The natural center of chromaticity space is not always achromatic: a new look at color induction.

abstract：:Antiviral and macrophage-priming activities in the supernatant medium of a subclone of a concanavalin A-stimulated mouse T-cell hybridoma were investigated. The two activities were associated with a molecular weight of approximately 50,000 and could not be separated by various approaches. Both activities were eliminat...

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

authors： Pace JL,Russell SW,Schreiber RD,Altman A,Katz DH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25-Hydroxycholesterol is produced in mammalian tissues. The function of this oxysterol is unknown. Here we describe a central role for 25-hydroxycholesterol in regulating the immune system. In initial experiments, we found that stimulation of macrophage Toll-like receptors (TLR) induced expression of cholesterol 25-hy...

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

authors： Bauman DR,Bitmansour AD,McDonald JG,Thompson BM,Liang G,Russell DW

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dimensional objects such as molecular strands, ladders, and sheets have intrinsic features that affect their propensity to fold into 3D objects. Understanding this relationship remains a challenge for de novo design of functional structures. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the refolding of the...

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

authors： Dodd PM,Damasceno PF,Glotzer SC

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory suggests that animals should switch facultatively among canonical movement modes as a complex function of internal state, landscape characteristics, motion capacity, and navigational capacity. We tested the generality of this paradigm for free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) over 5 orders of magnitude in ti...

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

authors： Fryxell JM,Hazell M,Börger L,Dalziel BD,Haydon DT,Morales JM,McIntosh T,Rosatte RC

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins denature not only at high, but also at low temperature as well as high pressure. These denatured states are not easily accessible for experiment, because usually heat denaturation causes aggregation, whereas cold or pressure denaturation occurs at temperatures well below the freezing point of water or pressur...

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

authors： Vajpai N,Nisius L,Wiktor M,Grzesiek S

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Seep sediments are dominated by intensive microbial sulfate reduction coupled to the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Through geochemical measurements of incubation experiments with methane seep sediments collected from Hydrate Ridge, we provide insight into the role of iron oxides in sulfate-driven AOM. Seep sed...

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

authors： Sivan O,Antler G,Turchyn AV,Marlow JJ,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons and retroviruses integrate nonrandomly into eukaryotic genomes. For the yeast retrotransposon Ty5, integration preferentially occurs within domains of heterochromatin. Targeting to these locations is determined by interactions between an amino acid sequence motif at the C terminus of Ty5 integrase (IN...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Dai J,Fuerst PG,Voytas DF

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a 2.7-kilobase rat liver cDNA clone that contains the entire 544-amino acid coding sequence for matrin F/G. This protein has previously been localized to the internal, fibrogranular areas of the nuclear matrix and shown to bind to DNA on nitrocellulose blots. The predicted amino acid sequence from the...

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

authors： Hakes DJ,Berezney R

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging reporter gene expression in living subjects is a rapidly evolving area of molecular imaging research. Studies have validated the use of reporter genes with positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), MRI, fluorescence with wild-type and mutants of green fluorescent p...

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

authors： Bhaumik S,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) receptor sites in the anterior pituitary were evaluated by binding studies with InsP3 labeled with 32P to high specific radioactivity. Specific binding of Ins[32P]P3 was demonstrable in pituitary membrane preparations and was linearly proportional to the amount of...

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

authors： Guillemette G,Balla T,Baukal AJ,Catt KJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing human and ecological costs due to increasing wildfire are an urgent concern in policy and management, particularly given projections of worsening fire conditions under climate change. Thus, understanding the relationship between climatic variation and fire activity is a critically important scientific question...

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

authors： Syphard AD,Keeley JE,Pfaff AH,Ferschweiler K

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized seizures of status epilepticus (SE) trigger a series of molecular and cellular events that produce cognitive deficits and can culminate in the development of epilepsy. Known early events include opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and astrocytosis accompanied by activation of brain microglia. Wher...

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

authors： Varvel NH,Neher JJ,Bosch A,Wang W,Ransohoff RM,Miller RJ,Dingledine R

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An implicit assumption of speciation biology is that population differentiation is an important stage of evolutionary diversification, but its significance as a rate-limiting control on phylogenetic speciation dynamics remains largely untested. If population differentiation within a species is related to its speciatio...

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

authors： Harvey MG,Seeholzer GF,Smith BT,Rabosky DL,Cuervo AM,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear LIM domain protein LMO2, a T cell oncoprotein, is essential for embryonic erythropoiesis. LIM-only proteins are presumed to act primarily through protein-protein interactions. We, and others, have identified a widely expressed protein, Ldb1, whose C-terminal 76-residues are sufficient to mediate interactio...

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

authors： Visvader JE,Mao X,Fujiwara Y,Hahm K,Orkin SH

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic alterations induced by the cytokinin 6-benzylaminopurine in cell suspensions of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia were studied at the level of the NH(2)-terminal sequence of the constituent proteins. Total protein extracts were separated by classical two-dimensional PAGE, and the proteins were recovered by electrob...

