SUMO modification regulates inactivation of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.5.

abstract：:The heme-copper oxidases constitute a superfamily of terminal dioxygen-reducing enzymes located in the inner mitochondrial or in the bacterial cell membrane. The presence of a mechanistically important covalent bond between a histidine ligand of the copper ion (Cu(B)) in the active site and a generally conserved tyros...

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

authors： Rauhamäki V,Baumann M,Soliymani R,Puustinen A,Wikström M

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the length of poly(A) tails of bacterial mRNAs result from a competition between poly(A) polymerase and exoribonucleases that attack the 3' ends of RNAs. Here, we show that host factor Hfq is also involved in poly(A) tail metabolism. Inactivation of the hfq gene reduces the length of pol...

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

authors： Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Water autoionization reaction 2H2O --> H3O- + OH- is a textbook process of basic importance, resulting in pH = 7 for pure water. However, pH of pure water surface is shown to be significantly lower, the reduction being caused by proton stabilization at the surface. The evidence presented here includes ab initio and cl...

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

authors： Buch V,Milet A,Vácha R,Jungwirth P,Devlin JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were transduced with a number of recombinant retroviruses including RRz2, an LNL6-based virus with a ribozyme targeted to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tat gene transcript inserted within the 3' region of the neomycin-resistance gene; RASH5, and LNHL-based virus conta...

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

authors： Sun LQ,Pyati J,Smythe J,Wang L,Macpherson J,Gerlach W,Symonds G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A topological model of the DNA binding site for the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) is presented. A consensus sequence drawn from the known CRP binding sites has several symmetrical subregions that are spatially resolved onto different faces of the DNA helix. Consideration of available biochemical and genetic data s...

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

authors： O'Neill MC,Amass K,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a fast-moving drop impacts onto a smooth substrate, splashing will be produced at the edge of the expanding liquid sheet. This ubiquitous phenomenon lacks a fundamental understanding. Combining experiment with model, we illustrate that the ultrathin air film trapped under the expanding liquid front triggers splas...

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

authors： Liu Y,Tan P,Xu L

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A polypeptide transforming growth factor (TGF) that induces anchorage-dependent rat kidney fibroblasts to grow in soft agar has been isolated from human placenta and purified to homogeneity. This polypeptide is classified as a type beta TGF because it does not compete with epidermal growth factor (EGF) for membrane re...

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

authors： Frolik CA,Dart LL,Meyers CA,Smith DM,Sporn MB

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone ethylene is involved in many developmental processes, including fruit ripening, abscission, senescence, and leaf epinasty. Tomato contains a family of ethylene receptors, designated LeETR1, LeETR2, NR, LeETR4, and LeETR5, with homology to the Arabidopsis ETR1 ethylene receptor. Transgenic plants with...

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

authors： Tieman DM,Taylor MG,Ciardi JA,Klee HJ

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast SIN1 protein is a nuclear protein that together with other proteins behaves as a transcriptional repressor of a family of genes. In addition, sin1 mutants are defective in proper mitotic chromosome segregation. In an effort to understand the basis for these phenotypes, we employed the yeast two-hybrid system...

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

authors： Shpungin S,Liberzon A,Bangio H,Yona E,Katcoff DJ

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pain is a prevalent nonmotor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), it is undertreated, in part because of our limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Considering that the basal ganglia are implicated in pain sensation, and that their synaptic outputs are controlled by the subthalamic nucleus (STN),...

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

authors： Luan Y,Tang D,Wu H,Gu W,Wu Y,Cao JL,Xiao C,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pax-6 in vertebrates and its homolog eyeless in Drosophila are known to be essential for eye development. Here we investigate the role of Pax-6 in eye development in another major systematic group, molluscs. We demonstrate that alternatively spliced RNAs derived from a single Pax-6 gene in the squid (Loligo opalescens...

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

authors： Tomarev SI,Callaerts P,Kos L,Zinovieva R,Halder G,Gehring W,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimaeric protein repressor-galactosidase, in which fully active lac repressor is covalently linked to the active enzyme beta-galactosidase, was used as a system for probing the quaternary structure of lac repressor. Electron micrographs revealed repressor-galactosidase to be a tetrameric aggregate. When lac repre...

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

authors： Kania J,Brown DT

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toward understanding their redundancies and interactions in hemostasis and thrombosis, we examined the roles of thrombin receptors (protease-activated receptors, PARs) and the ADP receptor P2RY12 (purinergic receptor P2Y G protein-coupled 12) in human and mouse platelets ex vivo and in mouse models. Par3(-/-) and Par4...

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

authors： Cornelissen I,Palmer D,David T,Wilsbacher L,Concengco C,Conley P,Pandey A,Coughlin SR

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cercospora nicotianae SOR1 (singlet oxygen resistance) gene was identified previously as a gene involved in resistance of this fungus to singlet-oxygen-generating phototoxins. Although homologues to SOR1 occur in organisms in four kingdoms and encode one of the most highly conserved proteins yet identified, the pr...

