Factors influencing redox potentials of electron transfer proteins.

abstract：:We prove theorems on the structure of the fundamental group of a compact riemannian manifold of non-positive curvature. In particular, a conjecture of J. Wolf [J. Differential Geometry, 2, 421-446 (1968)] is proved. ...

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

authors： Yau ST

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezrin plays a key role in coupling signal transduction to cortical cell organization. This actin-membrane linker undergoes a series of conformational changes that modulate its interactions with various partners and its localization in membrane or cytosolic pools. Its mobility and exchange rates within and between thes...

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

authors： Coscoy S,Waharte F,Gautreau A,Martin M,Louvard D,Mangeat P,Arpin M,Amblard F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the explanations for, and consequences of, the early appearance of food production outside the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where it originated in the 10th/9th millennia cal BC. We present evidence that cultivation appeared in Central Anatolia through adoption by indigenous foragers in the m...

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

authors： Baird D,Fairbairn A,Jenkins E,Martin L,Middleton C,Pearson J,Asouti E,Edwards Y,Kabukcu C,Mustafaoğlu G,Russell N,Bar-Yosef O,Jacobsen G,Wu X,Baker A,Elliott S

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Let X = Omega/Gamma be a compact quotient of an irreducible bounded symmetric domain Omega of rank >/=2 by a discrete group omega of automorphisms without fixed points. It is well known that the Kähler-Einstein metric g on X carries seminegative curvature (in the sense of Griffiths). I show that any Hermitian metric h...

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

authors： Mok N

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies imply that the intracellular domain of Notch1 must translocate to the nucleus for its activity. In this study, we demonstrate that a mNotch1 mutant protein that lacks its extracellular domain but retains its membrane-spanning region becomes proteolytically processed on its intracellular surface and, a...

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

authors： Kopan R,Schroeter EH,Weintraub H,Nye JS

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of empirical results based on a taxa's lifetime distribution shows apparently conflicting results. Species' lifetime is reported to be exponentially distributed, whereas higher-order taxa, such as families or genera, follow a broader distribution, compatible with power-law decay. We show that both forms...

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

authors： Pigolotti S,Flammini A,Marsili M,Maritan A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily play essential roles in various aspects of embryonic development and physiological organ function. Among them, bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 9 and BMP10 regulate embryonic vascular development by activating their endothelial receptor ALK1 (activin receptor-lik...

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

authors： Somekawa S,Imagawa K,Hayashi H,Sakabe M,Ioka T,Sato GE,Inada K,Iwamoto T,Mori T,Uemura S,Nakagawa O,Saito Y

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering plants often prevent selfing through mechanisms of self-incompatibility (S.I.). The loss of S.I. has occurred many times independently, because it provides short-term advantages in situations where pollinators or mates are rare. The genus Capsella, which is closely related to Arabidopsis, contains a pair of ...

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

authors： Guo YL,Bechsgaard JS,Slotte T,Neuffer B,Lascoux M,Weigel D,Schierup MH

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is involved in self-renewal of embryonic stem cells and reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency. However, its role in lineage-committed stem cells remains largely unknown. Here, we show that KLF4 is expressed in neural stem cells (NSCs) and is down-regulated during neuronal differen...

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

authors： Qin S,Liu M,Niu W,Zhang CL

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that a suite of proteins exists in coral skeletons that is critical for the oriented precipitation of calcium carbonate crystals, yet these proteins remain poorly characterized. Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of proteins extracted from the cell-free skeleton o...

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

authors： Drake JL,Mass T,Haramaty L,Zelzion E,Bhattacharya D,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Split GFPs have been widely applied for monitoring protein-protein interactions by expressing GFPs as two or more constituent parts linked to separate proteins that only fluoresce on complementing with one another. Although this complementation is typically irreversible, it has been shown previously that light acceler...

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

authors： Lin CY,Both J,Do K,Boxer SG

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) are two major cytokines controlling murine B cell development. IL-7 has been studied extensively, but only recently has it become possible to unravel the role of TSLP in detail. We studied the biological activities of TSLP in B cell development at distinct ages in the mouse...

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

authors： Vosshenrich CA,Cumano A,Müller W,Di Santo JP,Vieira P

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Kappa-on-Heavy (KoH) mouse that produces a class of highly diverse, fully human, antibody-like agents. This mouse was made by replacing the germline variable sequences of both the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and Ig kappa (IgK) loci with the human IgK germline variable sequences, producing antibody-like molecule...

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

authors： Macdonald LE,Meagher KA,Franklin MC,Levenkova N,Hansen J,Badithe AT,Zhong M,Krueger P,Rafique A,Tu N,Shevchuk J,Wadhwa S,Ehrlich G,Bautista J,Grant C,Esau L,Poueymirou WT,Auerbach W,Morton L,Babb R,Chen G,Huang

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to neonatal mice resulted in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of specific substrates in liver, kidney, lung, bladder, skin, and brain as detected by Western blot analysis of tissue homogenates with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. In the liver, three prominent ...

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

authors： Donaldson RW,Cohen S

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17A is a therapeutic target in many autoimmune diseases. Most nonhematopoietic cells express IL-17A receptors and respond to extracellular IL-17A by inducing proinflammatory cytokines. The IL-17A signal transduction triggers two broad, TRAF6- and TRAF5-dependent, intracellular signaling pathways to produce represen...

