Structural bases for F plasmid conjugation and F pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:The importance of carbon in Earth's mantle greatly exceeds its modest abundance of approximately 1,000-4,000 ppm. Carbon is a constituent of key terrestrial volatiles (CO, CO(2), CH(4)), it forms diamonds, and it may also contribute to the bulk electrical properties of the silicate Earth. In contrast to that of the ma...

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

authors： Hayden LA,Watson EB

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model for necking and detachment of subducting slabs is developed to include the coupling between grain-sensitive rheology and grain-size evolution with damage. Necking is triggered by thickened buoyant crust entrained into a subduction zone, in which case grain damage accelerates necking and allows for relat...

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

authors： Bercovici D,Schubert G,Ricard Y

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohibitin (PHB)-domain proteins are membrane proteins that regulate a variety of biological activities, including mechanosensation, osmotic homeostasis, and cell signaling, although the mechanism of this regulation is unknown. We have studied two members of this large protein family, MEC-2, which is needed for to...

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

authors： Huber TB,Schermer B,Müller RU,Höhne M,Bartram M,Calixto A,Hagmann H,Reinhardt C,Koos F,Kunzelmann K,Shirokova E,Krautwurst D,Harteneck C,Simons M,Pavenstädt H,Kerjaschki D,Thiele C,Walz G,Chalfie M,Benzing T

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic substances can adopt an amorphous solid or semisolid state, influencing the rate of heterogeneous reactions and multiphase processes in atmospheric aerosols. Here we demonstrate how molecular diffusion in the condensed phase affects the gas uptake and chemical transformation of semisolid organic particles. Flo...

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

authors： Shiraiwa M,Ammann M,Koop T,Pöschl U

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide variations, including SNPs, in the coding regions of disease genes are important targets for RNAi treatment, which is a promising medical treatment for intractable diseases such as triplet repeat diseases. However, the identification of such nucleotide variations and the design of siRNAs conferring disease ...

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

authors： Takahashi M,Watanabe S,Murata M,Furuya H,Kanazawa I,Wada K,Hohjoh H

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used in vitro selection techniques to characterize DNA sequences that are ligated efficiently by T4 RNA ligase. We find that the ensemble of selected sequences ligated about 10 times as efficiently as the random mixture of sequences used as the input for selection. Surprisingly, the majority of the selected se...

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

authors： Harada K,Orgel LE

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential new approach for gene therapy against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is the design of a nonstructural gene-based virion-specific inhibitory molecule that is packaged with virus to destroy its infectivity. We tested this approach for HIV-1 by using Vpx, a virion-associated protein of ...

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

authors： Matsuda Z,Yu X,Yu QC,Lee TH,Essex M

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative vertebrate genome sequencing offers a powerful method for detecting conserved regulatory sequences. We propose that the compact genome of the teleost Fugu rubripes is well suited for this purpose. The evolutionary distance of teleosts from other vertebrates offers the maximum stringency for such evolutiona...

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

authors： Aparicio S,Morrison A,Gould A,Gilthorpe J,Chaudhuri C,Rigby P,Krumlauf R,Brenner S

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic genomes are substantially diverse, even when from closely related species, with the resulting phenotypic diversity representing a repertoire of adaptations to specific constraints. Within the microbial population, genome content may not be fixed, as changing selective forces favor particular phenotypes; ho...

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

authors： Aras RA,Kang J,Tschumi AI,Harasaki Y,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane proteins of peripheral light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) bind chlorophylls and carotenoids and transfer energy to the reaction centers for photosynthesis. LHCs of chlorophytes, chromophytes, dinophytes, and rhodophytes are similar in that they have three transmembrane regions and several highly conserved ...

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

authors： Grabowski B,Cunningham FX Jr,Gantt E

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features that determine tRNA(Ala) acceptor identity have been studied with amber-suppressor tRNAs in Escherichia coli cells. Previous work established that a wobble pair composed of guanosine at position 3 and uridine at position 70 (G3-U70) in the acceptor helix of tRNA(Ala) is a determinant of the mol...

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

authors： McClain WH,Foss K,Jenkins RA,Schneider J

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The method presented here refines molecular conformations directly against projections of single particles measured by electron microscopy. By optimizing the orientation of the projection at the same time as the conformation, the method is well-suited to two-dimensional class averages from cryoelectron microscopy. Suc...

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

authors： Zhang J,Minary P,Levitt M

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the near-infrared absorption spectra of three oxygen compounds of membrane-bound cytochrome oxidase (ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase; EC 1.9.3.1) shows that the formation of compound A (oxycytochrome oxidase) causes no significant infrared absorbance changes at -103 degrees. At -64 degrees, the form...

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

authors： Chance B,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is highly expressed in mammalian skeletal muscle, but its functional role has not been defined. NO has been implicated in the local metabolic regulation of blood flow in contracting skeletal muscle in part by antagonizing sympathetic vasoconstriction. We therefore h...

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

authors： Thomas GD,Sander M,Lau KS,Huang PL,Stull JT,Victor RG

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of cholera toxin to membrane particles prepared from sarcoma 180 cells gives rise to a variety of fragments which are capable of activating adenylate cyclase [ATP:pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1]. A major component of these fragments has an apparent molecular weight in the 8,000-10,000 range. The ...

