Structures of the visual chromophores and related pigments: a conformational basis of visual excitation.

abstract：:We use quantized molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the role of enzyme vibrations in facilitating dihydrofolate reductase hydride transfer. By sampling the full ensemble of reactive trajectories, we are able to quantify and distinguish between statistical and dynamical correlations in the enzyme motion. We...

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

authors： Boekelheide N,Salomón-Ferrer R,Miller TF 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of two-dimensional (2D) vibrational spectroscopy, which uses two ultrafast IR laser pulses, is used to examine the structure of a cyclic penta-peptide in solution. Spectrally resolved cross peaks occur in the off-diagonal region of the 2D IR spectrum of the amide I region, analogous to those in 2D NMR spectrosc...

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

authors： Hamm P,Lim M,DeGrado WF,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationships of hexose feeding and insulin action were studied in the Chinese hamster fibroblast cell lines 023 and DS-7. The latter, derived from 023 and deficient in phosphoglucose isomerase, has been used to map the metabolic requirements for aldohexose-mediated down-regulation or "curbing" of hexose tran...

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

authors： Wilson C,Peterson SW,Ullrey DB,Kalckar HM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (ZmPIPs) fall into two groups, ZmPIP1s and ZmPIP2s, that exhibit different water channel activities when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. ZmPIP1s are inactive, whereas ZmPIP2s induce a marked increase in the membrane osmotic water permeability coefficient, P(f). We previously s...

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

authors： Zelazny E,Borst JW,Muylaert M,Batoko H,Hemminga MA,Chaumont F

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sour taste is detected by a subset of taste cells on the tongue and palate epithelium that respond to acids with trains of action potentials. Entry of protons through a Zn(2+)-sensitive proton conductance that is specific to sour taste cells has been shown to be the initial event in sour taste transduction. Whether th...

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

authors： Ye W,Chang RB,Bushman JD,Tu YH,Mulhall EM,Wilson CE,Cooper AJ,Chick WS,Hill-Eubanks DC,Nelson MT,Kinnamon SC,Liman ER

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoot architecture is critical for optimizing plant adaptation and productivity. In contrast with annuals, branching in perennials native to temperate and boreal regions must be coordinated with seasonal growth cycles. How branching is coordinated with seasonal growth is poorly understood. We identified key components...

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

authors： Maurya JP,Miskolczi PC,Mishra S,Singh RK,Bhalerao RP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor Smad4/Dpc4 is a transcription activator that binds specific DNA sequences and whose nuclear localization is induced after exposure to type beta transforming growth factor-like cytokines. We explored an inducible system in which Smad4 protein is activated by translocation to the nucleus when cell l...

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

authors： Dai JL,Bansal RK,Kern SE

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the direct measurement of thermodynamic properties of colloidal hard spheres by optical microscopy. By using confocal microscopy, we obtain three-dimensional snapshots of a colloidal hard-sphere suspension over a wide range of densities. From these snapshots, the available volume to insert an additional sphe...

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

authors： Dullens RP,Aarts DG,Kegel WK

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory is a hallmark of adaptive immunity, and understanding T cell memory will be central to the development of effective cell-mediated vaccines. The characteristics and functions of CD4 memory cells have not been well defined. Here we demonstrate that the increased size of the secondary response is sol...

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

authors： MacLeod MK,McKee A,Crawford F,White J,Kappler J,Marrack P

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against an inositol phospholipid-specific phospholipase C purified from bovine brain were used to screen rat brain lambda gt11 expression cDNA libraries. Complete sequences of three cDNA inserts yielded a cumulative sequence of 5106 base pairs. The deduced protein had 1289 amino acids with a calculated mole...

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

authors： Suh PG,Ryu SH,Moon KH,Suh HW,Rhee SG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone is a favorable microenvironment for tumor growth and a frequent destination for metastatic cancer cells. Targeting cancers within the bone marrow remains a crucial oncologic challenge due to issues of drug availability and microenvironment-induced resistance. Herein, we engineered bone-homing polymeric nanopartic...

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

authors： Swami A,Reagan MR,Basto P,Mishima Y,Kamaly N,Glavey S,Zhang S,Moschetta M,Seevaratnam D,Zhang Y,Liu J,Memarzadeh M,Wu J,Manier S,Shi J,Bertrand N,Lu ZN,Nagano K,Baron R,Sacco A,Roccaro AM,Farokhzad OC,Ghobrial

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic proteasome mediates degradation of polyubiquitinated proteins. Here we report the single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the endogenous 26S proteasome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 4.6- to 6.3-Å resolution. The fine features of the cryo-EM maps allow modeling of 18 subunits i...

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

authors： Luan B,Huang X,Wu J,Mei Z,Wang Y,Xue X,Yan C,Wang J,Finley DJ,Shi Y,Wang F

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tactile-foraging ducks are specialist birds known for their touch-dependent feeding behavior. They use dabbling, straining, and filtering to find edible matter in murky water, relying on the sense of touch in their bill. Here, we present the molecular characterization of embryonic duck bill, which we show contains a h...

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

authors： Schneider ER,Anderson EO,Mastrotto M,Matson JD,Schulz VP,Gallagher PG,LaMotte RH,Gracheva EO,Bagriantsev SN

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of beta-estradiol on the locomotor behavior of female mice in a radial maze. Data comprising the total distance traveled during each arm entry were obtained from video records of six consecutive daily recording sessions. Distributions of these data were bimodal for both ovariectomized contr...

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

authors： Coop AD,Stavarache MA,Pfaff DW,Reeke GN

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli Min system self-organizes into a cell-pole to cell-pole oscillator on the membrane to prevent divisions at the cell poles. Reconstituting the Min system on a lipid bilayer has contributed to elucidating the oscillatory mechanism. However, previous in vitro patterns were attained with protein densi...

