Low Temperature Electronic Absorption Spectra of Oxidized and Reduced Spinach Ferredoxins. Evidence for Nonequivalent Iron(III) Sites.

abstract：:ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters use ATP to drive solute transport across biological membranes. Members of this superfamily have crucial roles in cell physiology, and some of the transporters are linked to severe diseases. However, understanding of the transport mechanism, especially of human ABC exporters, is ...

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

authors： Zollmann T,Moiset G,Tumulka F,Tampé R,Poolman B,Abele R

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Protecting hydrologic connectivity of freshwater ecosystems is fundamental to ensuring species persistence, ecosystem integrity, and human well-being. More frequent and severe droughts associated with climate change are poised to significantly alter flow intermittence patterns and hydrologic connectivity in dryland st...

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

authors： Jaeger KL,Olden JD,Pelland NA

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Global patterns of biodiversity reflect both regional and local processes, but the relative importance of local ecological limits to species coexistence, as influenced by the physical environment, in contrast to regional processes including species production, dispersal, and extinction, is poorly understood. Failure t...

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

authors： Ricklefs RE,He F

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular signaling mechanisms regulating the generation and long-term persistence of memory T cells in vivo remain unclear. In this study, we used mouse models with conditional deletion of the key T cell receptor (TCR)-coupled adaptor molecule SH2-domain-containing phosphoprotein of 76 kDa (SLP-76), to analyz...

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

authors： Bushar ND,Corbo E,Schmidt M,Maltzman JS,Farber DL

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononegaviruses are promising tools as oncolytic vectors and transgene delivery vectors for gene therapy and regenerative medicine. By using the Magnet proteins, which reversibly heterodimerize upon blue light illumination, photocontrollable mononegaviruses (measles and rabies viruses) were generated. The Magnet prote...

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

authors： Tahara M,Takishima Y,Miyamoto S,Nakatsu Y,Someya K,Sato M,Tani K,Takeda M

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase is an enzyme that activates the growth factor-regulated MAP kinase in vitro by a mechanism that involves direct phosphorylation of MAP kinase on tyrosine and threonine residues. MAP kinase kinase is stimulated by growth factor treatment of cells and has been shown to be in...

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

authors： Ahn NG,Campbell JS,Seger R,Jensen AL,Graves LM,Krebs EG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory cortex is critical for perceiving a sound's location. However, there is no topographic representation of acoustic space, and individual auditory cortical neurons are often broadly tuned to stimulus location. It thus remains unclear how acoustic space is represented in the mammalian cerebral cortex and how...

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

authors： Miller LM,Recanzone GH

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recombinant cowpox viruses were constructed and used to identify a viral gene that controls the production of hemorrhage in lesions caused by the Brighton Red strain of cowpox virus (CPV-BR). This gene is located in the KpnD fragment of CPV-BR DNA, between 31 and 32 kilobases from the end of the genome. This p...

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

authors： Pickup DJ,Ink BS,Hu W,Ray CA,Joklik WK

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein complex that catalyzes pre-mRNA splicing. It consists of five snRNAs and more than 200 proteins. Because of this complexity, much work has focused on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosome, viewed as a highly simplified system with fewer than half as many splicing f...

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

authors： Stark MR,Dunn EA,Dunn WS,Grisdale CJ,Daniele AR,Halstead MR,Fast NM,Rader SD

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic, spontaneously pulsating cardiac cells cultured from newborn rats are immediately stimulated to beat faster by addition of a number of tubulin-binding agents but not by their non-tubulin-binding analogues. The tubulin-binding agents tested include vinblastine, vincristine, navelbine, two analogs of vinblastin...

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

authors： Lampidis TJ,Kolonias D,Savaraj N,Rubin RW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies may bind to bacterial pathogens or their toxins to control infections, and their effector activity is mediated through the recruitment of complement component C1q or the engagement with Fcγ receptors (FcγRs). For bacterial pathogens that rely on a single toxin to cause disease, immunity correlates with toxi...

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

authors： Chen X,Shi M,Tong X,Kim HK,Wang LX,Schneewind O,Missiakas D

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate that near infrared Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy provides unprecedented biochemical information about the extent of atherosclerosis in human aorta. In particular, elastin, collagen, cholesterol, cholesterol esters, lipids, carotenoids, and calcium apatite deposits all can be discern...

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

authors： Baraga JJ,Feld MS,Rava RP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously that the heat-stable polypeptide of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system of reticulocytes, designated APF-1, forms covalent conjugates with protein substrates in an ATP-requiring process. We now describe an enzyme that carries out the activation by ATP of the polypeptide with pyrophosphate...

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

authors： Ciechanover A,Heller H,Katz-Etzion R,Hershko A

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that isoprene oxidation products can partition to atmospheric aerosols by reacting with condensed phase sulfuric acid, forming low-volatility organosulfate compounds. We have identified organosulfate compounds in free tropospheric aerosols by single particle mass spectrometr...

