Structure-function analysis of pneumococcal DprA protein reveals that dimerization is crucial for loading RecA recombinase onto DNA during transformation.

abstract：:Energy transfer is enhanced by translational diffusion of the donor and acceptor [Steinberg, I. Z. & Katchalski, E. (1968) J. Chem. Phys. 48, 2404-2410]. The effect of diffusion on energy transfer depends on Dtau(0)/s(2), in which D is the sum of the diffusion coefficients of the donor and acceptor, tau(0) is the life...

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

authors： Thomas DD,Carlsen WF,Stryer L

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine suppressor T-cell hybridoma cells (231F1) secrete not only bioactive glycosylation-inhibiting factor (GIF) but also an inactive peptide comparable to bioactive GIF peptide in its molecular size and reactivity with anti-GIF; the amino acid sequence of the inactive peptide is identical to that of the bioactive ho...

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

authors： Nakano T,Liu YC,Mikayama T,Watarai H,Taniguchi M,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of transforming growth factor beta 1 on the skin in vivo, we have targeted its expression to the epidermis of transgenic mice. To ensure that active TGF-beta 1 was expressed, we used a porcine TGF-beta 1 cDNA with mutations of Cys-223-->Ser and Cys-225-->Ser, which allow constitutive activation. M...

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

authors： Sellheyer K,Bickenbach JR,Rothnagel JA,Bundman D,Longley MA,Krieg T,Roche NS,Roberts AB,Roop DR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid. The biomagnification of BMAA through the Guam ecosystem fits a classic triangle of increasing concentrations of toxic compounds up the food chain. However, because BMAA is ...

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

authors： Murch SJ,Cox PA,Banack SA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicts of interest between the community and its members are at the core of human social dilemmas. If observed selfishness has future costs, individuals may hide selfish acts but display altruistic ones, and peers aim at identifying the most selfish persons to avoid them as future social partners. An interaction in...

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

authors： Rockenbach B,Milinski M

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular clocks have been used to date the divergence of humans and chimpanzees for nearly four decades. Nonetheless, this date and its confidence interval remain to be firmly established. In an effort to generate a genomic view of the human-chimpanzee divergence, we have analyzed 167 nuclear protein-coding genes and...

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

authors： Kumar S,Filipski A,Swarna V,Walker A,Hedges SB

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanophthalmos is a rare disorder of eye development characterized by extreme hyperopia (farsightedness), with refractive error in the range of +8.00 to +25.00 diopters. Because the cornea and lens are normal in size and shape, hyperopia occurs because insufficient growth along the visual axis places these lensing comp...

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

authors： Sundin OH,Leppert GS,Silva ED,Yang JM,Dharmaraj S,Maumenee IH,Santos LC,Parsa CF,Traboulsi EI,Broman KW,Dibernardo C,Sunness JS,Toy J,Weinberg EM

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleyl bovine plasma albumin competed on an equimolar basis with malondialdehyde low density lipoprotein (LDL) in suppressing the lysosomal hydrolysis of 125I-labeled malondialdehyde LDL mediated by the scavenger receptor of human monocyte macrophages. Maleyl bovine plasma albumin, in which 94% of the amino groups wer...

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

authors： Haberland ME,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)-modulin is a brain protein of Mr 16,500 that down-regulates the high-affinity binding site for GABA which is located in crude synaptic membranes. This protein can be phosphorylated in vitro by the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and by a partially purified preparation ...

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

authors： Wise BC,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion synthesis at replication-blocking lesions requires the induction of proteins that are controlled by the SOS system in Escherichia coli. Of the proteins identified so far, UmuD', UmuC, and RecA* were shown to facilitate replication across UV-light-induced lesions, yielding both error-free and mutagenic tran...

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

authors： Fuchs RP,Napolitano RL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocardin family proteins (myocardin, MRTF-A, and MRTF-B) are serum response factor (SRF) cofactors and potent transcription activators. Gene-ablation studies have indicated important developmental functions for myocardin family proteins primarily in regulation of cardiac and smooth muscle development. Using Xenop...

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

authors： Meadows SM,Warkman AS,Salanga MC,Small EM,Krieg PA

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast fatty acid synthase (M(r) = 2.5 x 10(6)) is organized in an alpha 6 beta 6 complex. In these studies, the synthase structure has been examined by negative-stain and cryo-electron microscopy. Side and end views of the structure indicate that the molecule, shaped similar to a prolate ellipsoid, has a high-dens...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Kolodziej SJ,Schroeter JP,Bretaudiere JP,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Total nuclear proteins extracted from cell lines representing various stages of differentiation of mouse B lymphocytes were studied by computer analysis of two-dimensional gels. Of the 1438 spots present on the gels, 55 varied significantly in intensity during differentiation. The variations occurred most often in ste...

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

authors： Rabilloud T,Pennetier JL,Hibner U,Vincens P,Tarroux P,Rougeon F

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rad51 is a core component of the eukaryotic homologous recombination machinery and is responsible for key mechanistic steps during strand invasion. Higher order oligomers of Rad51 display a remarkable degree of structural variation, forming rings, compressed filaments, and elongated filaments. It is unclear whether Ra...

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

authors： Robertson RB,Moses DN,Kwon Y,Chan P,Chi P,Klein H,Sung P,Greene EC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of the HIV type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter element by the viral Tat protein is an essential step in the HIV-1 life cycle. Tat function is mediated by the TAR RNA target element encoded within the LTR and is known to require the recruitment of a complex consisting of Tat an...

