Kinetic evidence for a ligand-binding-induced conformational transition in the T cell receptor.

abstract：:Numbers of substitutions per site for 15 protein-coding genes and six introns of the plant mitochondria were estimated to compare modes and tempos of evolution between exons and introns, and numbers of insertions-deletions per site also were investigated in introns. Intra-gene homogeneity of numbers of substitutions p...

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

authors： Laroche J,Li P,Maggia L,Bousquet J

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning has established the primary structures of two precursors of the human pancreas growth hormone-releasing factor (hpGRF-44), somatocrinin. Both polypeptides contain the sequence of hpGRF-44 flanked by basic processing sites. Furthermore, the precursors include a putative signal sequence and a carboxyl-...

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

authors： Gubler U,Monahan JJ,Lomedico PT,Bhatt RS,Collier KJ,Hoffman BJ,Böhlen P,Esch F,Ling N,Zeytin F,Brazeau P,Poonian MS,Gage LP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-plasmid system for heterologous expression of 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) has been developed to facilitate combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides made by type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs). The eryA PKS genes encoding the three DEBS subunits were individually cloned into three compatible ...

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

authors： Xue Q,Ashley G,Hutchinson CR,Santi DV

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the hemagglutinin (HA) in tissue culture systems has been correlated with virulence of avian influenza viruses. To examine the structural requirements for cleavage of the HA, the HA gene from a virulent H5 influenza virus was expressed in mammalian cells (CV-1), and the cleavage site of the HA was explored...

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

authors： Kawaoka Y,Webster RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genes important for hair-cell function, we conducted a mutagenic screen in zebrafish. Larvae from one mutant line, ru848, were unresponsive to acoustic stimuli and unable to balance. The mutation results in a 90% reduction in hair-cell number and partial retinal degeneration by 5 days postfertilization. We...

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

authors： Starr CJ,Kappler JA,Chan DK,Kollmar R,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugal transmission of plasmid ColE1 and its derivatives can lead to recA-independent recombination. The recombination is not observed during vegetative growth and takes place specifically between the sequences that are thought to represent the transfer origin of ColE1. This provides genetic evidence for breakag...

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

authors： Warren GJ,Clark AJ

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune defense against viral infections involves cytotoxic T lymphocytes that recognize viral products in the context of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens. To evade such immune surveillance viruses may have evolved various strategies to manipulate the expression of class I antigens. Adenoviru...

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

authors： Pääbo S,Nilsson T,Peterson PA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor zinc-finger protein Miz1 represses TNF-α-induced JNK activation and the repression is relieved upon TNF-α stimulation. However, the underlying mechanism is incompletely understood. Here we report that Miz1 interferes with the ubiquitin conjugating enzyme (E2) Ubc13 for binding to the RING doma...

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

authors： Liu J,Yan J,Jiang S,Wen J,Chen L,Zhao Y,Lin A

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen tubes are highly polarized plant cells specialized in delivering sperm for fertilization. Pollen tube growth is rapid, occurs exclusively at the tip, and can reach distances thousands of times the diameter of the pollen grain without cell division, thus representing an excellent model system for studying asymme...

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

authors： Cheung AY,Niroomand S,Zou Y,Wu HM

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and protein determinants of nucleosome positioning have been examined after in vitro reconstitutions of native or modified histone octamers onto tandem repeats of 207- and 172-base-pair DNA sequences containing the Lytechinus variegatus 5S rRNA gene and onto monomeric sequences derived from these by digestion with...

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

authors： Dong F,Hansen JC,van Holde KE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use acyl homoserine lactone signals to monitor cell density in a type of gene regulation termed quorum sensing and response. Synthesis of these signals is directed by homologs of the luxi gene of Vibrio fischeri. This communication resolves two critical issues concerning the synthesis of the V. fischeri ...

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

authors： Schaefer AL,Val DL,Hanzelka BL,Cronan JE Jr,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The tightly coupled nature of the reaction sequence catalyzed by monoterpene cyclases has precluded direct observation of the topologically required isomerization step leading from geranyl pyrophosphate to the presumptive, enzyme-bound, tertiary allylic intermediate linalyl pyrophosphate, which ultimately cyclizes to ...

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

authors： Wheeler CJ,Croteau RB

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic administration of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) causes parkinsonism in humans and subhuman primates, but not in rats and many other laboratory animals; mice are intermediate in their susceptibility. Since MPTP causes selective dopaminergic neurotoxicity when infused directly into rat sub...

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

authors： Kalaria RN,Mitchell MJ,Harik SI

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen metabolism in bacteria and archaea is regulated by a ubiquitous class of proteins belonging to the P(II)family. P(II) proteins act as sensors of cellular nitrogen, carbon, and energy levels, and they control the activities of a wide range of target proteins by protein-protein interaction. The sensing mechanis...

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

authors： Rajendran C,Gerhardt EC,Bjelic S,Gasperina A,Scarduelli M,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS,Merrick M,Souza EM,Winkler FK,Huergo LF,Li XD

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously have shown that proliferating lymphoid cells contain an extractable cytoplasmic protein that is capable of inducing DNA synthesis in isolated quiescent nuclei (activator of DNA replication, ADR). ADR is present in continuously proliferating (transformed) lymphoblastoid cell lines and in mitogen- or inter...

