Fusion activation by a headless parainfluenza virus 5 hemagglutinin-neuraminidase stalk suggests a modular mechanism for triggering.

abstract：:After pollen grains germinate on the stigma, pollen tubes traverse the extracellular matrix of the style on their way to the ovules. We previously characterized two pollen-specific, receptor-like kinases, LePRK1 and LePRK2, from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Their structure and immunolocalization pattern and the s...

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

authors： Wengier D,Valsecchi I,Cabanas ML,Tang WH,McCormick S,Muschietti J

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogenic protein Vav has the structure of an intracellular signal transducer. It is exclusively expressed in cells of hematopoietic lineage and plays a crucial role in hematopoietic cell differentiation. Here we report that both in cell extracts and within intact mammalian cells Vav binds to Grb2 (Sem-5/ASH/...

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

authors： Ye ZS,Baltimore D

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To complete the set of synthetic analogs of the three recognized types of active sites in iron-sulfur redox proteins, the compound (Et4N)[Fe((SCH2)2C6H4)2], derived from o-xylyl-alpha,alpha'-dithiol, has been prepared and its structure has been determined by x-ray diffraction. The bischelate anion contains a near-tetr...

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

authors： Lane RW,Ibers JA,Frankel RB,Holm RH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-dependent enzyme dethiobiotin synthetase from Escherichia coli catalyses the formation of dethiobiotin from CO2 and 7, 8-diaminopelargonic acid. The reaction is initiated by the formation of a carbamate and proceeds through a phosphorylated intermediate, a mixed carbamic phosphoric anhydride. Here, we report t...

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

authors： Käck H,Gibson KJ,Lindqvist Y,Schneider G

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) has been used to determine the atomic coordinates (models) from density maps of biological assemblies. These models can be assessed by their overall fit to the experimental data and stereochemical information. However, these models do not annotate the actual density values of the atom...

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

authors： Hryc CF,Chen DH,Afonine PV,Jakana J,Wang Z,Haase-Pettingell C,Jiang W,Adams PD,King JA,Schmid MF,Chiu W

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we report the X-ray crystal structure of the extracellular domain (ECD) of the human neuronal α2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunit in complex with the agonist epibatidine at 3.2 Å. Interestingly, α2 was crystallized as a pentamer, revealing the intersubunit interactions in a wild type neur...

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

authors： Kouvatsos N,Giastas P,Chroni-Tzartou D,Poulopoulou C,Tzartos SJ

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded (ss) RNA viruses infect all domains of life. To date, for most ssRNA virions, only the structures of the capsids and their associated protein components have been resolved to high resolution. Qβ, an ssRNA phage specific for the conjugative F-pilus, has a T = 3 icosahedral lattice of coat proteins assem...

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

authors： Gorzelnik KV,Cui Z,Reed CA,Jakana J,Young R,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II)/mannose-6-phosphate (M-6-P) receptor is known to participate in endocytosis as well as sorting of lysosomal enzymes and is involved in membrane trafficking through rapid cycling between cytosolic membrane compartments and the plasma membrane. Here we demonstrate that IGF-II, ...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Tally M,Larsson O,Kennedy RT,Huang L,Hall K,Berggren PO

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal remains of a diminutive small-brained hominin found in Late Pleistocene cave deposits on the island of Flores, Indonesia were assigned to a new species, Homo floresiensis [Brown P, et al. (2004) A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431: 1055-1061]. A dramatical...

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

authors： Gordon AD,Nevell L,Wood B

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligomerization of activated D- and L- and racemic guanosine-5'-phosphoro-2-methylimidazole on short templates containing D- and L-deoxycytidylate has been studied. Results obtained with D-oligo(dC)s as templates are similar to those previously reported for experiments with a poly(C) template. When one L-dC or two...

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

authors： Kozlov IA,Pitsch S,Orgel LE

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar granule cells are the most abundant neurons in the brain, and granule cell precursors (GCPs) are a common target of transformation in the pediatric brain tumor medulloblastoma. Proliferation of GCPs is regulated by the secreted signaling molecule Sonic hedgehog (Shh), but the mechanisms by which Shh control...

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

authors： Oliver TG,Grasfeder LL,Carroll AL,Kaiser C,Gillingham CL,Lin SM,Wickramasinghe R,Scott MP,Wechsler-Reya RJ

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] is the distinguishing protein component of lipoprotein(a), a major inherited risk factor for atherosclerosis. Human apo(a) is homologous to plasminogen. It contains from 15 to 50 repeated domains closely related to plasminogen kringle four, plus single kringle five-like and inactive protease...

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

authors： Lawn RM,Schwartz K,Patthy L

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess proton in water, H(+)(aq), plays a fundamental role in aqueous solution chemistry. Its solution thermodynamic properties are essential to molecular descriptions of that chemistry and for validation of dynamical calculations. Within the quasichemical theory of solutions those thermodynamic properties are con...

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

authors： Asthagiri D,Pratt LR,Kress JD

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a cDNA from a human phytohemagglutinin-activated lymphoblast library encoding a protein that binds 125I-labeled human interleukin 12 (125I-huIL-12) with a Kd of about 5 nM when expressed in COS-7 cells. When coexpressed in COS-7 cells with the previously identified IL-12 beta receptor (IL-12R beta) ...

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

authors： Presky DH,Yang H,Minetti LJ,Chua AO,Nabavi N,Wu CY,Gately MK,Gubler U

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhizobium common nod gene products NodABC are involved in the synthesis of the core lipochitooligosaccharide (Nod factor) structure, whereas the products of the host-specific nod genes are necessary for diverse structural modifications, which vary in different Rhizobium species. The sulfate group attached to the R...

