Formation and structures of GroEL:GroES2 chaperonin footballs, the protein-folding functional form.

abstract：:A recently discovered family of natural anion channelrhodopsins (ACRs) have the highest conductance among channelrhodopsins and exhibit exclusive anion selectivity, which make them efficient inhibitory tools for optogenetics. We report analysis of flash-induced absorption changes in purified wild-type and mutant ACRs,...

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

authors： Sineshchekov OA,Li H,Govorunova EG,Spudich JL

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of chicken embryo fibroblasts with mitogenic concentrations of insulin for 24 hr or with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate for 6 hr stimulated lactate release and 3-O-methylglucose uptake. Insulin also increased the Vmax of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase (ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotrans...

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

authors： Bosca L,Rousseau GG,Hue L

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is significant variation in the reported magnitude and even the sign of [Formula: see text] shifts in thin polymer films with nominally the same chemistry, film thickness, and supporting substrate. The implicit assumption is that methods used to estimate [Formula: see text] in bulk materials are relevant for inf...

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

authors： Zhang W,Douglas JF,Starr FW

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of red blood cells is normally tightly regulated by a classic homeostatic mechanism based on oxygen sensing in the kidney. Decreased oxygen delivery resulting from anemia induces the production of erythropoietin, which increases red cell production and hence oxygen delivery. Investigations of erythropoietin...

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

authors： Percy MJ,Zhao Q,Flores A,Harrison C,Lappin TR,Maxwell PH,McMullin MF,Lee FS

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully atomistic molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations of perfluoroalkylalkane molecules at the surface of water show the spontaneous formation of aggregates whose size and topography closely resemble the experimentally observed hemimicelles for this system. Furthermore, the grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) pat...

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

authors： Silva GMC,Morgado P,Lourenço P,Goldmann M,Filipe EJM

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response is normally controlled by regulatory T cells (Tregs). However, Treg deficits are found in autoimmune diseases, and therefore the induction of functional Tregs is considered a potential therapeutic approach for autoimmune disorders. The activation of the ligand-activated transcription factor aryl hy...

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

authors： Yeste A,Nadeau M,Burns EJ,Weiner HL,Quintana FJ

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined whether dissociation of the histone octamer is required for elongation of RNA transcripts through arrays of nucleosome cores in vitro. Control or dimethyl suberimidate-crosslinked histone octamers were reconstituted onto supercoiled, closed circular pT207-18 DNA, which contains tandemly repeated 207-b...

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

authors： O'Neill TE,Smith JG,Bradbury EM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is a P-type ATPase that transports Ca2+ from the cytosol into the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SR/ER) lumen, driven by ATP. This primary transport activity depends on tight coupling between movements of the transmembrane helices forming the two Ca2+-binding sites a...

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

authors： Geurts MMG,Clausen JD,Arnou B,Montigny C,Lenoir G,Corey RA,Jaxel C,Møller JV,Nissen P,Andersen JP,le Maire M,Bublitz M

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint ensures the accuracy of chromosome segregation during mitosis. The protein serine/threonine kinase, Mps1, is a critical component of the spindle checkpoint in human cells and regulates the kinetochore localization of key checkpoint proteins. The kinase activity of Mps1 is required for the spindl...

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

authors： Kang J,Chen Y,Zhao Y,Yu H

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-sided multipliers of an operator space X are a key to "latent operator algebraic structure" in X. We begin with a survey of these multipliers, together with several of the applications that they have had to operator algebras. We then describe several new results on one-sided multipliers, and new applications, ...

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

authors： Blecher DP,Zarikian V

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that cholera outbreaks can be initiated when Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, is present in drinking water in sufficient numbers to constitute an infective dose, if ingested by humans. Outbreaks associated with drinking or bathing in unpurified river or brackish water may dire...

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

authors： Lobitz B,Beck L,Huq A,Wood B,Fuchs G,Faruque AS,Colwell R

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the most productive crop in the world. In fact, the changes were so astounding that it took much of the last century to identify modern mai...

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

authors： Tian F,Stevens NM,Buckler ES 4th

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of 2-acyl spin-labeled lecithin into the phosphatidylcholine protein from bovine liver results in an immobilization of the spin-label at the methyl and the carboxyl terminal end of the acyl chain. The nitroxide group on the protein-bound lecithin molecule is not accessible to ascorbate. This suggests tha...

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

authors： Devaux PF,Moonen P,Bienvenue A,Wirtz KW

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin1, a ubiquitously expressed actin-binding protein, plays a critical role in cell migration through actin cytoskeletal regulation. Given the traditional view of profilin1 as a promigratory molecule, it is difficult to reconcile observations that profilin1 is down-regulated in various invasive adenocarcinomas an...

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

authors： Bae YH,Ding Z,Das T,Wells A,Gertler F,Roy P

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracolonic administration of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid in mice causes inflammation in the colon that is accompanied by increased expression of proinflammatory cytokines and of the substance P (SP), neurokinin 1 receptor (NK-1R) in the proximal mesenteric fat depot. We also investigated whether human mesenteric p...

