Structural correlates of high antibody affinity: three engineered amino acid substitutions can increase the affinity of an anti-p-azophenylarsonate antibody 200-fold.

abstract：:It has been shown that the pituitary contains a cytotropic factor (CTF) that stimulates the secretion of catecholamines by dopaminergic neurons of the hypothalamus. In the present study, CTF was purified from rat pituitaries and found by means of mass spectrometric analysis to be adenosine. This finding was corroborat...

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

authors： Porter JC,Ijames CF,Wang TC,Markey SP

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified RNA polymerase II was found to be able to weakly recognize the initiator (Inr) present in the adenovirus IVa2 and major late promoters. The association of RNA polymerase II with the Inr was enhanced by the general transcription factors. The Inr was capable of directing the formation of a DNA-protein co...

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

authors： Carcamo J,Buckbinder L,Reinberg D

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aconitase (Aco1p) is a multifunctional protein: It is an enzyme of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. In animal cells, Aco1p also is a cytosolic protein binding to mRNAs to regulate iron metabolism. In yeast, Aco1p was identified as a component of mtDNA nucleoids. Here we show that yeast Aco1p protects mtDNA from excessive...

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

authors： Chen XJ,Wang X,Butow RA

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of community-acquired and nosocomial infections including the life-threatening conditions endocarditis, necrotizing pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis, and septicemia. Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2, a membrane-bound microbial sensor, detects staphylococcal components, but macrophages ...

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

authors： Hruz P,Zinkernagel AS,Jenikova G,Botwin GJ,Hugot JP,Karin M,Nizet V,Eckmann L

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Two striking differences between humans and our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, are the size of our brains (larger by a factor of three or four) and our life span (longer by a factor of about two). Our thesis is that these two distinctive features of humans are products of coevolutionary selection....

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

authors： Kaplan HS,Robson AJ

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bves is an integral membrane protein with no determined function and no homology to proteins outside of the Popdc family. It is widely expressed throughout development in myriad organisms. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between Bves and guanine nucleotide exchange factor T (GEFT), a GEF for Rho-family GTPases. Th...

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

authors： Smith TK,Hager HA,Francis R,Kilkenny DM,Lo CW,Bader DM

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that periodic signals and chemotaxis direct later morphogenesis in Dictyostelium discoideum, we investigated cell behavior and cell movement in slugs. Trails of neutral red-stained prestalk and anterior-like cells were recorded by high-resolution digital image processing. Neutral red-stained ant...

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

authors： Siegert F,Weijer CJ

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the maintenance of tropical forest diversity under the countervailing forces of drift and competition poses a major challenge to ecological theory. Janzen-Connell effects, in which host-specific natural enemies restrict the recruitment of juveniles near conspecific adults, provide a potential mechanism. Jan...

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

authors： Levi T,Barfield M,Barrantes S,Sullivan C,Holt RD,Terborgh J

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological niche is a key concept for elucidating patterns of species distributions and developing strategies for conserving biodiversity. However, recent times are seeing a widespread debate whether species niches are conserved across space and time (niche conservatism hypothesis). Biological invasions represent ...

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

authors： Liu C,Wolter C,Xian W,Jeschke JM

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA templates containing immediate early (IE) genes of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) were transcribed in vitro by using a HeLa cell extract. When IE region 1, 2, and 3 were used, transcription was detected qualitatively only from IE region 1. Transcription was detected with DNA representing IE region 2 when the IE r...

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

authors： Thomsen DR,Stenberg RM,Goins WF,Stinski MF

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates by double-stranded RNA is caused by the inactivation of IF-3, an initiation factor required for the recycling of ribosomes and for their binding to messenger RNA. The evidence for this is that (i) the inhibition can be overcome by addition of exogenous If-...

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

authors： Kaempfer R,Kaufman J

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the challenges of cancer chemotherapeutics, including poor physicochemical properties, low tumor targeting, insufficient tumor cell internalization/bioavailability, and side effects, we developed a unique tumor-targeted micellar drug-delivery platform. Using paclitaxel as a model therapeutic, a nanoprep...

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

authors： Zhu L,Wang T,Perche F,Taigind A,Torchilin VP

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Encoding ribonuclease H1 (RNase H1) degrades RNA hybridized to DNA, and its function is essential for mitochondrial DNA maintenance in the developing mouse. Here we define the role of RNase H1 in mitochondrial DNA replication. Analysis of replicating mitochondrial DNA in embryonic fibroblasts lacking RNase H1 reveals ...

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

authors： Holmes JB,Akman G,Wood SR,Sakhuja K,Cerritelli SM,Moss C,Bowmaker MR,Jacobs HT,Crouch RJ,Holt IJ

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The bryostatins are macrocyclic lactones, extracted from the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina, and have been reported to be potent antineoplastic agents. Results described here demonstrate that the bryostatins may also be useful as stimulators of normal human hematopoietic cells since they can (i) directly stimulate bo...

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

authors： May WS,Sharkis SJ,Esa AH,Gebbia V,Kraft AS,Pettit GR,Sensenbrenner LL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that coexists with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons. The effects of CGRP on the functional properties of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) were examined by electrophysiological methods. Using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique and a mouse c...

