The sigma factor sigma s affects antibiotic production and biological control activity of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5.

abstract：:The mitochondrial enzyme glutaminase C (GAC) catalyzes the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate plus ammonia, a key step in the metabolism of glutamine by cancer cells. Recently, we discovered a class of allosteric inhibitors of GAC that inhibit cancer cell growth without affecting their normal cellular counterparts, ...

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

authors： Stalnecker CA,Ulrich SM,Li Y,Ramachandran S,McBrayer MK,DeBerardinis RJ,Cerione RA,Erickson JW

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical data provide a baseline against which to judge the significance of recent ecological shifts and guide conservation strategies, especially for species decimated by pre-20th century harvesting. Northern fur seals (NFS; Callorhinus ursinus) are a common pinniped species in archaeological sites from southern Ca...

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

authors： Newsome SD,Etnier MA,Gifford-Gonzalez D,Phillips DL,van Tuinen M,Hadly EA,Costa DP,Kennett DJ,Guilderson TP,Koch PL

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated lentivirus strains that are related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops; AGM). Although immunologically related, these SIVagm are clearly distinct from other simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) isolates, including isolates from Macaca mulatta (S...

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

authors： Kraus G,Werner A,Baier M,Binniger D,Ferdinand FJ,Norley S,Kurth R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superior colliculus (SC) is part of a network of brain areas that directs saccadic eye movements, overtly shifting both gaze and attention from position to position, in space. Here, we seek direct evidence that the SC also contributes to the control of covert spatial attention, a process that focuses attention on ...

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

authors： Müller JR,Philiastides MG,Newsome WT

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the syk tyrosine kinase occurs almost immediately following engagement of many types of antigen receptors, including Fc receptors, but the mechanism through which syk is activated is currently unclear. Here we demonstrate that Fc receptor-induced syk activation occurs as the result of phosphorylation of ...

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

authors： El-Hillal O,Kurosaki T,Yamamura H,Kinet JP,Scharenberg AM

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:CD83 is commonly known as a specific marker for mature dendritic cells. It has been shown to be important for CD4(+) T-cell development in the thymus. However, its function in the peripheral immune system remains enigmatic. Here, we show that CD83 inhibits proliferation and production of IL-2 and IFN-γ by T cells, and...

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

authors： Chen L,Zhu Y,Zhang G,Gao C,Zhong W,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SsrA/SsrB is a primary two-component system that mediates the survival and replication of Salmonella within host cells. When activated, the SsrB response regulator directly promotes the transcription of multiple genes within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2). As expression of the SsrB protein is promoted by se...

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

authors： Choi J,Shin D,Yoon H,Kim J,Lee CR,Kim M,Seok YJ,Ryu S

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian form of the protozoan parasite Leishmania mexicana contains high activity of a cysteine proteinase (LmCPb) encoded on a tandem array of 19 genes (lmcpb). Homozygous null mutants for lmcpb have been produced by targeted gene disruption. All life-cycle stages of the mutant can be cultured in vitro, demonst...

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

authors： Mottram JC,Souza AE,Hutchison JE,Carter R,Frame MJ,Coombs GH

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a genome-wide approach, we asked how many transporter genes contribute to symbiotic phosphate uptake and analyzed their evolutionary conservation. Considering the sequenced rice genome at hand, only the Oryza sativa phosphate transporter (OsPT) gene OsPT11 was specifically induced during the arbuscular mycorrhiz...

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

authors： Paszkowski U,Kroken S,Roux C,Briggs SP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of Mg(2+) for numerous cellular activities, the mechanisms underlying its import and homeostasis are poorly understood. The CorA family is ubiquitous and is primarily responsible for Mg(2+) transport. However, the key questions-such as, the ion selectivity, the transport pathway, and the gating ...

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

authors： Guskov A,Nordin N,Reynaud A,Engman H,Lundbäck AK,Jong AJ,Cornvik T,Phua T,Eshaghi S

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside diphosphates to deoxynucleoside diphosphates. Crucial for rapidly dividing cells, RNR is a target for cancer therapy. In eukaryotes, RNR comprises a heterooligomer of alpha(2) and beta(2) subunits. Rnr1, the alpha subunit, contains regulatory and ca...

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

authors： Xu H,Faber C,Uchiki T,Racca J,Dealwis C

更新日期：2006-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of a human breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-435) in nude mice with a recombinant adenovirus containing the human interferon (IFN) consensus gene, IFN-con1 (ad5/IFN), resulted in tumor regression in 100% of the animals. Tumor regression occurred when virus was injected either within 24 hr of tumor cell implant...

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

authors： Zhang JF,Hu C,Geng Y,Selm J,Klein SB,Orazi A,Taylor MW

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive optical signal detection can often be confounded by the presence of a significant background, and, as such, predetection background suppression is substantively important for weak signal detection. In this paper, we present a novel optical structure design, termed surface-wave-enabled darkfield aperture (SWE...

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

authors： Zheng G,Cui X,Yang C

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of biological phenomena occurs in all types of systems, being manifested in many different reaction types, from allosteric behavior in proteins, through modulation in energy and information transfer, to the control of growth and differentiation in cells, organelles, and organisms. In this communication, a m...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Gunsalus IC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(V)1 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal and cardiac muscle. During the fight-or-flight response, epinephrine released by the adrenal medulla and norepinephrine released from sympathetic nerves increase muscle contractility by activation of the β-adrenergic receptor/cAMP-dependent protein k...

