Molecular basis for two different affinity states of the interleukin 2 receptor: affinity conversion model.

abstract：:The nonlinear nature of integration among cortical brain areas renders the effective connectivity between them inherently dynamic and context-sensitive. One emerging architectural principle of functional brain organization, which rests explicitly on these nonlinear interactions, is that neuronal responses expressed at...

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

authors： Friston KJ,Büchel C

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein delivery to restricted plasma membrane domains is exquisitely regulated at different stages of the cell trafficking machinery. Traffic control involves the recognition of export/retention/retrieval signals in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)/Golgi complex that will determine protein fate. A splice variant (SV), ...

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

authors： Zarei MM,Eghbali M,Alioua A,Song M,Knaus HG,Stefani E,Toro L

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the mechanism of arrest of DNA synthesis at d(TC)n and d(GA)n sequences, single-stranded DNA molecules including d(TC)27 or d(TC)31 tracts or a d(GA)27 tract were used as templates for in vitro assays of complementary DNA synthesis performed by extension of a primer with the Klenow polymerase or the Taq polym...

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

authors： Baran N,Lapidot A,Manor H

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many processes in nature are modeled using compartmental systems (reservoir/pool/box systems). Usually, they are expressed as a set of first-order differential equations describing the transfer of matter across a network of compartments. The concepts of age of matter in compartments and the time required for particles...

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

authors： Metzler H,Müller M,Sierra CA

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the rare initiation triplet AUU on mRNA translation was investigated by comparing the activity of two pairs of model mRNAs that differ in the length of Shine-Dalgarno and spacer sequences. Irrespective of the initiation triplet (AUG or AUU), all mRNAs had similar template activity in vitro, but transl...

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

authors： La Teana A,Pon CL,Gualerzi CO

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest known DNA viruses infect Acanthamoeba and belong to two markedly different families. The Megaviridae exhibit pseudo-icosahedral virions up to 0.7 μm in diameter and adenine-thymine (AT)-rich genomes of up to 1.25 Mb encoding a thousand proteins. Like their Mimivirus prototype discovered 10 y ago, they enti...

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

authors： Legendre M,Bartoli J,Shmakova L,Jeudy S,Labadie K,Adrait A,Lescot M,Poirot O,Bertaux L,Bruley C,Couté Y,Rivkina E,Abergel C,Claverie JM

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse lymphocytic cells of the established line GF-14 were allowed to accumulate intracellular 3H-labeled aminoisobutyric acid (AIB), frozen, and stored over liquid N2. After internal radiation had reduced survival to 1 in 10(4), survivors were plated and tested for their ability to transport AIB. Out of 200 clones te...

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

authors： Finkelstein MC,Slayman CW,Adelberg EA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence resonance energy transfer assay has been developed for monitoring Bacillus anthracis lethal factor (LF) protease activity. A fluorogenic 16-mer peptide based on the known LF protease substrate MEK1 was synthesized and found to be cleaved by the enzyme at the anticipated site. Extension of this work to a...

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

authors： Cummings RT,Salowe SP,Cunningham BR,Wiltsie J,Park YW,Sonatore LM,Wisniewski D,Douglas CM,Hermes JD,Scolnick EM

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A somatic hybrid of ASL-1 leukemia cells [H-2a, thymus leukemia (TL)1,2,3, Thy-1b] and LM(TK)-cells [H-2-k, TL(-), Thy-1 (-), thymidine kinase deficient] was formed with the aid of inactivated Sendai virus. The selection of hybrid cell clones was facilitated by the inability of ASL-1 cells to grow in vitro and of LM(T...

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

authors： Liang W,Cohen EP

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex of Aplysia is caused by presynaptic facilitation at the synapses of the mechanoreceptor sensory neurons of the reflex onto the motor neurons and interneurons. The presynaptic facilitation has been shown to be simulated by serotonin (the putative presynaptic facili...

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

authors： Klein M,Kandel ER

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological roles of estrogen-responsive finger protein (efp) in vivo were evaluated in mice carrying a loss-of-function mutation in efp by gene-targeted mutagenesis. Although efp homozygous mice were viable and fertile in both sexes, the uterus that expressed abundant estrogen receptor alpha exhibited significant ...

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

authors： Orimo A,Inoue S,Minowa O,Tominaga N,Tomioka Y,Sato M,Kuno J,Hiroi H,Shimizu Y,Suzuki M,Noda T,Muramatsu M

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAc is an intracellular posttranslational modification that governs myriad cell biological processes and is dysregulated in human diseases. Despite this broad pathophysiological significance, the biochemical effects of most O-GlcNAcylation events remain uncharacterized. One prevalent hypothesis is that O-GlcNAc m...

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

authors： Toleman CA,Schumacher MA,Yu SH,Zeng W,Cox NJ,Smith TJ,Soderblom EJ,Wands AM,Kohler JJ,Boyce M

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electron microscopy and fitting of crystal structures, we present the 3D reconstruction of ligand-induced dimers of intact receptor tyrosine kinase, KIT. We observe that KIT protomers form close contacts throughout the entire structure of ligand-bound receptor dimers, and that the dimeric receptors adopt multipl...

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

authors： Opatowsky Y,Lax I,Tomé F,Bleichert F,Unger VM,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations with the image tube scanner at the Shane 3-m telescope are combined with data obtained with the International Ultraviolet Explorer to assess the spectrum of the remarkable high-excitation planetary nebula NGC 6537. We have analyzed the spectrum of this nitrogen-rich object with the aid of the theoretical ...

