Assembly and activation of site-specific recombination complexes.

abstract：:New experiments using scanning probe microcopies and advanced optical methods allow us to study molecules as individuals, not just as populations. The findings of these studies not only include the confirmation of results expected from studies of bulk matter, but also give substantially new information concerning the ...

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

authors： Bai C,Wang C,Xie XS,Wolynes PG

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of organisms (or cells) is typically an adaptive response to spatiotemporal variation in resources that requires individuals to detect and respond to long-range and noisy environmental gradients. Many organisms, from wildebeest to bacteria, migrate en masse in a process that can involve a vast number of indi...

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

authors： Guttal V,Couzin ID

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The fractionation of cells of a parsley suspension culture [Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A. Hill] by protoplasting and subsequent removal of the vacuoles led to physiologically intact evacuolated protoplasts retaining light inducibility of chalcone synthase expression. Lysis of the evacuolated protoplasts permitted th...

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

authors： Harter K,Frohnmeyer H,Kircher S,Kunkel T,Mühlbauer S,Schäfer E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Some taxa in the superfamily Arctoidea, such as the giant panda and the lesser panda, have presented puzzles to taxonomists. In the present study, approximately 397 bases of the cytochrome b gene, 364 bases of the 12S rRNA gene, and 74 bases of the tRNA(Thr) and tRNA(Pro) genes from the giant panda, lesser panda, kink...

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

authors： Zhang YP,Ryder OA

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lampreys are one of the two surviving jawless vertebrate groups and one of a few vertebrate groups with the best exemplified metamorphosis during their life cycle, which consists of a long-lasting larval stage, a peculiar metamorphosis, and a relatively short adulthood with a markedly different anatomy. Although the f...

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

authors： Chang MM,Wu F,Miao D,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster Polo kinase physically interacts with, and is repressed by, the Matrimony (Mtrm) protein during oogenesis. Females heterozygous for a deletion of the mtrm gene display defects in chromosome segregation at meiosis I. However, a complete absence of Mtrm results in both meiotic catastrophe and fem...

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

authors： Bonner AM,Hughes SE,Chisholm JA,Smith SK,Slaughter BD,Unruh JR,Collins KA,Friederichs JM,Florens L,Swanson SK,Pelot MC,Miller DE,Washburn MP,Jaspersen SL,Hawley RS

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reciprocity and conditional cooperation are important mechanisms to prevent free riding in social dilemmas. However, in large groups, these mechanisms may become ineffective because they require single individuals to have a substantial influence on their peers. However, the recent discovery of zero-determinant ...

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

authors： Hilbe C,Wu B,Traulsen A,Nowak MA

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin fibroblasts from two patients who had symptoms of the Sanfilippo syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis III) accumulated excessive amounts of heparan sulfate and were unable to release sulfate from N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate linkages in heparan sulfate-derived oligosaccharides. Keratan sulfate-derived oligosaccharide...

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

authors： Kresse H,Paschke E,von Figura K,Gilberg W,Fuchs W

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helper T lymphocytes recognize fragments of foreign (or self) antigens in the peptide-binding clefts of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules; their activation is a crucial step in the induction of many immune and autoimmune responses. While studying the latter, we raised a T-cell line from the thymus of...

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

authors： Ong B,Willcox N,Wordsworth P,Beeson D,Vincent A,Altmann D,Lanchbury JS,Harcourt GC,Bell JI,Newsom-Davis J

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcalcifications geographically target the location of abnormalities within the breast and are of critical importance in breast cancer diagnosis. However, despite stereotactic guidance, core needle biopsy fails to retrieve microcalcifications in up to 15% of patients. Here, we introduce an approach based on diffuse...

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

authors： Soares JS,Barman I,Dingari NC,Volynskaya Z,Liu W,Klein N,Plecha D,Dasari RR,Fitzmaurice M

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct structural insights on the fundamental mechanisms of permeation, selectivity, and gating remain unavailable for the Na(+) and Ca(2+) channel families. Here, we report the spectroscopic structural characterization of the isolated Voltage-Sensor Domain (VSD) of the prokaryotic Na(+) channel NaChBac in a lipid bil...

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

authors： Chakrapani S,Sompornpisut P,Intharathep P,Roux B,Perozo E

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants and animals deploy intracellular immune receptors that perceive specific pathogen effector proteins and microbial products delivered into the host cell. We demonstrate that the ADR1 family of Arabidopsis nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) receptors regulates accumulation of the defense hormone sali...

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

authors： Bonardi V,Tang S,Stallmann A,Roberts M,Cherkis K,Dangl JL

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the explanations for, and consequences of, the early appearance of food production outside the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where it originated in the 10th/9th millennia cal BC. We present evidence that cultivation appeared in Central Anatolia through adoption by indigenous foragers in the m...

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

authors： Baird D,Fairbairn A,Jenkins E,Martin L,Middleton C,Pearson J,Asouti E,Edwards Y,Kabukcu C,Mustafaoğlu G,Russell N,Bar-Yosef O,Jacobsen G,Wu X,Baker A,Elliott S

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple yet powerful technique for delineating the morphological events of tumor-induced angiogenesis and other tumor-induced host processes with dual-color fluorescence. The method clearly images implanted tumors and adjacent stroma, distinguishing unambiguously the host and tumor-specific componen...

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

authors： Yang M,Li L,Jiang P,Moossa AR,Penman S,Hoffman RM

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the cellular context, BCL2-like proteins promote mitochondrial fusion or fission. What determines which of these two opposing processes they promote has so far been unknown. Furthermore, the mechanisms through which BCL2-like proteins affect mitochondrial dynamics remain to be fully understood. The BCL2-l...

