Nicking-closing enzyme assembles nucleosome-like structures in vitro.

abstract：:S-nitrosation is a posttranslational, oxidative addition of NO to cysteine residues of proteins that has been proposed as a cGMP-independent signaling pathway [Hess DT, Matsumoto A, Kim SO, Marshall HE, Stamler JS (2005) Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 6:150-166]. A paradox of S-nitrosation is that only a small set of reactive ...

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

authors： Mitchell DA,Morton SU,Fernhoff NB,Marletta MA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface layer of the oceans and other aquatic environments contains many bacteria that range in activity, from dormant cells to those with high rates of metabolism. However, little experimental evidence exists about the activity of specific bacterial taxa, especially rare ones. Here we explore the relationship bet...

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

authors： Campbell BJ,Yu L,Heidelberg JF,Kirchman DL

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor gene is the cellular homolog of the avian erythroblastosis virus erbB oncogene. Control of EGF receptor expression determines cellular responsiveness to EGF and might play an important role in neoplastic development. Using RNA blot hybridization, we have found that exposure o...

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

authors： Clark AJ,Ishii S,Richert N,Merlino GT,Pastan I

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vegetative development of the maize shoot can be divided into juvenile and adult phases based on the types of leaves produced at different times in shoot development. Models for the regulation of phase change make explicit predictions about when the identity of these types of leaves is determined. To test these mo...

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

authors： Orkwiszewski JA,Poethig RS

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural analysis of the Fab' fragment of human myeloma immunoglobulin IgGl(lambda) New has been extended to a nominal resolution of 2.0 A. Each of the structural subunits corresponding to the variable and to the constant homology regions of the light and heavy chains contains two irregular beta-sheets which are...

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

authors： Poljak RJ,Amzel LM,Chen BL,Phizackerley RP,Saul F

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of rat monoclonal antibodies was used to classify mouse mast cells from four different sources on the basis of their surface determinants. Three populations of mast cells were derived by culturing normal bone marrow, spleen, and peripheral blood cells, whereas the fourth population was isolated directly from t...

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

authors： Katz HR,LeBlanc PA,Russell SW

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization of optical fields is a crucial degree of freedom in the all-optical analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). However, the physical origins of EIT and polarization-induced phenomena have not been well distinguished, which can lead to confusion in associated applications such as slow ligh...

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

authors： Wang C,Jiang X,Sweeney WR,Hsu CW,Liu Y,Zhao G,Peng B,Zhang M,Jiang L,Stone AD,Yang L

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of nitrogenase components (MoFe protein and Fe protein) from Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) have been obtained in the near infrared-visible-near ultraviolet spectral region. Previously, visible CD was reported to be absen...

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

authors： Stephens PJ,McKenna CE,Smith BE,Nguyen HT,McKenna MC,Thomson AJ,Devlin F,Jones JB

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal H2O2 levels are closely related to many diseases, including inflammation and cancers. Herein, we simultaneously load HRP and its substrate, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), into liposomal nanoparticles, obtaining a Lipo@HRP&ABTS optical nanoprobe for in vivo H2O2-responsive chrom...

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

authors： Chen Q,Liang C,Sun X,Chen J,Yang Z,Zhao H,Feng L,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about stem cell biology or the specialized environments or niches believed to control stem cell renewal and differentiation in self-renewing tissues of the body. Functional assays for stem cells are available only for hematopoiesis and spermatogenesis, and the microenvironment, or niche, for hematopoie...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Orwig KE,Avarbock MR,Brinster RL

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate modification of the 3 billion-base-pair human genome requires tools with exceptional sequence specificity. Here, we describe a general strategy for the design of enzymes that target a single site within the genome. We generated chimeric zinc finger recombinases with cooperative DNA-binding and catalytic speci...

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

authors： Gordley RM,Gersbach CA,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of interleukin 8 (IL-8) with heparin was studied by using synthetic IL-8 analogs with C- and N-terminal truncations. Elimination of the N-terminal region preceding the first cysteine, which constitutes the IL-8 receptor binding site, did not affect the affinity to heparin-Sepharose. Affinity, however, ...

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

authors： Webb LM,Ehrengruber MU,Clark-Lewis I,Baggiolini M,Rot A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart has not been regarded as a major target organ of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) toxicity notwithstanding that lethal cardiac dysfunction can occur in the absence of histopathological changes. To assess possible TCDD cardiotoxicity, we studied the effect of TCDD five days after treatment (10 micro...

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

authors： Canga L,Levi R,Rifkind AB

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine pre-B leukemic cell line 70Z/3 contains both an unrearranged immunoglobulin kappa-light-chain gene and a functionally rearranged but silent kappa-light-chain gene. Mitogenic stimulation of growing 70Z/3 cells with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activates kappa-light-gene transcription and results in a 1...

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

authors： Wall R,Briskin M,Carter C,Govan H,Taylor A,Kincade P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two series of peptides that specifically bind to the extracellular domain of the alpha chain of the human interleukin-5 receptor (IL-5Ralpha), but share no primary sequence homology to IL-5, were identified from libraries of random recombinant peptides. Affinity maturation procedures generated a 19-aa peptide that bin...

