Arachidonic acid stimulates glucose uptake in cerebral cortical astrocytes.

abstract：:The protein CopC from Pseudomonas syringae has been found capable of binding copper(I) and copper(II) at two different sites, occupied either one at a time or simultaneously. The protein, consisting of 102 amino acids, is known to bind copper(II) in a position that is now found consistent with a coordination arrangeme...

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

authors： Arnesano F,Banci L,Bertini I,Mangani S,Thompsett AR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearoyl-acyl-carrier-protein-desaturase-mediated conversion of stearic acid (18:0) to oleic acid (18:1) is a key step, which regulates levels of unsaturated fatty acids in cells. We previously showed that stearoyl-acyl-carrier-protein-desaturase mutants ssi2/fab2 carrying a loss-of-function mutation in the plastidial...

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

authors： Kachroo A,Venugopal SC,Lapchyk L,Falcone D,Hildebrand D,Kachroo P

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for predicting the structure of alpha beta class proteins in the absence of information from homologous structures. The method is based on an associative memory model for short to intermediate range in sequence contacts and a contact potential for long range in sequence contacts. The coefficients ...

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

authors： Hardin C,Eastwood MP,Prentiss MC,Luthey-Schulten Z,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of tumors from human familial adenomatous polyposis, sporadic colon cancer, and mouse and rat models of intestinal cancer indicate that the majority of early adenomas develop through loss of normal function of the Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene. In murine models of familial adenomatous polyposis, specif...

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

authors： Amos-Landgraf JM,Irving AA,Hartman C,Hunter A,Laube B,Chen X,Clipson L,Newton MA,Dove WF

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The dnaX gene (previously called dnaZX) of Escherichia coli has only one open reading frame for a 71-kDa polypeptide from which two distinct DNA polymerase III holoenzyme subunits, tau (71 kDa) and gamma (47 kDa), are produced. To determine how the gamma subunit is generated, we examined the influence of mutations in ...

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

authors： Tsuchihashi Z,Kornberg A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey in natural communities are usually shared by many predator species. How predators coexist while competing for the same prey is one of the fundamental questions in ecology. Here, we show that competing predator species may not only coexist on a single prey but even help each other to persist if they specialize on ...

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

authors： De Roos AM,Schellekens T,Van Kooten T,Persson L

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive organisms pose a global threat and are exceptionally difficult to eradicate after they become abundant in their new habitats. We report a successful multitactic strategy for combating the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), one of the world's most invasive pests. A coordinated program in the southwester...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Liesner LR,Ellsworth PC,Unnithan GC,Fabrick JA,Naranjo SE,Li X,Dennehy TJ,Antilla L,Staten RT,Carrière Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Male infertility, affecting as many as 10% of the adult population, is an extremely prevalent disorder. In most cases, the cause of the condition is unknown, and genetic factors that might affect male fertility, other than some sequences on the Y chromosome, have not been identified. We report here that male mice hete...

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

authors： Huang LS,Voyiaziakis E,Chen HL,Rubin EM,Gordon JW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kirsten sarcoma virus (Ki-MSV) and Harvey sarcoma virus (Ha-MSV) are mouse-rat recombinant viruses that were originally isolated by experimental inoculation of rats with helper-independent mouse type C viruses. We have recently identified in cells transformed by Ki-MSV or Ha-MSV, a phosphoprotein, p21, coded for by Ki...

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

authors： Young HA,Shih TY,Scolnick EM,Rasheed S,Gardner MB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination of a system consisting of a vertical tube containing an unstirred homogeneous suspension of thylakoids in an imposed linear concentration gradient of an electron acceptor, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, gave rise to a one-dimensional banded pattern of the acceptor that evolved in a time-dependent manner. The spa...

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

authors： Aon M,Thomas D,Hervagault JF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of immunoregulatory genes conferring dominant resistance to autoimmunity is well documented. In an effort to better understand the nature and mechanisms of action of these genes, we utilized the murine model of autoimmune orchitis as a prototype. When the orchitis-resistant strain DBA/2J is crossed with ...

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

authors： Meeker ND,Hickey WF,Korngold R,Hansen WK,Sudweeks JD,Wardell BB,Griffith JS,Teuscher C

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Undesired side products of DNA transfections are usually discarded. However, here, we show that such products may provide insight into mutational events that are also a major driving force in protein evolution. While studying the small heat-shock protein alphaA-crystallin, we transfected the hamster alphaA-crystallin ...

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

authors： van Rijk AA,de Jong WW,Bloemendal H

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously metal-ion sites have been used as structural and functional probes in seven transmembrane receptors (7TM), but as yet all the engineered sites have been inactivating. Based on presumed agonist interaction points in transmembrane III (TM-III) and -VII of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, in this paper we cons...

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

authors： Elling CE,Thirstrup K,Holst B,Schwartz TW

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly emerging plants provide the best forage for herbivores. To exploit this fleeting resource, migrating herbivores align their movements to surf the wave of spring green-up. With new technology to track migrating animals, the Green Wave Hypothesis has steadily gained empirical support across a diversity of migrator...

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

authors： Geremia C,Merkle JA,Eacker DR,Wallen RL,White PJ,Hebblewhite M,Kauffman MJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies found that increased risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common human heart arrhythmia, is associated with noncoding sequence variants located in proximity to PITX2 Cardiomyocyte-specific epigenomic and comparative genomics uncovered 2 AF-associated enhancers neighboring PITX2 w...

