Video force microscopy reveals the mechanics of ventral furrow invagination in Drosophila.

abstract：:In contrast to mechanisms mediating uptake of intracellular bacterial pathogens, bacterial egress and cell-to-cell transmission are poorly understood. Previously, we showed that the transmission of pathogenic mycobacteria between phagocytic cells also depends on nonlytic ejection through an F-actin based structure, ca...

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

authors： Gerstenmaier L,Pilla R,Herrmann L,Herrmann H,Prado M,Villafano GJ,Kolonko M,Reimer R,Soldati T,King JS,Hagedorn M

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:For isolated rat hepatocytes, glucagon, 3':5'-cyclic AMP, 3':5'-cyclic GMP, and epinephrine stimulate the rate of gluconeogenesis from substrates not involving pathways of mitochondrial metabolism. From estimation of the rates of glucose formation, fructose 6-phosphate phosphorylation, and lactate and pyruvate formati...

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

authors： Kneer NM,Bosch AL,Clark MG,Lardy HA

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a hypothesis that dangerous diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Alzheimer's, fatal familial insomnia, and several others are induced by propagation of wrong or misfolded conformations of some vital proteins. If for some reason the misfolded conformations were acquired by many...

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

authors： Małolepsza E,Boniecki M,Kolinski A,Piela L

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic genes for human insulin A and B chains were cloned separately in plasmid pBR322. The cloned synthetic genes were then fused to an Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene to provide efficient transcription and translation and a stable precursor protein. The insulin peptides were cleaved from beta-galactosida...

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

authors： Goeddel DV,Kleid DG,Bolivar F,Heyneker HL,Yansura DG,Crea R,Hirose T,Kraszewski A,Itakura K,Riggs AD

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant strain deficient in RNase T was isolated and used to study the role of this enzyme in Escherichia coli. Strains lacking as much as 70% of RNase T activity, alone or in combination with the absence of other RNases, display normal growth properties. However, in cca strains, which lack tRNA nucleotidyltransferas...

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

authors： Deutscher MP,Marlor CW,Zaniewski R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid and DNA sequences of the human 40-kDa keratin are reported. The DNA sequence encodes a protein of 44,098 Da, which is unique in that it lacks the terminal non-alpha-helical tail segment found in all other keratins. When the human 40-kDa keratin amino acid sequence is compared to the correspondi...

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

authors： Eckert RL

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While seeking a new host cell, obligate intracellular parasites, such as the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, must be able to endure the stress of an extracellular environment. The mechanisms Toxoplasma use to remain viable while deprived of a host cell are not understood. We have previously shown that phosphorylation of ...

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

authors： Joyce BR,Queener SF,Wek RC,Sullivan WJ Jr

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Rivers around the world are being regulated by dams to accommodate the needs of a rapidly growing global population. These regulatory efforts usually oppose the natural tendency of rivers to flood, move sediment, and migrate. Although an economic benefit, river regulation has come at unforeseen and unevaluated cumulat...

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

authors： Trush WJ,McBain SM,Leopold LB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an adaptation of the hydroxyl radical DNA "footprinting" technique that permits high-resolution mapping of protected regions of RNA. Hydroxyl radical cleaves RNA independently of base sequence and secondary structure of the RNAs examined and allows resolution of protected regions at the single nucleotide le...

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

authors： Wang XD,Padgett RA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which cells recognize and complete replicated regions at their precise doubling point must be remarkably efficient, occurring thousands of times per cell division along the chromosomes of humans. However, this process remains poorly understood. Here we show that, in Escherichia coli, the completion of...

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

authors： Wendel BM,Courcelle CT,Courcelle J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ribonuclease, RNase BN, has been identified and partially purified from a strain of Escherichia coli lacking RNase II and RNase D by using the artificial tRNA precursor tRNA-C-[14C]U as substrate. This enzyme is present in E. coli B but absent from the tRNA processing mutant strain BN which is unable to process ...

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

authors： Asha PK,Blouin RT,Zaniewski R,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a significant fraction of the Escherichia coli cytosolic proteins, the N-terminal methionine residue incorporated during the translation initiation step is excised. The N-terminal methionine excision is catalyzed by methionyl-aminopeptidase (MAP). Previous studies have suggested that the action of this enzyme could...

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

authors： Hirel PH,Schmitter MJ,Dessen P,Fayat G,Blanquet S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the mutation responsible for the autosomal recessive wasted (wst) mutation of the mouse. Wasted mice are characterized by wasting and neurological and immunological abnormalities starting at 21 days after birth; they die by 28 days. A deletion of 15.8 kb in wasted mice abolishes expression of a gene...

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

authors： Chambers DM,Peters J,Abbott CM

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to hypoxia the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) mediates transcriptional activation of a network of genes encoding erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor, and several glycolytic enzymes. HIF-1 consists of a heterodimer of two basic helix-loop-helix PAS (Per/Arnt/Sim) proteins, HIF-1alpha and ...

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

authors： Kallio PJ,Pongratz I,Gradin K,McGuire J,Poellinger L

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune dermatologic disease pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is associated with the HLA serotypes DR4 and DRw6. Susceptibility to PV could be conferred either by sequences shared between the DR4 and DRw6 haplotypes or by different sequences in these haplotypes. We have examined the distribution of DR and DQ beta-chain ...

