Saccharide orientation at the cell surface affects glycolipid receptor function.

abstract：:The decrease with age of the adrenal-secreted dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) in serum has suggested that it may be causally related to longevity. For the PAQUID [People (Personnes) Aged (Agées) About What (Quid, in Latin)] cohort of elderly subjects, we have previously reported higher DHEAS in men than in wome...

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

authors： Mazat L,Lafont S,Berr C,Debuire B,Tessier JF,Dartigues JF,Baulieu EE

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetics of the TiO(2) polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and ...

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

authors： Ranade MR,Navrotsky A,Zhang HZ,Banfield JF,Elder SH,Zaban A,Borse PH,Kulkarni SK,Doran GS,Whitfield HJ

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transfer at metallo-molecular interfaces may be used to design multifunctional hybrids with an emergent magnetization that may offer an eco-friendly and tunable alternative to conventional magnets and devices. Here, we investigate the origin of the magnetism arising at these interfaces by using different techni...

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

authors： Al Ma'Mari F,Rogers M,Alghamdi S,Moorsom T,Lee S,Prokscha T,Luetkens H,Valvidares M,Teobaldi G,Flokstra M,Stewart R,Gargiani P,Ali M,Burnell G,Hickey BJ,Cespedes O

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Most natural populations are affected by seasonal changes in temperature, rainfall, or resource availability. Seasonally fluctuating selection could potentially make a large contribution to maintaining genetic polymorphism in populations. However, previous theory suggests that the conditions for multilocus polymorphis...

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

authors： Wittmann MJ,Bergland AO,Feldman MW,Schmidt PS,Petrov DA

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The discrepancy between the structural longitudinal organization of the parallel-fiber system in the cerebellar cortex and the functional mosaic-like organization of the cortex has provoked controversial theories about the flow of information in the cerebellum. We address this issue by characterizing the spatiotempora...

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

authors： Cohen D,Yarom Y

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor caudal-type homeobox 1 (CDX1) is a key regulator of differentiation in the normal colon and in colorectal cancer (CRC). CDX1 activates the expression of enterocyte genes, but it is not clear how the concomitant silencing of stem cell genes is achieved. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important mediator...

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

authors： Jones MF,Hara T,Francis P,Li XL,Bilke S,Zhu Y,Pineda M,Subramanian M,Bodmer WF,Lal A

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the insolubility and polymeric properties of amyloid fibrils, techniques used conventionally to analyze protein structure and dynamics have often been hampered. Ultrasonication can induce the monomeric solution of amyloidogenic proteins to form amyloid fibrils. However, ultrasonication can break down prefor...

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

authors： Chatani E,Lee YH,Yagi H,Yoshimura Y,Naiki H,Goto Y

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a 13-subunit protein complex that catalyzes the last step in mitochondrial electron transfer in mammals. Of the 10 subunits encoded by nuclear DNA (three are mtDNA products), some are expressed as tissue- and/or development-specific isoforms. For COX subunit VIII, previous work showed tha...

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

authors： Goldberg A,Wildman DE,Schmidt TR,Huttemann M,Goodman M,Weiss ML,Grossman LI

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Droplet manipulation is playing an important role in various fields, including scientific research, industrial production, and daily life. Here, inspired by the microstructures and functions of Namib desert beetles, Nepenthes pitcher plants, and emergent aquatic plants, we present a multibioinspired slippery surface f...

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

authors： Zhang X,Sun L,Wang Y,Bian F,Wang Y,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning and memory rely on dopamine and downstream cAMP-dependent plasticity across diverse organisms. Despite the central role of cAMP signaling, it is not known how cAMP-dependent plasticity drives coherent changes in neuronal physiology that encode the memory trace, or engram. In Drosophila, the mushroom body (MB)...

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

authors： Louis T,Stahl A,Boto T,Tomchik SM

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The tubercle bacillus parasitizes macrophages by inhibiting phagosome maturation into the phagolysosome. This phenomenon underlies the tuberculosis pandemic involving 2 billion people. We report here how Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes phagosome maturation arrest. A glycosylated M. tuberculosis phosphatidylinositol ...

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

authors： Fratti RA,Chua J,Vergne I,Deretic V

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) increases the movement of cholesterol from the outer to the inner membrane of adrenal and gonadal mitochondria, thus providing the substrate for steroid hormone biosynthesis. Deletion of 62 amino-terminal aa produces a cytoplasmic form of StAR (N-62 StAR) that lacks th...

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

authors： Bose HS,Whittal RM,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Total chemical synthesis was used to prepare the mirror image (D-protein) form of the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). Phage display against D-VEGF-A was used to screen designed libraries based on a unique small protein scaffold in order to identify a high affinity ligand. Chemically syn...

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

authors： Mandal K,Uppalapati M,Ault-Riché D,Kenney J,Lowitz J,Sidhu SS,Kent SB

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental aspect of climate change is the potential shifts in flowering phenology and pollen initiation associated with milder winters and warmer seasonal air temperature. Earlier floral anthesis has been suggested, in turn, to have a role in human disease by increasing time of exposure to pollen that causes aller...

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

authors： Ziska L,Knowlton K,Rogers C,Dalan D,Tierney N,Elder MA,Filley W,Shropshire J,Ford LB,Hedberg C,Fleetwood P,Hovanky KT,Kavanaugh T,Fulford G,Vrtis RF,Patz JA,Portnoy J,Coates F,Bielory L,Frenz D

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique for transferring electrophoretically separated bands of RNA from an agarose gel to paper strips. The RNA is coupled covalently to diazobenzyloxymethyl groups on the paper. After transfer and appropriate treatment of the paper to destroy remaining diazo groups, specific RNA bands can be detected...

