Energy transfer between photosystem II units in a connected package model of the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis.

abstract：:Research on tuberculosis and leprosy was revolutionized by the development of a plasmid transformation system in the fast-growing surrogate, Mycobacterium smegmatis. This transformation system was made possible by the successful isolation of a M. smegmatis mutant strain mc(2)155, whose efficient plasmid transformation...

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

authors： Panas MW,Jain P,Yang H,Mitra S,Biswas D,Wattam AR,Letvin NL,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-inflammatory activity of intravenous Ig (IVIG) results from a minor population of the pooled IgG molecules that contains terminal alpha2,6-sialic acid linkages on their Fc-linked glycans. These anti-inflammatory properties can be recapitulated with a fully recombinant preparation of appropriately sialylated I...

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

authors： Anthony RM,Wermeling F,Karlsson MC,Ravetch JV

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide empirical evidence of immigrants' specialization in skill acquisition well before entering the US labor market. Nationally representative datasets enable studying the academic trajectories of immigrant children, with a focus on high-school course-taking patterns and college major choice. Immigrant children ...

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

authors： Rangel MA,Shi Y

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Motilin, [Met]enkephalin, [Leu]enkephalin, somatostatin, taurine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and glycine were tested for their effects on Deiters neurons of the lateral vestibular nucleus in rabbits. Iontophoresis was carried out with multibarrelled micropipettes. All four peptides and three amino acids produced ...

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

authors： Chan-Palay V,Ito M,Tongroach P,Sakurai M,Palay S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral disease widespread in Africa. The primary cycle involves mosquitoes and wild and domestic ruminant hosts. Humans are usually contaminated after contact with infected ruminants. As many environmental, agricultural, epidemiological, and anthropogenic factors are implicated...

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

authors： Lancelot R,Béral M,Rakotoharinome VM,Andriamandimby SF,Héraud JM,Coste C,Apolloni A,Squarzoni-Diaw C,de La Rocque S,Formenty PB,Bouyer J,Wint GR,Cardinale E

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:During CsCl isopycnic centrifugation at 20 mM Mg(++), Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunits specifically lose proteins S1, S2, S3, S5, S9, S10, and S14. The resultant 30S core is unable to stimulate the GTPase activity of EF-G in the presence of 50S subunits. Activity could be restored to a small extent by adding ba...

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

authors： Marsh RC,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BvgAS phosphorelay regulates ∼10% of the annotated genomes of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica and controls their infectious cycles. The hierarchical organization of the regulatory network allows the integration of contextual signals to control all or specific subsets of BvgAS-regulated genes. He...

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

authors： Ahuja U,Shokeen B,Cheng N,Cho Y,Blum C,Coppola G,Miller JF

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms, the conversion of solar into chemical energy occurs in thylakoid membranes in the chloroplast. How thylakoid membranes are formed and maintained is poorly understood. However, previous observations of vesicles adjacent to the stromal side of the inner envelope membrane of the ch...

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

authors： Hertle AP,García-Cerdán JG,Armbruster U,Shih R,Lee JJ,Wong W,Niyogi KK

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we described a recurrent variant translocation, t(11;17)(q23;q21), in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) which juxtaposes PLZF, a gene encoding a zinc finger protein, to RARA, encoding retinoic acid receptor alpha (RAR alpha). We have now cloned cDNAs encoding PLZF-RAR alpha chimeric proteins and studied the...

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

authors： Chen Z,Guidez F,Rousselot P,Agadir A,Chen SJ,Wang ZY,Degos L,Zelent A,Waxman S,Chomienne C

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial conjugation systems are members of the large type IV secretion system (T4SS) superfamily. Conjugative transfer of F plasmids residing in the Enterobacteriaceae was first reported in the 1940s, yet the architecture of F plasmid-encoded transfer channel and its physical relationship with the F pilus remain unk...

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

authors： Hu B,Khara P,Christie PJ

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse monoclonal antibody (7E6A5) of IgG isotype, reacting specifically with mucin-producing goblet cells of the human gastrointestinal tract, has been developed. 7E6A5 reacts by an ELISA with colonic protein eluted from a DEAE column. A screening by immunoperoxidase assay of 76 specimens from 19 different human tis...

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

authors： Vecchi M,Sakamaki S,Diamond B,Novikoff AB,Novikoff PM,Das KM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striking taste disturbances are reported in cancer patients treated with Hedgehog (HH)-pathway inhibitor drugs, including sonidegib (LDE225), which block the HH pathway effector Smoothened (SMO). We tested the potential for molecular, cellular, and functional recovery in mice from the severe disruption of taste-organ ...

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

authors： Kumari A,Ermilov AN,Grachtchouk M,Dlugosz AA,Allen BL,Bradley RM,Mistretta CM

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The site-specific recombination system (FLP) encoded by the yeast plasmid 2-micron circle can also act in yeast on the inverted repeats of the bacterial transposon Tn5. The efficiency of this recombination is dependent on the location of Tn5 within the 2-micron circle genome but can be as high as that observed for 2-m...

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

authors： Jayaram M,Broach JR

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA restriction fragments of the genes encoding HLA class II-beta antigens were compared in 34 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 34 HLA-DR-matched healthy individuals. Ninety-three fragments, determined by six restriction enzymes (EcoRI, EcoRV, HindIII, BamHI, Pvu II, and Taq I), were analyzed: (i)...

