Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate is not the committed precursor of isopentenyl pyrophosphate during terpenoid biosynthesis from 1-deoxyxylulose in higher plants.

abstract：:HetR is an essential regulator of heterocyst development in cyanobacteria. Many mutations in HetR render Anabaena incapable of nitrogen fixation. The protein binds to a DNA palindrome upstream of hetP and other genes. We have determined the crystal structures of HetR complexed with palindromic DNA targets, 21, 23, and...

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

authors： Kim Y,Ye Z,Joachimiak G,Videau P,Young J,Hurd K,Callahan SM,Gornicki P,Zhao J,Haselkorn R,Joachimiak A

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood oxygen level-dependent functional MRI (fMRI) constitutes a powerful neuroimaging technology to map brain-wide functions in response to specific sensory or cognitive tasks. However, fMRI mapping of the vestibular system, which is pivotal for our sense of balance, poses significant challenges. Physical constraints...

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

authors： Leong ATL,Gu Y,Chan YS,Zheng H,Dong CM,Chan RW,Wang X,Liu Y,Tan LH,Wu EX

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-stable enterotoxin B (STB) of Escherichia coli is a 48-amino acid extracellular peptide that induces rapid fluid accumulation in animal intestinal models. Unlike other E. coli enterotoxins that elicit cAMP or cGMP responses in the gut [heat-labile toxin (LT) and heat-stable toxin A (STA), respectively], STB i...

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

authors： Dreyfus LA,Harville B,Howard DE,Shaban R,Beatty DM,Morris SJ

更新日期：1993-04-15 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：:Intact squid axons were injected with aequorin and bathed in 3 mM Ca seawater (a concentration close to that of squid blood). Sodium and potassium currents were pharmacologically blocked and repetitive voltage-clamp pulses of a duration of 1.5 ms were applied (to simulate the duration of an action potential) at amplit...

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

authors： Mullins LJ,Requena J,Whittembury J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The core enzyme of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase acquires essential promoter recognition and transcription initiation activities by binding one of several sigma subunits. To characterize the proximity between sigma70, the major sigma for transcription of the growth-related genes, and the core enzyme subunits (alpha2...

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

authors： Owens JT,Miyake R,Murakami K,Chmura AJ,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Meares CF

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of talin, a component of the cytoskeleton localized in the focal adhesions and, therefore, a potential substrate of p60v-src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. p60v-src is a tyrosine kinase that induces high levels of phosphotyrosine and the disorga...

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

authors： Pasquale EB,Maher PA,Singer SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inward Na+ current underlying the action potential in nerve is terminated by inactivation. The preceding report shows that deletions within the intracellular linker between domains III and IV remove inactivation, but mutation of conserved basic and paired acidic amino acids has little effect. Here we show that sub...

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

authors： West JW,Patton DE,Scheuer T,Wang Y,Goldin AL,Catterall WA

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 1 is required for maintenance of bulk DNA methylation and is essential for mouse development. However, somatic disruption of DNMT1 in the human cancer cell line HCT116 was not lethal and caused only minor decreases in methylation. Here, we report the identi...

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

authors： Egger G,Jeong S,Escobar SG,Cortez CC,Li TW,Saito Y,Yoo CB,Jones PA,Liang G

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and liver receptor homologue-1 (LRH-1) belong to the fushi tarazu factor 1 subfamily of nuclear receptors. SF-1 is an essential factor for sex determination during development and regulates adrenal and gonadal steroidogenesis in the adult, whereas LRH-1 is a critical factor for developmen...

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

authors： Wang W,Zhang C,Marimuthu A,Krupka HI,Tabrizizad M,Shelloe R,Mehra U,Eng K,Nguyen H,Settachatgul C,Powell B,Milburn MV,West BL

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:[PSI+] is a genetic element in yeast for which a heritable change in phenotype appears to be caused by a heritable change in the conformational state of the Sup35 protein. The inheritance of [PSI+] and the physical state of Sup35 in vivo depend on the protein chaperone Hsp104 (heat shock protein 104). Although these o...

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

authors： Schirmer EC,Lindquist S

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain relies upon the dynamic formation and dissolution of a hierarchy of functional networks to support ongoing cognition. However, how functional connectivities underlying such networks are supported by cortical microstructure remains poorly understood. Recent animal work has demonstrated that electrical a...

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

authors： Hunt BA,Tewarie PK,Mougin OE,Geades N,Jones DK,Singh KD,Morris PG,Gowland PA,Brookes MJ

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservation of developmental functions exerted by Antp-class homeoproteins in protostomes and deuterostomes suggested that homologs with related functions are present in diploblastic animals. Our phylogenetic analyses showed that Antp-class homeodomains belong either to non-Hox or to Hox/paraHox families. Among t...

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

authors： Gauchat D,Mazet F,Berney C,Schummer M,Kreger S,Pawlowski J,Galliot B

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify sequences in a randomly encoded polypeptide library that are capable of acquiring unique and stably folded structures would be valuable in the examination of protein-folding issues. The quality control system of the yeast secretory pathway prevents the release of incompletely folded polypeptide...

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

authors： Hagihara Y,Kim PS

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified previously in vitro LRP4 (low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4) as a facilitator of the WNT (Wingless-type) antagonist sclerostin and found mutations disrupting this function to be associated with high bone mass in humans similar to patients lacking sclerostin. To further delineate the role...

