobilization of the T-cell response against cancer has the potential to achieve long-lasting cures. However, it is not known how to harness antigen-presenting cells optimally to achieve an effective antitumor T-cell response. In this study, we show that anti-CD47 antibody-mediated phagocytosis of cancer by macrophages...

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

authors： Tseng D,Volkmer JP,Willingham SB,Contreras-Trujillo H,Fathman JW,Fernhoff NB,Seita J,Inlay MA,Weiskopf K,Miyanishi M,Weissman IL

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:O(6)-methylguanine (O(6)meG) and related modifications of guanine in double-stranded DNA are functionally severe lesions that can be produced by many alkylating agents, including N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), a potent carcinogen. O(6)meG is repaired through its demethylation by the O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA...

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

authors： Hwang CS,Shemorry A,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A general model for the contractility of cells is presented that accounts for the dynamic reorganization of the cytoskeleton. The model is motivated by three key biochemical processes: (i) an activation signal that triggers actin polymerization and myosin phosphorylation, (ii) the tension-dependent assembly of the act...

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

authors： Deshpande VS,McMeeking RM,Evans AG

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In solid-state physics, "doping" is a pivotal concept that allows controlling and engineering of the macroscopic electronic and optical properties of materials such as semiconductors by judiciously introducing small concentrations of impurities. Recently, this concept has been translated to two-dimensional photonic sc...

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

authors： Coppolaro M,Moccia M,Castaldi G,Engheta N,Galdi V

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The BTB domain (also known as the POZ domain) is an evolutionarily conserved protein-protein interaction motif found at the N terminus of 5-10% of C2H2-type zinc-finger transcription factors, as well as in some actin-associated proteins bearing the kelch motif. Many BTB proteins are transcriptional regulators that med...

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

authors： Ahmad KF,Engel CK,Privé GG

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Senescence is controlled by time-evolving networks that describe the temporal transition of interactions among senescence regulators. Here, we present time-evolving networks for NAM/ATAF/CUC (NAC) transcription factors in Arabidopsis during leaf aging. The most evident characteristic of these time-dependent networks w...

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

authors： Kim HJ,Park JH,Kim J,Kim JJ,Hong S,Kim J,Kim JH,Woo HR,Hyeon C,Lim PO,Nam HG,Hwang D

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II alleles clearly contribute to T cell-mediated autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D) in both humans and nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. However, studies in NOD mice indicate MHC class I-restricted T cell responses are also essential to T1D development. In humans, epid...

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

authors： Marron MP,Graser RT,Chapman HD,Serreze DV

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of proteins that hydrolyze inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), very different in both amino acid sequence and structure, have been characterized to date: soluble and membrane-bound proton-pumping pyrophosphatases (sPPases and H(+)-PPases, respectively). sPPases are ubiquitous proteins that hydrolyze PPi releasing...

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

authors： Perez-Castineira JR,Lopez-Marques RL,Villalba JM,Losada M,Serrano A

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned one of the two human alpha-globin genes and report its complete nucleotide sequence. The gene is 832 base pairs (bp) long from the 5'-cap site to the 3'-polyadenylylation site. The amino acid coding sequences are separated into three segments (exons) by two short (117 and 140 bp) intervening sequences. ...

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

authors： Liebhaber SA,Goossens MJ,Kan YW

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc20/fizzy family proteins are involved in activation of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome, which catalyzes the ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis of cell cycle regulatory proteins such as anaphase inhibitors and mitotic cyclins, leading to chromosome segregation and exit from mitosis. Previous work has shown tha...

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

authors： Farruggio DC,Townsley FM,Ruderman JV

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype-phenotype relationships are notoriously complicated. Idiosyncratic interactions between specific combinations of mutations occur and are difficult to predict. Yet it is increasingly clear that many interactions can be understood in terms of global epistasis. That is, mutations may act additively on some under...

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

authors： Otwinowski J,McCandlish DM,Plotkin JB

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular levels of many proteins are regulated by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis. One of the best-characterized enzymes that catalyzes the attachment of ubiquitin to proteins is a ubiquitin ligase complex, Skp1-Cullin-F box complex containing Hrt1 (SCF). We sought to artificially target a protein to the SCF ...

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

authors： Sakamoto KM,Kim KB,Kumagai A,Mercurio F,Crews CM,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg activation is the process in which mature oocytes are released from developmental arrest and gain competency for embryonic development. In Drosophila and other arthropods, eggs are activated by mechanical pressure in the female reproductive tract, whereas in most other species, eggs are activated by fertilization....

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

authors： Hu Q,Wolfner MF

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component histidine kinases recently have been found in eukaryotic organisms including fungi, slime molds, and plants. We describe the identification of a gene, COS1, from the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans by using a PCR-based screening strategy. The sequence of COS1 indicates that it encodes a homolog o...

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

authors： Alex LA,Korch C,Selitrennikoff CP,Simon MI

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the contribution to immunoglobulin heavy chain diversity made by recombination between variable region (VH) genes and joining region (JH) genes, we have determined the sequence of about 2000 nucleotides spanning the rearranged JH gene cluster associated with the VH gene expressed in plasmacytoma HPC76. The a...

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

authors： Gough NM,Bernard O

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural symmetry is a hallmark of homomeric ion channels. Nonobligatory regulatory proteins can also critically define the precise functional role of such channels. For instance, the pore-forming subunit of the large conductance voltage and calcium-activated potassium (BK, Slo1, or KCa1.1) channels encoded by a sin...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Perez V,Ben Johny M,Xia XM,Lingle CJ

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Since at least the 1920s, it has been reported that common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) differ from humans in being capable of exceptional feats of "super strength," both in the wild and in captive environments. A mix of anecdotal and more controlled studies provides some support for this view; however, a critical re...

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

authors： O'Neill MC,Umberger BR,Holowka NB,Larson SG,Reiser PJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, monobutyryl cyclic AMP, cyclic AMP, and 5'-AMP have a remarkable morphogenetic effect on cultured iris epithelial cells obtained from adult newt. They alter the broad undulating membrane of the cell into branching strands of cytoplasm, a configuration that has been named "stellate." Th...

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

authors： Ortiz JR,Yamada T,Hsie AW

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential metal nutrient that is tightly regulated in the body because loss of its homeostasis is connected to severe diseases such as Menkes and Wilson diseases, Alzheimer's disease, prion disorders, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The complex relationships between copper status and various stages of ...

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

authors： Hirayama T,Van de Bittner GC,Gray LW,Lutsenko S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Of two closely related species of geese, one, the greylag goose, lives in the Indian plains all year round, while the other, the bar-headed goose, lives at the Tibetan lakes and migrates across the Himalayas to winter in India. Another species, the Andean goose, lives in the High Andes all year round. Possession of a ...

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

authors： Jessen TH,Weber RE,Fermi G,Tame J,Braunitzer G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that, in the adult visual cortex, visual inputs modulate levels of mRNAs coding for neurotransmitter receptors in an activity-dependent manner. To investigate this possibility, we performed a monocular enucleation in adult rabbits and, 15 days later, collected their left and right visual cortice...

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

authors： Nguyen QT,Matute C,Miledi R

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00