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

authors： Feibelman W,Aller LH,Keyes CD,Czyzak SJ

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins can bind target molecules through either induced fit or conformational selection pathways. In the conformational selection model, a protein samples a scarcely populated high-energy state that resembles a target-bound conformation. In enzymatic catalysis, such high-energy states have been identified as crucial...

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

authors： Kovermann M,Grundström C,Sauer-Eriksson AE,Sauer UH,Wolf-Watz M

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of functional cis-regulatory modules displays extensive sequence conservation in comparisons of genomes from modestly distant species. Patches of sequence that are several hundred base pairs in length within these modules are often seen to be 80-95% identical, although the flanking sequence cannot even be alig...

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

authors： Cameron RA,Chow SH,Berney K,Chiu TY,Yuan QA,Krämer A,Helguero A,Ransick A,Yun M,Davidson EH

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used methods that have allowed simultaneous fluorescent staining of intracellular actin together with either myosin, filamin, or tubulin in normal rat kidney fibroblasts in monolayer culture. In the main portions of the cell body, the actin, myosin, and filamin are all present in two structures: in one, the th...

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

authors： Heggeness MH,Wang K,Singer SJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate ordered orientation of the hydration water at the surface of phospholipid bilayers by use of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy, a highly sensitive vibrational imaging method recently developed. We investigated negatively charged POPS (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-l-ser...

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

authors： Cheng JX,Pautot S,Weitz DA,Xie XS

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) transcription factors regulate genes responsible for critical cellular processes. IkappaBalpha, -beta, and -epsilon bind to NF-kappaBs and inhibit their transcriptional activity. The NF-kappaB-binding domains of IkappaBs contain six ankyrin repeats (ARs), which adopt a beta-hairpin/al...

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

authors： Truhlar SM,Torpey JW,Komives EA

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryogenic fluorescent light microscopy of flash-frozen cells stands out by artifact-free fixation and very little photobleaching of the fluorophores used. To attain the highest level of resolution, aberration-free immersion objectives with accurately matched immersion media are required, but both do not exist for imag...

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

authors： Faoro R,Bassu M,Mejia YX,Stephan T,Dudani N,Boeker C,Jakobs S,Burg TP

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature immunologically competent dendritic cells are the most efficient antigen-presenting cells that powerfully activate T cells and initiate and sustain immune responses. Indeed, dendritic cells are able to efficiently capture antigens, express high levels of costimulatory molecules, and produce the combination of c...

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

authors： Quaratino S,Duddy LP,Londei M

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplexes constituted by closed or open RNA circles paired to single-stranded oligonucleotides terminating with 3'-CCAOH form resected pseudoknots that are substrates of yeast histidyl-tRNA synthetase. Design of this RNA fold is linked to the mimicry of the pseudoknotted amino acid accepting branch of the tRNA-like dom...

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

authors： Felden B,Giegé R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cerebellar granule neurons of neonatal rats micromolar concentrations of 7-chloro-3-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,2, 4-benzothiadiazine S,S-dioxide (IDRA-21) and cyclothiazide, two negative modulators of the spontaneous agonist-dependent rapid desensitization of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA...

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

authors： Impagnatiello F,Oberto A,Longone P,Costa E,Guidotti A

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional interference between genes and the regulatory elements of simple eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an unavoidable consequence of their compressed genetic arrangement. We have shown previously that with the tandem arranged genes GAL10 and GAL7, inefficient transcriptional termination of the...

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

authors： Prescott EM,Proudfoot NJ

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the region on human IgG1 responsible for its high-affinity interaction with the human Fc gamma receptor class I (Fc gamma RI), we have analyzed the binding properties of a series of genetically engineered chimeric antidinitrophenyl antibodies with identical murine antibody combining sites and hybrid Ig...

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

authors： Chappel MS,Isenman DE,Everett M,Xu YY,Dorrington KJ,Klein MH

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally rely on individual models with a specific set of assumptions. To address these single-model limitations, we present standardized ensemble projections...

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

authors： Lotze HK,Tittensor DP,Bryndum-Buchholz A,Eddy TD,Cheung WWL,Galbraith ED,Barange M,Barrier N,Bianchi D,Blanchard JL,Bopp L,Büchner M,Bulman CM,Carozza DA,Christensen V,Coll M,Dunne JP,Fulton EA,Jennings S,Jones MC,

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In target tissue extracts, heat shock protein hsp90 has been found associated to all unliganded steroid receptors. Modulation of important functions of these receptors, including prevention of DNA binding and optimization of transcriptional activity, has been attributed to hsp90. However no unequivocal in vivo demonst...

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

authors： Kang KI,Devin J,Cadepond F,Jibard N,Guiochon-Mantel A,Baulieu EE,Catelli MG

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Each person's genome sequence has thousands of missense variants. Practical interpretation of their functional significance must rely on computational inferences in the absence of exhaustive experimental measurements. Here we analyzed the efficacy of these inferences in 33 de novo missense mutations revealed by sequen...

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

authors： Miosge LA,Field MA,Sontani Y,Cho V,Johnson S,Palkova A,Balakishnan B,Liang R,Zhang Y,Lyon S,Beutler B,Whittle B,Bertram EM,Enders A,Goodnow CC,Andrews TD

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants produce a wide range of allelochemicals to defend against herbivore attack, and generalist herbivores have evolved mechanisms to avoid, sequester, or detoxify a broad spectrum of natural defense compounds. Successful arthropod pests have also developed resistance to diverse classes of pesticides and this adapta...

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

authors： Dermauw W,Wybouw N,Rombauts S,Menten B,Vontas J,Grbic M,Clark RM,Feyereisen R,Van Leeuwen T

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00