Low levels of linkage disequilibrium in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) despite high rates of self-fertilization.

abstract：:Proteolipid protein (PLP) is the major myelin membrane protein of the central nervous system. We have isolated a copy of an alternatively spliced PLP gene transcript from a mouse brain cDNA library that was screened for PLP-related sequences. The encoded 241-amino acid protein differs from PLP by an internal deletion ...

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

authors： Nave KA,Lai C,Bloom FE,Milner RJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human carcinogen vinyl chloride is metabolized in the liver to reactive intermediates which form N2,3-ethenoguanine in DNA. N2,3-Ethenoguanine is known to cause G----A transitions during DNA replication in Escherichia coli, and its formation may be a carcinogenic event in higher organisms. To investigate the repai...

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

authors： Matijasevic Z,Sekiguchi M,Ludlum DB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the earliest steps of the intrinsic clotting pathway, Hageman factor (Factor XII) was exposed to Sephadex gels to which ellagic acid had been adsorbed; Hageman factor was then separated from the gels and studied in the fluid phase. Sephadex-ellagic acid-exposed Hageman factor, whether purified or in pla...

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

authors： Ratnoff OD,Saito H

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:The majority of familial Alzheimer disease mutations are linked to the recently cloned presenilin (PS) genes, which encode two highly homologous proteins (PS-1 and PS-2). It was shown that the full-length PS-2 protein is phosphorylated constitutively within its N-terminal domain by casein kinases, whereas the PS-1 pro...

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

authors： Walter J,Grünberg J,Capell A,Pesold B,Schindzielorz A,Citron M,Mendla K,George-Hyslop PS,Multhaup G,Selkoe DJ,Haass C

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A special methionine tRNA (tRNAi) is universally required to initiate translation. Amongst species a tRNAi structural conservation is most apparent in the anticodon and T arms of the molecule but extends into the variable loop and the 3' strand of the D stem. This suggested that they could share a similar ancestral or...

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

authors： Ganoza MC,Marliere P,Kofoid EC,Louis BG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is the primary target for HIV-1-specific antibodies. The native HIV-1 envelope spike on the virion surface is a trimer, but trimeric gp140 and monomeric gp120 currently are believed to induce comparable immune responses. Indeed, most studies on the immunogenicity of HIV-1 envelope oligomers...

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

authors： Kovacs JM,Nkolola JP,Peng H,Cheung A,Perry J,Miller CA,Seaman MS,Barouch DH,Chen B

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-specific activation of the transcription factor sigma F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a regulatory pathway involving the proteins SpoIIE, SpoIIAA, and SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antagonist of sigma F, and SpoIIAA, which is capable of overcoming SpoIIAB-mediated inhibition of sigma F, is an ...

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

authors： Arigoni F,Duncan L,Alper S,Losick R,Stragier P

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent, diacylglycerol-activated enzyme protein kinase C (PKC) in rabbit eyelid conditioning was examined. PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned. Crud...

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

authors： Bank B,DeWeer A,Kuzirian AM,Rasmussen H,Alkon DL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-Cyclohexyl[3H]adenosine ([3H]CHA) and 1,3-diethyl-8-[3H]phenylxanthine ([3H]DPX) to bind to adenosine receptors in brain membranes. The agonist [3H]CHA has high affinity in both bovine and guinea pig brain (Kd, 0.7 nM and 6 nM, respectively). [3H]CHA binding kinetics are slow (dissociation t1/2;60 min); binding is ...

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

authors： Bruns RF,Daly JW,Snyder SH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukocyte common antigen (CD45) is an abundant lymphocyte surface antigen that has been reported to be involved in signaling through the T-cell antigen receptor. CD45 is a transmembrane protein-tyrosine-phosphatase. An internal segment comprises two domains each of which is homologous to other protein-tyrosine-pho...

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

authors： Stover DR,Charbonneau H,Tonks NK,Walsh KA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrocarbon films confined between smooth mica surfaces have long provided an experimental playground for model studies of structure and dynamics of confined liquids. However, fundamental questions regarding the phase behavior and shear properties in this simple system remain unsolved. With ultrasensitive resolution i...

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

authors： Smith AM,Hallett JE,Perkin S

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanosensory hair cells of the inner ear are required for hearing and balance and have a distinctive apical structure, the hair bundle, that converts mechanical stimuli into electrical signals. This structure comprises a single cilium, the kinocilium, lying adjacent to an ensemble of actin-based projections know...

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

authors： Honda A,Kita T,Seshadri SV,Misaki K,Ahmed Z,Ladbury JE,Richardson GP,Yonemura S,Ladher RK

更新日期：2018-08-14 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：:Using brain transcriptomic profiles from 853 individual honey bees exhibiting 48 distinct behavioral phenotypes in naturalistic contexts, we report that behavior-specific neurogenomic states can be inferred from the coordinated action of transcription factors (TFs) and their predicted target genes. Unsupervised hierar...

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

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Ament SA,Eddy JA,Rodriguez-Zas SL,Schatz BR,Price ND,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pleistocene global dispersal of modern humans required the transit of arid and semiarid regions where the distribution of potable water provided a primary constraint on dispersal pathways. Here, we provide a spatially explicit continental-scale assessment of the opportunities for Pleistocene human occupation of Au...

