Discriminating compact nonnative structures from the native structure of globular proteins.

abstract：:In order to study the mutagenic effects of site-specific, covalent modifications of biologically active DNA, we need host cells that are permissive for any type of mutation that might be produced in vivo from the modified DNA. Specifically, we require a general, in vivo complementation system for the bacteriophage phi...

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

authors： Humayun MZ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the pubertal increase in luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) release is withheld by a dominant inhibitory neuronal system, the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a known inhibitory neurotransmitter, in the control of LHRH release was examined in conscious female monkeys at the...

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

authors： Mitsushima D,Hei DL,Terasawa E

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant genetic engineering led to the production of plant-derived mAb (mAbP), which provides a safe and economically feasible alternative to the current methods of antibody production in animal systems. In this study, the heavy and light chains of human anti-rabies mAb were expressed and assembled in planta under the c...

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

authors： Ko K,Tekoah Y,Rudd PM,Harvey DJ,Dwek RA,Spitsin S,Hanlon CA,Rupprecht C,Dietzschold B,Golovkin M,Koprowski H

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that extensive wildfires occurred after the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) impact event. An abundance of soot and pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pPAHs) in marine K-T boundary impact rocks (BIRs) have been considered support for this hypothesis. However, nonmarine K-T BIRs, from across ...

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

authors： Belcher CM,Finch P,Collinson ME,Scott AC,Grassineau NV

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian innate immune system uses several sensors of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to develop the interferon response. Among these sensors are dsRNA-activated oligoadenylate synthetases (OAS), which produce signaling 2',5'-linked RNA molecules (2-5A) that activate regulated RNA decay in mammalian tissues. Differen...

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

authors： Donovan J,Whitney G,Rath S,Korennykh A

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the monoclinic and orthorhombic crystal structures of the uncomplexed double-stranded, antiparallel, left-handed beta-helix (5.6 amino acid residues per turn) (increases decreases beta 5.6) conformers of gramicidin A reveals marked differences in the tryptophan side-chain orientations and the degree of...

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

authors： Langs DA,Smith GD,Courseille C,Précigoux G,Hospital M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandem gene duplication is an important mutational process in evolutionary adaptation and human disease. Hypothetically, two tandem gene copies should produce twice the output of a single gene, but this expectation has not been rigorously investigated. Here, we show that tandem duplication often results in more than d...

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

authors： Loehlin DW,Carroll SB

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues are differentially associated with metabolic disorders. In obesity, subcutaneous adipose tissue is beneficial for metabolic homeostasis because of repressed inflammation. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrat...

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

authors： Hwang I,Jo K,Shin KC,Kim JI,Ji Y,Park YJ,Park J,Jeon YG,Ka S,Suk S,Noh HL,Choe SS,Alfadda AA,Kim JK,Kim S,Kim JB

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A selenium-containing protein, selenoprotein A, is an essential component of the clostridial glycine reductase complex. This enzyme complex catalyzes the reductive deamination of glycine, which is coupled to the esterification of orthophosphate resulting in the formation of ATP. Sequence information was obtained by au...

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

authors： Sliwkowski MX,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders cause much suffering and are the single greatest cause of lost productivity worldwide. Although multiple medications, along with behavioral therapies, have proven effective for some individuals, millions of people lack an effective therapeutic option. A common serotonin (5-HT) transporter (5-HTT/SERT, S...

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

authors： Baganz NL,Horton RE,Calderon AS,Owens WA,Munn JL,Watts LT,Koldzic-Zivanovic N,Jeske NA,Koek W,Toney GM,Daws LC

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An enduring question in correlated systems concerns whether superconductivity is favored at a quantum critical point (QCP) characterized by a divergent quasiparticle effective mass. Despite such a scenario being widely postulated in high T(c) cuprates and invoked to explain non-Fermi liquid transport signatures, exper...

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

authors： Sebastian SE,Harrison N,Altarawneh MM,Mielke CH,Liang R,Bonn DA,Hardy WN,Lonzarich GG

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is involved in self-renewal of embryonic stem cells and reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency. However, its role in lineage-committed stem cells remains largely unknown. Here, we show that KLF4 is expressed in neural stem cells (NSCs) and is down-regulated during neuronal differen...

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

authors： Qin S,Liu M,Niu W,Zhang CL

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of Drosophila melanogaster DNA polymerase alpha on DNA-primed single-stranded DNA templates has been examined. The DNA templates contain a 1471-nucleotide sequence from the heavy-strand origin region of mouse mtDNA inserted into the single-stranded bacteriophage vector M13Gori1. Preferred sites for pausin...

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

authors： Kaguni LS,Clayton DA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the preparation and structural analysis of ordered tubular arrays of the actin-DNase I complex. These structures consist of helically stacked rings; each ring is 73 A thick, has a 240 A outer and a 120 A inner diameter, and has 7-fold rotational symmetry. The actin-DNase I complex forms tubes under conditi...

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

authors： Fowler WE,Buhle EL,Aebi U

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the pressure-dissociated monomer of Arc repressor was characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The NMR spectra of the monomer under pressure (up to 5.0 kbar; 1 bar = 100 kPa) are typical of a molten globule and they are considerably different from those of the native dimer and thermally denatured mono...

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

authors： Peng X,Jonas J,Silva JL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a large-scale screen to identify interactions between integral membrane proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using a modified split-ubiquitin technique. Among 705 proteins annotated as integral membrane, we identified 1,985 putative interactions involving 536 proteins. To ascribe confidence levels to...

