Structural insights into the bactericidal mechanism of human peptidoglycan recognition proteins.

abstract：:Paleoclimate studies suggest that increased global warmth during the Eocene epoch was greatly amplified at high latitudes, a state that climate models cannot fully reproduce. However, proxy estimates of Eocene near-Antarctic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have produced widely divergent results at similar latitudes, w...

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

authors： Douglas PM,Affek HP,Ivany LC,Houben AJ,Sijp WP,Sluijs A,Schouten S,Pagani M

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the structure-function relationship of diphtheria toxin are reported. New methods are described for the preparation of pure intact ("unnicked") toxin and for the preparation of the individual A and B chains. A biological assay method for the B chain is also presented, as well as a method for the labelling o...

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

authors： Everse J,Lappi DA,Beglau JM,Lee CL,Kaplan NO

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two high molecular weight heat shock proteins, HSP90 (Mr, 90,000) and HSP100 (Mr, 100,000), were separately purified from extracts of cultured cells of a mouse lymphoma cell line, L5178Y. Both of the HSPs exist in homodimeric form under physiological conditions. Their physicochemical properties are quite similar to ea...

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

authors： Koyasu S,Nishida E,Kadowaki T,Matsuzaki F,Iida K,Harada F,Kasuga M,Sakai H,Yahara I

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echoviruses have been implicated in multiple human disease syndromes, including aseptic meningitis, paralysis, and heart disease, but no animal model is available for studying the pathogenesis of infection. Production of human integrin very late antigen 2, a receptor for echovirus type 1, in transgenic mice conferred ...

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

authors： Hughes SA,Thaker HM,Racaniello VR

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that a large class of finite factors has free entropy dimension less than or equal to one. This class includes all prime factors and many property T factors. ...

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

authors： Ge L,Shen J

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells are characterized by genetic mutations that deregulate cell proliferation and suppress cell death. To arrest the uncontrolled replication of malignant cells, conventional chemotherapies systemically disrupt cell division, causing diverse and often severe side effects as a result of collateral damage to no...

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

authors： Venkataraman S,Dirks RM,Ueda CT,Pierce NA

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen/deuterium exchange followed by trapping of the labeled species in the aprotic solvent DMSO has been used to elucidate structure in both the burst-phase molten globule-folding intermediate of apomyoglobin and in an equilibrium intermediate that models the kinetic intermediate. Precise estimates can be made of ...

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

authors： Nishimura C,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As new disease threats arise and existing pathogens grow resistant to conventional interventions, attention increasingly focuses on the development of vaccines to induce protective immune responses. Given their admirable safety records, protein subunit vaccines are attractive for widespread immunization, but their dis...

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

authors： Chen DJ,Osterrieder N,Metzger SM,Buckles E,Doody AM,DeLisa MP,Putnam D

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aconitase (Aco1p) is a multifunctional protein: It is an enzyme of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. In animal cells, Aco1p also is a cytosolic protein binding to mRNAs to regulate iron metabolism. In yeast, Aco1p was identified as a component of mtDNA nucleoids. Here we show that yeast Aco1p protects mtDNA from excessive...

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

authors： Chen XJ,Wang X,Butow RA

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteins often localize to distinct sites within the cell, but the primary cues that dictate localization are largely unknown. Recent evidence has shown that positive membrane curvature can serve as a cue for localization of a peripheral membrane protein. Here we report that localization of the peripheral me...

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

authors： Ramamurthi KS,Losick R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide composed of the first 22 amino acid residues of the Drosophila Shaker K+ channel inhibits a voltage-gated K+ channel in basolateral membrane vesicles from Necturus enterocytes reconstituted in planar phospholipid bilayers when added to the solution bathing the inner surface of this channel but not ...

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

authors： Dubinsky WP,Mayorga-Wark O,Schultz SG

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus flagellum is formed at a specific time in the cell cycle and its assembly requires the ordered expression of a large number of genes. These genes are controlled in a positive trans-acting hierarchy that reflects the order of assembly of the flagellum. Using plasmids carrying transcriptional ...

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

authors： Xu H,Dingwall A,Shapiro L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the transcription factor p53 is central to carcinogenesis. Yet only approximately one-half of cancers have p53 loss-of-function mutations. Here, we demonstrate a mechanism for p53 inactivation by apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain (ARC), a protein induced in multiple cancer cells. The ...

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

authors： Foo RS,Nam YJ,Ostreicher MJ,Metzl MD,Whelan RS,Peng CF,Ashton AW,Fu W,Mani K,Chin SF,Provenzano E,Ellis I,Figg N,Pinder S,Bennett MR,Caldas C,Kitsis RN

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual cAMP signaling system mediates many of the events that prepare spermatozoa to meet the egg. Its components include the atypical, bicarbonate-stimulated, sperm adenylyl cyclase and a cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) with the unique catalytic subunit termed Calpha(2) or C(s). We generated mice that lack Ca...

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

authors： Nolan MA,Babcock DF,Wennemuth G,Brown W,Burton KA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 10 out of 26 patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released IgE-binding factors, as determined by two independent assays. The formation of the factors by the mononuclear cells was enhanced by incubation of the cells with homologous IgE. In the presence of IgE, ...

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

authors： Carini C,Margolick J,Yodoi J,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using single-cell sequence analysis, we discovered that a high proportion of cells in tissues as diverse as buccal epithelium and heart muscle contain high proportions of clonal mutant mtDNA expanded from single initial mutant mtDNA molecules. We demonstrate that intracellular clonal expansion of somatic point mutatio...

