Thermodynamic and kinetic design principles for amyloid-aggregation inhibitors.

abstract：:Cell-to-cell communication is essential for the development and patterning of multicellular organisms. In plants, plasmodesmata (PD) provide direct routes for intercellular signaling. However, the role that PD-mediated signaling plays in plant development has not been fully investigated. To gain a comprehensive view o...

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

authors： Wu S,O'Lexy R,Xu M,Sang Y,Chen X,Yu Q,Gallagher KL

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s,...

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

authors： Schulz Paulsson B

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Extragalactic X-ray surveys over the past decade have dramatically improved understanding of the majority populations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over most of the history of the universe. Here we briefly highlight some of the exciting discoveries about AGN demography, physics, and ecology, with a focus on results...

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

authors： Brandt WN,Alexander DM

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates can store sensory stimulus parameters in working memory for subsequent manipulation, but until now, there has been no demonstration of this capacity in rodents. Here we report tactile working memory in rats. Each stimulus is a vibration, generated as a series of velocity values sampled from a normal distribut...

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

authors： Fassihi A,Akrami A,Esmaeili V,Diamond ME

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and genetic studies have implicated alpha-gustducin as a key component in the transduction of both bitter or sweet taste. Yet, alpha-gustducin-null mice are not completely unresponsive to bitter or sweet compounds. To gain insights into how gustducin mediates responses to bitter and sweet compounds, and to...

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

authors： Ruiz-Avila L,Wong GT,Damak S,Margolskee RF

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+) channel alpha(1A)-subunit is a voltage-gated, pore-forming membrane protein positioned at the intersection of two important lines of research: one exploring the diversity of Ca(2+) channels and their physiological roles, and the other pursuing mechanisms of ataxia, dystonia, epilepsy, and migraine. alpha(1A...

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

authors： Jun K,Piedras-Rentería ES,Smith SM,Wheeler DB,Lee SB,Lee TG,Chin H,Adams ME,Scheller RH,Tsien RW,Shin HS

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of desensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), the NO receptor, has long remained unresolved. Posttranslational modification and redox state have been postulated to affect sGC sensitivity to NO but evidence has been lacking. We now show that sGC can be S-nitrosylated in primary aortic sm...

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

authors： Sayed N,Baskaran P,Ma X,van den Akker F,Beuve A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage Mu was inserted into the unc genes of Escherichia coli. The resulting mutation AS12 had a polar effect on the unc operon: membranes of the mutant AS12 contained the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-binding protein c and the protein a as sole subunits of the ATP synthase. It was shown by peptide mapping and amino...

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

authors： Friedl P,Bienhaus G,Hoppe J,Schairer HU

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin chaperone calreticulin (CRT) assists the folding and quality control of newly synthesized glycoproteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It interacts with ERp57, a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase that promotes the formation of disulfide bonds in glycoproteins bound by CRT. Here, we investigated the interac...

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

authors： Frickel EM,Riek R,Jelesarov I,Helenius A,Wuthrich K,Ellgaard L

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA strand exchange protein RAD51 facilitates the central step in homologous recombination, a process fundamentally important for accurate repair of damaged chromosomes, restart of collapsed replication forks, and telomere maintenance. The active form of RAD51 is a nucleoprotein filament that assembles on single-s...

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

authors： Subramanyam S,Ismail M,Bhattacharya I,Spies M

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding, stability, and oligomerization of helical membrane proteins depend in part on a precise set of packing interactions between transmembrane helices. To understand the energetic principles of these helix-helix interactions, we have used alanine-scanning mutagenesis and sedimentation equilibrium analytical ul...

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

authors： Fleming KG,Engelman DM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting whether and how populations will adapt to rapid climate change is a critical goal for evolutionary biology. To examine the genetic basis of fitness and predict adaptive evolution in novel climates with seasonal variation, we grew a diverse panel of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana (multiparent advanced...

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

authors： Fournier-Level A,Perry EO,Wang JA,Braun PT,Migneault A,Cooper MD,Metcalf CJ,Schmitt J

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) is a 42-amino acid gastrointestinal regulatory peptide that stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in the presence of glucose. Approximately 7.8 x 10(5) recombinant clones of a neonatal rat intestinal cDNA library were screened by using plaque hybridizati...

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

authors： Tseng CC,Jarboe LA,Landau SB,Williams EK,Wolfe MM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondria are the major source of chronic oxidative stress, which has been implicated in the aging process. Along with other cellular changes, aged cells accumulate mutations in both their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and they contain increased amounts of oxidatively damaged mutagenic bases such as 7,8-di...

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

authors： Szczesny B,Hazra TK,Papaconstantinou J,Mitra S,Boldogh I

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na(+) channels are composed of pore-forming alpha and auxiliary beta subunits. The majority of Na(+) channels in the heart contain tetrodotoxin (TTX)-insensitive Na(v)1.5 alpha subunits, but TTX-sensitive brain-type Na(+) channel alpha subunits are present and functionally important in the transverse tub...

