Atomistic structure and dynamics of the human MHC-I peptide-loading complex.

abstract：:Cavitation, known as the formation of vapor bubbles when liquids are under tension, is of great interest both in condensed matter science as well as in diverse applications such as botany, hydraulic engineering, and medicine. Although widely studied in bulk and microscale-confined liquids, cavitation in the nanoscale ...

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

authors： Duan C,Karnik R,Lu MC,Majumdar A

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-helix secondary structural model is proposed for eukaryotic cytoplasmic 5S rRNA. All available sequence data are consistent with this model including those from Chlorella 5S rRNA whose sequence is revised by data included here. Various architectural features of eukaryotic 5S rRNA are summarized in terms of this...

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

authors： Luehrsen KR,Fox GE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides with site-specific modifications have been used as substrates for Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I holoenzyme and Klenow fragment. Modifications included the bulky guanine-8-aminofluorene adduct and a guanine oxidation product resembling the product of photosensitized DNA oxidation. By a com...

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

authors： O'Connor D,Stöhrer G

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt production and trade is thought to be critical to the development of all states and emergent empires. Until now, however, scientific evidence of early salt production has rarely been presented, and no studies of early Chinese salt production have provided unequivocal proof. Here, we report x-ray fluorescence, x-r...

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

authors： Flad R,Zhu J,Wang C,Chen P,von Falkenhausen L,Sun Z,Li S

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:I have determined the nucleotide sequence of the ampicillin resistance gene of pBR322, an Escherichia coli plasmid that encodes a penicillin beta-lactamase. This gene codes for a protein of 286 amino acid residues. The first 23 amino acids presumably form a signal for secretion, because they do not appear in the matur...

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

authors： Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human retinoic acid receptor (hRAR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates the transcription of target genes in a ligand-dependent manner. The three hRAR isotypes are targets for retinoids that are used in the treatment of various diseases, including breast cancer and skin diseases. Drug ef...

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

authors： Klaholz BP,Mitschler A,Belema M,Zusi C,Moras D

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding biological and physical processes involving nucleic acids, such as the binding of proteins to DNA and RNA, DNA condensation, and RNA folding, requires an understanding of the ion atmosphere that surrounds nucleic acids. We have used a simple model DNA system to determine how the ion atmosphere modulates ...

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

authors： Bai Y,Das R,Millett IS,Herschlag D,Doniach S

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthase [succinyl-CoA:glycine C-succinyltransferase (decarboxylating), EC 2.3.1.37] activity was detected in cell extracts of the unicellular green flagellate alga Euglena gracilis. The enzyme was identified by substrate and cofactor requirements, and activity was proportional to numbe...

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

authors： Beale SI,Foley T,Dzelzkalns V

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inwardly rectifying, ATP-regulated K+ channel with a distinctive molecular architecture, ROMK1, was recently cloned from rat kidney. Using patch clamp techniques, we have investigated the regulation of ROMK1 with particular emphasis on phosphorylation/dephosphorylation processes. Spontaneous channel rundown occurre...

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

authors： McNicholas CM,Wang W,Ho K,Hebert SC,Giebisch G

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structure of the Head module, one-third of the Mediator of transcriptional regulation, has been determined as a complex with the C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II. The structure reveals multiple points of interaction with an extended conformation of the CTD; it suggests a basis for regulat...

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

authors： Robinson PJ,Bushnell DA,Trnka MJ,Burlingame AL,Kornberg RD

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:By harnessing the oxidative power of microorganisms, energy can be recovered from reservoirs of less-concentrated organic matter, such as marine sediment, wastewater, and waste biomass. Left unmanaged, these reservoirs can become eutrophic dead zones and sites of greenhouse gas generation. Here, we introduce a unique ...

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

authors： Xie X,Ye M,Hsu PC,Liu N,Criddle CS,Cui Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutS gene product is involved in mismatch correction in this organism. We have purified a biologically active form of the 97,000 Mr protein to near homogeneity from an overproducing strain. Enzymatic and chemical protection ("footprinting") experiments have demonstrated that mutS-encoded protein s...

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

authors： Su SS,Modrich P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) by phorbol ester facilitates hormonal secretion and transmitter release, and phorbol ester-induced synaptic potentiation (PESP) is a model for presynaptic facilitation. A variety of PKC isoforms are expressed in the central nervous system, but the isoform involved in the PESP has n...

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

authors： Saitoh N,Hori T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (ferrocytochrome c: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1) has been resolved into a pair of complexes of unequal molecular weight. The larger complex (electron transfer complex) contains exclusively the oxidation-reduction proteins characteristic of cytochrome oxidase; the smaller complex (ion transfe...

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

authors： Fry M,Vande Zande H,Green DE

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts t...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Chandler D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In addition to its importance in human health, there is growing interest in adapting HBV and other viruses for drug delivery and other nanotechnological applications. In both contexts, precise biophysical characterization of these large macromolecular particles is fun...

