Long-term impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on sea otters, assessed through age-dependent mortality patterns.

abstract：:Store-operated calcium entry (SOCE), an important mechanism of Ca2+ signaling in a wide range of cell types, is mediated by stromal interaction molecule (STIM), which senses the depletion of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores and binds and activates Orai channels in the plasma membrane. This inside-out mechanism of Ca2...

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

authors： Kim KM,Wijerathne T,Hur JH,Kang UJ,Kim IH,Kweon YC,Lee AR,Jeong SJ,Lee SK,Lee YY,Sim BW,Lee JH,Baig C,Kim SU,Chang KT,Lee KP,Park CY

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other social phenomena, prostitution is increasingly coordinated over the Internet. The online behavior affects the offline activity; the reverse is also true. We investigated the reported sexual contacts between 6,624 anonymous escorts and 10,106 sex buyers extracted from an online community from its beginn...

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

authors： Rocha LE,Liljeros F,Holme P

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Marriage in many traditional societies often concerns the institutionalized exchange of reproductive partners among groups of kin. Such exchanges most often involve cross-cousins-marriage with the child of a parent's opposite-sex sibling-but it is unclear who benefits from these exchanges. Here we analyze the fitness ...

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

authors： Chagnon NA,Lynch RF,Shenk MK,Hames R,Flinn MV

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:FAP48 was identified and cloned thanks to its interaction with FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs) such as FKBP52 and FKBP12, which belong to the large family of immunophilins that bind the macrolide immunosuppressant drugs FK506 and rapamycin. We have previously shown that FAP48-FKBP complexes are dissociated by FK506 and...

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

authors： Krummrei U,Baulieu EE,Chambraud B

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of lasers approaching trapped ion clock transitions in sharpness we propose to replace the 12.49 m laser field exciting the D3/2-D5/2 transition of the single Ba+ ion A in D3/2 with the near-field of a close by identical ion B in the excited D5/2 state. We tune the frequency of the near-field by the dif...

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

authors： Dehmelt H,Zhao X,Yu N,Nagourney W

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the cascade of proteolytic caspases has been identified as the final common pathway of apoptosis in diverse biological systems. We have isolated a gene, termed MRIT, that possesses overall sequence homology to FLICE (MACH), a large prodomain caspase that links the aggregated complex of the death domain r...

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

authors： Han DK,Chaudhary PM,Wright ME,Friedman C,Trask BJ,Riedel RT,Baskin DG,Schwartz SM,Hood L

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) processes the viral gag and gag-pol protein precursor by posttranslational cleavage. In this study we have demonstrated by site-specific mutagenesis (Asp----Thr) and by pepstatin A inhibition that the recombinant HIV protease is an aspartic-type protease. ...

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

authors： Seelmeier S,Schmidt H,Turk V,von der Helm K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I (IFN-alpha/beta) and type III (IFN-lambdas) IFNs are important components of the host antiviral response. Although type III IFNs possess intrinsic antiviral activity similar to that of type I IFNs, they signal through a specific unique receptor complex, and their functional importance for antiviral resistance i...

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

authors： Huang J,Smirnov SV,Lewis-Antes A,Balan M,Li W,Tang S,Silke GV,Pütz MM,Smith GL,Kotenko SV

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most B lymphocytes in normal individuals express two classes of cell-surface immunoglobulins, IgM and IgD. The specificity of the two antigen receptors is identical since they are produced by transcription and differential splicing of the same variable region gene segment to the heavy-chain constant region gene segmen...

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

authors： Irsch J,Irlenbusch S,Radl J,Burrows PD,Cooper MD,Radbruch AH

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders cause much suffering and are the single greatest cause of lost productivity worldwide. Although multiple medications, along with behavioral therapies, have proven effective for some individuals, millions of people lack an effective therapeutic option. A common serotonin (5-HT) transporter (5-HTT/SERT, S...

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

authors： Baganz NL,Horton RE,Calderon AS,Owens WA,Munn JL,Watts LT,Koldzic-Zivanovic N,Jeske NA,Koek W,Toney GM,Daws LC

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Generating human single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is no longer a rate-limiting step for genetic studies of disease. The number of SNPs in public databases already exceeds 200,000, and the total is expected to exceed 1,000,000 within a year. Rather, progress is limited by the inability to genotype large numbers o...

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

authors： Hirschhorn JN,Sklar P,Lindblad-Toh K,Lim YM,Ruiz-Gutierrez M,Bolk S,Langhorst B,Schaffner S,Winchester E,Lander ES

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of nerve growth factor (NGF) mRNA and protein in the rat central nervous system is documented. Blot-hybridization analysis showed an abundance of NGF mRNA in the hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and olfactory bulb. Enzyme immunoassay confirmed significant levels of a NGF-like protein in the hippocampus and c...

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

authors： Whittemore SR,Ebendal T,Lärkfors L,Olson L,Seiger A,Strömberg I,Persson H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomimetic nanopores based on membrane-spanning single-walled carbon nanotubes have been designed to include selectivity filters based on combinations of anionic and cationic groups mimicking those present in bacterial porins and in voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels. The ion permeation and selectivity properti...

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

authors： García-Fandiño R,Sansom MS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal macrophysiology is an established research field that has led to well-described patterns in the global structuring of climate adaptation and risk. However, since it was developed primarily in animals, we lack information on how general these patterns are across organisms. This is alarming if we are to understa...

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

authors： Lancaster LT,Humphreys AM

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are multidomain proteins responsible for the attachment of specific amino acids to their tRNA substrates. Prolyl-tRNA synthetases (ProRSs) are notable due to their particularly diverse architectures through evolution. For example, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ProRS possesses an N-terminal extens...

