Substitution of a single amino acid (aspartic acid for histidine) converts the functional activity of human complement C4B to C4A.

abstract：:An ultra-high vacuum experimental study of acetylene chemisorption on Pt(111) and Pt(100) and of the reaction of hydrogen with the acetylene adsorbate has established distinguishing features of carbon-hydrogen bond breaking and making processes as a function of pressure, temperature, and surface crystallography. The r...

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

authors： Muetterties EL,Tasi MC,Kelemen SR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a first step in assessing the efficacy of a gene transfer approach to the induction of transplantation tolerance in our miniature swine model, double-copy retroviral vectors engineered to express a drug-resistance marker (neomycin) and a swine class II DRB cDNA were constructed. Infectious particles containing thes...

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

authors： Shafer GE,Emery DW,Gustafsson K,Germana S,Anderson WF,Sachs DH,LeGuern C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central questions of bacterial ecology and evolution require a method to consistently demarcate, from the vast and diverse set of bacterial cells within a natural community, the groups playing ecologically distinct roles (ecotypes). Because of a lack of theory-based guidelines, current methods in bacterial systema...

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

authors： Koeppel A,Perry EB,Sikorski J,Krizanc D,Warner A,Ward DM,Rooney AP,Brambilla E,Connor N,Ratcliff RM,Nevo E,Cohan FM

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that protein translocation across membranes is driven by biased random thermal motion. This "Brownian ratchet" mechanism depends on chemical asymmetries between the cis and trans sides of the membrane. Several mechanisms could contribute to rectifying the thermal motion of the protein, such as binding and d...

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

authors： Simon SM,Peskin CS,Oster GF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most macroscale robotic systems, propulsion and controls are enabled through a physical tether or complex onboard electronics and batteries. A tether simplifies the design process but limits the range of motion of the robot, while onboard controls and power supplies are heavy and complicate the design process. Here...

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

authors： Chen T,Bilal OR,Shea K,Daraio C

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting and innervation of the cerebral cortex by thalamic afferents is a key event in the specification of cortical areas. The molecular targets of thalamic regulation, however, have remained elusive. We now demonstrate that thalamic afferents regulate the expression of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) recept...

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

authors： Paysan J,Kossel A,Bolz J,Fritschy JM

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino-terminal sequence determinations are reported of the subunits of biliproteins of prokaryotic unicellular and filamentous cyanobacteria and of eukaryotic unicellular red algae. The biliproteins examined, allophycocyanin, C-phycocyanin, R-phycocyanin, b-phycoerythrin, and phycoerythrocyanin, vary with respect to t...

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

authors： Glazer AN,Apell GS,Hixson CS,Bryant DA,Rimon S,Brown DM

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We outline a theory to quantify the interplay of entropic and selective forces on nucleotide organization and apply it to the genomes of single-stranded RNA viruses. We quantify these forces as intensive variables that can easily be compared between sequences, outline a computationally efficient transfer-matrix method...

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

authors： Greenbaum BD,Cocco S,Levine AJ,Monasson R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some aspects of pattern formation in developing embryos can be described by nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An important class of these models accounts for diffusion and degradation of a locally produced single chemical species. At long times, solutions of such models approach a steady state in which the conce...

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

authors： Gordon PV,Sample C,Berezhkovskii AM,Muratov CB,Shvartsman SY

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:By analogy with receptor-mediated endocytosis, clathrin-coated membrane segments at locations other than at the plasma membrane have been implicated in intracellular membrane transport/sorting. The crucial role of the Golgi apparatus in these processes prompted us to study the distribution at this level of clathrin-im...

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

authors： Orci L,Ravazzola M,Amherdt M,Louvard D,Perrelet A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Since at least T. H. Marshall, scholars have recognized military service as a form of sacrifice that warrants compensation from the state. War-widow pensions, expansion of the franchise, and subsidized higher education are all examples of rights and benefits "bestowed" in return for wartime mobilization. Similarly, in...

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

authors： Johnson T,Conley D

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the cloning, sequencing, and partial characterization of Kid-1, a zinc finger-encoding cDNA from the rat kidney. The Kid-1 protein and approximately one-third of all other zinc finger proteins contain a highly conserved region of approximately 75 amino acids at their NH2 terminus named Krüp...

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

authors： Witzgall R,O'Leary E,Leaf A,Onaldi D,Bonventre JV

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and similar neurodegenerative diseases such as sheep scrapie are caused by a variety of related infectious agents. They are associated with abnormal host prion protein (PrP), which is assessed by limited proteolysis to yield resistant PrP bands (PrP-res). Although PrP-res has been...

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

authors： Arjona A,Simarro L,Islinger F,Nishida N,Manuelidis L

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins relay extracellular cues from heptahelical transmembrane receptors to downstream effector molecules. Composed of an alpha subunit with intrinsic GTPase activity and a betagamma heterodimer, the trimeric complex dissociates upon receptor-mediated nucleotide exchange on the alpha subunit, enabl...

