Old World sources of the first New World human inhabitants: a comparative craniofacial view.

abstract：:Gecko and many insects have adopted nanoscale fibrillar structures on their feet as adhesion devices. Here, we consider adhesion between a single fiber and a substrate by van der Waals or electrostatic interactions. For a given contact area A, the theoretical pull-off force of the fiber is sigma(th)A where sigma(th) i...

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

authors： Gao H,Yao H

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoroquinolones are antibacterial agents that attack DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV on chromosomal DNA. The existence of two fluoroquinolone targets and stepwise accumulation of resistance suggested that new quinolones could be found that would require cells to obtain two topoisomerase mutations to display resistanc...

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

authors： Zhao X,Xu C,Domagala J,Drlica K

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a highly prevalent gynecological disease with severe negative impacts on life quality and financial burden. Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease, which highlights the need for further investigation about the pathophysiology of this disease to provide clues for developing novel therapeutic ...

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

authors： Li WN,Hsiao KY,Wang CA,Chang N,Hsu PL,Sun CH,Wu SR,Wu MH,Tsai SJ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse insulin-like growth factor 2 (Igf2) locus is a complex genomic region that produces multiple transcripts from alternative promoters. Expression at this locus is regulated by parental imprinting. However, despite the existence of putative imprinting control elements in the Igf2 upstream region, imprinted tran...

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

authors： Moore T,Constancia M,Zubair M,Bailleul B,Feil R,Sasaki H,Reik W

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression is usually separated into cis and trans components. The separation may become artificial if much of the variation in expression is under multigenic and epistatic (e.g., cis-by-trans) control. There is hence a need to quantify the relative contribution of cis, trans, and cis-by-trans effec...

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

authors： Wang HY,Fu Y,McPeek MS,Lu X,Nuzhdin S,Xu A,Lu J,Wu ML,Wu CI

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The NMR structures of three single-amino acid variants of the C-terminal domain of the human prion protein, hPrP(121-230), are presented. In hPrP(M166V) and hPrP(R220K) the substitution is with the corresponding residue in murine PrP, and in hPrP(S170N) it is with the corresponding Syrian hamster residue. All three su...

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

authors： Calzolai L,Lysek DA,Guntert P,von Schroetter C,Riek R,Zahn R,Wüthrich K

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the caspase family of cysteine proteases play central roles in coordinating the stereotypical events that occur during apoptosis. Because the major executioner caspases, caspase-3 and caspase-7, exhibit almost indistinguishable activity toward certain synthetic peptide substrates, this has led to the widesp...

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

authors： Walsh JG,Cullen SP,Sheridan C,Lüthi AU,Gerner C,Martin SJ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A central tenet of evolutionary social science holds that behaviors, such as those associated with social dominance, produce fitness effects that are subject to cultural selection. However, evidence for such selection is inconclusive because it is based on short-term statistical associations between behavior and ferti...

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

authors： Lansing JS,Watkins JC,Hallmark B,Cox MP,Karafet TM,Sudoyo H,Hammer MF

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structures of the tomato planta macho and tomato apical stunt viroids have been determined, and probable secondary structures are proposed. Both viroids can assume the rodlike conformation with extensive base-pairing characteristic of all known viroids. Sequence homologies between the two viroids (75%) and...

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

authors： Kiefer MC,Owens RA,Diener TO

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in bacteria has emerged as a global challenge over the past 90 years, compromising our ability to effectively treat infections. There has been a dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance-associated determinants in bacterial populations, driven by the mobility and infectious nature of such determ...

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

authors： Klemm EJ,Wong VK,Dougan G

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformist bias occurs when the probability of adopting a more common cultural variant in a population exceeds its frequency, and anticonformist bias occurs when the reverse is true. Conformist and anticonformist bias have been widely documented in humans, and conformist bias has also been observed in many nonhuman an...

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

authors： Denton KK,Ram Y,Liberman U,Feldman MW

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of a few molecules [1-6] of RNA bacteriophage coat protein to 1 molecule of RNA represses in vitro translation of the RNA synthetase cistron. Digestion of the complex, R17 coat protein-R17 RNA, by T1 RNase yields an RNA fragment bound to the coat protein. The nucleotide sequence of this fragment (59 residu...

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

authors： Bernardi A,Spahr PF

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In insulin resistant states such as type 2 diabetes, there is a high demand on the β-cell to synthesize and secrete insulin, which challenges the ability of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to synthesize and fold nascent proteins. This creates a state of ER stress that triggers a coordinated program referred to as the u...

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

authors： Winnay JN,Dirice E,Liew CW,Kulkarni RN,Kahn CR

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible ligands were attached covalently to membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo marmorata by a method which is generally applicable and does not require the synthesis of specially designed molecules. UV irradiation of the receptor in the presence of [3H]trimethisoquin, [3H]phencyclidine, or [3H]perhy...

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

authors： Oswald R,Changeux JP

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive terahertz laser vibration-rotation-tunneling spectra and mid-IR laser spectra have been compiled for several isotopomers of small (dimer through hexamer) water clusters. These data, in conjunction with new theoretical advances, quantify the structures, force fields, dipole moments, and hydrogen bond rearrang...

