Effect of glycosylation on protein folding: a close look at thermodynamic stabilization.

abstract：:The later stages of cochlear differentiation and the developmental onset of hearing require thyroid hormone. Although thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) are a prerequisite for this process, it is likely that other factors modify TR activity during cochlear development. The mouse cochlea expresses type 2 deiodinase (D2), ...

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

authors： Ng L,Goodyear RJ,Woods CA,Schneider MJ,Diamond E,Richardson GP,Kelley MW,Germain DL,Galton VA,Forrest D

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a hypothesized impact spike at ∼3.9 Ga, is one of the major scientific concepts to emerge from Apollo-era lunar exploration. A significant portion of the evidence for the existence of the LHB comes from histograms of (40)Ar/(39)Ar "plateau" ages (i.e., regions selected on the basis of...

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

authors： Boehnke P,Harrison TM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the newly engineered transposable element Dsg to tag a gene that gives rise to a defective kernel (dek) phenotype. Dsg requires the autonomous element Ac for transposition. Upon excision, it leaves a short DNA footprint that can create in-frame and frameshift insertions in coding sequences. Therefore, we ...

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

authors： Garcia N,Li Y,Dooner HK,Messing J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-73 cDNA was shown to encode a kinesin heavy chain protein that contains an N-terminal motor domain and a long central region that lacks extensive coiled-coils. The amino acid sequence of the motor domain of kinesin-73 protein is most closely related to the motor domains of Caenorhabditis elegans unc-104 and mo...

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

authors： Li HP,Liu ZM,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Noniridescent coloration by the spongy keratin in parrot feather barbs has fascinated scientists. Nonetheless, its ultimate origin remains as yet unanswered, and a quantitative structural and optical description is still lacking. Here we report on structural and optical characterizations and numerical simulations of t...

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

authors： Yin H,Dong B,Liu X,Zhan T,Shi L,Zi J,Yablonovitch E

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection does not necessarily favor maximal reproduction because reproduction imposes fitness costs, reducing parental survival, and offspring quality. Here, we show that parents in a preindustrial population in North America incurred fitness costs from reproduction, and women incurred greater costs than men....

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

authors： Penn DJ,Smith KR

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanilloid receptor subunit 1 (VR1) appears to play a critical role in the transduction of noxious chemical and thermal stimuli by sensory nerve endings in peripheral tissues. Thus, VR1 antagonists are useful compounds to unravel the contribution of this receptor to pain perception, as well as to induce analgesia. We h...

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

authors： García-Martinez C,Humet M,Planells-Cases R,Gomis A,Caprini M,Viana F,De La Pena E,Sanchez-Baeza F,Carbonell T,De Felipe C,Pérez-Paya E,Belmonte C,Messeguer A,Ferrer-Montiel A

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein dystrophin, normally found on the cytoplasmic surface of skeletal muscle cell membranes, is absent in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as well as mdx (X-linked muscular dystrophy) mice. Although its primary structure has been determined, the precise functional role of dystrophin remains the subjec...

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

authors： Petrof BJ,Shrager JB,Stedman HH,Kelly AM,Sweeney HL

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a neurosteroid with potential effects on neurogenesis and neuronal survival in humans. However, most studies on DHEA have been performed in rodents, and there is little direct evidence for biological effects on the human nervous system. Furthermore, the mechanism of its action is unkno...

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

authors： Suzuki M,Wright LS,Marwah P,Lardy HA,Svendsen CN

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from phi X174 is replicated in vitro with a fidelity similar to that found genetically. A mutation of TAG leads to TGG may be induced, however, by varying the concentrations of deoxynucleoside triphosphates, with a frequency proportional to [dGTP]2/[dATP]. This complex concentration dependence is consistent with t...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of growth factors and cytokines has been implicated in a variety of physiological and developmental processes within the cardiovascular system. Smad proteins are a recently described family of intracellular signaling proteins that transduce signals in response...

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

authors： Topper JN,DiChiara MR,Brown JD,Williams AJ,Falb D,Collins T,Gimbrone MA Jr

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We predict by first principles a phase transition in alumina at approximately 3.7 Mbar and room temperature from the CaIrO(3)-type polymorph to another with the U(2)S(3)-type structure. Because alumina is used as window material in shock-wave experiments, this transformation should be important for the analysis of sho...

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

authors： Umemoto K,Wentzcovitch RM

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthesized by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been implicated as a mediator of inflammation in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. We report that exposure of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated murine macrophages to therapeutic concentrations of aspirin (IC50 = 3 mM) and hydrocortisone (IC50 = 5 micr...

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

authors： Amin AR,Vyas P,Attur M,Leszczynska-Piziak J,Patel IR,Weissmann G,Abramson SB

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, self-recognition and the thereby promoted aggregation of thousands of cells into protective flocs is mediated by a family of cell-surface adhesins, the flocculins (Flo). Based on this social behavior FLO genes fulfill the definition of "greenbeard" genes, which direct coo...

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

authors： Veelders M,Brückner S,Ott D,Unverzagt C,Mösch HU,Essen LO

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The abelian sandpile is a cellular automaton which serves as the archetypical model to study self-organized criticality, a phenomenon occurring in various biological, physical, and social processes. Its recurrent configurations form an abelian group, whose identity is a fractal composed of self-similar patches. Here, ...

