Dynamic changes in receptive-field size in cat primary visual cortex.

abstract：:A key challenge in ecology is to define species' niches on the basis of functional traits. Size and shape are important determinants of a species' niche but their causal role is often difficult to interpret. For endotherms, size and shape define the thermal niche through their interaction with core temperature, insula...

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

authors： Porter WP,Kearney M

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The "false thumb" of pandas is a carpal bone, the radial sesamoid, which has been enlarged and functions as an opposable thumb. If the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) are not closely related, their sharing of this adaptation implies a remarkable convergence. The discovery of pr...

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

authors： Salesa MJ,Antón M,Peigné S,Morales J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing frequency of antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired infections is a major public health concern that has both biological and economic causes. Here we develop conceptual mathematical models that couple the economic incentives and population biology of hospital infection control (HIC). We show that th...

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

authors： Smith DL,Levin SA,Laxminarayan R

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunity protein to colicin A (Cai), which is constitutively expressed at a very low level in Escherichia coli strains, has been studied in recombinant plasmid constructs allowing expression of various immunity fusion proteins under the control of inducible promoters. The 13-amino acid NH2-terminal region of Cai w...

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

authors： Geli V,Baty D,Lazdunski C

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] was solubilized from a rat brain homogenate with sodium deoxycholate. This solubilized preparation had no detectable enzymic activity with either Mg-ATP or Mn-ATP as substrate. The activity could be restored by addition of either nonionic detergent or...

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

authors： Hebdon GM,LeVine H 3rd,Sahyoun NE,Schmitges CJ,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 3D topological picture-language for quantum information. Our approach combines charged excitations carried by strings, with topological properties that arise from embedding the strings in the interior of a 3D manifold with boundary. A quon is a composite that acts as a particle. Specifically, a quon is a ...

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

authors： Liu Z,Wozniakowski A,Jaffe AM

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane protein (OMP) biogenesis is critical to bacterial physiology because the cellular envelope is vital to bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. The process of OMP biogenesis has been studied in vivo, and each of its components has been studied in isolation in vitro. This work integrates paramet...

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

authors： Costello SM,Plummer AM,Fleming PJ,Fleming KG

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:R. A. Fisher's 1930 "reproductive value" is defined as the contribution made by a population's initial age elements to its asymptotically dominating exponential growth mode. For the Leslie discrete-time model, it is the characteristic row vector of the Leslie matrix, and for the integral-equation model of Lotka the si...

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

authors： Samuelson PA

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed germination is regulated by endogenous hormonal cues and external environmental stimuli such as water, low temperature, and light. After germination, the young seedling must rapidly establish its root system and the photoautotrophic capability appropriate to its surrounding environment. Light and the phytohormone...

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

authors： Chen H,Zhang J,Neff MM,Hong SW,Zhang H,Deng XW,Xiong L

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato flavor is dependent upon a complex mixture of volatiles including multiple acetate esters. Red-fruited species of the tomato clade accumulate a relatively low content of acetate esters in comparison with the green-fruited species. We show that the difference in volatile ester content between the red- and green-...

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

authors： Goulet C,Mageroy MH,Lam NB,Floystad A,Tieman DM,Klee HJ

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities in the bovine hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was studied by use of specific antisera. Proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities were found in magnocellular neuronal cell bodies in the dorsal part of the supraoptic nuclei and in th...

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

authors： Vanderhaeghen JJ,Lotstra F,Liston DR,Rossier J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) is composed of heterogeneous subdomains, characterized by differences in protein and lipid composition. PM receptors can be dynamically sorted into membrane domains to underpin signaling in response to extracellular stimuli. In plants, the plasmodesmal PM is a discrete microdomain that hosts s...

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

authors： Cheval C,Samwald S,Johnston MG,de Keijzer J,Breakspear A,Liu X,Bellandi A,Kadota Y,Zipfel C,Faulkner C

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels and nerves often follow parallel trajectories, suggesting that distal targets use common cues that induce vascularization and innervation. Netrins are secreted by the floor plate and attract commissural axons toward the midline of the neural tube. Here, we show that Netrin-1 is also a potent vascular mit...

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

authors： Park KW,Crouse D,Lee M,Karnik SK,Sorensen LK,Murphy KJ,Kuo CJ,Li DY

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were designed to determine the interrelationship between cyclic AMP and Ca(2+) during the processes of sperm capacitation and the acrosome reaction. In minimal culture media containing pyruvate and lactate as substrates, guinea pig spermatozoa required a minimum of 1.0-1.5 hr to capacitate in the presence ...

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

authors： Hyne RV,Garbers DL

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA end-joining protein Ku70 is one of several proteins that inhibit apoptosis by sequestering the proapoptotic factor Bax from the mitochondria. However, the molecular mechanism underlying Ku70-dependent inhibition of Bax is not fully understood. Here, we show that the absence of Ku70 results in the accumulation ...

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

authors： Amsel AD,Rathaus M,Kronman N,Cohen HY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the craniofacial skeleton are derived from a common mesenchymal progenitor. The regulatory factors that control their differentiation into various cell lineages are unknown. To investigate the biological function of dentin matrix protein 1 (DMP1), an extracellular matrix gene involved in calcified tissue form...

