Purifying selection and birth-and-death evolution in the ubiquitin gene family.

abstract：:Nonspatial theory on pathogen evolution generally predicts selection for maximal number of secondary infections, constrained only by supposed physiological trade-offs between pathogen infectiousness and virulence. Spread of diseases in human populations can, however, exhibit large scale patterns, underlining the need ...

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

authors： van Ballegooijen WM,Boerlijst MC

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Let Lambda=SL(2)(Z) be the modular group and let c(n)(Lambda) be the number of congruence subgroups of Lambda of index at most n. We prove that lim(n--> infinity )(log c(n)(Lambda)/((log n)(2)/log log n))=(3-2(sqrt)2)/4. The proof is based on the Bombieri-Vinogradov "Riemann hypothesis on the average" and on the solut...

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

authors： Goldfeld D,Lubotzky A,Nikolov N,Pyber L

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (cSOD; superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) in metabolic defense against O2 toxicity in Drosophila is examined through the properties of a mutant strain carrying a cSOD-null mutation, cSODn108. Homozygotes are viable as larvae, which indicates that ...

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

authors： Phillips JP,Campbell SD,Michaud D,Charbonneau M,Hilliker AJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that silences transposable elements (TEs) and repeats. Whereas the establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation are relatively well understood, little is known about their dynamics and biological relevance in plant and animal innate immunity. Here, we show that some TEs are de...

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

authors： Yu A,Lepère G,Jay F,Wang J,Bapaume L,Wang Y,Abraham AL,Penterman J,Fischer RL,Voinnet O,Navarro L

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electron microscopy and fitting of crystal structures, we present the 3D reconstruction of ligand-induced dimers of intact receptor tyrosine kinase, KIT. We observe that KIT protomers form close contacts throughout the entire structure of ligand-bound receptor dimers, and that the dimeric receptors adopt multipl...

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

authors： Opatowsky Y,Lax I,Tomé F,Bleichert F,Unger VM,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable interest in engineering plant cell wall components, particularly lignin, to improve forage quality and biomass properties for processing to fuels and bioproducts. However, modifying lignin content and/or composition in transgenic plants through down-regulation of lignin biosynthetic enzymes can i...

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

authors： Gallego-Giraldo L,Liu C,Pose-Albacete S,Pattathil S,Peralta AG,Young J,Westpheling J,Hahn MG,Rao X,Knox JP,De Meester B,Boerjan W,Dixon RA

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the principal energy-transfer pathways responsible for allosteric communication in biomolecules remains challenging, partially due to the intrinsic complexity of the systems and the lack of effective characterization methods. In this work, we introduce the eigenvector centrality metric based on mutual info...

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

authors： Negre CFA,Morzan UN,Hendrickson HP,Pal R,Lisi GP,Loria JP,Rivalta I,Ho J,Batista VS

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic inflammatory cytokine that has been implicated in various inflammatory diseases. Chronic inflammation is a mainstay of liver fibrosis, a leading cause of morbidity worldwide, but the role of MIF in liver scarring has not yet been elucidated. Here we have un...

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

authors： Heinrichs D,Knauel M,Offermanns C,Berres ML,Nellen A,Leng L,Schmitz P,Bucala R,Trautwein C,Weber C,Bernhagen J,Wasmuth HE

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:YC-1 [3-(5'-hydroxymethyl-2'furyl)-1-benzyl indazole] is an allosteric activator of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC). YC-1 increases the catalytic rate of the enzyme and sensitizes the enzyme toward its gaseous activators nitric oxide or carbon monoxide. In other studies the administration of YC-1 to experimental animal...

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

authors： Martin E,Lee YC,Murad F

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the genetics of susceptibility to infectious agents is of great importance to our ability to combat disease. Here, we show that voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) are critical for cellular binding and entry of the New World arenaviruses Junín and Tacaribe virus, suggesting that zoonosis via these rec...

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

authors： Sarute N,Ross SR

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement of living systems and an essential feature of many pharmaceutical therapies. However, applications of membrane-enclosed solutions of proteins, DNA, and other biologically active compounds have been limited by the difficulty of for...

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

authors： Stachowiak JC,Richmond DL,Li TH,Liu AP,Parekh SH,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus entry into cells requires the coordinated action of multiple virus envelope glycoproteins, including gH, gL, and gB. For EBV, the gp42 protein assembles into complexes with gHgL heterodimers and binds HLA class II to activate gB-mediated membrane fusion with B cells. EBV tropism is dictated by gp42 levels ...

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

authors： Sathiyamoorthy K,Jiang J,Möhl BS,Chen J,Zhou ZH,Longnecker R,Jardetzky TS

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) influx through L-type Ca(2+) channels (LTCCs) influences numerous physiological processes ranging from contraction in muscle and memory in neurons to gene expression in many cell types. However, the spatiotemporal organization of functional LTCCs has been nearly impossible to investigate because of methodologic...

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

authors： Navedo MF,Amberg GC,Votaw VS,Santana LF

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which glucocorticoids induce cleft palate in mice. It was hypothesized that a compound such as triamcinolone acetonide inhibits mRNA synthesis; that this results later in depressed protein synthesis; and that the latter is ultimately responsible for slowe...

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

authors： Zimmerman EF,Andrew F,Kalter H

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational aspects of the acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) of Electrophorus electricus have been examined by studies of its interaction with structurally related, constrained aromatic bis quaternary compounds. Among the compounds synthesized was 3,3'-bis[alpha-(trimethylammonium)-methyl]azobenzene dibromide (3,3'-b...

