Pattern of diversity in the genomic region near the maize domestication gene tb1.

abstract：:During mitochondrial ATP synthesis, F1-ATPase-the portion of the ATP synthase that contains the catalytic and regulatory nucleotide binding sites-undergoes a series of concerted conformational changes that couple proton translocation to the synthesis of the high levels of ATP required for cellular function. In the str...

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

authors： Bianchet MA,Hullihen J,Pedersen PL,Amzel LM

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the mammalian suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) generate daily rhythms in physiology and behavior, but it is unclear how they maintain and synchronize these rhythms in vivo. We hypothesized that parallel signaling pathways in the SCN are required to synchronize rhythms in these neurons for coherent output. We re...

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

authors： Aton SJ,Huettner JE,Straume M,Herzog ED

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ion transport properties of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) from liver have been defined by using measurements of active and potential gradient-driven transport. The Ca2+ pump is shown to be electrogenic, and both ATP and potential difference is able to drive vanadate-inhibitable Ca2+ uptake into the RER. AT...

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

authors： Muallem S,Schoeffield M,Pandol S,Sachs G

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) agonist muramyl dipeptide (MDP), a peptidoglycan motif common to all bacteria, supports leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)+ intestinal stem cell (ISC) survival through NOD2 activation upon an otherwise lethal oxid...

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

authors： Levy A,Stedman A,Deutsch E,Donnadieu F,Virgin HW,Sansonetti PJ,Nigro G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 1,4-benzoquinone derivatives, found in the venom of the scorpion Diplocentrus melici following exposure to air, have been isolated, characterized, synthesized, and assessed for antimicrobial activities. Initially a white, viscous liquid, the extracted venom colors within minutes under ambient conditions. From this...

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

authors： Carcamo-Noriega EN,Sathyamoorthi S,Banerjee S,Gnanamani E,Mendoza-Trujillo M,Mata-Espinosa D,Hernández-Pando R,Veytia-Bucheli JI,Possani LD,Zare RN

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin mediates the adhesion of cells to collagen by first binding to the collagen substrate, followed by attachment of the cells to the fibronectin-collagen complex. Bovine brain gangliosides were found to block fibronectin-mediated cell adhesion to collagen in a concentration-dependent manner. The gangliosides ...

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

authors： Kleinman HK,Martin GR,Fishman PH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes encoding membrane proteins have been associated with cell death of unknown cause from invertebrate development to human degenerative diseases. A point mutation in the gene for myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) underlies oligodendrocyte death and dysmyelination in jimpy mice, an accurate model for Pel...

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

authors： Schneider AM,Griffiths IR,Readhead C,Nave KA

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunting immunopathology without abolishing host defense is the foundation for safe and effective modulation of infectious and autoimmune diseases. Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1PR1) agonists are effective in treating infectious and multiple autoimmune pathologies; however, mechanisms underlying their clinical...

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

authors： Teijaro JR,Studer S,Leaf N,Kiosses WB,Nguyen N,Matsuki K,Negishi H,Taniguchi T,Oldstone MB,Rosen H

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) causes growth arrest in most cell types. TGF-beta induces hypophosphorylation of retinoblastoma susceptibility gene 1 product (RB), which sequesters E2F factors needed for progression into S phase of the cell cycle, thereby leading to cell cycle arrest at G1. It is possible, ...

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

authors： Li JM,Hu PP,Shen X,Yu Y,Wang XF

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This article extends our previous quantitative analysis of the relationship between the dynamics of the primary structure of DNA and mutagenesis associated with single-strand lesions to an analysis of the production and processing of endogenous double-strand breaks (EDSBs) and to their implications for oncogenesis. We...

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

authors： Vilenchik MM,Knudson AG

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhancer specific to erythroid cells was identified previously in the 3' flanking sequence of the chicken adult beta-globin gene and shown to act on the beta-globin promoter. This enhancer lies between the adult beta-globin gene and the embryonic epsilon-globin gene, about equidistant from the two promoters. To det...

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

authors： Nickol JM,Felsenfeld G

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation factor TFIID is a multimeric protein complex that plays a central role in transcriptional regulation by facilitating promoter responses to various activators. cDNAs encoding the 110-kDa subunit of Drosophila TFIID (p110) were isolated with a degenerate oligodeoxynucleotide probe based on an am...

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

authors： Kokubo T,Gong DW,Roeder RG,Horikoshi M,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of lactoferrin, an intact lactoferrin and a "nicked" but apparently intact (i.e., 78-kDa) form, have been isolated from the urine of preterm infants fed human milk. These two forms of lactoferrin, demonstrated to be entirely of maternal origin, were copurified using affinity columns of immobilized single-str...

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

authors： Hutchens TW,Henry JF,Yip TT

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased DNA levels in centrally located endosperm nuclei are shown to be related to endosperm development in Zea mays. Mitotic activity sharply decreases in endosperm cells 10-12 days after pollination. At this time nuclear size and DNA content per nucleus (where C = haploid content) sharply increase until peak leve...

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

authors： Kowles RV,Phillips RL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na(+) channels initiate action potentials during electrical signaling in excitable cells. Opening and closing of the pore of voltage-gated ion channels are mechanically linked to voltage-driven outward movement of the positively charged S4 transmembrane segment in their voltage sensors. Disulfide locking...

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

authors： DeCaen PG,Yarov-Yarovoy V,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive forests of central Amazonia are often considered relatively resilient against climatic variation, but this view is challenged by the wildfires invoked by recent droughts. The impact of such fires that spread from pervasive sources of ignition may reveal where forests are less likely to persist in a drier f...

