Crystal structure of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase complexed with fructose 6-phosphate, AMP, and magnesium.

abstract：:The Abeta peptide of Alzheimer disease is derived from the proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor proteins (APP), which are considered type I transmembrane glycoproteins. Recently, however, soluble forms of full-length APP were also detected in several systems including chromaffin granules. In this report we ...

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

authors： Efthimiopoulos S,Vassilacopoulou D,Ripellino JA,Tezapsidis N,Robakis NK

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human telomeres terminate with a single-stranded 3' G overhang, which can be recognized as a DNA damage site by replication protein A (RPA). The protection of telomeres (POT1)/POT1-interacting protein 1 (TPP1) heterodimer binds specifically to single-stranded telomeric DNA (ssTEL) and protects G overhangs against RPA ...

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

authors： Ray S,Bandaria JN,Qureshi MH,Yildiz A,Balci H

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of the menstrual cycle is extensive steroid-dependent tissue turnover. Estrogen mediates endometrial cell growth and structural remodeling, whereas progesterone suppresses estrogen-dependent proliferation and promotes cellular differentiation. In nonfertile cycles, tissue degradation and menstruation occu...

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

authors： Osteen KG,Rodgers WH,Gaire M,Hargrove JT,Gorstein F,Matrisian LM

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other guanine nucleotide-exchange proteins (GEPs) that activate ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPases, brefeldin A-inhibited GEP2, BIG2, contains an approximately 200-aa Sec7 domain that is responsible for this catalytic activity and its inhibition by brefeldin A. The Sec7 domain is located near the center of the...

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

authors： Li H,Adamik R,Pacheco-Rodriguez G,Moss J,Vaughan M

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genes important for hair-cell function, we conducted a mutagenic screen in zebrafish. Larvae from one mutant line, ru848, were unresponsive to acoustic stimuli and unable to balance. The mutation results in a 90% reduction in hair-cell number and partial retinal degeneration by 5 days postfertilization. We...

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

authors： Starr CJ,Kappler JA,Chan DK,Kollmar R,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The signature of mass-independent fractionation of quadruple sulfur stable isotopes (S-MIF) in Archean rocks, ice cores, and Martian meteorites provides a unique probe of the oxygen and sulfur cycles in the terrestrial and Martian paleoatmospheres. Its mechanistic origin, however, contains some uncertainties. Even for...

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

authors： Lin M,Zhang X,Li M,Xu Y,Zhang Z,Tao J,Su B,Liu L,Shen Y,Thiemens MH

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors direct leukocyte migration among blood, lymph and tissues. Evidence has recently accumulated that, besides their chemotactic functions, chemokine receptors are highly versatile players that fine tune immune responses. During human T cell activation by antigen-presenting cells, the chemok...

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

authors： Contento RL,Molon B,Boularan C,Pozzan T,Manes S,Marullo S,Viola A

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Most genetic regulatory mechanisms involve protein-DNA interactions. In these processes, the classical Watson-Crick DNA structure sometimes is distorted severely, which in turn enables the precise recognition of the specific sites by the protein. Despite its key importance, very little is known about such deformation ...

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

authors： Leger JF,Robert J,Bourdieu L,Chatenay D,Marko JF

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth muscle cells use fibronectin to bind to type I and type III collagens but bind to type V collagen by a trypsin-resistant intrinsic glycoconjugate. The binding site on type V collagen is located in the alpha A chain. By using collagen-coated filters in a modified Boyden chamber assay for chemotaxis, it was obser...

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

authors： Grotendorst GR,Seppä HE,Kleinman HK,Martin GR

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are important mediators of much of the signal transduction that occurs in eukaryotic cells. Unfortunately, the identification of protein kinase substrates has proven to be a difficult task, and we generally know few, if any, of the physiologically relevant targets of any particular kinase. Here, we des...

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

authors： Budovskaya YV,Stephan JS,Deminoff SJ,Herman PK

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the trimeric HIV-1 envelope (Env) spike, the first and second variable loops (V1V2 region) and the third variable loop (V3) of the gp120 subunit play dual roles in antibody recognition, because they contain neutralization epitopes and also participate in epitope masking. The spatial relationships between V1V2 a...

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

authors： Liu L,Cimbro R,Lusso P,Berger EA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) plays a vital role in the maintenance of the viral genome and is the only viral protein expressed in nearly all forms of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency and EBV-associated diseases, including numerous cancer types. To our knowledge, no specific agent against EBV genes or protein...

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

authors： Jiang L,Lung HL,Huang T,Lan R,Zha S,Chan LS,Thor W,Tsoi TH,Chau HF,Boreström C,Cobb SL,Tsao SW,Bian ZX,Law GL,Wong WT,Tai WC,Chau WY,Du Y,Tang LHX,Chiang AKS,Middeldorp JM,Lo KW,Mak NK,Long NJ,Wong KL

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication is a core biological process that occurs in prokaryotic cells at high speeds (∼1 nucleotide residue added per millisecond) and with high fidelity (fewer than one misincorporation event per 107 nucleotide additions). The ssDNA binding protein [gene product 32 (gp32)] of the T4 bacteriophage is a central...

