X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita is caused by abnormal nuclear localization of the DAX-1 protein.

abstract：:Basic neurophysiological research with monkeys has shown how neurons in the motor cortex have firing rates tuned to movement direction. This original finding would have been difficult to uncover without the use of a behaving primate paradigm in which subjects grasped a handle and moved purposefully to targets in diffe...

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

authors： Kennedy SD,Schwartz AB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Like protein enzymes, RNA enzymes (ribozymes) provide specific binding sites for their substrates. We now show that equilibrium dissociation constants for complexes between the Tetrahymena ribozyme and its RNA substrates and products can be directly measured by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels containing divalen...

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

authors： Pyle AM,McSwiggen JA,Cech TR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemia is a heritable human anemia caused by a variety of mutations that affect expression of the alpha- or the beta-chain of hemoglobin. The expressivity of the phenotype is likely to be influenced by unlinked modifying genes. Indeed, by using a mouse model of alpha-thalassemia, we find that its phenotype is str...

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

authors： Leder A,Wiener E,Lee MJ,Wickramasinghe SN,Leder P

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a tissue culture system based on a nearly pure population of avian precartilage mesenchymal cells, we have found that ambient glucose levels as little as 50% lower, or 100% higher, than normally present in embryonic sera are deleterious to cartilage development, as measured by the accumulation of highly sulfated...

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

authors： Leonard CM,Bergman M,Frenz DA,Macreery LA,Newman SA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are associated with dysbiosis of the gut microbiome. Emerging evidence suggests that small-molecule metabolites derived from bacterial breakdown of a variety of dietary nutrients confer a wide array of host benefits, including amelio...

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

authors： Scott SA,Fu J,Chang PV

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding energetics of the mono-N-glycosylated adhesion domain of the human immune cell receptor cluster of differentiation 2 (hCD2ad) were studied systematically to understand the influence of the N-glycan on the folding energy landscape. Fully elaborated N-glycan structures accelerate folding by 4-fold and stabil...

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

authors： Hanson SR,Culyba EK,Hsu TL,Wong CH,Kelly JW,Powers ET

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflict between groups of individuals is a prevalent feature in human societies. A common theoretical explanation for intergroup conflict is that it provides benefits to individuals within groups in the form of reproduction-enhancing resources, such as food, territory, or mates. However, it is not always the case tha...

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

authors： Henriques GJB,Simon B,Ispolatov Y,Doebeli M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues are differentially associated with metabolic disorders. In obesity, subcutaneous adipose tissue is beneficial for metabolic homeostasis because of repressed inflammation. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrat...

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

authors： Hwang I,Jo K,Shin KC,Kim JI,Ji Y,Park YJ,Park J,Jeon YG,Ka S,Suk S,Noh HL,Choe SS,Alfadda AA,Kim JK,Kim S,Kim JB

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a neurosteroid with potential effects on neurogenesis and neuronal survival in humans. However, most studies on DHEA have been performed in rodents, and there is little direct evidence for biological effects on the human nervous system. Furthermore, the mechanism of its action is unkno...

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

authors： Suzuki M,Wright LS,Marwah P,Lardy HA,Svendsen CN

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The p21(WAF1) (p21) cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor plays a major role in regulating cell cycle arrest. It was recently reported that the p53-independent elevation of p21 protein levels is essential in mediating the G(1) arrest resulting from signal transduction events initiated by the crosslinking of membrane IgM o...

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

authors： Marches R,Hsueh R,Uhr JW

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 21 human mammary tumors analyzed for transforming genes by transfection of NIH/3T3 cells, only DNA of a carcinosarcoma cell line, HS578T, registered as positive. A Harvey (H)-ras oncogene identified in this line was cloned in biologically active form and the activating lesion was identified as a single nucleotid...

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

authors： Kraus MH,Yuasa Y,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo electroporation is a powerful technique for the introduction of genes into organisms. Temporal and spatial regulation of expression of introduced genes, or of RNAi, would further enhance the utility of this method. Here we demonstrate conditional regulation of gene expression from electroporated plasmids in th...

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

authors： Matsuda T,Cepko CL

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the "beyond Li-ion" battery chemistries, nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries have the highest theoretical specific energy and, as a result, have attracted significant research attention over the past decade. A critical scientific challenge facing nonaqueous Li-O2 batteries is the electronically insulating nature of the p...

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

authors： Burke CM,Pande V,Khetan A,Viswanathan V,McCloskey BD

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two decades after the discovery of the first animal microRNA (miRNA), the number of miRNAs in animal genomes remains a vexing question. Here, we report findings from analyzing 1,323 short RNA sequencing samples (RNA-seq) from 13 different human tissue types. Using stringent thresholding criteria, we identified 3,707 s...

