A heuristic derived from analysis of the ion channel structural proteome permits the rapid identification of hydrophobic gates.

abstract：:Unlike normal cells, malignant rat and two simian virus 40-transformed human cell lines can neither grow nor survive in B12-and folate-supplemented media in which methionine is replaced by homocysteine. Yet three lines of evidence indicate that the malignant and transformed cells synthesize large amounts of methionine...

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

authors： Hoffman RM,Erbe RW

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 (ROS1) is a DNA demethylation enzyme that was previously identified during a genetic screen for the silencing of both RD29A-LUC and 35S-NPTII transgenes on a T-DNA construct. Here we performed a genetic screen to identify additional mutants in which the 35S-NPTII transgene is silenced. We iden...

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

authors： Li X,Qian W,Zhao Y,Wang C,Shen J,Zhu JK,Gong Z

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-binding DNA sequence elements encode a variety of regulated functions of genomes. Information about such elements is currently in a state of rapid growth, but improved methods are required to characterize the sequence specificity of DNA-binding proteins. We have established an in vitro method for specific and ...

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

authors： Gustafsdottir SM,Schlingemann J,Rada-Iglesias A,Schallmeiner E,Kamali-Moghaddam M,Wadelius C,Landegren U

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that initiation of translation involves several steps. (i) Binding of fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit in the absence of messenger RNA, yielding a 34S complex. This binding is rapid and dependent on initiation factor 2 but not on initiation factor 3. (ii) Binding of messenger RNA to t...

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

authors： Jay G,Kaempfer R

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the recently identified murMN operon in penicillin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae was shown already to cause two major effects: elimination of branched-structured muropeptides from the cell wall and complete loss of penicillin resistance. We now show that cells with inactivated murMN als...

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

authors： Filipe SR,Severina E,Tomasz A

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report free-standing atomic crystals that are strictly 2D and can be viewed as individual atomic planes pulled out of bulk crystals or as unrolled single-wall nanotubes. By using micromechanical cleavage, we have prepared and studied a variety of 2D crystals including single layers of boron nitride, graphite, sever...

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

authors： Novoselov KS,Jiang D,Schedin F,Booth TJ,Khotkevich VV,Morozov SV,Geim AK

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The human eosinophil differentiation factor (EDF) gene was cloned from a genomic library in lambda phage EMBL3A by using a murine EDF cDNA clone as a probe. The DNA sequence of a 3.2-kilobase BamHI fragment spanning the gene was determined. The gene contains three introns. The predicted amino acid sequence of 134 amin...

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

authors： Campbell HD,Tucker WQ,Hort Y,Martinson ME,Mayo G,Clutterbuck EJ,Sanderson CJ,Young IG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin VI is a molecular motor implicated in many processes, and it likely associates with a variety of cargoes that specify its functions. Although it is critical to Drosophila development, little is known about its cellular roles. To reveal its involvement in specific pathways, we sought to identify the binding part...

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

authors： Finan D,Hartman MA,Spudich JA

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an adaptation of the hydroxyl radical DNA "footprinting" technique that permits high-resolution mapping of protected regions of RNA. Hydroxyl radical cleaves RNA independently of base sequence and secondary structure of the RNAs examined and allows resolution of protected regions at the single nucleotide le...

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

authors： Wang XD,Padgett RA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of calmodulin (CaM) on target proteins is important for a variety of cellular functions. We demonstrate here, however, that the presence of a CaM-binding site on a protein does not necessarily imply a functional effect. The alpha-subunit of the cGMP-gated cation channel of human retinal cones has a CaM-bind...

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

authors： Grunwald ME,Zhong H,Lai J,Yau KW

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin-8 (TRPM8), a recently identified member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of ion channels, is activated by mild cooling and by chemical compounds such as the supercooling agent, icilin. Since cooling, possibly involving TRPM8 stimulation, diminishes injury-induced...

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

authors： Ramachandran R,Hyun E,Zhao L,Lapointe TK,Chapman K,Hirota CL,Ghosh S,McKemy DD,Vergnolle N,Beck PL,Altier C,Hollenberg MD

更新日期：2013-04-30 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：: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：:Recombination between unirradiated chromosomes was induced by UV or x-ray irradiation of haploids followed by a mating with heteroallelic diploids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The selected event of intragenic recombination did not involve the participation of the irradiated chromosome and apparently was not caused by ...

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

authors： Fabre F,Roman H

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other guanine nucleotide-exchange proteins (GEPs) that activate ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPases, brefeldin A-inhibited GEP2, BIG2, contains an approximately 200-aa Sec7 domain that is responsible for this catalytic activity and its inhibition by brefeldin A. The Sec7 domain is located near the center of the...

