Structural changes and metal binding by proalbumins and other amino-terminal genetic variants of human serum albumin.

abstract：:Previous reconstructions of marine fishing fleets have aggregated data without regard to the artisanal and industrial sectors. Engine power has often been estimated from subsets of the developed world, leading to inflated results. We disaggregated data into three sectors, artisanal (unpowered/powered) and industrial, ...

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

authors： Rousseau Y,Watson RA,Blanchard JL,Fulton EA

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-integrated type II phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAP2s) are important for numerous bacterial to human biological processes, including glucose transport, lipid metabolism, and signaling. Escherichia coli phosphatidylglycerol-phosphate phosphatase B (ecPgpB) catalyzes removing the terminal phosphate group fro...

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

authors： Fan J,Jiang D,Zhao Y,Liu J,Zhang XC

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of anti-human placental uracil DNA glycosylase monoclonal antibodies was used to screen a human placental cDNA library in phage lambda gt11. Twenty-seven immunopositive plaques were detected and purified. One clone containing a 1.2-kilobase (kb) human cDNA insert was chosen for further study by insertion into...

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

authors： Vollberg TM,Siegler KM,Cool BL,Sirover MA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 600-base-pair region essential for ColE1 and pMBl plasmid replication contains two promoters responsible for the synthesis of two RNA molecules central to copy number control. One promoter directs synthesis of the primer RNA precursor. The second promoter directs the synthesis of a small RNA molecule, RNAl, which ac...

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

authors： Cesareni G,Muesing MA,Polisky B

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAC5 is a component of the conserved MOS4-associated complex. It plays critical roles in development and immunity. Here we report that MAC5 is required for microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis. MAC5 interacts with Serrate (SE), which is a core component of the microprocessor that processes primary miRNA transcripts (pri-miRNAs...

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

authors： Li S,Li M,Liu K,Zhang H,Zhang S,Zhang C,Yu B

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) is a global disease threat for which there are no approved antivirals or vaccines. Establishing state-of-the-art screening systems that rely on fluorescent or luminescent reporters may accelerate the development of anti-DENV therapeutics. However, relatively few reporter DENV platforms exist. Here,...

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

authors： Schoggins JW,Dorner M,Feulner M,Imanaka N,Murphy MY,Ploss A,Rice CM

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic uptake of cholephilic organic anions is a carrier-mediated process. Three distinct proteins [bilitranslocase (BTL), sulfobromophthalein (BSP)/bilirubin-binding protein (BBBP), and organic anion-binding protein] have been isolated from the basolateral plasma-membrane domain of the hepatocyte. To investigate...

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

authors： Torres AM,Lunazzi GC,Stremmel W,Tiribelli C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct subsets of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) support T-cell development and selection. Isolated TECs contain multicellular complexes that enclose many viable thymocytes. However, the functions of those TECs, termed thymic nurse cells (TNCs), are unclear and the idea that TNCs are present in vivo is questioned. H...

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

authors： Nakagawa Y,Ohigashi I,Nitta T,Sakata M,Tanaka K,Murata S,Kanagawa O,Takahama Y

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of the estrogen receptor/ligand complex with a DNA estrogen response element is known to regulate gene transcription. In turn, specific conformations of the receptor-ligand complex have been postulated to influence unique subsets of estrogen-responsive genes resulting in differential modulation and, ultima...

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

authors： Grese TA,Sluka JP,Bryant HU,Cullinan GJ,Glasebrook AL,Jones CD,Matsumoto K,Palkowitz AD,Sato M,Termine JD,Winter MA,Yang NN,Dodge JA

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex continues to mature after puberty and into early adulthood, mirroring the time course of maturation of cognitive abilities. However, the way in which prefrontal activity changes during peri- and postpubertal cortical maturation is largely unknown. To address this question, we evaluated the develo...

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

authors： Zhou X,Zhu D,Katsuki F,Qi XL,Lees CJ,Bennett AJ,Salinas E,Stanford TR,Constantinidis C

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the troposphere, methanol (CH3OH) is present ubiquitously and second in abundance among organic gases after methane. In the surface ocean, methanol represents a supply of energy and carbon for marine microbes. Here we report direct measurements of air-sea methanol transfer along a ∼10,000-km north-south transect of...

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

authors： Yang M,Nightingale PD,Beale R,Liss PS,Blomquist B,Fairall C

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination junctions of several Neurospora mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutants and their revertants were identified. Their nucleotide sequences and putative secondary structures were determined in order to understand the nature of the elements involved in intramolecular recombination. Multiple deletions, involving th...

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

authors： Almasan A,Mishra NC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant glycosylation and the overexpression of certain carbohydrate moieties is a consistent feature of cancers, and tumor-associated oligosaccharides are actively investigated as targets for immunotherapy. One of the most common aberrations in glycosylation patterns is the presentation of a single O-linked N-acetyl...

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

authors： Brooks CL,Schietinger A,Borisova SN,Kufer P,Okon M,Hirama T,Mackenzie CR,Wang LX,Schreiber H,Evans SV

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of me...

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

authors： Lim JC,You Z,Kim G,Levine RL

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) is the most prevalent human vector-borne viral disease. The force of infection (FoI), the rate at which susceptible individuals are infected in a population, is an important metric for infectious disease modeling. Understanding how and why the FoI of DENV changes over time is critical for developin...

