Nucleotide sequence of a cloned structural gene coding for a precursor of pancreatic somatostatin.

abstract：:Inflammation and vascular injury triggered by ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in a number of clinical settings. Wnt and its homolog partners R-spondins, in addition to regulating embryonic development have recently been demonstrated to serve as wound-healing agents in in...

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

authors： Kannan L,Kis-Toth K,Yoshiya K,Thai TH,Sehrawat S,Mayadas TN,Dalle Lucca JJ,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins can bind target molecules through either induced fit or conformational selection pathways. In the conformational selection model, a protein samples a scarcely populated high-energy state that resembles a target-bound conformation. In enzymatic catalysis, such high-energy states have been identified as crucial...

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

authors： Kovermann M,Grundström C,Sauer-Eriksson AE,Sauer UH,Wolf-Watz M

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified differential screening procedure was applied to analyze cDNA libraries of cloned helper T lymphocytes (Th) and cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL). Negative and positive differential screening and RNA blot analysis were used to identify cDNA clones that were expressed preferentially in Th or CTL. Seven clones cor...

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

authors： Kwon BS,Kim GS,Prystowsky MB,Lancki DW,Sabath DE,Pan JL,Weissman SM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein stability is usually studied in simple buffered solutions, but most proteins function inside cells, where the heterogeneous and crowded environment presents a complex, nonideal system. Proteins are expected to behave differently under cellular crowding owing to two types of contacts: hard-core repulsions and w...

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

authors： Sarkar M,Smith AE,Pielak GJ

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing requires the bridging of the 5' and 3' ends of the intron. In yeast, this bridging involves interactions between the WW domains in the splicing factor PRP40 and a proline-rich domain in the branchpoint binding protein, BBP. Using a proline-rich domain derived from formin (a product of the murine limb...

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

authors： Bedford MT,Reed R,Leder P

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to intrinsic aggressiveness and lack of effective therapies, prognosis of pancreatic cancer remains dismal. Because the only molecular targeted drug approved for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a kinase inhibitor specific to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and this receptor collaborates with anoth...

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

authors： Maron R,Schechter B,Mancini M,Mahlknecht G,Yarden Y,Sela M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis often yields organs with robust size and shapes, whereas cell growth and deformation feature significant spatiotemporal variability. Here, we investigate whether tissue responses to mechanical signals contribute to resolve this apparent paradox. We built a model of growing tissue made of fiber-like mater...

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

authors： Fruleux A,Boudaoud A

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-coated latex beads (Ab-beads) were attached to Leptospira interrogans serovars illini 3055 and icterohaemorrhagiae SC1157. The movement of the Ab-beads relative to the motion of the cells was observed by direct darkfield microscopy or was recorded on videotape. When the Ab-beads were attached to the front end...

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

authors： Charon NW,Lawrence CW,O'Brien S

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ras oncogene products require membrane localization for their function, and this is thought to be accomplished by the addition of a palmitoyl group to a cysteine residue near the carboxyl terminus of the nascent chain. A lipidated carboxyl-terminal cysteine residue is also found in sequence-related yeast sex facto...

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

authors： Clarke S,Vogel JP,Deschenes RJ,Stock J

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Termites are responsible for ∼1 to 3% of global methane (CH4) emissions. However, estimates of global termite CH4 emissions span two orders of magnitude, suggesting that fundamental knowledge of CH4 turnover processes in termite colonies is missing. In particular, there is little reliable information on the extent and...

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

authors： Nauer PA,Hutley LB,Arndt SK

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly specific radioimmunoassay for one of the putative adrenomedullary [Met]enkephalin precursors, BAM-12P (Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met-Arg-Arg-Val-Gly-Arg-Pro-Glu-OH), has been developed. The BAM-12P antibodies recognize the COOH-terminal fragment of the peptide from Arg7 to Glu12 and do not crossreact with [Met5]- or [L...

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

authors： Baird A,Ling N,Böhlen P,Benoit R,Klepper R,Guillemin R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful protozoan parasite that infects all warm-blooded animals and causes severe disease in immunocompromised and immune-naïve humans. It has an unusual global population structure: In North America and Europe, isolated strains fall predominantly into four largely clonal lineages, bu...

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

authors： Minot S,Melo MB,Li F,Lu D,Niedelman W,Levine SS,Saeij JP

更新日期：2012-08-14 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：:We quantitatively analyzed, using laser scanning confocal microscopy, the three-dimensional structure of individual senile plaques in Alzheimer disease. We carried out the quantitative analysis using statistical methods to gain insights about the processes that govern Abeta peptide deposition. Our results show that pl...

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

authors： Cruz L,Urbanc B,Buldyrev SV,Christie R,Gómez-Isla T,Havlin S,McNamara M,Stanley HE,Hyman BT

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinach chloroplasts were found to contain three forms of cytochrome b(559) that have the same alpha-peak at 559 nm, but are distinguished from one another by their oxidation-reduction potentials. The high-potential (H) form (E(m) about 330-350 mV) is reducible by hydroquinone, the middle-potential (M) form (E(m) abou...

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

authors： Wada K,Arnon DI

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we found that human neural stem cells (HNSCs) exposed to high concentrations of secreted amyloid-precursor protein (sAPP) in vitro differentiated into mainly astrocytes, suggesting that pathological alterations in APP processing during neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...

