Ferroelectric switching of elastin.

abstract：:Peace River is one of the few shocked members of the L-chondrites clan that contains both high-pressure polymorphs of olivine, ringwoodite and wadsleyite, in diverse textures and settings in fragments entrained in shock-melt veins. Among these settings are complete olivine porphyritic chondrules. We encountered few sq...

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

authors： Miyahara M,El Goresy A,Ohtani E,Nagase T,Nishijima M,Vashaei Z,Ferroir T,Gillet P,Dubrovinsky L,Simionovici A

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen content of yeast rises dramatically just before the onset of the stationary phase of growth. Concomitantly, a rapid increase was found in the glucose 6-phosphate-independent (I) activity of glycogen synthetase, as well as in the total amount of enzyme. A mutant (GS 1-36) was obtained, which did not accumu...

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

authors： Rothman-Denes LB,Cabib E

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional microfluidic systems were fabricated and used to pattern proteins and mammalian cells on a planar substrate. The three-dimensional topology of the microfluidic network in the stamp makes this technique a versatile one with which to pattern multiple types of proteins and cells in complex, discontinuou...

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

authors： Chiu DT,Jeon NL,Huang S,Kane RS,Wargo CJ,Choi IS,Ingber DE,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant (ML 308-22) was isolated from Escherichia coli ML 308, which had lost the normal capacity to accumulate lactose analogs despite an increase in the membrane carrier activity. The exit of thiomethylgalactoside was much faster than normal, accounting for the inability of the cell to maintain high intracellular c...

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

authors： Wong PT,Kashket ER,Wilson TH

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic variation of infectious organisms is a major factor in evasion of the host immune response. However, there has been no definitive demonstration of this phenomenon in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. In this study, cloned parasites were examined serologically and biochemically for the expression of...

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

authors： Biggs BA,Goozé L,Wycherley K,Wollish W,Southwell B,Leech JH,Brown GV

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of interacting amino acids are so preserved within protein families that the sole analysis of evolutionary comutations can identify pairs of contacting residues. It is also known that evolution conserves functional dynamics, i.e., the concerted motion or displacement of large protein regions or domains. Is it...

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

authors： Granata D,Ponzoni L,Micheletti C,Carnevale V

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the principal energy-transfer pathways responsible for allosteric communication in biomolecules remains challenging, partially due to the intrinsic complexity of the systems and the lack of effective characterization methods. In this work, we introduce the eigenvector centrality metric based on mutual info...

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

authors： Negre CFA,Morzan UN,Hendrickson HP,Pal R,Lisi GP,Loria JP,Rivalta I,Ho J,Batista VS

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:What drives scientists' position taking on matters where empirical answers are unavailable or contradictory? We examined the contentious debate on whether to limit experiments involving the creation of potentially pandemic pathogens. Hundreds of scientists, including Nobel laureates, have signed petitions on the debat...

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

authors： Edelmann A,Moody J,Light R

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) from its constituent RNA and protein occurs in two steps: formation of the initial complex by interaction of the 5'-end of TMV-RNA with 20S protein aggregate, and growth of the helical rod by sequential addition of protein subunits.Such a process was also observed in the...

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

authors： Ono T,Inoue H,Okada Y

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease h...

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

authors： Ivanova MI,Sievers SA,Guenther EL,Johnson LM,Winkler DD,Galaleldeen A,Sawaya MR,Hart PJ,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most kinases are capable of recognizing and phosphorylating peptides containing short, linear sequence motifs. To measure the activation state of many kinases from the same cell lysate, we created a multiplexed, mass-spectrometry-based in vitro kinase assay. Ninety chemically synthesized peptides derived from well-cha...

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

authors： Yu Y,Anjum R,Kubota K,Rush J,Villen J,Gygi SP

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The resonance Raman excitation profiles of a number of charge transfer transitions in electron donor/acceptor complexes with tetracyanoethylene as acceptor in solution at room temperature are reported and compared with absorption and fluorescence spectra of these complexes. All complexes show distinct anomalies which ...

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

authors： Michaelian KH,Rieckhoff KE,Voigt EM

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4 receptor contributes to T-cell activation by coligating major histocompatibility complex class II on antigen presenting cells with the T-cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex, and triggering a cascade of signaling events including tyrosine phosphorylation of intracellular proteins. Paradoxically, CD3 cross-linking p...

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

authors： Desbarats J,Freed JH,Campbell PA,Newell MK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring causal effects from observational and interventional data is a highly desirable but ambitious goal. Many of the computational and statistical methods are plagued by fundamental identifiability issues, instability, and unreliable performance, especially for large-scale systems with many measured variables. We...

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

authors： Meinshausen N,Hauser A,Mooij JM,Peters J,Versteeg P,Bühlmann P

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains are Ca(2+)-dependent intracellular proteases. We show here that calpain-generated natural C-terminal fragments of proteins that include G protein-coupled receptors, transmembrane ion channels, transcriptional regulators, apoptosis controllers, kinases, and phosphatases (Phe-GluN2a, Lys-Ica512, Arg-Ankrd2, Tyr...

