The crystal structure of Pyrococcus furiosus ornithine carbamoyltransferase reveals a key role for oligomerization in enzyme stability at extremely high temperatures.

abstract：:Papillomaviruses are small DNA viruses that are associated with benign and malignant epithelial lesions, including >95% of cervical cancers and approximately 20% of head and neck cancers. Because papillomavirus replication and virion production are tied to epithelial cell differentiation, infectious papillomavirus vir...

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

authors： Pyeon D,Lambert PF,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus and turnip yellow mosaic virus genome RNAs, which have long (greater than or equal to 69 nucleotides) 5'-terminal leader sequences preceding the AUG initiation codon, can form disome initiation complexes when incubated with a wheat germ extract and sparsomycin. In tobacco mosaic virus RNA, whereas...

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

authors： Filipowicz W,Haenni AL

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axiomatic foundations for a theory of perception have been given in a prior communication [Shiman, L. G. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75, 2049-2053]. The theory is based on mathematically characterized stable images. Stable images model subjective (psychological) states of observers. We showed there is a universa...

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

authors： Shiman LG

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two recombinant cDNAs whose corresponding RNAs have an increased abundance in scrapie-infected hamster brain. DNA sequence analysis has shown that these two recombinants represent the genes for sulfated glycoprotein 2 and transferrin. The abundance of sulfated glycoprotein 2 RNA is increased in hippoc...

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

authors： Duguid JR,Bohmont CW,Liu NG,Tourtellotte WW

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts can be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by application of transcription factors octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4), SRY-box containing gene 2 (Sox2), Kruppel-like factor 4 (Klf4), and c-Myelocytomatosis oncogene (c-Myc) (OSKM), but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we repo...

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

authors： Wang G,Guo X,Hong W,Liu Q,Wei T,Lu C,Gao L,Ye D,Zhou Y,Chen J,Wang J,Wu M,Liu H,Kang J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:HsPKS1 from Huperzia serrata is a type III polyketide synthase (PKS) with remarkable substrate tolerance and catalytic potential. Here we present the synthesis of unnatural unique polyketide-alkaloid hybrid molecules by exploiting the enzyme reaction using precursor-directed and structure-based approaches. HsPKS1 prod...

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

authors： Morita H,Yamashita M,Shi SP,Wakimoto T,Kondo S,Kato R,Sugio S,Kohno T,Abe I

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQOR; EC 1.6.99.2) is a homodimeric enzyme which catalyzes the reduction of quinones, azo dyes, and other electron acceptors by NADPH or NADH. To pursue subunit functional studies, we expressed a wild-type/mutant heterodimer of NQOR in Escherichia coli. The wild-type subunit of the hete...

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

authors： Cui K,Lu AY,Yang CS

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An emergent viral pathogen termed severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is responsible for thousands of clinical cases and associated fatalities in China, Japan, and South Korea. Akin to other phleboviruses, SFTSV relies on a viral glycoprotein, Gc, to catalyze the merger of endosomal host and vira...

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

authors： Halldorsson S,Behrens AJ,Harlos K,Huiskonen JT,Elliott RM,Crispin M,Brennan B,Bowden TA

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple drug resistance of tumor cells is a common problem in cancer therapy. We have demonstrated that membrane vesicles from highly multidrug-resistant human KB carcinoma cell lines exhibit increased specific and saturable binding of vinblastine. To identify the molecules that bind vinblastine, membrane vesicles fr...

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

authors： Cornwell MM,Safa AR,Felsted RL,Gottesman MM,Pastan I

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Highly purified globin mRNA from ducks was copied with RNA-directed DNA polymerase from avian myeloblastosis virus into anti-messenger DNA. With excess RNA, more than 90% of this DNA annealed back to its template with a C(o)t/2 value of 7.5 x 10(-4) mol.sec. liter(-1); the melting temperature of the hybrid was 86 degr...

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

authors： Imaizumi T,Diggelmann H,Scherrer K

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) has been detected only in intestinal mucosa and colon carcinoma cells of placental mammals. However, this receptor has been identified in several tissues in marsupials, and its expression has been suggested in tissues other than intestine in placental mammals. Selective expression of GCC by co...

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

authors： Carrithers SL,Barber MT,Biswas S,Parkinson SJ,Park PK,Goldstein SD,Waldman SA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi must recognize plant-specific signals to initiate subsequent morphogenetic events such as filamentation that lead to infection. Here we show that the plant hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) induces adhesion and filamentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome expression profiling of cells treated with IAA identif...

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

authors： Prusty R,Grisafi P,Fink GR

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We used event-related functional MRI to investigate the neural bases of two categories of mental processes believed to contribute to performance of an alphabetization working memory task: memory storage and memory manipulation. Our delayed-response tasks required memory for the identity and position-in-the-display of ...

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

authors： Postle BR,Berger JS,D'Esposito M

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure of various cell types to adrenergic agonists leads to a decrease in cell surface beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) number. Sequestration of the receptor away from the cell surface as well as a down-regulation of the total number of cellular receptors are believed to contribute to this agonist-medi...

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

authors： Valiquette M,Bonin H,Hnatowich M,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Bouvier M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil bacteria and fungi play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, yet our understanding of their responses to climate change lags significantly behind that of other organisms. This gap in our understanding is particularly true for drylands, which occupy ∼41% of Earth´s surface, because no global, sy...

