Histrionicotoxin enhances agonist-induced desensitization of acetylcholine receptor.

abstract：:Malaria infection triggers vigorous host immune responses; however, the parasite ligands, host receptors, and the signaling pathways responsible for these reactions remain unknown or controversial. Malaria parasites primarily reside within RBCs, thereby hiding themselves from direct contact and recognition by host imm...

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

authors： Wu J,Tian L,Yu X,Pattaradilokrat S,Li J,Wang M,Yu W,Qi Y,Zeituni AE,Nair SC,Crampton SP,Orandle MS,Bolland SM,Qi CF,Long CA,Myers TG,Coligan JE,Wang R,Su XZ

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of ion transport in plants is essential for cell function. Abiotic stress unbalances cell ion homeostasis, and plants tend to readjust it, regulating membrane transporters and channels. The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) and the second messenger Ca(2+) are central in such processes, as they are involved ...

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

authors： Diaz M,Sanchez-Barrena MJ,Gonzalez-Rubio JM,Rodriguez L,Fernandez D,Antoni R,Yunta C,Belda-Palazon B,Gonzalez-Guzman M,Peirats-Llobet M,Menendez M,Boskovic J,Marquez JA,Rodriguez PL,Albert A

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work with prion diseases and synucleinopathies indicates that accurate diagnostic methods for protein-folding diseases can be based on the ultrasensitive, amplified measurement of pathological aggregates in biospecimens. A better understanding of the physicochemical factors that control the seeded polymerizatio...

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

authors： Metrick MA 2nd,do Carmo Ferreira N,Saijo E,Hughson AG,Kraus A,Orrú C,Miller MW,Zanusso G,Ghetti B,Vendruscolo M,Caughey B

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a murine gene, metaxin, that spans the 6-kb interval separating the glucocerebrosidase gene (GC) from the thrombospondin 3 gene on chromosome 3E3-F1. Metaxin and GC are transcribed convergently; their major polyadenylylation sites are only 431 bp apart. On the other hand, metaxin and the thrombospon...

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

authors： Bornstein P,McKinney CE,LaMarca ME,Winfield S,Shingu T,Devarayalu S,Vos HL,Ginns EI

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-73 cDNA was shown to encode a kinesin heavy chain protein that contains an N-terminal motor domain and a long central region that lacks extensive coiled-coils. The amino acid sequence of the motor domain of kinesin-73 protein is most closely related to the motor domains of Caenorhabditis elegans unc-104 and mo...

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

authors： Li HP,Liu ZM,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of high levels of new catalytic activities on natural and artificial protein scaffolds is a major goal of enzyme engineering. Here, we used random mutagenesis and selection in vivo to establish a sugar isomerisation reaction on both a natural (beta alpha)(8)-barrel enzyme and a catalytically inert chime...

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

authors： Claren J,Malisi C,Höcker B,Sterner R

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model describing how Mg(2+) binds and stabilizes specific RNA structures. In this model, RNA stabilization arises from two energetically distinct modes of Mg(2+) binding: diffuse- and site-binding. Diffusely bound Mg(2+) are electrostatically attracted to the strong anionic field around the RNA and are ac...

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

authors： Misra VK,Draper DE

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct measurements of the intracellular level of lambda repressor have been made by a DNA-filter assay and a radioimmune assay. Transcription of cI, the structural gene for repressor, appears to initiate at two different promoters, prm and pre. Promoter pre is activated during the establishment of lysogeny by the act...

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

authors： Reichardt L,Kaiser AD

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used wild-type and variants of the T-lymphoma cell line S49 to explore internalization and down-regulation of adenylate cyclase-linked beta-adrenergic receptors. Internalization was defined by the loss in "surface receptors" detected at 4 degrees C on intact cells by the antagonists [3H]CGP-12177 or [125I]iodo...

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

authors： Mahan LC,Koachman AM,Insel PA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the behavior in solution of the synthetic polynucleotide poly(dG-m5dC).poly(dG-m5dC) with that of the unmethylated polynucleotide poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC). In solutions containing high concentrations of salt, poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) is known to exhibit altered circular dichroic and absorption spectra c...

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

authors： Behe M,Felsenfeld G

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a general in situ method to grow a polymer conjugate solely from the C terminus of a recombinant protein. GFP was fused at its C terminus with an intein; cleavage of the intein provided a unique thioester moiety at the C terminus of GFP that was used to install an atom transfer radical polymerizatio...

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

authors： Gao W,Liu W,Christensen T,Zalutsky MR,Chilkoti A

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of me...

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

authors： Lim JC,You Z,Kim G,Levine RL

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small number of analytes by the spectral overlap of their signals. We have developed an NMR-based xenon biosensor that capital...

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

authors： Spence MM,Rubin SM,Dimitrov IE,Ruiz EJ,Wemmer DE,Pines A,Yao SQ,Tian F,Schultz PG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the primary spines (greater than 10 cm long) of the tropical sea urchin Diadema antillarum elicits graded compound action potentials that are conducted at a constant speed of approximately equal to 27 cm/sec. Ion substitution experiments suggest that these are due to the summation of calcium ...

