Crystal structure of the GlnZ-DraG complex reveals a different form of PII-target interaction.

abstract：:The endosperm of cereal grains is one of the most valuable products of modern agriculture. Cereal endosperm development comprises different phases characterized by mitotic cell proliferation, endoreduplication, the accumulation of storage compounds, and programmed cell death. Although manipulation of these processes c...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Liu Y,Dante RA,Lizarraga LE,Nguyen HN,Brown SW,Klingler JP,Yu J,LaBrant E,Layton TM,Feldman M,Larkins BA

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A perversion in an otherwise uniform helical structure, such as a climbing plant tendril, refers to a kink that connects two helices with opposite chiralities. Such singularity structures are widely seen in natural and artificial mechanical systems, and they provide the fundamental mechanism of helical symmetry breaki...

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

authors： Liu S,Yao Z,Chiou K,Stupp SI,Olvera de la Cruz M

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio and density functional calculations have been carried out to more fully understand the factors controlling the catalytic activity of the Thermus aquaticus DNA methyltransferase (MTaqI) in the N-methylation at the N(6) of an adenine nucleobase. The noncatalyzed reaction was modeled as a methyl transfer from t...

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

authors： Newby ZE,Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system [Weil, P. A., Luse, D. S., Segall, J. & Roeder, R. G. (1979) Cell 18, 469-484 and Manley, J. L., Fire, A., Cano, A., Sharp, P. A. & Gefter, M. L., (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 77, 3855-3859] was adapted for studying initiation of transcription of the ovalbumin gene. The DNA template was a cloned...

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

authors： Tsai SY,Tsai MJ,O'Malley BW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of gene interactions in the evolutionary process has long been controversial. Although some argue that they are not of importance, because most variation is additive, others claim that their effect in the long term can be substantial. Here, we focus on the long-term effects of genetic interactions under direc...

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

authors： Paixão T,Barton NH

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey in natural communities are usually shared by many predator species. How predators coexist while competing for the same prey is one of the fundamental questions in ecology. Here, we show that competing predator species may not only coexist on a single prey but even help each other to persist if they specialize on ...

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

authors： De Roos AM,Schellekens T,Van Kooten T,Persson L

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly polymorphic system of serologically defined genetic markers on human IgG heavy chains (Gm allotypes) is second only to the HLA complex in terms of the large number of determinants, alleles, and haplotypes that can be used for analyses of disease associations and other genetic studies. However, present typin...

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

authors： Zelaschi D,Newby C,Parsons M,van West B,Cavalli-Sforza LL,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication through a diverse array of DNA lesions occurs by the sequential action of two translesion synthesis (TLS) DNA polymerases (Pols), in which one inserts the nucleotide opposite the lesion and the other carries out the subsequent extension. By extending from the nucleotide inserted by another Pol, Polζ plays ...

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

authors： Johnson RE,Prakash L,Prakash S

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The paucity of knowledge about cardiomyocyte maturation is a major bottleneck in cardiac regenerative medicine. In development, cardiomyocyte maturation is characterized by orchestrated structural, transcriptional, and functional specializations that occur mainly at the perinatal stage. Sarcomeres are the key cytoskel...

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

authors： Guo Y,Cao Y,Jardin BD,Sethi I,Ma Q,Moghadaszadeh B,Troiano EC,Mazumdar N,Trembley MA,Small EM,Yuan GC,Beggs AH,Pu WT

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential involvement of ceramide-related signaling processes in the induction of apoptosis by tumor necrosis factor alpha was assessed by multiple biochemical strategies in the human leukemic cell lines HL-60 and U937 and the murine fibrosarcoma cell lines L929/LM and WEHI 164/13. Exposure of these cells to tumor...

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

authors： Jarvis WD,Kolesnick RN,Fornari FA,Traylor RS,Gewirtz DA,Grant S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling of striated muscle, depolarization of the surface membrane is converted into Ca2+ release from internal stores. This process occurs at intracellular junctions characterized by a specialized composition and structural organization of membrane proteins. The coordinated arrang...

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

authors： Flucher BE,Franzini-Armstrong C

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-copper oxygen reductases are redox-driven proton pumps. In the current work, the effects of mutations in a proposed exit pathway for pumped protons are examined in the ba(3)-type oxygen reductase from Thermus thermophilus, leading from the propionates of heme a(3) to the interface between subunits I and II. R...

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

authors： Chang HY,Choi SK,Vakkasoglu AS,Chen Y,Hemp J,Fee JA,Gennis RB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat protein coded by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a strong activator of viral gene expression from the long terminal repeat (LTR). It appears that Tat-mediated trans-activation of the HIV LTR is predominantly a transcriptional event. It has been reported that Tat acts at the level of both transcriptional ...

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

authors： Kamine J,Subramanian T,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis, is triple-infected with distinct lineages of Wolbachia endosymbiont, wBruCon, wBruOri, and wBruAus, which were identified by their wsp (Wolbachia surface protein) gene sequences. Whereas wBruCon and wBruOri caused cytoplasmic incompatibility of the host insect, wBruAus...

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

authors： Kondo N,Nikoh N,Ijichi N,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Never before have individuals had to adapt to social environments defined by such magnitudes of ethnic diversity and cultural differentiation. However, neurobiological evidence informing about strategies to reduce xenophobic sentiment and foster altruistic cooperation with outsiders is scarce. In a series of experimen...

