Length suppression in histone messenger RNA 3'-end maturation: processing defects of insertion mutant premessenger RNAs can be compensated by insertions into the U7 small nuclear RNA.

abstract：:Glycosyl phosphates are shown to be activated to stereospecific nucleophilic substitution reactions by precisely tailored bis-thiourea catalysts. Enhanced reactivity and scope is observed with phosphate relative to chloride leaving groups. Stronger binding (Km) to the H-bond donor and enhanced reactivity of the comple...

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

authors： Levi SM,Li Q,Rötheli AR,Jacobsen EN

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The 26S proteasome, a molecular machine responsible for regulated protein degradation, consists of a proteolytic core particle (20S CP) associated with 19S regulatory particles (19S RPs) subdivided into base and lid subcomplexes. The assembly of 19S RP base subcomplex is mediated by multiple dedicated chaperones. Amon...

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

authors： Barrault MB,Richet N,Godard C,Murciano B,Le Tallec B,Rousseau E,Legrand P,Charbonnier JB,Le Du MH,Guérois R,Ochsenbein F,Peyroche A

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple binding of ligands to a protein, the binding sites may seem to behave as if they are partitioned equally between two modalities. This paper analyzes three different molecular situations in which two actual assemblages appear: (i) two classes of sites exist at the outset in the ligand-free macromolecule; (i...

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

authors： Klotz IM,Hunston DL

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental scheme for sequencing large DNA molecules is proposed where DNA strands are replicated, with all nucleotides of a given kind marked with radioactive 32P. The marked strands are affixed to an appropriate substrate and are kept until most 32P atoms decay. The local damage caused by the decay is expected ...

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

authors： Kelson I,Nussinov S

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Computers are organized into hardware and software. Using a theoretical approach to identify patterns in gene expression in a variety of species, organs, and cell types, we found that biological systems similarly are comprised of a relatively unchanging hardware-like gene pattern. Orthogonal patterns of software-like ...

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

authors： Kravchenko-Balasha N,Levitzki A,Goldstein A,Rotter V,Gross A,Remacle F,Levine RD

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of members of the p53 family of transcription factors (p53, p63, and p73) is essential for their distinct functions in cell-cycle control and development. To elucidate the molecular basis for tetramer formation of the various family members, we solved the crystal structure of the human p73 tetramerizat...

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

authors： Joerger AC,Rajagopalan S,Natan E,Veprintsev DB,Robinson CV,Fersht AR

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of organ growth and tumorigenesis. In Drosophila, oncogenic RasV12 cooperates with loss-of-cell polarity to promote Hippo pathway-dependent tumor growth. To identify additional factors that modulate this signaling, we performed a genetic screen utilizing the D...

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

authors： Guo X,Sun Y,Azad T,Janse van Rensburg HJ,Luo J,Yang S,Liu P,Lv Z,Zhan M,Lu L,Zhou Y,Ma X,Zhang X,Yang X,Xue L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that suggests that GTP (or 5'-guanylylmethylene diphosphonate) is not essential for either formation of an AUG-directed, initiation factor IF-2-dependent initiation complex on the 30S subunit or for positioning of fMet-tRNA on the peptidyl site. However, recycling of limiting amounts of IF-2 requ...

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

authors： Mazumder R

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction networks displaying bistability provide a chemical mechanism for long-term memory storage in cells, as exemplified by many epigenetic switches. These biological systems are not only bistable but switchable, in the sense that they can be flipped from one state to the other by application of specific molecular ...

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

authors： Padirac A,Fujii T,Rondelez Y

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic mutant (2n) gametes formed by first-division restitution without crossover (FDR-NCO) are expected to be superior to FDR with crossover (FDR-CO) because they transmit to the progeny, without disruption by recombination, almost 100% of the parental genotype. FDR-CO transfers approximately 80% of the parental het...

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

authors： Buso JA,Boiteux LS,Tai GC,Peloquin SJ

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplexes constituted by closed or open RNA circles paired to single-stranded oligonucleotides terminating with 3'-CCAOH form resected pseudoknots that are substrates of yeast histidyl-tRNA synthetase. Design of this RNA fold is linked to the mimicry of the pseudoknotted amino acid accepting branch of the tRNA-like dom...

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

authors： Felden B,Giegé R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis III (ML III), or pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, is an inherited childhood disorder characterized biochemically by low activities and abnormal electrophoretic patterns of multiple lysosomal enzymes in fibroblasts. The primary deficiency of ML III has been proposed to be in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal ...

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

authors： Honey NK,Mueller OT,Little LE,Miller AL,Shows TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a signal-on, electronic DNA (E-DNA) sensor that is label-free and achieves a subpicomolar detection limit. The sensor, which is based on a target-induced strand displacement mechanism, is composed of a "capture probe" attached by its 5' terminus to a gold electrode and a 5' methylene blue-modified "signaling...

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

authors： Xiao Y,Lubin AA,Baker BR,Plaxco KW,Heeger AJ

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1980 to 1992, a series of influential papers reported on the discovery, genetics, and evolution of a periodic cycling of the interval between Drosophila male courtship song pulses. The molecular mechanisms underlying this periodicity were never described. To reinitiate investigation of this phenomenon, we previou...

