Modular organization of internal models of tools in the human cerebellum.

abstract：:A primary muscle cell culture derived from newborn rabbit muscle and growing on microcarriers in suspension was established. When cultured for several weeks, the myotubes in this model develop the completely adult pattern of fast myosin light and heavy chains. When Ca2+ ionophore is added to the culture medium on day ...

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

authors： Kubis HP,Haller EA,Wetzel P,Gros G

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant, replication-competent rabies virus (RV) vaccine strain-based vectors were developed expressing HIV type I (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (gp160) from both a laboratory-adapted (CXCR4-tropic) and a primary (dual-tropic) HIV-1 isolate. An additional transcription stop/start unit within the RV genome was used...

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

authors： Schnell MJ,Foley HD,Siler CA,McGettigan JP,Dietzschold B,Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymus provides multiple microenvironments that are essential for the development and repertoire selection of T lymphocytes. The thymic cortex induces the generation and positive selection of T lymphocytes, whereas the thymic medulla establishes self-tolerance among the positively selected T lymphocytes. Cortical ...

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

authors： Ohigashi I,Zuklys S,Sakata M,Mayer CE,Zhanybekova S,Murata S,Tanaka K,Holländer GA,Takahama Y

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan biosynthesis is subject to exquisite control in species of Bacillus and has become one of the best-studied model systems in gene regulation. The protein TRAP (trp RNA-binding attenuation protein) predominantly forms a ring-shaped 11-mer, which binds cognate RNA in the presence of tryptophan to suppress expr...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Heddle JG,Kikuchi K,Unzai S,Akashi S,Park SY,Tame JR

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed whether retinoic acid (RA) comes from local sources or is available widely to activate gene expression in embryos. We used an RA-responsive indicator cell line, L-C2A5, to localize RA sources. In these cells, an RA-sensitive promoter/lacZ reporter construct used previously by us to produce indicator t...

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

authors： Colbert MC,Linney E,LaMantia AS

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cosmologists now believe that we live in an evolving universe that has been expanding and cooling since its origin about 15 billion years ago. Strong evidence for this standard cosmological model comes from studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), the remnant heat from the initial fireball. Th...

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

authors： Wilkinson D

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The IL-2R gamma chain (IL-2R gamma) is an essential component of high- and intermediate-affinity IL-2Rs, playing critical roles for ligand binding and internalization. Recently, our laboratory has demonstrated that IL-2R gamma mutation results in X chromosome-linked severe combined immunodeficiency in humans, suggesti...

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

authors： Cao X,Kozak CA,Liu YJ,Noguchi M,O'Connell E,Leonard WJ

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed and cloned, in bacteria, recombinant plasmids containing DNA complementary to mRNA coding for a pancreatic pre-prosomatostatin, a product of the cell-free translation of pancreatic islet mRNAs shown previously by immunoprecipitation to be a precursor of somatostatin. A clone containing a nearly ful...

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

authors： Goodman RH,Jacobs JW,Chin WW,Lund PK,Dee PC,Habener JF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary transcripts made in vitro on bacteriophage T4 DNA by RNA polymerase isolated from normal or T4-infected Escherichia coli were compared by gel electrophoresis. Bacteriophage-modified RNA polymerase fails to initiate transcription at certain promoters recognized by unmodified enzyme. In the T4tRNA gene region, o...

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

authors： Goldfarb A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report establishes that increasing the activity of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A; PKA) potentiates glucocorticoid-mediated signaling in embryonic day 5.5 (E5.5) chicken retina. Expression of a glutamine synthetase-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) fusion gene is not induced by treatm...

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

authors： Zhang H,Li YC,Young AP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyl radical (OH) is the primary oxidant in the troposphere, and the impact of its fluctuations on the methane budget has been disputed in recent years, however measurements of OH are insufficient to characterize global interannual fluctuations relevant for methane. Here, we use a 6,000-y control simulation of...

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

authors： Turner AJ,Fung I,Naik V,Horowitz LW,Cohen RC

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide cyclic di-3',5'- adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) was recently identified as an essential and widespread second messenger in bacterial signaling. Among c-di-AMP-producing bacteria, altered nucleotide levels result in several physiological defects and attenuated virulence. Thus, a detailed molecular un...

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

authors： Huynh TN,Luo S,Pensinger D,Sauer JD,Tong L,Woodward JJ

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite enormous body plan variation, genes regulating embryonic development are highly conserved. Here, we probe the mechanisms that predispose ancient regulatory genes to reutilization and diversification rather than evolutionary loss. The Hox gene fushi tarazu (ftz) arose as a homeotic gene but functions as a pair-...

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

authors： Heffer A,Xiang J,Pick L

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of interareal distance on connectivity patterns in a database obtained from the injection of retrograde tracers in 29 areas distributed over six regions (occipital, temporal, parietal, frontal, prefrontal, and limbic). One-third of the 1,615 pathways projecting to the 29 target areas were...

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

authors： Markov NT,Ercsey-Ravasz M,Lamy C,Ribeiro Gomes AR,Magrou L,Misery P,Giroud P,Barone P,Dehay C,Toroczkai Z,Knoblauch K,Van Essen DC,Kennedy H

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A predictive coarse-grained protein force field [associative memory, water-mediated, structure, and energy model for molecular dynamics (AWSEM)-MD] is used to study the energy landscapes and relative stabilities of amyloid-β protein (1-40) in the monomer and all of its oligomeric forms up to an octamer. We find that a...

