Structures of RNA 3'-phosphate cyclase bound to ATP reveal the mechanism of nucleotidyl transfer and metal-assisted catalysis.

abstract：:The extensive refolding of the membrane-anchoring chain of hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza virus (termed HA2) in cellular endosomes, which initiates viral entry by membrane fusion, suggests that viral HA is meta-stable. HA2 polypeptide residues 38-175 expressed in Escherichia coli are reported here to fold in vivo int...

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

authors： Chen J,Wharton SA,Weissenhorn W,Calder LJ,Hughson FM,Skehel JJ,Wiley DC

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences influence brain morphology and physiology during both development and aging. Here we apply a machine learning algorithm to a multiparametric brain PET imaging dataset acquired in a cohort of 20- to 82-year-old, cognitively normal adults (n = 205) to define their metabolic brain age. We find that throug...

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

authors： Goyal MS,Blazey TM,Su Y,Couture LE,Durbin TJ,Bateman RJ,Benzinger TL,Morris JC,Raichle ME,Vlassenko AG

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhydrophobic surfaces display water contact angles greater than 150 degrees in conjunction with low contact angle hysteresis. Microscopic pockets of air trapped beneath the water droplets placed on these surfaces lead to a composite solid-liquid-air interface in thermodynamic equilibrium. Previous experimental and...

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

authors： Tuteja A,Choi W,Mabry JM,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:For many intraoperative decisions surgeons depend on frozen section pathology, a technique developed over 150 y ago. Technical innovations that permit rapid molecular characterization of tissue samples at the time of surgery are needed. Here, using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) MS, we rapidly detect the tu...

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

authors： Santagata S,Eberlin LS,Norton I,Calligaris D,Feldman DR,Ide JL,Liu X,Wiley JS,Vestal ML,Ramkissoon SH,Orringer DA,Gill KK,Dunn IF,Dias-Santagata D,Ligon KL,Jolesz FA,Golby AJ,Cooks RG,Agar NY

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal trefoil factor (ITF) is an essential regulator of colonic epithelial restitution, the rapid migration of colonocytes over mucosal wounds. High levels of ITF are frequently present in colorectal cancers and derived cell lines. Mucosal restitution requires the detachment of epithelium from substrate, which wo...

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

authors： Taupin DR,Kinoshita K,Podolsky DK

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine-bound hemes are key components of many enzymes and biological sensors. Protonation (deprotonation) of the Cys ligand often accompanies redox transformations of these centers. To characterize these phenomena, we have engineered a series of Thr78Cys/Lys79Gly/Met80X mutants of yeast cytochrome c (cyt c) in which...

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

authors： Zhong F,Lisi GP,Collins DP,Dawson JH,Pletneva EV

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF and angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) are two major angiogenic factors being investigated for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI). Targeting VEGF and Ang1 expression in the ischemic myocardium can increase their local therapeutic effects and reduce possible adverse effects. Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) expre...

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

authors： Tao Z,Chen B,Tan X,Zhao Y,Wang L,Zhu T,Cao K,Yang Z,Kan YW,Su H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all democratic societies evolved socially and politically out of authoritarian and nondemocratic regimes. These changes not only altered the allocation of economic resources in society but also the structure of political power. In this paper, we develop a framework for studying the dynamics of political and soc...

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

authors： Acemoglu D,Egorov G,Sonin K

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between two excitatory monosynaptic inputs to hippocampal neurons of the CA1 region were examined in the in vitro slice. By adjusting the strengths of the electrical stimuli delivered to the two input pathways, one was made to generate a weak and the other a strong synaptic response. Simultaneous tetanic ...

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

authors： Barrionuevo G,Brown TH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of mRNAs encoding alpha 1, alpha 6, beta 2, beta 3, gamma 2, and delta subunits of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors and the gold immunolabeling density of their translation products were monitored during the growth of neonatal rat granule cells in primary culture. We investigated possible corre...

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

authors： Zheng TM,Zhu WJ,Puia G,Vicini S,Grayson DR,Costa E,Caruncho HJ

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bathorhodopsin-rhodopsin difference spectra of native 11-cis-rhodopsin and regenerated 9-cis-rhodopsin were measured at room temperature with a double-beam laser spectrophotometer after excitation at 532 nm. A detailed analysis of data obtained at 85 psec after excitation suggests that the bathorhodopsins generated fr...

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

authors： Spalink JD,Reynolds AH,Rentzepis PM,Sperling W,Applebury ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As long-term changes in life expectancy and fertility drive the emergence of aging societies across the globe, individual countries vary widely in the development of age-relevant policies and programs. While failure to adapt to the demographic transformation carries not only important financial risks but also social r...

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

authors： Chen C,Goldman DP,Zissimopoulos J,Rowe JW,Research Network on an Aging Society.

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparison of rRNA sequences has suggested that a pseudoknot structure exists in the central domain of small-subunit rRNA. In Escherichia coli 16S rRNA, this pseudoknot would form when positions 570 and 571 pair with positions 865 and 866. Mutations were introduced into this pseudoknot at the phylogenetic...

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

authors： Vila A,Viril-Farley J,Tapprich WE

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The traG protein of the F sex factor is an inner membrane protein with a molecular weight of 116,000. Mutants in traG (or in traN) are able to trigger conjugal DNA replication even though they cannot efficiently form stable mating aggregates with F(-) cells. The traG protein (and the traN protein) probably acts in the...

