The MCK mouse heart model of Friedreich's ataxia: Alterations in iron-regulated proteins and cardiac hypertrophy are limited by iron chelation.

abstract：:P-glycoprotein is an ATP-binding cassette multidrug transporter that actively transports chemically diverse substrates across the lipid bilayer. The precise molecular mechanism underlying transport is not fully understood. Here, we present crystal structures of a eukaryotic P-glycoprotein homolog, CmABCB1 from Cyanidi...

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

authors： Kodan A,Yamaguchi T,Nakatsu T,Sakiyama K,Hipolito CJ,Fujioka A,Hirokane R,Ikeguchi K,Watanabe B,Hiratake J,Kimura Y,Suga H,Ueda K,Kato H

更新日期：2014-03-18 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：:A glnB gene is identified in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, and its gene product is found to be covalently modified as a result of imbalance in electron transfer in photosynthesis, where photosystem II is favored over photosystem I. The gene was cloned and sequenced and found to encode a polypeptide of...

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

authors： Tsinoremas NF,Castets AM,Harrison MA,Allen JF,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympatric speciation (SS), i.e., speciation within a freely breeding population or in contiguous populations, was first proposed by Darwin [Darwin C (1859) On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection] and is still controversial despite theoretical support [Gavrilets S (2004) Fitness Landscapes and the Orig...

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

authors： Li K,Hong W,Jiao H,Wang GD,Rodriguez KA,Buffenstein R,Zhao Y,Nevo E,Zhao H

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes are major disease vectors because most species must feed on blood from a vertebrate host to produce eggs. Blood feeding by the vector mosquito Aedes aegypti triggers the release of two neurohormones, ovary ecdysteroidogenic hormone (OEH) and insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which activate multiple processes re...

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

authors： Vogel KJ,Brown MR,Strand MR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic diversity in southern Europe is higher than in other regions of the continent. This difference has been attributed to postglacial expansions, the demic diffusion of agriculture from the Near East, and gene flow from Africa. Using SNP data from 2,099 individuals in 43 populations, we show that estimates o...

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

authors： Botigué LR,Henn BM,Gravel S,Maples BK,Gignoux CR,Corona E,Atzmon G,Burns E,Ostrer H,Flores C,Bertranpetit J,Comas D,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H NMR signal from oxymyoglobin, a low-concentration diamagnetic protein, is visible in myocardial tissue. The methyl group of the Val-E11 resonates in a clear spectral region at -2.76 ppm and responds to dynamic changes in cellular oxygenation. With CO, the signal shifts to -2.4 ppm. The Val-E11 peak assignment a...

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

authors： Kreutzer U,Wang DS,Jue T

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals are typically colonized by diverse bacterial symbionts, many of which are commensal and, in numerous cases, even essential for their host's proper development and growth. In exchange, the host must supply a sufficient array and quantity of nutrients to support the proliferation and persistence of its microbial...

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

authors： Graf J,Ruby EG

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by cells present an attractive strategy for developing new therapies, but progress in the field is limited by several issues: The quality of the EVs varies with the type and physiological status of the producer cells; protocols used to isolate the EVs are difficult to scale up; an...

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

authors： Kim DK,Nishida H,An SY,Shetty AK,Bartosh TJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The major late transcriptional unit of adenovirus type 2 has served as a model for studying transcription in eukaryotes. We report that pausing and premature termination are intrinsic to the transcription of this transcriptional unit by RNA polymerase II. In vivo and in isolated nuclei, transcription pauses at discret...

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

authors： Maderious A,Chen-Kiang S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between DNA polymerases and sliding clamp proteins confers processivity in DNA synthesis. This interaction is critical for most DNA replication machines from viruses and prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. The clamp proteins also participate in a variety of dynamic and competing protein-protein interacti...

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

authors： Dalrymple BP,Kongsuwan K,Wijffels G,Dixon NE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In human financial and social systems, exchanges of information among individuals cause speculative bubbles, behavioral cascades, and other correlated actions that profoundly influence system-level function. Exchanges of information are also widespread in ecological systems, but their effects on ecosystem-level proces...

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

authors： Gil MA,Hein AM

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex includes approximately 14 class II HLA genes within the HLA-D region, most of which exist in multiple allelic forms. One of these genes, the DQ3.2 beta gene, accounts for the well-documented association of HLA-DR4 with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and is the single all...

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

authors： Kwok WW,Lotshaw C,Milner EC,Knitter-Jack N,Nepom GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The operon model was proposed by Jacob and Monod in 1961 to explain the regulation of enzyme synthesis in bacteria. The model requires two genetic elements: a locus i which directs the synthesis of a repressor, and a locus called the operon which contains an operator gene and associated structural genes. The repressor...

