Propensity for a leucine zipper-like domain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gp41 to form oligomers correlates with a role in virus-induced fusion rather than assembly of the glycoprotein complex.

abstract：:Our understanding of the molecular control of many disease pathologies requires the identification of direct substrates targeted by specific protein kinases. Here we describe an integrated proteomic strategy, termed kinase assay linked with phosphoproteomics, which combines a sensitive kinase reaction with endogenous ...

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

authors： Xue L,Wang WH,Iliuk A,Hu L,Galan JA,Yu S,Hans M,Geahlen RL,Tao WA

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. These aspirin-triggered lipoxins (ATL) may mediate some of ASA's beneficial actions and therefore are of interest in the search...

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

authors： Clish CB,O'Brien JA,Gronert K,Stahl GL,Petasis NA,Serhan CN

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channel proteins control ionic flux across biological membranes through conformational changes in their transmembrane pores. An exponentially increasing number of channel structures captured in different conformational states are now being determined; however, these newly resolved structures are commonly classifie...

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

authors： Rao S,Klesse G,Stansfeld PJ,Tucker SJ,Sansom MSP

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper we described the induction by x-irradiation or radiation-induced leukemia virus-inoculation of two classes of lymphoid T-cell neoplasms: The first class, designated T-cell lymphoblastoma (TCLB), consists of growth-factor-dependent eudiploid cells that home to the spleen and give rise to splenic tum...

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

authors： Haas M,Altman A,Rothenberg E,Bogart MH,Jones OW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes isolated from eight different species of cyanobacteria contain in addition to the light-harvesting phycobiliproteins, a small number of colorless polypeptides with molecular weights higher than those of the chromopolypeptide subunits of the phycobiliproteins. In the phycobilisomes of the species examin...

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

authors： de Marsac NT,Cohen-bazire G

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mediator, a subgroup of proteins (Srb8, Srb9, Srb10, and Srb11) form a module, which is involved in negative regulation of transcription. Homologues of Srb10 and Srb11 are found in some mammalian Mediator preparations, whereas no clear homologues have been reported for Srb8 and Srb9. Here, ...

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

authors： Samuelsen CO,Baraznenok V,Khorosjutina O,Spahr H,Kieselbach T,Holmberg S,Gustafsson CM

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) defines a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by deficiencies in lysosome-related organelles such as melanosomes and platelet-dense granules. Several HPS genes encode proteins of unknown function including HPS1, HPS3, and HPS4. Here we have identified and characterized ...

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

authors： Nazarian R,Falcón-Pérez JM,Dell'Angelica EC

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell and single-channel recording techniques were used to study the action of the anticonvulsant drug MK-801 [(+)-5-methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]- cyclohepten-5,10-imine maleate) on responses to excitatory amino acids in rat neocortical neurons in cell culture. MK-801 caused a progressive, long-lasting bl...

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

authors： Huettner JE,Bean BP

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design, realization, and test performances of an electronic junction based on single-electron phenomena that works in the air at room temperature are hereby reported. The element consists of an electrochemically etched sharp tungsten stylus over whose tip a nanometer-size crystal was synthesized. Langmuir-Blodgett...

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

authors： Facci P,Erokhin V,Carrara S,Nicolini C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 0.5 microM and above) stimulated the synthesis of prostacyclin (as measured by radioimmunoassay of 6-ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha) by bovine aortic smooth muscle cells in culture. This effect was structurally specific; a similar response was not elicited by the other indoles (tryptophan, ...

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

authors： Coughlin SR,Moskowitz MA,Antoniades HN,Levine L

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase Chk2, the mammalian homolog of the budding yeast Rad53 and fission yeast Cds1 checkpoint kinases, is phosphorylated and activated in response to DNA damage by ionizing radiation (IR), UV irradiation, and replication blocks by hydroxyurea (HU). Phosphorylation and activation of Chk2 are ataxia telang...

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

authors： Matsuoka S,Rotman G,Ogawa A,Shiloh Y,Tamai K,Elledge SJ

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncatalytic carbohydrate binding modules (CBMs) are components of glycoside hydrolases that attack generally inaccessible substrates. CBMs mediate a two- to fivefold elevation in the activity of endo-acting enzymes, likely through increasing the concentration of the appended enzymes in the vicinity of the substrate. ...

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

authors： Cuskin F,Flint JE,Gloster TM,Morland C,Baslé A,Henrissat B,Coutinho PM,Strazzulli A,Solovyova AS,Davies GJ,Gilbert HJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus laevis oocytes were injected with poly(A)+-mRNA isolated from chorionating follicular epithelium of the domesticated silk moth (Bombyx mori). On two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the resultant translation products comigrated with authentic, secreted, chorion standards, demonstrating that the frog oocyte sys...

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

authors： Bock SC,Tiemeier DC,Mester K,Wu M,Goldsmith MR

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of nine established murine haplotypes, mice of three types (H-2d, H-2u, and H-2q) possess major histocompatibility complex class I glycoproteins able to present an identical viral peptide for recognition and lysis by virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Incorporation of this viral epitope into a recombinant vaccini...

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

authors： Oldstone MB,Tishon A,Geckeler R,Lewicki H,Whitton JL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described in which the interference of radiated second-harmonic electric fields generated by a pair of oriented molecules intercalated into double-stranded DNA is controlled and measured. The results show that the relative molecular orientation of the two molecules significantly changes the magnitude of th...

