L-Fucose-terminated glycoconjugates are recognized by pinocytosis receptors on macrophages.

abstract：:A new ribonuclease, RNase BN, has been identified and partially purified from a strain of Escherichia coli lacking RNase II and RNase D by using the artificial tRNA precursor tRNA-C-[14C]U as substrate. This enzyme is present in E. coli B but absent from the tRNA processing mutant strain BN which is unable to process ...

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

authors： Asha PK,Blouin RT,Zaniewski R,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 369-residue glycoprotein D (gD) is the entry, receptor-binding protein of herpes simplex virus 1. The common receptors for viral entry are nectin-1, HveA, and a specific O-linked sulfated proteoglycan. The major receptor-binding sites of gD are at the N terminus, whereas the domain required for fusion of viral env...

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

authors： Zhou G,Roizman B

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP;oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase(transphosphorylating); EC 4.1.1.32] is absent in rat liver cytosol during fetal life and is synthesized initially at birth. De novo synthesis of the enzyme can be induced prematurely by injection of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or glucagon into fetal anim...

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

authors： Garcia Ruiz JP,Ingram R,Hanson RW

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast retrograde signaling networks are vital for chloroplast biogenesis, operation, and signaling, including excess light and drought stress signaling. To date, retrograde signaling has been considered in the context of land plant adaptation, but not regarding the origin and evolution of signaling cascades link...

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

authors： Zhao C,Wang Y,Chan KX,Marchant DB,Franks PJ,Randall D,Tee EE,Chen G,Ramesh S,Phua SY,Zhang B,Hills A,Dai F,Xue D,Gilliham M,Tyerman S,Nevo E,Wu F,Zhang G,Wong GK,Leebens-Mack JH,Melkonian M,Blatt MR,Soltis P

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex social behavior in Microtus voles and other mammals has been postulated to be under the direct genetic control of a single locus: the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (avpr1a) gene. Using a phylogenetic approach, we show that a repetitive element in the promoter region of avpr1a, which reportedly causes social...

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

authors： Fink S,Excoffier L,Heckel G

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsZ, the ancestral homolog of eukaryotic tubulins, is a GTPase that assembles into a cytokinetic ring structure essential for cell division in prokaryotic cells. Similar to tubulin, purified FtsZ polymerizes into dynamic protofilaments in the presence of GTP; polymer assembly is accompanied by GTP hydrolysis. We used...

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

authors： Margalit DN,Romberg L,Mets RB,Hebert AM,Mitchison TJ,Kirschner MW,RayChaudhuri D

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are socially monogamous, males vary in both sexual and spatial fidelity. Most males form pairbonds, cohabit with one female, and defend territories. Wandering males, in contrast, have expansive home ranges that overlap many males and females. In the laboratory, pairing is ...

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

authors： Ophir AG,Wolff JO,Phelps SM

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that short-term immobilization stress of rats causes increased colonic mucin release, goblet cell depletion, prostaglandin E2 secretion, and colonic mast cell activation, as well as increased colonic motility. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether neurotensin (NT), a peptide expre...

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

authors： Castagliuolo I,Leeman SE,Bartolak-Suki E,Nikulasson S,Qiu B,Carraway RE,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A vestigial, nonphotosynthetic plastid has been identified recently in protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. The apicomplexan plastid, or "apicoplast," is indispensable, but the complete sequence of both the Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast genomes has offered no clue as to what essentia...

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

authors： Waller RF,Keeling PJ,Donald RG,Striepen B,Handman E,Lang-Unnasch N,Cowman AF,Besra GS,Roos DS,McFadden GI

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Commonly considered strategies for reducing the environmental impact of light-duty transportation include using alternative fuels and improving vehicle fuel economy. We evaluate the air quality-related human health impacts of 10 such options, including the use of liquid biofuels, diesel, and compressed natural gas (CN...

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

authors： Tessum CW,Hill JD,Marshall JD

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During the developmental process of the Gram-negative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, vegetatively growing rod cells differentiate to ultimately become metabolically quiescent and environmentally resistant myxospores encased within fruiting bodies. This program, initiated by nutrient deprivation, is propagated by b...

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

authors： Tzeng L,Singer M

更新日期：2005-10-04 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：:The Cdc7p protein kinase is essential for the G1/S transition and initiation of DNA replication during the cell division cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cdc7p appears to be an evolutionarily conserved protein, since a homolog Hsk1 has been isolated from Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Here, we report the isolation of a ...

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

authors： Jiang W,Hunter T

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The basis for the 200-fold difference in affinity between two hybridoma antibodies specific for the hapten p-azophenylarsonate (Ars) that have diversified by somatic hypermutation was examined. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to sequentially convert the nucleotide sequence of the lower-affinity antibody ...

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

authors： Sharon J

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that Paleozoic hyperoxia enabled animal gigantism, and the subsequent hypoxia drove a reduction in animal size. This evolutionary hypothesis depends on the argument that gas exchange in many invertebrates and skin-breathing vertebrates becomes compromised at large sizes because of distanc...

