SIRT2 directs the replication stress response through CDK9 deacetylation.

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：:Using tunicamycin, we have investigated the role of glycoproteins in membrane transport. Tunicamycin is a glucosamine-containing antibiotic that specifically inhibits dolichol pyrophosphate-mediated glycosylation of asparaginyl residues of glycoproteins. Inhibition of protein glycosylation in chick embryo fibroblasts ...

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

authors： Olden K,Pratt RM,Jaworski C,Yamada KM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive potentials of carcinomas greatly contribute to their metastasis, which is a major threat in most cancers. We have recently shown that Arf6 plays a pivotal role in breast cancer invasive activities and identified AMAP1 as an effector of GTP-Arf6 in invasion. Expression of AMAP1 correlates well with invasive ph...

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

authors： Hashimoto S,Hirose M,Hashimoto A,Morishige M,Yamada A,Hosaka H,Akagi K,Ogawa E,Oneyama C,Agatsuma T,Okada M,Kobayashi H,Wada H,Nakano H,Ikegami T,Nakagawa A,Sabe H

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a growing number of ion channel genes implicated in hereditary ataxia, it remains unclear how ion channel mutations lead to loss-of-function or death of cerebellar neurons. Mutations in the gene KCNMA1, encoding the α-subunit of the BK channel have emerged as responsible for a variety of neurological phenotype...

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

authors： Du X,Carvalho-de-Souza JL,Wei C,Carrasquel-Ursulaez W,Lorenzo Y,Gonzalez N,Kubota T,Staisch J,Hain T,Petrossian N,Xu M,Latorre R,Bezanilla F,Gomez CM

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transfer into early embryos is a powerful methodology for unraveling the molecular bases of developmental processes. One can attempt to minimize widespread effects of an exogenous gene by using tissue- or region-specific promoters in the few instances where they are available. We have developed a method that bypa...

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

authors： Fekete DM,Cepko CL

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) was used to determine regional brain volumetric changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. These transgenic (Tg) mice overexpress human mutant amyloid precursor protein (APP) V717F under control of platelet-derived growth factor promoter (PDAPP mice), and corti...

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

authors： Redwine JM,Kosofsky B,Jacobs RE,Games D,Reilly JF,Morrison JH,Young WG,Bloom FE

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell anergy is a state of T cells that is hyporesponsive to stimulation via the T-cell receptor and costimulatory molecules and is thought to be important for self-tolerance. How T-cell anergy is regulated is still poorly understood. We report here that tuberous sclerosis (TSC)1 is critical for T-cell anergy. Defici...

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

authors： Xie DL,Wu J,Lou YL,Zhong XP

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching single polysaccharide molecules with an atomic force microscope. In those early experiments, the molecules were stretche...

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

authors： Marszalek PE,Li H,Oberhauser AF,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The wetting of microstructured surfaces is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Even relatively simple surface topographies such as grooves with rectangular cross section exhibit a large variety of different wetting morphologies as observed by atomic force microscopy. This polymorphism arises from liquid wed...

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

authors： Seemann R,Brinkmann M,Kramer EJ,Lange FF,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery, the coupling between ligand binding and protein conformational change, is the heart of biological network and it has often been explained by two representative models, the induced-fit and the population-shift models. Here, we clarified for what systems one model fits better than the other by performing mole...

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

authors： Okazaki K,Takada S

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular injury during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been postulated to result from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-lymphocyte host immune response against HBV antigens. Although HLA expression is enhanced in the presence of hepatic inflammation, whether HBV itself can induce HLA expression ...

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

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of estrogen-induced tumorigenesis in the target organ are not well understood. It has been suggested that oxidative stress resulting from metabolic activation of carcinogenic estrogens plays a critical role in estrogen-induced carcinogenesis. We tested this hypothesis by using an estrogen-induced hamster re...

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

authors： Bhat HK,Calaf G,Hei TK,Loya T,Vadgama JV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norharman enhanced the known mutagenicity of 2-acetylaminofluorene derivatives in the Salmonella test system. The mutagenicities of 2-acetylaminofluorene, 2-aminofluorene, and N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene were enhanced by norharman only when rat liver microsomal enzymes were added, whereas the mutagenicity of N-ace...

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

authors： Umezawa K,Shirai A,Matsushima T,Sugimura T

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longstanding problem in the social, biological, and computational sciences is to determine how groups of distributed individuals can form intelligent collective judgments. Since Galton's discovery of the "wisdom of crowds" [Galton F (1907) Nature 75:450-451], theories of collective intelligence have suggested that t...

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

authors： Becker J,Brackbill D,Centola D

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a synthetic ligand, "DAKLI" (Dynorphin A-analogue Kappa LIgand), related to the opioid peptide dynorphin A. A single reactive amino group at the extended carboxyl terminus permits various reporter groups to be attached, such as 125I-labeled Bolton-Hunter reagent, fluorescein isothiocyanate, or biotin. Thes...

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

authors： Goldstein A,Nestor JJ Jr,Naidu A,Newman SR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+, pheromones, sweet taste compounds, and the main neurotransmitters glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid activate G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that constitute the GPCR family 3. These receptors are dimers, and each subunit has a large extracellular domain called a Venus flytrap module (VFTM), where agonist...