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

authors： Lang M,Shkolnikov M

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of individual basal transcription factors during the formation of an initiation complex by RNA polymerase II remain largely unknown. Transcription factor IIE (TFIIE) has recently been shown to bind to multiple targets in the initiation complex. To assess the role of zinc binding in basal transcription, w...

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

authors： Maxon ME,Tjian R

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human rhodopsin gene is the locus for numerous alleles linked to the neurodegenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa. To facilitate the study of retinal degeneration and to test reagents designed to alter the structure and function of this gene, we have developed strains of mice whose native rhodopsin gene has been...

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

authors： Chan F,Bradley A,Wensel TG,Wilson JH

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain-associated tetrapeptide, tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg), known for its phagocytosis-stimulating activity, was found to augment the antigen-specific, macrophage-dependent education of T lymphocytes. The investigation of stereospecific characteristics of the tetrapeptide, by use of structural a...

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

authors： Tzehoval E,Segal S,Stabinsky Y,Fridkin M,Spirer Z,Feldman M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent DNA supercoiling catalyzed by Escherichia coli DNA gyrase was inhibited by oxolinic acid, a compound similar to but more potent than nalidixic acid and a known inhibitor of DNA replication in E. coli. The supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase purified from nalidixic acid-resistant mutant (nalA(R)) bacteria...

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

authors： Gellert M,Mizuuchi K,O'Dea MH,Itoh T,Tomizawa JI

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by cognitive decline, has emerged as a disease of synaptic failure. The present study reveals an unanticipated role of erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular A4 (EphA4) in mediating hippocampal synaptic dysfunctions in AD and demonstrates that blockade of the ligand-binding dom...

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

authors： Fu AK,Hung KW,Huang H,Gu S,Shen Y,Cheng EY,Ip FC,Huang X,Fu WY,Ip NY

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfoquinovose (SQ; 6-deoxy-6-sulfoglucose) is the polar head group of the plant sulfolipid SQ-diacylglycerol, and SQ comprises a major proportion of the organosulfur in nature, where it is degraded by bacteria. A first degradation pathway for SQ has been demonstrated recently, a "sulfoglycolytic" pathway, in addition...

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

authors： Felux AK,Spiteller D,Klebensberger J,Schleheck D

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of the cells in osteoblastic lineage, including preosteoblasts and osteoblasts, has been postulated to influence bone formation. However, the molecular bases that link preosteoblastic/osteoblastic cell migration and bone formation are incompletely understood. Nck (noncatalytic region of tyrosine kinase; coll...

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

authors： Aryal A C S,Miyai K,Izu Y,Hayata T,Notomi T,Noda M,Ezura Y

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential micronutrient that plays a central role for a broad range of biological processes. Although there is compelling evidence that the intracellular milieu does not contain any free copper ions, the rapid kinetics of copper uptake and release suggests the presence of a labile intracellular copper poo...

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

authors： Yang L,McRae R,Henary MM,Patel R,Lai B,Vogt S,Fahrni CJ

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-sensitive syndrome (UVsS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by photosensitivity and mild freckling but without neurological abnormalities or skin tumors. UVsS cells show UV hypersensitivity and defective transcription-coupled DNA repair of UV damage. It was suggested that UVsS does not belong to ...

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

authors： Horibata K,Iwamoto Y,Kuraoka I,Jaspers NG,Kurimasa A,Oshimura M,Ichihashi M,Tanaka K

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydra interstitial stem cells continuously give rise to daughter stem cells as well as precursors for nerve and nematocyte differentiation. Growth of the stem cell population is controlled by the self-renewal probability (Ps): Ps is the fraction of stem cell daughters that remain stem cells in each generation. We have...

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

authors： David CN,MacWilliams H

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ras oncogene products require membrane localization for their function, and this is thought to be accomplished by the addition of a palmitoyl group to a cysteine residue near the carboxyl terminus of the nascent chain. A lipidated carboxyl-terminal cysteine residue is also found in sequence-related yeast sex facto...

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

authors： Clarke S,Vogel JP,Deschenes RJ,Stock J

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) cause familial ALS. Mutant SOD1 preferentially associates with the cytoplasmic face of mitochondria from spinal cords of rats and mice expressing SOD1 mutations. Two-dimensional gels and multidimensional liquid chromatography, in combination with tandem mass spectrometry, rev...

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

authors： Li Q,Vande Velde C,Israelson A,Xie J,Bailey AO,Dong MQ,Chun SJ,Roy T,Winer L,Yates JR,Capaldi RA,Cleveland DW,Miller TM

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit carries only four ribosomal (r) RNA methylated bases, all close to important functional sites. N(7)-methylguanosine (m(7)G) introduced at position 1575 on 18S rRNA by Bud23-Trm112 is at a ridge forming a steric block between P- and E-site tRNAs. Here we report atomic resolution s...

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

authors： Létoquart J,Huvelle E,Wacheul L,Bourgeois G,Zorbas C,Graille M,Heurgué-Hamard V,Lafontaine DL

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The cationic conductances of purified bovine retinal rod membranes were studied by incorporation of vesicles into planar lipid bilayers. When the membranes were stripped of all peripheral proteins [guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) and cGMP phosphodiesterase (3',5'-cyclic-GMP 5'-nucleotidohydrolase), EC 3...

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

authors： Bennett N,Ildefonse M,Crouzy S,Chapron Y,Clerc A

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00