Design of a "green" one-step catalytic production of epsilon-caprolactam (precursor of nylon-6).

abstract：:Operant conditioning techniques were used to assess how gender and song familiarity affect song discrimination in adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Twenty-five males and females, divided into five cohorts, were trained to discriminate between conspecific songs at different times of year. Males discriminating ...

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

authors： Cynx J,Nottebohm F

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific lipoprotein of the E. coli outer membrane has been synthesized in a cell-free system directed by purified messenger RNA. The mRNA for the lipoprotein was purified as 7S RNA about 250-fold from exponentially growing cells. Protein synthesis of the cell-free system was totally dependent upon the addition of t...

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

authors： Hirashima A,Wang S,Inouye M

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors mediate biological signals by stimulating nucleotide exchange in heterotrimeric G proteins (Galphabetagamma). Receptor dimers have been proposed as the functional unit responsible for catalytic interaction with Galphabetagamma. To investigate whether a G protein-coupled receptor monomer can...

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

authors： Ernst OP,Gramse V,Kolbe M,Hofmann KP,Heck M

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific fraction of chromosomal DNA from both yeast and a wide variety of other eukaryotes, but not from Escherichia coli, promotes high-frequency transformation in yeast. The plasmids containing these sequences are maintained as extra-chromosomal molecules in transformed cells. These results suggest that similar o...

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

authors： Zakian VA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine and human cDNAs, related to but distinct from c-raf-1, have been isolated and designated mA-raf and hA-raf, respectively. The mA-raf and hA-raf cDNAs detect the same murine and human fragments in Southern blots of restriction enzyme-cleaved murine and human cellular DNA. The murine restriction enzyme fragments ...

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

authors： Huebner K,ar-Rushdi A,Griffin CA,Isobe M,Kozak C,Emanuel BS,Nagarajan L,Cleveland JL,Bonner TI,Goldsborough MD

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects nearly 3% of the population of the world and is a major cause of liver disease. However, the mechanism whereby the virus targets the liver for infection remains unknown, because none of the putative cellular receptors for HCV are both expressed specifically in the liver and capable of b...

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

authors： Gardner JP,Durso RJ,Arrigale RR,Donovan GP,Maddon PJ,Dragic T,Olson WC

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a common chronic human genetic disorder whose hallmark is systemic iron overload. Homozygosity for a mutation in the MHC class I heavy chain paralogue gene HFE has been found to be a primary cause of HH. However, many individuals homozygous for the defective allele of HFE do not deve...

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

authors： Sproule TJ,Jazwinska EC,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Fleming RE,Sly WS,Roopenian DC

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies were raised against two synthetic peptides whose sequences correspond respectively to the COOH-terminal end (residues 501-516) of the protein encoded by the gene for the delta chain and to a proposed cytoplasmic region (residues 350-358) of the beta chain of the acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo californi...

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

authors： Young EF,Ralston E,Blake J,Ramachandran J,Hall ZW,Stroud RM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is a common pediatric malignancy of muscle, with relapse being the major clinical challenge. Self-renewing tumor-propagating cells (TPCs) drive cancer relapse and are confined to a molecularly definable subset of ERMS cells. To identify drugs that suppress ERMS self-renewal and induce...

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

authors： Chen EY,DeRan MT,Ignatius MS,Grandinetti KB,Clagg R,McCarthy KM,Lobbardi RM,Brockmann J,Keller C,Wu X,Langenau DM

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput biological data, whether generated as sequencing, transcriptional microarrays, proteomic, or other means, continues to require analytic methods that address its high dimensional aspects. Because the computational part of data analysis ultimately identifies shape characteristics in the organization of d...

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

authors： Nicolau M,Levine AJ,Carlsson G

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by cells present an attractive strategy for developing new therapies, but progress in the field is limited by several issues: The quality of the EVs varies with the type and physiological status of the producer cells; protocols used to isolate the EVs are difficult to scale up; an...

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

authors： Kim DK,Nishida H,An SY,Shetty AK,Bartosh TJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews food (especially cereal) production trends and prospects for the world and its main regions. Despite fears to the contrary, in recent years we have seen continued progress toward better methods of feeding humanity. Sub-Saharan Africa is the sole major exception. Looking to the future, this paper arg...

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

authors： Dyson T

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method for conjugating low density lipoproteins (LDL) with colloidal gold. Conjugation, complete after 1 min, occurs by electrostatic adsorption of the LDL to the negatively charged gold particle. Each conjugate consists of approximately eight biologically active LDL molecules clustered around a ce...

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

authors： Handley DA,Arbeeny CM,Witte LD,Chien S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The final step of ethylene biosynthesis in plants is catalyzed by the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) oxidase (ACCO). In addition to ACC, Fe(II), O2, CO2, and ascorbate are required for in vitro enzyme activity. Direct evidence for the role of the Fe(II) center in the recombinant avocado ACCO has no...

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

authors： Rocklin AM,Tierney DL,Kofman V,Brunhuber NM,Hoffman BM,Christoffersen RE,Reich NO,Lipscomb JD,Que L Jr

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary base sequence of the protein coding regions of the four small heat shock genes of Drosophila melanogaster present at cytological locus 67B has been determined. A single open reading frame large enough to encode a small heat shock protein is found for each gene. The molecular weights of the predicted protei...

