Structure of lactococcal phage p2 baseplate and its mechanism of activation.

abstract：:Chemoresistance of cisplatin therapy is related to extensive repair of cisplatin-modified DNA in the nucleus by the nucleotide excision repair (NER). Delivering cisplatin to the mitochondria to attack mitochondrial genome lacking NER machinery can lead to a rationally designed therapy for metastatic, chemoresistant ca...

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

authors： Marrache S,Pathak RK,Dhar S

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosive growth in citizen science combined with a recalcitrance on the part of mainstream science to fully embrace this data collection technique demands a rigorous examination of the factors influencing data quality and project efficacy. Patterns of contributor effort and task performance have been well reviewe...

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

authors： Parrish JK,Jones T,Burgess HK,He Y,Fortson L,Cavalier D

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is critical for host resistance to tuberculosis. T lymphocytes recognizing antigens presented by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II molecules have been found to be necessary for control of mycobacterial infection. Mice genetically deficient in the generation of MHC c...

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

authors： Teitelbaum R,Cammer M,Maitland ML,Freitag NE,Condeelis J,Bloom BR

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:MscS is a mechanosensitive channel that is ubiquitous among bacteria. Recent progress in the genome projects has revealed that homologs of MscS are also present in eukaryotes, but whether they operate as ion channels is unknown. In this study we cloned MSC1, a homolog of MscS in Chlamydomonas, and examined its functio...

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

authors： Nakayama Y,Fujiu K,Sokabe M,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The AG dinucleotide at the 3' splice sites of metazoan nuclear pre-mRNAs plays a critical role in catalytic step II of the splicing reaction. Previous studies have shown that replacement of the guanine by adenine in the AG (AG --> GG) inhibits this step. We find that the second step was even more severely inhibited by...

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

authors： Gaur RK,Beigelman L,Haeberli P,Maniatis T

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian thalamus is a critical site where early perception of sensorimotor signals is dynamically regulated by acetylcholine in a behavioral state-dependent manner. In this study, we examined how synaptic transmission is modulated by acetylcholine in auditory thalamus where sensory relay neurons form parallel lemnis...

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

authors： Mooney DM,Zhang L,Basile C,Senatorov VV,Ngsee J,Omar A,Hu B

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrying premature termination codons in 1 allele of the ABCA7 gene is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). While the primary function of ABCA7 is to regulate the transport of phospholipids and cholesterol, ABCA7 is also involved in maintaining homeostasis of the immune system. Since inflamm...

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

authors： Aikawa T,Ren Y,Yamazaki Y,Tachibana M,Johnson MR,Anderson CT,Martens YA,Holm ML,Asmann YW,Saito T,Saido TC,Fitzgerald ML,Bu G,Kanekiyo T

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Using antibodies that react selectively with peptide sequences unique to endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), we demonstrate localizations to neuronal populations in the brain. In some brain regions, such as the cerebellum and olfactory bulb, eNOS and neuronal NOS (nNOS) occur in the same cell populations, though...

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

authors： Dinerman JL,Dawson TM,Schell MJ,Snowman A,Snyder SH

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast auxiliary transcription factor GAL11, a candidate for the coactivator, was partially purified from yeast cells, and its function was characterized in a cell-free transcription system. The partially purified GAL11 protein stimulated basal transcription from the CYC1 core promoter by a factor of 4-5 at the ste...

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

authors： Sakurai H,Hiraoka Y,Fukasawa T

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In addition to its importance in human health, there is growing interest in adapting HBV and other viruses for drug delivery and other nanotechnological applications. In both contexts, precise biophysical characterization of these large macromolecular particles is fun...

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

authors： Uetrecht C,Versluis C,Watts NR,Roos WH,Wuite GJ,Wingfield PT,Steven AC,Heck AJ

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the connection between sleep and mood has long been recognized, although direct molecular evidence is lacking. We identified two rare variants in the circadian clock gene PERIOD3 (PER3-P415A/H417R) in humans with familial advanced sleep phase accompanied by higher Beck Depression Inventory and seasonality s...

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

authors： Zhang L,Hirano A,Hsu PK,Jones CR,Sakai N,Okuro M,McMahon T,Yamazaki M,Xu Y,Saigoh N,Saigoh K,Lin ST,Kaasik K,Nishino S,Ptáček LJ,Fu YH

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics of growth and decay of triplet states of molecules at known orientation in a magnetic field have been measured. Amplitudes of the zero field eigenstates in each of the eigenstates at finite field were varied by choice of orientation. No interference between the amplitudes of the zero field states was found in...

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

authors： Felix CC,Weissman SI

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the nucleotide sequence of about 1 kilobase of DNA 3' to the 5' long terminal repeat of three noninfectious ad one infectious proviral DNA clones of spleen necrosis virus, an avian retrovirus, to determine if the types of nucleic acid changes involved in retrovirus mutation shed light on special features...

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

authors： O'Rear JJ,Temin HM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We and other groups have recently reported the potentiation by ribonucleotide reductase inhibitors such as hydroxyurea of the anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) activity of purine and pyrimidine 2',3'-dideoxynucleosides in both resting and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells....

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

authors： Gao WY,Johns DG,Chokekuchai S,Mitsuya H

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Wine chemical compositions, which result from a complex interplay between environmental factors, genetic factors, and viticultural practices, have mostly been studied using targeted analyses of selected families of metabolites. Detailed studies have particularly concerned volatile and polyphenolic compounds because of...

