Von Willebrand protein binds to extracellular matrices independently of collagen.

abstract：:Although normal fatty acids (FAs) are degraded via β-oxidation, unusual FAs such as 2-hydroxy (2-OH) FAs and 3-methyl-branched FAs are degraded via α-oxidation. Phytosphingosine (PHS) is one of the long-chain bases (the sphingolipid components) and exists in specific tissues, including the epidermis and small intestin...

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

authors： Kitamura T,Seki N,Kihara A

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGRPs) are pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune system that bind and, in some cases, hydrolyze bacterial PGNs. We determined the crystal structure, at 2.30-A resolution, of the C-terminal PGN-binding domain of human PGRP-Ialpha in complex with a muramyl tripeptid...

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

authors： Guan R,Roychowdhury A,Ember B,Kumar S,Boons GJ,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We study inverse statistical mechanics: how can one design a potential function so as to produce a specified ground state? In this article, we show that unexpectedly simple potential functions suffice for certain symmetrical configurations, and we apply techniques from coding and information theory to provide mathemat...

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

authors： Cohn H,Kumar A

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The mahogany (mg) locus originally was identified as a recessive suppressor of agouti, a locus encoding a skin peptide that modifies coat color by antagonizing the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor or MC1-R. Certain dominant alleles of agouti cause an obesity syndrome when ectopic expression of the peptide aberr...

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

authors： Dinulescu DM,Fan W,Boston BA,McCall K,Lamoreux ML,Moore KJ,Montagno J,Cone RD

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease h...

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

authors： Ivanova MI,Sievers SA,Guenther EL,Johnson LM,Winkler DD,Galaleldeen A,Sawaya MR,Hart PJ,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H(2)O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770 °C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shal...

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

authors： Mibe K,Kawamoto T,Matsukage KN,Fei Y,Ono S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally acknowledged that cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4/CD152) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of T-cell activation and the establishment of self-tolerance in the periphery. CTLA-4-deficient (CTLA-4KO) mice develop a lymphoproliferative disorder and die within 4 weeks of birth, sug...

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

authors： Verhagen J,Gabrysová L,Minaee S,Sabatos CA,Anderson G,Sharpe AH,Wraith DC

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the mechanism of arrest of DNA synthesis at d(TC)n and d(GA)n sequences, single-stranded DNA molecules including d(TC)27 or d(TC)31 tracts or a d(GA)27 tract were used as templates for in vitro assays of complementary DNA synthesis performed by extension of a primer with the Klenow polymerase or the Taq polym...

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

authors： Baran N,Lapidot A,Manor H

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional regulation is an important step in the regulation of gene expression. In this article, we show an unexpected connection between two proteins that participate in different processes of posttranscriptional regulation that ensures the production of functional mRNA molecules. Specifically, we show that...

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

authors： Agranat L,Raitskin O,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in clearing apoptotic debris disrupt tissue and immunological homeostasis, leading to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Herein, we report that macrophages from lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice have impaired lysosomal maturation, resulting in heightened ROS production and attenuated lysosomal acidification. Impaire...

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

authors： Monteith AJ,Kang S,Scott E,Hillman K,Rajfur Z,Jacobson K,Costello MJ,Vilen BJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The high excitation energy-transfer efficiency demanded in photosynthetic organisms relies on the optimal pigment-protein binding orientation in the individual protein complexes and also on the overall architecture of the photosystem. In green sulfur bacteria, the membrane-attached Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna p...

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

authors： Wen J,Zhang H,Gross ML,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophy is a general term encompassing muscle disorders that cause weakness and wasting, typically leading to premature death. Membrane instability, as a result of a genetic disruption within the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), is thought to induce myofiber degeneration, although the downstream mecha...

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

authors： Millay DP,Goonasekera SA,Sargent MA,Maillet M,Aronow BJ,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactose permease of Escherichia coli catalyzes coupled translocation of galactosides and H(+) across the cell membrane. It is the best-characterized member of the Major Facilitator Superfamily, a related group of membrane proteins with 12 transmembrane domains that mediate transport of various substrates across ce...

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

authors： Sorgen PL,Hu Y,Guan L,Kaback HR,Girvin ME

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) appears to mediate the rapid increase in pregnenolone synthesis stimulated by tropic hormones. cDNAs encoding StAR were isolated from a human adrenal cortex library. Human StAR, coexpressed in COS-1 cells with cytochrome P450scc and adrenodoxin, increased pregnenolone synt...

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

authors： Sugawara T,Holt JA,Driscoll D,Strauss JF 3rd,Lin D,Miller WL,Patterson D,Clancy KP,Hart IM,Clark BJ

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

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

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-translocating subunit of wheat chloroplast ATP synthase is encoded by a chloroplast gene that has been accurately mapped and whose nucleotide sequence has been determined. The predicted sequence of 81 amino acids has been confirmed in part by determination of the sequence of the first 40 amino acids from th...

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

authors： Howe CJ,Auffret AD,Doherty A,Bowman CM,Dyer TA,Gray JC

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-TRAP (AT) is a small zinc-binding protein that regulates tryptophan biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis by binding to tryptophan-bound trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP), thereby preventing it from binding RNA, and allowing transcription and translation of the trpEDCFBA operon. Crystallographic and sediment...

