The polar Ras-like GTPase MglA activates type IV pilus via SgmX to enable twitching motility in Myxococcus xanthus.

abstract：:Recommended Daily Allowances (US RDA) of the Food and Drug Administration for ascorbic acid are higher than Recommended Dietary Allowances (set by the Food and Nutrition Board) for adults. There is a 6-fold margin between the requirement to prevent scurvy and the US RDA. The high requirement reported for the rhesus mo...

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

authors： Jukes TH

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell migration into tissue depends on a cascade of rapid and selective adhesive interactions with endothelium. "Triggering" is a step in that cascade required to activate T-cell integrins. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) may be a physiologically relevant trigger, since we demonstrate that HGF can induce both adhesion...

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

authors： Adams DH,Harvath L,Bottaro DP,Interrante R,Catalano G,Tanaka Y,Strain A,Hubscher SG,Shaw S

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] was solubilized from a rat brain homogenate with sodium deoxycholate. This solubilized preparation had no detectable enzymic activity with either Mg-ATP or Mn-ATP as substrate. The activity could be restored by addition of either nonionic detergent or...

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

authors： Hebdon GM,LeVine H 3rd,Sahyoun NE,Schmitges CJ,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor is a cell surface receptor that mediates the actions of LIF and other IL-6 type cytokines through the formation of high-affinity signaling complexes with gp130. Here we present the crystal structure of a complex of mouse LIF receptor with human LIF at 4.0 A resolution. The str...

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

authors： Huyton T,Zhang JG,Luo CS,Lou MZ,Hilton DJ,Nicola NA,Garrett TP

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of primary petite (rho-) clones were isolated after ethidium bromide mutagenesis of various grande (rho+) strains of S. cerevisiae that contained the mitochondrial genetic markers, CR, ER, OIR (or OIIR), and PR. From the frequency of coretention of markers in the petites, we have deduced a probable circ...

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

authors： Boltin-Fukuhara M,Fukuhara H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) increases the movement of cholesterol from the outer to the inner membrane of adrenal and gonadal mitochondria, thus providing the substrate for steroid hormone biosynthesis. Deletion of 62 amino-terminal aa produces a cytoplasmic form of StAR (N-62 StAR) that lacks th...

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

authors： Bose HS,Whittal RM,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that tRNA and 5S rRNA interact through evolutionarily conserved complementary sequences has been tested by nucleolytic modification of the 5S rRNA, using the modified rRNA to reconstitute the large ribosomal subunit, and assaying for poly(uridylic acid)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis. The 5S rRNA sequ...

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

authors： Pace B,Matthews EA,Johnson KD,Cantor CR,Pace NR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the maximum likelihood method, we made a genome-wide comparison of the evolutionary rates in the lineages leading to the laboratory strain (S288c) and a wild strain (YJM789) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and found that genes in the laboratory strain tend to evolve faster than in the wild strain. The pattern of ...

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

authors： Gu Z,David L,Petrov D,Jones T,Davis RW,Steinmetz LM

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-hairpin-helix DNA glycosylases are typically small proteins that initiate repair of DNA by excising damaged or mispaired bases. An invariant aspartic acid in the active site is involved in catalyzing the excision reaction. Replacement of this critical residue with an asparagine severely reduces catalytic activit...

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

authors： Choi Y,Harada JJ,Goldberg RB,Fischer RL

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain function depends on adaptive self-organization of large-scale neural assemblies, but little is known about quantitative network parameters governing these processes in humans. Here, we describe the topology and synchronizability of frequency-specific brain functional networks using wavelet decomposition of magne...

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

authors： Bassett DS,Meyer-Lindenberg A,Achard S,Duke T,Bullmore E

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogeny of marine Rhodophyta has been inferred by a number of methods from nucleotide sequences of nuclear genes encoding small subunit rRNA from 39 species in 15 orders. Sequence divergences are relatively large, especially among bangiophytes and even among congeners in this group. Subclass Bangiophycidae appears...

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

authors： Ragan MA,Bird CJ,Rice EL,Gutell RR,Murphy CA,Singh RK

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We use computer simulations to study the thermodynamic properties of a glass-former in which a fraction c of the particles has been permanently frozen. By thermodynamic integration, we determine the Kauzmann, or ideal glass transition, temperature [Formula: see text] at which the configurational entropy vanishes. This...

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

authors： Ozawa M,Kob W,Ikeda A,Miyazaki K

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost a century, alcohols have been thought to produce their effects by actions on the membrane lipids of central nervous system neurons--the well known "lipid theory" of alcohol action. The rationale for this theory is the correlation of potency with oil/water or membrane/buffer partition coefficient. Although a...

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

authors： Li C,Peoples RW,Weight FF

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, a rate-limiting enzyme of prostaglandin (PG) production, is overexpressed in colorectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas, and its inhibition by nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs protects against colorectal cancer. Mechanisms of cancer promotion by COX-2 are not fully understood, but signaling thr...

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

authors： Nishihara H,Kizaka-Kondoh S,Insel PA,Eckmann L

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern for the suffering of others is central to moral decision making. How humans evaluate others' suffering, relative to their own suffering, is unknown. We investigated this question by inviting subjects to trade off profits for themselves against pain experienced either by themselves or an anonymous other person....

