Crystal structure of Lyme disease antigen outer surface protein A complexed with an Fab.

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF-4E plays a central role in the recognition of the 7-methylguanosine-containing cap structure of mRNA and the formation of initiation complexes during protein synthesis. eIF-4E exists in both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms, and the primary site of phosphorylation...

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

authors： Minich WB,Balasta ML,Goss DJ,Rhoads RE

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

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

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospecific antibodies were produced in vitro by fusing mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from a BALB/c mouse immunized with rat skeletal myofibrils. After cloning 3 times on agarose, two stable clones were obtained and chosen for further characterization. The first clone, JLB1, produced an antibody that recogniz...

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

authors： Lin JJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium oxide, D(2)O, increases the temperature-tolerance of Drosophila pseudoobscura when it is administered to adult flies as a sucrose solution. The effect is very rapidly exerted; it is detected within 10 min after the flies have a brief (10 min) opportunity to drink. This increased resistance to heat-death sure...

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

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Cosbey ES

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays important roles in development and genome defense against transposons. Methylation patterns are established and maintained by DNA methyltransferases that catalyze transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine bases ...

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

authors： Morales-Ruiz T,Ortega-Galisteo AP,Ponferrada-Marín MI,Martínez-Macías MI,Ariza RR,Roldán-Arjona T

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate receptor involved in chemotaxis is modified by methyl esterification at four distinct glutamate residues during the adaptive response of this receptor. To explain the high degree of specificity of this modification, it has been proposed that the methyltransferase recognizes the sequence Glu-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-A...

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

authors： Terwilliger TC,Wang JY,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is a protein folding machine that is conserved from bacteria to man. Human, cytosolic Hsp90 is dedicated to folding of chiefly signal transduction components. The chaperoning mechanism of Hsp90 is controlled by ATP and various cochaperones, but is poorly understood and controversial. Here...

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

authors： Karagöz GE,Duarte AM,Ippel H,Uetrecht C,Sinnige T,van Rosmalen M,Hausmann J,Heck AJ,Boelens R,Rüdiger SG

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), gag MA (matrix), a major structural protein of the virus, carries out opposing targeting functions. During virus assembly, gag MA is cotranslationally myristoylated, a modification required for membrane targeting of gag polyproteins. During virus infec...

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

authors： Bukrinskaya AG,Ghorpade A,Heinzinger NK,Smithgall TE,Lewis RE,Stevenson M

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to guiding proteins to defined genomic loci, DNA can act as an allosteric ligand that influences protein structure and activity. Here we compared genome-wide binding, transcriptional regulation, and, using NMR, the conformation of two glucocorticoid receptor (GR) isoforms that differ by a single amino acid...

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

authors： Thomas-Chollier M,Watson LC,Cooper SB,Pufall MA,Liu JS,Borzym K,Vingron M,Yamamoto KR,Meijsing SH

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a widely accepted hypothesis that the molecular clock slows down during evolution of higher primates. By molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence comparison of a rhesus macaque alpha-globin gene to its homologs in man, orangutan, olive baboon, and other mammals, we demonstrate a burst of evolution of the ...

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

authors： Shaw JP,Marks J,Shen CC,Shen CK

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating 3T3 mouse fibroblasts contain higher levels of the lectin carbohydrate-binding protein 35 (CBP35) than do quiescent cultures of the same cells. An immunofluorescence study was carried out with a rabbit antiserum directed against CBP35 to map the cellular fluorescence distribution in a large population of...

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

authors： Moutsatsos IK,Wade M,Schindler M,Wang JL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary obstacle to producing renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is a plant's recalcitrance to releasing sugars bound in the cell wall. From a sample set of wood cores representing 1,100 individual undomesticated Populus trichocarpa trees, 47 extreme phenotypes were selected across measured lignin conten...

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

authors： Studer MH,DeMartini JD,Davis MF,Sykes RW,Davison B,Keller M,Tuskan GA,Wyman CE

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion detection is typically spared in blindsight, which results from damage to the striate cortex (area V1) of the brain that is sufficient to eliminate conscious visual awareness and severely reduce sensitivity to luminance contrast, especially for high spatial and low temporal frequencies. Here we show that the di...

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

authors： Azzopardi P,Hock HS

更新日期：2011-01-11 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：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae translation initiation factor eIF-4A, an RNA helicase of the Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD) box protein family, was mutated in the putative ATP binding site and expressed in Escherichia coli. Mutant proteins with alanine at position 66 replaced by glycine [eIF-4A(A66G)] or valine [eIF-4A(A66V)] were p...

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

authors： Blum S,Schmid SR,Pause A,Buser P,Linder P,Sonenberg N,Trachsel H

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Switch from non-syncytium-inducing (NSI) to syncytium-inducing (SI) HIV type 1 (HIV-1) is associated with accelerated CD4(+) T cell depletion, which might partially be explained by higher virulence of SI variants compared with NSI variants. Because NSI and SI variants use different coreceptors for entry of target cell...

