Disruption of the Na+ ion binding site as a mechanism for positive allosteric modulation of the mu-opioid receptor.

abstract：:The rate of Cl- secretion by human airway epithelium is determined, in part, by apical cell membrane Cl- conductance. In cystic fibrosis airway epithelia, defective regulation of Cl- conductance decreases the capability to secrete Cl-. Here we report that extracytosolic ATP in the luminal bath of cultured human airway...

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

authors： Stutts MJ,Chinet TC,Mason SJ,Fullton JM,Clarke LL,Boucher RC

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-biomolecule interactions have been extensively studied in dilute solutions, crystals, and rehydrated powders, but none of these model systems may capture the behavior of water in the highly organized intracellular milieu. Because of the experimental difficulty of selectively probing the structure and dynamics of...

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

authors： Persson E,Halle B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster urate oxidase (UO)-encoding gene is expressed in the third-instar larva and adult. In contrast, the Drosophila pseudoobscura UO gene is only expressed in the adult, whereas the Drosophila virilis UO gene is expressed only in the third-instar larva. UO activity in these three Drosophila spec...

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

authors： Wallrath LL,Friedman TB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coacervation is a common phenomenon in natural polymers and has been applied to synthetic materials systems for coatings, adhesives, and encapsulants. Single-component coacervates are formed when block polyampholytes exhibit self-coacervation, phase separating into a dense liquid coacervate phase rich in the polyampho...

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

authors： Danielsen SPO,McCarty J,Shea JE,Delaney KT,Fredrickson GH

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory diseases are characterized by dysregulated cytokine production. Altered functions for most risk loci, including the inflammatory bowel disease and leprosy-associated tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 15 (TNFSF15) region, are unclear. Regulation of pattern-recognition-receptor (PRR)-induced s...

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

authors： Hedl M,Abraham C

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine ecosystems are in decline. New transformational changes in governance are urgently required to cope with overfishing, pollution, global changes, and other drivers of degradation. Here we explore social, political, and ecological aspects of a transformation in governance of Chile's coastal marine resources, from...

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

authors： Gelcich S,Hughes TP,Olsson P,Folke C,Defeo O,Fernández M,Foale S,Gunderson LH,Rodríguez-Sickert C,Scheffer M,Steneck RS,Castilla JC

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-based hydrogels have emerged as promising alternatives to synthetic hydrogels for biomedical applications, owing to the precise control of structure and function enabled by protein engineering. Nevertheless, strategies for assembling 3D molecular networks that carry the biological information encoded in full-l...

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

authors： Sun F,Zhang WB,Mahdavi A,Arnold FH,Tirrell DA

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant litter decomposition is a critical step in the formation of soil organic matter, the mineralization of organic nutrients, and the carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems. Biotic decomposition in mesic ecosystems is generally negatively correlated with the concentration of lignin, a group of complex aromatic pol...

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

authors： Austin AT,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported isolation of nanobacteria from human kidney stones raises the intriguing possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of pathological extraskeletal calcification [Kajander, E. O. & Ciftçioglu, N. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8274-8279]. Nanobacteria were previously isolated from F...

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

authors： Cisar JO,Xu DQ,Thompson J,Swaim W,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the transport of newly synthesized cholesterol with that of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane. The arrival of cholesterol on the cell surface was monitored by cyclodextrin removal, and HA transport was monitored by surface trypsinization...

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

authors： Heino S,Lusa S,Somerharju P,Ehnholm C,Olkkonen VM,Ikonen E

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Water dynamics in concentrated ionic solutions plays an important role in a number of material and energy conversion processes such as the charge transfer at the electrolyte-electrode interface in aqueous rechargeable ion batteries. One long-standing puzzle is that all electrolytes, regardless of their "structure-maki...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Wu T,Chen C,Mukamel S,Zhuang W

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA polymerase (nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6) has been purified from phage-SP01-infected Bacillus subtilis that copies RNA almost exclusively from the heavy strand of native SP01 DNA, the DNA strand from which "middle" and "late" classes of RNA are copied in vivo. Hybridization-com...

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

authors： Pero J,Nelson J,Fox TD

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of the inhibition of initiation of DNA replication on the membrane association of the chromosomal origin of replication of Bacillus subtilis and the Staphylococcus aureus-Bacillus pumilus chimeric plasmid pSL103, using temperature-sensitive mutants of B. subtilis that have specifically affected ...

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

authors： Winston S,Sueoka N

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying causal effects in nonexperimental data is an enduring challenge. One proposed solution that recently gained popularity is the idea to use genes as instrumental variables [i.e., Mendelian randomization (MR)]. However, this approach is problematic because many variables of interest are genetically correlated...

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

authors： DiPrete TA,Burik CAP,Koellinger PD

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies that modulate receptor function have great untapped potential in the control of stem cell differentiation. In contrast to many natural ligands, antibodies are stable, exquisitely specific, and are unaffected by the regulatory mechanisms that act on natural ligands. Here we describe an innovative system for ...

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

authors： Melidoni AN,Dyson MR,Wormald S,McCafferty J

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The enormous complexity of biological networks has led to the suggestion that networks are built of modules that perform particular functions and are "reused" in evolution in a manner similar to reusable domains in protein structures or modules of electronic circuits. Analysis of known biological networks has revealed...