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

authors： Phelps C,Israels B,Jose D,Marsh MC,von Hippel PH,Marcus AH

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogenic protein Vav has the structure of an intracellular signal transducer. It is exclusively expressed in cells of hematopoietic lineage and plays a crucial role in hematopoietic cell differentiation. Here we report that both in cell extracts and within intact mammalian cells Vav binds to Grb2 (Sem-5/ASH/...

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

authors： Ye ZS,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interbacterial interaction pathways play an important role in defining the structure and complexity of bacterial associations. A quantitative description of such pathways offers promise for understanding the forces that contribute to community composition. We developed time-lapse fluorescence microscopy methods for qu...

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

authors： LeRoux M,De Leon JA,Kuwada NJ,Russell AB,Pinto-Santini D,Hood RD,Agnello DM,Robertson SM,Wiggins PA,Mougous JD

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned two species of EcoRI-cleaved DNA segments that together cover the entire sequence for the human interleukin 2 gene and have determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene and its flanking regions. The gene contains three introns and the exon sequences can be aligned with the previously reported cDNA seq...

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

authors： Fujita T,Takaoka C,Matsui H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the visA gene of Escherichia coli cause the mutant bacteria to die upon illumination with visible light. We confirmed genetically that the visA gene is a structural gene for ferrochelatase (protoheme ferro-lyase, EC 4.99.1.1). Since other mutations in the genes involved in the biosynthesis of heme can cur...

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

authors： Nakahigashi K,Nishimura K,Miyamoto K,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterigmatocystin (ST), a potent hepatocarcinogen, was covalently bound to calf thymus DNA by incubation in the presence of phenobarbital-induced rat liver microsomes. Acid hydrolysis of ST-modified DNA liberated a major guanine-containing adduct, present in DNA at an estimated level of 1 ST residue per 100-150 nucleot...

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

authors： Essigmann JM,Barker LJ,Fowler KW,Francisco MA,Reinhold VN,Wogan GN

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 exists as two major serotypes, Inaba and Ogawa, which are associated with the O antigen of the lipopolysaccharide and are capable of unequal reciprocal interconversion. The 20-kilobase rfb regions encoding O-antigen biosynthesis in strains 569B (Inaba) and O17 (Ogawa) have been cloned in Escherichia...

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

authors： Stroeher UH,Karageorgos LE,Morona R,Manning PA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic coupling of blood supply with energy demand is a natural brain property that requires signaling between synapses and endothelial cells. Our previous work showed that cortical arteriole lumen diameter is regulated by N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) expressed by brain endothelial cells. The purpose of th...

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

authors： Hogan-Cann AD,Lu P,Anderson CM

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin purified from mouse fibroblasts by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis was used as antigen to obtain an antibody in rabbits. The elicited antibody was shown to be specific for actin as judged by immunodiffusion and complement fixation against partially purified mouse fibroblast actin and highly purified c...

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

authors： Lazarides E,Weber K

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converging TGF-beta and insulin-like neuroendocrine signaling pathways regulate whether Caenorhabditis elegans develops reproductively or arrests at the dauer larval stage. We examined whether neurotransmitters act in the dauer entry or recovery pathways. Muscarinic agonists promote recovery from dauer arrest induced ...

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

authors： Tissenbaum HA,Hawdon J,Perregaux M,Hotez P,Guarente L,Ruvkun G

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolarization of neuroblastoma cells causes a 70-fold increase in the apparent dissociation constant KD for scorpion toxin enhancement of activation of the action potential Na+ ionophore by veratridine and a large increase in the rate of reversal of scorpion toxin action. Depolarization also inhibits binding of 125I-...

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

authors： Catterall WA,Ray R,Morrow CS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological state of matter and lithium batteries are currently two hot topics in science and technology. Here we combine these two by exploring the possibility of using all-carbon-based porous topological semimetal for lithium battery anode material. Based on density-functional theory and the cluster-expansion method...

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

authors： Liu J,Wang S,Sun Q

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a special reverse transcriptase that extends one strand of the telomere repeat by using a template embedded in an RNA subunit. Like other polymerases, telomerase is believed to use a pair of divalent metal ions (coordinated by a triad of aspartic acid residues) for catalyzing nucleotide addition. Here we...

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

authors： Lue NF,Bosoy D,Moriarty TJ,Autexier C,Altman B,Leng S

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in biology is to predict from sequence data the high-resolution structures of proteins and the interactions that occur between them. In this paper, we describe a computational approach that can make these types of predictions for a series of coiled-coil dimers. Our method comprises a dual strategy th...

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

authors： Keating AE,Malashkevich VN,Tidor B,Kim PS

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the factors that shape macroevolutionary patterns in functional traits is a central goal of evolutionary biology. Alternative strategies of sexual reproduction (inbreeding vs. outcrossing) have divergent effects on population genetic structure and could thereby broadly influence trait evolution. However,...

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

authors： Campbell SA,Kessler A

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The E26 transformation-specific (Ets-1) transcription factor is autoinhibited by a conformationally disordered serine-rich region (SRR) that transiently interacts with its DNA-binding ETS domain. In response to calcium signaling, autoinhibition is reinforced by calmodulin-dependent kinase II phosphorylation of serines...

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

authors： Desjardins G,Meeker CA,Bhachech N,Currie SL,Okon M,Graves BJ,McIntosh LP

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00