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

authors： Uetrecht C,Versluis C,Watts NR,Roos WH,Wuite GJ,Wingfield PT,Steven AC,Heck AJ

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine if neurons in the estrogen receptor-alpha knockout (ERalphaKO) mouse brain concentrated 16alpha-[125I]iodo-11beta-methoxy-17beta-estradiol (125I-estrogen), and if so, whether estrogen binding augmented the expression of progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA. Mice were injected with 125I-est...

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

authors： Shughrue PJ,Lubahn DB,Negro-Vilar A,Korach KS,Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles (NPs) wrapped in a membrane can be utilized as artificial virus nanoparticles (AVNs) that combine the large nonblinking or bleaching optical cross-section of the NP core with the biological surface properties and functionalities provided by a self-assembled lipid membrane. We used these hybrid nanom...

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

authors： Xu F,Bandara A,Akiyama H,Eshaghi B,Stelter D,Keyes T,Straub JE,Gummuluru S,Reinhard BM

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA, cRKIN1, encoding a putative homologue of the yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) SNF1-encoded protein-serine/threonine kinase, has been isolated from a library prepared from rye endosperm mRNA. Northern blot analysis demonstrated the presence of cRKIN1-related transcripts in developing endosperms but not in shoot...

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

authors： Alderson A,Sabelli PA,Dickinson JR,Cole D,Richardson M,Kreis M,Shewry PR,Halford NG

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory is a hallmark of adaptive immunity, and understanding T cell memory will be central to the development of effective cell-mediated vaccines. The characteristics and functions of CD4 memory cells have not been well defined. Here we demonstrate that the increased size of the secondary response is sol...

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

authors： MacLeod MK,McKee A,Crawford F,White J,Kappler J,Marrack P

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy adults, activation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) and glycine receptors inhibits neurons as a result of low intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl(-)](i)), which is maintained by the potassium-chloride cotransporter KCC2. A reduction of KCC2 expression or function is implicated in the pathogenesis of s...

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

authors： Bos R,Sadlaoud K,Boulenguez P,Buttigieg D,Liabeuf S,Brocard C,Haase G,Bras H,Vinay L

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein encoded by the GAL4 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae binds to DNA upstream of several genes and activates transcription. To try to understand these processes, we have undertaken a genetic analysis of GAL4. Here we report that nearly all missense mutations in GAL4, selected in vivo to lack functio...

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

authors： Johnston M,Dover J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for selection of temperature-sensitive mutants affecting fatty-acid synthesis based upon radiation suicide of wild-type organisms by tritiated acetate selectively incorporated into fatty acids. At 37 degrees , two of the mutants extensively incorporate fatty-acid supplements provided in the me...

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

authors： Harder ME,Beacham IR,Cronan JE Jr,Beacham K,Honegger JL,Silbert DF

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, the necessary conditions for the collapse from a random-coil denatured state to a structurally unique four-member beta-barrel native state of a model globular protein have been investigated. These systems are free to roam through all of configuration space--both native ...

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

authors： Skolnick J,Kolinski A,Yaris R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies can block cellular interactions that negatively regulate T-cell immune responses, such as CD80/CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD1-L, amplifying preexisting immunity and thereby evoking antitumor immune responses. Ibrutinib, an approved therapy for B-cell malignancies, is a covalent inhibitor of BTK, a member of...

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

authors： Sagiv-Barfi I,Kohrt HE,Czerwinski DK,Ng PP,Chang BY,Levy R

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, p53 was demonstrated to affect the expression of the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R), a receptor tyrosine kinase that plays a crucial role in growth and survival of cancer cells. However, the underlying mechanisms for interaction between p53 and IGF-1R are still not fully understood. One of th...

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

authors： Girnita L,Girnita A,Larsson O

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The high excitation energy-transfer efficiency demanded in photosynthetic organisms relies on the optimal pigment-protein binding orientation in the individual protein complexes and also on the overall architecture of the photosystem. In green sulfur bacteria, the membrane-attached Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna p...

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

authors： Wen J,Zhang H,Gross ML,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and efficient protocols to generate oligodendrocytes (OL) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are currently lacking, but may be a key technology to understand the biology of myelin diseases and to develop treatments for such disorders. Here, we demonstrate that the induction of three transcription f...

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

authors： Ehrlich M,Mozafari S,Glatza M,Starost L,Velychko S,Hallmann AL,Cui QL,Schambach A,Kim KP,Bachelin C,Marteyn A,Hargus G,Johnson RM,Antel J,Sterneckert J,Zaehres H,Schöler HR,Baron-Van Evercooren A,Kuhlmann T

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that the addition of hexamethylphosphoramide to the solution of an alkyne, Et(2)Zn, and (S)-1,1'-bi-2-naphthol in methylene chloride allows the generation of an alkynylzinc at room temperature and shows highly enantioselective additions to aldehydes. The mild condition for the formation of the alkynylzinc ...

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

authors： Gao G,Xie RG,Pu L

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Population expansion in space, or range expansion, is widespread in nature and in clinical settings. Space competition among heterogeneous subpopulations during range expansion is essential to population ecology, and it may involve the interplay of multiple factors, primarily growth and motility of individuals. Struct...

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

authors： Zuo W,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00