The N terminus of microsomal delta 9 stearoyl-CoA desaturase contains the sequence determinant for its rapid degradation.

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of each of the four framework segments FR1, FR2, FR3, and FR4 of the variable regions (V-regions) of light and heavy chains of immunoglobulins were grouped into sets with identical sequences. Sets contained from 1 to 18 members. When each V-region was traced from one FR to the next, it was seen that members ...

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

authors： Kabat EA,Wu TT,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF) is the only major fiber bundle connecting dorsolateral and ventrolateral visual cortex. Only a handful of studies have examined the anatomy of the VOF or its role in cognition in the living human brain. Here, we trace the contentious history of the VOF, beginning with its origin...

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

authors： Yeatman JD,Weiner KS,Pestilli F,Rokem A,Mezer A,Wandell BA

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Seep sediments are dominated by intensive microbial sulfate reduction coupled to the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Through geochemical measurements of incubation experiments with methane seep sediments collected from Hydrate Ridge, we provide insight into the role of iron oxides in sulfate-driven AOM. Seep sed...

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

authors： Sivan O,Antler G,Turchyn AV,Marlow JJ,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence and neuroanatomical locations of separate extrastriate visual pathways for object recognition and spatial localization were investigated in healthy young men. Regional cerebral blood flow was measured by positron emission tomography and bolus injections of H2(15)O, while subjects performed face matching,...

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

authors： Haxby JV,Grady CL,Horwitz B,Ungerleider LG,Mishkin M,Carson RE,Herscovitch P,Schapiro MB,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first experimental evidence to our knowledge that ingroup relations attenuate core disgust and that this helps explain the ability of groups to coact. In study 1, 45 student participants smelled a sweaty t-shirt bearing the logo of another university, with either their student identity (ingroup conditio...

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

authors： Reicher SD,Templeton A,Neville F,Ferrari L,Drury J

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2009 we reported that depletion of Dicer-1, the enzyme that catalyzes the final step of miRNA biosynthesis, prevents metamorphosis in Blattella germanica. However, the precise regulatory roles of miRNAs in the process have remained elusive. In the present work, we have observed that Dicer-1 depletion results in an ...

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

authors： Lozano J,Montañez R,Belles X

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerization of mixtures of Hb S with hemoglobins A, A2, and F has been investigated by analysis of the proportions of S and non-S hemoglobin both in the supernate and in the pellet after centrifugation. In all cases the non-S hemoglobin was incorporated into the polymer even in the absence of hybrids in the ord...

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

authors： Benesch RE,Edalji R,Benesch R,Kwong S

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) is a potent inducer of differentiation of osteoblasts both in vivo and in vitro. We examined the action of BMP-2 on expression of a helix-loop-helix-type transcription factor, Id (inhibitor of differentiation), in osteoblast-like cells, as well as in osteoblast-enriched cells and p...

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

authors： Ogata T,Wozney JM,Benezra R,Noda M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser-polarized gases (3He and 129Xe) are currently being used in magnetic resonance imaging as strong signal sources that can be safely introduced into the lung. Recently, researchers have been investigating other tissues using 129Xe. These studies use xenon dissolved in a carrier such as lipid vesicles or blood. Sin...

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

authors： Chawla MS,Chen XJ,Möller HE,Cofer GP,Wheeler CT,Hedlund LW,Johnson GA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential element in the web-trap architecture, the capture silk spun by ecribellate orb spiders consists of glue droplets sitting astride a silk filament. Mechanically this thread presents a mixed solid-liquid behavior unknown to date. Under extension, capture silk behaves as a particularly stretchy solid, owing t...

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

authors： Elettro H,Neukirch S,Vollrath F,Antkowiak A

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer comprises a heterogeneous set of diseases distinguishable from one another by pathologic presentation and molecular signatures. However, each breast cancer subtype is also heterogeneous. Some of the heterogeneity may be attributable to genetic instability, but recent data emphasize that developmental pla...

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

authors： Mizuno H,Spike BT,Wahl GM,Levine AJ

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin light chain is thought to be organized into two structural domains, the constant and the variable regions, linked by a switch region of lesser tertiary organization. Light chains of homogeneous rabbit antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides labeled with (125)I were subjected to trypsin digestion ...

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

authors： Poulsen K,Fraser KJ,Haber E

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing interest in collective phenomena such as "swarm intelligence" and "wisdom of the crowds," little is known about the mechanisms underlying decision-making in vertebrate animal groups. How do animals use the behavior of others to make more accurate decisions, especially when it is not possible to ide...

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

authors： Ward AJ,Sumpter DJ,Couzin ID,Hart PJ,Krause J

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperativity in oligonucleotide-directed sequence-specific recognition of DNA by triple helix formation can be enhanced by the addition of discrete dimerization domains. The equilibrium association constants for cooperative binding of oligonucleotides that dimerize by Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds and occupy adjacent s...

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

authors： Distefano MD,Dervan PB

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:mAbs against tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens have the potential to play a prominent role in cancer immunotherapy. However, it has not been possible to fully exploit the clinical utility of such antibodies primarily, because those of adequate affinity could be derived only from murine sources. To address this pr...

