Discovery of a small-molecule HIV-1 integrase inhibitor-binding site.

abstract：:The hallmark of the menstrual cycle is extensive steroid-dependent tissue turnover. Estrogen mediates endometrial cell growth and structural remodeling, whereas progesterone suppresses estrogen-dependent proliferation and promotes cellular differentiation. In nonfertile cycles, tissue degradation and menstruation occu...

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

authors： Osteen KG,Rodgers WH,Gaire M,Hargrove JT,Gorstein F,Matrisian LM

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:HetR is an essential regulator of heterocyst development in cyanobacteria. Many mutations in HetR render Anabaena incapable of nitrogen fixation. The protein binds to a DNA palindrome upstream of hetP and other genes. We have determined the crystal structures of HetR complexed with palindromic DNA targets, 21, 23, and...

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

authors： Kim Y,Ye Z,Joachimiak G,Videau P,Young J,Hurd K,Callahan SM,Gornicki P,Zhao J,Haselkorn R,Joachimiak A

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are essential for immune defenses against pathogens, such that viability of naïve T cells before antigen encounter is critical to preserve a polyclonal repertoire and prevent immunodeficiencies. The viability of naïve T cells before antigen recognition is ensured by IL-7, which drives expression of the prosurv...

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

authors： Miller ML,Mashayekhi M,Chen L,Zhou P,Liu X,Michelotti M,Tramontini Gunn N,Powers S,Zhu X,Evaristo C,Alegre ML,Molinero LL

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahymena ribozymes hold promise for repairing genetic disorders but are largely limited by their modest splicing efficiency and low production of final therapeutic proteins. Ribozyme evolution in intact living mammalian cells would greatly facilitate the discovery of new ribozyme variants with high in vivo activity...

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

authors： Hasegawa S,Jackson WC,Tsien RY,Rao J

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.5-fold stimulation of cyclic AMP cellular content is measured 60 sec after addition of 100 nM synthetic ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (C-RF; corticoliberin) to rat anterior pituitary cells in culture. A maximal response of cyclic AMP content at 400% above control is observed between 2 and 30 min after addit...

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

authors： Giguère V,Labrie F,Côté J,Coy DH,Sueiras-Diaz J,Schally AV

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If X(1), X(2),... are independent random variables with zero expectation and finite variances, the cumulative sums S(n) are, on the average, of the order of magnitude S(n), where S(n) (2) = E(S(n) (2)). The occasional maxima of the ratios S(n)/S(n) are surprisingly large and the problem is to estimate the extent of th...

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

authors： Feller W

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA binding protein (TBP) and at least eight TBP-associated factors (TAFs). As TAFs are required for activated but not basal transcription, we have proposed that TAFs act as coactivators to mediate signals between activators and the basal transcription machinery. Here we report ...

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

authors： Klemm RD,Goodrich JA,Zhou S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are specialized membrane regions that seem to mediate intercellular communication. They appear to contain closely packed arrays of equally sized particles all of which, upon freeze-cleaving, remain attached to one membrane leaflet and not to the other. One gap junction cleavage face, therefore, always ex...

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

authors： Staehelin LA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results suggested that a large subset of heat shock protein HSP-60 reactive peripheral lymphoid gamma delta T cells preexists in normal adult mice, all members of which respond to a single segment of this common HSP. However, the experimental evidence supporting this idea involved in vitro peptide responses of ...

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

authors： Fu YX,Cranfill R,Vollmer M,Van Der Zee R,O'Brien RL,Born W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, catalyzed by ADAR enzymes, is a ubiquitous mechanism that generates transcriptomic diversity. This process is particularly important for proper neuronal function; however, little is known about how RNA editing is dynamically regulated between the many functionally distinct ne...

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

authors： Sapiro AL,Shmueli A,Henry GL,Li Q,Shalit T,Yaron O,Paas Y,Billy Li J,Shohat-Ophir G

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and their ephrin ligands regulate cell navigation during normal and oncogenic development. Signaling of Ephs is initiated in a multistep process leading to the assembly of higher-order signaling clusters that set off bidirectional signaling in interacting cells. However, the structural an...

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

authors： Himanen JP,Yermekbayeva L,Janes PW,Walker JR,Xu K,Atapattu L,Rajashankar KR,Mensinga A,Lackmann M,Nikolov DB,Dhe-Paganon S

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis is a widely used bacterial entomopathogen producing insecticidal toxins, some of which are expressed in insect-resistant transgenic crops. Surprisingly, the killing mechanism of B. thuringiensis remains controversial. In particular, the importance of the septicemia induced by the host midgut mic...

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

authors： Caccia S,Di Lelio I,La Storia A,Marinelli A,Varricchio P,Franzetti E,Banyuls N,Tettamanti G,Casartelli M,Giordana B,Ferré J,Gigliotti S,Ercolini D,Pennacchio F

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An inborn deficiency in the ability of aldolase B to split fructose 1-phosphate is found in humans with hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI). A stable isotope procedure to elucidate the mechanism of conversion of fructose to glucose in normal children and in HFI children has been developed. A constant infusion of D-[...

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

authors： Gopher A,Vaisman N,Mandel H,Lapidot A

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircle of trypanosomatids initiates at a conserved 12-nt sequence, 5'-GGGGTTGGTGTA-3', termed the universal minicircle sequence (UMS). A sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Crithidia fasciculata binds the heavy strand of the 12-mer UMS. Whereas this ...