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

authors： Blaak H,van't Wout AB,Brouwer M,Hooibrink B,Hovenkamp E,Schuitemaker H

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early acquisition of mate preferences or mate-preference learning is associated with signal diversity and speciation in a wide variety of animal species. However, the diversity of mechanisms of mate-preference learning across taxa remains poorly understood. Using the butterfly Bicyclus anynana we uncover a mechanism t...

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

authors： Westerman EL,Hodgins-Davis A,Dinwiddie A,Monteiro A

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat serine dehydratase cDNA clones were isolated from a lambda gt11 cDNA library on the basis of their reactivity with monospecific immunoglobulin to the purified enzyme. Using the cDNA insert from a clone that encoded the serine dehydratase subunit as a probe, additional clones were isolated from the same library by ...

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

authors： Ogawa H,Miller DA,Dunn T,Su Y,Burcham JM,Peraino C,Fujioka M,Babcock K,Pitot HC

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the importance of macrophages in chronic inflammatory diseases is well recognized, there is an increasing awareness that neutrophils may also play an important role. In addition to the well-documented heterogeneity of macrophage phenotypes and functions, neutrophils also show remarkable phenotypic diversity am...

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

authors： Weiss M,Byrne AJ,Blazek K,Saliba DG,Pease JE,Perocheau D,Feldmann M,Udalova IA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is highly expressed in mammalian skeletal muscle, but its functional role has not been defined. NO has been implicated in the local metabolic regulation of blood flow in contracting skeletal muscle in part by antagonizing sympathetic vasoconstriction. We therefore h...

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

authors： Thomas GD,Sander M,Lau KS,Huang PL,Stull JT,Victor RG

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful tool for physical mapping in human and other mammalian species. However, application of the FISH technique has been limited in plant species, especially for mapping single- or low-copy DNA sequences, due to inconsistent signal production in plant chromosome prepa...

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

authors： Jiang J,Gill BS,Wang GL,Ronald PC,Ward DC

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have measured the content of different species of APP holoprotein and carboxyl-terminal fragments in human brains from young individuals, nondemented aged individuals, and aged indiv...

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

authors： Nordstedt C,Gandy SE,Alafuzoff I,Caporaso GL,Iverfeldt K,Grebb JA,Winblad B,Greengard P

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are etiologically linked to cervical cancer. Their transforming capacity is encoded by a polycistronic premRNA, where alternative splicing leads to the translation of functional distinct proteins such as E6, E6*, and E7. Here we show that splicing of HPV16 E6/E7 ORF casse...

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

authors： Rosenberger S,De-Castro Arce J,Langbein L,Steenbergen RD,Rösl F

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the radiomimetic anticancer enediyne C-1027 to induce ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR)-independent damage responses was discovered to reside in its unique ability to concurrently generate robust amounts of double-strand breaks (DSBs) and interstrand cross-links (ICLs) i...

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

authors： Kennedy DR,Ju J,Shen B,Beerman TA

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It was proved that the protoplasts prepared from mesophyll of Nicotiana tabacum are infected by tobacco mosaic virus. The infection occurred when purified tobacco mosaic virus particles were added to a protoplast suspension in the presence of poly-L-ornithine. The virus multiplied in these protoplasts to a level of 10...

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

authors： Takebe I,Otsuki Y

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single molecule atomic force microscopy was used to characterize structure, binding strength (unbinding force), and binding kinetics of a classical cadherin, vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin, secreted by transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells as cis-dimerized full-length external domain fused to Fc-portion of human...

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

authors： Baumgartner W,Hinterdorfer P,Ness W,Raab A,Vestweber D,Schindler H,Drenckhahn D

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific heritable mutations in maize genes were engineered by introducing chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides. Two independent targets within the endogenous maize acetohydroxyacid synthase gene sequence were modified in a site-specific fashion, thereby conferring resistance to either imidazolinone or sulfonylurea ...

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

authors： Zhu T,Peterson DJ,Tagliani L,St Clair G,Baszczynski CL,Bowen B

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that in mammalian cells proteins of large molecular weight are degraded more rapidly than small ones. Evidence is presented here that half-lives of proteins are also related to their isoelectric points. A double-isotope method was used to compare degradative rates of soluble proteins separa...

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

authors： Dice JF,Goldberg AL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate transcription from specific promoters, the bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) core enzyme must associate with the initiation factor sigma, which contains determinants that allow sequence-specific interactions with promoter DNA. Most bacteria contain several sigma factors, each of which directs recognition of ...

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

authors： Yuan AH,Nickels BE,Hochschild A

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Before fertilization, vertebrate eggs are arrested in meiosis II by cytostatic factor (CSF), which holds the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) in an inactive state. It was recently reported that Mos, an integral component of CSF, acts in part by promoting the Rsk-mediated phosphorylation of the APC inhibitor Emi2/Erp1....

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

authors： Wu JQ,Hansen DV,Guo Y,Wang MZ,Tang W,Freel CD,Tung JJ,Jackson PK,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00