Optimizing water permeability through the hourglass shape of aquaporins.

abstract：:For several decades, the iron-based Fenton-like catalysis has been believed to be mediated by hydroxyl radicals or high-valent iron-oxo species, while only sporadic evidence supported the generation of singlet oxygen (1O2) in the Haber-Weiss cycle. Herein, we report an unprecedented singlet oxygen mediated Fenton-like...

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

authors： Yang Z,Qian J,Yu A,Pan B

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown changes in membrane properties of neurons in rat deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) as a function of development, but due to technical difficulties in obtaining viable DCN slices from adult animals, it remains unclear whether there are learning-related alterations in the membrane properties of DC...

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

authors： Wang D,Smith-Bell CA,Burhans LB,O'Dell DE,Bell RW,Schreurs BG

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of nitrogenase FeMoco is one of the key processes in bioinorganic chemistry. NifB and NifEN are two essential elements immediately adjacent to each other along the biosynthetic pathway of FeMoco. Previously, an 8Fe-precursor of FeMoco was identified on NifEN; however, the identity of the biosynthetic intermed...

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

authors： Wiig JA,Hu Y,Ribbe MW

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that two regular tetrahedra can be combined with a single regular octahedron to tile (complete fill) three-dimensional Euclidean space . This structure was called the "octet truss" by Buckminster Fuller. It was believed that such a tiling, which is the Delaunay tessellation of the face-centered cubic ...

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

authors： Conway JH,Jiao Y,Torquato S

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of hemoglobin synthesis by dimethylsulfoxide in cells infected with Friend leukemia virus has been shown to depend on the number of cell divisions after the addition of the inducing agent. In asynchronous cultures the cells have a generation time of 24 hr, and hemoglobin synthesis occurs after 48 hr in t...

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

authors： McClintock PR,Papaconstantinou J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin B17 (MccB17) is a 3.1-kDa Escherichia coli antibiotic that contains thiazole and oxazole heterocycles in a peptide backbone. MccB17 inhibits its cellular target, DNA gyrase, by trapping the enzyme in a complex that is covalently bound to double-strand cleaved DNA, in a manner similar to the well-known quinolo...

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

authors： Zamble DB,Miller DA,Heddle JG,Maxwell A,Walsh CT,Hollfelder F

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the masticatory behavior of hunter-gatherer and agricultural populations is hypothesized to be one of the major forces affecting the form of the human mandible. However, this has yet to be analyzed at a global level. Here, the relationship between global mandibular shape variation and subsistence economy ...

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

authors： von Cramon-Taubadel N

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of amyloid fibers in the brain, which can occur when a protein misfolds into an extended beta-sheet conformation. The nucleation of these beta-sheet aggregates is of particular interest, not only because it is the rate-determining step toward fiber ...

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

authors： Petty SA,Decatur SM

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet irradiation of the [3H]colchicine-tubulin complex leads to direct photolabeling of tubulin with low but practicable efficiency. The bulk (70% to greater than 90%) of the labeling occurs on beta-tubulin and appears early after irradiation, whereas alpha-tubulin is labeled later. The labeling ratio of beta-t...

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

authors： Wolff J,Knipling L,Cahnmann HJ,Palumbo G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast and ovarian cancer suppressor BRCA2 controls the enzyme RAD51 during homologous DNA recombination (HDR) to preserve genome stability. BRCA2 binds to RAD51 through 8 conserved BRC repeat motifs dispersed in an 1127-residue region (BRCA2([BRC1-8])). Here, we show that BRCA2([BRC1-8]) exerts opposing effects o...

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

authors： Shivji MK,Mukund SR,Rajendra E,Chen S,Short JM,Savill J,Klenerman D,Venkitaraman AR

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine proteases sequentially activated to form a fibrin clot are inhibited primarily by members of the serpin family, which use a unique beta-sheet expansion mechanism to trap and destroy their targets. Since the discovery that serpins were a family of serine protease inhibitors there has been controversy as to t...

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

authors： Baglin TP,Carrell RW,Church FC,Esmon CT,Huntington JA

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface layer of the oceans and other aquatic environments contains many bacteria that range in activity, from dormant cells to those with high rates of metabolism. However, little experimental evidence exists about the activity of specific bacterial taxa, especially rare ones. Here we explore the relationship bet...

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

authors： Campbell BJ,Yu L,Heidelberg JF,Kirchman DL

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal electric stimulation of the auditory cortex is well suited for exploration of the function of the corticofugal (descending) system and the neural mechanism of plasticity in the central auditory system, because it evokes changes in frequency-tuning, called best frequency (BF) shifts, as does auditory fear conditi...

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

authors： Xiao Z,Suga N

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes are protected by a densely packed surface monolayer of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). A haptoglobin-hemoglobin receptor (HpHbR) within this VSG coat mediates heme acquisition. HpHbR is also exploited by the human host to mediate endocytosis of trypanolytic factor (TLF)1 from serum, contributi...

