Unprecedented pathway of reducing equivalents in a diflavin-linked disulfide oxidoreductase.

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a soil fungus that causes life-threatening meningitis in immunocompromised patients and is a facultative intracellular pathogen capable of replication inside macrophages. The mechanism by which environmental fungi acquire and maintain virulence for mammalian hosts is unknown. We hypothe...

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

authors： Steenbergen JN,Shuman HA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage gating of hyperpolarization-activated cation (HCN) channels is potentiated by direct binding of cAMP to a cytoplasmic cAMP-sensing domain (CSD). When unliganded, the CSD inhibits hyperpolarization-dependent opening of the HCN channel gate; cAMP binding relieves this autoinhibition so that opening becomes more ...

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

authors： Wicks NL,Wong T,Sun J,Madden Z,Young EC

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the complete amino acid sequence of human plasma Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein was determined. This protein whose biological function is unknown consists of a single polypeptide chain of 276 amino acid residues including 8 tryptophan residues and has a pyroglutamyl residue at the amino terminus. The loc...

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

authors： Araki T,Gejyo F,Takagaki K,Haupt H,Schwick HG,Bürgi W,Marti T,Schaller J,Rickli E,Brossmer R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monomeric VDAC channel shows an accelerated pH titration of its transport properties with a Hill coefficient of about 2. This manifests itself as a sharp peak in conductance noise as well as a fast change in channel selectivity with pH. On the basis of the known structure of this channel, we propose that this coop...

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

authors： Rostovtseva TK,Liu TT,Colombini M,Parsegian VA,Bezrukov SM

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Picomole amounts of oligodeoxynucleotides [polydeoxyadenylic acids, (dA)40-60] were baseline resolved and analyzed in less than 8 min by high-performance capillary electrophoresis with polyacrylamide gels. In addition, fast analysis of a crude 70-mer oligodeoxynucleotide and a slab gel-purified 99-mer oligodeoxynucleo...

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

authors： Cohen AS,Najarian DR,Paulus A,Guttman A,Smith JA,Karger BL

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis is a series of poorly understood morphological, physiological and biochemical processes that occur during the transition of immotile spermatids into motile, fertilization-competent spermatozoa. Here, we identified a Serpin (serine protease inhibitor) family protein (As_SRP-1) that is secreted from sperm...

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

authors： Zhao Y,Sun W,Zhang P,Chi H,Zhang MJ,Song CQ,Ma X,Shang Y,Wang B,Hu Y,Hao Z,Hühmer AF,Meng F,L'hernault SW,He SM,Dong MQ,Miao L

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of genes contributing to the adaptation of local populations is of great biological interest. In an attempt to characterize functionally important differences among African and non-African Drosophila melanogaster populations, we surveyed neutral microsatellite variation in an 850-kb genomic sequence...

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

authors： Harr B,Kauer M,Schlötterer C

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with whole tumor lysates can mediate potent antitumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo. Because successful therapy was dependent on host immune T cells, we have now evaluated whether the systemic administration of the T c...

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

authors： Shimizu K,Fields RC,Giedlin M,Mulé JJ

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATR (ATM- and rad3-related)-mediated checkpoint pathway has a crucial role in regulating the cellular responses to DNA damage and DNA-replication stress. ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein), the regulatory partner of ATR, binds directly to replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA and enables the ATR-ATRIP complex to r...

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

authors： Namiki Y,Zou L

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of cell-surface urokinase plasminogen activator activity is a hallmark of malignancy. We generated an engineered anthrax toxin that is activated by cell-surface urokinase in vivo and displays limited toxicity to normal tissue but broad and potent tumoricidal activity. Native anthrax toxin protective an...

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

authors： Liu S,Aaronson H,Mitola DJ,Leppla SH,Bugge TH

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-sensor domain (VSD) of voltage-dependent ion channels and enzymes is critical for cellular responses to membrane potential. The VSD can also be regulated by interaction with intracellular proteins and ligands, but how this occurs is poorly understood. Here, we show that the VSD of the BK-type K(+) channel ...

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

authors： Yang H,Hu L,Shi J,Delaloye K,Horrigan FT,Cui J

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinct phosphodiesterasic activity (EC 3.1.4) was found in both mono- and dicotyledonous plants that catalyzes the hydrolytic breakdown of ADPglucose (ADPG) to produce equimolar amounts of glucose-1-phosphate and AMP. The enzyme responsible for this activity, referred to as ADPG pyrophosphatase (AGPPase), was puri...

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

authors： Rodriguez-López M,Baroja-Fernández E,Zandueta-Criado A,Pozueta-Romero J

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that a very simple semiempirical equation represents quite accurately the thermodynamic properties of aqueous sodium chloride from 373 to 823 K. The equation comprises one Margules term and a Debye-Hückel term. Just the one Margules parameter is freely adjustable because the Debye-Hückel parameter is deter...

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

authors： Pitzer KS,Li YG

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio and density functional calculations have been carried out to more fully understand the factors controlling the catalytic activity of the Thermus aquaticus DNA methyltransferase (MTaqI) in the N-methylation at the N(6) of an adenine nucleobase. The noncatalyzed reaction was modeled as a methyl transfer from t...

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

authors： Newby ZE,Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lakes are considered the second largest natural source of atmospheric methane (CH4). However, current estimates are still uncertain and do not account for diel variability of CH4 emissions. In this study, we performed high-resolution measurements of CH4 flux from several lakes, using an automated and sensor-based flux...