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

authors： Lu Y,Rolland SG,Conradt B

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a fracture network is a key process for many geophysical and industrial practices from energy resource recovery to induced seismic management. We focus on the initial stage of a fracture network formation using experiments on the symmetric coalescence of two equal coplanar, fluid-driven, penny-shaped ...

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

authors： O'Keeffe NJ,Zheng Z,Huppert HE,Linden PF

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles are increasingly used in various fields, including biomedicine and electronics. One application utilizes the opacifying effect of nano-TiO(2), which is frequently used as pigment in cosmetics. Although TiO(2) is believed to be biologically inert, an emerging literature reports increased incidence of resp...

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

authors： Yazdi AS,Guarda G,Riteau N,Drexler SK,Tardivel A,Couillin I,Tschopp J

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Without sufficient greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the early Earth would have become a permanently frozen planet because the young Sun was less luminous than it is today. Several resolutions to this faint young Sun-frozen Earth paradox have been proposed, with an atmosphere rich in CO2 being the one generally favo...

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

authors： Bada JL,Bigham C,Miller SL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), are of great importance for plant growth and development. BRs signal through a cell surface receptor kinase, BRI1, and a GSK3-like kinase, BIN2, to regulate the BES1/BZR1 family of transcription factors, which directly bind to target gene promoters to activate or repress...

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

authors： Yu X,Li L,Li L,Guo M,Chory J,Yin Y

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate hearing and balance are based in complex asymmetries of inner ear structure. Here, we identify retinoic acid (RA) as an extrinsic signal that acts directly on the ear rudiment to affect its compartmentalization along the anterior-posterior axis. A rostrocaudal wave of RA activity, generated by tissues surro...

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

authors： Bok J,Raft S,Kong KA,Koo SK,Dräger UC,Wu DK

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other primates are distinct among placental mammals in having exceptionally slow rates of growth, reproduction, and aging. Primates' slow life history schedules are generally thought to reflect an evolved strategy of allocating energy away from growth and reproduction and toward somatic investment, particul...

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

authors： Pontzer H,Raichlen DA,Gordon AD,Schroepfer-Walker KK,Hare B,O'Neill MC,Muldoon KM,Dunsworth HM,Wood BM,Isler K,Burkart J,Irwin M,Shumaker RW,Lonsdorf EV,Ross SR

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopsin folding and assembly were investigated by expression of five bovine opsin gene fragments separated at points corresponding to proteolytic cleavage sites in the second or third cytoplasmic regions. The CH(1-146) and CH(147-348) gene fragments encode amino acids 1-146 and 147-348 of opsin, while the TH(1-240) ...

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

authors： Ridge KD,Lee SS,Yao LL

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangiogenesis plays an important role in promoting cancer metastasis to sentinel lymph nodes and beyond and also promotes organ transplant rejection. We used human lymphatic endothelial cells to establish a reliable three-dimensional lymphangiogenic sprouting assay with automated image acquisition and analysis for...

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

authors： Schulz MM,Reisen F,Zgraggen S,Fischer S,Yuen D,Kang GJ,Chen L,Schneider G,Detmar M

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA techniques have been combined with somatic cell genetic methods to identify, isolate, and amplify fragments of human DNA localized at specific regions of human chromosome 11 selected as a model system. A library of genomic DNA segments has been constructed, in lambda Charon 4A bacteriophage, from the D...

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

authors： Gusella JF,Keys C,VarsanyiBreiner A,Kao FT,Jones C,Puck TT,Housman D

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian timekeeping by intracellular molecular clocks is evident widely in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The clockworks are driven by autoregulatory feedback loops that lead to oscillating levels of components whose maxima are in fixed phase relationships with one another. These phase relationships are the key metric ...

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

authors： Mirsky HP,Liu AC,Welsh DK,Kay SA,Doyle FJ 3rd

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) is found in a variety of animal phyla and, because of its toxicity, is most often assumed to deter predation. On the tropical Pacific island of Guam, we found an undescribed flatworm (planocerid sp. 1) that contains high levels of TTX and its analogs. Through ecological experim...

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

authors： Ritson-Williams R,Yotsu-Yamashita M,Paul VJ

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidants, such as those generated by metabolically activated phagocytes in inflammation, have been implicated in the metabolic activation of carcinogens, and in this study we demonstrate that the interaction of (+/-)-trans-7,8-dihydroxy-7,8-dihydrobenzo[a]pyrene (BP 7,8-dihydrodiol) with phorbol ester-stimulated polym...

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

authors： Trush MA,Seed JL,Kensler TW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the water proton spinlattice relaxation (T(1)) in 106 human tumors confirms earlier results with animals [Damadian, R. (1971) Science 171, 1151-1153]. T(1) of all the tumors studied were significantly longer than T(1) of the corresponding normal tissues. Mean standard error and range were reported for ...

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

authors： Damadian R,Zaner K,Hor D,DiMaio T

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report provides direct evidence that strigolactone (SL) positively regulates drought and high salinity responses in Arabidopsis. Both SL-deficient and SL-response [more axillary growth (max)] mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to drought and salt stress, which was associated with shoot- rather than root-related t...

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

authors： Ha CV,Leyva-González MA,Osakabe Y,Tran UT,Nishiyama R,Watanabe Y,Tanaka M,Seki M,Yamaguchi S,Dong NV,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K,Herrera-Estrella L,Tran LS

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted ablation of the surfactant protein D (SP-D) gene caused chronic inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis in the lungs of SP-D (-/-) mice. Although lung morphology was unperturbed during the first 2 weeks of life, airspace enlargement was observed by 3 weeks and progressed with advancing age. Inflammation consist...

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

authors： Wert SE,Yoshida M,LeVine AM,Ikegami M,Jones T,Ross GF,Fisher JH,Korfhagen TR,Whitsett JA

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00