ATP-dependent bioluminescence in the firefly squid, Watasenia scintillans.

abstract：:Rickettsiae are responsible for some of the most devastating human infections. A high infectivity and severe illness after inhalation make some rickettsiae bioterrorism threats. We report that deletion of the exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac) gene, Epac1, in mice protects them from an ordinarily letha...

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

authors： Gong B,Shelite T,Mei FC,Ha T,Hu Y,Xu G,Chang Q,Wakamiya M,Ksiazek TG,Boor PJ,Bouyer DH,Popov VL,Chen J,Walker DH,Cheng X

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isotopic tracer methods, we have shown that dihydrolipoic acid (2,3-thioctic acid) acylates the distal oxygen of ferrous oxygenated Pseudomonas cytochrome P-450, forming a transient acyl peroxide intermediate that facilitates oxygen-oxygen bond cleavage. Single-turnover studies with 18O2 indicate one oxygen-18 a...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Kennedy KA,Pearson DC

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain, ts-rnp5, originally described in 1975 by G. D. Burdick and H. Berger, is shown to possess an RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase) sigma subunit with an activity 4--6 times less thermostable at 45 degrees than sigma from wild-type strains. This defect remains associated with the sigm...

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

authors： Gross C,Hoffman J,Ward C,Hager D,Burdick G,Berger H,Burgess R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Shigella to spread within the cytosol of infected epithelial cells and to infect adjacent cells is critical for the development of infection foci, which lead to mucosal abscesses. Shigella is a nonmotile microorganism that appears to utilize host cell microfilaments to generate intra- as well as interc...

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

authors： Bernardini ML,Mounier J,d'Hauteville H,Coquis-Rondon M,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain function depends on adaptive self-organization of large-scale neural assemblies, but little is known about quantitative network parameters governing these processes in humans. Here, we describe the topology and synchronizability of frequency-specific brain functional networks using wavelet decomposition of magne...

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

authors： Bassett DS,Meyer-Lindenberg A,Achard S,Duke T,Bullmore E

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional molecular aggregate (2DMA), a thin sheet of strongly interacting dipole molecules self-assembled at close distance on an ordered lattice, is a fascinating fluorescent material. It is distinctively different from the conventional (single or colloidal) dye molecules and quantum dots. In this paper, we ve...

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

authors： Hu Q,Jin D,Xiao J,Nam SH,Liu X,Liu Y,Zhang X,Fang NX

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) is regulated by phosphorylation, cyclin levels, the abundance of CDK inhibitors, and, as recently has been shown for cyclin B/cdc2, their localization. It is unclear how localization regulates the action of cyclin E/Cdk2 and its inhibitors. Here, we show that the closest k...

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

authors： Swanson C,Ross J,Jackson PK

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most new genes are thought to evolve from preexisting genes but duplications of entire genes or shuffling of preexisting exons provides only a limited repertoire of new sequences that can be presented to a cell. Only pieces that previously existed can be used in the construction and any further divergence depends on t...

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

authors： Golding GB,Tsao N,Pearlman RE

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing temporal variability in extreme rainfall events before the historical era is complicated by the sparsity of long-term "direct" storm proxies. Here we present a 2,200-y-long, accurate, and precisely dated record of cave flooding events from the northwest Australian tropics that we interpret, based on an integ...

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

authors： Denniston RF,Villarini G,Gonzales AN,Wyrwoll KH,Polyak VJ,Ummenhofer CC,Lachniet MS,Wanamaker AD Jr,Humphreys WF,Woods D,Cugley J

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) of herpes simplex virus 1, a multifunctional ring finger protein, enhances the expression of genes introduced into cells by infection or transfection, interacts with numerous cellular and viral proteins, and is associated with the degradation of several cellular proteins. Sequences encod...

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

authors： Hagglund R,Van Sant C,Lopez P,Roizman B

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced impairments in extinction learning are believed to sustain posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Noradrenergic signaling may contribute to extinction impairments by modulating medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuits involved in fear regulation. Here we demonstrate that aversive fear conditioning rapidl...

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

authors： Fitzgerald PJ,Giustino TF,Seemann JR,Maren S

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We model experience-dependent plasticity in the cortical representation of whiskers (the barrel cortex) in normal adult rats, and in adult rats that were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) caused marked deficits in experience-dependent plasticity in a cortical barrel-column. Cortical pla...

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

authors： Benusková L,Rema V,Armstrong-James M,Ebner FF

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report the identification of a unique HIV-1 integrase (IN) inhibitor-binding site using photoaffinity labeling and mass spectrometric analysis. We chemically incorporated a photo-activatable benzophenone moiety into a series of coumarin-containing IN inhibitors. A representative of this series was covalentl...

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

authors： Al-Mawsawi LQ,Fikkert V,Dayam R,Witvrouw M,Burke TR Jr,Borchers CH,Neamati N

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine how the polypeptide chain in protein crystal structures exploits the multivalent hydrogen-bonding potential of bound water molecules. This shows that multiple interactions with a single water molecule tend to occur locally along the chain. A distinctive internal-coordinate representation of the local water-...

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

authors： Robert CH,Ho PS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton micros...

