Peptide design by artificial neural networks and computer-based evolutionary search.

abstract：:Transient cytosolic Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](cyt)) elevations are early events in plant signaling pathways including those related to abiotic stress. The restoration of [Ca(2+)](cyt) to prestimulus levels involves ATP-driven Ca(2+) pumps, but direct evidence for an essential role of a plant Ca(2+)-ATPase in abiotic stress ada...

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

authors： Qudeimat E,Faltusz AM,Wheeler G,Lang D,Holtorf H,Brownlee C,Reski R,Frank W

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation of injected mRNA in oocytes of Xenopus laevis has been used as a highly sensitive and quantitative assay for interferon mRNA. Injection into oocytes of polyadenylylated RNA extracted from poly(I).poly(C)-induced human diploid fibroblasts (FS-4) leads to the synthesis of biologically active human fibroblast...

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

authors： Sehgal PB,Dobberstein B,Tamm I

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent bisretinoids, such as A2E and all-trans-retinal dimer, form as a by-product of vitamin A cycling in retina and accumulate in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells as lipofuscin pigments. These pigments are implicated in pathological mechanisms involved in several vision-threatening diseases including age-...

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

authors： Wu Y,Yanase E,Feng X,Siegel MM,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine decarboxylase (L-histidine carboxylase, EC 4.1.1.22) activity of whole W/W mouse embryos, which are devoid of mast cells, remained very low and did not show the rapid increase before birth (17-20 days of gestation) seen in wild-type +/+ embryos. During the same period, the histamine content also remained...

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

authors： Watanabe T,Kitamura Y,Maeyama K,Go S,Yamatodani A,Wada H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the reduction of horseheart ferricytochrome c by sodium dithionite (phosphate buffer-sodium chloride; pH 6.5, mu = 1.0, 25 degrees ) features two reaction pathways; one with the rate constant k(3) = 1.17 x 10(4) M(-1) sec(-1), the other with the rate constant k(1)k(2)/k(-1) = 6.0 x 10(4) M(-1) sec(-1)....

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

authors： Creutz C,Sutin N

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of the receptor for IgE on mast cells, basophils, and a tumor analog, rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells, induces a calcium-dependent degranulation of the cells. We have measured the membrane potential (delta psi) of RBL cells during this reaction by using the tetraphenylphosphonium ion (Ph4P+) equilibrat...

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

authors： Kanner BI,Metzger H

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a direct simulation of a multistep proton transfer reaction involving protein residues, the proton relay shuttle between A and I forms of green fluorescent protein (GFP) is simulated in atomic detail by using a special molecular dynamics simulation technique. Electronic excitation of neutral chromophore in wild-typ...

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

authors： Lill MA,Helms V

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The body-wall muscle cells of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans produce thick filaments during embryonic, larval, and adult stages. These thick filaments contain two myosin isoforms, A and B, which assemble into different zones along the 10-microns lengths. Paramyosin, a protein homologous to myosin rods, forms a su...

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

authors： Honda S,Epstein HF

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of mRNAs encoding alpha 1, alpha 6, beta 2, beta 3, gamma 2, and delta subunits of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors and the gold immunolabeling density of their translation products were monitored during the growth of neonatal rat granule cells in primary culture. We investigated possible corre...

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

authors： Zheng TM,Zhu WJ,Puia G,Vicini S,Grayson DR,Costa E,Caruncho HJ

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent muscarinic photoaffinity reagent N-methyl-4-piperidyl p-azidobenzilate (azido-4NMPB) was used to covalently label specific muscarinic binding sites in various brain regions and in the heart. In the cortex and hippocampus, a single specifically labeled protein with an apparent molecular mass of 86,000 dalton...

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

authors： Avissar S,Amitai G,Sokolovsky M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) patients carry a missense mutation in ACVR1 [617G > A (R206H)] that leads to hyperactivation of BMP-SMAD signaling. Contrary to a previous study, here we show that FOP fibroblasts showed an increased efficiency of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) generation. This positiv...

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

authors： Hayashi Y,Hsiao EC,Sami S,Lancero M,Schlieve CR,Nguyen T,Yano K,Nagahashi A,Ikeya M,Matsumoto Y,Nishimura K,Fukuda A,Hisatake K,Tomoda K,Asaka I,Toguchida J,Conklin BR,Yamanaka S

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) cDNA was used to identify and clone the PLAP-like Nagao isozyme gene from human genomic libraries. The entire nucleotide sequence of the gene reveals the existence of 11 exons interrupted by 10 small introns (76-427 base pairs). Putative regulatory sequences have bee...

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

authors： Millán JL,Manes T

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise determination of de novo genetic variants has enormous implications across different fields of biology and medicine, particularly personalized medicine. Currently, de novo variations are identified by mapping sample reads from a parent-offspring trio to a reference genome, allowing for a certain degree of ...

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

authors： Gómez-Romero L,Palacios-Flores K,Reyes J,García D,Boege M,Dávila G,Flores M,Schatz MC,Palacios R

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the syk tyrosine kinase occurs almost immediately following engagement of many types of antigen receptors, including Fc receptors, but the mechanism through which syk is activated is currently unclear. Here we demonstrate that Fc receptor-induced syk activation occurs as the result of phosphorylation of ...

