Partition congruences and the Andrews-Garvan-Dyson crank.

abstract：:A common design principle of heteromeric signaling proteins is the use of shared subunits. This allows encoding of complex messages while maintaining evolutionary flexibility. How cells regulate and control assembly of such composite signaling proteins remains an important open question. An example of particular compl...

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

authors： Müller SI,Friedl A,Aschenbrenner I,Esser-von Bieren J,Zacharias M,Devergne O,Feige MJ

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein δ (C/EBPδ) recently emerged as an essential player in the inflammatory response to bacterial infections. C/EBPδ levels increase rapidly after a proinflammatory stimulus, and increasing C/EBPδ levels seem to be indispensable for amplification of the inflammatory response. Here we aimed to...

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

authors： Duitman J,Schouten M,Groot AP,Borensztajn KS,Daalhuisen JB,Florquin S,van der Poll T,Spek CA

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver provides for long-term energy needs of the body by converting excess carbohydrate into fat for storage. Insulin is one factor that promotes hepatic lipogenesis, but there is increasing evidence that glucose also contributes to the coordinated regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver by mechanis...

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

authors： Iizuka K,Bruick RK,Liang G,Horton JD,Uyeda K

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During natural fertilization, mammalian spermatozoa must pass through the zona pellucida before reaching the plasma membrane of the oocyte. It is assumed that this step involves partial lysis of the zona by sperm acrosomal enzymes, but there has been no unequivocal evidence to support this view. Here we present eviden...

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

authors： Hirose M,Honda A,Fulka H,Tamura-Nakano M,Matoba S,Tomishima T,Mochida K,Hasegawa A,Nagashima K,Inoue K,Ohtsuka M,Baba T,Yanagimachi R,Ogura A

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge of the 21st century is to produce more food for a growing population without increasing humanity's agricultural footprint. Urban food production may help to solve this challenge; however, little research has examined the productivity of urban farming systems. We investigated inputs and produce yields...

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

authors： McDougall R,Kristiansen P,Rader R

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimers of bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchla) with optical absorption maximum at 853 nm and a nonconservative circular dichroism spectrum are formed in a solution of formamide/water that contains micelles of Triton X-100. The apparent equilibrium constant and the corresponding Gibbs energy change for the Bchl self-organizat...

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

authors： Scherz A,Rosenbach-Belkin V

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) is a major pathological marker in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is principally regulated by the rate-limiting β-secretase (i.e., BACE1) cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). However, how BACE1 activity is posttranslationally regulated remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that BACE1...

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

authors： Bao J,Qin M,Mahaman YAR,Zhang B,Huang F,Zeng K,Xia Y,Ke D,Wang Q,Liu R,Wang JZ,Ye K,Wang X

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-1,2-Dioctanoylglycerol (1,2-DiC8) added to human peripheral resting T lymphocytes was rapidly metabolized to produce octanoic acid and further to small molecules, probably by the action of diacylglycerol lipase and/or nonspecific esterase. Only a small portion was converted to the corresponding phosphatidic acid or...

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

authors： Asaoka Y,Oka M,Yoshida K,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical recording of membrane potential permits spatially resolved measurement of electrical activity in subcellular regions of single cells, which would be inaccessible to electrodes, and imaging of spatiotemporal patterns of action potential propagation in excitable tissues, such as the brain or heart. However, the ...

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

authors： Yan P,Acker CD,Zhou WL,Lee P,Bollensdorff C,Negrean A,Lotti J,Sacconi L,Antic SD,Kohl P,Mansvelder HD,Pavone FS,Loew LM

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a passive dendritic tree, inhibitory synaptic inputs activating ionic conductances with an equilibrium potential near the resting potential can effectively veto excitatory inputs. Analog interactions of this type can be very powerful if the inputs are appropriately timed and occur at certain locations. We examine w...

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

authors： Koch C,Poggio T,Torre V

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of the indirect peroxidase-antiperoxidase complex immunocytochemical technique, antibody to purified human renal renin was applied to formalin-fixed paraffin sections of human cadaver brain. Immune reaction products were observed in most nerve cells in all areas of the brain examined; staining was limited to th...

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

authors： Slater EE,Defendini R,Zimmerman EA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis has been put forward as an attractive organism for evolutionary developmental comparisons, and considerable effort is being invested in isolating developmental genes and studying their expression patterns in this species. The scope of these studies could be significantly exp...

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

authors： Pavlopoulos A,Averof M

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural viewing conditions the input to the retina is a complex spatiotemporal signal that depends on both the scene and the way the observer moves. It is commonly assumed that the retina processes this input signal efficiently by taking into account the statistics of the natural world. It has recently been argu...

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

authors： Segal IY,Giladi C,Gedalin M,Rucci M,Ben-Tov M,Kushinsky Y,Mokeichev A,Segev R

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited retinal degeneration (RD) is a devastating and currently untreatable neurodegenerative condition that leads to loss of photoreceptor cells and blindness. The vast genetic heterogeneity of RD, the lack of "druggable" targets, and the access-limiting blood-retinal barrier (BRB) present major hurdles toward eff...