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

authors： Bird MI,O'Grady D,Ulm S

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:[Ala3-15N][Val1]Gramicidin A has been prepared by solid-phase peptide synthesis and studied by solid-state 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The synthesis of desformyl[Ala3-15N][Val1]gramicidin A employed N-hydroxysuccinimide esters of 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-N alpha-amino acids and completely avoided th...

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

authors： Fields GB,Fields CG,Petefish J,Van Wart HE,Cross TA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quaternary structure of delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (5-aminolaevulinate hydrolyase, EC 4.2.1.24) from bovine liver was examined by analytical ultracentrifugation, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and electron microscopy. The molecular weights, determined by sedimentation-velocity and sedimentation-equ...

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

authors： Wu WH,Shemin D,Richards KE,Williams RC

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are critical enzymes for receptor-mediated signaling in lymphocytes. Because natural killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes with specialized effector function, we set out to identify PTKs preferentially expressed in these cells. One such PTK was identified and molecularly clon...

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

authors： Kawamura M,McVicar DW,Johnston JA,Blake TB,Chen YQ,Lal BK,Lloyd AR,Kelvin DJ,Staples JE,Ortaldo JR

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear, the mechanosensory receptors, convert sound waves into neural signals that are passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the development of hair cell-neuronal connections. We ascertained a family with autosomal recessive deafness...

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

authors： Diaz-Horta O,Abad C,Sennaroglu L,Foster J 2nd,DeSmidt A,Bademci G,Tokgoz-Yilmaz S,Duman D,Cengiz FB,Grati M,Fitoz S,Liu XZ,Farooq A,Imtiaz F,Currall BB,Morton CC,Nishita M,Minami Y,Lu Z,Walz K,Tekin M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of membrane proteins in Escherichia coli frequently leads to the formation of aggregates or inclusion bodies, which is undesirable for most studies. Ideally, one would like to optimize the expression conditions by monitoring simultaneously and rapidly both the amounts of properly folded and aggregated m...

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

authors： Geertsma ER,Groeneveld M,Slotboom DJ,Poolman B

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of human angiogenin (reported in the preceding paper in this issue) reveals that the site that corresponds to the pyrimidine binding site of RNase A is obstructed by Gln-117. Mutation of this residue to Ala and Gly is here found to increase activity 11- to 18-fold and 21- to 30-fold, respectively...

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

authors： Russo N,Shapiro R,Acharya KR,Riordan JF,Vallee BL

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Far-red radiation (FR) reflected by green tissues is a key signal that plants use to detect the proximity of future competitors. Perception of increased levels of FR elicits a suite of responses collectively known as the shade-avoidance syndrome, which includes increased stem elongation, production of erect leaves, an...

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

authors： Izaguirre MM,Mazza CA,Biondini M,Baldwin IT,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine exposure diminishes the protective breathing and arousal responses to stress (hypoxia). By exacerbating sleep-disordered breathing, this disturbance could underpin the well established association between smoking and the increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. We show here that the protective response...

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

authors： Cohen G,Han ZY,Grailhe R,Gallego J,Gaultier C,Changeux JP,Lagercrantz H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the adeno-associated virus (AAV-2) has been determined to 3-A resolution by x-ray crystallography. AAV is being developed as a vector for gene therapy to treat diseases including hemophilia, cancer, and cystic fibrosis. As in the distantly related autonomous parvoviruses, the capsid protein has a beta...

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

authors： Xie Q,Bu W,Bhatia S,Hare J,Somasundaram T,Azzi A,Chapman MS

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthesized by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been implicated as a mediator of inflammation in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. We report that exposure of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated murine macrophages to therapeutic concentrations of aspirin (IC50 = 3 mM) and hydrocortisone (IC50 = 5 micr...

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

authors： Amin AR,Vyas P,Attur M,Leszczynska-Piziak J,Patel IR,Weissmann G,Abramson SB

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on the visual paired-comparison task depends on the integrity of the hippocampal formation in humans, monkeys, and, for an analogous task, in rats. The present study sought additional evidence in healthy volunteers concerning the nature of this task. We found that performance on the visual paired-compariso...

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

authors： Manns JR,Stark CE,Squire LR

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1944, Freeman Dyson conjectured the existence of a "crank" function for partitions that would provide a combinatorial proof of Ramanujan's congruence modulo 11. Forty years later, Andrews and Garvan successfully found such a function and proved the celebrated result that the crank simultaneously "explains" the thre...

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

authors： Mahlburg K

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:For a number of viruses, oligomerization is a critical component of envelope processing and surface expression. Previously, we reported that a synthetic peptide (DP-107) corresponding to the putative leucine zipper region (aa 553-590) of the transmembrane protein (gp41) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) e...

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

authors： Wild C,Dubay JW,Greenwell T,Baird T Jr,Oas TG,McDanal C,Hunter E,Matthews T

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After fertilization of the sea urchin, Strongyl-ocentrotus purpuratus, a crosslinked fertilization membrane is formed; the crosslinks (dityrosine residues) are synthesized in a reaction catalyzed by an ovoperoxidase that is released from the cortical granules during fertilization. The substrate for ovoperoxidase activ...

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

authors： Foerder CA,Klebanoff SJ,Shapiro BM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00