Allometric scaling and maximum efficiency in physiological eigen time.

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play key roles in detecting pathogens and initiating inflammatory responses that, subsequently, prime specific adaptive responses. Several mechanisms control TLR activity to avoid excessive inflammation and consequent immunopathology, including the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. Recently,...

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

authors： Curtale G,Mirolo M,Renzi TA,Rossato M,Bazzoni F,Locati M

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), gag MA (matrix), a major structural protein of the virus, carries out opposing targeting functions. During virus assembly, gag MA is cotranslationally myristoylated, a modification required for membrane targeting of gag polyproteins. During virus infec...

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

authors： Bukrinskaya AG,Ghorpade A,Heinzinger NK,Smithgall TE,Lewis RE,Stevenson M

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated human erythrocyte spectrin is a dimer of two unique polypeptide chains. The dimer (alpha beta) undergoes reversible salt- and temperature-dependent association to form (alpha beta)2 tetramers. Spectrin also binds with high affinity to a protein receptor on the cytoplasmic surface of erythrocyte membrane vesic...

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

authors： Morrow JS,Speicher DW,Knowles WJ,Hsu CJ,Marchesi VT

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezrin plays a key role in coupling signal transduction to cortical cell organization. This actin-membrane linker undergoes a series of conformational changes that modulate its interactions with various partners and its localization in membrane or cytosolic pools. Its mobility and exchange rates within and between thes...

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

authors： Coscoy S,Waharte F,Gautreau A,Martin M,Louvard D,Mangeat P,Arpin M,Amblard F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bt toxins derived from the arthropod bacterial pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis are widely used for insect control as insecticides or in transgenic crops. Bt resistance has been found in field populations of several lepidopteran pests and in laboratory strains selected with Bt toxin. Widespread planting of crops expres...

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

authors： Atsumi S,Miyamoto K,Yamamoto K,Narukawa J,Kawai S,Sezutsu H,Kobayashi I,Uchino K,Tamura T,Mita K,Kadono-Okuda K,Wada S,Kanda K,Goldsmith MR,Noda H

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:By using titin as a model system, we have demonstrated that fluorescence quenching can be used to study protein folding at the single molecule level. The unfolded titin molecules with multiple dye molecules attached are able to fold to the native state. In the native folded state, the fluorescence from dye molecules i...

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

authors： Zhuang X,Ha T,Kim HD,Centner T,Labeit S,Chu S

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA delivery of IL-12 has shown promise in reducing the toxic side effects associated with administration of recombinant human (h)IL-12 protein while maintaining the ability to inhibit tumor growth and abolish tumor metastases in animal models. We have developed a more potent version of IL-12 by using DNA shuffling an...

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

authors： Leong SR,Chang JC,Ong R,Dawes G,Stemmer WP,Punnonen J

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that cause aging are not well understood. The oxidative stress hypothesis proposes that the changes associated with aging are a consequence of random oxidative damage to biomolecules. We hypothesized that oxidation of specific proteins is critical in controlling the rate of the aging process. Utilizing ...

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

authors： Yan LJ,Levine RL,Sohal RS

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most long-lived models in plant science is the belief that the long-distance transport and ratio of two plant hormones, auxin and cytokinin, at the site of action control major developmental events such as apical dominance. We have used in vivo deuterium labeling and mass spectrometry to investigate the dyn...

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

authors： Nordström A,Tarkowski P,Tarkowska D,Norbaek R,Astot C,Dolezal K,Sandberg G

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The shape of a plant is largely determined by regulation of lateral branching. Branching architecture can vary widely in response to both genotype and environment, suggesting regulation by a complex interaction of autonomous genetic factors and external signals. Tillers, branches initiated at the base of grass plants,...

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

authors： Whipple CJ,Kebrom TH,Weber AL,Yang F,Hall D,Meeley R,Schmidt R,Doebley J,Brutnell TP,Jackson DP

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line mutations of tumor suppressor genes confer strong predisposition to tumor formation. In the rat, a form of dominantly inherited renal carcinoma (RC) results in multiple chromophobe cell tumors that resemble the human disease, and heterozygous carriers (RC/+) are highly susceptible to environmental agents (ra...

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

authors： Yeung RS,Buetow KH,Testa JR,Knudson AG Jr

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural transformation (i.e., the uptake of DNA and its stable integration in the chromosome) is a major mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Although the vast majority of bacterial genomes carry the genes involved in natural transformation, close relatives of naturally transformable species often appear...

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

authors： Durieux I,Ginevra C,Attaiech L,Picq K,Juan PA,Jarraud S,Charpentier X

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to dynamically organize functional nanoparticles (NPs) via the use of environmental triggers (temperature, pH, light, or solvent polarity) opens up important perspectives for rapid and convenient construction of a rich variety of complex assemblies and materials with new structures and functionalities. Her...

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

authors： Chen Y,Wang Z,He Y,Yoon YJ,Jung J,Zhang G,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the N-acyl-l-homoserine lactone hydrolase (AHL lactonase) from Bacillus thuringiensis has been determined, by using single-wavelength anomalous dispersion (SAD) phasing, to 1.6-angstroms resolution. AHLs are produced by many Gram-negative bacteria as signaling molecules used in quoru...

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

authors： Liu D,Lepore BW,Petsko GA,Thomas PW,Stone EM,Fast W,Ringe D

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the maintenance of tropical forest diversity under the countervailing forces of drift and competition poses a major challenge to ecological theory. Janzen-Connell effects, in which host-specific natural enemies restrict the recruitment of juveniles near conspecific adults, provide a potential mechanism. Jan...

