Oligomerization of the tetramerization domain of p53 probed by two- and three-color single-molecule FRET.

abstract：:Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 is a newly recognized condition in children with recent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. These children and adult patients with severe hyperinflammation present with a constellation of symptoms that st...

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

authors： Cheng MH,Zhang S,Porritt RA,Noval Rivas M,Paschold L,Willscher E,Binder M,Arditi M,Bahar I

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates, from zebra fish to humans, have an innate immune recognition of many bacterial flagellins. This involves a conserved eight-amino acid epitope in flagellin recognized by the Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Several important human pathogens, such as Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni, have escaped TL...

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

authors： Kreutzberger MAB,Ewing C,Poly F,Wang F,Egelman EH

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Single crystal diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at very high growth rates (up to 150 microm/h) has been successfully annealed without graphitization at temperatures up to 2200 degrees C and pressures <300 torr. Crystals were annealed in a hydrogen environment by using microwave plasma techniques for...

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

authors： Meng YF,Yan CS,Lai J,Krasnicki S,Shu H,Yu T,Liang Q,Mao HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectra of biological polymers contain important information about their structure and function in living organisms. This information can be accessed by extracting an optical interaction of monomers, i.e., their exciton coupling, from experimental data. This coupling is sensitive to molecular structure, geomet...

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

authors： Burin AL,Armbruster ME,Hariharan M,Lewis FD

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeats containing proteins (NLRs) serve as immune receptors in both plants and animals. Overaccumulation of NLRs often leads to autoimmune responses, suggesting that the levels of these immune receptors must be tightly controlled. However, the mechanism by which NLR prot...

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

authors： Cheng YT,Li Y,Huang S,Huang Y,Dong X,Zhang Y,Li X

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The nod (no distributive disjunction) and the ncd (non-claret disjunctional) mutations are both female-specific, recessive meiotic mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. Mutations at either locus show high frequencies of nondisjunction at meiosis I and both have been shown to encode kinesin-like proteins. Unlike the nc...

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

authors： Knowles BA,Hawley RS

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is an important mechanism in the evolution of protein interaction networks. Duplications are followed by the gain and loss of interactions, rewiring the network at some unknown rate. Because rewiring is likely to change the distribution of network motifs within the duplicated interaction set, it shoul...

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

authors： Presser A,Elowitz MB,Kellis M,Kishony R

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum (Al) is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, but its trivalent ionic form is highly toxic to all organisms at low concentrations. How Al enters cells has not been elucidated in any organisms. Herein, we report a transporter, Nrat1 (Nramp aluminum transporter 1), specific for trivalent Al ion in rice....

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

authors： Xia J,Yamaji N,Kasai T,Ma JF

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi of the recently defined order Sebacinales (Basidiomycota) are involved in a wide spectrum of mutualistic symbioses (including mycorrhizae) with various plants, thereby exhibiting a unique potential for biocontrol strategies. The axenically cultivable root endophyte Piriformospora indica is a model organism of th...

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

authors： Deshmukh S,Hückelhoven R,Schäfer P,Imani J,Sharma M,Weiss M,Waller F,Kogel KH

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:When an algorithm in dimension one is extended to dimension d, in nearly every case its computational cost is taken to the power d. This fundamental difficulty is the single greatest impediment to solving many important problems and has been dubbed the curse of dimensionality. For numerical analysis in dimension d, we...

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

authors： Beylkin G,Mohlenkamp MJ

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of systemic inflammation and sepsis involves peripheral organs, causing gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular alterations, as well as the central nervous system (CNS), affecting sleep, temperature regulation, behavior, and neuroendocrine function. The molecular basis of the CNS effects of sys...

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

authors： Wong ML,Bongiorno PB,Rettori V,McCann SM,Licinio J

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a theoretical prediction that patterns of excitatory input activity that consistently fail to activate target neurons sufficiently to induce synaptic potentiation will instead cause a specific synaptic depression. To realize this situation experimentally, the Schaffer collateral projection to area CA1 in rat...

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

authors： Dudek SM,Bear MF

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is recognized as a physiological state associated with learning, with studies showing that knowledge acquisition improves with naps. Little work has examined sleep-dependent learning in people with developmental disorders, for whom sleep quality is often impaired. We examined the effect of natural, in-home naps ...

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

authors： Spanò G,Gómez RL,Demara BI,Alt M,Cowen SL,Edgin JO

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the microbial community in the human intestine may play an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity. We examined 184,094 sequences of microbial 16S rRNA genes from PCR amplicons by using the 454 pyrosequencing technology to compare the microbial community structures of 9 individuals,...

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

authors： Zhang H,DiBaise JK,Zuccolo A,Kudrna D,Braidotti M,Yu Y,Parameswaran P,Crowell MD,Wing R,Rittmann BE,Krajmalnik-Brown R

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for starting from a very-low-energy high-dimensional conformation and obtaining a low-energy three-dimensional structure by gradual contraction of the dimensionality. The contraction in dimensionality is achieved by use of Cayley-Menger determinants, of which a simplified form is derived here. Pr...

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

authors： Purisima EO,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the downstream targets of microRNAs (miRNAs) is essential to understanding cellular regulatory networks. We devised a direct biochemical method for miRNA target discovery that combined RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) purification with microarray analysis of bound mRNAs. Because targets of miR-124a hav...