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

authors： Ingolia TD,Craig EA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In typical force spectroscopy experiments, a small biomolecule is attached to a soft polymer linker that is pulled with a relatively large bead or cantilever. At constant force, the total extension stochastically changes between two (or more) values, indicating that the biomolecule undergoes transitions between two (o...

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

authors： Cossio P,Hummer G,Szabo A

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating exosomal microRNA (miR) represents a new class of blood-based biomarkers for cancer liquid biopsy. The detection of miR at a very low concentration and with single-base discrimination without the need for sophisticated equipment, large volumes, or elaborate sample processing is a challenge. To address this...

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

authors： Canady TD,Li N,Smith LD,Lu Y,Kohli M,Smith AM,Cunningham BT

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a mechanism of arsenite [As(III)]resistance through methylation and subsequent volatization is described. Heterologous expression of arsM from Rhodopseudomonas palustris was shown to confer As(III) resistance to an arsenic-sensitive strain of Escherichia coli. ArsM catalyzes the formation of a number ...

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

authors： Qin J,Rosen BP,Zhang Y,Wang G,Franke S,Rensing C

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant phenotype analysis of bacteria has been revolutionized by genome-scale screening procedures, but essential genes have been left out of such studies because mutants are missing from the libraries analyzed. Since essential genes control the most fundamental processes of bacterial life, this is a glaring deficienc...

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

authors： Gallagher LA,Bailey J,Manoil C

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrite morphogenesis is regulated by neuronal activity or neurotrophins, which may function by activating intrinsic signaling proteins, including Rho family GTPases. Here we report that activity- and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-dependent dendritic morphogenesis requires activation of geranylgeranyltrans...

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

authors： Zhou XP,Wu KY,Liang B,Fu XQ,Luo ZG

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal movements result from a complex balance of many different forces. Muscles produce force to move the body; the body has inertial, elastic, and damping properties that may aid or oppose the muscle force; and the environment produces reaction forces back on the body. The actual motion is an emergent property of th...

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

authors： Tytell ED,Hsu CY,Williams TL,Cohen AH,Fauci LJ

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective harvest of large individuals should alter natural adaptive landscapes and drive evolution toward reduced somatic growth and increased reproductive investment. However, few studies have simultaneously considered the relative importance of artificial and natural selection in driving trait changes in wild popul...

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

authors： Edeline E,Carlson SM,Stige LC,Winfield IJ,Fletcher JM,James JB,Haugen TO,Vøllestad LA,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified cell surface markers associated with repression of p16(INK4a)/cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A(CDKN2A), a critical determinant in the acquisition of a plastic state. These cell surface markers allowed direct isolation of rare cells from healthy human breast tissue that exhibit extensive lineage plast...

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

authors： Roy S,Gascard P,Dumont N,Zhao J,Pan D,Petrie S,Margeta M,Tlsty TD

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of trocars, needles, and catheters into unintended tissues or tissue compartments results in hundreds of thousands of complications annually. Current methods for blood vessel cannulation or epidural, chest tube, and initial trocar placement often involve the blind pass of a needle through several layers of t...

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

authors： Bassett EK,Slocum AH,Masiakos PT,Pryor HI 2nd,Farokhzad OC,Karp JM

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Swiftlets are small insectivorous birds, many of which nest in caves and are known to echolocate. Due to a lack of distinguishing morphological characters, the taxonomy of swiftlets is primarily based on the presence or absence of echolocating ability, together with nest characters. To test the reliability of these be...

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

authors： Lee PL,Clayton DH,Griffiths R,Page RD

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Major breakthroughs have recently been reported that can help overcome two inherent drawbacks of NMR: the lack of sensitivity and the limited memory of longitudinal magnetization. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) couples nuclear spins to the large reservoir of electrons, thus making it possible to detect dilute endo...

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

authors： Vasos PR,Comment A,Sarkar R,Ahuja P,Jannin S,Ansermet JP,Konter JA,Hautle P,van den Brandt B,Bodenhausen G

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared whole-exome sequencing (WES) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in six unrelated individuals. In the regions targeted by WES capture (81.5% of the consensus coding genome), the mean numbers of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small insertions/deletions (indels) detected per sample were 84,192 and 13,32...

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

authors： Belkadi A,Bolze A,Itan Y,Cobat A,Vincent QB,Antipenko A,Shang L,Boisson B,Casanova JL,Abel L

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a simplified method for culturing fetal central nervous system cells predominantly inducing neurons that grow, differentiate, and live in vitro for as long as 10 weeks. These central nervous system cells form a confluent cell culture in which about 80% of the cells are fully differentiated neurons producing ...

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

authors： Sotelo J,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC,Toh BH,Wurth M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There exists a properly embedded minimal surface of genus one with a single end asymptotic to the end of the helicoid. This genus-one helicoid is constructed as the limit of a continuous one-parameter family of screw-motion invariant minimal surfaces, also asymptotic to the helicoid, that have genus equal to one in th...

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

authors： Weber M,Hoffman D,Wolf M

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The two nitrile groups at the wings of the nonnucleoside HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitor TMC278 are both identified in high-sensitivity 2D IR spectroscopy experiments of the HIV-1 RT/TMC278 complex. The vibrational spectra indicate that the two arms of the inhibitor sense quite different environments within...

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

authors： Fang C,Bauman JD,Das K,Remorino A,Arnold E,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00