Probing osmolyte participation in the unfolding transition state of a protein.

abstract：:Various reconstructive procedures have been attempted to restore a cosmetically acceptable phallus that would allow normal reproductive, sexual, and urinary function in patients requiring penile reconstruction. However, these procedures are limited by a shortage of native penile tissue. We previously demonstrated that...

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

authors： Chen KL,Eberli D,Yoo JJ,Atala A

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an unconventional agent, a normal cellular protein is converted to an abnormal form that copurifies with infectivity and aggregates to form deposits of amyloid. We have used immunocytochemistry and methods that enhance detection of amyloidog...

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

authors： Diedrich JF,Bendheim PE,Kim YS,Carp RI,Haase AT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently characterized corticosteroid receptor on amphibian neuronal membranes appears to mediate rapid, stress-induced changes in male reproductive behaviors. Because the transduction mechanisms associated with this receptor are unknown, we performed radioligand binding studies to determine whether this steroid r...

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

authors： Orchinik M,Murray TF,Franklin PH,Moore FL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The domestication of cultivated barley has been used as a model system for studying the origins and early spread of agrarian culture. Our previous results indicated that the Tibetan Plateau and its vicinity is one of the centers of domestication of cultivated barley. Here we reveal multiple origins of domesticated bar...

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

authors： Dai F,Chen ZH,Wang X,Li Z,Jin G,Wu D,Cai S,Wang N,Wu F,Nevo E,Zhang G

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Here we studied some phenotypic features of a well-established animal model of type 2 diabetes, the leptin receptor-deficient db(-)/db(-) mouse, and also the effect of long-term (6 mo) treatment with coenzyme Q10 (...

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

authors： Shi TJ,Zhang MD,Zeberg H,Nilsson J,Grünler J,Liu SX,Xiang Q,Persson J,Fried KJ,Catrina SB,Watanabe M,Arhem P,Brismar K,Hökfelt TG

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial barrier disruption is a major cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the mechanism through which epigenetic regulation modulates intestinal epithelial integrity remains largely undefined. Here we show that EZH2, the catalytic subunit of polycomb repressive complex (PRC2), is indispensable for m...

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

authors： Liu Y,Peng J,Sun T,Li N,Zhang L,Ren J,Yuan H,Kan S,Pan Q,Li X,Ding Y,Jiang M,Cong X,Tan M,Ma Y,Fu D,Cai S,Xiao Y,Wang X,Qin J

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cells take residence in metabolic tissues, providing a framework for direct regulation of nutrient metabolism. Despite conservation of this anatomic relationship through evolution, the signals and mechanisms by which the immune system regulates nutrient homeostasis and insulin action remain poorly understood. H...

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

authors： Ricardo-Gonzalez RR,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Jouihan H,Morel CR,Heredia JE,Mukundan L,Wu D,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic elements, although required only in trace amounts, permit life and primary productivity because of their functions in catalysis. Every organism has a minimal requirement of each metal based on the intracellular abundance of proteins that use inorganic cofactors, but elemental sparing mechanisms can reduce th...

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

authors： Kropat J,Gallaher SD,Urzica EI,Nakamoto SS,Strenkert D,Tottey S,Mason AZ,Merchant SS

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reconstructions of marine fishing fleets have aggregated data without regard to the artisanal and industrial sectors. Engine power has often been estimated from subsets of the developed world, leading to inflated results. We disaggregated data into three sectors, artisanal (unpowered/powered) and industrial, ...

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

authors： Rousseau Y,Watson RA,Blanchard JL,Fulton EA

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulosic plant biomass is an attractive feedstock for the production of sustainable biofuels, but the commercialization of such products is hampered by the high costs of processing this material into fermentable sugars (saccharification). One approach to lowering these costs is to produce crops with cell walls ...

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

authors： Marriott PE,Sibout R,Lapierre C,Fangel JU,Willats WG,Hofte H,Gómez LD,McQueen-Mason SJ

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:With the goal of developing techniques for DNA insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish, we established procedures for rapidly obtaining and injecting large numbers of fertilized eggs. Using either of two plasmid constructs, we injected uncut DNA into fertilized eggs at the one- or two-cell stage. Fish hatched from inject...

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

authors： Culp P,Nüsslein-Volhard C,Hopkins N

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in understanding enzyme regulation is to define the conformational states that account for allosteric changes in catalytic activity. For Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC) the active, relaxed (R state) holoenzyme is generally assumed to be represented by the crystal structure o...

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

authors： Endrizzi JA,Beernink PT,Alber T,Schachman HK

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of a number of genes encoding products involved in copper ion uptake in yeast is specifically inhibited by copper ions. We show here that copper metalloregulation occurs through Cu-dependent repression of the transactivation activity of Mac1p. A segment of the yeast transcription factor Mac1p was identi...

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

authors： Graden JA,Winge DR

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate transcarbamoylase (EC 2.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli contains six zinc ions per molecule. Renaturation studies of this allosteric enzyme and its isolated subunits show that the metal binding site is in the regulatory polypeptide chain. Ultraviolet difference spectra of the cadmium and zinc derivatives have b...

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

authors： Rosenbusch JP,Weber K

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the human major histocompatibility complex class II genes requires at least two upstream elements, the X and Y boxes, located in the -50- to -150-base-pair region of all class II promoters. The DRA and DPB promoters contain phorbol ester-responsive elements overlapping the 3' side of thei...

