Allosteric and hyperekplexic mutant phenotypes investigated on an α1 glycine receptor transmembrane structure.

abstract：:The chemosmotic model provides a framework for visualizing energy-coupled reactions (vectorial reaction sequences, membrane-dependent gradient formation, and charge separation of reacting species) and a mechanism for energy coupling (indirect coupling between the driving and driven reaction sequences mediated by a mem...

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

authors： Green DE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential metal nutrient that is tightly regulated in the body because loss of its homeostasis is connected to severe diseases such as Menkes and Wilson diseases, Alzheimer's disease, prion disorders, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The complex relationships between copper status and various stages of ...

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

authors： Hirayama T,Van de Bittner GC,Gray LW,Lutsenko S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing evidence for perceptual interactions between motion and position, no unifying framework exists to account for these two key features of our visual experience. We show that percepts of both object position and motion derive from a common object-tracking system--a system that optimally integrates sensory...

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

authors： Kwon OS,Tadin D,Knill DC

更新日期：2015-06-30 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：:Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are at the base of current nanoelectronics because of their exceptional mobilities. Often the accumulation layer forms at polar interfaces with longitudinal optical (LO) modes. In most cases, the many-body screening of the quasi-2DEGs dramatically reduces the Fröhlich scattering ...

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

authors： Chen Z,Sjakste J,Dong J,Taleb-Ibrahimi A,Rueff JP,Shukla A,Peretti J,Papalazarou E,Marsi M,Perfetti L

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin II is a molecular motor that converts chemical to mechanical energy and enables muscle operations. After a power stroke, a recovery transition completes the cycle and returns the molecular motor to its prestroke state. Atomically detailed simulations in the framework of the Milestoning theory are used to calcul...

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

authors： Elber R,West A

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved mammalian two-hybrid system designed for interaction trap screening is described in this paper. CV-1/EBNA-1 monkey kidney epithelial cells expressing Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) were stably transfected with a reporter plasmid for GAL4-dependent expression of the green fluorescent protein ...

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

authors： Shioda T,Andriole S,Yahata T,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondria are the major source of chronic oxidative stress, which has been implicated in the aging process. Along with other cellular changes, aged cells accumulate mutations in both their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and they contain increased amounts of oxidatively damaged mutagenic bases such as 7,8-di...

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

authors： Szczesny B,Hazra TK,Papaconstantinou J,Mitra S,Boldogh I

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 primary colorectal carcinomas, we demonstrate by array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) that 33% show DNA copy number (DCN) loss involving PARK2, the gene encoding PARKIN, the E3 ubiquitin ligase whose deficiency is responsible for a form of autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism. PARK2 is located on...

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

authors： Poulogiannis G,McIntyre RE,Dimitriadi M,Apps JR,Wilson CH,Ichimura K,Luo F,Cantley LC,Wyllie AH,Adams DJ,Arends MJ

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunting immunopathology without abolishing host defense is the foundation for safe and effective modulation of infectious and autoimmune diseases. Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1PR1) agonists are effective in treating infectious and multiple autoimmune pathologies; however, mechanisms underlying their clinical...

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

authors： Teijaro JR,Studer S,Leaf N,Kiosses WB,Nguyen N,Matsuki K,Negishi H,Taniguchi T,Oldstone MB,Rosen H

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the recognition site for the restriction-modification enzyme of Escherichia coli B (SB site) has been determined. The recognition site is a 15-nucleotide sequence consisting of the trimer 5'TGA3', followed by an 8-nucleotide domain of variable sequence, which in turn is followed by tetramer ...

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

authors： Ravetch JV,Horiuchi K,Zinder ND

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracisternal A-particles were isolated from three different myeloma lines in BALB/c mice and from cultured neuroblastoma cells of A/J origin. All preparations contained a major structural protein with an apparent molecular weight near 70,000 as estimated by electrophoretic mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-containi...

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

authors： Kuff EL,Leuders KK,Ozer HL,Wivel NA

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine therapy resistance invariably develops in advanced estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. We have identified C-terminal SRC kinase (CSK) as a critical node in a previously unappreciated negative feedback loop that limits the efficacy of current ER-t...

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

authors： Xiao T,Li W,Wang X,Xu H,Yang J,Wu Q,Huang Y,Geradts J,Jiang P,Fei T,Chi D,Zang C,Liao Q,Rennhack J,Andrechek E,Li N,Detre S,Dowsett M,Jeselsohn RM,Liu XS,Brown M

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotaxis network in Escherichia coli is remarkable for its sensitivity to small relative changes in the concentrations of multiple chemical signals. We present a model for signal integration by mixed clusters of interacting two-state chemoreceptors. Our model results compare favorably to the results obtained by ...

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

authors： Keymer JE,Endres RG,Skoge M,Meir Y,Wingreen NS

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When the human cDNA, isolated on the basis of homology to the murine carbonic anhydrase (CA) "Y" was expressed in COS cells, the human CA was targeted to and processed in mitochondria, as expected for CA-V. However, tissue distribution reported for the corresponding mouse CA Y mRNA was much more limited than that repo...