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

authors： Nekhaeva E,Bodyak ND,Kraytsberg Y,McGrath SB,Van Orsouw NJ,Pluzhnikov A,Wei JY,Vijg J,Khrapko K

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of Ca2+-dependent protein-protein interaction and enzyme activation by calmodulin was investigated with the phosphoprotein phosphatase, calcineurin. Dimethylaminonaphthalene (dansyl)-calmodulin, a fluorescent derivative used to monitor complex formation, produced similar maximal activation (10- to 12-fol...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Vaughan M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate racemase is the first enzyme known to possess a metal pincer active site. The enzyme interconverts d- and l-lactic acid, which is important for the assembly of cell walls in many microorganisms. Here, we report a synthetic model of the active site of lactate racemase, which features a pyridinium-based SCS pinc...

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

authors： Xu T,Wodrich MD,Scopelliti R,Corminboeuf C,Hu X

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal pancreatic beta cells demonstrate a deficient insulin release in response to glucose, but the underlying mechanism at the cellular level is unknown. By using beta cells from 21-day fetal rats we made an attempt to clarify the mechanism(s) behind this reduced glucose response. In addition to measuring insulin rel...

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

authors： Rorsman P,Arkhammar P,Bokvist K,Hellerström C,Nilsson T,Welsh M,Welsh N,Berggren PO

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a cell cycle-regulated E3 ubiquitin ligase that controls the degradation of substrate proteins at mitotic exit and throughout the G1 phase. We have identified an APC/C substrate and cell cycle-regulated protein, KIAA0101/PAF15. PAF15 protein levels peak in the G2/M p...

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

authors： Emanuele MJ,Ciccia A,Elia AE,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncompetitive inhibitors of the nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors suppress cation flux directly by binding in and blocking the open channel or indirectly by stabilizing closed states of the receptor. The lidocaine derivative QX-314 and the acridine derivative quinacrine act directly as open channel blockers, bu...

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

authors： Yu Y,Shi L,Karlin A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sour taste is detected by a subset of taste cells on the tongue and palate epithelium that respond to acids with trains of action potentials. Entry of protons through a Zn(2+)-sensitive proton conductance that is specific to sour taste cells has been shown to be the initial event in sour taste transduction. Whether th...

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

authors： Ye W,Chang RB,Bushman JD,Tu YH,Mulhall EM,Wilson CE,Cooper AJ,Chick WS,Hill-Eubanks DC,Nelson MT,Kinnamon SC,Liman ER

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In a metabolic study of human and mouse preimplantation embryos (preembryos), we measured glucose uptake and phosphorylation with nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose (DG) as tracer. Initial experiments indicated an active hexose transport capacity, a property thought to be restricted in mammals to intestinal villi and kidne...

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

authors： Chi MM,Manchester JK,Basuray R,Mahendra S,Strickler RC,McDougal DB Jr,Lowry OH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental genetic studies of evolved differences in morphology have led to the hypothesis that cis-regulatory changes often underlie morphological evolution. However, because most of these studies focus on evolved loss of traits, the genetic architecture and possible association with cis-regulatory changes of gain...

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

authors： Cleves PA,Ellis NA,Jimenez MT,Nunez SM,Schluter D,Kingsley DM,Miller CT

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in coherent x-ray diffractive imaging have paved the way to reliable and quantitative imaging of noncompact specimens at the nanometer scale. Introduced a year ago, an advanced implementation of ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging has removed much of the previous limitations regarding sample pre...

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

authors： Giewekemeyer K,Thibault P,Kalbfleisch S,Beerlink A,Kewish CM,Dierolf M,Pfeiffer F,Salditt T

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is considered a critical target of the action of drugs of abuse. In this nucleus a "shell" and a "core" have been distinguished on the basis of anatomical and histochemical criteria. The present study investigated the effect in freely moving rats of intravenous cocaine, amphetamine, and morphine ...

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

authors： Pontieri FE,Tanda G,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human nociceptive voltage-gated sodium channel (Na(v)1.7), a target of significant interest for the development of antinociceptive agents, is blocked by low nanomolar concentrations of (-)-tetrodotoxin(TTX) but not (+)-saxitoxin (STX) and (+)-gonyautoxin-III (GTX-III). These findings question the long-accepted view th...

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

authors： Walker JR,Novick PA,Parsons WH,McGregor M,Zablocki J,Pande VS,Du Bois J

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A construct, MRE-beta Geo, with five metal response elements fused to a selectable reporter gene was transfected into BHK cells and a stable clone that could be induced up to 100-fold by zinc, cadmium, bismuth, silver, cobalt, copper, mercury, or nickle was isolated. Some, and perhaps all, of these metals induce MRE-b...

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

authors： Palmiter RD

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand factor (vWF) is a multimeric glycoprotein that mediates the adhesion of platelets to the subendothelium by binding to platelet glycoprotein Ib. For human vWF, this interaction can be induced in vitro by the antibiotic ristocetin or the snake venom protein botrocetin. A missense mutation, Gly-561-->Ser, ...

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

authors： Rabinowitz I,Tuley EA,Mancuso DJ,Randi AM,Firkin BG,Howard MA,Sadler JE

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent vital dye rhodamine 123 (Rh-123), which preferentially accumulates in mitochondrial membranes, can be used as a probe to indicate mitochondrial and hence cellular activity. In this study, mouse bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells were subdivided into Rh-123lo, Rh-123med, and Rh-123hi populations. The ...

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

authors： Spangrude GJ,Johnson GR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00