Structural dynamics and transient lipid binding of synaptobrevin-2 tune SNARE assembly and membrane fusion.

abstract：:The reactivities of N-iodosuccinimide and iodine with various goitrogenic compounds were studied with dimethylsulfoxide through which nitrogen had been bubbled as a solvent. Although iodine does not react with all of the compounds, N-iodosuccinimide does react with all of them. N-Iodosuccinimide may, therefore, serve ...

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

authors： Jirousek L,Soodak M

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of adult stem cells (SCs) is fundamental for organ maintenance and tissue regeneration. On the body surface, different ectodermal organs exhibit distinctive modes of regeneration and the dynamics of their SC homeostasis remain to be unraveled. A slow cycling characteristic has been used to identify SCs in h...

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

authors： Leung Y,Kandyba E,Chen YB,Ruffins S,Chuong CM,Kobielak K

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has spread worldwide, with millions of cases and more than 1 million deaths to date. The gravity of the situation mandates accelerated efforts to identify safe and effective vaccines. Here, we generated measles virus (M...

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

authors： Hörner C,Schürmann C,Auste A,Ebenig A,Muraleedharan S,Dinnon KH 3rd,Scholz T,Herrmann M,Schnierle BS,Baric RS,Mühlebach MD

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An evolutionary framework for viewing the formation, the stability, the organizational structure, and the social dynamics of biological families is developed. This framework is based upon three conceptual pillars: ecological constraints theory, inclusive fitness theory, and reproductive skew theory. I offer a set of 1...

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

authors： Emlen ST

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (ZmPIPs) fall into two groups, ZmPIP1s and ZmPIP2s, that exhibit different water channel activities when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. ZmPIP1s are inactive, whereas ZmPIP2s induce a marked increase in the membrane osmotic water permeability coefficient, P(f). We previously s...

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

authors： Zelazny E,Borst JW,Muylaert M,Batoko H,Hemminga MA,Chaumont F

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carboxymethylase, an enzyme capable of methylating proteins and polypeptides, was purified from bovine pituitary. The anterior pituitary hormones, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, and prolactin, were found to be substra...

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

authors： Diliberto EJ Jr,Axelrod J

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is controversy over the nature of the disturbance in brain development that underpins attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In particular, it is unclear whether the disorder results from a delay in brain maturation or whether it represents a complete deviation from the template of typical development....

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

authors： Shaw P,Eckstrand K,Sharp W,Blumenthal J,Lerch JP,Greenstein D,Clasen L,Evans A,Giedd J,Rapoport JL

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As global climate continues to warm, melting of glaciers releases a large quantity of mercury (Hg) originally locked in ice into the atmosphere and downstream ecosystems. Here, we show an opposite process that captures atmospheric Hg through glacier-to-vegetation succession. Our study using stable isotope techniques a...

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

authors： Wang X,Luo J,Yuan W,Lin CJ,Wang F,Liu C,Wang G,Feng X

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2(q) mice (DBA/1) do not make an antibody response to a synthetic aminoacid polymer, (Glu, Ala,Tyr(10)), after an immunizing regimen that produces a good antibody response in mouse strains with other H-2 alleles. Their thymocytes, however, show evidence of recognizing this antigen since they synthesize DNA when they...

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

authors： Gershon RK,Maurer PH,Merryman CF

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) and B cells present antigen-derived peptides bound to MHC class II (MHC II) molecules for recognition by CD4-positive T lymphocytes. DCs control the intracellular traffic of peptide-MHC II complexes by regulating the ubiquitination of MHC II. In resting or "immature" DCs, ubiquitinated MHC II mol...

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

authors： Ma JK,Platt MY,Eastham-Anderson J,Shin JS,Mellman I

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many types of ancient bacteria and archea rely on hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) for their energy production, eukaryotes generate ATP in an oxygen-dependent fashion. We hypothesize that endogenous H(2)S remains a regulator of energy production in mammalian cells under stress conditions, which enables the body to co...

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

authors： Fu M,Zhang W,Wu L,Yang G,Li H,Wang R

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collecti...

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

authors： Bongini L,Fanelli D,Piazza F,De Los Rios P,Sandin S,Skoglund U

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Burmese python (Python molurus), the rapid up-regulation of gastrointestinal (GI) function and morphology after feeding, and subsequent down-regulation on completing digestion, are expected to be mediated by GI hormones and neuropeptides. Hence, we examined postfeeding changes in plasma and tissue concentration...

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

authors： Secor SM,Fehsenfeld D,Diamond J,Adrian TE

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling has been implicated in an AP axis polarizing mechanism in most animals, despite limited evidence from arthropods. In the long-germ insect, Drosophila, Wnt signaling is not required for global AP patterning, but in short-germ insects including Tribolium castaneum, loss of Wnt signaling affects d...

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

authors： Fu J,Posnien N,Bolognesi R,Fischer TD,Rayl P,Oberhofer G,Kitzmann P,Brown SJ,Bucher G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of Khoisan populations (southern African hunter-gatherers and pastoral...