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

authors： Maier SK,Westenbroek RE,Yamanushi TT,Dobrzynski H,Boyett MR,Catterall WA,Scheuer T

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3 (PI3)-kinase enhancer (PIKE) is a nuclear GTPase that enhances PI3-kinase activity in a GTP-dependent manner. Both PIKE-L and -A isoforms contain GTPase, pleckstrin homology (PH), ADP ribosylation factor-GTPase-activating protein, and two ankyrin repeats domains, and C-terminal ADP ribosylation ...

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

authors： Hu Y,Liu Z,Ye K

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:From within an albino melanocyte line grown in vitro we identified and cloned cells that apparently had reverted to wild type. We sequenced a part of the tyrosinase gene, encompassing a candidate mutation, from wild-type, albino, and revertant cell DNAs. The revertant cells contain, on one chromosome, a perfect base r...

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

authors： Jackson IJ,Bennett DC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portable, single-sided NMR sensors can operate under conditions inaccessible to conventional NMR while featuring lower cost, portability, and the ability to analyze arbitrary-sized objects. Such sensors can nondestructively probe the interior of samples by collecting images and measuring relaxation and diffusion const...

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

authors： Paulsen JL,Bouchard LS,Graziani D,Blümich B,Pines A

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fluorescein-labeled lectins have been shown to exhibit specificity for the surface of cells in different layers of the epidermis in the newborn rat. An isolectin from seeds of Bandeiraea simplicifolia with specificity for alpha-D-galactosyl end groups labeled the basal and lower spinous cells; a lectin from Ulex...

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

authors： Brabec RK,Peters BP,Bernstein IA,Gray RH,Goldstein IJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant soil specialists contribute greatly to global diversity; however, the ecoevolutionary forces responsible for generating this diversity are poorly understood. We integrate molecular phylogenies with descriptive and experimental ecological data, creating a powerful framework with which to elucidate forces driving ...

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

authors： Cacho NI,Strauss SY

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural studies of the minimal core DNA-binding domain of p53 (p53DBD) complexed to a single consensus pentamer sequence and of the isolated p53 tetramerization domain have provided valuable insights into their functions, but many questions about their interacting roles and synergism remain unanswered. To be...

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

authors： Balagurumoorthy P,Sakamoto H,Lewis MS,Zambrano N,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM,Appella E,Harrington RE

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the interactions of CYT-19, a DExD/H-box protein that functions in folding of group I RNAs, with a well characterized misfolded species of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. Consistent with its function, CYT-19 accelerates refolding of the misfolded RNA to its native state. Unexpectedly, CYT-19 performs another reac...

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

authors： Tijerina P,Bhaskaran H,Russell R

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many newly synthesized proteins have to become unfolded during translocation across biological membranes. We have analyzed the effects of various stabilization/destabilization mutations in the Ig-like module of the muscle protein titin upon its import from the N terminus or C terminus into mitochondria. The effects of...

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

authors： Sato T,Esaki M,Fernandez JM,Endo T

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 family proteins provide costimulatory signals that regulate T cell responses. Here we report the third set of B7 family-related T cell inhibitory molecules with the identification of a homolog of the B7 family, B7x. It is expressed in immune cells, nonlymphoid tissues, and some tumor cell lines. B7x inhibits cell-c...

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

authors： Zang X,Loke P,Kim J,Murphy K,Waitz R,Allison JP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells respond to a variety of DNA insults by triggering a common signal transduction cascade, known as checkpoint response, which temporarily halts cell-cycle progression. Although the main players involved in the cascade have been identified, there is still uncertainty about the nature of the structures th...

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

authors： Marini F,Nardo T,Giannattasio M,Minuzzo M,Stefanini M,Plevani P,Muzi Falconi M

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a viral IL-10 homolog encoded by an ORF (UL111a) within the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) genome, which we designated cmvIL-10. cmvIL-10 can bind to the human IL-10 receptor and can compete with human IL-10 for binding sites, despite the fact that these two proteins are only 27% identical. cmvIL-10 require...

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

authors： Kotenko SV,Saccani S,Izotova LS,Mirochnitchenko OV,Pestka S

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), gag MA (matrix), a major structural protein of the virus, carries out opposing targeting functions. During virus assembly, gag MA is cotranslationally myristoylated, a modification required for membrane targeting of gag polyproteins. During virus infec...

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

authors： Bukrinskaya AG,Ghorpade A,Heinzinger NK,Smithgall TE,Lewis RE,Stevenson M

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation would be facilitated by the identification of defined culture conditions that allow these cells to be amplified. We now demonstrate a significant net increase (3-fold, P < 0.001) in vitro of cells that are individually abl...

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

authors： Miller CL,Eaves CJ

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer comprises a heterogeneous set of diseases distinguishable from one another by pathologic presentation and molecular signatures. However, each breast cancer subtype is also heterogeneous. Some of the heterogeneity may be attributable to genetic instability, but recent data emphasize that developmental pla...

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

authors： Mizuno H,Spike BT,Wahl GM,Levine AJ

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Loads on molecular motors regulate and coordinate their function. In a study that directly measures properties of internally strained myosin 2 heads bound to actin, we find that human nonmuscle myosins 2A and 2B show marked load-dependent changes in kinetics of ADP release but not in nucleotide binding. We show that t...

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

authors： Kovács M,Thirumurugan K,Knight PJ,Sellers JR

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00