Template-nucleated alanine-lysine helices are stabilized by position-dependent interactions between the lysine side chain and the helix barrel.

abstract：:Fluctuations in resting-state functional connectivity occur but their behavioral significance remains unclear, largely because correlating behavioral state with dynamic functional connectivity states (DCS) engages probes that disrupt the very behavioral state we seek to observe. Observing spontaneous eyelid closures f...

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

authors： Wang C,Ong JL,Patanaik A,Zhou J,Chee MW

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect molting and metamorphosis are induced by steroid hormones named ecdysteroids, whose production is regulated by various neuropeptides. We cloned the gene and analyzed the expression of the prothoracicostatic peptide, a unique neuropeptide shown to suppress the production of ecdysteroids in the prothoracic gland ...

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

authors： Yamanaka N,Hua YJ,Roller L,Spalovská-Valachová I,Mizoguchi A,Kataoka H,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Bradyrhizobium species nodulate the leguminous plant Aeschynomene indica in a type III secretion system-dependent manner, independently of Nod factors. To date, the underlying molecular determinants involved in this symbiotic process remain unknown. To identify the rhizobial effectors involved in nodulation, w...

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

authors： Teulet A,Busset N,Fardoux J,Gully D,Chaintreuil C,Cartieaux F,Jauneau A,Comorge V,Okazaki S,Kaneko T,Gressent F,Nouwen N,Arrighi JF,Koebnik R,Mergaert P,Deslandes L,Giraud E

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies directed against a synthetic peptide (src-c) containing the six carboxyl-terminal amino acids of p60src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, recognize p60src. However, when used at sufficiently high concentrations they also react with a number of constituents of untransformed cells. These reacti...

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

authors： Nigg EA,Walter G,Singer SJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparan sulfate regulates diverse cell-surface signaling events, and its roles in the development of the nervous system recently have been increasingly uncovered by studies using genetic models carrying mutations of genes encoding enzymes for its synthesis. On the other hand, the role of heparan sulfate in the physiol...

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

authors： Irie F,Badie-Mahdavi H,Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetherin/BST2 is a type-II membrane protein that inhibits the release of a range of enveloped viruses, including HIV-1. Here we report three crystal structures of human tetherin, including the full-length ectodomain, a triple cysteine mutant and an ectodomain truncation. These structures show that tetherin forms a con...

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

authors： Yang H,Wang J,Jia X,McNatt MW,Zang T,Pan B,Meng W,Wang HW,Bieniasz PD,Xiong Y

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) and myostatin (MSTN) are closely related transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family members, but their biological functions are quite distinct. While MSTN has been widely shown to inhibit muscle growth, GDF11 regulates skeletal patterning and organ development during embry...

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

authors： Suh J,Kim NK,Lee SH,Eom JH,Lee Y,Park JC,Woo KM,Baek JH,Kim JE,Ryoo HM,Lee SJ,Lee YS

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of thermophilic xylose isomerase from Clostridium thermosulfurogenes was examined by using predictions from the known crystal structure of the Arthrobacter enzyme and site-directed mutagenesis of the thermophile xylA gene. The orientation of glucose as a substrate in the active site of the th...

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

authors： Meng M,Lee C,Bagdasarian M,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the earliest and most important stages during tumorigenesis is the activation of the angiogenic process, an event that is termed the "switch to the angiogenic phenotype." We have developed an in vivo system that can reliably recapitulate the stages in tumor development that represent this transition. Using this ...

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

authors： Fang J,Shing Y,Wiederschain D,Yan L,Butterfield C,Jackson G,Harper J,Tamvakopoulos G,Moses MA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia (PHP-Ia) results from the loss of one allele of G(salpha), causing resistance to parathyroid hormone and other hormones that transduce signals via G(s). Most G(salpha)mutations cause the complete loss of protein expression, but some cause loss of function only, and these have provided ...

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

authors： Makita N,Sato J,Rondard P,Fukamachi H,Yuasa Y,Aldred MA,Hashimoto M,Fujita T,Iiri T

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We study atomic models of the thermodynamics of the structural transition of peptides that form alpha-helices. The effect of sequence variation on alpha-helix formation for alanine-rich peptides, Ac-Ala21-methyl amide (A21) and Ac-A5 (AAARA)3A-methyl amide (Fs peptide), is investigated by atomic simulation studies of ...

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

authors： García AE,Sanbonmatsu KY

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrate rigidity affects many physiological processes through mechanochemical signals from focal adhesion (FA) complexes that subsequently modulate gene expression. We find that shuttling of the LIM domain (domain discovered in the proteins, Lin11, Isl-1, and Mec-3) protein four-and-a-half LIM domains 2 (FHL2) betwe...

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

authors： Nakazawa N,Sathe AR,Shivashankar GV,Sheetz MP

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox has played an unparalleled role in human history and remains a significant potential threat to public health. Despite the historical significance of this disease, we know little about the underlying pathophysiology or the virulence mechanisms of the causative agent, variola virus. To improve our understanding...

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

authors： Rubins KH,Hensley LE,Jahrling PB,Whitney AR,Geisbert TW,Huggins JW,Owen A,Leduc JW,Brown PO,Relman DA

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of marine sponge cells (Microciona prolifera) resembles stimulus-response coupling of higher organisms in which activation of protein kinase C and movements of intracellular Ca provide twin signals. We now report that activators of protein kinase C (phorbol esters) and ionomycin act synergistically to aggr...

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

authors： Weissmann G,Azaroff L,Davidson S,Dunham P

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus is the prototypic orthopoxvirus and was the vaccine used to eradicate smallpox, yet the expression profiles of many of its genes remain unknown. Using a genome tiling array approach, we simultaneously measured the expression levels of all 223 annotated vaccinia virus genes during infection and determine...