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

authors： McGowan J,Peter C,Kim J,Popli S,Veerman B,Saul-McBeth J,Conti H,Pruett-Miller SM,Chattopadhyay S,Chakravarti R

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of nitrogenase components (MoFe protein and Fe protein) from Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) have been obtained in the near infrared-visible-near ultraviolet spectral region. Previously, visible CD was reported to be absen...

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

authors： Stephens PJ,McKenna CE,Smith BE,Nguyen HT,McKenna MC,Thomson AJ,Devlin F,Jones JB

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray sensitive hamster cell line xrs-6 is deficient in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair and exhibits impaired V(D)J recombination. The molecular defect in this line is in the 80-kDa subunit of the Ku autoantigen, a protein that binds to DNA ends and recruits the DNA-dependent protein kinase to DNA. Using an I...

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

authors： Liang F,Romanienko PJ,Weaver DT,Jeggo PA,Jasin M

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspite of several stimulating developments in gene therapy, the formulation of a targeted gene delivery "vector" is still far from ideal. We have demonstrated the potential of reconstituted Sendai viral envelopes containing only the fusion glycoprotein (F-virosomes) in targeted delivery of reporter genes to liver cel...

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

authors： Ramani K,Hassan Q,Venkaiah B,Hasnain SE,Sarkar DP

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) viral DNA synthesis in quiescent and activated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) was studied. Incomplete viral DNA (previously demonstrated to be associated with HIV-1 virions) is carried by HIV-1 virions into quiescent and activated PBLs, contributing to the formation of ...

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

authors： Gao WY,Cara A,Gallo RC,Lori F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbate (vitamin C) recycling occurs when extracellular ascorbate is oxidized, transported as dehydroascorbic acid, and reduced intracellularly to ascorbate. We investigated microorganism induction of ascorbate recycling in human neutrophils and in microorganisms themselves. Ascorbate recycling was determined by mea...

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

authors： Wang Y,Russo TA,Kwon O,Chanock S,Rumsey SC,Levine M

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.9-kilobase Acc I fragment of the DNA of the pneumococcal bacteriophage Cp-1, containing the cpl gene, hybridizes with the lytA gene encoding the pneumococcal amidase. The nucleotide sequence of the cpl gene of Cp-1, encoding a muramidase (CPL), has been determined. The 3' regions of the cpl and lytA coding sequenc...

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

authors： García E,García JL,García P,Arrarás A,Sánchez-Puelles JM,López R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell surface immunoglobulin in helper T-cell-dependent B-cell activation was analyzed using a B-cell lymphoma, CH12, with known antigen specificity and activation properties similar to those of a resting B cell. Two sources of helper T cells were used, both selected such that they interact with H-2-encoded...

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

authors： LoCascio NJ,Haughton G,Arnold LW,Corley RB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are complex, self-organized structures that define boundaries and compartmentalize space in living matter. Composed of a wide variety of lipid and protein molecules, these responsive surfaces mediate transmembrane signaling and material transport within the cell and with its environment. It is wel...

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

authors： Watkins EB,Miller CE,Majewski J,Kuhl TL

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Most small multicopy antibiotic-resistance plasmids of Staphylococcus aureus contain a major axis of hyphenated dyad symmetry (palA) that is required for normal replication and stability, although located outside of the minimal replicon. Rearrangements affecting palA cause plasmid instability, a marked reduction in co...

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

authors： Gruss AD,Ross HF,Novick RP

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes can release glutamate in a calcium-dependent manner and consequently signal to adjacent neurons. Whether this glutamate release pathway is used during physiological signaling or is recruited only under pathophysiological conditions is not well defined. One reason for this lack of understanding is the limite...

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

authors： Parpura V,Haydon PG

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve the mission of personalized medicine, centering on delivering the right drug to the right patient at the right dose, therapeutic drug monitoring solutions are necessary. In that regard, wearable biosensing technologies, capable of tracking drug pharmacokinetics in noninvasively retrievable biofluids (e.g., ...

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

authors： Lin S,Yu W,Wang B,Zhao Y,En K,Zhu J,Cheng X,Zhou C,Lin H,Wang Z,Hojaiji H,Yeung C,Milla C,Davis RW,Emaminejad S

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells interacting with antigen-presenting cells (APCs) form an "immunological synapse" (IS), a bull's-eye pattern composed of a central supramolecular activation cluster enriched with T cell receptors (TCRs) surrounded by a ring of adhesion molecules (a peripheral supramolecular activation cluster). The mechanism re...

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

authors： Kaizuka Y,Douglass AD,Varma R,Dustin ML,Vale RD

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferredoxin:NADPH oxidoreductase (FNR) is a key enzyme of photosynthetic electron transport required for generation of reduction equivalents. Recently, two proteins were found to be involved in membrane-anchoring of FNR by specific interaction via a conserved Ser/Pro-rich motif: Tic62 and Trol. Our crystallographic stu...

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

authors： Alte F,Stengel A,Benz JP,Petersen E,Soll J,Groll M,Bölter B

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the highly invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, rapidly displaced resident populations of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti in the southeastern United States and in Bermuda. Although multiple mechanisms of competitive displacement have been hypothesized, recent evidence of cross-inseminati...

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

authors： Bargielowski IE,Lounibos LP,Carrasquilla MC

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00