Helper bacteria halt and disarm mushroom pathogens by linearizing structurally diverse cyclolipopeptides.

abstract：:Understanding how electric fields and their fluctuations in the active site of enzymes affect efficient catalysis represents a critical objective of biochemical research. We have directly measured the dynamics of the electric field in the active site of a highly proficient enzyme, Δ(5)-3-ketosteroid isomerase (KSI), i...

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

authors： Jha SK,Ji M,Gaffney KJ,Boxer SG

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of food restriction (FR) and substitution of fish oil (FO; omega 3) for corn oil (CO; omega 6) on breast tumor incidence and survival in mouse mammary tumor virus/v-Ha-ras transgenic (Onco) mice. The diets were as follows: group 1, 5% (wt/wt) CO fed ad libitum (AL); group 2, 5% CO, restrict...

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

authors： Fernandes G,Chandrasekar B,Troyer DA,Venkatraman JT,Good RA

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal vents are a well-known source of energy that powers chemosynthesis in the deep sea. Recent work suggests that microbial chemosynthesis is also surprisingly pervasive throughout the dark oceans, serving as a significant CO(2) sink even at sites far removed from vents. Ammonia and sulfur have been identifie...

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

authors： Anantharaman K,Breier JA,Sheik CS,Dick GJ

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method combining photolithography and shadow (or angle) evaporation is developed to fabricate single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) devices with tube lengths of approximately 10-50 nm between metal contacts. Large numbers of such short devices are obtained without the need of complex tools such as electron be...

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

authors： Javey A,Qi P,Wang Q,Dai H

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a recombinant alphaEC domain from human fibrinogen-420 has been determined at a resolution of 2.1 A. The protein, which corresponds to the carboxyl domain of the alphaE chain, was expressed in and purified from Pichia pastoris cells. Felicitously, during crystallization an amino-terminal segme...

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

authors： Spraggon G,Applegate D,Everse SJ,Zhang JZ,Veerapandian L,Redman C,Doolittle RF,Grieninger G

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease tolerance, the capacity of tissues to withstand damage caused by a stimulus without a decline in host fitness, varies across tissues, environmental conditions, and physiologic states. While disease tolerance is a known strategy of host defense, its role in noninfectious diseases has been understudied. Here, we...

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

authors： Man K,Bowman C,Braverman KN,Escalante V,Tian Y,Bisanz JE,Ganeshan K,Wang B,Patterson A,Bayrer JR,Turnbaugh PJ,Chawla A

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) is the central cerebral neurohormone in insect development. Its release has been believed for decades to be confined to one (or two) critical moments early in each developmental stage at which time it triggers prolonged activation of the prothoracic glands to synthesize and release th...

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

authors： Vafopoulou X,Steel CG

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine kinase from rabbit muscle has been specifically labeled with a derivative of a nitroxide free radical on the two essential sulfhydryl groups, one per active site. The conformation in the environment of the enzyme-bound free radical and the change in conformation induced upon binding of the substrate, metal ad...

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

authors： Taylor JS,Leigh JS Jr,Cohn M

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the analysis of genomic DNA from single healthy animals of each of five primate species, nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences of the infectious amyloid precursor gene of higher apes (Gorilla and Pan) and Old World (Macaca) and New World (Ateles, Saimiri) monkeys showed 95-99% homology to the human se...

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

authors： Cervenáková L,Brown P,Goldfarb LG,Nagle J,Pettrone K,Rubenstein R,Dubnick M,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) ligand family has diverse effects on the CNS, including the modulation of the stress response. The ligands' effects are mediated by binding to CRF G protein-coupled receptors. We have determined the 3D NMR structure of the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the mouse CRF...

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

authors： Grace CR,Perrin MH,DiGruccio MR,Miller CL,Rivier JE,Vale WW,Riek R

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the binding domain for dihydropyridine Ca2+ antagonists, skeletal muscle Ca2+ channels were photolabeled with [3H](+)-PN200-110 and [3H]azidopine. Regions of alpha 1 photolabeled by these ligands were then identified by antibody mapping of proteolytic fragments. Approximately 50% of the specific labeling b...

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

authors： Striessnig J,Murphy BJ,Catterall WA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is an ATP-requiring enzyme capable of carrying out multielectron reductions of inert molecules. A purified remodeled nitrogenase containing two amino acid substitutions near the site of its FeMo cofactor was recently described as having the capacity to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) to methane (CH4). Here, we...

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

authors： Fixen KR,Zheng Y,Harris DF,Shaw S,Yang ZY,Dean DR,Seefeldt LC,Harwood CS

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaling of respiratory metabolism with body mass is one of the most pervasive phenomena in biology. Using a single allometric equation to characterize empirical scaling relationships and to evaluate alternative hypotheses about mechanisms has been controversial. We developed a method to directly measure respiratio...

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

authors： Mori S,Yamaji K,Ishida A,Prokushkin SG,Masyagina OV,Hagihara A,Hoque AT,Suwa R,Osawa A,Nishizono T,Ueda T,Kinjo M,Miyagi T,Kajimoto T,Koike T,Matsuura Y,Toma T,Zyryanova OA,Abaimov AP,Awaya Y,Araki MG,Kawasaki T

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae translation initiation factor eIF-4A, an RNA helicase of the Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD) box protein family, was mutated in the putative ATP binding site and expressed in Escherichia coli. Mutant proteins with alanine at position 66 replaced by glycine [eIF-4A(A66G)] or valine [eIF-4A(A66V)] were p...

