Purified inositol hexakisphosphate kinase is an ATP synthase: diphosphoinositol pentakisphosphate as a high-energy phosphate donor.

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other guanine nucleotide-exchange proteins (GEPs) that activate ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPases, brefeldin A-inhibited GEP2, BIG2, contains an approximately 200-aa Sec7 domain that is responsible for this catalytic activity and its inhibition by brefeldin A. The Sec7 domain is located near the center of the...

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

authors： Li H,Adamik R,Pacheco-Rodriguez G,Moss J,Vaughan M

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypothetical or only pr...

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

authors： Helbert W,Poulet L,Drouillard S,Mathieu S,Loiodice M,Couturier M,Lombard V,Terrapon N,Turchetto J,Vincentelli R,Henrissat B

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no theoretical limit in using molecular networks to harvest diffusive sun photons on large areas and funnel them onto much smaller areas of highly efficient but also precious energy-converting materials. The most effective concept reported so far is based on a pool of randomly oriented, light-harvesting donor...

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

authors： Willich MM,Wegener L,Vornweg J,Hohgardt M,Nowak J,Wolter M,Jacob CR,Walla PJ

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A shuttle vector plasmid that contains sequences from simian virus 40, pBR322, and a bacterial marker gene, galactokinase, has been constructed. After replication in cells permissive for virus progeny, plasmid DNA was introduced into a galactokinase-deficient bacterial strain and the relative frequency of colonies wit...

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

authors： Razzaque A,Mizusawa H,Seidman MM

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of therapeutic recombinant proteins in medicine has led to a variety of tactics to increase their circulation time or to enable routes of administration other than injection. One clinically successful tactic to improve both protein circulation and delivery is to fuse the Fc domain of IgG to therapeutic ...

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

authors： Sockolosky JT,Tiffany MR,Szoka FC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar transport across tonoplasts is essential for maintaining cellular sugar homeostasis and metabolic balance in plant cells. It remains unclear, however, how this process is regulated among different classes of sugar transporters. Here, we identified a tonoplast H+/glucose symporter, MdERDL6-1, from apples, which w...

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

authors： Zhu L,Li B,Wu L,Li H,Wang Z,Wei X,Ma B,Zhang Y,Ma F,Ruan YL,Li M

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed a very large set of molecular interactions that had been derived automatically from biological texts. We found that published statements, regardless of their verity, tend to interfere with interpretation of the subsequent experiments and, therefore, can act as scientific "microparadigms," similar to domina...

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

authors： Rzhetsky A,Iossifov I,Loh JM,White KP

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The replisome, the multiprotein system responsible for genome duplication, is a highly dynamic complex displaying a large number of different enzyme activities. Recently, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae minimal replication reaction has been successfully reconstituted in vitro. This provided an opportunity to uncover the ...

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

authors： Lewis JS,Spenkelink LM,Schauer GD,Hill FR,Georgescu RE,O'Donnell ME,van Oijen AM

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the conformational landscape of the proteinogenic amino acid serine [CH(2)OH CH(NH(2)) COOH] in the gas phase. Solid serine was vaporized by laser ablation, expanded in a supersonic jet, and characterized by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. In the isolation conditions of the jet there have been di...

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

authors： Blanco S,Sanz ME,López JC,Alonso JL

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Life in environments devoid of photosynthesis, such as on early Earth or in contemporary dark subsurface ecosystems, is supported by chemical energy. How, when, and where chemical nutrients released from the geosphere fuel chemosynthetic biospheres is fundamental to understanding the distribution and diversity of life...

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

authors： Dunham EC,Dore JE,Skidmore ML,Roden EE,Boyd ES

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the size and location of nephrin, the first protein to be identified at the glomerular podocyte slit diaphragm. In Western blots, nephrin antibodies generated against the two terminal extracellular Ig domains of recombinant human nephrin recognized a 180-kDa protein in lysates of human glomeruli and a...

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

authors： Ruotsalainen V,Ljungberg P,Wartiovaara J,Lenkkeri U,Kestilä M,Jalanko H,Holmberg C,Tryggvason K

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The patch-clamp technique allows currents to be recorded through single ion channels in patches of cell membrane in the tips of glass pipettes. When recording, voltage is typically applied across the membrane patch to drive ions through open channels and to probe the voltage-sensitivity of channel activity. In this st...

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

authors： Gil Z,Silberberg SD,Magleby KL

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To find the native conformation (fold), proteins sample a subspace that is typically hundreds of orders of magnitude smaller than their full conformational space. Whether such fast folding is intrinsic or the result of natural selection, and what is the longest foldable protein, are open questions. Here, we derive the...

