Postsynaptic alpha-adrenergic receptors potentiate the beta-adrenergic stimulation of pineal serotonin N-acetyltransferase.

abstract：:The diabetogenic agent alloxan exerts a preferential cytotoxic effect on the pancreatic B cell. The determinants of such a tissue specificity were investigated. Alloxan accumulated rapidly in liver and pancreatic islets but much more slowly in muscle. The activity of glutathione peroxidase and the resistance to exogen...

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

authors： Malaisse WJ,Malaisse-Lagae F,Sener A,Pipeleers DG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic glycolysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been studied by 13C NMR at 90.5 MHz. [1-13c]Glucose and [6-13C]glucose were fed to suspensions of yeast cells. Time courses for concentration changes of the starting material, of courses for concentration changes of the starting material, of the intermediate fructos...

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

authors： den Hollander JA,Brown TR,Ugurbil K,Shulman RG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins are unusual proteins discovered by virtue of their ability to mediate cell wall extension in plants. We identified cDNA clones for two cucumber expansins on the basis of peptide sequences of proteins purified from cucumber hypocotyls. The expansin cDNAs encode related proteins with signal peptides predicted ...

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

authors： Shcherban TY,Shi J,Durachko DM,Guiltinan MJ,McQueen-Mason SJ,Shieh M,Cosgrove DJ

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio and density functional calculations have been carried out to more fully understand the factors controlling the catalytic activity of the Thermus aquaticus DNA methyltransferase (MTaqI) in the N-methylation at the N(6) of an adenine nucleobase. The noncatalyzed reaction was modeled as a methyl transfer from t...

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

authors： Newby ZE,Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that penicillin acts as a structural analog of the acyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine terminus of nascent bacterial cell wall and that it consequently binds to and acylates the active site of the enzyme(s) that crosslinks the cell wall to form an inactive penicilloyl enzyme [Tipper, D.J. & Strominger, J....

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

authors： Yocum RR,Waxman DJ,Rasmussen JR,Strominger JL

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triton X-100-solubilized high-density microsomes from insulin-treated rat adipocytes exhibit a marked increase in serine/threonine and tyrosine kinase activities toward exogenous histone when compared to controls. The insulin-dependent activation of microsomal histone kinase activities occurs within the physiological ...

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

authors： Yu KT,Khalaf N,Czech MP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous bird species varies from 0% to 76% extra-pair offspring. The causes of this remarkable interspecific variation are largely unknown, although intraspecific analyses suggest that females seek extra-pair matings to improve the genetic quality of their offspring. I...

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

authors： Petrie M,Doums C,Moller AP

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK1) is an effector of both Ras/MEK/MAPK and PI3K/PDK1 pathways. We present evidence that RSK1 drives p27 phosphorylation at T198 to increase RhoA-p27 binding and cell motility. RSK1 activation and p27pT198 both increase in early G(1). As for many kinase-substrate pairs, cellular RSK1 copreci...

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

authors： Larrea MD,Hong F,Wander SA,da Silva TG,Helfman D,Lannigan D,Smith JA,Slingerland JM

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) represent the two central intermediates in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. The recently discovered deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate pathway generates a mixture of IPP and DMAPP in its final step by reductive dehydroxylation of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4...

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

authors： Gräwert T,Span I,Eisenreich W,Rohdich F,Eppinger J,Bacher A,Groll M

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In binocular rivalry, a subject views two incongruent stimuli through each eye but consciously perceives only one stimulus at a time, with a switch in perceptual dominance every few seconds. To investigate the neural correlates of perceptual dominance in humans, seven subjects were recorded with a 148-channel magnetoe...

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

authors： Tononi G,Srinivasan R,Russell DP,Edelman GM

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collecti...

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

authors： Bongini L,Fanelli D,Piazza F,De Los Rios P,Sandin S,Skoglund U

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cities are concentrated areas of CO2 emissions and have become the foci of policies for mitigation actions. However, atmospheric measurement networks suitable for evaluating urban emissions over time are scarce. Here we present a unique long-term (decadal) record of CO2 mole fractions from five sites across Utah's met...

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

authors： Mitchell LE,Lin JC,Bowling DR,Pataki DE,Strong C,Schauer AJ,Bares R,Bush SE,Stephens BB,Mendoza D,Mallia D,Holland L,Gurney KR,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrorist attacks often fuel online hate and increase the expression of xenophobic and antiminority messages. Previous research has focused on the impact of terrorist attacks on prejudiced attitudes toward groups linked to the perpetrators as the cause of this increase. We argue that social norms can contain the expre...

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

authors： Álvarez-Benjumea A,Winter F

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MyoD is a master regulatory gene for myogenesis. Its product, the MyoD protein, appears to act by binding to muscle-specific enhancer sequences. We show that MyoD binds cooperatively to two sites in the muscle-specific creatine kinase enhancer; this is dramatically reflected in dissociation-rate measurements. A deleti...

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

authors： Weintraub H,Davis R,Lockshon D,Lassar A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter of mitochondria (Atm1) mediates iron homeostasis in eukaryotes, while the prokaryotic homolog from Novosphingobium aromaticivorans (NaAtm1) can export glutathione derivatives and confer protection against heavy-metal toxicity. To establish the structural framework underlying ...