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

authors： Gougeon RD,Lucio M,Frommberger M,Peyron D,Chassagne D,Alexandre H,Feuillat F,Voilley A,Cayot P,Gebefügi I,Hertkorn N,Schmitt-Kopplin P

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human populations have undergone dramatic expansions in size, but other than the growth associated with agriculture, the dates and magnitudes of those expansions have never been resolved. Here, we introduce two new statistical tests for population expansion, which use variation at a number of unlinked genetic markers ...

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

authors： Reich DE,Goldstein DB

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons (IFNs) are helical cytokines that have diverse biological activities despite the fact that they appear to interact with the same receptor system. To achieve a better understanding of the structural basis for the different activities of alpha and beta IFNs, we have determined the crystal structure of...

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

authors： Karpusas M,Nolte M,Benton CB,Meier W,Lipscomb WN,Goelz S

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of rapid climate change on contemporary human populations is of global concern. To contextualize our understanding of human responses to rapid climate change it is necessary to examine the archeological record during past climate transitions. One episode of abrupt climate change has been correlated with soc...

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

authors： Armit I,Swindles GT,Becker K,Plunkett G,Blaauw M

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the physical origins of phase contrast in dynamic atomic force microscopy (dAFM) in liquids where low-stiffness microcantilever probes are often used for nanoscale imaging of soft biological samples with gentle forces. Under these conditions, we show that the phase contrast derives primarily from a unique ene...

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

authors： Melcher J,Carrasco C,Xu X,Carrascosa JL,Gómez-Herrero J,José de Pablo P,Raman A

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are mammalian proteins (PrPs) with a unique pathogenic property: a nonendogenous isoform PrP(Sc) can catalyze conversion of the endogenous PrP(C) isoform into additional PrP(Sc). In this work, we demonstrate that PrP(C) helix 1 has certain properties (hydrophilicity, charge distribution) that make it unique amo...

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

authors： Morrissey MP,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been used to control the spread of seasonal flu; however, the virus continues to evolve and escape from host immune response through mutation and increasing glycosylation. Efforts have been directed toward development of a universal vaccine with broadly protective activity against multiple influenza st...

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

authors： Liao HY,Wang SC,Ko YA,Lin KI,Ma C,Cheng TR,Wong CH

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A promoterless trp-lac fusion fragment was inserted near one end of the bacterial transposon Tn5 in the correct orientation to fuse lacZ gene expression to promoters outside Tn5. The resulting transposon, Tn5 lac, retains the kanamycin-resistance gene of Tn5 and transposes in Escherichia coli at 6% the frequency of Tn...

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

authors： Kroos L,Kaiser D

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human nociceptive voltage-gated sodium channel (Na(v)1.7), a target of significant interest for the development of antinociceptive agents, is blocked by low nanomolar concentrations of (-)-tetrodotoxin(TTX) but not (+)-saxitoxin (STX) and (+)-gonyautoxin-III (GTX-III). These findings question the long-accepted view th...

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

authors： Walker JR,Novick PA,Parsons WH,McGregor M,Zablocki J,Pande VS,Du Bois J

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in growth control during development and regeneration and its dysregulation is widely implicated in various cancers. To further understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Hippo signaling regulation, we have found that activities of core Hippo si...

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

authors： Kim W,Cho YS,Wang X,Park O,Ma X,Kim H,Gan W,Jho EH,Cha B,Jeung YJ,Zhang L,Gao B,Wei W,Jiang J,Chung KS,Yang Y

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The decrease with age of the adrenal-secreted dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) in serum has suggested that it may be causally related to longevity. For the PAQUID [People (Personnes) Aged (Agées) About What (Quid, in Latin)] cohort of elderly subjects, we have previously reported higher DHEAS in men than in wome...

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

authors： Mazat L,Lafont S,Berr C,Debuire B,Tessier JF,Dartigues JF,Baulieu EE

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma concentration of the major vitamin D metabolites; 25-hydroxyvitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, and 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D were measured during pregnancy and lactation in the adult female rat. The concentrations of these metabolites were also measured in rat pups during lactation and after weaning. The pl...

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

authors： Halloran BP,Barthell EN,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, how its activation in individual tissues contributes to TZD's therapeutic action remains controversial. As TZDs are known to have receptor-independent effects, we s...

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

authors： Sugii S,Olson P,Sears DD,Saberi M,Atkins AR,Barish GD,Hong SH,Castro GL,Yin YQ,Nelson MC,Hsiao G,Greaves DR,Downes M,Yu RT,Olefsky JM,Evans RM

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) comprise a highly heritable, multifarious group of neurodevelopmental disorders, which are characterized by repetitive behaviors and impairments in social interactions. Point mutations have been identified in X-linked Neuroligin (NLGN) 3 and 4X genes in patients with ASDs and all of th...

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

authors： Bemben MA,Nguyen QA,Wang T,Li Y,Nicoll RA,Roche KW

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells react to extremely small numbers of activating agonist peptides. Spatial organization of T-cell receptors (TCR) and their peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) ligands into microclusters is correlated with T-cell activation. Here we have designed an experimental strategy that enables control over the...

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

authors： Manz BN,Jackson BL,Petit RS,Dustin ML,Groves J

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00