Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics.

abstract：:In a field study, we show that a young song sparrow (i) selects his songs from three or four older birds who have neighboring territories, (ii) preferentially learns song types that these tutor neighbors share, and (iii) ultimately sets up his territory next to, or replaces, one of these tutor neighbors. The consequen...

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

authors： Beecher MD,Campbell SE,Stoddard PK

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The prediction of binding sites and the understanding of interfaces associated with protein complexation remains an open problem in molecular biophysics. This work shows that a crucial factor in predicting and rationalizing protein-protein interfaces can be inferred by assessing the extent of intramolecular desolvatio...

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

authors： Fernández A,Scheraga HA

更新日期：2003-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A perversion in an otherwise uniform helical structure, such as a climbing plant tendril, refers to a kink that connects two helices with opposite chiralities. Such singularity structures are widely seen in natural and artificial mechanical systems, and they provide the fundamental mechanism of helical symmetry breaki...

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

authors： Liu S,Yao Z,Chiou K,Stupp SI,Olvera de la Cruz M

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Entropic effects have often been invoked to explain the extraordinary catalytic power of enzymes. In particular, the hypothesis that enzymes can use part of the substrate-binding free energy to reduce the entropic penalty associated with the subsequent chemical transformation has been very influential. The enzymatic r...

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

authors： Kazemi M,Himo F,Åqvist J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizenship endows legal protections and is associated with economic and social gains for immigrants and their communities. In the United States, however, naturalization rates are relatively low. Yet we lack reliable knowledge as to what constrains immigrants from applying. Drawing on data from a public/private natura...

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

authors： Hainmueller J,Lawrence D,Gest J,Hotard M,Koslowski R,Laitin DD

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of photoinitiated electron transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor molecules has helped elucidate the distance dependence of electron transfer rates and behavior of various electron transfer mechanisms. In all reported cases, the energies of the bridge electronic states involved in the electron transfer change dra...

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

authors： Goldsmith RH,Sinks LE,Kelley RF,Betzen LJ,Liu W,Weiss EA,Ratner MA,Wasielewski MR

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The AF-6 protein is a multidomain protein that contains two potential Ras-binding domains within its N terminus. Because of this feature, AF-6 has been isolated in both two-hybrid and biochemical approaches and is postulated to be a potential Ras-effector protein. Herein, we show that it is specifically the first Ras-...

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

authors： Boettner B,Govek EE,Cross J,Van Aelst L

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The starting point for the study of adverse experiences is that some have enduring consequences that continue after the period of exposure to the adversity. That raises four basic issues: whether social adversities can be considered homogeneous, whether the crucial effect lies in the "objective" or subjectively percei...

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

authors： Rutter M

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Persephin (Pspn), a recently cloned member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily (TGF-beta) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) subfamily, is distributed throughout the nervous system at extremely low levels and is thought to function as a survival factor for midbrain dopaminergic and s...

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

authors： Tomac AC,Agulnick AD,Haughey N,Chang CF,Zhang Y,Bäckman C,Morales M,Mattson MP,Wang Y,Westphal H,Hoffer BJ

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice carrying mutations in either the dominant white-spotting (W) or Steel (Sl) loci exhibit deficits in melanogenesis, gametogenesis, and hematopoiesis. W encodes the Kit receptor tyrosine kinase, while Sl encodes the Kit ligand, Steel factor, and the receptor-ligand pair are contiguously expressed at anatomical site...

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

authors： Motro B,Wojtowicz JM,Bernstein A,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of 20 recombinant Fab fragments reactive with the surface glycoprotein gp120 of human type 1 immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) were examined for their ability to neutralize MN and IIIB strains of the virus. Neutralization was determined as the ability of the Fab fragments to inhibit infection as measured in both ...

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

authors： Barbas CF 3rd,Björling E,Chiodi F,Dunlop N,Cababa D,Jones TM,Zebedee SL,Persson MA,Nara PL,Norrby E

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQOR; EC 1.6.99.2) is a homodimeric enzyme which catalyzes the reduction of quinones, azo dyes, and other electron acceptors by NADPH or NADH. To pursue subunit functional studies, we expressed a wild-type/mutant heterodimer of NQOR in Escherichia coli. The wild-type subunit of the hete...

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

authors： Cui K,Lu AY,Yang CS

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the realm of protein-protein interactions, the assembly process of homooligomers plays a fundamental role because the majority of proteins fall into this category. A comprehensive understanding of this multistep process requires the characterization of the driving molecular interactions and the transient intermedia...

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

authors： Barducci A,Bonomi M,Prakash MK,Parrinello M

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical injury to the adult mammalian spinal cord results in permanent loss of structural integrity at the lesion site and of the brain-controlled function distal to the lesion. Some of these consequences were permanently averted by altering the cellular constituents at the lesion site with x-irradiation delivered ...

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

authors： Kalderon N,Fuks Z

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembling dendrimers have facilitated the discovery of periodic and quasiperiodic arrays of supramolecular architectures and the diverse functions derived from them. Examples are liquid quasicrystals and their approximants plus helical columns and spheres, including some that disregard chirality. The same period...

