Degeneracy and complexity in biological systems.

abstract：:After five decades of largely serendipitous (albeit formidable) progress, catalyst design in Ziegler-Natta olefin polymerization, i.e., the rational implementation of new active species to target predetermined polyolefin architectures, has ultimately become a realistic ambition, thanks to a much deeper fundamental und...

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

authors： Busico V,Cipullo R,Pellecchia R,Ronca S,Roviello G,Talarico G

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive target binding assay has recently been shown to detect natural killer (NK) cells in the mouse. Preincubation of NK cells with detergent-solubilized cell-surface proteins of YAC lymphoma cells prevented subsequent binding to intact YAC targets. The NK target structures (NK-TS) consisted of three molecular s...

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

authors： Roder JC,Rosén A,Fenyö EM,Troy FA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of molecularly cloning unintegrated proviral DNA from NIH-3T3 mouse cells infected with Rauscher murine leukemia virus, we observed the occurrence of clones with inserts smaller than the expected Rauscher murine leukemia virus fragments. The insert of one of these clones, lambda.Xe-1, was characterized ...

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

authors： van der Hoorn FA,Onnekink C,van der Putten H,Zijlstra M,Bloemers HP

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants born prematurely risk significant life-long cognitive disability, representing a major pediatric health crisis. The neuropathology of this cohort is accurately modeled in mice subjected to sublethal postnatal hypoxia. Massively parallel transcriptome analysis using cDNA microchips (9,262 genes), combined with ...

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

authors： Curristin SM,Cao A,Stewart WB,Zhang H,Madri JA,Morrow JS,Ment LR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were conducted to determine whether prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) stimulates the production of "second messengers" derived from inositol phospholipid hydrolysis and increases intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in isolated bovine luteal cells. PGF2 alpha provoked rapid (10 sec) and sustained (u...

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

authors： Davis JS,Weakland LL,Weiland DA,Farese RV,West LA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins are activated when they associate with G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), often in response to agonist-mediated receptor activation. It is generally thought that agonist-induced receptor-G protein association necessarily promotes G protein activation and, conversely, that activated GPCRs do not interact w...

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

authors： Okashah N,Wright SC,Kawakami K,Mathiasen S,Zhou J,Lu S,Javitch JA,Inoue A,Bouvier M,Lambert NA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to intercept uncooperative targets is key to many diverse flight behaviors, from courtship to predation. Previous research has looked for simple geometric rules describing the attack trajectories of animals, but the underlying feedback laws have remained obscure. Here, we use GPS loggers and onboard video ...

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

authors： Brighton CH,Thomas ALR,Taylor GK

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining the fidelity of nascent peptide chain (NP) synthesis is essential for proteome integrity and cellular health. Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) serves to resolve stalled translation, during which untemplated Ala/Thr residues are added C terminally to stalled peptide, as shown during C-terminal Ala ...

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

authors： Li S,Wu Z,Tantray I,Li Y,Chen S,Dong J,Glynn S,Vogel H,Snyder M,Lu B

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:During the entry process, the human papillomavirus (HPV) capsid is trafficked to the trans-Golgi network (TGN), whereupon it enters the nucleus during mitosis. We previously demonstrated that the minor capsid protein L2 assumes a transmembranous conformation in the TGN. Here we provide evidence that the incoming viral...

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

authors： DiGiuseppe S,Luszczek W,Keiffer TR,Bienkowska-Haba M,Guion LG,Sapp MJ

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligodendrocyte (Od), a glial cell that produces myelin in the central nervous system, may be a target for autoreactive T cells in autoimmune demyelinating processes, although not expressing major histocompatibility complex (MHC) products. To analyze Od-T-cell interactions, we selected from normal SJL/J mouse sple...

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

authors： Jewtoukoff V,Lebar R,Bach MA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the morphological hallmarks of terminally differentiated secretory cells is highly proliferated membrane of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER), but the molecular basis for the high rate of protein biosynthesis in these cells remains poorly documented. An important aspect of ER translational control is the mol...

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

authors： Ueno T,Taga Y,Yoshimoto R,Mayeda A,Hattori S,Ogawa-Goto K

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The trace fossil record is important in determining the timing of the appearance of bilaterian animals. A conservative estimate puts this time at approximately equal 555 million years ago. The preservational potential of traces made close to the sediment-water interface is crucial to detecting early benthic activity. ...

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

authors： Droser ML,Jensen S,Gehling JG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two out of seven meningiomas tested in early cell cultures by indirect immunofluorescence staining showed simian virus 40 (SV40)-related tumor (T) antigen. In one tumor 90% of the cells were positive. An additional SV40-related antigen (U) was found in 10% of cells of a third tumor. These findings indicate that the me...

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

authors： Weiss AF,Portmann R,Fischer H,Simon J,Zang KD

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrinos represent a new "window" to the Universe, spanning a large range of energy. We discuss the science of neutrino astrophysics and focus on two energy regimes. At "lower" energies ( approximately 1 MeV), studies of neutrinos born inside the sun, or produced in interactions of cosmic rays with the atmosphere, ha...

