Small-molecule covalent bond formation at tyrosine creates a binding site and inhibits activation of Ral GTPases.

abstract：:Glycan-protein interactions are emerging as important modulators of membrane protein organization and dynamics, regulating multiple cellular functions. In particular, it has been postulated that glycan-mediated interactions regulate surface residence time of glycoproteins and endocytosis. How this precisely occurs is ...

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

authors： Torreno-Pina JA,Castro BM,Manzo C,Buschow SI,Cambi A,Garcia-Parajo MF

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell line has been developed from the imaginal wing discs of the lepidopteran insect Trichoplusia ni (Hübner). The cells grow in suspension as fluid-filled, multicellular vesicles. The cell line has been designated IAL-TND1. Two-dimensional electrophoresis (isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylam...

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

authors： Lynn DE,Miller SG,Oberlander H

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delivery of AMPA receptors to the plasma membrane is a critical step both for the synaptic delivery of these receptors and for the regulation of synaptic transmission. To directly visualize fusion events of transport vesicles containing the AMPA receptor GluA2 subunit with the plasma membrane we used pHluorin-tagg...

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

authors： Araki Y,Lin DT,Huganir RL

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of initiation of DNA replication is crucial to ensure that the genome is replicated only once per cell cycle. In the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, the function of the YabA protein in initiation control was assigned based on its interaction with the DnaA initiator and the DnaN sliding clamp ...

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

authors： Noirot-Gros MF,Velten M,Yoshimura M,McGovern S,Morimoto T,Ehrlich SD,Ogasawara N,Polard P,Noirot P

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The rotational strengths of the four longer wavelength transitions, B(2u), B(1u), and the two E(1u), of adenosine derivatives constrained in the syn form have been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The theory combines a complete neglect of differential overlap version S (CNDO/S) description of the base wi...

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

authors： Miles DW,Farmer M,Eyring H

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable effort has been directed toward controlling tuberculosis, which kills almost two million people yearly. High on the research agenda is the discovery of biomarkers of active tuberculosis (TB) for diagnosis and for monitoring treatment outcome. Rational biomarker discovery requires understanding host-pathog...

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

authors： Kunnath-Velayudhan S,Salamon H,Wang HY,Davidow AL,Molina DM,Huynh VT,Cirillo DM,Michel G,Talbot EA,Perkins MD,Felgner PL,Liang X,Gennaro ML

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Downstream placement of a strong transcriptional termination signal has made possible the cloning of bacteriophage T5 promoters known to exhibit high signal strength. The cloning system constructed contains two easily assayable indicator functions whose expression is controlled by the integration of promoters and term...

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

authors： Gentz R,Langner A,Chang AC,Cohen SN,Bujard H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed phenomenology of low energy excitations is a crucial starting point for microscopic understanding of complex materials, such as the cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Because of its unique momentum-space discrimination, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is ideally suited for this task...

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

authors： Vishik IM,Hashimoto M,He RH,Lee WS,Schmitt F,Lu D,Moore RG,Zhang C,Meevasana W,Sasagawa T,Uchida S,Fujita K,Ishida S,Ishikado M,Yoshida Y,Eisaki H,Hussain Z,Devereaux TP,Shen ZX

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based therapies are attractive for revascularizing and regenerating tissues and organs, but clinical trials of endothelial progenitor cell transplantation have not resulted in consistent benefit. We propose a different approach in which a material delivery system is used to create a depot of vascular progenitor c...

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

authors： Silva EA,Kim ES,Kong HJ,Mooney DJ

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of individual RecA-DNA filaments, containing either single-stranded or double-stranded DNA, was followed in real time, and their mechanical properties were characterized with force-measuring laser tweezers. It was found that the stretch modulus of a filament is dominated by its (central) DNA compone...

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

authors： Hegner M,Smith SB,Bustamante C

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The tightly coupled nature of the reaction sequence catalyzed by monoterpene cyclases has precluded direct observation of the topologically required isomerization step leading from geranyl pyrophosphate to the presumptive, enzyme-bound, tertiary allylic intermediate linalyl pyrophosphate, which ultimately cyclizes to ...

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

authors： Wheeler CJ,Croteau RB

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapeutic interventions for the treatment of respiratory infections are hampered by the evolution of multidrug resistance in pathogens as well as the lack of effective cellular targets. Despite the identification of multiple region-specific lung progenitor cells, the identity of molecules that might be thera...

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

authors： Khatri A,Kraft BD,Tata PR,Randell SH,Piantadosi CA,Pendergast AM

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in either of two unlinked genes, RAM1 or RAM2, abolish the farnesyltransferase activity responsible for prenylation of Ras proteins and the a-factor mating pheromone. Here we report that the function of RAM1 and RAM2 genes is required for the membrane localization of Ra...

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

authors： He B,Chen P,Chen SY,Vancura KL,Michaelis S,Powers S

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies on human insulins prepared by semisynthetic and biosynthetic methods have recently been undertaken. Human insulin differs from porcine insulin only at the COOH terminus of the B-chain. The present study reports the crystal structure of 4-zinc human insulin, which is used clinically as a slow-acting prepa...

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

authors： Smith GD,Swenson DC,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Reynolds CD

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a primary degenerative disease of myocardium and is traditionally categorized into hypertrophic and dilated CMs (HCM and DCM) according to its gross appearance. Cardiomyopathic hamster (CM hamster), a representative model of human hereditary CM, has HCM and DCM inbred sublines, both of which des...