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

authors： Marutle A,Ohmitsu M,Nilbratt M,Greig NH,Nordberg A,Sugaya K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage N4 minivirion RNA polymerase (mini-vRNAP), the RNA polymerase (RNAP) domain of vRNAP, is a member of the T7-like RNAP family. Mini-vRNAP recognizes promoters that comprise conserved sequences and a 3-base loop-5-base pair (bp) stem DNA hairpin structure on single-stranded templates. Here, we defined the ...

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

authors： Davydova EK,Santangelo TJ,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has emphasized the importance of the metabolic cluster, which includes glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia, and high blood pressure, as a strong predictor of the obesity-related morbidities and premature mortality. Fundamental to this association, commonly referred to as the metabolic syndrome, is the cl...

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

authors： Kissebah AH,Sonnenberg GE,Myklebust J,Goldstein M,Broman K,James RG,Marks JA,Krakower GR,Jacob HJ,Weber J,Martin L,Blangero J,Comuzzie AG

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that a cell-wall invertase encoded by the Incw1 gene is regulated at both the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels by sugars in a heterotrophic cell suspension culture of maize. The Incw1 gene encoded two transcripts: Incw1-S (small) and Incw1-L (large); the size variation was attributable to di...

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

authors： Cheng WH,Taliercio EW,Chourey PS

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The DEMETER (DME) DNA glycosylase initiates active DNA demethylation via the base-excision repair pathway and is vital for reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana DME-mediated DNA demethylation is preferentially targeted to small, AT-rich, and nucleosome-depleted euchromatic transposable elements, influencing expression ...

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

authors： Park JS,Frost JM,Park K,Ohr H,Park GT,Kim S,Eom H,Lee I,Brooks JS,Fischer RL,Choi Y

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the central nervous system, glycogen-derived bioenergetic resources in astrocytes help promote tissue survival in response to focal neuronal stress. However, our understanding of the extent to which these resources are mobilized and utilized during neurodegeneration, especially in nearby regions that are not active...

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

authors： Cooper ML,Pasini S,Lambert WS,D'Alessandro KB,Yao V,Risner ML,Calkins DJ

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Hemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an important human pathogen in both children and adults. In children, it causes otitis media, the most common childhood infection and the leading cause of conductive hearing loss in the United States. In adults, it causes lower respiratory tract infections in the setting of ...

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

authors： Shuto T,Xu H,Wang B,Han J,Kai H,Gu XX,Murphy TF,Lim DJ,Li JD

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabinose-binding protein, maltose-binding protein, and lambda receptor are synthesized in vitro on membrane-bound polysomes from Escherichia coli. All three proteins are exported from the cytoplasm of E. coli and all three are made in vitro in a form a few thousand daltons larger than the authentic protein. The large...

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

authors： Randall LL,Hardy SJ,Josefsson LG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests cancer cells exhibit a dependency on metabolic pathways regulated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Nevertheless, how the regulation of this metabolic cofactor interfaces with signal transduction networks remains poorly understood in glioblastoma. Here, we report nicotinamide ...

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

authors： Gujar AD,Le S,Mao DD,Dadey DY,Turski A,Sasaki Y,Aum D,Luo J,Dahiya S,Yuan L,Rich KM,Milbrandt J,Hallahan DE,Yano H,Tran DD,Kim AH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In translation, elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) molecules deliver aminoacyl-tRNAs to the mRNA-programmed ribosome. The GTPase activity of EF-Tu is triggered by ribosome-induced conformational changes of the factor that play a pivotal role in the selection of the cognate aminoacyl-tRNAs. We present a 6.7-A cryo-electron m...

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

authors： Villa E,Sengupta J,Trabuco LG,LeBarron J,Baxter WT,Shaikh TR,Grassucci RA,Nissen P,Ehrenberg M,Schulten K,Frank J

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analysis of the in vitro reconstitution of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating), EC 1.2.1.12] from yeast showed that both oxidized and reduced coenzyme enhance the transconformation reaction, which is rate limiting in the sequential foldin...

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

authors： Jaenicke R,Krebs H,Rudolph R,Woenckhaus C

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryopreservation is widely used to maintain backups of cells as it enables the semipermanent storage of cells. During the freezing process, ice crystals that are generated inside and outside the cells can lethally damage the cells. All conventional cryopreservation methods use at least one cryoprotective agent (CPA) t...

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

authors： Akiyama Y,Shinose M,Watanabe H,Yamada S,Kanda Y

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint ensures the accuracy of chromosome segregation during mitosis. The protein serine/threonine kinase, Mps1, is a critical component of the spindle checkpoint in human cells and regulates the kinetochore localization of key checkpoint proteins. The kinase activity of Mps1 is required for the spindl...

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

authors： Kang J,Chen Y,Zhao Y,Yu H

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet transplantation offers a potential therapy to restore glucose homeostasis in type 1 diabetes patients. However, islet transplantation is not routinely successful because most islet recipients gradually lose graft function. Furthermore, serological markers of islet function are insensitive to islet loss until the...

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

authors： Lu Y,Dang H,Middleton B,Zhang Z,Washburn L,Stout DB,Campbell-Thompson M,Atkinson MA,Phelps M,Gambhir SS,Tian J,Kaufman DL

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta-subspecies of protein kinase C (delta PKC) was purified to near homogeneity from the Triton X-100 extract of the rat brain particulate fraction by successive chromatographies on S-Sepharose fast flow, phenyl 5PW, heparin 5PW, hydroxyapatite, and Mono Q columns. The purified enzyme was a doublet with molecula...

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

authors： Ogita K,Miyamoto S,Yamaguchi K,Koide H,Fujisawa N,Kikkawa U,Sahara S,Fukami Y,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00