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

authors： Manning PA,Morelli G,Achtman M

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senescent cell antigen (SCA), an aging antigen, is a protein that appears on old cells and marks them for removal by the immune system in mammals. It is derived from band 3, a ubiquitous membrane transport protein found in diverse cell types and tissues. We have used synthetic peptides to identify aging antigenic site...

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

authors： Kay MM,Marchalonis JJ,Hughes J,Watanabe K,Schluter SF

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of cellulose microfibrils in wood is not known in detail, despite the abundance of cellulose in woody biomass and its importance for biology, energy, and engineering. The structure of the microfibrils of spruce wood cellulose was investigated using a range of spectroscopic methods coupled to small-angle ...

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

authors： Fernandes AN,Thomas LH,Altaner CM,Callow P,Forsyth VT,Apperley DC,Kennedy CJ,Jarvis MC

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage Mu was inserted into the unc genes of Escherichia coli. The resulting mutation AS12 had a polar effect on the unc operon: membranes of the mutant AS12 contained the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-binding protein c and the protein a as sole subunits of the ATP synthase. It was shown by peptide mapping and amino...

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

authors： Friedl P,Bienhaus G,Hoppe J,Schairer HU

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of rat kidney cortex mRNA into Xenopus laevis oocytes leads to a stimulation of Na(+)-dependent SO4(2-) uptake. Based on this information, we have isolated from a corresponding library a cDNA (NaSi-1) that is most likely related to a Na+/SO4(2-) cotransport system. NaSi-1 cRNA leads in a time- and dose-depen...

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

authors： Markovich D,Forgo J,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 10 heterozygous mutations in the human insulin gene in 16 probands with neonatal diabetes. A combination of linkage and a candidate gene approach in a family with four diabetic members led to the identification of the initial INS gene mutation. The mutations are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner in t...

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

authors： Støy J,Edghill EL,Flanagan SE,Ye H,Paz VP,Pluzhnikov A,Below JE,Hayes MG,Cox NJ,Lipkind GM,Lipton RB,Greeley SA,Patch AM,Ellard S,Steiner DF,Hattersley AT,Philipson LH,Bell GI,Neonatal Diabetes International Collabora

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive intact cholecystokinin and its COOH-terminal octapeptide are found in brain as well as in extracts of gut of the monkey, dog, and pig, by using an antiserum with equivalent sensitivities for detecting the octapeptide in free form or incorporated in the intact molecule. The failure to detect intact chole...

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

authors： Straus E,Yalow RS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell (DC) lectins mediate the recognition, uptake, and processing of antigens, but they can also be coopted by pathogens for infection. These distinct activities depend upon the routing of antigens within the cell. Antigens directed to endosomal compartments are degraded, and the peptides are presented on ma...

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

authors： Jarvis CM,Zwick DB,Grim JC,Alam MM,Prost LR,Gardiner JC,Park S,Zimdars LL,Sherer NM,Kiessling LL

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens (NAc) serves as a key neural substrate that controls acute and adaptive behavioral responses to cocaine administration. In this circuit, inputs from the NAc are transmitted through two parallel pathways, named the direct and indirect pathways, and converge at the substantia nigra pars reticulata ...

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

authors： Kimura K,Hikida T,Yawata S,Yamaguchi T,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A screening procedure based on solvent extraction with minimal clean up followed by examination with negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry has been developed for organochlorine residues and related compounds with masses greater than 130 daltons. The procedure has been made quantitative for analysis of pentach...

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

authors： Dougherty RC,Piotrowska K

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the social skills of previously institutionalized, 8-y-old Romanian children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project and the influence of attachment security and brain electrical activity (alpha power) on these skills. Participants included children randomized to an intervention involv...

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

authors： Almas AN,Degnan KA,Radulescu A,Nelson CA 3rd,Zeanah CH,Fox NA

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An endonucleolytic activity is associated with purified PM(2) bacteriophages. It converts the double-stranded supercoiled PM(2) DNA mostly into the linear form that sediments as a homogenous peak in alkaline sucrose gradients. The same activity is found in intact or detergent-lysed phages. Optimal activity is observed...

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

authors： Laval F

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are only just beginning to catalog the vast diversity of cell types in the cerebral cortex. Such categorization is a first step toward understanding how diversification relates to function. All cortical projection neurons arise from a uniform pool of progenitor cells that lines the ventricles of the forebrain. It i...

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

authors： Heavner WE,Ji S,Notwell JH,Dyer ES,Tseng AM,Birgmeier J,Yoo B,Bejerano G,McConnell SK

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:8-Methylbenz[a]anthracene (8-MeBaA) transdihydrodiol metabolites were isolated by reversed-phase and normal-phase HPLCs from incubations of 8-MeBaA with liver microsomes or a reconstituted system containing purified cytochrome P-448 and epoxide hydrolase. Regardless of the enzyme source, the metabolically formed 8-MeB...

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

authors： Yang SK,Chou MW,Fu PP,Wislocki PG,Lu AH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first definitive/adult-type hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the mouse aorta-gonad-mesonephros region emerge between embryonic days 10.5 and 11.5. The discovery of clusters of hematopoietic cells on the ventral luminal surface of the dorsal aorta in various vertebrate species has led to speculation that the floo...

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

authors： Taoudi S,Medvinsky A

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When two phases of water are at equilibrium, the ratio of hydrogen isotopes in each is slightly altered because of their different phase affinities. This isotopic fractionation process can be utilized to analyze water's movement in the world's climate. Here we show that equilibrium fractionation ratios, an entirely qu...

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

authors： Markland TE,Berne BJ

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00