Intermolecular associations determine the dynamics of the circadian KaiABC oscillator.

abstract：:The mechanism of phospholipase C regulation by inhibitory receptors was analyzed both in intact and in permeabilized rat thyroid cells (FRTL5). In this system, the muscarinic agonist carbachol inhibited phospholipase C, as indicated by the decrease in the basal levels of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate as well as by the ...

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

authors： Bizzarri C,Di Girolamo M,D'Orazio MC,Corda D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the integration of laser-scanning fluorometric cytometry and nonseparation ligand-binding techniques to provide new assay methods adaptable to miniaturization and high-throughput screening. Receptor-bound, cyanine dye-labeled ligands, [Cy]ligands, were discriminated from those free in solution by...

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

authors： Zuck P,Lao Z,Skwish S,Glickman JF,Yang K,Burbaum J,Inglese J

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard economic and evolutionary models assume that humans are fundamentally selfish. On this view, any acts of prosociality--such as cooperation, giving, and other forms of altruism--result from covert attempts to avoid social injunctions against selfishness. However, even in the absence of social pressure, individ...

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

authors： Zaki J,Mitchell JP

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time of flight mass spectrometry was used to detect and order DNA fragments generated by Sanger dideoxy cycle sequencing. This was accomplished by improving the sensitivity and resolution of the MALDI method using a delayed ion extraction technique (DE-MALDI). The cy...

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

authors： Roskey MT,Juhasz P,Smirnov IP,Takach EJ,Martin SA,Haff LA

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether genes escape X chromosome inactivation by positioning outside of the territory defined by XIST RNA. Results reveal an unanticipated higher order organization of genes and noncoding sequences. All 15 X-linked genes, regardless of activity, position on the border of the XIST RNA territory, which ...

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

authors： Clemson CM,Hall LL,Byron M,McNeil J,Lawrence JB

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of plant defensive genes in leaves of tomato plants in response to herbivore damage or mechanical wounding is mediated by a mobile 18-amino acid polypeptide signal called systemin. Systemin is derived from a larger, 200-amino acid precursor called prosystemin, similar to polypeptide hormones and soluble...

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

authors： Bergey DR,Howe GA,Ryan CA

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic role of endogenous IL-17A in spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis has not been addressed previously to our knowledge. Ablation of IL-17A significantly reduced tumor development in mice bearing a heterozygote mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene (Apc(Min/+) mice). There was also a decreas...

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

authors： Chae WJ,Gibson TF,Zelterman D,Hao L,Henegariu O,Bothwell AL

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that Go-deficient mice develop severe neurological defects that include hyperalgesia, a generalized tremor, lack of coordination, and a turning syndrome somewhat reminiscent of unilateral lesions of the dopaminergic nigro-striatal pathway. By using frozen coronal sections of serially sectioned b...

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

authors： Jiang M,Spicher K,Boulay G,Wang Y,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders cause much suffering and are the single greatest cause of lost productivity worldwide. Although multiple medications, along with behavioral therapies, have proven effective for some individuals, millions of people lack an effective therapeutic option. A common serotonin (5-HT) transporter (5-HTT/SERT, S...

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

authors： Baganz NL,Horton RE,Calderon AS,Owens WA,Munn JL,Watts LT,Koldzic-Zivanovic N,Jeske NA,Koek W,Toney GM,Daws LC

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones increase the level of hepatic tryptophan oxygenase (EC 1.13.11.11; L-tryptophan:oxygen 2,3-oxidoreductase (decyclizing) by increasing its rate of synthesis. Studies were performed to determine whether this induction is mediated by controlling the level of the mRNA for tryptophan oxygenase of by...

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

authors： Schutz G,Killewich L,Chen G,Feigelson P

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delivery of AMPA receptors to the plasma membrane is a critical step both for the synaptic delivery of these receptors and for the regulation of synaptic transmission. To directly visualize fusion events of transport vesicles containing the AMPA receptor GluA2 subunit with the plasma membrane we used pHluorin-tagg...

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

authors： Araki Y,Lin DT,Huganir RL

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants frequently respond to herbivorous insect attack by synthesizing defense proteins that deter insect feeding and prevent additional herbivory. Maize (Zea mays L.) lines, resistant to feeding by a number of lepidopteran species, rapidly mobilize a unique 33-kDa cysteine protease in response to caterpillar feeding....

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

authors： Pechan T,Cohen A,Williams WP,Luthe DS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disulfide bond that is evidently conserved in the guanine nucleotide-binding protein-coupled receptors is present in rhodopsin between Cys-110 and Cys-187. We have replaced these two cysteine residues by alanine residues and now report on the properties of the resulting rhodopsin mutants. The mutant protein C110A/C1...

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

authors： Davidson FF,Loewen PC,Khorana HG

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanilloid receptor subunit 1 (VR1) appears to play a critical role in the transduction of noxious chemical and thermal stimuli by sensory nerve endings in peripheral tissues. Thus, VR1 antagonists are useful compounds to unravel the contribution of this receptor to pain perception, as well as to induce analgesia. We h...

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

authors： García-Martinez C,Humet M,Planells-Cases R,Gomis A,Caprini M,Viana F,De La Pena E,Sanchez-Baeza F,Carbonell T,De Felipe C,Pérez-Paya E,Belmonte C,Messeguer A,Ferrer-Montiel A

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional mutations such as temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations are important for the analysis of protein function but are often difficult, or impossible, to obtain. Here we present a simple method for generating conditional mutations based on the use of a protein-destabilizing genetic element in combination with s...

