Self/nonself recognition in ascidian fertilization: vitelline coat protein HrVC70 is a candidate allorecognition molecule.

abstract：:Tikal has long been viewed as one of the leading polities of the ancient Maya realm, yet how the city was able to maintain its substantial population in the midst of a tropical forest environment has been a topic of unresolved debate among researchers for decades. We present ecological, paleoethnobotanical, hydraulic,...

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

authors： Lentz DL,Dunning NP,Scarborough VL,Magee KS,Thompson KM,Weaver E,Carr C,Terry RE,Islebe G,Tankersley KB,Grazioso Sierra L,Jones JG,Buttles P,Valdez F,Ramos Hernandez CE

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied ten phenotypically similar patients with complete androgen insensitivity. All of the patients tested had significantly elevated serum luteinizing hormone and plasma androgens within or above the normal adult male range. On the basis of specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts, we identi...

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

authors： Amrhein JA,Meyer WJ 3rd,Jones HW Jr,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C, PKC) has been suggested to play a role in the sensitivity of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors to ethanol. We tested a line of null mutant mice that lacks the gamma isoform of PKC (PKC gamma) to determine the role of this brain-specific isoenz...

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

authors： Harris RA,McQuilkin SJ,Paylor R,Abeliovich A,Tonegawa S,Wehner JM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary ablation (hypophysectomy) in rats was previously reported to cause a precipitous change in the relative abundance of two alternative splice variants of the "BK"- or "Maxi K"-encoding Slo gene in adrenal chromaffin cells. Inclusion of the optional "STREX" exon (STRess axis-regulated EXon) in a C-terminal spli...

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

authors： Lai GJ,McCobb DP

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The copy number of plasmid ColE1 has been known to increase when the Hae II-C segment downstream from the replication origin is deleted. The presence of the 306-base-pair (bp) Hpa II region in the segment is sufficient for reduction of the copy number. Plasmids harboring the region express a trans-acting function that...

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

authors： Som T,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homogeneous exchange process whereby IgG molecules adsorbed onto latex particles are replaced by IgG molecules from the bulk solution was studied by means of 125I radiolabeling. The exchange mechanism was investigated on surfaces saturated with either labeled or unlabeled proteins in the presence of a solution of ...

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

authors： Ball V,Huetz P,Elaissari A,Cazenave JP,Voegel JC,Schaaf P

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The human placental alkaline phosphatase gene has been cloned and reintroduced into mammalian cells. When a plasmid carrying the gene under control of the simian virus 40 early promoter (pSV2Apap) is transfected into a variety of different cell types, placental alkaline phosphatase activity can readily be detected by ...

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

authors： Henthorn P,Zervos P,Raducha M,Harris H,Kadesch T

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:RNA from noninfectious virions produced by two established clonal lines of sarcoma positive-leukemia negative (S+L-)-transformed 3T3 cells has been characterized. RNA from virions or nucleoids of S+L--(C243) cells consisted of three to four sizes: +/-44 S (6%), 28 S (17%), 18 S (38%), and <18 S (39%). 28S virion RNA c...

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

authors： Phillips LA,Hollis VW Jr,Bassin RH,Fischinger PJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆Ca = future minus historic CO2) compensates for increased physiological stresses from higher temperature (∆T). We predicted the outcome of these competing responses by using optimization the...

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

authors： Sperry JS,Venturas MD,Todd HN,Trugman AT,Anderegg WRL,Wang Y,Tai X

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy provided tools for the investigation and the analysis of the viral replication steps in the cellular context. In the HIV field, the current visualization systems successfully achieve the fluorescent labeling of the viral envelope and proteins, but not the genome. Here, we dev...

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

authors： Di Primio C,Quercioli V,Allouch A,Gijsbers R,Christ F,Debyser Z,Arosio D,Cereseto A

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic responses of the hearing organ to acoustic overstimulation were investigated using the guinea pig isolated temporal bone preparation. The organ was loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator Fluo-3, and the cochlear electric responses to low-level tones were recorded through a microelectrode in the scala m...

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

authors： Fridberger A,Flock A,Ulfendahl M,Flock B

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferredoxin was isolated from individual Leucaena glauca trees, and the distribution of amino acids at three of the four sites of sequence heterogeneity was determined. The results indicated that the most probable causes of the observed microheterogeneity are the presence of either nonallelic nuclear genes or differing...

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

authors： Benson AM,Yasunobu KT

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic dysfunction is present in the hippocampus in schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). The trisynaptic pathway was "deconstructed" into various layers of sectors CA3/2 and CA1 and gene expression profiling performed. Network association analysis was used to uncover genes that may be related to regulation...

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

authors： Benes FM,Lim B,Matzilevich D,Walsh JP,Subburaju S,Minns M

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that differentiated embryonic cells have a high specificity of molecular constitution as regards the surface layers surrounding their cellular membranes. Correspondingly, specific interface energies may characterize the early contacts between different cell types. The question is raised whether the mor...

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

authors： Jehle H

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast to directly convert cellulose and, especially, the microcrystalline cellulose into bioethanol, was engineered through display of minicellulosomes on the cell surface of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The construction and cell surface attachment of cellulosomes were accomplished with two individual miniscaffoldins to ...

