Corticosterone levels predict survival probabilities of Galapagos marine iguanas during El Nino events.

abstract：:The requirement for protein synthesis in the mechanism of a circadian pacemaker was investigated by using inhibitors of protein synthesis. Continuous treatment of the ocular circadian pacemaker of the mollusc Bulla gouldiana with anisomycin or cycloheximide substantially lengthened (up to 39 and 52 hr, respectively) t...

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

authors： Khalsa SB,Whitmore D,Block GD

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-specific molecules are needed across diverse areas of oncology for use in early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Large and growing public databases of transcriptome sequencing data (RNA-seq) derived from tumors and normal tissues hold the potential of yielding tumor-specific molecules, but because th...

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

authors： Barrett CL,DeBoever C,Jepsen K,Saenz CC,Carson DA,Frazer KA

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously metal-ion sites have been used as structural and functional probes in seven transmembrane receptors (7TM), but as yet all the engineered sites have been inactivating. Based on presumed agonist interaction points in transmembrane III (TM-III) and -VII of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor, in this paper we cons...

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

authors： Elling CE,Thirstrup K,Holst B,Schwartz TW

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and genetic characters from cyprinid fishes of the genus Gila were examined to assess a hypothesized hybrid origin of Gila seminuda from the Virgin River, Arizona-Nevada-Utah. The presumed parents, Gila robusta robusta and Gila elegans, are clearly differentiated from one another based on morphology, all...

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

authors： DeMarais BD,Dowling TE,Douglas ME,Minckley WL,Marsh PC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoadaptation, the ability to attenuate a light response on prolonged light exposure while remaining sensitive to escalating changes in light intensity, is essential for organisms to decipher time information appropriately, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. In Neurospora crassa, VIVID (V...

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

authors： Chen CH,DeMay BS,Gladfelter AS,Dunlap JC,Loros JJ

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the skin of the majority of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), and its presence increases disease severity. Adhesion of S. aureus to corneocytes in the stratum corneum is a key initial event in colonization, but the bacterial and host factors contributing to this process have not bee...

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

authors： Towell AM,Feuillie C,Vitry P,Da Costa TM,Mathelié-Guinlet M,Kezic S,Fleury OM,McAleer MA,Dufrêne YF,Irvine AD,Geoghegan JA

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The pineal organ of the lizard Anolis carolinensis can be maintained for up to 10 days in superfused organ culture. During this time it synthesizes and releases melatonin into the medium flowing slowly over it. Collection of timed aliquots of medium and subsequent analysis for melatonin by radioimmunoassay reveal circ...

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

authors： Menaker M,Wisner S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While seeking a new host cell, obligate intracellular parasites, such as the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, must be able to endure the stress of an extracellular environment. The mechanisms Toxoplasma use to remain viable while deprived of a host cell are not understood. We have previously shown that phosphorylation of ...

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

authors： Joyce BR,Queener SF,Wek RC,Sullivan WJ Jr

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During cytokinesis, a cleavage furrow generated by actomyosin ring contraction is restructured into the midbody, a platform for the assembly of the abscission machinery that controls the final separation of daughter cells. The polymerization state of F-actin is important during assembly, ingression, disassembly, and c...

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

authors： Terry SJ,Donà F,Osenberg P,Carlton JG,Eggert US

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is the primary and most ancient defense against infection. Although critical to survival, coordinating protection against a foreign organism is energetically costly, creating the need to reallocate substrates from nonessential functions, such as growth and nutrient storage. However, the mechanism by wh...

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

authors： DiAngelo JR,Bland ML,Bambina S,Cherry S,Birnbaum MJ

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isotopic tracer methods, we have shown that dihydrolipoic acid (2,3-thioctic acid) acylates the distal oxygen of ferrous oxygenated Pseudomonas cytochrome P-450, forming a transient acyl peroxide intermediate that facilitates oxygen-oxygen bond cleavage. Single-turnover studies with 18O2 indicate one oxygen-18 a...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Kennedy KA,Pearson DC

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-mediated signaling events regulate many cellular processes. Investigations of the complex underlying mechanisms are difficult because several different methods need to be used under varying conditions. Here we introduce multifunctional lipid derivatives to study lipid metabolism, lipid-protein interactions, and ...

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

authors： Höglinger D,Nadler A,Haberkant P,Kirkpatrick J,Schifferer M,Stein F,Hauke S,Porter FD,Schultz C

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of molecular hydrogen catalyzed by [NiFe] hydrogenases is a widespread mechanism of energy generation among prokaryotes. Biosynthesis of the H2-oxidizing enzymes is a complex process subject to positive control by H2 and negative control by organic energy sources. In this report we describe a novel signal tr...

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

authors： Lenz O,Friedrich B

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature increase have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly developed multigas mitigation scenarios, based on a wide range of modeling approaches and socioeconomic assumptions, now allow the assessment of possible impacts of clim...

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

authors： Van Vuuren DP,Meinshausen M,Plattner GK,Joos F,Strassmann KM,Smith SJ,Wigley TM,Raper SC,Riahi K,de la Chesnaye F,den Elzen MG,Fujino J,Jiang K,Nakicenovic N,Paltsev S,Reilly JM

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance to multiple unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs impedes the treatment of several cancers. Although the involvement of ATP-binding cassette transporters has long been known, there is no in situ method capable of tracking this transporter-related resistance at the single-cell level without inter...

