Palmitoylation of the GluR6 kainate receptor.

abstract：:Four macrocyclic cystine-knot peptides of 29-31 residues, kalata, circulin A and B (CirA and CirB), and cyclopsychotride, have been isolated from coffee plants but have undetermined physiological functions. These macrocycles and 10 of their analogs prepared by chemical synthesis were tested against nine strains of mic...

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

authors： Tam JP,Lu YA,Yang JL,Chiu KW

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored despite their potential to contribute to crop production and stability in the face of environmental change. Non-bee pollinators ...

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

authors： Rader R,Bartomeus I,Garibaldi LA,Garratt MP,Howlett BG,Winfree R,Cunningham SA,Mayfield MM,Arthur AD,Andersson GK,Bommarco R,Brittain C,Carvalheiro LG,Chacoff NP,Entling MH,Foully B,Freitas BM,Gemmill-Herren B,Ghazoul

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeasts and mammals, PEX10 encodes an integral membrane protein with a C3HC4 RING finger motif in its C-terminal domain and is required for peroxisome biogenesis and matrix protein import. In humans, its dysfunction in peroxisome biogenesis leads to severe Zellweger Syndrome and infantile Refsum disease. Here we sho...

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

authors： Schumann U,Wanner G,Veenhuis M,Schmid M,Gietl C

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This note answers some questions on holomorphic curves and their distribution in an algebraic surface of positive index. More specifically, we exploit the existence of natural negatively curved "pseudo-Finsler" metrics on a surface S of general type whose Chern numbers satisfy c(2)1>2c2 to show that a holomorphic map ...

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

authors： Lu SS,Yau ST

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to increase the potency of transcriptional activators are generally unsuccessful because poor expression of activators in mammalian cells limits their delivery to target promoters. Here we report that the effectiveness of chimeric activators can be dramatically improved by expressing them as noncovalent tetram...

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

authors： Natesan S,Molinari E,Rivera VM,Rickles RJ,Gilman M

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high structural homology between NO reductases (NORs) and heme-copper oxidases (HCOs), factors governing their reaction specificity remain to be understood. Using a myoglobin-based model of NOR (FeBMb) and tuning its heme redox potentials (E°') to cover the native NOR range, through manipulating hydrogen bondi...

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

authors： Bhagi-Damodaran A,Reed JH,Zhu Q,Shi Y,Hosseinzadeh P,Sandoval BA,Harnden KA,Wang S,Sponholtz MR,Mirts EN,Dwaraknath S,Zhang Y,Moënne-Loccoz P,Lu Y

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyketides represent an extremely diverse class of secondary metabolites often explored for their bioactive traits. These molecules are also attractive building blocks for chemical catalysis and polymerization. However, the use of polyketides in larger scale chemistry applications is stymied by limited titers and yie...

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

authors： Markham KA,Palmer CM,Chwatko M,Wagner JM,Murray C,Vazquez S,Swaminathan A,Chakravarty I,Lynd NA,Alper HS

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cDNA clones encoding a structure-specific recognition protein, SSRP1, that binds specifically to DNA modified with cisplatin have been isolated and characterized. The SSRP1 gene maps to human chromosome 11q12. The cDNA clones, obtained by using partial-length cDNAs described previously, predict an 81-kDa protein...

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

authors： Bruhn SL,Pil PM,Essigmann JM,Housman DE,Lippard SJ

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the ortho-para conversion rate in solid hydrogen by using Raman scattering in a diamond-anvil cell, extending previous measurements by a factor of 60 in pressure. We confirm previous experiments that suggested a decrease in the conversion rate above about 0.5 GPa. We observe a distinct minimum at 3 GPa fol...

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

authors： Eggert JH,Karmon E,Hemley RJ,Mao A,Goncharov AF

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The configuration of the heme-carbonyl group upon binding of carbon monoxide to sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) in crystals is evaluated on the basis of infrared spectroscopic methods. Multiplets of the totally symmetric C-O stretching mode are observed for the heme-bound ligand near 1933, 1944, and 1967 cm-1, correspondin...

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

authors： Makinen MW,Houtchens RA,Caughey WS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural immunocytochemical studies of the expression of major histocompatibility complex class I antigens in the placentas of inbred rats were performed using placentas derived from natural matings and from embryo transfers into females made pseudopregnant by mechanical stimulation. The studies utilized the WF...

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

authors： Kanbour-Shakir A,Zhang X,Rouleau A,Armstrong DT,Kunz HW,Macpherson TA,Gill TJ 3rd

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human beta-globin gene derived from an established human lymphoblast cell line was introduced into murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells by cell fusion. The globin genes in MEL cells are inducible by dimethyl sulfoxide (Me2SO); induction leads to the accumulation of mouse globin mRNA and hemoglobin. Globin mRNA was not...

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

authors： Pyati J,Kucherlapati RS,Skoultchi AI

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharides have been isolated, fractionated, and characterized from the nuclei of cultured B16 mouse melanoma cells grown in the presence of (3-H)-glucosamine and (35-S)sulfate. Digestion of the nuclei with DNase followed by Pronase gave a mixture of complex carbohydrates from which the mucopolysaccharides we...

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

authors： Bhavanandan VP,Davidson EA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-hairpin-helix DNA glycosylases are typically small proteins that initiate repair of DNA by excising damaged or mispaired bases. An invariant aspartic acid in the active site is involved in catalyzing the excision reaction. Replacement of this critical residue with an asparagine severely reduces catalytic activit...

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

authors： Choi Y,Harada JJ,Goldberg RB,Fischer RL

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine has been identified in the anterior pituitary gland and is secreted from cultured folliculostellate (FS) cells. To determine whether adenosine controls the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones in vitro, adenosine was incubated with anterior pituitaries. It stimulated prolactin (PRL) release at the lowest...

