PKCε contributes to lipid-induced insulin resistance through cross talk with p70S6K and through previously unknown regulators of insulin signaling.

abstract：:The catalytic generation of chiral ester enolate equivalents from α,β-unsaturated aldehydes with chiral N-hetereocyclic carbene catalysts makes possible highly enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions. The reactions proceed under simple, mild conditions with both aliphatic and aromatic substituted enals as substr...

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

authors： Kaeobamrung J,Kozlowski MC,Bode JW

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:High-accuracy ab initio folding has remained an elusive objective despite decades of effort. To explore the folding landscape of villin headpiece subdomain HP35, we conducted two sets of replica exchange molecular dynamics for 200 ns each and three sets of conventional microsecond-long molecular dynamics simulations, ...

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

authors： Lei H,Wu C,Liu H,Duan Y

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione, an essential cellular antioxidant required for mitochondrial function, is not synthesized by mitochondria but is imported from the cytosol. Rat liver mitochondria have a multicomponent system that underlies the remarkable ability of mitochondria to take up and retain glutathione. At external glutathione l...

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

authors： Mårtensson J,Lai JC,Meister A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks are widely used in the biological, physical, and social sciences as a concise mathematical representation of the topology of systems of interacting components. Understanding the structure of these networks is one of the outstanding challenges in the study of complex systems. Here we describe a general techniq...

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

authors： Newman ME,Leicht EA

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli DnaJ functions as a typical molecular chaperone in coordination with other heat shock proteins such as DnaK and GrpE in a variety of cellular processes. In this study, it was found that E. coli possesses an analogue of DnaJ, as judged from not only its primary structure but also its possible function....

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

authors： Ueguchi C,Kakeda M,Yamada H,Mizuno T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found that the mutator phenotype of the recA441 and recA730 strains that express the SOS response constitutively is suppressed by pIP1, a high-copy plasmid carrying the dnaQ gene encoding the 3'----5' exonuclease subunit (epsilon) of DNA polymerase III. We have constructed plasmid pIP11, in which the dnaQ ...

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

authors： Jonczyk P,Fijalkowska I,Ciesla Z

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofa...

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

authors： McBride MJ,Pope SR,Hu K,Okafor CD,Balskus EP,Bollinger JM Jr,Boal AK

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a common genetic disorder characterized by excess absorption of dietary iron and progressive iron deposition in several tissues, particularly liver. The vast majority of individuals with HH are homozygous for mutations in the HFE gene. Recently a second transferrin receptor (TFR2) wa...

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

authors： Fleming RE,Ahmann JR,Migas MC,Waheed A,Koeffler HP,Kawabata H,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mus poschiavinus x M. musculus hybrids, which had seven metacentric chromosomes derived from the poschiavinus complement, were repeatedly backcrossed to M. musculus and selected for the chromosome carrying the H-2 complex. A line called T1/Klj was established which had one metacentric chromosome. It was shown by linka...

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

authors： Klein J

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated, cloned, and expressed a male antennae-specific pheromone-degrading enzyme (PDE) [Antheraea polyphemus PDE (ApolPDE), formerly known as Sensillar Esterase] from the wild silkmoth, A. polyphemus, which seems essential for the rapid inactivation of pheromone during flight. The onset of enzymatic activit...

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

authors： Ishida Y,Leal WS

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins are in equilibrium with partially and globally unfolded conformations. In contrast, kinetically stable proteins (KSPs) are trapped by an energy barrier in a specific state, unable to transiently sample other conformations. Among many potential roles, it appears that kinetic stability (KS) is a feature us...

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

authors： Xia K,Manning M,Hesham H,Lin Q,Bystroff C,Colón W

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Truncation selection is known to be the most efficient form of directional selection. When this is modified so that the fitness increases linearly over a range of one or two standard deviations of the value of the selected character, the efficiency is reduced, but not greatly. When truncation selection is compared to ...

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

authors： Crow JF,Kimura M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DBA/2 mice immunized with poly(A).poly(U) complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin and emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant were protected against challenge with Friend leukemia virus. There was no correlation between the level of antibody to the immunogen in the prechallenge serum and induced resistance to ...

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

authors： Nahon-Merlin E,Lacour F,Friend C,Revoltella R

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring the tumor-inducing Ti plasmid incites crown gall tumor on dicotyledonous species. Upon infection of these plants, Ti plasmid DNA sequence is stably transferred (T-DNA) by unknown mechanisms to plant cells to be integrated into nuclear DNA. The T-DNA processing and transfer require t...

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

authors： Usami S,Okamoto S,Takebe I,Machida Y

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea urchins are a major component of recent marine communities where they exert a key role as grazers and benthic predators. However, their impact on past marine organisms, such as crinoids, is hard to infer in the fossil record. Analysis of bite mark frequencies on crinoid columnals and comprehensive genus-level dive...

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

authors： Gorzelak P,Salamon MA,Baumiller TK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine IFN-γ is a critical regulator of immune system development and function. Almost all leukocytes express the receptor for IFN-γ, yet each cell type elicits a different response to this cytokine. Cell type-specific effects of IFN-γ make it difficult to predict the outcomes of the systemic IFN-γ blockade and ...