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

authors： Sakamoto A,Ono K,Abe M,Jasmin G,Eki T,Murakami Y,Masaki T,Toyo-oka T,Hanaoka F

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated lentivirus strains that are related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops; AGM). Although immunologically related, these SIVagm are clearly distinct from other simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) isolates, including isolates from Macaca mulatta (S...

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

authors： Kraus G,Werner A,Baier M,Binniger D,Ferdinand FJ,Norley S,Kurth R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the evolution of the mammalian sex chromosomes, we have compared the gene content of the X chromosomes in the mammalian groups most distantly related to man (marsupials and monotremes). Previous work established that genes on the long arm of the human X chromosome are conserved on the X chromosomes in a...

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

authors： Watson JM,Spencer JA,Riggs AD,Graves JA

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying the uncertainty for the present climate and the predictions of climate change in the suite of imperfect Atmosphere Ocean Science (AOS) computer models is a central issue in climate change science. Here, a systematic approach to these issues with firm mathematical underpinning is developed through empirical...

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

authors： Majda AJ,Gershgorin B

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Operant conditioning techniques were used to assess how gender and song familiarity affect song discrimination in adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Twenty-five males and females, divided into five cohorts, were trained to discriminate between conspecific songs at different times of year. Males discriminating ...

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

authors： Cynx J,Nottebohm F

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of molecular hydrogen catalyzed by [NiFe] hydrogenases is a widespread mechanism of energy generation among prokaryotes. Biosynthesis of the H2-oxidizing enzymes is a complex process subject to positive control by H2 and negative control by organic energy sources. In this report we describe a novel signal tr...

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

authors： Lenz O,Friedrich B

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have located a positive, cis-acting DNA sequence element within the 5' flanking DNA of the c-myc gene (-125 base pairs). This DNA sequence element has a large purine-pyrimidine strand asymmetry and can assume the H-DNA conformation. A factor with the properties of a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) interacts with this DNA r...

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

authors： Davis TL,Firulli AB,Kinniburgh AJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome is responsible for degradation of substrates of the ubiquitin pathway. 20S proteasomes are cylindrical particles with subunits arranged in a stack of four heptameric rings. The outer rings are composed of alpha subunits, and the inner rings are composed of beta subunits. A well-characterized archaeal pr...

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

authors： Arendt CS,Hochstrasser M

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis for the 200-fold difference in affinity between two hybridoma antibodies specific for the hapten p-azophenylarsonate (Ars) that have diversified by somatic hypermutation was examined. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to sequentially convert the nucleotide sequence of the lower-affinity antibody ...

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

authors： Sharon J

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifamycin antibiotics, which inhibit RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rauscher leuckemia virus, prevent the leukemogenic activity of the virus, and the effect of leukemogenesis correlates with the magnitude of inhibition of the purified enzyme. This inhibition of enzyme activity by rifamycin SV derivatives is due to a r...

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

authors： Wu AM,Ting RC,Gallo RC

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in this study establish that liposome formulations incorporating a synthetic polyethylene glycol-derivatized phospholipid have a pronounced effect on liposome tissue distribution and can produce a large increase in the pharmacological efficacy of encapsulated antitumor drugs. This effect is substa...

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

authors： Papahadjopoulos D,Allen TM,Gabizon A,Mayhew E,Matthay K,Huang SK,Lee KD,Woodle MC,Lasic DD,Redemann C

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of electrogenic events associated with the different steps of the light-induced proton pump of bacteriorhodopsin is well studied in a wide range of time scales by direct electric methods. However, the investigation of the fundamental primary charge translocation phenomena taking place in the functional en...

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

authors： Groma GI,Hebling J,Kozma IZ,Váró G,Hauer J,Kuhl J,Riedle E

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Max gene encodes a protein that interacts specifically with the Myc protein to form a heterodimer with high affinity for the specific cognate DNA binding site of Myc. Here we examine the expression of Max RNA in comparison to Myc RNA during cell growth and differentiation. Two species of RNA, a major 2.0- and a mi...

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

authors： Wagner AJ,Le Beau MM,Diaz MO,Hay N

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the cochlear nuclei of duck embryos become responsive to tonal stimuli in an orderly spatial and temporal sequence. Cells responding to lower frequencies are recorded before those responding to higher frequencies. Auditory neurons are spatially arranged according to their characteristic frequencies, indicat...

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

authors： Konishi M

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic and cDNA clones for the human nerve growth factor receptor have been used in conjunction with somatic cell hybrid analysis and in situ hybridization to localize the nerve growth factor receptor locus to human chromosome region 17q12-q22. Additionally, part, if not all, of the nerve growth factor receptor locus...

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

authors： Huebner K,Isobe M,Chao M,Bothwell M,Ross AH,Finan J,Hoxie JA,Sehgal A,Buck CR,Lanahan A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazides and related diuretics inhibit NaCl reabsorption in the distal tubule through an unknown mechanism. We report here that [3H]metolazone, a diuretic with a thiazide-like mechanism of action, labels a site in rat kidney membranes that has characteristics of the thiazide-sensitive ion transporter. [3H]Metolazone ...

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

authors： Beaumont K,Vaughn DA,Fanestil DD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00