Cholesterol increases kinetic, energetic, and mechanical stability of the human β2-adrenergic receptor.

abstract：:A simple protocol for the rescue of a synthetic genome into a paramyxovirus has been developed. First, a synthetic Sendai virus-like RNA, containing the antisense coding region of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene replacing the coding region of the Sendai virus genome, was transcribed from a cDNA. When introd...

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

authors： Park KH,Huang T,Correia FF,Krystal M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is controversy over the nature of the disturbance in brain development that underpins attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In particular, it is unclear whether the disorder results from a delay in brain maturation or whether it represents a complete deviation from the template of typical development....

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

authors： Shaw P,Eckstrand K,Sharp W,Blumenthal J,Lerch JP,Greenstein D,Clasen L,Evans A,Giedd J,Rapoport JL

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the NH2-terminal DNA-binding domain of lac repressor with synthetic oligo[d(AT)] was studied by a photo-CIDNP technique (CIDNP is chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization). Three of the four tyrosines of the NH2-terminal region were found to be accessible to the photosensitive dye. The corres...

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

authors： Buck F,Rüterjans H,Kaptein R,Beyreuther K

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blanket resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to all beta-lactam antibiotics--which had such a devastating impact on chemotherapy of staphylococcal infections--is related to the properties of the key component of this resistance mechanism: the "acquired" penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-2A, whi...

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

authors： Pinho MG,de Lencastre H,Tomasz A

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that healthy cells degrade their own mitochondria. Here, we report that retinal ganglion cell axons of WT mice shed mitochondria at the optic nerve head (ONH), and that these mitochondria are internalized and degraded by adjacent astrocytes. EM demonstrates that mitochondria are shed through f...

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

authors： Davis CH,Kim KY,Bushong EA,Mills EA,Boassa D,Shih T,Kinebuchi M,Phan S,Zhou Y,Bihlmeyer NA,Nguyen JV,Jin Y,Ellisman MH,Marsh-Armstrong N

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many changes have been described in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, including loss of neurons and formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The molecular mechanisms underlying these pathologies are unclear. Northern blot, dot-blot, and reverse transcription-coupled PCR analyses have dem...

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

authors： Chow N,Cox C,Callahan LM,Weimer JM,Guo L,Coleman PD

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage gating of hyperpolarization-activated cation (HCN) channels is potentiated by direct binding of cAMP to a cytoplasmic cAMP-sensing domain (CSD). When unliganded, the CSD inhibits hyperpolarization-dependent opening of the HCN channel gate; cAMP binding relieves this autoinhibition so that opening becomes more ...

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

authors： Wicks NL,Wong T,Sun J,Madden Z,Young EC

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the links between cell division and DNA replication is essential for understanding normal cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis. In this report we explore the effect of phosphorylation of cell division cycle 6 (Cdc6), a DNA replication initiation factor, by polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) on the regulation of ch...

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

authors： Yim H,Erikson RL

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:At the onset of apoptosis, the peroxidation of cardiolipin at the inner mitochondrial membrane by cytochrome c requires an open coordination site on the heme. We report a 1.45-Å resolution structure of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with the Met80 heme ligand swung out of the heme crevice and replaced by a water molecule. T...

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

authors： McClelland LJ,Mou TC,Jeakins-Cooley ME,Sprang SR,Bowler BE

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the future often seems intangible, we can make it more concrete by imagining prospective events. Here, using functional MRI, we demonstrate a mechanism by which the ventromedial prefrontal cortex supports such episodic simulations, and thereby contributes to affective foresight: This region supports processes...

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

authors： Benoit RG,Szpunar KK,Schacter DL

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C) is an accessory protein of striated muscle thick filaments and a modulator of cardiac muscle contraction. Defects in the cardiac isoform, cMyBP-C, cause heart disease. cMyBP-C includes 11 Ig- and fibronectin-like domains and a cMyBP-C-specific motif. In vitro studies show that in addi...

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

authors： Mun JY,Previs MJ,Yu HY,Gulick J,Tobacman LS,Beck Previs S,Robbins J,Warshaw DM,Craig R

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression systems based on the Escherichia coli arabinose operon P(BAD) promoter exhibit the all-or-nothing (autocatalytic) induction of expression that was first documented in the lac operon. Under conditions of subsaturating levels of inducer, some of the cells of the population are fully induced, whereas other cel...

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

authors： Morgan-Kiss RM,Wadler C,Cronan JE Jr

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient apoptotic cell clearance and induction of immunologic tolerance is a critical mechanism preventing autoimmunity and associated pathology. Our laboratory has reported that apoptotic cells induce tolerance by a mechanism dependent on the tryptophan catabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) in sp...

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

authors： Ravishankar B,Liu H,Shinde R,Chaudhary K,Xiao W,Bradley J,Koritzinsky M,Madaio MP,McGaha TL

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the most important models to account for the specificity and sensitivity of the T cell receptor (TCR) are the kinetic proofreading and serial ligation models. However, although kinetic proofreading provides a means for individual TCRs to measure accurately the length of time they are engaged and signal appropri...

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

authors： Chan C,George AJ,Stark J

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic asthma is an inflammatory disease of the lung characterized by abnormal T helper-2 (T(H)2) lymphocyte responses to inhaled antigens. The molecular mechanisms leading to the generation of T(H)2 responses remain unclear, although toll-like receptors (TLRs) present on innate immune cells play a pivotal role in s...