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

authors： Chang MK,Kramer I,Huber T,Kinzel B,Guth-Gundel S,Leupin O,Kneissel M

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:CD95 type I and II cells differ in their dependence on mitochondria to execute apoptosis, because antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family render only type II cells resistant to death receptor-induced apoptosis. They can also be distinguished by a more efficient formation of the death-inducing signaling complex in ty...

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

authors： Algeciras-Schimnich A,Pietras EM,Barnhart BC,Legembre P,Vijayan S,Holbeck SL,Peter ME

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking causes emphysema, a fatal disease involving extensive structural and functional damage of the lung. Using a guinea pig model and human lung cells, we show that oxidant(s) present in tobacco smoke not only cause direct oxidative damage of lung proteins, contributing to the major share of lung injury, ...

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

authors： Gupta I,Ganguly S,Rozanas CR,Stuehr DJ,Panda K

更新日期：2016-07-19 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：:HBc, the capsid-forming "core protein" of human hepatitis B virus (HBV), is a multidomain, α-helical homodimer that aggressively forms human HBV capsids. Structural plasticity has been proposed to be important to the myriad functions HBc mediates during viral replication. Here, we report detailed thermodynamic analyse...

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

authors： Alexander CG,Jürgens MC,Shepherd DA,Freund SM,Ashcroft AE,Ferguson N

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in resting-state functional connectivity occur but their behavioral significance remains unclear, largely because correlating behavioral state with dynamic functional connectivity states (DCS) engages probes that disrupt the very behavioral state we seek to observe. Observing spontaneous eyelid closures f...

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

authors： Wang C,Ong JL,Patanaik A,Zhou J,Chee MW

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Levinthal's paradox is that finding the native folded state of a protein by a random search among all possible configurations can take an enormously long time. Yet proteins can fold in seconds or less. Mathematical analysis of a simple model shows that a small and physically reasonable energy bias against locally unfa...

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

authors： Zwanzig R,Szabo A,Bagchi B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant mutations in the maize homeobox gene knotted1 (kn1) act nonautonomously during maize leaf development, indicating that Kn1 is involved in the generation or transmission of a developmental signal that passes from the inner layers of the leaf to epidermal cells. We previously found that this nonautonomous activ...

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

authors： Kim JY,Yuan Z,Cilia M,Khalfan-Jagani Z,Jackson D

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 14 was transferred into tumorigenic nasopharyngeal carcinoma and esophageal carcinoma cell lines by a microcell-mediated chromosome transfer approach. Functional complementation of defects present in the cancer cells suppressed tumor formation. A candidate tumor-suppressor gene, cysteine-rich intestinal pro...

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

authors： Cheung AK,Ko JM,Lung HL,Chan KW,Stanbridge EJ,Zabarovsky E,Tokino T,Kashima L,Suzuki T,Kwong DL,Chua D,Tsao SW,Lung ML

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1999, the population of Vancouver Island, Canada, began to experience an outbreak of a fatal fungal disease caused by a highly virulent lineage of Cryptococcus gattii. This organism has recently spread to the Canadian mainland and Pacific Northwest, but the molecular cause of the outbreak remains unknown. Here we s...

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

authors： Ma H,Hagen F,Stekel DJ,Johnston SA,Sionov E,Falk R,Polacheck I,Boekhout T,May RC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome bc1 and related complexes are essential energy-conserving components of mitochondrial and bacterial electron transport chains. They orchestrate a complex sequence of electron and proton transfer reactions resulting in the oxidation of quinol, the reduction of a mobile electron carrier, and the transloca...

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

authors： Cape JL,Bowman MK,Kramer DM

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collecti...

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

authors： Bongini L,Fanelli D,Piazza F,De Los Rios P,Sandin S,Skoglund U

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Of two closely related species of geese, one, the greylag goose, lives in the Indian plains all year round, while the other, the bar-headed goose, lives at the Tibetan lakes and migrates across the Himalayas to winter in India. Another species, the Andean goose, lives in the High Andes all year round. Possession of a ...

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

authors： Jessen TH,Weber RE,Fermi G,Tame J,Braunitzer G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the process by which small groups of pigmented germinal cells transplanted orthotopically from stage 30-38 donor embryos into stage 28-38 albino hosts contribute new postmitotic cells to the pigmented retinal epithelium of the growing larval eye in Xenopus. In the great majority of chimeric eyes, the ...

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

authors： Hunt RK,Cohen JS,Mason BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent demonstrations of correlated low-frequency MRI signal variations between subregions of the spinal cord at rest in humans, similar to those found in the brain, suggest that such resting-state functional connectivity constitutes a common feature of the intrinsic organization of the entire central nervous system. ...

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

authors： Chen LM,Mishra A,Yang PF,Wang F,Gore JC

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormones and nutrients often induce genetic programs via signaling pathways that interface with gene-specific activators. Activation of the cAMP pathway, for example, stimulates cellular gene expression by means of the PKA-mediated phosphorylation of cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) at Ser-133. Here, we us...

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

authors： Zhang X,Odom DT,Koo SH,Conkright MD,Canettieri G,Best J,Chen H,Jenner R,Herbolsheimer E,Jacobsen E,Kadam S,Ecker JR,Emerson B,Hogenesch JB,Unterman T,Young RA,Montminy M

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00