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

authors： Nagao Y,Srinivasan M,Platero JS,Svendrowski M,Waheed A,Sly WS

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Export of LDL-derived cholesterol from lysosomes requires the cooperation of the integral membrane protein Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) and a soluble protein, Niemann-Pick C2 (NPC2). Mutations in the genes encoding these proteins lead to Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC). NPC2 binds to NPC1's second (middle), lumenally orie...

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

authors： Li X,Saha P,Li J,Blobel G,Pfeffer SR

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The compact steep-spectrum sources (CSSs) are an interesting class of objects which are of subgalactic dimensions; they occur more frequently in high-frequency surveys because their spectra often turn over at lower frequencies. We have estimated the symmetry parameters of a well-defined sample of CSSs and compared the...

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

authors： Saikia DJ

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane-associated folate binding protein (FBP) and a soluble FBP, which is released into the culture medium, have been purified from human KB cells using affinity chromatography. By NaDodSO4/PAGE, both proteins have an apparent Mr of approximately 42,000. However, in the presence of Triton X-100, the soluble FBP e...

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

authors： Luhrs CA,Pitiranggon P,da Costa M,Rothenberg SP,Slomiany BL,Brink L,Tous GI,Stein S

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent transgene insertions differ in expression based on their location in the genome; these position effects are of interest because they reflect the influence of genome organization on gene regulation. Position effects also represent potentially insurmountable obstacles to the rigorous functional comparison of...

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

authors： Siegal ML,Hartl DL

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of receptor binding in the potent immunogenicity of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) was tested by comparing its immunogical properties with those of a receptor binding mutant, EtxB(G33D). Subcutaneous immunization of EtxB(G33D) resulted in 160-fold reduction in antibody titer c...

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

authors： Nashar TO,Webb HM,Eaglestone S,Williams NA,Hirst TR

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The int-1 and int-2 genes were first isolated as targets for transcriptional activation by proviral insertion mutations in mammary carcinomas induced by the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). Since these proto-oncogenes are not expressed at detectable levels in previously tested normal tissues from adult mice, we sough...

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

authors： Jakobovits A,Shackleford GM,Varmus HE,Martin GR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using currently available gene fusion techniques, we have constructed plasmids that direct the overproduction of the carboxyl-terminal two-thirds of DNA polymerase I, corresponding to the proteolytically derived "Klenow fragment." We have obtained overproduction amounting to several percent of the cellular protein usi...

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

authors： Joyce CM,Grindley ND

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MARCKS protein is a widely distributed cellular substrate for protein kinase C. It is a myristoylprotein that binds calmodulin and actin in a manner reversible by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation. It is also highly expressed in nervous tissue, particularly during development. To evaluate a possible devel...

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

authors： Stumpo DJ,Bock CB,Tuttle JS,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic, spontaneously pulsating cardiac cells cultured from newborn rats are immediately stimulated to beat faster by addition of a number of tubulin-binding agents but not by their non-tubulin-binding analogues. The tubulin-binding agents tested include vinblastine, vincristine, navelbine, two analogs of vinblastin...

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

authors： Lampidis TJ,Kolonias D,Savaraj N,Rubin RW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We study atomic models of the thermodynamics of the structural transition of peptides that form alpha-helices. The effect of sequence variation on alpha-helix formation for alanine-rich peptides, Ac-Ala21-methyl amide (A21) and Ac-A5 (AAARA)3A-methyl amide (Fs peptide), is investigated by atomic simulation studies of ...

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

authors： García AE,Sanbonmatsu KY

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The planarity of peptide bonds is an assumption that underlies decades of theoretical modeling of proteins. Peptide bonds strongly deviating from planarity are considered very rare features of protein structure that occur for functional reasons. Here, empirical analyses of atomic-resolution protein structures reveal t...

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

authors： Berkholz DS,Driggers CM,Shapovalov MV,Dunbrack RL Jr,Karplus PA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The major late transcriptional unit of adenovirus type 2 has served as a model for studying transcription in eukaryotes. We report that pausing and premature termination are intrinsic to the transcription of this transcriptional unit by RNA polymerase II. In vivo and in isolated nuclei, transcription pauses at discret...

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

authors： Maderious A,Chen-Kiang S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic activation of the Wnt signaling pathway is highly oncogenic for many human tissues. Here, we show that ectopic Wnt signaling increases the effective stem cell activity in mouse mammary glands in vivo. Furthermore, Wnt effectors induce the accumulation of mouse mammary epithelial progenitors (assayed by Hoechst...

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

authors： Liu BY,McDermott SP,Khwaja SS,Alexander CM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinylidene chromophore mutant (Y185F) of bacteriorhodopsin, in which Tyr-185 is substituted by phenylalanine, is examined and compared with wild-type bacteriorhodopsin expressed in Escherichia coli; both were reinstituted similarly in vesicles. The Y185F mutant shows (at least) two distinct spectra at neutral pH...

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

authors： Jang DJ,el-Sayed MA,Stern LJ,Mogi T,Khorana HG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a lethal weapon used by many bacteria to kill eukaryotic predators or prokaryotic competitors. Killing by the T6SS results from repetitive delivery of toxic effectors. Despite their importance in dictating bacterial fitness, systematic prediction of T6SS effectors remains challen...

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

authors： Liang X,Moore R,Wilton M,Wong MJ,Lam L,Dong TG

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00