Hyphal development in Neurospora crassa: involvement of a two-component histidine kinase.

abstract：:In considering the structure of the 30S subunit of the Escherichia coli ribosome, we have assumed that: (i) all or almost all the proteins within the 30S particle are compact and globular, as recently shown for the isolated proteins S4, S7, S8, S15, and S16 in solution [Serdyuk, I.N., Zaccai, G. & Spirin, A.S. (1978) ...

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

authors： Spirin AS,Serdyuk IN,Shpungin JL,Vasiliev VD

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of specific trans-acting transcription factors in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes has been greatly facilitated by genetic analysis of mutant strains deficient in such factors. We have developed such a system to study mammalian trans-acting factors that regulate the transcription of class II major histocompa...

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

authors： Calman AF,Peterlin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is specifically overexpressed in tumors of several cancers, including an aggressive form of breast cancer. It is therefore a target for both cancer diagnostics and therapy. The 58 amino acid residue Zher2 affibody molecule was previously engineered as a high-affinity...

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

authors： Eigenbrot C,Ultsch M,Dubnovitsky A,Abrahmsén L,Härd T

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is an activating ligand of the Met receptor tyrosine kinase, whose activity is essential for normal tissue development and organ regeneration but abnormal activation of Met has been implicated in growth, invasion, and metastasis of many types of solid tumors. HGF has two natural splice v...

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

authors： Tolbert WD,Daugherty-Holtrop J,Gherardi E,Vande Woude G,Xu HE

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous addition of [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]-enkephalin and morphiceptin at concentrations at which 98% of enkephalin (delta) and morphine (mu) receptors are occupied only partially inhibits the binding of [3H]diprenorphine to rat brain membranes. These conditions, furthermore, do not affect the curves for displaceme...

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

authors： Chang KJ,Hazum E,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytocannabinoids, such as the principal bioactive component of marijuana, delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, have been used for thousands of years for medical and recreational purposes. delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and endogenous cannabinoids (e.g., anandamide) initiate their agonist properties by stimulating the cannabinoi...

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

authors： Moore SA,Nomikos GG,Dickason-Chesterfield AK,Schober DA,Schaus JM,Ying BP,Xu YC,Phebus L,Simmons RM,Li D,Iyengar S,Felder CC

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Color and black and white line stimulation produce qualitatively and quantitatively different 2-deoxy[14C]glucose column patterns in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys. Microdensitometry of these stimulus-dependent columns reveals interlaminar density differences that serve as a signature for the stimulus condition...

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

authors： Crawford ML,Meharg LS,Johnston DA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from rhesus monkeys were screened by PCR for the presence of sequences homologous to known adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes 1-6. DNA spanning entire rep-cap ORFs from two novel AAVs, called AAV7 and AAV8, were isolated. Sequence comparisons among these and previously described AAVs revealed the greatest ...

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

authors： Gao GP,Alvira MR,Wang L,Calcedo R,Johnston J,Wilson JM

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Amorphous silicon oxycarbide polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs), synthesized from organometallic precursors, contain carbon- and silica-rich nanodomains, the latter with extensive substitution of carbon for oxygen, linking Si-centered SiO(x)C(4-x) tetrahedra. Calorimetric studies demonstrated these PDCs to be thermodynam...

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

authors： Sen S,Widgeon SJ,Navrotsky A,Mera G,Tavakoli A,Ionescu E,Riedel R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared a stable cell line expressing the glucagon receptor to characterize the effect of G(s)-coupled receptor stimulation on extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) activity. Glucagon treatment of the cell line caused a dose-dependent increase in cAMP concentration, activation of cAMP-dependen...

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

authors： Jiang Y,Cypess AM,Muse ED,Wu CR,Unson CG,Merrifield RB,Sakmar TP

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis has recently gained considerable attention for its potential role in the development of renewable energy sources. Optimizing photosynthetic organisms for biomass or biofuel production will therefore require a systems understanding of photosynthetic processes. We reconstructed a high-quality genome-scale...

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

authors： Nogales J,Gudmundsson S,Knight EM,Palsson BO,Thiele I

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In that salmonellae have been implicated in an unprecedented array of diseases, sequences found to be specific to this species are often thought to be involved in the virulence attributes not seen in other enteric bacteria. To identify the molecular, genetic, and phenotypic characteristics that differentiate bacterial...

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

authors： Groisman EA,Sturmoski MA,Solomon FR,Lin R,Ochman H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anticancer peptide PNC-27, which contains an HDM-2-binding domain corresponding to residues 12-26 of p53 and a transmembrane-penetrating domain, has been found to kill cancer cells (but not normal cells) by inducing membranolysis. We find that our previously determined 3D structure of the p53 residues of PNC-27 is...

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

authors： Sarafraz-Yazdi E,Bowne WB,Adler V,Sookraj KA,Wu V,Shteyler V,Patel H,Oxbury W,Brandt-Rauf P,Zenilman ME,Michl J,Pincus MR

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:WOPR-domain proteins are found throughout the fungal kingdom where they function as master regulators of cell morphology and pathogenesis. Genetic and biochemical experiments previously demonstrated that these proteins bind to specific DNA sequences and thereby regulate transcription. However, their primary sequence s...