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

authors： Karginov FV,Conaco C,Xuan Z,Schmidt BH,Parker JS,Mandel G,Hannon GJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Siglecs are a recently discovered family of animal lectins that belong to the Ig superfamily and recognize sialic acids (Sias). CD33-related Siglecs (CD33rSiglecs) are a subgroup with as-yet-unknown functions, characterized by sequence homology, expression on innate immune cells, conserved cytosolic tyrosine-based sig...

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

authors： Angata T,Margulies EH,Green ED,Varki A

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of beta cells to endure assaults may be relevant in the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This study examines the susceptibility of human pancreatic islets to agents that are cytotoxic for rodent beta cells--i.e., sodium nitroprusside (NP, a nitric oxide donor), streptozotocin (SZ), or al...

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

authors： Eizirik DL,Pipeleers DG,Ling Z,Welsh N,Hellerström C,Andersson A

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:hK7 or human stratum corneum chymotryptic enzyme belongs to the human tissue kallikrein (hKs) serine proteinase family and is strongly expressed in the upper layers of the epidermis. It participates in skin desquamation but is also implicated in diverse skin diseases and is a potential biomarker of ovarian cancer. We ...

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

authors： Debela M,Hess P,Magdolen V,Schechter NM,Steiner T,Huber R,Bode W,Goettig P

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins cdc2 and cyclin form a heterodimer (maturation promoting factor) that controls the major events of the cell cycle. A mathematical model for the interactions of cdc2 and cyclin is constructed. Simulation and analysis of the model show that the control system can operate in three modes: as a steady state wi...

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

authors： Tyson JJ

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator 1 (A1; also called replication factor C), in conjunction with proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), is essential for the elongation of primed DNA templates by DNA polymerases delta and epsilon. A1 contains five distinct subunits of 145, 40, 38, 37, and 36.5 kDa. Here we describe the isolation, sequence,...

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

authors： Chen M,Pan ZQ,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There exist a limited but growing number of biological metal centers whose properties lie conspicuously outside the realm of known inorganic chemistry. The synthetic analogue approach, broadly directed, offers a powerful exploratory tool that can define intrinsic chemical possibilities for these sites while simultaneo...

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

authors： Lee SC,Holm RH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses are dsDNA viruses, but their virions may additionally contain RNAs that can be transduced to recipient cells. The biological functions of herpes virion RNA species are unknown. Here we address this issue for EBV, a widespread human herpesvirus with oncogenic potential. We show that EBV-derived particles ...

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

authors： Jochum S,Ruiss R,Moosmann A,Hammerschmidt W,Zeidler R

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are key drivers of blood and lymph vessel formation in development, but also in several pathological processes. VEGF-C signaling through VEGFR-3 promotes lymphangiogenesis, which is a clinically relevant target for treating lymphatic insufficienc...

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

authors： Leppänen VM,Tvorogov D,Kisko K,Prota AE,Jeltsch M,Anisimov A,Markovic-Mueller S,Stuttfeld E,Goldie KN,Ballmer-Hofer K,Alitalo K

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Across the Upper Missouri River Basin, the recent drought of 2000 to 2010, known as the "turn-of-the-century drought," was likely more severe than any in the instrumental record including the Dust Bowl drought. However, until now, adequate proxy records needed to better understand this event with regard to long-term v...

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

authors： Martin JT,Pederson GT,Woodhouse CA,Cook ER,McCabe GJ,Anchukaitis KJ,Wise EK,Erger PJ,Dolan L,McGuire M,Gangopadhyay S,Chase KJ,Littell JS,Gray ST,St George S,Friedman JM,Sauchyn DJ,St-Jacques JM,King J

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing tissues contain motile populations of cells that can self-organize into spatially ordered tissues based on differences in their interfacial surface energies. However, it is unclear how self-organization by this mechanism remains robust when interfacial energies become heterogeneous in either time or space. ...

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

authors： Cerchiari AE,Garbe JC,Jee NY,Todhunter ME,Broaders KE,Peehl DM,Desai TA,LaBarge MA,Thomson M,Gartner ZJ

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γ has been implicated in hepatic lipid accumulation. We found that the C3H mouse strain does not express PPARγ in the liver and, when subject to a high-fat diet, is resistant to hepatic steatosis, compared with C57BL/6 (B6) mice. Adenoviral PPARγ2 inje...

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

authors： Lee YJ,Ko EH,Kim JE,Kim E,Lee H,Choi H,Yu JH,Kim HJ,Seong JK,Kim KS,Kim JW

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Work with non-human primates had previously demonstrated that the mid-dorsolateral frontal cortex, which comprises cytoarchitectonic areas 46 and 9, plays a critical role in the performance of non-spatial self-ordered working memory tasks, whereas the immediately adjacent posterior dorsolateral frontal cortex (area 8)...

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

authors： Petrides M,Alivisatos B,Evans AC,Meyer E

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a unique conductance-based model of awake thalamic alpha and some of its implications for function. The full model includes a model for a specialized class of high-threshold thalamocortical cells (HTC cells), which burst at the alpha frequency at depolarized membrane potentials (~-56 mV). Our model generat...

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

authors： Vijayan S,Kopell NJ

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of osmolyte protection in protein stability has proved to be challenging. In particular, little is known about the role of osmolytes in the structure of the unfolding transition state of a protein, the main determinant of its dynamics. We have developed an experimental protocol t...

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

authors： Dougan L,Genchev GZ,Lu H,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00