Climate change hastens population extinctions.

abstract：:An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences is a set of known backbone structures for each protein, a rotamer library, and a well established classical empirical for...

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

authors： Jaramillo A,Wernisch L,Héry S,Wodak SJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) to bovine endothelial monolayers is increased by pretreatment of the endothelial cells with leukotriene B4 (LTB4). The response is dose dependent with a maximum at 10(-6) M, requires no more than 1 min of preincubation for the maximal effect, and decays linear...

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

authors： Hoover RL,Karnovsky MJ,Austen KF,Corey EJ,Lewis RA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concepts and methods [Karlin, S. & Ghandour, G. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 5800-5804] for the analysis of patterns and relationships are extended to multiple DNA and protein sequences. Functionals include multiple sequence common word occurrence distributions, characterizations of high frequency shared word...

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

authors： Karlin S,Ghandour G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-G is a nonclassical major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecule that is primarily expressed at the fetal-maternal interface, where it is thought to play a role in protecting the fetus from the maternal immune response. HLA-G binds a limited repertoire of peptides and interacts with the inhibitory leu...

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

authors： Clements CS,Kjer-Nielsen L,Kostenko L,Hoare HL,Dunstone MA,Moses E,Freed K,Brooks AG,Rossjohn J,McCluskey J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data indicate that sustained elevations in plasma insulin suppress the mRNA for IRS-2, a component of the insulin signaling pathway in liver, and that this deficiency contributes to hepatic insulin resistance and inappropriate gluconeogenesis. Here, we use nuclear run-on assays to show that insulin inhibits tra...

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

authors： Zhang J,Ou J,Bashmakov Y,Horton JD,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is a transmembrane adhesive protein expressed at endothelial junctions and in leukocytes. Here we report that JAM-A is required for the correct infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) into an inflamed peritoneum or in the heart upon ischemia-reperfusion injury. The def...

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

authors： Corada M,Chimenti S,Cera MR,Vinci M,Salio M,Fiordaliso F,De Angelis N,Villa A,Bossi M,Staszewsky LI,Vecchi A,Parazzoli D,Motoike T,Latini R,Dejana E

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascidians are hermaphrodites releasing sperm and eggs simultaneously, but many species are self-sterile because of a self/nonself-recognition system in spermegg interaction. Here, we show that a 70-kDa vitelline coat protein, HrVC70, consisting of 12 epidermal growth factor-like repeats, plays a key role in self/nonse...

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

authors： Sawada H,Tanaka E,Ban S,Yamasaki C,Fujino J,Ooura K,Abe Y,Matsumoto K,Yokosawa H

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We show in climate model experiments that large-scale afforestation in northern mid-latitudes warms the Northern Hemisphere and alters global circulation patterns. An expansion of dark forests increases the absorption of solar energy and increases surface temperature, particularly in regions where the land surface is ...

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

authors： Swann AL,Fung IY,Chiang JC

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple protein subcomplexes of the kinetochore cooperate as a cohesive molecular unit that forms load-bearing microtubule attachments that drive mitotic chromosome movements. There is intriguing evidence suggesting that central kinetochore components influence kinetochore-microtubule attachment, but the mechanism re...

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

authors： Kudalkar EM,Scarborough EA,Umbreit NT,Zelter A,Gestaut DR,Riffle M,Johnson RS,MacCoss MJ,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a cell-free system in which the transcription of the yeast metallothionein gene is inducible by the addition of metal ions plus a specific regulatory protein. Efficient transcription requires the complete yeast ACE1 metalloregulatory protein, including both its DNA-binding and transactivation domains; a mo...

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

authors： Culotta VC,Hsu T,Hu S,Fürst P,Hamer D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), the prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus, was recovered from a full-length cDNA clone of the viral genome. Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase expressed from a recombinant vaccinia virus was used to drive the synthesis of a genome-length positive-sense transcript o...

