Doxynucleotide-polymerizing enzymes of calf thymus gland. IV. Inhibition of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase by metal ligands.

abstract：:Native cytochrome c (cyt c) has a compact tertiary structure with a hexacoordinated heme iron and functions in electron transport in mitochondria and apoptosis in the cytoplasm. However, the possibility that protein modifications confer additional functions to cyt c has not been explored. Disruption of methionine 80 (...

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

authors： Godoy LC,Muñoz-Pinedo C,Castro L,Cardaci S,Schonhoff CM,King M,Tórtora V,Marín M,Miao Q,Jiang JF,Kapralov A,Jemmerson R,Silkstone GG,Patel JN,Evans JE,Wilson MT,Green DR,Kagan VE,Radi R,Mannick JB

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury to the peripheral processes produces a profound cell loss (40-50%) in the dorsal root ganglion of newborn rats. Although division of central processes produces little or no cellular change in sensory ganglion of adult animals, no information has been available on the effect of dorsal root section in developing ...

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

authors： Yip HK,Johnson EM Jr

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most marine organisms disperse via ocean currents as larvae, so it is often assumed that larval-stage duration is the primary determinant of geographic range size. However, empirical tests of this relationship have yielded mixed results, and alternative hypotheses have rarely been considered. Here we assess the relati...

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

authors： Luiz OJ,Allen AP,Robertson DR,Floeter SR,Kulbicki M,Vigliola L,Becheler R,Madin JS

更新日期：2013-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein was isolated and purified to homogeneity from the serum of a patient with chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis. NaDodSO4/PAGE of the glycoprotein revealed a single major band at Mr approximately 77,000. Antibodies to this glycoprotein were shown to possess the following immunoreactivity: (i) they reacted by r...

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

authors： Seto B,Gerety RJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a cognate ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) receptor, mediates neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, BDNF has a poor pharmacokinetic profile that limits its therapeutic potential. Here we report the identification of...

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

authors： Jang SW,Liu X,Yepes M,Shepherd KR,Miller GW,Liu Y,Wilson WD,Xiao G,Blanchi B,Sun YE,Ye K

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of previous strength training can be long-lived, even after prolonged subsequent inactivity, and retraining is facilitated by a previous training episode. Traditionally, such "muscle memory" has been attributed to neural factors in the absence of any identified local memory mechanism in the muscle tissue. We h...

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

authors： Bruusgaard JC,Johansen IB,Egner IM,Rana ZA,Gundersen K

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of human high density lipoproteins (HDL) with isolated human monocytes from control and Tangier patients was studied in tissue culture experiments. It was observed that normal monocytes, similar to mouse peritoneal macrophages, bind HDL to a cell surface receptor, internalize the bound HDL particles, t...

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

authors： Schmitz G,Assmann G,Robenek H,Brennhausen B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) pumps monoamine neurotransmitters and Parkinsonism-inducing dopamine neurotoxins such as 1-methyl-4-phenyl-phenypyridinium (MPP+) from neuronal cytoplasm into synaptic vesicles, from which amphetamines cause their release. Amphetamines and MPP+ each also act at nonvesi...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Miner LL,Sora I,Ujike H,Revay RS,Kostic V,Jackson-Lewis V,Przedborski S,Uhl GR

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A close study of the metabolic regulation of hexose transport in a hamster fibroblast mutant, highly defective in the enzyme phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI mutant), reveals the requirement for at least three vectors for transport regulation. The downward regulation of the hexose transport system, called the "transport ...

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

authors： Kalckar HM,Ullrey DB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamics and kinetics of the interaction between T cell receptor specific for cytomegalovirus peptide (TCR(CMV)) and its specific ligand, pp65-HLA-A*0201 complex, were studied by surface plasmon resonance and stopped-flow methods. In the latter measurements, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between ...

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

authors： Gakamsky DM,Lewitzki E,Grell E,Saulquin X,Malissen B,Montero-Julian F,Bonneville M,Pecht I

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:l-tryptophan (Trp), an essential amino acid for mammals, is the precursor of a wide array of immunomodulatory metabolites produced by the kynurenine and serotonin pathways. The kynurenine pathway is a paramount source of several immunoregulatory metabolites, including l-kynurenine (Kyn), the main product of indoleamin...

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

authors： Mondanelli G,Coletti A,Greco FA,Pallotta MT,Orabona C,Iacono A,Belladonna ML,Albini E,Panfili E,Fallarino F,Gargaro M,Manni G,Matino D,Carvalho A,Cunha C,Maciel P,Di Filippo M,Gaetani L,Bianchi R,Vacca C,Iamandii

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace greenhouse gases are a fundamentally important component of Earth's global climate system sensitive to global change. However, their concentration in the pre-Pleistocene atmosphere during past warm greenhouse climates is highly uncertain because we lack suitable geochemical or biological proxies. This long-stand...

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

authors： Beerling DJ,Fox A,Stevenson DS,Valdes PJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:After collision with their host cells, virus particles may remain mobile on cell surfaces until they become attached at firm binding sites. We propose that a virion will arrive within a typical median time at such a site, generating a membrane signal such as an increased membrane fluorescence in cells labeled with the...

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

authors： Bayer ME,Bayer MH

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell DNA preparations isolated from SC-1 cells chronically infected with N- or B-tropic murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) were tested for infectious activity in an Fv-1n (NIH-3T3) and two Fv-Ib (C57BL/6 and SV-A31) cell cultures. Efficiency of transfection for all DNAs was better in the NIH-3T3 cells than in C57BL/...

