Redundant control of the Caenorhabditis elegans sperm/oocyte switch by PUF-8 and FBF-1, two distinct PUF RNA-binding proteins.

abstract：:Opportunistic infections are often polymicrobial. Two of the most important bacterial opportunistic pathogens of humans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, frequently are coisolated from infections of catheters, endotracheal tubes, skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract, including the airways of people w...

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

authors： Hoffman LR,Déziel E,D'Argenio DA,Lépine F,Emerson J,McNamara S,Gibson RL,Ramsey BW,Miller SI

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the expected mechanism of radical reduction of carbonyl compounds by dihydroflavin as it relates to the structure of the carbonyl compound is provided. Factors which must be taken into account are the free energies of formation of the radical anions (CR2O), THE ACIDITY OF THE CONJUGATE ACID OF THE CARB...

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

authors： Williams RF,Shinkai S,Bruice TC

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairs, feathers, and scales normally exhibit precise orientations with respect to the body axes. In Frizzled6 (Fz6)(-/-) mice, the global orientation of hair follicles is disrupted, leading to waves, whorls, and tufts, each comprising many hundreds of hairs. By analyzing the orientation of developing hair follicles, w...

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

authors： Wang Y,Badea T,Nathans J

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-1,3-glucan recognition protein (betaGRP)/Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein 3 (GNBP3) is a crucial pattern-recognition receptor that specifically binds beta-1,3-glucan, a component of fungal cell walls. It evokes innate immunity against fungi through activation of the prophenoloxidase (proPO) cascade and ...

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

authors： Takahasi K,Ochiai M,Horiuchi M,Kumeta H,Ogura K,Ashida M,Inagaki F

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible relationship between the susceptibility of cells to differentiation induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and the subcellular translocation of calcium- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) activity from the cytosol to the membrane. These two events were a...

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

authors： Homma Y,Henning-Chubb CB,Huberman E

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Wingless (Wg)/Wnt signaling has been implicated in heart development of multiple organisms, conflicting results have been reported regarding the role of Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in cardiac myogenesis: Wg/armadillo signaling promotes heart development in Drosophila, whereas activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signa...

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

authors： Naito AT,Shiojima I,Akazawa H,Hidaka K,Morisaki T,Kikuchi A,Komuro I

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Microstructural, δ(13)C isotope and C/N ratio investigations were conducted on excavated material from the black Younger Dryas boundary in Lommel, Belgium, aiming for a characterisation of the carbon content and structures. Cubic diamond nanoparticles are found in large numbers. The larger ones with diameters around o...

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

authors： Tian H,Schryvers D,Claeys P

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The P23T mutant of human gammaD-crystallin (HGD) is associated with cataract. We have previously investigated the solution properties of this mutant, as well as those of the closely related P23V and P23S mutants, and shown that although mutations at site 23 of HGD do not produce a significant structural change in the ...

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

authors： McManus JJ,Lomakin A,Ogun O,Pande A,Basan M,Pande J,Benedek GB

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:How truth wins in social groups is an important open problem. Classic experiments on social groups dealing with truth statement issues present mixed findings on the conditions of truth abandonment and reaching a consensus on the truth. No theory has been developed and evaluated that might integrate these findings with...

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

authors： Friedkin NE,Bullo F

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarization of substrates for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (D-DNP) usually involves saturating the ESR transitions of polarizing agents (PAs; e.g., persistent radicals embedded in frozen glassy matrices). This approach has shown enormous pote...

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

authors： Gajan D,Bornet A,Vuichoud B,Milani J,Melzi R,van Kalkeren HA,Veyre L,Thieuleux C,Conley MP,Grüning WR,Schwarzwälder M,Lesage A,Copéret C,Bodenhausen G,Emsley L,Jannin S

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cochlear implant (CI) is a neuroprosthesis that allows profoundly deaf patients to recover speech intelligibility. This recovery goes through long-term adaptative processes to build coherent percepts from the coarse information delivered by the implant. Here we analyzed the longitudinal postimplantation evolution ...

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

authors： Rouger J,Lagleyre S,Fraysse B,Deneve S,Deguine O,Barone P

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Helping and sharing among humans is often motivated by empathy and accompanied by a sense of satisfaction. To determine whether similar self-rewarding mechanisms may underpin assistance among nonhuman primates, eight female brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) underwent testing in a simple choice paradigm. Paired wit...

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

authors： de Waal FB,Leimgruber K,Greenberg AR

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell recognition typically involves both the engagement of a specific T cell receptor with a peptide/major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and a number of accessory interactions. One of the most important interactions is between the integrin lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) on the T cell and intrace...

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

authors： Wülfing C,Sjaastad MD,Davis MM

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify sequences in a randomly encoded polypeptide library that are capable of acquiring unique and stably folded structures would be valuable in the examination of protein-folding issues. The quality control system of the yeast secretory pathway prevents the release of incompletely folded polypeptide...

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

authors： Hagihara Y,Kim PS

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A fraction of the unintegrated viral DNA that appears early after infection of mouse cells by Moloney leukemia virus is infectious. The infectivity could be deomonstrated by an XC plaque assay of the cells exposed to DNA co-precipitated with calcium phosphate. The number of plaques deriving from closed-circular, super...

