L596-W733 bond between the start of the S4-S5 linker and the TRP box stabilizes the closed state of TRPV4 channel.

abstract：:The DNA of functional cis-regulatory modules displays extensive sequence conservation in comparisons of genomes from modestly distant species. Patches of sequence that are several hundred base pairs in length within these modules are often seen to be 80-95% identical, although the flanking sequence cannot even be alig...

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

authors： Cameron RA,Chow SH,Berney K,Chiu TY,Yuan QA,Krämer A,Helguero A,Ransick A,Yun M,Davidson EH

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the synthesis of a probe that permits the visualization by electron microscopy of acidic organelles in intact cells. This probe, 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyldipropylamine (DAMP), is a basic congener of dinitrophenol that readily diffuses into intact cells. Its primary and tertiary amino groups (a...

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

authors： Anderson RG,Falck JR,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous pandemic potential of coronaviruses was demonstrated twice in the past few decades by two global outbreaks of deadly pneumonia. The coronavirus spike (S) glycoprotein initiates infection by promoting fusion of the viral and cellular membranes through conformational changes that remain largely uncharacte...

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

authors： Walls AC,Tortorici MA,Snijder J,Xiong X,Bosch BJ,Rey FA,Veesler D

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death regulates a number of biological phenomena, and the apoptotic signal must itself be tightly controlled to avoid inappropriate cell death. We established a genetic screen to search for molecules that inhibit the apoptotic signal from the Fas receptor. Here we report the isolation of a gene, LFG, t...

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

authors： Somia NV,Schmitt MJ,Vetter DE,Van Antwerp D,Heinemann SF,Verma IM

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of methylation in the chemosensory response of bacteria to many attractants has been clearly established by studies in several laboratories. It has been assumed that adaptation of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli to all attractants involves methylation of a transmembrane methyl-accepting che...

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

authors： Niwano M,Taylor BL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative ribosome subunit proteins are prevalent in the genomes of diverse bacterial species, but their functional significance is controversial. Attempts to study microbial ribosomal heterogeneity have mostly relied on comparing wild-type strains with mutants in which subunits have been deleted, but this approach ...

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

authors： Chen YX,Xu ZY,Ge X,Sanyal S,Lu ZJ,Javid B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional crystal structure of variant-3 toxin from the scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing has been determined at 3 A resolution. Phases were obtained by use of K2PtCl4 and K2IrCl6 derivatives. The most prominent secondary structural features are two and a half turns of alpha-helix and a three-strand...

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

authors： Fontecilla-Camps JC,Almassy RJ,Suddath FL,Watt DD,Bugg CE

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the B chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-B) is transcribed in human atherosclerotic plaques, indicating that production of growth factors within plaques could occur during atherogenesis. However, since atherosclerotic plaques are composed of several cell types and three of th...

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

authors： Barrett TB,Benditt EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century, alcohols have been thought to produce their effects by actions on the membrane lipids of central nervous system neurons--the well known "lipid theory" of alcohol action. The rationale for this theory is the correlation of potency with oil/water or membrane/buffer partition coefficient. Although a...

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

authors： Li C,Peoples RW,Weight FF

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired wound closure is a growing medical problem associated with metabolic diseases and aging. Immune cells play important roles in wound healing by following instructions from the microenvironment. Here, we developed a technology to bioengineer the wound microenvironment and enhance healing abilities of the immune...

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

authors： Vågesjö E,Öhnstedt E,Mortier A,Lofton H,Huss F,Proost P,Roos S,Phillipson M

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons respond to sensory stimuli associated with future rewards. When reward is delivered probabilistically, DA neurons reflect this uncertainty by increasing their firing rates in a period between the sensory cue and reward delivery time. Probability of reward, however, has been externally co...

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

authors： de Lafuente V,Romo R

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is an initial barrier to tumor development. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is critical for oncogenic Ras OIS, but the downstream effectors to mediate ROS signaling are still relatively elusive. Senescent cells develop a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). However, the mec...

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

authors： Wang P,Han L,Shen H,Wang P,Lv C,Zhao G,Niu J,Xue L,Wang QJ,Tong T,Chen J

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from bacillus Calmette-Guerin-infected mice injected with endotoxin induces the appearance of surface immunoglobulin, Ia antigen, and complement receptor on the surface of precursor bone-marrow-derived (B) cells. While endotoxin itself causes phenotypic conversion of both thymus-derived (T) cells and B cells in ...

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

authors： Hoffmann MK,Oettgen HF,Old LJ,Chin AF,Hammerling U

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary pathologies including adult respiratory distress syndrome are characterized by disruption of pulmonary integrity and edema compromising respiratory function. Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a lipid mediator synthesized and/or stored in mast cells, platelets, and epithelial cells, with production up-regulate...

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

authors： Gon Y,Wood MR,Kiosses WB,Jo E,Sanna MG,Chun J,Rosen H

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most experimental and theoretical studies of protein folding involve proteins in vitro, the effects of spatial confinement may complicate protein folding in vivo. In this study, we examine the folding dynamics of villin (a small fast folding protein) with explicit solvent confined to an inert nanopore. We hav...

