Molecular mechanism of water reorientational slowing down in concentrated ionic solutions.

abstract：:Methane can be converted to triose dihydroxyacetone (DHA) by chemical processes with formaldehyde as an intermediate. Carbon dioxide, a by-product of various industries including ethanol/butanol biorefineries, can also be converted to formaldehyde and then to DHA. DHA, upon entry into a cell and phosphorylation to DHA...

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

authors： Wang L,Chauliac D,Rhee MS,Panneerselvam A,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent, diacylglycerol-activated enzyme protein kinase C (PKC) in rabbit eyelid conditioning was examined. PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned. Crud...

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

authors： Bank B,DeWeer A,Kuzirian AM,Rasmussen H,Alkon DL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-coated vesicles are known to be involved in the transport of proteins from the Golgi to the vacuole in plant cells. The mechanisms by which proteins are directed into this pathway are not known. Here we identify an integral membrane protein of approximately 80 kDa, extracted from clathrin-coated vesicles of d...

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

authors： Kirsch T,Paris N,Butler JM,Beevers L,Rogers JC

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported isolation of nanobacteria from human kidney stones raises the intriguing possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of pathological extraskeletal calcification [Kajander, E. O. & Ciftçioglu, N. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8274-8279]. Nanobacteria were previously isolated from F...

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

authors： Cisar JO,Xu DQ,Thompson J,Swaim W,Hu L,Kopecko DJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a mediator of host immunity and functions as a high, upstream activator of cells within the innate and the adaptive immunological systems. Recent studies have suggested a potentially broader role for MIF in growth regulation because of its ability to antagonize p53-media...

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

authors： Fingerle-Rowson G,Petrenko O,Metz CN,Forsthuber TG,Mitchell R,Huss R,Moll U,Müller W,Bucala R

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:S3I-201 (NSC 74859) is a chemical probe inhibitor of Stat3 activity, which was identified from the National Cancer Institute chemical libraries by using structure-based virtual screening with a computer model of the Stat3 SH2 domain bound to its Stat3 phosphotyrosine peptide derived from the x-ray crystal structure of...

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

authors： Siddiquee K,Zhang S,Guida WC,Blaskovich MA,Greedy B,Lawrence HR,Yip ML,Jove R,McLaughlin MM,Lawrence NJ,Sebti SM,Turkson J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation plays a critical role in controlling the function of cytoskeletal assemblies but no direct method yet exists to measure the phosphorylation state of proteins at the level of individual molecules and assemblies. Herein, we apply scanning transmission electron microscopy in combination with electron ener...

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

authors： Leapman RD,Gallant PE,Reese TS,Andrews SB

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Energetics of resting and evoked fMRI signals were related to localized ensemble firing rates (nu) measured by electrophysiology in rats. Two different unstimulated, or baseline, states were established by anesthesia. Halothane and alpha-chloralose established baseline states of high and low energy, respectively, in w...

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

authors： Maandag NJ,Coman D,Sanganahalli BG,Herman P,Smith AJ,Blumenfeld H,Shulman RG,Hyder F

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely overlooked. We evaluate over 1.5 million g...

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

authors： Balch JK,Bradley BA,Abatzoglou JT,Nagy RC,Fusco EJ,Mahood AL

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The most common symptoms include progressive lung disease and chronic digestive conditions. CF is the first human genetic disease to benefit from having five different species of animal models. De...

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

authors： Kim K,Lane EA,Saftien A,Wang H,Xu Y,Wirtz-Peitz F,Perrimon N

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages of the Caudovirales order possess a tail that recognizes the host and ensures genome delivery upon infection. The X-ray structure of the approximately 1.8 MDa host adsorption device (baseplate) from the lactococcal phage TP901-1 shows that the receptor-binding proteins are pointing in the direction of the host,...

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

authors： Veesler D,Spinelli S,Mahony J,Lichière J,Blangy S,Bricogne G,Legrand P,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Campanacci V,van Sinderen D,Cambillau C

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:AB-type toxins, like other bacterial toxins, are notably opportunistic molecules. They rely on target cell receptors to reach the appropriate location within the target cell where translocation of their enzymatic subunits occurs. The anthrax toxin, however, times its own uptake, suggesting that toxin binding triggers ...

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

authors： Abrami L,Kunz B,van der Goot FG

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugation of drugs with antibodies to surface endothelial antigens is a potential strategy for drug delivery to endothelium. We studied antibodies to platelet-endothelial adhesion molecule 1 (PECAM-1, a stably expressed endothelial antigen) as carriers for vascular immunotargeting. Although 125I-labeled anti-PECAM b...

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

authors： Muzykantov VR,Christofidou-Solomidou M,Balyasnikova I,Harshaw DW,Schultz L,Fisher AB,Albelda SM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP;oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase(transphosphorylating); EC 4.1.1.32] is absent in rat liver cytosol during fetal life and is synthesized initially at birth. De novo synthesis of the enzyme can be induced prematurely by injection of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or glucagon into fetal anim...

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

authors： Garcia Ruiz JP,Ingram R,Hanson RW

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in understanding enzyme regulation is to define the conformational states that account for allosteric changes in catalytic activity. For Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC) the active, relaxed (R state) holoenzyme is generally assumed to be represented by the crystal structure o...

