Unifying mechanism for different fibrotic diseases.

abstract：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor has been quantified by both bioassay and radial immunodiffusion in mouse saliva elicited by several secretagogues. The concentrations by bioassay of nerve growth factor in both epinephrine- and norepinephrine-induced saliva (3400 and 900 mug/ml, respectively) are higher than reported in any other s...

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

authors： Wallace LJ,Partlow LM

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonicotinoid insecticides control crop pests based on their action as agonists at the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, which accepts chloropyridinyl- and chlorothiazolyl-analogs almost equally well. In some cases, these compounds have also been reported to enhance plant vigor and (a)biotic stress tolerance, i...

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

authors： Ford KA,Casida JE,Chandran D,Gulevich AG,Okrent RA,Durkin KA,Sarpong R,Bunnelle EM,Wildermuth MC

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of proteins to locate specific targets among a vast excess of nonspecific DNA is a fundamental theme in biology. Basic principles governing these search mechanisms remain poorly understood, and no study has provided direct visualization of single proteins searching for and engaging target sites. Here we us...

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

authors： Gorman J,Wang F,Redding S,Plys AJ,Fazio T,Wind S,Alani EE,Greene EC

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the expression of Hox genes have been widely linked to the evolution of animal body plans, but functional demonstrations of this relationship have been impeded by the lack of suitable model organisms. A classic case study involves the repeated evolution of specialized feeding appendages, called maxillipeds,...

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

authors： Pavlopoulos A,Kontarakis Z,Liubicich DM,Serano JM,Akam M,Patel NH,Averof M

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolarization of isolated nerve terminals (synaptosomes) has been shown to stimulate neurotransmitter release and to increase the phosphorylation state of a number of proteins, including synapsin I, in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Synapsin I, a prominent nerve terminal phosphoprotein, interacts with the cytoplasmic surfa...

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

authors： Sihra TS,Wang JK,Gorelick FS,Greengard P

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta)-mediated G(1) arrest previously has been shown to specifically target inactivation of cyclin D:cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) 4/6 complexes. We report here that TGF-beta-treated human HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma cells arrest in G(1), but retain continued cyclin D:Cdk4/6 act...

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

authors： Nagahara H,Ezhevsky SA,Vocero-Akbani AM,Kaldis P,Solomon MJ,Dowdy SF

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that rrn P1 promoters require unusually high concentrations of the initiating nucleoside triphosphates (ATP or GTP, depending on the promoter) for maximal transcription in vitro. We proposed that this requirement for high initiating NTP concentrations contributes to control of the rrn P1 promoters...

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

authors： Schneider DA,Gaal T,Gourse RL

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The sophistication of the insect olfactory system is elegantly demonstrated by the reception of sex pheromone by the Japanese beetle. In this insect, two olfactory receptor neurons housed in antennal sensilla placodea are highly sensitive. One neuron specifically detects the sex pheromone produced by conspecific femal...

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

authors： Ishida Y,Leal WS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundances of (92)Nb and (146)Sm in the early solar system are determined from meteoritic analysis, and their stellar production is attributed to the p process. We investigate if their origin from thermonuclear supernovae deriving from the explosion of white dwarfs with mass above the Chandrasekhar limit is in agr...

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

authors： Lugaro M,Pignatari M,Ott U,Zuber K,Travaglio C,Gyürky G,Fülöp Z

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of three anti-inflammatory drugs, which interfere with arachidonic acid transformation by three different enzymes, have been compared by using a simple model of tissue damage and foreign body rejection. In groups of control rats, subcutaneously implanted polyester sponges were rejected after a mean of 12 d...

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

authors： Higgs GA,Mugridge KG,Moncada S,Vane JR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae were monitored systematically by the induced expression of five RNA markers after infection challenge. One newly isolated marker encodes a homologue of the moth Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein (GNBP), and another corresponds to a serine protease-...

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

authors： Dimopoulos G,Richman A,Müller HM,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure using ion exchange chromatography has been developed to detect alterations in a polysaccharide produced by Neurospora crassa. The polysaccharide, isolated from medium that has supported the growth of a culture, is highly responsive to the 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone assay, indicating a high hexo...

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

authors： Springer WD,Srb AM

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term quantum turbulence denotes the turbulent motion of quantum fluids, systems such as superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, which are characterized by quantized vorticity, superfluidity, and, at finite temperatures, two-fluid behavior. This article introduces their basic properties, describes t...

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

authors： Barenghi CF,Skrbek L,Sreenivasan KR

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion protein (PrP) is a scrapie-associated fibril protein that accumulates in the brains of hamsters and mice infected with the scrapie agent, and also in the brains of persons affected with kuru or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It has been previously proposed that PrP could be either the primary transmissible agent...

