Structural flexibility at a major conserved antibody target on hepatitis C virus E2 antigen.

abstract：:Mannan-binding protein (MBP), a Ca2+-dependent mammalian lectin specific for mannose and N-acetylglucosamine, is an important serum component associated with innate immunity. MBP activates complement and functions as a direct opsonin on binding to mannooligosaccharide-bearing pathogens. We have found that MBP recogniz...

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

authors： Ma Y,Uemura K,Oka S,Kozutsumi Y,Kawasaki N,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Population intelligence quotients increased throughout the 20th century-a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect-although recent years have seen a slowdown or reversal of this trend in several countries. To distinguish between the large set of proposed explanations, we categorize hypothesized causal factors by whether t...

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

authors： Bratsberg B,Rogeberg O

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cofilin-actin rods are inclusion-like structures that are induced by certain chemical or physical stresses in cultured cells, and the rods formed in neurons are thought to be associated with neurodegeneration. Here, we cloned an Aplysia cofilin homolog and overexpressed it in cultured neurons. Overexpressed cofilin fo...

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

authors： Jang DH,Han JH,Lee SH,Lee YS,Park H,Lee SH,Kim H,Kaang BK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-induced inhibition of alpha1C voltage-gated Ca2+ channels is a physiologically important regulatory mechanism that shortens the mean open time of these otherwise long-lasting high-voltage-activated channels. The mechanism of action of Ca2+ has been a matter of some controversy, as previous studies have proposed t...

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

authors： Qin N,Olcese R,Bransby M,Lin T,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Model compositions of Earth, Venus, and Mercury are calculated from the premise that planets and chondrites underwent four identical fractionation processes in the solar nebula. Because elements of similar properties stay together in these processes, five constraints suffice to define the composition of a planet: mass...

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

authors： Morgan JW,Anders E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation is a major epigenetic control mechanism that is tightly linked to the promotion of gene expression. Histone acetylation levels are balanced through the opposing activities of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). Arabidopsis HDAC genes (AtHDACs) compose a large gene fa...

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

authors： Kim YJ,Wang R,Gao L,Li D,Xu C,Mang H,Jeon J,Chen X,Zhong X,Kwak JM,Mo B,Xiao L,Chen X

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Early passages of NIH 3T3 cells yield about 10 transformed foci for every 10(5) cells seeded after the cells multiply to confluence in a standardized 2-week assay. The question arose whether more cells would give rise to foci if given more time for their development. This question could not be answered simply by exten...

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

authors： Chow M,Yao A,Rubin H

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A polar lipid containing about 20 per cent of the lipid soluble inositol has been purified from cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This compound labeled with (3)H-inositol, (32)P(i), or (14)C glucose was isolated from aqueous pyridine extracts by means of paper chromatography. Unlabeled compound was obtained by a diff...

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

authors： Steiner S,Smith S,Waechter CJ,Lester RL

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial tissues mechanically deform the surrounding extracellular matrix during embryonic development, wound repair, and tumor invasion. Ex vivo measurements of such multicellular tractions within three-dimensional (3D) biomaterials could elucidate collective dissemination during disease progression and enable prec...

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

authors： Leggett SE,Patel M,Valentin TM,Gamboa L,Khoo AS,Williams EK,Franck C,Wong IY

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by inflammation, demyelination, and axonal loss. The immunopathogenesis of demyelination in multiple sclerosis involves an autoantibody response to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), a type I transmembrane protein located...

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

authors： Breithaupt C,Schubart A,Zander H,Skerra A,Huber R,Linington C,Jacob U

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the differentiation potential of precursor cells within the developing spinal cord of mice and have shown that spinal cord cells from embryonic day 10 specifically give rise to neurons when plated onto an astrocytic monolayer, Ast-1. These neurons had the morphology of motor neurons and > 83% expr...

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

authors： Richards LJ,Murphy M,Dutton R,Kilpatrick TJ,Puche AC,Key B,Tan SS,Talman PS,Bartlett PF

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of proteins involved in cell cycle progression, DNA recombination, and the detection of DNA damage has been recently identified. One of the members of this family, human ATM, is defective in the cells of patients with ataxia telangiectasia and is involved in detection and response of cells to damaged DNA. Oth...

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

authors： Cimprich KA,Shin TB,Keith CT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis of solid tumors is a key determinant of cancer patient survival. Targeting micrometastases using nanoparticles could offer a way to stop metastatic tumor growth before it causes excessive patient morbidity. However, nanoparticle delivery to micrometastases is difficult to investigate because micrometastases...

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

authors： Kingston BR,Syed AM,Ngai J,Sindhwani S,Chan WCW

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA molecule of phage lambda formed in Escherichia coli in the presence of chloramphenicol and/or rifampin can be assayed by their biological activity. recA- cells were found to be capable of forming recombinant lambda phage DNA in the presence of chloramphenicol. The relatively high recA-independent recom...

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

authors： Ikeda H,Kobayashi I

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence favors the theory that, when the globular motor domain of myosin attaches to actin, the light chain binding domain or "lever arm" rotates, and thereby generates movement of actin filaments. Myosin is uniquely designed for such a role in that a long alpha-helix (approximately 9 nm) extending from the C...

