Is there a single pathway for the folding of a polypeptide chain?

abstract：:Heme A is an essential cofactor for respiratory terminal oxidases and vital for respiration in aerobic organisms. The final step of heme A biosynthesis is formylation of the C-8 methyl group of heme molecule by heme A synthase (HAS). HAS is a heme-containing integral membrane protein, and its structure and reaction me...

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

authors： Niwa S,Takeda K,Kosugi M,Tsutsumi E,Mogi T,Miki K

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:2-[4-(3,4-Dichlorophenylureido)phenoxy]-2-methylpropionic acid, LR16, combines with two symmetrically related sites in the central cavity of deoxyhemoglobin, 20 A away from the binding site of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate, and acts as an allosteric effector synergistic with 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate. LR16 (1 mM) raises P50, ...

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

authors： Lalezari I,Rahbar S,Lalezari P,Fermi G,Perutz MF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During primate evolution, a major factor in lengthening life-span and decreasing age-specific cancer rates may have been improved protective mechanisms against oxygen radicals. We propose that one of these protective systems is plasma uric acid, the level of which increased markedly during primate evolution as a conse...

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

authors： Ames BN,Cathcart R,Schwiers E,Hochstein P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earth's water cycle enables the incorporation of water (hydration) in mantle minerals that can influence the physical properties of the mantle. Lattice thermal conductivity of mantle minerals is critical for controlling the temperature profile and dynamics of the mantle and subducting slabs. However, the effect of hyd...

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

authors： Chang YY,Hsieh WP,Tan E,Chen J

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) in the embryonic chicken heart undergo agonist-induced internalization and a subsequent decrease in receptor number (downregulation). Cloning studies have identified two subtypes of mAChR expressed in the embryonic chicken heart, the cm2 and cm4 receptors. We report here that...

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

authors： Habecker BA,Nathanson NM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity of the transcription factor NF-kappaB is differentially controlled by three IkappaB proteins, Ikappa Balpha, Ikappa Bbeta, and Ikappa Bepsilon. We have examined the molecular basis for the differential inhibitory strengths of IkappaB proteins by constructing hybrid IkappaBs and found that the f...

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

authors： Simeonidis S,Stauber D,Chen G,Hendrickson WA,Thanos D

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate constants for CO binding to the five-coordinate ferrous iron complexes of 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxyoxyphenyl)]porphyrin and 5,10,15,20-[pyromellitoyl(tetrakis-o-oxypropoxyphenyl)]porphyrin have been measured and compared with the corresponding rate constants for other hemes and hemoproteins. Th...

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

authors： Rose EJ,Venkatasubramanian PN,Swartz JC,Jones RD,Basolo F,Hoffman BM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and completely sequenced a gene encoding the heavy chain of Dictyostelium myosin I. Like the myosin I molecules from Acanthamoeba, the Dictyostelium myosin I heavy chain is composed of a globular head domain fused to a 45-kDa glycine-, proline-, and alanine-rich carboxyl-terminal domain, rather than the...

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

authors： Jung G,Saxe CL 3rd,Kimmel AR,Hammer JA 3rd

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a role for ECM as a biosensor for inflammatory microenvironments that plays a critical role in peripheral immune tolerance. We show that hyaluronan (HA) promotes induction of Foxp3- IL-10-producing regulatory T cells (TR1) from conventional T-cell precursors in both murine and human systems. This is, to ou...

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

authors： Bollyky PL,Wu RP,Falk BA,Lord JD,Long SA,Preisinger A,Teng B,Holt GE,Standifer NE,Braun KR,Xie CF,Samuels PL,Vernon RB,Gebe JA,Wight TN,Nepom GT

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged exposure to ascorbate, collagen synthesis in cultured human skin fibroblasts increased approximately 8-fold with no significant change in synthesis of noncollagen protein. This effect of ascorbate appears to be unrelated to its cofactor function in collagen hydroxylation. The collagenous protein secret...

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

authors： Murad S,Grove D,Lindberg KA,Reynolds G,Sivarajah A,Pinnell SR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are located in highly conserved clusters. The significance of this organization is unclear, but one possibility is that regulatory regions for individual genes are dispersed throughout the cluster and shared with other Hox genes. This hypothesis is supported by studies on several Hox genes in which even larg...

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

authors： Bradshaw MS,Shashikant CS,Belting HG,Bollekens JA,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a common cause of vision loss or blindness and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) has been proven beneficial in a large fraction of glaucoma patients. The IOP is maintained by the trabecular meshwork (TM) and the elevation of IOP in open-angle glaucoma is associated with dysfunction and loss of the po...

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

authors： Zhu W,Gramlich OW,Laboissonniere L,Jain A,Sheffield VC,Trimarchi JM,Tucker BA,Kuehn MH

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) plays an integral role in both the anterior-posterior (A-P) patterning and expansion of developing vertebrate limbs through a feedback loop involving Fgfs, Bmps, and Gremlin. In bat limbs A-P patterning and the size of the digital field are unique. The posterior digits of the forelimb are elongate...

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

authors： Hockman D,Cretekos CJ,Mason MK,Behringer RR,Jacobs DS,Illing N

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Parinaric acid (9,11,13,15-octadecatetraenoic acid), a conjugated tetraene fatty acid, undergoes a second-order photochemical reaction in phospholipid bilayers. The reaction results in the loss of the characteristic absorption of this chromophore and the development of new absorption demonstrating the presence of a tr...