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

authors： Wassermann NH,Bartels E,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of a human placenta lambda gt11 library has led to the isolation of the cDNA for the human beta 1-adrenergic receptor (beta 1AR). Used as the probe was the human genomic clone termed G-21. This clone, which contains an intronless gene for a putative receptor, was previously isolated by virtue of its cross hy...

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

authors： Frielle T,Collins S,Daniel KW,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Kobilka BK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophosphatasia is an inherited disorder characterized by defective bone mineralization and a deficiency of serum and tissue liver/bone/kidney alkaline phosphatase (L/B/K ALP) activity. Clinical severity is variable, ranging from death in utero (due to severe rickets) to pathologic fractures first presenting in adult...

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

authors： Weiss MJ,Cole DE,Ray K,Whyte MP,Lafferty MA,Mulivor RA,Harris H

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) pumps monoamine neurotransmitters and Parkinsonism-inducing dopamine neurotoxins such as 1-methyl-4-phenyl-phenypyridinium (MPP+) from neuronal cytoplasm into synaptic vesicles, from which amphetamines cause their release. Amphetamines and MPP+ each also act at nonvesi...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Miner LL,Sora I,Ujike H,Revay RS,Kostic V,Jackson-Lewis V,Przedborski S,Uhl GR

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA hybridization was used to compare representatives of the major groups of marsupials and a eutherian outgroup. Because of the large genetic distances separating marsupial families, trees were calculated from normalized percentages of hybridization; thermal-melting statistics, however, gave identical topologies for ...

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

authors： Kirsch JA,Dickerman AW,Reig OA,Springer MS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eye-opening represents a turning point in the function of the visual cortex. Before eye-opening, the visual cortex is largely devoid of sensory inputs and neuronal activities are generated intrinsically. After eye-opening, the cortex starts to integrate visual information. Here we used in vivo two-photon calcium imagi...

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

authors： Rochefort NL,Garaschuk O,Milos RI,Narushima M,Marandi N,Pichler B,Kovalchuk Y,Konnerth A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endonucleolytic activity is associated with purified PM(2) bacteriophages. It converts the double-stranded supercoiled PM(2) DNA mostly into the linear form that sediments as a homogenous peak in alkaline sucrose gradients. The same activity is found in intact or detergent-lysed phages. Optimal activity is observed...

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

authors： Laval F

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequencies of diverse rearrangements of variable (V)lambda to joining (J)lambda gene segments were examined by Southern blot hybridization in 30 murine B-cell lines, each producing an immunoglobulin lambda light chain of known subtype (lambda 1, lambda 2, or lambda 3). For 11 out of 12 lambda 1 chains, the rearra...

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

authors： Reilly EB,Blomberg B,Imanishi-Kari T,Tonegawa S,Eisen HN

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was encapsulated in large, unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes), and the encapsulated TMV RNA was shown to be infectious when incubated with tobacco protoplasts under appropriate conditions. Maximal virus production in protoplasts was observed after their incubation with TMV RNA...

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

authors： Fraley RT,Dellaporta SL,Papahadjopoulos D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocations involving c-myc and an Ig locus have been reported rarely in human multiple myeloma (MM). Using specific fluorescence in situ hybridization probes, we show complex karyotypic abnormalities of the c-myc or L-myc locus in 19 of 20 MM cell lines and approximately 50% of advanced primary MM tumors. These ab...

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

authors： Shou Y,Martelli ML,Gabrea A,Qi Y,Brents LA,Roschke A,Dewald G,Kirsch IR,Bergsagel PL,Kuehl WM

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein Ib is a surface membrane glycoprotein of platelets that functions as a receptor for von Willebrand factor. It is a heterodimer composed of an alpha and a beta chain linked by a disulfide bond(s). A phage lambda gt11 cDNA expression library prepared from mRNA from a human erythroleukemia cell line, HEL, wa...

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

authors： Lopez JA,Chung DW,Fujikawa K,Hagen FS,Papayannopoulou T,Roth GJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The robustness of eight common food web properties is examined with respect to web size. We show that the current controversy concerning the scale dependence or scale invariance of these properties can be resolved by accounting for scaling constraints introduced by webs of very small size. We demonstrate statistically...

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

authors： Bersier LF,Sugihara G

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acylation of cysteine residues provides spatial and temporal control of protein function in cells and regulates important biological pathways in eukaryotes. Although recent methods have improved the detection and proteomic analysis of cysteine fatty (S-fatty) acylated proteins, understanding how specific sites a...

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

authors： Percher A,Ramakrishnan S,Thinon E,Yuan X,Yount JS,Hang HC

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized b...

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

authors： Solé-Domènech S,Rojas AV,Maisuradze GG,Scheraga HA,Lobel P,Maxfield FR

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed implantation (embryonic diapause) occurs when the embryo at the blastocyst stage achieves a state of suspended animation. During this period, blastocyst growth is very slow, with minimal or no cell division. Nearly 100 mammals in seven different orders undergo delayed implantation, but the underlying molecular...

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

authors： Hamatani T,Daikoku T,Wang H,Matsumoto H,Carter MG,Ko MS,Dey SK

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the binding of 125I-labeled alpha-inhibin-92 (a 92-residue peptide) to human pituitary membrane preparations. Unlabeled alpha-inhibin-92 competed effectively with the labeled peptide for binding to the membranes. Binding was also inhibited by both alpha-inhibin-52 and alpha-inhibin-31, but less effecti...

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

authors： Ramasharma K,Li CH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00