Multidimensional epistasis and the disadvantage of sex.

abstract：:The temperature dependence of fatty acid spin label resonance spectra and freeze fracture micrographs of sonicated dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles in the absence and presence of concanavalin A demonstrate a strong interaction of concanavalin A with these lipid membranes, which results in fusion of the vesicles...

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

authors： van der Bosch J,McConnell M

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 primary colorectal carcinomas, we demonstrate by array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) that 33% show DNA copy number (DCN) loss involving PARK2, the gene encoding PARKIN, the E3 ubiquitin ligase whose deficiency is responsible for a form of autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism. PARK2 is located on...

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

authors： Poulogiannis G,McIntyre RE,Dimitriadi M,Apps JR,Wilson CH,Ichimura K,Luo F,Cantley LC,Wyllie AH,Adams DJ,Arends MJ

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and migration of disconnections (line defects constrained to the grain boundary [GB] plane with both dislocation and step character) control many of the kinetic and dynamical properties of GBs and the polycrystalline materials of which they are central constituents. We demonstrate that GBs undergo a fini...

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

authors： Chen K,Srolovitz DJ,Han J

更新日期：2020-12-29 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：:Membrane-associated and periplasmic proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C-58 were compared with those from avirulent (nontumrigenic) derivative strains by slab and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Two proteins (Per-I and Per-2), with a molecular weight of 37,500 and 37,300, respectively, were detected in the sup...

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

authors： Sonoki S,Kado CI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key predictions of the Hubble law are inconsistent with direct observations on equitable complete samples of extragalactic sources in the optical, infrared, and x-ray wave bands-e.g., the predicted dispersion in apparent magnitude is persistently greatly in excess of its observed value, precluding an explanation via h...

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

authors： Segal IE

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is initiated by the long noncoding RNA Xist, which coats the inactive X (Xi) and targets Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) in cis. Epigenomic analyses have provided significant insight into Xist binding patterns and chromatin organization of the Xi. However, such epigenomic analyses ...

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

authors： Sunwoo H,Wu JY,Lee JT

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During genome transcription in rotavirus, as with many segmented double-stranded RNA viruses, mRNA is transcribed within the intact subviral particle and translocated through specific channels in the capsid. To understand how the conformation of the capsid affects the efficiency of transcriptional events in the viral ...

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

authors： Lawton JA,Estes MK,Prasad BV

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation involves the origin of trait differences that limit or prevent gene exchange and ultimately results in daughter populations that form monophyletic or exclusive genetic groups. However, for recently diverged populations or species between which reproductive isolation is often incomplete, gene genealogies wil...

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

authors： Dopman EB,Pérez L,Bogdanowicz SM,Harrison RG

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The exotoxins produced by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus are able to stimulate powerful polyclonal proliferative responses and to induce nonresponsiveness by clonal deletion of T lymphocytes expressing the appropriate T-cell antigen receptor V beta gene products. This paper examines the ability of S. aureus ...

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

authors： O'Hehir RE,Lamb JR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory stretches over a lifetime. In controlled laboratory settings, the hippocampus and other medial temporal lobe brain structures have been shown to represent space and time on the scale of meters and seconds. It remains unclear whether the hippocampus also represents space and time over the longer scales necessary...

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

authors： Nielson DM,Smith TA,Sreekumar V,Dennis S,Sederberg PB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfolded RNase A is known to contain an equilibrium mixture of two forms, a slow-folding form (U(1)) and a fast-folding form (U(2)). If U(1) is produced after unfolding by the slow cis-trans isomerization of proline residues about X-Pro imide bonds, then the formation of U(1) should be catalyzed by strong acids. There...

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

authors： Schmid FX,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous circadian rhythms have been described in a wide range of organisms from prokaryotes to man. Although basic circadian mechanisms at the molecular level are genetically fixed, certain properties of circadian rhythms at the organismic level can be modified by environmental conditions and subsequently retained ...

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

authors： Brandstätter R,Kumar V,Abraham U,Gwinner E

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium oxide, D(2)O, increases the temperature-tolerance of Drosophila pseudoobscura when it is administered to adult flies as a sucrose solution. The effect is very rapidly exerted; it is detected within 10 min after the flies have a brief (10 min) opportunity to drink. This increased resistance to heat-death sure...

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

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Cosbey ES

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation spectrum induced by the widely used antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP) showed that cisDDP[d(ApG)] adducts, although they account for only 25% of the lesions formed, are approximately 5 times more mutagenic than the major GG adduct. We report the construction of vectors bearing a sin...

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

authors： Burnouf D,Gauthier C,Chottard JC,Fuchs RP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many experiments have been done to determine how far and how freely holes can move along the stack of base pairs in DNA. The results of these experiments are usually described in terms of a parameter beta under the assumption that it describes an exponential decay with distance. The reported values range from beta < 0...

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

authors： Conwell EM,Rakhmanova SV

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of physiological concentrations of 125I-labeled insulin with liver membranes in the presence of anti-insulin IgG results in a 7- to 15-fold increase in the specific binding of the hormone. The low-affinity/high-capacity binding sites are replaced by an apparently homogeneous class of high-affinity sites, an...

