Molecular basis for the exquisite sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid.

abstract：:Active matter, both synthetic and biological, demonstrates complex spatiotemporal self-organization and the emergence of collective behavior. A coherent rotational motion, the vortex phase, is of great interest because of its ability to orchestrate well-organized motion of self-propelled particles over large distances...

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

authors： Han K,Kokot G,Tovkach O,Glatz A,Aranson IS,Snezhko A

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant techniques allow one to engineer an antibody molecule and, in this way, manipulate its properties and functions. We engineered a chimeric human/mouse antibody to the tumor-associated antigen ganglioside GD2, with the aim of decreasing its serum half-life, maintaining its full antigen-binding capacity, and ...

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

authors： Mueller BM,Reisfeld RA,Gillies SD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (antihemophilic factor) is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates in the blood clotting cascade. The recent cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA encoding human factor VIII revealed an obvious domain structure for the protein, which can be represented as A1-A2-B-A3-C1-C2. We now ...

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

authors： Toole JJ,Pittman DD,Orr EC,Murtha P,Wasley LC,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that two regular tetrahedra can be combined with a single regular octahedron to tile (complete fill) three-dimensional Euclidean space . This structure was called the "octet truss" by Buckminster Fuller. It was believed that such a tiling, which is the Delaunay tessellation of the face-centered cubic ...

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

authors： Conway JH,Jiao Y,Torquato S

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The best-studied cytoskeletal system is the inner surface of the erythrocyte membrane, which provides an erythrocyte with the structural support needed to be stable yet flexible as it passes through the circulation. Current structural models predict that the spectrin-actin-based cytoskeletal network is attached to the...

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

authors： Stefanovic M,Markham NO,Parry EM,Garrett-Beal LJ,Cline AP,Gallagher PG,Low PS,Bodine DM

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs), which mediate chemo-electric signal transduction in animals, have been recently found in bacteria. Despite clear sequence and 3D structure homology, the phylogenetic distance between prokaryotic and eukaryotic homologs suggests significant structural divergences, especial...

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

authors： Duret G,Van Renterghem C,Weng Y,Prevost M,Moraga-Cid G,Huon C,Sonner JM,Corringer PJ

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The sparking of cut grape hemispheres in a household microwave oven has been a poorly explained Internet parlor trick for over two decades. By expanding this phenomenon to whole spherical dimers of various grape-sized fruit and hydrogel water beads, we demonstrate that the formation of plasma is due to electromagnetic...

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

authors： Khattak HK,Bianucci P,Slepkov AD

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by Plasmodium sp, results in almost one million deaths and over 200 million new infections annually. The World Health Organization has recommended that artemisinin-based combination therapies be used for treatment of malaria. Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from the plant Artemisia annu...

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

authors： Westfall PJ,Pitera DJ,Lenihan JR,Eng D,Woolard FX,Regentin R,Horning T,Tsuruta H,Melis DJ,Owens A,Fickes S,Diola D,Benjamin KR,Keasling JD,Leavell MD,McPhee DJ,Renninger NS,Newman JD,Paddon CJ

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is a major greenhouse gas linked to global warming; however, patterns of in situ methane oxidation by methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs), nature's main biological mechanism for methane suppression, are often inconsistent with laboratory predictions. For example, one would expect a strong relationship b...

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

authors： Knapp CW,Fowle DA,Kulczycki E,Roberts JA,Graham DW

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrieval of recently acquired declarative memories depends on the hippocampus, but with time, retrieval is increasingly sustainable by neocortical representations alone. This process has been conceptualized as system-level consolidation. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we assessed over the course of thre...

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

authors： Takashima A,Petersson KM,Rutters F,Tendolkar I,Jensen O,Zwarts MJ,McNaughton BL,Fernández G

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin (NT) brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays an essential role in the formation of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we address whether this modulation by BDNF requires its continuous presence, or whether a local increase in BDNF is necessary during a specific time period of LTP initiation. U...

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

authors： Gärtner A,Staiger V

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus flagellum is formed at a specific time in the cell cycle and its assembly requires the ordered expression of a large number of genes. These genes are controlled in a positive trans-acting hierarchy that reflects the order of assembly of the flagellum. Using plasmids carrying transcriptional ...

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

authors： Xu H,Dingwall A,Shapiro L

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared folding properties of designed protein Top7 and natural protein S6 by using coarse-grained chain models with a mainly native-centric construct that accounted also for nonnative hydrophobic interactions and desolvation barriers. Top7 and S6 have similar secondary structure elements and are approximately equ...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Chan HS

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The type of cytokines produced during T cell responses determines susceptibility or resistance to many pathogens and influences the development of autoimmunity and allergy. To define the role of individual accessory molecules in cytokine production during primary immune responses, Drosophila cell lines expressing muri...

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

authors： Luksch CR,Winqvist O,Ozaki ME,Karlsson L,Jackson MR,Peterson PA,Webb SR

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A duplex 21 nucleotide small interfering RNA (siRNA) against human Keap1 is described that represents a unique class of cancer chemopreventive agent. This siRNA can knockdown Keap1 mRNA and thereby relieve negative regulation of nuclear factor erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-mediated gene expression. The siRNA...

