Functional roles of fructose.

abstract：:The inability to perceive and coordinate both internal and external signals that function to regulate cellular growth and proliferation is a hallmark of oncogenic transformation. To examine the effects of the v-mos oncogene on distinct signal transduction pathways, the 6m2 cell line was used, in which expression of th...

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

authors： Hamilton BJ,DeFranco D

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The final step of ethylene biosynthesis in plants is catalyzed by the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) oxidase (ACCO). In addition to ACC, Fe(II), O2, CO2, and ascorbate are required for in vitro enzyme activity. Direct evidence for the role of the Fe(II) center in the recombinant avocado ACCO has no...

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

authors： Rocklin AM,Tierney DL,Kofman V,Brunhuber NM,Hoffman BM,Christoffersen RE,Reich NO,Lipscomb JD,Que L Jr

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifamycin antibiotics, which inhibit RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rauscher leuckemia virus, prevent the leukemogenic activity of the virus, and the effect of leukemogenesis correlates with the magnitude of inhibition of the purified enzyme. This inhibition of enzyme activity by rifamycin SV derivatives is due to a r...

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

authors： Wu AM,Ting RC,Gallo RC

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein Ib is a surface membrane glycoprotein of platelets that functions as a receptor for von Willebrand factor. It is a heterodimer composed of an alpha and a beta chain linked by a disulfide bond(s). A phage lambda gt11 cDNA expression library prepared from mRNA from a human erythroleukemia cell line, HEL, wa...

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

authors： Lopez JA,Chung DW,Fujikawa K,Hagen FS,Papayannopoulou T,Roth GJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transduction by two-component systems involves phosphorylation and thereby activation of the response regulator by the cognate histidine kinase. Bifunctional histidine kinases have two opposing activities: depending on the environmental stimuli they either promote phosphorylation or stimulate the rapid dephosph...

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

authors： Kramer G,Weiss V

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:From a consideration of (varphi, Psi) values of the amino acids of myoglobin, lysozyme, the alpha and beta chains of horse oxyhemoglobin, tosyl-alpha-chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase A, an empirical procedure of predicting whether amino-acid residues in proteins are in a non-helical or may be in a helical conformati...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncatalyzed reactions of O(2) (S = 1) with organic substrates (S = 0) are thermodynamically favorable but kinetically slow because they are spin-forbidden and the one-electron reduction potential of O(2) is unfavorable. In nature, many of these important O(2) reactions are catalyzed by metalloenzymes. In the case ...

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

authors： Pau MY,Lipscomb JD,Solomon EI

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule manipulation techniques reveal that stretching unravels individually folded domains in the muscle protein titin and the extracellular matrix protein tenascin. These elastic proteins contain tandem repeats of folded domains with beta-sandwich architecture. Herein, we propose by stretching two model sequ...

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

authors： Klimov DK,Thirumalai D

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) plays an integral role in both the anterior-posterior (A-P) patterning and expansion of developing vertebrate limbs through a feedback loop involving Fgfs, Bmps, and Gremlin. In bat limbs A-P patterning and the size of the digital field are unique. The posterior digits of the forelimb are elongate...

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

authors： Hockman D,Cretekos CJ,Mason MK,Behringer RR,Jacobs DS,Illing N

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP1) hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond at a DNA 3'-end linked to a tyrosyl moiety and has been implicated in the repair of topoisomerase I (Top1)-DNA covalent complexes. TDP1 can also hydrolyze other 3'-end DNA alterations including 3'-phosphoglycolate and 3'-abasic sites, and ex...

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

authors： Das BB,Dexheimer TS,Maddali K,Pommier Y

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:How individuals make decisions has been a matter of long-standing debate among economists and researchers in the life sciences. In economics, subjects are viewed as optimal decision makers who maximize their overall reward income. This framework has been widely influential, but requires a complete knowledge of the rew...

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

authors： Kubanek J

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional mutations such as temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations are important for the analysis of protein function but are often difficult, or impossible, to obtain. Here we present a simple method for generating conditional mutations based on the use of a protein-destabilizing genetic element in combination with s...

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

authors： Park EC,Finley D,Szostak JW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When light-grown seedlings of amaranth are transferred to total darkness, synthesis of the large subunit (LS) and small subunit (SS) of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase [RbuP(2)Case; 3-phospho-D-glycerate carboxylase (dimerizing), EC 4.1.1.39] is rapidly depressed. This reduction in RbuP(2)Case synthesis occurs i...

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

authors： Berry JO,Carr JP,Klessig DF

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate release activates multiple receptors that interact with each other and thus determine the response of the cell. Exploring these interactions is critical to developing an understanding of the functional consequences of synaptic transmission. Activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) inhibits N-m...

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

authors： Colwell CS,Altemus KL,Cepeda C,Levine MS

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax toxin is an intracellularly acting toxin in which sufficient information is available regarding the structure of its transmembrane channel, allowing for detailed investigation of models of translocation. Anthrax toxin, comprising three proteins-protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor-tran...

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

authors： Das D,Krantz BA

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Operant conditioning techniques were used to assess how gender and song familiarity affect song discrimination in adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Twenty-five males and females, divided into five cohorts, were trained to discriminate between conspecific songs at different times of year. Males discriminating ...