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

authors： Fan LH,Zhang ZJ,Yu XY,Xue YX,Tan TW

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) mediates active I(-) transport in the thyroid-the first step in thyroid hormone biosynthesis-with a 2 Na(+): 1 I(-) stoichiometry. The two Na(+) binding sites (Na1 and Na2) and the I(-) binding site interact allosterically: when Na(+) binds to a Na(+) site, the affinity of NIS for the...

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

authors： Ferrandino G,Nicola JP,Sánchez YE,Echeverria I,Liu Y,Amzel LM,Carrasco N

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand specificity of a murine gammadelta T-cell receptor-expressing hybridoma (KN6) derived from adult thymocytes has been analyzed in detail. The molecule recognized by the KN6 gammadelta T-cell receptor is expressed on syngeneic cells of various sources (peritoneal macrophages, thymocytes, spleen cells, and Abelson...

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

authors： Bonneville M,Ito K,Krecko EG,Itohara S,Kappes D,Ishida I,Kanagawa O,Janeway CA,Murphy DB,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most growth factors are initially synthesized as precursor proteins and subsequently processed into their mature form by proteolytic cleavage, resulting in simultaneous removal of a pro-peptide. However, compared with that of mature form, the biological role of the pro-peptide is poorly understood. Here, we investigat...

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

authors： Mizui T,Ishikawa Y,Kumanogoh H,Lume M,Matsumoto T,Hara T,Yamawaki S,Takahashi M,Shiosaka S,Itami C,Uegaki K,Saarma M,Kojima M

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of actin monomers into filaments and networks plays vital roles throughout eukaryotic biology, including intracellular transport, cell motility, cell division, determining cellular shape, and providing cells with mechanical strength. The regulation of actin assembly and modulation of filament mechanical p...

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

authors： Kang H,Bradley MJ,McCullough BR,Pierre A,Grintsevich EE,Reisler E,De La Cruz EM

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tadpole collagenase (EC 3.4.24.3) cleaved chick cranial bone procollagen into two triple-stranded fragments, PCA and PCB. Only PCB, with an estimated molecular weight of about 60,000 for each component chain after reduction, was found to contain interchain disulfide bonds. The analogous cleavage of collagen is known t...

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

authors： Byers PH,Click EM,Harper E,Bornstein P

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is characterized by severe headaches that can be preceded by an aura likely caused by cortical spreading depression (SD). The antiepileptic pregabalin (Lyrica) shows clinical promise for migraine therapy, although its efficacy and mechanism of action are unclear. As detected by diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI)...

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

authors： Cain SM,Bohnet B,LeDue J,Yung AC,Garcia E,Tyson JR,Alles SR,Han H,van den Maagdenberg AM,Kozlowski P,MacVicar BA,Snutch TP

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that 3-nitropropionate, an isoelectronic analogue of succinate, is a suicide inactivator of succinate dehydrogenase [succinate:(acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.3.99.1] as follows. (i) When rat liver mitochondria oxidize succinate in the presence of 3-nitropropionate carbanion, the rate of O(2) consumption...

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

authors： Alston TA,Mela L,Bright HJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss some recent progress on the regularity theory of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation. We start with some basic properties of the elliptic Yang-Mills equation, such as Coulomb gauges, monotonicity, and curvature estimates. Next we discuss singularity of stationary Yang-Mills connections and compactness theorems...

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

authors： Tian G

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies reactive with a cleavage site in human proinsulin (HPI) (C-peptide-A-chain junction) have been raised (rabbit, guinea pig) using a synthetic peptide antigen coupled with keyhole limpet hemocyanin. These antisera recognize native HPI and des-31,32-HPI equally well but react 20-50 times less well w...

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

authors： Steiner DF,Michael J,Houghten R,Mathieu M,Gardner PR,Ravazzola M,Orci L

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiolipin is important for bacterial and mitochondrial stability and function. The final step in cardiolipin biosynthesis is catalyzed by cardiolipin synthase and differs mechanistically between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. To study the importance of cardiolipin synthesis for mitochondrial integrity, membrane protein...

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

authors： Serricchio M,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers replicability of the performance of predictors across studies. We suggest a general approach to investigating this issue, based on ensembles of prediction models trained on different studies. We quantify how the common practice of training on a single study accounts in part for the observed chal...

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

authors： Patil P,Parmigiani G

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously that the heat-stable polypeptide of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system of reticulocytes, designated APF-1, forms covalent conjugates with protein substrates in an ATP-requiring process. We now describe an enzyme that carries out the activation by ATP of the polypeptide with pyrophosphate...

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

authors： Ciechanover A,Heller H,Katz-Etzion R,Hershko A

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxsackievirus causes severe disease in adult mice subjected to sustained post-weaning undernutrition (marasmus). Virus-infected marasmic mice have an increased incidence of mortality, severe lesions, and elevated and persistent viral in target organs. Transfer of immune lymphoid cells 30 min or 24 hr after viral chal...

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

authors： Woodruff JF,Woodruff JJ

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S-M checkpoint delays mitosis until DNA replication is complete; cells defective in this checkpoint lose viability when DNA replication is inhibited. This inviability can be suppressed in fission yeast by overexpression of Cid1 or the related protein Cid13. Fission yeast contain six cid1/cid13-like genes, whereas ...

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

authors： Read RL,Martinho RG,Wang SW,Carr AM,Norbury CJ

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00