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

authors： Spirin V,Gelfand MS,Mironov AA,Mirny LA

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR method is described for determining the orientation of a porphyrin within the heme pocket of a hemoprotein. The pattern of the hyperfine-shifted heme methyl resonances in low-spin ferric model compounds is demonstrated to characteristically reflect the position of a localized low-symmetry perturbation on ...

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

authors： La Mar GN,Budd DL,Viscio DB,Smith KM,Langry KC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic diversity in southern Europe is higher than in other regions of the continent. This difference has been attributed to postglacial expansions, the demic diffusion of agriculture from the Near East, and gene flow from Africa. Using SNP data from 2,099 individuals in 43 populations, we show that estimates o...

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

authors： Botigué LR,Henn BM,Gravel S,Maples BK,Gignoux CR,Corona E,Atzmon G,Burns E,Ostrer H,Flores C,Bertranpetit J,Comas D,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common monogenic cause of small-vessel disease leading to ischemic stroke and vascular dementia is the neurodegenerative syndrome cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), which is associated with mutations in the Notch 3 receptor. CADASIL pathology ...

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

authors： Arboleda-Velasquez JF,Manent J,Lee JH,Tikka S,Ospina C,Vanderburg CR,Frosch MP,Rodríguez-Falcón M,Villen J,Gygi S,Lopera F,Kalimo H,Moskowitz MA,Ayata C,Louvi A,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the developments that have occurred in the field of human genetics of infectious diseases from the second half of the 20th century onward. In particular, it stresses and explains the importance of the recently described monogenic inborn errors of immunity underlying resistance or susceptibility to s...

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

authors： Casanova JL

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An inwardly rectifying, ATP-regulated K+ channel with a distinctive molecular architecture, ROMK1, was recently cloned from rat kidney. Using patch clamp techniques, we have investigated the regulation of ROMK1 with particular emphasis on phosphorylation/dephosphorylation processes. Spontaneous channel rundown occurre...

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

authors： McNicholas CM,Wang W,Ho K,Hebert SC,Giebisch G

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer code to investigate the equilibrium and stability of a diffuse plasma in three dimensions is described that generalizes earlier work on a sharp free boundary model. Toroidal equilibria of a plasma are determined by considering paths of steepest descent associated with a new version of the variational princi...

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

authors： Betancourt O,Garabedian P

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligopeptide permease of Escherichia coli has been characterized by Payne, Gilvarg, and their colleagues. We have confirmed its existence in Salmonella typhimurium, and have isolated a series of mutants lacking the permease. We use this transport system for smuggling a histidine biosynthetic intermediate, histidin...

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

authors： Ames BN,Ames GF,Young JD,Tsuchiya D,Lecocq J

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high resolution 1H and 31P NMR spectra of the (dG-dC)8 duplex have been recorded in low- and high-salt solutions in order to evaluate the structural aspects of the salt-induced transition of oligo(dG-dC) in solution [Pohl, F. M. & Jovin, T. M. (1972) J. Mol. Biol. 67, 375-396]. The NMR data require that the (dG-d...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Canuel LL,Pohl FM

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and analyzed a cDNA from the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis encoding a putative receptor, which might be a natural hybrid between two different classes of receptor proteins. Preceded by a signal peptide, two types of repeated sequences are present in the N-terminal part of the...

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

authors： Tensen CP,Van Kesteren ER,Planta RJ,Cox KJ,Burke JF,van Heerikhuizen H,Vreugdenhil E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype of several erythromycin-resistant mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardi was further characterized in terms of the electrophoretic properties of their chloroplast ribosomal proteins. In mutant ery-M2d a single protein of the large (52 S) subunit has altered properties, which probably result from a change in ...

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

authors： Mets L,Bogorad L

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have grown crystals of a soluble recombinant form of human CD4, a transmembrane glycoprotein found predominantly on the surface of helper T cells. Crystals composed of the entire extracellular portion of CD4 exhibit extensive polymorphism. Of the five crystal types that have been grown, the best diffracts to Bragg ...

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

authors： Kwong PD,Ryu SE,Hendrickson WA,Axel R,Sweet RM,Folena-Wasserman G,Hensley P,Sweet RW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restricted fetal growth is associated with postnatal mortality and morbidity and may be directly related to alterations in the capacity of the placenta to supply nutrients. We proposed previously that imprinted genes can regulate nutrient supply by the placenta. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the insulin-like gro...

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

authors： Sibley CP,Coan PM,Ferguson-Smith AC,Dean W,Hughes J,Smith P,Reik W,Burton GJ,Fowden AL,Constância M

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-gamma is well known as the signature cytokine of CD4+ T helper 1, CD8+, and natural killer cells, but recent studies demonstrate that antigen-presenting cells, in particular dendritic cells (DCs), are another potent source for this proinflammatory cytokine. T-bet, a transcription factor that controls IFN-gamma exp...

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

authors： Lugo-Villarino G,Maldonado-Lopez R,Possemato R,Penaranda C,Glimcher LH

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression is usually separated into cis and trans components. The separation may become artificial if much of the variation in expression is under multigenic and epistatic (e.g., cis-by-trans) control. There is hence a need to quantify the relative contribution of cis, trans, and cis-by-trans effec...

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

authors： Wang HY,Fu Y,McPeek MS,Lu X,Nuzhdin S,Xu A,Lu J,Wu ML,Wu CI

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00