Negative charge at the casein kinase II phosphorylation site is important for transformation but not for Rb protein binding by the E7 protein of human papillomavirus type 16.

abstract：:Hox genes encode transcription factors widely used for diversifying animal body plans in development and evolution. To achieve functional specificity, Hox proteins associate with PBC class proteins, Pre-B cell leukemia homeobox (Pbx) in vertebrates, and Extradenticle (Exd) in Drosophila, and were thought to use a uniq...

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

authors： Saadaoui M,Merabet S,Litim-Mecheri I,Arbeille E,Sambrani N,Damen W,Brena C,Pradel J,Graba Y

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the pharmacologic and neurotoxic properties of 2,4,5-trihydroxyphenylalanine [topa; the 6-hydroxylated derivative of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa)] in central neurons. Application of solutions of topa to the chicken eyecup preparation results in glutamatergic responses mediated predominantly b...

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

authors： Rosenberg PA,Loring R,Xie Y,Zaleskas V,Aizenman E

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences is a set of known backbone structures for each protein, a rotamer library, and a well established classical empirical for...

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

authors： Jaramillo A,Wernisch L,Héry S,Wodak SJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo, we transplanted glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) heterozygous (female Safari) cats with small amounts of autologous marrow. The G6PD phenotypes of erythroid burst-forming units and granulocyte/macrophage colony-forming units were repeatedly assayed for...

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

authors： Abkowitz JL,Persik MT,Shelton GH,Ott RL,Kiklevich JV,Catlin SN,Guttorp P

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least three short-range gap repressors in the precellular Drosophila embryo: Krüppel, Knirps, and Giant. Krüppel and Knirps contain related repression motifs, PxDLSxH and PxDLSxK, respectively, which mediate interactions with the dCtBP corepressor protein. Here, we present evidence that Giant might also i...

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

authors： Nibu Y,Levine MS

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of refolding of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (EC 1.5.1.3) have been examined upon dilution of unfolded enzyme in 4.5 M urea to 1.29 M urea in 0.02 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) at 10 degrees C. Changes in the intrinsic protein fluorescence on refolding are characterized by four phases. Based on ...

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

authors： Frieden C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the defensive behavior of honeybees under controlled experimental conditions. During an attack on two identical targets, the spatial distribution of stings varied as a function of the total number of stings, evincing the classic "pitchfork bifurcation" phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics. The experimental...

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

authors： Millor J,Pham-Delegue M,Deneubourg JL,Camazine S

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface antigen detected by the monoclonal antibody JONES is expressed in the retina and a number of other central nervous system regions of the rat during the latter part of embryonic development and the early postnatal period. In addition to the expression on certain neuroblast populations it is found on so...

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

authors： Blum AS,Barnstable CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells recognize alloantigens on normal cells. One of these alloantigens correlates with homozygosity for a dimorphism of HLA-C at positions 77-80, which is shared by a number of HLA-C alleles. A second allelic alloantigen correlates with homozygosity for the alternative HLA-C dimorphism, which is s...

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

authors： Colonna M,Borsellino G,Falco M,Ferrara GB,Strominger JL

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome duplication followed by massive gene loss has permanently shaped the genomes of many higher eukaryotes, particularly angiosperms. It has long been believed that a primary advantage of genome duplication is the opportunity for the evolution of genes with new functions by modification of duplicated genes. If so, ...

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

authors： Chapman BA,Bowers JE,Feltus FA,Paterson AH

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of life expectancy in 1963 reveals twin peaks in the empirical distribution across countries: one group of countries clustered around a life expectancy of 40 years and a second group clustered around a life expectancy of 65 years. By 2003, the mode of each cluster had moved up by approximately 10 years....

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

authors： Bloom DE,Canning D

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex I functions as a redox-linked proton pump in the respiratory chains of mitochondria and bacteria, driven by the reduction of quinone (Q) by NADH. Remarkably, the distance between the Q reduction site and the most distant proton channels extends nearly 200 Å. To elucidate the molecular origin of this long-range...

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

authors： Sharma V,Belevich G,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Róg T,Vattulainen I,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M,Hummer G,Kaila VR

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Frizzled polypeptides are integral membrane proteins that recently were shown to function as receptors for Wnt signaling molecules. Here, we report the identification of a novel, secreted 36-kDa protein that contains a region homologous to a putative Wnt-binding domain of Frizzleds. This protein, called Frizzled-relat...

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

authors： Finch PW,He X,Kelley MJ,Uren A,Schaudies RP,Popescu NC,Rudikoff S,Aaronson SA,Varmus HE,Rubin JS

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancing immune responses with immune-modulatory monoclonal antibodies directed to inhibitory immune receptors is a promising modality in cancer therapy. Clinical efficacy has been demonstrated with antibodies blocking inhibitory immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) or PD-1/...

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

authors： Romano E,Kusio-Kobialka M,Foukas PG,Baumgaertner P,Meyer C,Ballabeni P,Michielin O,Weide B,Romero P,Speiser DE

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Identified over a dozen years ago in the brain and pancreatic islet, βIV-spectrin is critical for the local organization of protein complexes throughout the nervous system. βIV-Spectrin targets ion channels and adapter proteins to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier in neurons, and βIV-spectrin dysfunction unde...

