Identification of cation-binding sites on actin that drive polymerization and modulate bending stiffness.

abstract：:Mutations of esterase 3 confer two forms of organophosphate resistance on contemporary Australasian Lucilia cuprina. One form, called diazinon resistance, is slightly more effective against commonly used insecticides and is now more prevalent than the other form, called malathion resistance. We report here that the si...

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

authors： Hartley CJ,Newcomb RD,Russell RJ,Yong CG,Stevens JR,Yeates DK,La Salle J,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular details of the cyclic actomyosin interaction requires the ability to examine structural changes at specific sites in the actin-binding interface of myosin. To study these changes dynamically, we have expressed two mutants of a truncated fragment of chicken gizzard smooth muscle myosin, whi...

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

authors： Yengo CM,Fagnant PM,Chrin L,Rovner AS,Berger CL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardin and the myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs) A and B act as coactivators for serum response factor, which plays a key role in cardiovascular development. To determine the functions of MRTF-B in vivo, we generated MRTF-B mutant mice by targeted inactivation of the MRTF-B gene. We show that mice hom...

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

authors： Oh J,Richardson JA,Olson EN

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of fertilization in mammals, sperm bind in a relatively species-specific manner to the zona pellucida (ZP) of ovulated eggs. ZP3, a glycoprotein found in the mouse egg zona pellucida, serves as receptor for sperm during gamete adhesion. We report here that a Mr 56,000 protein found on mouse sperm ha...

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

authors： Bleil JD,Wassarman PM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal lamina propria (LP) is a major effector site of the mucosal immune system where antigen-specific and antigen-nonspecific factors shape the functional responses of CD4+ T helper cells. To study the functional differentiation of LP T helper cells we utilized DO11.10 T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic (Tg) m...

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

authors： Hurst SD,Sitterding SM,Ji S,Barrett TA

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are reported showing that pituitary extracts stimulate growth of 3T3 cells, an established line of mouse fibroblast. Cells were cultured in medium containing an organic buffer (HEPES; N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid), which increases the serum requirement for cell growth. The pituitary grow...

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

authors： Armelin HA

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscisic acid (ABA) is a ubiquitous phytohormone involved in many developmental processes and stress responses of plants. ABA moves within the plant, and intracellular receptors for ABA have been recently identified; however, no ABA transporter has been described to date. Here, we report the identification of the ATP-...

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

authors： Kang J,Hwang JU,Lee M,Kim YY,Assmann SM,Martinoia E,Lee Y

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the B chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-B) is transcribed in human atherosclerotic plaques, indicating that production of growth factors within plaques could occur during atherogenesis. However, since atherosclerotic plaques are composed of several cell types and three of th...

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

authors： Barrett TB,Benditt EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When deprived of D-glucose for 24 hr, chicken embryo fibroblasts exhibit a marked increase in hexose transport activity compared with that of control cells. Scatchard analysis of [3H]cytochalasin B binding to starved cell plasma membranes (46 pmol/mg) indicated a six-fold increase compared with fed cell plasma membran...

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

authors： Pessin JE,Tillotson LG,Yamada K,Gitomer W,Carter-Su C,Mora R,Isselbacher KJ,Czech MP

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton often encounter turbulence in their habitat. As most toxic phytoplankton species are motile, resolving the interplay of motility and turbulence has fundamental repercussions on our understanding of their own ecology and of the entire ecosystems they inhabit. The spatial distribution of motile phytoplankt...

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

authors： Breier RE,Lalescu CC,Waas D,Wilczek M,Mazza MG

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, employs two key host proteins to gain entry and replicate within cells, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and the cell surface transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). TMPRSS2 was first characterized as an androgen...

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

authors： Qiao Y,Wang XM,Mannan R,Pitchiaya S,Zhang Y,Wotring JW,Xiao L,Robinson DR,Wu YM,Tien JC,Cao X,Simko SA,Apel IJ,Bawa P,Kregel S,Narayanan SP,Raskind G,Ellison SJ,Parolia A,Zelenka-Wang S,McMurry L,Su F,Wang R,

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major problems have to be solved in studies of genes near breakpoints of chromosome abnormalities and in large-scale genomic mapping projects: (i) the identification of genes within the large amount on nontranscribed DNA and (ii) the determination of the tissues in which the identified genes are transcribed. In si...

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

authors： Boehm T,Gonzalez-Sarmiento R,Kennedy M,Rabbitts TH

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized a fragment of the gene encoding adipose fatty acid-binding protein (gene 422) from a 3T3-L1 adipocyte genomic library. The 5'-flanking sequence of the 422 gene contains potential regulatory regions for adipose-specific expression. At position -120 there is a fat-specific element that...

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

authors： Cook JS,Lucas JJ,Sibley E,Bolanowski MA,Christy RJ,Kelly TJ,Lane MD

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins are activated when they associate with G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), often in response to agonist-mediated receptor activation. It is generally thought that agonist-induced receptor-G protein association necessarily promotes G protein activation and, conversely, that activated GPCRs do not interact w...

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

authors： Okashah N,Wright SC,Kawakami K,Mathiasen S,Zhou J,Lu S,Javitch JA,Inoue A,Bouvier M,Lambert NA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces with patterned wettability contrast are important in industrial applications such as heat transfer, water collection, and particle separation. Traditional methods of fabricating such surfaces rely on microfabrication technologies, which are only applicable to certain substrates and are difficult to scale up a...

