Kappa opioid receptor contributes to EGF-stimulated neurite extension in development.

abstract：:Assembly of protein complexes is a key mechanism for achieving spatial and temporal coordination in processes involving many enzymes. Growth of rod-shaped bacteria is a well-studied example requiring such coordination; expansion of the cell wall is thought to involve coordination of the activity of synthetic enzymes w...

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

authors： Lee TK,Tropini C,Hsin J,Desmarais SM,Ursell TS,Gong E,Gitai Z,Monds RD,Huang KC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic markers associated with the major internal protein of RNA tumor viruses of the C-type have proven extremely useful in natural history studies of these viruses. This protein possesses species-specific antigenic determinants, and, in the case of mammalian C-type viruses, the protein possesses crossreactive det...

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

authors： Gilden RV,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ouabain-sensitive uncoupled Na+ efflux has been studied in human, pig, and rat red cells and in vesicles containing reconstituted kidney Na+/K+ pumps obtained from these same species. The red cells from the different species gave qualitatively similar results; the uncoupled Na+ efflux was 15-30% of the Na+/K+ exchange...

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

authors： Martin WH,Richards DE,Marín R,Jack-Hays M,Hoffman JF

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hoxb13 is robustly transcribed in derivatives of posterior endoderm including the colon, rectum, and the prostate gland. Transcriptional activity in the prostate persists unabated under conditions of androgen deprivation and throughout the course of disease progression in a mouse prostate cancer model. To elucidate th...

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

authors： McMullin RP,Dobi A,Mutton LN,Orosz A,Maheshwari S,Shashikant CS,Bieberich CJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrovirus containing the entire human platelet-derived growth factor B-chain (PDGF-B) gene was constructed in order to investigate the in vivo biological activity of its encoded growth factor. When this virus was introduced into newborn mice, it reproducibly generated fibrosarcomas at the site of inoculation. Provi...

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

authors： Pech M,Gazit A,Arnstein P,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of effective chemopreventive agents against prostate cancer (CaP) for humans requires conclusive evidence of their efficacy in animal models that closely emulates human disease. The autochthonous transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate (TRAMP) model, which spontaneously develops metastatic CaP, is ...

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

authors： Gupta S,Hastak K,Ahmad N,Lewin JS,Mukhtar H

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of mature erythrocytes requires multiple growth factors, but we do not know how their actions are coordinated. Here we show that erythroid progenitors from erythropoietin receptor (Epo-R)-/- fetal livers, infected in vitro with a retrovirus expressing the wild-type Epo-R, require addition of both Epo and st...

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

authors： Wu H,Klingmüller U,Acurio A,Hsiao JG,Lodish HF

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were undertaken to determine the applicability and effectiveness of immunoadsorption chromatography on anti-low density lipoprotein (LDL) columns as a plasma-cholesterol-lowering procedure. Mass production and isolation of monospecific antibodies against swine LDL (rho = 1.006-1.063 g/ml) was carried out by im...

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

authors： Stoffel W,Demant T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17 has been implicated in a number of inflammatory diseases, but the conditions of antigen exposure that drive the generation of Th17 responses have not been well defined. Epicutaneous (EC) immunization of mice with ovalbumin (OVA), which causes allergic skin inflammation with many characteristics of the skin lesio...

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

authors： He R,Oyoshi MK,Jin H,Geha RS

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bones of the flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) from 14 archaeological sites along the California coast indicate that humans hunted the species for at least 8,000 years before it was driven to extinction. Direct (14)C dates on Chendytes bones show that the duck was exploited on the southern California islands as ear...

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

authors： Jones TL,Porcasi JF,Erlandson JM,Dallas H Jr,Wake TA,Schwaderer R

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that many residues in enzyme active sites can be computationally predicted by the optimization of scoring functions based on substrate binding affinity, subject to constraints on the geometry of catalytic residues and protein stability. Here, we explore the generality of this surprising observation. ...

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

authors： Chakrabarti R,Klibanov AM,Friesner RA

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade ago, it seemed rational that our rapidly increasing knowledge of the molecular identities of tumor antigens and a deeper understanding of basic immunology would point the way to an effective therapeutic cancer vaccine. Significant progress has been made, but we do not yet have a cancer vaccine that can reliab...

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

authors： Lewis JJ

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification represents a key threat to coral reefs by reducing the calcification rate of framework builders. In addition, acidification is likely to affect the relationship between corals and their symbiotic dinoflagellates and the productivity of this association. However, little is known about how acidificat...

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

authors： Anthony KR,Kline DI,Diaz-Pulido G,Dove S,Hoegh-Guldberg O

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theoretical and experimental results point to the existence of small barriers to protein folding. These barriers can even be absent altogether, resulting in a continuous folding transition (i.e., downhill folding). With small barriers, the detailed properties of folding ensembles may become accessible to equili...

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

authors： Muñoz V,Sanchez-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrate retinal photoreceptors, photoisomerization of opsin-bound visual chromophore 11-cis-retinal to all-trans-retinal triggers phototransduction events. Regeneration of the chromophore is a critical step in restoring photoreceptors to their dark-adapted state. This regeneration process, called the retinoid cy...

