Two isoforms of the Notch antagonist Hairless are produced by differential translation initiation.

abstract：:Chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacteria are a recently described group of phototrophic bacteria that is a major focus of photosynthesis research, previously known only from marine environments in symbiosis with eukaryotes. We have discovered a free-living member of this group from a eutrophic hypersaline lake. Phylogene...

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

authors： Miller SR,Augustine S,Olson TL,Blankenship RE,Selker J,Wood AM

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-pressure behavior of amorphous selenium has been investigated with time-resolved diamond anvil cell synchrotron x-ray diffraction and computed microtomography techniques. A two-step dynamic crystallization process is observed in which the monoclinic phase crystallized from the amorphous selenium and gradually...

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

authors： Liu H,Wang L,Xiao X,De Carlo F,Feng J,Mao HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a group of peptides, originally isolated from the cardiac atria, that have a number of important effects on blood pressure, renal function, and salt balance. In the current study, expression of the ANF gene in certain extra-atrial tissues of the rat has been examined by radioimmunoas...

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

authors： Gardner DG,Deschepper CF,Ganong WF,Hane S,Fiddes J,Baxter JD,Lewicki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the expected mechanism of radical reduction of carbonyl compounds by dihydroflavin as it relates to the structure of the carbonyl compound is provided. Factors which must be taken into account are the free energies of formation of the radical anions (CR2O), THE ACIDITY OF THE CONJUGATE ACID OF THE CARB...

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

authors： Williams RF,Shinkai S,Bruice TC

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Store-operated calcium entry (SOCE), an important mechanism of Ca2+ signaling in a wide range of cell types, is mediated by stromal interaction molecule (STIM), which senses the depletion of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores and binds and activates Orai channels in the plasma membrane. This inside-out mechanism of Ca2...

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

authors： Kim KM,Wijerathne T,Hur JH,Kang UJ,Kim IH,Kweon YC,Lee AR,Jeong SJ,Lee SK,Lee YY,Sim BW,Lee JH,Baig C,Kim SU,Chang KT,Lee KP,Park CY

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic analyses of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) have identified significant contribution from mutations affecting cilia genes and chromatin remodeling genes; however, the mechanism(s) connecting chromatin remodeling to CHD is unknown. Histone H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub1) is catalyzed by the RNF20 c...

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

authors： Robson A,Makova SZ,Barish S,Zaidi S,Mehta S,Drozd J,Jin SC,Gelb BD,Seidman CE,Chung WK,Lifton RP,Khokha MK,Brueckner M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytotic membrane fusion and secretion are promoted by the concerted action of GTP and Ca2+, although the precise site(s) of action in the process are not presently known. However, the calcium-dependent membrane fusion reaction driven by synexin (annexin VII) is an in vitro model for this process, which we have now ...

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

authors： Caohuy H,Srivastava M,Pollard HB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined that a pigeon cytochrome c-derived peptide, p43-58, possesses two anchor residues, 46 and 54, for binding with the I-Ab molecule that are compatible to the position 1 (P1) and position 9 (P9) of the core region in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II binding peptides, respectively. In the ...

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

authors： Itoh Y,Kajino K,Ogasawara K,Takahashi A,Namba K,Negishi I,Matsuki N,Iwabuchi K,Kakinuma M,Good RA,Onoé K

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (sRNAs) are hypothesized to contribute to hybrid vigor because they maintain genome integrity, contribute to genetic diversity, and control gene expression. We used Illumina sequencing to assess how sRNA populations vary between two maize inbred lines (B73 and Mo17) and their hybrid. We sampled sRNAs from t...

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

authors： Barber WT,Zhang W,Win H,Varala KK,Dorweiler JE,Hudson ME,Moose SP

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual images in the eyes contain much more information than the brain can process. An important selection mechanism is feature-based attention (FBA). FBA is best described by attention filters that specify precisely the extent to which items containing attended features are selectively processed and the extent to...

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

authors： Sun P,Chubb C,Wright CE,Sperling G

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that Go-deficient mice develop severe neurological defects that include hyperalgesia, a generalized tremor, lack of coordination, and a turning syndrome somewhat reminiscent of unilateral lesions of the dopaminergic nigro-striatal pathway. By using frozen coronal sections of serially sectioned b...

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

authors： Jiang M,Spicher K,Boulay G,Wang Y,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell type in Saccharomyces yeasts is regulated by two transposable blocks of DNA, the a and alpha cassettes. There are three loci where either cassette can exist. At the HML and HMR loci the cassettes are not expressed. The cassette at the MAT locus is expressed and controls the cell type. Changes of cell type involve...

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

authors： Strathern JN,Spatola E,McGill C,Hicks JB

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of transcription and enzyme activities are two interwoven regulatory systems essential for the function of a metabolic node. Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains differing in enzyme activities at the chorismate branch point of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis were constructed by recombinant DNA technology. Express...

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

authors： Krappmann S,Lipscomb WN,Braus GH

更新日期：2000-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual inactivation of PTEN and INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor genes is a common feature observed in a broad spectrum of human cancer types. To validate functional collaboration between these genes in tumor suppression, we examined the biological consequences of Pten and/or Ink4a/Arf deficiency in cells and mice. Relative t...