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

authors： Bessis AS,Rondard P,Gaven F,Brabet I,Triballeau N,Prezeau L,Acher F,Pin JP

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rugged folding-energy landscapes of RNAs often display many competing minima. How do RNAs discriminate among competing conformations in their search for the native state? By using optical tweezers, we show that the folding-energy landscape can be manipulated to control the fate of an RNA: individual RNA molecules ...

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

authors： Li PT,Bustamante C,Tinoco I Jr

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate genetic analysis of the human pathogenic parvovirus B19, we constructed a hybrid B19 viral genome in which the defective B19 inverted terminal repeats were replaced with the full-length inverted terminal repeats from a nonpathogenic human parvovirus, the adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV). The hybrid AAV-B19...

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

authors： Srivastava CH,Samulski RJ,Lu L,Larsen SH,Srivastava A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-xylose is a sugar donor required for the synthesis of diverse and important glycan structures in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Xylose-containing glycans are particularly abundant in plants and in the polysaccharide capsule that is the major virulence factor of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans....

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

authors： Bar-Peled M,Griffith CL,Doering TL

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant alleles at the dilute unconventional myosin heavy chain locus cause diluted coat color, opisthotonic seizures, and death. The dilute coat color phenotype is caused by irregular clumping of pigment in the hair, but amounts of melanin are unchanged from wild-type controls. The melanocyte phenotype has been descri...

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

authors： Provance DW Jr,Wei M,Ipe V,Mercer JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect gut microbiota plays crucial roles in modulating the interactions between the host and intestinal pathogens. Unlike viruses, bacteria, and parasites, which need to be ingested to cause disease, entomopathogenic fungi infect insects through the cuticle and proliferate in the hemolymph. However, interactions ...

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

authors： Wei G,Lai Y,Wang G,Chen H,Li F,Wang S

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The harvest of wildlife for human consumption is valued at several billion dollars annually and provides an essential source of meat for hundreds of millions of rural people living in poverty. This harvest is also considered among the greatest threats to biodiversity throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Economi...

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

authors： Brashares JS,Golden CD,Weinbaum KZ,Barrett CB,Okello GV

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:CD95 type I and II cells differ in their dependence on mitochondria to execute apoptosis, because antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family render only type II cells resistant to death receptor-induced apoptosis. They can also be distinguished by a more efficient formation of the death-inducing signaling complex in ty...

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

authors： Algeciras-Schimnich A,Pietras EM,Barnhart BC,Legembre P,Vijayan S,Holbeck SL,Peter ME

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens. Venoms represent previously untapped sources of novel drugs. Here we repurposed mastoparan-L, the toxic active principle derived from the venom of the wasp Vespula lewisii, into synthetic antimicrobials. We engineered within its N terminus ...

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

authors： Silva ON,Torres MDT,Cao J,Alves ESF,Rodrigues LV,Resende JM,Lião LM,Porto WF,Fensterseifer ICM,Lu TK,Franco OL,de la Fuente-Nunez C

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody modulation of T-cell coinhibitory (e.g., CTLA-4) or costimulatory (e.g., 4-1BB) receptors promotes clinical responses to a variety of cancers. Therapeutic cancer vaccination, in contrast, has produced limited clinical benefit and no curative therapies. The E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papilloma virus (HPV)...

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

authors： Bartkowiak T,Singh S,Yang G,Galvan G,Haria D,Ai M,Allison JP,Sastry KJ,Curran MA

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The dnaZX gene of Escherichia coli directs the synthesis of two proteins, DnaZ and DnaX. These products are confirmed as the gamma and tau subunits of DNA polymerase III because antibody to a synthetic peptide present in both the DnaZ and DnaX proteins reacts also with the gamma and tau subunits of holoenzyme. To char...

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

authors： Lee SH,Walker JR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coat protein of bacteriophage MS-2 was cleaved with cyanogen bromide to yield three fragments, possessing the sequence 1-88 (P1), 89-108 (P2), and 109-129 (P3), respectively. The mixture of peptides P2 and P3, which could not be separated, was found capable of inhibiting the neutralization of the phage by antiseru...

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

authors： Langbeheim H,Arnon R,Sela M

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant Mentzelia pumila (family Loasaceae) has leaves and stems densely covered with tiny hooked trichomes. The structures entrap and kill insects and therefore are most probably protective. But they are also maladaptive in that they incapacitate a coccinellid beetle (Hippodamia convergens) that preys upon an aphid...

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

authors： Eisner T,Eisner M,Hoebeke ER

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of nerve-muscle junctions in monolayer cultures of embryonic muscle and spinal cord cells is described. Muscle-forming cells (myoblasts) from leg muscles of 12-day chick embryos were separated with trypsin and cultured on a collagen substrate for two days. Suspensions of ventral spinal cord cells from si...

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

authors： Shimada Y,Fischman DA,Moscona AA

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semaphorin 4D (sema4D; CD100) is an integral membrane protein and the ligand for two receptors, CD72 and plexin-B1. Soluble sema4D has been shown to evoke angiogenic responses from endothelial cells and impair monocyte migration, but the origin of soluble sema4D, particularly at sites of vascular injury, has been uncl...

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

authors： Zhu L,Bergmeier W,Wu J,Jiang H,Stalker TJ,Cieslak M,Fan R,Boumsell L,Kumanogoh A,Kikutani H,Tamagnone L,Wagner DD,Milla ME,Brass LF

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00