Absence of a barrier to backwards rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor demonstrated with optical tweezers.

abstract：:The protein defective in hereditary hemochromatosis, called HFE, is similar to MHC class I-type proteins and associates with beta2-microglobulin (beta2M). Its association with beta2M was previously shown to be necessary for its stability, normal intracellular processing, and cell surface expression in transfected COS ...

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

authors： Waheed A,Grubb JH,Zhou XY,Tomatsu S,Fleming RE,Costaldi ME,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for the RNA-dependent eIF-2 alpha protein kinase (PKR) was isolated from mouse genomic DNA and characterized. The mouse PKR gene contains 16 exons and spans about 28 kilobase pairs. Exon 1 is untranslated; the AUG translation initiation site is located early in the second exon. Exon 16 includes the UAG transl...

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

authors： Tanaka H,Samuel CE

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent failure of infants to understand "object permanence" by reaching for hidden objects is perhaps the most striking and debated phenomenon in cognitive development. Of particular interest is the extent to which infants perceive and remember objects in a similar way to that of adults. Here we report two findi...

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

authors： Kaufman J,Csibra G,Johnson MH

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a full report of our enantioselective synthesis of (-)-longithorone A (1). The synthesis was designed to test the feasibility of the biosynthetic proposal for 1 put forward by Schmitz involving intermolecular and transannular Diels-Alder reactions of two [12]-paracyclophane quinones. We have found that if t...

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

authors： Morales CA,Layton ME,Shair MD

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells transformed by Friend virus in liquid suspension culture respond to low concentrations of dimethylsulfoxide by initiating hemoglobin synthesis. The kinetics of appearance of such differentiated erythroid cells is consistent with either the induction of differentiation in a uniformly susceptible population of tra...

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

authors： Singer D,Cooper M,Maniatis GM,Marks PA,Rifkind RA

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons are DNA probes that form a stem-and-loop structure and possess an internally quenched fluorophore. When they bind to complementary nucleic acids, they undergo a conformational transition that switches on their fluorescence. These probes recognize their targets with higher specificity than probes that...

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

authors： Bonnet G,Tyagi S,Libchaber A,Kramer FR

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Large changes in solvent accessibility to aspartate transcarbamylase (aspartate carbamoyltransferase, carbamoylphosphate:L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2), as monitored by tritium exchange, result from binding of substrates and substrate analogs to the catalytic subunit (c3), binding of nucleoside triphosp...

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

authors： Lennick M,Allewell NM

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Productive T cell recognition of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) is normally accompanied by the formation of a cell-cell contact called the "immunological synapse." Our understanding of the steps leading up to this formation has been limited by the absence of tools for analyzing 3D surfaces and surface distributions a...

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

authors： Moss WC,Irvine DJ,Davis MM,Krummel MF

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing quantitative relationships between molecular structure and broad biological effects has been a longstanding challenge in science. Currently, no method exists for forecasting broad biological activity profiles of medicinal agents even within narrow boundaries of structurally similar molecules. Starting fro...

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

authors： Fliri AF,Loging WT,Thadeio PF,Volkmann RA

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid flippases (P4-ATPases) utilize ATP to translocate specific phospholipids from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytoplasmic leaflet of biological membranes, thus generating and maintaining transmembrane lipid asymmetry essential for a variety of cellular processes. P4-ATPases belong to the P-type ATPase prote...

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

authors： Tadini-Buoninsegni F,Mikkelsen SA,Mogensen LS,Molday RS,Andersen JP

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological studies have provided ample evidence for synaptic connections between cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs), but the functional properties of these synapses remain elusive. We report on direct recordings of synaptically connected PCs in mice cerebellar slices. In PCs filled with a fluorescent dye to aid axon v...

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

authors： Orduz D,Llano I

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that normal human presenilins can substitute for Caenorhabditis elegans SEL-12 protein in functional assays in vivo. In addition, six familial Alzheimer disease-linked mutant human presenilins were tested and found to have reduced ability to rescue the sel-12 mutant phenotype, suggesting that they ...

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

authors： Levitan D,Doyle TG,Brousseau D,Lee MK,Thinakaran G,Slunt HH,Sisodia SS,Greenwald I

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are molecular motors that power diverse cellular processes, such as rapid organelle transport, muscle contraction, and tension-sensitive anchoring. The structural adaptations in the motor that allow for this functional diversity are not known, due, in part, to the lack of high-resolution structures of highly t...

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

authors： Shuman H,Greenberg MJ,Zwolak A,Lin T,Sindelar CV,Dominguez R,Ostap EM

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:R. A. Fisher's 1930 "reproductive value" is defined as the contribution made by a population's initial age elements to its asymptotically dominating exponential growth mode. For the Leslie discrete-time model, it is the characteristic row vector of the Leslie matrix, and for the integral-equation model of Lotka the si...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is an important mediator of diabetic nephropathy. We showed previously that short-term treatment with a neutralizing monoclonal anti-TGF-beta antibody (alphaT) in streptozotocin-diabetic mice prevents early changes of renal hypertrophy and incr...