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

authors： Rodriguez-Emmenegger C,Xiao Q,Kostina NY,Sherman SE,Rahimi K,Partridge BE,Li S,Sahoo D,Reveron Perez AM,Buzzacchera I,Han H,Kerzner M,Malhotra I,Möller M,Wilson CJ,Good MC,Goulian M,Baumgart T,Klein ML,Percec V

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II is a salt-sensitive form of hypertension with hyperkalemia in humans caused by mutations in the with-no-lysine kinase 4 (WNK4). Several studies have shown that WNK4 modulates the activity of the renal Na(+)Cl(-) cotransporter, NCC. Because the renal consequences of WNK4 carrying pseudoa...

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

authors： Castañeda-Bueno M,Cervantes-Pérez LG,Vázquez N,Uribe N,Kantesaria S,Morla L,Bobadilla NA,Doucet A,Alessi DR,Gamba G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a master regulator of functional Ig heavy chain (IgH) expression, the IgH 3' regulatory region (3'RR) controls multiple transcription events at various stages of B-cell ontogeny, from newly formed B cells until the ultimate plasma cell stage. The IgH 3'RR plays a pivotal role in early B-cell receptor expression, ge...

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

authors： Garot A,Marquet M,Saintamand A,Bender S,Le Noir S,Rouaud P,Carrion C,Oruc Z,Bébin AG,Moreau J,Lebrigand K,Denizot Y,Alt FW,Cogné M,Pinaud E

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine periplasmic permease of Salmonella typhimurium has been partially purified and reconstituted into proteoliposomes. In this in vitro preparation, transport activity is completely dependent on the presence of all four permease proteins (HisJ, HisQ, HisM, and HisP) and on internal ATP. The reconstituted sys...

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

authors： Bishop L,Agbayani R Jr,Ambudkar SV,Maloney PC,Ames GF

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have defined transcriptional control elements, in addition to the promoters, that both lie near individual human beta-globin locus genes and have been implicated in their differential stage-specific regulation during development (i.e., are believed to directly participate in hemoglobin switching). We ...

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

authors： Liu Q,Bungert J,Engel JD

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Drosophila pseudoobscura, we tested the hypothesis that social constraints on the free expression of mate preferences, by both females and males, decrease offspring viability and reproductive success of mating pairs. Mate preference arenas eliminated intrasexual combat and intersexual coercion. The time female a...

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

authors： Anderson WW,Kim YK,Gowaty PA

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition is a critical source of plant nutrients, and drives the largest flux of terrestrial C to the atmosphere. Decomposing soil organic matter typically contains litter from multiple plant species, yet we lack a mechanistic understanding of how species diversity influences decomposition processes. Here, we sho...

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

authors： Meier CL,Bowman WD

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The major protein constituent of human plasma high density lipoproteins has been isolated and its complete amino-acid sequence determined. The protein, designated apolipoprotein-glutamine-I by the presence of carboxyl-terminal glutamine, is a single polypeptide chain of 245 amino-acid residues, including three residue...

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

authors： Baker HN,Delahunty T,Gotto AM Jr,Jackson RL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms ranging from plants to worms and humans suggest that duplication of some genes might be better tolerated than that of others. Here we h...

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

authors： De Smet R,Adams KL,Vandepoele K,Van Montagu MC,Maere S,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:After endocytosis, transmembrane cargo reaches endosomes, where it encounters complexes dedicated to opposing functions: recycling and degradation. Microdomains containing endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT)-0 component Hrs [hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (HGRS-1) i...

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

authors： Norris A,Tammineni P,Wang S,Gerdes J,Murr A,Kwan KY,Cai Q,Grant BD

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented cell division is critical for cell fate specification, tissue organization, and tissue homeostasis, and relies on proper orientation of the mitotic spindle. The molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of spindle orientation remain largely unknown. Herein, we identify a critical role for cylindromatosis...

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

authors： Yang Y,Liu M,Li D,Ran J,Gao J,Suo S,Sun SC,Zhou J

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenteric fat is known to undergo inflammatory changes after 2,4,6,-trinitrobenzensulphonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis. Neurotensin (NT) and neurotensin receptor 1 (NTR1) have been shown to play a major role in the pathogenesis of intestinal inflammation. This led us to explore whether NT and NTR1 are expressed in t...

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

authors： Koon HW,Kim YS,Xu H,Kumar A,Zhao D,Karagiannides I,Dobner PR,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tramadol, previously only known as a synthetic analgesic, has now been found in the bark and wood of roots of the African medicinal tree Nauclea latifolia. At present, no direct evidence is available as to the biosynthetic pathway of its unusual skeleton. To provide guidance as to possible biosynthetic precursors, we ...

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

authors： Romek KM,Nun P,Remaud GS,Silvestre V,Taïwe GS,Lecerf-Schmidt F,Boumendjel A,De Waard M,Robins RJ

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although melanomas with mutant v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) can now be effectively targeted, there is no molecular target for most melanomas expressing wild-type BRAF. Here, we show that the activation of Pleckstrin homology domain-interacting protein (PHIP), promotes melanoma metastasis, can ...

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

authors： De Semir D,Nosrati M,Bezrookove V,Dar AA,Federman S,Bienvenu G,Venna S,Rangel J,Climent J,Meyer Tamgüney TM,Thummala S,Tong S,Leong SP,Haqq C,Billings P,Miller JR 3rd,Sagebiel RW,Debs R,Kashani-Sabet M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00