Atomic structure of the 75 MDa extremophile Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus determined by CryoEM and X-ray crystallography.

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints appear to contribute to an increase in cell survival and a decrease in abnormal heritable genetic changes following exposure to DNA damaging agents. Though several radiation-sensitive yeast mutants have been identified, little is known about the genes that control these responses in mammalian ce...

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

authors： Kuerbitz SJ,Plunkett BS,Walsh WV,Kastan MB

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A near-full-length casbene synthase cDNA clone, pCS7, was isolated by using a partial cDNA clone, pCS4, to probe a lambda gt10 library constructed from poly(A)+ RNA from elicited castor bean seedlings. The cDNA insert had a length of 1983 bases with a polyadenylate tail of 19 bases. Translation of the cDNA sequence re...

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

authors： Mau CJ,West CA

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

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

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing the bicistronic reporter transposon mini-Tn5 lacZ-tet/1, we have identified lacZ fusions to four Escherichia coli genes/operons that are strongly activated by the accumulation of self-produced extracellular signals. These fusions were designated cma9, cma48, cma113, and cma114 for conditioned medium activate...

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

authors： Baca-DeLancey RR,South MM,Ding X,Rather PN

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Coimmunoprecipitation of members of the phytochrome red/farred photoreceptor family from plant extracts has been used to analyze their heteromeric binding interactions. Phytochrome (phy)B or phyD apoproteins with six myc epitopes fused to their N termini are biologically active when expressed in Arabidopsis. Immunopre...

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

authors： Sharrock RA,Clack T

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation is refractory to repair and may trigger carcinogenic events for reasons that are not well understood. Here, we used an in situ method to directly monitor induction and repair of clustered DNA lesions in individual cells. We showed, consistent with biophysical modeling...

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

authors： Asaithamby A,Hu B,Chen DJ

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, after reductive amination, were separated and detected as their 3-(4-carboxybenzoyl)-2-quinolinecarboxaldehyde (CBQCA) derivatives by capillary electrophoresis/laser-induced fluorescence. Under optimized conditions, the minimum detectable quantities for monosaccharide sol...

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

authors： Liu JP,Shirota O,Wiesler D,Novotny M

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2(q) mice (DBA/1) do not make an antibody response to a synthetic aminoacid polymer, (Glu, Ala,Tyr(10)), after an immunizing regimen that produces a good antibody response in mouse strains with other H-2 alleles. Their thymocytes, however, show evidence of recognizing this antigen since they synthesize DNA when they...

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

authors： Gershon RK,Maurer PH,Merryman CF

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cavitation, known as the formation of vapor bubbles when liquids are under tension, is of great interest both in condensed matter science as well as in diverse applications such as botany, hydraulic engineering, and medicine. Although widely studied in bulk and microscale-confined liquids, cavitation in the nanoscale ...

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

authors： Duan C,Karnik R,Lu MC,Majumdar A

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) is found in a variety of animal phyla and, because of its toxicity, is most often assumed to deter predation. On the tropical Pacific island of Guam, we found an undescribed flatworm (planocerid sp. 1) that contains high levels of TTX and its analogs. Through ecological experim...

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

authors： Ritson-Williams R,Yotsu-Yamashita M,Paul VJ

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Navigation, the ability to reach desired goal locations, is critical for animals and humans. Animal navigation has been studied extensively in birds, insects, and some marine vertebrates and invertebrates, yet we are still far from elucidating the underlying mechanisms in other taxonomic groups, especially mammals. He...

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

authors： Tsoar A,Nathan R,Bartan Y,Vyssotski A,Dell'Omo G,Ulanovsky N

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclization/cleavage of the 2-(p-nitrophenyl) phosphate ester of propylene glycol is catalyzed by imidazole and, much more effectively, by Zn2+ with imidazole. In the latter case, the mechanism involves simultaneous Lewis acid/base catalysis. Similar Zn2+ and imidazole catalysis of cyclization/cleavage is seen with th...

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

authors： Breslow R,Huang DL,Anslyn E

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations show that the desolvation rates of isotopes of Li(+), K(+), Rb(+), Ca(2+), Sr(2+), and Ba(2+) may have a relatively strong dependence on the metal cation mass. This inference is based on the observation that the exchange rate constant, k(wex), for water molecules in the first hydration s...

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

authors： Hofmann AE,Bourg IC,DePaolo DJ

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The transacting activator of transduction (TAT) protein plays a key role in the progression of AIDS. Studies have shown that a +8 charged sequence of amino acids in the protein, called the TAT peptide, enables the TAT protein to penetrate cell membranes. To probe mechanisms of binding and translocation of the TAT pept...

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

authors： Rao Y,Kwok SJ,Lombardi J,Turro NJ,Eisenthal KB

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The mosquito midgut plays a central role in the sporogonic development of malaria parasites. We have found that polyclonal sera, produced against mosquito midguts, blocked the passage of Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes across the midgut, leading to a significant reduction of infections in mosquitoes. Anti-midgut mAbs ...