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

authors： Cynx J,Nottebohm F

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear exosome-targeting (NEXT) complex functions as an RNA exosome cofactor and is involved in surveillance and turnover of aberrant transcripts and noncoding RNAs. NEXT is a ternary complex composed of the RNA-binding protein RBM7, the scaffold zinc-knuckle protein ZCCHC8, and the helicase MTR4. While RNA inter...

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

authors： Puno MR,Lima CD

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation is a process with many steps allowing for stochastic biochemical reactions, which leads to expression noise-i.e., the cell-to-cell stochastic fluctuation in protein abundance. Such expression noise can give rise to drastically diverse phenotypes, even within isogenic cell populations. Although numerous...

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

authors： Li J,Min R,Vizeacoumar FJ,Jin K,Xin X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular replicative DNA polymerases cannot initiate DNA synthesis without a priming 3' OH. During DNA replication, this is supplied in the context of a short RNA primer molecule synthesized by DNA primase. The primase of archaea and eukaryotes, despite having varying subunit compositions, share sequence and struc...

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

authors： Yan J,Holzer S,Pellegrini L,Bell SD

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The late Pleistocene witnessed the extinction of 35 genera of North American mammals. The last appearance dates of 16 of these genera securely fall between 12,000 and 10,000 radiocarbon years ago (approximately 13,800-11,400 calendar years B.P.), although whether the absence of fossil occurrences for the remaining 19 ...

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

authors： Faith JT,Surovell TA

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), gag MA (matrix), a major structural protein of the virus, carries out opposing targeting functions. During virus assembly, gag MA is cotranslationally myristoylated, a modification required for membrane targeting of gag polyproteins. During virus infec...

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

authors： Bukrinskaya AG,Ghorpade A,Heinzinger NK,Smithgall TE,Lewis RE,Stevenson M

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial cells are organized into either a single layer (simple epithelia) or multiple layers (stratified epithelia). Maintenance of these cellular organizations requires distinct adhesive mechanisms involving many cell surface molecules. One such molecule is a cell surface proteoglycan, named syndecan, that contain...

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

authors： Sanderson RD,Bernfield M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that play a key role in energy conversion. Optimal mitochondrial function is ensured by a quality-control system tightly coupled to fusion and fission. In this connection, mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) participates in mitochondrial fusion and undergoes repression in muscle from obese or type 2...

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

authors： Sebastián D,Hernández-Alvarez MI,Segalés J,Sorianello E,Muñoz JP,Sala D,Waget A,Liesa M,Paz JC,Gopalacharyulu P,Orešič M,Pich S,Burcelin R,Palacín M,Zorzano A

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell interactions organize lens fiber cells into highly ordered structures to maintain transparency. However, signals regulating such interactions have not been well characterized. We report here that ephrin-A5, a ligand of the Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, plays a key role in lens fiber cell shape and cell-cell...

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

authors： Cooper MA,Son AI,Komlos D,Sun Y,Kleiman NJ,Zhou R

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of local ecological and larger-scale historical processes in causing differences in species richness across the globe remains keenly debated. To gain insight into these questions, we investigated the assembly of plant diversity in the Cerrado in South America, the world's most species-rich trop...

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

authors： Simon MF,Grether R,de Queiroz LP,Skema C,Pennington RT,Hughes CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine that can protect against HIV infection does not exist. A major reason why a vaccine is not available is the high mutability of the virus, which enables it to evolve mutations that can evade human immune responses. This challenge is exacerbated by the ability of the virus to evolve compensatory mut...

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

authors： Murakowski DK,Barton JP,Peter L,Chandrashekar A,Bondzie E,Gao A,Barouch DH,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests cancer cells exhibit a dependency on metabolic pathways regulated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Nevertheless, how the regulation of this metabolic cofactor interfaces with signal transduction networks remains poorly understood in glioblastoma. Here, we report nicotinamide ...

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

authors： Gujar AD,Le S,Mao DD,Dadey DY,Turski A,Sasaki Y,Aum D,Luo J,Dahiya S,Yuan L,Rich KM,Milbrandt J,Hallahan DE,Yano H,Tran DD,Kim AH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and ...

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

authors： VanderWeele TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGRPs) are pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune system that bind and, in some cases, hydrolyze bacterial PGNs. We determined the crystal structure, at 2.30-A resolution, of the C-terminal PGN-binding domain of human PGRP-Ialpha in complex with a muramyl tripeptid...

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

authors： Guan R,Roychowdhury A,Ember B,Kumar S,Boons GJ,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the CB2 receptor is apparently an endogenous protective mechanism. Thus, it restrains inflammation and protects the skeleton against age-related bone loss. However, the endogenous cannabinoids, as well as Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main plant psychoactive constituent, activate both cannabinoid recept...

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

authors： Smoum R,Baraghithy S,Chourasia M,Breuer A,Mussai N,Attar-Namdar M,Kogan NM,Raphael B,Bolognini D,Cascio MG,Marini P,Pertwee RG,Shurki A,Mechoulam R,Bab I

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00