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

authors： Locht C,Chesebro B,Race R,Keith JM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Let X = Omega/Gamma be a compact quotient of an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Omega of rank >/=2 by a discrete group omega of automorphisms without fixed points. It is well known that the Kähler-Einstein metric g on X carries seminegative curvature (in the sense of Griffiths). I show that any Hermitian metric h...

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

authors： Mok N

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses must traverse the nuclear envelope to gain access to the cytoplasm and, ultimately, to exit cells. It is believed that herpesvirus nucleocapsids enter the perinuclear space by budding through the inner nuclear membrane (NM). To reach the cytoplasm these enveloped particles must fuse with the outer NM and...

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

authors： Farnsworth A,Wisner TW,Webb M,Roller R,Cohen G,Eisenberg R,Johnson DC

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses a high-affinity estrogen binding protein and an endogenous ligand that displaces [3H]estradiol from both the yeast binding protein and mammalian estrogen receptors. Semipurified preparations of this ligand have been shown to exhibit estrogenic activity in mammalian systems. We now de...

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

authors： Feldman D,Tökés LG,Stathis PA,Miller SC,Kurz W,Harvey D

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Truncation selection is known to be the most efficient form of directional selection. When this is modified so that the fitness increases linearly over a range of one or two standard deviations of the value of the selected character, the efficiency is reduced, but not greatly. When truncation selection is compared to ...

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

authors： Crow JF,Kimura M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two methods to probe the energy landscape and motions of proteins in the context of molecular dynamics simulations of the helix-forming S-peptide of RNase A and the RNase A-3'-UMP enzyme-product complex. The first method uses the generalized ergodic measure to compute the rate of conformational space sampli...

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

authors： Straub JE,Thirumalai D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be addressed. Recently, several methods have emerged across disciplines that draw upon o...

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

authors： Miskin MZ,Khaira G,de Pablo JJ,Jaeger HM

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion synthesis at replication-blocking lesions requires the induction of proteins that are controlled by the SOS system in Escherichia coli. Of the proteins identified so far, UmuD', UmuC, and RecA* were shown to facilitate replication across UV-light-induced lesions, yielding both error-free and mutagenic tran...

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

authors： Fuchs RP,Napolitano RL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise genome editing is a valuable tool to study gene function in model organisms. Prime editing, a precise editing system developed in mammalian cells, does not require double-strand breaks or donor DNA and has low off-target effects. Here, we applied prime editing for the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and...

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

authors： Bosch JA,Birchak G,Perrimon N

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine biosynthesis is an essential process in plants and microorganisms, making it an attractive target for the development of herbicides and antibacterial agents. Imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase (IGPD), a key enzyme within this pathway, has been biochemically characterized in both Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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

authors： Rawson S,Bisson C,Hurdiss DL,Fazal A,McPhillie MJ,Sedelnikova SE,Baker PJ,Rice DW,Muench SP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive nonredundant database of 475 cocrystallized protein-protein complexes was used to study low-resolution recognition, which was reported in earlier docking experiments with a small number of proteins. The docking program GRAMM was used to delete the atom-size structural details and systematically dock th...

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

authors： Vakser IA,Matar OG,Lam CF

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-dependent enzyme dethiobiotin synthetase from Escherichia coli catalyses the formation of dethiobiotin from CO2 and 7, 8-diaminopelargonic acid. The reaction is initiated by the formation of a carbamate and proceeds through a phosphorylated intermediate, a mixed carbamic phosphoric anhydride. Here, we report t...

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

authors： Käck H,Gibson KJ,Lindqvist Y,Schneider G

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have inserted the sequence 5'-AAG-GAGGU-3', which is complementary to the 3' terminus of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA, in a reading frame and analyzed its effect on the accuracy and overall rate of translation in vivo. Translation over the sequence yields a 50% ribosomal frameshift if the reading phase is A-AGG-AGG-U....

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

authors： Spanjaard RA,van Duin J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex three-dimensional biophotonic nanostructures produce the vivid structural colors of many butterfly wing scales, but their exact nanoscale organization is uncertain. We used small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on single scales to characterize the 3D photonic nanostructures of five butterfly species from two fam...

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

authors： Saranathan V,Osuji CO,Mochrie SG,Noh H,Narayanan S,Sandy A,Dufresne ER,Prum RO

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a regulatory molecule for many cell functions, both for intracellular and, perhaps less well known, extracellular functions. An important example of the latter involves red blood cells (RBCs), which help regulate blood pressure by releasing ATP as a vasodilatory signaling molecule in re...

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

authors： Wan J,Ristenpart WD,Stone HA

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and are a potential hazard to human health. We study how onshore oil spills affect neonatal and infant mortality by combining spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor with Demographic and Health Surveys. To identify a causal effect, we compare sibli...

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

authors： Bruederle A,Hodler R

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00