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

authors： Besson D,Cowen D,Selen M,Wiebusch C

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells treated with toluene replicate DNA when they are provided with deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates, ATP, Mg(++), and K(+). However, when deoxycytidine 5'-triphosphate is replaced by hydroxymethyl deoxycytidine 5'-triphosphate, incorporation of nucleotides into acid-precipitable material by tolu...

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

authors： Fleischman RA,Richardson CC

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and biochemical studies implicate the blue-light sensor cryptochrome (CRY) as an endogenous light-dependent magnetosensor enabling migratory birds to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Validation of such a mechanism has been hampered by the absence of structures of vertebrate CRYs that have funct...

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

authors： Zoltowski BD,Chelliah Y,Wickramaratne A,Jarocha L,Karki N,Xu W,Mouritsen H,Hore PJ,Hibbs RE,Green CB,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the protein structure-function relationship, we propose a method to efficiently create three-dimensional maps of structure space using a very large dataset of > 30,000 Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) domains. In our maps, each domain is represented by a point, and the distance between any two poi...

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

authors： Osadchy M,Kolodny R

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:"Stoppers" are a class of Neurospora crassa extranuclear mutants characterized by gross deficiencies of cytochromes b and aa3 and an unusual growth phenotype which involves irregular periods of growth andnongrowth. In the present work, mtDNAs from all four stopper mutants were found to contain deletions or insertions ...

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

authors： Bertrand H,Collins RA,Stohl LL,Goewert RR,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two approaches have been explored for the synthesis of double-stranded DNA from single-stranded DNA template complementary to rabbit 9S globin mRNA (cDNA). (i) cDNA was elongated with dCMP or dTMP homopolymeric tracts using terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.31; nucleosidetriphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyle...

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

authors： Rougeon F,Mach B

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian dysfunction is a common attribute of many neurodegenerative diseases, most of which are associated with neuroinflammation. Circadian rhythm dysfunction has been associated with inflammation in the periphery, but the role of the core clock in neuroinflammation remains poorly understood. Here we demonstrate th...

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

authors： Griffin P,Dimitry JM,Sheehan PW,Lananna BV,Guo C,Robinette ML,Hayes ME,Cedeño MR,Nadarajah CJ,Ezerskiy LA,Colonna M,Zhang J,Bauer AQ,Burris TP,Musiek ES

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger brains have an increasingly folded cerebral cortex whose white matter scales up faster than the gray matter. Here we analyze the cellular composition of the subcortical white matter in 11 primate species, including humans, and one Scandentia, and show that the mass of the white matter scales linearly across spe...

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

authors： Herculano-Houzel S,Mota B,Wong P,Kaas JH

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mitochondria contain their own genome, mitochondrial DNA, that is expressed in the mitochondrial matrix. This genome encodes 13 vital polypeptides that are components of the multisubunit complexes that couple oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). The inner mitochondrial membrane that houses these complexes compris...

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

authors： Zorkau M,Albus CA,Berlinguer-Palmini R,Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA,Lightowlers RN

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human rhinovirus (HRV) and other members of the enterovirus genus bind small-molecule antiviral compounds in a cavity buried within the viral capsid protein VP1. These compounds block the release of the viral protein VP4 and RNA from inside the capsid during the uncoating process. In addition, the antiviral compounds ...

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

authors： Roy A,Post CB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several gene fusions have been constructed in which coding sequences for antigenic regions of the pre-S sequences of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis B surface antigen, and the envelope protein of human immunodeficiency virus were linked to the 3' end of that for the first 144 residues of hepatitis B core antigen. The seq...

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

authors： Stahl SJ,Murray K

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the genes of the gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis pathway in the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi are organized in a cluster of at least seven genes. P450-1 is one of four cytochrome P450 monooxygenase genes in this cluster. Disruption of the P450-1 gene in the GA-producing wild-type strain IMI ...

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

authors： Rojas MC,Hedden P,Gaskin P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Very-long-baseline interferometry images of the nuclear region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A reveal a pronounced "core" and a knotty jet and counterjet. The knots are moving away from the core at apparent speeds which are subluminal for h = 1 [h = H0/100 km.s-1.Mpc-1;1 parsec (pc) = 3.09 x 10(16)m] and about c for h = ...

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

authors： Bartel N,Sorathia B,Bietenholz MF,Carilli CL,Diamond P

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:By adapting to sustained stimuli, hair cells in the internal ear retain their sensitivity to minute transient displacements. Because one model for adaptation asserts that this process is mediated by a myosin isozyme, we reasoned that we should be able to arrest adaptation by interfering with myosin's ATPase cycle thou...

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

authors： Gillespie PG,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria isolated from maize plants with S-type male-sterile cytoplasms are capable of synthesizing four species of RNA at concentrations of actinomycin D that eliminate all DNA-directed RNA synthesis. No RNA synthesis occurs under the same conditions with mitochondria from plants possessing normal (N) cytoplasm o...

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

authors： Finnegan PM,Brown GG

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, John Nash contributed a remarkable one-page PNAS article that defined and characterized a notion of equilibrium for n- person games. This notion, now called the "Nash equilibrium," has been widely applied and adapted in economics and other behavioral sciences. Indeed, game theory, with the Nash equilibrium as...

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

authors： Holt CA,Roth AE

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00