A transmissible plasmid controlling camphor oxidation in Pseudomonas putida.

abstract：:The planarity of peptide bonds is an assumption that underlies decades of theoretical modeling of proteins. Peptide bonds strongly deviating from planarity are considered very rare features of protein structure that occur for functional reasons. Here, empirical analyses of atomic-resolution protein structures reveal t...

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

authors： Berkholz DS,Driggers CM,Shapovalov MV,Dunbrack RL Jr,Karplus PA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The monomeric VDAC channel shows an accelerated pH titration of its transport properties with a Hill coefficient of about 2. This manifests itself as a sharp peak in conductance noise as well as a fast change in channel selectivity with pH. On the basis of the known structure of this channel, we propose that this coop...

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

authors： Rostovtseva TK,Liu TT,Colombini M,Parsegian VA,Bezrukov SM

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comparative study of calorimetrically derived thermodynamic profiles for the binding of a series of drugs with selected DNA host duplexes. We use these data to demonstrate that comparisons between complete thermodynamic profiles (delta G zero, delta H zero, delta S zero, delta Cp) are required before drug...

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

authors： Breslauer KJ,Remeta DP,Chou WY,Ferrante R,Curry J,Zaunczkowski D,Snyder JG,Marky LA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of alternative splicing in regulating apoptosis has been suggested by findings of functionally antagonistic proteins generated by alternative splicing of several genes involved in apoptosis. Among these, Ich-1 (also named as caspase-2) encodes a member of the caspase family of proteases. Two forms of Ic...

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

authors： Jiang ZH,Zhang WJ,Rao Y,Wu JY

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopic expression of transcription factors can reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state. However, most of the studies used skin fibroblasts as the starting population for reprogramming, which usually take weeks for expansion from a single biopsy. We show here that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be gen...

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

authors： Sun N,Panetta NJ,Gupta DM,Wilson KD,Lee A,Jia F,Hu S,Cherry AM,Robbins RC,Longaker MT,Wu JC

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria deliver a cadre of virulence factors directly into the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells to promote pathogenesis and/or commensalism. Recently, families of virulence proteins have been recognized that function as E3 Ubiquitin-ligases. How these bacterial ligases integrate into the ubiquitin (Ub...

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

authors： Levin I,Eakin C,Blanc MP,Klevit RE,Miller SI,Brzovic PS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The pore domain of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels consists of transmembrane helices S5 and S6, the turret, the pore helix, the selectivity filter, and the loop preceding S6, with a tertiary reentrant structure between S5 and S6. Using biogenic intermediates, mass tagging (pegylation), and a molecular tape measu...

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

authors： Gajewski C,Dagcan A,Roux B,Deutsch C

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the polo subfamily of protein kinases play pivotal roles in cell-cycle control and proliferation. In addition to a high degree of sequence similarity in the kinase domain, polo kinases contain a strikingly conserved motif termed "polo-box" in the noncatalytic C-terminal domain. We have previously shown that...

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

authors： Lee KS,Song S,Erikson RL

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that laminar flow activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) in vascular endothelial cells in a ligand-dependent manner that involves phospholipase A2 and cytochrome P450 epoxygenases. In this study, we investigated whether epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), the cataly...

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

authors： Liu Y,Zhang Y,Schmelzer K,Lee TS,Fang X,Zhu Y,Spector AA,Gill S,Morisseau C,Hammock BD,Shyy JY

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain serotonin (5-HT) deficiency and exposure to psychosocial stress have both been implicated in the etiology of depression and anxiety disorders, but whether 5-HT deficiency influences susceptibility to depression- and anxiety-like phenotypes induced by psychosocial stress has not been formally established. Most cl...

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

authors： Sachs BD,Ni JR,Caron MG

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A modification of the polymerase chain reaction has been used to establish the fact that a collection of Staphylococcus aureus toxins are "superantigens," each of which interacts with the T-cell alpha beta receptor of human T cells by means of a specific set of V beta elements. ...

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

authors： Choi YW,Kotzin B,Herron L,Callahan J,Marrack P,Kappler J

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri initiates a specific, persistent symbiosis in the light organ of the squid Euprymna scolopes. During the early stages of colonization, V. fischeri is exposed to host-derived nitric oxide (NO). Although NO can be both an antimicrobial component of innate immunity and a key s...

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

authors： Wang Y,Dufour YS,Carlson HK,Donohue TJ,Marletta MA,Ruby EG

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The core protein of a small chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycan expressed by human fibroblasts and present in extracellular matrices in association with collagen has been cloned from a lambda gt11 fibroblast cDNA library. cDNA clones were isolated by use of antibodies specific for the intact proteoglycan and ant...

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

authors： Krusius T,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Living organisms detect changes in temperature using thermosensory molecules. However, these molecules and/or their mechanisms for sensing temperature differ among organisms. To identify thermosensory molecules in plants, we investigated chloroplast positioning in response to temperature changes and identified a blue-...

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

authors： Fujii Y,Tanaka H,Konno N,Ogasawara Y,Hamashima N,Tamura S,Hasegawa S,Hayasaki Y,Okajima K,Kodama Y

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells reproduce by budding to yield a mother cell and a smaller daughter cell. Although both mother and daughter begin G1 simultaneously, the mother cell progresses through G1 more rapidly. Daughter cell G1 delay has long been thought to be due to a requirement for attaining a certain critical...

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

authors： Laabs TL,Markwardt DD,Slattery MG,Newcomb LL,Stillman DJ,Heideman W

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs representing the alpha subunit of polyomavirus enhancer binding protein 2 (PEBP2; also called PEA2) were isolated. The products of the cDNAs are highly homologous to that of Drosophila segmentation gene runt (run) for an N-proximal 128-amino acid region showing 66% identity. The run homology region encompasses t...