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

authors： Zubay G,Lederman M

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis have become an increasingly important subject as pathogens have become increasingly resistant to current antibiotics. The adhesion of microorganisms to the surface of host tissue is often a first step in pathogenesis and is a plausible target for new antiinfective agents. Examinati...

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

authors： Liang MN,Smith SP,Metallo SJ,Choi IS,Prentiss M,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron flow is increasingly recognized as being essential in plant growth, generating a pH gradient across thylakoid membrane (ΔpH) that contributes to ATP synthesis and triggers the protective process of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) under stress conditions. Here, we report experiments demonstrating the i...

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

authors： Joliot P,Johnson GN

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some types of public spaces have been shut down while others remain open. These decisions constitute a judgment about the relative danger and benefits of those locations. Using mobility data from a large sample of smartphones, nationally representative cons...

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

authors： Benzell SG,Collis A,Nicolaides C

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells with human interferon (IFN)-alpha 2 at 37 degrees C results in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth and a reduction of the subsequent binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) at 4 degrees C. Human IFN-beta and -gamma, which exhibit little antiviral...

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

authors： Zoon KC,Karasaki Y,zur Nedden DL,Hu RQ,Arnheiter H

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social bees harbor a simple and specialized microbiota that is spatially organized into different gut compartments. Recent results on the potential involvement of bee gut communities in pathogen protection and nutritional function have drawn attention to the impact of the microbiota on bee health. However, the contrib...

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

authors： Zheng H,Powell JE,Steele MI,Dietrich C,Moran NA

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Etioplasts isolated from barley leaves and purified on a Sephadex G-50 (coarse) column were characterized by electron microscopy and nucleic acid analysis. The majority of etioplasts retained an intact outer envelope, and contamination by other fragments was extremely low. The level of gibberellin-like substances extr...

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

authors： Evans A,Smith H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine kinase-deficient mouse L cells have been transformed with plasmid DNAs carrying 8-base-pair Xho I linker insertion mutations in the coding region of the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene. When the mutant plasmids are introduced individually into LTK- cells, transformation efficiencies are gre...

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

authors： Shapira G,Stachelek JL,Letsou A,Soodak LK,Liskay RM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kdo (3-deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid) is an eight-carbon sugar mostly confined to Gram-negative bacteria. It is often involved in attaching surface polysaccharides to their lipid anchors. α-Kdo provides a bridge between lipid A and the core oligosaccharide in all bacterial LPSs, whereas an oligosaccharide of β-Kdo...

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

authors： Ovchinnikova OG,Mallette E,Koizumi A,Lowary TL,Kimber MS,Whitfield C

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Following over 3 decades of gradual but uneven increases in sea ice coverage, the yearly average Antarctic sea ice extents reached a record high of 12.8 × 106 km2 in 2014, followed by a decline so precipitous that they reached their lowest value in the 40-y 1979-2018 satellite multichannel passive-microwave record, 10...

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

authors： Parkinson CL

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative bacterium that aggregates to form fruiting bodies when nutrients are limiting. Previous studies showed that the frz mutants that are defective in chemotaxis exhibited irregular and infrequent patterns of cellular reversal. In contrast, wild-type cells, when examined individually, ...

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

authors： Shi W,Ngok FK,Zusman DR

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Some trypanosomatid protozoa (order Kinetoplastida) are well known to harbor bacterial endosymbionts. Their phylogenetic positions and evolutionary relationships with the hosts were deduced by comparing the rRNA gene sequences. Earlier, we observed that these symbionts from three Crithidia spp. are identical and are c...

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

authors： Du Y,Maslov DA,Chang KP

更新日期：1994-08-30 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：:Rising sea levels and increased storminess are expected to accelerate the erosion of soft-cliff coastlines, threatening coastal infrastructure and livelihoods. To develop predictive models of future coastal change we need fundamentally to know how rapidly coasts have been eroding in the past, and to understand the dri...

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

authors： Hurst MD,Rood DH,Ellis MA,Anderson RS,Dornbusch U

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Entropic effects have often been invoked to explain the extraordinary catalytic power of enzymes. In particular, the hypothesis that enzymes can use part of the substrate-binding free energy to reduce the entropic penalty associated with the subsequent chemical transformation has been very influential. The enzymatic r...

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

authors： Kazemi M,Himo F,Åqvist J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the developments that have occurred in the field of human genetics of infectious diseases from the second half of the 20th century onward. In particular, it stresses and explains the importance of the recently described monogenic inborn errors of immunity underlying resistance or susceptibility to s...

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

authors： Casanova JL

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Information concerning the dynamics of river meandering is embedded in their planforms. Here, we focus on how bend skewing varies with increasing sinuosity, and how flow direction is embedded in bend skewing. It has often been thought that upstream-skewed bends are dominant within a sufficiently long reach. These bend...

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

authors： Guo X,Chen D,Parker G

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00