Molecular evolution of lytic enzymes of Streptococcus pneumoniae and its bacteriophages.

abstract：:Autophagy is a cellular catabolic pathway by which long-lived proteins and damaged organelles are targeted for degradation. Activation of autophagy enhances cellular tolerance to various stresses. Recent studies indicate that a class of anticancer agents, histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, can induce autophagy. On...

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

authors： Gammoh N,Lam D,Puente C,Ganley I,Marks PA,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MST1, mammalian STE20-like kinase 1, is a serine/threonine kinase that is cleaved and activated by caspases during apoptosis. MST1 is capable of inducing apoptotic morphological changes such as chromatin condensation upon overexpression. In this study, we show that MST1 contains two functional nuclear export signals (...

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

authors： Ura S,Masuyama N,Graves JD,Gotoh Y

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-protein-coding RNA genes play an important role in various biological processes. How new RNA genes originated and whether this process is controlled by similar evolutionary mechanisms for the origin of protein-coding genes remains unclear. A young chimeric RNA gene that we term sphinx (spx) provides the first insi...

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

authors： Wang W,Brunet FG,Nevo E,Long M

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the affinity of two recently synthesized flavin analogs for the isoalloxazine binding site of riboflavin-binding protein (RBP). The results showed that pyrimidopteridines could bind to RBP (Kd 160-250 microM). This suggested that, at the FMN or FAD level, these analogs might also bind to other apoflav...

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

authors： Wessiak A,Schopfer LM,Yuan LC,Bruice TC,Massey V

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After pollen grains germinate on the stigma, pollen tubes traverse the extracellular matrix of the style on their way to the ovules. We previously characterized two pollen-specific, receptor-like kinases, LePRK1 and LePRK2, from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Their structure and immunolocalization pattern and the s...

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

authors： Wengier D,Valsecchi I,Cabanas ML,Tang WH,McCormick S,Muschietti J

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here studies of tryptophan (Trp) solvation dynamics in water and in the Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin protein, including the native and its apo and denatured forms. We also report results on energy transfer from Trp to the iron-sulfur [Fe-S] cluster. Trp fluorescence decay with the onset of solvation dynami...

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

authors： Zhong D,Pal SK,Zhang D,Chan SI,Zewail AH

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells lacking the histone-like protein HU form filaments and have an abnormal number of anucleate cells. Furthermore, their phenotype resembles that of rfa mutants, the well-characterized deep-rough phenotype, as they show an enhanced permeability that renders them hypersensitive to chloramphenicol, n...

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

authors： Painbeni E,Caroff M,Rouviere-Yaniv J

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) act independently as well as cooperatively to induce neuronal death in acute neurological disorders. Inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and inhibition of lipid peroxidation induced by ROS have both been proposed as neuroprotective strategies in strok...

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

authors： Chabrier PE,Auguet M,Spinnewyn B,Auvin S,Cornet S,Demerlé-Pallardy C,Guilmard-Favre C,Marin JG,Pignol B,Gillard-Roubert V,Roussillot-Charnet C,Schulz J,Viossat I,Bigg D,Moncada S

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents an agent-based computational model of civil violence. Two variants of the civil violence model are presented. In the first a central authority seeks to suppress decentralized rebellion. In the second a central authority seeks to suppress communal violence between two warring ethnic groups. ...

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

authors： Epstein JM

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal pancreatic beta cells demonstrate a deficient insulin release in response to glucose, but the underlying mechanism at the cellular level is unknown. By using beta cells from 21-day fetal rats we made an attempt to clarify the mechanism(s) behind this reduced glucose response. In addition to measuring insulin rel...

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

authors： Rorsman P,Arkhammar P,Bokvist K,Hellerström C,Nilsson T,Welsh M,Welsh N,Berggren PO

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polar lipid containing about 20 per cent of the lipid soluble inositol has been purified from cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This compound labeled with (3)H-inositol, (32)P(i), or (14)C glucose was isolated from aqueous pyridine extracts by means of paper chromatography. Unlabeled compound was obtained by a diff...

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

authors： Steiner S,Smith S,Waechter CJ,Lester RL

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns are at increased risk of jaundice, a condition in which excess bilirubin accumulates in blood. Left untreated, jaundice can lead to neurological impairment and death. Jaundice resulting from unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia is easily treated with exposure to blue light, and phototherapy systems have been devel...

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

authors： Keahey PA,Simeral ML,Schroder KJ,Bond MM,Mtenthaonnga PJ,Miros RH,Dube Q,Richards-Kortum RR

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies have been prepared to the core protein of cartilage chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan from clones isolated after fusion of rat spleen cells and mouse myeloma cell lines. Antibodies produced by five clones were studied in detail by a radioimmunoassay utilizing 35SO42-labeled hyaluronidase-digested chondroitin...

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

authors： Dorfman A,Hall T,Ho PL,Fitch F

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many sources of genetic diversity, ranging from programmed mutagenesis in antibody genes to random mutagenesis during species evolution or development of cancer. We propose that mutations in DNA sequence-specific transcription factors that target response elements (REs) in many genes can also provide for rap...

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

authors： Resnick MA,Inga A

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that assimilatory nitrate reductase (ANR) activity in soil is inhibited by ammonium (NH4+). To elucidate the mechanism of this inhibition, we studied the effect of L-methionine sulfoximine (MSX), an inhibitor of NH4+ assimilation by microorganisms, on assimilatory reduction of nitrate (NO3-) in ...

