Crystal structure of type I ryanodine receptor amino-terminal beta-trefoil domain reveals a disease-associated mutation "hot spot" loop.

abstract：:Given their relatively small area, mangroves and their organic sediments are of disproportionate importance to global carbon sequestration and carbon storage. Peat deposition and preservation allows some mangroves to accrete vertically and keep pace with sea-level rise by growing on their own root remains. In this stu...

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

authors： Ezcurra P,Ezcurra E,Garcillán PP,Costa MT,Aburto-Oropeza O

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and manipulation of the forces assembling DNA/RNA helices have broad implications for biology, medicine, and physics. One subject of significance is the attractive force between dsDNA mediated by polycations of valence ≥ 3. Despite extensive studies, the physical origin of the "like-charge attraction" re...

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

authors： Qiu X,Parsegian VA,Rau DC

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbance changes in untreated intact leaf discs, produced upon excitation with high-intensity red light, were shown to be due to the photooxidation of cytochrome b-559. At low intensities (<100 W/m2), photooxidation was almost undetectable. Photooxidation occurred with a half-time of 4.3 sec and an extent of 0.64 mo...

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

authors： Canaani O,Havaux M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian CLC proteins function as Cl(-) channels or as electrogenic Cl(-)/H(+) exchangers and are present in the plasma membrane and intracellular vesicles. We now show that the ClC-6 protein is almost exclusively expressed in neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems, with a particularly high expression ...

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

authors： Poët M,Kornak U,Schweizer M,Zdebik AA,Scheel O,Hoelter S,Wurst W,Schmitt A,Fuhrmann JC,Planells-Cases R,Mole SE,Hübner CA,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic ocular neovascularization commonly causes blindness. It is critical to identify the factors altered in pathologically proliferating versus normally quiescent vessels to develop effective targeted therapeutics. MicroRNAs regulate both physiological and pathological angiogenesis through modulating expression ...

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

authors： Liu CH,Sun Y,Li J,Gong Y,Tian KT,Evans LP,Morss PC,Fredrick TW,Saba NJ,Chen J

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s,...

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

authors： Schulz Paulsson B

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the agr quorum-sensing system, staphylococci secrete unique autoinducing peptides (AIPs) and detect their concentration via the AgrC transmembrane receptor, coordinating local bacterial population density with global changes in gene expression. Unique AIP and AgrC variants exist within and between species, and...

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

authors： Geisinger E,Muir TW,Novick RP

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogenic protein Vav has the structure of an intracellular signal transducer. It is exclusively expressed in cells of hematopoietic lineage and plays a crucial role in hematopoietic cell differentiation. Here we report that both in cell extracts and within intact mammalian cells Vav binds to Grb2 (Sem-5/ASH/...

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

authors： Ye ZS,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific high-affinity receptor for leukotriene C4 (LTC4) has been identified on segments of longitudinal smooth muscle from guinea pig ileum, in disrupted cells obtained from the ileal segments, and in subcellular fractions enriched for mitochondrial membranes and plasma membranes, respectively. Specific [3H]LTC4 b...

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

authors： Krilis S,Lewis RA,Corey EJ,Austen KF

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African sleeping sickness is a fatal disease that is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Polyamine biosynthesis is an essential pathway in the parasite and is a validated drug target for treatment of the disease. S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) catalyzes a key step in polyamine biosynthe...

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

authors： Willert EK,Fitzpatrick R,Phillips MA

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, organisms acquire three-dimensional (3D) shapes with important physiological consequences. While basic mechanisms underlying morphogenesis are known in eukaryotes, it is often difficult to manipulate them in vivo. To circumvent this issue, here we present a study of developing Vibrio cholerae biofi...

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

authors： Fei C,Mao S,Yan J,Alert R,Stone HA,Bassler BL,Wingreen NS,Košmrlj A

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis, the two-dimensional expansion of leaves is regulated via the polarized elongation of cells. The ROTUNDIFOLIA3 (ROT3) protein, a member of the family of cytochromes P450, is involved in this process and regulates leaf length. Transgenic plants that overexpressed a wild-type ROT3 gene had longer leaves t...

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

authors： Kim GT,Tsukaya H,Saito Y,Uchimiya H

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradigm of evolutionary biology is that adaptation and reproductive isolation are caused by a nearly infinite number of mutations of individually small effect. Here, we test this hypothesis by investigating the genetic basis of pollinator discrimination in two closely related species of monkeyflowers that differ in...

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

authors： Schemske DW,Bradshaw HD Jr

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA was extracted from the remains of 35 ground sloths from various parts of North and South America. Two specimens of Mylodon darwinii, a species that went extinct at the end of the last glaciation, yielded amplifiable DNA. However, of the total DNA extracted, only approximately 1/1000 originated from the sloth, wher...

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

authors： Höss M,Dilling A,Currant A,Pääbo S

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest virus class and include many pathogens such as hepatitis C virus and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a representative positive-strand RNA virus whose RNA replication, gene expression, and encapsidation have been reproduce...

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

authors： Kushner DB,Lindenbach BD,Grdzelishvili VZ,Noueiry AO,Paul SM,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic fluctuations in past biodiversity, speciation, and extinction have been proposed, with extremely long periods ranging from 26 to 62 million years, although forcing mechanisms remain speculative. In contrast, well-understood periodic Milankovitch climate forcing represents a viable driver for macroevolutionary...