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

authors： You MJ,Castrillon DH,Bastian BC,O'Hagan RC,Bosenberg MW,Parsons R,Chin L,DePinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate analysis of plant cell wall polysaccharide structure and composition, we cloned 74 genes encoding polysaccharide-degrading enzymes from Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Neurospora crassa and expressed the genes as secreted proteins with C-terminal Myc and 6x His tags. Most of the recombin...

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

authors： Bauer S,Vasu P,Persson S,Mort AJ,Somerville CR

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) underlies the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and multiple sclerosis. Environmental factors, such as Bordetella pertussis, are thought to sensitize central endothelium to biogenic amines like histamine, thereby leading to increased BBB permeabi...

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

authors： Lu C,Diehl SA,Noubade R,Ledoux J,Nelson MT,Spach K,Zachary JF,Blankenhorn EP,Teuscher C

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation is a dynamic process in which RNA polymerase (RNAP) and promoter DNA act as partners, changing in response to one another, to produce a polymerase/promoter open complex (RPo) competent for transcription. In Escherichia coli RNAP, region 1.1, the N-terminal 100 residues of sigma(70), is thought...

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

authors： Hook-Barnard IG,Hinton DM

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular landers are molecules comprising of a central rigid molecular wire maintained above a metallic surface by organic spacers, which allows specific ultrahigh vacuum-scanning tunneling microscopy experiments to be performed at the single-molecule level. The understanding of the molecule-surface interactions, int...

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

authors： Moresco F,Gourdon A

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hsp90 chaperone buffers development against a wide range of morphological changes in many organisms and in Drosophila masks the effects of hidden genetic variation. Theory predicts that genetic and nongenetic buffering will share common mechanisms. For example, it is argued that Hsp90 genetic buffering evolved sol...

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

authors： Milton CC,Huynh B,Batterham P,Rutherford SL,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock is based on a transcriptional feedback loop with an essential time delay before feedback inhibition. Previous work has shown that PERIOD (PER) proteins generate circadian time cues through rhythmic nuclear accumulation of the inhibitor complex and subsequent interaction with the activator complex i...

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

authors： Beesley S,Kim DW,D'Alessandro M,Jin Y,Lee K,Joo H,Young Y,Tomko RJ Jr,Faulkner J,Gamsby J,Kim JK,Lee C

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:When an algorithm in dimension one is extended to dimension d, in nearly every case its computational cost is taken to the power d. This fundamental difficulty is the single greatest impediment to solving many important problems and has been dubbed the curse of dimensionality. For numerical analysis in dimension d, we...

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

authors： Beylkin G,Mohlenkamp MJ

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The potent muscarinic photoaffinity reagent N-methyl-4-piperidyl p-azidobenzilate (azido-4NMPB) was used to covalently label specific muscarinic binding sites in various brain regions and in the heart. In the cortex and hippocampus, a single specifically labeled protein with an apparent molecular mass of 86,000 dalton...

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

authors： Avissar S,Amitai G,Sokolovsky M

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:We have used a microfluidic mass sensor to measure the density of single living cells. By weighing each cell in two fluids of different densities, our technique measures the single-cell mass, volume, and density of approximately 500 cells per hour with a density precision of 0.001 g mL(-1). We observe that the intrins...

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

authors： Grover WH,Bryan AK,Diez-Silva M,Suresh S,Higgins JM,Manalis SR

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious RNA transcripts were generated from full-length cDNA clones of the tobacco etch potyvirus genome containing an insertion of the bacterial beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene between the polyprotein-coding sequences for the N-terminal 35-kDa proteinase and the helper component-proteinase. The recombinant virus was...

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

authors： Dolja VV,McBride HJ,Carrington JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovulation induces cyclic rupture and regenerative repair of the ovarian coelomic epithelium. This process of repeated disruption and repair accompanied by complex remodeling typifies a somatic stem/progenitor cell-mediated process. Using BrdU incorporation and doxycycline inducible histone2B-green fluorescent protein ...

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

authors： Szotek PP,Chang HL,Brennand K,Fujino A,Pieretti-Vanmarcke R,Lo Celso C,Dombkowski D,Preffer F,Cohen KS,Teixeira J,Donahoe PK

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:All decisions, whether they are personal, public, or business-related, are based on the decision maker's beliefs and values. Science can and should help decision makers by shaping their beliefs. Unfortunately, science is not easily accessible to decision makers, and scientists often do not understand decision makers' ...

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

authors： von Winterfeldt D

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence from epidemiological, pathological, and clinical reports suggests that vascular factors are critical in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and changes in blood flow are currently the most reliable indicators of the disease. We previously reported that older APP23 transgenic (tg) mice ha...

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

authors： Meyer EP,Ulmann-Schuler A,Staufenbiel M,Krucker T

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin sequences were compared by using a technique that takes into account the dissimilarity in physicochemical properties of amino acids. Exterior residues showed greater structural variability than interior residues. High structural variability was found at positions known from crystallographic studies to b...

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

authors： Padlan EA

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echolocating big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) broadcast ultrasonic frequency-modulated (FM) biosonar sounds (20-100 kHz frequencies; 10-50 microseconds periods) and perceive target range from echo delay. Knowing the acuity for delay resolution is essential to understand how bats process echoes because they perceive t...

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

authors： Simmons JA,Ferragamo MJ,Moss CF

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00