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

authors： Devling TW,Lindsay CD,McLellan LI,McMahon M,Hayes JD

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsiae are responsible for some of the most devastating human infections. A high infectivity and severe illness after inhalation make some rickettsiae bioterrorism threats. We report that deletion of the exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac) gene, Epac1, in mice protects them from an ordinarily letha...

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

authors： Gong B,Shelite T,Mei FC,Ha T,Hu Y,Xu G,Chang Q,Wakamiya M,Ksiazek TG,Boor PJ,Bouyer DH,Popov VL,Chen J,Walker DH,Cheng X

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall structure of the transition-state and intermediate ensembles observed experimentally for dihydrofolate reductase and interleukin-1beta can be obtained by using simplified models that have almost no energetic frustration. The predictive power of these models suggests that, even for these very large proteins...

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

authors： Clementi C,Jennings PA,Onuchic JN

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured Hodgkin disease (HD) cells with neuraminidase results in decreased reactivity of monoclonal antibody VIM-D5 with its antigen, the X hapten, a fucosyl-N-acetyllactosamine. The other feature characteristic of HD cells is the expression of high levels of ectosialyltransferase activity. We present ev...

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

authors： Paietta E,Stockert RJ,Morell AG,Diehl V,Wiernik PH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of three anti-inflammatory drugs, which interfere with arachidonic acid transformation by three different enzymes, have been compared by using a simple model of tissue damage and foreign body rejection. In groups of control rats, subcutaneously implanted polyester sponges were rejected after a mean of 12 d...

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

authors： Higgs GA,Mugridge KG,Moncada S,Vane JR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-myc protooncogene has been implicated in control of growth and differentiation of mammalian cells. For instance, growth arrest is often preceded by reduction in c-myc mRNA and gene transcription. To elucidate the mechanisms of control of c-myc gene transcription, we have begun to characterize the interaction of ...

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

authors： Duyao MP,Buckler AJ,Sonenshein GE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are aneuploid and have chromosomal instability, which contrasts to the inability of human cells to normally tolerate aneuploidy. Noting that aneuploidy in human breast cancer correlates with increased expression levels of the Mps1 checkpoint gene, we investigated whether these high levels of Mps1 co...

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

authors： Daniel J,Coulter J,Woo JH,Wilsbach K,Gabrielson E

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian central nervous system is mediated predominantly by glutamate receptor (GluR) channels of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate/kainate (AMPA/KA) receptor type. A major improvement in our understanding of glutamatergic synaptic transmission has been ...

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

authors： Keller BU,Blaschke M,Rivosecchi R,Hollmann M,Heinemann SF,Konnerth A

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A key element for the development of suitable anti-cancer drugs is the identification of cancer-specific enzymatic activities that can be therapeutically targeted. Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue transformation protein 1 (MALT1) is a proto-oncogene that contributes to tumorigenesis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (...

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

authors： Hailfinger S,Lenz G,Ngo V,Posvitz-Fejfar A,Rebeaud F,Guzzardi M,Penas EM,Dierlamm J,Chan WC,Staudt LM,Thome M

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected a proteolytic mechanism in chloroplasts that selectively and rapidly degrades the imported small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase when pools of the chloroplast-synthesized large subunit are depleted. This degradation system is constitutively present and appears to be responsible for pr...

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

authors： Schmidt GW,Mishkind ML

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme rates are usually considered to be dependent on local properties of the molecules involved in reactions. However, for large molecules, distant constraints might affect reaction rates by affecting dynamics leading to transition states. In single-molecule experiments we have found that enzymes that relax DNA tors...

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

authors： Bai H,Kath JE,Zörgiebel FM,Sun M,Ghosh P,Hatfull GF,Grindley ND,Marko JF

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A patterning method termed "RIPPLE" (reactive interface patterning promoted by lithographic electrochemistry) is applied to the fabrication of arrays of dielectric and metallic optical elements. This method uses cyclic voltammetry to impart patterns onto the working electrode of a standard three-electrode electrochemi...

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

authors： Kempa TJ,Bediako DK,Kim SK,Park HG,Nocera DG

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenoviruses containing the canine factor IX (FIX) cDNA were directly introduced in the hind leg muscle of mice. We show that (i) in nude mice, high expression (1-5 micrograms/ml in plasma) of FIX protein can be detected for > 300 days; (ii) in contrast, expression of FIX protein was transient (7-10 days) ...

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

authors： Dai Y,Schwarz EM,Gu D,Zhang WW,Sarvetnick N,Verma IM

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure of the population of microjunctions forming the frictional interface between two solids is central to fields ranging from biomechanics to seismology. This failure is mediated by the propagation along the interface of various types of rupture fronts, covering a wide range of velocities. Among them are the s...

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

authors： Trømborg JK,Sveinsson HA,Scheibert J,Thøgersen K,Amundsen DS,Malthe-Sørenssen A

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the plant Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is synthesized in the cytoplasm as a preprotein and is subsequently translocated to the mitochondrial matrix with corresponding cleavage of an NH2-terminal leader sequence. To determine whether the plant enzyme could replace the endogenous ...

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

authors： Bowler C,Alliotte T,Van den Bulcke M,Bauw G,Vandekerckhove J,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00