Scorpion toxins as natural scaffolds for protein engineering.

abstract：:Seemingly similar individuals often experience drastically different success trajectories, with some repeatedly failing and others consistently succeeding. One explanation is preexisting variability along unobserved fitness dimensions that is revealed gradually through differential achievement. Alternatively, positive...

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

authors： van de Rijt A,Kang SM,Restivo M,Patil A

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The POU-IV or "Brn-3" class of POU-domain transcription factors is represented in Drosophila by I-POU and twin-of-I-POU, alternative splice products of the I-POU gene. I-POU has been previously reported to inhibit DNA binding by the POU-III class factor drifter/Cf1a via the formation of heterodimeric complexes. Here w...

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

authors： Turner EE

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we sought to better understand the role of the glycoprotein quality control machinery in the assembly of MHC class I molecules with high-affinity peptides. The lectin-like chaperone calreticulin (CRT) and the thiol oxidoreductase ERp57 participate in the final step of this process as part of the peptide-...

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

authors： Wearsch PA,Peaper DR,Cresswell P

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:HBc, the capsid-forming "core protein" of human hepatitis B virus (HBV), is a multidomain, α-helical homodimer that aggressively forms human HBV capsids. Structural plasticity has been proposed to be important to the myriad functions HBc mediates during viral replication. Here, we report detailed thermodynamic analyse...

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

authors： Alexander CG,Jürgens MC,Shepherd DA,Freund SM,Ashcroft AE,Ferguson N

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the human erythrocyte glucose transporter identified a recombinant lambda gt11 bacteriophage in a cDNA library prepared from immunoselected polysomal RNA from adult rat brain. The cDNA predicts a 492-amino acid protein that demonstrates 97.6% identity to the human hepatoma hexose carrier. The t...

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

authors： Birnbaum MJ,Haspel HC,Rosen OM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) and cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) are tau kinases and have been proposed to contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. The 3D structures of these kinases are remarkably similar, which led us to hypothesize that both might be capable of binding cyclin proteins--the act...

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

authors： Chow HM,Guo D,Zhou JC,Zhang GY,Li HF,Herrup K,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method that combines two- and three-color single-molecule FRET spectroscopy with 2D FRET efficiency-lifetime analysis to probe the oligomerization process of intrinsically disordered proteins. This method is applied to the oligomerization of the tetramerization domain (TD) of the tumor suppressor protein...

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

authors： Chung HS,Meng F,Kim JY,McHale K,Gopich IV,Louis JM

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We posit that feasible reversal of the growth of atmospheric CH(4) and other trace gases would provide a vital contribution toward averting dangerous anthropogenic interference with global climate. Such trace gas reductions may allow stabilization of atmospheric CO(2) at an achievable level of anthropogenic CO(2) emis...

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

authors： Hansen J,Sato M

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both heterologous rabbit antisera and mouse monoclonal antibody to RNA.DNA hybrids, we have mapped the in situ hybridization locus of the 18/28S ribosomal RNA fraction to a single large band on polytene autosome 3 in Drosophila heteroneura and Drosophila silvestris. This portion of the chromosome is not physical...

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

authors： Stuart WD,Bishop JG,Carson HL,Frank MB

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In t(15;17) acute promyelocytic leukemia, all-trans retinoic acid (RA) induces leukemic cell maturation in vitro and remission in acute promyelocytic leukemia patients, but in vivo treatments invariably lead to relapse with resistance to RA. NB4, a maturation-inducible cell line, and NB4-RAr sublines (R1 and R2) displ...

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

authors： Ruchaud S,Duprez E,Gendron MC,Houge G,Genieser HG,Jastorff B,Doskeland SO,Lanotte M

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this era of continued emergence of zoonotic virus infections, the rapid development of rodent models represents a critical barrier to public health preparedness, including the testing of antivirus therapy and vaccines. The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was recently identified as the causat...

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

authors： Zhao J,Li K,Wohlford-Lenane C,Agnihothram SS,Fett C,Zhao J,Gale MJ Jr,Baric RS,Enjuanes L,Gallagher T,McCray PB Jr,Perlman S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillomaviruses are small DNA viruses that are associated with benign and malignant epithelial lesions, including >95% of cervical cancers and approximately 20% of head and neck cancers. Because papillomavirus replication and virion production are tied to epithelial cell differentiation, infectious papillomavirus vir...

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

authors： Pyeon D,Lambert PF,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohibitin (PHB)-domain proteins are membrane proteins that regulate a variety of biological activities, including mechanosensation, osmotic homeostasis, and cell signaling, although the mechanism of this regulation is unknown. We have studied two members of this large protein family, MEC-2, which is needed for to...

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

authors： Huber TB,Schermer B,Müller RU,Höhne M,Bartram M,Calixto A,Hagmann H,Reinhardt C,Koos F,Kunzelmann K,Shirokova E,Krautwurst D,Harteneck C,Simons M,Pavenstädt H,Kerjaschki D,Thiele C,Walz G,Chalfie M,Benzing T

更新日期：2006-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian thalamus is a critical site where early perception of sensorimotor signals is dynamically regulated by acetylcholine in a behavioral state-dependent manner. In this study, we examined how synaptic transmission is modulated by acetylcholine in auditory thalamus where sensory relay neurons form parallel lemnis...