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

authors： Morgan CG,Hudson B,Wolber PK

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of corticosterone are often used as a measure of "stress" in wild animal populations. However, we lack conclusive evidence that different stress levels reflect different survival probabilities between populations. Galápagos marine iguanas offer an ideal test case because island populations are affected d...

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

authors： Romero LM,Wikelski M

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of BALB/3T3 cells by polyoma virus causes an alteration in the cell surface, characterized by enhanced agglutination of the cells by wheat germ agglutinin or concanavalin A. Infection by the thermosensitive mutant of polyoma, ts-3, causes the cell surface alteration at the permissive temperature, but not at ...

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

authors： Eckhart W,Dulbecco R,Burger MM

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transformation-defective mutant of Abelson murine leukemia virus (A-MuLV), called A-MuLV-P92td, has been isolated. The mutant encodes a serologically identifiable A-MuLV protein of molecular weight 92,000 (P92) but it lacks the ability to transform either fibroblasts or bone marrow lymphoid cells. In contrast to the...

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

authors： Witte ON,Goff S,Rosenberg N,Baltimore D

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis during human development relies on the interplay between physiochemical cues that are mediated in part by cellular density and cytoskeletal tension. Here, we interrogated these factors on vascular lineage specification during human-induced pluripotent stem-cell (hiPSC) fate decision. We found that indepe...

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

authors： Smith Q,Rochman N,Carmo AM,Vig D,Chan XY,Sun S,Gerecht S

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequences of the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL (regulation of N2 fixation genes) and the Escherichia coli glnA (glutamine synthetase) promoters. We compared these sequences with the published sequences of three other promoters that, like the nifL and glnA promoters, are activated by the ...

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

authors： Ow DW,Sundaresan V,Rothstein DM,Brown SE,Ausubel FM

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity of cell membranes is maintained by a balance between the amount of cholesterol and the amounts of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in phospholipids. This balance is maintained by membrane-bound transcription factors called sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) that activate genes encod...

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

authors： Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:ROOT MERISTEM GROWTH FACTOR (RGF) 1 is an important peptide hormone that regulates root growth. Upon binding to its receptor, RGFR1, RGF1 regulates the expression of two transcription factors, PLETHORA 1 and 2 (PLT1/2), to influence root meristem development. Here, we show that the ubiquitin-specific proteases UBP12 a...

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

authors： An Z,Liu Y,Ou Y,Li J,Zhang B,Sun D,Sun Y,Tang W

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:China has experienced rapid urbanization and dramatic economic growth since its reform process started in late 1978. In this article, we present evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate based on analysis of impacts of land-use changes on surface temperature in southeast China, where rapid urbanization...

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

authors： Zhou L,Dickinson RE,Tian Y,Fang J,Li Q,Kaufmann RK,Tucker CJ,Myneni RB

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of increased numbers of recorded pertussis cases in the United States, this study sought to understand the role of nonmedical vaccine exemptions and waning immunity may have had on the resurgence of pertussis in the United States at the community level. We used geospatial scan statistics, SaTScan, version 9.4,...

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

authors： Aloe C,Kulldorff M,Bloom BR

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and rapid in situ method was developed to visualize sites of single-stranded (ss) DNA in cultured cells and in experimental test animals. Anti-bromodeoxyuridine antibody recognizes the halogenated base analog incorporated into chromosomal DNA only when substituted DNA is in the single strand form. After tr...

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

authors： Raderschall E,Golub EI,Haaf T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Zebrafish carrying heterozygous mutations for 17 different ribosomal protein (rp) genes are prone to developing malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs), a tumor type that is seldom seen in laboratory strains of zebrafish. Interestingly, the same rare tumor type arises in zebrafish that are homozygous for a l...

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

authors： MacInnes AW,Amsterdam A,Whittaker CA,Hopkins N,Lees JA

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This article demonstrates that a simple chemical model system, built by using a modular approach, may be used to predict the spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation of blood clotting in the complex network of hemostasis. Microfluidics was used to create in vitro environments that expose both the complex network and the ...

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

authors： Kastrup CJ,Runyon MK,Shen F,Ismagilov RF

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene networks underlying closure of the optic fissure during vertebrate eye development are poorly understood. Here, we profile global gene expression during optic fissure closure using laser capture microdissected (LCM) tissue from the margins of the fissure. From these data, we identify a unique role for the C(2...

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

authors： Brown JD,Dutta S,Bharti K,Bonner RF,Munson PJ,Dawid IB,Akhtar AL,Onojafe IF,Alur RP,Gross JM,Hejtmancik JF,Jiao X,Chan WY,Brooks BP

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cedar virus (CedV) is a bat-borne henipavirus related to Nipah virus (NiV) and Hendra virus (HeV), zoonotic agents of fatal human disease. CedV receptor-binding protein (G) shares only ∼30% sequence identity with those of NiV and HeV, although they can all use ephrin-B2 as an entry receptor. We demonstrate that CedV a...

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

authors： Laing ED,Navaratnarajah CK,Cheliout Da Silva S,Petzing SR,Xu Y,Sterling SL,Marsh GA,Wang LF,Amaya M,Nikolov DB,Cattaneo R,Broder CC,Xu K

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the quantum confinement in the photoemission ionization energy in air and optical band gap of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs). Premixed, stretched-stabilized ethylene flames are used to generate the CNPs reproducibly over the range of 4-23 nm in volume median diameter. The results reveal that flame-formed CNPs ...

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

authors： Liu C,Singh AV,Saggese C,Tang Q,Chen D,Wan K,Vinciguerra M,Commodo M,De Falco G,Minutolo P,D'Anna A,Wang H

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00