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

authors： Bauw G,De Loose M,Inzé D,Van Montagu M,Vandekerckhove J

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric uptake regulation protein (Fur) is a bacterial global regulator that uses iron as a cofactor to bind to specific DNA sequences. The function of Fur is not limited to iron homeostasis. A wide variety of genes involved in various mechanisms such as oxidative and acid stresses are under Fur control. Flavohemoglobi...

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

authors： D'Autreaux B,Touati D,Bersch B,Latour JM,Michaud-Soret I

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proteins generally fold to their thermodynamically most stable state, some metastable proteins populate higher free energy states. Conformational changes from metastable higher free energy states to lower free energy states with greater stability can then generate the work required to perform physiologically ...

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

authors： Chandrasekhar K,Ke H,Wang N,Goodwin T,Gierasch LM,Gershenson A,Hebert DN

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cation homeostasis is essential for plant nutrition and resistance to toxic heavy metals. Many plant metal transporters remain to be identified at the molecular level. In the present study, we have isolated AtNramp cDNAs from Arabidopsis and show that these genes complement the phenotype of a metal uptake defici...

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

authors： Thomine S,Wang R,Ward JM,Crawford NM,Schroeder JI

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific, cell-aggregating component of embryonic neural retina cells was purified from the retina cell-aggregating factor and characterized as a glycoprotein. Its molecular weight in solution is in the range of 50,000, and it contains 10-15% carbohydrate. The amino-acid and carbohydrate compositions have b...

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

authors： Hausman RE,Moscona AA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is limited, because of the processes of positive and negative T cell selection. To obtain T cells with specificities beyond the immune system's capacity, we have developed a strategy for retroviral TCR display. In this approach, a library of T cell variants is gene...

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

authors： Kessels HW,van Den Boom MD,Spits H,Hooijberg E,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of the nematic electronic state that breaks rotational symmetry is one of the most fascinating properties of the iron-based superconductors, and has relevance to cuprates as well. FeSe has a unique ground state in which superconductivity coexists with a nematic order without long-range magnetic ordering,...

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

authors： Sato Y,Kasahara S,Taniguchi T,Xing X,Kasahara Y,Tokiwa Y,Yamakawa Y,Kontani H,Shibauchi T,Matsuda Y

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative oxidation of hydroethidine (HE) has become a widely used fluorescent assay for the detection of superoxide in cultured cells. By covalently joining HE to a hexyl triphenylphosphonium cation (Mito-HE), the HE moiety can be targeted to mitochondria. However, the specificity of HE and Mito-HE for superoxide ...

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

authors： Robinson KM,Janes MS,Pehar M,Monette JS,Ross MF,Hagen TM,Murphy MP,Beckman JS

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In savannas, predicting how vegetation varies is a longstanding challenge. Spatial patterning in vegetation may structure that variability, mediated by spatial interactions, including competition and facilitation. Here, we use unique high-resolution, spatially extensive data of tree distributions in an African savanna...

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

authors： Staver AC,Asner GP,Rodriguez-Iturbe I,Levin SA,Smit IPJ

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the sequence of full-length chicken triosephosphate isomerase (D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.1) mRNA based on the analysis of cDNA and genomic clones. To isolate cDNA clones encoding the enzyme, we screened a muscle cDNA library with radioactively labeled cDNA made from RNA that had...

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

authors： Straus D,Gilbert W

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cutin monomers trigger, and glucose suppresses, the expression of the cutinase gene of pathogenic fungi. To identify the cutinase promoter region responsible for induction by the unique plant components, a promoter analysis was done with transformants. Plasmids were constructed that contained (i) the 5' flanking...

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

authors： Bajar A,Podila GK,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA synthase from Clostridium thermoaceticum (ACS(Ct)) is an alpha(2)beta(2) tetramer containing two novel Ni-X-Fe(4)S(4) active sites (the A and C clusters) and a standard Fe(4)S(4) cluster (the B cluster). The acsA and acsB genes encoding the enzyme were cloned into Escherichia coli strain JM109 and overexpre...

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

authors： Loke HK,Bennett GN,Lindahl PA

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian protein ZnT3 resides on synaptic vesicle membranes of zinc-containing neurons, suggesting its possible role in vesicular zinc transport. We show here that histochemically reactive zinc, corresponding to the zinc found within synaptic vesicles, was undetectable in the brains of mice with targeted disrupti...

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

authors： Cole TB,Wenzel HJ,Kafer KE,Schwartzkroin PA,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. It is made in the cytosol as a precursor (pLHCP), imported into chloroplasts, and subsequently integrated into thylakoids. Integration of pLHCP into thylakoids requires a stromal protein factor that functions in part to main...

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

authors： Yuan J,Henry R,Cline K

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00