DNase I hypersensitive sites within the inducible qa gene cluster of Neurospora crassa.

abstract：:The immunophilin-immunosuppressant complexes cyclophilin-cyclosporin A (CsA) and FKBP12-FK506 inhibit the phosphatase calcineurin to block T-cell activation. Although cyclophilin A, FKBP12, and calcineurin are highly conserved from yeast to man, none had previously been shown to be essential for viability. We find tha...

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

authors： Breuder T,Hemenway CS,Movva NR,Cardenas ME,Heitman J

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a lipid-enveloped, pleomorphic virus. We combine electron cryotomography and analysis of images of frozen-hydrated virions to determine the structural organization of filamentous influenza A virus. Influenza A/Udorn/72 virions are capsule-shaped or filamentous particles of highly uniform diameter. We show...

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

authors： Calder LJ,Wasilewski S,Berriman JA,Rosenthal PB

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen signaling occurs through at least two distinct molecular pathways: (i) direct binding of liganded estrogen receptors (ERs) to estrogen-responsive DNA elements (EREs) (the "ER/ERE pathway") and (ii) indirect recruitment of liganded ERs to activating protein-1 (AP-1)-responsive DNA elements via heterodimers of ...

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

authors： Cheung E,Acevedo ML,Cole PA,Kraus WL

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies imply that the intracellular domain of Notch1 must translocate to the nucleus for its activity. In this study, we demonstrate that a mNotch1 mutant protein that lacks its extracellular domain but retains its membrane-spanning region becomes proteolytically processed on its intracellular surface and, a...

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

authors： Kopan R,Schroeter EH,Weintraub H,Nye JS

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanations for biogeographic disjunctions involving South America and Africa typically invoke vicariance of western Gondwanan biotas or long distance dispersal. These hypotheses are problematical because many groups originated and diversified well after the last known connection between Africa and South America (app...

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

authors： Davis CC,Bell CD,Mathews S,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An AU rich element (ARE) in the 3' noncoding region promotes the rapid degradation of mammalian cytokine and proto-oncogene mRNAs, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and c-fos. Destabilization of ARE-mRNAs involves the association of ARE-binding proteins tris...

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

authors： Laroia G,Sarkar B,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2002-02-19 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：:Low-frequency thalamocortical oscillations that underlie drowsiness and slow-wave sleep depend on rhythmic inhibition of relay cells by neurons in the reticular nucleus (RTN) under the influence of corticothalamic fibers that branch to innervate RTN neurons and relay neurons. To generate oscillations, input to RTN pre...

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

authors： Golshani P,Liu XB,Jones EG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3- to 5-year cycle of vole abundances is a characteristic phenomenon in the ecology of northern regions, and their explanation stands as a central theoretical challenge in population ecology. Although many species of voles usually coexist and are in severe competition for food and breeding space, the role of intersp...

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

authors： Hansen TF,Stenseth NC,Henttonen H,Tast J

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad program of freezing species in threatened ecospheres could preserve biodiversity for eventual use by future generations. Sampling without studying can lower costs dramatically. Local labor can do most of the gathering. Plausible costs of collecting and cryogenically suspending the tropical rain forest species,...

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

authors： Benford G

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids, i.e., gangliosides, constitute a major component of neuronal cells and are thought to be essential for brain function. UDP-glucose:ceramide glucosyltransferase (Ugcg) catalyzes the initial step of glycosphingolipid (GSL) biosynthesis. To gain insight into the role of GSLs in ...

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

authors： Jennemann R,Sandhoff R,Wang S,Kiss E,Gretz N,Zuliani C,Martin-Villalba A,Jäger R,Schorle H,Kenzelmann M,Bonrouhi M,Wiegandt H,Gröne HJ

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics study was performed to compare the differences in the active-site dynamics of the wild-type and W137F mutant enzymes of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase. Only in the wild-type simulation are conformations formed between the catalytic Asp-145 and 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA, which resemble the ab initio ca...

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

authors： Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features that determine tRNA(Ala) acceptor identity have been studied with amber-suppressor tRNAs in Escherichia coli cells. Previous work established that a wobble pair composed of guanosine at position 3 and uridine at position 70 (G3-U70) in the acceptor helix of tRNA(Ala) is a determinant of the mol...

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

authors： McClain WH,Foss K,Jenkins RA,Schneider J

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of the Escherichia coli phage 434 operator for phage 434 repressor is affected by changes in the sequence of the noncontacted base pairs near the operator's center. The results presented here show that base composition near the center of the operator affects the operator's affinity for repressor by alteri...

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

authors： Koudelka GB,Harbury P,Harrison SC,Ptashne M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult workers in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies exhibit plasticity in hormonally regulated, age-based division of labor by altering their pattern of behavioral development in response to changes in colony conditions. One form of this plasticity is precocious development: levels of juvenile hormone increase prematu...

