Crystal structure of a snake venom cardiotoxin.

abstract：:A library of amphiphilic Janus dendrimers including two that are fluorescent and one glycodendrimer presenting lactose were used to construct giant dendrimersomes and glycodendrimersomes. Coassembly with the components of bacterial membrane vesicles by a dehydration-rehydration process generated giant cell-like hybrid...

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

authors： Xiao Q,Yadavalli SS,Zhang S,Sherman SE,Fiorin E,da Silva L,Wilson DA,Hammer DA,André S,Gabius HJ,Klein ML,Goulian M,Percec V

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMO, a small ubiquitin-related modifier, is known to covalently attach to a number of nuclear regulatory proteins such as p53, IkappaB, promyelocytic leukemia protein and c-Jun. The sumoylation reaction is catalyzed by the SUMO protease, which exposes the C-terminal active glycine residue of the nascent SUMO, the het...

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

authors： Li T,Evdokimov E,Shen RF,Chao CC,Tekle E,Wang T,Stadtman ER,Yang DC,Chock PB

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:By using an indirect immunofluorescence technique, the distribution of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis in human blood cells was investigated. The antibody used was reactive with poly(ADP-ribose) larger than trimers. The specific immunofluorescence of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesized in situ from NAD+ was observed in nuclei of ...

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

authors： Ikai K,Ueda K,Fukushima M,Nakamura T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion within the huntingtin gene that encodes a polymorphic glutamine tract at the amino terminus of the huntingtin protein. HD is one of nine polyglutamine expansion diseases. The clinical threshold of polyglutamine expansion for HD is near 3...

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

authors： Caron NS,Desmond CR,Xia J,Truant R

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can sense the direction of gravity and change the growth orientation of their organs. The molecular mechanisms of gravity sensing and signal transduction during gravitropism are not well known. We have isolated several shoot gravitropism (sgr) mutants of Arabidopsis. The sgr3-1 mutant exhibits a reduced gravitr...

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

authors： Yano D,Sato M,Saito C,Sato MH,Morita MT,Tasaka M

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets are best known for their vasoprotective responses to injury and inflammation. Here, we have asked whether they also support vascular integrity when neither injury nor inflammation is present. Changes in vascular barrier function in dermal and meningeal vessels were measured in real time in mouse models using...

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

authors： Gupta S,Konradt C,Corken A,Ware J,Nieswandt B,Di Paola J,Yu M,Wang D,Nieman MT,Whiteheart SW,Brass LF

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus oocytes injected with rat brain mRNA, as in neurons, glycine greatly potentiated responses of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type of excitatory amino acid receptor. Injected oocytes generated a partially desensitizing inward current in response to NMDA with 30 nM added glycine. As the added glycine concent...

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

authors： Lerma J,Zukin RS,Bennett MV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A light beam hitting the retina produces an excitatory process; however, around the edge of the light beam, sensory cells are inhibited and lose their sensitivity. This combination of stimulation and inhibition produces a discrepancy between the luminance pattern presented to the eye and the brightness pattern that is...

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

authors： Von Békésy G

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overaccumulation of abnormally organized mitochondria in so-called "ragged-red" skeletal muscle fibers is a morphological hallmark of mitochondrial myopathies, in particular of mitochondrial encephalomyopathies. Characteristic for the abnormal mitochondria is the occurrence of highly ordered crystalline inclusions. Im...

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

authors： Stadhouders AM,Jap PH,Winkler HP,Eppenberger HM,Wallimann T

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and characterization of a cancer-associated cell membrane glycoprotein recognized by mAb NCC-3G10. The antibody showed strong reactivity to a wide variety of cancer cells, but only to a limited number of normal cells including lymphocytes, endothelial cells, and basal cells of stratified squamous...

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

authors： Ino Y,Gotoh M,Sakamoto M,Tsukagoshi K,Hirohashi S

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced the mutant beta-actin gene of a tumorigenic human fibroblast cell line (HuT-14T) and found that it carries three mutations that alter the amino acids at positions 36, 83, and 244 as well as a 22-base-pair "insertion" sequence, in the 5' intron, not present in a wild-type gene. The less tumorigenic ce...

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

authors： Lin CS,Ng SY,Gunning P,Kedes L,Leavitt J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro translation of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) virion RNA in the messenger-dependent reticulocyte lysate system yielded polypeptides that were not synthesized by translation of RNA from a transformation-defective deletion mutant of RSV. These RSV-specific products migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide ge...

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

authors： Beemon K,Hunter T

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. These aspirin-triggered lipoxins (ATL) may mediate some of ASA's beneficial actions and therefore are of interest in the search...

