Three-dimensional structure of a transglutaminase: human blood coagulation factor XIII.

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is central to the metabolic actions of insulin on liver. Here, we show that mice with a liver-specific deletion of the p85alpha regulatory subunit of PI3K (L-Pik3r1KO) exhibit a paradoxical improvement of hepatic and peripheral insulin sensitivity. Although PI3K enzymatic a...

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

authors： Taniguchi CM,Tran TT,Kondo T,Luo J,Ueki K,Cantley LC,Kahn CR

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic coupling hypothesis of signal-preference evolution, whereby the same genes control male signal and female preference for that signal, was first inspired by the evolution of cricket acoustic communication nearly 50 years ago. To examine this hypothesis, we compared the genomic location of quantitative trait...

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

authors： Shaw KL,Lesnick SC

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid. The biomagnification of BMAA through the Guam ecosystem fits a classic triangle of increasing concentrations of toxic compounds up the food chain. However, because BMAA is ...

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

authors： Murch SJ,Cox PA,Banack SA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane protein (OMP) biogenesis is critical to bacterial physiology because the cellular envelope is vital to bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. The process of OMP biogenesis has been studied in vivo, and each of its components has been studied in isolation in vitro. This work integrates paramet...

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

authors： Costello SM,Plummer AM,Fleming PJ,Fleming KG

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a methodology, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), in which the contrast depends on the fluorescence lifetime at each point in a two-dimensional image and not on the local concentration and/or intensity of the fluorophore. We used FLIM to create lifetime images of NADH when free in solution and when bou...

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

authors： Lakowicz JR,Szmacinski H,Nowaczyk K,Johnson ML

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast mutants in which genes encoding subunits of the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase were interrupted were assayed for their vacuolar ATPase and proton-uptake activities. The vacuoles from the mutants lacking subunits A (72 kDa), B (57 kDa), or c (proteolipid, 16 kDa) were completely inactive in these reactions. Immunological s...

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

authors： Noumi T,Beltrán C,Nelson H,Nelson N

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposures to ambient and household fine-particulate matter (PM2.5) together are among the largest single causes of premature mortality in India according to the Global Burden of Disease Studies (GBD). Several recent investigations have estimated that household emissions are the largest contributor to ambient PM2.5 exp...

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

authors： Chowdhury S,Dey S,Guttikunda S,Pillarisetti A,Smith KR,Di Girolamo L

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During cellular stresses, phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2 (eIF2) elicits gene expression designed to ameliorate the underlying cellular disturbance. Central to this stress response is the transcriptional regulator activating transcription factor, ATF4. Here we describe the mechanism regulating ATF4 e...

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

authors： Vattem KM,Wek RC

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicles were constituted with glycophorin, the Sendai virus receptor of human erythrocytes, and loaded with calcein, a polar derivative of fluorescein, at self-quenching concentrations. On exposure to Sendai virus and mild hypo-osmotic stress, vesicles of the appropriate composition released a significant portion of ...

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

authors： Kundrot CE,Spangler EA,Kendall DA,MacDonald RC,MacDonald RI

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with intrinsically disordered domains are implicated in a vast range of biological processes, especially in cell signaling and regulation. Having solved the quaternary structure of the folded domains in the tumor suppressor p53 by a multidisciplinary approach, we have now determined the average ensemble struc...

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

authors： Wells M,Tidow H,Rutherford TJ,Markwick P,Jensen MR,Mylonas E,Svergun DI,Blackledge M,Fersht AR

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The electromechanochemical model has been reformulated to take account of the close connection between energy coupling and catalysis. In catalysis the protein is programmed to utilize thermal energy to produce local strains in the catalytic cavity and to generate conformational states that favor substrate --> product ...

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

authors： Green DE,Ji S

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons perceive environmental cues and are important of organismal survival. Peripheral sensory neurons interact intimately with glial cells. While the function of axonal ensheathment by glia is well studied, less is known about the functional significance of glial interaction with the somatodendritic compart...

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

authors： Yadav S,Younger SH,Zhang L,Thompson-Peer KL,Li T,Jan LY,Jan YN

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular communities in living tissues act in concert to establish intricate microenvironments, with complexity difficult to recapitulate in vitro. We report a method for docking numerous cellularized hydrogel shapes (100-1,000 µm in size) into hydrogel templates to construct 3D cellular microenvironments. Each shape ...

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

authors： Eng G,Lee BW,Parsa H,Chin CD,Schneider J,Linkov G,Sia SK,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoters whose temporal activity can be directly manipulated in transgenic animals provide a tool for the study of gene functions in vivo. We have evaluated a tetracycline-responsive binary system for its ability to temporally control gene expression in transgenic mice. In this system, a tetracycline-controlled trans...