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

authors： Sherwood JJ,Waller GS,Warshaw DM,Lowey S

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the goldfish, the optic nerve decussation occurs without intermingling of fibers from the two eyes. In two-thirds of juvenile and adult specimens, the left optic nerve is dorsal at the midline. In about 60% of the specimens, the decussation of Mauthner's neuron also has a left-dorsal-to-right (L/R) configuration. C...

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

authors： Roth RL

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay of the rare earth terbium when bound to the protein calmodulin changes from a simple exponential decay to a complex nonexponential decay as the temperature is lowered below 200 K. We have fit the observed decay curves by assuming that the terbium emission is a forced electric dipole transition a...

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

authors： Austin RH,Stein DL,Wang J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and the expression of 11 cellular oncogenes (protooncogenes) were analyzed in primary cells from 20 acute lymphocytic (ALL) and 31 acute myelogenous (AML) leukemia patients. Neoplastic cells, obtained prior to initiation of therapy, were purified and classified, on the basis of both surface antigen patte...

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

authors： Mavilio F,Sposi NM,Petrini M,Bottero L,Marinucci M,De Rossi G,Amadori S,Mandelli F,Peschle C

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the periimplantation period of pregnancy, pig blastocysts undergo morphological changes and differentiation requiring secretion and transport of nutrients (histotroph) into the uterine lumen. Of these nutrients, glucose is converted to fructose, an isomer of glucose, by conceptus trophectoderm. Although glucose...

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

authors： Kim J,Song G,Wu G,Bazer FW

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-box protein Skp2 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 2) positively regulates the G(1)-S transition by controlling the stability of several G(1) regulators, such as the cell cycle inhibitor p27. We show here that Skp2 expression correlates directly with grade of malignancy and inversely with p27 levels in human ly...

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

authors： Latres E,Chiarle R,Schulman BA,Pavletich NP,Pellicer A,Inghirami G,Pagano M

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocell models are used to investigate how cells might have first assembled on Earth. Some, like oil-in-water droplets, can be seemingly simple models, while able to exhibit complex and unpredictable behaviors. How such simple oil-in-water systems can come together to yield complex and life-like behaviors remains a ...

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

authors： Points LJ,Taylor JW,Grizou J,Donkers K,Cronin L

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when autoantibodies complex with self-antigen and form immune complexes that accumulate in the glomeruli. These immune complexes initiate an inflammatory response resulting in glomerular injury. LN often concomitantly affects the tubulointerstitial compartment ...

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

authors： Hao W,Rovin BH,Friedman A

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable effort has been directed toward controlling tuberculosis, which kills almost two million people yearly. High on the research agenda is the discovery of biomarkers of active tuberculosis (TB) for diagnosis and for monitoring treatment outcome. Rational biomarker discovery requires understanding host-pathog...

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

authors： Kunnath-Velayudhan S,Salamon H,Wang HY,Davidow AL,Molina DM,Huynh VT,Cirillo DM,Michel G,Talbot EA,Perkins MD,Felgner PL,Liang X,Gennaro ML

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Aliphatic hydrocarbons such as fatty alcohols and petroleum-derived alkanes have numerous applications in the chemical industry. In recent years, the renewable synthesis of aliphatic hydrocarbons has been made possible by engineering microbes to overaccumulate fatty acids. However, to generate end products with the de...

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

authors： Akhtar MK,Turner NJ,Jones PR

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of nitrogenase FeMoco is one of the key processes in bioinorganic chemistry. NifB and NifEN are two essential elements immediately adjacent to each other along the biosynthetic pathway of FeMoco. Previously, an 8Fe-precursor of FeMoco was identified on NifEN; however, the identity of the biosynthetic intermed...

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

authors： Wiig JA,Hu Y,Ribbe MW

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Inside-out erythrocyte membranes attached to polycationic beads manifested glutathione disulfide (GSSG)-stimulated ATPase activity. A Lineweaver-Burk plot of the ATPase activity as a function of GSSG concentration was biphasic and gave apparent Km values of 0.13 mM and 2.0 mM. These kinetics are similar to those repor...

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

authors： Kondo T,Kawakami Y,Taniguchi N,Beutler E

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell anergy is a state of T cells that is hyporesponsive to stimulation via the T-cell receptor and costimulatory molecules and is thought to be important for self-tolerance. How T-cell anergy is regulated is still poorly understood. We report here that tuberous sclerosis (TSC)1 is critical for T-cell anergy. Defici...

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

authors： Xie DL,Wu J,Lou YL,Zhong XP

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous papers of this series, emphasis has been placed on the steady-state phase transition and critical properties of large lattices of interacting, symmetrical, and identical enzyme molecules. The present paper is concerned with a number of examples of enzyme--enzyme interactions that do not belong to the class...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food is a powerful entrainment cue for circadian clocks in peripheral tissues, and changes in the composition of nutrients have been demonstrated to metabolically reprogram peripheral clocks. However, how food challenges may influence circadian metabolism of the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) or in ...

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

authors： Tognini P,Samad M,Kinouchi K,Liu Y,Helbling JC,Moisan MP,Eckel-Mahan KL,Baldi P,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of major and rapid transitions observed in biological macroevolution as well as in the evolution of social systems are a subject of much debate. Here we identify the proximate causes of crashes and recoveries that arise dynamically in a model system in which populations of (molecular) species coevolve with ...

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

authors： Jain S,Krishna S

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00