Transposon-specified site-specific recombination.

abstract：:Different experimental structures of the same protein or of proteins with high sequence similarity contain many small variations. Here we construct ensembles of "high-sequence similarity Protein Data Bank" (HSP) structures and consider the extent to which such ensembles represent the structural heterogeneity of the na...

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

authors： Best RB,Lindorff-Larsen K,DePristo MA,Vendruscolo M

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of amyloid-beta protein (Abeta) is initiated by a beta-secretase that cleaves the Abeta precursor protein (APP) at the N terminus of Abeta (the beta site). A recently identified aspartyl protease, BACE, cleaves the beta site and at residue 11 within the Abeta region of APP. Here we show that BACE2, a BACE h...

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

authors： Farzan M,Schnitzler CE,Vasilieva N,Leung D,Choe H

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of (45)Ca(++) was found to occur in membrane vesicles of E. coli prepared by lysis with a French pressure cell. The uptake occurs by active transport, requiring an energy source. Substrates of the electron transport chain, including D-lactate, reduced phenazine methosulfate, and NADH, stimulated accumulat...

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

authors： Rosen BP,McClees JS

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian RNase A superfamily comprises a diverse array of ribonucleolytic proteins that have a variety of biochemical activities and physiological functions. Two rapidly evolving RNases of higher primates are of particular interest as they are major secretory proteins of eosinophilic leukocytes and have been foun...

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

authors： Zhang J,Dyer KD,Rosenberg HF

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In a well networked community, there is intense social interaction, and information disseminates briskly and broadly. This is important if the environment is volatile (i.e., keeps changing) and individuals never stop searching for fresh opportunities. Here, we present a simple model that attributes the rise of a dynam...

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

authors： Marsili M,Vega-Redondo F,Slanina F

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a multisubunit ubiquitin-protein ligase that targets for degradation cell-cycle regulatory proteins during exit from mitosis and in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. The activity of APC/C in mitosis and in G1 requires interaction with the activator proteins Cdc20 and C...

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

authors： Eytan E,Moshe Y,Braunstein I,Hershko A

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophores are essential factors for iron (Fe) acquisition in bacteria during colonization and infection of eukaryotic hosts, which restrain iron access through iron-binding protein, such as lactoferrin and transferrin. The synthesis of siderophores by Escherichia coli is considered to be fully regulated at the tran...

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

authors： Salvail H,Lanthier-Bourbonnais P,Sobota JM,Caza M,Benjamin JA,Mendieta ME,Lépine F,Dozois CM,Imlay J,Massé E

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of large intramembrane particles associated with sites of synaptic vesicle release at the squid giant synapse was determined and compared to the average maximal presynaptic calcium current in order to derive an estimate of the conductance each particle would have if it were a calcium channel. This value, 0....

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

authors： Pumplin DW,Reese TS,Llinás R

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fisheries-induced evolution and its impact on the productivity of exploited fish stocks remains a highly contested research topic in applied fish evolution and fisheries science. Although many quantitative models assume that larger, more fecund fish are preferentially removed by fishing, there is no empirical evidence...

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

authors： Sutter DA,Suski CD,Philipp DP,Klefoth T,Wahl DH,Kersten P,Cooke SJ,Arlinghaus R

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensors use a related luminal domain to monitor the unfolded protein load and convey the signal to downstream effectors, signaling an unfolded protein response (UPR) that maintains compartment-specific protein folding homeostasis. Surprisingly, perturbation of cellular lipid compositi...

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

authors： Volmer R,van der Ploeg K,Ron D

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of transcription and enzyme activities are two interwoven regulatory systems essential for the function of a metabolic node. Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains differing in enzyme activities at the chorismate branch point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis were constructed by recombinant DNA technology. Express...

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

authors： Krappmann S,Lipscomb WN,Braus GH

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus nephritis (LN) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when autoantibodies complex with self-antigen and form immune complexes that accumulate in the glomeruli. These immune complexes initiate an inflammatory response resulting in glomerular injury. LN often concomitantly affects the tubulointerstitial compartment ...

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

authors： Hao W,Rovin BH,Friedman A

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic polymer has been prepared which contains dodecyl groups (to bind small substrate molecules) and methyleneimidazole side chains (as nucleophilic catalytic sites) linked to a polyethyleneimine framework. This macromolecule, with a high local concentration of binding and catalytic groups, catalyzes the hydrol...

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

authors： Klotz IM,Royer GP,Scarpa IS

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid wheat plants are superior in yield and growth characteristics compared with their homozygous parents. The commercial production of wheat hybrids is difficult because of the inbreeding nature of wheat and the lack of a practical fertility control that enforces outcrossing. We describe a hybrid wheat system that ...

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

authors： Kempe K,Rubtsova M,Gils M

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the in vitro long-term (20 wk) changes in cells exposed to well-characterized gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) with varying shapes and surface coatings under both chronic (exposure to Au NPs continuously over 20 wk) and nonchronic (initial acute cell exposure to Au NPs, followed by 20 wk in NP-free cell media) co...

