Directed selection of a conformational antibody domain that prevents mature amyloid fibril formation by stabilizing Abeta protofibrils.

abstract：:Isochorismate synthase (ICS) converts chorismate to isochorismate for the biosynthesis of phylloquinone, an essential cofactor for photosynthetic electron transport. ICS is also required for salicylic acid (SA) synthesis during Arabidopsis defense. In several other species, including Populus, SA is derived primarily f...

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

authors： Yuan Y,Chung JD,Fu X,Johnson VE,Ranjan P,Booth SL,Harding SA,Tsai CJ

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Several different families of DNA viruses encode proteins that inactivate the cellular retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRb), which normally functions to bind E2F transcription factors and restrict expression of genes necessary for cellular processes including DNA replication. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) UL97...

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

authors： Kamil JP,Hume AJ,Jurak I,Münger K,Kalejta RF,Coen DM

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have transferred the human gene for hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT, EC 2.4.2.8; IMP:pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferease) via isolated metaphase chromosomes from human HeLa S3 cells into murine A9 cells which lack functional murine HPRT activity, using the technique of McBride and Ozer (Pr...

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

authors： Willecke K,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic-cell hybrids have been shown to maintain the correct epigenetic chromatin states to study developmental globin gene expression as well as gene expression on the active and inactive X chromosomes. This suggests the potential use of somatic-cell hybrids containing either a maternal or a paternal human chromosome...

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

authors： Gabriel JM,Higgins MJ,Gebuhr TC,Shows TB,Saitoh S,Nicholls RD

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mecp2 gene has been shown to be mutated in most cases of human Rett syndrome, and mouse models deleted for the ortholog have been generated. Lineage-specific deletion of the gene indicated that the Rett-like phenotype is caused by Mecp2 deficiency in neurons. Biochemical evidence suggests that Mecp2 acts as a glob...

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

authors： Tudor M,Akbarian S,Chen RZ,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposures to ambient and household fine-particulate matter (PM2.5) together are among the largest single causes of premature mortality in India according to the Global Burden of Disease Studies (GBD). Several recent investigations have estimated that household emissions are the largest contributor to ambient PM2.5 exp...

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

authors： Chowdhury S,Dey S,Guttikunda S,Pillarisetti A,Smith KR,Di Girolamo L

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination is unknown in natural populations of Rivulus marmoratus, a selfing hermaphrodite, and genetic variation is likely due to mutation alone. DNA fingerprinting with an array of microsatellite [e.g., (CT)9] and minisatellite (e.g., the 33.15 core sequence) probes reveals very high clonal diversity within samp...

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

authors： Turner BJ,Elder JF Jr,Laughlin TF,Davis WP,Taylor DS

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that chronic activation of mitogenic signaling induced by over-expression of c-myc and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFalpha) transgenes in mouse liver induces a state of oxidative stress. We therefore proposed that increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation might be responsible f...

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

authors： Factor VM,Laskowska D,Jensen MR,Woitach JT,Popescu NC,Thorgeirsson SS

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimization of hydride transfer (HT) catalysts to enhance rates and selectivities of (photo)electroreduction reactions could be a crucial component of a sustainable chemical industry. Here, we analyze how ring functionalization of the adsorbed transient intermediate 2-pyridinide (2-PyH-*)-predicted to form in situ fr...

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

authors： Xu S,Carter EA

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the mechanism of folding of polynucleotides depends on accurate estimates of free energy surfaces and a quantitative description of the kinetics of structure formation. Here, the kinetics of hairpin formation in single-stranded DNA are measured after a laser temperature jump. The kinetics are modeled as co...

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

authors： Ansari A,Kuznetsov SV,Shen Y

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse glucocorticoid receptor-interacting protein (GRIP1) is a member of the ERAP160 family of nuclear receptor (NR) coactivators (including SRC-1 and TIF2) which function as bridging proteins between ligand-activated NRs bound to cognate hormone-response elements (HREs) and the transcription initiation apparatus ...

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

authors： Walfish PG,Yoganathan T,Yang YF,Hong H,Butt TR,Stallcup MR

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms ranging from plants to worms and humans suggest that duplication of some genes might be better tolerated than that of others. Here we h...

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

authors： De Smet R,Adams KL,Vandepoele K,Van Montagu MC,Maere S,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:When various wild strains of Penicillium lanosum and Aspergillus niger were placed in the same mild laboratory environment, their frequencies of new spontaneous mutations were clearly related to whether they had been isolated from a region of high or low microclimatic stress. In the mild environment, the total frequen...

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

authors： Lamb BC,Mandaokar S,Bahsoun B,Grishkan I,Nevo E

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several compone...