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

authors： Smotkin D,Gianni AM,Rozenblatt S,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with a severe attack of acute intermittent porphyria, hematin given intravenously caused marked diminution of serum delta-aminolevulinic acid and porphobilinogen. The decline of aminolevulinate was more rapid than that of porphobilinoge. After 2 days of hematin administration, about 5 days were required f...

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

authors： Bonkowsky HL,Tschudy DP,Collins A,Doherty J,Bossenmaier I,Cardinal R,Watson CJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that coexists with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons. The effects of CGRP on the functional properties of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) were examined by electrophysiological methods. Using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique and a mouse c...

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

authors： Mulle C,Benoit P,Pinset C,Roa M,Changeux JP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In prokaryotes, in the absence of protein serine/threonine/tyrosine kinases, protein histidine kinases play a major role in signal transduction involved in cellular adaptation to various environmental changes and stresses. Histidine kinases phosphorylate their cognate response regulators at a specific aspartic acid re...

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

authors： Park H,Saha SK,Inouye M

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic data in the mouse have shown that endothelin 3 (ET3) and its receptor B (ETRB) are essential for the development of two neural crest (NC) derivatives, the melanocytes and the enteric nervous system. We report here the effects of ET3 in vitro on the differentiation of quail trunk NC cells (NCC) in mass and clon...

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

authors： Lahav R,Dupin E,Lecoin L,Glavieux C,Champeval D,Ziller C,Le Douarin NM

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A photolyzable derivative of dipeptidyl-tRNA, p-azido-N-tBoc-Phe-[3H]Phe-tRNA, bound reversibly to 70S ribosomes in the presence of poly(U), becomes, when irradiated, covalently attached to components of the 50S ribosomal subunit. Most of the reaction occurs within the 23S RNA, while ribosomal proteins are only weakly...

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

authors： Sonenberg N,Wilchek M,Zamir A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state materials, have recently been harnessed at the structural scale to enable additional modes of functionality. Here, we combine experimental, numerical, and theoretical tools to investigate the domain walls emerging upon uniaxial compre...

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

authors： Deng B,Yu S,Forte AE,Tournat V,Bertoldi K

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly synthesized rat islet proteins have been analyzed by polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis and fluorography. A minor component having an apparent molecular weight of 11,100 was identified as preproinsulin by the sensitivity of its synthesis to glucose, the pattern of NH2-terminal leucine residues, and the rapi...

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

authors： Patzelt C,Labrecque AD,Duguid JR,Carroll RJ,Keim PS,Heinrikson RL,Steiner DF

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutron diffraction maps have been used to assign the rotor conformations of the hydroxyl hydrogens in trypsin. Knowledge of these conformations is used to assess the relative importance of steric and electrostatic effects in conferring the H-bonding geometries of these groups. A general finding was that most hydroxyl...

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

authors： Kossiakoff AA,Shpungin J,Sintchak MD

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of Glu-181 in the photoactivation process of rhodopsin is explored through spectroscopic studies of site-specific mutants. Preresonance Raman vibrational spectra of the unphotolyzed E181Q mutant are nearly identical to spectra of the native pigment, supporting the view that Glu-181 is uncharged...

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

authors： Yan EC,Kazmi MA,Ganim Z,Hou JM,Pan D,Chang BS,Sakmar TP,Mathies RA

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryote endomembrane system contains a class of H(+)-pumping ATPase (H(+)-ATPases) of the vacuolar type (V-ATPases) that are responsible for the acidification of organelles. Their action is critical to numerous physiological processes, but the regulatory mechanisms that may control activity are not yet fully und...

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

authors： Davies JM,Hunt I,Sanders D

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:With high-dimensional data, variable-by-variable statistical testing is often used to select variables whose behavior differs across conditions. Such an approach requires adjustment for multiple testing, which can result in low statistical power. A two-stage approach that first filters variables by a criterion indepen...

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

authors： Bourgon R,Gentleman R,Huber W

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMO, a small ubiquitin-related modifier, is known to covalently attach to a number of nuclear regulatory proteins such as p53, IkappaB, promyelocytic leukemia protein and c-Jun. The sumoylation reaction is catalyzed by the SUMO protease, which exposes the C-terminal active glycine residue of the nascent SUMO, the het...

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

authors： Li T,Evdokimov E,Shen RF,Chao CC,Tekle E,Wang T,Stadtman ER,Yang DC,Chock PB

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), endemic sheep scrapie, and epidemic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are caused by a related group of infectious agents. The new U.K. BSE agent spread to many species, including humans, and clarifying the origin, specificity, virulence, and diversity of these agen...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Chakrabarty T,Miyazawa K,Nduom NA,Emmerling K

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Economic experiments are often used to study if humans altruistically value the welfare of others. A canonical result from public-good games is that humans vary in how they value the welfare of others, dividing into fair-minded conditional cooperators, who match the cooperation of others, and selfish noncooperators. H...

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

authors： Burton-Chellew MN,El Mouden C,West SA

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00