Free energy landscape for the binding process of Huperzine A to acetylcholinesterase.

abstract：:Complexin activates Ca(2+)-triggered neurotransmitter release and regulates spontaneous release in the presynaptic terminal by cooperating with the neuronal soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) and the Ca(2+)-sensor synaptotagmin. The N-terminal domain of complexin is importa...

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

authors： Lai Y,Choi UB,Zhang Y,Zhao M,Pfuetzner RA,Wang AL,Diao J,Brunger AT

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association of gene-32 protein has been studied by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, in order to better understand its role in DNA replication and genetic recombination. The monomer molecular weight of gene-32 protein is 38,000 in guanidine hydrochloride and 34,0...

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

authors： Carroll RB,Neet KE,Goldthwait DA

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of carlorie intake on the development of spontaneous mammary tumors in virgin C3H mice was studied. Only about 10% of the mice fed a low-calorie diet [10 kcal/day (1 kcal = 4.184 kJ)] since weaning developed mammary tumors, compared to about 60% of those mice that were reared on high-calorie diets (16 kcal/...

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

authors： Sarkar NH,Fernandes G,Telang NT,Kourides IA,Good RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Si...

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

authors： Tackney JC,Potter BA,Raff J,Powers M,Watkins WS,Warner D,Reuther JD,Irish JD,O'Rourke DH

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the supposedly buried tryptophan in ribonuclease T1 has been found to be collisionally quenched by acrylamide with a rate constant of 3 X 10(8) M--1 sec--1. Only a slight decrease in the quenching rate is observed upon a 5-fold increase in the viscosity of the solution. For this to be the case, the...

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

authors： Eftink MR,Ghiron CA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical robustness of the cell under different modes of stress and deformation is essential to its survival and function. Under tension, mechanical rigidity is provided by the cytoskeletal network; with increasing stress, this network stiffens, providing increased resistance to deformation. However, a cell must als...

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

authors： Zhou EH,Trepat X,Park CY,Lenormand G,Oliver MN,Mijailovich SM,Hardin C,Weitz DA,Butler JP,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:13C-labeled precorrin-6x is biosynthesized by cell-free protein preparations from Pseudomonas denitrificans in separate experiments using delta-amino[5-13C]levulinic acid and the corresponding delta-amino[4-13C]- and delta-amino[3-13C]levulinic acid-labeled forms in conjunction with S-[methyl-13C]adenosylmethionine fo...

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

authors： Thibaut D,Blanche F,Debussche L,Leeper FJ,Battersby AR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trial electron density functions have some conceptual and computational advantages over wave functions. The properties of some simple density functions for H(+) (2) and H(2) are examined. It appears that for a diatomic molecule a good density function would be given by rho = N(A(2) + B(2)), in which A and B are short ...

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

authors： Pearson RG,Palke WE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes isolated from eight different species of cyanobacteria contain in addition to the light-harvesting phycobiliproteins, a small number of colorless polypeptides with molecular weights higher than those of the chromopolypeptide subunits of the phycobiliproteins. In the phycobilisomes of the species examin...

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

authors： de Marsac NT,Cohen-bazire G

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces characteristic reversible changes of cell shape in certain fibroblastic lines: motile lamellas are transformed into noncontractile narrow processes; simultaneously, the actin microfilament network of lamellas is locally disorganized. This reaction to PMA...

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

authors： Bershadsky AD,Ivanova OY,Lyass LA,Pletyushkina OY,Vasiliev JM,Gelfand IM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although malignant astrocytomas are a leading cause of cancer-related death in children, rational therapeutic strategies are lacking. We previously identified activating mutations of v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) (BRAF(T1799A) encoding BRAF(V600E)) in association with homozygous cyclin-dependen...

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

authors： Huillard E,Hashizume R,Phillips JJ,Griveau A,Ihrie RA,Aoki Y,Nicolaides T,Perry A,Waldman T,McMahon M,Weiss WA,Petritsch C,James CD,Rowitch DH

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of photoinitiated electron transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor molecules has helped elucidate the distance dependence of electron transfer rates and behavior of various electron transfer mechanisms. In all reported cases, the energies of the bridge electronic states involved in the electron transfer change dra...

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

authors： Goldsmith RH,Sinks LE,Kelley RF,Betzen LJ,Liu W,Weiss EA,Ratner MA,Wasielewski MR

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polypeptides contained in the coat and the core of adenovirus type 2 particles have been identified as virus gene products. They are synthesized in vitro by a cell-free protein-making system programmed by adenovirus type 2 messenger RNA that has been hybridized with and eluted from virus DNA. Fractionation by ...

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

authors： Eron L,Westphal H

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast tumors lacking expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and the estrogen and the progesterone receptors (triple negative; TNBC) are more aggressive than other disease subtypes, and no molecular targeted agents are currently available for their treatment. Because TNBC commonly displays EGF r...

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

authors： Ferraro DA,Gaborit N,Maron R,Cohen-Dvashi H,Porat Z,Pareja F,Lavi S,Lindzen M,Ben-Chetrit N,Sela M,Yarden Y

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:I discuss two exotic objects that must be experimentally identified in chiral superfluids and superconductors. These are (i) the vortex with a fractional quantum number (N = 1/2 in chiral superfluids, and N = 1/2 and N = 1/4 in chiral superconductors), which plays the part of the Alice string in relativistic theories ...

