Heritable germ and somatic cell lineage competitions in chimeric colonial protochordates.

abstract：:We have investigated the regulation of the expression of two growth factors found in vascular smooth muscle, transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). Cells cultured in medium containing 30 mM glucose exhibited a 2-fold increase in TGF alpha mRNA and a 3-fold increase in b...

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

authors： McClain DA,Paterson AJ,Roos MD,Wei X,Kudlow JE

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent archaeological discoveries have revealed that pigment use, beads, engravings, and sophisticated stone and bone tools were already present in southern Africa 75,000 y ago. Many of these artifacts disappeared by 60,000 y ago, suggesting that modern behavior appeared in the past and was subsequently lost before be...

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

authors： d'Errico F,Backwell L,Villa P,Degano I,Lucejko JJ,Bamford MK,Higham TF,Colombini MP,Beaumont PB

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Reelin is a key mediator of ordered neuronal alignment in the brain. Here, we demonstrate that Reelin molecules assemble with each other to form a huge protein complex both in vitro and in vivo. The Reelin-Reelin interaction clearly is inhibited by the function-blocking anti-Reelin antibody, CR-50, at a concentration ...

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

authors： Utsunomiya-Tate N,Kubo K,Tate S,Kainosho M,Katayama E,Nakajima K,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many materials phenomena are governed by the interaction between chemistry and mechanics. However, it was only in the second half of the 20th century that the theory of open system elasticity by Francis Larché and John W. Cahn concatenated the fields of solid mechanics and alloy chemistry. As the theory's central mate...

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

authors： Shi S,Markmann J,Weissmüller J

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we address the problem of modeling generic features of structurally but not textually related DNA motifs, that is, motifs whose consensus sequences are entirely different but nevertheless share "metasequence features" reflecting similarities in the DNA-binding domains of their associated protein recog...

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

authors： Xing EP,Karp RM

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Under typical conditions, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) connections with the amygdala are immature during childhood and become adult-like during adolescence. Rodent models show that maternal deprivation accelerates this development, prompting examination of human amygdala-mPFC phenotypes following maternal deprivati...

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

authors： Gee DG,Gabard-Durnam LJ,Flannery J,Goff B,Humphreys KL,Telzer EH,Hare TA,Bookheimer SY,Tottenham N

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A fungal colony is a syncytium composed of a branched and interconnected network of cells. Chimerism endows colonies with increased virulence and ability to exploit nutritionally complex substrates. Moreover, chimera formation may be a driver for diversification at the species level by allowing lateral gene transfer b...

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

authors： Roper M,Simonin A,Hickey PC,Leeder A,Glass NL

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymidine analog fialuridine deoxy-2-fluoro-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl)-5-iodouracil (FIAU) was toxic in trials for chronic hepatitis B infection. One mechanism postulated that defective mtDNA replication was mediated through inhibition of DNA polymerase-gamma (DNA pol-gamma), by FIAU triphosphate (FIALTP) or by trip...

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

authors： Lewis W,Levine ES,Griniuviene B,Tankersley KO,Colacino JM,Sommadossi JP,Watanabe KA,Perrino FW

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy, which results from whole genome duplication (WGD), has shaped the long-term evolution of eukaryotic genomes in all kingdoms. Polyploidy is also implicated in adaptation, domestication, and speciation. Yet when WGD newly occurs, the resulting neopolyploids face numerous challenges. A particularly pernicious...

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

authors： Morgan C,Zhang H,Henry CE,Franklin FCH,Bomblies K

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:1,N(6)-Ethenoadenosine triphosphate (epsilon-ATP) has been found to be inactive as a substrate for firefly luciferase. However, chemically synthesized luciferyl-epsilonAMP is oxidized by luciferase and light is emitted. The color of the light is red in contrast to the normal yellow-green observed with luciferyladenyla...

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

authors： Deluca M,Leonard NJ,Gates BJ,McElroy WD

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap phosphatases are a recently discovered family of protein aspartate phosphatases that dephosphorylate the Spo0F--P intermediate of the phosphorelay, thus preventing sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. They are regulators induced by physiological processes that are antithetical to sporulation. The RapA phosphatase is ...

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

authors： Perego M,Hoch JA

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed by the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome bound with release factor RF2, in response to a UAA stop codon, solved at 3 A resolution. The backbone of helix alpha5 and the side chain of serine of the conserved SPF motif of RF2 recognize U1 and A2 ...

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

authors： Korostelev A,Asahara H,Lancaster L,Laurberg M,Hirschi A,Zhu J,Trakhanov S,Scott WG,Noller HF

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:p19ARF has been implicated as a key regulator of p53 stability and activation. While numerous stresses activate the p53 growth arrest pathway, those requiring p19ARF remain to be elucidated. We used p19ARF knockout mouse embryo fibroblasts to show that DNA damage and microtubule disruption require p19ARF to induce p53...

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

authors： Khan SH,Moritsugu J,Wahl GM

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens reinforces the need for structures of antibiotic-ribosome complexes that are accurate enough to enable the rational design of novel ribosome-targeting therapeutics. Structures of many antibiotics in complex with both archaeal and eubacterial ribosomes have be...