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

authors： Fan C,Kaiser JT,Rees DC

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the amount, intensity, and timing of precipitation are increasing hydrologic variability in many regions, but we have little understanding of how these changes are affecting freshwater species. Stream-breeding amphibians-a diverse group in North America-may be particularly sensitive to hydrologic variabilit...

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

authors： Lowe WH,Swartz LK,Addis BR,Likens GE

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The extinction of a species is inevitably preceded by the extirpation of a series of local populations. Ecological theory predicts that vulnerability to extirpation varies between populations and is ultimately linked to environmental heterogeneity. If populations of a species are present in multiple regions separated ...

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

authors： Yackulic CB,Sanderson EW,Uriarte M

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of recombinant plasmids was generated in Escherichia coli in which the TEM beta-lactamase translocon (TnA) was inserted into the small plasmid RSF1010. RSF1010 is a 5.5 X 10(6) dalton nonconjugative plasmid which confers resistance to streptomycin and sulfonamide. The recombinant plasmids can be classified in...

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

authors： Heffron F,Rubens C,Falkow S

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacteria in the natural environment live within the confines of a biofilm. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms that exhibit a characteristic wrinkled morphology and a highly hydrophobic surface. A critical component in generating these properties is the protein BslA, which form...

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

authors： Bromley KM,Morris RJ,Hobley L,Brandani G,Gillespie RM,McCluskey M,Zachariae U,Marenduzzo D,Stanley-Wall NR,MacPhee CE

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic ground states in solids often arise as a result of a delicate balance between competing factors. One currently active area of research in magnetic materials involves compounds in which long-range magnetic ordering at low temperatures is frustrated by the geometry of the crystalline lattice, a situation known ...

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

authors： Karunadasa H,Huang Q,Ueland BG,Schiffer P,Cava RJ

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among developing organisms, the allocation of energy toward immune function may lead to tradeoffs with physical growth, particularly in high-pathogen, low-resource enviro...

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

authors： Urlacher SS,Ellison PT,Sugiyama LS,Pontzer H,Eick G,Liebert MA,Cepon-Robins TJ,Gildner TE,Snodgrass JJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:With the collapse of fisheries in many parts of the world causing widespread economic harm, attention is focused on a possible cause and remedy of fishery collapse. Economic theory for managing a renewable resource, such as a fishery, leads to an ecologically unstable equilibrium as difficult to maintain as balancing ...

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

authors： Roughgarden J,Smith F

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancers and mutant p53 has a gain of function (GOF) that promotes tumor progression and therapeutic resistance. One of the major GOF activities of mutant p53 is to suppress 2 other p53 family proteins, p63 and p73. However, the molecular basis is not fully understood. H...

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

authors： Zhang J,Sun W,Kong X,Zhang Y,Yang HJ,Ren C,Jiang Y,Chen M,Chen X

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is an important mechanism in the evolution of protein interaction networks. Duplications are followed by the gain and loss of interactions, rewiring the network at some unknown rate. Because rewiring is likely to change the distribution of network motifs within the duplicated interaction set, it shoul...

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

authors： Presser A,Elowitz MB,Kellis M,Kishony R

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1,942-base-pair DNA segment encoding the structural gene for diphtheria toxin was sequenced, and the primary structure of the toxin was deduced. Restriction enzyme fragments corresponding to nontoxic or hypotoxic peptides of the toxin were isolated from corynebacteriophage beta and cloned into Escherichia coli on pl...

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

authors： Greenfield L,Bjorn MJ,Horn G,Fong D,Buck GA,Collier RJ,Kaplan DA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding mechanisms of proteins incorporated within supramolecular assemblies, including viruses, are little understood and may differ fundamentally from folding mechanisms of small globular proteins. We describe a novel Raman dynamic probe of hydrogen-isotope exchange to investigate directly these protein folding/asse...

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

authors： Tuma R,Prevelige PE Jr,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent infection membrane protein 1 (LMP1)-induced NF-kappaB activation is important for infected cell survival. LMP1 activates NF-kappaB, in part, by engaging tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor-associated factors (TRAFs), which also mediate NF-kappaB activation from LTbetaR and CD40. LTbeta...

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

authors： Luftig M,Yasui T,Soni V,Kang MS,Jacobson N,Cahir-McFarland E,Seed B,Kieff E

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The flow orientation of anisotropic particles through narrow channels is of importance in many fields, ranging from the spinning and molding of fibers to the flow of cells and proteins through thin capillaries. It is commonly assumed that anisotropic particles align parallel to the flow direction. When flowing through...

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

authors： Trebbin M,Steinhauser D,Perlich J,Buffet A,Roth SV,Zimmermann W,Thiele J,Förster S

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray grating interferometry is a coherent imaging technique that bears tremendous potential for three-dimensional tomographic imaging of soft biological tissue and other specimens whose details exhibit very weak absorption contrast. It is intrinsically trimodal, delivering phase contrast, absorption contrast, and sca...

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

authors： Zanette I,Bech M,Rack A,Le Duc G,Tafforeau P,David C,Mohr J,Pfeiffer F,Weitkamp T

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theoretical and experimental results point to the existence of small barriers to protein folding. These barriers can even be absent altogether, resulting in a continuous folding transition (i.e., downhill folding). With small barriers, the detailed properties of folding ensembles may become accessible to equili...

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

authors： Muñoz V,Sanchez-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00