Voltage-induced membrane displacement in patch pipettes activates mechanosensitive channels.

abstract：:Allozyme, morphological, and PCR-generated mtDNA markers were used to analyze hybrid parentage and introgression between the neighboringly sympatric crustaceans Daphnia galeata mendotae and Daphnia rosea. mtDNA analysis of D. galeata mendotae from 15 lakes and of D. rosea from 8 lakes revealed species-specific fragmen...

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

authors： Taylor DJ,Hebert PD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrofurans, a class of antibacterial drugs in extensive use, interferes with gene expression in a highly specific manner. While in the low dose range (0.5-25 mug/ml), 5-nitro-2-furfurylidene-1-aminohydantoin has no effect on transcription, it inhibits specifically the expression of one class of genes in translation. ...

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

authors： Herrlich P,Schweiger M

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of both nosocomial and community-acquired infection. Biofilm formation at the site of infection reduces antimicrobial susceptibility and can lead to chronic infection. During biofilm formation, a subset of cells liberate cytoplasmic proteins and DNA, which are repurposed to for...

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

authors： DeFrancesco AS,Masloboeva N,Syed AK,DeLoughery A,Bradshaw N,Li GW,Gilmore MS,Walker S,Losick R

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic complementation system was developed in which tobacco etch virus (TEV) polymerase (NIb)-expressing transgenic plants or protoplasts were inoculated with NIb-defective TEV mutants. A beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene integrated into the genomes of parental and four mutant viruses was used to assay RNA am...

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

authors： Li XH,Carrington JC

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species that form pair bonds, males display to their mate after pair formation. These displays elevate the female's investment into the brood. This is a form of cooperation because without the display, female investment is reduced to levels that are suboptimal for both sexes. The presence of such displays is p...

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

authors： Servedio MR,Powers JM,Lande R,Price TD

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene EPXH2 encodes for the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), an enzyme involved in the regulation of cardiovascular and renal physiology containing two distinct domains connected via a proline-rich linker. The C-terminal domain containing the EH catalytic activity has been well studied. In contrast, a function for ...

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

authors： Newman JW,Morisseau C,Harris TR,Hammock BD

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S (ProS) and growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas6) bind to phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) and induce efferocytosis upon binding TAM-family receptors (Tyro3, Axl, and Mer). Here, we produced mouse ProS, Gas6, and TAM-receptor extracellular region fused to IgG fragment crystallizable region in HEK293T cells. ProS and Gas...

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

authors： Yanagihashi Y,Segawa K,Maeda R,Nabeshima YI,Nagata S

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and sequelae of disorders that lead to hypoxic spells such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) exhibit daily variance. This prompted us to examine the interaction between the hypoxic response and the circadian clock in vivo. We found that the global transc...

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

authors： Manella G,Aviram R,Bolshette N,Muvkadi S,Golik M,Smith DF,Asher G

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalysis at organophilic silica-rich surfaces of zeolites and feldspars might generate replicating biopolymers from simple chemicals supplied by meteorites, volcanic gases, and other geological sources. Crystal-chemical modeling yielded packings for amino acids neatly encapsulated in 10-ring channels of the molecular...

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

authors： Smith JV,Arnold FP Jr,Parsons I,Lee MR

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have asked here how the remarkable variation in maize haplotype structure affects recombination. We compared recombination across a genetic interval of 9S in 2 highly dissimilar heterozygotes that shared 1 parent. The genetic interval in the common haplotype is approximately 100 kb long and contains 6 genes intersp...

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

authors： He L,Dooner HK

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In animals, successful production of the visual chromophore (11-cis-retinal or derivatives thereof such as 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal) is essential for photoreceptor cell function and survival. These carotenoid-derived compounds must combine with a protein moiety (the opsin) to establish functional visual pigments. Evid...

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

authors： Oberhauser V,Voolstra O,Bangert A,von Lintig J,Vogt K

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans assess the credibility of information gained from others on a daily basis; this ongoing assessment is especially crucial for avoiding exploitation by others. We used a repeated, two-person bargaining game and a cognitive hierarchy model to test how subjects judge the information sent asymmetrically from one pla...

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

authors： Bhatt MA,Lohrenz T,Camerer CF,Montague PR

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms that enabled primitive cell membranes to self-reproduce have been discussed based on the physicochemical properties of fatty acids; however, there must be a transition to modern cell membranes composed of phospholipids [Budin I, Szostak JW (2011) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:5249-5254]. Thus, a growth-divisio...

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

authors： Terasawa H,Nishimura K,Suzuki H,Matsuura T,Yomo T

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human epidermal stem cells express higher levels of beta1 integrins and are more adhesive than keratinocytes that are destined to differentiate. To investigate whether high beta1 integrin expression and adhesiveness are essential for maintaining keratinocytes in the stem cell compartment, we introduced a dominant-nega...

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

authors： Zhu AJ,Haase I,Watt FM

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a causative agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and its potentially lethal form, pseudomembranous colitis, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The level of toxin production appears to be critical for determining the seve...

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

authors： Mani N,Dupuy B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary obstacle to producing renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass is a plant's recalcitrance to releasing sugars bound in the cell wall. From a sample set of wood cores representing 1,100 individual undomesticated Populus trichocarpa trees, 47 extreme phenotypes were selected across measured lignin conten...