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

authors： Zhang M,Hill MC,Kadow ZA,Suh JH,Tucker NR,Hall AW,Tran TT,Swinton PS,Leach JP,Margulies KB,Ellinor PT,Li N,Martin JF

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for 24 tRNAs. The nucleotide sequences of the tRNA genes suggest a unique set of rules that govern the decoding of the mitochondrial genetic code. The four codons of unmixed fmilies are recognized by single tRNAs that always have a U in the wobble position of ...

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

authors： Bonitz SG,Berlani R,Coruzzi G,Li M,Macino G,Nobrega FG,Nobrega MP,Thalenfeld BE,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput biological data, whether generated as sequencing, transcriptional microarrays, proteomic, or other means, continues to require analytic methods that address its high dimensional aspects. Because the computational part of data analysis ultimately identifies shape characteristics in the organization of d...

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

authors： Nicolau M,Levine AJ,Carlsson G

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochromes P450 play key roles in drug metabolism and disease by oxidizing a wide variety of natural and xenobiotic compounds. High-resolution crystal structures of P450cam bound to ruthenium sensitizer-linked substrates reveal an open conformation of the enzyme that allows substrates to access the active center via ...

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

authors： Dunn AR,Dmochowski IJ,Bilwes AM,Gray HB,Crane BR

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The powerful optogenetic pharmacology method allows the optical control of neuronal activity by photoswitchable ligands tethered to channels and receptors. However, this approach is technically demanding, as it requires the design of pharmacologically active ligands. The development of versatile technologies therefore...

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

authors： Lemoine D,Habermacher C,Martz A,Méry PF,Bouquier N,Diverchy F,Taly A,Rassendren F,Specht A,Grutter T

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of the roles of adaptation and chance in determining genetic diversity and evolution has received attention in the last 50 years, but our understanding is still incomplete. All statements about the relative effects of evolutionary factors, especially drift, need confirmation by strong demograph...

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

authors： Chiaroni J,Underhill PA,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P prohormones were identified in the caudate nucleus, hypothalamus, and substantia nigra of human brain. A polypeptide fraction of acidic brain extracts was fractionated on Sephadex G-50. The lyophilized fractions were sequentially treated with trypsin and a substance P-degrading enzyme with strong preferenc...

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

authors： Nyberg F,le Grevés P,Terenius L

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degeneracy, the ability of elements that are structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same output, is a well known characteristic of the genetic code and immune systems. Here, we point out that degeneracy is a ubiquitous biological property and argue that it is a feature of complexity at geneti...

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

authors： Edelman GM,Gally JA

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An epithelial cell line, designated COMMA-1D, was derived from mammary tissue of BALB/c mice in the middle of pregnancy. This line, in continuous cell culture for 12 months, exhibits several characteristics distinctive of normal mammary epithelial cells, including induction of casein synthesis in vitro and normal duct...

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

authors： Danielson KG,Oborn CJ,Durban EM,Butel JS,Medina D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that rat glioma tumors contain a protein that crossreacts with antibody against mouse 2.5S nerve growth factor prepared in rabbit in microcomplement fixation assays and has analogous isoelectric points to all the hybrids of 2.5S nerve growth factor (a dimer). Partially purified protein preparations from ...

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

authors： Longo AM,Penhoet EE

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic, biologically active, [Phe4Val6] analog of natural antamanide has been crystallized from a solution containing calcium nitrate, acetone, and acetonitrile. The crystal does not contain any Ca2+ ions but does contain 12 water molecules per peptide molecule. The conformation of this dodecahydrate is identic...

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

authors： Karle IL,Duesler E

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle wasting is a debilitating consequence of fasting, inactivity, cancer, and other systemic diseases that results primarily from accelerated protein degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. To identify key factors in this process, we have used cDNA microarrays to compare normal and atrophying muscles and f...

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

authors： Gomes MD,Lecker SH,Jagoe RT,Navon A,Goldberg AL

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phagocytosis on lectin binding to plasma membranes of polymorphonuclear leukocytes was examined. The specific activities of binding sites of concanavalin A and Ricinus communis agglutinin (defined as mug of lectin bound per 100 mug of membrane protein) were measured on isolated membranes; they decreased ...

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

authors： Oliver JM,Ukena TE,Berlin RD

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular oxygen (O(2)) began to accumulate in the atmosphere and surface ocean ca. 2,400 million years ago (Ma), but the persistent oxygenation of water masses throughout the oceans developed much later, perhaps beginning as recently as 580-550 Ma. For much of the intervening interval, moderately oxic surface waters ...

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

authors： Johnston DT,Wolfe-Simon F,Pearson A,Knoll AH

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA clone from a human fibroblast cDNA library that contains the entire protein-coding region of a 1.1-kilobase mRNA. This mRNA encodes a 284-amino acid tropomyosin, the primary structure of which most closely resembles smooth muscle tropomyosin. Thus, the expression of both 284-amino acid muscle-t...

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

authors： MacLeod AR,Houlker C,Reinach FC,Smillie LB,Talbot K,Modi G,Walsh FS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 89-kDa cell surface glycoprotein, P3.58, is detectable on advanced human melanomas in situ but not on benign melanocytes or early melanomas. cDNA cloning of P3.58 from melanoma cells was accomplished by screening a lambda zap expression vector library with monoclonal antibodies produced against the denatured antig...

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

authors： Johnson JP,Stade BG,Holzmann B,Schwäble W,Riethmüller G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00