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

authors： Dabrowski-Tumanski P,Sulkowska JI

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod-like colloids distort fluid interfaces and interact by capillarity. We explore this interaction at the free surface of aligned nematic liquid crystal films. Naive comparison of capillary and elastic energies suggests that particle assembly would be determined solely by surface tension. Here, we demonstrate that, u...

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

authors： Liu IB,Gharbi MA,Ngo VL,Kamien RD,Yang S,Stebe KJ

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene that codes for Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase EC 1.1.1.1) was identified in a bacteriophage lambda library of genomic Drosophila DNA by using ADH cDNA cloned DNA as a probe. The DNA sequence of the protein encoding region was shown to be in agreement with the amino acid seq...

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

authors： Benyajati C,Place AR,Powers DA,Sofer W

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin B17 (MccB17) is a 3.1-kDa Escherichia coli antibiotic that contains thiazole and oxazole heterocycles in a peptide backbone. MccB17 inhibits its cellular target, DNA gyrase, by trapping the enzyme in a complex that is covalently bound to double-strand cleaved DNA, in a manner similar to the well-known quinolo...

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

authors： Zamble DB,Miller DA,Heddle JG,Maxwell A,Walsh CT,Hollfelder F

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

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

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic fungal hyphae are generally assumed to elongate at steady linear rates when grown under constant environmental conditions with ample nutrients. However, patterns of pulsed hyphal elongation were detected during apparent steady growth of hyphal tips in fungi from several major taxonomic groups (Oomycetes, Pythi...

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

authors： López-Franco R,Bartnicki-Garcia S,Bracker CE

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The homotypic fusion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes is mediated by atlastin (ATL), which consists of an N-terminal cytosolic domain containing a GTPase module and a three-helix bundle followed by two transmembrane (TM) segments and a C-terminal tail (CT). Fusion depends on a GTP hydrolysis-induced conformatio...

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

authors： Liu TY,Bian X,Sun S,Hu X,Klemm RW,Prinz WA,Rapoport TA,Hu J

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the evolution of a Theory of Mind, we need to understand the selective factors that might have jumpstarted its initial evolution. We argue that a subconscious, reflexive appreciation of others' intentions, emotions, and perspectives is at the roots of even the most complex forms of Theory of Mind and tha...

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

authors： Seyfarth RM,Cheney DL

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are specialized membrane regions that seem to mediate intercellular communication. They appear to contain closely packed arrays of equally sized particles all of which, upon freeze-cleaving, remain attached to one membrane leaflet and not to the other. One gap junction cleavage face, therefore, always ex...

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

authors： Staehelin LA

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrocortisone at physiological concentrations reversibly inhibits DNA synthesis in ST1 cells (a line of mouse fibroblasts possessing 40 chromosomes and derived from Swiss 3T3 cells). This inhibitory activity is a property of glucocorticoids, but the beta-OH of C-11 of glucocorticoids is not essential for the inhibiti...

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

authors： Armelin MC,Armelin HA

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evoluti...

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

authors： Gray RD,Watts J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombination is responsible for a broad range of biological phenomena, including DNA inversion, resolution of transposition intermediates, and the integration and excision of bacteriophage genomes. Integration of mycobacteriophage L5 is catalyzed by a phage-encoded integrase with recombination occurring...

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

authors： Peña CE,Kahlenberg JM,Hatfull GF

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The most frequent form of inherited amyloidoses is associated with mutations in the transthyretin (TTR) gene coding for 127-amino acid residues of four identical, noncovalently linked subunits that form a pair of dimers in the plasma protein complex. Amyloid fibrils containing the variant and to a lesser extent the wi...

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

authors： Jenne DE,Denzel K,Blätzinger P,Winter P,Obermaier B,Linke RP,Altland K

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In sexual populations, selection operates neither on the whole genome, which is repeatedly taken apart and reassembled by recombination, nor on individual alleles that are tightly linked to the chromosomal neighborhood. The resulting interference between linked alleles reduces the efficiency of selection and distorts ...

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

authors： Neher RA,Kessinger TA,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Most neurotransmission is mediated by action potentials, whereas sensory neurons propagate electrical signals passively and release neurotransmitter in a graded manner. Here, we demonstrate that Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junctions release neurotransmitter in a graded fashion. When motor neurons were depolar...

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

authors： Liu Q,Hollopeter G,Jorgensen EM

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are the remnants of ancient retroviral infections of germ cells and have been maintained in whole or part as heritable genomic elements. The last known endogenization events occurred several million years ago, and therefore stepwise analysis of retroviral endogenization has not been poss...

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

authors： Oliveira NM,Satija H,Kouwenhoven IA,Eiden MV

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00