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

authors： Pickrell JK,Patterson N,Loh PR,Lipson M,Berger B,Stoneking M,Pakendorf B,Reich D

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf-1 serine/threonine kinase is a key protein involved in the transmission of many growth and developmental signals. In this report, we show that autoinhibition mediated by the noncatalytic, N-terminal regulatory region of Raf-1 is an important mechanism regulating Raf-1 function. The inhibition of the regulatory...

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

authors： Cutler RE Jr,Stephens RM,Saracino MR,Morrison DK

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular transport is based on molecular motors that pull cargos along cytoskeletal filaments. One motor species always moves in one direction, e.g., conventional kinesin moves to the microtubule plus end, whereas cytoplasmic dynein moves to the microtubule minus end. However, many cellular cargoes are observed t...

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

authors： Müller MJ,Klumpp S,Lipowsky R

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major DNA double-strand break repair pathways exist in all eukaryotes, nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). Although both pathways can function throughout the cell cycle, NHEJ predominates in G0/G1) (when a replicated sister chromatid is unavailable), whereas HR makes a more subs...

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

authors： Convery E,Shin EK,Ding Q,Wang W,Douglas P,Davis LS,Nickoloff JA,Lees-Miller SP,Meek K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial barrier disruption is a major cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the cellular and molecular regulation of intestinal epithelial homeostasis remains largely undefined. Here, we show that the C-type lectin receptor LSECtin (Clec4g) on macrophages is required for protection against dextran sul...

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

authors： Yang Z,Li Q,Wang X,Jiang X,Zhao D,Lin X,He F,Tang L

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In layered materials, a common mode of deformation involves buckling of the layers under tensile deformation in the direction perpendicular to the layers. The instability mechanism, which operates in elastic materials from geological to nanometer scales, involves the elastic contrast between different layers. In a reg...

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

authors： Makke A,Perez M,Lame O,Barrat JL

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the monoclinic and orthorhombic crystal structures of the uncomplexed double-stranded, antiparallel, left-handed beta-helix (5.6 amino acid residues per turn) (increases decreases beta 5.6) conformers of gramicidin A reveals marked differences in the tryptophan side-chain orientations and the degree of...

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

authors： Langs DA,Smith GD,Courseille C,Précigoux G,Hospital M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing social-ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific communities. Studies after the MA are taking up new challenges in the basic science needed to assess, project, and manage flows of ecosystem services and ...

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

authors： Carpenter SR,Mooney HA,Agard J,Capistrano D,Defries RS,Díaz S,Dietz T,Duraiappah AK,Oteng-Yeboah A,Pereira HM,Perrings C,Reid WV,Sarukhan J,Scholes RJ,Whyte A

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Here the first reproductive sterility system for the tephritid fruit fly pest, Anastrepha suspensa, is presented, based on lethality primarily limited to embryos heterozygous for a conditional lethal transgene combination. This tetracycline (Tet)-suppressible system uses a driver construct having the promoter from the...

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

authors： Schetelig MF,Handler AM

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for studying protein-induced DNA bends in solution that is based on measuring the sizes of circular DNA molecules by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. These circular fragments are obtained by ligating short synthetic oligonucleotides containing a protein-recognition region in the presenc...

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

authors： Lyubchenko Y,Shlyakhtenko L,Chernov B,Harrington RE

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of structural differences between the brains of men and women, heterosexual and homosexual men, and male-to-female transsexuals and other men have been offered as evidence that the behavioral differences between these groups are likely caused by differences in the early development of the brain. However, a pos...

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

authors： Cooke BM,Tabibnia G,Breedlove SM

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolarization of isolated nerve terminals (synaptosomes) has been shown to stimulate neurotransmitter release and to increase the phosphorylation state of a number of proteins, including synapsin I, in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Synapsin I, a prominent nerve terminal phosphoprotein, interacts with the cytoplasmic surfa...

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

authors： Sihra TS,Wang JK,Gorelick FS,Greengard P

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila Numb is a membrane associated protein of 557 amino acids (aa) that localizes asymmetrically into a cortical crescent in mitotic neural precursor cells and segregates into one of the daughter cells, where it is required for correct cell fate specification. We demonstrate here that asymmetric localization but...

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

authors： Knoblich JA,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygenation of the atmosphere ∼2.45-2.32 billion years ago (Ga) is one of the most significant geological events to have affected Earth's redox history. Our understanding of the timing and processes surrounding this key transition is largely dependent on the development of redox-sensitive proxies, many of which re...

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

authors： Chi Fru E,Rodríguez NP,Partin CA,Lalonde SV,Andersson P,Weiss DJ,El Albani A,Rodushkin I,Konhauser KO

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:High ambient ozone (O3) concentrations are a widespread and persistent problem globally. Although studies have documented the role of forests in removing O3 and one of its precursors, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), the cost effectiveness of using peri-urban reforestation for O3 abatement purposes has not been examined. We de...

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

authors： Kroeger T,Escobedo FJ,Hernandez JL,Varela S,Delphin S,Fisher JR,Waldron J

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00