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

authors： Whelan SP,Ball LA,Barr JN,Wertz GT

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression cloning of cDNAs was first described a decade ago and was based on transient expression of cDNA libraries in COS cells. In contrast to transient transfection of plasmids, retroviral gene transfer delivers genes stably into a wide range of target cells. We utilize a simple packaging system for production of ...

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

authors： Kitamura T,Onishi M,Kinoshita S,Shibuya A,Miyajima A,Nolan GP

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:KcsA is a prokaryotic pH-dependent potassium (K) channel. Its activation, by a decrease in the intracellular pH, is coupled with its subsequent inactivation, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we have investigated the conformational changes and equilibrium of KcsA by using solution NMR spectroscopy. C...

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

authors： Imai S,Osawa M,Takeuchi K,Shimada I

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta nerve growth factor (NGF), a target-derived protein necessary for survival and development of sympathetic and sensory neurons, can also affect subpopulations of neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). Using a blot hybridization assay capable of detecting 10 fg of mRNA, we measured the levels of NGF mRNA in t...

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

authors： Shelton DL,Reichardt LF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By incorporating a population number regulating mechanism into the formulation of genic selection involving a pair of alleles (A1 and A2) with respective frequencies x and I-x, it is shown that the change of x in one generation is given by deltax = sx(1-x)/W, in which W is the mean absolute selective value (in Wright'...

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

authors： Kimura M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatio-temporal studies on the growth of capillary blood vessels and capillary lymphatic vessels in tissue remodeling have suggested that lymphangiogenesis is angiogenesis-dependent. We revisited this concept by using fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) (80 ng) to stimulate the growth of both vessel types in the mouse ...

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

authors： Chang LK,Garcia-Cardeña G,Farnebo F,Fannon M,Chen EJ,Butterfield C,Moses MA,Mulligan RC,Folkman J,Kaipainen A

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive amyloid deposition in senile plaques and cortical blood vessels may play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. We have used x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the molecular organization and morphology of macromolecular assemblies formed by three synthetic peptides homolog...

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

authors： Kirschner DA,Inouye H,Duffy LK,Sinclair A,Lind M,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic affinities of the grass family (Poaceae) have long been debated. The chloroplast genomes of at least some grasses have been known to possess three inversions relative to the typical gene arrangement found in most flowering plants. We have surveyed for the presence of these inversions in grasses and ot...

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

authors： Doyle JJ,Davis JI,Soreng RJ,Garvin D,Anderson MJ

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate class switch recombination (CSR) activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) induces staggered nick cleavage in the S region, which lies 5' to each Ig constant region gene and is rich in palindromic sequences. Topoisomerase 1 (Top1) controls the supercoiling of DNA by nicking, rotating, and religating one ...

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

authors： Kobayashi M,Aida M,Nagaoka H,Begum NA,Kitawaki Y,Nakata M,Stanlie A,Doi T,Kato L,Okazaki IM,Shinkura R,Muramatsu M,Kinoshita K,Honjo T

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in bacteria has emerged as a global challenge over the past 90 years, compromising our ability to effectively treat infections. There has been a dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance-associated determinants in bacterial populations, driven by the mobility and infectious nature of such determ...

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

authors： Klemm EJ,Wong VK,Dougan G

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifelong interactions between host and the ubiquitous and persistent cytomegalovirus (CMV) have been proposed to contribute to the age-related decline in immunity. Prior work from us and others found some support for that idea, yet evidence that this led to increased vulnerability to other infections was not obtained....

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

authors： Smithey MJ,Venturi V,Davenport MP,Buntzman AS,Vincent BG,Frelinger JA,Nikolich-Žugich J

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder, the most common lethal genetic disease in Caucasians. Respiratory disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality. Indeed, 95% of CF patients die of respiratory failure. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen, chronically infects the lungs of ov...

