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abstract：:The remarkable fidelity of most DNA polymerases depends on a series of early steps in the reaction pathway which allow the selection of the correct nucleotide substrate, while excluding all incorrect ones, before the enzyme is committed to the chemical step of nucleotide incorporation. The conformational transitions t...

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

authors： Santoso Y,Joyce CM,Potapova O,Le Reste L,Hohlbein J,Torella JP,Grindley ND,Kapanidis AN

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the distributions of citations received by a single publication within several disciplines, spanning broad areas of science. We show that the probability that an article is cited c times has large variations between different disciplines, but all distributions are rescaled on a universal curve when the relati...

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

authors： Radicchi F,Fortunato S,Castellano C

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the cell-surface molecules involved in T-cell immune responses are N-linked glycoproteins. We have investigated the effects of inhibitors of glycoprotein processing on specific T-cell functions, with the dual aims of examining the functional role of carbohydrate and of testing the usefulness of such compounds ...

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

authors： Wall KA,Pierce JD,Elbein AD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and computational simulations revealed that boron clusters, which favor planar (2D) structures up to 18 atoms, prefer 3D structures beginning at 20 atoms. Using global optimization methods, we found that the B20 neutral cluster has a double-ring tubular structure with a diameter of 5.2 A. For the B(-)20 a...

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

authors： Kiran B,Bulusu S,Zhai HJ,Yoo S,Zeng XC,Wang LS

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify sequences in a randomly encoded polypeptide library that are capable of acquiring unique and stably folded structures would be valuable in the examination of protein-folding issues. The quality control system of the yeast secretory pathway prevents the release of incompletely folded polypeptide...

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

authors： Hagihara Y,Kim PS

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophenoloxidases (PPOs) are key enzymes of the melanization reaction, which is a prominent defense mechanism of arthropods. The mosquito Aedes aegypti has ten PPO genes in the genome, four of which (PPO1, PPO3, PPO5, and PPO8) were expressed in response to microbial infection. Cactus depletion resulted in transcripti...

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

authors： Zou Z,Shin SW,Alvarez KS,Bian G,Kokoza V,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are commonly used antiinflammatory agents whose use is limited by side effects. We have developed a series of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) ligands that retain the strong antiinflammatory activity of conventional glucocorticoids with reduced side effects. We present a compound, LGD5552, that binds the r...

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

authors： Miner JN,Ardecky B,Benbatoul K,Griffiths K,Larson CJ,Mais DE,Marschke K,Rosen J,Vajda E,Zhi L,Negro-Vilar A

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aldosterone-induced augmentation of Na+ transport in toad bladder was analyzed by comparing the hormonal actions on the transepithelial short-circuit current and on the amiloride-sensitive 22Na+ uptake in isolated membrane vesicles. Incubating bladders with 0.5 microM aldosterone for 3 hr evoked more than a 2-fold...

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

authors： Asher C,Garty H

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate visual motion system performs numerous functions essential for survival in a dynamic visual world. Prominent among these functions is the ability to recover and represent the trajectories of objects in a form that facilitates behavioral responses to those movements. The first step toward this goal, which c...

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

authors： Albright TD,Stoner GR

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo isoforms (Nogo-A and -B) have been implicated in regulating neural and cardiovascular functions, such as cell spreading and chemotaxis. Unlike the loop domain (Nogo-66) found in all Nogo isoforms that can interact with a neural-specific Nogo-66 receptor, the receptor for the amino terminus of Nogo-B that mediates...

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

authors： Miao RQ,Gao Y,Harrison KD,Prendergast J,Acevedo LM,Yu J,Hu F,Strittmatter SM,Sessa WC

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The satellite sequences (AGGGAG)(n) and Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons are known to localize at the barley centromeres. Using a gametocidal system, which induces chromosomal mutations in barley chromosomes added to common wheat, we obtained an isochromosome for the short arm of barley chromosome 7H (7HS) that lacked ...

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

authors： Nasuda S,Hudakova S,Schubert I,Houben A,Endo TR

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:RsbR is a regulator of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsible for transcribing the general stress response genes when environmental stress is imposed on Bacillus subtilis. The C-terminal domain of RsbR and its paralogues is a substrate for the kinase function of another sigma(B) regulator, RsbT,...

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

authors： Murray JW,Delumeau O,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal unilateral enucleation in mammals causes an extensive anatomical reorganization of visual pathways. The remaining eye innervates the entire extent of visual subcortical and cortical areas. Electrophysiological recordings have shown that the retino-geniculate connections are retinotopically organized and genic...

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

authors： Bisti S,Trimarchi C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubic cage compounds composed of Co-CN-Ru linkages have been prepared which illustrate the following features: (i) new motifs for alkali metal ion complexation (i.e., cationic receptors for cations), (ii) a new family of triaza-metalloligands, and (iii) a double box-like cage. The cages are synthesized by the condensa...

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

authors： Contakes SM,Kuhlman ML,Ramesh M,Wilson SR,Rauchfuss TB

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in developing selective protein kinase inhibitors by targeting allosteric sites, but these sites often involve protein-protein or protein-peptide interfaces that are very challenging to target with small molecules. Here we present a systematic approach to targeting a functionally conserved allo...