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

authors： Krummel MF,Mahale JN,Uhl LFK,Hardison EA,Mujal AM,Mazet JM,Weber RJ,Gartner ZJ,Gérard A

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular progenitors of the coronary vasculature are believed to enter the chicken heart during epicardial morphogenesis between stages 17 and 27 (days 3-5) of egg incubation. To trace cells which give rise to the coronary arteries in vivo, we applied retroviral cell tagging procedures and analyzed clonal populations ...

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

authors： Mikawa T,Fischman DA

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella and establishes latency in sensory ganglia. VZV reactivation results in herpes zoster. We developed a model using human dorsal root ganglion (DRG) xenografts in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice to investigate VZV infection of differentiated neurons and satellite...

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

authors： Zerboni L,Ku CC,Jones CD,Zehnder JL,Arvin AM

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two operators, spatially separated from each other and from the promoters, repress the gal operon when bound to Gal repressor. Conversion of either gal operator to a lac operator results in derepression, although both Gal and Lac repressors are present, suggesting that mere occupation of operator sites is not sufficie...

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

authors： Haber R,Adhya S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells that have been immunized to express optimal levels of contact hypersensitivity upon adoptive transfer to normal animals can be inhibited from doing so by incubating them with an antigen-specific T suppressor factor. This factor is composed of at least two subunits which come from cells expressing different Ly ...

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

authors： Ptak W,Rosenstein RW,Gershon RK

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug resistance testing has been shown to be beneficial for clinical management of HIV type 1 infected patients. Whereas phenotypic assays directly measure drug resistance, the commonly used genotypic assays provide only indirect evidence of drug resistance, the major challenge being the interpretation of the sequence...

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

authors： Beerenwinkel N,Schmidt B,Walter H,Kaiser R,Lengauer T,Hoffmann D,Korn K,Selbig J

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PUF proteins control both growth and differentiation in the C. elegans germ line. These conserved RNA-binding proteins inhibit expression of target mRNAs, either by repressing translation or promoting degradation. Previous studies showed that PUF-8, a PUF protein with striking similarity to human Pumilio, prevents ret...

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

authors： Bachorik JL,Kimble J

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms of neural circuit assembly is far from complete. Identification of wiring molecules with novel mechanisms of action will provide insights into how complex and heterogeneous neural circuits assemble during development. In the Drosophila olfactory system, 50 classes of olfactory recep...

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

authors： Xie Q,Wu B,Li J,Xu C,Li H,Luginbuhl DJ,Wang X,Ward A,Luo L

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional activity of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors requires both glutamate binding and the binding of an endogenous coagonist that has been presumed to be glycine, although D-serine is a more potent agonist. Localizations of D-serine and it biosynthetic enzyme serine racemase approximate the distribution of ...

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

authors： Mothet JP,Parent AT,Wolosker H,Brady RO Jr,Linden DJ,Ferris CD,Rogawski MA,Snyder SH

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyproline-containing proteins (hyproproteins) synthesized by cultured human fibroblasts have been partially characterized. The hyproprotein extracted from the cell layer was found to be similar to the collagen extracted from skin in the ratio of hydroxyproline to proline, chain composition, solubility, and re...

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

authors： Layman DL,McGoodwin EB,Martin GR

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a genomic library constructed from sperm DNA of the inbred BALB/c mouse, we previously isolated 54 cosmid clones that contain 36 class I genes and can be divided by restriction map analyses into 13 gene clusters. We have isolated single- and low-copy DNA probes from each of these clusters to visualize restriction...

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

authors： Winoto A,Steinmetz M,Hood L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to retain in an in situ system the control mechanisms involved in synthesis of bacteriophage T4 DNA, infected cells were made permeable to nucleotides by plasmolysis with concentrated sucrose. Such preparations use exogenous deoxyribonucleotides to synthesize T4 phage DNA. As has been observed with in vivo st...

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

authors： Wovcha MG,Tomich PK,Chiu CS,Greenberg GR

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial transposon Tn7 encodes two distinct but overlapping transposition pathways. tnsABC + tnsD promote transposition to a specific site, attTn7, while tnsABC + tnsE promote transposition to many other sites unrelated to attTn7. We have identified a tnsD-dependent DNA binding activity that specifically recogni...

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

authors： Waddell CS,Craig NL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular details of the cyclic actomyosin interaction requires the ability to examine structural changes at specific sites in the actin-binding interface of myosin. To study these changes dynamically, we have expressed two mutants of a truncated fragment of chicken gizzard smooth muscle myosin, whi...

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

authors： Yengo CM,Fagnant PM,Chrin L,Rovner AS,Berger CL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two issues long debated among Pacific and American prehistorians are (i) whether there was a pre-Columbian introduction of chicken (Gallus gallus) to the Americas and (ii) whether Polynesian contact with South America might be identified archaeologically, through the recovery of remains of unquestionable Polynesian or...

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

authors： Storey AA,Ramírez JM,Quiroz D,Burley DV,Addison DJ,Walter R,Anderson AJ,Hunt TL,Athens JS,Huynen L,Matisoo-Smith EA

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00