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

authors： Katzelnick LC,Ben-Shachar R,Mercado JC,Rodriguez-Barraquer I,Elizondo D,Arguello S,Nuñez A,Ojeda S,Sanchez N,Lopez Mercado B,Gresh L,Burger-Calderon R,Kuan G,Gordon A,Balmaseda A,Harris E

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A bone-resorbing factor, comparable to the osteoclast-activating factor (OAF) produced from peripheral blood leukocytes, is shown to be produced by murine spleen cells activated with the T-cell mitogen Con A. Murine OAF is demonstrated here as being a product of the interaction between thymus-derived T lymphocytes and...

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

authors： Horowitz M,Vignery A,Gershon RK,Baron R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In layered materials, a common mode of deformation involves buckling of the layers under tensile deformation in the direction perpendicular to the layers. The instability mechanism, which operates in elastic materials from geological to nanometer scales, involves the elastic contrast between different layers. In a reg...

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

authors： Makke A,Perez M,Lame O,Barrat JL

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we identify the specific isozymes of protein kinase C (PKC) that are involved in c-fos and c-jun mRNA accumulation in the rat basophilic leukemia cell line RBL-2H3. These cells could be largely depleted of the endogenous PKC isozymes by chronic treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate followed by ...

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

authors： Razin E,Szallasi Z,Kazanietz MG,Blumberg PM,Rivera J

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of membranes and membrane lipid function has lagged far behind that of nucleic acids and proteins, largely because it is difficult to manipulate cellular membrane lipid composition. To help solve this problem, we show that methyl-α-cyclodextrin (MαCD)-catalyzed lipid exchange can be used to maximally...

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

authors： Li G,Kim J,Huang Z,St Clair JR,Brown DA,London E

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogene c-fps/fes is a single vertebrate locus homologous to both the fps transforming gene of Fujinami avian sarcoma virus and the fes transforming gene of two feline sarcoma virus isolates. The human c-fps/fes locus has been previously cloned and characterized. We report that a recombinant gene in which 3'...

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

authors： Sodroski JG,Goh WC,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presynaptic and postsynaptic differentiation occurs at axodendritic contacts between CNS neurons. Synaptic adhesion mediated by synaptic cell adhesion molecule (SynCAM) and beta-neurexins/neuroligins triggers presynaptic differentiation. The signals that trigger postsynaptic differentiation are, however, unknown. Here...

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

authors： Nam CI,Chen L

更新日期：2005-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium kluyveri grown in the presence of 1 muM Na2(75)SeO3 produces a thiolase that copurifies with 75Se. Based on several criteria, the selenium moiety in this protein is selenomethionine. The 75Se-labeled amino acid in acid hydrolysates of the radioactive protein cochromatographed with authentic selenomethionin...

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

authors： Hartmanis MG,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various enzymatic derivatives of the murine myeloma protein IgA(MOPC-315) were subjected to hapten-binding quantitation and circular dichroic analysis in an attempt to ascertain the structural localization and functional definition of the immunoglobulin active site. The extrinsic Cotton effects observed with near satu...

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

authors： Merz DC,Litman GW,Good RA

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-15 and its specific receptor chain, IL-15Rα, support the development of various effector cells, including NK and CD8 T cells via a mechanism called trans-presentation. Whereas the dynamic of trans-presentation has been shown to involve the recycling of IL-15Rα by presenting cells, the way responding c...

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

authors： Tamzalit F,Barbieux I,Plet A,Heim J,Nedellec S,Morisseau S,Jacques Y,Mortier E

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulated human monocytes release several proteins thought to play a role in inflammation, including interleukin 1, tumor necrosis factor, and plasminogen activator. We have purified another proinflammatory protein that is chemotactic for human neutrophils from conditioned medium of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated mono...

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

authors： Yoshimura T,Matsushima K,Tanaka S,Robinson EA,Appella E,Oppenheim JJ,Leonard EJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The status of the Archaea as one of the three primary Domains emphasizes the importance of understanding their molecular fundamentals. Basic transcription in the Archaea resembles eucaryal transcription. However, little is known about transcriptional regulation. We have taken an in vivo approach, using genetics to add...

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

authors： Cohen-Kupiec R,Blank C,Leigh JA

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of estrogen-induced tumorigenesis in the target organ are not well understood. It has been suggested that oxidative stress resulting from metabolic activation of carcinogenic estrogens plays a critical role in estrogen-induced carcinogenesis. We tested this hypothesis by using an estrogen-induced hamster re...

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

authors： Bhat HK,Calaf G,Hei TK,Loya T,Vadgama JV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of transition states along reaction coordinates (r++) for simple chemical reactions are often estimated from Leffler alpha values, the slope of plots of DeltaG++ (activation energy) versus DeltaG(0) (equilibrium free energy) for a series of structural variants. Protein folding is more complex than simple...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycan-protein interactions are emerging as important modulators of membrane protein organization and dynamics, regulating multiple cellular functions. In particular, it has been postulated that glycan-mediated interactions regulate surface residence time of glycoproteins and endocytosis. How this precisely occurs is ...

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

authors： Torreno-Pina JA,Castro BM,Manzo C,Buschow SI,Cambi A,Garcia-Parajo MF

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for hydrogen bonding between 5'-ribonucleotides in water has been obtained from a 220-MHz proton magnetic resonance study of nitrogenous protons. The amino groups of GMP, AMP, and CMP exhibit proton resonance lines which are somewhat broadened by proton exchange with the solvent at 0 degrees ; their downfield...

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

authors： Raszka M,Kaplan NO

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00