Functional complementation of yeast cytosolic pyrophosphatase by bacterial and plant H+-translocating pyrophosphatases.

abstract：:Genetic potentials (pedigree-estimated breeding value) for milk and for fat were compared in cows grouped according to subclinical stage of bovine leukemia virus infection. Genetic potential for milk production was significantly greater in seropositive cows with persistent lymphocytosis (622 +/- 72 kg) and in seroposi...

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

authors： Wu MC,Shanks RD,Lewin HA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trisomy is a genetic abnormality of considerable medical importance. The most familiar example is trisomy 21, which causes Down Syndrome [Cummings, M. R. (1988) Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (West Publishing Company, New York)]. In a classic paper, Axelrod and Hamilton [Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. D. (1981) Sci...

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

authors： Day T,Taylor PD

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of sensory systems has let mammals develop complicated tactile end organs to enable sophisticated sensory tasks, including social interaction, environmental exploration, and tactile discrimination. The Merkel disc, a main type of tactile end organ consisting of Merkel cells (MCs) and Aβ-afferent endings,...

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

authors： Chang W,Kanda H,Ikeda R,Ling J,DeBerry JJ,Gu JG

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the expression of Hox genes have been widely linked to the evolution of animal body plans, but functional demonstrations of this relationship have been impeded by the lack of suitable model organisms. A classic case study involves the repeated evolution of specialized feeding appendages, called maxillipeds,...

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

authors： Pavlopoulos A,Kontarakis Z,Liubicich DM,Serano JM,Akam M,Patel NH,Averof M

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term plasticity can differ from short-term in recruiting the growth of new synaptic connections, a process that requires the participation of both the presynaptic and postsynaptic components of the synapse. How does information about synaptic plasticity spread from its site of origin to recruit the other componen...

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

authors： Jin I,Puthanveettil S,Udo H,Karl K,Kandel ER,Hawkins RD

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue cultures of Actinidia kolomikta can be maintained as callus through repeated passages on a nutrient medium devoid of cytokinin but containing inorganic nutrients, sucrose, and other basal organics plus auxin. Under these conditions, actively growing callus contained 2 and 0.5 nmol of the cytokinins zeatin [io(6...

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

authors： Einset JW

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated eight mAbs (MW1-8) that bind the epitopes polyglutamine (polyQ), polyproline (polyP), or the C terminus of exon 1 in huntingtin (htt) protein. In the brains of Huntington's disease (HD) mouse models, the anti-polyQ mAbs bind to various cytoplasmic compartments, whereas the anti-polyP and anti-C termi...

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

authors： Khoshnan A,Ko J,Patterson PH

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid development of genetic variability may contribute to the pathogenicity of lentiviruses as it may allow escape from immune surveillance and/or from suppression of virus replication. Although apathogenic in African green monkeys, simian immunodeficiency virus isolated from African green monkeys is shown to display...

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

authors： Baier M,Dittmar MT,Cichutek K,Kurth R

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinuclear localization of myosin-V was investigated in a variety of cultured mammalian cells and in primary cultures of rat hippocampus. In all cells investigated, myosin-V immunoreactivity was associated with the centrosome. In interphase cells, myosin-V was found in pericentriolar material, and in both mother ...

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

authors： Espreafico EM,Coling DE,Tsakraklides V,Krogh K,Wolenski JS,Kalinec G,Kachar B

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an efficient, versatile, and user-friendly viral engineering and expression system that is based on in planta assembly of functional viral vectors from separate pro-vector modules. With this new system, instead of supplying a plant cell with a complete viral vector as a mature viral particle, an RNA ...

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

authors： Marillonnet S,Giritch A,Gils M,Kandzia R,Klimyuk V,Gleba Y

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein stability is usually studied in simple buffered solutions, but most proteins function inside cells, where the heterogeneous and crowded environment presents a complex, nonideal system. Proteins are expected to behave differently under cellular crowding owing to two types of contacts: hard-core repulsions and w...

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

authors： Sarkar M,Smith AE,Pielak GJ

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved electron cloud bolometer is analyzed. In this device the cloud temperature is read out not via thermal noise induced by the electrons in a coupled LC circuit but via shift in their axial oscillation frequency in the Penning trap confining them. This shift occurs because as the electron cloud expands with i...

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

authors： Dehmelt H

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Under particular circumstances like lactation and fasting, the blood-borne monocarboxylates acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate represent significant energy substrates for the brain. Their utilization is dependent on a transport system present on both endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier and o...

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

authors： Pellerin L,Pellegri G,Martin JL,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple binding of ligands to a protein, the binding sites may seem to behave as if they are partitioned equally between two modalities. This paper analyzes three different molecular situations in which two actual assemblages appear: (i) two classes of sites exist at the outset in the ligand-free macromolecule; (i...