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

authors： Crampton JS,Meyers SR,Cooper RA,Sadler PM,Foote M,Harte D

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary stability of cooperation is a problem of fundamental importance for the biological and social sciences. Different claims have been made about this issue: whereas Axelrod and Hamilton's [Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. (1981) Science 211, 1390-1398] widely recognized conclusion is that cooperative rules suc...

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

authors： Bendor J,Swistak P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I Interferons (IFNs) are requisite components in antiviral innate immunity. Classically, a Toll-like receptor-dependent pathway induces type I interferons. However, recent recognition of melanoma differentiation associated gene-5 (MDA-5) and retinoic acid inducible gene-I (RIG-I) as primary sensors of RNA viruses...

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

authors： Sarkar D,Desalle R,Fisher PB

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To scrutinize how a protein folds at atomic resolution, we performed 200 molecular dynamics simulations (each of 50 ns) of the miniprotein Trp-cage on the computational grid. Within the trajectories, 58 folding and 31 unfolding events were identified and subjected to extensive comparison and classification. Based on a...

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

authors： Ota M,Ikeguchi M,Kidera A

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection alters the expression of many cellular genes, including IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) [Zhu, H., Cong, J.-P., Mamtora, G., Gingeras, T. & Shenk, T. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 14470-14475]. By using high-density cDNA microarrays, we show that the HCMV-regulated gene expres...

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

authors： Simmen KA,Singh J,Luukkonen BG,Lopper M,Bittner A,Miller NE,Jackson MR,Compton T,Früh K

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of phosphate residues involved in specific centers for binding of metal ions in M1 RNA, the catalytic RNA subunit of RNase P from Escherichia coli, was determined by analysis of induction of cleavage of RNA by metal ions. At pH 9.5, Mg2+ catalyzes cleavage of M1 RNA at five principal sites. Under certain ...

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

authors： Kazakov S,Altman S

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli infections, a leading cause of septic shock, remain a major threat to human health because of the fatal action to endotoxin (LPS). Therapeutic attempts to neutralize endotoxin currently focus on inhibiting the interaction of the toxic component lipid A with myeloid differentiating factor 2, which form...

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

authors： Gomery K,Müller-Loennies S,Brooks CL,Brade L,Kosma P,Di Padova F,Brade H,Evans SV

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromopeptides were prepared by proteolytic digestion of phytochrome (far-red absorbing form, P(fr)) and of phycocyanin. The phycocyanobilin peptide, the chromophore of which is Z,Z,Z-configurated, was modified to the Z,Z,E isomeric chromophore. It has been demonstrated earlier that the P(fr) chromopeptide and the Z,Z...

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

authors： Rüdiger W,Thümmler F,Cmiel E,Schneider S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian form of the protozoan parasite Leishmania mexicana contains high activity of a cysteine proteinase (LmCPb) encoded on a tandem array of 19 genes (lmcpb). Homozygous null mutants for lmcpb have been produced by targeted gene disruption. All life-cycle stages of the mutant can be cultured in vitro, demonst...

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

authors： Mottram JC,Souza AE,Hutchison JE,Carter R,Frame MJ,Coombs GH

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signals through a receptor complex containing the type I (TGF-beta RI) and type II (TGF-beta RII) receptors. We describe here biochemical studies on early events in the TGF-beta signaling pathways. TGF-beta RII is highly phosphorylated when expressed alone in COS-1 cells; its...

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

authors： Chen F,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small 19- to 24-nt noncoding RNAs that have the capacity to regulate fundamental biological processes essential for cancer initiation and progression. In cancer, miRNAs may function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Here, we conducted global profiling for miRNAs in a cohort of stage 1 nonsmall ...

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

authors： Peng Y,Dai Y,Hitchcock C,Yang X,Kassis ES,Liu L,Luo Z,Sun HL,Cui R,Wei H,Kim T,Lee TJ,Jeon YJ,Nuovo GJ,Volinia S,He Q,Yu J,Nana-Sinkam P,Croce CM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction (DR), such as calorie restriction (CR) or methionine (Met) restriction, extends the lifespan of diverse model organisms. Although studies have identified several metabolites that contribute to the beneficial effects of DR, the molecular mechanism underlying the key metabolites responsible for DR re...

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

authors： Ogawa T,Tsubakiyama R,Kanai M,Koyama T,Fujii T,Iefuji H,Soga T,Kume K,Miyakawa T,Hirata D,Mizunuma M

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The E1A gene of adenovirus type 5 encodes two major proteins of 289 and 243 amino acid residues, which are identical except that the larger protein has an internal stretch of 46 amino acids required for efficient trans-activation of early viral promoters. This domain contains a consensus zinc finger motif (Cys-Xaa2-Cy...

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

authors： Culp JS,Webster LC,Friedman DJ,Smith CL,Huang WJ,Wu FY,Rosenberg M,Ricciardi RP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small, single-module proteins that fold in a single cooperative step may be paradigms for understanding early events in protein-folding pathways generally. Recent experimental studies of the 64-residue chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 (CI2) support a nucleation mechanism for folding, as do some computer stimulations. CI2 has ...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a 2.7-kilobase rat liver cDNA clone that contains the entire 544-amino acid coding sequence for matrin F/G. This protein has previously been localized to the internal, fibrogranular areas of the nuclear matrix and shown to bind to DNA on nitrocellulose blots. The predicted amino acid sequence from the...

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

authors： Hakes DJ,Berezney R

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00