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

authors： Alwine JC,Kemp DJ,Stark GR

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease. The bacterium is capable of transferring a segment of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) into recipient cells during the transformation process, and it has been widely used as a genetic modification tool for plants and nonplant organisms. Transferred DNA (T...

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

authors： Li X,Yang Q,Peng L,Tu H,Lee LY,Gelvin SB,Pan SQ

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins have evolved to be foldable, and yet determinants of foldability may be inapparent once the native state is reached. Insight has emerged from studies of diseases of protein misfolding, exemplified by monogenic diabetes mellitus due to mutations in proinsulin leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress and β-cell ...

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

authors： Rege NK,Liu M,Yang Y,Dhayalan B,Wickramasinghe NP,Chen YS,Rahimi L,Guo H,Haataja L,Sun J,Ismail-Beigi F,Phillips NB,Arvan P,Weiss MA

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how electric fields and their fluctuations in the active site of enzymes affect efficient catalysis represents a critical objective of biochemical research. We have directly measured the dynamics of the electric field in the active site of a highly proficient enzyme, Δ(5)-3-ketosteroid isomerase (KSI), i...

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

authors： Jha SK,Ji M,Gaffney KJ,Boxer SG

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hawaiian Islands are renowned for some of the most spectacular species radiations in the world. Most of these radiations have been attributed to single colonization events, although the evidence supporting monophyletic origins is often poorly resolved and/or ambiguous. Without a concrete understanding of the origi...

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

authors： Gillespie RG,Croom HB,Palumbi SR

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:P/Q Ca(2+) channel activity is inhibited by G protein-coupled receptor activation. Channel inhibition requires a direct Gbetagamma binding onto the pore-forming subunit, Ca(v)2.1. It is characterized by biophysical changes, including current amplitude reduction, activation kinetic slowing, and an I-V curve shift, whic...

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

authors： Sandoz G,Lopez-Gonzalez I,Grunwald D,Bichet D,Altafaj X,Weiss N,Ronjat M,Dupuis A,De Waard M

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli containing multiple copies of the lac y gene were frozen in liquid nitrogen before or after generation of a proton electrochemical gradient (interior negative and alkaline) and irradiated with a high-energy electron beam at -135 degrees C. Subsequently, the ...

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

authors： Goldkorn T,Rimon G,Kempner ES,Kaback HR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single mutation altering the transmembrane domain of the receptor-like p185 protein encoded by the rat neu gene converts the normal neu gene into a potent oncogene. The biochemical consequences of this mutation were studied by examining phosphorylation of the normal and transforming p185 molecules in membrane prepar...

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

authors： Bargmann CI,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical feed-forward inhibition involves an excitation-inhibition sequence that enhances the temporal precision of neuronal responses by narrowing the window for synaptic integration. In the input layer of the cerebellum, feed-forward inhibition is thought to preserve the temporal fidelity of granule cell spikes dur...

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

authors： Duguid I,Branco T,Chadderton P,Arlt C,Powell K,Häusser M

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factors I and II (IGF-I and -II) are potent mitogens for various cancers, including carcinoma of the prostate. In several experimental cancers, treatment with antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GH-RH) produces a reduction in IGF-I and -II, concomitant to inhibition of tumor growth. To...

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

authors： Lamharzi N,Schally AV,Koppán M,Groot K

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP), a potential mediator of vitamin A action, was found to enable retinol to bind in a specific manner to isolated nuclei from livers of vitamin A deficient rats. Binding was followed after complexing [3H]retinol with CRBP. The binding was specific, saturable, and temperat...

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

authors： Takase S,Ong DE,Chytil F

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA from tumors of Nicotiana glauca initiated by strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes was shown to contain sequences that are homologous to the root-inducing (Ri) plasmid of the bacterium. Two independently established tumor lines contained a similar portion of the Ri-plasmid. The Ri-plasmid also hybridized to DNA ...

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

authors： White FF,Ghidossi G,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological significance of DNA amplification in cancer is thought to be due to the selection of increased expression of a single or few important genes. However, systematic surveys of the copy number and expression of all genes within an amplified region of the genome have not been performed. Here we have used a c...

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

authors： Monni O,Barlund M,Mousses S,Kononen J,Sauter G,Heiskanen M,Paavola P,Avela K,Chen Y,Bittner ML,Kallioniemi A

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The human placental alkaline phosphatase gene has been cloned and reintroduced into mammalian cells. When a plasmid carrying the gene under control of the simian virus 40 early promoter (pSV2Apap) is transfected into a variety of different cell types, placental alkaline phosphatase activity can readily be detected by ...

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

authors： Henthorn P,Zervos P,Raducha M,Harris H,Kadesch T

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of a human monoclonal antibody (Fab), which binds specifically to a major epitope of the transmembrane protein gp41 of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1, has been determined by crystallographic methods to a resolution of 2.7 A. It has been previously determined that this antibody ...

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

authors： He XM,Rüker F,Casale E,Carter DC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization and functional annotation of the large number of proteins predicted from genome sequencing projects poses a major scientific challenge. Whereas several proteomics techniques have been developed to quantify the abundance of proteins, these methods provide little information regarding protein function. ...

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

authors： Okerberg ES,Wu J,Zhang B,Samii B,Blackford K,Winn DT,Shreder KR,Burbaum JJ,Patricelli MP

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00