Load-dependent mechanism of nonmuscle myosin 2.

abstract：:Unilateral stimulation of human peripheral nerves activates the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) contralaterally and the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) bilaterally. We aimed at characterizing phase locking between SI and SII in response to electric stimuli applied once every 3 s to the right median nerve at the...

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

authors： Simões C,Jensen O,Parkkonen L,Hari R

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ecosystems, from vegetation to biofilms, are composed of territorial populations that compete for both nutrients and physical space. What are the implications of such spatial organization for biodiversity? To address this question, we developed and analyzed a model of territorial resource competition. In the mode...

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

authors： Weiner BG,Posfai A,Wingreen NS

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorting objects and events into categories and concepts is a fundamental cognitive capacity that reduces the cost of learning every particular situation encountered in our daily lives. Relational concepts such as "same," "different," "better than," or "larger than"--among others--are essential in human cognition becau...

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

authors： Avarguès-Weber A,Dyer AG,Combe M,Giurfa M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonresolving chronic inflammation at the neoplastic site is consistently associated with promoting tumor progression and poor patient outcomes. However, many aspects behind the mechanisms that establish this tumor-promoting inflammatory microenvironment remain undefined. Using bladder cancer (BC) as a model, we found ...

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

authors： Cheah MT,Chen JY,Sahoo D,Contreras-Trujillo H,Volkmer AK,Scheeren FA,Volkmer JP,Weissman IL

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of primary petite (rho-) clones were isolated after ethidium bromide mutagenesis of various grande (rho+) strains of S. cerevisiae that contained the mitochondrial genetic markers, CR, ER, OIR (or OIIR), and PR. From the frequency of coretention of markers in the petites, we have deduced a probable circ...

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

authors： Boltin-Fukuhara M,Fukuhara H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone methyltransferase G9a has critical roles in promoting cancer-cell growth and gene suppression, but whether it is also associated with the DNA damage response is rarely studied. Here, we report that loss of G9a impairs DNA damage repair and enhances the sensitivity of cancer cells to radiation and chemotherapeu...

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

authors： Yang Q,Zhu Q,Lu X,Du Y,Cao L,Shen C,Hou T,Li M,Li Z,Liu C,Wu D,Xu X,Wang L,Wang H,Zhao Y,Yang Y,Zhu WG

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed three zinc-finger proteins with different DNA binding specificities. The design strategy combines a consensus zinc-finger framework sequence with previously characterized recognition regions such that the specificity of each protein is predictable. The first protein consists of three identical zinc fi...

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

authors： Desjarlais JR,Berg JM

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human foamy virus (HFV) genome possesses three open reading frames (bel 1, 2, and 3) located between env and the 3' long terminal repeat. By analogy to other human retroviruses this region was selected as the most likely candidate to encode the viral transactivator. Results presented here confirmed this and showed...

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

authors： Rethwilm A,Erlwein O,Baunach G,Maurer B,ter Meulen V

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro enzyme system for the conversion of amino acid to oxime in the biosynthesis of glucosinolates has been established by the combined use of an improved isolation medium and jasmonic acid-induced etiolated seedlings of Sinapis alba L. An 8-fold induction of de novo biosynthesis of the L-tyrosine-derived p-hyd...

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

authors： Du L,Lykkesfeldt J,Olsen CE,Halkier BA

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial matrix enzyme whose activity is deficient in the inherited disorder methylmalonic acidemia. Previous studies on primary fibroblast cell lines from patients with methylmalonic acidemia have delineated a variety of biochemical phenotypes underlying this disorder....

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

authors： Ledley FD,Jansen R,Nham SU,Fenton WA,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATR (ATM- and rad3-related)-mediated checkpoint pathway has a crucial role in regulating the cellular responses to DNA damage and DNA-replication stress. ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein), the regulatory partner of ATR, binds directly to replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA and enables the ATR-ATRIP complex to r...

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

authors： Namiki Y,Zou L

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is an IFN-inducible radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzyme that inhibits viral replication. We determined crystal structures of an anaerobically prepared fragment of mouse viperin (residues 45-362) complexed with S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) or 5'-deoxyadenosine (5'-dAdo) and l-methionine (l-Met). Viperin c...

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

authors： Fenwick MK,Li Y,Cresswell P,Modis Y,Ealick SE

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of O6-[3H]ethylguanine-containing DNA with a rat liver chromatin fraction resulted in a decrease in the O6-ethylguanine content of the DNA. Analysis of the products of this reaction showed that the ethyl group had been transferred from the O6-ethylguanine to a protein acceptor. When the incubation mixture w...

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

authors： Mehta JR,Ludlum DB,Renard A,Verly WG

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarization of substrates for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (D-DNP) usually involves saturating the ESR transitions of polarizing agents (PAs; e.g., persistent radicals embedded in frozen glassy matrices). This approach has shown enormous pote...

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

authors： Gajan D,Bornet A,Vuichoud B,Milani J,Melzi R,van Kalkeren HA,Veyre L,Thieuleux C,Conley MP,Grüning WR,Schwarzwälder M,Lesage A,Copéret C,Bodenhausen G,Emsley L,Jannin S

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasm and biomembranes in biological cells contain large numbers of proteins that cyclically change their shapes. They are molecular machines that can function as molecular motors or carry out various other tasks in the cell. Many enzymes also undergo conformational changes within their turnover cycles. We ana...

