Two classes of mouse mast cells delineated by monoclonal antibodies.

abstract：:We investigated the ultrafast structural transitions of the heme induced by nitric oxide (NO) binding for several heme proteins by subpicosecond time-resolved resonance Raman and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. We probed the heme iron motion by the evolution of the iron-histidine Raman band intensity af...

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

authors： Kruglik SG,Yoo BK,Franzen S,Vos MH,Martin JL,Negrerie M

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme that reduces methionine sulfoxide [Met(O)] residues in proteins [peptide Met(O) reductase (MsrA), EC 1.8.4.6; originally identified in Escherichia coli] was purified from bovine liver, and the cDNA encoding this enzyme was cloned and sequenced. The mammalian homologue of E. coli msrA (also called pmsR) cDNA ...

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

authors： Moskovitz J,Weissbach H,Brot N

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a hypothesis that dangerous diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Alzheimer's, fatal familial insomnia, and several others are induced by propagation of wrong or misfolded conformations of some vital proteins. If for some reason the misfolded conformations were acquired by many...

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

authors： Małolepsza E,Boniecki M,Kolinski A,Piela L

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug used to treat a variety of cancers. Both intrinsic and acquired resistance to cisplatin, as well as toxicity, limit its effectiveness. Molecular mechanisms that underlie cisplatin resistance are poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that deletion of the yeast CTR1 gene, which enco...

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

authors： Ishida S,Lee J,Thiele DJ,Herskowitz I

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the slow unfolding of what may become catastrophic changes to Earth's climate, many are understandably distraught by failures of public policy to rise to the magnitude of the challenge. Few in the science community would think to question the scientific response to the unfolding changes. However, is the science ...

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

authors： Palmer T,Stevens B

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A fraction obtained by gel filtration at neutral pH of the extracellular Hb of Lumbricus terrestris dissociated either at pH 9.8 or at pH 4.0, consisting of the three subunits D1 (31 kDa), D2 (37 kDa), and T (50 kDa), was found to produce two peaks when subjected to gel filtration on Superose 6 at pH 7. The first peak...

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

authors： Kapp OH,Mainwaring MG,Vinogradov SN,Crewe AV

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are multidomain proteins responsible for the attachment of specific amino acids to their tRNA substrates. Prolyl-tRNA synthetases (ProRSs) are notable due to their particularly diverse architectures through evolution. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ProRS possesses an N-terminal extens...

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

authors： SternJohn J,Hati S,Siliciano PG,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal distribution of the major extinctions over the past 250 million years has been investigated statistically using various forms of time series analysis. The analyzed record is based on variation in extinction intensity for fossil families of marine vertebrates, invertebrates, and protozoans and contains 12 ...

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

authors： Raup DM,Sepkoski JJ Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic, infectious, and tumor cell-intrinsic noxae can all evoke the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response in tumor cells, which is critical for tumor cell growth and cancer progression. Evidence exists that the ER stress response can drive a proinflammatory program in tumor cells and macrophages but, to our k...

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

authors： Mahadevan NR,Rodvold J,Sepulveda H,Rossi S,Drew AF,Zanetti M

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of enkephalin-like immunoreactivity within the avian retina was studied by immunofluorescence and immunoperoxidase techniques with antiserum to [Met5]enkephalin and [Leu5]enkephalin. Formaldehyde-fixed retinae were sectioned and incubated in antiserum to either [Met5]- or [Leu5]enkephalin. Specificity...

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

authors： Brecha N,Karten HJ,Laverack C

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise genome editing is a valuable tool to study gene function in model organisms. Prime editing, a precise editing system developed in mammalian cells, does not require double-strand breaks or donor DNA and has low off-target effects. Here, we applied prime editing for the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and...

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

authors： Bosch JA,Birchak G,Perrimon N

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropteridine reductase (EC 1.6.99.7) is a member of the recently identified family of proteins known as short-chain dehydrogenases. When the x-ray structure of dihydropteridine reductase is correlated with conserved amino acid sequences characteristic of this enzyme class, two important common structural regions c...

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

authors： Varughese KI,Xuong NH,Kiefer PM,Matthews DA,Whiteley JM

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive flexibility depends on a fast neural learning mechanism for enhancing momentary relevant over irrelevant information. A possible neural mechanism realizing this enhancement uses fast spiking interneurons (FSIs) in the striatum to train striatal projection neurons to gate relevant and suppress distracting cor...

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

authors： Banaie Boroujeni K,Oemisch M,Hassani SA,Womelsdorf T

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant Mentzelia pumila (family Loasaceae) has leaves and stems densely covered with tiny hooked trichomes. The structures entrap and kill insects and therefore are most probably protective. But they are also maladaptive in that they incapacitate a coccinellid beetle (Hippodamia convergens) that preys upon an aphid...

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

authors： Eisner T,Eisner M,Hoebeke ER

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a third region of variability in human fibronectin (FN) due to alternative RNA splicing. Two other positions of alternative splicing have been reported previously (ED and IIICS). The third region involves a 273-nucleotide exon encoding exactly one 91-amino acid repeat of type III homology, located bet...

