Molecular engineering of an efficient four-domain DAF-MCP chimera reveals the presence of functional modularity in RCA proteins.

abstract：:1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase (EC 4.4.1.14), extracted from tomato pericarp tissue, was purified 6500-fold by conventional and high-performance liquid chromatography. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of this preparation indicated that ACC synthase activity was associated with a protein band at 50...

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

authors： Bleecker AB,Kenyon WH,Somerville SC,Kende H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HBc, the capsid-forming "core protein" of human hepatitis B virus (HBV), is a multidomain, α-helical homodimer that aggressively forms human HBV capsids. Structural plasticity has been proposed to be important to the myriad functions HBc mediates during viral replication. Here, we report detailed thermodynamic analyse...

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

authors： Alexander CG,Jürgens MC,Shepherd DA,Freund SM,Ashcroft AE,Ferguson N

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleolinus is an RNA-rich compartment, closely apposed to or embedded within the nucleolus. Discovered over 150 y ago, fewer than two dozen articles have been published on the nucleolinus, probably because complex histochemical stains are required for its visualization in the great majority of cells. The nucleoli...

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

authors： Alliegro MA,Henry JJ,Alliegro MC

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the luminescence system in Beneckea harveyi is controlled by cyclic nucleotides at the level of transcription. In the wild type, it is repressed by exogenously added guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate and this repression is overcome by the addition of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate. These ob...

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

authors： Ulitzur S,Yashphe J,Hastings JW

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are fundamental for human behavior, but the quantification of their neural underpinnings remains challenging. Here, we used hyperscanning functional MRI (fMRI) to study information flow between brains of human dyads during real-time social interaction in a joint attention paradigm. In a hardware se...

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

authors： Bilek E,Ruf M,Schäfer A,Akdeniz C,Calhoun VD,Schmahl C,Demanuele C,Tost H,Kirsch P,Meyer-Lindenberg A

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are of major importance in information processing and memory formation in central neurons. Estradiol has been shown to induce an increase of dendritic spine density on hippocampal neurons in vivo and in vitro. The neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) recently has been implicated in ne...

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

authors： Murphy DD,Cole NB,Segal M

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Node characteristics and behaviors are often correlated with the structure of social networks over time. While evidence of this type of assortative mixing and temporal clustering of behaviors among linked nodes is used to support claims of peer influence and social contagion in networks, homophily may also explain suc...

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

authors： Aral S,Muchnik L,Sundararajan A

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The "WD40" domain is a widespread recognition module for linking partner proteins in intracellular networks of signaling and sorting. The clathrin amino-terminal domain, which directs incorporation of cargo into coated pits, is a beta-propeller closely related in structure to WD40 modules. The crystallographically det...

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

authors： ter Haar E,Harrison SC,Kirchhausen T

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grounding autonomous behavior in the nervous system is a fundamental challenge for neuroscience. In particular, self-organized behavioral development provides more questions than answers. Are there special functional units for curiosity, motivation, and creativity? This paper argues that these features can be grounded...

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

authors： Der R,Martius G

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel technique of modulated photo-dissociation of carbon monoxide from hemoglobin, we have obtained the rates for conversion between the two quaternary states, R, and T, at 3-fold ligation. Our measurements at pH 7 and 22 degrees give rates of 780 +/- 40 sec-1 for going from R to T, and 2500 +/- 200 sec-1 fro...

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

authors： Ferrone FA,Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The callipyge mutation (CLPG) is an A to G transition that affects a muscle-specific long-range control element located in the middle of the 90-kb DLK1-GTL2 intergenic (IG) region. It causes ectopic expression of a 327-kb cluster of imprinted genes in skeletal muscle, resulting in the callipyge muscular hypertrophy an...

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

authors： Takeda H,Caiment F,Smit M,Hiard S,Tordoir X,Cockett N,Georges M,Charlier C

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GATA4 during the earliest stages of cardiogenesis has not been defined because Gata4 knockout embryos suffer an early developmental arrest caused by deficiencies in extraembryonic visceral endoderm function. We have used tetraploid embryo complementation to rescue these defects and generated clonal embryon...

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

authors： Watt AJ,Battle MA,Li J,Duncan SA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin chaperone calreticulin (CRT) assists the folding and quality control of newly synthesized glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It interacts with ERp57, a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase that promotes the formation of disulfide bonds in glycoproteins bound by CRT. Here, we investigated the interac...

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

authors： Frickel EM,Riek R,Jelesarov I,Helenius A,Wuthrich K,Ellgaard L

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins relay extracellular cues from heptahelical transmembrane receptors to downstream effector molecules. Composed of an alpha subunit with intrinsic GTPase activity and a betagamma heterodimer, the trimeric complex dissociates upon receptor-mediated nucleotide exchange on the alpha subunit, enabl...

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

authors： Slep KC,Kercher MA,Wieland T,Chen CK,Simon MI,Sigler PB

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system can integrate foreign sequences of DNA in the genome of mouse somatic cells eliciting long-term expression in vivo. This technology holds great promise for human gene therapy as a nonviral technology to deliver therapeutic genes. SB also provides a means to study the effects ...