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

authors： Scharf SJ,Friedmann A,Brautbar C,Szafer F,Steinman L,Horn G,Gyllensten U,Erlich HA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a second-order nonlinear optical process, sum-frequency generation is highly surface-specific and accordingly has been developed into a very powerful and versatile surface spectroscopic tool. It has found many unique applications in different disciplines and thus provided many exciting new research opportunities in...

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

authors： Shen YR

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Any isospectral family of two-dimensional Euclidean domains is shown to be compact in the C(infinity) topology. Previously Melrose, using heat invariants, was able to establish the C(infinity) compactness of the curvature of the boundary curves. The additional ingredient used in this paper to obtain the compactness of...

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

authors： Osgood B,Phillips R,Sarnak P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I), the major apolipoprotein in human high density lipoproteins, is involved in the disease atherosclerosis. Cloned apo A-I cDNA (pA1-3) was used as a probe in chromosome mapping studies to detect the human apo A-I structural gene sequence in human-Chinese hamster cell hybrids. Southern blot ...

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

authors： Cheung P,Kao FT,Law ML,Jones C,Puck TT,Chan L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and timely surface precipitation measurements are crucial for water resources management, agriculture, weather prediction, climate research, as well as ground validation of satellite-based precipitation estimates. However, the majority of the land surface of the earth lacks such data, and in many parts of the...

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

authors： Overeem A,Leijnse H,Uijlenhoet R

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling and two-dimensional NMR techniques enable us to identify structural features in the third variable region (V3) loop of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surface glycoprotein gp120, in particular the principal neutralizing determinant (PND), that remain conserved despite the sequence variation. ...

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

authors： Fontenot JD,Gatewood JM,Mariappan SV,Pau CP,Parekh BS,George JR,Gupta G

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several overlapping chromosomal deletions spanning the albino locus in the mouse cause perinatal lethality when homozygous and a block in the transcriptional induction of various unlinked hepatocyte-specific genes. Studies of such lethal albino deletion homozygotes in perinatal stages revealed a deficiency in the tran...

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

authors： Zaret KS,Milos P,Lia M,Bali D,Gluecksohn-Waelsch S

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for systematic peptide variation by a combination of rational and evolutionary approaches is presented. The design scheme consists of five consecutive steps: (i) identification of a "seed peptide" with a desired activity, (ii) generation of variants selected from a physicochemical space around the seed pep...

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

authors： Schneider G,Schrödl W,Wallukat G,Müller J,Nissen E,Rönspeck W,Wrede P,Kunze R

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal protein A (SpA) is anchored to the cell wall envelope of Staphylococcus aureus by sortase A, which links the threonyl (T) of its C-terminal LPXTG motif to peptidoglycan cross-bridges (i.e., Gly5). SpA binds the Fcγ domains of IgG and protects staphylococci from opsonophagocytic clearance. Moreover, SpA ...

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

authors： Becker S,Frankel MB,Schneewind O,Missiakas D

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PT), a protein produced by Bordetella pertussis, was studied for its effect on lipolysis in isolated rat epididymal adipocytes. Exposure of adipocytes to pertussis toxin resulted in a significant increase in cyclic AMP levels and lipolysis after a lag of 1-2 hr. Both the maximal rate of lipolysis and ...

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

authors： Olansky L,Myers GA,Pohl SL,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sprouty proteins act as intracellular inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Here we show that the mammalian Sprouty2 protein contains an iron-sulfur complex that can exist in an oxidized, reduced, or nitrosylated state. Purified Sprouty2 assembles into large monodisperse spheres containing approximately 24...

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

authors： Wu X,Alexander PB,He Y,Kikkawa M,Vogel PD,McKnight SL

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human fibroblast cells treated with a combination of inhibitors of protein and RNA synthesis [cycloheximide and actinomycin D as used to superinduce interferon beta (IFN-beta)] secrete two proteins with molecular masses of 22000 and 27000 kilodaltons (called 22-kDal and 27-kDal) that are precipitable with an antiserum...

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

authors： Content J,De Wit L,Pierard D,Derynck R,De Clercq E,Fiers W

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed combinatorial peptide library screening in vivo on a novel human prostate cancer xenograft that is androgen-independent and induces a robust osteoblastic reaction in bonelike matrix and soft tissue. We found two peptides, PKRGFQD and SNTRVAP, which were enriched in the tumors, targeted the cell surface of...

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

authors： Mandelin J,Cardó-Vila M,Driessen WH,Mathew P,Navone NM,Lin SH,Logothetis CJ,Rietz AC,Dobroff AS,Proneth B,Sidman RL,Pasqualini R,Arap W

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized master equations (GMEs) that contain multiple time scales have been derived quantum mechanically. The GME method has then been applied to a model of charge migration in proteins that invokes the hole hopping between local amino acid sites driven by the torsional motions of the floppy backbones. This mo...

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

authors： Schlag EW,Yang DY,Sheu SY,Selzle HL,Lin SH,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins cdc2 and cyclin form a heterodimer (maturation promoting factor) that controls the major events of the cell cycle. A mathematical model for the interactions of cdc2 and cyclin is constructed. Simulation and analysis of the model show that the control system can operate in three modes: as a steady state wi...

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

authors： Tyson JJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00