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

authors： Bulkley D,Innis CA,Blaha G,Steitz TA

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon budget and dynamics of the Earth's interior, including the core, are currently very poorly understood. Diamond-bearing, mantle-derived rocks show a very well defined peak at δ(13)C ≈ -5 ± 3‰ with a very broad distribution to lower values (∼-40‰). The processes that have produced the wide δ(13)C distribution...

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

authors： Horita J,Polyakov VB

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies in mice suggest that Wnt4 signaling antagonizes expression of male hormones and effectively blocks male development in the female embryo. We recently identified an XY intersex patient carrying a chromosomal duplication of the WNT4 locus and proposed that this patient's feminization arises from an incre...

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

authors： Jordan BK,Shen JH,Olaso R,Ingraham HA,Vilain E

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, microtubules are essential for cellular plasticity and dynamics. Here we show that P300/CBP-associated factor (PCAF), a kinetochore-associated acetyltransferase, acts as a negative modulator of microtubule stability through acetylation of EB1, a protein that controls the plus ends of microtubules. PCAF ...

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

authors： Xia P,Wang Z,Liu X,Wu B,Wang J,Ward T,Zhang L,Ding X,Gibbons G,Shi Y,Yao X

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+, pheromones, sweet taste compounds, and the main neurotransmitters glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid activate G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that constitute the GPCR family 3. These receptors are dimers, and each subunit has a large extracellular domain called a Venus flytrap module (VFTM), where agonist...

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

authors： Bessis AS,Rondard P,Gaven F,Brabet I,Triballeau N,Prezeau L,Acher F,Pin JP

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In an 1885 paper, E. Picard defined a subgroup Tau(Lambda) of PU(2,1) generated by monodromies and depending on parameters Lambda = (lambda(1),lambda(2),lambda(3),lambda(4)), 0 < lambda(i) < 1, < lambda(i) < 3, lambda(i) + lambda(j) >/= 1, 1

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

authors： Mostow GD

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying structure is taken as a strongly superharmonic cone [unk], defined as a partially ordered abelian semigroup with identity 0 which admits a multiplication by nonnegative scalars and satisfies two fundamental axioms of a potentialtheoretic character. In terms of a fixed nonzero element e there is introduc...

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

authors： Arsove M,Leutwiler H

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through a process called "bioturbation," burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of macrofauna on the community structure of microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial communities across bioturbated, but ge...

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

authors： Deng L,Bölsterli D,Kristensen E,Meile C,Su CC,Bernasconi SM,Seidenkrantz MS,Glombitza C,Lagostina L,Han X,Jørgensen BB,Røy H,Lever MA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known for more than a century that increases in neuronal activity in the brain are reliably accompanied by changes in local blood flow. More recently it has been appreciated that these blood flow increases are accompanied by increases in glycolysis that are much greater than the increases in oxidative phos...

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

authors： Vlassenko AG,Rundle MM,Raichle ME,Mintun MA

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) and periclase (MgO) in Fe-Mg-Ca carbonate in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were studied by using transmission electron microscopy to understand their origin and evaluate claims that the magnetites were made by Martian microorganisms. In magnesian carbonate, periclase occurs ...

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

authors： Barber DJ,Scott ER

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cis-acting regulatory sequence of transcription from long terminal repeats (LTRs) of human T-cell leukemia virus type I and type II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II), which is essential for action of the virally encoded trans-acting transcriptional factor(s) designated pX(s), in HTLV-I and -II was identified. Deletion of most ...

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

authors： Shimotohno K,Takano M,Teruuchi T,Miwa M

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆Ca = future minus historic CO2) compensates for increased physiological stresses from higher temperature (∆T). We predicted the outcome of these competing responses by using optimization the...

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

authors： Sperry JS,Venturas MD,Todd HN,Trugman AT,Anderegg WRL,Wang Y,Tai X

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 family proteins play a crucial role in tissue homeostasis and apoptosis (programmed cell death). Bid is a proapoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family, promoting cell death when activated by caspase-8. Following an NMR-based approach (structure-activity relationships by interligand NOE) we were able to identify two c...

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

authors： Becattini B,Culmsee C,Leone M,Zhai D,Zhang X,Crowell KJ,Rega MF,Landshamer S,Reed JC,Plesnila N,Pellecchia M

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the dynamics and spatial distribution of land use fragmentation in a rapidly urbanizing region of the United States to test key propositions regarding the evolution of sprawl. Using selected pattern metrics and data from 1973 and 2000 for the state of Maryland, we find significant increases in developed...

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

authors： Irwin EG,Bockstael NE

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a soluble in vitro RNA polymerase II transcription system to define the site of initiation of Moloney murine leukemia viral RNA synthesis. Molecularly cloned integrated and unintegrated Moloney murine leukemia virus DNAs were used as templates. The 5' ends of in vitro transcripts and virion RNA of Moloney...

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

authors： Fuhrman SA,Van Beveren C,Verma IM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaking(viable) (qk(v)) is a recessive neurological mouse mutation with severe dysmyelination of the CNS and spermiogenesis failure. The molecular lesion in the qk(v) mutant is a deletion of approximately 1 Mb on mouse chromosome 17 that alters the expression of the qk gene in oligodendrocytes. Complementation analysi...

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

authors： Lorenzetti D,Bishop CE,Justice MJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00