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

authors： Chen D,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) and polyketide synthases are large, multidomain enzymes that biosynthesize a number of pharmaceutically important natural products. The recognition of biosynthetic intermediates, displayed via covalent attachment to carrier proteins, by catalytic domains is critical for NRPS an...

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

authors： Lai JR,Fischbach MA,Liu DR,Walsh CT

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic apparatus converts light into chemical energy by a series of reactions that give rise to a coupled flow of electrons and protons that generate reducing power and ATP, respectively. A key intermediate in these reactions is plastoquinone (PQ), the most abundant electron and proton (hydrogen) carrier i...

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

authors： McCauley SW,Melis A,Tang GM,Arnon DI

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schiff base adducts of glyceraldehyde with hemoglobin undergo Amadori rearrangement to form stable ketoamine structures; this reaction is similar to the nonenzymic glucosylation of proteins. In the present studies the analogous rearrangement of the Schiff base adducts of glycolaldehyde with proteins has been demon...

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

authors： Acharya AS,Manning JM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4 receptor contributes to T-cell activation by coligating major histocompatibility complex class II on antigen presenting cells with the T-cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex, and triggering a cascade of signaling events including tyrosine phosphorylation of intracellular proteins. Paradoxically, CD3 cross-linking p...

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

authors： Desbarats J,Freed JH,Campbell PA,Newell MK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual crowding is a breakdown in object identification that occurs in cluttered scenes, a process that represents the principle restriction on visual performance in the periphery. When crowded objects are presented experimentally, a key finding is that observers frequently report nearby flanking items instead of the ...

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

authors： Greenwood JA,Bex PJ,Dakin SC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer 5 pyramidal neurons process information from multiple cortical layers to provide a major output of cortex. Because of technical limitations it has remained unclear how these cells integrate widespread synaptic inputs located in distantly separated basal and tuft dendrites. Here, we obtained in vivo two-photon ca...

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

authors： Hill DN,Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:sorLA (Sorting protein-related receptor) is a type-1 membrane protein of unknown function that is expressed in neurons. Its homology to sorting receptors that shuttle between the plasma membrane, endosomes, and the Golgi suggests a related function in neuronal trafficking processes. Because expression of sorLA is redu...

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

authors： Andersen OM,Reiche J,Schmidt V,Gotthardt M,Spoelgen R,Behlke J,von Arnim CA,Breiderhoff T,Jansen P,Wu X,Bales KR,Cappai R,Masters CL,Gliemann J,Mufson EJ,Hyman BT,Paul SM,Nykjaer A,Willnow TE

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of 5 residues (Delta5) from the central cytoplasmic loop of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli has no significant effect on expression or activity, whereas Delta12 leads to increased rates of permease turnover after membrane insertion and decreased transport activity, and Delta20 abolishes insertion and...

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

authors： Weinglass AB,Kaback HR

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high levels of new catalytic activities on natural and artificial protein scaffolds is a major goal of enzyme engineering. Here, we used random mutagenesis and selection in vivo to establish a sugar isomerisation reaction on both a natural (beta alpha)(8)-barrel enzyme and a catalytically inert chime...

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

authors： Claren J,Malisi C,Höcker B,Sterner R

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia and reperfusion both contribute to tissue damage after myocardial infarction. Although many drugs have been shown to reduce infarct size when administered before ischemia, few have been shown to be effective when administered at reperfusion. Moreover, although it is generally accepted that a burst of reactive...

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

authors： Granville DJ,Tashakkor B,Takeuchi C,Gustafsson AB,Huang C,Sayen MR,Wentworth P Jr,Yeager M,Gottlieb RA

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Some monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against interleukin (IL) 1 alpha have been found to activate antigen-presenting cells (APC, human peripheral blood monocytes and B lymphocytes), so that unstimulated T lymphocytes cultured with them are induced to proliferate and secrete IL-2. Control mAbs of the same isotypes and mAb...

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

authors： Eugui EM,Almquist SJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrograde axonal transport plays an important role in the maintenance of neuronal functions, but the mechanism is poorly defined partly because the constituents of the retrograde transport system and their interactions have yet to be elucidated. Of special interest is how dynein/dynactin motor proteins interact with ...

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

authors： Liu JJ,Ding J,Wu C,Bhagavatula P,Cui B,Chu S,Mobley WC,Yang Y

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3), originally identified in a functional screen for mammalian proteins that activate heterotrimeric G protein signaling, is known to be involved in drug-seeking behavior and is up-regulated during cocaine withdrawal in animal models. These observations indicate a potential role ...

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

authors： Groves B,Gong Q,Xu Z,Huntsman C,Nguyen C,Li D,Ma D

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The MYC family of cellular oncogenes includes c-Myc, N-myc, and L-myc, which encode transcriptional regulators involved in the control of cell proliferation and death. Accordingly, these genes become aberrantly activated and expressed in specific types of cancers. For example, c-Myc translocations occur frequently in ...

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

authors： Gostissa M,Ranganath S,Bianco JM,Alt FW

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonclassical MHC class I-related (MHC-I) molecule HFE controls cellular iron homeostasis by a mechanism that has not been fully elucidated. We examined the regulation of HFE by K5, the E3 ubiquitin ligase encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8), that is known to down-regulate classical MHC-I...

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

authors： Rhodes DA,Boyle LH,Boname JM,Lehner PJ,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00