Ribosome-induced changes in elongation factor Tu conformation control GTP hydrolysis.

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sessile marine organisms are prolific sources of biologically active natural products. However, these compounds are often found in highly variable amounts, with the abiotic and biotic factors governing their production remaining poorly understood. We present an approach that permits monitoring of in vivo natural produ...

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

authors： Esquenazi E,Jones AC,Byrum T,Dorrestein PC,Gerwick WH

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:P2X receptors for ATP have a wide range of physiological roles and comprise a structurally distinct family of ligand-gated trimeric ion channels. The crystal structure of a P2X4 receptor, in combination with mutagenesis studies, has provided a model of the intersubunit ATP-binding sites and identified an extracellular...

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

authors： Roberts JA,Allsopp RC,El Ajouz S,Vial C,Schmid R,Young MT,Evans RJ

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone opsin genes are expressed in a mutually exclusive manner in their respective photoreceptor subtypes in the mammalian retina. Previous transgenic mouse studies showed that functional interactions between the distal enhancer and proximal promoter of rhodopsin and long/medium-wavelength (L/M) opsin genes are...

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

authors： Peng GH,Chen S

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, transcription of the gene encoding the mouse type Ialpha (RIalpha) subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase is initiated from the alternative noncoding first exons 1a and 1b. Here, we report that activity of the promoter upstream of exon 1a (Pa) depends on two adjacent E boxes (E1 and E2) in NI...

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

authors： Barradeau S,Imaizumi-Scherrer T,Weiss MC,Faust DM

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated transgenic mice harboring a glycine-to-cysteine mutation in residue 85 of the triple helical domain of mouse type II collagen. The offspring of different founders displayed a phenotype of severe chondrodysplasia characterized by short limbs and trunk, cranio-facial deformities, and cleft palate. The ...

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

authors： Garofalo S,Vuorio E,Metsaranta M,Rosati R,Toman D,Vaughan J,Lozano G,Mayne R,Ellard J,Horton W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single dose of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea given to sexually immature female Buf/N rats produces a high incidence of mammary adenocarcinomas. A large percentage of these tumors contain the Ha-ras oncogene, activated by a G----A transition at the second nucleotide of codon 12. Copenhagen rats, on the other hand, are compl...

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

authors： Lu SJ,Archer MC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports on the dystrophic mouse mutant suggest that the prominent extracellular matrix component of peripheral nerve tissues plays an important role in peripheral nerve development. We have examined the disposition of two prominent extracellular matrix components, fibronectin and laminin, both in mature periphe...

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

authors： Cornbrooks CJ,Carey DJ,McDonald JA,Timpl R,Bunge RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines, putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, are essential polycations, intimately involved in the regulation of cellular proliferation. Although polyamines exert dynamic effects on the conformation of nucleic acids and macromolecular synthesis in vitro, their specific functions in vivo are poorly understood....

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

authors： Mandal S,Mandal A,Johansson HE,Orjalo AV,Park MH

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Three genome-wide RNA interference screens were performed in Drosophila S2 cells to dissect the contribution of host processes to Listeria monocytogenes entry, vacuolar escape, and intracellular growth. Among the 116 genes identified, several host pathways previously unrecognized as playing a role in listerial pathoge...

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

authors： Cheng LW,Viala JP,Stuurman N,Wiedemann U,Vale RD,Portnoy DA

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that single interneurons can toggle the output neurons of the cerebellar cortex (the Purkinje cells) between their two states. The firing of Purkinje cells has previously been shown to alternate between an "up" state in which the cell fires spontaneous action potentials and a silent "down" state. We sho...

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

authors： Oldfield CS,Marty A,Stell BM

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft corals of the family Xeniidae exhibit a unique, rhythmic pulsation of their tentacles (Movie S1), first noted by Lamarck nearly 200 y ago. However, the adaptive benefit of this perpetual, energetically costly motion is poorly understood. Using in situ underwater particle image velocimetry, we found that the pulsa...

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

authors： Kremien M,Shavit U,Mass T,Genin A

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic endothelial cells were isolated and maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium)/10% citrate-treated human plasma. They were stimulated by DME medium/10% human serum to grow from a density of 10,100 +/- 500 per well to a final density of 83,000 +/- 1,800 per well over a 9-day period. On...

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

authors： Clemmons DR,Isley WL,Brown MT

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Navigation, the ability to reach desired goal locations, is critical for animals and humans. Animal navigation has been studied extensively in birds, insects, and some marine vertebrates and invertebrates, yet we are still far from elucidating the underlying mechanisms in other taxonomic groups, especially mammals. He...

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

authors： Tsoar A,Nathan R,Bartan Y,Vyssotski A,Dell'Omo G,Ulanovsky N

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:How colloidal particles interact with each other is one of the key issues that determines our ability to interpret experimental results for phase transitions in colloidal dispersions and our ability to apply colloid science to various industrial processes. The long-accepted theories for answering this question have be...

