Variable numbers of pepsinogen genes are located in the centromeric region of human chromosome 11 and determine the high-frequency electrophoretic polymorphism.

abstract：:The paucity of integral membrane protein structures creates a major bioinformatics gap, whose origin is the difficulty of crystallizing these detergent-solubilized proteins. The problem is particularly formidable for hetero-oligomeric integral membrane proteins, where crystallization is impeded by the heterogeneity an...

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

authors： Zhang H,Kurisu G,Smith JL,Cramer WA

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of therapeutic recombinant proteins in medicine has led to a variety of tactics to increase their circulation time or to enable routes of administration other than injection. One clinically successful tactic to improve both protein circulation and delivery is to fuse the Fc domain of IgG to therapeutic ...

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

authors： Sockolosky JT,Tiffany MR,Szoka FC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic receptors (ARs) (subtypes alpha 1, alpha 2, beta 1, and beta 2) are a prototypic family of guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein-coupled receptors that mediate the physiological effects of the hormone epinephrine and the neurotransmitter norepinephrine. We have previously assigned the genes for ...

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

authors： Yang-Feng TL,Xue FY,Zhong WW,Cotecchia S,Frielle T,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Francke U

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal sequences of two polypeptides with nonsuppressible insulin-like and cell-growth-promoting activities (NSILA I and II), isolated from human serum, were determined. Of the first 31 residues, 22 are identical in NSILA I and II. Moreover, a striking structural similarity was found between NSILA and insu...

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

authors： Rinderknecht E,Humbel RE

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation is the raw material for natural selection, but the factors shaping variation are still poorly understood. Genetic and developmental interactions can direct variation, but there has been little synthesis of these effects with the extrinsic factors that can shape biodiversity over large scales. The study of ph...

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

authors： Goswami A,Binder WJ,Meachen J,O'Keefe FR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The venoms from three spider species, Araneus gemma, Neoscona arabesca, and Argiope aurantia, were shown to inhibit the high-affinity, sodium-independent L-glutamate-binding sites in rat brain synaptic membranes. The same three venoms caused concentration-dependent inhibition of the activity of the glutamate-binding g...

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

authors： Michaelis EK,Galton N,Early SL

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a widely accepted hypothesis that the molecular clock slows down during evolution of higher primates. By molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence comparison of a rhesus macaque alpha-globin gene to its homologs in man, orangutan, olive baboon, and other mammals, we demonstrate a burst of evolution of the ...

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

authors： Shaw JP,Marks J,Shen CC,Shen CK

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular and molecular signals involved in axon elongation versus collateral and arbor formation may be intrinsic to developing neurons, or they may derive from targets. To identify signals regulating axon growth modes, we have developed a culture system in which trigeminal ganglion cells are challenged by various tar...

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

authors： Erzurumlu RS,Jhaveri S,Takahashi H,McKay RD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen bonds and their relative strengths in proteins are of importance for understanding protein structure and protein motions. The correct strength of such hydrogen bonds is experimentally known to vary greatly from approximately 5-6 kcal/mol for the isolated bond to approximately 0.5-1.5 kcal/mol for proteins in ...

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

authors： Sheu SY,Yang DY,Selzle HL,Schlag EW

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-mediated signaling events regulate many cellular processes. Investigations of the complex underlying mechanisms are difficult because several different methods need to be used under varying conditions. Here we introduce multifunctional lipid derivatives to study lipid metabolism, lipid-protein interactions, and ...

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

authors： Höglinger D,Nadler A,Haberkant P,Kirkpatrick J,Schifferer M,Stein F,Hauke S,Porter FD,Schultz C

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The dauer larva state and the age-1 mutation, both of which extend life-span in Caenorhabditis elegans, were tested for hyperresistance to cellular damage that may be relevant to aging. The age-1 strain TJ401 displayed hyperresistance to oxidative stress relative to its parental strain. The activities of two enzymes t...

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

authors： Larsen PL

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta is essential for the success of therian mammalian reproduction. Intense selective pressure has shaped changes in placental anatomy and function during mammalian cladogenesis. Here we challenge the view that the hemochorial placenta is a derived feature in haplorhine primates. Using phylogenetic and statis...

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

authors： Wildman DE,Chen C,Erez O,Grossman LI,Goodman M,Romero R

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive studies of memory processes demonstrate that memory for stimuli is a function of how they are encoded; stimuli processed semantically are better remembered than those processed in a perceptual or shallow fashion. This study investigates the neural correlates of this cognitive phenomenon. Twelve subjects perf...

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

authors： Kapur S,Craik FI,Tulving E,Wilson AA,Houle S,Brown GM

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular form of the Prion protein (PrPC) is necessary for prion replication in mice. To determine whether it is also sufficient, we expressed PrP under the control of various cell- or tissue-specific regulatory elements in PrP knockout mice. The interferon regulatory factor-1 promoter/Emu enhancer led to high PrP...

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

authors： Raeber AJ,Sailer A,Hegyi I,Klein MA,Rülicke T,Fischer M,Brandner S,Aguzzi A,Weissmann C

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-energy conformations for a series of peptides based on the sequence of the ras P21 protein from position 55 to position 67 have been computed using conformational energy analysis. These sequences differed at position 61 and contained Gln, Pro, Leu, Lys, and Arg at this position. P21 proteins with Gln, Glu, or ...