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

authors： Lal AA,Patterson PS,Sacci JB,Vaughan JA,Paul C,Collins WE,Wirtz RA,Azad AF

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular granules in several types of leukocytes contain preformed proteins whose secretions contribute to immune and inflammatory functions of leukocytes, including eosinophils, cells notably associated with asthma, allergic inflammation, and helminthic infections. Cytokines and chemokines typically elicit extra...

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

authors： Neves JS,Perez SA,Spencer LA,Melo RC,Reynolds L,Ghiran I,Mahmudi-Azer S,Odemuyiwa SO,Dvorak AM,Moqbel R,Weller PF

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the manner in which the sea urchin larva takes up calcium from its body cavity into the primary mesenchymal cells (PMCs) that are responsible for spicule formation. We used the membrane-impermeable fluorescent dye calcein and alexa-dextran, with or without a calcium channel inhibitor, and imaged the la...

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

authors： Vidavsky N,Addadi S,Schertel A,Ben-Ezra D,Shpigel M,Addadi L,Weiner S

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of 178 base pairs preceding the first structural gene of the threonine operon of Escherichia coli has been determined. A region of perfect 2-fold rotational symmetry, involving 28 base pairs, precedes the first structural gene. The structural similarity of this sequence to known RNA polymerase termina...

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

authors： Gardner JF

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a methodology, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), in which the contrast depends on the fluorescence lifetime at each point in a two-dimensional image and not on the local concentration and/or intensity of the fluorophore. We used FLIM to create lifetime images of NADH when free in solution and when bou...

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

authors： Lakowicz JR,Szmacinski H,Nowaczyk K,Johnson ML

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two chromosomal genes of Escherichia coli K12 that are required for the expression of conjugative plasmid functions in the presence of normal plasmid DNA. Hfr cells with mutations in both of these genes are resistant to donor-specific bacteriophage and defective as conjugal donors. These characteris...

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

authors： McEwen J,Silverman P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mauer mandible, holotype of Homo heidelbergensis, was found in 1907 in fluvial sands deposited by the Neckar River 10 km southeast of Heidelberg, Germany. The fossil is an important key to understanding early human occupation of Europe north of the Alps. Given the associated mammal fauna and the geological context...

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

authors： Wagner GA,Krbetschek M,Degering D,Bahain JJ,Shao Q,Falguères C,Voinchet P,Dolo JM,Garcia T,Rightmire GP

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) constitute a large family of pore-forming toxins that function exclusively on cholesterol-containing membranes. A detailed analysis of the various stages in the cytolytic mechanism of three members of the CDC family revealed that significant depletion of cholesterol from the...

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

authors： Giddings KS,Johnson AE,Tweten RK

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis relies on the delicate interplay between a specific set of membrane-bound pigment-protein complexes that harvest and transport solar energy, execute charge separation, and conserve the energy. We have investigated the organization of the light-harvesting (LH) and reaction-center (RC) complexes in native...

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

authors： Frese RN,Siebert CA,Niederman RA,Hunter CN,Otto C,van Grondelle R

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotifers of the asexual class Bdelloidea are unusual in possessing two or more divergent copies of every gene that has been examined. Phylogenetic analysis of the heat-shock gene hsp82 and the TATA-box-binding protein gene tbp in multiple bdelloid species suggested that for each gene, each copy belonged to one of two ...

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

authors： Mark Welch DB,Cummings MP,Hillis DM,Meselson M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in development and disease, regulating transcription of target genes and stabilizing many proteins phosphorylated by glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3). We observed that the MiT family of transcription factors, which includes the melanoma oncogene MITF (micropthalmia-asso...

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

authors： Ploper D,Taelman VF,Robert L,Perez BS,Titz B,Chen HW,Graeber TG,von Euw E,Ribas A,De Robertis EM

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins internalized into the endocytic pathway are usually degraded. Efficient proteolysis requires denaturation, induced by acidic conditions within lysosomes, and reduction of inter- and intrachain disulfide bonds. Cytosolic reduction is mediated enzymatically by thioredoxin, but the mechanism of lysosomal reducti...

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

authors： Arunachalam B,Phan UT,Geuze HJ,Cresswell P

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:"Evolution behaves like a tinkerer" (François Jacob, Science, 1977). Software systems provide a singular opportunity to understand biological processes using concepts from network theory. The Debian GNU/Linux operating system allows us to explore the evolution of a complex network in a unique way. The modular design d...

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

authors： Fortuna MA,Bonachela JA,Levin SA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The segmented body plan of vertebrates is prefigured by reiterated embryonic mesodermal structures called somites. In the mouse embryo, timely somite formation from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) is controlled by the "segmentation clock," a molecular oscillator that triggers progressive waves of Notch activity througho...

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

authors： Lopez TP,Fan CM

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na(+)/I(-) symporter (NIS) is a key plasma membrane protein that mediates active I(-) uptake in the thyroid, lactating breast, and other tissues with an electrogenic stoichiometry of 2 Na(+) per I(-). In the thyroid, NIS-mediated I(-) uptake is the first step in the biosynthesis of the iodine-containing thyroid ho...

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

authors： Dohán O,Portulano C,Basquin C,Reyna-Neyra A,Amzel LM,Carrasco N

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00