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

authors： Endrizzi JA,Beernink PT,Alber T,Schachman HK

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of a single molecular handedness, or homochirality across all living matter, is a mystery in the origin of life. Frank's seminal model showed in the '50s how chiral symmetry breaking can occur in nonequilibrium chemical networks. However, an important shortcoming in this classic model is that it consider...

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

authors： Laurent G,Lacoste D,Gaspard P

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the reaction dynamics for HgI(2) in methanol by using time-resolved x-ray diffraction (TRXD). Although numerous time-resolved spectroscopic studies have provided ample information about the early dynamics of HgI(2), a comprehensive reaction mechanism in the solution phase spanning from picoseconds up t...

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

authors： Kim TK,Lorenc M,Lee JH,Lo Russo M,Kim J,Cammarata M,Kong Q,Noel S,Plech A,Wulff M,Ihee H

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromophore of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) (i.e., 4-hydroxycinnamic acid) has been replaced by an analogue with a triple bond, rather than a double bond (by using 4-hydroxyphenylpropiolic acid in the reconstitution, yielding hybrid I) and by a "locked" chromophore (through reconstitution with 7-hydroxycoumari...

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

authors： Cordfunke R,Kort R,Pierik A,Gobets B,Koomen GJ,Verhoeven JW,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 family proteins play a crucial role in tissue homeostasis and apoptosis (programmed cell death). Bid is a proapoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family, promoting cell death when activated by caspase-8. Following an NMR-based approach (structure-activity relationships by interligand NOE) we were able to identify two c...

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

authors： Becattini B,Culmsee C,Leone M,Zhai D,Zhang X,Crowell KJ,Rega MF,Landshamer S,Reed JC,Plesnila N,Pellecchia M

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells mediate vital control of cancer and viral infection. They rely on MHC class I (MHC I)-specific self-receptors to identify and lyse diseased cells without harming self-MHC I-bearing host cells. NK cells bearing inhibitory self-receptors for host MHC I also undergo education, referred to as lic...

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

authors： Gamache A,Cronk JM,Nash WT,Puchalski P,Gillespie A,Wei H,Gray L,Hammarskjold ML,Xu W,Brown MG

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:At what range can a mammalian cell sense the presence of another cell and through what medium? To approach these questions, the formation of aggregates of a 3T3 cell variant (3T3x cells) grown on solid substrates was studied. Each of the aggregates consisted of cells that, at the time of their seeding, were single and...

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

authors： Albrecht-Buehler G

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans can undergo phenotypic switching between a benign, unicellular phenotype and an invasive, multicellular form that causes candidiasis. Increasingly, strains of Candida are becoming resistant to antifungal drugs, making the treatment of candidiasis difficult, especially in imm...

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

authors： Uchida M,McDermott G,Wetzler M,Le Gros MA,Myllys M,Knoechel C,Barron AE,Larabell CA

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The B-cell antigen receptor is composed of membrane immunoglobulin sheathed by an alpha/beta heterodimer. The complex is noncovalently associated with protein kinase activity, and crosslinking of the receptor leads to capping and transmembrane signaling. Here we show that the sheath is not necessary either for this ca...

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

authors： Williams GT,Peaker CJ,Patel KJ,Neuberger MS

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane currents of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) were compared with the currents of their nontransformed counterparts by using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. In nontransformed CEFs, the main membrane current is a delayed outward K+ current that is sensitive to t...

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

authors： Repp H,Draheim H,Ruland J,Seidel G,Beise J,Presek P,Dreyer F

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of biological phenomena occurs in all types of systems, being manifested in many different reaction types, from allosteric behavior in proteins, through modulation in energy and information transfer, to the control of growth and differentiation in cells, organelles, and organisms. In this communication, a m...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Gunsalus IC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin signaling pathway is of pivotal importance in metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, and in cellular processes, such as aging. Insulin activates a tyrosine phosphorylation cascade that branches to create a complex network affecting multiple biological processes. To understand the full spectrum of the tyrosi...

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

authors： Krüger M,Kratchmarova I,Blagoev B,Tseng YH,Kahn CR,Mann M

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging of individual vesicle exocytosis is providing new insights into the mechanism and regulation of secretion by cells. To study calcium-triggered secretion from astrocytes, we used acridine orange (AO) to label vesicles. Although AO is often used for imaging exocytosis, we found that imaging vesicles labe...

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

authors： Jaiswal JK,Fix M,Takano T,Nedergaard M,Simon SM

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue- and cell-specific deletion of the Aqp4 gene is required to differentiate between the numerous pools of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels. A glial-conditional Aqp4 knockout mouse line was generated to resolve whether astroglial AQP4 controls water exchange across the blood-brain interface. The conditional knock...

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

authors： Haj-Yasein NN,Vindedal GF,Eilert-Olsen M,Gundersen GA,Skare Ø,Laake P,Klungland A,Thorén AE,Burkhardt JM,Ottersen OP,Nagelhus EA

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing with engineered site-specific endonucleases involves nonhomologous end-joining, leading to reading frame disruption. The approach is applicable to dominant negative disorders, which can be treated simply by knocking out the mutant allele, while leaving the normal allele intact. We applied this strategy ...

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

authors： Shinkuma S,Guo Z,Christiano AM

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00