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

authors： Park EC,Finley D,Szostak JW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While 9-O-acetylation of sialic acids has been reported in some mammalian tissues, the distribution of this modification on specific cell types and molecules is largely unknown. The influenza C virus hemagglutinin-esterase is a membrane-bound glycoprotein that binds specifically to 9-O-acetylated sialic acids (hemaggl...

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

authors： Klein A,Krishna M,Varki NM,Varki A

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate protein folding dynamics in terms of compactness, we developed a continuous-flow mixing device to make small-angle x-ray scattering measurements with the time resolution of 160 micros and characterized the radius of gyration (R(g)) of two folding intermediates of cytochrome c (cyt c). The early intermed...

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

authors： Akiyama S,Takahashi S,Kimura T,Ishimori K,Morishima I,Nishikawa Y,Fujisawa T

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Population expansion in space, or range expansion, is widespread in nature and in clinical settings. Space competition among heterogeneous subpopulations during range expansion is essential to population ecology, and it may involve the interplay of multiple factors, primarily growth and motility of individuals. Struct...

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

authors： Zuo W,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) from gram-negative bacteria and many of mitochondria and chloroplasts are β-barrels. Insertion and assembly of these proteins are catalyzed by the Omp85 protein family in a seemingly conserved process. All members of this family exhibit a characteristic N-terminal polypep...

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

authors： Sommer MS,Daum B,Gross LE,Weis BL,Mirus O,Abram L,Maier UG,Kühlbrandt W,Schleiff E

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a molecular resistance biomarker to gefitinib, epithelial membrane protein-1 (EMP-1). Gefitinib is a small-molecule inhibitor that competes for the ATP-binding site on EGF receptor (EGFR) and has been approved for patients with advanced lung cancers. Treatment with gefitinib has resulted in clinical benefi...

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

authors： Jain A,Tindell CA,Laux I,Hunter JB,Curran J,Galkin A,Afar DE,Aronson N,Shak S,Natale RB,Agus DB

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater arsenic (As) is elevated in the shallow Holocene aquifers of Bangladesh. In the dry season, the shallow groundwater discharges to major rivers. This process may influence the chemistry of the river and the hyporheic zone sediment. To assess the fate of As during discharge, surface (0-5 cm) and subsurface (...

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

authors： Datta S,Mailloux B,Jung HB,Hoque MA,Stute M,Ahmed KM,Zheng Y

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg laying hormone, a peptide neurohormone with an approximate molecular weight of 6000, was isolated from the region of the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia that contains the neuroendocrine bag cells and purified by gel filtration chromatography, isoelectric focusing, and dialysis. A 1-min local application of egg layin...

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

authors： Branton WD,Arch S,Smock T,Mayeri E

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect damage on fossil leaves from the Central Rocky Mountains, United States, documents the response of herbivores to changing regional climates and vegetation during the late Paleocene (humid, warm temperate to subtropical, predominantly deciduous), early Eocene (humid subtropical, mixed deciduous and evergreen), a...

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

authors： Wilf P,Labandeira CC,Johnson KR,Coley PD,Cutter AD

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:FKBP12-rapamycin associated protein (FRAP, also known as mTOR or RAFT) is the founding member of the phosphatidylinositol kinase-related kinase family and functions as a sensor of physiological signals that regulate cell growth. Signals integrated by FRAP include nutrients, cAMP levels, and osmotic stress, and cellula...

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

authors： Desai BN,Myers BR,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[PSI+] is a genetic element in yeast for which a heritable change in phenotype appears to be caused by a heritable change in the conformational state of the Sup35 protein. The inheritance of [PSI+] and the physical state of Sup35 in vivo depend on the protein chaperone Hsp104 (heat shock protein 104). Although these o...

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

authors： Schirmer EC,Lindquist S

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an infectious disease in the tropics and subtropics with high morbidity and mortality. The facultative intracellular bacterium induces host cell fusion through its type VI secretion system 5 (T6SS5) as an important part of its pathogenesis in mammalian h...

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

authors： Ku JWK,Chen Y,Lim BJW,Gasser S,Crasta KC,Gan YH

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is characterized by severe headaches that can be preceded by an aura likely caused by cortical spreading depression (SD). The antiepileptic pregabalin (Lyrica) shows clinical promise for migraine therapy, although its efficacy and mechanism of action are unclear. As detected by diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI)...

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

authors： Cain SM,Bohnet B,LeDue J,Yung AC,Garcia E,Tyson JR,Alles SR,Han H,van den Maagdenberg AM,Kozlowski P,MacVicar BA,Snutch TP

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain PP5 has a phosphodiesterase (PDE) deficiency that results in heat-shock sensitivity due to the intracellular accumulation of cAMP. This strain also carries the cam mutation, which confers permeability to cAMP and, as shown here, to other compounds. Expression of rat type IV PDE in these...

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

authors： Pillai R,Kytle K,Reyes A,Colicelli J

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance....

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

authors： Kristjanson P,Reid RS,Dickson N,Clark WC,Romney D,Puskur R,Macmillan S,Grace D

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00