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

authors： Lucent D,Vishal V,Pande VS

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mismatch repair (MMR) is a major DNA repair pathway in cells from all branches of life that removes replication errors in a strand-specific manner, such that mismatched nucleotides are preferentially removed from the newly replicated strand of DNA. Here we demonstrate a role for MMR in helping create new phenotypes in...

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

authors： Rodriguez GP,Romanova NV,Bao G,Rouf NC,Kow YW,Crouse GF

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex II inhibitors 3-nitropropionic acid (3NP) and malonate cause striatal damage reminiscent of Huntington's disease and have been shown to involve oxidative stress in their pathogenesis. Because nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-dependent transcriptional activation by means of the antioxidant res...

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

authors： Calkins MJ,Jakel RJ,Johnson DA,Chan K,Kan YW,Johnson JA

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that exposure to solar UVB (290-320 nm) gives rise to mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that initiate the molecular cascade toward skin cancer. Although UVA (320-400 nm) has also been implicated in multistage photocarcinogenesis, its potential contribution to sunlight mutagenesis...

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

authors： Drobetsky EA,Turcotte J,Châteauneuf A

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:When spores of the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium novyi-NT are systemically injected into animals, they germinate exclusively within the hypoxic regions of cancers. The germinated bacteria destroy adjacent tumor cells but spare a rim of well oxygenated tumor cells that subsequently expand. Surprisingly, we found that...

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

authors： Agrawal N,Bettegowda C,Cheong I,Geschwind JF,Drake CG,Hipkiss EL,Tatsumi M,Dang LH,Diaz LA Jr,Pomper M,Abusedera M,Wahl RL,Kinzler KW,Zhou S,Huso DL,Vogelstein B

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their relative simplicity, bacteria have complex anatomy at the subcellular level. At the cell poles of Caulobacter crescentus, a 177-amino acid (aa) protein called PopZ self-assembles into 3D polymeric superstructures. Remarkably, we find that this assemblage interacts directly with at least eight different p...

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

authors： Holmes JA,Follett SE,Wang H,Meadows CP,Varga K,Bowman GR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans readily form social impressions, such as attractiveness and trustworthiness, from a stranger's facial features. Understanding the provenance of these impressions has clear scientific importance and societal implications. Motivated by the efficient coding hypothesis of brain representation, as well as Claude Sha...

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

authors： Ryali CK,Goffin S,Winkielman P,Yu AJ

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged exposure to ascorbate, collagen synthesis in cultured human skin fibroblasts increased approximately 8-fold with no significant change in synthesis of noncollagen protein. This effect of ascorbate appears to be unrelated to its cofactor function in collagen hydroxylation. The collagenous protein secret...

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

authors： Murad S,Grove D,Lindberg KA,Reynolds G,Sivarajah A,Pinnell SR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that suggests that GTP (or 5'-guanylylmethylene diphosphonate) is not essential for either formation of an AUG-directed, initiation factor IF-2-dependent initiation complex on the 30S subunit or for positioning of fMet-tRNA on the peptidyl site. However, recycling of limiting amounts of IF-2 requ...

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

authors： Mazumder R

更新日期：1972-10-01 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：:An isoform of the mammalian renal type II Na/Pi-cotransporter is described. Homology of this isoform to described mammalian and nonmammalian type II cotransporters is between 57 and 75%. Based on major diversities at the C terminus, the new isoform is designed as type IIb Na/Pi-cotransporter. Na/Pi-cotransport mediate...

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

authors： Hilfiker H,Hattenhauer O,Traebert M,Forster I,Murer H,Biber J

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-dependent gating of the colicin channel involves a substantial structural rearrangement that results in the transfer of about 35% of the 200 residues in its pore-forming domain across the membrane. This transfer appears to represent an unusual type of protein translocation that does not depend on a large, ...

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

authors： Slatin SL,Nardi A,Jakes KS,Baty D,Duché D

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies of diverse rearrangements of variable (V)lambda to joining (J)lambda gene segments were examined by Southern blot hybridization in 30 murine B-cell lines, each producing an immunoglobulin lambda light chain of known subtype (lambda 1, lambda 2, or lambda 3). For 11 out of 12 lambda 1 chains, the rearra...

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

authors： Reilly EB,Blomberg B,Imanishi-Kari T,Tonegawa S,Eisen HN

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a type 2 integral membrane glycoprotein that serves as an attractive target for cancer immunotherapy by virtue of its abundant and restricted expression on the surface of prostate carcinomas and the neovasculature of most other solid tumors. However, relatively little is kn...

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

authors： Schülke N,Varlamova OA,Donovan GP,Ma D,Gardner JP,Morrissey DM,Arrigale RR,Zhan C,Chodera AJ,Surowitz KG,Maddon PJ,Heston WD,Olson WC

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and biochemical studies on enzymes known to be involved in regulating DNA supercoiling yield a complex spectrum of effects on the Escherichia coli SOS system. Previous studies indicated that only inhibition of DNA gyrase by antibiotics that act on the DNA gyrase A subunit results in turning on the E. coli SOS ...

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

authors： Smith CL

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first experimental evidence to our knowledge that ingroup relations attenuate core disgust and that this helps explain the ability of groups to coact. In study 1, 45 student participants smelled a sweaty t-shirt bearing the logo of another university, with either their student identity (ingroup conditio...

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

authors： Reicher SD,Templeton A,Neville F,Ferrari L,Drury J

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00