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

authors： Assarsson E,Greenbaum JA,Sundström M,Schaffer L,Hammond JA,Pasquetto V,Oseroff C,Hendrickson RC,Lefkowitz EJ,Tscharke DC,Sidney J,Grey HM,Head SR,Peters B,Sette A

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 (5-HT3) receptor mediates the fast excitatory neurotransmission of serotonin and is known to mediate the nausea/emesis induced by radio/chemotherapy and anesthetics. A polymorphism encoding the variation Y129S in the 5-HT3B subunit exists in high frequency in the general population and has be...

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

authors： Krzywkowski K,Davies PA,Feinberg-Zadek PL,Bräuner-Osborne H,Jensen AA

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unqualified, the statement that approximately 1.3% of the approximately 10,000 presently known bird species have become extinct since A.D. 1500 yields an estimate of approximately 26 extinctions per million species per year (or 26 E/MSY). This is higher than the benchmark rate of approximately 1 E/MSY before human imp...

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

authors： Pimm S,Raven P,Peterson A,Sekercioglu CH,Ehrlich PR

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense RNA to the 27/32-kDa rat liver gap junction (GJ) protein was used to explore the role of GJs in preimplantation embryos. When all blastomeres of two- and four-cell embryos were injected with GJ antisense RNA, the percentage of embryos compacted at 60 hr of development was reduced to less than 20%, while 90% ...

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

authors： Bevilacqua A,Loch-Caruso R,Erickson RP

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental property of ecosystems is a tradeoff between the number and size of habitats: as the number of habitats within a fixed area increases, the average area per habitat must decrease. This tradeoff is termed the "area-heterogeneity tradeoff." Theoretical models suggest that the reduction in habitat sizes unde...

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

authors： Ben-Hur E,Kadmon R

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement. We use behavioral experiments to generate incentive-compatible measures of individuals' tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement and incorporate these experiments in a two-stage study. In the first ...

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

authors： Barr A,Miller L,Ubeda P

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone for the iron-responsive element (IRE)-binding protein (IRE-BP) has been transfected and expressed in mouse fibroblasts. The IRE-BP gene product binds IREs with high affinity and specificity. Amino acid alignments reveal that the IRE-BP is 30% identical to mitochondrial aconitase. The 18 active site residues of...

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

authors： Kaptain S,Downey WE,Tang C,Philpott C,Haile D,Orloff DG,Harford JB,Rouault TA,Klausner RD

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Active opioid binding proteins were solubilized from rat brain membranes in high yield with sodium deoxycholate in the presence of NaCl. Purification of opioid binding proteins was accomplished by opioid antagonist affinity chromatography. Chromatography using the delta-opioid antagonist N,N-diallyl-Tyr-D-Leu-Gly-Tyr-...

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

authors： Loukas S,Mercouris M,Panetsos F,Zioudrou C

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:For reasons that are unclear the production of embryonic stem cells from ungulates has proved elusive. Here, we describe induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) derived from porcine fetal fibroblasts by lentiviral transduction of 4 human (h) genes, hOCT4, hSOX2, hKLF4, and hc-MYC, the combination commonly used to create...

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

authors： Ezashi T,Telugu BP,Alexenko AP,Sachdev S,Sinha S,Roberts RM

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the group-specific antigen (Gag) polyprotein by HIV-1 protease represents the critical first step in the conversion of immature noninfectious viral particles to mature infectious virions. Selective pressure exerted by HIV-1 protease inhibitors, a mainstay of current anti-HIV-1 therapies, results in the acc...

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

authors： Deshmukh L,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Clore GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, how its activation in individual tissues contributes to TZD's therapeutic action remains controversial. As TZDs are known to have receptor-independent effects, we s...

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

authors： Sugii S,Olson P,Sears DD,Saberi M,Atkins AR,Barish GD,Hong SH,Castro GL,Yin YQ,Nelson MC,Hsiao G,Greaves DR,Downes M,Yu RT,Olefsky JM,Evans RM

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus forms biofilms on indwelling medical devices using a variety of cell-surface proteins. There is growing evidence that specific homophilic interactions between these proteins represent an important mechanism of cell accumulation during biofilm formation, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are...

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

authors： Feuillie C,Formosa-Dague C,Hays LM,Vervaeck O,Derclaye S,Brennan MP,Foster TJ,Geoghegan JA,Dufrêne YF

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between products of the 15-lipoxygenase cascade and human natural killer (NK) cell activity have been studied. Addition of human leukocyte-derived (14R,15S)-14,15-dihydroxy-5Z,8Z,10E,12E-ic osatetraenoic acid (14,15-DiHETE) to the NK cytotoxicity assay against K562 target cells resulted in inhibition ...

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

authors： Ramstedt U,Serhan CN,Lundberg U,Wigzell H,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic. This sheds light on both special purpose structures and "domestic" settlement, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary comm...

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

authors： Finlayson B,Mithen SJ,Najjar M,Smith S,Maričević D,Pankhurst N,Yeomans L

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two instances of selective accumulation of herpes simplex 1 RNA transcripts in different compartments of infected HEp-2 cells. In the first, transcripts derived from about 50% of the viral DNA accumulated in the nuclei of cells 8 hr after infection. However, only 40-42% of the DNA was represented in transcri...

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

authors： Kozak M,Roizman B

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP (cGMP) is an important second messenger in eukaryotes. It is formed by guanylyl cyclases (GCs), members of the nucleotidyl cyclases class III, which also comprises adenylyl cyclases (ACs) from most organisms. To date, no structures of eukaryotic GCs are available, and all bacterial class III proteins were f...

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

authors： Rauch A,Leipelt M,Russwurm M,Steegborn C

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00