Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding.

abstract：:To elucidate the function of the two nerve growth factor (NGF) receptors, p75NGFR and p140trk, chimeric molecules were constructed of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and NGF receptors. Rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells transiently transfected with TNF-p140trk chimeras, which contain the extracellular domain of TNF receptor ...

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

authors： Rovelli G,Heller RA,Canossa M,Shooter EM

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have evolved the ability to produce a wide range of structurally complex natural products historically called "secondary" metabolites. Although some of these compounds have been identified as bacterial communication cues, more frequently natural products are scrutinized for antibiotic activities that are rele...

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

authors： Bleich R,Watrous JD,Dorrestein PC,Bowers AA,Shank EA

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of protein complexes is a key mechanism for achieving spatial and temporal coordination in processes involving many enzymes. Growth of rod-shaped bacteria is a well-studied example requiring such coordination; expansion of the cell wall is thought to involve coordination of the activity of synthetic enzymes w...

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

authors： Lee TK,Tropini C,Hsin J,Desmarais SM,Ursell TS,Gong E,Gitai Z,Monds RD,Huang KC

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CSB/ERCC6 belongs to an orphan subfamily of SWI2/SNF2-related chromatin remodelers and plays crucial roles in gene expression, DNA damage repair, and the maintenance of genome integrity. The molecular basis of chromatin remodeling by Cockayne syndrome B protein (CSB) is not well understood. Here we investigate the mol...

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

authors： Wang W,Xu J,Limbo O,Fei J,Kassavetis GA,Chong J,Kadonaga JT,Russell P,Li B,Wang D

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptors undergo constitutive and ligand-induced internalization that requires dynamin and the clathrin adaptor complex AP-2. We report here that an atypical basic motif within the cytoplasmic tails of AMPA-type glutamate receptors directl...

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

authors： Kastning K,Kukhtina V,Kittler JT,Chen G,Pechstein A,Enders S,Lee SH,Sheng M,Yan Z,Haucke V

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast coupling factor 1 consists of five nonidentical subunits, three of which (alpha, beta, and epsilon subunits) have been shown in several laboratories to be synthesized within chloroplasts. The site of synthesis of the remaining two (gamma and delta subunits) was investigated by analyzing products direct...

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

authors： Watanabe A,Price CA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the nonlinear mechanical response of networks formed from un-cross-linked fibrin or collagen type I continually changes in response to repeated large-strain loading. We demonstrate that this dynamic evolution of the mechanical response arises from a shift of a characteristic nonlinear stress-strain relati...

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

authors： Münster S,Jawerth LM,Leslie BA,Weitz JI,Fabry B,Weitz DA

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-step purification procedure for the isolation of heart muscle chalones is described. The method uses ultrafiltration followed by concanavalin A-Sepharose affinity chromatography and subsequent sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Analytical ultracentrifugation of the highly purified chalone fraction indica...

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

authors： Kriek JA,van der Walt BJ,Bester AJ

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster, is a highly conserved chromosomal protein implicated in both heterochromatin formation and gene silencing. We report here characterization of an HP1-interacting protein, heterochromatin protein 2 (HP2), which codistributes with HP1 in the pe...

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

authors： Shaffer CD,Stephens GE,Thompson BA,Funches L,Bernat JA,Craig CA,Elgin SC

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of cytosolic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase [3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA acetoacetyl-CoA-lyase (CoA-acylating), EC 4.1.3.5] and microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase[mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1.1.34], two sequential enzymes in the chole...

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

authors： Balasubramaniam S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and identified a DNA sequence complementary to the mRNA of creatine kinase (CK) isozyme M, although the mRNA is a minor species of the total mRNA in developing myoblasts. Poly(A)+RNA from breast and thigh muscle of 5-week-old chicks was enriched for CK mRNA by a novel procedure of sucrose gradient centr...

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

authors： Schweinfest CW,Kwiatkowski RW,Dottin RP

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the binding change mechanism of rotary catalysis by which F1-ATPase hydrolyzes ATP has been supported by equilibrium, kinetic, and structural observations, many questions concerning the function remain unanswered. Because of the importance of this enzyme, the search for a full understanding of its mechanism i...

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

authors： Gao YQ,Yang W,Marcus RA,Karplus M

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting tyrosine kinase receptors (RTKs) with specific Abs is a promising therapeutic approach for cancer treatment, although the molecular mechanism(s) responsible for the Abs' biological activity are not completely known. We targeted the transmembrane RTK for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) with a monoclonal Ab (DN...

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

authors： Petrelli A,Circosta P,Granziero L,Mazzone M,Pisacane A,Fenoglio S,Comoglio PM,Giordano S

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the luminescence system in Beneckea harveyi is controlled by cyclic nucleotides at the level of transcription. In the wild type, it is repressed by exogenously added guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate and this repression is overcome by the addition of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate. These ob...

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

authors： Ulitzur S,Yashphe J,Hastings JW

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast fatty acid synthetase consists of two multifunctional proteins, alpha and beta, which are arranged in a complex of alpha(6)beta(6). Electron microscopic studies of this complex led to a model for the synthetase as an ovate structure consisting of an equatorial plate-like structure to which six arches are equally...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Isopropylmalate synthase (EC 4.1.3.12) of yeast is a mitochondrial enzyme. We now provide evidence showing that a large part of the 2-isopropylmalate synthase activity that is associated with the mitochondria is located in the mitochondrial matrix. In vitro translation of total yeast RNA followed by immunoprecipitat...