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

authors： Crockett MJ,Kurth-Nelson Z,Siegel JZ,Dayan P,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The blanket resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to all beta-lactam antibiotics--which had such a devastating impact on chemotherapy of staphylococcal infections--is related to the properties of the key component of this resistance mechanism: the "acquired" penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-2A, whi...

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

authors： Pinho MG,de Lencastre H,Tomasz A

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we used PCR analysis with arbitrary primers (AP-PCR) to screen for overlapping bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones and assembly of contigs. A rice BAC library with three genome equivalents was used to prepare pooled BAC DNA. Twenty-two arbitrary primers were used to survey the pooled BAC DNAs...

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

authors： Xu J,Yang D,Domingo J,Ni J,Huang N

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The designed assembly of proteins into well-defined supramolecular architectures not only tests our understanding of protein-protein interactions, but it also provides an opportunity to tailor materials with new physical and chemical properties. Previously, we described that RIDC3, a designed variant of the monomeric ...

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

authors： Brodin JD,Carr JR,Sontz PA,Tezcan FA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the growth plate of endochondral bones, parathyroid hormone (PTH)-related peptide (PTHrP) regulates the rate of chondrocyte maturation from prehypertrophic chondrocytes to hypertrophic chondrocytes. Using an antibody specific for Sox9 phosphorylated at serine 181 (S(181)), one of the two consensus protein kinase A ...

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

authors： Huang W,Chung UI,Kronenberg HM,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two prominent timekeeping systems, the cell cycle, which controls cell division, and the circadian system, which controls 24-h rhythms of physiology and behavior, are found in nearly all living organisms. A distinct feature of circadian rhythms is that they are temperature-compensated such that the period of the rhyth...

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

authors： Yeom M,Pendergast JS,Ohmiya Y,Yamazaki S

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that oxytocin (Oxt) receptors (Oxtrs), on stimulation by the ligand Oxt, translocate into the nucleus of osteoblasts, implicating this process in the action of Oxt on osteoblast maturation. Sequential immunocytochemistry of intact cells or isolated nucleoplasts stripped of the outer nuclear membrane showed p...

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

authors： Di Benedetto A,Sun L,Zambonin CG,Tamma R,Nico B,Calvano CD,Colaianni G,Ji Y,Mori G,Grano M,Lu P,Colucci S,Yuen T,New MI,Zallone A,Zaidi M

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the dominant role of one class II invariant chain peptide (CLIP) in blocking MHC class II, comparative lipidomics analysis shows that human cluster of differentiation (CD) proteins CD1a, CD1b, CD1c, and CD1d bind lipids corresponding to hundreds of diverse accurate mass retention time values. Although most ions...

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

authors： Huang S,Cheng TY,Young DC,Layre E,Madigan CA,Shires J,Cerundolo V,Altman JD,Moody DB

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors and dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca2+ channels are preferentially localized in the transverse tubular membranes. Starting with an antigenic membrane fraction enriched in rabbit muscle transverse tubules (T-tubules), several monoclonal antibodies were produced by a fusion of s...

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

authors： Malouf NN,Coronado R,McMahon D,Meissner G,Gillespie GY

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T cell (NKT) cells (iNKT cells) produce both T-helper 1 (Th1) and T-helper 2 cytokines in response to α-Galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) stimulation and are thought to be the important effectors in the regulation of both innate and adaptive immunity involved in autoimmune disorders, microbial inf...

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

authors： Wu TN,Lin KH,Chang YJ,Huang JR,Cheng JY,Yu AL,Wong CH

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary product of biological nitrogen fixation, ammonia, reversibly regulates nitrogenase activity in a variety of diazotrophs by a process called "NH4(+)-switch-off/on." Strong correlative evidence from work in Azospirillum lipoferum and Rhodospirillum rubrum indicates that this regulation involves both the inac...

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

authors： Fu H,Burris RH,Roberts GP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori chronically infects the human gastric mucosa and is the leading risk factor for the development of gastric cancer. The molecular mechanisms of H. pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis remain ill defined. In this study, we examined the possibility that H. pylori directly co...

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

authors： Toller IM,Neelsen KJ,Steger M,Hartung ML,Hottiger MO,Stucki M,Kalali B,Gerhard M,Sartori AA,Lopes M,Müller A

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between DNA polymerases and sliding clamp proteins confers processivity in DNA synthesis. This interaction is critical for most DNA replication machines from viruses and prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. The clamp proteins also participate in a variety of dynamic and competing protein-protein interacti...

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

authors： Dalrymple BP,Kongsuwan K,Wijffels G,Dixon NE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:How climate change influences the dynamics of plant populations is not well understood, as few plant studies have measured responses of vital rates to climatic variables and modeled the impact on population growth. The present study used 25 y of demographic data to analyze how survival, growth, and fecundity respond t...

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

authors： Campbell DR

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the normal development of retinotectal connections, the site in the tectum at which an optic fiber synapses is related to the position of its ganglion-cell body in the retina. How and when the ganglion cells acquire information about their positions is unknown, but the positional information that each ganglion cell...

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

authors： Hunt RK,Jacobson M

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00