Direct and adaptor-mediated substrate recognition by an essential AAA+ protease.

abstract：:Numerous biomolecular studies from the past 20 years have indicated that the large African monkeys Papio, Theropithecus, and Mandrillus have a diphyletic relationship with different species groups of mangabeys. According to the results of these studies, mandrills and drills (Mandrillus) are most closely related to the...

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

authors： Fleagle JG,McGraw WS

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF2alpha kinases are a family of evolutionarily conserved serine/threonine kinases that regulate stress-induced translational arrest. Here, we demonstrate that the yeast eIF2alpha kinase, GCN2, the target phosphorylation site of Gcn2p, Ser-51 of eIF2alpha, and the eIF2alpha-regulated transcriptional transactivato...

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

authors： Tallóczy Z,Jiang W,Virgin HW 4th,Leib DA,Scheuner D,Kaufman RJ,Eskelinen EL,Levine B

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The his4 region of yeast contains the information necessary for the catalysis of three steps in the histidine biosynthetic pathway. The three activities specified by this region remain physically associated during gel filtration and ultracentrifugation and after extensive purification. Nonsense mutations in the "opera...

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

authors： Shaffer B,Rytka J,Fink GR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of antiviral beta-chemokines has joined cytolysis as a potential mechanism for the control of HIV-1 infection by CD8(+) T cells. Recent evidence suggests that these two effector functions can diverge in some individuals infected with HIV-1; however, little is known about the CD8(+) T cell subsets in norm...

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

authors： Kamin-Lewis R,Abdelwahab SF,Trang C,Baker A,DeVico AL,Gallo RC,Lewis GK

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay of the rare earth terbium when bound to the protein calmodulin changes from a simple exponential decay to a complex nonexponential decay as the temperature is lowered below 200 K. We have fit the observed decay curves by assuming that the terbium emission is a forced electric dipole transition a...

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

authors： Austin RH,Stein DL,Wang J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied the directional tag PCR subtractive hybridization method to construct a rat hypothalamic cDNA library from which cerebellar and hippocampal sequences had been depleted, enriching 20-30-fold for sequences expressed selectively in the hypothalamus. We studied a sample of 94 clones selected for enrichment in t...

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

authors： Gautvik KM,de Lecea L,Gautvik VT,Danielson PE,Tranque P,Dopazo A,Bloom FE,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:All available complete mitochondrial genomes (21 species) are evaluated for dinucleotide over- and under-representation. The CpG dinucleotide is pervasively under-represented in all animal mitochondria, but it is of variable relative abundance in fungal, protist, and plant mitochondrial genomes. Interpretations and hy...

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

authors： Cardon LR,Burge C,Clayton DA,Karlin S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-binding DNA sequence elements encode a variety of regulated functions of genomes. Information about such elements is currently in a state of rapid growth, but improved methods are required to characterize the sequence specificity of DNA-binding proteins. We have established an in vitro method for specific and ...

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

authors： Gustafsdottir SM,Schlingemann J,Rada-Iglesias A,Schallmeiner E,Kamali-Moghaddam M,Wadelius C,Landegren U

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express functional DNA cytosine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.37) in cells transfected with the available Dnmt cDNAs have met with little or no success. We show that the published Dnmt sequence encodes an amino terminal-truncated protein that is tolerated only at very low levels when stably expresse...

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

authors： Tucker KL,Talbot D,Lee MA,Leonhardt H,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific journal publications, and their contributions to knowledge, can be described by their depth (specialized, domain-specific knowledge extensions) and breadth (topical scope, including spanning multiple knowledge domains). Toward generating hypotheses about how scientists' personal dispositions would uniquely ...

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

authors： Bateman TS,Hess AM

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine how the polypeptide chain in protein crystal structures exploits the multivalent hydrogen-bonding potential of bound water molecules. This shows that multiple interactions with a single water molecule tend to occur locally along the chain. A distinctive internal-coordinate representation of the local water-...

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

authors： Robert CH,Ho PS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swiftlets are small insectivorous birds, many of which nest in caves and are known to echolocate. Due to a lack of distinguishing morphological characters, the taxonomy of swiftlets is primarily based on the presence or absence of echolocating ability, together with nest characters. To test the reliability of these be...

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

authors： Lee PL,Clayton DH,Griffiths R,Page RD

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with whole tumor lysates can mediate potent antitumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo. Because successful therapy was dependent on host immune T cells, we have now evaluated whether the systemic administration of the T c...

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

authors： Shimizu K,Fields RC,Giedlin M,Mulé JJ

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:When G-protein alpha subunits binds GTP and Mg(2+), they transition from their inactive to their active conformation. This transition is accompanied by completion of the coordination shell of Mg(2+) with electrons from six oxygens: two water molecules, the ss and gamma phosphoryls of GTP, a helix-alpha1 Ser, and a swi...