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

authors： Rettenmaier TJ,Sadowsky JD,Thomsen ND,Chen SC,Doak AK,Arkin MR,Wells JA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cutin monomers trigger, and glucose suppresses, the expression of the cutinase gene of pathogenic fungi. To identify the cutinase promoter region responsible for induction by the unique plant components, a promoter analysis was done with transformants. Plasmids were constructed that contained (i) the 5' flanking...

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

authors： Bajar A,Podila GK,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high-titer, helper-free retroviruses by transient transfection has been achieved by using the highly transfectable 293T cell line into which are stably introduced constructs that express retroviral packaging functions. The resulting ecotropic virus packaging cell line BOSC 23 produces infectious retr...

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

authors： Pear WS,Nolan GP,Scott ML,Baltimore D

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have inserted a fourth protein ligand into the zinc coordination polyhedron of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) that increases metal affinity 200-fold (Kd = 20 fM). The three-dimensional structures of threonine-199-->aspartate (T199D) and threonine-199-->glutamate (T199E) CAIIs, determined by x-ray crystallographic met...

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

authors： Ippolito JA,Baird TT Jr,McGee SA,Christianson DW,Fierke CA

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-throughput approach to the labor-intensive problems of DNA cyclization, which we use to characterize DNA curvature and mechanical properties. The method includes a combinatorial approach to make the DNA constructs needed and automated real-time measurement of the kinetics using fluorescence. W...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Crothers DM

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the iconic groundfish fishery for Gulf of Maine cod has endured several dramatic reductions in annual catch limits and been federally declared an economic disaster. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey of fishing captains to assess potential social impacts of the fishery failure, we found that...

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

authors： Scyphers SB,Picou JS,Grabowski JH

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophores are essential factors for iron (Fe) acquisition in bacteria during colonization and infection of eukaryotic hosts, which restrain iron access through iron-binding protein, such as lactoferrin and transferrin. The synthesis of siderophores by Escherichia coli is considered to be fully regulated at the tran...

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

authors： Salvail H,Lanthier-Bourbonnais P,Sobota JM,Caza M,Benjamin JA,Mendieta ME,Lépine F,Dozois CM,Imlay J,Massé E

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 98-base-pair region (-38 to +60) in the long terminal repeat of the Drosophila gypsy retrotransposon that is sufficient for accurate normal-level transcription. We find that, unlike most RNA polymerase II (pol II) promoters, the gypsy promoter includes downstream sequences that are required for full acti...

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

authors： Jarrell KA,Meselson M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for a model cell system that might allow studies of the function of the Rho-related GTPase CDC42Hs in human cells, we measured the content and distribution of CDC42Hs in monocytes that were differentiating into macrophages. The total content of this protein increased 5- to 6-fold in phorbol ester-treated h...

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

authors： Aepfelbacher M,Vauti F,Weber PC,Glomset JA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium sensitivity of myosin cross-bridge activation in striated muscles commonly varies during ontogeny and in response to alterations in muscle usage, but the consequences for whole-organism physiology are not well known. Here we show that the relative abundances of alternatively spliced transcripts of the calcium ...

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

authors： Marden JH,Fitzhugh GH,Wolf MR,Arnold KD,Rowan B

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet transplantation offers a potential therapy to restore glucose homeostasis in type 1 diabetes patients. However, islet transplantation is not routinely successful because most islet recipients gradually lose graft function. Furthermore, serological markers of islet function are insensitive to islet loss until the...

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

authors： Lu Y,Dang H,Middleton B,Zhang Z,Washburn L,Stout DB,Campbell-Thompson M,Atkinson MA,Phelps M,Gambhir SS,Tian J,Kaufman DL

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic, biologically active, [Phe4Val6] analog of natural antamanide has been crystallized from a solution containing calcium nitrate, acetone, and acetonitrile. The crystal does not contain any Ca2+ ions but does contain 12 water molecules per peptide molecule. The conformation of this dodecahydrate is identic...

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

authors： Karle IL,Duesler E

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse and human, the beta-globin genes reside in a linear array that is associated with a positive regulatory element located 5' to the genes known as the locus control region (LCR). The sequences of the mouse and human beta-globin LCRs are homologous, indicating conservation of an essential function in beta-globin...

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

authors： Bulger M,van Doorninck JH,Saitoh N,Telling A,Farrell C,Bender MA,Felsenfeld G,Axel R,Groudine M

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts, bone-resorptive multinucleated cells derived from hematopoietic stem cells, are associated with many bone-related diseases, such as osteoporosis. Osteoclast-targeting small-molecule inhibitors are valuable tools for studying osteoclast biology and for developing antiresorptive agents. Here, we have discov...

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

authors： Kawatani M,Okumura H,Honda K,Kanoh N,Muroi M,Dohmae N,Takami M,Kitagawa M,Futamura Y,Imoto M,Osada H

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of 3':5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) into larvae of the fly Sarcophaga bullata 3-4 hr before the beginning of puparium formation (red-spiracle stage) greatly accelerates the onset of tanning without affecting initiation of puparium formation (anterior retraction). Accelerated tanning resembles real tanning in two impo...

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

authors： Fraenkel G,Blechl A,Blechl J,Herman P,Seligman MI

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00