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

authors： Zheng W,Tsai MY,Chen M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Often, resistance to drugs is an obstacle to a successful treatment of cancer. In spite of the importance of the problem, the actual mechanisms that control the evolution of drug resistance are not fully understood. Many attempts to study drug resistance have been made in the mathematical modeling literature. Clearly,...

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

authors： Tomasetti C,Levy D

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Message passing is a fundamental technique for performing calculations on networks and graphs with applications in physics, computer science, statistics, and machine learning, including Bayesian inference, spin models, satisfiability, graph partitioning, network epidemiology, and the calculation of matrix eigenvalues....

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

authors： Cantwell GT,Newman MEJ

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the tumor suppressor protein p53--a cellular process initiated by MDM2 and/or MDMX binding to the N-terminal transactivation domain of p53. MDM2 and MDMX in many tumors confer p53 inactivation and tumor survival, and are important molecul...

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

authors： Pazgier M,Liu M,Zou G,Yuan W,Li C,Li C,Li J,Monbo J,Zella D,Tarasov SG,Lu W

更新日期：2009-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using direct percussion, language-competent bonobo-chimpanzees Kanzi and Pan-Banisha produced a significantly wider variety of flint tool types than hitherto reported, and used them task-specifically to break wooden logs or to dig underground for food retrieval. For log breaking, small flakes were rotated drill-like o...

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

authors： Roffman I,Savage-Rumbaugh S,Rubert-Pugh E,Ronen A,Nevo E

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommend...

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

authors： Daniels RJ

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out free energy perturbation calculations on DNA double-stranded hexanucleotides. The sequence d(CGCGCG)2 has been "mutated" into d(CGTGCG).d(CGCACG) with the oligonucleotide in the A, B, and Z structural forms, both in vacuo and in aqueous solution. In addition, model free energy calculations have bee...

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

authors： Dang LX,Pearlman DA,Kollman PA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular differentiation leading to formation of the bradyzoite tissue cyst stage is the underlying cause of chronic toxoplasmosis. Consequently, mechanisms responsible for controlling development in the Toxoplasma intermediate life cycle have long been sought. Here, we identified 15 Toxoplasma mRNAs induced in early ...

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

authors： Radke JB,Lucas O,De Silva EK,Ma Y,Sullivan WJ Jr,Weiss LM,Llinas M,White MW

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent intensification of agriculture, and the prospects of future intensification, will have major detrimental impacts on the nonagricultural terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. The doubling of agricultural food production during the past 35 years was associated with a 6.87-fold increase in nitrogen ...

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

authors： Tilman D

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) causes neurotoxicity related to an irreversible inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Management of this intoxication includes: (i) pretreatment with reversible blockers of AChE, (ii) blockade of muscarinic receptors with atropine, and (iii) facilitation of GABA(A) receptor signa...

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

authors： Pibiri F,Kozikowski AP,Pinna G,Auta J,Kadriu B,Costa E,Guidotti A

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the process of prophage lambda induction with that of prophage Mu. According to the Campbell model, rescue of lambda DNA from the host DNA involves reversal of lambda integration such that the prophage DNA is excised from the host chromosome. We have monitored this event by locating the prophage DNA w...

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

authors： Ljungquist E,Bukhari AI

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated human Ha-ras oncogene was subjected to the control of the promoter region of the murine whey acidic protein (Wap) gene, which is expressed in mammary epithelial cells in response to lactogenic hormones. The Wap-ras gene was stably introduced into the mouse germ line of five transgenic mice (one male and ...

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

authors： Andres AC,Schönenberger CA,Groner B,Hennighausen L,LeMeur M,Gerlinger P

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation is the raw material for natural selection, but the factors shaping variation are still poorly understood. Genetic and developmental interactions can direct variation, but there has been little synthesis of these effects with the extrinsic factors that can shape biodiversity over large scales. The study of ph...

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

authors： Goswami A,Binder WJ,Meachen J,O'Keefe FR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To enable discovery of serum antibodies indicative of disease and simultaneously develop reagents suitable for diagnosis, in vitro directed evolution was applied to identify consensus peptides recognized by patients' serum antibodies. Bacterial cell-displayed peptide libraries were quantitatively screened for binders ...

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

authors： Ballew JT,Murray JA,Collin P,Mäki M,Kagnoff MF,Kaukinen K,Daugherty PS

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two affinity species of the interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor are different states of a single receptor molecule. We assumed that a binary complex between the IL-2 receptor and another lymphocyte-specific protein would constitute the high-affinity receptor. To test this assumption, we counted the numbers of IL-2 receptors...

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

authors： Kondo S,Shimizu A,Saito Y,Kinoshita M,Honjo T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a flounder pituitary cDNA library, cDNA clones encoding a 28-kDa glycoprotein produced by the pars intermedia of the pituitary were isolated and characterized. Nucleotide sequencing demonstrated a precursor of the 28-kDa protein, which consisted of 231 amino acid residues, to be cleaved into a signal peptide (24 ...

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

authors： Ono M,Takayama Y,Rand-Weaver M,Sakata S,Yasunaga T,Noso T,Kawauchi H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00