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

authors： Zurita A,Zhang Y,Pedersen L,Darden T,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin (Cur) is a naturally occurring anticancer drug isolated from the Curcuma longa plant. It is known to exhibit anticancer properties via inhibiting the STAT3 phosphorylation process. However, its poor water solubility and low bioavailability impede its clinical application. Herein, we used organoplatinum(II) ← ...

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

authors： Datta S,Misra SK,Saha ML,Lahiri N,Louie J,Pan D,Stang PJ

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of esterase 3 confer two forms of organophosphate resistance on contemporary Australasian Lucilia cuprina. One form, called diazinon resistance, is slightly more effective against commonly used insecticides and is now more prevalent than the other form, called malathion resistance. We report here that the si...

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

authors： Hartley CJ,Newcomb RD,Russell RJ,Yong CG,Stevens JR,Yeates DK,La Salle J,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the microbial community in the human intestine may play an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity. We examined 184,094 sequences of microbial 16S rRNA genes from PCR amplicons by using the 454 pyrosequencing technology to compare the microbial community structures of 9 individuals,...

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

authors： Zhang H,DiBaise JK,Zuccolo A,Kudrna D,Braidotti M,Yu Y,Parameswaran P,Crowell MD,Wing R,Rittmann BE,Krajmalnik-Brown R

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests evolutionary change can significantly influence and act in tandem with ecological forces via ecological-evolutionary feedbacks. This theory assumes that significant evolutionary change occurs over ecologically relevant timescales and that phenotypes have differential effects on the environment. Here we...

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

authors： Bassar RD,Marshall MC,López-Sepulcre A,Zandonà E,Auer SK,Travis J,Pringle CM,Flecker AS,Thomas SA,Fraser DF,Reznick DN

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfolded RNase A is known to contain an equilibrium mixture of two forms, a slow-folding form (U(1)) and a fast-folding form (U(2)). If U(1) is produced after unfolding by the slow cis-trans isomerization of proline residues about X-Pro imide bonds, then the formation of U(1) should be catalyzed by strong acids. There...

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

authors： Schmid FX,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotope values of carbon (delta13C) and nitrogen (delta15N) in blood, feathers, eggshell, and bone have been used in seabird studies since the 1980s, providing a valuable source of information on diet, foraging patterns, and migratory behavior in these birds. These techniques can also be applied to fossil mater...

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

authors： Emslie SD,Patterson WP

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease h...

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

authors： Ivanova MI,Sievers SA,Guenther EL,Johnson LM,Winkler DD,Galaleldeen A,Sawaya MR,Hart PJ,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytes generate a "respiratory burst" of NADPH oxidase-dependent superoxide anion (O(2)(-*)) production that is required for efficient clearance of bacterial pathogens. Hv1 mediates a voltage-gated H(+) channel activity that is proposed to serve a charge-balancing role in granulocytic phagocytes such as neutroph...

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

authors： Ramsey IS,Ruchti E,Kaczmarek JS,Clapham DE

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A determinanat for chloramphenicol resistance, cam, initially detected on a resistance transfer factor (RTF) and since transferred to phage P1, may be acquired from P1 by coliphage lambda. Lambdapcam are obtained when a lambda prophage is induced in bacteria which also harbor P1 cam prophage. Lambdacam formation is no...

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

authors： Gottesman MM,Rosner JL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, how its activation in individual tissues contributes to TZD's therapeutic action remains controversial. As TZDs are known to have receptor-independent effects, we s...

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

authors： Sugii S,Olson P,Sears DD,Saberi M,Atkins AR,Barish GD,Hong SH,Castro GL,Yin YQ,Nelson MC,Hsiao G,Greaves DR,Downes M,Yu RT,Olefsky JM,Evans RM

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowing how motile bacteria move near and along a solid surface is crucial to understanding such diverse phenomena as the migration of infectious bacteria along a catheter, biofilm growth, and the movement of bacteria through the pore spaces of saturated soil, a critical step in the in situ bioremediation of contamina...

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

authors： Frymier PD,Ford RM,Berg HC,Cummings PT

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss some recent progress on the regularity theory of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation. We start with some basic properties of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation, such as Coulomb gauges, monotonicity, and curvature estimates. Next we discuss singularity of stationary Yang-Mills connections and compactness theorems...

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

authors： Tian G

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone containing two linked human pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (PS beta G) genes has been isolated and characterized. The two genes are arranged in the same 5'----3' orientation; the 3' region (including the A2 and B-C exons) of the upstream gene, PSGGA, is linked to the 5' region (including the 5'...

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

authors： Leslie KK,Watanabe S,Lei KJ,Chou DY,Plouzek CA,Deng HC,Torres J,Chou JY

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exemplary search capabilities of flying insects have established them as one of the most diverse taxa on Earth. However, we still lack the fundamental ability to quantify, represent, and predict trajectories under natural contexts to understand search and its applications. For example, flying insects have evolved ...

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

authors： Kaushik PK,Renz M,Olsson SB

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00