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

authors： Miller JP,Lo RS,Ben-Hur A,Desmarais C,Stagljar I,Noble WS,Fields S

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can defend themselves from herbivorous insects by emitting volatile chemical signals that attract natural enemies of the herbivore. For example, maize seedlings attacked by beet armyworm larvae (Spodoptera exigua) produce a mixture of terpenoid and indole volatiles that serve to attract parasitic wasps. A key s...

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

authors： Shen B,Zheng Z,Dooner HK

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human IL-10 (hIL-10) modulates critical immune and inflammatory responses by way of interactions with its high- (IL-10R1) and low-affinity (IL-10R2) cell surface receptors. Human cytomegalovirus exploits the IL-10 signaling pathway by expressing a functional viral IL-10 homolog (cmvIL-10), which shares only 27% sequen...

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

authors： Jones BC,Logsdon NJ,Josephson K,Cook J,Barry PA,Walter MR

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-step purification procedure for the isolation of heart muscle chalones is described. The method uses ultrafiltration followed by concanavalin A-Sepharose affinity chromatography and subsequent sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Analytical ultracentrifugation of the highly purified chalone fraction indica...

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

authors： Kriek JA,van der Walt BJ,Bester AJ

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our earlier work we showed that either spermidine or spermine could support the growth of spe2Delta or spe3Delta polyamine-requiring mutants, but it was unclear whether the cells had a specific requirement for either of these amines. In the current work, we demonstrate that spermidine is specifically required for t...

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

authors： Chattopadhyay MK,Tabor CW,Tabor H

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models suggest that social networks influence the evolution of cooperation, but to date there have been few experimental studies. Observational data suggest that a wide variety of behaviors may spread in human social networks, but subjects in such studies can choose to befriend people with similar behavior...

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

authors： Fowler JH,Christakis NA

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis, a process characterized in part by excessive smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation in areas of vascular injury, occurs in up to 50% of patients undergoing balloon angioplasty. In an effort to develop a treatment strategy for restenosis, we constructed a replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus (AdMLP....

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

authors： Guzman RJ,Hirschowitz EA,Brody SL,Crystal RG,Epstein SE,Finkel T

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatant fractions (300,000 x g, 60 min) from homogenates of rat liver, heart, and skeletal muscle, dog liver, and rabbit liver prepared without detergent in the homogenization medium (referred to as S300) are shown to contain an activity that restores Mg2+-dependent fluoride- and guanine nucleotide-stimulated cycl...

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

authors： Bhat MK,Iyengar R,Abramowitz J,Bordelon-Riser ME,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated two synthetic epothilone analogues lacking the 12,13-epoxide functionality, 12,13-desoxyepothilone B (dEpoB), and 12,13-desoxyepothilone F (dEpoF). The concentrations required for 50% growth inhibition (IC(50)) for a variety of anticancer agents were measured in CCRF-CEM/VBL1000 cells (2,048-fold res...

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

authors： Chou TC,O'Connor OA,Tong WP,Guan Y,Zhang ZG,Stachel SJ,Lee C,Danishefsky SJ

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrogenesis is repressed in the early embryonic period and occurs in the late embryonic period. A variety of external and internal signals contribute to the sequential differentiation of neural stem cells. Here, we discovered that immune-related CD93 plays a critical negative role in the regulation of astrogenesis in...

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

authors： Liang Q,Su L,Zhang D,Jiao J

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier report, evidence was presented that the down-regulation of beta-actin mRNA during myogenesis was controlled by a region 3' to the promoter of the gene. In this paper we report the location of this regulatory sequence, determined by deletion analysis and the use of chimeric genes, transfected stably into ...

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

authors： DePonti-Zilli L,Seiler-Tuyns A,Paterson BM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serpin was identified in normal mammary gland by differential cDNA sequencing. In situ hybridization has detected this serpin exclusively in the myoepithelial cells on the normal and noninvasive mammary epithelial side of the basement membrane and thus was named myoepithelium-derived serine proteinase inhibitor (MEP...

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

authors： Xiao G,Liu YE,Gentz R,Sang QA,Ni J,Goldberg ID,Shi YE

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The O(2)-reaction chemistry of 1:1 mixtures of (F(8))Fe(II) (1; F(8) = tetrakis(2,6-diflurorophenyl)porphyrinate) and [(L(Me(2))N)Cu(I)](+) (2; L(Me(2))N = N,N-bis(2-[2-(N',N'-4-dimethylamino)pyridyl]ethyl)methylamine) is described, to model aspects of the chemistry occurring in cytochrome c oxidase. Spectroscopic inv...

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

authors： Kim E,Helton ME,Wasser IM,Karlin KD,Lu S,Huang HW,Moenne-Loccoz P,Incarvito CD,Rheingold AL,Honecker M,Kaderli S,Zuberbuhler AD

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical cross-linking mass spectrometry (CXMS) is being increasingly used to study protein assemblies and complex protein interaction networks. Existing CXMS chemical cross-linkers target only Lys, Cys, Glu, and Asp residues, limiting the information measurable. Here we report a "plant-and-cast" cross-linking strateg...

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

authors： Yang B,Wu H,Schnier PD,Liu Y,Liu J,Wang N,DeGrado WF,Wang L

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly and composition of human excision nuclease were investigated by electrophoretic mobility shift assay and DNase I footprinting. Individual repair factors or any combination of up to four repair factors failed to form DNA-protein complexes of high specificity and stability. A stable complex of high specific...

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

authors： Wakasugi M,Sancar A

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00