Monoclonal antibody specific for the transverse tubular membrane of skeletal muscle activates the dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca2+ channel.

abstract：:ClpB is a ring-forming, ATP-dependent protein disaggregase that cooperates with the cognate Hsp70 system to recover functional protein from aggregates. How ClpB harnesses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to facilitate the mechanical unfolding of previously aggregated, stress-damaged proteins remains unclear. H...

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

authors： Biter AB,Lee S,Sung N,Tsai FT

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme A is an essential cofactor for respiratory terminal oxidases and vital for respiration in aerobic organisms. The final step of heme A biosynthesis is formylation of the C-8 methyl group of heme molecule by heme A synthase (HAS). HAS is a heme-containing integral membrane protein, and its structure and reaction me...

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

authors： Niwa S,Takeda K,Kosugi M,Tsutsumi E,Mogi T,Miki K

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular membranes are a heterogeneous mix of lipids, proteins and small molecules. Special groupings enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol form liquid-ordered domains, known as "lipid rafts," thought to serve as platforms for signaling, trafficking and material transport throughout the secretory pathway. Quest...

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

authors： Ursell TS,Klug WS,Phillips R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest folding events in single-tryptophan mutants of RNase A were investigated by fluorescence measurements by using a combination of stopped-flow and continuous-flow mixing experiments covering the time range from 70 micros to 10 s. An ultrarapid double-jump mixing protocol was used to study refolding from an ...

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

authors： Welker E,Maki K,Shastry MC,Juminaga D,Bhat R,Scheraga HA,Roder H

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of rebeccamycin, an antitumor compound, involves the remarkable eight-electron oxidation of chlorinated chromopyrrolic acid. Although one rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme is capable of generating low levels of the eight-electron oxidation product on its own, a second protein, RebC, is required to acce...

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

authors： Ryan KS,Howard-Jones AR,Hamill MJ,Elliott SJ,Walsh CT,Drennan CL

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal vent ecosystems support diverse life forms, many of which rely on symbiotic associations to perform functions integral to survival in these extreme physicochemical environments. Epsilonproteobacteria, found free-living and in intimate associations with vent invertebrates, are the predominant vent-associat...

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

authors： Grzymski JJ,Murray AE,Campbell BJ,Kaplarevic M,Gao GR,Lee C,Daniel R,Ghadiri A,Feldman RA,Cary SC

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of molecular methods is altering our understanding of the microbial biosphere and the complexity of the tree of life. Here, we report a newly discovered uncultured plastid-bearing eukaryotic lineage named the rappemonads. Phylogenies using near-complete plastid ribosomal DNA (rDNA) operons demonstrate that thi...

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

authors： Kim E,Harrison JW,Sudek S,Jones MD,Wilcox HM,Richards TA,Worden AZ,Archibald JM

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-frequency thalamocortical oscillations that underlie drowsiness and slow-wave sleep depend on rhythmic inhibition of relay cells by neurons in the reticular nucleus (RTN) under the influence of corticothalamic fibers that branch to innervate RTN neurons and relay neurons. To generate oscillations, input to RTN pre...

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

authors： Golshani P,Liu XB,Jones EG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hematopoietic stem cells are derived from vental mesoderm, which is postulated to migrate to both extra- and intraembryonic positions during gastrula and neurula stages. Extraembryonic migration has previously been documented, but the origin and migration of intraembryonic hematopoietic cells have not been ...

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

authors： Detrich HW 3rd,Kieran MW,Chan FY,Barone LM,Yee K,Rundstadler JA,Pratt S,Ransom D,Zon LI

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the abundance and structure of globin mRNAs present in K562 cells both before and after induction of hemoglobin synthesis by hemin. In vitro translation of poly(A)+ RNA from K562 cells generated protein products corresponding to alpha, A gamma-, G gamma-, epsilon-, and zeta-globin mRNAs. Individual globin m...

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

authors： Dean A,Ley TJ,Humphries RK,Fordis M,Schechter AN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gel filtration behavior, in the presence of detergents, of membrane-bound IgM from normal mouse spleen B lymphocytes was compared to that of secretory IgM from mouse plasma cells. The proteins were labeled either by surface radioiodination or biosynthetically with radioactive amino acids. Cell lysates were fractio...

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

authors： Vassalli P,Tedghi R,Lisowska-Bernstein B,Tartakoff A,Jaton JC

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate ordered orientation of the hydration water at the surface of phospholipid bilayers by use of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy, a highly sensitive vibrational imaging method recently developed. We investigated negatively charged POPS (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-l-ser...

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

authors： Cheng JX,Pautot S,Weitz DA,Xie XS

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors are an established treatment in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and are currently in clinical development in melanoma, a tumor that exhibits high rates of CDK4 activation. We analyzed melanoma cells with acquired resistance to the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib an...

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

authors： AbuHammad S,Cullinane C,Martin C,Bacolas Z,Ward T,Chen H,Slater A,Ardley K,Kirby L,Chan KT,Brajanovski N,Smith LK,Rao AD,Lelliott EJ,Kleinschmidt M,Vergara IA,Papenfuss AT,Lau P,Ghosh P,Haupt S,Haupt Y,Sanij E,

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:New advances in polarized light microscopy were used to image Congo red-stained cerebral amyloidosis in sharp relief. The rotating-polarizer method was used to separate the optical effects of transmission, linear birefringence, extinction, linear dichroism, and orientation of the electric dipole transition moments and...