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

authors： Ono SJ,Bazil V,Levi BZ,Ozato K,Strominger JL

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin provides a classical model of a globular protein, yet how the hormone changes conformation to engage its receptor has long been enigmatic. Interest has focused on the C-terminal B-chain segment, critical for protective self-assembly in β cells and receptor binding at target tissues. Insight may be obtained fro...

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

authors： Menting JG,Yang Y,Chan SJ,Phillips NB,Smith BJ,Whittaker J,Wickramasinghe NP,Whittaker LJ,Pandyarajan V,Wan ZL,Yadav SP,Carroll JM,Strokes N,Roberts CT Jr,Ismail-Beigi F,Milewski W,Steiner DF,Chauhan VS,Ward CW,Weis

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The human aspects of conservation are often overlooked but will be critical for identifying strategies for biological conservation in the face of climate change. We surveyed the behavioral intentions of coastal landowners with respect to various conservation strategies aimed at facilitating ecosystem migration for tid...

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

authors： Field CR,Dayer AA,Elphick CS

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Brood parasitism as an alternative female breeding tactic is particularly common in ducks, where hosts often receive eggs laid by parasitic females of the same species and raise their offspring. Herein, we test several aspects of a kin selection explanation for this phenomenon in goldeneye ducks (Bucephala clangula) b...

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

authors： Andersson M,Ahlund M

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are described for the removal of the sporophytic pollen grain coating of Brassica oleracea and for the isolation of coat polypeptides. The coat contains a small number of proteins ranging from 6 to 45 kDa. Many of the larger proteins are glycosylated, while all carry high positive charges resulting in pI value...

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

authors： Doughty J,Hedderson F,McCubbin A,Dickinson H

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly([14C]adenosine diphosphate ribose) was synthesized from [14C]NAD+ with calf thymus nuclei. The fraction containing poly(adenosine diphosphate ribose) eluted with 0.22--0.40 M phosphate buffer (pH 6.8) from a hydroxylapatite column, was completely hydrolyzed with venom phosphodiesterase, and was separated by DEAE-...

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

authors： Miwa M,Saikawa N,Yamaizumi Z,Nishimura S,Sugimura T

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Notch signaling in cartilage differentiation and maturation in vivo was examined. Conditional Notch pathway gain and loss of function was achieved using a Cre/loxP approach to manipulate Notch signaling in cartilage precursors and chondrocytes of the developing mouse embryo. Conditional overexpression of a...

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

authors： Mead TJ,Yutzey KE

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to be synchronized by light-dark cycles is a fundamental property of circadian clocks. Although there are indications that circadian clocks are extremely light-sensitive and that they can be set by the low irradiances that occur at dawn and dusk, this has not been shown on the cellular level. Here, we demo...

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

authors： Bachleitner W,Kempinger L,Wülbeck C,Rieger D,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most growth factors are initially synthesized as precursor proteins and subsequently processed into their mature form by proteolytic cleavage, resulting in simultaneous removal of a pro-peptide. However, compared with that of mature form, the biological role of the pro-peptide is poorly understood. Here, we investigat...

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

authors： Mizui T,Ishikawa Y,Kumanogoh H,Lume M,Matsumoto T,Hara T,Yamawaki S,Takahashi M,Shiosaka S,Itami C,Uegaki K,Saarma M,Kojima M

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of a small number of cells from each of two chemically induced BALB/c sarcomas was enhanced when x-irradiated (15,000 rads) cells of the same sarcoma were mixed with the tumor inoculum. This enhancement did not occur if the recipients had been given a total body x-irradiation of 450 rads. Tumor neutralizati...

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

authors： Hellström KE,Hellström I

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and epidemiological synergy exists between the globally important sexually transmitted infections, gonorrhea and HIV. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea, is particularly adept at driving HIV-1 expression, but the molecular determinants of this relationship remain undefined. N. gonorrhoeae liberates...

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

authors： Malott RJ,Keller BO,Gaudet RG,McCaw SE,Lai CC,Dobson-Belaire WN,Hobbs JL,St Michael F,Cox AD,Moraes TF,Gray-Owen SD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are conserved transcription factor-encoding genes that specify the identity of body regions in bilaterally symmetrical animals. In the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, a member of the hemimetabolous insect group Orthoptera, the induction of a subset of mesodermal cells to form the primordial germ cells (PGCs) is...

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

authors： Barnett AA,Nakamura T,Extavour CG

更新日期：2019-08-13 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：:Structural information about rat enteroglucagon, intestinal peptides containing the pancreatic glucagon sequence, has been based previously on cDNA, immunologic, and chromatographic data. Our interests in testing the physiological actions of synthetic enteroglucagon peptides in rats required that we identify precisely...

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

authors： Collie NL,Walsh JH,Wong HC,Shively JE,Davis MT,Lee TD,Reeve JR Jr

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The small-component origins of herpes simplex virus 1 DNA synthesis are transcribed late in infection by an RNA with heterogeneous initiation sites approximately 290-360 base pairs from the origins. We report that cellular proteins react with a labeled RNA probe representing the 5' terminus of a subset of this RNA but...

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

authors： Roller RJ,McCormick AL,Roizman B

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine therapy resistance invariably develops in advanced estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. We have identified C-terminal SRC kinase (CSK) as a critical node in a previously unappreciated negative feedback loop that limits the efficacy of current ER-t...

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

authors： Xiao T,Li W,Wang X,Xu H,Yang J,Wu Q,Huang Y,Geradts J,Jiang P,Fei T,Chi D,Zang C,Liao Q,Rennhack J,Andrechek E,Li N,Detre S,Dowsett M,Jeselsohn RM,Liu XS,Brown M

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00