Adaptive response by state-dependent inactivation.

abstract：:Quinacrine's ability to reduce levels of pathogenic prion protein (PrP(Sc)) in mouse cells infected with experimentally adapted prions led to several unsuccessful clinical studies in patients with prion diseases, a 10-y investment to understand its mechanism of action, and the production of related compounds with expe...

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

authors： Bian J,Kang HE,Telling GC

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenophosphate, an activated form of selenium that can serve as a selenium donor, is generated by the selD gene product, selenophosphate synthetase (SPS). Selenophosphate is required by several bacteria and by mammals for the specific synthesis of Secys-tRNA, the precursor of selenocysteine in selenoenzymes. Although...

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

authors： Ogasawara Y,Lacourciere GM,Ishii K,Stadtman TC

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were used to isolate nonneutralizable antigenic variants in the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein of Newcastle disease virus. It had been found that a large percentage of virus retains infectivity despite binding neutralizing antibody. This high persistent fraction of nonneutralized virus ...

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

authors： Iorio RM,Bratt MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic use of several drugs, including opiates, results in the stereotypical behaviors characteristic of addiction. Alterations in gene expression have been associated with the use of these addictive drugs. Previous studies, however, have been limited to describing changes in amounts of individual mRNAs from sing...

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

authors： Mackler SA,Eberwine JH

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Because RNAs fold as they are being synthesized, their transcription rate can affect their folding. Here, we report the results of single-molecule fluorescence studies that characterize the ligand-dependent cotranscriptional folding of the Escherichia coli thiM riboswitch that regulates translation. We found that the ...

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

authors： Uhm H,Kang W,Ha KS,Kang C,Hohng S

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated sodium (Na(V)) and potassium (K(V)) channels are critical components of neuronal action potential generation and propagation. Here, we report that Na(V)β1 encoded by SCN1b, an integral subunit of Na(V) channels, coassembles with and modulates the biophysical properties of K(V)1 and K(V)7 channels, but no...

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

authors： Nguyen HM,Miyazaki H,Hoshi N,Smith BJ,Nukina N,Goldin AL,Chandy KG

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 is a genetically tractable model cyanobacterium that has been engineered to produce industrially relevant biomolecules and is the best-studied model for a prokaryotic circadian clock. However, the organism is commonly grown in continuous light in the laboratory, and data on metabolic p...

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

authors： Diamond S,Jun D,Rubin BE,Golden SS

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning to read requires the acquisition of an efficient visual procedure for quickly recognizing fine print. Thus, reading practice could induce a perceptual learning effect in early vision. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in literate and illiterate adults, we previously demonstrated an impact of ...

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

authors： Pegado F,Comerlato E,Ventura F,Jobert A,Nakamura K,Buiatti M,Ventura P,Dehaene-Lambertz G,Kolinsky R,Morais J,Braga LW,Cohen L,Dehaene S

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects living in the temperate zone enter a physiological state of arrested or slowed development to overcome an adverse season, such as winter. Developmental arrest, called diapause, occurs at a species-specific developmental stage, and embryonic and pupal diapauses have been extensively studied in mostly holometabo...

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

authors： Miki T,Shinohara T,Chafino S,Noji S,Tomioka K

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During latent infection of humans with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bacteria persist in the asymptomatic host within granulomas, organized collections of differentiated macrophages, and other immune cells. The mechanisms for persistence remain poorly understood, as is the metabolic and replicative state of the microbes...

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

authors： Chan K,Knaak T,Satkamp L,Humbert O,Falkow S,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Superresolution fluorescence microscopy overcomes the diffraction resolution barrier and allows the molecular intricacies of life to be revealed with greatly enhanced detail. However, many current superresolution techniques still face limitations and their implementation is typically associated with a steep learning c...

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

authors： Dedecker P,Mo GC,Dertinger T,Zhang J

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Skp1-Cullin1 F-box protein-Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase regulates phosphorylation-dependent cyclin E degradation, and disruption of this pathway is associated with genetic instability and tumorigenesis. Fbw7 is a human tumor suppressor that is targeted for mutation in primary cancers. However, mechanisms other than mutat...

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

authors： Minella AC,Welcker M,Clurman BE

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are serious genomic insults that can lead to chromosomal rearrangements if repaired incorrectly. To gain insight into the nuclear mechanisms contributing to these rearrangements, we developed an assay in yeast to measure cis (same site) vs. trans (different site) repair for the majority...

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

authors： Sunder S,Wilson TE

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential nutrient for the survival of most organisms and has played a central role in the virulence of many infectious disease pathogens. Mycobacterial IdeR is an iron-dependent repressor that shows 80% identity in the functional domains with its corynebacterial homologue, DtxR (diphtheria toxin repressor)...

