Crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed with release factor RF2.

abstract：:Six independent lines of evidence point to the existence of heme-containing compounds and/or hemoglobin breakdown products in extracts of trabecular tissues of the large theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. These include signatures from nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance that indicate the presence ...

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

authors： Schweitzer MH,Marshall M,Carron K,Bohle DS,Busse SC,Arnold EV,Barnard D,Horner JR,Starkey JR

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Echoviruses have been implicated in multiple human disease syndromes, including aseptic meningitis, paralysis, and heart disease, but no animal model is available for studying the pathogenesis of infection. Production of human integrin very late antigen 2, a receptor for echovirus type 1, in transgenic mice conferred ...

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

authors： Hughes SA,Thaker HM,Racaniello VR

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypic proportions for major histocompatibility complex loci, HLA-A and HLA-B, of progeny in families in 23 South Amerindian tribes in which segregation for homozygotes and heterozygotes could occur are examined. Overall, there is a large deficiency of homozygotes compared with Mendelian expectations (for HLA-A...

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

authors： Black FL,Hedrick PW

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, tRNA aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase pairs have been evolved that allow one to genetically encode a large array of unnatural amino acids in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. We have determined the crystal structures of two substrate-bound Methanococcus jannaschii tyrosyl aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that ch...

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

authors： Turner JM,Graziano J,Spraggon G,Schultz PG

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure of segments of rabbit taenia coli to the nonionic detergent Triton X-100, tension could be induced by increasing the [Ca2+] in the micromolar range. In the presence of a saturating [Ca2+], this preparation developed nearly 100% of the control tetanus tension recorded from the intact muscle prior to the ...

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

authors： Gordon AR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a soil fungus that causes life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients and is a facultative intracellular pathogen capable of replication inside macrophages. The mechanism by which environmental fungi acquire and maintain virulence for mammalian hosts is unknown. We hypothe...

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

authors： Steenbergen JN,Shuman HA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus) is the only vertebrate known to be capable of self-fertilization. Its gonad is typically an ovotestis that simultaneously produces eggs and sperm, and fertilization is internal. Although most populations of this species consist primarily or exclusively of hermaphroditic...

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

authors： Mackiewicz M,Tatarenkov A,Taylor DS,Turner BJ,Avise JC

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent of a large group of related proteinopathies for which there is currently no cure. Here, we used Drosophila to explore a strategy to block Aβ42 neurotoxicity through engineering of the Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), a chaperone that has demonstrated neuroprotective activit...

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

authors： Fernandez-Funez P,Sanchez-Garcia J,de Mena L,Zhang Y,Levites Y,Khare S,Golde TE,Rincon-Limas DE

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous and intensive exploitation of wildlife resources by early agricultural societies had major ecological consequences in the ancient Near East. In particular, hunting strategies of post-Neolithic societies involving the mass killing of wild ungulates contributed to the eventual extirpation of a number of wild ...

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

authors： Bar-Oz G,Zeder M,Hole F

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal electric stimulation of the auditory cortex is well suited for exploration of the function of the corticofugal (descending) system and the neural mechanism of plasticity in the central auditory system, because it evokes changes in frequency-tuning, called best frequency (BF) shifts, as does auditory fear conditi...

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

authors： Xiao Z,Suga N

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli cells treated with the bifunctional crosslinking reagents dimethyl malonimidate, succinimidate, adipimidate, suberimidate, and sebacinimidate served for the isolation of rod-shaped "ghosts." These ghosts proved to be crosslinked over their entire surface; i.e., a macromolecule (resistant to boiling 1% Na dodec...

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

authors： Haller I,Henning U

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with developmental dyslexia vary in their ability to improve reading skills, but the brain basis for improvement remains largely unknown. We performed a prospective, longitudinal study over 2.5 y in children with dyslexia (n = 25) or without dyslexia (n = 20) to discover whether initial behavioral or brain...

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

authors： Hoeft F,McCandliss BD,Black JM,Gantman A,Zakerani N,Hulme C,Lyytinen H,Whitfield-Gabrieli S,Glover GH,Reiss AL,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe burn trauma is generally followed by a catabolic response that leads to muscle wasting and weakness affecting skeletal musculature. Here, we perform whole-genome expression and in vivo NMR spectroscopy studies to define respectively the full set of burn-induced changes in skeletal muscle gene expression and the...

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

authors： Padfield KE,Astrakas LG,Zhang Q,Gopalan S,Dai G,Mindrinos MN,Tompkins RG,Rahme LG,Tzika AA

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mahogany (mg) locus originally was identified as a recessive suppressor of agouti, a locus encoding a skin peptide that modifies coat color by antagonizing the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor or MC1-R. Certain dominant alleles of agouti cause an obesity syndrome when ectopic expression of the peptide aberr...

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

authors： Dinulescu DM,Fan W,Boston BA,McCall K,Lamoreux ML,Moore KJ,Montagno J,Cone RD

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Zika virus (ZIKV) causes microcephaly and the Guillain-Barré syndrome. Little is known about how ZIKV causes these conditions or which ZIKV viral protein(s) is responsible for the associated ZIKV-induced cytopathic effects, including cell hypertrophy, growth restriction, cell-cycle dysregulation, and cell death. W...

