Parkinson's disease-associated iPLA2-VIA/PLA2G6 regulates neuronal functions and α-synuclein stability through membrane remodeling.

abstract：:Models of the Fv portion (containing the variable regions of the heavy and light chains) of two monoclonal anti-alpha (1----6)dextran antibodies, W3129 and 19.1.2, were constructed from amino acid sequences and the known three-dimensional structures of the Fv portions of McPC603 and J539. The modeled combining site of...

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

authors： Padlan EA,Kabat EA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In signal-recognition particle (SRP)-dependent protein targeting to the bacterial plasma membrane, two GTPases, Ffh (a subunit of the bacterial SRP) and FtsY (the bacterial SRP receptor), act as GTPase activating proteins for one another. The molecular mechanism of this reciprocal GTPase activation is poorly understoo...

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

authors： Shan SO,Walter P

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-mediated particle interactions depend both on the properties of the particles themselves and the membrane environment in which they are suspended. Experiments have shown that chiral rod-like inclusions dissolved in a colloidal membrane of opposite handedness assemble into colloidal rafts, which are finite-siz...

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

authors： Miller JM,Joshi C,Sharma P,Baskaran A,Baskaran A,Grason GM,Hagan MF,Dogic Z

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic activity of low-dimensional electrocatalysts is highly dependent on their local atomic structures, particularly those less-coordinated sites found at edges and corners; therefore, a direct probe of the electrocatalytic current at specified local sites with true nanoscopic resolution has become critically...

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

authors： Sun T,Wang D,Mirkin MV,Cheng H,Zheng JC,Richards RM,Lin F,Xin HL

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of lutropin (LH; luteinizing hormone) alpha and beta subunits was examined in rat pituitaries incubated with [35S]methionine or [35S]sulfate. Combination was assessed by using antiserum directed against the beta subunit. The data show that combination of most of the subunits proceeds rapidly, well befo...

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

authors： Hoshina H,Boime I

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the left and right human cerebral hemispheres differ both functionally and anatomically, little is known about the environmental or genetic factors that govern central nervous system asymmetry. Nevertheless, cerebral asymmetry is strongly correlated with handedness, and handedness does have a significant gene...

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

authors： Geschwind DH,Miller BL,DeCarli C,Carmelli D

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A major calmodulin-binding protein (CaM-BP) of Mr 240,000 was demonstrated in various rat tissues by using a 125I-labeled CaM gel overlay technique. This protein (designated p240) was detected in the particulate fraction and to a lesser extent in the cytosol of all tissues studied. Binding of CaM to p240 was completel...

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

authors： Palfrey HC,Schiebler W,Greengard P

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short noncoding RNAs that regulate protein-coding genes posttranscriptionally. In animals, most known miRNA targeting occurs within the 3'UTR of mRNAs, but the extent of biologically relevant targeting in the ORF or 5'UTR of mRNAs remains unknown. Here, we develop an algorithm (MinoTa...

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

authors： Schnall-Levin M,Zhao Y,Perrimon N,Berger B

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier reported conditions that support the axenic development in vitro of a complete asexual erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum. Up to 30% of merozoites showed initial differentiation into trophic forms (rings) viable at 14 hr. However, only approximately 1% of the merozoites would develop further i...

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

authors： Williams JH,Gill GS,Trager W

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with a lesion to the primary visual cortex (V1) show "blindsight": the remarkable ability to guess correctly about attributes of stimuli presented to the blind hemifield. Here, we show that blindsight can be induced in normal observers by using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital cortex bu...

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

authors： Jolij J,Lamme VA

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin regulates the proliferation and differentiation of erythroid precursor cells. Its effect is mediated by the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR), a member of a large family of cytokine receptors. The EPOR gene has recently been cloned, sequenced, and characterized. As shown experimentally, its intracellular C...

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

authors： de la Chapelle A,Träskelin AL,Juvonen E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous fluorescence-based assay is described for measuring helicase-mediated unwinding of duplex DNA. The assay utilizes an oligonucleotide substrate containing the fluorescent adenine analog, 2-aminopurine, at regular intervals. 2-Aminopurine forms a Watson-Crick-type base pair with thymine and does not distort...

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

authors： Raney KD,Sowers LC,Millar DP,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of biomolecular isomerization processes, such as protein folding, is governed by a free-energy surface of high dimensionality and complexity. As an alternative to projections into one or two dimensions, the free-energy surface can be mapped into a weighted network where nodes and links are configurations ...

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

authors： Gfeller D,De Los Rios P,Caflisch A,Rao F

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological expression cloning of antigens eliciting a humoral immune response to a syngeneic mouse sarcoma identified pem (mouse placenta and embryonic expression gene) as a new member of the cancer/testis family. To identify the human homologue of pem, mouse pem sequences and pem-related expressed sequence tags from...

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

authors： Ono T,Kurashige T,Harada N,Noguchi Y,Saika T,Niikawa N,Aoe M,Nakamura S,Higashi T,Hiraki A,Wada H,Kumon H,Old LJ,Nakayama E

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Network theory provides a powerful tool for the representation and analysis of complex systems of interacting agents. Here, we investigate the U.S. House of Representatives network of committees and subcommittees, with committees connected according to "interlocks," or common membership. Analysis of this network revea...