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

authors： El-Hillal O,Kurosaki T,Yamamura H,Kinet JP,Scharenberg AM

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are often associated with pathologic processes such as in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but can also underlie physiological processes such as pigmentation. Formation of pathological and functional amyloidogenic substrates can require precursor processing by proteases, as exemplified by the generation of Aβ peptid...

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

authors： Rochin L,Hurbain I,Serneels L,Fort C,Watt B,Leblanc P,Marks MS,De Strooper B,Raposo G,van Niel G

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency for genetic architectures to exhibit epistasis among mutations plays a central role in the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology and in theoretical descriptions of many evolutionary processes. Nevertheless, few studies unquestionably show whether, and how, mutations typically interact. Beneficial mutat...

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

authors： Sanjuán R,Moya A,Elena SF

更新日期：2004-10-26 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：:Increasing evidence suggests that amyloid polymorphism gives rise to different strains of amyloids with distinct toxicities and pathology-spreading properties. Validating this hypothesis is challenging due to a lack of tools and methods that allow for the direct characterization of amyloid polymorphism in hydrated and...

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

authors： Cendrowska U,Silva PJ,Ait-Bouziad N,Müller M,Guven ZP,Vieweg S,Chiki A,Radamaker L,Kumar ST,Fändrich M,Tavanti F,Menziani MC,Alexander-Katz A,Stellacci F,Lashuel HA

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a hallmark of many diseases, such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Although steroids and cyclooxygenase inhibitors are effective antiinflammatory therapeutical agents, they may cause serious side effects. Therefore, developing unique...

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

authors： Jeon KI,Xu X,Aizawa T,Lim JH,Jono H,Kwon DS,Abe J,Berk BC,Li JD,Yan C

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:When the proximal and distal elements of wire-frame cubes are conflated, observers perceive illusory structures that no longer behave veridically. These phenomena suggest that what we normally see depends on visual associations generated by experience. The necessity of such learning may explain why the mammalian visua...

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

authors： Purves D,Andrews TJ

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimaeric protein repressor-galactosidase, in which fully active lac repressor is covalently linked to the active enzyme beta-galactosidase, was used as a system for probing the quaternary structure of lac repressor. Electron micrographs revealed repressor-galactosidase to be a tetrameric aggregate. When lac repre...

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

authors： Kania J,Brown DT

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zn2+ is critical for the functional and structural integrity of cells and contributes to a number of important processes including gene expression. It has been shown that NO exogenously applied via NO donors resulting in nitrosative stress leads to cytoplasmic Zn2+ release from the zinc storing protein metallothionein...

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

authors： Spahl DU,Berendji-Grün D,Suschek CV,Kolb-Bachofen V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change is expected to have broad ecological consequences for species and communities. Attempts to forecast these consequences usually assume that changes in air or water temperature will translate into equivalent changes in a species' organismal body temperature. This simple change is unlikely because a...

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

authors： Gilman SE,Wethey DS,Helmuth B

更新日期：2006-06-20 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：:Mammalian homologues of Drosophila Trp form plasma membrane channels that mediate Ca(2+) influx in response to activation of phospholipase C and internal Ca(2+) store depletion. Previous studies showed that human Trp3 is activated by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) receptors (IP(3)Rs) and identified interacting d...

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

authors： Zhang Z,Tang J,Tikunova S,Johnson JD,Chen Z,Qin N,Dietrich A,Stefani E,Birnbaumer L,Zhu MX

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization and certain later stages in mammalian embryonic development require fusion between membranes of individual cells. The mechanism of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion is unknown, and no surface molecules required for this process have been unequivocally identified. The role of the sperm surface protein fertilin ...

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

authors： Myles DG,Kimmel LH,Blobel CP,White JM,Primakoff P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient 3'-end processing of cell cycle-regulated mammalian histone premessenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) requires an upstream stem-loop and a histone downstream element (HDE) that base pairs with the U7 small ribonucleoprotein. Insertions between these elements have two effects: the site of cleavage moves in concert with t...

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

authors： Scharl EC,Steitz JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular membrane structures are widespread in eukaryotic cells, but the mechanisms underlying their formation and stability are not well understood. Previous work has focused on tube extrusion from cells and model membranes under the application of external forces. Here, we present novel membrane/polymer systems, wher...

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

authors： Li Y,Lipowsky R,Dimova R

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying presynaptic mechanisms of general anesthetics is critical to understanding their effects on synaptic transmission. We show that the volatile anesthetic isoflurane inhibits synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis at nerve terminals in dissociated rat hippocampal neurons through inhibition of presynaptic Ca(2+) inf...

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

authors： Baumgart JP,Zhou ZY,Hara M,Cook DC,Hoppa MB,Ryan TA,Hemmings HC Jr

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for ever deeper relationships among the World's languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative modeling indicates that some "ultraconserved" words exist that might be used to find evidence ...

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

authors： Pagel M,Atkinson QD,S Calude A,Meade A

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00