Structure of a mitochondrial cytochrome c conformer competent for peroxidase activity.

abstract：:Surfactant replacement therapy (SRT) involves instillation of a liquid-surfactant mixture directly into the lung airway tree. It is widely successful for treating surfactant deficiency in premature neonates who develop neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS). However, when applied to adults with acute respirator...

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

authors： Filoche M,Tai CF,Grotberg JB

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis of solid tumors is a key determinant of cancer patient survival. Targeting micrometastases using nanoparticles could offer a way to stop metastatic tumor growth before it causes excessive patient morbidity. However, nanoparticle delivery to micrometastases is difficult to investigate because micrometastases...

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

authors： Kingston BR,Syed AM,Ngai J,Sindhwani S,Chan WCW

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:During the analysis of liver protein expression in the offspring of male mice irradiated with fission-spectrum neutrons, one offspring displayed a heritable 50% decrease in the abundance of two proteins. Homozygous mice lacking detectable quantities of these proteins were obtained through breeding. Characterization of...

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

authors： Champion KM,Cook RJ,Tollaksen SL,Giometti CS

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T4-encoded RegB endoribonuclease is produced during the early stage of phage development and targets mostly (but not exclusively) the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of early genes. In this work, we show that the degradation of RegB-cleaved mRNAs depends on a functional T4 polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase ...

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

authors： Durand S,Richard G,Bontems F,Uzan M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Look-through mutagenesis (LTM) is a multidimensional mutagenesis method that simultaneously assesses and optimizes combinatorial mutations of selected amino acids. The process focuses on a precise distribution within one or more complementarity determining region (CDR) domains and explores the synergistic contribution...

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

authors： Rajpal A,Beyaz N,Haber L,Cappuccilli G,Yee H,Bhatt RR,Takeuchi T,Lerner RA,Crea R

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the voltage-gated-like ion channel superfamily have a conserved pore structure. Transmembrane helices that line the pore (M2 or S6) are thought to gate it at the cytoplasmic end by bending at a hinge glycine residue. Proline residues favor bending of alpha-helices, and substitution of proline for this glyci...

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

authors： Zhao Y,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage P1 Cre/loxP system has become a powerful tool for in vivo manipulation of the genomes of transgenic mice. Although in vitro studies have shown that Cre can catalyze recombination between cryptic "pseudo-loxP" sites in mammalian genomes, to date there have been no reports of loxP-site infidelity in tr...

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

authors： Schmidt EE,Taylor DS,Prigge JR,Barnett S,Capecchi MR

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational model is presented that can be used as a tool in the design of safer chemicals. This model predicts the rate of hydrogen-atom abstraction by cytochrome P450 enzymes. Excellent correlations between biotransformation rates and the calculated activation energies (delta Hact) of the cytochrome P450-mediate...

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

authors： Yin H,Anders MW,Korzekwa KR,Higgins L,Thummel KE,Kharasch ED,Jones JP

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinopathy of prematurity is a blinding disease, initiated by lack of retinal vascular growth after premature birth. We show that lack of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in knockout mice prevents normal retinal vascular growth, despite the presence of vascular endothelial growth factor, important to vessel devel...

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

authors： Hellstrom A,Perruzzi C,Ju M,Engstrom E,Hard AL,Liu JL,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson B,Niklasson A,Sjodell L,LeRoith D,Senger DR,Smith LE

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophilic neurite outgrowth-promoting prostaglandin (NEPP) compounds protect neurons from oxidative insults. At least part of the neuroprotective action of NEPPs lies in induction of hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1), which, along with other phase II enzymes, serve as a defense system against oxidative stress. Here, we found...

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

authors： Satoh T,Okamoto SI,Cui J,Watanabe Y,Furuta K,Suzuki M,Tohyama K,Lipton SA

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to robust and information-rich human cardiac tissue models would accelerate drug-based strategies for treating heart disease. Despite significant effort, the generation of high-fidelity adult-like human cardiac tissue analogs remains challenging. We used computational modeling of tissue contraction and assembly...

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

authors： Thavandiran N,Dubois N,Mikryukov A,Massé S,Beca B,Simmons CA,Deshpande VS,McGarry JP,Chen CS,Nanthakumar K,Keller GM,Radisic M,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:TCL1 and TCL1b genes on human chromosome 14q23.1 are activated in T cell leukemias by translocations and inversions at 14q32.1, juxtaposing them to regulatory elements of T cell receptor genes. In this report we present the cloning, mapping, and expression analysis of the human and murine TCL1/Tcl1 locus. In addition ...

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

authors： Hallas C,Pekarsky Y,Itoyama T,Varnum J,Bichi R,Rothstein JL,Croce CM

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid metabolism is associated with a number of mechanisms known to be involved in host resistance to malignant disease. Cancer patients are significantly depleted of ascorbic acid, and in our opinion this demonstrable biochemical characteristic indicates a substantially increased requirement and utilization o...

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

authors： Cameron E,Pauling L

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of prefrontal cortex glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67) and reelin (mRNAs and proteins) expression is the most consistent finding reported by several studies of postmortem schizophrenia (SZ) brains. Converging evidence suggests that the reduced GAD67 and reelin expression in cortical GABAergic interneurons ...

