Picosecond primary structural transition of the heme is retarded after nitric oxide binding to heme proteins.

abstract：:Cobra venom factor (CVF) is the complement-activating protein in cobra venom. Like C3b, CVF forms with factor B and factor D in human and mammalian serum the bimolecular C3/C5 convertase. This functional similarity of CVF and C3 correlates with many structural similarities, which led to the suggestion that CVF is evol...

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

authors： Fritzinger DC,Bredehorst R,Vogel CW

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An unbiased survey has been made of the stable, most abundant multi-protein complexes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough (DvH) that are larger than Mr approximately 400 k. The quaternary structures for 8 of the 16 complexes purified during this work were determined by single-particle reconstruction of negatively ...

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

authors： Han BG,Dong M,Liu H,Camp L,Geller J,Singer M,Hazen TC,Choi M,Witkowska HE,Ball DA,Typke D,Downing KH,Shatsky M,Brenner SE,Chandonia JM,Biggin MD,Glaeser RM

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hitherto it has not been possible to obtain spore and stalk cell differentiation of the cellular slime molds in submerged cultures. It is shown here that cells, when placed in roller tubes under an atmosphere of oxygen, will form clumps and differentiate in 48-72 hr into mature spores and stalk cells. Although differe...

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

authors： Sternfeld J,Bonner JT

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The helicity in water has been determined for several series of alanine-rich peptides that contain single lysine residues and that are N-terminally linked to a helix-inducing and reporting template termed Ac-Hel1. The helix-propagating constant for alanine (sAla value) that best fits the properties of these peptides l...

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

authors： Groebke K,Renold P,Tsang KY,Allen TJ,McClure KF,Kemp DS

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular recognition by proteins is fundamental to molecular biology. Dissection of the thermodynamic energy terms governing protein-ligand interactions has proven difficult, with determination of entropic contributions being particularly elusive. NMR relaxation measurements have suggested that changes in protein con...

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

authors： Caro JA,Harpole KW,Kasinath V,Lim J,Granja J,Valentine KG,Sharp KA,Wand AJ

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Short interfering RNA (siRNA) is widely used for studying gene function and holds great promise as a tool for validating drug targets and treating disease. A critical assumption in these applications is that the effect of siRNA on cells is specific, i.e., limited to the specific knockdown of the target gene. In this a...

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

authors： Semizarov D,Frost L,Sarthy A,Kroeger P,Halbert DN,Fesik SW

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in excitable cells often acts as a negative feedback signal on firing of action potentials and the associated voltage-gated Ca2+ influx. Increased [Ca2+]i stimulates Ca2+-sensitive K+ channels (IK-Ca), and this, in turn, hyperpolarizes the cell and inhibits Ca2+...

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

authors： Van Goor F,Krsmanovic LZ,Catt KJ,Stojilkovic SS

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a soil fungus that causes life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients and is a facultative intracellular pathogen capable of replication inside macrophages. The mechanism by which environmental fungi acquire and maintain virulence for mammalian hosts is unknown. We hypothe...

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

authors： Steenbergen JN,Shuman HA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method combining photolithography and shadow (or angle) evaporation is developed to fabricate single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) devices with tube lengths of approximately 10-50 nm between metal contacts. Large numbers of such short devices are obtained without the need of complex tools such as electron be...

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

authors： Javey A,Qi P,Wang Q,Dai H

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate dentitions are extraordinarily diverse in both morphology and regenerative capacity. The teleost order Tetraodontiformes exhibits an exceptional array of novel dental morphologies, epitomized by constrained beak-like dentitions in several families, i.e., porcupinefishes, three-toothed pufferfishes, ocean su...

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

authors： Thiery AP,Shono T,Kurokawa D,Britz R,Johanson Z,Fraser GJ

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are mammalian neurodegenerative disorders characterized by a posttranslational conversion and brain accumulation of an insoluble, protease-resistant isoform (PrP(Sc)) of the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrP(C)). Human and animal TSE agents ex...

