On the primary nature of fluorescence yield changes associated with photosynthesis.

abstract：:Viperin is an IFN-inducible radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzyme that inhibits viral replication. We determined crystal structures of an anaerobically prepared fragment of mouse viperin (residues 45-362) complexed with S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) or 5'-deoxyadenosine (5'-dAdo) and l-methionine (l-Met). Viperin c...

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

authors： Fenwick MK,Li Y,Cresswell P,Modis Y,Ealick SE

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature coefficient of equilibrium isotope fractionation in the heavy elements is shown to be larger at high temperatures than that expected from the well-studied vibrational isotope effects. The difference in the isotopic behavior of the heavy elements as compared with the light elements is due to the large n...

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

authors： Bigeleisen J

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to track cells and their patterns of gene expression in living organisms can increase our understanding of tissue development and disease. Gene reporters for bioluminescence, fluorescence, radionuclide, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been described but these suffer variously from limited depth p...

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

authors： Patrick PS,Hammersley J,Loizou L,Kettunen MI,Rodrigues TB,Hu DE,Tee SS,Hesketh R,Lyons SK,Soloviev D,Lewis DY,Aime S,Fulton SM,Brindle KM

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously linked aging, carcinogenesis, and de novo methylation within the promoter of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene in human colon. We now examine the dynamics of this process for the imprinted gene for insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2). In young individuals, the P2-4 promoters of IGF2 are methylated ex...

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

authors： Issa JP,Vertino PM,Boehm CD,Newsham IF,Baylin SB

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In extracts of interferon-treated HeLa cells, RNA covalently linked to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is preferentially degraded compared with mRNA not linked in dsRNA. This was established by following the degradation of poly(A)-containing mRNA annealed with poly(U), of poly(C)-containing encephalomyocarditis virus RNA ...

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

authors： Nilsen TW,Baglioni C

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A (Mg(2+) + Ca(2+))ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) has been purified from sarcoplasmic reticulum using a single step centrifugation procedure. The preparation is >95% pure by weight and contains only 25-30% of the lipid associated with the enzyme in native sarcoplasmic reticulum. The purified enzyme is unabl...

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

authors： Warren GB,Toon PA,Birdsall NJ,Lee AG,Metcalfe JC

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss some recent progress on the regularity theory of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation. We start with some basic properties of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation, such as Coulomb gauges, monotonicity, and curvature estimates. Next we discuss singularity of stationary Yang-Mills connections and compactness theorems...

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

authors： Tian G

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a 13-subunit protein complex that catalyzes the last step in mitochondrial electron transfer in mammals. Of the 10 subunits encoded by nuclear DNA (three are mtDNA products), some are expressed as tissue- and/or development-specific isoforms. For COX subunit VIII, previous work showed tha...

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

authors： Goldberg A,Wildman DE,Schmidt TR,Huttemann M,Goodman M,Weiss ML,Grossman LI

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymus lacks self-renewing hematopoietic cells, and thymopoiesis fails rapidly when the migration of progenitor cells to the thymus ceases. Hence, the process of thymus homing is an essential step for T-cell development and cellular immunity. Despite decades of research, the molecular details of thymus homing have...

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

authors： Calderón L,Boehm T

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The heroin analogue 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, MPP(+), both in vitro and in vivo, produces death of dopaminergic substantia nigral cells by inhibiting the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase multienzyme complex, producing a syndrome indistinguishable from Parkinson's disease. Similarly, a fragment of amyloid protein, A...

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

authors： Kashiwaya Y,Takeshima T,Mori N,Nakashima K,Clarke K,Veech RL

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mammals and birds use the interaural time difference (ITD) for localization of sound in the horizontal plane. They may localize either real or phantom sound sources, when the signal consists of a narrow frequency band. This ambiguity does not occur with broadband signals. A plot of impulse rates or amplitude of e...

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

authors： Peña JL,Konishi M

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a large panel of T-cell clones (TCCs) specific for Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Lolium perenne group I grass pollen allergens (total, 61) and for tetanus toxoid and protein purified derivative bacterial antigens (total, 38) from the peripheral blood of two atopic individuals and then analyzed...

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

authors： Parronchi P,Macchia D,Piccinni MP,Biswas P,Simonelli C,Maggi E,Ricci M,Ansari AA,Romagnani S

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncouplers are molecules with protonophoric and ionophoric capabilities that mediate coupled cyclical transport of cations--a transport that takes precedence over all other coupled processes. Uncouplers form cation-containing complexes with electrogenic ionophores that potentiate cyclical transport of cations. The mol...

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

authors： Kessler RJ,Vande Zande H,Tyson CA,Blondin GA,Fairfield J,Glasser P,Green DE

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type p53 protein is a growth modulator whose inactivation has been found to be a key event in malignant transformation. Reconstitution of wild-type p53 in the p53-nonproducer, Abelson murine leukemia virus-transformed pre-B-cell line L12 gave rise to stably growing clones. Wild-type p53-producer derived cell line...

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

authors： Shaulsky G,Goldfinger N,Peled A,Rotter V

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the extent of immune self-tolerance to the ubiquitously expressed nuclear/cytoplasmic autoantigens La (SS-B) and Ro (SS-A) in healthy, nonautoimmune mice. Immunization of mice with recombinant mouse La resulted in a specific, isotype-switched autoantibody response, which was initially directed toward th...