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

authors： Flores BM,Holmgren M,Xu C,van Nes EH,Jakovac CC,Mesquita RCG,Scheffer M

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented assemblies of small crystals forming larger structures are common in nature and crucial for forthcoming technologies as they circumvent the difficulties of structural manipulation at microscopic scale. We have discovered two distinctive concentric assemblies of zinc oxide rods, wherein each rod has an intrins...

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

authors： Gautam UK,Imura M,Rout CS,Bando Y,Fang X,Dierre B,Sakharov L,Govindaraj A,Sekiguchi T,Golberg D,Rao CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported in previous studies that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has central effects of augmenting wakefulness and suppressing slow-wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS) in rats. In the present study, we tested the effect of AH 6809, an antagonist of PGE2 receptors, on sleep-wake activities. AH 6809 in saline was in...

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

authors： Matsumura H,Honda K,Choi WS,Inoué S,Sakai T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the role of identity and self-image consideration under "pay-what-you-want" pricing. Results from three field experiments show that often, when granted the opportunity to name the price of a product, fewer consumers choose to buy it than when the price is fixed and low. We show that this opt-out behavio...

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

authors： Gneezy A,Gneezy U,Riener G,Nelson LD

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:"Head-to-head" terpene synthases catalyze the first committed steps in sterol and carotenoid biosynthesis: the condensation of two isoprenoid diphosphates to form cyclopropylcarbinyl diphosphates, followed by ring opening. Here, we report the structures of Staphylococcus aureus dehydrosqualene synthase (CrtM) complexe...

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

authors： Lin FY,Liu CI,Liu YL,Zhang Y,Wang K,Jeng WY,Ko TP,Cao R,Wang AH,Oldfield E

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering the electron transfer reactivity characteristics of amyloid β-peptide copper complexes is an important task in connection with the role they are assumed to play in Alzheimer's disease. A systematic analysis of this question with the example of the amyloid β-peptide copper complex by means of its electroche...

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

authors： Balland V,Hureau C,Savéant JM

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticle-based experimental therapeutics are currently being investigated in numerous human clinical trials. CALAA-01 is a targeted, polymer-based nanoparticle containing small interfering RNA (siRNA) and, to our knowledge, was the first RNA interference (RNAi)-based, experimental therapeutic to be administered to...

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

authors： Zuckerman JE,Gritli I,Tolcher A,Heidel JD,Lim D,Morgan R,Chmielowski B,Ribas A,Davis ME,Yen Y

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated radiocarbon date ranges). In contrast, to the north of the valley the Mousterian disappears shortly before the Proto-Aurignacian appears at...

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

authors： Wood RE,Barroso-Ruíz C,Caparrós M,Jordá Pardo JF,Galván Santos B,Higham TF

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of promoter chromatin determines the ability of transcription factors (TFs) to bind to DNA and therefore has a profound effect on the expression levels of genes. However, the role of spontaneous nucleosome movements in this process is not fully understood. Here, we developed a single-molecule optical twe...

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

authors： Rudnizky S,Khamis H,Malik O,Melamed P,Kaplan A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noted consistent structural similarities among unrelated proteases. In comparison with other proteins of similar size, proteases have smaller than average surface areas, smaller radii of gyration, and higher C(alpha) densities. These findings imply that proteases are, as a group, more tightly packed than other...

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

authors： Stawiski EW,Baucom AE,Lohr SC,Gregoret LM

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To probe the structure of the gamma heavy chain of membrane IgG and the mRNA and gene segments that encode it, we have analyzed cDNA clones derived from a gamma 1 membrane RNA of B lymphoma 2PK-3. The nucleotide sequence of the clones indicated that membrane gamma 1 chains bear a COOH-terminal 71-residue segment that ...

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

authors： Tyler BM,Cowman AF,Gerondakis SD,Adams JM,Bernard O

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface proteome, the surfaceome, is the interface for engaging the extracellular space in normal and cancer cells. Here we apply quantitative proteomics of N-linked glycoproteins to reveal how a collection of some 700 surface proteins is dramatically remodeled in an isogenic breast epithelial cell line stabl...

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

authors： Leung KK,Wilson GM,Kirkemo LL,Riley NM,Coon JJ,Wells JA

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Total chemical synthesis was used to prepare the mirror image (D-protein) form of the angiogenic protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). Phage display against D-VEGF-A was used to screen designed libraries based on a unique small protein scaffold in order to identify a high affinity ligand. Chemically syn...

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

authors： Mandal K,Uppalapati M,Ault-Riché D,Kenney J,Lowitz J,Sidhu SS,Kent SB

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Society places value on the multiple functions of ecosystems from soil fertility to erosion control to wildlife-carrying capacity, and these functions are potentially threatened by ongoing biodiversity losses. Recent empirically based models using individual species' traits suggest that higher species richness is requ...

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

authors： Zavaleta ES,Pasari JR,Hulvey KB,Tilman GD

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte homeostasis is the result of a critical balance between cell proliferation and death. Disruption of this subtle equilibrium can lead to the onset of leukemia, an increase in the number of lymphocytes being potentially due to both of these parameters. The relative importance of cell proliferation vs. apoptos...

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

authors： Debacq C,Asquith B,Kerkhofs P,Portetelle D,Burny A,Kettmann R,Willems L

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00