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

authors： England BP,Balasubramanian P,Uings I,Bethell S,Chen MJ,Schatz PJ,Yin Q,Chen YF,Whitehorn EA,Tsavaler A,Martens CL,Barrett RW,McKinnon M

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are complex, self-organized structures that define boundaries and compartmentalize space in living matter. Composed of a wide variety of lipid and protein molecules, these responsive surfaces mediate transmembrane signaling and material transport within the cell and with its environment. It is wel...

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

authors： Watkins EB,Miller CE,Majewski J,Kuhl TL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes are protected by a densely packed surface monolayer of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). A haptoglobin-hemoglobin receptor (HpHbR) within this VSG coat mediates heme acquisition. HpHbR is also exploited by the human host to mediate endocytosis of trypanolytic factor (TLF)1 from serum, contributi...

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

authors： Higgins MK,Tkachenko O,Brown A,Reed J,Raper J,Carrington M

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The full primary structure of the very potent opioid peptide dynorphin, from porcine pituitary, has been determined. It is (H)Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu-Arg-Arg-Ile-Arg-Pro-Lys-Leu-Lys-Trp-Asp-Asn-Gln(OH). The synthetic peptide with this sequence behaves identically to natural dynorphin in a number of ways, and it has the sa...

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

authors： Goldstein A,Fischli W,Lowney LI,Hunkapiller M,Hood L

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor activity of p53 is regulated by interactions with the ubiquitin ligase HDM2 and the general transcriptional coactivators CBP and p300. Using NMR spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry, we have dissected the binding interactions between the N-terminal transactivation domain (TAD) of p53,...

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

authors： Ferreon JC,Lee CW,Arai M,Martinez-Yamout MA,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2009-04-21 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：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

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

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of the native tertiary structure of a globular protein from the primary sequence will require a potential energy model that can discriminate all nonnative structures from the native structure(s). A successful model must distinguish not only alternate structures that are very nonnative but also alternate str...

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

authors： Wang Y,Zhang H,Li W,Scott RA

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater arsenic (As) is elevated in the shallow Holocene aquifers of Bangladesh. In the dry season, the shallow groundwater discharges to major rivers. This process may influence the chemistry of the river and the hyporheic zone sediment. To assess the fate of As during discharge, surface (0-5 cm) and subsurface (...

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

authors： Datta S,Mailloux B,Jung HB,Hoque MA,Stute M,Ahmed KM,Zheng Y

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane (TM) domains of integral membrane proteins are generally thought to be helical. However, a Gly-Pro sequence within the TM domain of the insulin receptor is predicted to act as a helix breaker. CD analyses of model TM peptides in a lipid-like environment show that substitution of Gly and Pro by Ala enhanc...

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

authors： Goncalves E,Yamada K,Thatte HS,Backer JM,Golan DE,Kahn CR,Shoelson SE

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient execution of perceptual-motor tasks requires rapid voluntary reconfiguration of cognitive task sets as circumstances unfold. Such acts of cognitive control, which are thought to rely on a network of cortical regions in prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex, include voluntary shifts of attention among perc...

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

authors： Esterman M,Chiu YC,Tamber-Rosenau BJ,Yantis S

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C, PKC) has been suggested to play a role in the sensitivity of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors to ethanol. We tested a line of null mutant mice that lacks the gamma isoform of PKC (PKC gamma) to determine the role of this brain-specific isoenz...

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

authors： Harris RA,McQuilkin SJ,Paylor R,Abeliovich A,Tonegawa S,Wehner JM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-rings of ATP synthases consist of individual c-subunits, all of which harbor a conserved motif of repetitive glycine residues (GxGxGxG) important for tight transmembrane α-helix packing. The c-ring stoichiometry determines the number of ions transferred during enzyme operation and has a direct impact on the ion-...

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

authors： Preiss L,Klyszejko AL,Hicks DB,Liu J,Fackelmayer OJ,Yildiz Ö,Krulwich TA,Meier T

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with positron-emission tomography during two encoding and two retrieval tasks that were designed to compare memory for object features with memory for object locations. Bilateral increases in regional cerebral blood flow were observed in both anterior and posterior regions of ...

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

authors： Owen AM,Milner B,Petrides M,Evans AC

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' end of a eukaryotic mRNA transcript generally has a 7-methylguanosine (m7G) cap that protects mRNA from degradation and mediates almost all other aspects of gene expression. Some RNAs in Escherichia coli, yeast, and mammals were recently found to contain an NAD+ cap. Here, we report the development of the metho...

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

authors： Zhang H,Zhong H,Zhang S,Shao X,Ni M,Cai Z,Chen X,Xia Y

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the frequency of integrated viral DNA in the livers of three woodchucks chronically infected with the woodchuck hepatitis virus before and during 30 weeks of therapy with the nucleoside analog L-FMAU [1-(2-fluoro-5-methyl-beta, L-arabinofuranosyl)uracil, clevudine]. We found that although viral covalentl...

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

authors： Summers J,Mason WS

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00