Translocation of molecules into cells by pH-dependent insertion of a transmembrane helix.

abstract：:Some pathogenesis-related genes are expressed in fungi only when the pathogen is in the host, but the host signals that trigger these gene expressions have not been identified. Virulent Nectria haematococca infects pea plants and requires either pelA, which is induced by pectin, or pelD, which is induced only in plant...

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

authors： Yang Z,Rogers LM,Song Y,Guo W,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is highly oncogenic for many human tissues. Here, we show that ectopic Wnt signaling increases the effective stem cell activity in mouse mammary glands in vivo. Furthermore, Wnt effectors induce the accumulation of mouse mammary epithelial progenitors (assayed by Hoechst...

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

authors： Liu BY,McDermott SP,Khwaja SS,Alexander CM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-target residence time (t = 1/k(off), where k(off) is the dissociation rate constant) has become an important index in discovering better- or best-in-class drugs. However, little effort has been dedicated to developing computational methods that can accurately predict this kinetic parameter or related parameters, ...

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

authors： Bai F,Xu Y,Chen J,Liu Q,Gu J,Wang X,Ma J,Li H,Onuchic JN,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which of seven library design algorithms best introduces new protein function without destroying it altogether, seven combinatorial libraries of green fluorescent protein variants were designed and synthesized. Each was evaluated by distributions of emission intensity and color compiled from measurements ...

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

authors： Treynor TP,Vizcarra CL,Nedelcu D,Mayo SL

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of ribosomes from various stages of development in Dictyostelium discoideum were analyzed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Significant changes in protein composition were observed; the data demonstrate that cell differentiation in a eukaryotic system is accompanied by ribosome heterogene...

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

authors： Ramagopal S,Ennis HL

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) is composed of heterogeneous subdomains, characterized by differences in protein and lipid composition. PM receptors can be dynamically sorted into membrane domains to underpin signaling in response to extracellular stimuli. In plants, the plasmodesmal PM is a discrete microdomain that hosts s...

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

authors： Cheval C,Samwald S,Johnston MG,de Keijzer J,Breakspear A,Liu X,Bellandi A,Kadota Y,Zipfel C,Faulkner C

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention to a stimulus enhances both neuronal responses and gamma frequency synchrony in visual area V4, both of which should increase the impact of attended information on downstream neurons. To determine whether gamma synchrony is common throughout the ventral stream, we recorded from neurons in the superficial and...

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

authors： Buffalo EA,Fries P,Landman R,Buschman TJ,Desimone R

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented for the simultaneous release of platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether) and of its deacetylated derivative (lyso-PAF-acether) from hog leukocytes. On the basis of spectroscopy and chemical reactions, the structure of O-deacetyl-PAF is shown to be 1-O-alkylglyceryl 3-phosphorylcholine, an alkyl e...

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

authors： Polonsky J,Tencé M,Varenne P,Das BC,Lunel J,Benveniste J

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive prenatal testing using fetal DNA in maternal plasma is an actively researched area. The current generation of tests using massively parallel sequencing is based on counting plasma DNA sequences originating from different genomic regions. In this study, we explored a different approach that is based on the ...

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

authors： Yu SC,Chan KC,Zheng YW,Jiang P,Liao GJ,Sun H,Akolekar R,Leung TY,Go AT,van Vugt JM,Minekawa R,Oudejans CB,Nicolaides KH,Chiu RW,Lo YM

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used fast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy to characterize a series of organometallic methane and ethane complexes in solution at room temperature: W(CO)5(CH4) and M(eta5-C5R5)(CO)2(L) [where M = Mn or Re, R = H or CH3 (Re only); and L = CH4 or C2H6]. In all cases, the methane complexes are found to be shor...

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

authors： Cowan AJ,Portius P,Kawanami HK,Jina OS,Grills DC,Sun XZ,McMaster J,George MW

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual (retinoid) cycle, the enzymatic pathway that regenerates chromophore after light absorption, is located primarily in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and is essential for rod photoreceptor survival. Whether this pathway also is essential for cone photoreceptor survival is unknown, and there are no data ...

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

authors： Jacobson SG,Aleman TS,Cideciyan AV,Heon E,Golczak M,Beltran WA,Sumaroka A,Schwartz SB,Roman AJ,Windsor EA,Wilson JM,Aguirre GD,Stone EM,Palczewski K

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleogenetics is an emerging field that resurrects ancestral proteins from now-extinct organisms to test, in the laboratory, models of protein function based on natural history and Darwinian evolution. Here, we resurrect digestive alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH4) from our primate ancestors to explore the history of prima...

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

authors： Carrigan MA,Uryasev O,Frye CB,Eckman BL,Myers CR,Hurley TD,Benner SA

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine-virus-infected erythroleukemia cell system provides an opportunity to examine regulatory mechanisms controlling cytodifferentiation. A cloned cell line (DR10c3) resistant to the erythropoiesis-inducing effect of dimethylsulfoxide (Me2SO) was isolated from the Me2SO-sensitive line DS19. DR10c3 is characteriz...

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

authors： Ohta Y,Tanaka M,Terada M,Miller OJ,Bank A,Marks P,Rifkind RA

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal step on the mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis is permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) by oligomers of the B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family members Bak or Bax. However, how they disrupt MOM integrity is unknown. A longstanding model is that activated Bak and Bax insert two α-helices, ...