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

authors： Narayanan K,Srinivas R,Ramachandran A,Hao J,Quinn B,George A

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Unintended anthropogenic deposition of sulfur (S) to forest ecosystems has a range of negative consequences, identified through decades of research. There has been far less study of purposeful S use in agricultural systems around the world, including the application of elemental sulfur (S(0)) as a quick-reacting fungi...

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

authors： Hinckley EL,Matson PA

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) of Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is mainly localized and functions in the nucleus of latently infected cells, playing a pivotal role in the replication and maintenance of latent viral episomal DNA. In addition, N-terminally truncated cytoplasmic isoforms of LANA, resul...

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

authors： Zhang G,Chan B,Samarina N,Abere B,Weidner-Glunde M,Buch A,Pich A,Brinkmann MM,Schulz TF

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic microbial infections are associated with fibrotic and inflammatory reactions known as granulomas showing similarities to wound-healing and tissue repair processes. We have previously mapped three leishmaniasis susceptibility loci, designated lmr1, -2, and -3, which exert their effect independently of T cell im...

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

authors： Sakthianandeswaren A,Elso CM,Simpson K,Curtis JM,Kumar B,Speed TP,Handman E,Foote SJ

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:At mammalian neuromuscular junctions (NMJs), innervation induces and maintains the metabolic stability of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs). To explore whether neural agrin may cause similar receptor stabilization, we injected neural agrin cDNA of increasing transfection efficiencies into denervated adult rat soleus (SO...

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

authors： Bezakova G,Rabben I,Sefland I,Fumagalli G,Lømo T

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyomavirus enhancer is composed of multiple DNA sequence elements serving as binding sites for proteins present in mouse nuclear extracts that activate transcription and DNA replication. We have identified three such proteins and their binding sites and correlate them with enhancer function. Mutation of nucleoti...

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

authors： Martin ME,Piette J,Yaniv M,Tang WJ,Folk WR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is considered a critical target of the action of drugs of abuse. In this nucleus a "shell" and a "core" have been distinguished on the basis of anatomical and histochemical criteria. The present study investigated the effect in freely moving rats of intravenous cocaine, amphetamine, and morphine ...

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

authors： Pontieri FE,Tanda G,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a model laboratory bacterium, a species that is widely distributed in the environment, as well as a mutualist and pathogen in its human hosts. As such, E. coli represents an attractive organism to study how environment impacts microbial genome structure and function. Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) mu...

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

authors： Chen SL,Hung CS,Xu J,Reigstad CS,Magrini V,Sabo A,Blasiar D,Bieri T,Meyer RR,Ozersky P,Armstrong JR,Fulton RS,Latreille JP,Spieth J,Hooton TM,Mardis ER,Hultgren SJ,Gordon JI

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants constantly undergo external mechanical loads such as wind or touch and respond to these stimuli by acclimating their growth processes. A fascinating feature of this mechanical-induced growth response is that it can occur rapidly and at long distance from the initial site of stimulation, suggesting the existence...

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

authors： Louf JF,Guéna G,Badel E,Forterre Y

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectra of the alpha, beta, and gamma forms of zinc monoarsanilazotyrosine-248 carboxypeptidase A are indistinguishable. At pH 8.2 their crystals are yellow, while their solutions are red, lambda(max) 510 nm. Absorption and circular dichroism-pH titrations of the modified zinc and apoenzymes demonstrate that the a...

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

authors： Johansen JT,Vallee BL

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas producing human monoclonal IgM antibodies (mAbs) against bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were generated by fusion of B lymphocytes from sensitized human spleen with heteromyeloma cells. The splenocytes were from patients undergoing splenectomy during staging for Hodgkin disease after vaccination with the...

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

authors： Teng NN,Kaplan HS,Hebert JM,Moore C,Douglas H,Wunderlich A,Braude AI

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing temporal variability in extreme rainfall events before the historical era is complicated by the sparsity of long-term "direct" storm proxies. Here we present a 2,200-y-long, accurate, and precisely dated record of cave flooding events from the northwest Australian tropics that we interpret, based on an integ...

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

authors： Denniston RF,Villarini G,Gonzales AN,Wyrwoll KH,Polyak VJ,Ummenhofer CC,Lachniet MS,Wanamaker AD Jr,Humphreys WF,Woods D,Cugley J

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral methods are of fundamental importance in statistics and machine learning, because they underlie algorithms from classical principal components analysis to more recent approaches that exploit manifold structure. In most cases, the core technical problem can be reduced to computing a low-rank approximation to a...

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

authors： Belabbas MA,Wolfe PJ

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cranial neural crest cells (crNCCs) migrate from the neural tube to the pharyngeal arches (PAs) of the developing embryo and, subsequently, differentiate into bone and connective tissue to form the mandible. Within the PAs, crNCCs respond to local signaling cues to partition into the proximo-distally oriented subdomai...

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

authors： Vincentz JW,Casasnovas JJ,Barnes RM,Que J,Clouthier DE,Wang J,Firulli AB

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00