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

authors： Mattes J,Collison A,Plank M,Phipps S,Foster PS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, P-element transposition causes mutagenesis and genome instability during hybrid dysgenesis. The P-element 31-bp terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) contain sequences essential for transposase cleavage and have been implicated in DNA repair via protein-DNA interactions with cellular proteins. The identity a...

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

authors： Francis MJ,Roche S,Cho MJ,Beall E,Min B,Panganiban RP,Rio DC

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the pressure-dissociated monomer of Arc repressor was characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The NMR spectra of the monomer under pressure (up to 5.0 kbar; 1 bar = 100 kPa) are typical of a molten globule and they are considerably different from those of the native dimer and thermally denatured mono...

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

authors： Peng X,Jonas J,Silva JL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the distributions of citations received by a single publication within several disciplines, spanning broad areas of science. We show that the probability that an article is cited c times has large variations between different disciplines, but all distributions are rescaled on a universal curve when the relati...

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

authors： Radicchi F,Fortunato S,Castellano C

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of cardiac hypertrophy is mediated, in part, by increase in NADPH oxidase activity and myocardial oxidative stress. The Rho GTPase, Rac, regulates NADPH oxidase activity through interaction with gp91(phox) and p67(phox) (in which "phox" is phagocyte oxidase). However, it is not known which Rac isoform ...

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

authors： Satoh M,Ogita H,Takeshita K,Mukai Y,Kwiatkowski DJ,Liao JK

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that the Alzheimer disease 40-residue amyloid beta-protein [A beta P-(1-40)] can form cation-selective channels when incorporated into planar lipid bilayers by fusion of liposomes containing the peptide. Since A beta P-(1-40) comprises portions of the putative extracellular and membrane-spanning...

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

authors： Arispe N,Pollard HB,Rojas E

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:5-enol-Pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSP synthase; phosphoenolpyruvate:3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.19) is an enzyme on the pathway toward the synthesis of aromatic amino acids in plants, fungi, and bacteria and is the target of the broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate. The three-dim...

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

authors： Stallings WC,Abdel-Meguid SS,Lim LW,Shieh HS,Dayringer HE,Leimgruber NK,Stegeman RA,Anderson KS,Sikorski JA,Padgette SR,Kishore GM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous and one of the most effective means of regulating protein activity. Receptor phosphorylation is a key event in signal transduction. The question, therefore, that arises is whether this modulatory mechanism might produce functional changes in a membrane receptor in the absence of...

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

authors： Ferrer-Montiel AV,Montal MS,Díaz-Muñoz M,Montal M

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) binds sites from which DNA replication is initiated. We address ORC binding selectivity in vivo by mapping ∼52,000 ORC2 binding sites throughout the human genome. The ORC binding profile is broader than those of sequence-specific transcription factors, suggesting that ORC is not bo...

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

authors： Miotto B,Ji Z,Struhl K

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the range of applicability of Forster long-range energy transfer in the determination of macromolecular dimensions and conformational dynamics is given. Emphasis is laid on the effect of restrictions in the orientational freedom of donor and acceptor and on the importance of the orientational averaging...

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

authors： Dale RE,Eisinger J

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drug resistance factor RP4, originally isolated in Pseudomonas, was transferred to Rhizobium meliloti. In that strain, RP4 promotes conjugational transfer of chromosomal markers to form haploid recombinants. This mating system has been used to construct a linkage map of R. meliloti. ...

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

authors： Meade HM,Signer ER

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic nematicity, a correlated state that spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry, is observed in several layered quantum materials. In contrast to their liquid-crystal counterparts, the nematic director cannot usually point in an arbitrary direction (XY nematics), but is locked by the crystal to discrete direct...

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

authors： Ishida K,Tsujii M,Hosoi S,Mizukami Y,Ishida S,Iyo A,Eisaki H,Wolf T,Grube K,V Löhneysen H,Fernandes RM,Shibauchi T

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones encoding a glucose transporter-like protein have been isolated from adult human liver and kidney cDNA libraries by cross-hybridization with the human HepG2/erythrocyte glucose transporter cDNA. Analysis of the sequence of this 524-amino acid glucose transporter-like protein indicates that it has 55.5% iden...

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

authors： Fukumoto H,Seino S,Imura H,Seino Y,Eddy RL,Fukushima Y,Byers MG,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long QT syndrome (LQT) is an autosomal dominant disorder that can cause sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias. We recently discovered that mutations in HERG, a K+-channel gene, cause chromosome 7-linked LQT. Heterologous expression of HERG in Xenopus oocytes revealed that HERG current was similar to a well-characteriz...

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

authors： Sanguinetti MC,Curran ME,Spector PS,Keating MT

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal domains of the two alpha-subunits (alphaCTD) in Escherichia coli RNA polymerase (RNAP) recognize specific sequences called UP elements in some promoters. These interactions can increase transcription dramatically. Previously, effects of upstream DNA-alphaCTD interactions on transcription were quantified...

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

authors： Ross W,Gourse RL

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Degassing of planetary interiors through surface volcanism plays an important role in the evolution of planetary bodies and atmospheres. On Earth, carbon dioxide and water are the primary volatile species in magmas. However, little is known about the speciation and degassing of carbon in magmas formed on other planets...

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

authors： Wetzel DT,Rutherford MJ,Jacobsen SD,Hauri EH,Saal AE

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00