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

authors： Matuo Y,Wheeler MA,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular clocks have been used to date the divergence of humans and chimpanzees for nearly four decades. Nonetheless, this date and its confidence interval remain to be firmly established. In an effort to generate a genomic view of the human-chimpanzee divergence, we have analyzed 167 nuclear protein-coding genes and...

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

authors： Kumar S,Filipski A,Swarna V,Walker A,Hedges SB

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that recognize the core sequence GATA are important regulators of hematopoietic-specific gene transcription. We have characterized cDNAs encoding the Xenopus laevis homologues of three related transcription factors, designated GATA-1, -2, and -3. Comparative sequence analysis reveals strong conservation of th...

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

authors： Zon LI,Mather C,Burgess S,Bolce ME,Harland RM,Orkin SH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi exists in nature in an enzootic cycle that involves the arthropod vector Ixodes scapularis and mammalian reservoirs. To disseminate within and between these hosts, spirochetes must migrate through complex, polymeric environments such as the basement membrane of the tick...

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

authors： Harman MW,Dunham-Ems SM,Caimano MJ,Belperron AA,Bockenstedt LK,Fu HC,Radolf JD,Wolgemuth CW

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner syndrome and Bloom syndrome result from defects in the RecQ helicases Werner (WRN) and Bloom (BLM), respectively, and display premature aging phenotypes. Similarly, XFE progeroid syndrome results from defects in the ERCC1-XPF DNA repair endonuclease. To gain insight into the origin of cellular senescence and hu...

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

authors： Hagelstrom RT,Blagoev KB,Niedernhofer LJ,Goodwin EH,Bailey SM

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytes are a critical component of the innate immune response in humans and eliminate invading microorganisms through a process known as phagocytosis. Two distinct receptor-linked phagocytic pathways, one with Ab receptors (FcRs; FcR, Fc receptor) and the other complement receptors (CRs), mediate binding and inges...

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

authors： Kobayashi SD,Voyich JM,Buhl CL,Stahl RM,DeLeo FR

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and analyzed a cDNA from the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis encoding a putative receptor, which might be a natural hybrid between two different classes of receptor proteins. Preceded by a signal peptide, two types of repeated sequences are present in the N-terminal part of the...

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

authors： Tensen CP,Van Kesteren ER,Planta RJ,Cox KJ,Burke JF,van Heerikhuizen H,Vreugdenhil E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an "anti-alpha" factor Spx in Bacillus subtilis that blocks transcriptional activation by binding to the alpha-C-terminal domain, thereby...

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

authors： Nakano S,Nakano MM,Zhang Y,Leelakriangsak M,Zuber P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Patients treated with current chemotherapies for non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) have a survival rate of approximately 15% after 5 years. Novel approaches are needed to treat this disease. We show elevated NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase-1 ...

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

authors： Bey EA,Bentle MS,Reinicke KE,Dong Y,Yang CR,Girard L,Minna JD,Bornmann WG,Gao J,Boothman DA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus, a DNA virus infecting acanthamoeba, was for a long time the largest known virus both in terms of particle size and gene content. Its genome encodes 979 proteins, including the first four aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (ArgRS, CysRS, MetRS, and TyrRS) ever found outside of cellular organisms. The discovery that ...

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

authors： Arslan D,Legendre M,Seltzer V,Abergel C,Claverie JM

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The lentiviruses are associated with a wide range of chronic diseases in mammals. These include immunodeficiencies (such as HIV/AIDS in humans), malignancies, and lymphatic and neurological disorders in primates, felids, and a variety of wild and domesticated ungulates. Evolutionary analyses of the genomic sequences o...

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

authors： Katzourakis A,Tristem M,Pybus OG,Gifford RJ

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma-related (RBR) genes inhibit the cell cycle primarily by repressing adenovirus E2 promoter binding factor (E2F) transcription factors, which drive the expression of numerous genes required for DNA synthesis and cell cycle progression. The RBR-E2F pathway is conserved in plants, but cereals such as maize ...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Hoerster G,Lizarraga LE,Brown SW,Gordon-Kamm WJ,Larkins BA

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many distributed collective decision-making processes must balance diverse individual preferences with a desire for collective unity. We report here on an extensive session of behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks of individuals. In each of 81 experiments, 36 human subjects arranged in a virtual network ...

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

authors： Kearns M,Judd S,Tan J,Wortman J

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate that near infrared Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy provides unprecedented biochemical information about the extent of atherosclerosis in human aorta. In particular, elastin, collagen, cholesterol, cholesterol esters, lipids, carotenoids, and calcium apatite deposits all can be discern...

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

authors： Baraga JJ,Feld MS,Rava RP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Y73 strain of avian sarcoma virus recently isolated in Japan is defective in replication and is associated with subgroup A leukosis virus (YAV). The virus caused sarcoma but not acute leukosis when inoculated into chickens. Studies on the viral RNA showed that a 26S RNA, etimated to be 4.8 kilobases long, was Y73 ...

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

authors： Kawai S,Yoshida M,Segawa K,Sugiyama H,Ishizaki R,Toyoshima K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), are of great importance for plant growth and development. BRs signal through a cell surface receptor kinase, BRI1, and a GSK3-like kinase, BIN2, to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which directly bind to target gene promoters to activate or repress...

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

authors： Yu X,Li L,Li L,Guo M,Chory J,Yin Y

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00