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

authors： Higgins MK,Tkachenko O,Brown A,Reed J,Raper J,Carrington M

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary--i.e., nonsyndromal-postlingual deafness is inherited as an autosomal dominant phenotype in a large kindred in Costa Rica. Genetically susceptible individuals begin to lose hearing at low frequencies at about age 10 years, after language and speaking are learned. Deafness inevitably progresses by age 30 years ...

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

authors： Leon PE,Raventos H,Lynch E,Morrow J,King MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenylated Rab GTPases regulate intracellular vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells by associating with specific membranes and recruiting a multitude of Rab-specific effector proteins. Prenylation, membrane delivery, and recycling of all 60 members of the Rab GTPase family are regulated by two related molecules, Rab...

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

authors： Wu YW,Tan KT,Waldmann H,Goody RS,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) represent a major barrier to regenerating axons in the central nervous system (CNS), but the structural diversity of their polysaccharides has hampered efforts to dissect the structure-activity relationships underlying their physiological activity. By taking advantage of our a...

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

authors： Brown JM,Xia J,Zhuang B,Cho KS,Rogers CJ,Gama CI,Rawat M,Tully SE,Uetani N,Mason DE,Tremblay ML,Peters EC,Habuchi O,Chen DF,Hsieh-Wilson LC

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular signaling mechanisms regulating the generation and long-term persistence of memory T cells in vivo remain unclear. In this study, we used mouse models with conditional deletion of the key T cell receptor (TCR)-coupled adaptor molecule SH2-domain-containing phosphoprotein of 76 kDa (SLP-76), to analyz...

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

authors： Bushar ND,Corbo E,Schmidt M,Maltzman JS,Farber DL

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines, putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, are essential polycations, intimately involved in the regulation of cellular proliferation. Although polyamines exert dynamic effects on the conformation of nucleic acids and macromolecular synthesis in vitro, their specific functions in vivo are poorly understood....

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

authors： Mandal S,Mandal A,Johansson HE,Orjalo AV,Park MH

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNA (cDNA) clones encoding the adult human liver flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMO; dimethylaniline N-oxidase, EC 1.14.13.8) were isolated from lambda gt10 and lambda gt11 libraries. The cDNA libraries were screened with three synthetic 36-mer oligonucleotide probes derived from the nucleic acid seque...

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

authors： Lomri N,Gu Q,Cashman JR

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies on human insulins prepared by semisynthetic and biosynthetic methods have recently been undertaken. Human insulin differs from porcine insulin only at the COOH terminus of the B-chain. The present study reports the crystal structure of 4-zinc human insulin, which is used clinically as a slow-acting prepa...

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

authors： Smith GD,Swenson DC,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Reynolds CD

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine bacteria have evolved to grow optimally at either high (copiotrophic) or low (oligotrophic) nutrient concentrations, enabling different species to colonize distinct trophic habitats in the oceans. Here, we compare the genome sequences of two bacteria, Photobacterium angustum S14 and Sphingopyxis alaskensis...

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

authors： Lauro FM,McDougald D,Thomas T,Williams TJ,Egan S,Rice S,DeMaere MZ,Ting L,Ertan H,Johnson J,Ferriera S,Lapidus A,Anderson I,Kyrpides N,Munk AC,Detter C,Han CS,Brown MV,Robb FT,Kjelleberg S,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-...

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

authors： Gómez DM,Berent I,Benavides-Varela S,Bion RA,Cattarossi L,Nespor M,Mehler J

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected a proteolytic mechanism in chloroplasts that selectively and rapidly degrades the imported small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase when pools of the chloroplast-synthesized large subunit are depleted. This degradation system is constitutively present and appears to be responsible for pr...

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

authors： Schmidt GW,Mishkind ML

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological soil crusts (biocrusts)—communities of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria, and heterotrophs living at the soil surface—are fundamental components of drylands worldwide, and destruction of biocrusts dramatically alters biogeochemical processes, hydrology, surface energy balance, and vegetation cover. Although th...

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

authors： Ferrenberg S,Reed SC,Belnap J

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions allow the retinoid X receptor (RXR) to bind to cognate DNA as a homo- or a heterodimer and to participate in mediating the effects of a variety of hormones on gene transcription. Here we report a systematic study of the oligomeric state of RXR in the absence of a DNA template. We have used...

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

authors： Kersten S,Kelleher D,Chambon P,Gronemeyer H,Noy N

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) often express BCL6, a transcriptional repressor required for the formation of normal germinal centers. In a subset of DLBCLs, BCL6 is deregulated by chromosomal translocations or aberrant somatic hypermutation; in other tumors, BCL6 expression may simply reflect germinal center ...

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

authors： Polo JM,Juszczynski P,Monti S,Cerchietti L,Ye K,Greally JM,Shipp M,Melnick A

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and convenient method has been devised to determine the binding sites for proteins on RNA. The procedure is an adaptation of one used to map DNA-protein complexes by protection against nuclease digestion. The method uses the cytotoxic ribonuclease alpha-sarcin, which hydrolyzes purines in both single- and doub...

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

authors： Huber PW,Wool IG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00