Growth, geometry, and mechanics of a blooming lily.

abstract：:Studies of the fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in membranes of normal, transformed, and revertant 3T3 cells allowed estimation of microviscosities (eta) of the lipid bilayers of these cells. Fluorescence polarization values observed with normal cells were significantly lower than those obser...

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

authors： Fuchs P,Parola A,Robbins PW,Blout ER

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron far-IR spectroscopy and density-functional calculations are used to characterize the low-frequency dynamics of model heme FeCO compounds. The "doming" vibrational mode in which the iron atom moves out of the porphyrin plane while the periphery of this ring moves in the opposite direction determines the rea...

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

authors： Klug DD,Zgierski MZ,Tse JS,Liu Z,Kincaid JR,Czarnecki K,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since cdc48 mutants were isolated by the first genetic screens for cell division cycle (cdc) mutants in yeast, the requirement of the chaperone-like ATPase Cdc48/p97 during cell division has remained unclear. Here, we discover an unanticipated function for Caenorhabditis elegans CDC-48 in DNA replication linked to cel...

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

authors： Mouysset J,Deichsel A,Moser S,Hoege C,Hyman AA,Gartner A,Hoppe T

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant plasmids containing cDNA inserts from human leukocyte interferon (IFN-alpha), fibroblast interferon (IFN-beta), or immune interferon (INF-gamma) genes were radiolabeled and hybridized in situ to human metaphase chromosome preparations. The results localized the human IFN-alpha and IFN-beta genes to the sho...

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

authors： Trent JM,Olson S,Lawn RM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor protein cytoplasmic dynein is responsible for most of the minus-end-directed microtubule traffic within cells. Dynein contains four evolutionarily conserved AAA (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) domains that are thought to bind nucleotide; the role of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis in e...

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

authors： Reck-Peterson SL,Vale RD

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta plays a pivotal role in regulation of progression of cancer through effects on tumor microenvironment as well as on cancer cells. TGF-beta inhibitors have recently been shown to prevent the growth and metastasis of certain cancers. However, there may be adverse effects caused by T...

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

authors： Kano MR,Bae Y,Iwata C,Morishita Y,Yashiro M,Oka M,Fujii T,Komuro A,Kiyono K,Kaminishi M,Hirakawa K,Ouchi Y,Nishiyama N,Kataoka K,Miyazono K

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural symmetry is a hallmark of homomeric ion channels. Nonobligatory regulatory proteins can also critically define the precise functional role of such channels. For instance, the pore-forming subunit of the large conductance voltage and calcium-activated potassium (BK, Slo1, or KCa1.1) channels encoded by a sin...

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

authors： Gonzalez-Perez V,Ben Johny M,Xia XM,Lingle CJ

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents some calculated results on the vibrational structuring of the magnetic circular dichroism of the benzene (1)A(1g)"(1)B(2u) transition. The good agreement between the experimental and calculated relative intensities of the B-bands (positive magnetic circular dichroism bands) indicates that these ban...

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

authors： Shieh DJ,Lin SH,Eyring H

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report free-standing atomic crystals that are strictly 2D and can be viewed as individual atomic planes pulled out of bulk crystals or as unrolled single-wall nanotubes. By using micromechanical cleavage, we have prepared and studied a variety of 2D crystals including single layers of boron nitride, graphite, sever...

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

authors： Novoselov KS,Jiang D,Schedin F,Booth TJ,Khotkevich VV,Morozov SV,Geim AK

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein 2.1 is a 210-kilodalton protein that connects erythrocyte spectrin to the NH2-terminal cytoplasmic domain of band 3 and thereby functions as the essential linkage between the membrane skeleton and the bilayer. We cleaved this protein into specific chemical domains by limited digestion with trypsin and alpha-ch...

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

authors： Wallin R,Culp EN,Coleman DB,Goodman SR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the development of infectious cDNA clones of viral RNA genomes and the means of delivery of the in vitro-synthesized RNA into cells, alphaviruses have become an attractive system for expression of heterologous genetic information. Alphaviruses replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm, and their genetic material ca...

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

authors： Kim DY,Atasheva S,McAuley AJ,Plante JA,Frolova EI,Beasley DW,Frolov I

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the 15 extracellular domains of the mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor-2 receptor (M6P/IGF2R), domain 11 has evolved a binding site for IGF2 to negatively regulate ligand bioavailability and mammalian growth. Despite the highly evolved structural loops of the IGF2:domain 11 binding site, affinity-enh...

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

authors： Frago S,Nicholls RD,Strickland M,Hughes J,Williams C,Garner L,Surakhy M,Maclean R,Rezgui D,Prince SN,Zaccheo OJ,Ebner D,Sanegre S,Yu S,Buffa FM,Crump MP,Hassan AB

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:During or immediately after synthesis in vertebrate cells, the oncogenic protein-tyrosine kinase pp60v-src associates with the approximately 90-kDa heat-shock protein (hsp90). In this complex, pp60v-src is not functional as a kinase. When pp60v-src is subsequently found inserted into the plasma membrane, it is active ...

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

authors： Xu Y,Lindquist S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light chain allotypic determinants were demonstrated on the surface of peripheral blood lymphocytes of rabbits. By means of a combined immunofluorescent and autoradiographic technique, a great majority of the individual lymphocytes of rabbits heteroxygous at the b locus were shown to have detectable quantities of only...

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

authors： Davie JM,Paul WE,Mage RG,Goldman MB

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a neurotrophin with the ability to exert specific effects on cells of the immune system. Human monocytes/macrophages (M/M) infected in vitro with HIV type 1 (HIV-1) are able to produce substantial levels of NGF that are associated with enhanced expression of the high-affinity NGF receptor ...