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

authors： Maestre FT,Delgado-Baquerizo M,Jeffries TC,Eldridge DJ,Ochoa V,Gozalo B,Quero JL,García-Gómez M,Gallardo A,Ulrich W,Bowker MA,Arredondo T,Barraza-Zepeda C,Bran D,Florentino A,Gaitán J,Gutiérrez JR,Huber-Sannwald E,Jan

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is characterized by either the inability to produce insulin (type 1 diabetes) or as insensitivity to insulin secreted by the body (type 2 diabetes). In either case, the body is unable to move blood glucose efficiently across cell membranes to be used. This leads to a variety of local and systemic det...

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

authors： Alipio Z,Liao W,Roemer EJ,Waner M,Fink LM,Ward DC,Ma Y

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroactive steroids dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), its sulfate ester DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), and allopregnanolone (Allo), produced by the CNS and the adrenals, appear to exert a protective effect in hippocampal and cortical neuron ischemia- and excitotoxicity-induced injury. We hypothesized that they may also play ...

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

authors： Charalampopoulos I,Tsatsanis C,Dermitzaki E,Alexaki VI,Castanas E,Margioris AN,Gravanis A

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the Myc and Mad1 proteins are implicated in the regulation of the gene encoding the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), the catalytic subunit of telomerase. We have analyzed the in vivo interaction between endogenous c-Myc and Mad1 proteins and the hTERT promoter in HL60 cells...

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

authors： Xu D,Popov N,Hou M,Wang Q,Björkholm M,Gruber A,Menkel AR,Henriksson M

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of different total enzyme concentrations on the flux through the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) in vitro was determined by measuring PTS-mediated carbohydrate phosphorylation at different dilutions of cell-free extract of Escherichia coli. The dependence of the fl...

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

authors： Rohwer JM,Postma PW,Kholodenko BN,Westerhoff HV

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unrestrained 53BP1 activity at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) hampers DNA end resection and upsets DSB repair pathway choice. RNF169 acts as a molecular rheostat to limit 53BP1 deposition at DSBs, but how this fine balance translates to DSB repair control remains undefined. In striking contrast to 53BP1, ChIP analyse...

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

authors： An L,Dong C,Li J,Chen J,Yuan J,Huang J,Chan KM,Yu CH,Huen MSY

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-strand breaks (DSBs) in DNA are lethal unless repaired. Faithful repair requires processing of the DSB ends and interaction with intact homologous DNA, which can produce genetic recombinants. To determine the role of nucleases in DSB end-processing and joint molecule resolution, we studied recombination at the ...

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

authors： Farah JA,Cromie GA,Smith GR

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA class II-associated invariant chain (Ii)-derived peptide (CLIP) occupies the peptide binding groove during assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum, travels with HLA class II to endosomal compartments, and is subsequently released to allow binding of antigenic peptides. We investigated whether the exchange of CLI...

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

authors： van Bergen J,Schoenberger SP,Verreck F,Amons R,Offringa R,Koning F

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsEX is a bacterial ABC transporter that regulates the activity of periplasmic peptidoglycan amidases via its interaction with the murein hydrolase activator, EnvC. In Escherichia coli, FtsEX is required to separate daughter cells after cell division and for viability in low-osmolarity media. Both the ATPase activity...

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

authors： Cook J,Baverstock TC,McAndrew MBL,Stansfeld PJ,Roper DI,Crow A

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ion channels exhibit a slow stochastic switching between distinct modes of gating activity. This feature of channel behavior has pronounced implications for the dynamics of ionic currents and the signaling pathways that they regulate. A canonical example is the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) channel...

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

authors： Bicknell BA,Goodhill GJ

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ah receptor (AHR) is a basic helix-loop-helix protein that mediates the effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin. In this report, we describe a rabbit reticulocyte system that allows functional expression of both the AHR and its dimeric partner, the AHR nuclear translocator protein (ARNT). By using this in ...

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

authors： Dolwick KM,Swanson HI,Bradfield CA

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Agonist binding to the muscarinic receptor in rat cerebral cortex membranes was studied by using the neurotransmitter itself, [3H]acetylcholine [( 3H]AcCho). By using 10 microM atropine or oxotremorine to define specific binding, it was possible to demonstrate specific binding of [3H]AcCho that was sensitive to muscar...

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

authors： Gurwitz D,Kloog Y,Sokolovsky M

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of chemical exchange in 2D IR heterodyne echo spectroscopy is characterized through the hydrogen-bond exchange between CH3OH and the CN of CH3CN. The exchange dynamics on the hydrogen-bond potential surfaces associated with different quantum states of the high-frequency CN stretching mode contributes t...

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

authors： Kim YS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual bias in earthquake catalogs against shocks of small magnitudes can be removed by testing the randomness of the magnitudes of successive shocks. The southern California catalog, 1933-1967, is found to be unbiased in the sense of the test at magnitude 4 or above; the cutoff is improved to M = 3 for the subcata...

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

authors： Knopoff L,Gardner JK

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four major neutralizing regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein were identified and characterized with a panel of 80 HIV-1 antibody-positive human sera. Levels of neutralizing antibodies against the HIV-1 strains IIIB, SF2, and RF were compared with reactivity in ELISAs against...

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

authors： Broliden PA,von Gegerfelt A,Clapham P,Rosen J,Fenyö EM,Wahren B,Broliden K

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00