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

authors： Mikhailov AS,Kapral R

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Superresolution fluorescence microscopy overcomes the diffraction resolution barrier and allows the molecular intricacies of life to be revealed with greatly enhanced detail. However, many current superresolution techniques still face limitations and their implementation is typically associated with a steep learning c...

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

authors： Dedecker P,Mo GC,Dertinger T,Zhang J

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca channel currents were studied in freshly dispersed bovine adrenal glomerulosa cells to better understand the control of aldosterone secretion by extracellular K concentration (Ko) and angiotensin II (AII). The whole-cell variation of the patch voltage clamp technique was used. Two types of Ca channels were found. O...

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

authors： Cohen CJ,McCarthy RT,Barrett PQ,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a recombinant alphaEC domain from human fibrinogen-420 has been determined at a resolution of 2.1 A. The protein, which corresponds to the carboxyl domain of the alphaE chain, was expressed in and purified from Pichia pastoris cells. Felicitously, during crystallization an amino-terminal segme...

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

authors： Spraggon G,Applegate D,Everse SJ,Zhang JZ,Veerapandian L,Redman C,Doolittle RF,Grieninger G

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆Ca = future minus historic CO2) compensates for increased physiological stresses from higher temperature (∆T). We predicted the outcome of these competing responses by using optimization the...

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

authors： Sperry JS,Venturas MD,Todd HN,Trugman AT,Anderegg WRL,Wang Y,Tai X

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils were concentrated from the kidney, thyroid, and peripheral nerve of six patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). The fibril concentrates were solubilized in 6 M guanidine.HCl and fractionated on Sephadex G-100 columns. The elution profile of all FAP amyloid fibril concentrates revealed ...

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

authors： Costa PP,Figueira AS,Bravo FR

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculates were the longest-lived order of the Class Mammalia and, during the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic, were among the most diverse and abundant representatives of the class. However, until the recent discovery of two Cretaceous teeth, one from South America and one from Africa, they were known only from nor...

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

authors： Krause DW,Bonaparte JF

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As assessed by ultrastructure, histochemical staining, and T-cell dependency, in vitro-differentiated inter-leukin 3-dependent mouse mast cells are comparable to the mast cells that reside in the gastrointestinal mucosa but not in the skin or the serosal cavity of the mouse. We now demonstrate that when cloned interle...

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

authors： Dayton ET,Pharr P,Ogawa M,Serafin WE,Austen KF,Levi-Schaffer F,Stevens RL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 72-kDa spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) and Src-family kinase p53/56Lyn (Lyn) contribute to signaling via the B-cell antigen receptor complex. Here we show that Syk and Lyn from human B lymphocytes can interact directly. Syk and Lyn coimmunoprecipitated from mature and activated B-cell lines, and gel-purified Syk and ...

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

authors： Sidorenko SP,Law CL,Chandran KA,Clark EA

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet photosensitivity of the single-stranded forms of poly(A) and poly(dA) is compared. In contrast to poly(A), poly(dA) is rather sensitive to ultraviolet irradiation. Relatively low doses of ultraviolet light lead to characteristic changes of the ultraviolet and circular dichroism spectra of poly(dA), suggest...

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

authors： Pörschke D

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin C complex from Micromonospora echinospora remains a globally important antibiotic, and there is revived interest in the semisynthesis of analogs that might show improved therapeutic properties. The complex consists of five components differing in their methylation pattern at one or more sites in the molecul...

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

authors： Li S,Guo J,Reva A,Huang F,Xiong B,Liu Y,Deng Z,Leadlay PF,Sun Y

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Not having enough of what one needs has long been shown to have detrimental consequences for decision making. Recent work suggests that the experience of insufficient resources can create a "scarcity" mindset; increasing attention toward the scarce resource itself, but at the cost of attention for unrelated aspects. T...

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

authors： Huijsmans I,Ma I,Micheli L,Civai C,Stallen M,Sanfey AG

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) requires proteolytic processing of the replicase polyprotein by two viral cysteine proteases, a chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) and a papain-like protease (PLpro). These proteases are important targets for development of antiviral drugs...

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

authors： Ratia K,Saikatendu KS,Santarsiero BD,Barretto N,Baker SC,Stevens RC,Mesecar AD

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider-like forms of purified reovirus RNA have been characterized by electron microscopy. These structures contained 11.3 +/- 0.8 mum of double-stranded RNA and up to 20 arms, each of distinct length. Length measurements of 64 "spiders" suggest that in these structures the viral genome is folded fairly specifically. ...

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

authors： Kavenoff R,Talcove D,Mudd JA

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine mast cell line PB-3c is dependent on interleukin 3 (IL-3) with respect to survival and proliferation. These cells also require IL-3 to display antigen-mediated serotonin release, which is coupled to a transient increase of cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i). The antigen-mediated exocytosis is inhibited by pho...

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

authors： Mazurek N,Regazzi R,Borner C,Wyss R,Conscience JF,Erne P,Eppenberger U,Fabbro D

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key functional event in eukaryotic gene activation is the formation of dynamic protein-protein interaction networks between transcriptional activators and transcriptional coactivators. Seemingly incongruent with the tight regulation of transcription, many biochemical and biophysical studies suggest that activators u...

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

authors： Henley MJ,Linhares BM,Morgan BS,Cierpicki T,Fierke CA,Mapp AK

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00