Probing synaptic vesicle fusion by altering mechanical properties of the neuronal surface membrane.

abstract：:This paper investigates quantitatively the characteristics of the local folding code. The overlapping four-residue fragments which make up the amino acid sequences of 114 proteins are divided into classes on the basis of the physical properties of their constituent amino acids. The distribution of structural types ass...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest cell derivatives have been suggested to be involved in thymus development. We established nonlymphoid thymic stromal cell cultures capable of supporting T-cell differentiation. In these nonlymphoid cell cultures, we identified cells with phenotypic and biochemical markers specific for neuronal cells. Neur...

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

authors： Screpanti I,Meco D,Scarpa S,Morrone S,Frati L,Gulino A,Modesti A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The preservation of our cultural heritage is of great importance to future generations. Despite this, significant problems have arisen with the conservation of waterlogged wooden artifacts. Three major issues facing conservators are structural instability on drying, biological degradation, and chemical degradation on ...

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

authors： Walsh Z,Janeček ER,Hodgkinson JT,Sedlmair J,Koutsioubas A,Spring DR,Welch M,Hirschmugl CJ,Toprakcioglu C,Nitschke JR,Jones M,Scherman OA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the partial purification of an endonuclease from calf thymus that nicks phage PM2 DNA irradiated with UV doses producing only a few pyrimidine dimers per molecule. It has much less activity on DNA that has been subjected to enzymatic photoreactivation after UV irradiation. The calf thymus endonuclease is d...

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

authors： Waldstein EA,Peller S,Setlow RB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular signaling mechanisms regulating the generation and long-term persistence of memory T cells in vivo remain unclear. In this study, we used mouse models with conditional deletion of the key T cell receptor (TCR)-coupled adaptor molecule SH2-domain-containing phosphoprotein of 76 kDa (SLP-76), to analyz...

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

authors： Bushar ND,Corbo E,Schmidt M,Maltzman JS,Farber DL

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitive and accurate quantification of protein biomarkers plays important roles in clinical diagnostics and biomedical research. Sandwich ELISA and its variants accomplish the capture and detection of a target protein via two antibodies that tightly bind at least two distinct epitopes of the same antigen and hav...

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

authors： Chatterjee T,Knappik A,Sandford E,Tewari M,Choi SW,Strong WB,Thrush EP,Oh KJ,Liu N,Walter NG,Johnson-Buck A

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of DNA bound in nucleosomes depends on the DNA sequence. Questions such as how nucleosomes are positioned and how they potentially bind sequence-dependent nuclear factors require near-atomic resolution structures of the nucleosome core containing different DNA sequences; despite this, only the DNA for...

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

authors： Frouws TD,Duda SC,Richmond TJ

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) in the embryonic chicken heart undergo agonist-induced internalization and a subsequent decrease in receptor number (downregulation). Cloning studies have identified two subtypes of mAChR expressed in the embryonic chicken heart, the cm2 and cm4 receptors. We report here that...

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

authors： Habecker BA,Nathanson NM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum RNase (ribonuclease) of normal persons and of patients with pancreatitis, carcinoma of pancreas, or other neoplasms was determined with poly(C) as substrate. Strikingly abnormal elevations occur in the serum RNase of patients with pancreatic cancer. There is no elevation in the serum RNase level of patients with...

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

authors： Reddi KK,Holland JF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a family of fast ordered upwind methods for approximating solutions to a wide class of static Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Standard techniques often rely on iteration to converge to the solution of a discretized version of the partial differential equation. Our fast method...

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

authors： Sethian JA,Vladimirsky A

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of distinct regions in the amniote vertebral column results from somite formation and Hox gene expression, with the adult morphology displaying remarkable variation among lineages. Mammalian regionalization is reportedly very conservative or even constrained, but there has been no study investigating v...

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

authors： Müller J,Scheyer TM,Head JJ,Barrett PM,Werneburg I,Ericson PG,Pol D,Sánchez-Villagra MR

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pax-6 in vertebrates and its homolog eyeless in Drosophila are known to be essential for eye development. Here we investigate the role of Pax-6 in eye development in another major systematic group, molluscs. We demonstrate that alternatively spliced RNAs derived from a single Pax-6 gene in the squid (Loligo opalescens...

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

authors： Tomarev SI,Callaerts P,Kos L,Zinovieva R,Halder G,Gehring W,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of integrated viral DNA in normal and leukemic chicken cells has been studied by sequential nucleic acid hybridization procedures that localize the viral specific DNA in cellular DNA regions differing in reiteration frequency. First, DNA.DNA reassociation was employed to fractionate cellular DNA sequences a...

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

authors： Evans RM,Baluda MA,Shoyab M

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton micros...

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

authors： Park HY,Kim SA,Korlach J,Rhoades E,Kwok LW,Zipfel WR,Waxham MN,Webb WW,Pollack L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the rise in atmospheric oxygen 2.3 billion years ago (Gya) and the subsequent changes in oceanic redox state over the last 2.3-1 Gya, trace metal bioavailability in marine environments has changed dramatically. Although theorized to have influenced the biological usage of metals leaving discernable genomic ...