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

authors： Westphal D,Dewson G,Menard M,Frederick P,Iyer S,Bartolo R,Gibson L,Czabotar PE,Smith BJ,Adams JM,Kluck RM

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The 20S proteasome core particle (20S CP) plays an integral role in cellular homeostasis by degrading proteins no longer required for function. The process is, in part, controlled via gating residues localized to the ends of the heptameric barrel-like CP structure that occlude substrate entry pores, preventing unregul...

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

authors： Huang R,Pérez F,Kay LE

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing, but largely indirect, evidence pointing to an effect of commensal gut microbiota on the central nervous system (CNS). However, it is unknown whether lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus rhamnosus could have a direct effect on neurotransmitter receptors in the CNS in normal, healthy animals. ...

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

authors： Bravo JA,Forsythe P,Chew MV,Escaravage E,Savignac HM,Dinan TG,Bienenstock J,Cryan JF

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Most neurotransmission is mediated by action potentials, whereas sensory neurons propagate electrical signals passively and release neurotransmitter in a graded manner. Here, we demonstrate that Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junctions release neurotransmitter in a graded fashion. When motor neurons were depolar...

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

authors： Liu Q,Hollopeter G,Jorgensen EM

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We solve a discrete version of the classic Plateau problem, which asks for a minimal surface spanning a given curve. Our algorithm is based on a network-flow formulation that finds minimal slabs, intuitively corresponding to minimal "surfaces" of prescribed thickness. We let the slab thickness approach zero in order t...

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

authors： Hu TC,Kahng AB,Robins G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive Stargardt's macular degeneration is a blinding disease of children caused by mutations in the ABCA4 (ABCR) gene. Mice with a knockout mutation in abcr accumulate toxic lipofuscin pigments in ocular tissues, similar to affected humans. The major fluorophore of lipofuscin is the bis-retinoid, N-retinylidene-N-...

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

authors： Radu RA,Mata NL,Bagla A,Travis GH

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the biologically active conformation of acetylcholine when bound to the high-affinity state of the receptor from Torpedo californica. The acetylcholine conformation was determined in the free and bound states by proton NMR two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effects. In agreement with x-ray crystallograp...

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

authors： Behling RW,Yamane T,Navon G,Jelinski LW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of harmful species, including invasive species, pests, parasites, and diseases, is a major global challenge. Harmful species cause severe damage to ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, and human health. In particular, managing harmful species often requires cooperation among multiple agents, such as l...

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

authors： Lampert A

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones corresponding to the DR beta 1 and DR beta 2 loci from two homozygous B-cell lines typed as DR7 (Burkhart) and DR9 (ISK). These nucleotide sequences were compared to beta 1 and beta 2 chains of other DR haplotypes. The first-domain sequences of beta 2 chains are identical in ...

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

authors： Gregersen PK,Moriuchi T,Karr RW,Obata F,Moriuchi J,Maccari J,Goldberg D,Winchester RJ,Silver J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of rapid climate change on contemporary human populations is of global concern. To contextualize our understanding of human responses to rapid climate change it is necessary to examine the archeological record during past climate transitions. One episode of abrupt climate change has been correlated with soc...

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

authors： Armit I,Swindles GT,Becker K,Plunkett G,Blaauw M

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In double-transgenic mice expressing a gene construct encoding hen egg lysozyme as well as rearranged anti-lysozyme antibody genes, large numbers of anti-lysozyme B cells are present in peripheral lymphoid tissues but are profoundly tolerant. The cellular basis for this form of non-deletional self-tolerance was explor...

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

authors： Adams E,Basten A,Goodnow CC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range conformational changes in proteins are ubiquitous in biology for the transmission and amplification of signals; such conformational changes can be triggered by small-amplitude, nanosecond protein domain motion. Understanding how conformational changes are initiated requires the characterization of protein d...

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

authors： Bu Z,Biehl R,Monkenbusch M,Richter D,Callaway DJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional structure of fibrinogen was considered in reference to the terminal plasmin-cleavage fragments, D and E. By two independent approaches, a yield of two D and two E fragments was determined and this established the presence of two D and two E regions in each fibrinogen molecule. Immunochemically, it was sho...

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

authors： Plow EF,Edgington TS

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein stability is usually studied in simple buffered solutions, but most proteins function inside cells, where the heterogeneous and crowded environment presents a complex, nonideal system. Proteins are expected to behave differently under cellular crowding owing to two types of contacts: hard-core repulsions and w...

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

authors： Sarkar M,Smith AE,Pielak GJ

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium/hydrogen exchangers (NHEs) are ubiquitous ion transporters that serve multiple cell functions. We have studied two mammalian isoforms, NHE1 (ubiquitous) and NHE3 (epithelial-specific), by measuring extracellular proton (H+) gradients during whole-cell patch clamp with perfusion of the cell interior. Maximal Na(...

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

authors： Fuster D,Moe OW,Hilgemann DW

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the binding domain for dihydropyridine Ca2+ antagonists, skeletal muscle Ca2+ channels were photolabeled with [3H](+)-PN200-110 and [3H]azidopine. Regions of alpha 1 photolabeled by these ligands were then identified by antibody mapping of proteolytic fragments. Approximately 50% of the specific labeling b...

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

authors： Striessnig J,Murphy BJ,Catterall WA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00