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

authors： Emrick MA,Sadilek M,Konoki K,Catterall WA

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding nuclear receptor signaling in vivo would be facilitated by an efficient methodology to determine where a nuclear receptor is active. Herein, we present a feedback-inducible expression system in transgenic mice to detect activated nuclear receptor effector proteins by using an inducible reporter gene. Wit...

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

authors： Mata De Urquiza A,Solomin L,Perlmann T

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase provides deoxynucleotides for nuclear and mitochondrial (mt) DNA replication and repair. The mammalian enzyme consists of a catalytic (R1) and a radical-generating (R2 or p53R2) subunit. During S-phase, a R1/R2 complex is the major provider of deoxynucleotides. p53R2 is induced by p53 after DN...

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

authors： Pontarin G,Fijolek A,Pizzo P,Ferraro P,Rampazzo C,Pozzan T,Thelander L,Reichard PA,Bianchi V

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the multiplication rate of blood stage malaria parasites is often positively correlated with the severity of the disease they cause. The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii has strains with marked differences in multiplication rate and pathogenicity in the blood. We have used genetic analysis...

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

authors： Pattaradilokrat S,Culleton RL,Cheesman SJ,Carter R

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of the controls on carbon storage and losses is essential for our capacity to predict and mitigate human impacts on the global carbon cycle. Plant litter decomposition is an important first step for carbon and nutrient turnover, and litter inputs and losses are essential in determining soil...

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

authors： Austin AT,Méndez MS,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence of rapid and reliable associative learning by the terrestrial mollusc, Limax maximus. Slugs were exposed once to a pairing of a highly attractive food odor (potato or carrot) and a saturated solution of quinidine sulfate, a bitter-tasting plant substance. In comparison with control slugs, the expos...

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

authors： Sahley C,Gelperin A,Rudy JW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper homeostasis is essential for bacterial pathogen fitness and infection, and has been the focus of a number of recent studies. In Salmonella, envelope protection against copper overload and macrophage survival depends on CueP, a major copper-binding protein in the periplasm. This protein is also required to deliv...

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

authors： Pezza A,Pontel LB,López C,Soncini FC

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal peptidoglycan amidase (N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase, EC 3.5.1.28) and phage CPL1 lysozyme degrade a common substrate (choline-containing pneumococcal cell walls); the former hydrolyzes the bond between muramic acid and alanine, whereas the latter breaks down the linkage between muramic acid and gluc...

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

authors： Díaz E,López R,García JL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-induced activation of T cells can be specifically inhibited by antigen analogs that have been termed T-cell receptor peptide antagonists. These antagonists appear to act by inducing the formation of nonstimulatory or partially stimulatory complexes between T-cell receptors and the major histocompatibility comp...

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

authors： Page DM,Alexander J,Snoke K,Appella E,Sette A,Hedrick SM,Grey HM

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetramer of the Mu transposase (MuA) pairs the recombination sites, cleaves the donor DNA, and joins these ends to a target DNA by strand transfer. Juxtaposition of the recombination sites is accomplished by the assembly of a stable synaptic complex of MuA protein and Mu DNA. This initial critical step is facilitate...

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

authors： Clubb RT,Mizuuchi M,Huth JR,Omichinski JG,Savilahti H,Mizuuchi K,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin, a 450-kDa multinodular glycoprotein with lectin-type activity, is found in human platelets, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, monocytes, and granular pneumocytes. Thrombospondin interacts with heparin, fibrinogen, fibronectin, collagen, histidine-rich glycoprotein, and plasminogen. R...

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

authors： Asch AS,Leung LL,Shapiro J,Nachman RL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-catalyzed oxidation results in loss of function and structural alteration of proteins. The oxidative process affects a variety of side amino acid groups, some of which are converted to carbonyl compounds. Spectrophotometric measurement of these moieties, after their reaction with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, is a...

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

authors： Requena JR,Chao CC,Levine RL,Stadtman ER

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology-directed repair (HDR) is a critical pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. Efficient HDR is thought to be crucial for maintenance of genomic integrity during organismal development and tumor suppression. However, most mammalian HDR studies have focused on transformed and...

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

authors： Kass EM,Helgadottir HR,Chen CC,Barbera M,Wang R,Westermark UK,Ludwig T,Moynahan ME,Jasin M

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The small-component origins of herpes simplex virus 1 DNA synthesis are transcribed late in infection by an RNA with heterogeneous initiation sites approximately 290-360 base pairs from the origins. We report that cellular proteins react with a labeled RNA probe representing the 5' terminus of a subset of this RNA but...

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

authors： Roller RJ,McCormick AL,Roizman B

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The convulsant agent methionine sulfoximine inhibits brain glutamine synthetase irreversibly and the inhibitor becomes bound to the active site of the enzyme as methionine sulfoximine phosphate. Only one of the four isomers of methionine sulfoximine, L-methionine-S-sulfoximine, inhibits glutamine synthetase. In the pr...

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

authors： Rowe WB,Meister A

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 is a newly recognized condition in children with recent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. These children and adult patients with severe hyperinflammation present with a constellation of symptoms that st...

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

authors： Cheng MH,Zhang S,Porritt RA,Noval Rivas M,Paschold L,Willscher E,Binder M,Arditi M,Bahar I

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00