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

authors： Bieniasz PD,Grdina TA,Bogerd HP,Cullen BR

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are multidomain proteins responsible for the attachment of specific amino acids to their tRNA substrates. Prolyl-tRNA synthetases (ProRSs) are notable due to their particularly diverse architectures through evolution. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ProRS possesses an N-terminal extens...

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

authors： SternJohn J,Hati S,Siliciano PG,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes a multifunctional phage lambda expression vector system, lambda YES, designed to facilitate gene isolation from eukaryotes by complementation of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutations. lambda YES vectors have a selection for cDNA inserts using an oligo adaptor strategy and are capa...

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

authors： Elledge SJ,Mulligan JT,Ramer SW,Spottswood M,Davis RW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glucose-responsive "closed-loop" insulin delivery system mimicking the function of pancreatic cells has tremendous potential to improve quality of life and health in diabetics. Here, we report a novel glucose-responsive insulin delivery device using a painless microneedle-array patch ("smart insulin patch") containi...

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

authors： Yu J,Zhang Y,Ye Y,DiSanto R,Sun W,Ranson D,Ligler FS,Buse JB,Gu Z

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Male infertility, affecting as many as 10% of the adult population, is an extremely prevalent disorder. In most cases, the cause of the condition is unknown, and genetic factors that might affect male fertility, other than some sequences on the Y chromosome, have not been identified. We report here that male mice hete...

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

authors： Huang LS,Voyiaziakis E,Chen HL,Rubin EM,Gordon JW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 family proteins provide costimulatory signals that regulate T cell responses. Here we report the third set of B7 family-related T cell inhibitory molecules with the identification of a homolog of the B7 family, B7x. It is expressed in immune cells, nonlymphoid tissues, and some tumor cell lines. B7x inhibits cell-c...

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

authors： Zang X,Loke P,Kim J,Murphy K,Waitz R,Allison JP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the relationship of genetic factors determining the expression of endogenous type-C RNA tumor viruses and other host-gene markers to tumorigenesis. A hybridization experiment was performed with mice of strains AKR/J and C57L, the first filial (F(1)) generation hybrids, the second filial (F(2)) generation h...

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

authors： Meier H,Taylor BA,Cherry M,Buebner RJ

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enolase genes from land plants and apicomplexa (intracellular parasites, including the malarial parasite, Plasmodium) share two short insertions. This observation has led to the suggestion that the apicomplexan enolase is the product of a lateral transfer event involving the algal endosymbiont from which the apicomple...

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

authors： Keeling PJ,Palmer JD

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid containing the rat preproinsulin I gene was entrapped in large liposomes and intravenously administered to rats. Four hours after inoculation, the livers were processed for the isolation of hepatocytes. Kupffer cells, and endothelial cells, DNA was purified, and the exogenous DNA was detected in the differen...

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

authors： Soriano P,Dijkstra J,Legrand A,Spanjer H,Londos-Gagliardi D,Roerdink F,Scherphof G,Nicolau C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most homeobox genes belonging to the Hox family are sequentially activated in embryonal carcinoma cells upon treatment with retinoic acid. Genes located at the 3' end of each one of the four Hox clusters are activated first, whereas upstream Hox genes are activated progressively later. This activation has been extensi...

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

authors： Faiella A,Zappavigna V,Mavilio F,Boncinelli E

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRps) of the Nidovirales (Coronaviridae, Arteriviridae, and 12 other families) are linked to an amino-terminal (N-terminal) domain, called NiRAN, in a nonstructural protein (nsp) that is released from polyprotein 1ab by the viral main protease (Mpro). Previously, self-GMPylation/UMPylat...

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

authors： Slanina H,Madhugiri R,Bylapudi G,Schultheiß K,Karl N,Gulyaeva A,Gorbalenya AE,Linne U,Ziebuhr J

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known from Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" [Hardin G (1968) Science 162:1243-1248] that, if open access is allowed, overgrazing typically results. Hardin, and most authors of the subsequent literature, adopted a static view of the underlying ecosystem. Here we extend this tragedy of the commons to conside...

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

authors： Brekke KA,Øksendal B,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:NFATc (a member of the family of nuclear factors of activated T cells) is a transcriptional factor responsible for the Ca(2+)-inducible activation of cytokine genes during the immune response. In resting T cells, NFATc is retained in the cytoplasm by a mechanism that depends on multiple phosphorylations in an N-termin...

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

authors： Park S,Uesugi M,Verdine GL

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric epoxidation of various styrenes using carbocyclic oxazolidinone-containing ketone 3 has been investigated. High enantioselectivity (89-93% enantiomeric excess) has been attained for this challenging class of alkenes. Mechanistic studies show that substituents on the ketone catalyst can have electronic influ...

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

authors： Hickey M,Goeddel D,Crane Z,Shi Y

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal rat kidney cells were nonproductively infected either with CP27, a mutant of Moloney sarcoma virus that is temperature-sensitive for maintenance of transformation, or with the parental wild-type virus. The nonproducer cells were inoculated into the tails of athymic nude mice that were subsequently incubated at ...

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

authors： Klarlund JK,Forchhammer J

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threats to species from commercial fishing are rarely identified until species have suffered large population declines, by which time remedial actions can have severe economic consequences, such as closure of fisheries. Many of the species most threatened by fishing are caught in multispecies fisheries, which can rema...

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

authors： Burgess MG,Polasky S,Tilman D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00