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

authors： Manabe YC,Saviola BJ,Sun L,Murphy JR,Bishai WR

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflict between groups of individuals is a prevalent feature in human societies. A common theoretical explanation for intergroup conflict is that it provides benefits to individuals within groups in the form of reproduction-enhancing resources, such as food, territory, or mates. However, it is not always the case tha...

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

authors： Henriques GJB,Simon B,Ispolatov Y,Doebeli M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping posttranslational modifications (PTMs), which diversely modulate biological functions, represents a significant analytical challenge. The centerpiece technology for PTM site identification, mass spectrometry (MS), requires proteolytic cleavage in the vicinity of a PTM to yield peptides for sequencing. This req...

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

authors： Tran DT,Cavett VJ,Dang VQ,Torres HL,Paegel BM

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic-cell hybrids have been shown to maintain the correct epigenetic chromatin states to study developmental globin gene expression as well as gene expression on the active and inactive X chromosomes. This suggests the potential use of somatic-cell hybrids containing either a maternal or a paternal human chromosome...

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

authors： Gabriel JM,Higgins MJ,Gebuhr TC,Shows TB,Saitoh S,Nicholls RD

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloom syndrome (BS) is a rare cancer-predisposing disorder in which the cells of affected persons have a high frequency of somatic mutation and genomic instability. BLM, the protein altered in BS, is a RecQ DNA helicase. This report shows that BLM is found in the nucleus of normal human cells in the nuclear domain 10 ...

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

authors： Yankiwski V,Marciniak RA,Guarente L,Neff NF

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) hydrolyze almost all β-lactam antibiotics and are unaffected by clinically available β-lactamase inhibitors (βLIs). Active-site architecture divides MBLs into three classes (B1, B2, and B3), complicating development of βLIs effective against all enzymes. Bisthiazolidines (BTZs) are carboxyl...

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

authors： Hinchliffe P,González MM,Mojica MF,González JM,Castillo V,Saiz C,Kosmopoulou M,Tooke CL,Llarrull LI,Mahler G,Bonomo RA,Vila AJ,Spencer J

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodicities in the polar/apolar character of the amino acid sequence of a protein can be examined by assigning to each residue a numerical hydrophobicity and searching for periodicity in the resulting one-dimensional function. The strength of each periodic component is the quantity that has been termed the hydrophob...

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

authors： Eisenberg D,Weiss RM,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The int-1 and int-2 genes were first isolated as targets for transcriptional activation by proviral insertion mutations in mammary carcinomas induced by the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). Since these proto-oncogenes are not expressed at detectable levels in previously tested normal tissues from adult mice, we sough...

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

authors： Jakobovits A,Shackleford GM,Varmus HE,Martin GR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue cultures of Actinidia kolomikta can be maintained as callus through repeated passages on a nutrient medium devoid of cytokinin but containing inorganic nutrients, sucrose, and other basal organics plus auxin. Under these conditions, actively growing callus contained 2 and 0.5 nmol of the cytokinins zeatin [io(6...

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

authors： Einset JW

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A direct method for the determination of N-linked glycosylation sites in highly glycosylated proteins is described. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and a nonspecific crossreacting antigen (NCA) were chemically deglycosylated, and peptide maps were prepared by reverse-phase HPLC. The peptides were sequenced on a gas-pha...

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

authors： Paxton RJ,Mooser G,Pande H,Lee TD,Shively JE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) is a recently recognized illness characterized by debilitating fatigue as well as immunological and neurological abnormalities [Straus, S.E. (1988) J. Inf. Dis. 157, 405-412]. Once thought to be caused by Epstein-Barr virus, it is now thought to have a different but ...

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

authors： DeFreitas E,Hilliard B,Cheney PR,Bell DS,Kiggundu E,Sankey D,Wroblewska Z,Palladino M,Woodward JP,Koprowski H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly expanded Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)-International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Expedition 364, provides an unprecedented window into the immediate aftermath of the impact. Site M0077 inclu...

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

authors： Gulick SPS,Bralower TJ,Ormö J,Hall B,Grice K,Schaefer B,Lyons S,Freeman KH,Morgan JV,Artemieva N,Kaskes P,de Graaff SJ,Whalen MT,Collins GS,Tikoo SM,Verhagen C,Christeson GL,Claeys P,Coolen MJL,Goderis S,Goto K,

更新日期：2019-09-24 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：:A human liver cDNA library was screened by colony hybridization with a bovine factor X cDNA probe. Three of the positive plasmids contained overlapping DNA that coded for most of human factor X mRNA. DNA sequence analysis of these three clones allowed the prediction of the complete amino acid sequence of plasma factor...

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

authors： Fung MR,Hay CW,MacGillivray RT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of density-dependent natural selection predict that evolution should favor those genotypes with the highest per capita rates of population growth under the current density conditions. These theories are silent about the mechanisms that may give rise to these increases in density-dependent growth rates. We hav...

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

authors： Guo PZ,Mueller LD,Ayala FJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00