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

authors： Ziyadeh FN,Hoffman BB,Han DC,Iglesias-De La Cruz MC,Hong SW,Isono M,Chen S,McGowan TA,Sharma K

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible photoswitching of individual molecules has been demonstrated for a number of mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). To date, however, a limited number of switching events with slow response to light have been achieved at the single-molecule level. Here, we report reversible photoswitching character...

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

authors： Habuchi S,Ando R,Dedecker P,Verheijen W,Mizuno H,Miyawaki A,Hofkens J

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged exposure to ascorbate, collagen synthesis in cultured human skin fibroblasts increased approximately 8-fold with no significant change in synthesis of noncollagen protein. This effect of ascorbate appears to be unrelated to its cofactor function in collagen hydroxylation. The collagenous protein secret...

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

authors： Murad S,Grove D,Lindberg KA,Reynolds G,Sivarajah A,Pinnell SR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobe discharge during both the observation and the execution of motor acts. It has been claimed that these so-called mirror neurons form the basis of action understanding by matching the visual input with the corresponding motor program (direct matching)...

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

authors： Lingnau A,Gesierich B,Caramazza A

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between a peptide hormone and extracellular domains of its receptor is a crucial step for initiation of hormone action. We have developed a modification of the yeast two-hybrid system to study this interaction and have used it to characterize the interaction of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) with its...

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

authors： Zhu J,Kahn CR

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In sexual populations, selection operates neither on the whole genome, which is repeatedly taken apart and reassembled by recombination, nor on individual alleles that are tightly linked to the chromosomal neighborhood. The resulting interference between linked alleles reduces the efficiency of selection and distorts ...

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

authors： Neher RA,Kessinger TA,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) receptor controls a pathway supporting the differentiation and survival of a wide range of neural cell types during development and in adulthood. Cardiotrophin-like cytokine (CLC)-cytokine-like factor 1 (CLF) composite cytokine is a second ligand for the CNTF alpha-component receptor...

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

authors： Rousseau F,Gauchat JF,McLeod JG,Chevalier S,Guillet C,Guilhot F,Cognet I,Froger J,Hahn AF,Knappskog PM,Gascan H,Boman H

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Among yeasts that underwent whole-genome duplication (WGD), Kluyveromyces polysporus represents the lineage most distant from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By sequencing the K. polysporus genome and comparing it with the S. cerevisiae genome using a likelihood model of gene loss, we show that these species diverged very s...

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

authors： Scannell DR,Frank AC,Conant GC,Byrne KP,Woolfit M,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The N,N'-diacetyllactosediamine (lacdiNAc) pathway of complex-type oligosaccharide synthesis is controlled by a UDP-GalNAc:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-N-acetylgalac-tesaminyltransferase (beta 4-GalNAcT) that acts analogously to the common UDP-Gal:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-galactosyltransferase (beta 4-GalT). LacdiNAc-base...

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

authors： Neeleman AP,van de Eijnden DH

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:By commandeering cellular translation initiation factors, or destroying those dispensable for viral mRNA translation, viruses often suppress host protein synthesis. In contrast, cellular protein synthesis proceeds in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells, forcing viral and cellular mRNAs to compete for limiting ...

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

authors： McKinney C,Perez C,Mohr I

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Across phyla, the ribosomes-the central molecular machines for translation of genetic information-exhibit an overall preserved architecture and a conserved functional core. The natural heterogeneity of the ribosome periodically phases a debate on their functional specialization and the tissue-specific variations of th...

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

authors： Amirbeigiarab S,Kiani P,Velazquez Sanchez A,Krisp C,Kazantsev A,Fester L,Schlüter H,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of bovine papillomavirus (BPV) DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro depends on the interaction of the viral initiator protein E1 with the replication origin (ori+ DNA). The viral E2 protein assists this interaction, resulting in a cooperative assembly of both proteins on the replication origin. Using gel mobi...

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

authors： Lusky M,Hurwitz J,Seo YS

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:As an electron transfer-driven proton pump, cytochrome c oxidase (ferrocytochrome-c:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1) must alternate between two conformations in each valence state of the redox element associated with ion translocation. Using second derivative absorption spectroscopy, the conformation of the cytochro...

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

authors： Copeland RA

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive Avena sativa phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), ...

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

authors： French AR,Sosnick TR,Rock RS

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in controlling malignancies. Susceptibility or resistance to lung cancer, for example, specifically depends on NK cell function. Nevertheless, intrinsic factors that control NK cell-mediated clearance of lung cancer are unknown. Here we report that NK cells exposed to exo...

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

authors： Shi L,Li K,Guo Y,Banerjee A,Wang Q,Lorenz UM,Parlak M,Sullivan LC,Onyema OO,Arefanian S,Stelow EB,Brautigan DL,Bullock TNJ,Brown MG,Krupnick AS

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial actin homolog, MreB, forms helical cables within the cell that are required for maintenance of a rod shape. These helical structures are thought to be involved in the spatial organization of cell wall (peptidoglycan) synthesizing complexes of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). Here, we examined the role...

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

authors： Divakaruni AV,Loo RR,Xie Y,Loo JA,Gober JW

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00