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

authors： Cohen-Haguenauer O,Robbins E,Massart C,Busson M,Deschamps I,Hors J,Lalouel JM,Dausset J,Cohen D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Raf-1 protein kinase plays a central role in the mitogenic response of cells to growth factors, cytokines, and many oncogenes. Despite the critical importance of this enzyme, very little is known of its biochemical properties or mechanisms of regulation. In these experiments, we used the only candidate physiolog...

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

authors： Force T,Bonventre JV,Heidecker G,Rapp U,Avruch J,Kyriakis JM

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the chemical features of human placental lactogen (hPL) necessary for its biologic activity we prepared the following fragments from the plasmin-cleaved hormone: reduced and alkylated 1--134, reduced and alkylated 141--191, and a 1--134 dimer joined through the single cysteinyl residue at positio...

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

authors： Russell J,Sherwood LM,Kowalski K,Schneider AB

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive ATPase (TF0-F1) from thermophilic bacterium PS3 is composed of a water soluble part with ATP hydrolytic activity (TF1) and a water insoluble moiety (TF0). All of the five subunits (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon) of TF1 were isolated. TF1 was reconstituted from the f...

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

authors： Yoshida M,Okamoto H,Sone N,Hirata H,Kagawa Y

更新日期：1977-03-01 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：:Spontaneous cross-linking in vitro, during incubation of purified collagen in nonstriated and native type fibrils, was studied to elucidate the relationship between intra and intermolecular cross-links. In nonbanded fibrils, the aldol condensation products of two allysyl residues, previously shown to constitute the in...

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

authors： Kang AH,Gross J

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell-derived soluble factors that inhibit both X4 and R5 HIV are recognized as important in controlling HIV. Whereas three β chemokines, regulated-on-activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1α, and MIP-1β, account for the suppression of R5 HIV by blockade of HI...

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

authors： Cocchi F,DeVico AL,Lu W,Popovic M,Latinovic O,Sajadi MM,Redfield RR,Lafferty MK,Galli M,Garzino-Demo A,Gallo RC

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyco-immune checkpoint receptors, molecules that inhibit immune cell activity following binding to glycosylated cell-surface antigens, are emerging as attractive targets for cancer immunotherapy. Defining biologically relevant ligands that bind and activate such receptors, however, has historically been a significant...

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

authors： Wisnovsky S,Möckl L,Malaker SA,Pedram K,Hess GT,Riley NM,Gray MA,Smith BAH,Bassik MC,Moerner WE,Bertozzi CR

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of myelin by Schwann cells (SCs) occurs via a series of orchestrated molecular events. We previously used global expression profiling to examine peripheral nerve myelination and identified the NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase Sir-two-homolog 2 (Sirt2) as a protein likely to be involved in myelination. Here, ...

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

authors： Beirowski B,Gustin J,Armour SM,Yamamoto H,Viader A,North BJ,Michán S,Baloh RH,Golden JP,Schmidt RE,Sinclair DA,Auwerx J,Milbrandt J

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-...

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

authors： Gómez DM,Berent I,Benavides-Varela S,Bion RA,Cattarossi L,Nespor M,Mehler J

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Carney-Stratakis syndrome, an inherited condition predisposing affected individuals to gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and paraganglioma, is caused by germline mutations in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunits B, C, or D, leading to dysfunction of complex II of the electron transport chain. We evaluated the ro...

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

authors： Janeway KA,Kim SY,Lodish M,Nosé V,Rustin P,Gaal J,Dahia PL,Liegl B,Ball ER,Raygada M,Lai AH,Kelly L,Hornick JL,NIH Pediatric and Wild-Type GIST Clinic.,O'Sullivan M,de Krijger RR,Dinjens WN,Demetri GD,Antonescu CR,F

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term viability of a forest industry in the Amazon region of Brazil depends on the maintenance of adequate timber volume and growth in healthy forests. Using extensive high-resolution satellite analyses, we studied the forest damage caused by recent logging operations and the likelihood that logged forests wou...

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

authors： Asner GP,Broadbent EN,Oliveira PJ,Keller M,Knapp DE,Silva JN

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information is conveyed from the eye to the brain by distinct types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). It is largely unknown how RGCs acquire their defining morphological and physiological features and connect to upstream and downstream synaptic partners. The three Brn3/Pou4f transcription factors (TFs) particip...

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

authors： Sajgo S,Ghinia MG,Brooks M,Kretschmer F,Chuang K,Hiriyanna S,Wu Z,Popescu O,Badea TC

更新日期：2017-05-16 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：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a cellular transcription factor that binds to two sites in the adenovirus E2 promoter. Previous experiments have implicated E2F in the E1A-dependent transactivation of the E2 gene since levels of active E2F increase markedly during adenovirus infection in parallel with the increase in E2 transcription, and an E...

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

authors： Hiebert SW,Lipp M,Nevins JR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costimulation is required for optimal T cell activation, yet it is unclear whether poxviruses dedicatedly subvert costimulation during infection. Here, we report that the secreted M2 protein encoded by cowpox virus (CPXV) specifically interacts with human and murine B7.1 (CD80) and B7.2 (CD86). We also show that M2 co...

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

authors： Wang X,Piersma SJ,Elliott JI,Errico JM,Gainey MD,Yang L,Nelson CA,Yokoyama WM,Fremont DH

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00