Evaluation of synthetic linear motor-molecule actuation energetics.

abstract：:Antibody-coated latex beads (Ab-beads) were attached to Leptospira interrogans serovars illini 3055 and icterohaemorrhagiae SC1157. The movement of the Ab-beads relative to the motion of the cells was observed by direct darkfield microscopy or was recorded on videotape. When the Ab-beads were attached to the front end...

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

authors： Charon NW,Lawrence CW,O'Brien S

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic comparison of crystal structures of nine different B-DNA dodecamers, in three different space groups, with and without A-tracts, shows that crystal packing or lattice forces are of secondary importance for helix axis bending, minor-groove width, and propeller twist. While other local helix parameters may ...

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

authors： Dickerson RE,Goodsell DS,Neidle S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I and type III IFNs bind to different cell-surface receptors but induce identical signal transduction pathways, leading to the expression of antiviral host effector molecules. Despite the fact that type III IFN (IFN-λ) has been shown to predominantly act on mucosal organs, in vivo infection studies have failed to...

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

authors： Pott J,Mahlakõiv T,Mordstein M,Duerr CU,Michiels T,Stockinger S,Staeheli P,Hornef MW

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The 33-amino-acid ankyrin motif comprises a beta-turn followed by two anti-parallel alpha-helices and a loop and tandem arrays of the motif pack in a linear fashion to produce elongated structures characterized by short-range interactions. In this article we use site-directed mutagenesis to investigate the kinetic unf...

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

authors： Werbeck ND,Rowling PJ,Chellamuthu VR,Itzhaki LS

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoN gene encoding the transcription factor sigma54 in Myxococcus xanthus has been cloned using a heterologous rpoN probe. The sequence of the cross-hybridizing DNA confirmed the existence of an ORF 1518 bp long that encodes a well conserved member of the sigma54 family of sigma factors. Low- as well as high-strin...

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

authors： Keseler IM,Kaiser D

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the molecular mechanism of frameshift suppression by the SUF2 gene of yeast, the sequences of DNA fragments carrying the SUF2-1 and suf2+ alleles of the gene and surrounding regions have been determined. Comparison of the suppressor and wild-type sequences indicates that the SUF2 gene product is a proline...

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

authors： Cummins CM,Donahue TF,Culbertson MR

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in determining the induction of T cell responses. IL-27 production by DCs favors induction of IL-10-producing regulatory T cells, whereas osteopontin (OPN) promotes pathogenic IL-17 T cell responses. The regulatory mechanisms in DCs that control these two cells types are not u...

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

authors： Murugaiyan G,Mittal A,Weiner HL

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive ras allele has an effective lethal phase at 29 degrees C about 12 hr after pupation and a temperature-sensitive period for lethality beginning midway through the third larval instar and ending around pupation. The mutation also alters the quantity of pteridines present in the eyes, testes, and ...

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

authors： Grigliatti T,Suzuki DT

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the immunosuppressive potential of UVB (280-320 nm) radiation in experimental animals and humans, UVA (320-400 nm) radiation at environmentally relevant doses appears to be immunologically inert. However, such exposure to UVA radiation has been observed unexpectedly to induce resistance to UVB-induced i...

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

authors： Reeve VE,Tyrrell RM

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies previously used for immunofluorescence localization of a myosin heavy chain-like polypeptide to the nuclear envelope in higher eukaryotic cells crossreact with both muscle and nonmuscle isoforms of Drosophila myosin heavy chain. Analyses of Drosophila tissue culture cells and premyogenic embryos suggest tha...

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

authors： Berrios M,Fisher PA,Matz EC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomal cargo travels through a dynamic vesicle network en route to degradation by lysosomes or recycling through the Golgi apparatus back to the cell surface. Rab5 is a key determinant of the early endosomes by organizing effector proteins in specific subdomains and mediating early endosome fusion. We find that ear...

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

authors： Antignani A,Youle RJ

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen with a small genome of 1.64-1.67 Mb. More than 20 putative DNA restriction-modification (R-M) systems, comprising more than 4% of the total genome, have been identified in the two completely sequenced H. pylori strains, 26695 and J99, based on sequence similari...

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

authors： Lin LF,Posfai J,Roberts RJ,Kong H

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor ozone transported indoors initiates oxidative chemistry, forming volatile organic products. The influence of ozone chemistry on indoor air composition has not been directly quantified in normally occupied residences. Here, we explore indoor ozone chemistry in a house in California with two adult inhabitants. W...

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

authors： Liu Y,Misztal PK,Arata C,Weschler CJ,Nazaroff WW,Goldstein AH

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally acknowledged that cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4/CD152) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of T-cell activation and the establishment of self-tolerance in the periphery. CTLA-4-deficient (CTLA-4KO) mice develop a lymphoproliferative disorder and die within 4 weeks of birth, sug...

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

authors： Verhagen J,Gabrysová L,Minaee S,Sabatos CA,Anderson G,Sharpe AH,Wraith DC

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] was solubilized from a rat brain homogenate with sodium deoxycholate. This solubilized preparation had no detectable enzymic activity with either Mg-ATP or Mn-ATP as substrate. The activity could be restored by addition of either nonionic detergent or...