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

authors： Stern DL,Clemens J,Coen P,Calhoun AJ,Hogenesch JB,Arthur BJ,Murthy M

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome regulates cellular processes as diverse as cell cycle progression and NF-kappaB activation. In this study, we show that the potent antitumor natural product epoxomicin specifically targets the proteasome. Utilizing biotinylated-epoxomicin as a molecular probe, we demonstrate that epoxomicin covalently b...

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

authors： Meng L,Mohan R,Kwok BH,Elofsson M,Sin N,Crews CM

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a motif-based structural search method to identify structural homologs of the hormone binding domains of the nuclear receptors from among a set of known protein structures and have found the closest similarity with members of the subtilisin-like serine proteases. These proteins consist of an open twisted ...

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

authors： Goldstein RA,Katzenellenbogen JA,Luthey-Schulten ZA,Seielstad DA,Wolynes PG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have totally synthesized a gene that codes for rat hepatic cytochrome b5. The 5' flanking region was designed for efficient expression of this gene in Escherichia coli by incorporating an optimum ribosome binding site and spacer region. Both a soluble form, analogous to the protease-treated microsomal protein, as w...

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

authors： Beck von Bodman S,Schuler MA,Jollie DR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a specific form of thyroid hormone receptor expressed in human liver, kidney, placenta, and brain was isolated from a human kidney library. Identical clones were found in human placenta and HepG2 cDNA libraries. The cDNA encodes a 490-amino acid protein (Mr, 54,824). When expressed and translated in vi...

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

authors： Nakai A,Seino S,Sakurai A,Szilak I,Bell GI,DeGroot LJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most common biological entities in the oceans by an order of magnitude. However, very little is known about their diversity. Here we report a genomic analysis of two uncultured marine viral communities. Over 65% of the sequences were not significantly similar to previously reported sequences, suggestin...

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

authors： Breitbart M,Salamon P,Andresen B,Mahaffy JM,Segall AM,Mead D,Azam F,Rohwer F

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported metal catalysts are extensively used in industrial and environmental applications. To improve their performance, it is crucial to identify the most active sites. This identification is, however, made challenging by the presence of a large number of potential surface structures that complicate such an assignm...

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

authors： Yang AC,Choksi T,Streibel V,Aljama H,Wrasman CJ,Roling LT,Goodman ED,Thomas D,Bare SR,Sánchez-Carrera RS,Schäfer A,Li Y,Abild-Pedersen F,Cargnello M

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate transcarbamoylase (EC 2.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli contains six zinc ions per molecule. Renaturation studies of this allosteric enzyme and its isolated subunits show that the metal binding site is in the regulatory polypeptide chain. Ultraviolet difference spectra of the cadmium and zinc derivatives have b...

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

authors： Rosenbusch JP,Weber K

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation energies for the individual steps of secretory and viral fusion are reported to be large [Oberhauser, A. F., Monck, J. R. & Fernandez, J. M. (1992) Biophys. J. 61, 800-809; Clague, M. J., Schoch, C., Zech, L. & Blumenthal, R. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 1303-1308]. Understanding the cause for these large activa...

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

authors： Lee J,Lentz BR

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphiphilic fluorescent styryl pyridinium dyes FM1-43 and FM4-64 are used to probe activity-dependent synaptic vesicle cycling in neurons. Cultured astrocytes can internalize FM1-43 and FM4-64 inside vesicles but their uptake is insensitive to the elevation of cytosolic calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration and the under...

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

authors： Li D,Hérault K,Oheim M,Ropert N

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrin (betaISigma*) and ankyrin (AnkG119) associate with Golgi membranes and the dynactin complex, but their role in vesicle trafficking remains uncertain. We find that the actin-binding domain and membrane-association domain 1 (MAD1) of betaI spectrin together form a constitutive Golgi targeting signal in transfec...

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

authors： Devarajan P,Stabach PR,De Matteis MA,Morrow JS

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 1,4-benzoquinone derivatives, found in the venom of the scorpion Diplocentrus melici following exposure to air, have been isolated, characterized, synthesized, and assessed for antimicrobial activities. Initially a white, viscous liquid, the extracted venom colors within minutes under ambient conditions. From this...

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

authors： Carcamo-Noriega EN,Sathyamoorthi S,Banerjee S,Gnanamani E,Mendoza-Trujillo M,Mata-Espinosa D,Hernández-Pando R,Veytia-Bucheli JI,Possani LD,Zare RN

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The discrepancy between the structural longitudinal organization of the parallel-fiber system in the cerebellar cortex and the functional mosaic-like organization of the cortex has provoked controversial theories about the flow of information in the cerebellum. We address this issue by characterizing the spatiotempora...

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

authors： Cohen D,Yarom Y

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression has a stochastic component because of the single-molecule nature of the gene and the small number of copies of individual DNA-binding proteins in the cell. We show how the statistics of such systems can be mapped onto quantum many-body problems. The dynamics of a single gene switch resembles the spin-b...

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

authors： Sasai M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediate apoptosis in many different cell types. We have previously shown that the antioxidant Mn(III) tetrakis(5,10,15,20-benzoic acid)porphyrin (MnTBAP) decreased intracellular ROS and prevented the apoptosis of activated T cells in vitro. To determine the mechanism(s) by which MnTBAP af...

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

authors： Hildeman DA,Mitchell T,Aronow B,Wojciechowski S,Kappler J,Marrack P

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00