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

authors： Casalone C,Zanusso G,Acutis P,Ferrari S,Capucci L,Tagliavini F,Monaco S,Caramelli M

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in our understanding of the immune response are allowing for the logical design of new approaches to cancer immunization. One area of interest is the development of new immune adjuvants. Immunostimulatory oligodeoxynucleotides containing the CpG motif (CpG ODN) can induce production of a wide variety o...

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

authors： Weiner GJ,Liu HM,Wooldridge JE,Dahle CE,Krieg AM

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes of some aquatic animals form images through reflective optics. Shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, and prawns possess reflecting superposition compound eyes, composed of thousands of square-faceted eye units (ommatidia). Mirrors in the upper part of the eye (the distal mirror) reflect light collected from many ommati...

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

authors： Palmer BA,Hirsch A,Brumfeld V,Aflalo ED,Pinkas I,Sagi A,Rosenne S,Oron D,Leiserowitz L,Kronik L,Weiner S,Addadi L

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 23S twisted circular form of ColE(1) DNA has been isolated from Escherichia coli as a tightly associated DNA-protein complex with a sedimentation coefficient of approximately 24S. Treatment of this complex with pronase, trypsin, sodium dodecyl sulfate, Sarkosyl, or heat results in a conversion to a slower sediment...

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

authors： Clewell DB,Helinski DR

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the multistep process of cervical cancer development, we analyzed 128 frozen cervical samples spanning normalcy, increasingly severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN1- CIN3), and cervical cancer (CxCa) from multiple perspectives, revealing a cascade of progressive changes. Compared with normal tissue, ...

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

authors： den Boon JA,Pyeon D,Wang SS,Horswill M,Schiffman M,Sherman M,Zuna RE,Wang Z,Hewitt SM,Pearson R,Schott M,Chung L,He Q,Lambert P,Walker J,Newton MA,Wentzensen N,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas tolaasii severely damages white button mushrooms by secretion of the pore-forming toxin tolaasin, the main virulence factor of brown blotch disease. Yet, fungus-associated helper bacteria of the genus Mycetocola (Mycetocola tolaasinivorans and Mycetocola lacteus) may protect their ho...

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

authors： Hermenau R,Kugel S,Komor AJ,Hertweck C

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms of asbestos-induced carcinogenesis, expression of c-fos and c-jun protooncogenes was examined in rat pleural mesothelial cells and hamster tracheal epithelial cells after exposure to crocidolite or chrysotile asbestos. In contrast to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, which induces rapid an...

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

authors： Heintz NH,Janssen YM,Mossman BT

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:B-1a cells reside in both the peritoneal cavity and the spleen. LPS stimulates splenic B-1a to differentiate to plasma cells producing natural IgM specific for microbial and self antigens. However, there are conflicting views as to whether the B-1a cells divide before this differentiation occurs, and hence how the res...

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

authors： Yang Y,Tung JW,Ghosn EE,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) at cerebellar parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell synapses must be balanced by long-term potentiation (LTP) to prevent saturation and allow reversal of motor learning. The only previously analyzed form of cerebellar LTP is induced by 4-8 Hz PF stimulation and requires cAMP but not nitric oxide...

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

authors： Lev-Ram V,Wong ST,Storm DR,Tsien RY

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A renin promoter-large tumor antigen (T antigen) fusion gene was constructed to provide a reporter function for renin expression in transgenic mice. These transgenic mice gave rise to tumors in subcutaneous soft tissue, which was attributed to transgene expression at this site. An immunohistochemical analysis of trans...

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

authors： Sigmund CD,Jones CA,Mullins JJ,Kim U,Gross KW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recognized since ancient times that malaria fever is highly periodic but the mechanism has been poorly understood. Malaria fever is related to the parasite growth cycle in erythrocytes. After a fixed period of replication, a mature parasite (schizont) causes the infected erythrocyte to rupture, releasing p...