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

authors： Volovik GE

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex between soluble dextran and human hemoglobin has been synthesized by two different methods. In the alkylation method, hemoglobin was allowed to react with bromoacetyl groups incorporated into the dextran; the yield of the complex was about 80% in terms of the hemoglobin used. In the dialdehyde method, hemogl...

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

authors： Tam SC,Blumenstein J,Wong JT

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. ...

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

authors： Bian J,Christiansen JR,Moreno JA,Kane SJ,Khaychuk V,Gallegos J,Kim S,Telling GC

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative cooperativity has been observed in CTP synthetase, an allosteric enzyme which contains a regulatory site. Thus, the same enzyme exhibits negative cooperativity for GTP (an effector) and glutamine (a substrate) and positive cooperativity for ATP and UTP (both substrates). In the process of the delineation of t...

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

authors： Levitzki A,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of a 0.5 M KCl wash fraction from rabbit reticulocyte ribosomes causes a 3- to 10-fold increase in the extent of translation of natural mRNAs by Krebs-cell lysates. In the presence of the wash fraction, 1 pmol of rabbit or mouse 10S RNA directs the incorporation of 80 pmol of leucine into rabbit globin. The a...

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

authors： Metafora S,Terada M,Dow LW,Marks PA,Bank A

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two F' plasmids isolated independently from a recA- strain of Escherichia coli and containing identical deletion end points and identical associated inverted duplications are described. In these plasmids, DNA of F plasmid from the IS3 element alpha 1 beta 1 up to the transposon gamma delta is duplicated in inverted or...

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

authors： Tsai M,Thompson TL,Deonier RC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied androgen binding characteristics of cells for androgen insensitivity from an obligate heterozygote, who is the mother of three male pseudohermaphrodites with dihydrotestosterone (17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-3-one) receptor deficiency. Specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts from he...

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

authors： Meyer WJ 3rd,Migeon BR,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand Black (NZB) mice develop after 16 weeks of age an autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disease which is a model for systemic lupus erythematosus and lymphoid malignancy in humans. At this age, the mice manifest a progressive decline in T lymphocyte (thymus-derived lymphocyte) functions and serum thymosin lev...

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

authors： Dauphinee MJ,Talal N,Goldstein AL,White A

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interbacterial interaction pathways play an important role in defining the structure and complexity of bacterial associations. A quantitative description of such pathways offers promise for understanding the forces that contribute to community composition. We developed time-lapse fluorescence microscopy methods for qu...

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

authors： LeRoux M,De Leon JA,Kuwada NJ,Russell AB,Pinto-Santini D,Hood RD,Agnello DM,Robertson SM,Wiggins PA,Mougous JD

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of gangliosides GD1a and GM1 on the lamellar-to-hexagonal II phase transition of mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine/dioleoylphosphatidyl choline, 3:1, and of transphosphatidylated phosphatidylethanolamine with dioleoylglycerol by high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry, 31P-N...

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

authors： Perillo MA,Scarsdale NJ,Yu RK,Maggio B

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxykynurenine (3-HK) is a tryptophan metabolite whose level in the brain is markedly elevated under several pathological conditions, including Huntington disease and human immunodeficiency virus infection. Here we demonstrate that micromolar concentrations (1-100 microM) of 3-HK cause cell death in primary neuro...

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

authors： Okuda S,Nishiyama N,Saito H,Katsuki H

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is a biological computer integrating the body's reflex and voluntary environmental interactions (behavior) with a relatively constant internal state (homeostasis)-- promoting survival of the individual and species. The wiring diagram of the nervous system's structural connectivity provides an obliga...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Bota M

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequences of wheat Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci, encoding the plastid and cytosolic forms of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase, were analyzed with a view to understanding the evolution of these genes and the origin of the three genomes in modern hexaploid wheat. Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci from each of the wheats Triticum ur...

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

authors： Chalupska D,Lee HY,Faris JD,Evrard A,Chalhoub B,Haselkorn R,Gornicki P

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human urokinase cDNA clones have been identified from a cDNA library prepared from total RNA of human fibroblasts transformed by simian virus 40 [Okayama, H. & Berg, P. (1983) Mol. Cell. Biol. 3, 280-289]. Synthetic oligonucleotides, corresponding to urokinase protein sequence, were used as probes. The cloned cDNA cov...

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

authors： Verde P,Stoppelli MP,Galeffi P,Di Nocera P,Blasi F

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faster aging is predicted in more active tissues and animals because of greater reactive oxygen species generation. Yet age-related cell loss is greater in less active cell types, such as type II muscle fibers. Mitochondrial uncoupling has been proposed as a mechanism that reduces reactive oxygen species production an...

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

authors： Amara CE,Shankland EG,Jubrias SA,Marcinek DJ,Kushmerick MJ,Conley KE

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described an antigen-specific I-Ad-restricted T-cell hybridoma, A1.1, that constitutively releases an antigen-specific immunoregulatory activity into supernatants. Using retrovirally mediated gene transfer, we have found that transfer of the T-cell receptor alpha chain (TCR alpha) gene from A1.1 to ...

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

authors： Green DR,Bissonnette R,Zheng HG,Onda T,Echeverri F,Mogil RJ,Steele JK,Voralia M,Fotedar A

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00