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

authors： Dupont CL,Yang S,Palenik B,Bourne PE

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During the developmental process of the Gram-negative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, vegetatively growing rod cells differentiate to ultimately become metabolically quiescent and environmentally resistant myxospores encased within fruiting bodies. This program, initiated by nutrient deprivation, is propagated by b...

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

authors： Tzeng L,Singer M

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) that vary in virulence and transmissibility. While genome-wide association studies have uncovered several mutations conferring drug resistance, much less is known about the factors underlying other bacterial phenotypes. Variation ...

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

authors： Øyås O,Borrell S,Trauner A,Zimmermann M,Feldmann J,Liphardt T,Gagneux S,Stelling J,Sauer U,Zampieri M

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The homogeneous exchange process whereby IgG molecules adsorbed onto latex particles are replaced by IgG molecules from the bulk solution was studied by means of 125I radiolabeling. The exchange mechanism was investigated on surfaces saturated with either labeled or unlabeled proteins in the presence of a solution of ...

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

authors： Ball V,Huetz P,Elaissari A,Cazenave JP,Voegel JC,Schaaf P

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified EcoRI restriction endonuclease fragment that determines resistance to kanamycin and is incapable of self-replication was used to select autonomously replicating fragments from an EcoRI digest of a Salmonella typhimurium F' plasmid containing the chromosomal region believed to include the S. typhimurium orig...

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

authors： Zyskind JW,Deen LT,Smith DW

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many...

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

authors： Anadon LD,Chan G,Harley AG,Matus K,Moon S,Murthy SL,Clark WC

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of rebeccamycin, an antitumor compound, involves the remarkable eight-electron oxidation of chlorinated chromopyrrolic acid. Although one rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme is capable of generating low levels of the eight-electron oxidation product on its own, a second protein, RebC, is required to acce...

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

authors： Ryan KS,Howard-Jones AR,Hamill MJ,Elliott SJ,Walsh CT,Drennan CL

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain Escherichia coli mutants defective in phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis accumulate two novel glycolipids, designated X and Y. Lipid X is a diacylglucosamine 1-phosphate bearing beta-hydroxymyristoyl groups at positions 2 and 3, and lipid Y has the same structure as X, except for the additional presence of a pa...

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

authors： Nishijima M,Amano F,Akamatsu Y,Akagawa K,Tokunaga T,Raetz CR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first part of a quantitative theory for the structure and dynamics of forests at demographic and resource steady state. The theory uses allometric scaling relations, based on metabolism and biomechanics, to quantify how trees use resources, fill space, and grow. These individual-level traits and propert...

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

authors： West GB,Enquist BJ,Brown JH

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphism in the H-2:Qa:Tla region of chromosome 17 is associated with constitutive variation of bodily odor phenotypes which permit individual olfactory recognition among mice. To determine whether known genes in the H-2:Qa:Tla complex are concerned in the constitution of odor phenotypes, mice were tested ...

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

authors： Yamazaki K,Beauchamp GK,Egorov IK,Bard J,Thomas L,Boyse EA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal during 1992-1993 was associated with large epidemics of cholera in India and Bangladesh and, initially, with a total displacement of the existing V. cholerae O1 strains. However, the O1 strains reemerged in 1994 and initiated a series of disappearance and reemergence of eit...

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

authors： Faruque SM,Sack DA,Sack RB,Colwell RR,Takeda Y,Nair GB

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have long served as both a source and inspiration for pharmaceuticals. Modifying the structure of a natural product often improves the biological activity of the compound. Metabolic engineering strategies to ferment "unnatural" products have been enormously successful in microbial organisms. However, ...

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

authors： Runguphan W,Maresh JJ,O'Connor SE

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among developing organisms, the allocation of energy toward immune function may lead to tradeoffs with physical growth, particularly in high-pathogen, low-resource enviro...

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

authors： Urlacher SS,Ellison PT,Sugiyama LS,Pontzer H,Eick G,Liebert MA,Cepon-Robins TJ,Gildner TE,Snodgrass JJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing a caspase recruitment domain (CARD) play pivotal roles in signal transduction leading to apoptosis and NF-kappaB activation and inflammation. Here we identify and characterize human and mouse CARD protein 6 (CARD6), CARD-containing proteins of unique structure. CARD6 associates with microtubules an...

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

authors： Dufner A,Pownall S,Mak TW

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is now the most common cause of progressive kidney failure leading to dialysis or transplantation. The central pathological feature of diabetic nephropathy is accumulation of extracellular matrix within the glomeruli. The factors in the diabetic milieu responsible for extracellular matrix accumulation are not...

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

authors： Yamamoto T,Nakamura T,Noble NA,Ruoslahti E,Border WA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous degenerative motor neuron disease linked to numerous genetic mutations in apparently unrelated proteins. These proteins, including SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS, are highly aggregation-prone and form a variety of intracellular inclusion bodies that are characteristic of d...

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

authors： Ciryam P,Lambert-Smith IA,Bean DM,Freer R,Cid F,Tartaglia GG,Saunders DN,Wilson MR,Oliver SG,Morimoto RI,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Favrin G,Yerbury JJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00