In vitro reconstitution of sortase-catalyzed pilus polymerization reveals structural elements involved in pilin cross-linking.

abstract：:We have developed a low stringency polymerase chain reaction (LSPCR) to isolate the unknown neighboring region around a known DNA sequence, thus allowing efficient targeted gene walking. The method involves the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with a single primer under conditions of low stringency for primer annealing...

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

authors： Malo MS,Srivastava K,Andresen JM,Chen XN,Korenberg JR,Ingram VM

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral stimulation of human peripheral nerves activates the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) contralaterally and the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) bilaterally. We aimed at characterizing phase locking between SI and SII in response to electric stimuli applied once every 3 s to the right median nerve at the...

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

authors： Simões C,Jensen O,Parkkonen L,Hari R

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a model laboratory bacterium, a species that is widely distributed in the environment, as well as a mutualist and pathogen in its human hosts. As such, E. coli represents an attractive organism to study how environment impacts microbial genome structure and function. Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) mu...

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

authors： Chen SL,Hung CS,Xu J,Reigstad CS,Magrini V,Sabo A,Blasiar D,Bieri T,Meyer RR,Ozersky P,Armstrong JR,Fulton RS,Latreille JP,Spieth J,Hooton TM,Mardis ER,Hultgren SJ,Gordon JI

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping posttranslational modifications (PTMs), which diversely modulate biological functions, represents a significant analytical challenge. The centerpiece technology for PTM site identification, mass spectrometry (MS), requires proteolytic cleavage in the vicinity of a PTM to yield peptides for sequencing. This req...

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

authors： Tran DT,Cavett VJ,Dang VQ,Torres HL,Paegel BM

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological membrane is conceptualized as a system in which membrane proteins are naturally matched to the equilibrium thickness of the lipid bilayer. Cholesterol, in addition to lipid composition, has been suggested to be a major regulator of bilayer thickness in vivo because measurements in vitro have shown that ch...

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

authors： Mitra K,Ubarretxena-Belandia I,Taguchi T,Warren G,Engelman DM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and protein determinants of nucleosome positioning have been examined after in vitro reconstitutions of native or modified histone octamers onto tandem repeats of 207- and 172-base-pair DNA sequences containing the Lytechinus variegatus 5S rRNA gene and onto monomeric sequences derived from these by digestion with...

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

authors： Dong F,Hansen JC,van Holde KE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HB-19 pseudopeptide 5[Kpsi(CH(2)N)PR]-TASP, psi(CH(2)N) for reduced peptide bond, is a specific inhibitor of HIV infection in different CD4(+) cell lines and in primary T-lymphocytes and macrophages. It blocks virus-particle attachment to permissive cells by binding and forming a stable complex with nucleolin expr...

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

authors： Krust B,Vienet R,Cardona A,Rougeot C,Jacotot E,Callebaut C,Guichard G,Briand JP,Grognet JM,Hovanessian AG,Edelman L

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic studies have given evidence of familial, disease-causing mutations in the analogous amino acid residue shared by three related RNA binding proteins causative of three neurological diseases. Alteration of aspartic acid residue 290 of hnRNPA2 to valine is believed to predispose patients to multisystem prot...

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

authors： Murray DT,Zhou X,Kato M,Xiang S,Tycko R,McKnight SL

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) in the embryonic chicken heart undergo agonist-induced internalization and a subsequent decrease in receptor number (downregulation). Cloning studies have identified two subtypes of mAChR expressed in the embryonic chicken heart, the cm2 and cm4 receptors. We report here that...

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

authors： Habecker BA,Nathanson NM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thesis is developed that a low oxygen level Precambrian atmosphere presented early-evolving metazoan organisms with physiological connective tissue priorities resulting from the important molecular oxygen requirements in the biosynthesis of collagen hydroxyproline. Shells, cuticles, and carapaces which are not man...

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

authors： Towe KM

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IDIOTYPY HAS BEEN STUDIED IN ANTIBODIES AGAINST A PROTEIN ANTIGEN: hen ovalbumin. Various fractions of antisera to hen ovalbumin have been compared from the standpoint of the idiotypic specificities found on the immunoglobulins that they contain. Idiotypic specificities were found to be common to (a) antibodies that w...

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

authors： Oudin J,Cazenave PA

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of prefrontal cortex glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67) and reelin (mRNAs and proteins) expression is the most consistent finding reported by several studies of postmortem schizophrenia (SZ) brains. Converging evidence suggests that the reduced GAD67 and reelin expression in cortical GABAergic interneurons ...

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

authors： Dong E,Agis-Balboa RC,Simonini MV,Grayson DR,Costa E,Guidotti A

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The six individual catalytic polypeptide chains within the two catalytic trimers of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase; EC 2.1.3.2) are folded into two discrete structural domains interconnected in part by helix 12, which comprises residues 285-305 and is located near the carboxyl terminus of the cha...

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

authors： Peterson CB,Schachman HK

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The NIFA protein of Klebsiella pneumoniae is required for transcription of all nif (nitrogen fixation) operons except the regulatory nifLA operon itself. NIFA activates transcription of nif operons by the alternative holoenzyme form of RNA polymerase, sigma 54-holoenzyme, in a nucleoside triphosphate (NTP)-dependent m...

