Arginine ADP-ribosylation mechanism based on structural snapshots of iota-toxin and actin complex.

abstract：:Ferroelectricity has long been speculated to have important biological functions, although its very existence in biology has never been firmly established. Here, we present compelling evidence that elastin, the key ECM protein found in connective tissues, is ferroelectric, and we elucidate the molecular mechanism of i...

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

authors： Liu Y,Cai HL,Zelisko M,Wang Y,Sun J,Yan F,Ma F,Wang P,Chen QN,Zheng H,Meng X,Sharma P,Zhang Y,Li J

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is maintained by transcription factors that form a highly interconnected protein interaction network surrounding the homeobox protein Nanog. Enforced expression of Nanog in mouse ES (mES) cells promotes self-renewal and alleviates their requirement for leukemia inhibitory fact...

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

authors： Wang J,Levasseur DN,Orkin SH

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium without Na+, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) binds at 0 degrees to freshly prepared crude synaptic membranes from rat cerebral cortex with an apparent dissociation constant of 218 nM. An endogenous inhibitor of the Na+-independent GABA binding was removed from these membranes by freezing and thawing and by ...

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

authors： Toffano G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the enormous theoretical attention given to the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction, the validity of the key assumptions on which the theory depends rarely has been evaluated. It is often argued that a reduced ability to purge deleterious mutations condemns asexual lineages to an early extinction....

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

authors： Omilian AR,Cristescu ME,Dudycha JL,Lynch M

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a structure-based computer-assisted search, we have found a butyrophenone derivative that is a selective inhibitor of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) protease. The computer program creates a negative image of the active site cavity using the crystal structure of the HIV-1 protease. This image was c...

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

authors： DesJarlais RL,Seibel GL,Kuntz ID,Furth PS,Alvarez JC,Ortiz de Montellano PR,DeCamp DL,Babé LM,Craik CS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging of individual vesicle exocytosis is providing new insights into the mechanism and regulation of secretion by cells. To study calcium-triggered secretion from astrocytes, we used acridine orange (AO) to label vesicles. Although AO is often used for imaging exocytosis, we found that imaging vesicles labe...

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

authors： Jaiswal JK,Fix M,Takano T,Nedergaard M,Simon SM

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout most of pregnancy, uterine quiescence is maintained by increased progesterone receptor (PR) transcriptional activity, whereas spontaneous labor is initiated/facilitated by a concerted series of biochemical events that activate inflammatory pathways and have a negative impact on PR function. In this study, w...

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

authors： Renthal NE,Chen CC,Williams KC,Gerard RD,Prange-Kiel J,Mendelson CR

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collecti...

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

authors： Bongini L,Fanelli D,Piazza F,De Los Rios P,Sandin S,Skoglund U

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) comprises multifactorial ailments for which current therapeutic strategies remain insufficient to broadly address the underlying pathophysiology. Epigenetic gene regulation relies upon multifactorial processes that regulate multiple gene and protein pathways, including those involved in AD. We...

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

authors： Volmar CH,Salah-Uddin H,Janczura KJ,Halley P,Lambert G,Wodrich A,Manoah S,Patel NH,Sartor GC,Mehta N,Miles NTH,Desse S,Dorcius D,Cameron MD,Brothers SP,Wahlestedt C

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:CTCF sites are abundant in the genomes of diverse species but their function is enigmatic. We used chromosome conformation capture to determine long-range interactions among CTCF/cohesin sites over 2 Mb on human chromosome 11 encompassing the beta-globin locus and flanking olfactory receptor genes. Although CTCF occup...

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

authors： Hou C,Dale R,Dean A

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes transmit devastating human diseases because they need vertebrate blood for egg development. Metabolism in female mosquitoes is tightly coupled with blood meal-mediated reproduction, which requires an extremely high level of energy consumption. Functional analysis has shown that major genes encoding for enzy...

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

authors： Wang X,Hou Y,Saha TT,Pei G,Raikhel AS,Zou Z

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of the moment of inertia of the ground-state band of (168)Hf from J = 0(+) to 22(+) are interpreted as involving a revolving cluster with composition increasing steadily from p(10.5)n(14) to p(20.5)n(24), with radius of revolution 6.390 fm. The excited bands from 14(+) to 34(+), 21(-) to 33(-), and 18(-) to...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of the female gamete into a developmentally competent oocyte relies on the protected environment of the ovarian follicle. The oocyte plays a key role in establishing this microenvironment by releasing paracrine factors that control the functions of surrounding somatic cells. Growth differentiation ...

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

authors： Cakmak H,Franciosi F,Zamah AM,Cedars MI,Conti M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired resistance against antimalarial drugs has further increased the need for an effective malaria vaccine. The current leading candidate, RTS,S, is a recombinant circumsporozoite protein (CSP)-based vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum that contains 19 NANP repeats followed by a thrombospondin repeat domain. Alt...

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

authors： Oyen D,Torres JL,Wille-Reece U,Ockenhouse CF,Emerling D,Glanville J,Volkmuth W,Flores-Garcia Y,Zavala F,Ward AB,King CR,Wilson IA

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3R2 encodes a ubiquitous regulatory subunit (p85β) of PI3K, an enzyme that generates 3-polyphosphoinositides at the plasma membrane. PI3K activation triggers cell survival and migration. We found that p85β expression is elevated in breast and colon carcinomas and that its increased expression correlates with PI3K p...

