"Hidden" sequence periodicities and protein architecture.

abstract：:We describe a unique conductance-based model of awake thalamic alpha and some of its implications for function. The full model includes a model for a specialized class of high-threshold thalamocortical cells (HTC cells), which burst at the alpha frequency at depolarized membrane potentials (~-56 mV). Our model generat...

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

authors： Vijayan S,Kopell NJ

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural requirements of E. coli formylmethionine tRNA for aminoacylation have been examined by chemical modification of the tRNA, followed by separation of the modified molecules into active and inactive components. Photooxidation of tRNA(fMet) at 50 degrees in the presence of methylene blue results in modifica...

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

authors： Schulman LH

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siphoviridae is the most abundant viral family on earth which infects bacteria as well as archaea. All known siphophages infecting gram+ Lactococcus lactis possess a baseplate at the tip of their tail involved in host recognition and attachment. Here, we report analysis of the p2 phage baseplate structure by X-ray cry...

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

authors： Sciara G,Bebeacua C,Bron P,Tremblay D,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Lichière J,van Heel M,Campanacci V,Moineau S,Cambillau C

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin2 (PFN2) is a target of the embryonic stem cell (ESC)-enriched miR-290 family of microRNAs (miRNAs) and an actin/dynamin-binding protein implicated in endocytosis. Here we show that the miR-290-PFN2 pathway regulates many aspects of ESC biology. In the absence of miRNAs, PFN2 is up-regulated in ESCs, with a re...

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

authors： Sangokoya C,Blelloch R

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Active opioid binding proteins were solubilized from rat brain membranes in high yield with sodium deoxycholate in the presence of NaCl. Purification of opioid binding proteins was accomplished by opioid antagonist affinity chromatography. Chromatography using the delta-opioid antagonist N,N-diallyl-Tyr-D-Leu-Gly-Tyr-...

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

authors： Loukas S,Mercouris M,Panetsos F,Zioudrou C

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor ozone transported indoors initiates oxidative chemistry, forming volatile organic products. The influence of ozone chemistry on indoor air composition has not been directly quantified in normally occupied residences. Here, we explore indoor ozone chemistry in a house in California with two adult inhabitants. W...

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

authors： Liu Y,Misztal PK,Arata C,Weschler CJ,Nazaroff WW,Goldstein AH

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of methylcytosine dioxygenases initiates demethylation of DNA and is associated with tumorigenesis in many cancers; however, the mechanism is mostly unknown. Here we identify upstream activators and downstream effectors of TET1 in breast cancer using human breast cancer cells ...

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

authors： Sun M,Song CX,Huang H,Frankenberger CA,Sankarasharma D,Gomes S,Chen P,Chen J,Chada KK,He C,Rosner MR

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The heavy chains of both botulinum neurotoxin type B and tetanus toxin form channels in planar bilayer membranes. These channels have pH-dependent and voltage-dependent properties that are remarkably similar to those previously described for diphtheria toxin. Selectivity experiments with anions and cations show that t...

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

authors： Hoch DH,Romero-Mira M,Ehrlich BE,Finkelstein A,DasGupta BR,Simpson LL

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor (CNTF) was first characterized as a trophic factor for motor neurons in the ciliary ganglion and spinal cord, leading to its evaluation in humans suffering from motor neuron disease. In these trials, CNTF caused unexpected and substantial weight loss, raising concerns that it might produce ...

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

authors： Lambert PD,Anderson KD,Sleeman MW,Wong V,Tan J,Hijarunguru A,Corcoran TL,Murray JD,Thabet KE,Yancopoulos GD,Wiegand SJ

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 165-kilodalton (kDal) surface glycoprotein encoded by human chromosome 7 (SA-7) had been characterized by using antisera raised against human chromosome 7-containing somatic cell hybrids. We now present evidence that SA-7 is the human receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF) and that these antisera recognize human...

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

authors： Carlin CR,Knowles BB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment with nitrite, Japanese soy sauce was strongly mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium TA100 without S9 mixture. Two precursors of the mutagen were isolated from Japanese soy sauce, and these were identified as (-)-(1S,3S)-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline-3-carboxylic acid [(-)-(1S,3S)-MTCA] and i...

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

authors： Wakabayashi K,Ochiai M,Saitô H,Tsuda M,Suwa Y,Nagao M,Sugimura T

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen that successfully adapts to the host environment via an efficient uptake system for free DNA liberated from other organisms in the upper respiratory tract, facilitating immune evasion and drug resistance. Although the initial signaling events leading to pneumococcal c...

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

authors： Balaban M,Bättig P,Muschiol S,Tirier SM,Wartha F,Normark S,Henriques-Normark B

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantum computer (QC) can operate in parallel on all its possible inputs at once, but the amount of information that can be extracted from the result is limited by the phenomenon of wave function collapse. We present a new computational model, which differs from a QC only in that the result of a measurement is the e...

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

authors： Cory DG,Fahmy AF,Havel TF

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofa...

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

authors： McBride MJ,Pope SR,Hu K,Okafor CD,Balskus EP,Bollinger JM Jr,Boal AK

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) undergo self-renewal divisions to support spermatogenesis throughout life. Although several positive regulators of SSC self-renewal have been discovered, little is known about the negative regulators. Here, we report that F-box and WD-40 domain protein 7 (FBXW7), a component of the Skp...