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

authors： Wu J,Bratko D,Prausnitz JM

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA expression library in lambda gt11 was screened with affinity-purified polyclonal anti-rat cytochrome b5 reductase antibodies. One positive clone out of 450,000 clones was isolated and found to be incomplete. This clone was used to rescreen the library, and a second, overlapping clone that contained the entire c...

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

authors： Pietrini G,Carrera P,Borgese N

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferases (GST) (glutathione transferase; EC 2.5.1.18) are a family of enzymes responsible for the metabolism of a broad range of xenobiotics and carcinogens. A cDNA clone containing the entire amino acid coding sequence of a human GST-2 subunit has been isolated using a lambda gt11 expression lib...

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

authors： Board PG,Webb GC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are certain genes on the sex chromosome of Drosophila for which the female contains twice as many copies as the male. Some of the genes in this group produce the same phenotype in each sex despite the dosage difference and are said, therefore, to manifest dosage compensation. The structural genes for glucose-6-p...

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

authors： Seecof RL,Kaplan WD,Futch DG

更新日期：1969-02-01 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：:We show that an electric field can drive single-stranded RNA and DNA molecules through a 2.6-nm diameter ion channel in a lipid bilayer membrane. Because the channel diameter can accommodate only a single strand of RNA or DNA, each polymer traverses the membrane as an extended chain that partially blocks the channel. ...

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

authors： Kasianowicz JJ,Brandin E,Branton D,Deamer DW

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt signaling regulates many aspects of development by increasing the signaling activity of beta-catenin. Axin is a negative regulator of the Wnt signaling pathway, and it is responsible for the formation of the beta-catenin degradation complex. Genetic studies with Drosophila suggest that Axin promotes cytoplasmic lo...

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

authors： Cong F,Varmus H

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bathorhodopsin-rhodopsin difference spectra of native 11-cis-rhodopsin and regenerated 9-cis-rhodopsin were measured at room temperature with a double-beam laser spectrophotometer after excitation at 532 nm. A detailed analysis of data obtained at 85 psec after excitation suggests that the bathorhodopsins generated fr...

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

authors： Spalink JD,Reynolds AH,Rentzepis PM,Sperling W,Applebury ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brain functional networks are embedded in anatomical space and have topological properties--small-worldness, modularity, fat-tailed degree distributions--that are comparable to many other complex networks. Although a sophisticated set of measures is available to describe the topology of brain networks, the selec...

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

authors： Vértes PE,Alexander-Bloch AF,Gogtay N,Giedd JN,Rapoport JL,Bullmore ET

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-binding specificity of HA, the major surface glycoprotein of influenza virus, primarily determines the host ranges that the virus can infect. Influenza type B virus almost exclusively infects humans and contributes to the annual "flu" sickness. Here we report the structures of influenza B virus HA in complex ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Tian X,Chen X,Ma J

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms of neural circuit assembly is far from complete. Identification of wiring molecules with novel mechanisms of action will provide insights into how complex and heterogeneous neural circuits assemble during development. In the Drosophila olfactory system, 50 classes of olfactory recep...

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

authors： Xie Q,Wu B,Li J,Xu C,Li H,Luginbuhl DJ,Wang X,Ward A,Luo L

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is characterized by two primary pathological features: amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The interconnection between amyloid and tau aggregates is of intense interest, but mouse models have yet to reveal a direct interrelationship. We now show that NO may be a key factor that connects am...

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

authors： Colton CA,Vitek MP,Wink DA,Xu Q,Cantillana V,Previti ML,Van Nostrand WE,Weinberg JB,Dawson H

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms modify rates and mechanisms of chemical and physical weathering and clay growth, thus playing fundamental roles in soil and sediment formation. Because processes in soils are inherently complex and difficult to study, we employ a model based on the lichen-mineral system to identify the fundamental inter...

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

authors： Banfield JF,Barker WW,Welch SA,Taunton A

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to green space has been associated with better physical and mental health. Although this exposure could also influence cognitive development in children, available epidemiological evidence on such an impact is scarce. This study aimed to assess the association between exposure to green space and measures of c...

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

authors： Dadvand P,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ,Esnaola M,Forns J,Basagaña X,Alvarez-Pedrerol M,Rivas I,López-Vicente M,De Castro Pascual M,Su J,Jerrett M,Querol X,Sunyer J

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the "beyond Li-ion" battery chemistries, nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries have the highest theoretical specific energy and, as a result, have attracted significant research attention over the past decade. A critical scientific challenge facing nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries is the electronically insulating nature of the p...

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

authors： Burke CM,Pande V,Khetan A,Viswanathan V,McCloskey BD

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over a field, whose antipodes have arbitrary even orders >/=4 as mappings, are furnished. The dimension of the Hopf algebra is q(n+1), where the antipode has order 2q, q >/= 2, and n is an arbitrary positive integer. The algebras are not semisimple, and neither they nor the...

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

authors： Taft EJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00