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

authors： Sieczko AK,Duc NT,Schenk J,Pajala G,Rudberg D,Sawakuchi HO,Bastviken D

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell signaling systems sense and respond to ligands that bind cell surface receptors. These systems often respond to changes in the concentration of extracellular ligand more rapidly than the ligand equilibrates with its receptor. We demonstrate, by modeling and experiment, a general "systems level" mechanism cells us...

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

authors： Ventura AC,Bush A,Vasen G,Goldín MA,Burkinshaw B,Bhattacharjee N,Folch A,Brent R,Chernomoretz A,Colman-Lerner A

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Language is classically thought to be supported by perisylvian cortical regions. Here we provide intracranial evidence linking the hippocampal complex to linguistic processing. We used direct recordings from the hippocampal structures to investigate whether theta oscillations, pivotal in memory function, track the amo...

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

authors： Piai V,Anderson KL,Lin JJ,Dewar C,Parvizi J,Dronkers NF,Knight RT

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An initiation complex has been formed in high yields from E. coli ribosomes, 9S messenger RNA for rabbit hemoglobin, and N-formylmethionine-tRNA. Initiation factor IF-3 is required for the binding and puromycin is required for the release of fMet. Valyl-tRNA fails to bind to the second codon, whereas a mixture of 15 a...

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

authors： Noll M,Noll H,Lingrel JB

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit articular chondrocytes synthesize type II collagen [3alpha(1)(II)] in vivo and type I collagen [2alpha(1)(I).alpha(2)] in monolayer cultures. In suspension culture the nature of phenotype depends on extracellular Ca(2+). The relationship of Ca(2+) and 3':5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP) in regulation of collagen synthesis ...

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

authors： Deshmukh K,Sawyer BD

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently several attempts to identify oxygen-derived radicals in whole cells by spin trapping and electron spin resonance have been reported by using 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide as the spin trap. In the present study, the feasibility of this method is examined. Chinese hamster V79 cells and human erythrocytes ser...

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

authors： Samuni A,Carmichael AJ,Russo A,Mitchell JB,Riesz P

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormone cytokinin influences many aspects of plant growth and development, several of which also involve the cellular process of autophagy, including leaf senescence, nutrient remobilization, and developmental transitions. The Arabidopsis type-A response regulators (type-A ARR) are negative regulators of cyto...

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

authors： Acheampong AK,Shanks C,Cheng CY,Schaller GE,Dagdas Y,Kieber JJ

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide precursor pr76 to the internal viral group specific (gs) antigen proteins of Rous sarcoma virus, synthesized in a cell-free system of ascites cells, has been processed in vitro into the viral proteins by purified viral protein p15 as well as by disrupted Rous sarcoma virus. Disrupted Rauscher murine le...

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

authors： von der Helm K

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the spectra of UV-induced mutations in the lacI gene of a wild-type and an mfd strain of Escherichia coli. mfd strains have been recently proposed to be deficient in a factor coupling DNA repair and transcription. Analysis of UV-induced mutations occurring at adjacent pyrimidines showed that mutations...

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

authors： Oller AR,Fijalkowska IJ,Dunn RL,Schaaper RM

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal cell (PC) plays an important role in normal gastric physiology and in common diseases of the stomach. Although the genes involved in acid secretion are well known, there is limited molecular information about other aspects of PC function. We have generated a comprehensive database of genes expressed prefe...

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

authors： Mills JC,Syder AJ,Hong CV,Guruge JL,Raaii F,Gordon JI

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the iconic groundfish fishery for Gulf of Maine cod has endured several dramatic reductions in annual catch limits and been federally declared an economic disaster. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey of fishing captains to assess potential social impacts of the fishery failure, we found that...

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

authors： Scyphers SB,Picou JS,Grabowski JH

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Usual human livers contain two major aldehyde dehydrogenase [(ALDH) aldehyde:NAD+ oxidoreductase] isozymes--i.e., a cytosolic ALDH1 component and a mitochondrial ALDH2 component--whereas approximately equal to 50% of Orientals are "atypical" and have only the ALDH1 isozyme and are missing the ALDH2 isozyme. We previou...

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

authors： Yoshida A,Huang IY,Ikawa M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loads on molecular motors regulate and coordinate their function. In a study that directly measures properties of internally strained myosin 2 heads bound to actin, we find that human nonmuscle myosins 2A and 2B show marked load-dependent changes in kinetics of ADP release but not in nucleotide binding. We show that t...

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

authors： Kovács M,Thirumurugan K,Knight PJ,Sellers JR

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological and activity-dependent gene expression studies of birdsong have contributed to the understanding of the neural representation of natural sounds. However, we have limited knowledge about the overall spatial topography of song representation in the avian brain. Here, we adapt the noninvasive functio...

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

authors： Voss HU,Tabelow K,Polzehl J,Tchernichovski O,Maul KK,Salgado-Commissariat D,Ballon D,Helekar SA

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model is presented that describes the effects of hormone concentration on receptor saturation and biological response in systems dependent upon the generation of a secondary mediator such as cyclic AMP. The analysis makes the following assumptions: (i) the binding of hormone to its receptor is a reversi...

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

authors： Strickland S,Loeb JN

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing [3H]phorbol dibutyrate [P(Bu)2], we have developed an assay for high-affinity phorbol ester receptors in intact rat embryo fibroblasts. At 37 degrees C, binding of [3H]P(Bu)2 reached a maximum within 10 min and was rapidly reversible. The tumor promoters 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol 13-acetate, teleocidin B, a...

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

authors： Horowitz AD,Greenebaum E,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00