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

authors： Li JD,Feng W,Gallup M,Kim JH,Gum J,Kim Y,Basbaum C

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of materials to define the architecture and microenvironment experienced by cells provides new opportunities to direct the fate of human pluripotent stem cells (HPSCs) [Robinton DA, Daley GQ (2012) Nature 481(7381):295-305]. However, the conditions required for self-renewal vs. differentiation of HPSCs are...

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

authors： Dixon JE,Shah DA,Rogers C,Hall S,Weston N,Parmenter CD,McNally D,Denning C,Shakesheff KM

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the virus-host interactions responsible for HIV-1 transmission, including the phenotypic requirements of viruses capable of establishing de novo infections, could be important for AIDS vaccine development. Previous analyses have failed to identify phenotypic properties other than chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) a...

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

authors： Parrish NF,Gao F,Li H,Giorgi EE,Barbian HJ,Parrish EH,Zajic L,Iyer SS,Decker JM,Kumar A,Hora B,Berg A,Cai F,Hopper J,Denny TN,Ding H,Ochsenbauer C,Kappes JC,Galimidi RP,West AP Jr,Bjorkman PJ,Wilen CB,Doms RW

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult mammalian brain, occurrence of the synthesis of estradiol from endogenous cholesterol has been doubted because of the inability to detect dehydroepiandrosterone synthase, P45017alpha. In adult male rat hippocampal formation, significant localization was demonstrated for both cytochromes P45017alpha and P450 a...

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

authors： Hojo Y,Hattori TA,Enami T,Furukawa A,Suzuki K,Ishii HT,Mukai H,Morrison JH,Janssen WG,Kominami S,Harada N,Kimoto T,Kawato S

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human craniofacial data were used to assess the similarities and differences between recent and prehistoric Old World samples, and between these samples and a similar representation of samples from the New World. The data were analyzed by the neighbor-joining clustering procedure, assisted by bootstrapping and by cano...

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

authors： Brace CL,Nelson AR,Seguchi N,Oe H,Sering L,Qifeng P,Yongyi L,Tumen D

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of proton transfer from the bulk into the membrane protein interior was studied. The light-induced reduction of a bound ubiquinone molecule Q(B) by the photosynthetic reaction center is accompanied by proton trapping. We used kinetic spectroscopy to measure (i) the electron transfer to Q(B) (at 450 nm), ...

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

authors： Gopta OA,Cherepanov DA,Junge W,Mulkidjanian AY

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned segment of yeast DNA containing the structural gene for imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase (D-erythro-imidazoleglycerolphosphate hydro-lase, EC 4.2.1.19) is transcribed and translated in Escherichia coli with sufficient fidelity to produce functional enzyme. This segment of yeast DNA was isolated as a via...

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

authors： Struhl K,Davis RW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor microenvironment restrains conventional T cell (Tconv) activation while facilitating the expansion of Tregs. Here we showed that Tregs' advantage in the tumor milieu relies on supplemental energetic routes involving lipid metabolism. In murine models, tumor-infiltrating Tregs displayed intracellular lipid ac...

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

authors： Pacella I,Procaccini C,Focaccetti C,Miacci S,Timperi E,Faicchia D,Severa M,Rizzo F,Coccia EM,Bonacina F,Mitro N,Norata GD,Rossetti G,Ranzani V,Pagani M,Giorda E,Wei Y,Matarese G,Barnaba V,Piconese S

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Most simian-human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) bearing envelope (Env) glycoproteins from primary HIV-1 strains fail to infect rhesus macaques (RMs). We hypothesized that inefficient Env binding to rhesus CD4 (rhCD4) limits virus entry and replication and could be enhanced by substituting naturally occurring simian...

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

authors： Li H,Wang S,Kong R,Ding W,Lee FH,Parker Z,Kim E,Learn GH,Hahn P,Policicchio B,Brocca-Cofano E,Deleage C,Hao X,Chuang GY,Gorman J,Gardner M,Lewis MG,Hatziioannou T,Santra S,Apetrei C,Pandrea I,Alam SM,Liao HX,

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00