Functional expression and photoaffinity labeling of a cloned P2U purinergic receptor.

abstract：:In photosynthesis, light is captured by antenna proteins. These proteins transfer the excitation energy with almost 100% quantum efficiency to the reaction centers, where charge separation takes place. The time scale and pathways of this transfer are controlled by the protein scaffold, which holds the pigments at opti...

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

authors： Müh F,Madjet Mel-A,Adolphs J,Abdurahman A,Rabenstein B,Ishikita H,Knapp EW,Renger T

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods to accurately predict potential drug target mutations in response to early-stage leads could drive the design of more resilient first generation drug candidates. In this study, a structure-based protein design algorithm (K* in the OSPREY suite) was used to prospectively identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms...

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

authors： Reeve SM,Gainza P,Frey KM,Georgiev I,Donald BR,Anderson AC

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver plays a critical role in inducing systemic immune tolerance, for example, during limiting hypersensitivity to food allergy and in rendering acceptance of allotransplant or even hepatotropic pathogens. We investigated the unknown mechanisms of liver tolerance by using an established hepatitis B virus (HBV)-ca...

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

authors： Xu L,Yin W,Sun R,Wei H,Tian Z

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research links diet-induced obesity (DIO) with impaired immunity, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We find that the induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cytokines is suppressed in mice with DIO and in bone marrow macrophages (BMMPhi) from mice with DIO exposed to an oral pathogen, Por...

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

authors： Zhou Q,Leeman SE,Amar S

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Paramyxoviridae family of enveloped viruses enters cells through the concerted action of two viral glycoproteins. The receptor-binding protein, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN), H, or G, binds its cellular receptor and activates the fusion protein, F, which, through an extensive refolding event, brings viral and c...

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

authors： Bose S,Zokarkar A,Welch BD,Leser GP,Jardetzky TS,Lamb RA

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires' disease, which is a form of potentially fatal pneumonia. To identify genes required for virulence of the bacterium, a library of 1,386 L. pneumophila signature tagged transposon mutants was studied for guinea pig virulence. The mutants were screened in pools of 96 e...

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

authors： Edelstein PH,Edelstein MA,Higa F,Falkow S

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mapping of eye-specific, geniculocortical inputs to primary visual cortex (V1) is highly sensitive to the balance of correlated activity between the two eyes during a restricted postnatal critical period for ocular dominance plasticity. This critical period is likely to have amplified expression of genes and prote...

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

authors： Lyckman AW,Horng S,Leamey CA,Tropea D,Watakabe A,Van Wart A,McCurry C,Yamamori T,Sur M

更新日期：2008-07-08 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：:The role played by oligodendrocytes (OLs), the myelinating cells of the CNS, during brain development has not been fully explored. We have addressed this question by inducing a temporal and reversible ablation of OLs on postnatal CNS development. OL ablation in newborn mice leads to a profound alteration in the struct...

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

authors： Collin L,Usiello A,Erbs E,Mathis C,Borrelli E

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural pathway that governs an escape response of Drosophila to sudden changes in light intensity can be artificially induced by electrical stimulation of the brain and monitored by electrical recording from the effector muscles. We have refined previous work in this system to permit reliable ascertainment of two ...

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

authors： Lin M,Nash HA

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a primary degenerative disease of myocardium and is traditionally categorized into hypertrophic and dilated CMs (HCM and DCM) according to its gross appearance. Cardiomyopathic hamster (CM hamster), a representative model of human hereditary CM, has HCM and DCM inbred sublines, both of which des...

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

authors： Sakamoto A,Ono K,Abe M,Jasmin G,Eki T,Murakami Y,Masaki T,Toyo-oka T,Hanaoka F

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The E6 oncoprotein of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that are associated with cervical cancer utilizes the cellular ubiquitin-protein ligase E6-AP to target the tumor suppressor p53 for degradation. In normal cells (i.e., in the absence of E6), p53 is also a target of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Under these condi...

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

authors： Hengstermann A,Linares LK,Ciechanover A,Whitaker NJ,Scheffner M

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Global energy demand and environmental concerns have stimulated increasing efforts to produce carbon-neutral fuels directly from renewable resources. Microbially derived aliphatic hydrocarbons, the petroleum-replica fuels, have emerged as promising alternatives to meet this goal. However, engineering metabolic pathway...

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

authors： Xu P,Li L,Zhang F,Stephanopoulos G,Koffas M

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the dystrophin gene cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) most commonly through loss of protein expression. In a small subpopulation of patients, missense mutations can cause DMD, Becker muscular dystrophy, or X-linked cardiomyopathy. Nearly one-half of disease-causing missense mutations are located in ...

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

authors： Henderson DM,Lee A,Ervasti JM

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The robustness of eight common food web properties is examined with respect to web size. We show that the current controversy concerning the scale dependence or scale invariance of these properties can be resolved by accounting for scaling constraints introduced by webs of very small size. We demonstrate statistically...

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

authors： Bersier LF,Sugihara G

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding at a quasi-statically loaded frictional interface can occur via macroscopic slip events, which nucleate locally before propagating as rupture fronts very similar to fracture. We introduce a microscopic model of a frictional interface that includes asperity-level disorder, elastic interaction between local slip...

