Molecular dioxygen enters the active site of 12/15-lipoxygenase via dynamic oxygen access channels.

abstract：:We deal with the issue of quantifying and optimizing the rotation dynamics of synthetic molecular motors. For this purpose, the continuous four-stage rotation behavior of a typical light-activated molecular motor was measured in detail. All reaction constants were determined empirically. Next, we developed a Markov mo...

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

authors： Geertsema EM,van der Molen SJ,Martens M,Feringa BL

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The "parallel-up" packing in cellulose Ialpha and Ibeta unit cells was experimentally demonstrated by a combination of direct-staining the reducing ends of cellulose chains and microdiffraction-tilting electron crystallographic analysis. Microdiffraction investigation of nascent bacterial cellulose microfibrils showed...

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

authors： Koyama M,Helbert W,Imai T,Sugiyama J,Henrissat B

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-specific activation of the transcription factor sigma F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a regulatory pathway involving the proteins SpoIIE, SpoIIAA, and SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antagonist of sigma F, and SpoIIAA, which is capable of overcoming SpoIIAB-mediated inhibition of sigma F, is an ...

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

authors： Arigoni F,Duncan L,Alper S,Losick R,Stragier P

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate how the wavelet transform, which is a powerful tool for compression, filtering, and scaling analysis of signals, may be used to separate large- and short-scale electron density features in X-ray diffraction patterns. Wavelets can isolate the electron density associated with delocalized bonds from the mu...

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

authors： Osipov VA,Kowalewski M,Mukamel S

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cells express hundreds of metalloenzymes, the mechanisms by which apoenzymes receive their metal cofactors are largely unknown. Poly(rC)-binding proteins PCBP1 and PCBP2 are multifunctional adaptor proteins that bind iron and deliver it to ferritin for storage or to prolyl and asparagyl hydroxylases to metall...

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

authors： Frey AG,Nandal A,Park JH,Smith PM,Yabe T,Ryu MS,Ghosh MC,Lee J,Rouault TA,Park MH,Philpott CC

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-I molecules play a central role in antigen presentation. They typically bind 9- to 12-mer peptides, and their canonical binding mode involves anchor residues at the second and last positions of their ligands. To investigate potential noncanonical binding modes, we collected in-depth and accurate HLA peptidomics da...

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

authors： Guillaume P,Picaud S,Baumgaertner P,Montandon N,Schmidt J,Speiser DE,Coukos G,Bassani-Sternberg M,Filippakopoulos P,Gfeller D

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence from epidemiological, pathological, and clinical reports suggests that vascular factors are critical in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and changes in blood flow are currently the most reliable indicators of the disease. We previously reported that older APP23 transgenic (tg) mice ha...

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

authors： Meyer EP,Ulmann-Schuler A,Staufenbiel M,Krucker T

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of the four deoxynucleoside kinases required for growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 exist as heterodimeric pairs specific for deoxyadenosine (dAK) and deoxycytidine (dCK) or dAK and deoxyguanosine (dGK). However, only two tandem genes, dak/dgk, are found, and are expressed only as dAK/dGK in transformed Es...

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

authors： Ma N,Ikeda S,Guo S,Fieno A,Park I,Grimme S,Ikeda T,Ives DH

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The engineering of structures across different length scales is central to the design of novel materials with controlled macroscopic properties. Herein, we introduce a unique class of self-assembling materials, which are built upon shape- and volume-persistent molecular nanoparticles and other structural motifs, such ...

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

authors： Yu X,Yue K,Hsieh IF,Li Y,Dong XH,Liu C,Xin Y,Wang HF,Shi AC,Newkome GR,Ho RM,Chen EQ,Zhang WB,Cheng SZ

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The prediction of binding sites and the understanding of interfaces associated with protein complexation remains an open problem in molecular biophysics. This work shows that a crucial factor in predicting and rationalizing protein-protein interfaces can be inferred by assessing the extent of intramolecular desolvatio...

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

authors： Fernández A,Scheraga HA

更新日期：2003-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycystic kidney diseases (PKDs) are a group of disorders characterized by the growth of epithelial cysts from the nephrons and collecting ducts of kidney tubules. The diseases can be inherited or can be provoked by environmental factors. To investigate the molecular basis of the abnormal cell growth associated w...

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

authors： Cowley BD Jr,Smardo FL Jr,Grantham JJ,Calvet JP

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperactivity of the brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been implicated in the development and maintenance of hypertension in several types of experimental and genetic hypertension animal models. We previously reported that in the murine brain, aminopeptidase A (APA) is involved in the conversion of angioten...

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

authors： Fournie-Zaluski MC,Fassot C,Valentin B,Djordjijevic D,Reaux-Le Goazigo A,Corvol P,Roques BP,Llorens-Cortes C

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception and cognition in infants have been traditionally investigated using habituation paradigms, assuming that babies' memories in laboratory contexts are best constructed after numerous repetitions of the very same stimulus in the absence of interference. A crucial, yet open, question regards how babies deal wit...

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

authors： Benavides-Varela S,Siugzdaite R,Gómez DM,Macagno F,Cattarossi L,Mehler J

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled monolayer-protected nanoparticles are promising candidates for applications, such as sensing and drug delivery, in which the molecular ligands' interactions with the surrounding environment play a crucial role. We recently showed that, when gold nanoparticles are coated with a binary mixture of immiscib...