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

authors： Li G,Poulsen M,Fenyvuesvolgyi C,Yashiroda Y,Yoshida M,Simard JM,Gallo RC,Zhao RY

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of pharyngeal muscle in nematodes and cardiac muscle in vertebrates and insects involves the related homeobox genes ceh-22, nkx2.5, and tinman, respectively. To determine whether the nematode and vertebrate genes perform similar functions, we examined activity of the zebrafish nkx2.5 gene in transgenic Cae...

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

authors： Haun C,Alexander J,Stainier DY,Okkema PG

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized b...

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

authors： Solé-Domènech S,Rojas AV,Maisuradze GG,Scheraga HA,Lobel P,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies to extravasate out of blood vessels is critical for therapeutic activity, because molecular targets for most diseases are located outside of the endothelial lining. By performing detailed biodistribution studies with a novel IL9-armed cancer-specific antibody, we identified a clear correlatio...

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

authors： Venetz D,Hess C,Lin CW,Aebi M,Neri D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the two X-linked loci glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD; EC 1.1.1.49) and hypoxanthine:guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT; EC 2.4.2.8) was studied in single hair follicles of two females who were heterozygous for both of these genes (double heterozygotes). The coupling phase for these two loc...

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

authors： Goldstein JL,Marks JF,Gartler SM

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen tumor-containing specimens were obtained directly from patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung and tested for their ability to grow in serum-supplemented medium and in serum-free medium supplemented with hydrocortisone, insulin, transferrin, estrogen, and selenium (HITES). The tumor cells replicated in ...

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

authors： Carney DN,Bunn PA Jr,Gazdar AF,Pagan JA,Minna JD

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of biotic remains of polar ice caps have been limited to morphological identification of plant pollen and spores. By using sensitive molecular techniques, we now demonstrate a much greater range of detectable organisms; from 2000- and 4000-year-old ice-core samples, we obtained and characterized 120 clones tha...

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

authors： Willerslev E,Hansen AJ,Christensen B,Steffensen JP,Arctander P

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs reduce the risk of colon cancer, possibly via cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibition. The growth factor-inducible COX-2, which is overexpressed in neoplastic colonic tissue, is an attractive target to mediate this effect. Herein we have exploited the ability of a human colon cancer cell li...

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

authors： Coffey RJ,Hawkey CJ,Damstrup L,Graves-Deal R,Daniel VC,Dempsey PJ,Chinery R,Kirkland SC,DuBois RN,Jetton TL,Morrow JD

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol, an activator of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors of NG108-15 hybrid cells, inhibits adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] rapidly and reversibly and slowly evokes a 200-300% increase in adenylate cyclase activity over a period of 24-30 hr. Both the inhibition of adenylate cyc...

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

authors： Nathanson NM,Klein WL,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the cell-surface molecules involved in T-cell immune responses are N-linked glycoproteins. We have investigated the effects of inhibitors of glycoprotein processing on specific T-cell functions, with the dual aims of examining the functional role of carbohydrate and of testing the usefulness of such compounds ...

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

authors： Wall KA,Pierce JD,Elbein AD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have intercellular channels, plasmodesmata (PD), that span the cell wall to enable cell-to-cell transport of micro- and macromolecules. We identified an Arabidopsis thaliana embryo lethal mutant increased size exclusion limit 1 (ise1) that results in increased PD-mediated transport of fluorescent tracers. The i...

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

authors： Stonebloom S,Burch-Smith T,Kim I,Meinke D,Mindrinos M,Zambryski P

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for 24 tRNAs. The nucleotide sequences of the tRNA genes suggest a unique set of rules that govern the decoding of the mitochondrial genetic code. The four codons of unmixed fmilies are recognized by single tRNAs that always have a U in the wobble position of ...

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

authors： Bonitz SG,Berlani R,Coruzzi G,Li M,Macino G,Nobrega FG,Nobrega MP,Thalenfeld BE,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the goal of developing techniques for DNA insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish, we established procedures for rapidly obtaining and injecting large numbers of fertilized eggs. Using either of two plasmid constructs, we injected uncut DNA into fertilized eggs at the one- or two-cell stage. Fish hatched from inject...

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

authors： Culp P,Nüsslein-Volhard C,Hopkins N

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A photolyzable derivative of dipeptidyl-tRNA, p-azido-N-tBoc-Phe-[3H]Phe-tRNA, bound reversibly to 70S ribosomes in the presence of poly(U), becomes, when irradiated, covalently attached to components of the 50S ribosomal subunit. Most of the reaction occurs within the 23S RNA, while ribosomal proteins are only weakly...

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

authors： Sonenberg N,Wilchek M,Zamir A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in controlling malignancies. Susceptibility or resistance to lung cancer, for example, specifically depends on NK cell function. Nevertheless, intrinsic factors that control NK cell-mediated clearance of lung cancer are unknown. Here we report that NK cells exposed to exo...

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

authors： Shi L,Li K,Guo Y,Banerjee A,Wang Q,Lorenz UM,Parlak M,Sullivan LC,Onyema OO,Arefanian S,Stelow EB,Brautigan DL,Bullock TNJ,Brown MG,Krupnick AS

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical networks that have been found to operate close to a critical point exhibit joint activations of large numbers of neurons. However, in motor cortex of the awake macaque monkey, we observe very different dynamics: massively parallel recordings of 155 single-neuron spiking activities show weak fluctuations on th...

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

authors： Dahmen D,Grün S,Diesmann M,Helias M

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00