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

authors： Shechter Y,Chang KJ,Jacobs S,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) at cerebellar parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell synapses must be balanced by long-term potentiation (LTP) to prevent saturation and allow reversal of motor learning. The only previously analyzed form of cerebellar LTP is induced by 4-8 Hz PF stimulation and requires cAMP but not nitric oxide...

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

authors： Lev-Ram V,Wong ST,Storm DR,Tsien RY

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to participate in the recognition of pathogens by the innate immune system, but it is not clear how a restricted family of receptors has the capacity to recognize the wide spectrum of TLR stimuli known to exist. We report here that two members of the TLR family, TLR2 and TLR6...

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

authors： Ozinsky A,Underhill DM,Fontenot JD,Hajjar AM,Smith KD,Wilson CB,Schroeder L,Aderem A

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the mutation responsible for the autosomal recessive wasted (wst) mutation of the mouse. Wasted mice are characterized by wasting and neurological and immunological abnormalities starting at 21 days after birth; they die by 28 days. A deletion of 15.8 kb in wasted mice abolishes expression of a gene...

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

authors： Chambers DM,Peters J,Abbott CM

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that phagocytic leukocytes exposed to the tumor-promoting agent, 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate, efficiently release carbon-1 of 2-deoxyglucose in the form of CO2 with concurrent intracellular accumulation of a phosphorylated 5-carbon intermediate. In the absence of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-a...

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

authors： Zabos P,Kyner D,Mendelsohn N,Schreiber C,Waxman S,Christman J,Acs G

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in men over 50 years of age, and there is a characteristic marked decrease in Zn content in the malignant prostate cells. The cause and consequences of this loss have thus far been unknown. We found that in middle-aged rats a Zn-deficient diet reduces prostatic Zn lev...

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

authors： Fong LY,Jing R,Smalley KJ,Wang ZX,Taccioli C,Fan S,Chen H,Alder H,Huebner K,Farber JL,Fiehn O,Croce CM

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ cell stage of primary importance in radiation genetic hazards is the immature, arrested oocyte. In the mouse, this stage has a near zero or zero sensitivity to mutation induction by radiation. However, the application of these mouse results to women has been questioned on the ground that the mouse arre...

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

authors： Russell WL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-like tyrosine kinase (Ryk), a Wnt receptor, is important for cell fate determination during corticogenesis. During neuronal differentiation, the Ryk intracellular domain (ICD) is cleaved. Cleavage of Ryk and nuclear translocation of Ryk-ICD are required for neuronal differentiation. However, the mechanism...

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

authors： Chang WH,Choi SH,Moon BS,Cai M,Lyu J,Bai J,Gao F,Hajjali I,Zhao Z,Campbell DB,Weiner LP,Lu W

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons were made of the T1 ribonuclease digests of 32P-labeled nucleolar 45S RNA of intact Novikoff hepatoma cells and the RNA synthesized in vitro by isolated nucleoli. Approximately 200 oligonucleotide spots were found in the two-dimensional chromatogram of 45S nucleolar RNA labeled in vivo, which includes frag...

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

authors： Ballal NR,Choi YC,Mouche R,Busche H

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides ethanol, acetic acid is produced in naturally fermenting sweet resources and is a significant environmental stress for fruit-breeding Drosophila populations and species. Although not related to the presence of an active alcohol dehydrogenase, adult acetic acid tolerance was found to correlate with ethanol tole...

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

authors： Chakir M,Peridy O,Capy P,Pla E,David JR

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface density of the triggering receptors responsible for the natural killer (NK)-mediated cytotoxicity is crucial for the ability of NK cells to kill susceptible target cells. In this study, we show that transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1) down-regulates the surface expression of NKp30 and in part of NK...

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

authors： Castriconi R,Cantoni C,Della Chiesa M,Vitale M,Marcenaro E,Conte R,Biassoni R,Bottino C,Moretta L,Moretta A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delta 5-3-Ketosteroid isomerase (EC 5.3.3.1) promotes an allylic rearrangement involving intramolecular proton transfer via a dienolic intermediate. This enzyme enhances the catalytic rate by a factor of 10(10). Two residues, Tyr-14, the general acid that polarizes the steroid 3-carbonyl group and facilitates enolizat...

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

authors： Zhao Q,Abeygunawardana C,Talalay P,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two independently arising alpha heavy chain mutants have been found to synthesize heavy chains with CH1 deletions of approximately equal extent. Both were isolated from heavy chain-producing variants of the mouse myeloma W3129 and demonstrate that it is possible to arrive at the heavy chain disease phenotype by the pa...

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

authors： Dackowski W,Morrison SL

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the CCAAT-binding transcription factor (CTF) family of proteins stimulate the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and act as transcriptional activators. To investigate the mechanisms underlying CTF-mediated transactivation patterns, we expressed several natural CTF variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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

authors： Altmann H,Wendler W,Winnacker EL

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00