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

authors： Jin LW,Claborn KA,Kurimoto M,Geday MA,Maezawa I,Sohraby F,Estrada M,Kaminksy W,Kahr B

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:p300 acetylates and activates the tumor suppressor p53 after DNA damage. Here, we show that MDM2, a negative-feedback regulator of p53, inhibited p300-mediated p53 acetylation by complexing with these two proteins. First, we purified a p300-MDM2-p53 protein complex from HeLa nuclear extracts, which was inactive in p53...

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

authors： Kobet E,Zeng X,Zhu Y,Keller D,Lu H

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin is a potent immunosuppressant that blocks the G1/S transition in antigen-activated T cells and in yeast. The similar effects of rapamycin in animal cells and yeast suggest that the biochemical steps affected by rapamycin are conserved. Using a two-hybrid system we isolated mammalian clones that interact with...

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

authors： Chiu MI,Katz H,Berlin V

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of the total protein synthesis in host cell cytoplasm is inhibited by cycloheximide. Because leghemoglobin represents a large proportion of total cellular protein in the nodule, this observation suggests that leghemoglobin may be translated on the 80S-type ribosomes. Analysis of the nascent peptides isolate...

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

authors： Verma DP,Bal AK

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

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

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fatty acid derivatives are emerging as promising alternatives to fossil fuel derived transportation fuels. Among bacterial fatty acid synthases (FAS), the Escherichia coli FAS is perhaps the most well studied, but little is known about its steady-state kinetic behavior. Here we describe the reconstitution of...

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

authors： Yu X,Liu T,Zhu F,Khosla C

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressor exposure biases decision-making strategies from those based on the relationship between actions and their consequences to others restricted by stimulus-response associations. Chronic stressor exposure also desensitizes glucocorticoid receptors (GR) and diminishes motivation to acquire food reinforcement, alth...

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

authors： Gourley SL,Swanson AM,Jacobs AM,Howell JL,Mo M,Dileone RJ,Koleske AJ,Taylor JR

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The detrimental effects of elevated intensities of mid-UV radiation (UVB), a result of stratospheric ozone depletion during the austral spring, on the primary producers of the Antarctic marine ecosystem have been well documented. Here we report that natural populations of Antarctic zooplankton also sustain significant...

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

authors： Malloy KD,Holman MA,Mitchell D,Detrich HW 3rd

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:When treated with heat-killed bacterial cells, mosquito cells in culture respond by up-regulating several proteins. Among these is a 66-kDa protein (p66) that is secreted from cells derived from both Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. p66 was degraded by proteolysis and gave a virtually identical pattern of peptide p...

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

authors： Yoshiga T,Hernandez VP,Fallon AM,Law JH

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine that can protect against HIV infection does not exist. A major reason why a vaccine is not available is the high mutability of the virus, which enables it to evolve mutations that can evade human immune responses. This challenge is exacerbated by the ability of the virus to evolve compensatory mut...

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

authors： Murakowski DK,Barton JP,Peter L,Chandrashekar A,Bondzie E,Gao A,Barouch DH,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The second structure of a eukaryotic RNA polymerase II so far determined, that of the enzyme from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is reported here. Comparison with the previous structure of the enzyme from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals differences in regions implicated in start site s...

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

authors： Spåhr H,Calero G,Bushnell DA,Kornberg RD

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) represents a significant genetic resource for crop improvement in barley (Hordeum vulgare) and for the study of the evolution and domestication of plant populations. The Isa gene from barley has a putative role in plant defense. This gene encodes a bifunctional alpha-amylase/subtilisin...

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

authors： Cronin JK,Bundock PC,Henry RJ,Nevo E

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of genomic stability is essential for normal organismal development and is vital to prevent diseases such as cancer. As genetic information is packaged into chromatin, it has become increasingly clear that the chromatin environment plays an important role in DNA damage response. However, how DNA repair is ...

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

authors： Li X,Liu L,Yang S,Song N,Zhou X,Gao J,Yu N,Shan L,Wang Q,Liang J,Xuan C,Wang Y,Shang Y,Shi L

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Subviral particles containing reovirus RNA transcriptase have been isolated from extracts of virus-infected mouse fibroblast cells. The purified particles which lacked the outer protein capsomeres of the mature virion had a buoyant density of 1.43-1.44 g/ml in CsCl and contained all of the double-stranded RNA genome o...

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

authors： Levin DH,Mendelsohn N,Schonberg M,Klett H,Silverstein S,Kapuler AM,Acs G

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations in BRAF are found in 50% of melanomas and although treatment with BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) is effective, resistance often develops. We now show that recently discovered NRAS isoform 2 is up-regulated in the setting of BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma, in both cell lines and patient tumor tissu...

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

authors： Duggan MC,Stiff AR,Bainazar M,Regan K,Olaverria Salavaggione GN,Maharry S,Blachly JS,Krischak M,Walker CJ,Latchana N,Tridandapani S,de la Chapelle A,Eisfeld AK,Carson WE 3rd

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a large panel of T-cell clones (TCCs) specific for Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Lolium perenne group I grass pollen allergens (total, 61) and for tetanus toxoid and protein purified derivative bacterial antigens (total, 38) from the peripheral blood of two atopic individuals and then analyzed...

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

authors： Parronchi P,Macchia D,Piccinni MP,Biswas P,Simonelli C,Maggi E,Ricci M,Ansari AA,Romagnani S

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00