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

authors： Carlson CM,Frandsen JL,Kirchhof N,McIvor RS,Largaespada DA

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of functional synaptic connections in a selective manner is essential for nervous system operation. In mammalian retinas, rod and cone photoreceptors form selective synaptic connections with different classes of bipolar cells (BCs) to propagate light signals. While there has been progress in elucidating ...

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

authors： Cao Y,Wang Y,Dunn HA,Orlandi C,Shultz N,Kamasawa N,Fitzpatrick D,Li W,Zeitz C,Hauswirth W,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses undergo a high frequency of genetic alterations during the process of copying their RNA genomes. However, little is known about the replication fidelity of other elements that transpose via reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. The complete sequence of 29 independently integrated copies of the yea...

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

authors： Gabriel A,Willems M,Mules EH,Boeke JD

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in developing selective protein kinase inhibitors by targeting allosteric sites, but these sites often involve protein-protein or protein-peptide interfaces that are very challenging to target with small molecules. Here we present a systematic approach to targeting a functionally conserved allo...

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

authors： Rettenmaier TJ,Sadowsky JD,Thomsen ND,Chen SC,Doak AK,Arkin MR,Wells JA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination is unknown in natural populations of Rivulus marmoratus, a selfing hermaphrodite, and genetic variation is likely due to mutation alone. DNA fingerprinting with an array of microsatellite [e.g., (CT)9] and minisatellite (e.g., the 33.15 core sequence) probes reveals very high clonal diversity within samp...

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

authors： Turner BJ,Elder JF Jr,Laughlin TF,Davis WP,Taylor DS

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate carcinoma is the second leading cause of death from malignancy in men in the United States. Prostate cancer cells express type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) and prostate cancer selectively metastazises to bone, which is an environment rich in insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), thereby suppor...

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

authors： Burfeind P,Chernicky CL,Rininsland F,Ilan J,Ilan J

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A gamma-trace variant protein is the major constituent of the amyloid fibrils in patients from Iceland with hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis. The protein consists of 110 residues and is similar to human urinary gamma-trace basic protein (or cystatin C) beginning at its 11th amino-terminal residue. It ha...

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

authors： Ghiso J,Jensson O,Frangione B

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic. This sheds light on both special purpose structures and "domestic" settlement, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary comm...

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

authors： Finlayson B,Mithen SJ,Najjar M,Smith S,Maričević D,Pankhurst N,Yeomans L

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic reaction networks are formalized by representing chemical species as points in a space and representing reactions by connectivity rules. Using the generalized network, the behavior of the system is investigated under conditions of electronically exciting input and output to a thermal reservoir. Under steady-st...

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

authors： Morowitz HJ

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human aging is accompanied by dramatic changes in daily sleep-wake behavior: Activity shifts to an earlier phase, and the consolidation of sleep and wake is disturbed. Although this daily circadian rhythm is brain-controlled, its mechanism is encoded by cell-autonomous circadian clocks functioning in nearly every cell...

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

authors： Pagani L,Schmitt K,Meier F,Izakovic J,Roemer K,Viola A,Cajochen C,Wirz-Justice A,Brown SA,Eckert A

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transductions by the dual-function CXCR4 and CCR5 chemokine receptors/HIV type 1 (HIV-1) coreceptors were electrophysiologically monitored in Xenopus laevis oocytes that also coexpressed the viral receptor CD4 and a G protein-coupled inward-rectifying K+ channel (Kir 3.1). Large Kir 3.1-dependent currents gener...

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

authors： Madani N,Kozak SL,Kavanaugh MP,Kabat D

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted to mammalian hosts through an arthropod (tick) vector. To establish infection, Bb must acquire essential nutrients, including transition metals, from its mammalian and tick hosts. Thus far, no metal transporter has been identified in Bb. He...

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

authors： Ouyang Z,He M,Oman T,Yang XF,Norgard MV

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathological conditions of the central nervous system involve damage to and removal of myelin membrane. Very little is known about initiation of this membrane damage and the mechanisms of disposal of the damaged tissue. We are interested in the interaction between complement (the components of complement are desi...

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

authors： Vanguri P,Koski CL,Silverman B,Shin ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs) is a classical nonhomologous end-joining (cNHEJ) factor. Loss of DNA-PKcs diminished mature B cell class switch recombination (CSR) to other isotypes, but not IgG1. Here, we show that expression of the kinase-dead DNA-PKcs (DNA-PKcsKD/KD ) severely compr...

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

authors： Crowe JL,Shao Z,Wang XS,Wei PC,Jiang W,Lee BJ,Estes VM,Alt FW,Zha S

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels are critical regulators of neuronal excitability and can be directly activated by ethanol. Constitutive deletion of the GIRK3 subunit has minimal phenotypic consequences, except in response to drugs of abuse. Here we investigated how the GIRK3 subunit contr...

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

authors： Herman MA,Sidhu H,Stouffer DG,Kreifeldt M,Le D,Cates-Gatto C,Munoz MB,Roberts AJ,Parsons LH,Roberto M,Wickman K,Slesinger PA,Contet C

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited single gene defects have been identified in both humans and mice that lead to loss of developmental control over the left-right asymmetry of the heart and viscera. In mice the recessively inherited mutation iv leads to such apparent loss of control over situs: 50% of iv/iv mice exhibit situs inversus and 50%...

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

authors： Brueckner M,D'Eustachio P,Horwich AL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00