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

authors： Cortés I,Sánchez-Ruíz J,Zuluaga S,Calvanese V,Marqués M,Hernández C,Rivera T,Kremer L,González-García A,Carrera AC

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arctic Ocean already experiences areas of low pH and high CO2, and it is expected to be most rapidly affected by future ocean acidification (OA). Copepods comprise the dominant Arctic zooplankton; hence, their responses to OA have important implications for Arctic ecosystems, yet there is little data on their curr...

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

authors： Lewis CN,Brown KA,Edwards LA,Cooper G,Findlay HS

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to make a specific change in the beta-lactamase (EC 3.5.2.6) (ampicillin resistance) gene of the plasmid pBR322. Evidence suggests that the active site for this enzyme may include a serine-threonine dyad (residues 70 and 71). By priming in vitro DNA synthesis with a ch...

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

authors： Dalbadie-McFarland G,Cohen LW,Riggs AD,Morin C,Itakura K,Richards JH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodent models of Parkinson disease in which transplants of dissociated rodent and human embryonic mesencephalic tissue, rich in dopamine neurons, have been studied, only 5-20% of the dopamine neurons survive the implantation procedure. We have investigated the effects of inhibiting free radical generation with two ...

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

authors： Nakao N,Frodl EM,Duan WM,Widner H,Brundin P

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-controlled human histone genes are coordinately expressed during S phase, and transcriptional regulation involves a series of trans-acting factors (HiNFs). The proliferation-specific factor HiNF-D interacts with multiple recognition motifs in histone H4, H3, and H1 promoters. Using gel shift immunoassays, w...

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

authors： van Wijnen AJ,Aziz F,Graña X,De Luca A,Desai RK,Jaarsveld K,Last TJ,Soprano K,Giordano A,Lian JB

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after...

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

authors： Olkkonen VM,Gottlieb P,Strassman J,Qiao XY,Bamford DH,Mindich L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1944, Freeman Dyson conjectured the existence of a "crank" function for partitions that would provide a combinatorial proof of Ramanujan's congruence modulo 11. Forty years later, Andrews and Garvan successfully found such a function and proved the celebrated result that the crank simultaneously "explains" the thre...

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

authors： Mahlburg K

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates suffer high morbidity and mortality in infection, presumably because of the lack of a fully developed adaptive and innate immune system. Evidence of poor innate responses in neonates has been shown by using a model that sensitizes the host to Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated inflammation with d-galactosamine...

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

authors： Zhao J,Kim KD,Yang X,Auh S,Fu YX,Tang H

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Of two closely related species of geese, one, the greylag goose, lives in the Indian plains all year round, while the other, the bar-headed goose, lives at the Tibetan lakes and migrates across the Himalayas to winter in India. Another species, the Andean goose, lives in the High Andes all year round. Possession of a ...

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

authors： Jessen TH,Weber RE,Fermi G,Tame J,Braunitzer G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since cdc48 mutants were isolated by the first genetic screens for cell division cycle (cdc) mutants in yeast, the requirement of the chaperone-like ATPase Cdc48/p97 during cell division has remained unclear. Here, we discover an unanticipated function for Caenorhabditis elegans CDC-48 in DNA replication linked to cel...

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

authors： Mouysset J,Deichsel A,Moser S,Hoege C,Hyman AA,Gartner A,Hoppe T

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen content of yeast rises dramatically just before the onset of the stationary phase of growth. Concomitantly, a rapid increase was found in the glucose 6-phosphate-independent (I) activity of glycogen synthetase, as well as in the total amount of enzyme. A mutant (GS 1-36) was obtained, which did not accumu...

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

authors： Rothman-Denes LB,Cabib E

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E6 oncoprotein of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that are associated with cervical cancer utilizes the cellular ubiquitin-protein ligase E6-AP to target the tumor suppressor p53 for degradation. In normal cells (i.e., in the absence of E6), p53 is also a target of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Under these condi...

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

authors： Hengstermann A,Linares LK,Ciechanover A,Whitaker NJ,Scheffner M

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Picomole amounts of oligodeoxynucleotides [polydeoxyadenylic acids, (dA)40-60] were baseline resolved and analyzed in less than 8 min by high-performance capillary electrophoresis with polyacrylamide gels. In addition, fast analysis of a crude 70-mer oligodeoxynucleotide and a slab gel-purified 99-mer oligodeoxynucleo...

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

authors： Cohen AS,Najarian DR,Paulus A,Guttman A,Smith JA,Karger BL

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a major blue-light receptor for phototropism in seed plants, exhibits blue-light-dependent autophosphorylation and contains two light, oxygen, or voltage (LOV) domains and a serine/threonine kinase domain. The LOV domains share homology with the PER-ARNT-SIM (PAS) superfamily, a diverse group of sensor pr...

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

authors： Crosson S,Moffat K

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic analysis of dynamic-contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI data yields K(trans) and k(ep), two parameters independently measuring the capillary wall contrast reagent transfer rate. The almost universally used standard model (SM) embeds the implicit assumption that equilibrium transcytolemmal water exchange is...

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

authors： Huang W,Li X,Morris EA,Tudorica LA,Seshan VE,Rooney WD,Tagge I,Wang Y,Xu J,Springer CS

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Excellent electrophoretic separations of a variety of biological molecules can be accomplished by using uncharged, triblock copolymers as the "gel" media. These copolymers form uncrosslinked, lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of large micelles between which molecules must travel. Unlike crosslinked hydrogels in comm...

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

authors： Rill RL,Locke BR,Liu Y,Van Winkle DH

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00