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

authors： Falagan-Lotsch P,Grzincic EM,Murphy CJ

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of crystallographic difference maps at 3.0-A resolution of complexes of metal-nucleoside triphosphates with aspartate carbamoyltransferase (carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli. The complexes Gd3+-ATP, Al3+-ATP, and Gd3+-CTP bind to the allosteric...

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

authors： Honzatko RB,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hearing and balance are based in complex asymmetries of inner ear structure. Here, we identify retinoic acid (RA) as an extrinsic signal that acts directly on the ear rudiment to affect its compartmentalization along the anterior-posterior axis. A rostrocaudal wave of RA activity, generated by tissues surro...

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

authors： Bok J,Raft S,Kong KA,Koo SK,Dräger UC,Wu DK

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe preliminary studies of the pharmacokinetics, biodistribution, and excretion of an oligodeoxy-nucleotide phosphorothioate ([S]oligonucleotide) in mice. After either intravenous or intraperitoneal administration of a single dose (30 mg/kg of body weight), [S]oligonucleotide (35S-labeled at each internucleoti...

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

authors： Agrawal S,Temsamani J,Tang JY

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain cheU mutants of Salmonella show inverted chemotactic behavior, being repelled by attractants and attracted by repellents. Such a dramatic change in behavioral pattern would seem at first glance to require drastic and complex alterations in the sensory processing system. In fact, the behavior can be explained b...

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

authors： Khan S,Macnab RM,DeFranco AL,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the regulation of midbrain dopamine neurons, recordings were obtained from single neurons of freely moving, genetically engineered dopamine-deficient (DD) mice. DD mice were tested without dopamine signaling (basal state) and with endogenous dopamine signaling (after L-dopa administration). In the basal sta...

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

authors： Robinson S,Smith DM,Mizumori SJ,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A human craniofacial cDNA library was screened with a degenerate oligonucleotide probe based on the conserved third helix of homeobox genes. From this screening, we identified a homeobox gene, H6, which shared only 57-65% amino acid identity to previously reported homeodomains. H6 was physically mapped to the 4p16.1 r...

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

authors： Stadler HS,Padanilam BJ,Buetow K,Murray JC,Solursh M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in coherent x-ray diffractive imaging have paved the way to reliable and quantitative imaging of noncompact specimens at the nanometer scale. Introduced a year ago, an advanced implementation of ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging has removed much of the previous limitations regarding sample pre...

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

authors： Giewekemeyer K,Thibault P,Kalbfleisch S,Beerlink A,Kewish CM,Dierolf M,Pfeiffer F,Salditt T

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A spherical harmonic analysis is made of the hydrodynamic equation governing the flow of an incompressible liquid in a rotating sphere in the presence of the magnetic Lorentz force. Nonlinear partial differential equations are derived for the functions S(n)(r,t) and T(n)(r,t) entering the spherical harmonic representa...

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

authors： Pekeris CL,Accad Y

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis initiation in reticulocyte lysates is inhibited by heme deficiency, low levels of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), oxidized glutathione (GSSG), or the purified kinase (HRI) that acts on the alpha polypeptide of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2alpha). The phosphoprotein profiles produced in lysates i...

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

authors： Ernst V,Levin DH,London IM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method combining photolithography and shadow (or angle) evaporation is developed to fabricate single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) devices with tube lengths of approximately 10-50 nm between metal contacts. Large numbers of such short devices are obtained without the need of complex tools such as electron be...

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

authors： Javey A,Qi P,Wang Q,Dai H

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can cause infected red blood cells (iRBC) to form rosettes with uninfected RBC, a phenotype associated with severe malaria. Rosetting is mediated by a subset of the Plasmodium falciparum membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) variant adhesins expressed on the infected host-cell su...

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

authors： Juillerat A,Lewit-Bentley A,Guillotte M,Gangnard S,Hessel A,Baron B,Vigan-Womas I,England P,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Bentley GA

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural network function requires an appropriate balance of excitation and inhibition to be maintained by homeostatic plasticity. However, little is known about homeostatic mechanisms in the intact central brain in vivo. Here, we study homeostatic plasticity in the Drosophila mushroom body, where Kenyon cells receive f...

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

authors： Apostolopoulou AA,Lin AC

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt signaling is mediated by three classes of receptors, Frizzled, Ryk, and Ror. In Caenorhabditis elegans, Wnt signaling regulates the anterior/posterior polarity of the P7.p vulval lineage, and mutations in lin-17/Frizzled cause loss or reversal of P7.p lineage polarity. We found that pak-1/Pak (p21-activated kinase...

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

authors： Goh KY,Ng NW,Hagen T,Inoue T

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that rrn P1 promoters require unusually high concentrations of the initiating nucleoside triphosphates (ATP or GTP, depending on the promoter) for maximal transcription in vitro. We proposed that this requirement for high initiating NTP concentrations contributes to control of the rrn P1 promoters...

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

authors： Schneider DA,Gaal T,Gourse RL

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Get3 ATPase directs the delivery of tail-anchored (TA) proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). TA-proteins are characterized by having a single transmembrane helix (TM) at their extreme C terminus and include many essential proteins, such as SNAREs, apoptosis factors, and protein translocation components. Thes...

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

authors： Suloway CJ,Chartron JW,Zaslaver M,Clemons WM Jr

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00