Male mate choice selects for female coloration in a fish.

abstract：:We noticed that disease-related amyloidogenic proteins and especially cellular prion proteins have the highest proportion of incompletely desolvated backbone H bonds among soluble proteins. Such bonds are vulnerable to water attack and thus represent structural weaknesses. We have measured the adsorption of proteins o...

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

authors： Fernández A,Berry RS

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to neonatal mice resulted in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of specific substrates in liver, kidney, lung, bladder, skin, and brain as detected by Western blot analysis of tissue homogenates with anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies. In the liver, three prominent ...

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

authors： Donaldson RW,Cohen S

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal oxygen depletion (hypoxia) in coastal bottom waters can lead to the release and persistence of free sulfide (euxinia), which is highly detrimental to marine life. Although coastal hypoxia is relatively common, reports of euxinia are less frequent, which suggests that certain environmental controls can delay t...

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

authors： Seitaj D,Schauer R,Sulu-Gambari F,Hidalgo-Martinez S,Malkin SY,Burdorf LD,Slomp CP,Meysman FJ

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lineage specification is thought to be largely regulated at the level of transcription, where lineage-specific transcription factors drive specific cell fates. MicroRNAs (miR), vital to many cell functions, act posttranscriptionally to decrease the expression of target mRNAs. MLL-AF4 acute lymphocytic leukemia exhibit...

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

authors： Okuyama K,Ikawa T,Gentner B,Hozumi K,Harnprasopwat R,Lu J,Yamashita R,Ha D,Toyoshima T,Chanda B,Kawamata T,Yokoyama K,Wang S,Ando K,Lodish HF,Tojo A,Kawamoto H,Kotani A

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspended aqueous aerosol droplets (<50 µm) are microreactors for many important atmospheric reactions. In droplets and other aquatic environments, pH is arguably the key parameter dictating chemical and biological processes. The nature of the droplet air/water interface has the potential to significantly alter drople...

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

authors： Wei H,Vejerano EP,Leng W,Huang Q,Willner MR,Marr LC,Vikesland PJ

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of actin filament barbed end uncapping on Arp23 complex function both in vivo and in vitro. Arp23 complex redistributes rapidly and uniformly to the lamellar edge of activated wild-type platelets and fibroblasts but clusters in marginal actin filament clumps in gelsolin-null cells. Treatment...

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

authors： Falet H,Hoffmeister KM,Neujahr R,Italiano JE Jr,Stossel TP,Southwick FS,Hartwig JH

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:By selective attachment of a DNA cleavage agent to specific residues in the yeast TATA box binding protein (yTBP), we demonstrate that, in solution, yTBP binds to the TATA boxes of both the adenovirus major late promoter and the yeast CYC1 promoter with only a modest preference in orientation and binds well to several...

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

authors： Cox JM,Hayward MM,Sanchez JF,Gegnas LD,van der Zee S,Dennis JH,Sigler PB,Schepartz A

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses are dsDNA viruses, but their virions may additionally contain RNAs that can be transduced to recipient cells. The biological functions of herpes virion RNA species are unknown. Here we address this issue for EBV, a widespread human herpesvirus with oncogenic potential. We show that EBV-derived particles ...

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

authors： Jochum S,Ruiss R,Moosmann A,Hammerschmidt W,Zeidler R

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bounded organelle with the characteristic shape of a series of stacked flat cisternae. During mitosis in mammalian cells, the Golgi apparatus is once fragmented into small vesicles and then reassembled to form the characteristic shape again in each daughter cell. The mechanism and det...

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

authors： Tachikawa M,Mochizuki A

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the focus of network research shifted to network controllability, prompting us to determine proteins that are important for the control of the underlying interaction webs. In particular, we determined minimum dominating sets of proteins (MDSets) in human and yeast protein interaction networks. Such groups of...

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

authors： Wuchty S

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of a single molecular handedness, or homochirality across all living matter, is a mystery in the origin of life. Frank's seminal model showed in the '50s how chiral symmetry breaking can occur in nonequilibrium chemical networks. However, an important shortcoming in this classic model is that it consider...

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

authors： Laurent G,Lacoste D,Gaspard P

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) has revolutionized the oil and gas industry worldwide but has been accompanied by highly controversial incidents of reported water contamination. For example, groundwater contamination by stray natural gas and spillage of brine and other gas drilling-related fluids is known to o...

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

authors： Llewellyn GT,Dorman F,Westland JL,Yoxtheimer D,Grieve P,Sowers T,Humston-Fulmer E,Brantley SL

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulated production of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the development of certain human diseases, including cancer. We sought to assess the damaging potential of NO produced under long-term conditions through the development of a suitable model cell culture system. In this study, we report that when murine...

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

authors： Zhuang JC,Wogan GN

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed phenomenology of low energy excitations is a crucial starting point for microscopic understanding of complex materials, such as the cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Because of its unique momentum-space discrimination, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is ideally suited for this task...

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

authors： Vishik IM,Hashimoto M,He RH,Lee WS,Schmitt F,Lu D,Moore RG,Zhang C,Meevasana W,Sasagawa T,Uchida S,Fujita K,Ishida S,Ishikado M,Yoshida Y,Eisaki H,Hussain Z,Devereaux TP,Shen ZX

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal-dominant disease characterized by the development of hundreds of adenomatous polyps of the colorectum. Approximately 80% of FAP patients can be shown to have truncating mutations of the APC gene. To determine the cause of FAP in the other 20% of patients, MAMA (mono...