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

authors： Centrone A,Penzo E,Sharma M,Myerson JW,Jackson AM,Marzari N,Stellacci F

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Bestrophin 1 (hBest1) is a calcium-activated chloride channel that regulates neuronal excitability, synaptic activity, and retinal homeostasis. Mutations in hBest1 cause the autosomal-dominant Best macular dystrophy (BMD). Because hBest1 mutations cause BMD, but a knockout does not, we wondered if hBest1 mutants...

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

authors： Bharill S,Fu Z,Palty R,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetal genome regulates maternal physiology and behavior via its placenta, which produces hormones that act on the maternal hypothalamus. At the same time, the fetus itself develops a hypothalamus. In this study we show that many of the genes that regulate placental development also regulate the developing hypothal...

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

authors： Broad KD,Keverne EB

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are composed solely of an alternatively folded isoform of the prion protein (PrP), designated PrP(Sc). N-terminally truncated PrP(Sc), denoted PrP 27-30, retains infectivity and polymerizes into rods with the ultrastructural and tinctorial properties of amyloid. We report here that some polyoxometalates (POMs) ...

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

authors： Wille H,Shanmugam M,Murugesu M,Ollesch J,Stubbs G,Long JR,Safar JG,Prusiner SB

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper, the author jointly with S. Suryawanshi proposed statistical analysis of shape through triangulation of landmarks on objects. It was observed that the angles of the triangles are invariant to scaling, location, and rotation of objects. No distinction was made between an object and its reflection. T...

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

authors： Rao CR

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitization of defensive gill and siphon withdrawal reflexes in Aplysia results, in part, from presynaptic facilitation of transmitter release from mechanoreceptor sensory neurons that innervate the siphon skin and synapse with interneurons and motor neurons. Presynaptic facilitation also can be elicited by applicat...

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

authors： Hochner B,Klein M,Schacher S,Kandel ER

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeolite and zeolite-like molecular sieves are being used in a large number of applications such as adsorption and catalysis. Achievement of the long-standing goal of creating a chiral, polycrystalline molecular sieve with bulk enantioenrichment would enable these materials to perform enantioselective functions. Here, ...

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

authors： Brand SK,Schmidt JE,Deem MW,Daeyaert F,Ma Y,Terasaki O,Orazov M,Davis ME

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian ferritin from horse spleen undergoes an electrochemical or chemical reduction reaction in which each iron atom present is reduced by one electron (2300 electrons per ferritin molecule containing 2300 Fe3+ ions). Midpoint potentials of -190 mV, -310 mV, and -416 mV were determined at pH 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0. Thi...

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

authors： Watt GD,Frankel RB,Papaefthymiou GC

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screening procedure based on solvent extraction with minimal clean up followed by examination with negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry has been developed for organochlorine residues and related compounds with masses greater than 130 daltons. The procedure has been made quantitative for analysis of pentach...

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

authors： Dougherty RC,Piotrowska K

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli flagellar motor senses the intracellular concentration of the response regulator CheY-P and responds by varying the bias between its counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotational states. The response is ultrasensitive with a large Hill coefficient (approximately 10). Recently, the detailed ...

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

authors： Tu Y

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron density map at 3 angstrom resolution has been calculated for Cu2+, Zn2+ superoxide dismutase from bovine erythrocytes, and the course of the main chain has been traced. The dominant structural feature is an 8-stranded barrel of antiparallel beta-pleated sheet. There is one very short helical section and tw...

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

authors： Richardson J,Thomas KA,Rubin BH,Richardson DC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a hybridoma cell line secreting a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to the surfaces of oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells, the cells involved in myelin formation in the central and peripheral nervous systems, respectively. Binding studies using purified sphingolipids showed that this antibo...

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

authors： Ranscht B,Clapshaw PA,Price J,Noble M,Seifert W

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2) is a member of a family of G protein-coupled receptors for proteases. Proteases cleave PARs within the extracellular N-terminal domains to expose tethered ligands that bind to and activate the cleaved receptors. PAR-2 is highly expressed in colon in epithelial and neuronal e...

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

authors： Fiorucci S,Mencarelli A,Palazzetti B,Distrutti E,Vergnolle N,Hollenberg MD,Wallace JL,Morelli A,Cirino G

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle fibers are defined by patterned covariation of key traits that determine contractile and metabolic characteristics. Although the functional properties of most skeletal muscles result from their proportional content of a few conserved muscle fiber types, some, typically craniofacial, muscles exhibit fib...

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

authors： Porter JD,Khanna S,Kaminski HJ,Rao JS,Merriam AP,Richmonds CR,Leahy P,Li J,Andrade FH

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun transcriptional activity is augmented by expression of oncogenic Ras and Raf proteins. This study demonstrates a direct correlation between Ras transforming activity and c-Jun activation, supporting an important role for c-Jun in transformation by Ras. Since we observed that Ras activated c-Jun transcriptional a...

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

authors： Westwick JK,Cox AD,Der CJ,Cobb MH,Hibi M,Karin M,Brenner DA

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00