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

authors： Pincus MR,Brandt-Rauf PW,Carty RP,Lubowsky J,Avitable M,Gibson KD,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the structural basis for antiviral activity, oral pharmacokinetics, and hepatic metabolism among a series of symmetry-based inhibitors of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease led to the discovery of ABT-538, a promising experimental drug for the therapeutic intervention in acquired immunodefi...

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

authors： Kempf DJ,Marsh KC,Denissen JF,McDonald E,Vasavanonda S,Flentge CA,Green BE,Fino L,Park CH,Kong XP

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane fractions from Xenopus laevis oocytes were incorporated into planar lipid bilayers. We show the existence of numerous Ca2+-activated nonspecific channels that are more permeable to anions. These channels are activated by Ca2+ at micromolar concentration but not by Mg2+, Zn2+, or Mn2+, even at millimola...

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

authors： Young GP,Young JD,Deshpande AK,Goldstein M,Koide SS,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTCF sites are abundant in the genomes of diverse species but their function is enigmatic. We used chromosome conformation capture to determine long-range interactions among CTCF/cohesin sites over 2 Mb on human chromosome 11 encompassing the beta-globin locus and flanking olfactory receptor genes. Although CTCF occup...

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

authors： Hou C,Dale R,Dean A

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:GB virus B (GBV-B), which infects tamarins, is the virus most closely related to hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV has a protein (p7) that is believed to form an ion channel. It is critical for viability. In vitro studies suggest that GBV-B has an analogous but larger protein (p13). We found that substitutions of the -1 an...

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

authors： Takikawa S,Engle RE,Emerson SU,Purcell RH,St Claire M,Bukh J

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation is an innate defense mechanism intended to limit blood loss and trap invading pathogens during infection. However, Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to hijack the coagulation cascade and generate clots via secretion of coagulases. Although many S. aureus have this characteristic, some do not. The popul...

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

authors： Trivedi U,Madsen JS,Everett J,Fell C,Russel J,Haaber J,Crosby HA,Horswill AR,Burmølle M,Rumbaugh KP,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A diploid strain of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was found to be heterozygous for two forms of the highly repetitious ribosomal DNA. These forms could be distinguished by the pattern of fragments produced after digestion with the site-specific restriction endonuclease EcoRI. The mode of inheritance of ribosomal DN...

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

authors： Petes TD,Botstein D

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene EPXH2 encodes for the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), an enzyme involved in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal physiology containing two distinct domains connected via a proline-rich linker. The C-terminal domain containing the EH catalytic activity has been well studied. In contrast, a function for ...

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

authors： Newman JW,Morisseau C,Harris TR,Hammock BD

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 maturation involves conversion of the immature Gag polyprotein lattice, which lines the inner surface of the viral membrane, to the mature capsid protein (CA) lattice, which encloses the viral RNA. Maturation inhibitors such as bevirimat (BVM) bind within six-helix bundles, formed by a segment that spans the jun...

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

authors： Gupta S,Louis JM,Tycko R

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:All life on Earth is built of organic molecules, so the primordial sources of reduced carbon remain a major open question in studies of the origin of life. A variant of the alkaline-hydrothermal-vent theory for life's emergence suggests that organics could have been produced by the reduction of CO2 via H2 oxidation, f...

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

authors： Hudson R,de Graaf R,Strandoo Rodin M,Ohno A,Lane N,McGlynn SE,Yamada YMA,Nakamura R,Barge LM,Braun D,Sojo V

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge in ecology is to define species' niches on the basis of functional traits. Size and shape are important determinants of a species' niche but their causal role is often difficult to interpret. For endotherms, size and shape define the thermal niche through their interaction with core temperature, insula...

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

authors： Porter WP,Kearney M

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, considerable progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying olfaction in insects. Because of the diverse nature of the gene families involved, this process has largely relied on genomic data. As a consequence, studies have focused on a small subset of species with extensiv...

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

authors： Grosse-Wilde E,Kuebler LS,Bucks S,Vogel H,Wicher D,Hansson BS

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in raising student persistence and completion rates in a handful of courses, but evid...

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

authors： Kizilcec RF,Reich J,Yeomans M,Dann C,Brunskill E,Lopez G,Turkay S,Williams JJ,Tingley D

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:p300 acetylates and activates the tumor suppressor p53 after DNA damage. Here, we show that MDM2, a negative-feedback regulator of p53, inhibited p300-mediated p53 acetylation by complexing with these two proteins. First, we purified a p300-MDM2-p53 protein complex from HeLa nuclear extracts, which was inactive in p53...

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

authors： Kobet E,Zeng X,Zhu Y,Keller D,Lu H

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A topological model of the DNA binding site for the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) is presented. A consensus sequence drawn from the known CRP binding sites has several symmetrical subregions that are spatially resolved onto different faces of the DNA helix. Consideration of available biochemical and genetic data s...

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

authors： O'Neill MC,Amass K,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a fundamental technological advance for multilayer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics. Vertical passages (vias), connecting channels located in different layers, are fabricated monolithically, in parallel, by simple and easy means. The resulting 3D connectivity greatly expands the potential complex...

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

authors： Kartalov EP,Walker C,Taylor CR,Anderson WF,Scherer A

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00