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

authors： Lin MM,Zewail AH

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewis base catalyzed bromo- and iodolactonization reactions have been developed and the effects of catalyst structure on rate and cyclization selectivity have been systematically explored. The effects of substrate structure on halolactonization reactions and the interaction of those effects with the effects of catalys...

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

authors： Denmark SE,Burk MT

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding whether a set of objects are the same or different is a cornerstone of perception and cognition. Surprisingly, no principled quantitative model of sameness judgment exists. We tested whether human sameness judgment under sensory noise can be modeled as a form of probabilistically optimal inference. An optimal...

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

authors： van den Berg R,Vogel M,Josic K,Ma WJ

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protecting hydrologic connectivity of freshwater ecosystems is fundamental to ensuring species persistence, ecosystem integrity, and human well-being. More frequent and severe droughts associated with climate change are poised to significantly alter flow intermittence patterns and hydrologic connectivity in dryland st...

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

authors： Jaeger KL,Olden JD,Pelland NA

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In movies or on TV, a wheel can seem to rotate backwards, due to the temporal subsampling inherent in the recording process (the wagon wheel illusion). Surprisingly, this effect has also been reported under continuous light, suggesting that our visual system, too, might sample motion in discrete "snapshots." Recently,...

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

authors： VanRullen R,Reddy L,Koch C

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increasing interest in cyanobacteria because these photosynthetic organisms convert solar energy into biomass and because of their potential for the production of biofuels. However, the exploitation of cyanobacteria for bioengineering requires knowledge of their transcriptional organization. Using di...

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

authors： Mitschke J,Georg J,Scholz I,Sharma CM,Dienst D,Bantscheff J,Voss B,Steglich C,Wilde A,Vogel J,Hess WR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast fatty acid synthetase consists of two multifunctional proteins, alpha and beta, which are arranged in a complex of alpha(6)beta(6). Electron microscopic studies of this complex led to a model for the synthetase as an ovate structure consisting of an equatorial plate-like structure to which six arches are equally...

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

authors： Stoops JK,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors and dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca2+ channels are preferentially localized in the transverse tubular membranes. Starting with an antigenic membrane fraction enriched in rabbit muscle transverse tubules (T-tubules), several monoclonal antibodies were produced by a fusion of s...

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

authors： Malouf NN,Coronado R,McMahon D,Meissner G,Gillespie GY

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheal antimicrobial peptide (TAP) is a member of the beta-defensin family of antibiotic peptides found in the tracheal mucosa of the cow. TAP gene expression in the bovine airway is inducible by lipopolysaccharide and inflammatory mediators, suggesting that it functions to protect the upper airway from infection. L...

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

authors： Yarus S,Rosen JM,Cole AM,Diamond G

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the complex between the heme- and FMN-binding domains of bacterial cytochrome P450BM-3, a prototype for the complex between eukaryotic microsomal P450s and P450 reductase, has been determined at 2.03 A resolution. The flavodoxin-like flavin domain is positioned at the proximal face of the heme...

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

authors： Sevrioukova IF,Li H,Zhang H,Peterson JA,Poulos TL

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), which degrades transcripts harboring a premature termination codon (PTC), depends on the helicase up-frameshift 1 (UPF1). However, mRNAs that are not NMD targets also bind UPF1. What governs the timing, position, and function of UPF1 binding to mRNAs remains unclear. We provide evid...

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

authors： Kurosaki T,Maquat LE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In epithelial cells, sorting of membrane proteins to the basolateral surface depends on the presence of a basolateral sorting signal (BaSS) in their cytoplasmic domain. Amyloid precursor protein (APP), a basolateral protein implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, contains a tyrosine-based BaSS, and muta...

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

authors： Zheng P,Eastman J,Vande Pol S,Pimplikar SW

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electrophoretic transport of single-stranded RNA molecules through 1.5-nm-wide pores of carbon nanotube membranes by molecular dynamics simulations. From approximately 170 individual RNA translocation events analyzed at full atomic resolution of solvent, membrane, and RNA, we identify key factors in membr...

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

authors： Yeh IC,Hummer G

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiology is increasingly focused on identifying coincident activity among neurons. Strong inferences about neural computation are made from the results of such studies, so it is important that these results be accurate. However, the preliminary step in the analysis of such data, the assignment of spike waveform...

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

authors： Ventura V,Gerkin RC

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of p53 in regulating diverse cellular processes dictates that it must respond to multiple signaling mechanisms, thus coordinating the response to various "stress conditions." Genotoxic stress has served as a paradigm to dissect the transactivation-dependent branch of the pathway by which p53 can induce...

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

authors： Ruaro EM,Collavin L,Del Sal G,Haffner R,Oren M,Levine AJ,Schneider C

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00