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

authors： Yu WH,Kimura M,Walczewska A,Porter JC,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA binding protein (TBP) and at least eight TBP-associated factors (TAFs). As TAFs are required for activated but not basal transcription, we have proposed that TAFs act as coactivators to mediate signals between activators and the basal transcription machinery. Here we report ...

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

authors： Klemm RD,Goodrich JA,Zhou S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the transforming region of simian sarcoma virus (SSV) has been determined by using molecularly cloned viral DNA. This region encompassed the 1.0-kilobase pair woolly monkey cell-derived insertion sequence, v-sis, and flanking simian sarcoma-associated viral (SSAV) sequences. A 675-nucleotide-long open ...

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

authors： Devare SG,Reddy EP,Robbins KC,Andersen PR,Tronick SR,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed and cloned, in bacteria, recombinant plasmids containing DNA complementary to mRNA coding for a pancreatic pre-prosomatostatin, a product of the cell-free translation of pancreatic islet mRNAs shown previously by immunoprecipitation to be a precursor of somatostatin. A clone containing a nearly ful...

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

authors： Goodman RH,Jacobs JW,Chin WW,Lund PK,Dee PC,Habener JF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical waveguides simultaneously transport light at different colors, forming the basis of fiber-optic telecommunication networks that shuttle data in dozens of spectrally separated channels. Here, we reimagine this wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) paradigm in a novel context--the differentiated detection and i...

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

authors： Ozcelik D,Parks JW,Wall TA,Stott MA,Cai H,Parks JW,Hawkins AR,Schmidt H

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of land by plants was a major transition on Earth, but the developmental and genetic innovations required for this transition remain unknown. Physiological studies and the fossil record strongly suggest that the ability of the first land plants to form symbiotic associations with beneficial fungi was one ...

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

authors： Delaux PM,Radhakrishnan GV,Jayaraman D,Cheema J,Malbreil M,Volkening JD,Sekimoto H,Nishiyama T,Melkonian M,Pokorny L,Rothfels CJ,Sederoff HW,Stevenson DW,Surek B,Zhang Y,Sussman MR,Dunand C,Morris RJ,Roux C,Wong GK

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. The two main virulence factors of C. difficile are the large toxins, TcdA and TcdB, which enter colonic epithelial cells and cause fluid secretion, inflammation, and cell death. Using a gene-trap insertional mutagenesis scre...

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

authors： LaFrance ME,Farrow MA,Chandrasekaran R,Sheng J,Rubin DH,Lacy DB

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The endosperm of cereal grains is one of the most valuable products of modern agriculture. Cereal endosperm development comprises different phases characterized by mitotic cell proliferation, endoreduplication, the accumulation of storage compounds, and programmed cell death. Although manipulation of these processes c...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Liu Y,Dante RA,Lizarraga LE,Nguyen HN,Brown SW,Klingler JP,Yu J,LaBrant E,Layton TM,Feldman M,Larkins BA

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenophosphate, an activated form of selenium that can serve as a selenium donor, is generated by the selD gene product, selenophosphate synthetase (SPS). Selenophosphate is required by several bacteria and by mammals for the specific synthesis of Secys-tRNA, the precursor of selenocysteine in selenoenzymes. Although...

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

authors： Ogasawara Y,Lacourciere GM,Ishii K,Stadtman TC

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin (Trx) is an intracellular redox protein with extracellular cytokine-like and chemokine-like activities. We show here that, although plasma Trx levels are unrelated to survival of HIV-infected individuals with CD4 cell counts above 200/microl blood, survival is significantly impaired (P = 0.003) when plasma...

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

authors： Nakamura H,De Rosa SC,Yodoi J,Holmgren A,Ghezzi P,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequestration, the adherence of infected erythrocytes containing late developmental stages of the parasite (trophozoites and schizonts) to the endothelium of capillaries and venules, is characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum infections. We have studied two host factors, the spleen and antibody, that influence sequest...

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

authors： David PH,Hommel M,Miller LH,Udeinya IJ,Oligino LD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An argument is presented in favor of the hypothesis that, bovine carboxypeptidases A and B fit by and large, the concept of homology on the levels of both amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure. Two peptide sequences from carboxypeptidases A and B, comprising 46 amino acid residues, display structural hom...

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

authors： Bradshaw RA,Neurath H,Walsh KA

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the p53 network has been intensively studied, genetic analyses long hinted at the existence of components that remained elusive. Recent studies have shown regulation of p53 at the mRNA level mediated via both the 5' and the 3' untranslated regions and affecting the stability and translation efficiency of the ...

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

authors： Devany E,Zhang X,Park JY,Tian B,Kleiman FE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the role of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) in a model of inflammation in vivo. Carrageenan administration to the subcutaneous rat air pouch induces a rapid inflammatory response characterized by high levels of prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes in the fluid exudate. The time course of the induction of CO...

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

authors： Masferrer JL,Zweifel BS,Manning PT,Hauser SD,Leahy KM,Smith WG,Isakson PC,Seibert K

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened about 1.4 million colonies of Escherichia coli K-12 for their ability to grow on nutrient agar at 30 degrees and 41 degrees. Among the 2266 temperature-sensitive mutants found, 110 were defective in DNA synthesis but not in protein synthesis at 41 degrees. Three of these dna mutations mapped at two pr...

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

authors： Sevastopoulos CG,Wehr CT,Glaser DA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Shigella to spread within the cytosol of infected epithelial cells and to infect adjacent cells is critical for the development of infection foci, which lead to mucosal abscesses. Shigella is a nonmotile microorganism that appears to utilize host cell microfilaments to generate intra- as well as interc...

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

authors： Bernardini ML,Mounier J,d'Hauteville H,Coquis-Rondon M,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00