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

authors： Golczak M,Kuksa V,Maeda T,Moise AR,Palczewski K

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants of isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase (IVDHase, EC 1.3.99.10) in 15 isovaleric acidemia fibroblast lines were analyzed using [35S]methionine labeling, immunoprecipitation with anti-rat IVDHase antiserum, and NaDodSo4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Five distinct variants of IVDHase were detected. The molecular ...

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

authors： Ikeda Y,Keese SM,Tanaka K

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very distinctive: neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau selectively affect pyramidal neurons of the aging association cortex that interconnect extensively through glutamate synapses on dendritic spines. In contrast, primary se...

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

authors： Carlyle BC,Nairn AC,Wang M,Yang Y,Jin LE,Simen AA,Ramos BP,Bordner KA,Craft GE,Davies P,Pletikos M,Šestan N,Arnsten AF,Paspalas CD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a special reverse transcriptase that extends one strand of the telomere repeat by using a template embedded in an RNA subunit. Like other polymerases, telomerase is believed to use a pair of divalent metal ions (coordinated by a triad of aspartic acid residues) for catalyzing nucleotide addition. Here we...

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

authors： Lue NF,Bosoy D,Moriarty TJ,Autexier C,Altman B,Leng S

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of methylation in the chemosensory response of bacteria to many attractants has been clearly established by studies in several laboratories. It has been assumed that adaptation of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli to all attractants involves methylation of a transmembrane methyl-accepting che...

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

authors： Niwano M,Taylor BL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class Ib Qa-2 molecules are expressed in tissue culture cells as approximately 40-kDa membrane-bound, glycophosphatidylinositol-linked antigens and as approximately 39-kDa soluble polypeptides. Recently, alternative splicing events which delete exon 5 from a portion of Qa-2 transcripts were demonstrated to give rise t...

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

authors： Tabaczewski P,Shirwan H,Lewis K,Stroynowski I

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal cells of the carp retina possess dopamine receptors linked to adenylate cyclase. Isolated, intact horizontal cells respond to micromolar concentrations of dopamine, whereas nanomolar concentrations of haloperidol, (+)-butaclamol, and flupenthixol block the dopamine response. Preincubation in Ringer's soluti...

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

authors： Van Buskirk R,Dowling JE

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1)-interacting proteins using a yeast two-hybrid system, we have identified histone acetyltransferase binding to the origin recognition complex 1 (Hbo1) as a potential Plk1 target. Here, we show that the interaction between Plk1 and Hbo1 is mitosis-specific and that Plk1 phosphor...

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

authors： Wu ZQ,Liu X

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine site-directed mutagenesis was used to create variants of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L7/L12 that have single cysteine substitutions, at residues 63 or 89, located in different exposed loops in the structure of the globular C-terminal domain indicated by the crystallographic structure. That structure sh...

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

authors： Oleinikov AV,Jokhadze GG,Traut RR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis, is triple-infected with distinct lineages of Wolbachia endosymbiont, wBruCon, wBruOri, and wBruAus, which were identified by their wsp (Wolbachia surface protein) gene sequences. Whereas wBruCon and wBruOri caused cytoplasmic incompatibility of the host insect, wBruAus...

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

authors： Kondo N,Nikoh N,Ijichi N,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity ligands of the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were isolated by the SELEX procedure (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment) from RNA populations randomized at 32 positions. Analysis of these ligands revealed a pseudoknot consensus with primary sequ...

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

authors： Tuerk C,MacDougal S,Gold L

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that rat glioma tumors contain a protein that crossreacts with antibody against mouse 2.5S nerve growth factor prepared in rabbit in microcomplement fixation assays and has analogous isoelectric points to all the hybrids of 2.5S nerve growth factor (a dimer). Partially purified protein preparations from ...

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

authors： Longo AM,Penhoet EE

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor DNA molecules carrying Tn1 or Tn3 deletion mutants do not need to replicate in order to participate in replicon fusion recombination events during which the Tn1/Tn3 element is duplicated. We have assayed Tn1 delta Ap-mediated replicon fusion events involving plasmid R388 and the bacteriophage lambda-derived plas...

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

authors： Muster CJ,Shapiro JA,MacHattie LA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early abstract reasoning has typically been characterized by a "relational shift," in which children initially focus on object features but increasingly come to interpret similarity in terms of structured relations. An alternative possibility is that this shift reflects a learned bias, rather than a typical waypoint a...

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

authors： Carstensen A,Zhang J,Heyman GD,Fu G,Lee K,Walker CM

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral entry into cells depends on envelope glycoproteins, whereby receptor binding to the surface-exposed subunit triggers membrane fusion by the transmembrane protein (TM) subunit. We determined the crystal structure at 2.5-A resolution of the ectodomain of gp21, the TM from human T cell leukemia virus type 1. T...

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

authors： Kobe B,Center RJ,Kemp BE,Poumbourios P

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic proteasome mediates degradation of polyubiquitinated proteins. Here we report the single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the endogenous 26S proteasome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 4.6- to 6.3-Å resolution. The fine features of the cryo-EM maps allow modeling of 18 subunits i...

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

authors： Luan B,Huang X,Wu J,Mei Z,Wang Y,Xue X,Yan C,Wang J,Finley DJ,Shi Y,Wang F

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00