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

authors： Topfer F,Gordon T,McCluskey J

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:CooA, the CO-sensing heme protein from Rhodospirillum rubrum, regulates the expression of genes that encode a CO-oxidation system, allowing R. rubrum to use CO as a sole energy source. To better understand the gas-sensing regulation mechanism used by R. rubrum CooA and its homologs in other organisms, we characterized...

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

authors： Clark RW,Lanz ND,Lee AJ,Kerby RL,Roberts GP,Burstyn JN

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The domestication of cultivated barley has been used as a model system for studying the origins and early spread of agrarian culture. Our previous results indicated that the Tibetan Plateau and its vicinity is one of the centers of domestication of cultivated barley. Here we reveal multiple origins of domesticated bar...

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

authors： Dai F,Chen ZH,Wang X,Li Z,Jin G,Wu D,Cai S,Wang N,Wu F,Nevo E,Zhang G

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of transition states along reaction coordinates (r++) for simple chemical reactions are often estimated from Leffler alpha values, the slope of plots of DeltaG++ (activation energy) versus DeltaG(0) (equilibrium free energy) for a series of structural variants. Protein folding is more complex than simple...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic development of the optic nerve of the zebrafish, Brachydanio rerio, was studied by three-dimensional computer reconstruction from serial section electron micrographs. Growing fibers from retinal ganglion cells had growth cones in contact with more mature fibers from adjacent cell bodies. In the observed ...

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

authors： Bodick N,Levinthal C

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the genetic basis of common disease may require comprehensive sequence analysis of coding regions and regulatory elements in patients and controls to find genetic effects caused by rare or heterogeneous mutations. In this study, we demonstrate how mismatch repair detection on tag arrays can be applie...

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

authors： Faham M,Zheng J,Moorhead M,Fakhrai-Rad H,Namsaraev E,Wong K,Wang Z,Chow SG,Lee L,Suyenaga K,Reichert J,Boudreau A,Eberle J,Bruckner C,Jain M,Karlin-Neumann G,Jones HB,Willis TD,Buxbaum JD,Davis RW

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Let G be a reductive algebraic group and let B be an affine variety with an algebraic action of G. Everything is defined over the field C of complex numbers. Consider the trivial G-vector bundle B x S = S over B where S is a G-module. From the endomorphism ring R of the G-vector bundle S a construction of G-vector bun...

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

authors： Masuda M,Petrie T

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We sublocalized the yeast nucleoporin Nup82 to the cytoplasmic side of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) by immunoelectron microscopy. Moreover, by in vitro binding assays we showed that Nup82 interacts with the C-terminal region of Nup159, a yeast nucleoporin that previously was also localized to the cytoplasmic side of...

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

authors： Hurwitz ME,Strambio-de-Castillia C,Blobel G

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal excretion of water and major electrolytes exhibits a significant circadian rhythm. This functional periodicity is believed to result, at least in part, from circadian changes in secretion/reabsorption capacities of the distal nephron and collecting ducts. Here, we studied the molecular mechanisms underlying circ...

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

authors： Zuber AM,Centeno G,Pradervand S,Nikolaeva S,Maquelin L,Cardinaux L,Bonny O,Firsov D

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that hydroxyl radicals (HO*) can be produced by H2O2 and halogenated quinones, independent of transition metal ions; however, the underlying molecular mechanism is still unclear. In the present study, using the electron spin resonance secondary radical spin-trapping method, we found that tetra...

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

authors： Zhu BZ,Kalyanaraman B,Jiang GB

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many sources of genetic diversity, ranging from programmed mutagenesis in antibody genes to random mutagenesis during species evolution or development of cancer. We propose that mutations in DNA sequence-specific transcription factors that target response elements (REs) in many genes can also provide for rap...

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

authors： Resnick MA,Inga A

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The blue-light receptor genes (sopII) of sensory rhodopsin (SR) II were cloned from two species, the halophilic bacteria Haloarcula vallismortis (vSR-II) and Natronobacterium pharaonis (pSR-II). Upstream of both sopII gene loci, sequences corresponding to the halobacterial transducer of rhodopsin (Htr) II were recogni...

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

authors： Seidel R,Scharf B,Gautel M,Kleine K,Oesterhelt D,Engelhard M

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins are key players in vital processes involving energy homeostasis and metabolism from the simplest to most complex organisms. We report a 1.5 A x-ray crystal structure of the first identified outer mitochondrial membrane Fe-S protein, mitoNEET. Two protomers intertwine to form a unique dimeri...

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

authors： Paddock ML,Wiley SE,Axelrod HL,Cohen AE,Roy M,Abresch EC,Capraro D,Murphy AN,Nechushtai R,Dixon JE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory receptor neurons match their dynamic range to ecologically relevant stimulus intensities. How this tuning is achieved is poorly understood in most receptors. The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans avoids 21% O2 and hypoxia and prefers intermediate O2 concentrations. We show how this O2 preference is sculpted by ...

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

authors： Oda S,Toyoshima Y,de Bono M

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal 20 amino acids are required for microinjected ribonuclease A (RNase A) to be taken up by lysosomes and degraded at an enhanced rate during serum withdrawal. We used water-soluble carbodiimides to covalently attach the RNase S-peptide (residues 1-20) to [3H]RNase S-protein (residues 21-124) at unspec...

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

authors： Backer JM,Dice JF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial capsules are surface layers made of long-chain polysaccharides. They are anchored to the outer membrane of many Gram-negative bacteria, including pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Pasteurella multocida. Capsules protect pathogens from host defenses includ...

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

authors： Willis LM,Stupak J,Richards MR,Lowary TL,Li J,Whitfield C

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00