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

authors： Avrahami D,Tzfati Y,Shlomai J

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) at cerebellar parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell synapses must be balanced by long-term potentiation (LTP) to prevent saturation and allow reversal of motor learning. The only previously analyzed form of cerebellar LTP is induced by 4-8 Hz PF stimulation and requires cAMP but not nitric oxide...

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

authors： Lev-Ram V,Wong ST,Storm DR,Tsien RY

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A MODEL OF THE LINEAR HYDROGEN BOND HAS BEEN DEVISED WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED BY THREE PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF THE ISOLATED ELECTRON DONOR AND PROTON DONOR MOLECULES: mu(A-H), the bond dipole moment; DeltaI, the difference in ionization potential between that of the electron donor and the corresponding noble gas atom; an...

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

authors： Allen LC

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 92-amino acid polypeptide, alpha-inhibin-92 (alpha-IB-92), has been isolated and characterized from human seminal plasma and found to be active in suppressing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) release in vitro. In the present in vivo study, intravenous injection of synthetic alpha-IB-92 (4 and 20 micrograms) signif...

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

authors： Yu WH,McCann SM,Li CH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Policy folklists present a set of alleged historical facts seen as relevant to some social issue. Although the validity of these folklists is dubious, leaders and writers circulate them in the media, variants arise, and the lists continue on, sometimes for decades. Folklists are repeated because their messages are app...

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

authors： O'Neill B

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory mechanisms underlying the uptake and utilization of multiple types of carbohydrates in actinomycetes remain poorly understood. In this study, we show that GlnR (central regulator of nitrogen metabolism) serves as a universal regulator of nitrogen metabolism and plays an important, previously unknown rol...

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

authors： Liao CH,Yao L,Xu Y,Liu WB,Zhou Y,Ye BC

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of molecular hydrogen catalyzed by [NiFe] hydrogenases is a widespread mechanism of energy generation among prokaryotes. Biosynthesis of the H2-oxidizing enzymes is a complex process subject to positive control by H2 and negative control by organic energy sources. In this report we describe a novel signal tr...

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

authors： Lenz O,Friedrich B

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral Gag polyproteins have specific regions, commonly referred to as late assembly (L) domains, which are required for the efficient separation of assembled virions from the host cell. The L domain of HIV-1 is in the C-terminal p6(gag) domain and contains an essential P(T/S)AP core motif that is widely conserved...

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

authors： Strack B,Calistri A,Accola MA,Palu G,Gottlinger HG

更新日期：2000-11-21 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：:We previously reconstituted Z rings in tubular multilamellar liposomes with FtsZ-YFP-mts, where mts is a membrane-targeting amphiphilic helix. These reconstituted Z rings generated a constriction force but did not divide the thick-walled liposomes. Here we developed a unique system to observe Z rings in unilamellar li...

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

authors： Osawa M,Erickson HP

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:FRET between the zinc porphyrin (ZnP) chromophore in zinc-substituted cytochrome c (Zn-cyt c) and an Alexa Fluor dye attached to specific surface sites was used to characterize Zn-cyt c unfolding. The use of ZnP as a fluorescent acceptor eliminates the need to doubly label the protein with exogenous dyes to perform FR...

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

authors： Ensign AA,Jo I,Yildirim I,Krauss TD,Bren KL

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether interleukin 3 (IL-3) supports the growth of cells of different lineages by the same mechanism(s). The experiments were carried out with Ea3 cells, a mouse pre-B cell line, and S-480-3 cells, a mouse basophil cell line, both of which are totally IL-3 dependent. We found that Ea3 lymphocytes...

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

authors： Palacios R,Garland J

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A low molecular weight toxin isolated from the venom of the digger wasp Philanthus triangulum, first noted by T. Piek, is a potent antagonist of transmission at quisqualate-sensitive glutamate synapses of locust leg muscle. This philanthotoxin 433 (PTX-433) has been purified, chemically characterized, and subsequently...

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

authors： Eldefrawi AT,Eldefrawi ME,Konno K,Mansour NA,Nakanishi K,Oltz E,Usherwood PN

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrocortisone at physiological concentrations reversibly inhibits DNA synthesis in ST1 cells (a line of mouse fibroblasts possessing 40 chromosomes and derived from Swiss 3T3 cells). This inhibitory activity is a property of glucocorticoids, but the beta-OH of C-11 of glucocorticoids is not essential for the inhibiti...

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

authors： Armelin MC,Armelin HA

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil spontaneous death plays essential roles in neutrophil homeostasis and resolution of inflammation, whereas the underlying molecular mechanisms are still ill-defined. Neutrophils die because of programmed cell death or apoptosis. However, treatment with inhibitor of caspases, which are responsible for the maj...

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

authors： Zhu D,Hattori H,Jo H,Jia Y,Subramanian KK,Loison F,You J,Le Y,Honczarenko M,Silberstein L,Luo HR

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of a single molecular handedness, or homochirality across all living matter, is a mystery in the origin of life. Frank's seminal model showed in the '50s how chiral symmetry breaking can occur in nonequilibrium chemical networks. However, an important shortcoming in this classic model is that it consider...

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

authors： Laurent G,Lacoste D,Gaspard P

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00