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

authors： McCarty GW,Bremner JM

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin, a protein composed of five different subunits (S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5), is the major virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis. We have cloned and sequenced a DNA fragment of 4.7 kilobases that contains the genes coding for the five subunits. The genes are clustered within 3.2 kilobases in the followin...

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

authors： Nicosia A,Perugini M,Franzini C,Casagli MC,Borri MG,Antoni G,Almoni M,Neri P,Ratti G,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding a delayed-rectifier-type K+ channel were cloned from both neonatal rat heart and ovariectomized, diethylstilbestrol-primed rat uterus by using the polymerase chain reaction. Both clones have nucleotide sequences identical to that encoding the rat kidney IsK channel [Takumi, T., Ohkubo, H. & Nakanishi, S...

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

authors： Folander K,Smith JS,Antanavage J,Bennett C,Stein RB,Swanson R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express functional DNA cytosine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.37) in cells transfected with the available Dnmt cDNAs have met with little or no success. We show that the published Dnmt sequence encodes an amino terminal-truncated protein that is tolerated only at very low levels when stably expresse...

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

authors： Tucker KL,Talbot D,Lee MA,Leonhardt H,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that a fundamental problem in the faithful replication of complex chromosomes of higher eukaryotes is the proper control of both the number and timing of the multiple initiations of replication on single chromosomes. When replication patterns are disrupted by any of a variety of agents, overreplication of D...

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

authors： Schimke RT,Sherwood SW,Hill AB,Johnston RN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nascent replicative form type II (RFII) DNA of coliphage M13 synthesized in an Escherichia coli mutant deficient in the 5' leads to 3' exonuclease associated uith DNA polymerase I contains ribonucleotides that are retained in the covalently closed RFI DNA sealed in vitro by the joint action of T5 phage DNA polymerase ...

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

authors： Dasgupta S,Mitra S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms in metazoan eukaryotes are controlled by an endogenous molecular clock. It functions in many locations, including subsets of brain neurons (clock neurons) within the central nervous system. Although the molecular clock relies on transcription/translation feedback loops, posttranscriptional regulation...

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

authors： Chen X,Rosbash M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Mpl, a member of the hematopoietic cytokine receptor family, is the receptor for thrombopoietin. To investigate signal transduction by c-Mpl, a chimeric receptor, composed of the extracellular domain of human growth hormone receptor and the intracellular domain of c-Mpl, was introduced into the interleukin 3-depende...

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

authors： Gurney AL,Wong SC,Henzel WJ,de Sauvage FJ

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is described for calculating the electrostatic energy of lipid domains at the air-water interface, taking account of dipole-dipole repulsions between the lipid molecules themselves, as well as interactions between the molecular dipoles and image dipoles in the subphase. The model assumes that the molecu...

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

authors： McConnell HM,Bazaliy YB

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:CD95 type I and II cells differ in their dependence on mitochondria to execute apoptosis, because antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family render only type II cells resistant to death receptor-induced apoptosis. They can also be distinguished by a more efficient formation of the death-inducing signaling complex in ty...

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

authors： Algeciras-Schimnich A,Pietras EM,Barnhart BC,Legembre P,Vijayan S,Holbeck SL,Peter ME

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified a protein from Necturus maculosus gallbladder cells that forms chloride channels in an artificial membrane. The same protein apparently can form channels that are highly selective for chloride but can have conductances varying from 9 to about 150 pS. The high-conductance channels are blocked by the mo...

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

authors： Finn AL,Dillard M,Gaido M

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies with fibroblasts have shown that peptidylhydroxyproline formation begins toward the end of the log phase of growth and is an expression of the activity of the enzyme, collagen proline hydroxylase, which increase in late log-phase cells. This communication reports a two- to fivefold increase in hydroxyla...

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

authors： Comstock JP,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent joining of topoisomerases to DNA is normally a transient step in the reaction cycle of these important enzymes. However, under a variety of circumstances, the covalent complex is converted to a long-lived or dead-end product that can result in chromosome breakage and cell death. We have discovered and par...

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

authors： Yang SW,Burgin AB Jr,Huizenga BN,Robertson CA,Yao KC,Nash HA

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of cultured cells with lytic animal viruses often results in the selective inhibition of host protein synthesis, whereas viral mRNA is efficiently translated under these circumstances. This phenomenon, known as "shut off," has been well described at the molecular level for some viruses, but there is not yet ...

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

authors： Toribio R,Ventoso I

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The C4B isotype of the fourth component of human complement (C4) displays 3- to 4-fold greater hemolytic activity than does its other isotype C4A. This correlates with differences in their covalent binding efficiencies to erythrocytes coated with antibody and complement C1. C4A binds to a greater extent when C1 is on ...

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

authors： Carroll MC,Fathallah DM,Bergamaschini L,Alicot EM,Isenman DE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a spider silk-manufacturing process is of great interest. However, there are serious problems with natural manufacturing through spider farming, and standard recombinant protein production platforms have provided limited progress due to their inability to assemble spider silk proteins into fibers. T...

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

authors： Teulé F,Miao YG,Sohn BH,Kim YS,Hull JJ,Fraser MJ Jr,Lewis RV,Jarvis DL

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00