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

authors： Hsu IC,Yang WK,Tennant RW,Brown A

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte adherence to endothelium is in part mediated by the transient expression of endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 (ELAM-1) on endothelial surfaces stimulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), interleukin (IL) 1, or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The intracellular factors controlling induction of...

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

authors： Montgomery KF,Osborn L,Hession C,Tizard R,Goff D,Vassallo C,Tarr PI,Bomsztyk K,Lobb R,Harlan JM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All extant life employs the same 20 amino acids for protein biosynthesis. Studies on the number of amino acids necessary to produce a foldable and catalytically active polypeptide have shown that a basis set of 7-13 amino acids is sufficient to build major structural elements of modern proteins. Hence, the reasons for...

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

authors： Granold M,Hajieva P,Toşa MI,Irimie FD,Moosmann B

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic loss of Kilimanjaro's ice cover has attracted global attention. The three remaining ice fields on the plateau and the slopes are both shrinking laterally and rapidly thinning. Summit ice cover (areal extent) decreased approximately 1% per year from 1912 to 1953 and approximately 2.5% per year from 1989 to...

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

authors： Thompson LG,Brecher HH,Mosley-Thompson E,Hardy DR,Mark BG

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that most papillomaviruses enter the host cell via clathrin-dependent receptor-mediated endocytosis but have not addressed later steps in viral entry. To examine these events, we followed the localization of L2 and packaged DNA after entry of infectious virions or L1/L2 pseudovirions. C...

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

authors： Day PM,Baker CC,Lowy DR,Schiller JT

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 21 human mammary tumors analyzed for transforming genes by transfection of NIH/3T3 cells, only DNA of a carcinosarcoma cell line, HS578T, registered as positive. A Harvey (H)-ras oncogene identified in this line was cloned in biologically active form and the activating lesion was identified as a single nucleotid...

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

authors： Kraus MH,Yuasa Y,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling pathways regulating proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis are commonly mediated through protein-protein interactions as well as reversible phosphorylation of proteins. To facilitate the study of regulated protein-protein interactions in cells and living animals, we optimized firefly luciferase protei...

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

authors： Luker KE,Smith MC,Luker GD,Gammon ST,Piwnica-Worms H,Piwnica-Worms D

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most transmissible spongiform encephalopathies arise either spontaneously or by infection. Mutations of PRNP, which encodes the prion protein, PrP, segregate with phenotypically similar diseases. Here we report that moderate overexpression in transgenic mice of mPrP(170N,174T), a mouse PrP with two point mutations tha...

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

authors： Sigurdson CJ,Nilsson KP,Hornemann S,Heikenwalder M,Manco G,Schwarz P,Ott D,Rülicke T,Liberski PP,Julius C,Falsig J,Stitz L,Wüthrich K,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two formal models of clonal attenuation [Kirkwood, T. B. L. & Holliday, R. (1975) J. Theor. Biol. 53, 481-496; Shall, S. & Stein, W. D. (1979) J. Theor. Biol. 76, 219-231] are considered in the light of recent data on the changing distribution of replicative potential among individual cultured fibroblasts on subclonin...

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

authors： Prothero J,Gallant JA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite morphogenesis is regulated by neuronal activity or neurotrophins, which may function by activating intrinsic signaling proteins, including Rho family GTPases. Here we report that activity- and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent dendritic morphogenesis requires activation of geranylgeranyltrans...

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

authors： Zhou XP,Wu KY,Liang B,Fu XQ,Luo ZG

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc1-like transposable elements from teleost fish have been phylogenetically examined to determine the mechanisms involved in their evolution and conserved domains of function. We identified two new functional domains in these elements. The first is a bipartite nuclear localization signal, indicating that transposons c...

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

authors： Ivics Z,Izsvak Z,Minter A,Hackett PB

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly formed hepatic granulomas around Schistosoma mansoni eggs become progressively smaller during the chronic (greater than or equal to 15 weeks after infection) phase of the disease. This reduction in granuloma size, termed "modulation," is known to be caused in part by a T lymphocyte that can adoptively transfer m...

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

authors： Green WF,Colley DG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi produce numerous low molecular weight molecules endowed with a multitude of biological activities. However, mining the full-genome sequences of fungi indicates that their potential to produce secondary metabolites is greatly underestimated. Because most of the biosynthesis gene clusters are silent under laborato...

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

authors： Schroeckh V,Scherlach K,Nützmann HW,Shelest E,Schmidt-Heck W,Schuemann J,Martin K,Hertweck C,Brakhage AA

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse adipsin gene encodes a member of the serine protease family that is expressed predominantly in adipose tissue and is secreted into the bloodstream. Adipsin expression is sharply down-regulated in several models of genetic and acquired obesity, representing the first example of an adipocyte gene whose express...

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

authors： Platt KA,Min HY,Ross SR,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type Ca(2+) channels play a critical role in regulating Ca(2+)-dependent signaling in cardiac myocytes, including excitation-contraction coupling; however, the subcellular localization of cardiac L-type Ca(2+) channels and their regulation are incompletely understood. Caveolae are specialized microdomains of the pla...

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

authors： Balijepalli RC,Foell JD,Hall DD,Hell JW,Kamp TJ

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that active transport, muscle contraction, and ribosomal translocation may all make use of a common allosteric mechanism in which ATP or GTP serves as both the effector and substrate and in which a conformational change in a protein (enzyme) moves or exerts a force on a second ligand. The enzymatic spl...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (spe2 delta) that cannot make spermidine or spermine was incubated in a polyamine-deficient medium in oxygen, there was a rapid cessation of cell growth and associated cell death. In contrast, when the mutant cells were incubated in the polyamine-deficient medium in air or ana...

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

authors： Balasundaram D,Tabor CW,Tabor H

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00