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

authors： Slep KC,Kercher MA,Wieland T,Chen CK,Simon MI,Sigler PB

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of genomic DNA and clones indicate that the pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK; ATP: pyruvate, orthophosphate phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.9.1) gene family of maize (Zea mays L. subsp. mays, line B73) contains two members. Restriction site and DNA sequence comparisons between PPDK genomic and leaf cDNA clo...

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

authors： Glackin CA,Grula JW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian CLC proteins function as Cl(-) channels or as electrogenic Cl(-)/H(+) exchangers and are present in the plasma membrane and intracellular vesicles. We now show that the ClC-6 protein is almost exclusively expressed in neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems, with a particularly high expression ...

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

authors： Poët M,Kornak U,Schweizer M,Zdebik AA,Scheel O,Hoelter S,Wurst W,Schmitt A,Fuhrmann JC,Planells-Cases R,Mole SE,Hübner CA,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach combining signal detection theory and precise 3D reconstructions from serial section electron microscopy (3DEM) was used to investigate synaptic plasticity and information storage capacity at medial perforant path synapses in adult hippocampal dentate gyrus in vivo. Induction of long-term potentiation (LTP...

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

authors： Bromer C,Bartol TM,Bowden JB,Hubbard DD,Hanka DC,Gonzalez PV,Kuwajima M,Mendenhall JM,Parker PH,Abraham WC,Sejnowski TJ,Harris KM

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a regulatory molecule for many cell functions, both for intracellular and, perhaps less well known, extracellular functions. An important example of the latter involves red blood cells (RBCs), which help regulate blood pressure by releasing ATP as a vasodilatory signaling molecule in re...

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

authors： Wan J,Ristenpart WD,Stone HA

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum rate of expression of the lac operon is severely reduced in lac promoter mutants. Revertants of these mutations which produce higher levels of enzyme were isolated. Some of these revertants had lost sensitivity to catabolite repression and transient repression. The mutations responsible for these losses to...

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

authors： Silverstone AE,Arditti RR,Magasanik B

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV type 1 (HIV-1) specifically uses host cell tRNALys-3 as a primer for reverse transcription. The 3' 18 nucleotides of this tRNA are complementary to a region on the HIV RNA genome known as the primer binding site (PBS). HIV-1 has a strong preference for maintaining a lysine-specific PBS in vivo, and viral genomes w...

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

authors： Chan B,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver provides for long-term energy needs of the body by converting excess carbohydrate into fat for storage. Insulin is one factor that promotes hepatic lipogenesis, but there is increasing evidence that glucose also contributes to the coordinated regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver by mechanis...

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

authors： Iizuka K,Bruick RK,Liang G,Horton JD,Uyeda K

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron collisions with atoms, ions, molecules, and surfaces are critically important to the understanding and modeling of low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), and so in the development of technologies based on LTPs. Recent progress in obtaining experimental benchmark data and the development of highly sophisticated compu...

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

authors： Bartschat K,Kushner MJ

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that the entire murine N-myc gene and the sequences necessary for its expression in human neuroblastoma cells are contained within a 7.4-kilobase murine genomic clone. The complete nucleotide sequence of this gene reveals a number of striking similarities and differences when compared to the relat...

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

authors： DePinho RA,Legouy E,Feldman LB,Kohl NE,Yancopoulos GD,Alt FW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key barrier to the realization of personalized medicine for cancer is the identification of biomarkers. Here we describe a two-stage strategy for the discovery of serum biomarker signatures corresponding to specific cancer-causing mutations and its application to prostate cancer (PCa) in the context of the commonly ...

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

authors： Cima I,Schiess R,Wild P,Kaelin M,Schüffler P,Lange V,Picotti P,Ossola R,Templeton A,Schubert O,Fuchs T,Leippold T,Wyler S,Zehetner J,Jochum W,Buhmann J,Cerny T,Moch H,Gillessen S,Aebersold R,Krek W

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge-stabilization effect associated with alpha-helices in proteins has been reexamined by microscopic calculations without any a priori assumptions about the dielectric constant of the protein. The calculations reproduce the observed charge stabilization effect of a helix in two well-defined test cases: a histi...

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

authors： Aqvist J,Luecke H,Quiocho FA,Warshel A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of L-glutamine and of the chloroketone glutamine analog L-2-amino-4-oxo-5-chloropentanoate into lymphoid cells is mediated by the same system. Arginine and a number of other amino acids (e.g., glutamate, aspartate, and lysine) are transported to a much lesser extent by this system. However, after uptake of t...

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

authors： Novogrodsky A,Nehring RE Jr,Meister A

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of actin stress fibers in normal and regenerating (after endothelial denudation by means of a balloon catheter) rabbit aortic endothelial cells has been studied by means of immunofluorescence with human actin autoantibodies on en face endothelial cell preparations. Our results show that: (i) under nor...

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

authors： Gabbiani G,Gabbiani F,Lombardi D,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a tightly coupled bidirectional interaction between visual cortex and visual thalamus [lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)]. Using drifting sinusoidal grating stimuli, we compared the response of cells in the LGN with and without feedback from the visual cortex. Raster plots revealed a striking difference in the...

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

authors： Andolina IM,Jones HE,Wang W,Sillito AM

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00