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

authors： Garaci E,Caroleo MC,Aloe L,Aquaro S,Piacentini M,Costa N,Amendola A,Micera A,Caliò R,Perno CF,Levi-Montalcini R

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The VX2 carcinoma-bearing rabbit is an animal model for tumor-induced hypercalcemia, thought to be due to increased bone destruction effected by prostaglandin E2. The present experiments suggest that the pathophysiology of the hypercalcemia differs from that previously proposed. Tumor was transplanted intramuscularly ...

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

authors： Doppelt SH,Slovik DM,Neer RM,Nolan J,Zusman RM,Potts JT Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated as a pathogenic mediator in a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disease states, including the animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. We have examined post-mortem brain tissues collected from patients previously diagnosed with MS,...

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

authors： Bagasra O,Michaels FH,Zheng YM,Bobroski LE,Spitsin SV,Fu ZF,Tawadros R,Koprowski H

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The BCL2 protooncogene encodes an inner mitochondrial membrane protein that blocks programmed cell death. BCL2 was isolated from the chromosomal breakpoint of follicular B-cell lymphoma. Transgenic mice that overexpress BCL2 display extended survival of resting B cells. In this study we use a monospecific anti-human B...

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

authors： Hockenbery DM,Zutter M,Hickey W,Nahm M,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no theoretical limit in using molecular networks to harvest diffusive sun photons on large areas and funnel them onto much smaller areas of highly efficient but also precious energy-converting materials. The most effective concept reported so far is based on a pool of randomly oriented, light-harvesting donor...

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

authors： Willich MM,Wegener L,Vornweg J,Hohgardt M,Nowak J,Wolter M,Jacob CR,Walla PJ

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis of selected residues of mammalian protein phosphatase 1 (PP-1) has been carried out to further define the mechanism of catalysis, activation by divalent cations, and inhibition by toxins and inhibitory proteins. Mutation of active site residues predicted to bind metals (N124D and H248N) resul...

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

authors： Huang HB,Horiuchi A,Goldberg J,Greengard P,Nairn AC

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of the hemin-controlled repressor (HCR) from rabbit reticulocytes contain 3':5'-cyclic-AMP-independent protein kinase activity for the smallest subunit of the peptide initiation factor eIF-2 and for proteins of reticulocyte 40S ribosomal subunits. Binding of the ternary complex formed between Met-tRNAf, G...

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

authors： Kramer G,Henderson AB,Pinphanichakarn P,Wallis MH,Hardesty B

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human adults, learning and memory under acute stress are characterized by an increased use of rigid habitual response strategies at the cost of flexible cognitive strategies. The immediate effects of stress on cognitive functioning early in life are not well understood. Here we show experimentally that acute stress...

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

authors： Seehagen S,Schneider S,Rudolph J,Ernst S,Zmyj N

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pH on the membrane-fusion activity of Sendai virus was examined (pH 5.0-9.5) by using, as assays of activity, hemolysis of chicken erythrocytes and the fusion of baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells. Exposure of virus to basic pH increased fusion activity; the optimum pH was found to be approximately equal...

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

authors： Hsu MC,Scheid A,Choppin PW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterial pathogen that infects the eyes and urogenital tract. Ocular infection by this organism is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The infection is also a leading cause of sexually transmitted disease in the United States. As obligate intracellular pathogens, chlamydia...

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

authors： Lad SP,Li J,da Silva Correia J,Pan Q,Gadwal S,Ulevitch RJ,Li E

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A muscarone-binding material has been found in Torpedo electroplax. The material behaves in several ways as one would expect of the binding component of the acetylcholine receptor, especially in its high affinity for muscarone (approximate K = 7 x 10(-6)M), acetylcholine (approximate K = 1.1 x 10(-6)M), curare, and ni...

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

authors： O'Brien RD,Gilmour LP

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is a protein folding machine that is conserved from bacteria to man. Human, cytosolic Hsp90 is dedicated to folding of chiefly signal transduction components. The chaperoning mechanism of Hsp90 is controlled by ATP and various cochaperones, but is poorly understood and controversial. Here...

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

authors： Karagöz GE,Duarte AM,Ippel H,Uetrecht C,Sinnige T,van Rosmalen M,Hausmann J,Heck AJ,Boelens R,Rüdiger SG

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential phosphorylation of specific proteins by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) may be mediated in part by the anchoring of PKA to a family of A-kinase anchor proteins (AKAPs) positioned in close proximity to target proteins. This interaction is thought to depend on binding of the type II regulatory (RII) sub...

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

authors： Burton KA,Johnson BD,Hausken ZE,Westenbroek RE,Idzerda RL,Scheuer T,Scott JD,Catterall WA,McKnight GS

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon cytosolic viral DNA stimulation, cGMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) catalyzes synthesis of 2'3'cGMP-AMP (cGAMP), which binds to the adaptor protein MITA (mediator of IRF3 activation, also called STING, stimulator of IFN genes) and induces innate antiviral response. How the activity of MITA/STING is regulated to avoid exces...

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

authors： Xia T,Yi XM,Wu X,Shang J,Shu HB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. ...

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

authors： Bian J,Christiansen JR,Moreno JA,Kane SJ,Khaychuk V,Gallegos J,Kim S,Telling GC

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax uses a single member of the Duffy binding-like (DBL) receptor family to invade erythrocytes and is not found in West Africa where its erythrocyte ligand, the Duffy blood group antigen, is missing. In contrast, Plasmodium falciparum expresses four members of the DBL family, and remarkably, single-point...

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

authors： Mayer DC,Jiang L,Achur RN,Kakizaki I,Gowda DC,Miller LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00