Enhanced stability of maize endosperm ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is gained through mutants that alter subunit interactions.

abstract：:Cocaine exposure in utero causes severe alterations in the development of the central nervous system. To study the basis of these teratogenic effects in vitro, we have used cocultures of neurons and glial cells from mouse embryonic brain. Cocaine selectively affected embryonic neuronal cells, causing first a dramatic ...

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

authors： Nassogne MC,Evrard P,Courtoy PJ

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinct phosphodiesterasic activity (EC 3.1.4) was found in both mono- and dicotyledonous plants that catalyzes the hydrolytic breakdown of ADPglucose (ADPG) to produce equimolar amounts of glucose-1-phosphate and AMP. The enzyme responsible for this activity, referred to as ADPG pyrophosphatase (AGPPase), was puri...

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

authors： Rodriguez-López M,Baroja-Fernández E,Zandueta-Criado A,Pozueta-Romero J

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

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

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method based on a phagemid vector with helper phage rescue for the construction and rapid analysis of combinatorial antibody Fab libraries. This approach should allow the generation and selection of many monoclonal antibodies. Antibody genes are expressed in concert with phage morphogenesis, thereby allo...

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

authors： Kang AS,Barbas CF,Janda KD,Benkovic SJ,Lerner RA

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-positive (DP) thymocytes respond to intrathymic T-cell receptor (TCR) signals by undergoing positive selection and lineage differentiation into single-positive (SP) mature cells. Concomitant with these well-characterized events is the acquisition of a mature T-cell gene expression program characterized by the i...

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

authors： Shi LZ,Saravia J,Zeng H,Kalupahana NS,Guy CS,Neale G,Chi H

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During zebrafish development, zygotic gene expression initiated at the midblastula transition converts maternal information on embryo polarity into a transcriptional read-out. Expression of a homeobox gene, vega1, is activated at midblastula transition in all blastomeres, but is down-regulated dorsally before gastrula...

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

authors： Kawahara A,Wilm T,Solnica-Krezel L,Dawid IB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly polymorphic system of serologically defined genetic markers on human IgG heavy chains (Gm allotypes) is second only to the HLA complex in terms of the large number of determinants, alleles, and haplotypes that can be used for analyses of disease associations and other genetic studies. However, present typin...

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

authors： Zelaschi D,Newby C,Parsons M,van West B,Cavalli-Sforza LL,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological sensing of O(2) tension (partial O(2) pressure, pO(2)) plays an important role in some mammalian cellular systems, but striated muscle generally is not considered to be among them. Here we describe a molecular mechanism in skeletal muscle that acutely couples changes in pO(2) to altered calcium release t...

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

authors： Sun QA,Hess DT,Nogueira L,Yong S,Bowles DE,Eu J,Laurita KR,Meissner G,Stamler JS

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal vent ecosystems support diverse life forms, many of which rely on symbiotic associations to perform functions integral to survival in these extreme physicochemical environments. Epsilonproteobacteria, found free-living and in intimate associations with vent invertebrates, are the predominant vent-associat...

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

authors： Grzymski JJ,Murray AE,Campbell BJ,Kaplarevic M,Gao GR,Lee C,Daniel R,Ghadiri A,Feldman RA,Cary SC

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex three-dimensional biophotonic nanostructures produce the vivid structural colors of many butterfly wing scales, but their exact nanoscale organization is uncertain. We used small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on single scales to characterize the 3D photonic nanostructures of five butterfly species from two fam...

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

authors： Saranathan V,Osuji CO,Mochrie SG,Noh H,Narayanan S,Sandy A,Dufresne ER,Prum RO

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic wounds represent a substantial public health problem. The development of tools that would enable sophisticated scrutiny of clinical wound tissue material is highly desirable. This work presents evidence enabling rapid specific identification and laser capture of blood vessels from human tissue in a manner whic...

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

authors： Roy S,Patel D,Khanna S,Gordillo GM,Biswas S,Friedman A,Sen CK

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:p300 acetylates and activates the tumor suppressor p53 after DNA damage. Here, we show that MDM2, a negative-feedback regulator of p53, inhibited p300-mediated p53 acetylation by complexing with these two proteins. First, we purified a p300-MDM2-p53 protein complex from HeLa nuclear extracts, which was inactive in p53...

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

authors： Kobet E,Zeng X,Zhu Y,Keller D,Lu H

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of corn pollen on leaves of milkweed plants inside and outside of cornfields was measured in several studies from different localities. The purpose was to obtain a representative picture of naturally occurring pollen densities to provide a perspective for laboratory and field studies of monarch larvae feed...

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

authors： Pleasants JM,Hellmich RL,Dively GP,Sears MK,Stanley-Horn DE,Mattila HR,Foster JE,Clark P,Jones GD

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (GS) was inactivated by a nonenzymic mixed-function oxidation system composed of ascorbate, O2, and Fe(III). Partial inactivation of GS by this system leads to the formation of hybrid GS molecules (dodecamers) composed of both active and inactive subunits. Subunit interactions in ...

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

authors： Nakamura K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a polynomial C(mu)[Z; q, t], depending on a set of variables Z = z(1), z(2),..., a partition mu, and two extra parameters q, t. The definition of C(mu) involves a pair of statistics (maj(sigma, mu), inv(sigma, mu)) on words sigma of positive integers, and the coefficients of the z(i) are manifestly in N[q...

