Macronuclear DNA of the hypotrichous ciliate Oxytricha fallax.

abstract：:The controversy over the interpretation of DNA profile evidence in forensic identification can be attributed in part to confusion over the mode(s) of statistical inference appropriate to this setting. Although there has been substantial discussion in the literature of, for example, the role of population genetics issu...

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

authors： Balding DJ,Donnelly P

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VII is a precursor to a serine protease that is present in mammalian plasma. In its activated form, it participates in blood coagulation by activating factor X and/or factor IX in the presence of tissue factor and calcium. Clones coding for factor VII were obtained from two cDNA libraries prepared from poly(A) ...

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

authors： Hagen FS,Gray CL,O'Hara P,Grant FJ,Saari GC,Woodbury RG,Hart CE,Insley M,Kisiel W,Kurachi K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is an evolutionarily conserved process in which recognition of double-stranded RNA ultimately leads to posttranscriptional suppression of gene expression. This suppression is mediated by short (21- to 22-nt) small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which induce degradation of mRNA based on complementary base ...

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

authors： Barton GM,Medzhitov R

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism, mediated by deiodinase types 1, 2, and 3 (D1, D2, and D3) is profoundly affected by acute illness. We examined the role of TH metabolism during ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in mice. Mice exposed to VILI recapitulated the serum TH findings of acute illness, namely a decrease in...

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

authors： Barca-Mayo O,Liao XH,DiCosmo C,Dumitrescu A,Moreno-Vinasco L,Wade MS,Sammani S,Mirzapoiazova T,Garcia JG,Refetoff S,Weiss RE

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign DNA molecules and chromosomal fragments are generally eliminated from proliferating cells, but we know little about how mammalian cells prevent their propagation. Here, we show that dividing human and canine cells partition transfected plasmid DNA asymmetrically, preferentially into the daughter cell harboring...

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

authors： Wang X,Le N,Denoth-Lippuner A,Barral Y,Kroschewski R

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosyltransferases of the mammalian Golgi complex must recycle between the stacked cisternae of that organelle to maintain their proper steady-state localization. This trafficking is mediated by COPI-coated vesicles, but how the glycosyltransferases are incorporated into these transport vesicles is poorly unders...

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

authors： Liu L,Doray B,Kornfeld S

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hsp90 chaperone buffers development against a wide range of morphological changes in many organisms and in Drosophila masks the effects of hidden genetic variation. Theory predicts that genetic and nongenetic buffering will share common mechanisms. For example, it is argued that Hsp90 genetic buffering evolved sol...

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

authors： Milton CC,Huynh B,Batterham P,Rutherford SL,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have highlighted the importance of peripheral induction of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the dominant control of immunological tolerance. However, Foxp3(+) Treg differentiation from naïve CD4(+) T cells occurs only under selective conditions, whereas the classical T helper (Th) 1 and 2 ...

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

authors： Wei J,Duramad O,Perng OA,Reiner SL,Liu YJ,Qin FX

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:During genome transcription in rotavirus, as with many segmented double-stranded RNA viruses, mRNA is transcribed within the intact subviral particle and translocated through specific channels in the capsid. To understand how the conformation of the capsid affects the efficiency of transcriptional events in the viral ...

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

authors： Lawton JA,Estes MK,Prasad BV

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones for the (S)-tetrahydroberberine (H4Ber) oxidase of cultured berberine-producing Coptis japonica cells were isolated by screening a C. japonica cDNA library with synthetic nucleotides that can encode the NH2-terminal sequence of this enzyme. Analyses of the nucleotide sequences of the cloned cDNA inserts re...

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

authors： Okada N,Koizumi N,Tanaka T,Ohkubo H,Nakanishi S,Yamada Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial passage of simian virus 40 (SV40) at high multiplicity of infection leads to the emergence of variants with deleted, substituted, and/or duplicated DNA. Individual variants have been cloned by selective complementation with temperature sensitive SV40 mutants, or nonselectively by coinfection of cells with wild-...

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

authors： Brockman WW,Nathans D

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP concentrations were low for an adenylate cyclase-deficient mutant (cya(-)) and abnormally high for a catabolite receptor protein-deficient mutant (crp(-)). A fall in cellular cAMP concentration was always found when cells were subjected to transient repression. No consistent correlations were observed betwe...

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

authors： Wayne PK,Rosen OM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals are associated with a microbiome that can affect their reproductive success. It is, therefore, important to understand how a host and its microbiome coevolve. According to the hologenome concept, hosts and their microbiome form an integrated evolutionary entity, a holobiont, on which selection can potentially ...

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

authors： van Vliet S,Doebeli M

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the small size of a nanoconfinement, the property of water contained inside is rather challenging to probe. Herein, we measured the amount of water molecules released during the folding of individual G-quadruplex and i-motif structures, from which water activities are estimated in the DNA nanocages prepared by ...

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

authors： Jonchhe S,Pandey S,Emura T,Hidaka K,Hossain MA,Shrestha P,Sugiyama H,Endo M,Mao H

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a systematic genetic approach, the resonances in the 19F NMR spectrum of 3-fluorotyrosine-substituted lac repressor protein have been assigned. The NMR data indicate that each monomer of the repressor consists of two distinct and independent domains. One domain, the NH2-terminal sixth of the primary sequence,...