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

authors： Froyd KD,Murphy SM,Murphy DM,de Gouw JA,Eddingsaas NC,Wennberg PO

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two approaches have been explored for the synthesis of double-stranded DNA from single-stranded DNA template complementary to rabbit 9S globin mRNA (cDNA). (i) cDNA was elongated with dCMP or dTMP homopolymeric tracts using terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.31; nucleosidetriphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyle...

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

authors： Rougeon F,Mach B

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive degenerative disease of motor neurons. The inherited form of the disease, familial ALS, represents 5-10% of the total cases, and the best documented of these are due to lesions in SOD1, the gene encoding copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD). The mechanism by w...

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

authors： Valentine JS,Hart PJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethionamide (ETA) is an important component of second-line therapy for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Synthesis of radiolabeled ETA and an examination of drug metabolites formed by whole cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) have allowed us to demonstrate that ETA is activated by S-oxidation be...

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

authors： DeBarber AE,Mdluli K,Bosman M,Bekker LG,Barry CE 3rd

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings suggest that neurons can efficiently repair oxidatively damaged DNA, and that both DNA damage and repair are enhanced by activation of excitatory glutamate receptors. However, in pathological conditions such as ischemic stroke, excessive DNA damage can trigger the death of neurons. Oxidative DNA damage...

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

authors： Canugovi C,Yoon JS,Feldman NH,Croteau DL,Mattson MP,Bohr VA

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Losses are a possibility in many risky decisions, and organisms have evolved mechanisms to evaluate and avoid them. Laboratory and field evidence suggests that people often avoid risks with losses even when they might earn a substantially larger gain, a behavioral preference termed "loss aversion." The cautionary brak...

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

authors： De Martino B,Camerer CF,Adolphs R

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple protein subcomplexes of the kinetochore cooperate as a cohesive molecular unit that forms load-bearing microtubule attachments that drive mitotic chromosome movements. There is intriguing evidence suggesting that central kinetochore components influence kinetochore-microtubule attachment, but the mechanism re...

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

authors： Kudalkar EM,Scarborough EA,Umbreit NT,Zelter A,Gestaut DR,Riffle M,Johnson RS,MacCoss MJ,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the spontaneous clustering of solitons in partially coherent wavefronts during the final stages of pattern formation initiated by modulation instability and noise. ...

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

authors： Chen Z,Sears SM,Martin H,Christodoulides DN,Segev M

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reexamined the balance between cell birth, cell maturation, and cell death in the thymus by labeling dividing thymocytes and their progeny in vivo with [3H]-thymidine, isolating clearly defined subpopulations by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and determining the distribution of label by autoradiography. ...

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

authors： Egerton M,Scollay R,Shortman K

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stator ring of the bacterial flagellar motor is composed of the MotA and MotB proteins that act together to generate a turning force (torque) acting on the FliG ring of the rotor. The C-terminal domain of MotB (MotB-C) is believed to anchor the MotA/MotB complex to peptidoglycan (PG) of the cell wall. The first cr...

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

authors： Roujeinikova A

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

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

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The vegetative development of the maize shoot can be divided into juvenile and adult phases based on the types of leaves produced at different times in shoot development. Models for the regulation of phase change make explicit predictions about when the identity of these types of leaves is determined. To test these mo...

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

authors： Orkwiszewski JA,Poethig RS

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbial composition depends on different dietary habits just as health depends on microbial metabolism, but the association of microbiota with different diets in human populations has not yet been shown. In this work, we compared the fecal microbiota of European children (EU) and that of children from a rural Af...

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

authors： De Filippo C,Cavalieri D,Di Paola M,Ramazzotti M,Poullet JB,Massart S,Collini S,Pieraccini G,Lionetti P

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional disciplines of science are grounded in the observation and measurement of object properties. Recent advances in digital computer technology have spawned numerous computer-based imaging systems that extend the range of observation and measurement into realms that would otherwise be inaccessible. More im...

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

authors： Beck RN

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplanted cord blood (CB) hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and progenitor cells (HPC) can treat malignant and nonmalignant disorders. Because long-term cryopreservation is critical for CB banking and transplantation, we assessed the efficiency of recovery of viable HSCHPC from individual CBs stored frozen for 15 yr. ...

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

authors： Broxmeyer HE,Srour EF,Hangoc G,Cooper S,Anderson SA,Bodine DM

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular dominance (OD) plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex (V1) declines during postnatal development and is absent beyond postnatal day 110 if mice are raised in standard cages (SCs). An enriched environment (EE) promotes OD plasticity in adult rats. Here, we explored cellular mechanisms of EE in mouse V1 and th...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Pielecka-Fortuna J,Kalogeraki E,Krempler K,Favaro PD,Schlüter OM,Löwel S

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent demonstration of K+ channel dysfunction in fibroblasts from Alzheimer disease (AD) patients and past observations of Ca(2+)-mediated K+ channel modulation during memory storage suggested that AD, which is characterized by memory loss and other cognitive deficits, might also involve dysfunction of intracellu...

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

authors： Ito E,Oka K,Etcheberrigaray R,Nelson TJ,McPhie DL,Tofel-Grehl B,Gibson GE,Alkon DL

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00