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

authors： Clish CB,O'Brien JA,Gronert K,Stahl GL,Petasis NA,Serhan CN

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo phage display identifies peptides that selectively home to the vasculature of individual organs, tissues, and tumors. Here we report the identification of a cyclic nonapeptide, CPGPEGAGC, which homes to normal breast tissue with a 100-fold selectivity over nontargeted phage. The homing of the phage is inhibite...

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

authors： Essler M,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human cells whether embryonic, neonatal, or adult are resistant to experimentally induced tumorigenesis in contrast to rodent or chicken cells. We showed previously that neither transformation with simian virus 40 DNA nor transfection with human mutant HRAS DNA immortalized FS-2 cells (diploid, neonatal human f...

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

authors： O'Brien W,Stenman G,Sager R

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work indicated that the light chains of a monotypic immunoglobulins G2-K and M-K from a single patient (Ti1) are identical. Our present data show that the monotypic immunoglobulins G and M share idiotypic determinants not present in their isolated light chains or in any of a large number of other immunoglobul...

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

authors： Wang AC,Wilson KS,Hopper JE,Fudenberg HH,Nisonoff A

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of two recently described human B lymphocyte-specific antigens (B1 and B2) was studied after B-cell activation in vivo and in vitro. Whereas both B1 and B2 were present on virtually all B cells from normal lymph nodes, B2 was absent from approximately 50% of B cells from hyperplastic lymph nodes. When B cells...

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

authors： Stashenko P,Nadler LM,Hardy R,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding whether a set of objects are the same or different is a cornerstone of perception and cognition. Surprisingly, no principled quantitative model of sameness judgment exists. We tested whether human sameness judgment under sensory noise can be modeled as a form of probabilistically optimal inference. An optimal...

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

authors： van den Berg R,Vogel M,Josic K,Ma WJ

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:RsbR is a regulator of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsible for transcribing the general stress response genes when environmental stress is imposed on Bacillus subtilis. The C-terminal domain of RsbR and its paralogues is a substrate for the kinase function of another sigma(B) regulator, RsbT,...

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

authors： Murray JW,Delumeau O,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2005-11-29 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：:Self-assembled monolayer-protected nanoparticles are promising candidates for applications, such as sensing and drug delivery, in which the molecular ligands' interactions with the surrounding environment play a crucial role. We recently showed that, when gold nanoparticles are coated with a binary mixture of immiscib...

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

authors： Centrone A,Penzo E,Sharma M,Myerson JW,Jackson AM,Marzari N,Stellacci F

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional capacities of CD8(+) T cells important for virus clearance are influenced by interactions with antigen presenting cells (APCs) and CD4(+) T cells during initial selection, subsequent expansion, and development of memory. Recently, investigators have shown that polyfunctional T cells correlate best with ...

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

authors： Ndhlovu ZM,Oelke M,Schneck JP,Griffin DE

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellulose synthesizing terminal complex consisting of subunits A, B, C, and D in Acetobacter xylinum spans the outer and inner cell membranes to synthesize and extrude glucan chains, which are assembled into subelementary fibrils and further into a ribbon. We determined the structures of subunit D (AxCeSD/AxBcsD) ...

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

authors： Hu SQ,Gao YG,Tajima K,Sunagawa N,Zhou Y,Kawano S,Fujiwara T,Yoda T,Shimura D,Satoh Y,Munekata M,Tanaka I,Yao M

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the detailed mechanism of the activation of voltage-gated ion channels has been a problem of great current interest. Reliable molecular simulations of voltage effects present a major challenge because meaningful converging microscopic simulations are not yet available and macroscopic treatments involve m...

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

authors： Dryga A,Chakrabarty S,Vicatos S,Warshel A

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) agonist muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a peptidoglycan motif common to all bacteria, supports leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)+ intestinal stem cell (ISC) survival through NOD2 activation upon an otherwise lethal oxid...

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

authors： Levy A,Stedman A,Deutsch E,Donnadieu F,Virgin HW,Sansonetti PJ,Nigro G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequence of 14 nucleotides in one human diversity (D) minigene (D2) is identical with a sequence in complementarity-determining region 2 (CDR2) of one human gene for the variable region of the heavy chain of immunoglobulin. The finding that nucleotide segments present in a D minigene can appear in CDR2 raises the po...

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

authors： Wu TT,Kabat EA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses constitute a major ecological and evolutionary driving force in the marine ecosystems. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain underexplored. Here we follow the dynamics of Emiliania huxleyi viruses (EhV) that infect the ubiquitous, bloom-forming phytoplankton E. huxleyi and show that EhV are emitted...

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

authors： Sharoni S,Trainic M,Schatz D,Lehahn Y,Flores MJ,Bidle KD,Ben-Dor S,Rudich Y,Koren I,Vardi A

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00