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

authors： Ogawa E,Maruyama M,Kagoshima H,Inuzuka M,Lu J,Satake M,Shigesada K,Ito Y

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a class of cell surface receptors that, upon ligand binding, stimulate a variety of critical cellular functions. The orphan receptor anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is one of very few RTKs that remain without a firmly established protein ligand. Here we present a novel cytokine, F...

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

authors： Reshetnyak AV,Murray PB,Shi X,Mo ES,Mohanty J,Tome F,Bai H,Gunel M,Lax I,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel immune-type receptor (NITR) genes encode a unique multigene family of leukocyte regulatory receptors, which possess an extracellular Ig variable (V) domain and may function in innate immunity. Artificial chromosomes that encode zebrafish NITRs have been assembled into a contig spanning approximately 350 kb. ...

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

authors： Yoder JA,Litman RT,Mueller MG,Desai S,Dobrinski KP,Montgomery JS,Buzzeo MP,Ota T,Amemiya CT,Trede NS,Wei S,Djeu JY,Humphray S,Jekosch K,Hernandez Prada JA,Ostrov DA,Litman GW

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified human breast tumor particles possessing many of the features characteristic of RNA tumor viruses. In addition to the expected size (600 S) and density (1.16 g/ml) these include possession of an outer membrane and an inner one surrounding a "core" containing a DNA polymerase and a large...

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

authors： Ohno T,Sweet RW,Dejak D,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all aliphatic amines, the polyamines spermine and spermidine are physical quenchers of singlet molecular oxygen (1O2*). The rate constants of these processes were determined in vitro with photochemically generated 1O2* and the hydrocarbon rubrene as substrate, in pyridine. At millimolar concentration, spermine an...

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

authors： Khan AU,Mei YH,Wilson T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:siRNA therapeutics have promise for the treatment of a wide range of genetic disorders. Motivated by lipoproteins, we report lipopeptide nanoparticles as potent and selective siRNA carriers with a wide therapeutic index. Lead material cKK-E12 showed potent silencing effects in mice (ED50 ∼ 0.002 mg/kg), rats (ED50 < 0...

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

authors： Dong Y,Love KT,Dorkin JR,Sirirungruang S,Zhang Y,Chen D,Bogorad RL,Yin H,Chen Y,Vegas AJ,Alabi CA,Sahay G,Olejnik KT,Wang W,Schroeder A,Lytton-Jean AK,Siegwart DJ,Akinc A,Barnes C,Barros SA,Carioto M,Fitzgerald

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation plays a critical role in controlling the function of cytoskeletal assemblies but no direct method yet exists to measure the phosphorylation state of proteins at the level of individual molecules and assemblies. Herein, we apply scanning transmission electron microscopy in combination with electron ener...

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

authors： Leapman RD,Gallant PE,Reese TS,Andrews SB

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft corals of the family Xeniidae exhibit a unique, rhythmic pulsation of their tentacles (Movie S1), first noted by Lamarck nearly 200 y ago. However, the adaptive benefit of this perpetual, energetically costly motion is poorly understood. Using in situ underwater particle image velocimetry, we found that the pulsa...

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

authors： Kremien M,Shavit U,Mass T,Genin A

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that short-term immobilization stress of rats causes increased colonic mucin release, goblet cell depletion, prostaglandin E2 secretion, and colonic mast cell activation, as well as increased colonic motility. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether neurotensin (NT), a peptide expre...

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

authors： Castagliuolo I,Leeman SE,Bartolak-Suki E,Nikulasson S,Qiu B,Carraway RE,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant metabolites are crucial for both plant life and human nutrition. Despite recent advance in metabolomics, the genetic control of plant metabolome remains largely unknown. Here, we performed a genetic analysis of the rice metabolome that provided over 2,800 highly resolved metabolic quantitative trait loci for 900...

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

authors： Gong L,Chen W,Gao Y,Liu X,Zhang H,Xu C,Yu S,Zhang Q,Luo J

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The main consequence of the Chernobyl accident has been an increase in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) in those exposed to radioactive fallout as young children. Our aim was to identify genomic alterations that are associated with exposure to radiation. We used array comparative genomic hybridization to analyze a ...

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

authors： Hess J,Thomas G,Braselmann H,Bauer V,Bogdanova T,Wienberg J,Zitzelsberger H,Unger K

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The endosperm of cereal grains is one of the most valuable products of modern agriculture. Cereal endosperm development comprises different phases characterized by mitotic cell proliferation, endoreduplication, the accumulation of storage compounds, and programmed cell death. Although manipulation of these processes c...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Liu Y,Dante RA,Lizarraga LE,Nguyen HN,Brown SW,Klingler JP,Yu J,LaBrant E,Layton TM,Feldman M,Larkins BA

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:During neurogenesis of the mammalian neocortex, neural progenitor cells divide to generate daughter cells that either become neurons or remain as progenitor cells. The mouse numb (m-numb) gene encodes a membrane-associated protein that is asymmetrically localized to the apical cell membrane of dividing cortical progen...

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

authors： Zhong W,Jiang MM,Schonemann MD,Meneses JJ,Pedersen RA,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of derepressed synthesis of a membrane protein required for lactose transport (M protein) by Escherichia coli is increased in response to increased gene dosage to the same extent as the rates of synthesis of beta-galactosidase and galactoside acetylase. However, elevated gene dosage does not increase beta-gal...

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

authors： Fox CF

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00