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

authors： Lohse MB,Rosenberg OS,Cox JS,Stroud RM,Finer-Moore JS,Johnson AD

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergies are highly prevalent, and allergic responses can be triggered even in the absence of allergens due to Pavlovian conditioning to a specific cue. Here we show in humans suffering from allergic rhinitis that merely reencountering the environmental context in which an allergen was administered a week earlier is ...

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

authors： Besedovsky L,Benischke M,Fischer J,Yazdi AS,Born J

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cardiac contraction by neurotransmitters and hormones is often correlated with regulation of the L-type Ca2(+)-channel current (ICa) through the opposite actions of two second messengers, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. While cyclic AMP stimulation of ICa is mediated by the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent ...

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

authors： Méry PF,Lohmann SM,Walter U,Fischmeister R

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In insulin resistant states such as type 2 diabetes, there is a high demand on the β-cell to synthesize and secrete insulin, which challenges the ability of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to synthesize and fold nascent proteins. This creates a state of ER stress that triggers a coordinated program referred to as the u...

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

authors： Winnay JN,Dirice E,Liew CW,Kulkarni RN,Kahn CR

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) exhibits a remarkably robust and pantropic infectivity, mediated by its coat protein, VSV-G. Using this property, recombinant forms of VSV and VSV-G-pseudotyped viral vectors are being developed for gene therapy, vaccination, and viral oncolysis and are extensively used for gene transd...

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

authors： Finkelshtein D,Werman A,Novick D,Barak S,Rubinstein M

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondria are the major source of chronic oxidative stress, which has been implicated in the aging process. Along with other cellular changes, aged cells accumulate mutations in both their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and they contain increased amounts of oxidatively damaged mutagenic bases such as 7,8-di...

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

authors： Szczesny B,Hazra TK,Papaconstantinou J,Mitra S,Boldogh I

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociceptive information is modulated by a large number of endogenous signaling agents that change over the course of recovery from injury. This plasticity makes understanding regulatory mechanisms involved in descending inhibition of pain scientifically and clinically important. Neurons that synthesize the neuropeptid...

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

authors： Dimitrov EL,Kuo J,Kohno K,Usdin TB

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymin, a purified polypeptide isolated from bovine thymus, was shown to induce the expression of differentiation antigens characteristic of thymocytes [TL and Thy-1 (theta)] when incubated in vitro with mouse bone marrow or spleen cells. This induction occurred in 5-10% of the cells from bone marrow after a 2-hr incu...

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

authors： Basch RS,Goldstein G

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal oxygen depletion (hypoxia) in coastal bottom waters can lead to the release and persistence of free sulfide (euxinia), which is highly detrimental to marine life. Although coastal hypoxia is relatively common, reports of euxinia are less frequent, which suggests that certain environmental controls can delay t...

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

authors： Seitaj D,Schauer R,Sulu-Gambari F,Hidalgo-Martinez S,Malkin SY,Burdorf LD,Slomp CP,Meysman FJ

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to be synchronized by light-dark cycles is a fundamental property of circadian clocks. Although there are indications that circadian clocks are extremely light-sensitive and that they can be set by the low irradiances that occur at dawn and dusk, this has not been shown on the cellular level. Here, we demo...

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

authors： Bachleitner W,Kempinger L,Wülbeck C,Rieger D,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes (LTs) are signaling molecules derived from arachidonic acid that initiate and amplify innate and adaptive immunity. In turn, how their synthesis is organized on the nuclear envelope of myeloid cells in response to extracellular signals is not understood. We define the supramolecular architecture of LT syn...

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

authors： Mandal AK,Jones PB,Bair AM,Christmas P,Miller D,Yamin TT,Wisniewski D,Menke J,Evans JF,Hyman BT,Bacskai B,Chen M,Lee DM,Nikolic B,Soberman RJ

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining the fidelity of nascent peptide chain (NP) synthesis is essential for proteome integrity and cellular health. Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) serves to resolve stalled translation, during which untemplated Ala/Thr residues are added C terminally to stalled peptide, as shown during C-terminal Ala ...

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

authors： Li S,Wu Z,Tantray I,Li Y,Chen S,Dong J,Glynn S,Vogel H,Snyder M,Lu B

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The folate-binding protein of rat liver mitochondria [Zamierowski, M. & Wagner, C. (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 933-938] has been purified to homogeneity by a combination of gel filtration, DEAE-cellulose, and affinity chromatography. This protein was assayed by its ability to bind tetrahydro[3H]folic acid in vitro. the...

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

authors： Wittwer AJ,Wagner C

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the patterns of positive and negative selection of thymocytes expressing the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) from the D10.G4.1 T cell clone. This TCR confers reactivity to several non-self MHC class II alleles with a remarkably broad range of avidities. Therefore, negative selection can be studied when ...

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

authors： Sant'Angelo DB,Janeway CA Jr

更新日期：2002-05-14 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