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

authors： Levi T,Barfield M,Barrantes S,Sullivan C,Holt RD,Terborgh J

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyomavirus enhancer is composed of multiple DNA sequence elements serving as binding sites for proteins present in mouse nuclear extracts that activate transcription and DNA replication. We have identified three such proteins and their binding sites and correlate them with enhancer function. Mutation of nucleoti...

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

authors： Martin ME,Piette J,Yaniv M,Tang WJ,Folk WR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The v-jun oncogene encodes a nuclear DNA binding protein that functions as a transcription factor and is part of the activator protein 1 complex. Oncogenic transformation by v-jun is thought to be mediated by the aberrant expression of specific target genes. To identify such Jun-regulated genes and to explore the mech...

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

authors： Kruse U,Iacovoni JS,Goller ME,Vogt PK

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone III (JH) plays a key role in regulating the reproduction of female mosquitoes. Microarray time-course analysis revealed dynamic changes in gene expression during posteclosion (PE) development in the fat body of female Aedes aegypti. Hierarchical clustering identified three major gene clusters: 1,843 e...

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

authors： Zou Z,Saha TT,Roy S,Shin SW,Backman TW,Girke T,White KP,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessments of the importance of different routes of HIV-1 (HIV) transmission are vital for prioritization of control efforts. Lack of consistent direct data and large uncertainty in the risk of HIV transmission from HIV-contaminated injections has made quantifying the proportion of transmission caused by contaminated...

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

authors： White RG,Ben SC,Kedhar A,Orroth KK,Biraro S,Baggaley RF,Whitworth J,Korenromp EL,Ghani A,Boily MC,Hayes RJ

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS is a terminal disease of motor neurons that is characterized by accumulation of proteinaceous deposits in affected cells. Pathological deposition of mutated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) accounts for ∼20% of the familial ALS (fALS) cases. However, understanding the molecular link between mutation and disease h...

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

authors： Ivanova MI,Sievers SA,Guenther EL,Johnson LM,Winkler DD,Galaleldeen A,Sawaya MR,Hart PJ,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is a highly conserved protein that is encoded by a multigene family. It is generally believed that this gene family is subject to concerted evolution, which homogenizes the member genes of the family. However, protein homogeneity can be attained also by strong purifying selection. We therefore studied the pr...

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

authors： Nei M,Rogozin IB,Piontkivska H

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two cDNA clones, NaPi-2 and NaPi-3, by screening rat kidney cortex and human kidney cortex cDNA libraries, respectively, for expression of sodium-dependent phosphate transport in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Substrate specificity and a detailed kinetic analysis (Na, Pi, H+ concentrations) suggested that ex...

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

authors： Magagnin S,Werner A,Markovich D,Sorribas V,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endometrial epithelium of the uterus regenerates periodically. The cellular source of newly regenerated endometrial epithelia during a mouse estrous cycle or a human menstrual cycle is presently unknown. Here, I have used single-cell lineage tracing in the whole mouse uterus to demonstrate that epithelial stem cel...

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

authors： Jin S

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical distributions of genetic distance between reproductively isolated taxa are derived by means of computer simulation, taking into account mutation and random genetic drift. The distributions obtained are in good agreement with the observed distributions of interracial and interspecific genetic distances for ...

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

authors： Nei M,Tateno Y

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 30 patients with astrocytoma were tested for antibody reacting with cell surface antigens of cultured autologous astrocytoma cells. Ten percent of the patients had antibody detectable by mixed hemadsorption assays, approximately 50% by immune adherence and protein A assays, and 100% by anti-C3-mixed hemadsor...

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

authors： Pfreundschuh M,Shiku H,Takahashi T,Ueda R,Ransohoff J,Oettgen HF,Old LJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the ortho-para conversion rate in solid hydrogen by using Raman scattering in a diamond-anvil cell, extending previous measurements by a factor of 60 in pressure. We confirm previous experiments that suggested a decrease in the conversion rate above about 0.5 GPa. We observe a distinct minimum at 3 GPa fol...

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

authors： Eggert JH,Karmon E,Hemley RJ,Mao A,Goncharov AF

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells require N-linked carbohydrates for survival. However, the biosynthetic intermediate Man5GlcNAc2Asn, in place of mature N-linked structures, allows glycoprotein synthesis and somatic cell growth to proceed normally. To determine whether the same would be true in a complex biological situation, the gene...

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

authors： Ioffe E,Stanley P

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of tumors from human familial adenomatous polyposis, sporadic colon cancer, and mouse and rat models of intestinal cancer indicate that the majority of early adenomas develop through loss of normal function of the Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene. In murine models of familial adenomatous polyposis, specif...

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

authors： Amos-Landgraf JM,Irving AA,Hartman C,Hunter A,Laube B,Chen X,Clipson L,Newton MA,Dove WF

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanoelectrical transduction in the inner ear is a biophysical process underlying the senses of hearing and balance. The key players involved in this process are mechanosensitive ion channels. They are located in the stereocilia of hair cells and opened by the tension in specialized molecular springs, the tip links,...

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

authors： Gianoli F,Risler T,Kozlov AS

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier papers demonstrated an extensive genetic exchange among fluorescent Pseudomonads; this one documents for genes specifying enzymes of peripheral dissimilation an extrachromosomal array, segregation, and frequent interstrain transfer. An hypothesis is presented of a general mechanism for the formation and mainte...

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

authors： Rheinwald JG,Chakrabarty AM,Gunsalus IC

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00