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

authors： Piatkov KI,Oh JH,Liu Y,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are important effector cells in immunity to microorganisms, particularly bacteria. Here, we show that the process of neutrophil apoptosis is delayed in several inflammatory diseases, suggesting that this phenomenon may represent a general feature contributing to the development of neutrophilia, and, theref...

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

authors： Dibbert B,Weber M,Nikolaizik WH,Vogt P,Schöni MH,Blaser K,Simon HU

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-catalyzed oxidation results in loss of function and structural alteration of proteins. The oxidative process affects a variety of side amino acid groups, some of which are converted to carbonyl compounds. Spectrophotometric measurement of these moieties, after their reaction with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, is a...

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

authors： Requena JR,Chao CC,Levine RL,Stadtman ER

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a tryptophan synthase gene and the flanking 5' and 3' regions has been determined for Arabidopsis thaliana. The sequence encodes only the beta subunit domain, indicating that alpha and beta subunits are specified by separate genes. The gene contains four introns and encodes 470 amino acid residues....

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

authors： Berlyn MB,Last RL,Fink GR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family, can induce apoptosis when activated by Fas ligand binding or anti-Fas antibody crosslinking. Genetic studies have shown that a defect in Fas-mediated apoptosis resulted in abnormal development and function of the immune system in mice. A point mutation in the...

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

authors： Chu K,Niu X,Williams LT

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate yeast sex chromosome evolution by comparing genome sequences from 16 species in the family Saccharomycetaceae, including data from genera Tetrapisispora, Kazachstania, Naumovozyma, and Torulaspora. We show that although most yeast species contain a mating-type (MAT) locus and silent HML and HMR loci str...

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

authors： Gordon JL,Armisén D,Proux-Wéra E,ÓhÉigeartaigh SS,Byrne KP,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatio-temporal studies on the growth of capillary blood vessels and capillary lymphatic vessels in tissue remodeling have suggested that lymphangiogenesis is angiogenesis-dependent. We revisited this concept by using fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) (80 ng) to stimulate the growth of both vessel types in the mouse ...

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

authors： Chang LK,Garcia-Cardeña G,Farnebo F,Fannon M,Chen EJ,Butterfield C,Moses MA,Mulligan RC,Folkman J,Kaipainen A

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-derived adhesion factor (TAF) was previously identified as a cell adhesion molecule secreted by human bladder carcinoma cell line EJ-1. To elucidate the physiological function of TAF, we examined its distribution in human normal and tumor tissues. Immunochemical staining with an anti-TAF monoclonal antibody show...

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

authors： Akaogi K,Okabe Y,Sato J,Nagashima Y,Yasumitsu H,Sugahara K,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Triton X-100-solubilized high-density microsomes from insulin-treated rat adipocytes exhibit a marked increase in serine/threonine and tyrosine kinase activities toward exogenous histone when compared to controls. The insulin-dependent activation of microsomal histone kinase activities occurs within the physiological ...

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

authors： Yu KT,Khalaf N,Czech MP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila clock genes period (per) and timeless (tim) have been studied behaviorally and biochemically, but to date there has been no viable culture system for studying the cell biology of the Drosophila clock. We have cultured pupal ring glands attached to the central nervous system and observed rhythms of perio...

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

authors： Emery IF,Noveral JM,Jamison CF,Siwicki KK

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The multifunctional Creb-binding protein (CBP) protein plays a pivotal role in many critical cellular processes. Here we demonstrate that the bromodomain of CBP binds to histone H3 acetylated on lysine 56 (K56Ac) with higher affinity than to its other monoacetylated binding partners. We show that autoacetylation of CB...

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

authors： Das C,Roy S,Namjoshi S,Malarkey CS,Jones DN,Kutateladze TG,Churchill ME,Tyler JK

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteins often localize to distinct sites within the cell, but the primary cues that dictate localization are largely unknown. Recent evidence has shown that positive membrane curvature can serve as a cue for localization of a peripheral membrane protein. Here we report that localization of the peripheral me...

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

authors： Ramamurthi KS,Losick R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-dependent adhesions mediate reciprocal exchange of force and information between the cell and the extracellular matrix. These effects are attributed to the "focal adhesion clutch," in which moving actin filaments transmit force to integrins via dynamic protein interactions. To elucidate these processes, we me...

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

authors： Driscoll TP,Ahn SJ,Huang B,Kumar A,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular flow through tissues is regulated via a number of homeostatic mechanisms. Localized control of tissue blood flow, or autoregulation, is a key factor in regulating tissue perfusion and oxygenation. We show here that the net balance between two hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) transcription factor isoforms, HIF-1...

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

authors： Cowburn AS,Takeda N,Boutin AT,Kim JW,Sterling JC,Nakasaki M,Southwood M,Goldrath AW,Jamora C,Nizet V,Chilvers ER,Johnson RS

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular injury during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been postulated to result from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-lymphocyte host immune response against HBV antigens. Although HLA expression is enhanced in the presence of hepatic inflammation, whether HBV itself can induce HLA expression ...

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

authors： Hu KQ,Vierling JM,Siddiqui A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00