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

authors： Berger DK,Narberhaus F,Kustu S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidants, such as those generated by metabolically activated phagocytes in inflammation, have been implicated in the metabolic activation of carcinogens, and in this study we demonstrate that the interaction of (+/-)-trans-7,8-dihydroxy-7,8-dihydrobenzo[a]pyrene (BP 7,8-dihydrodiol) with phorbol ester-stimulated polym...

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

authors： Trush MA,Seed JL,Kensler TW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins are an emerging hallmark of cardiac diseases. Although some misfolded proteins, such as desmin, are associated with mutations in the genes encoding these disease-associated proteins, little is known regarding more general mechanisms that contribute to the generation of misfolded proteins in the hear...

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

authors： Liu Y,Satz JS,Vo MN,Nangle LA,Schimmel P,Ackerman SL

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The tips of the digits of some mammals, including human infants and mice, are capable of complete regeneration after injury. This process is reliant on the presence of the overlaying nail organ and is mediated by a proliferative blastema. Epithelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been shown to be necessary for mouse digi...

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

authors： Lehoczky JA,Tabin CJ

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine proteases sequentially activated to form a fibrin clot are inhibited primarily by members of the serpin family, which use a unique beta-sheet expansion mechanism to trap and destroy their targets. Since the discovery that serpins were a family of serine protease inhibitors there has been controversy as to t...

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

authors： Baglin TP,Carrell RW,Church FC,Esmon CT,Huntington JA

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Patients treated with current chemotherapies for non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) have a survival rate of approximately 15% after 5 years. Novel approaches are needed to treat this disease. We show elevated NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase-1 ...

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

authors： Bey EA,Bentle MS,Reinicke KE,Dong Y,Yang CR,Girard L,Minna JD,Bornmann WG,Gao J,Boothman DA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis, a disease caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which is endemic to Latin America, is much more common in men than women, suggesting a role for hormonal factors. We recently showed that two other yeasts possess steroid binding proteins and postulated that these receptor-like molecules repres...

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

authors： Loose DS,Stover EP,Restrepo A,Stevens DA,Feldman D

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25-Hydroxycholesterol is produced in mammalian tissues. The function of this oxysterol is unknown. Here we describe a central role for 25-hydroxycholesterol in regulating the immune system. In initial experiments, we found that stimulation of macrophage Toll-like receptors (TLR) induced expression of cholesterol 25-hy...

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

authors： Bauman DR,Bitmansour AD,McDonald JG,Thompson BM,Liang G,Russell DW

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A graph-theoretic condition is given for the existence of stable solutions to the Volterra-Lotka equations. ...

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

authors： Yorke JA,Anderson WN

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Adrenergic receptors on Friend erythroleukemic cells were identified by the use of 125I-labeled hydroxybenzylpindolol, a potent beta-adrenergic antagonist. Binding of this ligand was saturable and stereospecific. The relative orders of potency of isoproterenol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine to displace bound hy...

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

authors： Schmitt H,Guyaux M,Pochet R,Kram R

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(V)1 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal and cardiac muscle. During the fight-or-flight response, epinephrine released by the adrenal medulla and norepinephrine released from sympathetic nerves increase muscle contractility by activation of the β-adrenergic receptor/cAMP-dependent protein k...

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

authors： Emrick MA,Sadilek M,Konoki K,Catterall WA

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-barrier hydrogen bonds (LBHBs) have been proposed to play roles in protein functions, including enzymatic catalysis and proton transfer. Transient formation of LBHBs is expected to stabilize specific reaction intermediates. However, based on experimental results and theoretical considerations, arguments against th...

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

authors： Yamaguchi S,Kamikubo H,Kurihara K,Kuroki R,Niimura N,Shimizu N,Yamazaki Y,Kataoka M

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified preparations of trp repressor (TrpR) protein derived from Escherichia coli strains that were engineered to overexpress this material were found to contain another protein, of 21 kDa. The second protein, designated WrbA [for tryptophan (W) repressor-binding protein] remained associated with its namesake...

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

authors： Yang W,Ni L,Somerville RL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In sexual populations, selection operates neither on the whole genome, which is repeatedly taken apart and reassembled by recombination, nor on individual alleles that are tightly linked to the chromosomal neighborhood. The resulting interference between linked alleles reduces the efficiency of selection and distorts ...

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

authors： Neher RA,Kessinger TA,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor variable region exons are assembled during lymphocyte development from variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments. Each germ-line gene segment is flanked by recombination signal sequences (RSs). Recombination-activating gene endonuclease initiates V(D)J recombination by cleaving a pair...

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

authors： Zha S,Jiang W,Fujiwara Y,Patel H,Goff PH,Brush JW,Dubois RL,Alt FW

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain pathogenesis characterized by a loss of substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) dopaminergic (DA) neurons, and can be modeled by the neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). Both inflammatory processes and oxidative stress may c...

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

authors： Wu DC,Teismann P,Tieu K,Vila M,Jackson-Lewis V,Ischiropoulos H,Przedborski S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00