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

authors： Huang ZY,Robinson GE

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular communities in living tissues act in concert to establish intricate microenvironments, with complexity difficult to recapitulate in vitro. We report a method for docking numerous cellularized hydrogel shapes (100-1,000 µm in size) into hydrogel templates to construct 3D cellular microenvironments. Each shape ...

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

authors： Eng G,Lee BW,Parsa H,Chin CD,Schneider J,Linkov G,Sia SK,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-G is a nonclassical major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecule that is primarily expressed at the fetal-maternal interface, where it is thought to play a role in protecting the fetus from the maternal immune response. HLA-G binds a limited repertoire of peptides and interacts with the inhibitory leu...

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

authors： Clements CS,Kjer-Nielsen L,Kostenko L,Hoare HL,Dunstone MA,Moses E,Freed K,Brooks AG,Rossjohn J,McCluskey J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unknown whether cross-regulatory interactions between homeotic genes, which have been shown to play an important role in the maintenance of their expression domains during Drosophila development, are also important during mammalian development. We have analyzed here the expression of Hox genes in Hoxa-1 (Hox-1.6...

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

authors： Dollé P,Lufkin T,Krumlauf R,Mark M,Duboule D,Chambon P

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed by the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome bound with release factor RF2, in response to a UAA stop codon, solved at 3 A resolution. The backbone of helix alpha5 and the side chain of serine of the conserved SPF motif of RF2 recognize U1 and A2 ...

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

authors： Korostelev A,Asahara H,Lancaster L,Laurberg M,Hirschi A,Zhu J,Trakhanov S,Scott WG,Noller HF

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (2-methylmalonyl-CoA CoA-carbonylmutase, EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial enzyme whose deficiency in man leads to several biochemically and clinically heterogenous++ forms of methylmalonic acidemia. Intact fibroblasts from 21 patients with mutase apoenzyme deficiency have been pulse-labeled wit...

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

authors： Fenton WA,Hack AM,Kraus JP,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theory indicates that mitochondria were obtained 1.5 billion years ago from an ancient prokaryote. The mitochondria provided the capacity for aerobic respiration, the creation of the eukaryotic cell, and eventually complex multicellular organisms. Recent reports have found that mitochondria play essential role...

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

authors： Spees JL,Olson SD,Whitney MJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis phage SP01, whose DNA contains 5-hydroxymethyluracil (hmUra) in place of thymine, codes for an abundant, small, basic protein called TF1. TF1 binds preferentially to hydroxymethyluracil-containing DNA and thereby selectively inhibits transcription of such DNA in vitro. The gene for TF1 has been s...

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

authors： Greene JR,Brennan SM,Andrew DJ,Thompson CC,Richards SH,Heinrikson RL,Geiduschek EP

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine hydroxylase (EC 1.14.16.2), the enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step in catecholamine biosynthesis, was localized by electron microscopy within noradrenergic neurons of the nucleus locus coeruleus of the rat brain with a specific antibody to tyrosine hydroxylase labeled by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase im...

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

authors： Pickel VM,Joh TH,Reis DJ

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA strand exchange protein RAD51 facilitates the central step in homologous recombination, a process fundamentally important for accurate repair of damaged chromosomes, restart of collapsed replication forks, and telomere maintenance. The active form of RAD51 is a nucleoprotein filament that assembles on single-s...

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

authors： Subramanyam S,Ismail M,Bhattacharya I,Spies M

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with photosystem II (PSII) of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2 have been detected. The larger of the two complexes, CPVI-1, contained a 71-kDa and a 42-kDa protein. The 71-kDa protein was determined to be the anchor protein of the phycobilisomes (the light-harvestin...

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

authors： Pakrasi HB,Riethman HC,Sherman LA

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:The potential benefits of autonomous systems are obvious. However, there are still major issues to be dealt with before developing such systems becomes a commonplace engineering practice, with accepted and trustworthy deliverables. We argue that a solid, evolving, publicly available, community-controlled foundation fo...

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

authors： Harel D,Marron A,Sifakis J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteins often localize to distinct sites within the cell, but the primary cues that dictate localization are largely unknown. Recent evidence has shown that positive membrane curvature can serve as a cue for localization of a peripheral membrane protein. Here we report that localization of the peripheral me...

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

authors： Ramamurthi KS,Losick R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual buildup of neuronal activity known as the "readiness potential" reliably precedes voluntary self-initiated movements, in the average time locked to movement onset. This buildup is presumed to reflect the final stages of planning and preparation for movement. Here we present a different interpretation of the ...

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

authors： Schurger A,Sitt JD,Dehaene S

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Three enzyme reactions have been reported to catalyze the synthesis of phosphoribosylamine in eukaryotic cells. These activities are glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (P-Rib-P-P) amidotransferase [amidophosphoribosyl-transferase; 5-phosphoribosylamine: pyrophosphate phosphoribosyltransferase (glutamate-amidating) ...

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

authors： Holmes EW,King GL,Leyva A,Singer SC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00