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

authors： Haglund J

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that cleaves Holliday junctions was partially purified approximately 500- to 1000-fold by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, gel filtration on Sephacryl S300, and chromatography on single-stranded DNA-cellulose. The partially purified enzyme did not have any detectable nuclease acti...

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

authors： Symington LS,Kolodner R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is routinely used to engineer desirable genes into dicotyledonous plants. However, the economically important graminaceous plant maize is refractory to tumor induction by inoculation with virulent strains of A. tumefaciens. Currently, the only clearcut evidence for transferred DNA (T-DNA) tra...

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

authors： Shen WH,Escudero J,Schläppi M,Ramos C,Hohn B,Koukolíková-Nicola Z

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of PC12 cells with either nerve growth factor or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate caused a decrease in the phosphorylation of a soluble 100-kDa protein (Nsp100). After treatment with nerve growth factor, the activity of Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) in the cytosol was incre...

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

authors： Hama T,Huang KP,Guroff G

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory is proposed to study the sensitivity of cylindrical explosives. Using the equations governing the conservation of mass, energy, and momentum, the equation of state, and Newtonian mechanics, we have derived the expression D = D(o)e(-a2/d), in which the apparent length of the reaction zone, a, takes into accoun...

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

authors： Eyring H,Walker FE,Ma SM,Coon N

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) represents a serious threat to the health of hospitalized patients. Attempts to reduce the spread of MRSA have largely depended on hospital hygiene and patient isolation. These measures have met with mixed success: although some countries have almost eliminated MRSA o...

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

authors： Cooper BS,Medley GF,Stone SP,Kibbler CC,Cookson BD,Roberts JA,Duckworth G,Lai R,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cysteine of the typical 2-Cys Prx subfamily of peroxiredoxins is occasionally hyperoxidized to cysteine sulfinic acid during the peroxidase catalytic cycle. Sulfinic Prx (Prx-SO2H) is reduced back to the active form of the enzyme by sulfiredoxin. The abundance of Prx-SO2H was recently shown to oscillate ...

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

authors： Cho CS,Yoon HJ,Kim JY,Woo HA,Rhee SG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Forkhead box g1 (Foxg1) is a nuclear-cytosolic transcription factor essential for the forebrain development and involved in neurodevelopmental and cancer pathologies. Despite the importance of this protein, little is known about the modalities by which it exerts such a large number of cellular functions. Here we show ...

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

authors： Pancrazi L,Di Benedetto G,Colombaioni L,Della Sala G,Testa G,Olimpico F,Reyes A,Zeviani M,Pozzan T,Costa M

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor monomers and noncovalently associated dimers were isolated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and their respective binding and autophosphorylation activities were determined. We find that monomers are low-affinity receptors and dimers are high-affinity receptors. In the ...

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

authors： Böni-Schnetzler M,Pilch PF

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the volume and location of hippocampal tissue required for normal acquisition of a spatial memory task. Ibotenic acid was used to make bilateral symmetric lesions of 20-100% of hippocampal volume. Even a small transverse block (minislab) of the hippocampus (down to 26% of the total) could support sp...

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

authors： Moser MB,Moser EI,Forrest E,Andersen P,Morris RG

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Small proteins can fold remarkably rapidly, even in μs. What limits their rate of folding? The Engrailed homeodomain is a particularly well-characterized example, which folds ultrafast via an intermediate, I, of solved structure. It is a puzzle that the helix2-turn-helix3 motif of the 3-helix bundle forms in approxima...

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

authors： Neuweiler H,Banachewicz W,Fersht AR

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Filipin, digitonin, and saponin react with membrane cholesterol to produce unique membrane alterations (sterol-specific complexes) that are easily discernible in freeze-fracture replicas. We have treated both noninnervated and innervated Xenopus embryonic muscle cells in culture with these agents. Freeze-fracture of t...

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

authors： Bridgman PC,Nakajima Y

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human papillomavirus E7 protein is phosphorylated at the two serines in positions 31/32, which are part of a consensus sequence for casein kinase II (CKII). In this study, we have investigated the effect of CKII phosphorylation site mutations, all of which lead to unphosphorylated E7 proteins. The replacement of t...

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

authors： Firzlaff JM,Lüscher B,Eisenman RN

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To relate transients of force by single kinesin molecules with the elementary steps of the ATPase cycle, we measured the time to force generation by kinesin after photorelease of ATP from caged ATP. Kinesin-coated beads were trapped by an infrared laser and brought onto microtubules fixed to a coverslip. Tension was a...

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

authors： Higuchi H,Muto E,Inoue Y,Yanagida T

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To evade host immune mechanisms, many bacteria secrete immunomodulatory enzymes. Streptococcus pyogenes, one of the most common human pathogens, secretes a large endoglycosidase, EndoS, which removes carbohydrates in a highly specific manner from IgG antibodies. This modification renders antibodies incapable of elicit...

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

authors： Trastoy B,Lomino JV,Pierce BG,Carter LG,Günther S,Giddens JP,Snyder GA,Weiss TM,Weng Z,Wang LX,Sundberg EJ

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The INK4a-ARF locus encodes two proteins, p16(INK4a) and p19(ARF), that restrain cell growth by affecting the functions of the retinoblastoma protein and p53, respectively. Disruption of this locus by deletions or point mutations is a common event in human cancer, perhaps second only to the loss of p53. Using insect c...

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

authors： Kamijo T,Weber JD,Zambetti G,Zindy F,Roussel MF,Sherr CJ

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00