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

authors： Vighi E,Trifunović D,Veiga-Crespo P,Rentsch A,Hoffmann D,Sahaboglu A,Strasser T,Kulkarni M,Bertolotti E,van den Heuvel A,Peters T,Reijerkerk A,Euler T,Ueffing M,Schwede F,Genieser HG,Gaillard P,Marigo V,Ekström P,Pa

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:One of sleep's putative functions is mediation of adaptation to waking experiences. Chronic stress is a common waking experience; however, which specific aspect of sleep is most responsive, and how sleep changes relate to behavioral disturbances and molecular correlates remain unknown. We quantified sleep, physical, e...

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

authors： Nollet M,Hicks H,McCarthy AP,Wu H,Möller-Levet CS,Laing EE,Malki K,Lawless N,Wafford KA,Dijk DJ,Winsky-Sommerer R

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An oligoribonucleotide (a 27-mer) that mimics the sarcin/ricin (S/R) domain of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA binds elongation factor EF-G; the Kd is 6.9 microM, whereas for binding to ribosomes it is 0.7 microM. Binding saturates when EF-G and the S/R RNA are equimolar; at saturation 70% of the input RNA is in complexes w...

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

authors： Munishkin A,Wool IG

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Black Death, originating in Asia, arrived in the Mediterranean harbors of Europe in 1347 CE, via the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road system. This epidemic marked the start of the second plague pandemic, which lasted in Europe until the early 19th century. This pandemic is generally understood as...

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

authors： Schmid BV,Büntgen U,Easterday WR,Ginzler C,Walløe L,Bramanti B,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Major changes in global rainfall patterns accompanied a northward shift of Earth's thermal equator at the onset of an abrupt climate change 14.6 kya. This northward pull of Earth's wind and rain belts stemmed from disintegration of North Atlantic winter sea ice cover, which steepened the interhemispheric meridional te...

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

authors： Broecker WS,Putnam AE

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA from tumors of Nicotiana glauca initiated by strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes was shown to contain sequences that are homologous to the root-inducing (Ri) plasmid of the bacterium. Two independently established tumor lines contained a similar portion of the Ri-plasmid. The Ri-plasmid also hybridized to DNA ...

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

authors： White FF,Ghidossi G,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S region of the murine major histocompatibility complex contains two structurally related genes (21-OHase A and 21-OHase B) that encode 21-hydroxylase (21-OHase), an enzyme essential for the synthesis of adrenal steroids. Expression of these two genes has been analyzed by using oligonucleotide probes specific for ...

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

authors： Parker KL,Chaplin DD,Wong M,Seidman JG,Smith JA,Schimmer BP

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualisms between fungi and fungus-growing animals are model systems for studying coevolution and complex interactions between species. Fungal growing behavior has enabled cultivating animals to rise to major ecological importance, but evolution of farming symbioses is thought to be restricted to three terrestrial in...

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

authors： Silliman BR,Newell SY

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the molecular basis of the voltage sensor that triggers excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, the four-domain pore subunit of the dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) was cut in the cytoplasmic linker between domains II and III. cDNAs for the I-II domain (alpha1S 1-670) and the III-IV domain (alpha1S 701-187...

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

authors： Ahern CA,Arikkath J,Vallejo P,Gurnett CA,Powers PA,Campbell KP,Coronado R

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of Drosophila organ discs can be arrested by culturing them in adult male flies. These aged discs lose some of their differentiation competence and form incomplete imaginal structures. The more advanced the aging, the greater the loss of competence. Discs made to differentiate prematurely show deficien...

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

authors： Schweizer P,Bodenstein D

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGFR2) and its ligand, FGF10, are known to cause lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital (LADD) syndrome. Multiple gain-of-function mutations in FGF receptors have been implicated in a variety of severe skeletal disorders and in many cancers. We aimed to elucidate the mechanism...

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

authors： Lew ED,Bae JH,Rohmann E,Wollnik B,Schlessinger J

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The helicity in water has been determined for several series of alanine-rich peptides that contain single lysine residues and that are N-terminally linked to a helix-inducing and reporting template termed Ac-Hel1. The helix-propagating constant for alanine (sAla value) that best fits the properties of these peptides l...

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

authors： Groebke K,Renold P,Tsang KY,Allen TJ,McClure KF,Kemp DS

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously shown that coexpression of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli in two contiguous fragments leads to functional complementation. We demonstrate here that site-directed thiol crosslinking of coexpressed permease fragments can be used to determine helix proximity in situ without the necessity of pu...

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

authors： Wu J,Kaback HR

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the hemagglutinin (HA) in tissue culture systems has been correlated with virulence of avian influenza viruses. To examine the structural requirements for cleavage of the HA, the HA gene from a virulent H5 influenza virus was expressed in mammalian cells (CV-1), and the cleavage site of the HA was explored...

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

authors： Kawaoka Y,Webster RG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in controlling malignancies. Susceptibility or resistance to lung cancer, for example, specifically depends on NK cell function. Nevertheless, intrinsic factors that control NK cell-mediated clearance of lung cancer are unknown. Here we report that NK cells exposed to exo...

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

authors： Shi L,Li K,Guo Y,Banerjee A,Wang Q,Lorenz UM,Parlak M,Sullivan LC,Onyema OO,Arefanian S,Stelow EB,Brautigan DL,Bullock TNJ,Brown MG,Krupnick AS

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological constants. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that whole-organismal metabolism and growth rate are under stabilizing selection that...

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

authors： Vasseur F,Exposito-Alonso M,Ayala-Garay OJ,Wang G,Enquist BJ,Vile D,Violle C,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00