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

authors： Hebdon GM,LeVine H 3rd,Sahyoun NE,Schmitges CJ,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositides are essential lipid regulators of trafficking and signaling pathways of all eukaryotic cells. Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) is an intermediate in the synthesis of several important phosphoinositide species but also serves as a regulatory molecule in its own right. Phosphatidylinositol 4...

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

authors： Szentpetery Z,Várnai P,Balla T

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), endemic sheep scrapie, and epidemic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are caused by a related group of infectious agents. The new U.K. BSE agent spread to many species, including humans, and clarifying the origin, specificity, virulence, and diversity of these agen...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Chakrabarty T,Miyazawa K,Nduom NA,Emmerling K

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step in recent theories of human origins is the emergence of strong pair-bonding between males and females accompanied by a dramatic reduction in the male-to-male conflict over mating and an increased investment in offspring. How such a transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding could be achieved is puzzlin...

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

authors： Gavrilets S

更新日期：2012-06-19 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：:Molecular dynamics simulations of the response to oscillating electric field elicited from an altitudinal dipolar molecular rotor mounted on the Au(111) surface and previously studied experimentally in static fields show unidirectional rotation in one of the three pairs of conformational enantiomers. The simulations a...

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

authors： Horinek D,Michl J

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular localization of phytochrome was seen in dark-grown oat (Avena sativa L., cv. Garry) and rice (Oryza sativa L., cv. unknown) shoots after various light treatments using an indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase antibody labeling method. Phytochrome is generally distributed throughout the cytoplasm in cell...

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

authors： Mackenzie JM Jr,Coleman RA,Briggs WR,Pratt LH

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian DAI (DNA-dependent activator of IFN-regulatory factors), an activator of the innate immune response, senses cytosolic DNA by using 2 N-terminal Z-DNA binding domains (ZBDs) and a third putative DNA binding domain located next to the second ZBD. Compared with other previously known ZBDs, the second ZBD of hum...

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

authors： Ha SC,Kim D,Hwang HY,Rich A,Kim YG,Kim KK

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun transcriptional activity is augmented by expression of oncogenic Ras and Raf proteins. This study demonstrates a direct correlation between Ras transforming activity and c-Jun activation, supporting an important role for c-Jun in transformation by Ras. Since we observed that Ras activated c-Jun transcriptional a...

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

authors： Westwick JK,Cox AD,Der CJ,Cobb MH,Hibi M,Karin M,Brenner DA

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established empirical limits for the circular dichroism spectra appropriate for aqueous solutions of the B, C, and A forms of calf-thymus DNA and have analyzed DNA conformations in biological structures. The circular dichroism spectrum above 250 nm of purified calf-thymus chromatin can be satisfactorily accoun...

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

authors： Hanlon S,Johnson RS,Wolf B,Chan A

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spantide (D-Arg1-Pro2-Lys3-Pro4-Gln5-Gln6-D-Trp7-Phe8-D-Trp9-++ +Leu10-Leu11-NH2) was introduced as a tachykinin antagonist in 1984 and has served as a starting point in the design of new antagonists that have proven to be more effective and have exhibited no neurological side effects. The most remarkable and unpredic...

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

authors： Folkers K,Feng DM,Asano N,Håkanson R,Weisenfeld-Hallin Z,Leander S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of neurotransmitter vesicle dynamics (transport, capacity, release) has been implicated in a variety of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. Here, we report a novel mouse model of enhanced vesicular function via bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-mediated overexpression of the vesicular mon...

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

authors： Lohr KM,Bernstein AI,Stout KA,Dunn AR,Lazo CR,Alter SP,Wang M,Li Y,Fan X,Hess EJ,Yi H,Vecchio LM,Goldstein DS,Guillot TS,Salahpour A,Miller GW

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tiazofurin (2-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-4-thiazole-carboxamide; NSC 286193), an antitumor carbon-linked nucleoside that inhibits IMP dehydrogenase (IMP:NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.1.1.205) and depletes guanylate levels, can activate the erythroid differentiation program of K-562 human leukemia cells. Tiazofurin-mediated cell...

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

authors： Olah E,Natsumeda Y,Ikegami T,Kote Z,Horanyi M,Szelenyi J,Paulik E,Kremmer T,Hollan SR,Sugar J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engaging mammalian Toll-like receptors (TLRs) activate both the NF-kappaB and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways. Here we establish that mitogen-activated protein 3 kinase Tpl2, levels of which are markedly reduced in nfkb1(-/-) cells, is required for extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activa...

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

authors： Banerjee A,Gugasyan R,McMahon M,Gerondakis S

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of many pathogens depends upon their ability to cope with immune-generated nitric oxide (NO·). In Escherichia coli, the major NO· detoxification systems are Hmp, an NO· dioxygenase (NOD), and NorV, an NO· reductase (NOR). It is well established that Hmp is the dominant system under aerobic conditions, wh...

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

authors： Robinson JL,Brynildsen MP

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:New approaches to the study of early hominin diets have refreshed interest in how and when our diets diverged from those of other African apes. A trend toward significant consumption of C4 foods in hominins after this divergence has emerged as a landmark event in human evolution, with direct evidence provided by stabl...

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

authors： Wynn JG,Alemseged Z,Bobe R,Grine FE,Negash EW,Sponheimer M

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00