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

authors： Dong E,Agis-Balboa RC,Simonini MV,Grayson DR,Costa E,Guidotti A

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two recombinant cDNAs whose corresponding RNAs have an increased abundance in scrapie-infected hamster brain. DNA sequence analysis has shown that these two recombinants represent the genes for sulfated glycoprotein 2 and transferrin. The abundance of sulfated glycoprotein 2 RNA is increased in hippoc...

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

authors： Duguid JR,Bohmont CW,Liu NG,Tourtellotte WW

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) and its ligand, FGF10, are known to cause lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital (LADD) syndrome. Multiple gain-of-function mutations in FGF receptors have been implicated in a variety of severe skeletal disorders and in many cancers. We aimed to elucidate the mechanism...

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

authors： Lew ED,Bae JH,Rohmann E,Wollnik B,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major public health problem and is often associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Leptin is the crucial adipostatic hormone that controls food intake and body weight through the activation of specific leptin receptors (OB-R) in the hypothalamic arcuate nucl...

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

authors： Couturier C,Sarkis C,Séron K,Belouzard S,Chen P,Lenain A,Corset L,Dam J,Vauthier V,Dubart A,Mallet J,Froguel P,Rouillé Y,Jockers R

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An excised patch of embryonic muscle membrane was used as a probe for measuring the release of acetylcholine (AcCho) from growing spinal neurons in Xenopus cell culture. The neuron was stimulated extracellularly at the soma, and the evoked AcCho release was monitored at the growth cone, along the neurite, and near the...

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

authors： Sun YA,Poo MM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein δ (C/EBPδ) recently emerged as an essential player in the inflammatory response to bacterial infections. C/EBPδ levels increase rapidly after a proinflammatory stimulus, and increasing C/EBPδ levels seem to be indispensable for amplification of the inflammatory response. Here we aimed to...

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

authors： Duitman J,Schouten M,Groot AP,Borensztajn KS,Daalhuisen JB,Florquin S,van der Poll T,Spek CA

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds have only rarely been found in intracellular proteins. That pattern is consistent with the chemically reducing environment inside the cells of well-studied organisms. However, recent experiments and new calculations based on genomic data of archaea provide striking contradictions to this pattern. Our r...

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

authors： Mallick P,Boutz DR,Eisenberg D,Yeates TO

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In December of 2015, the international community pledged to limit global warming to below 2 °C above preindustrial (PI) to prevent dangerous climate change. However, to what extent, and for whom, is danger avoided if this ambitious target is realized? We address these questions by scrutinizing heat stress, because the...

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

authors： Matthews TK,Wilby RL,Murphy C

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structures of the tomato planta macho and tomato apical stunt viroids have been determined, and probable secondary structures are proposed. Both viroids can assume the rodlike conformation with extensive base-pairing characteristic of all known viroids. Sequence homologies between the two viroids (75%) and...

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

authors： Kiefer MC,Owens RA,Diener TO

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinococcus radiodurans is among a small number of bacterial species that are extremely resistant to ionizing radiation, UV light, toxic chemicals, and desiccation. We measured proteome oxidation (i.e., protein carbonylation, PC) in D. radiodurans as well as in standard and evolved resistant strains of Escherichia col...

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

authors： Krisko A,Radman M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have revealed that genetic variations in metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGlu3) affect performance on cognitive tasks dependent upon the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and may be linked to psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction. We have performed a series of studies ...

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

authors： Walker AG,Wenthur CJ,Xiang Z,Rook JM,Emmitte KA,Niswender CM,Lindsley CW,Conn PJ

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion of stability of a local ring arises naturally in investigating completed moduli spaces via geometric invariant theory. A scheme corresponding to a boundary point of a moduli space of nonsingular varieties cannot have unstable singular points. This paper reports some results concerning the stability of surfa...

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

authors： Shah J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,3-1,4-beta-glucanase from Bacillus macerans (wtGLU) and the 1, 4-beta-xylanase from Bacillus subtilis (wtXYN) are both single-domain jellyroll proteins catalyzing similar enzymatic reactions. In the fusion protein GluXyn-1, the two proteins are joined by insertion of the entire XYN domain into a surface loop of ...

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

authors： Aÿ J,Götz F,Borriss R,Heinemann U

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabinose-binding protein, maltose-binding protein, and lambda receptor are synthesized in vitro on membrane-bound polysomes from Escherichia coli. All three proteins are exported from the cytoplasm of E. coli and all three are made in vitro in a form a few thousand daltons larger than the authentic protein. The large...

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

authors： Randall LL,Hardy SJ,Josefsson LG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work with prion diseases and synucleinopathies indicates that accurate diagnostic methods for protein-folding diseases can be based on the ultrasensitive, amplified measurement of pathological aggregates in biospecimens. A better understanding of the physicochemical factors that control the seeded polymerizatio...

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

authors： Metrick MA 2nd,do Carmo Ferreira N,Saijo E,Hughson AG,Kraus A,Orrú C,Miller MW,Zanusso G,Ghetti B,Vendruscolo M,Caughey B

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) cause hypercholesterolemia because of inefficient LDL clearance from the circulation. In addition, there is a paradoxical oversecretion of the metabolic precursor of LDL, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). We recently demonstrated that the LDLR mediates ...

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

authors： Gillian-Daniel DL,Bates PW,Tebon A,Attie AD

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00