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

authors： Kwiatkowski D,Nowak M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is a critical tumor-suppressing mechanism that restrains cancer progression at premalignant stages, in part by causing telomere dysfunction. Currently it is unknown whether this proliferative arrest presents a stable and therefore irreversible barrier to cancer progression. Here we de...

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

authors： Patel PL,Suram A,Mirani N,Bischof O,Herbig U

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens iota-toxin (Ia) mono-ADP ribosylates Arg177 of actin, leading to cytoskeletal disorganization and cell death. To fully understand the reaction mechanism of arginine-specific mono-ADP ribosyl transferase, the structure of the toxin-substrate protein complex must be characterized. Recently, we so...

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

authors： Tsurumura T,Tsumori Y,Qiu H,Oda M,Sakurai J,Nagahama M,Tsuge H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced serum testosterone (T), or hypogonadism, affects millions of men and is associated with many pathologies, including infertility, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and decreased libido and sexual function. Administering T-replacement therapy (TRT) reverses many of the symptoms associated with low T l...

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

authors： Li L,Li Y,Sottas C,Culty M,Fan J,Hu Y,Cheung G,Chemes HE,Papadopoulos V

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When deprived of D-glucose for 24 hr, chicken embryo fibroblasts exhibit a marked increase in hexose transport activity compared with that of control cells. Scatchard analysis of [3H]cytochalasin B binding to starved cell plasma membranes (46 pmol/mg) indicated a six-fold increase compared with fed cell plasma membran...

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

authors： Pessin JE,Tillotson LG,Yamada K,Gitomer W,Carter-Su C,Mora R,Isselbacher KJ,Czech MP

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenetic processes that facilitate the entry, replication, and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in the mammalian host likely include the regulated expression of specific sets of genes at different stages of infection. Identification of genes that are differentially expressed in vivo would provide in...

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

authors： Timm J,Post FA,Bekker LG,Walther GB,Wainwright HC,Manganelli R,Chan WT,Tsenova L,Gold B,Smith I,Kaplan G,McKinney JD

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous cannabinoid anandamide is removed from the synaptic space by a high-affinity transport system present in neurons and astrocytes, which is inhibited by N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-arachidonamide (AM404). After internalization, anandamide is hydrolyzed by fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), an intracellular membra...

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

authors： Fegley D,Kathuria S,Mercier R,Li C,Goutopoulos A,Makriyannis A,Piomelli D

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The science around the use of masks by the public to impede COVID-19 transmission is advancing rapidly. In this narrative review, we develop an analytical framework to examine mask usage, synthesizing the relevant literature to inform multiple areas: population impact, transmission characteristics, source control, wea...

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

authors： Howard J,Huang A,Li Z,Tufekci Z,Zdimal V,van der Westhuizen HM,von Delft A,Price A,Fridman L,Tang LH,Tang V,Watson GL,Bax CE,Shaikh R,Questier F,Hernandez D,Chu LF,Ramirez CM,Rimoin AW

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied intracellular pH (pHi) regulation in the absence of HCO3- in single mesangial cells (MCs) with the pH-sensitive dye 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(and -6)carboxyfluorescein. Our approach was to acid load the cells by an NH+4 prepulse and to monitor the subsequent pHi recovery. Previous work on MCs and other ce...

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

authors： Boyarsky G,Ganz MB,Cragoe EJ Jr,Boron WF

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors that act in hepatocyte-specific gene expression include proteins that are present mainly in liver cells (HNF-1/LFB1, C/EBP, HNF-3, HNF-4) (HNF, hepatocyte nuclear factor; C/EBP, rat enhancer binding protein) and proteins that are widely distributed (AP-1, NF-1, NF-Y/ACF). We show here that th...

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

authors： Xanthopoulos KG,Prezioso VR,Chen WS,Sladek FM,Cortese R,Darnell JE Jr

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00