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

authors： Ehrenshaft M,Bilski P,Li MY,Chignell CF,Daub ME

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs made from polyadenylylated RNAs of the mouse lens were cloned by the G.C tailing procedure in the bacterial plasmid pBR322. Four recombinant DNAs containing gamma-crystallin sequences were identified by hybrid selection and translation. Sequence analysis of the in vivo-labeled gamma-crystallin polypeptides that ...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Robinson EA,Appella E,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have highlighted the importance of peripheral induction of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the dominant control of immunological tolerance. However, Foxp3(+) Treg differentiation from naïve CD4(+) T cells occurs only under selective conditions, whereas the classical T helper (Th) 1 and 2 ...

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

authors： Wei J,Duramad O,Perng OA,Reiner SL,Liu YJ,Qin FX

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-selective mortality inevitably leads to a decrease in population density and exerts a direct negative effect on targeted size classes. But density and population size structure are also shaped by food-dependent processes, such as individual growth, maturation, and reproduction. Mortality relaxes competition and t...

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

authors： Schröder A,Persson L,de Roos AM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:All decisions, whether they are personal, public, or business-related, are based on the decision maker's beliefs and values. Science can and should help decision makers by shaping their beliefs. Unfortunately, science is not easily accessible to decision makers, and scientists often do not understand decision makers' ...

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

authors： von Winterfeldt D

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor (IRF) 4 is a member of the IRF family of transcription factors and plays critical roles in the development of CD4(+) T cells into Th2 and Th17 cells. Using the infection model of Nippostrongyrus brasiliensis, we have confirmed the critical roles of IRF-4 in Th2 development in vivo by using...

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

authors： Honma K,Kimura D,Tominaga N,Miyakoda M,Matsuyama T,Yui K

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation may be altered in many diseases, but it is uncertain exactly how to measure total numbers of divisions. Although it is impossible to count every division directly, potentially total numbers of stem cell divisions since birth may be inferred from numbers of somatic errors. The idea is that divisions ...

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

authors： Kim JY,Tavaré S,Shibata D

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T4-encoded RegB endoribonuclease is produced during the early stage of phage development and targets mostly (but not exclusively) the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of early genes. In this work, we show that the degradation of RegB-cleaved mRNAs depends on a functional T4 polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase ...

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

authors： Durand S,Richard G,Bontems F,Uzan M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the near-infrared absorption spectra of three oxygen compounds of membrane-bound cytochrome oxidase (ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase; EC 1.9.3.1) shows that the formation of compound A (oxycytochrome oxidase) causes no significant infrared absorbance changes at -103 degrees. At -64 degrees, the form...

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

authors： Chance B,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Unrestrained 53BP1 activity at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) hampers DNA end resection and upsets DSB repair pathway choice. RNF169 acts as a molecular rheostat to limit 53BP1 deposition at DSBs, but how this fine balance translates to DSB repair control remains undefined. In striking contrast to 53BP1, ChIP analyse...

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

authors： An L,Dong C,Li J,Chen J,Yuan J,Huang J,Chan KM,Yu CH,Huen MSY

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin mediates the adhesion of cells to collagen by first binding to the collagen substrate, followed by attachment of the cells to the fibronectin-collagen complex. Bovine brain gangliosides were found to block fibronectin-mediated cell adhesion to collagen in a concentration-dependent manner. The gangliosides ...

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

authors： Kleinman HK,Martin GR,Fishman PH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a diverse collection of small molecules we recently found that compound sets from different sources (commercial; academic; natural) have different protein-binding behaviors, and these behaviors correlate with trends in stereochemical complexity for these compound sets. These results lend insight into structural ...

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

authors： Clemons PA,Wilson JA,Dančík V,Muller S,Carrinski HA,Wagner BK,Koehler AN,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygenation of the atmosphere ∼2.45-2.32 billion years ago (Ga) is one of the most significant geological events to have affected Earth's redox history. Our understanding of the timing and processes surrounding this key transition is largely dependent on the development of redox-sensitive proxies, many of which re...

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

authors： Chi Fru E,Rodríguez NP,Partin CA,Lalonde SV,Andersson P,Weiss DJ,El Albani A,Rodushkin I,Konhauser KO

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-1,3-glucan chrysolaminarin is the main storage polysaccharide of diatoms. In contrast to plants and green algae, diatoms and most other algal groups do not accumulate storage polysaccharides in their plastids. The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum possesses only a single gene encoding a putative β-1,3-glucan synt...

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

authors： Huang W,Haferkamp I,Lepetit B,Molchanova M,Hou S,Jeblick W,Río Bártulos C,Kroth PG

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic sequences encoding the human lysosomal acid lipase/cholesteryl esterase (sterol esterase; EC 3.1.1.13) have been isolated and sequenced, and the information has been used to identify mutations in both alleles of the gene from a patient with Wolman disease, an autosomal recessive lysosomal lipid storage dis...

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

authors： Anderson RA,Byrum RS,Coates PM,Sando GN

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When two vortices cross, each of them breaks into two parts and exchanges part of itself for part of the other. This process, called vortex reconnection, occurs in classical and superfluids, and in magnetized plasmas and superconductors. We present the first experimental observations of reconnection between quantized ...

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

authors： Bewley GP,Paoletti MS,Sreenivasan KR,Lathrop DP

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00