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

authors： Studer MH,DeMartini JD,Davis MF,Sykes RW,Davison B,Keller M,Tuskan GA,Wyman CE

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The CuAAC reaction (click chemistry) has been used in conjunction with solid-phase synthesis to produce catalytically active hairpin ribozymes around 100 nucleotides in length. Cross-strand ligation through neighboring nucleobases was successful in covalently linking presynthesized RNA strands with high efficiency (tr...

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

authors： El-Sagheer AH,Brown T

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine finger and hand movements in humans, monkeys, and rats are under the direct control of the corticospinal tract (CST). CST lesions lead to severe, long-term deficits of precision movements. We transected completely both CSTs in adult rats and treated the animals for 2 weeks with an antibody that neutralized the ce...

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

authors： Raineteau O,Fouad K,Noth P,Thallmair M,Schwab ME

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new forms of carboxypeptidase B have been isolated from spontaneously activated bovine pancreatic juice. The fully active enzymes contain an internal split at residues 92-93 and 95-96, respectively. Sequenator analysis of the amino terminal segments of the two chains of the enzyme has extended the sequence informa...

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

authors： Reeck GR,Walsh KA,Hermodson MA,Neurath H

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) is an essential component of the prereplication complex (pre-RC) in mitotic cell cycles. The role of ORC as a foundation to assemble the pre-RC is conserved from yeast to human. Furthermore, in metazoans ORC plays a key role in determining the timing of replication initiation and o...

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

authors： Park SY,Asano M

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The cingulate gyri in 37 subjects with and without early dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) were studied by using MRI at 1.0 mm3 isotropic resolution. Groups were segregated into young controls (n = 10), age-matched normal controls (n = 10), very mild DAT (n = 8), and mild DAT (n = 9). By using automated Bayesian se...

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

authors： Miller MI,Hosakere M,Barker AR,Priebe CE,Lee N,Ratnanather JT,Wang L,Gado M,Morris JC,Csernansky JG

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the nematic twist-bend ([Formula: see text]) phase to an applied field can provide important insight into the structure of this liquid and may bring us closer to understanding mechanisms generating mirror symmetry breaking in a fluid of achiral molecules. Here we investigate theoretically how an extern...

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

authors： Pająk G,Longa L,Chrzanowska A

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how changes in antibiotic consumption affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is important for public health. In a number of bacterial species, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, the prevalence of resistance has remained relatively stable despite prolonged selection pressur...

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

authors： Lehtinen S,Blanquart F,Croucher NJ,Turner P,Lipsitch M,Fraser C

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion mutations previously constructed within the proximal region of the yeast invertase signal sequence did not interfere with secretion or glycosylation of the enzyme. We now describe deletion mutations within the same signal sequence. Large deletions truncating the hydrophobic core of the signal peptide prevent...

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

authors： Perlman D,Raney P,Halvorson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromophore of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) (i.e., 4-hydroxycinnamic acid) has been replaced by an analogue with a triple bond, rather than a double bond (by using 4-hydroxyphenylpropiolic acid in the reconstitution, yielding hybrid I) and by a "locked" chromophore (through reconstitution with 7-hydroxycoumari...

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

authors： Cordfunke R,Kort R,Pierik A,Gobets B,Koomen GJ,Verhoeven JW,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum thymic factor (FTS) utilized in its synthetic or natural form loses its biological activity in a rosette assay after treatment with a metal ion-chelating agent, Chelex 100. This activity is restored by the addition of Zn salts and, to a lesser extent, certain other metal salts. FTS activation is secondary to...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Pléau JM,Nabarra B,Lefrancier P,Derrien M,Choay J,Bach JF

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grand partition function for a long linear system of alternating alpha and beta sequences with the restraint of a fixed number, N(alphabeta), of alphabeta boundaries depends in an extremely simple way on the alpha-sequence and beta-sequence grand partition functions, xi(alpha) and xi(beta). When the restraint is r...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nod (no distributive disjunction) and the ncd (non-claret disjunctional) mutations are both female-specific, recessive meiotic mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. Mutations at either locus show high frequencies of nondisjunction at meiosis I and both have been shown to encode kinesin-like proteins. Unlike the nc...

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

authors： Knowles BA,Hawley RS

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotide probes can be easily obtained and used, in contrast to cDNA cloning to develop probes, and thus the present study was carried out to determine whether such probes could also be useful for in situ hybridization. A 24-base synthetic oligonucleotide complementary to part of the alpha-melanocyte-...

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

authors： Lewis ME,Sherman TG,Burke S,Akil H,Davis LG,Arentzen R,Watson SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of species across interfaces can crucially affect the performance of heterogeneous catalysts. A key concept in using bimetallic catalysts for hydrogenation is that the active metal supplies hydrogen atoms to the host metal, where selective hydrogenation can then occur. Herein, we demonstrate that, follow...

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

authors： O'Connor CR,Duanmu K,Patel DA,Muramoto E,van Spronsen MA,Stacchiola D,Sykes ECH,Sautet P,Madix RJ,Friend CM

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00