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

authors： Kline CF,Wright PJ,Koval OM,Zmuda EJ,Johnson BL,Anderson ME,Hai T,Hund TJ,Mohler PJ

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression for the equilibrium of the mean phenotypic value of a quantitative character is derived for a model in which the fitness of an individual depends on its own phenotype and the mean phenotypic value of a group of related individuals. When selection is weak the equilibrium mean is well predicted by Hamilton...

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

authors： Boyd R,Richerson PJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most animals, longevity is achieved at the expense of fertility, but queen honey bees do not show this tradeoff. Queens are both long-lived and fertile, whereas workers, derived from the same genome, are both relatively short-lived and normally sterile. It has been suggested, on the basis of results from workers, t...

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

authors： Corona M,Velarde RA,Remolina S,Moran-Lauter A,Wang Y,Hughes KA,Robinson GE

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change, water supply limits, and continued population growth have intensified the search for measures to conserve water in irrigated agriculture, the world's largest water user. Policy measures that encourage adoption of water-conserving irrigation technologies are widely believed to make more water available ...

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

authors： Ward FA,Pulido-Velazquez M

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect molting and metamorphosis are induced by steroid hormones named ecdysteroids, whose production is regulated by various neuropeptides. We cloned the gene and analyzed the expression of the prothoracicostatic peptide, a unique neuropeptide shown to suppress the production of ecdysteroids in the prothoracic gland ...

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

authors： Yamanaka N,Hua YJ,Roller L,Spalovská-Valachová I,Mizoguchi A,Kataoka H,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both naturally occurring and synthetic phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) molecules show the phenomenon of spontaneous vesiculation on jump in pH value. This method involves a transient increase in pH of smectic PtdOH dispersions to values between 10 and 12. Such a pH increase induces spontaneous vesiculation with the formatio...

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

authors： Hauser H

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length tissue factor (flTF), the coagulation initiator, is overexpressed in breast cancer (BrCa), but associations between flTF expression and clinical outcome remain controversial. It is currently not known whether the soluble alternatively spliced TF form (asTF) is expressed in BrCa or impacts BrCa progression....

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

authors： Kocatürk B,Van den Berg YW,Tieken C,Mieog JS,de Kruijf EM,Engels CC,van der Ent MA,Kuppen PJ,Van de Velde CJ,Ruf W,Reitsma PH,Osanto S,Liefers GJ,Bogdanov VY,Versteeg HH

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional unit molecular size of the intestinal brush border membrane-bound Na+/glucose cotransporter was determined by radiation inactivation. Purified brush border membrane vesicles preserved in cryoprotectant buffer were irradiated (-135 degrees C) with high-energy electrons from a 13-MeV (1 eV = 1.602 x 10(-1...

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

authors： Stevens BR,Fernandez A,Hirayama B,Wright EM,Kempner ES

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that the transcription of various ribosomal proteins can be differentially affected by polyamines and by changes in growth rates. Using strain MG1655 of Escherichia coli K-12 (F-, lambda-), we have determined the effects of polyamines and changes in growth rate on the transcription of several ribosomal genes a...

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

authors： Huang SC,Panagiotidis CA,Canellakis ES

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastogenesis is a hierarchical process by which cells form functional elastic fibers, providing elasticity and the ability to regulate growth factor bioavailability in tissues, including blood vessels, lung, and skin. This process requires accessory proteins, including fibulin-4 and -5, and latent TGF binding protein...

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

authors： Kumra H,Nelea V,Hakami H,Pagliuzza A,Djokic J,Xu J,Yanagisawa H,Reinhardt DP

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular matrix protein, cytotactin, with widespread tissue distribution has been identified, isolated, and partially characterized. Cytotactin mediates glia-neuron adhesion in vitro, but unlike Ng-CAM, the neuron-glia cell-adhesion molecule, it is absent from neurons. Cytotactin was isolated from 14-day embry...

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

authors： Grumet M,Hoffman S,Crossin KL,Edelman GM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins have been identified that protect Drosophila telomeres from fusion events. They include UbcD1, HP1, HOAP, the components of the Mre11-Rad50-Nbs (MRN) complex, the ATM kinase, and the putative transcription factor Woc. Of these proteins, only HOAP has been shown to localize specifically at telomeres. H...

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

authors： Raffa GD,Siriaco G,Cugusi S,Ciapponi L,Cenci G,Wojcik E,Gatti M

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper regulation of the intracellular ion concentration is essential to maintain life and is achieved by ion transporters that transport their substrates across the membrane in a strictly regulated manner. MgtE is a Mg(2+) transporter that may function in the homeostasis of the intracellular Mg(2+) concentration. A r...

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

authors： Ishitani R,Sugita Y,Dohmae N,Furuya N,Hattori M,Nureki O

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and convenient method has been devised to determine the binding sites for proteins on RNA. The procedure is an adaptation of one used to map DNA-protein complexes by protection against nuclease digestion. The method uses the cytotoxic ribonuclease alpha-sarcin, which hydrolyzes purines in both single- and doub...

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

authors： Huber PW,Wool IG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum produce rhizobitoxine, a phytotoxin that causes foliar chlorosis on susceptible host plants. We have previously obtained Tn5-induced rhizobitoxine null mutants of B. japonicum. DNA sequence analysis of the region surrounding two Tn5 insertions identifies two overlapping open re...

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

authors： Ruan X,Zhang C,Peters NK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00