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

authors： Gutman A,Kornblihtt AR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PsaF-deficient mutant 3bF of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was used to modify PsaF by nuclear transformation and site-directed mutagenesis. Four lysine residues in the N-terminal domain of PsaF, which have been postulated to form the positively charged face of a putative amphipathic alpha-helical structure were altere...

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

authors： Hippler M,Drepper F,Haehnel W,Rochaix JD

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional markets can underprovide ecosystem services. Deliberate creation of a market for ecosystem services [e.g., a payments for ecosystem services (PES) scheme] can close the gap. The new ecosystem service market alters behaviors and quantities of ecosystem service provided and reveals prices for the ecosystems...

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

authors： Adamowicz W,Calderon-Etter L,Entem A,Fenichel EP,Hall JS,Lloyd-Smith P,Ogden FL,Regina JA,Rouhi Rad M,Stallard RF

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis allows the release of secretory products and the delivery of new membrane material to the plasma membrane. So far, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism and its control in plant cells. We have used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique to monitor changes in membrane capacitance to study ex...

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

authors： Homann U,Tester M

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct structural insights on the fundamental mechanisms of permeation, selectivity, and gating remain unavailable for the Na(+) and Ca(2+) channel families. Here, we report the spectroscopic structural characterization of the isolated Voltage-Sensor Domain (VSD) of the prokaryotic Na(+) channel NaChBac in a lipid bil...

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

authors： Chakrapani S,Sompornpisut P,Intharathep P,Roux B,Perozo E

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) tumor-suppressor protein Merlin is a member of the ERM family of proteins that links the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane. In humans, mutations in the NF2 gene cause neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF2), a cancer syndrome characterized by the development of tumors of the nervous system....

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

authors： Benseñor LB,Barlan K,Rice SE,Fehon RG,Gelfand VI

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. C. parasitica dicer-like genes dcl-1 and dcl-2 were cloned and shown to share a high level of predicted amino ...

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

authors： Segers GC,Zhang X,Deng F,Sun Q,Nuss DL

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition is a critical source of plant nutrients, and drives the largest flux of terrestrial C to the atmosphere. Decomposing soil organic matter typically contains litter from multiple plant species, yet we lack a mechanistic understanding of how species diversity influences decomposition processes. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Meier CL,Bowman WD

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of demonstrating hemoglobin binding to the erythrocyte membrane in intact cells was approached by observing the quenching of fluorescent membrane probes by hemoglobin as a function of pH. This quenching was studied by measuring fluorescence intensities and decay rates of membrane-bound donors by both right...

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

authors： Eisinger J,Flores J,Salhany JM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a tightly coupled bidirectional interaction between visual cortex and visual thalamus [lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)]. Using drifting sinusoidal grating stimuli, we compared the response of cells in the LGN with and without feedback from the visual cortex. Raster plots revealed a striking difference in the...

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

authors： Andolina IM,Jones HE,Wang W,Sillito AM

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin is a member of the insulin family of polypeptides that is best known as a reproductive hormone. In an effort to elucidate the mechanism of action of relaxin we previously localized the specific binding sites of a 32P-labeled relaxin in the rat uterus and brain. These studies suggested that, in addition to its ...

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

authors： Osheroff PL,Cronin MJ,Lofgren JA

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that Ha-ras and c-myc genes collaborate in promoting transformation, tumor progression, and metastasis. However, the precise mechanism underlying this cooperation remains unclear. In the present study, we document that astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) is a downstream target molecule of Ha-ras a...

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

authors： Lee SG,Su ZZ,Emdad L,Sarkar D,Fisher PB

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox has played an unparalleled role in human history and remains a significant potential threat to public health. Despite the historical significance of this disease, we know little about the underlying pathophysiology or the virulence mechanisms of the causative agent, variola virus. To improve our understanding...

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

authors： Rubins KH,Hensley LE,Jahrling PB,Whitney AR,Geisbert TW,Huggins JW,Owen A,Leduc JW,Brown PO,Relman DA

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The major protein constituent of human plasma high density lipoproteins has been isolated and its complete amino-acid sequence determined. The protein, designated apolipoprotein-glutamine-I by the presence of carboxyl-terminal glutamine, is a single polypeptide chain of 245 amino-acid residues, including three residue...

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

authors： Baker HN,Delahunty T,Gotto AM Jr,Jackson RL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic recombination between homologous chromosomes is a genetic technique for mosaic analysis in model organisms. The general application of this technique in the mouse depends on establishment of effective recombination systems for individual chromosomes and reliable and sensitive methods for detection of recombina...

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

authors： Sun L,Wu X,Han M,Xu T,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A transient transfection assay using Drosophila S2 tissue culture cells and WT and mutant Drosophila vnd/NK-2 homeobox cDNAs was used to localize repression and activation domains of vnd/NK-2 homeodomain protein. A repression domain was identified near the N terminus of vnd/NK-2 homeodomain protein (amino acid residue...

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

authors： Stepchenko A,Nirenberg M

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00