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

authors： Marsh N,Scheele D,Feinstein JS,Gerhardt H,Strang S,Maier W,Hurlemann R

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the earliest detectable events during plant-pathogen interaction is a rapid increase in ethylene biosynthesis. This gaseous plant stress hormone may be a signal for plants to activate defense mechanisms against invading pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The effect of ethylene on four plant genes i...

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

authors： Ecker JR,Davis RW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the retinoblastoma gene (RB gene) is associated with the development of several human malignancies including retinoblastomas, some osteo- and soft tissue sarcomas, small cell lung cancer, and possibly breast and bladder cancers. To our knowledge, this gene has not been evaluated in human germ-cell mali...

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

authors： Strohmeyer T,Reissmann P,Cordon-Cardo C,Hartmann M,Ackermann R,Slamon D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary product of biological nitrogen fixation, ammonia, reversibly regulates nitrogenase activity in a variety of diazotrophs by a process called "NH4(+)-switch-off/on." Strong correlative evidence from work in Azospirillum lipoferum and Rhodospirillum rubrum indicates that this regulation involves both the inac...

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

authors： Fu H,Burris RH,Roberts GP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemosmotic model provides a framework for visualizing energy-coupled reactions (vectorial reaction sequences, membrane-dependent gradient formation, and charge separation of reacting species) and a mechanism for energy coupling (indirect coupling between the driving and driven reaction sequences mediated by a mem...

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

authors： Green DE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic lymphocytes eliminate virus-infected and cancerous cells by immune recognition and killing through the perforin-granzyme pathway. Traditional killing assays measure average target cell lysis at fixed times and high effector:target ratios. Such assays obscure kinetic details that might reveal novel physiology...

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

authors： Choi PJ,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2013-04-16 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：:Down syndrome (DS) caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Although the prenatal diagnosis of DS has become feasible, there are no therapies available for the rescue of DS-related neurocognitive impairment. A growth inducer newly identified in our screen of neura...

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

authors： Nakano-Kobayashi A,Awaya T,Kii I,Sumida Y,Okuno Y,Yoshida S,Sumida T,Inoue H,Hosoya T,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In isogamous species of Chlamydomonas, such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlamydomonas eugametos, the sexual process involves the use of flagella agglutinins by which the gametes of compatible strains adhere through chance encounter and ultimately pair and fuse to form zygotes. In a newly described heterogamous sp...

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

authors： Starr RC,Marner FJ,Jaenicke L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We stabilize nematic droplets with handles against surface tension-driven instabilities, using a yield-stress material as outer fluid, and study the complex nematic textures and defect structures that result from the competition between topological constraints and the elasticity of the nematic liquid crystal. We uncov...

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

authors： Pairam E,Vallamkondu J,Koning V,van Zuiden BC,Ellis PW,Bates MA,Vitelli V,Fernandez-Nieves A

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Active matter, both synthetic and biological, demonstrates complex spatiotemporal self-organization and the emergence of collective behavior. A coherent rotational motion, the vortex phase, is of great interest because of its ability to orchestrate well-organized motion of self-propelled particles over large distances...

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

authors： Han K,Kokot G,Tovkach O,Glatz A,Aranson IS,Snezhko A

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mandible recovered in 2003 from the Aurora Stratum of the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain). The specimen, catalogued as ATD6-96, adds to the hominin sample recovered from this site in 1994-1996, and assigned to Homo antecessor. ATD6-96 is the left half of a gracile m...

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

authors： Carbonell E,Bermúdez de Castro JM,Arsuaga JL,Allue E,Bastir M,Benito A,Cáceres I,Canals T,Díez JC,van der Made J,Mosquera M,Ollé A,Pérez-González A,Rodríguez J,Rodríguez XP,Rosas A,Rosell J,Sala R,Vallverdú J,Vergés

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are fundamental for human behavior, but the quantification of their neural underpinnings remains challenging. Here, we used hyperscanning functional MRI (fMRI) to study information flow between brains of human dyads during real-time social interaction in a joint attention paradigm. In a hardware se...

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

authors： Bilek E,Ruf M,Schäfer A,Akdeniz C,Calhoun VD,Schmahl C,Demanuele C,Tost H,Kirsch P,Meyer-Lindenberg A

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During sustained viewing of an ambiguous stimulus, an individual's perceptual experience will generally switch between the different possible alternatives rather than stay fixed on one interpretation (perceptual rivalry). Here, we measured pupil diameter while subjects viewed different ambiguous visual and auditory st...

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

authors： Einhäuser W,Stout J,Koch C,Carter O

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically active (125)I-labeled bovine parathyroid hormone (prepared by electrolytic iodination) and its synthetic NH(2)-terminal (1-34) biologically active fragment bound rapidly and specifically to a purified plasma membrane preparation from bovine renal cortex. Binding of labeled intact hormone or labeled NH(2)-...

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

authors： Di Bella FP,Dousa TP,Miller SS,Arnaud CD

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient societies are often used to illustrate the potential problems stemming from unsustainable land-use practices because the past seems rife with examples of sociopolitical "collapse" associated with the exhaustion of finite resources. Just as frequently, and typically in response to such presentations, archaeolog...

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

authors： Wills WH,Drake BL,Dorshow WB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00