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

authors： Keutsch FN,Saykally RJ

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliary epithelium in the eye consists of pigmented epithelial cells that express the α1β1 isoform of Na,K-ATPase and nonpigmented epithelial cells that express mainly the α2β3 isoform. In principle, a Na,K-ATPase inhibitor with selectivity for α2β3 that penetrates the cornea could effectively reduce intraocular p...

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

authors： Katz A,Tal DM,Heller D,Habeck M,Ben Zeev E,Rabah B,Bar Kana Y,Marcovich AL,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The folate-binding protein of rat liver mitochondria [Zamierowski, M. & Wagner, C. (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 933-938] has been purified to homogeneity by a combination of gel filtration, DEAE-cellulose, and affinity chromatography. This protein was assayed by its ability to bind tetrahydro[3H]folic acid in vitro. the...

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

authors： Wittwer AJ,Wagner C

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an in vitro transcription system that uses nuclei isolated from Lemna gibba G-3. The in vitro transcripts include sequences homologous to hybridization probes for the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase [3-phospho-D-glycerate carboxy-lyase (dimerizing), EC 4.1.1.39], the light-harv...

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

authors： Silverthorne J,Tobin EM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helper-dependent adenoviral vectors deleted of all viral coding sequences have shown an excellent gene expression profile in a variety of animal models, as well as a reduced toxicity after systemic delivery. What is still unclear is whether long-term expression and therapeutic dosages of these vectors can be obtained ...

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

authors： Maione D,Della Rocca C,Giannetti P,D'Arrigo R,Liberatoscioli L,Franlin LL,Sandig V,Ciliberto G,La Monica N,Savino R

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sessile marine organisms are prolific sources of biologically active natural products. However, these compounds are often found in highly variable amounts, with the abiotic and biotic factors governing their production remaining poorly understood. We present an approach that permits monitoring of in vivo natural produ...

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

authors： Esquenazi E,Jones AC,Byrum T,Dorrestein PC,Gerwick WH

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study details the immune response to cartilage proteoglycan in experimental chronic IgG-induced immune synovitis. Antibodies reactive with purified rabbit proteoglycan monomer were observed in nine of nine rabbits with immune synovitis. IgG-immunized but nonsynovitic control animals with no pathology showed no an...

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

authors： Yoo JU,Kresina TF,Malemud CJ,Goldberg VM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were analyzed for associations to an unselected whole genome pool of tumor mRNA transcripts in 50 unrelated patients with breast cancer. SNPs were selected from 203 candidate genes of the reactive oxygen species pathway. We describe a general statistical framework for t...

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

authors： Kristensen VN,Edvardsen H,Tsalenko A,Nordgard SH,Sørlie T,Sharan R,Vailaya A,Ben-Dor A,Lønning PE,Lien S,Omholt S,Syvänen AC,Yakhini Z,Børresen-Dale AL

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms ensuring balanced growth remain a critical question in developmental biology. In plants, this balance relies on spatiotemporal integration of hormonal signaling pathways, but the understanding of the precise contribution of each hormone is just beginning to take form. Brassinosteroid (BR) hormone is sho...

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

authors： Vragović K,Sela A,Friedlander-Shani L,Fridman Y,Hacham Y,Holland N,Bartom E,Mockler TC,Savaldi-Goldstein S

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural immunocytochemical studies of the expression of major histocompatibility complex class I antigens in the placentas of inbred rats were performed using placentas derived from natural matings and from embryo transfers into females made pseudopregnant by mechanical stimulation. The studies utilized the WF...

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

authors： Kanbour-Shakir A,Zhang X,Rouleau A,Armstrong DT,Kunz HW,Macpherson TA,Gill TJ 3rd

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Phototropin is a blue light photoreceptor for tropic responses, relocation of chloroplasts, and stomata opening in plants. Phototropin has two chromophoric domains named light-oxygen-voltage-sensing (LOV) 1 and 2 in the N-terminal half, and a serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) protein kinase motif in the C-terminal half. Conc...

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

authors： Matsuoka D,Tokutomi S

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an "anti-alpha" factor Spx in Bacillus subtilis that blocks transcriptional activation by binding to the alpha-C-terminal domain, thereby...

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

authors： Nakano S,Nakano MM,Zhang Y,Leelakriangsak M,Zuber P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, including hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and pituitary corticotropin, is one of the first endocrine systems to develop during fetal life, probably because glucocorticoid secretion is necessary for the maturation of many essential fetal organs. Consiste...

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

authors： Venihaki M,Carrigan A,Dikkes P,Majzoub JA

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Natal dispersal, the process through which immature individuals permanently depart their natal area in search of new sites, is integral to the ecology and evolution of animals. Insights about the underlying causes of natal dispersal arise mainly from research on species whose short dispersal distances or restricted di...

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

authors： Studds CE,Kyser TK,Marra PP

更新日期：2008-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations are introduced into rearranged Ig variable genes at a frequency of 10(-2) mutations per base pair by an unknown mechanism. Assuming that DNA repair pathways generate or remove mutations, the frequency and pattern of mutation will be different in variable genes from mice defective in repair. Therefore, hyperm...

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

authors： Winter DB,Phung QH,Umar A,Baker SM,Tarone RE,Tanaka K,Liskay RM,Kunkel TA,Bohr VA,Gearhart PJ

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00