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

authors： Laken SJ,Papadopoulos N,Petersen GM,Gruber SB,Hamilton SR,Giardiello FM,Brensinger JD,Vogelstein B,Kinzler KW

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting climate change impact on ecosystem structure and services is one of the most important challenges in ecology. Until now, plant species response to climate change has been described at the level of fixed plant functional types, an approach limited by its inflexibility as there is much interspecific functiona...

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

authors： Soudzilovskaia NA,Elumeeva TG,Onipchenko VG,Shidakov II,Salpagarova FS,Khubiev AB,Tekeev DK,Cornelissen JH

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of rapid climate change on contemporary human populations is of global concern. To contextualize our understanding of human responses to rapid climate change it is necessary to examine the archeological record during past climate transitions. One episode of abrupt climate change has been correlated with soc...

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

authors： Armit I,Swindles GT,Becker K,Plunkett G,Blaauw M

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of phosphatidylserine (PS) lipids exposed on the extracellular leaflet of plasma membranes is implicated in both apoptotic cell removal and immune regulation. The PS receptor T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain-containing molecule 4 (Tim4) regulates T-cell immunity via phagocytosis of both apoptotic (hi...

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

authors： Tietjen GT,Gong Z,Chen CH,Vargas E,Crooks JE,Cao KD,Heffern CT,Henderson JM,Meron M,Lin B,Roux B,Schlossman ML,Steck TL,Lee KY,Adams EJ

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles are increasingly used in various fields, including biomedicine and electronics. One application utilizes the opacifying effect of nano-TiO(2), which is frequently used as pigment in cosmetics. Although TiO(2) is believed to be biologically inert, an emerging literature reports increased incidence of resp...

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

authors： Yazdi AS,Guarda G,Riteau N,Drexler SK,Tardivel A,Couillin I,Tschopp J

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of bacteria, whose composition is associated with numerous metabolic, autoimmune, and infectious human diseases. Although there is increasing evidence that modern and Westernized societies are associated with dramatic loss of natural human gut microbiome diversit...

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

authors： Clayton JB,Vangay P,Huang H,Ward T,Hillmann BM,Al-Ghalith GA,Travis DA,Long HT,Tuan BV,Minh VV,Cabana F,Nadler T,Toddes B,Murphy T,Glander KE,Johnson TJ,Knights D

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:SecA, the translocation ATPase in Escherichia coli, undergoes cycles of conformational changes (insertion/deinsertion) in response to ATP and a preprotein. The membrane-embedded portion of protein translocase, SecYEG, has crucial roles in the SecA-driven preprotein translocation reaction. We previously identified a se...

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

authors： Matsumoto G,Mori H,Ito K

更新日期：1998-11-10 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：:Aging and disease processes may be due to deleterious and irreversible changes produced by free radical reactions. The enzyme copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (Cu-Zn SOD; superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) performs a protective function by scavenging superoxide radicals. The Cu-Zn SOD gene (Sod) cloned...

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

authors： Seto NO,Hayashi S,Tener GM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the long-term inhibition of IgE synthesis associated with perinatal inoculation of syngeneic IgE is accompanied by the synthesis of autoantibodies to IgE. Synthesis of IgE can also be inhibited by passive transfer of syngeneic anti-IgE antibodies. In the present investigation we made use of adoptive...

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

authors： Haba S,Nisonoff A

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of the normal isomer of [B20H18]2- and the protected thiol anion, [SC(O)OC(CH3)3]-, produces an unexpected isomer of [B20H17SC(O)OC(CH3)3]4- directly and in good yield. The isomer produced under mild conditions is characterized by an apical-apical boron atom intercage connection as well as the location of the...

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

authors： Feakes DA,Waller RC,Hathaway DK,Morton VS

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperphosphorylated α-synuclein in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites is a characteristic neuropathological feature of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The catalytic subunit of the specific phosphatase, protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) that dephosphorylates α-synuclein, is hypomethylated in these ...

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

authors： Yan R,Zhang J,Park HJ,Park ES,Oh S,Zheng H,Junn E,Voronkov M,Stock JB,Mouradian MM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription antitermination by lambda N gene product is affected in a mutant Escherichia coli with altered ribosomal protein S10, caused by the nusE71 mutation. To study the role of translation in antitermination, we have fused the phage nutR locus, the site of action of N, with the lac regulatory region. We have mo...

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

authors： Warren F,Das A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback loops are ubiquitous features of biological networks and can produce significant phenotypic heterogeneity, including a bimodal distribution of gene expression across an isogenic cell population. In this work, a combination of experiments and computational modeling was used to explore the roles of multiple fee...

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

authors： Venturelli OS,El-Samad H,Murray RM

更新日期：2012-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least three short-range gap repressors in the precellular Drosophila embryo: Krüppel, Knirps, and Giant. Krüppel and Knirps contain related repression motifs, PxDLSxH and PxDLSxK, respectively, which mediate interactions with the dCtBP corepressor protein. Here, we present evidence that Giant might also i...

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

authors： Nibu Y,Levine MS

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadal steroids have traditionally been found to have short-term effects on the mating behavior of adult vertebrates, such that increased steroid hormone levels influence behavior over the course of a few days. Long-term effects also have been observed in which embryonic exposure to steroid hormone influences the sex...

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

authors： Crews D

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00