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

authors： Klotz IM,Hunston DL

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computation of motion plays a central role in visual orientation. The fly has been successfully used as a model system for analyzing the mechanisms underlying motion detection. Thereby, much attention has been paid to a neuronal circuit of individually identifiable neurons in the third visual ganglion that extract...

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

authors： Borst A,Egelhaaf M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest folding events in single-tryptophan mutants of RNase A were investigated by fluorescence measurements by using a combination of stopped-flow and continuous-flow mixing experiments covering the time range from 70 micros to 10 s. An ultrarapid double-jump mixing protocol was used to study refolding from an ...

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

authors： Welker E,Maki K,Shastry MC,Juminaga D,Bhat R,Scheraga HA,Roder H

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular telomere length is linked to replicative life span. Telomere repeats are lost in peripheral blood cells in vivo by age, and women show less telomere attrition than men. Previous reports have indicated that telomere length and chromosome-specific telomere-length patterns partly are inherited. The mode of hered...

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

authors： Nordfjäll K,Larefalk A,Lindgren P,Holmberg D,Roos G

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) are two major cytokines controlling murine B cell development. IL-7 has been studied extensively, but only recently has it become possible to unravel the role of TSLP in detail. We studied the biological activities of TSLP in B cell development at distinct ages in the mouse...

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

authors： Vosshenrich CA,Cumano A,Müller W,Di Santo JP,Vieira P

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of high-throughput protein interaction data coupled with large-scale investigations of evolutionary properties of interaction networks have left some unanswered questions. To what extent do protein interactions act as constraints during evolution of the protein sequence? How does the type of interactio...

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

authors： Mintseris J,Weng Z

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in excitable cells often acts as a negative feedback signal on firing of action potentials and the associated voltage-gated Ca2+ influx. Increased [Ca2+]i stimulates Ca2+-sensitive K+ channels (IK-Ca), and this, in turn, hyperpolarizes the cell and inhibits Ca2+...

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

authors： Van Goor F,Krsmanovic LZ,Catt KJ,Stojilkovic SS

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium, the CobU, CobS, CobT, and CobC proteins have been proposed to catalyze the late steps in adenosylcobalamin biosynthesis, which define the nucleotide loop assembly pathway. This paper reports the in vitro assembly of the nucleotide loop of adenosylcobalamin from its precursors adenosylcobinam...

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

authors： Maggio-Hall LA,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in external light patterns can alter cell activities in peripheral tissues through slow entrainment of the central clock in suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It remains unclear whether cells in otherwise photo-insensitive tissues can achieve rapid responses to changes in external light. Here we show that light st...

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

authors： Fan SM,Chang YT,Chen CL,Wang WH,Pan MK,Chen WP,Huang WY,Xu Z,Huang HE,Chen T,Plikus MV,Chen SK,Lin SJ

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Several findings suggest that signals from tyrosine kinases are transduced, at least in part, through ras proteins. These findings include (i) blockage of the transforming activity of constitutively active tyrosine kinases by inhibiting ras function and (ii) genetic screens in Caenorhabditis elegans and in Drosophila ...

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

authors： Bowtell D,Fu P,Simon M,Senior P

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:(2'-5')Oligoadenylate synthetase [(2'-5')A synthetase], which synthesizes a series of oligoadenylates ppp-(A2'p)n5'A [collectively referred to as (2'-5')A], has been described previously in rat liver cells, where its concentration varied with the growth status of this organ--i.e., it decreased during the early phase o...

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

authors： Etienne-Smekens M,Vandenbussche P,Content J,Dumont JE

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic activity, having the properties expected of a B-specific host-controlled modification enzyme, has been purified from an extract of Escherichia coli strain B. This activity renders the unmodified replicative form of phage fd resistant to B-specific restriction and is only present in strains carrying intact...

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

authors： Kühnlein U,Linn S,Arber W

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antigen histochemically localized in the nuclei and cytoplasmic granules of normal and leukemic human myeloid cells has been identified as myeloperoxidase (MPO; EC 1.11.1.7). The localization and amount of the enzyme was determined by using a murine monoclonal antibody designated H-43-5 raised against nuclear prote...

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

authors： Murao S,Stevens FJ,Ito A,Huberman E

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evoluti...

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

authors： Gray RD,Watts J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle adapts to different patterns of motor nerve activity by alterations in gene expression that match specialized properties of contraction, metabolism, and muscle mass to changing work demands (muscle plasticity). Calcineurin, a calcium/calmodulin-dependent, serine-threonine protein phosphatase, has been ...

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

authors： Rosenberg P,Hawkins A,Stiber J,Shelton JM,Hutcheson K,Bassel-Duby R,Shin DM,Yan Z,Williams RS

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Significantly above-chance detection of stimuli presented within the field defect of patients with postgeniculate lesions is termed "blindsight." It has been proposed that those with blindsight are more likely to benefit from visual rehabilitation by repeated stimulation, leading to increased visual sensitivity within...

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

authors： Sahraie A,Trevethan CT,MacLeod MJ,Urquhart J,Weiskrantz L

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00