Structure of deviations from optimality in biological systems.

abstract：:Five peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences predicted from all three reading frames of the nucleotide sequence of the third internal repeat array (IR3) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome were synthesized chemically. All five peptides elicited antipeptide antibodies in rabbits. The antiserum raised against ...

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

authors： Dillner J,Sternås L,Kallin B,Alexander H,Ehlin-Henriksson B,Jörnvall H,Klein G,Lerner R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli containing multiple copies of the lac y gene were frozen in liquid nitrogen before or after generation of a proton electrochemical gradient (interior negative and alkaline) and irradiated with a high-energy electron beam at -135 degrees C. Subsequently, the ...

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

authors： Goldkorn T,Rimon G,Kempner ES,Kaback HR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) patients carry a missense mutation in ACVR1 [617G > A (R206H)] that leads to hyperactivation of BMP-SMAD signaling. Contrary to a previous study, here we show that FOP fibroblasts showed an increased efficiency of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) generation. This positiv...

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

authors： Hayashi Y,Hsiao EC,Sami S,Lancero M,Schlieve CR,Nguyen T,Yano K,Nagahashi A,Ikeya M,Matsumoto Y,Nishimura K,Fukuda A,Hisatake K,Tomoda K,Asaka I,Toguchida J,Conklin BR,Yamanaka S

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As new disease threats arise and existing pathogens grow resistant to conventional interventions, attention increasingly focuses on the development of vaccines to induce protective immune responses. Given their admirable safety records, protein subunit vaccines are attractive for widespread immunization, but their dis...

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

authors： Chen DJ,Osterrieder N,Metzger SM,Buckles E,Doody AM,DeLisa MP,Putnam D

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent characterization of the prokaryotic Cys(2)His(2) zinc-finger domain, identified in Ros protein from Agrobacterium tumefaciens, has demonstrated that, although possessing a similar zinc coordination sphere, this domain is structurally very different from its eukaryotic counterpart. A search in the databases ...

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

authors： Baglivo I,Russo L,Esposito S,Malgieri G,Renda M,Salluzzo A,Di Blasio B,Isernia C,Fattorusso R,Pedone PV

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural gene for the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase (nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase; EC 2.7.7.6) has been identified and mapped between spcA and trkA, near 64 min on the E. coli chromosome. It appears to be coordinately expressed and possibly cotranscribed with the genes for ribosomal proteins...

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

authors： Jaskunas SR,Burgess RR,Nomura M

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal cell (PC) plays an important role in normal gastric physiology and in common diseases of the stomach. Although the genes involved in acid secretion are well known, there is limited molecular information about other aspects of PC function. We have generated a comprehensive database of genes expressed prefe...

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

authors： Mills JC,Syder AJ,Hong CV,Guruge JL,Raaii F,Gordon JI

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here on the isolation and characterization of a serotonin (5HT) transporter from Drosophila melanogaster. A 3.1-kb complementary DNA clone (dSERT) was found to encode a protein of 622 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular mass of approximately 69 kDa and a putative transmembrane topology characteris...

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

authors： Demchyshyn LL,Pristupa ZB,Sugamori KS,Barker EL,Blakely RD,Wolfgang WJ,Forte MA,Niznik HB

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we extend the well-known Vitali-Hahn-Saks and Nikodým theorems for measures to finitely additive vector-valued set functions. ...

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

authors： Brooks JK,Jewett RS

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, biosynthesis of the essential thiol antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), is plastid-regulated, but many GSH functions, including heavy metal detoxification and plant defense activation, depend on cytosolic GSH. This finding suggests that plastid and cytosol thiol pools are closely integrated and we...

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

authors： Maughan SC,Pasternak M,Cairns N,Kiddle G,Brach T,Jarvis R,Haas F,Nieuwland J,Lim B,Müller C,Salcedo-Sora E,Kruse C,Orsel M,Hell R,Miller AJ,Bray P,Foyer CH,Murray JA,Meyer AJ,Cobbett CS

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented assemblies of small crystals forming larger structures are common in nature and crucial for forthcoming technologies as they circumvent the difficulties of structural manipulation at microscopic scale. We have discovered two distinctive concentric assemblies of zinc oxide rods, wherein each rod has an intrins...

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

authors： Gautam UK,Imura M,Rout CS,Bando Y,Fang X,Dierre B,Sakharov L,Govindaraj A,Sekiguchi T,Golberg D,Rao CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of ubiquitous proteins that are the intracellular target of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A. Although cyclophilins catalyze peptidylprolyl cis-trans isomerization in vitro, it has remained open whether they also perform this function in vivo. Here we show that Cpr3p, a cyclophilin in...

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

authors： Matouschek A,Rospert S,Schmid K,Glick BS,Schatz G

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The E3 ubiquitin ligase X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) acts as a molecular rheostat for the immune deficiency (IMD) pathway of the tick Ixodes scapularis How XIAP activates the IMD pathway in response to microbial infection remains ill defined. Here, we identified the XIAP enzymatic substrate p47 as a positive...

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

authors： McClure Carroll EE,Wang X,Shaw DK,O'Neal AJ,Oliva Chávez AS,Brown LJ,Boradia VM,Hammond HL,Pedra JHF

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated rat brain cDNA clones encoding AE2, a homologue of the erythrocyte anion exchanger, band 3 (AE1). Immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization reveal that, in brain, AE2 expression is restricted to the basolateral membrane of the choroid plexus epithelium. Expression of a full-length mouse AE2 cDNA i...