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

authors： SternJohn J,Hati S,Siliciano PG,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate genetic analysis of the human pathogenic parvovirus B19, we constructed a hybrid B19 viral genome in which the defective B19 inverted terminal repeats were replaced with the full-length inverted terminal repeats from a nonpathogenic human parvovirus, the adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV). The hybrid AAV-B19...

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

authors： Srivastava CH,Samulski RJ,Lu L,Larsen SH,Srivastava A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) appears to mediate the rapid increase in pregnenolone synthesis stimulated by tropic hormones. cDNAs encoding StAR were isolated from a human adrenal cortex library. Human StAR, coexpressed in COS-1 cells with cytochrome P450scc and adrenodoxin, increased pregnenolone synt...

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

authors： Sugawara T,Holt JA,Driscoll D,Strauss JF 3rd,Lin D,Miller WL,Patterson D,Clancy KP,Hart IM,Clark BJ

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated) protein plays a central role in sensing and responding to DNA double-strand breaks. Lymphoid cells are unique in undergoing physiologic double-strand breaks in the processes of Ig class switch recombination and T or B cell receptor V(D)J recombination, and a role for ATM in thes...

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

authors： Vacchio MS,Olaru A,Livak F,Hodes RJ

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of D-serine occur in mammalian brain, where it appears to be an endogenous ligand of the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. In glial cultures of rat cerebral cortex, D-serine is enriched in type II astrocytes and is released upon stimulation with agonists of non-N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate ...

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

authors： Wolosker H,Sheth KN,Takahashi M,Mothet JP,Brady RO Jr,Ferris CD,Snyder SH

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinations of low dosages of purified murine hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors (CSFs)--L-cell CSF type 1 (CSF-1), recombinant interleukin 3 (IL-3), and recombinant granulocyte/macrophage CSF (GM-CSF)--were compared with single CSFs for their influence on the cycling rates and numbers of bone marrow granulocyt...

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

authors： Broxmeyer HE,Williams DE,Hangoc G,Cooper S,Gillis S,Shadduck RK,Bicknell DC

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium and an emerging pathogen in humans. Transitioning from a smooth (S) high-glycopeptidolipid (GPL) producer to a rough (R) low-GPL producer is associated with increased virulence in zebrafish, which involves the formation of massive serpentine cords, absc...

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

authors： Halloum I,Carrère-Kremer S,Blaise M,Viljoen A,Bernut A,Le Moigne V,Vilchèze C,Guérardel Y,Lutfalla G,Herrmann JL,Jacobs WR Jr,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the GABA(A) receptor gamma2 subunit are associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures. To understand better the molecular basis of absence epilepsy in man, we developed a mouse model harboring a gamma2 subunit point mutation (R43Q) found in a large Australian family. Mice heterozygous fo...

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

authors： Tan HO,Reid CA,Single FN,Davies PJ,Chiu C,Murphy S,Clarke AL,Dibbens L,Krestel H,Mulley JC,Jones MV,Seeburg PH,Sakmann B,Berkovic SF,Sprengel R,Petrou S

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A typical homing endonuclease initiates mobility of its group I intron by recognizing DNA both upstream and downstream of the intron insertion site of intronless alleles, preventing the endonuclease from binding and cleaving its own intron-containing allele. Here, we describe a GIY-YIG family homing endonuclease, I-Bm...

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

authors： Edgell DR,Shub DA

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe the structure of chitinase B from Serratia marcescens, which consists of a catalytic domain with a TIM-barrel fold and a 49-residue C-terminal chitin-binding domain. This chitinase is the first structure of a bacterial exochitinase, and it represents one of only a few examples of a glycosyl ...

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

authors： van Aalten DM,Synstad B,Brurberg MB,Hough E,Riise BW,Eijsink VG,Wierenga RK

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na,K-ATPase contains a binding site for cardiac glycosides, such as ouabain, digoxin, and digitoxin, which is highly conserved among species ranging from Drosophila to humans. Although advantage has been taken of this site to treat congestive heart failure with drugs such as digoxin, it is unknown whether this sit...

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

authors： Dostanic-Larson I,Van Huysse JW,Lorenz JN,Lingrel JB

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato plants overexpressing a prosystemin gene that encodes the precursor of a mobile wound signal called systemin have been shown previously to constitutively synthesize extraordinarily high levels of two defensive proteinase inhibitor proteins in leaves in the absence of wounding. We herein report that leaves of th...

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

authors： Constabel CP,Bergey DR,Ryan CA

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs were immunized with liposomal model membranes containing phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) or glycerophosphorylethanolamine (GPE) derivatives in which the amino function was substituted with either dinitrophenylaminocaproyl (Dnp-Cap) or mono(p-azobenzenearsonic acid)tyrosyl (ABA-Tyr) residues. Previous studies...

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

authors： Kochibe N,Nicolotti RA,Davie JM,Kinsky SC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics for hydrogen exchange at individual base pairs in self-complementary deoxydodecanucleotide duplexes have been estimated from NMR saturation recovery measurements on the resolved imino protons as a function of temperature. The imino protons of dA . dT base pairs in the center of the fully alternating d(C-G...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Ikuta S,Kozlowski S,Itakura K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein metallochaperones ensure fidelity during cofactor assembly for a variety of metalloproteins, including adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl)-dependent methylmalonyl-CoA mutase and hydrogenase, and thus have both medical and biofuel development applications. Here, we present crystal structures of IcmF, a natural fusion ...

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

authors： Jost M,Cracan V,Hubbard PA,Banerjee R,Drennan CL

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00