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

authors： Furth PA,St Onge L,Böger H,Gruss P,Gossen M,Kistner A,Bujard H,Hennighausen L

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans (CN), an encapsulated, ubiquitous environmental yeast, is pathogenic for humans, primarily those with compromised immune function. CN is believed to be a facultative intracellular pathogen. Time-lapsed video microscopy revealed that yeast began to replicate and divide 2 hours after ingestion by...

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

authors： Tucker SC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a large body of research has demonstrated that judgments and behaviors can propagate from person to person. Phenomena as diverse as political mobilization, health practices, altruism, and emotional states exhibit similar dynamics of social contagion. The precise mechanisms of judgment propagation are ...

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

authors： Moussaïd M,Herzog SM,Kämmer JE,Hertwig R

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We predict by first principles a phase transition in alumina at approximately 3.7 Mbar and room temperature from the CaIrO(3)-type polymorph to another with the U(2)S(3)-type structure. Because alumina is used as window material in shock-wave experiments, this transformation should be important for the analysis of sho...

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

authors： Umemoto K,Wentzcovitch RM

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factors (TNF) alpha and beta are structurally related cytokines that mediate a wide range of immunological, inflammatory, and cytotoxic effects. During bacterial infection of the bloodstream (sepsis), TNF-alpha induction by bacterial endotoxin is thought to be a major factor contributing to the cardiova...

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

authors： Ashkenazi A,Marsters SA,Capon DJ,Chamow SM,Figari IS,Pennica D,Goeddel DV,Palladino MA,Smith DH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of metabolic depletion on the maturation-associated loss of membrane functions has been studied by using sheep reticulocytes incubated in vitro at 37 degrees C for periods up to 41 hr. ATP was either maintained with glucose, adenosine plus inosine, or depleted with 2-deoxyglucose plus arsenate. Two membrane...

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

authors： Weigensberg AM,Blostein R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing cerebellum, switching of the subunit composition of NMDA receptors occurs in granule cells from NR2B-containing receptors to NR2C-containing ones. We investigated the mechanisms underlying switching of NR2B and NR2C subunit composition in primary cultures of mouse granule cells at the physiological K...

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

authors： Iijima K,Abe H,Okazawa M,Moriyoshi K,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2008-08-19 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：:H-2(q) mice (DBA/1) do not make an antibody response to a synthetic aminoacid polymer, (Glu, Ala,Tyr(10)), after an immunizing regimen that produces a good antibody response in mouse strains with other H-2 alleles. Their thymocytes, however, show evidence of recognizing this antigen since they synthesize DNA when they...

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

authors： Gershon RK,Maurer PH,Merryman CF

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can sense the direction of gravity and change the growth orientation of their organs. The molecular mechanisms of gravity sensing and signal transduction during gravitropism are not well known. We have isolated several shoot gravitropism (sgr) mutants of Arabidopsis. The sgr3-1 mutant exhibits a reduced gravitr...

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

authors： Yano D,Sato M,Saito C,Sato MH,Morita MT,Tasaka M

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of intracellular 26S mRNA of Sindbis virus has been determined by direct sequence analysis of the cDNA made to this RNA with reverse transcriptase. From this, the amino acid sequences of the encoded virus structural proteins, which include a basic capsid protein and two integral membrane glycop...

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

authors： Rice CM,Strauss JH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We deal with the issue of quantifying and optimizing the rotation dynamics of synthetic molecular motors. For this purpose, the continuous four-stage rotation behavior of a typical light-activated molecular motor was measured in detail. All reaction constants were determined empirically. Next, we developed a Markov mo...

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

authors： Geertsema EM,van der Molen SJ,Martens M,Feringa BL

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in growth control during development and regeneration and its dysregulation is widely implicated in various cancers. To further understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Hippo signaling regulation, we have found that activities of core Hippo si...

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

authors： Kim W,Cho YS,Wang X,Park O,Ma X,Kim H,Gan W,Jho EH,Cha B,Jeung YJ,Zhang L,Gao B,Wei W,Jiang J,Chung KS,Yang Y

更新日期：2019-05-07 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：:Prompted by the increasing interest in networks in many fields, we present an attempt at unifying points of view and analyses of these objects coming from the social sciences, statistics, probability and physics communities. We apply our approach to the Newman-Girvan modularity, widely used for "community" detection, ...

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

authors： Bickel PJ,Chen A

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00