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

authors： Mulle C,Benoit P,Pinset C,Roa M,Changeux JP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in protein function can lead to changes in the selection acting on specific residues. This can often be detected as evolutionary rate changes at the sites in question. A maximum-likelihood method for detecting evolutionary rate shifts at specific protein positions is presented. The method determines significan...

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

authors： Knudsen B,Miyamoto MM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 14 allelic loss is common in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and may reflect essential tumor suppressor gene loss in tumorigenesis. An intact chromosome 14 was transferred to an NPC cell line using a microcell-mediated chromosome transfer approach. Microcell hybrids (MCHs) containing intact exogenously trans...

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

authors： Cheung AK,Lung HL,Ko JM,Cheng Y,Stanbridge EJ,Zabarovsky ER,Nicholls JM,Chua D,Tsao SW,Guan XY,Lung ML

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:I summarize recent computational and experimental work that addresses the inherent variability in the synaptic and intrinsic conductances in normal healthy brains and shows that multiple solutions (sets of parameters) can produce similar circuit performance. I then discuss a number of issues raised by this observation...

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

authors： Marder E

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Death of pancreatic β cells is a pathological hallmark of type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, the molecular mechanisms of β cell death and its regulation are poorly understood. Here we describe a unique regulatory pathway of β cell death that comprises microRNA-21, its target tumor suppressor PDCD4, and its upstream trans...

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

authors： Ruan Q,Wang T,Kameswaran V,Wei Q,Johnson DS,Matschinsky F,Shi W,Chen YH

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomagnesemia affects insulin resistance and is a risk factor for diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the epithelial magnesium channel TRPM6 (V(1393)I, K(1584)E) were predicted to confer susceptibility for DM2. Here, we show using patch...

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

authors： Nair AV,Hocher B,Verkaart S,van Zeeland F,Pfab T,Slowinski T,Chen YP,Schlingmann KP,Schaller A,Gallati S,Bindels RJ,Konrad M,Hoenderop JG

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Orai1 and stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) mediate store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) in immune cells. STIM1, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor, detects store depletion and interacts with plasma membrane (PM)-resident Orai1 channels at the ER-PM junctions. However, the molecular composition of these ju...

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

authors： Woo JS,Srikanth S,Nishi M,Ping P,Takeshima H,Gwack Y

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout three domains of life, alanyl-tRNA synthetases (AlaRSs) recognize a G3:U70 base pair in the acceptor stem of tRNAAla as the major identity determinant of tRNAAla The crystal structure of the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus AlaRS in complex with tRNAAla provided the basis for G3:U70 recognition with residues...

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

authors： Chong YE,Guo M,Yang XL,Kuhle B,Naganuma M,Sekine SI,Yokoyama S,Schimmel P

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Costly interactions between species that arise as a by-product of ancestral similarities in communication signals are expected to persist only under specific evolutionary circumstances. Territorial aggression between species, for instance, is widely assumed to persist only when extrinsic barriers prevent niche diverge...

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

authors： Drury JP,Cowen MC,Grether GF

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:After the start of transcription, the 5' ends of eukaryotic mRNA molecules are modified by the addition of a guanylyl residue to form a cap structure, G(5')ppp(5')N. The guanylyltransferase (GTP:mRNA guanylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.50) reaction responsible for cap formation usually proceeds via a covalent enzyme-GMP int...

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

authors： Ahola T,Kääriäinen L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By patch-clamp analysis, we have shown that chronic, intermittent mechanical strain (CMS) increases the activity of stretch-activated cation channels of osteoblast-like UMR-106.01 cells. CMS also produces a swelling-activated whole-cell conductance (Gm) regulated by varying strain levels. We questioned whether the swe...

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

authors： Duncan RL,Kizer N,Barry EL,Friedman PA,Hruska KA

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the interaction of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) with cultured primary granulocyte-macrophage progenitors, a suspected natural site of viral latency, and have established conditions for latent infection and reactivation in this cell population. Progenitor cells from human fetal liver or bone marrow ...

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

authors： Kondo K,Kaneshima H,Mocarski ES

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recommended Daily Allowances (US RDA) of the Food and Drug Administration for ascorbic acid are higher than Recommended Dietary Allowances (set by the Food and Nutrition Board) for adults. There is a 6-fold margin between the requirement to prevent scurvy and the US RDA. The high requirement reported for the rhesus mo...

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

authors： Jukes TH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-translocating subunit of wheat chloroplast ATP synthase is encoded by a chloroplast gene that has been accurately mapped and whose nucleotide sequence has been determined. The predicted sequence of 81 amino acids has been confirmed in part by determination of the sequence of the first 40 amino acids from th...

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

authors： Howe CJ,Auffret AD,Doherty A,Bowman CM,Dyer TA,Gray JC

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a high-resolution isoelectric focusing system, we have been able to separate the products of the individual "nonallelic+ mouse hemoglobin alpha-chain genes. The hemoglobins of mice of inbred strains that make two structurally different, but electrophoretically identical, alpha chains resolve into two bands on is...

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

authors： Whitney JB 3rd,Copland GT,Skow LC,Russell ES

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric models generally assume that aerosol particles are in equilibrium with the surrounding gas phase. However, recent observations that secondary organic aerosols can exist in a glassy state have highlighted the need to more fully understand the kinetic limitations that may control water partitioning in ambien...

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

authors： Bones DL,Reid JP,Lienhard DM,Krieger UK

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00