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

authors： Vecchiarelli AG,Li M,Mizuuchi M,Hwang LC,Seol Y,Neuman KC,Mizuuchi K

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone remodeling requires osteoclasts to generate and maintain an acidified resorption compartment between the apical membrane and the bone surface to solubilize hydroxyapatite crystals within the bone matrix. This acidification process requires (i) apical proton secretion by a vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, (ii) actin cytoskel...

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

authors： Coury F,Zenger S,Stewart AK,Stephens S,Neff L,Tsang K,Shull GE,Alper SL,Baron R,Aliprantis AO

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological constants. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that whole-organismal metabolism and growth rate are under stabilizing selection that...

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

authors： Vasseur F,Exposito-Alonso M,Ayala-Garay OJ,Wang G,Enquist BJ,Vile D,Violle C,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is about an algorithm, FlexTree, for general supervised learning. It extends the binary tree-structured approach (Classification and Regression Trees, CART) although it differs greatly in its selection and combination of predictors. It is particularly applicable to assessing interactions: gene by gene and g...

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

authors： Huang J,Lin A,Narasimhan B,Quertermous T,Hsiung CA,Ho LT,Grove JS,Olivier M,Ranade K,Risch NJ,Olshen RA

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle cells have served as a paradigm for understanding mechanisms leading to cellular differentiation. The proliferation and differentiation of muscle precursor cells require the concerted activity of myogenic regulatory factors including MyoD. In addition, chromatin modifiers mediate dynamic modifications ...

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

authors： Ling BM,Bharathy N,Chung TK,Kok WK,Li S,Tan YH,Rao VK,Gopinadhan S,Sartorelli V,Walsh MJ,Taneja R

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses some of the similarities between work being done by economists and by physicists seeking to contribute to economics. We also mention some of the differences in the approaches taken and seek to justify these different approaches by developing the argument that by approaching the same problem from...

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

authors： Stanley HE,Amaral LA,Buldyrev SV,Gopikrishnan P,Plerou V,Salinger MA

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Landau spectrum of bismuth is complex and includes many angle-dependent lines in the extreme quantum limit. The adequacy of single-particle theory to describe this spectrum in detail has been an open issue. Here, we present a study of angle-resolved Nernst effect in bismuth, which maps the angle-resolved Landau sp...

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

authors： Zhu Z,Fauqué B,Malone L,Antunes AB,Fuseya Y,Behnia K

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent single-molecule experiments reveal that mechanical tension on DNA can control both the speed and direction of the DNA polymerase motor. We present a theoretical description of this tension-induced "tuning" and "switching." The internal conformational states of the enzyme motor are represented as nodes, and the ...

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

authors： Goel A,Astumian RD,Herschbach D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cranial neural crest cells (crNCCs) migrate from the neural tube to the pharyngeal arches (PAs) of the developing embryo and, subsequently, differentiate into bone and connective tissue to form the mandible. Within the PAs, crNCCs respond to local signaling cues to partition into the proximo-distally oriented subdomai...

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

authors： Vincentz JW,Casasnovas JJ,Barnes RM,Que J,Clouthier DE,Wang J,Firulli AB

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear, the mechanosensory receptors, convert sound waves into neural signals that are passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the development of hair cell-neuronal connections. We ascertained a family with autosomal recessive deafness...

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

authors： Diaz-Horta O,Abad C,Sennaroglu L,Foster J 2nd,DeSmidt A,Bademci G,Tokgoz-Yilmaz S,Duman D,Cengiz FB,Grati M,Fitoz S,Liu XZ,Farooq A,Imtiaz F,Currall BB,Morton CC,Nishita M,Minami Y,Lu Z,Walz K,Tekin M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of "allogeneic supernatant" (the culture supernatant of a 24-hr mixedlymphocyte reaction), has been studied. This factor stimulates the response of spleen cell cultures depleted in thymus-derived lymphoid cells (T-cells) to antigens that elicit a thymus-dependent response. We used a limiting dilutio...

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

authors： Hunter P,Kettman JR

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the four major types of Ca channel described in vertebrate cells (designated T, L, N, and P), N-type Ca channels are unique in that they are found specifically in neurons, have been correlated with control of neurotransmitter release, and are blocked by omega-conotoxin, a neuropeptide toxin isolated from the marine...

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

authors： Dubel SJ,Starr TV,Hell J,Ahlijanian MK,Enyeart JJ,Catterall WA,Snutch TP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental in vivo tumor models are essential for comprehending the dynamic process of human cancer progression, identifying therapeutic targets, and evaluating antitumor drugs. However, current rodent models are limited by high costs, long experimental duration, variability, restricted accessibility to the tumor, a...

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

authors： Hagedorn M,Javerzat S,Gilges D,Meyre A,de Lafarge B,Eichmann A,Bikfalvi A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T lymphocytes were shown to proliferate in response to tetanus toxoid antigen only in the presence of macrophages. This response was inhibited by anti-DRw but not by anti-HLA (A and B loci) antisera added to the cultures and by pretreatment of macrophages but not of T cells with anti-DRw antisera and complement....

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

authors： Geha RS,Milgrom H,Broff M,Alpert S,Martin S,Yunis EJ

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased understanding of the precise molecular mechanisms involved in cell survival and cell death signaling pathways offers the promise of harnessing these molecules to eliminate cancer cells without damaging normal cells. Tyrosine kinase oncoproteins promote the genesis of leukemias through both increased cell pro...

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

authors： Kurokawa M,Ito T,Yang CS,Zhao C,Macintyre AN,Rizzieri DA,Rathmell JC,Deininger MW,Reya T,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00