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

authors： Kanatsu-Shinohara M,Onoyama I,Nakayama KI,Shinohara T

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced serum testosterone (T), or hypogonadism, affects millions of men and is associated with many pathologies, including infertility, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and decreased libido and sexual function. Administering T-replacement therapy (TRT) reverses many of the symptoms associated with low T l...

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

authors： Li L,Li Y,Sottas C,Culty M,Fan J,Hu Y,Cheung G,Chemes HE,Papadopoulos V

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has been assumed. We report that w...

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

authors： Anson RM,Guo Z,de Cabo R,Iyun T,Rios M,Hagepanos A,Ingram DK,Lane MA,Mattson MP

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane currents of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) were compared with the currents of their nontransformed counterparts by using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. In nontransformed CEFs, the main membrane current is a delayed outward K+ current that is sensitive to t...

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

authors： Repp H,Draheim H,Ruland J,Seidel G,Beise J,Presek P,Dreyer F

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:WOPR-domain proteins are found throughout the fungal kingdom where they function as master regulators of cell morphology and pathogenesis. Genetic and biochemical experiments previously demonstrated that these proteins bind to specific DNA sequences and thereby regulate transcription. However, their primary sequence s...

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

authors： Lohse MB,Rosenberg OS,Cox JS,Stroud RM,Finer-Moore JS,Johnson AD

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:How granzymes gain entry into the cytosol of target cells during killer cell attack has been the subject of several studies in the past, but the effective delivery mechanism during target cell encounter has not been clarified. Here we show that granzyme B (GzmB) mutants lacking binding to negatively charged, essential...

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

authors： Kurschus FC,Fellows E,Stegmann E,Jenne DE

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemic disease is the major cause of death worldwide. After myocardial infarction, reperfusion of infracted heart has been an important objective of strategies to improve outcomes. However, cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is characterized by inflammation, arrhythmias, cardiomyocyte damage, and, at the ...

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

authors： Fauconnier J,Meli AC,Thireau J,Roberge S,Shan J,Sassi Y,Reiken SR,Rauzier JM,Marchand A,Chauvier D,Cassan C,Crozier C,Bideaux P,Lompré AM,Jacotot E,Marks AR,Lacampagne A

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate added to exponentially growing cells of Hemophilus influenzae strain Rd increases competence for transformation 100- to 10,000-fold. Cyclic AMP added to near-stationary or stationary cells does not increase competence over the high level normally found in the early stationary phase...

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

authors： Wise EM Jr,Alexander SP,Powers M

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S1-nuclease analysis was used to investigate the pattern of inhibin expression in the rat. In a first series of experiments, expression of the alpha, beta A, and beta B subunits of inhibin were monitored in various tissues from male and female rats. Two observations emerge from these studies. First, expression of ...

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

authors： Meunier H,Rivier C,Evans RM,Vale W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motion and mixing of granular media are observed in several contexts in nature, often displaying striking similarities to liquids. Granular dynamics occur in geological phenomena and also enable technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals production to carbon capture. Here, we report the discovery of a family of gra...

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

authors： McLaren CP,Kovar TM,Penn A,Müller CR,Boyce CM

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty years ago glial cells were discovered as a second, non-neuronal, cell type in the central nervous system. To ascribe a function to these new, enigmatic cells, it was suggested that they either glue the neurons together (the Greek word "gammalambdaiotaalpha" means "glue") or provide a robust scaffold ...

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

authors： Lu YB,Franze K,Seifert G,Steinhäuser C,Kirchhoff F,Wolburg H,Guck J,Janmey P,Wei EQ,Käs J,Reichenbach A

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We created a high-throughput modality of photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) that enables automated 3D PALM imaging of hundreds of synchronized bacteria during all stages of the cell cycle. We used high-throughput PALM to investigate the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ in l...

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

authors： Holden SJ,Pengo T,Meibom KL,Fernandez Fernandez C,Collier J,Manley S

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the organization of the kappa light chain genes in germ-line (sperm) and somatic (embryo) tissues. We constructed a plasmid containing a DNA insert coding for the kappa chain MOPC 167 and used the Southern blotting technique to determine the organization of kappa variable and constant region genes. In the h...

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

authors： Joho R,Weissman IL,Early P,Cole J,Hood L

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) represents one of the most common RNA modifications in eukaryotes. Specific m6A writer, eraser, and reader proteins have been identified. As an m6A eraser, ALKBH5 specifically removes m6A from target mRNAs and inactivation of Alkbh5 leads to male infertility in mice. However, the underlying mo...

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

authors： Tang C,Klukovich R,Peng H,Wang Z,Yu T,Zhang Y,Zheng H,Klungland A,Yan W

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a physical and molecular genetic characterization of Drosophila melanogaster TFIIE (dTFIIE), a component of the basal RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus. We have purified dTFIIE to near homogeneity from nuclear extracts of Drosophila embryos and found that it is composed of two subunits with apparent...

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

authors： Wang X,Hansen SK,Ratts R,Zhou S,Snook AJ,Zehring W

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) control a multitude of biological processes and are therefore subjected to multiple levels of regulation. Negative feedback is one of the mechanisms that provide an effective means to control RTK-mediated signaling. Sef has recently been identified as a specific antagonist of fibroblas...

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

authors： Preger E,Ziv I,Shabtay A,Sher I,Tsang M,Dawid IB,Altuvia Y,Ron D

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00