Experimental measurement of an effective temperature for jammed granular materials.

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils were concentrated from the kidney, thyroid, and peripheral nerve of six patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). The fibril concentrates were solubilized in 6 M guanidine.HCl and fractionated on Sephadex G-100 columns. The elution profile of all FAP amyloid fibril concentrates revealed ...

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

authors： Costa PP,Figueira AS,Bravo FR

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between poor paternal diet, perturbed embryonic development, and adult offspring ill health represents a new focus for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis. However, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains ill-defined. We have developed a mouse paternal low-protein ...

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

authors： Watkins AJ,Dias I,Tsuro H,Allen D,Emes RD,Moreton J,Wilson R,Ingram RJM,Sinclair KD

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nucleases that catalyze the excision of photoproducts from UV-irradiated DNA have been extensively purified from M. luteus (M. lysodeikticus). The first enzyme, an endonuclease, has been purified 5000-fold and is free of conflicting nuclease activities. It introduces single-strand breaks into irradiated DNA but do...

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

authors： Kaplan JC,Kushner SR,Grossman L

更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a neurosteroid with potential effects on neurogenesis and neuronal survival in humans. However, most studies on DHEA have been performed in rodents, and there is little direct evidence for biological effects on the human nervous system. Furthermore, the mechanism of its action is unkno...

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

authors： Suzuki M,Wright LS,Marwah P,Lardy HA,Svendsen CN

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of α-synuclein (α-syn), e.g., phosphorylation, play an important role in modulating α-syn pathology in Parkinson's disease (PD) and α-synucleinopathies. Accumulation of phosphorylated α-syn fibrils in Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites is the histological hallmark of these diseases. H...

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

authors： Zhao K,Lim YJ,Liu Z,Long H,Sun Y,Hu JJ,Zhao C,Tao Y,Zhang X,Li D,Li YM,Liu C

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-copper oxygen reductases are redox-driven proton pumps. In the current work, the effects of mutations in a proposed exit pathway for pumped protons are examined in the ba(3)-type oxygen reductase from Thermus thermophilus, leading from the propionates of heme a(3) to the interface between subunits I and II. R...

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

authors： Chang HY,Choi SK,Vakkasoglu AS,Chen Y,Hemp J,Fee JA,Gennis RB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional organization of the cell nucleus has been investigated using three-dimensional reconstruction, immunoelectron microscopy, and high-resolution in situ autoradiography. Nuclear regions enriched in small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) form a reticular network within the nucleop...

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

authors： Spector DL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has long been recognized that the enteric community of bacteria that inhabit the human distal intestinal track broadly impacts human health, the biochemical details that underlie these effects remain largely undefined. Here, we report a broad MS-based metabolomics study that demonstrates a surprisingly lar...

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

authors： Wikoff WR,Anfora AT,Liu J,Schultz PG,Lesley SA,Peters EC,Siuzdak G

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Global patterns of biodiversity reflect both regional and local processes, but the relative importance of local ecological limits to species coexistence, as influenced by the physical environment, in contrast to regional processes including species production, dispersal, and extinction, is poorly understood. Failure t...

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

authors： Ricklefs RE,He F

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea urchins are a major component of recent marine communities where they exert a key role as grazers and benthic predators. However, their impact on past marine organisms, such as crinoids, is hard to infer in the fossil record. Analysis of bite mark frequencies on crinoid columnals and comprehensive genus-level dive...

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

authors： Gorzelak P,Salamon MA,Baumiller TK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent oscillations in the theta-to-gamma frequency range have been proposed as a mechanism that coordinates neural activity in large-scale cortical networks in sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. Whether this mechanism also involves coherent oscillations at delta frequencies (1-4 Hz) is not known. Rather, delta os...

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

authors： Nácher V,Ledberg A,Deco G,Romo R

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal pancreatic beta cells demonstrate a deficient insulin release in response to glucose, but the underlying mechanism at the cellular level is unknown. By using beta cells from 21-day fetal rats we made an attempt to clarify the mechanism(s) behind this reduced glucose response. In addition to measuring insulin rel...

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

authors： Rorsman P,Arkhammar P,Bokvist K,Hellerström C,Nilsson T,Welsh M,Welsh N,Berggren PO

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate cytokinesis it is thought that contractile ring constriction is driven by nonmuscle myosin II (NM II) translocation of antiparallel actin filaments. Here we report in situ, in vitro, and in vivo observations that challenge this hypothesis. Graded knockdown of NM II in cultured COS-7 cells reveals tha...

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

authors： Ma X,Kovács M,Conti MA,Wang A,Zhang Y,Sellers JR,Adelstein RS

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphologically grounded placement of South American guinea pig-like rodents (Caviomorpha) within one of the two rodent suborders, Hystricognathi, has been disputed by recent analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequence data. The Caviomorpha and possibly all Hystricognathi would be considered a separa...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of task-related imaging studies in normal human subjects, it has been suggested that two attention systems exist in the human brain: a bilateral dorsal attention system involved in top-down orienting of attention and a right-lateralized ventral attention system involved in reorienting attention in respons...