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

authors： Mooney DM,Zhang L,Basile C,Senatorov VV,Ngsee J,Omar A,Hu B

更新日期：2004-01-06 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：:Basophils are powerful mediators of Th2 immunity and are present in increased numbers during allergic inflammation and helminth infection. Despite their ability to potentiate Th2 immunity the mechanisms regulating basophil development remain largely unknown. We have found a unique role for isotype-switched antibodies ...

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

authors： Herbst T,Esser J,Prati M,Kulagin M,Stettler R,Zaiss MM,Hewitson JP,Merky P,Verbeek JS,Bourquin C,Camberis M,Prout M,Maizels RM,Le Gros G,Harris NL

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly symptoms of malaria occur as Plasmodium parasites replicate within blood cells. Members of several variant surface protein families are expressed on infected blood cell surfaces. Of these, the largest and most ubiquitous are the Plasmodium-interspersed repeat (PIR) proteins, with more than 1,000 variants in...

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

authors： Harrison TE,Reid AJ,Cunningham D,Langhorne J,Higgins MK

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The WWOX gene is a recently cloned tumor suppressor gene that spans the FRA16D fragile region. Wwox protein contains two WW domains that are generally known to mediate protein-protein interaction. Here we show that Wwox physically interacts via its first WW domain with the p53 homolog, p73. The tyrosine kinase, Src, p...

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

authors： Aqeilan RI,Pekarsky Y,Herrero JJ,Palamarchuk A,Letofsky J,Druck T,Trapasso F,Han SY,Melino G,Huebner K,Croce CM

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription antitermination by lambda N gene product is affected in a mutant Escherichia coli with altered ribosomal protein S10, caused by the nusE71 mutation. To study the role of translation in antitermination, we have fused the phage nutR locus, the site of action of N, with the lac regulatory region. We have mo...

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

authors： Warren F,Das A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery of mammalian tribosphenic teeth from the basal Cenomanian of southwestern France that we refer to a new primitive marsupial-like form identified as a basal taxon of Marsupialiformes, a new clade recognized here to include the crown group Marsupialia and primitive stem lineages more closely rela...

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

authors： Vullo R,Gheerbrant E,de Muizon C,Néraudeau D

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During CsCl isopycnic centrifugation at 20 mM Mg(++), Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunits specifically lose proteins S1, S2, S3, S5, S9, S10, and S14. The resultant 30S core is unable to stimulate the GTPase activity of EF-G in the presence of 50S subunits. Activity could be restored to a small extent by adding ba...

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

authors： Marsh RC,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission depends on the continued availability of neurotransmitter-filled synaptic vesicles (SVs) for triggered release from presynaptic boutons. Surprisingly, small boutons in the brain, that already contain comparatively few SVs, are thought to retain the majority of these SVs in a "reserve" pool that i...

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

authors： Ikeda K,Bekkers JM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin becomes reorganized during mitosis each cell cycle. To identify genes potentially involved in these supramolecular events, we have used a colony-color assay to screen temperature-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When a sequence that mediates attachment to the nuclear matrix in vitro was inserte...

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

authors： Fishel BR,Sperry AO,Garrard WT

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The neighbor-exclusion principle is one of the most general and interesting rules describing intercalative DNA binding by small molecules. It suggests that such binding can only occur at every other base-pair site, reflecting a very large negative cooperativity in the binding process. We have carried out molecular mec...

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

authors： Rao SN,Kollman PA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural viewing conditions the input to the retina is a complex spatiotemporal signal that depends on both the scene and the way the observer moves. It is commonly assumed that the retina processes this input signal efficiently by taking into account the statistics of the natural world. It has recently been argu...

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

authors： Segal IY,Giladi C,Gedalin M,Rucci M,Ben-Tov M,Kushinsky Y,Mokeichev A,Segev R

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Landau spectrum of bismuth is complex and includes many angle-dependent lines in the extreme quantum limit. The adequacy of single-particle theory to describe this spectrum in detail has been an open issue. Here, we present a study of angle-resolved Nernst effect in bismuth, which maps the angle-resolved Landau sp...

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

authors： Zhu Z,Fauqué B,Malone L,Antunes AB,Fuseya Y,Behnia K

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-made vaccines have been the subject of intense interest because they can be produced economically in large scale without the use of animal-derived components. Plant-made therapeutic vaccines against challenging chronic diseases, such as cancer, have received little research attention, and no previous human clini...

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

authors： McCormick AA,Reddy S,Reinl SJ,Cameron TI,Czerwinkski DK,Vojdani F,Hanley KM,Garger SJ,White EL,Novak J,Barrett J,Holtz RB,Tusé D,Levy R

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of both nosocomial and community-acquired infection. Biofilm formation at the site of infection reduces antimicrobial susceptibility and can lead to chronic infection. During biofilm formation, a subset of cells liberate cytoplasmic proteins and DNA, which are repurposed to for...

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

authors： DeFrancesco AS,Masloboeva N,Syed AK,DeLoughery A,Bradshaw N,Li GW,Gilmore MS,Walker S,Losick R

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and migration of disconnections (line defects constrained to the grain boundary [GB] plane with both dislocation and step character) control many of the kinetic and dynamical properties of GBs and the polycrystalline materials of which they are central constituents. We demonstrate that GBs undergo a fini...

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

authors： Chen K,Srolovitz DJ,Han J

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic stress responses are critical not only to the survival of unicellular organisms but also to the normal function of the mammalian kidney. However, the extent to which cells outside the kidney rely on osmotic stress responses in vivo remains unknown. Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5)/tonicity enhance...

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

authors： Go WY,Liu X,Roti MA,Liu F,Ho SN

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00