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

authors： Smith DS,Brink D,del Castillo J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory burst oxidase of neutrophils can be activated in a cell-free system in which plasma membranes, cytosol, Mg2+, and a membrane-perturbing detergent, such as arachidonate or sodium dodecyl sulfate, are all required. Using the technique of preparative isoelectric focusing, the cytosol factor required for o...

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

authors： Curnutte JT,Scott PJ,Mayo LA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is strongly associated with obesity in most, but not all, ethnic groups, suggesting important ethnic differences in disease susceptibility. Although it is clear that insulin resistance plays a major role in the pathogenesis of T2DM and that insulin resistance is strongly associated with...

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

authors： Petersen KF,Dufour S,Feng J,Befroy D,Dziura J,Dalla Man C,Cobelli C,Shulman GI

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is described for calculating the electrostatic energy of lipid domains at the air-water interface, taking account of dipole-dipole repulsions between the lipid molecules themselves, as well as interactions between the molecular dipoles and image dipoles in the subphase. The model assumes that the molecu...

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

authors： McConnell HM,Bazaliy YB

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus turreted icosahedral virus (STIV) was isolated in acidic hot springs where it infects the archeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. We determined the STIV structure using near-atomic resolution electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography allowing tracing of structural polypeptide chains and visualization of transm...

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

authors： Veesler D,Ng TS,Sendamarai AK,Eilers BJ,Lawrence CM,Lok SM,Young MJ,Johnson JE,Fu CY

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe the structure of chitinase B from Serratia marcescens, which consists of a catalytic domain with a TIM-barrel fold and a 49-residue C-terminal chitin-binding domain. This chitinase is the first structure of a bacterial exochitinase, and it represents one of only a few examples of a glycosyl ...

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

authors： van Aalten DM,Synstad B,Brurberg MB,Hough E,Riise BW,Eijsink VG,Wierenga RK

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our conditional serum response factor (SRF) knockout, Srf (Cko), in the heart-forming region blocked the appearance of rhythmic beating myocytes, one of the earliest cardiac defects caused by the ablation of a cardiac-enriched transcription factor. The appearance of Hand1 and Smyd1, transcription and chromatin remodel...

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

authors： Niu Z,Iyer D,Conway SJ,Martin JF,Ivey K,Srivastava D,Nordheim A,Schwartz RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cold-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which there is a deficit of 60S ribosomal subunits. Cold sensitivity and the assembly defect are recessive and cosegregate, defining a single essential gene that we designated DRS1 (deficiency of ribosomal subunits). The wild-type DRS1 gene was cl...

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

authors： Ripmaster TL,Vaughn GP,Woolford JL Jr

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the feasibility of designing retroviral vectors that can target human breast cancer cells with characteristic receptors via ligand-receptor interaction. The ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus envelope was modified by insertion of sequences encoding human heregulin. Ecotropic virus, which normally does...

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

authors： Han X,Kasahara N,Kan YW

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is most often due to point mutations in the beta-isoform of the thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR-beta). The majority of mutations involve the ligand-binding domain, where they block TH binding and receptor function on both stimulatory and inhibitory TH response elements. In contras...

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

authors： Machado DS,Sabet A,Santiago LA,Sidhaye AR,Chiamolera MI,Ortiga-Carvalho TM,Wondisford FE

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated from the heavy chains of three human IgG myeloma proteins of the V(H)III subgroup, sequenced by an automated method, and localized to the variable region. Inspection of these sequences, together with corresponding stretches from both human and animal proteins (studied in other ...

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

authors： Kehoe JM,Capra JD

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin-binding protein C (MyBP-C) is an accessory protein of striated muscle thick filaments and a modulator of cardiac muscle contraction. Defects in the cardiac isoform, cMyBP-C, cause heart disease. cMyBP-C includes 11 Ig- and fibronectin-like domains and a cMyBP-C-specific motif. In vitro studies show that in addi...

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

authors： Mun JY,Previs MJ,Yu HY,Gulick J,Tobacman LS,Beck Previs S,Robbins J,Warshaw DM,Craig R

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of genetic diseases characterized by storage of incompletely degraded glycosaminoglycans. Such storage causes marked distortion of many tissues with consequent severe somatic changes and mental retardation. Storage of glycosaminoglycans results from markedly diminished activity of...

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

authors： Dorfman A,Matalon R

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

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 have used a membrane-leak mass spectrometer to follow the time courses of H2 evolution and substrate reduction by nitrogenase [reduced ferredoxin:dinitrogen oxidoreductase (ATP-hydrolyzing), EC 1.18.6.1]. In the absence of added substrates, dinitrogenase passes all of its electrons to protons to form H2, but when a...

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

authors： Liang J,Burris RH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free gangliosides bind fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), thus preventing cell interaction and biological activity of the growth factor in endothelial cells. Here we investigated the role of cell-associated gangliosides in mediating the biological activity of FGF2. Treatment of endothelial cells of different origin wi...

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

authors： Rusnati M,Urbinati C,Tanghetti E,Dell'Era P,Lortat-Jacob H,Presta M

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00