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

authors： Londin E,Loher P,Telonis AG,Quann K,Clark P,Jing Y,Hatzimichael E,Kirino Y,Honda S,Lally M,Ramratnam B,Comstock CE,Knudsen KE,Gomella L,Spaeth GL,Hark L,Katz LJ,Witkiewicz A,Rostami A,Jimenez SA,Hollingsworth MA,

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantum mechanical problem of the hydrogen atom is treated by use of a finite difference equation in place of Schrödinger's differential equation. The exact solution leads to a wave vector energy expression that is readily converted to the Bohr-Rydberg formula. (The calculations here reported are limited to spheri...

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

authors： Wall FT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides can achieve targeted base-pair substitution with modest efficiency but high precision. We show that "oligo targeting" can be used effectively to study missense mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Inherited inactivating mutations in DNA MMR genes are causative for the canc...

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

authors： Houlleberghs H,Dekker M,Lantermans H,Kleinendorst R,Dubbink HJ,Hofstra RM,Verhoef S,Te Riele H

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented. It has been proposed that expectations lead to prestimulus baseline increases in sensory neurons tuned to the expected stimulus, which ...

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

authors： Kok P,Mostert P,de Lange FP

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented that demonstrate that a dose of 10 R of x-rays to mature oocytes in Drosophila causes a significant increase, more than double the spontaneous frequency, of inherited translocations. The dose-frequency relationship appears to fit best a linear response between 10 and 50 R. From 50 to 500 R, the freq...

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

authors： Abrahamson S,Gullifor P,Sabol E,Voigtlander J

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar granule cells are the most abundant neurons in the brain, and granule cell precursors (GCPs) are a common target of transformation in the pediatric brain tumor medulloblastoma. Proliferation of GCPs is regulated by the secreted signaling molecule Sonic hedgehog (Shh), but the mechanisms by which Shh control...

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

authors： Oliver TG,Grasfeder LL,Carroll AL,Kaiser C,Gillingham CL,Lin SM,Wickramasinghe R,Scott MP,Wechsler-Reya RJ

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making accuracy typically increases through collective integration of people's judgments into group decisions, a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds. For simple perceptual laboratory tasks, classic signal detection theory specifies the upper limit for collective integration benefits obtained by weighted ...

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

authors： Juni MZ,Eckstein MP

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins from eight eukaryotic families in the cytochrome P-450 superfamily share one region of sequence similarity. This region begins 275-310 amino acids from the amino terminus of each P-450, continues for approximately 170 residues, and ends 35-50 amino acids before the carboxyl terminus. The region can be divided...

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

authors： Kalb VF,Loper JC

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Acetylpyridine 5-[(dimethylamino)thiocarbonyl]thiocarbonohydrazone (A1110U) was found to be a potent inactivator of the ribonucleotide reductases (EC 1.17.4.1) encoded by herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and by varicella-zoster virus and to be a weaker inactivator of human ribonucleotide reductase. It also markedl...

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

authors： Spector T,Harrington JA,Morrison RW Jr,Lambe CU,Nelson DJ,Averett DR,Biron K,Furman PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SCF ubiquitin ligase complex of budding yeast triggers DNA replication by catalyzing ubiquitination of the S phase cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor SIC1. SCF is composed of three proteins-ySKP1, CDC53 (Cullin), and the F-box protein CDC4-that are conserved from yeast to humans. As part of an effort to identify co...

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

authors： Lyapina SA,Correll CC,Kipreos ET,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment with nitrite, Japanese soy sauce was strongly mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium TA100 without S9 mixture. Two precursors of the mutagen were isolated from Japanese soy sauce, and these were identified as (-)-(1S,3S)-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline-3-carboxylic acid [(-)-(1S,3S)-MTCA] and i...

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

authors： Wakabayashi K,Ochiai M,Saitô H,Tsuda M,Suwa Y,Nagao M,Sugimura T

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of cytosolic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase [3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA acetoacetyl-CoA-lyase (CoA-acylating), EC 4.1.3.5] and microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase[mevalonate:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-acylating), EC 1.1.1.34], two sequential enzymes in the chole...

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

authors： Balasubramaniam S,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the promise of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy against cancer, challenges associated with low objective response rates and severe systemic side effects still remain and limit its clinical applications. Here, we described a cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)-mediated ICB therapy integrated with microneedles...

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

authors： Chen G,Chen Z,Wen D,Wang Z,Li H,Zeng Y,Dotti G,Wirz RE,Gu Z

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented for two natural transcription initiators positioned internally in the histidine operon of Salmonella typhimurium. They were detected using highly polar S. typhimurium his mutants as recipients for F' Escherichia coli his episomes. These intergeneric complementation tests provide a sensitive metho...

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

authors： Atkins JF,Loper JC

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-lived ethylene, cyclohexene, and norbornenemercurinium ions prepared in superacidic, low-nucleophilic media have been studied by (13)C and (199)Hg NMR spectroscopy. The norbornenemercurinium ion shows temperature-dependent (13)C and (199)Hg NMR spectra, consistent with equilibration via rapid hydride and Wagn...

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

authors： Olah GA,Garcia-Luna A

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00