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

authors： Hampsey DM,Lewin AS,Kohlhaw GB

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen trifluoride (NF(3)) has potential to make a growing contribution to the Earth's radiative budget; however, our understanding of its atmospheric burden and emission rates has been limited. Based on a revision of our previous calibration and using an expanded set of atmospheric measurements together with an atm...

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

authors： Arnold T,Harth CM,Mühle J,Manning AJ,Salameh PK,Kim J,Ivy DJ,Steele LP,Petrenko VV,Severinghaus JP,Baggenstos D,Weiss RF

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structures of avian H5 and swine H9 influenza hemagglutinins (HAs) from viruses closely related to those that caused outbreaks of human disease in Hong Kong in 1997 and 1999 were determined bound to avian and human cell receptor analogs. Emerging influenza pandemics have been accompanied by the e...

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

authors： Ha Y,Stevens DJ,Skehel JJ,Wiley DC

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal hyperexcitability in both injured and adjacent uninjured neurons is associated with states of chronic injury and pain and is likely subject to neuroinflammatory processes. Chronic inflammatory responses are largely orchestrated by chemokines. One chemokine, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), in the p...

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

authors： White FA,Sun J,Waters SM,Ma C,Ren D,Ripsch M,Steflik J,Cortright DN,Lamotte RH,Miller RJ

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being a fundamental electronic component for over 70 years, it is still possible to develop different transistor designs, including the addition of a diode-like Schottky source electrode to thin-film transistors. The discovery of a dependence of the source barrier height on the semiconductor thickness and deri...

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

authors： Zhang J,Wilson J,Auton G,Wang Y,Xu M,Xin Q,Song A

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For the purpose of clarifying the magneto-orientation mechanism of several biological membrane systems, xylene-suspended thin-layered single crystals of lecithin, which is a major component of membranes, were subjected to magnetic fields of various strengths, and the orientation behavior of the crystals was analyzed. ...

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

authors： Sakurai I,Kawamura Y,Ikegami A,Iwayanagi S

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neotropical Heliconius butterflies are famous examples of Müllerian mimicry, due to the diverse array of shared, brightly colored wing patterns that advertise the butterflies' unpalatability. The parallel geographical variation in these patterns within several widespread species has been invoked to support the con...

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

authors： Brower AV

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Under fasting conditions, increases in circulating glucagon maintain glucose balance by promoting hepatic gluconeogenesis. Triggering of the cAMP pathway stimulates gluconeogenic gene expression through the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of the cAMP response element binding (CREB) protein and via the dephosphorylation o...

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

authors： Tsai WW,Niessen S,Goebel N,Yates JR 3rd,Guccione E,Montminy M

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectroscopic interpretation of incoherent neutron scattering experiments is presented which is based on Franck-Condon-type probabilities for scattering-induced transitions between quantum states of the target. The resulting expressions for the scattering functions enable an energy landscape-oriented analysis of neu...

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

authors： Kneller GR

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that [35S]methionine is incorporated into the [Met]enkephalin sequences of a 22,000-dalton enkephalin-containing protein in the adrenal medulla. Pulse-chase experiments indicate that label is incorporated into the large polypeptide before it appears in free [Met]enkephalin and a smaller [Met]enkephal...

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

authors： Rossier J,Trifaró JM,Lewis RV,Lee RW,Stern A,Kimura S,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclodextrins are cyclic oligosaccharides widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to improve drug delivery and to increase the solubility of hydrophobic compounds. Anabaenolysins are lipopeptides produced by cyanobacteria with potent lytic activity in cholesterol-containing membranes. Here, we identified the 23- to...

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

authors： Shishido TK,Jokela J,Kolehmainen CT,Fewer DP,Wahlsten M,Wang H,Rouhiainen L,Rizzi E,De Bellis G,Permi P,Sivonen K

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous papers of this series, emphasis has been placed on the steady-state phase transition and critical properties of large lattices of interacting, symmetrical, and identical enzyme molecules. The present paper is concerned with a number of examples of enzyme--enzyme interactions that do not belong to the class...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kss1, a yeast mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), in its unphosphorylated (unactivated) state binds directly to and represses Ste12, a transcription factor necessary for expression of genes whose promoters contain filamentous response elements (FREs) and genes whose promoters contain pheromone response elements (...

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

authors： Bardwell L,Cook JG,Zhu-Shimoni JX,Voora D,Thorner J

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspersed repeated sequences (Alu and Kpn) were used as probes to detect a set of Not I restriction fragments of human chromosome 21 from the hybrid cell line WAV17. Forty different Not I fragments, ranging in size from less than 0.05 megabase (Mb) to 7.0 Mb, were identified. The total length of these fragments was...

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

authors： Sainz J,Pevny L,Wu Y,Cantor CR,Smith CL

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biologically active vitamin D(3) metabolite ("peak V metabolite") more polar than 25-hydroxycholecalciferol has been isolated from chicken intestines in pure form as a mono(trimethylsilyl)ether derivative. The molecule has been identified as 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol by means of mass spectrometry, ultraviolet ab...

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

authors： Holick MF,Schnoes HK,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00