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

authors： Lindsey AE,Schneider K,Simmons DM,Baron R,Lee BS,Kopito RR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkitt's lymphomas, linked by previous studies with the DNA-containing Epstein-Barr virus, contain an RNA related in sequence to that of Rauscher leukemia virus. The present study establishes that the viral-related RNA found in Burkitt's tumors is a 70S component encapsulated with RNA-instructed DNA polymerase in a p...

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

authors： Kufe D,Magrath IT,Ziegler JL,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is a central organ for the synthesis and storage of nutrients, production of serum proteins and hormones, and breakdown of toxins and metabolites. Because the liver is susceptible to toxin- or pathogen-mediated injury, it maintains a remarkable capacity to regenerate by compensatory growth. Specifically, in ...

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

authors： Goh YP,Henderson NC,Heredia JE,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Lehwald N,Nguyen KD,Sheppard D,Mukundan L,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA coding for protein C has been cloned from a bovine liver library in plasmid vector pBR322 and its sequence has been determined. Two overlapping clones code for the entire light and heavy chains of the mature protein, as well as a previously unreported connecting dipeptide (Lys-Arg) and a 39-amino acid leader pept...

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

authors： Long GL,Belagaje RM,MacGillivray RT

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that exposure to solar UVB (290-320 nm) gives rise to mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that initiate the molecular cascade toward skin cancer. Although UVA (320-400 nm) has also been implicated in multistage photocarcinogenesis, its potential contribution to sunlight mutagenesis...

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

authors： Drobetsky EA,Turcotte J,Châteauneuf A

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant viruses alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) and brome mosaic virus (BMV) each divide their genetic information among three RNAs while tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) contains a single genomic RNA. Amino acid sequence comparisons suggest that the single proteins encoded by AMV RNA 1 and BMV RNA 1 and by AMV RNA 2 and BMV R...

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

authors： Haseloff J,Goelet P,Zimmern D,Ahlquist P,Dasgupta R,Kaesberg P

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4 receptor contributes to T-cell activation by coligating major histocompatibility complex class II on antigen presenting cells with the T-cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex, and triggering a cascade of signaling events including tyrosine phosphorylation of intracellular proteins. Paradoxically, CD3 cross-linking p...

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

authors： Desbarats J,Freed JH,Campbell PA,Newell MK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is the sole source of the anticancer drugs vinblastine and vincristine, bisindole alkaloids derived from the dimerization of the terpenoid indole alkaloids vindoline and catharanthine. Full elucidation of the biosynthetic pathways of these compounds is a prerequisite for met...

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

authors： Liscombe DK,Usera AR,O'Connor SE

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In most genome-wide linkage studies, implication of a causative disease gene often requires years of expanding the study to more families and finer mapping of the initially described region. Even after such efforts, unobtainable sample sizes can be required to make statistically meaningful conclusions about a single g...

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

authors： Antinozzi PA,Garcia-Diaz A,Hu C,Rothman JE

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do members of the public share some scientific findings and not others? What can scientists do to increase the chances that their findings will be shared widely among nonscientists? To address these questions, we integrate past research on the psychological drivers of interpersonal communication with a study exami...

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

authors： Milkman KL,Berger J

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamic network of e-mail traffic and find that it develops self-organized coherent structures similar to those appearing in many nonlinear dynamic systems. Such structures are uncovered by a general information theoretic approach to dynamic networks based on the analysis of synchronization among trios of...

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

authors： Eckmann JP,Moses E,Sergi D

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzyme for transcription of protein-encoding genes in eukaryotes is RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). The recruitment of this enzyme during transcription initiation and its passage along the template during transcription elongation is regulated through the association and dissociation of several complexes. Elongator...

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

authors： Nelissen H,Fleury D,Bruno L,Robles P,De Veylder L,Traas J,Micol JL,Van Montagu M,Inzé D,Van Lijsebettens M

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the DNA sequence of the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium strain NGR234, we predicted potential rearrangements generated by homologous recombination. All predicted rearrangements were identified experimentally by using a PCR-based methodology. Thus, the predicted and the actual dynamic maps of the replicon coinc...

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

authors： Flores M,Mavingui P,Perret X,Broughton WJ,Romero D,Hernández G,Dávila G,Palacios R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 1,163-base-pair fragment that encodes the entire thyA gene of Escherichia coli K-12 was determined. The strategy involved sequence determination of both DNA strands by using overlapping deletions that had been generated in vitro from the two ends of the fragment with BAL-31 nuclease. The a...

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

authors： Belfort M,Maley G,Pedersen-Lane J,Maley F

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most kinases are capable of recognizing and phosphorylating peptides containing short, linear sequence motifs. To measure the activation state of many kinases from the same cell lysate, we created a multiplexed, mass-spectrometry-based in vitro kinase assay. Ninety chemically synthesized peptides derived from well-cha...

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

authors： Yu Y,Anjum R,Kubota K,Rush J,Villen J,Gygi SP

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increasing number of regulatory proteins identified in clathrin-independent endocytic (CIE) pathways, our understanding of the exact functions of these proteins and the sequential manner in which they function remains limited. In this study, using the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine as a model, we observe...

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

authors： Chen S,Li L,Li J,Liu B,Zhu X,Zheng L,Zhang R,Xu T

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain mutations at the glaB locus result in the failure to fully derepress glutamine synthetase [L-glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.1.2] and to convert it to the active nonadenylylated form in response to nitrogen limitation. In these mutants the PII regulatory protein is altered such that it cannot be...

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

authors： Foor F,Reuveny Z,Magasanik B

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00