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

authors： Sachleben JR,McElroy CA,Gollnick P,Foster MP

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane seeps are widespread seafloor ecosystems shaped by the emission of gas from seabed reservoirs. The microorganisms inhabiting methane seeps transform the chemical energy in methane to products that sustain rich benthic communities around the gas leaks. Despite the biogeochemical relevance of microbial methane r...

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

authors： Ruff SE,Biddle JF,Teske AP,Knittel K,Boetius A,Ramette A

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isotopic tracer methods, we have shown that dihydrolipoic acid (2,3-thioctic acid) acylates the distal oxygen of ferrous oxygenated Pseudomonas cytochrome P-450, forming a transient acyl peroxide intermediate that facilitates oxygen-oxygen bond cleavage. Single-turnover studies with 18O2 indicate one oxygen-18 a...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Kennedy KA,Pearson DC

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formamide is one of the important compounds from which prebiotic molecules can be synthesized, provided that its concentration is sufficiently high. For nucleotides and short DNA strands, it has been shown that a high degree of accumulation in hydrothermal pores occurs, so that temperature gradients might play a role ...

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

authors： Niether D,Afanasenkau D,Dhont JK,Wiegand S

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive studies of memory processes demonstrate that memory for stimuli is a function of how they are encoded; stimuli processed semantically are better remembered than those processed in a perceptual or shallow fashion. This study investigates the neural correlates of this cognitive phenomenon. Twelve subjects perf...

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

authors： Kapur S,Craik FI,Tulving E,Wilson AA,Houle S,Brown GM

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic region on distal mouse chromosome 1 and its syntenic human counterpart 1q23-42 show strong evidence of harboring lupus susceptibility genes. We found evidence of linkage at 1q32.2 in a targeted genome scan of 1q21-43 in 126 lupus multiplex families containing 151 affected sibpairs (nonparametric linkage scor...

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

authors： Wu H,Boackle SA,Hanvivadhanakul P,Ulgiati D,Grossman JM,Lee Y,Shen N,Abraham LJ,Mercer TR,Park E,Hebert LA,Rovin BH,Birmingham DJ,Chang DM,Chen CJ,McCurdy D,Badsha HM,Thong BY,Chng HH,Arnett FC,Wallace DJ,Yu CY

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibroblast growth regulator, which inhibits the growth and division of proliferating fibroblasts, has been isolated from medium conditioned by exposure to density-inhibited mouse 3T3 cells. This partially purified preparation of the growth-inhibitory activity, termed FGR-s, contained two major polypeptides (Mrs, 10,...

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

authors： Hsu YM,Barry JM,Wang JL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently identified a family of rhesus monkeys with members exhibiting a spontaneous hypercholesterolemia associated with a low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) deficiency. By using the polymerase chain reaction, we now show that the affected monkeys are heterozygous for a nonsense mutation in exon 6 of the...

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

authors： Hummel M,Li ZG,Pfaffinger D,Neven L,Scanu AM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA from several mammalian species has been digested with a site-specific restriction endonuclease (HaeIII) from Haemophilus aegyptius. A quantitative analysis of the resulting specific fragments indicates that the mtDNA of any individual mammal is predominantly a single molecular clone. Gel analysis of ...

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

authors： Potter SS,Newbold JE,Hutchison CA 3rd,Edgell MH

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic mRNA degradation proceeds through two main pathways, both involving mRNA cap breakdown. In the 3'-5' mRNA decay pathway, mRNA body degradation generates free m7GpppN that is hydrolyzed by DcpS generating m7GMP. In the 5'-3' pathway, the recently identified human Dcp2 decapping enzyme cleaves the cap of dead...

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

authors： van Dijk E,Le Hir H,Séraphin B

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of any nonchromosomal genetic contribution to the heritability of a trait is often confounded by the inability to control both the chromosomal and nonchromosomal information in a population. We have designed a unique system in yeast where we can control both sources of information so that the phenotype...

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

authors： Edwards MD,Symbor-Nagrabska A,Dollard L,Gifford DK,Fink GR

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Let t --> gamma(t) be a homogeneous curve in R(n). For suitable f, define [unk](f)(x) = sup(h > 0)|(1/h) [unk](0) (h)f(x - gamma(t)) dt|. Then parallel[unk](f) parallel(p)

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

authors： Stein EM

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete growing spiral modes are calculated, on the basis of principles of stellar dynamics, according to the recently developed asymptotic theory of density waves for spiral structure in galaxies. From the growth rates obtained, it appears likely that several spiral modes coexist in a given disk galaxy. General prop...

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

authors： Bertin G,Lau YY,Lin CC,Mark JW,Sugiyama L

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-regulated protein 94 (GRP94) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone for which only few client proteins and no cofactors are known and whose mode of action is unclear. To decipher the mode of GRP94 action in vivo, we exploited our finding that GRP94 is necessary for the production of insulin-like growth fac...

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

authors： Ostrovsky O,Makarewich CA,Snapp EL,Argon Y

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00