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

authors： Park HY,Kim SA,Korlach J,Rhoades E,Kwok LW,Zipfel WR,Waxham MN,Webb WW,Pollack L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer to fall of 1987, Caribbean reef corals experienced an intense and widespread discoloration event described as bleaching. Contrary to initial predictions, most bleached corals did not die. However, energy input from zooxanthellae decreased, as estimated from: (i) delta(13)C values, a measure of t...

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

authors： Porter JW,Fitt WK,Spero HJ,Rogers CS,White MW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for 24 tRNAs. The nucleotide sequences of the tRNA genes suggest a unique set of rules that govern the decoding of the mitochondrial genetic code. The four codons of unmixed fmilies are recognized by single tRNAs that always have a U in the wobble position of ...

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

authors： Bonitz SG,Berlani R,Coruzzi G,Li M,Macino G,Nobrega FG,Nobrega MP,Thalenfeld BE,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactose-H+ symport protein (LacS) of Streptococcus thermophilus has a C-terminal hydrophilic domain that is homologous to IIA protein(s) domains of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). C-terminal truncation mutants were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli and their properties we...

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

authors： Poolman B,Knol J,Mollet B,Nieuwenhuis B,Sulter G

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectra are reported for flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and glucose oxidase (beta-D-glucose:oxygen 1-oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.3.4), in resonance with the 450 nm flavin absorption band. Several isoalloxazine ring modes were observed (1635, 1584, 1507, 1416, and 1359 cm(-1))...

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

authors： Dutta PK,Nestor JR,Spiro TG

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday life, a macroscopic valve is a device with a movable control element that regulates the flow of gases or liquids by blocking and opening passageways. Construction of such a device on the nanoscale level requires (i) suitably proportioned movable control elements, (ii) a method for operating them on demand,...

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

authors： Nguyen TD,Tseng HR,Celestre PC,Flood AH,Liu Y,Stoddart JF,Zink JI

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a polynomial C(mu)[Z; q, t], depending on a set of variables Z = z(1), z(2),..., a partition mu, and two extra parameters q, t. The definition of C(mu) involves a pair of statistics (maj(sigma, mu), inv(sigma, mu)) on words sigma of positive integers, and the coefficients of the z(i) are manifestly in N[q...

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

authors： Haglund J

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNA-146a (miR-146a) has been previously implicated as an essential molecular brake, preventing immune overreaction and malignant transformation by attenuating NF-κB signaling, putatively via repression of the Traf6 and Irak1 genes. The exact contribution of miR-146a-mediated silencing of these genes to the contro...

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

authors： Magilnick N,Reyes EY,Wang WL,Vonderfecht SL,Gohda J,Inoue JI,Boldin MP

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) is essential for physiological depolarization-evoked synchronous neurotransmitter release. But, whether Ca(2+) influx or another factor controls release initiation is still under debate. The time course of ACh release is controlled by a presynaptic inhibitory G protein-coupled autoreceptor (GPCR), whose agonist...

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

authors： Kupchik YM,Rashkovan G,Ohana L,Keren-Raifman T,Dascal N,Parnas H,Parnas I

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, several events in the process of conidiation are influenced by light. Two genes, con-6 and con-10, which were previously shown to be transcriptionally activated during conidiation and by exposure to light, were found to be unexpressed in mycelium maintained in constant dark...

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

authors： Lauter FR,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dansyl-conjugated (Dns) peptides Dns-Pro-Gly-Gly-Gln-Gln-Ile-Val and Dns-Ala-Gln-Gln-Ile-Val, patterned on the N-terminal sequence of fibronectin, were synthesized and used for the transglutaminase (protein-glutamine:amine gamma-glutamyltransferase, EC 2.3.2.13)-directed selective blocking of lens proteins that ot...

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

authors： Lorand L,Parameswaran KN,Velasco PT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding, and more. Current methods for entropy estimation suffer from a high computational cost, lack of gen...

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

authors： Nir A,Sela E,Beck R,Bar-Sinai Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Drosophila non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons actively transpose into internal, gene-rich regions of chromosomes but do not transpose onto chromosome ends. HeT-A and TART are remarkable exceptions; they form telomeres of Drosophila by repeated transpositions onto the ends of chromosomes and never tra...

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

authors： Rashkova S,Karam SE,Pardue ML

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues modulate a variety of intracellular pathways whose signaling is integrated by the molecular mechanism that constitutes the circadian clock. Although the essential gears of the circadian machinery have been elucidated, very little is known about the signaling systems regulating it. Here, we report th...

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

authors： Yujnovsky I,Hirayama J,Doi M,Borrelli E,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Our main goal is to analyze the geometric and spectral properties of the Picard modular group with Gaussian integer entries acting on the two-dimensional complex hyperbolic space. ...

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

authors： Francsics G,Lax PD

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an increased public outcry in certain quarters about a perceived lack of attention given to successful members of disadvantaged groups relative to equally meritorious members of advantaged groups, exemplified by social media campaigns centered around hashtags, such as #OscarsSoWhite and #Wo...

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

authors： Kteily NS,Rocklage MD,McClanahan K,Ho AK

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00