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

authors： Kaiser A,Klok CJ,Socha JJ,Lee WK,Quinlan MC,Harrison JF

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the function of silicon (Si) in plant physiology has long been debated, its beneficial effects on plant resistance against abiotic and biotic stresses, including insect herbivory, have been well documented. In addition, the jasmonate (JA) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in mediating antiherbivore defen...

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

authors： Ye M,Song Y,Long J,Wang R,Baerson SR,Pan Z,Zhu-Salzman K,Xie J,Cai K,Luo S,Zeng R

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine subjects were studied by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging while performing language-based tasks. Subjects were asked either to repeat or to generate verbs associated with nouns read by an experimenter while magnetic resonance images were obtained of the left inferior frontal lobe. The echo-planar imaging seq...

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

authors： McCarthy G,Blamire AM,Rothman DL,Gruetter R,Shulman RG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of charge transfer depend crucially on the dielectric reorganization of the medium. In enzymatic reactions that involve charge transfer, atomic dielectric response of the active site and of its surroundings determines the efficiency of the protein as a catalyst. We report direct spectroscopic measurements...

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

authors： Mertz EL,Krishtalik LI

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of plasmids encoding human tau (htau) protein into identified lamprey reticulospinal neurons (anterior bulbar cells, or ABCs) in situ induces chronic htau expression. htau protein is transported to both the axon and dendrites of expressing ABCs by mechanisms that require the C-terminal domain of htau pr...

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

authors： Hall GF,Yao J,Lee G

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase-2 (HIPK2) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. The transcriptional corepressor CtBP (carboxyl-terminal binding protein) also plays a fundamental role in these processes. Our previous studies indicate that HIPK2 participates in a pathw...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Nottke A,Goodman RH

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The tubercle bacillus parasitizes macrophages by inhibiting phagosome maturation into the phagolysosome. This phenomenon underlies the tuberculosis pandemic involving 2 billion people. We report here how Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes phagosome maturation arrest. A glycosylated M. tuberculosis phosphatidylinositol ...

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

authors： Fratti RA,Chua J,Vergne I,Deretic V

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins internalized into the endocytic pathway are usually degraded. Efficient proteolysis requires denaturation, induced by acidic conditions within lysosomes, and reduction of inter- and intrachain disulfide bonds. Cytosolic reduction is mediated enzymatically by thioredoxin, but the mechanism of lysosomal reducti...

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

authors： Arunachalam B,Phan UT,Geuze HJ,Cresswell P

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:With threats to nature becoming increasingly prominent, in order for biodiversity levels to persist, there is a critical need to improve implementation of conservation measures. In the oceans, the surveillance of fisheries is complex and inadequate, such that quantifying and locating nondeclared and illegal fisheries ...

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

authors： Weimerskirch H,Collet J,Corbeau A,Pajot A,Hoarau F,Marteau C,Filippi D,Patrick SC

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A human Burkitt lymphoma cell line, Raji-HN2, made 10-fold more resistant to nitrogen mustard (HN2) than the parental Raji cell line, exhibited the following characteristics when compared to the parental Raji cells: (i) decreased HN2-induced DNA interstrand crosslinking; (ii) increased (3-fold) DNA topoisomerase II [D...

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

authors： Tan KB,Mattern MR,Boyce RA,Schein PS

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late summer to fall of 1987, Caribbean reef corals experienced an intense and widespread discoloration event described as bleaching. Contrary to initial predictions, most bleached corals did not die. However, energy input from zooxanthellae decreased, as estimated from: (i) delta(13)C values, a measure of t...

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

authors： Porter JW,Fitt WK,Spero HJ,Rogers CS,White MW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major public health concern, being responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths annually through pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Available vaccines target only a subset of serotypes, so vaccination is often accompanied by a rise in the frequency of nonvaccine...

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

authors： Obolski U,Lourenço J,Thompson C,Thompson R,Gori A,Gupta S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeostatic maintenance of the genomic DNA is crucial for regulating aging processes. However, the role of RNA homeostasis in aging processes remains unknown. RNA helicases are a large family of enzymes that regulate the biogenesis and homeostasis of RNA. However, the functional significance of RNA helicases in ag...

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

authors： Seo M,Seo K,Hwang W,Koo HJ,Hahm JH,Yang JS,Han SK,Hwang D,Kim S,Jang SK,Lee Y,Nam HG,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A "projection function," P(x,z), is defined as the partial integral of the molecular electron density, rho(x,y,z), over the region -infinity < y < +infinity. The projection provides a three-dimensional representation of molecular electron distributions. Chemically useful information can be discerned from graphical dis...

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

authors： Streitwieser A,Collins JB,McKelvey JM,Grier D,Sender J,Toczko AG

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomics is expanding our knowledge of the gene content, functional significance, and genetic variability in natural microbial communities. Still, there exists limited information concerning the regulation and dynamics of genes in the environment. We report here global analysis of expressed genes in a naturally oc...

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

authors： Frias-Lopez J,Shi Y,Tyson GW,Coleman ML,Schuster SC,Chisholm SW,Delong EF

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00