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

authors： Mao S,Gao C,Lo CH,Wirsching P,Wong CH,Janda KD

更新日期：1999-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a unique conductance-based model of awake thalamic alpha and some of its implications for function. The full model includes a model for a specialized class of high-threshold thalamocortical cells (HTC cells), which burst at the alpha frequency at depolarized membrane potentials (~-56 mV). Our model generat...

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

authors： Vijayan S,Kopell NJ

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the quantities of naturally occurring autoantibodies in the serum of normal, unmanipulated individuals. These changes over time following broad-band complex dynamical patterns that are similar in mouse and man. The patterns more likely reflect the network architecture of the natural antibody repertoir...

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

authors： Varela F,Andersson A,Dietrich G,Sundblad A,Holmberg D,Kazatchkine M,Coutinho A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the p53 network has been intensively studied, genetic analyses long hinted at the existence of components that remained elusive. Recent studies have shown regulation of p53 at the mRNA level mediated via both the 5' and the 3' untranslated regions and affecting the stability and translation efficiency of the ...

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

authors： Devany E,Zhang X,Park JY,Tian B,Kleiman FE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an approach for the detection of magnetic resonance imaging without superconducting magnets and cryogenics: optical atomic magnetometry. This technique possesses a high sensitivity independent of the strength of the static magnetic field, extending the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging to low magne...

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

authors： Xu S,Yashchuk VV,Donaldson MH,Rochester SM,Budker D,Pines A

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of how insects are actually affected by sex pheromones deployed throughout a crop so as to disrupt mating has lacked a mechanistic framework sufficient for guiding optimization of this environmentally friendly pest-control tactic. Major hypotheses are competitive attraction, desensitization, and camouflage. ...

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

authors： Miller JR,McGhee PS,Siegert PY,Adams CG,Huang J,Grieshop MJ,Gut LJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic differences in acetylcholine receptors from skeletal neuromuscular synapses of various species of snakes and lizards have been investigated, using the snake venom alpha-neurotoxins alpha-atratoxin (cobrotoxin) and alpha-bungarotoxin. The acetylcholine receptors of the phylogenetically primitive lizards, l...

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

authors： Burden SJ,Hartzell HC,Yoshikami D

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 82-residue amino-terminal sequences of simian virus 40 large tumor antigen (TAg) and small tumor antigen (tAg) are identical. Genetic analysis of TAg lacking amino acids 1-82 revealed that it was transformation-defective, as revealed by the agar growth assay, except when introduced in the presence of tAg. Since th...

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

authors： Montano X,Millikan R,Milhaven JM,Newsom DA,Ludlow JW,Arthur AK,Fanning E,Bikel I,Livingston DM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2M3 encodes HMT, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain of the maternally transmitted antigen (Mta). Like classical MHC class I genes, the expression of M3 can be stimulated by gamma-interferon and its message can be detected from mid-gestational embryos (day 8) through adulthood. HMTb, a non...

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

authors： Wang CR,Lindahl KF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonneural cholinergic system of immune cells is pivotal for the maintenance of immunological homeostasis. Here we demonstrate the expression of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and cholinergic enzymes in murine natural killer (NK) cells. The capacity for acetylcholine synthesis by NK cells increased markedly under...

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

authors： Jiang W,Li D,Han R,Zhang C,Jin WN,Wood K,Liu Q,Shi FD,Hao J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In all three domains of life, DNA replication begins at specialized loci termed replication origins. In bacteria, replication initiates from a single, clearly defined site. In contrast, eukaryotic organisms exploit a multitude of replication origins, dividing their genomes into an array of short contiguous units. Rece...

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

authors： Robinson NP,Bell SD

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the efficiency of transformation by linear DNA fragments in yeast strains carrying different numbers of homologous targets for recombination. In strains carrying dispersed copies of a target and in strains carrying tandem arrays, the frequency of transformation is proportional to the number of targets...

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

authors： Wilson JH,Leung WY,Bosco G,Dieu D,Haber JE

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum RNase (ribonuclease) of normal persons and of patients with pancreatitis, carcinoma of pancreas, or other neoplasms was determined with poly(C) as substrate. Strikingly abnormal elevations occur in the serum RNase of patients with pancreatic cancer. There is no elevation in the serum RNase level of patients with...

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

authors： Reddi KK,Holland JF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholamban (PLN) is an effective inhibitor of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+) ATPase (SERCA). Here, we examined PLN stability and degradation in primary cultured mouse neonatal cardiomyocytes (CMNCs) and mouse hearts using immunoblotting, molecular imaging, and [(35)S]methionine pulse-chase experiments, tog...

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

authors： Teng AC,Miyake T,Yokoe S,Zhang L,Rezende LM Jr,Sharma P,MacLennan DH,Liu PP,Gramolini AO

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of DNA replication has been observed in vitro with a DNA-membrane complex extracted from Bacillus subtilis. Antibiotics known to interfere with various aspects of initiation inhibited DNA synthesis significantly in vitro, whereas a mutant resistant to one inhibitor failed to respond to its presence. The inh...

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

authors： Benjamin P,Firshein W

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00