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

authors： de Geus TWJ,Popović M,Ji W,Rosso A,Wyart M

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is an evolutionarily conserved process in which recognition of double-stranded RNA ultimately leads to posttranscriptional suppression of gene expression. This suppression is mediated by short (21- to 22-nt) small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which induce degradation of mRNA based on complementary base ...

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

authors： Barton GM,Medzhitov R

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Language is classically thought to be supported by perisylvian cortical regions. Here we provide intracranial evidence linking the hippocampal complex to linguistic processing. We used direct recordings from the hippocampal structures to investigate whether theta oscillations, pivotal in memory function, track the amo...

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

authors： Piai V,Anderson KL,Lin JJ,Dewar C,Parvizi J,Dronkers NF,Knight RT

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a thorough study of the transport properties of the normal and superconducting states of black phosphorus (BP) under magnetic field and high pressure with a large-volume apparatus that provides hydrostatic pressure to induce transitions from the layered A17 phase to the layered A7 phase and to the cubic phas...

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

authors： Li X,Sun J,Shahi P,Gao M,MacDonald AH,Uwatoko Y,Xiang T,Goodenough JB,Cheng J,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant spreading of cancer cells requires cell surface proteases that cleave the crosslinked collagenous matrix of connective tissues. From correlating the morphologically defined invasiveness of tumor cells with the presence of specific membrane-associated proteases, we have identified a malignant human melanoma c...

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

authors： Aoyama A,Chen WT

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs), the major component of the thymic microenvironment, can be modulated by pituitary hormones. We have shown previously that prolactin (PRL) can influence the endocrine activity of TECs and stimulate TEC proliferation as well as cytokeratin expression, suggesting the existence of PRL recep...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Kelly PA,Bach JF,Savino W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009 we reported that depletion of Dicer-1, the enzyme that catalyzes the final step of miRNA biosynthesis, prevents metamorphosis in Blattella germanica. However, the precise regulatory roles of miRNAs in the process have remained elusive. In the present work, we have observed that Dicer-1 depletion results in an ...

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

authors： Lozano J,Montañez R,Belles X

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Most growth factors are initially synthesized as precursor proteins and subsequently processed into their mature form by proteolytic cleavage, resulting in simultaneous removal of a pro-peptide. However, compared with that of mature form, the biological role of the pro-peptide is poorly understood. Here, we investigat...

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

authors： Mizui T,Ishikawa Y,Kumanogoh H,Lume M,Matsumoto T,Hara T,Yamawaki S,Takahashi M,Shiosaka S,Itami C,Uegaki K,Saarma M,Kojima M

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system's own components, although critically important, are largely unknown. Ub, a principal component of the system, must be maintained at adequate levels to support cellular homeostasis under basal and stressed conditions. It was suggested that Ub is degrade...

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

authors： Shabek N,Herman-Bachinsky Y,Ciechanover A

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor (E2R) from rabbit uterus has an enhanced affinity for BrdUrd-substituted DNA compared to unsubstituted DNA. Increasing levels of BrdUrd substitution (from 0 to 100%) in a DNA sample are associated with increasingly tighter binding of E2R to that DNA as measured by equilibrium competition experime...

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

authors： Kallos J,Fasy TM,Hollander VP,Bick MD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt and Shh signaling pathways are critical for the development and maturation of many epithelial tissues. Both pathways have roles in stem cell maintenance, tissue development, and tumorigenesis. However, linkage between these pathways in mammalian systems had not been well established. Here, we report that Shh expre...

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

authors： Iwatsuki K,Liu HX,Grónder A,Singer MA,Lane TF,Grosschedl R,Mistretta CM,Margolskee RF

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing interest in the role of the frontal lobe in relation to psychiatric and neurologic disorders has popularized tests of frontal function. One of these is the antisaccade task, in which both frontal lobe patients and schizophrenics are impaired despite normal performance on (pro)saccadic tasks. We used positio...

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

authors： O'Driscoll GA,Alpert NM,Matthysse SW,Levy DL,Rauch SL,Holzman PS

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins are activated when they associate with G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), often in response to agonist-mediated receptor activation. It is generally thought that agonist-induced receptor-G protein association necessarily promotes G protein activation and, conversely, that activated GPCRs do not interact w...

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

authors： Okashah N,Wright SC,Kawakami K,Mathiasen S,Zhou J,Lu S,Javitch JA,Inoue A,Bouvier M,Lambert NA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the type 1 herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) genome in trigeminal ganglia of latently infected mice was studied using in situ hybridization. Probes representative of each temporal gene class were used to determine the regions of the genome that encode the transcripts present in latently infected cells. Pro...

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

authors： Deatly AM,Spivack JG,Lavi E,Fraser NW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the properties of metazoan replication origins, recent studies in cell culture have adopted the strategy of identifying origins using genome-wide approaches and assessing correlations with such features as transcription and histone modifications. Drosophila amplicon in follicle cells (DAFCs), genomic re...

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

authors： Kim JC,Orr-Weaver TL

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00