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

authors： Blum S,Schmid SR,Pause A,Buser P,Linder P,Sonenberg N,Trachsel H

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic infections and tissue injuries trigger the assembly of inflammasomes, cytosolic protein complexes that activate caspase-1, leading to cleavage of pro-IL-1β and pro-IL-18 and to pyroptosis, a proinflammatory cell death program. Although microbial recognition by Toll-like receptors (TLRs) is known to induce t...

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

authors： Lin KM,Hu W,Troutman TD,Jennings M,Brewer T,Li X,Nanda S,Cohen P,Thomas JA,Pasare C

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The state-to-state transfer of rotational and vibrational energy has been studied for S1 glyoxal (CHOCHO) in collisions with D2, N2, CO and C2H4 using crossed molecular beams. A laser is used to pump glyoxal seeded in He to its S1 zero point level with zero angular momentum about its top axis (K' = 0). The inelastic s...

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

authors： Parmenter CS,Clegg SM,Krajnovich DJ,Lu S

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions with the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase followed by P-element-mediated germ-line transformation in Drosophila have permitted localization of the DNA sequence that confers a high degree of developmental specificity on a pair of silkmoth eggshell (chorion) genes. The short, 272-base-pair, 5...

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

authors： Mitsialis SA,Spoerel N,Leviten M,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized 175-nucleotide-long probes for the DNA of human histocompatibility antigens HLA-DR alpha and beta by extending on poly(A)+ mRNA from B-cell lines with short synthetic deoxyribonucleotide primers complementary to the predicted nucleotide sequence of the NH2 terminus of both polypeptides. The synthes...

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

authors： Das HK,Biro PA,Cohen SN,Erlich HA,von Gabain A,Lawrance SK,Lemaux PG,McDevitt HO,Peterlin BM,Schulz MF,Sood AK,Weissman SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification within the genus Pistacia has been based on leaf morphology and geographical distribution. Molecular genetic tools (PCR amplification followed by restriction analysis of a 3.2-kb region of variable chloroplast DNA, and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the Pistacia cpDNA with tobacco ...

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

authors： Parfitt DE,Badenes ML

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Inteins are intervening protein sequences that undergo self-excision from a precursor protein with concomitant joining of the flanking sequences. Here, we demonstrate intein trans-splicing in Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts by using the naturally split Ssp DnaE intein. Trans-splicing occurred whether both intein fragme...

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

authors： Chin HG,Kim GD,Marin I,Mersha F,Evans TC Jr,Chen L,Xu MQ,Pradhan S

更新日期：2003-04-15 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：:Most current gene transfer methods function satisfactorily in specialized systems involving established cell lines but are often not applicable with nonadherent, primary hematopoietic cells, which are notoriously difficult to transfect. To approach this problem, we have investigated an alternative method of gene trans...

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

authors： Zenke M,Steinlein P,Wagner E,Cotten M,Beug H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluids may store and manipulate information, enabling complex applications ranging from digital logic gates to algorithmic self-assembly. While controllable hydrodynamic chaos has previously been observed in viscous fluids and harnessed for efficient mixing, its application to the manipulation of digital information h...

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

authors： Gilpin W

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are highly dynamic and complex lipid bilayers, responsible for the fate of living cells. To achieve this function, the hydrating environment is crucial. However, membrane imaging typically neglects water, focusing on the insertion of probes, resonant responses of lipids, or the hydrophobic core. O...

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

authors： Tarun OB,Hannesschläger C,Pohl P,Roke S

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ cell stage of primary importance in radiation genetic hazards is the immature, arrested oocyte. In the mouse, this stage has a near zero or zero sensitivity to mutation induction by radiation. However, the application of these mouse results to women has been questioned on the ground that the mouse arre...

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

authors： Russell WL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18) infects genital squamous epithelium and is an etiological agent of cervical cancer. Cell-type-specific expression of HPV-18 is directed by the region upstream of the viral early genes that contains a transcriptional enhancer whose function is dependent solely on cellular factors. ...

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

authors： Mack DH,Laimins LA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct a class of global exact solutions of the Einstein equations that extend the Oppeheimer-Snyder model to the case of nonzero pressure, inside the black hole, by incorporating a shock wave at the leading edge of the expansion of the galaxies, arbitrarily far beyond the Hubble length in the Friedmann-Robertso...

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

authors： Smoller J,Temple B

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are among the most common causes of acute infantile gastroenteritis globally. We previously developed a rice-based vaccine that expressed cholera toxin B subunit (MucoRice-CTB) and had the advantages of being cold chain-free and providing protection against cholera t...

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

authors： Tokuhara D,Yuki Y,Nochi T,Kodama T,Mejima M,Kurokawa S,Takahashi Y,Nanno M,Nakanishi U,Takaiwa F,Honda T,Kiyono H

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone mRNAs are naturally intronless and accumulate efficiently in the cytoplasm. To learn whether there are cis-acting sequences within histone genes that allow efficient cytoplasmic accumulation of RNAs, we made recombinant constructs in which sequences from the mouse H2a gene were cloned into a human beta-globin ...

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

authors： Huang Y,Carmichael GG

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of growth hormone release by synthetic somatocrinin was investigated on purified hog anterior pituitary secretory granules; the granules were found to contain a cAMP-dependent protein kinase that catalyzed [gamma-32P]-ATP histone phosphorylation with maximal rates ranging from 1 to 5 nmol of Pi...

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

authors： Lewin MJ,Reyl-Desmars F,Ling N

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00