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

authors： Schultze M,Staehelin C,Röhrig H,John M,Schmidt J,Kondorosi E,Schell J,Kondorosi A

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tata Element Modulatory Factor (TMF/ARA160) is a multifunctional Golgi-associated protein, which accumulates in colonic enterocytes and goblet cells. Mice lacking TMF/ARA160 (TMF(-/-)) produce thick and uniform colonic mucus that resists adherent bacterial colonization and diminishes susceptibility of these mice to in...

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

authors： Bel S,Elkis Y,Elifantz H,Koren O,Ben-Hamo R,Lerer-Goldshtein T,Rahimi R,Ben Horin S,Nyska A,Shpungin S,Nir U

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All but two genes involved in the ergosterol biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been cloned, and their corresponding mutants have been described. The remaining genes encode the C-3 sterol dehydrogenase (C-4 decarboxylase) and the 3-keto sterol reductase and in concert with the C-4 sterol methyloxida...

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

authors： Gachotte D,Barbuch R,Gaylor J,Nickel E,Bard M

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The precipitation and assembly of calcium carbonate skeletons by stony corals is a precisely controlled process regulated by the secretion of an ECM. Recently, it has been reported that the proteome of the skeletal organic matrix (SOM) contains a group of coral acid-rich proteins as well as an assemblage of adhesion a...

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

authors： Mass T,Drake JL,Peters EC,Jiang W,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:During performance of attention-demanding cognitive tasks, certain regions of the brain routinely increase activity, whereas others routinely decrease activity. In this study, we investigate the extent to which this task-related dichotomy is represented intrinsically in the resting human brain through examination of s...

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

authors： Fox MD,Snyder AZ,Vincent JL,Corbetta M,Van Essen DC,Raichle ME

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:As 3D culture has become central to investigation of tissue biology, mammary epithelial organoids have emerged as powerful tools for investigation of epithelial cell polarization and carcinogenesis. However, most current protocols start from single cells suspended in Matrigel, which can also restrict cell differentiat...

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

authors： Florian S,Iwamoto Y,Coughlin M,Weissleder R,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver glutamine synthetase (s(20,w) 15.0 S; MW about 352,000) resembles ovine brain glutamine synthetase in that it (a) has 8 subunits, (b) acts on both L- and D-glutamate and certain glutamate analogs (e.g., beta-glutamate, cis-cycloglutamate, and alpha-methyl-L-glutamate), and (c) is irreversibly inhibited by L-...

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

authors： Tate SS,Meister A

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified preparations of trp repressor (TrpR) protein derived from Escherichia coli strains that were engineered to overexpress this material were found to contain another protein, of 21 kDa. The second protein, designated WrbA [for tryptophan (W) repressor-binding protein] remained associated with its namesake...

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

authors： Yang W,Ni L,Somerville RL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte differentiation (Ly) antigen phenotype of cytotoxic effector T cells specific for H-2 mutant alloantigens was determined. Cytotoxic effectors generated in primary mixed lymphocyte culture and specific for H-2Kba and H-2Dda alloantigens are sensitive to both anti-Ly-1 and anti-Ly-2 serum plus complement....

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

authors： Wettstein PJ,Bailey DW,Mobraaten LE,Klein J,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by cells present an attractive strategy for developing new therapies, but progress in the field is limited by several issues: The quality of the EVs varies with the type and physiological status of the producer cells; protocols used to isolate the EVs are difficult to scale up; an...

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

authors： Kim DK,Nishida H,An SY,Shetty AK,Bartosh TJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-made vaccines have been the subject of intense interest because they can be produced economically in large scale without the use of animal-derived components. Plant-made therapeutic vaccines against challenging chronic diseases, such as cancer, have received little research attention, and no previous human clini...

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

authors： McCormick AA,Reddy S,Reinl SJ,Cameron TI,Czerwinkski DK,Vojdani F,Hanley KM,Garger SJ,White EL,Novak J,Barrett J,Holtz RB,Tusé D,Levy R

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining trend and implementing detrending operations are important steps in data analysis. Yet there is no precise definition of "trend" nor any logical algorithm for extracting it. As a result, various ad hoc extrinsic methods have been used to determine trend and to facilitate a detrending operation. In this art...

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

authors： Wu Z,Huang NE,Long SR,Peng CK

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium sensitivity of myosin cross-bridge activation in striated muscles commonly varies during ontogeny and in response to alterations in muscle usage, but the consequences for whole-organism physiology are not well known. Here we show that the relative abundances of alternatively spliced transcripts of the calcium ...

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

authors： Marden JH,Fitzhugh GH,Wolf MR,Arnold KD,Rowan B

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Weakly oncogenic adenovirus 2 (Ad2)-transformed LSH hamster cells are sensitive to lysis by spontaneously cytolytic lymphoid cells and activated macrophages, whereas highly oncogenic simian virus 40 (SV40)-transformed LSH cells are relatively resistant to these nonspecific effector cells. Somatic cell hybrids formed b...

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

authors： Cook JL,Hauser J,Patch CT,Lewis AM Jr,Levine AS

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiolipin is important for bacterial and mitochondrial stability and function. The final step in cardiolipin biosynthesis is catalyzed by cardiolipin synthase and differs mechanistically between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. To study the importance of cardiolipin synthesis for mitochondrial integrity, membrane protein...

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

authors： Serricchio M,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene III protein of bacteriophage f1 is inserted into the host cell membrane where it is assembled into phage particles. A truncated form of gene III protein, encoded by a recombinant plasmid and lacking the carboxyl terminus, does not remain in the membrane but instead appears to slip through it. Fusion of a hydropho...

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

authors： Boeke JD,Model P

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00