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

authors： Kuss S,Polcari D,Geissler M,Brassard D,Mauzeroll J

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive success is widely used as a measure of fitness. However, offspring quantity may not reflect the genetic contribution to subsequent generations if there is nonrandom variation in offspring quality. Offspring quality is likely to be an important component of human fitness, and tradeoffs between offspring qu...

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

authors： Zietsch BP,Kuja-Halkola R,Walum H,Verweij KJ

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have combined standard micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion of nuclei with a modified protocol for constructing paired-end DNA sequencing libraries to map both nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles at single base-pair resolution throughout the budding yeast genome. We found that partially unwrapped nucleo...

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

authors： Henikoff JG,Belsky JA,Krassovsky K,MacAlpine DM,Henikoff S

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a well known fact that stirring keeps particles suspended in fluids. This is apparent, for instance, when shaking medicine flasks, when agitating tea deposits in a mug, or when heavy winds fill the air with dust particles. The commonplace nature of such observations makes it easy to accept that this feature will...

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

authors： Ruiz J,Macías D,Peters F

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal locations of members of the xenotropic-related env gene family in the mouse genome have been determined. Endonuclease restriction site polymorphisms detected by molecular hybridization were used to study the inheritance of mink cell-focus inducing and xenotropic env gene-related sequences in recombinant in...

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

authors： Blatt C,Mileham K,Haas M,Nesbitt MN,Harper ME,Simon MI

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:SoxR is a transcription factor that governs a global defense against the oxidative stress caused by nitric oxide or excess superoxide in Escherichia coli. SoxR is a homodimer containing a pair of [2Fe-2S] clusters essential for its transcriptional activity, and changes in the stability of these metal centers could con...

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

authors： Ding H,Demple B

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Compulsive behavior is a debilitating clinical feature of many forms of neuropsychiatric disease, including Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and autism. Although several studies link striatal dysfunction to compulsivity, the pathophysiology remains poorly understood. Here, ...

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

authors： Xu P,Grueter BA,Britt JK,McDaniel L,Huntington PJ,Hodge R,Tran S,Mason BL,Lee C,Vong L,Lowell BB,Malenka RC,Lutter M,Pieper AA

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 50 years, the rising tree line along Jumpingpound Ridge in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada, has reduced the area of alpine meadows and isolated populations that reside within them. By analyzing an 11-year data set of butterfly population sizes for 17 subpopulations along the ridge, we show that fo...

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

authors： Roland J,Matter SF

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing tools for investigating the cellular activity of glycans will help to delineate the molecular basis for aberrant glycosylation in pathological processes such as cancer. Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering, which inserts sugar-reporting groups into cellular glycoconjugates, represents a powerful method for...

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

authors： Hsu TL,Hanson SR,Kishikawa K,Wang SK,Sawa M,Wong CH

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radicals nitric oxide and superoxide anion react to form peroxynitrite (ONOO-), a highly toxic oxidant species. In vivo formation of ONOO- has been demonstrated in shock and inflammation. Herein we provide evidence that cytotoxicity in cells exposed to ONOO- is mediated by DNA strand breakage and the subseque...

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

authors： Szabó C,Zingarelli B,O'Connor M,Salzman AL

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate how T cells recognize allogeneic class I proteins encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), we examined the human cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) elicited in a mixed lymphocyte reaction against a lymphoblastoid B-cell line (JY) whose MHC-class I proteins are HLA-A2 and -B7. By panning the res...

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

authors： Elliott TJ,Eisen HN

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group II intron RNAs self-splice in vitro but only at high salt and/or Mg2+ concentrations and have been thought to require proteins to stabilize their active structure for efficient splicing in vivo. Here, we show that a DEAD-box protein, CYT-19, can by itself promote the splicing and reverse splicing of the yeast aI...

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

authors： Mohr S,Matsuura M,Perlman PS,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-talk between the microtubule and actin networks has come under intense scrutiny following the realization that it is crucial for numerous essential processes, ranging from cytokinesis to cell migration. It is becoming increasingly clear that proteins long-considered highly specific for one or the other cytoskele...

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

authors： Oberhofer A,Reithmann E,Spieler P,Stepp WL,Zimmermann D,Schmid B,Frey E,Ökten Z

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolyzed rhodopsin catalyzes the exchange of GTP for FDP bound to a protein in retinal rod outer segments. We previously proposed that the GTP complex of this protein regulates the cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase and that it may be the first amplified intermediate in visual excitation [Fung, B. K.-K. & Stryer, L. (1980...

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

authors： Fung BK,Hurley JB,Stryer L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of BALB/3T3 cells by polyoma virus causes an alteration in the cell surface, characterized by enhanced agglutination of the cells by wheat germ agglutinin or concanavalin A. Infection by the thermosensitive mutant of polyoma, ts-3, causes the cell surface alteration at the permissive temperature, but not at ...

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

authors： Eckhart W,Dulbecco R,Burger MM

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00