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

authors： Gutowski JK,West A,Cohen S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Let T(k) (epsilon)(lambda; t(1),..., t(k)) = rho(X(t) (1))q(epsilon)(X(t) (2) - X(t) (1))... q(epsilon)(X(t(k) ) - X(t(k) )-1), where X(t) is a Brownian motion in R(2), lambda(dx) = rho(x)dx, and q(epsilon) converges to Dirac's delta function as epsilon downward arrow 0. The self-intersection local times of order k ar...

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

authors： Dynkin EB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In colloidal systems, the interplay between the short range attraction and long-range repulsion can lead to a low density associated state consisting of clusters of individual particles. Recently, such an equilibrium cluster phase was also reported for concentrated solutions of lysozyme at low ionic strength and close...

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

authors： Shukla A,Mylonas E,Di Cola E,Finet S,Timmins P,Narayanan T,Svergun DI

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filipin, digitonin, and saponin react with membrane cholesterol to produce unique membrane alterations (sterol-specific complexes) that are easily discernible in freeze-fracture replicas. We have treated both noninnervated and innervated Xenopus embryonic muscle cells in culture with these agents. Freeze-fracture of t...

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

authors： Bridgman PC,Nakajima Y

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin-binding protein (OBP) from herpes simplex virus 1 is a member of the SF2 helicase superfamily and is required for the initiation of DNA synthesis from a viral origin of DNA replication (oriS). The high-affinity binding sites for OBP in oriS, boxes I and II, are separated by an A+T-rich spacer. We used the g...

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

authors： Gustafsson CM,Hammarsten O,Falkenberg M,Elias P

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Visualizing macromolecular complexes by single-particle electron microscopy (EM) entails stringent biochemical purification, specimen preparation, low-dose imaging, and 3D image reconstruction. Here, we introduce the "monolayer purification" method, which employs nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) functionalized li...

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

authors： Kelly DF,Dukovski D,Walz T

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid residues that are critical in maintaining the framework structure of immunoglobulin heavy- and light-chain variable (V) regions are strongly conserved in the V alpha and V beta proteins of the alpha beta T-cell antigen receptor (TCR alpha beta). Consequently, it has been proposed that TCR alpha beta has a c...

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

authors： Gahm SJ,Fowlkes BJ,Jameson SC,Gascoigne NR,Cotterman MM,Kanagawa O,Schwartz RH,Matis LA

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA toroids produced by the condensation of lambda phage DNA with hexammine cobalt (III) have been investigated by cryoelectron microscopy. Image resolution obtained by this technique has allowed unprecedented views of DNA packing within toroidal condensates. Toroids oriented coplanar with the microscope image plane e...

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

authors： Hud NV,Downing KH

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess proton in water, H(+)(aq), plays a fundamental role in aqueous solution chemistry. Its solution thermodynamic properties are essential to molecular descriptions of that chemistry and for validation of dynamical calculations. Within the quasichemical theory of solutions those thermodynamic properties are con...

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

authors： Asthagiri D,Pratt LR,Kress JD

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of garlic is inversely correlated with the progression of cardiovascular disease, although the responsible mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that human RBCs convert garlic-derived organic polysulfides into hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), an endogenous cardioprotective vascular cell signaling molecule. ...

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

authors： Benavides GA,Squadrito GL,Mills RW,Patel HD,Isbell TS,Patel RP,Darley-Usmar VM,Doeller JE,Kraus DW

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), the principal signaling receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mammals, requires the binding of MD-2 to its extracellular domain for maximal responsiveness. MD-2 contains a leader sequence but lacks a transmembrane domain, and we asked whether it is secreted into the medium as an active ...

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

authors： Visintin A,Mazzoni A,Spitzer JA,Segal DM

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin/Insulin-like growth factor signaling regulates homeostasis and growth in mammals, and is implicated in diseases from diabetes to cancer. In Drosophila melanogaster, as in other invertebrates, multiple Insulin-Like Peptides (DILPs) are encoded by a family of related genes. To assess DILPs' physiological roles, ...

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

authors： Zhang H,Liu J,Li CR,Momen B,Kohanski RA,Pick L

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how institutional changes within academia may affect the overall potential of science requires a better quantitative representation of how careers evolve over time. Because knowledge spillovers, cumulative advantage, competition, and collaboration are distinctive features of the academic profession, both...

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

authors： Petersen AM,Riccaboni M,Stanley HE,Pammolli F

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Local changes in conformation between the calcium-saturated and calcium-free forms of calmodulin were monitored using antisera to four peptides corresponding to three helical regions of the calcium-saturated protein. The N-terminal helix was monitored using antiserum to residues 9-19, calmodulin-(9-19); the C-terminal...

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

authors： Gariépy J,Mietzner TA,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria possess a characteristic outer membrane, of which the lipid A constituent elicits a strong host immune response through the Toll-like receptor 4 complex, and acts as a component of the permeability barrier to prevent uptake of bactericidal compounds. Lipid A species comprise the bulk of the oute...

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

authors： Dovala D,Rath CM,Hu Q,Sawyer WS,Shia S,Elling RA,Knapp MS,Metzger LE 4th

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Preadipocytes can give rise to either white adipocytes or beige adipocytes. Owing to their distinct abilities in nutrient storage and energy expenditure, strategies that specifically promote "beiging" of adipocytes hold great promise for counterbalancing obesity and metabolic diseases. Yet, factors dictating the diffe...

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

authors： Liu K,Lin L,Li Q,Xue Y,Zheng F,Wang G,Zheng C,Du L,Hu M,Huang Y,Shao C,Kong X,Melino G,Shi Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00