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

authors： Fox MD,Corbetta M,Snyder AZ,Vincent JL,Raichle ME

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of functional cis-regulatory modules displays extensive sequence conservation in comparisons of genomes from modestly distant species. Patches of sequence that are several hundred base pairs in length within these modules are often seen to be 80-95% identical, although the flanking sequence cannot even be alig...

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

authors： Cameron RA,Chow SH,Berney K,Chiu TY,Yuan QA,Krämer A,Helguero A,Ransick A,Yun M,Davidson EH

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Serine biosynthesis, a crucial metabolic process in most domains of life, is initiated by d-3-phosphoglycerate (d-3-PG) dehydrogenation, a thermodynamically unfavorable reaction catalyzed by d-3-PG dehydrogenase (SerA). d-2-Hydroxyglutarate (d-2-HG) is traditionally viewed as an abnormal metabolite associated with c...

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

authors： Zhang W,Zhang M,Gao C,Zhang Y,Ge Y,Guo S,Guo X,Zhou Z,Liu Q,Zhang Y,Ma C,Tao F,Xu P

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several natural isolate E. coli strains highly resistant to sulfonamides and antibiotics are shown to contain a sulfonamide-resistant dihydropteroate synthase (2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropteridine-diphosphate:4-aminobenzoate 2-amino-4-hydroxydihydropteridine-6-methenyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.15) in add...

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

authors： Wise EM Jr,Abou-Donia MM

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional interference between genes and the regulatory elements of simple eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an unavoidable consequence of their compressed genetic arrangement. We have shown previously that with the tandem arranged genes GAL10 and GAL7, inefficient transcriptional termination of the...

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

authors： Prescott EM,Proudfoot NJ

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of metabolic depletion on the maturation-associated loss of membrane functions has been studied by using sheep reticulocytes incubated in vitro at 37 degrees C for periods up to 41 hr. ATP was either maintained with glucose, adenosine plus inosine, or depleted with 2-deoxyglucose plus arsenate. Two membrane...

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

authors： Weigensberg AM,Blostein R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What can be done to reduce unhealthy eating among adolescents? It was hypothesized that aligning healthy eating with important and widely shared adolescent values would produce the needed motivation. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment with eighth graders (total n = 536) evaluated the impact of a...

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

authors： Bryan CJ,Yeager DS,Hinojosa CP,Chabot A,Bergen H,Kawamura M,Steubing F

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity often involves the abnormal targeting of self-antigens by antibodies, leading to tissue destruction and other pathologies. This process could potentially be disrupted by small ligands that bind specifically to autoantibodies and inhibit their interaction with the target antigen. Here we report the identif...

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

authors： Doudna JA,Cech TR,Sullenger BA

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although de novo protein design is an important endeavor with implications for understanding protein folding, until now, structures have been determined for only a few 25- to 30-residue designed miniproteins. Here, the NMR solution structure of a complex 73-residue three-helix bundle protein, alpha3D, is reported. The...

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

authors： Walsh ST,Cheng H,Bryson JW,Roder H,DeGrado WF

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the catalytically inactive mutant (C215S) of the human protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) has been solved to high resolution in two complexes. In the first, crystals were grown in the presence of bis-(para-phosphophenyl) methane (BPPM), a synthetic high-affinity low-molecular weight nonpeptidic s...

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

authors： Puius YA,Zhao Y,Sullivan M,Lawrence DS,Almo SC,Zhang ZY

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of proteins that bind cyclosporin A (CsA) and possess peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity. In addition, they are secreted by activated cells and act in a cytokine-like manner, presumably via signaling through a cell surface cyclophilin receptor. More recently, host-derived cyclophili...

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

authors： Sherry B,Zybarth G,Alfano M,Dubrovsky L,Mitchell R,Rich D,Ulrich P,Bucala R,Cerami A,Bukrinsky M

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression has a stochastic component because of the single-molecule nature of the gene and the small number of copies of individual DNA-binding proteins in the cell. We show how the statistics of such systems can be mapped onto quantum many-body problems. The dynamics of a single gene switch resembles the spin-b...

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

authors： Sasai M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrational modes in mechanical resonators provide a promising candidate to interface and manipulate classical and quantum information. The observation of coherent dynamics between distant mechanical resonators can be a key step toward scalable phonon-based applications. Here we report tunable coherent phonon dynamics...

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

authors： Zhang ZZ,Song XX,Luo G,Su ZJ,Wang KL,Cao G,Li HO,Xiao M,Guo GC,Tian L,Deng GW,Guo GP

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) is associated with vulnerability to affective disorders and pharmacotherapy efficacy. We recently identified sequence polymorphisms in the common marmoset SLC6A4 repeat region (AC/C/G and CT/T/C) associated with individual differences in anxiety-like trait, ...

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

authors： Santangelo AM,Sawiak SJ,Fryer T,Hong Y,Shiba Y,Clarke HF,Riss PJ,Ferrari V,Tait R,Suckling J,Aigbirhio FI,Roberts AC

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication is a core biological process that occurs in prokaryotic cells at high speeds (∼1 nucleotide residue added per millisecond) and with high fidelity (fewer than one misincorporation event per 107 nucleotide additions). The ssDNA binding protein [gene product 32 (gp32)] of the T4 bacteriophage is a central...

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

authors： Phelps C,Israels B,Jose D,Marsh MC,von Hippel PH,Marcus AH

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00