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

authors： Karagiannides I,Kokkotou E,Tansky M,Tchkonia T,Giorgadze N,O'Brien M,Leeman SE,Kirkland JL,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons are DNA probes that form a stem-and-loop structure and possess an internally quenched fluorophore. When they bind to complementary nucleic acids, they undergo a conformational transition that switches on their fluorescence. These probes recognize their targets with higher specificity than probes that...

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

authors： Bonnet G,Tyagi S,Libchaber A,Kramer FR

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining genotypes across datasets is central in facilitating advances in genetics. Data aggregation efforts often face the challenge of record matching-the identification of dataset entries that represent the same individual. We show that records can be matched across genotype datasets that have no shared markers ba...

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

authors： Edge MD,Algee-Hewitt BFB,Pemberton TJ,Li JZ,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' flanking sequences and the intron of the mouse Hoxa-7 gene were searched for regulatory elements that can function in Drosophila. Only the intron is able to activate a lacZ fusion gene in various tissues of Drosophila embryos. This enhancer function requires a cluster of three homeodomain binding sites (HB1-ele...

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

authors： Haerry TE,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Arc repressor forms a homodimer in which the subunits intertwine to create a single globular domain. To obtain Arc sequences that fold preferentially as heterodimers, variants with surface patches of excess positive or negative charge were designed. Several but not all oppositely charged sequence pairs showed preferen...

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

authors： Nohaile MJ,Hendsch ZS,Tidor B,Sauer RT

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two formal models of clonal attenuation [Kirkwood, T. B. L. & Holliday, R. (1975) J. Theor. Biol. 53, 481-496; Shall, S. & Stein, W. D. (1979) J. Theor. Biol. 76, 219-231] are considered in the light of recent data on the changing distribution of replicative potential among individual cultured fibroblasts on subclonin...

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

authors： Prothero J,Gallant JA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense granules of platelets contain a high content of diadenosine 5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A). We have previously demonstrated an antithrombotic effect of this compound in a live rabbit model. In the present study we find that certain synthetic Ap4A analogues are superior to Ap4A in inhibiting ADP-induced aggr...

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

authors： Zamecnik PC,Kim B,Gao MJ,Taylor G,Blackburn GM

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) is a 42-amino acid gastrointestinal regulatory peptide that stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in the presence of glucose. Approximately 7.8 x 10(5) recombinant clones of a neonatal rat intestinal cDNA library were screened by using plaque hybridizati...

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

authors： Tseng CC,Jarboe LA,Landau SB,Williams EK,Wolfe MM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal cycles govern life on earth, from setting the time for the mating season to influencing migrations and governing physiological conditions like hibernation. The effect of such changing conditions on behavior is well-appreciated, but their impact on the brain remains virtually unknown. We investigate long-term ...

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

authors： Ray S,Li M,Koch SP,Mueller S,Boehm-Sturm P,Wang H,Brecht M,Naumann RK

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray crystal structure of an oligomeric miniprotein has been determined to a 1.2-A resolution by means of multiwavelength anomalous diffraction phasing with selenomethionine analogs that retain the biophysical characteristics of the native peptide. Peptide 1, comprising alpha and beta secondary structure elements...

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

authors： Ali MH,Peisach E,Allen KN,Imperiali B

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol, an activator of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors of NG108-15 hybrid cells, inhibits adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] rapidly and reversibly and slowly evokes a 200-300% increase in adenylate cyclase activity over a period of 24-30 hr. Both the inhibition of adenylate cyc...

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

authors： Nathanson NM,Klein WL,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Raleigh, NC, population of Drosophila melanogaster was sampled for the presence of enzyme null alleles at 25 loci. No nulls were found at any of five X-linked loci. Nulls were recovered at 13 of 20 autosomal loci; the weighted mean frequency for all 20 autosomal loci was estimated to be 0.0025. A consideration of th...

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

authors： Voelker RA,Langley CH,Brown AJ,Ohnishi S,Dickson B,Montgomery E,Smith SC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An mRNA fraction coding for hexon polypeptide, the major virion structural protein, was purified by gel electrophoresis from extracts of adenovirus 2-infected cells late in the lytic cycle. The mRNA sequences in this fraction were mapped between 51.7 and 61.3 units on the genome by visualizing RNA-DNA hybrids in the e...

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

authors： Berget SM,Moore C,Sharp PA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile ectothermic animals can control their body temperatures by selecting specific thermal conditions in the environment, but embryos--trapped within an immobile egg and lacking locomotor structures--have been assumed to lack that ability. Falsifying that assumption, our experimental studies show that even early sta...

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

authors： Du WG,Zhao B,Chen Y,Shine R

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron flow is increasingly recognized as being essential in plant growth, generating a pH gradient across thylakoid membrane (ΔpH) that contributes to ATP synthesis and triggers the protective process of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) under stress conditions. Here, we report experiments demonstrating the i...

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

authors： Joliot P,Johnson GN

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00