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

authors： Porter MA,Mucha PJ,Newman ME,Warmbrand CM

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular junctions are essentially modified electrodes familiar to electrochemists where the electrolyte is replaced by a conducting "contact." It is generally hypothesized that changing molecular structure will alter system energy levels leading to a change in the transport barrier. Here, we show the conductance of ...

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

authors： Sayed SY,Fereiro JA,Yan H,McCreery RL,Bergren AJ

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory stretches over a lifetime. In controlled laboratory settings, the hippocampus and other medial temporal lobe brain structures have been shown to represent space and time on the scale of meters and seconds. It remains unclear whether the hippocampus also represents space and time over the longer scales necessary...

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

authors： Nielson DM,Smith TA,Sreekumar V,Dennis S,Sederberg PB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line missense mutations of the receptor-like tyrosine kinase ret are the causative genetic event of the multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 2A and type 2B syndromes and of the familial medullary thyroid carcinoma. We have used the rat pheochromocytoma cell line, PC12, as a model system to investigate the mech...

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

authors： Califano D,D'Alessio A,Colucci-D'Amato GL,De Vita G,Monaco C,Santelli G,Di Fiore PP,Vecchio G,Fusco A,Santoro M,de Franciscis V

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sal-like 4 (SALL4) is a nuclear factor central to the maintenance of stem cell pluripotency and is a key component in hepatocellular carcinoma, a malignancy with no effective treatment. In cancer cells, SALL4 associates with nucleosome remodeling deacetylase (NuRD) to silence tumor-suppressor genes, such as PTEN. Here...

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

authors： Liu BH,Jobichen C,Chia CSB,Chan THM,Tang JP,Chung TXY,Li J,Poulsen A,Hung AW,Koh-Stenta X,Tan YS,Verma CS,Tan HK,Wu CS,Li F,Hill J,Joy J,Yang H,Chai L,Sivaraman J,Tenen DG

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:FK506-binding protein 52 (FKBP52), which binds FK506 and possesses peptidylprolyl isomerase activity, is an important immunophilin involved in the heterocomplex of steroid receptors with heat-shock protein 90. Here we report the crystal structures of two overlapped fragments [N(1-260) and C(145-459)] of FKBP52 and the...

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

authors： Wu B,Li P,Liu Y,Lou Z,Ding Y,Shu C,Ye S,Bartlam M,Shen B,Rao Z

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine nitrogen fixing microorganisms (diazotrophs) are a major source of nitrogen to open ocean ecosystems and are predicted to be limited by iron in most marine environments. Here we use global and targeted proteomic analyses on a key unicellular marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii to reveal large scale diel...

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

authors： Saito MA,Bertrand EM,Dutkiewicz S,Bulygin VV,Moran DM,Monteiro FM,Follows MJ,Valois FW,Waterbury JB

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lod scores provide a method to unify linkage tests based on identity by descent and identity in marker state while permitting selection of the most informative individuals through their disease-related phenotypes and markers in relatives. After parametric lods are reviewed, a nonparametric approach that depends on a s...

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

authors： Morton NE

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in clinically important bacteria can be mediated by target protection mechanisms, whereby a protein binds to the drug target and protects it from the inhibitory effects of the antibiotic. The most prevalent source of clinical resistance to the antibiotic fusidic acid (FA) is expression of the Fus...

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

authors： Tomlinson JH,Kalverda AP,Calabrese AN

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:During sporulation of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, transcription of genes encoding spore coat proteins in the mother-cell compartment of the sporangium is controlled by RNA polymerase containing the sigma subunit called sigma K. Based on comparison of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of sigma K wit...

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

authors： Lu S,Halberg R,Kroos L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a defining characteristic of most human cancers. Mutation of CIN genes increases the probability that whole chromosomes or large fractions of chromosomes are gained or lost during cell division. The consequence of CIN is an imbalance in the number of chromosomes per cell (aneuploidy) a...

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

authors： Nowak MA,Komarova NL,Sengupta A,Jallepalli PV,Shih IeM,Vogelstein B,Lengauer C

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa infects every type of host that has been examined by deploying multiple virulence factors. Previous studies of virulence regulation have largely focused on chemical cues, but P. aeruginosa may also respond to mechanical cues. Using a rapid imaging-based virulence assay, we demonstrate that P. ae...

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

authors： Siryaporn A,Kuchma SL,O'Toole GA,Gitai Z

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-water conditions have excluded durophagous (skeleton-breaking) predators from the Antarctic seafloor for millions of years. Rapidly warming seas off the western Antarctic Peninsula could now facilitate their return to the continental shelf, with profound consequences for the endemic fauna. Among the likely first ...

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

authors： Aronson RB,Smith KE,Vos SC,McClintock JB,Amsler MO,Moksnes PO,Ellis DS,Kaeli J,Singh H,Bailey JW,Schiferl JC,van Woesik R,Martin MA,Steffel BV,Deal ME,Lazarus SM,Havenhand JN,Swalethorp R,Kjellerup S,Thatje S

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that polyelectrolyte complexes and coacervates can form on mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, due to mainly electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged polymers. Here, we report the first (to the best of our knowledge) complexation and coacervation of two posi...

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

authors： Kim S,Huang J,Lee Y,Dutta S,Yoo HY,Jung YM,Jho Y,Zeng H,Hwang DS

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00