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

authors： Doughty B,Rao Y,Kazer SW,Kwok SJ,Turro NJ,Eisenthal KB

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An exciton is an electron-hole pair bound by attractive Coulomb interaction. Short-lived excitons have been detected by a variety of experimental probes in numerous contexts. An excitonic insulator, a collective state of such excitons, has been more elusive. Here, thanks to Nernst measurements in pulsed magnetic field...

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

authors： Wang J,Nie P,Li X,Zuo H,Fauqué B,Zhu Z,Behnia K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing avoidance conferred by different types of antifreeze proteins in various polar and subpolar fishes represents a remarkable example of cold adaptation, but how these unique proteins arose is unknown. We have found that the antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) of the predominant Antarctic fish taxon, the notothenio...

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

authors： Chen L,DeVries AL,Cheng CH

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle adapts to different patterns of motor nerve activity by alterations in gene expression that match specialized properties of contraction, metabolism, and muscle mass to changing work demands (muscle plasticity). Calcineurin, a calcium/calmodulin-dependent, serine-threonine protein phosphatase, has been ...

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

authors： Rosenberg P,Hawkins A,Stiber J,Shelton JM,Hutcheson K,Bassel-Duby R,Shin DM,Yan Z,Williams RS

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic activation of β-adrenoreceptors (β-AR) represents a hallmark in the development of heart failure (HF). However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of gene regulation. In human ventricular myocardium from patients with end-stage HF, we found high levels of phosphorylated histone 3 at serine-28 ...

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

authors： Saadatmand AR,Sramek V,Weber S,Finke D,Dewenter M,Sticht C,Gretz N,Wüstemann T,Hagenmueller M,Kuenzel SR,Meyer-Roxlau S,Kramer M,Sossalla S,Lehmann LH,Kämmerer S,Backs J,El-Armouche A

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide experiments often measure quantitative differences between treated and untreated cells to identify affected strains. For these studies, statistical models are typically used to determine significance cutoffs. We developed a method termed "CLIK" (Cutoff Linked to Interaction Knowledge) that overlays biologi...

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

authors： Dittmar JC,Pierce S,Rothstein R,Reid RJ

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Arabidopsis TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2) MYB family transcription factor leads to massive accumulation of proanthocyanidins (PAs) in hairy roots of Medicago truncatula. Microarray analysis showed that TT2 induces genes for flavonoid/PA biosynthesis, transcription factors, and a large number of genes of ...

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

authors： Pang Y,Peel GJ,Sharma SB,Tang Y,Dixon RA

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) gene consists of four 5' exons linked to separate promoters and one 3' exon encoding the prepro-BDNF protein. To gain insights into the regulation of BDNF mRNA expression, probes specific for the different 5' exons were used to study the expression of BDNF mRNA in the br...

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

authors： Metsis M,Timmusk T,Arenas E,Persson H

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-barrier hydrogen bonds (LBHBs) have been proposed to play roles in protein functions, including enzymatic catalysis and proton transfer. Transient formation of LBHBs is expected to stabilize specific reaction intermediates. However, based on experimental results and theoretical considerations, arguments against th...

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

authors： Yamaguchi S,Kamikubo H,Kurihara K,Kuroki R,Niimura N,Shimizu N,Yamazaki Y,Kataoka M

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) oxidase catalyzes the oxidation of ACC to ethylene. Following conventional column fractionation, the enzyme was purified 180-fold to near homogeneity with a specific activity of 20 nmol/(mg.min). This purified enzyme preparation migrated as a single protein band with an apparent...

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

authors： Dong JG,Fernández-Maculet JC,Yang SF

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen/deuterium exchange followed by trapping of the labeled species in the aprotic solvent DMSO has been used to elucidate structure in both the burst-phase molten globule-folding intermediate of apomyoglobin and in an equilibrium intermediate that models the kinetic intermediate. Precise estimates can be made of ...

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

authors： Nishimura C,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive amyloid deposition in senile plaques and cortical blood vessels may play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have used x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the molecular organization and morphology of macromolecular assemblies formed by three synthetic peptides homolog...

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

authors： Kirschner DA,Inouye H,Duffy LK,Sinclair A,Lind M,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a complex physiological process, primarily determined by stress-related factors revealing the hidden aggregation propensity of proteins that otherwise are fully soluble. Here we report a mechanism by which glycolytic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Arabidopsis thaliana (AtGAPC1) is p...

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

authors： Zaffagnini M,Marchand CH,Malferrari M,Murail S,Bonacchi S,Genovese D,Montalti M,Venturoli G,Falini G,Baaden M,Lemaire SD,Fermani S,Trost P

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite structural knowledge of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (NMAbs) complexed to HIV-1 gp120 and gp41 envelope glycoproteins, virus inactivation mechanisms have been difficult to prove, in part because neutralization assays are complex and were previously not understood. Concordant with recent evidence ...

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

authors： Platt EJ,Gomes MM,Kabat D

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen with a small genome of 1.64-1.67 Mb. More than 20 putative DNA restriction-modification (R-M) systems, comprising more than 4% of the total genome, have been identified in the two completely sequenced H. pylori strains, 26695 and J99, based on sequence similari...

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

authors： Lin LF,Posfai J,Roberts RJ,Kong H

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00