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

authors： Li H,Adamik R,Pacheco-Rodriguez G,Moss J,Vaughan M

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive flexibility depends on a fast neural learning mechanism for enhancing momentary relevant over irrelevant information. A possible neural mechanism realizing this enhancement uses fast spiking interneurons (FSIs) in the striatum to train striatal projection neurons to gate relevant and suppress distracting cor...

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

authors： Banaie Boroujeni K,Oemisch M,Hassani SA,Womelsdorf T

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The endosperm of cereal grains is one of the most valuable products of modern agriculture. Cereal endosperm development comprises different phases characterized by mitotic cell proliferation, endoreduplication, the accumulation of storage compounds, and programmed cell death. Although manipulation of these processes c...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Liu Y,Dante RA,Lizarraga LE,Nguyen HN,Brown SW,Klingler JP,Yu J,LaBrant E,Layton TM,Feldman M,Larkins BA

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its theoretical prominence and sound principles, integrated pest management (IPM) continues to suffer from anemic adoption rates in developing countries. To shed light on the reasons, we surveyed the opinions of a large and diverse pool of IPM professionals and practitioners from 96 countries by using structur...

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

authors： Parsa S,Morse S,Bonifacio A,Chancellor TC,Condori B,Crespo-Pérez V,Hobbs SL,Kroschel J,Ba MN,Rebaudo F,Sherwood SG,Vanek SJ,Faye E,Herrera MA,Dangles O

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-su...

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

authors： Colnot S,Decaens T,Niwa-Kawakita M,Godard C,Hamard G,Kahn A,Giovannini M,Perret C

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Turkey erythrocyte membranes showed specific binding of [(3)H]epinephrine. The concentration of hormone required for half-maximal binding (30 muM) was the same as that required for half-maximal activation of the adenylate cyclase located in the same membrane preparation. The binding reaction at 37 degrees C reached co...

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

authors： Schramm M,Feinstein H,Naim E,Lang E,Lasser M

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown in an earlier paper how to connect, in principle, the biochemical states of a cross-bridge with the mechanics of muscular contraction, by the methods of statistical mechanics. The treatment applies to cross-bridges that are able to interact with only one actin site at a time. The present paper shows that ...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of mouse metallothionein (MT)-I and MT-II is transcriptionally induced by the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (DEX) or both in vivo as well as in numerous cell lines. However, the location(s) of a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) has not been described. The observation that a marked MT-I gene, a...

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

authors： Kelly EJ,Sandgren EP,Brinster RL,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts can condense a hydrated collagen lattice to a tissue-like structure 1/28th the area of the starting gel in 24 hr. The rate of the process can be regulated by varying the protein content of the lattice, the cell number, or the concentration of an inhibitor such as Colcemid. Fibroblasts of high population do...

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

authors： Bell E,Ivarsson B,Merrill C

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rev protein of HIV-1, which facilitates the nuclear export of HIV-1 pre-mRNAs, has been a target for antiviral therapy. Here we describe a new strategy for inhibiting Rev function and HIV-1 replication. In contrast to previous approaches, we use a wild-type rather than a mutant Rev protein and covalently link this...

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

authors： Qian XY,Chen ZY,Zhang J,Rabson AB,Krug RM

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers' reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013-2014. Usi...

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

authors： Nittrouer CL,Hebl MR,Ashburn-Nardo L,Trump-Steele RCE,Lane DM,Valian V

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-actinin-4 is a widely expressed protein that employs an actin-binding site with two calponin homology domains to crosslink actin filaments (F-actin) in a Ca(2+)-sensitive manner in vitro. An inherited, late-onset form of kidney failure is caused by point mutations in the alpha-actinin-4 actin-binding domain. Her...

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

authors： Weins A,Schlondorff JS,Nakamura F,Denker BM,Hartwig JH,Stossel TP,Pollak MR

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The human renin gene was isolated from a Charon 4A human genomic library and characterized. The gene spans about 11.7 kilobases and consists of 10 exons and 9 introns that map at points that could be variable surface loops of the enzyme. The complete coding regions, the 5'- and 3'-flanking regions, and the exon-intron...

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

authors： Miyazaki H,Fukamizu A,Hirose S,Hayashi T,Hori H,Ohkubo H,Nakanishi S,Murakami K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit accumulate the red carotenoid pigment lycopene. The recessive mutation yellow-flesh (locus r) in tomato eliminates fruit carotenoids by disrupting the activity of the fruit-specific phytoene synthase (PSY1), the first committed step in the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway. Fruits of ...

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

authors： Kachanovsky DE,Filler S,Isaacson T,Hirschberg J

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) must select the correct nucleotide, catalyze its addition to the growing RNA transcript, and move stepwise along the DNA until a gene is fully transcribed. In all kingdoms of life, transcription must be finely tuned to ensure an appropriate balance between fidelity and ...

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

authors： Larson MH,Zhou J,Kaplan CD,Palangat M,Kornberg RD,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00