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

authors： Jarema MA,Lu P,Miller JH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein is the primary surface antigen targeted by the host immune response and a focus for development of novel vaccines, broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), and therapeutics. HA enables viral entry into host cells via receptor binding and membrane fusion and is a validated targ...

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

authors： Yao Y,Kadam RU,Lee CD,Woehl JL,Wu NC,Zhu X,Kitamura S,Wilson IA,Wolan DW

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Let X(0) be an unknown M by N matrix. In matrix recovery, one takes n < MN linear measurements y(1),…,y(n) of X(0), where y(i) = Tr(A(T)iX(0)) and each A(i) is an M by N matrix. A popular approach for matrix recovery is nuclear norm minimization (NNM): solving the convex optimization problem min ||X||*subject to y(i) ...

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

authors： Donoho DL,Gavish M,Montanari A

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions allow the retinoid X receptor (RXR) to bind to cognate DNA as a homo- or a heterodimer and to participate in mediating the effects of a variety of hormones on gene transcription. Here we report a systematic study of the oligomeric state of RXR in the absence of a DNA template. We have used...

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

authors： Kersten S,Kelleher D,Chambon P,Gronemeyer H,Noy N

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in protein function can lead to changes in the selection acting on specific residues. This can often be detected as evolutionary rate changes at the sites in question. A maximum-likelihood method for detecting evolutionary rate shifts at specific protein positions is presented. The method determines significan...

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

authors： Knudsen B,Miyamoto MM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant immunotoxins (RITs) are chimeric proteins composed of an Fv and a protein toxin being developed for cancer treatment. The Fv brings the toxin to the cancer cell, but most of the RITs do not reach the tumor and are removed by other organs. To identify cells responsible for RIT removal, and the pathway by wh...

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

authors： Liu XF,Wei J,Zhou Q,Molitoris BA,Sandoval R,Kobayashi H,Okada R,Nagaya T,Karim B,Butcher D,Pastan I

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Message passing is a fundamental technique for performing calculations on networks and graphs with applications in physics, computer science, statistics, and machine learning, including Bayesian inference, spin models, satisfiability, graph partitioning, network epidemiology, and the calculation of matrix eigenvalues....

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

authors： Cantwell GT,Newman MEJ

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the plant cell wall by glycoside hydrolases is central to environmentally sustainable industries. The major polysaccharides of the plant cell wall are cellulose and xylan, a highly decorated β-1,4-xylopyranose polymer. Glycoside hydrolases displaying multiple catalytic functions may simplify the enz...

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

authors： McKee LS,Peña MJ,Rogowski A,Jackson A,Lewis RJ,York WS,Krogh KB,Viksø-Nielsen A,Skjøt M,Gilbert HJ,Marles-Wright J

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are highly dynamic and complex lipid bilayers, responsible for the fate of living cells. To achieve this function, the hydrating environment is crucial. However, membrane imaging typically neglects water, focusing on the insertion of probes, resonant responses of lipids, or the hydrophobic core. O...

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

authors： Tarun OB,Hannesschläger C,Pohl P,Roke S

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and widespread observation is that higher-order folding for many RNAs is very slow, often requiring minutes. In some cases, slow folding reflects the need to disrupt stable, but incorrect, interactions. However, a molecular explanation for slow folding in most RNAs is unknown. The specificity domain of the ...

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

authors： Mortimer SA,Weeks KM

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary product of biological nitrogen fixation, ammonia, reversibly regulates nitrogenase activity in a variety of diazotrophs by a process called "NH4(+)-switch-off/on." Strong correlative evidence from work in Azospirillum lipoferum and Rhodospirillum rubrum indicates that this regulation involves both the inac...

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

authors： Fu H,Burris RH,Roberts GP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhomogeneous ab initio molecular dynamics simulations show that vaporization of MgSiO3 is incongruent and that the vapor phase is dominated by SiO and O2 molecules. The vapor is strongly depleted in Mg at low temperature and approaches the composition of the liquid near the critical point. We find that the liquid-vap...

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

authors： Xiao B,Stixrude L

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated from the heavy chains of three human IgG myeloma proteins of the V(H)III subgroup, sequenced by an automated method, and localized to the variable region. Inspection of these sequences, together with corresponding stretches from both human and animal proteins (studied in other ...

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

authors： Kehoe JM,Capra JD

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the recombinant squid kinesin head domain in Escherichia coli and studied its interaction with microtubules. The head is active as a microtubule-stimulated ATPase and binds to microtubules, but it does not support microtubule gliding by itself. The head binds to both microtubules and depolymerized tu...

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

authors： Song YH,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite high predation pressure, planktonic copepods remain one of the most abundant groups on the planet. Their escape response provides one of most effective mechanisms to maximize evolutionary fitness. Owing to their small size (100 µm) compared with their predators (>1 mm), increasing viscosity is believed to have...

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

authors： Gemmell BJ,Sheng J,Buskey EJ

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction (DR), such as calorie restriction (CR) or methionine (Met) restriction, extends the lifespan of diverse model organisms. Although studies have identified several metabolites that contribute to the beneficial effects of DR, the molecular mechanism underlying the key metabolites responsible for DR re...

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

authors： Ogawa T,Tsubakiyama R,Kanai M,Koyama T,Fujii T,Iefuji H,Soga T,Kume K,Miyakawa T,Hirata D,Mizunuma M

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00