Species lifetime distribution for simple models of ecologies.

abstract：:We have cloned and determined the entire nucleotide sequence of cDNAs corresponding to the putative alpha subunits of the human and rat mast cell high-affinity IgE receptors. Both human and rat cDNAs encode an NH2-terminal signal peptide, two immunoglobulin-like extracellular domains (encoded by discrete exons), a hyd...

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

authors： Shimizu A,Tepler I,Benfey PN,Berenstein EH,Siraganian RP,Leder P

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the technical bottlenecks in producing nonhuman primate models is that current assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro culture and frozen conservation of multicell-stage embryos, often result in poor embryo quality and subsequently lead to low birth rates. We investigated whether pronuclear embryo tr...

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

authors： Sun Q,Dong J,Yang W,Jin Y,Yang M,Wang Y,Wang PL,Hu Y,Tsien JZ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in protein function can lead to changes in the selection acting on specific residues. This can often be detected as evolutionary rate changes at the sites in question. A maximum-likelihood method for detecting evolutionary rate shifts at specific protein positions is presented. The method determines significan...

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

authors： Knudsen B,Miyamoto MM

更新日期：2001-12-04 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：:Efforts are underway to construct several recoded genomes anticipated to exhibit multivirus resistance, enhanced nonstandard amino acid (nsAA) incorporation, and capability for synthetic biocontainment. Although our laboratory pioneered the first genomically recoded organism (Escherichia coli strain C321.∆A), its fitn...

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

authors： Wannier TM,Kunjapur AM,Rice DP,McDonald MJ,Desai MM,Church GM

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of harmful species, including invasive species, pests, parasites, and diseases, is a major global challenge. Harmful species cause severe damage to ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, and human health. In particular, managing harmful species often requires cooperation among multiple agents, such as l...

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

authors： Lampert A

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In both randomly moving Dictyostelium and mammalian cells, phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate and F-actin are known to propagate as waves at the membrane and act to push out the protruding edge. To date, however, the relationship between the wave geometry and the patterns of amoeboid shape change remains elusi...

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

authors： Taniguchi D,Ishihara S,Oonuki T,Honda-Kitahara M,Kaneko K,Sawai S

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stability in many biological materials is provided by the crosslinking of large structural proteins with gamma-glutamyl-epsilon-lysyl amide bonds. The three-dimensional structure of human recombinant factor XIII (EC 2.3.2.13 zymogen; protein-glutamine:amine gamma-glutamyltransferase a chain), a transglutami...

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

authors： Yee VC,Pedersen LC,Le Trong I,Bishop PD,Stenkamp RE,Teller DC

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater arsenic (As) is elevated in the shallow Holocene aquifers of Bangladesh. In the dry season, the shallow groundwater discharges to major rivers. This process may influence the chemistry of the river and the hyporheic zone sediment. To assess the fate of As during discharge, surface (0-5 cm) and subsurface (...

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

authors： Datta S,Mailloux B,Jung HB,Hoque MA,Stute M,Ahmed KM,Zheng Y

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) offers the only method capable of modulating specific protein activities in localized regions and at particular times. Here, we generalize CALI so that it can be applied to a wider range of tasks. Specifically, we show that CALI can work with a genetically inserted epitop...

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

authors： Surrey T,Elowitz MB,Wolf PE,Yang F,Nédélec F,Shokat K,Leibler S

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. In addition to its importance in human health, there is growing interest in adapting HBV and other viruses for drug delivery and other nanotechnological applications. In both contexts, precise biophysical characterization of these large macromolecular particles is fun...

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

authors： Uetrecht C,Versluis C,Watts NR,Roos WH,Wuite GJ,Wingfield PT,Steven AC,Heck AJ

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the peroxisomal enzymes acyl-CoA oxidase, 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase (acetyl-CoA acyl-transferase, EC 2.3.1.16), and catalase (EC 1.11.1.6) was studied in cultured skin fibroblasts from a control subject and from patients with Zellweger syndrome and the infantile form of Refsum disease, inherited disor...

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

authors： Schram AW,Strijland A,Hashimoto T,Wanders RJ,Schutgens RB,van den Bosch H,Tager JM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High social status reduces stress responses in numerous species, but the stress-buffering effect of status may dissipate or even reverse during times of hierarchical instability. In an experimental test of this hypothesis, 118 participants (57.3% female) were randomly assigned to a high- or low-status position in a st...

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

authors： Knight EL,Mehta PH

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins internalized into the endocytic pathway are usually degraded. Efficient proteolysis requires denaturation, induced by acidic conditions within lysosomes, and reduction of inter- and intrachain disulfide bonds. Cytosolic reduction is mediated enzymatically by thioredoxin, but the mechanism of lysosomal reducti...

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

authors： Arunachalam B,Phan UT,Geuze HJ,Cresswell P

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-protein interactions underlie a wide range of cellular processes. Improved methods are needed to systematically map RNA-protein interactions in living cells in an unbiased manner. We used two approaches to target the engineered peroxidase APEX2 to specific cellular RNAs for RNA-centered proximity biotinylation of ...

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

authors： Han S,Zhao BS,Myers SA,Carr SA,He C,Ting AY

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential micronutrient that plays a central role for a broad range of biological processes. Although there is compelling evidence that the intracellular milieu does not contain any free copper ions, the rapid kinetics of copper uptake and release suggests the presence of a labile intracellular copper poo...

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

authors： Yang L,McRae R,Henary MM,Patel R,Lai B,Vogt S,Fahrni CJ

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sparse 3T3 cells, in excess serum, become quiescent in the early G(1) (or G(0)) phase of the cell cycle if the cells are cultured in low concentrations of amino acids, glucose, or phosphate ion. These quiescent cells then initiate DNA synthesis if the concentration of the limiting nutrient is increased. In normal medi...

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

authors： Holley RW,Kiernan JA

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamic network of e-mail traffic and find that it develops self-organized coherent structures similar to those appearing in many nonlinear dynamic systems. Such structures are uncovered by a general information theoretic approach to dynamic networks based on the analysis of synchronization among trios of...

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

authors： Eckmann JP,Moses E,Sergi D

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of the menstrual cycle is extensive steroid-dependent tissue turnover. Estrogen mediates endometrial cell growth and structural remodeling, whereas progesterone suppresses estrogen-dependent proliferation and promotes cellular differentiation. In nonfertile cycles, tissue degradation and menstruation occu...

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

authors： Osteen KG,Rodgers WH,Gaire M,Hargrove JT,Gorstein F,Matrisian LM

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A recA-independent recombinational event is described which results in insertion of an entire plasmid genome at a unique site of another plasmid, and coincident excision of a precisely defined DNA segment originally present at the point of the insertion. The resulting recombinant molecules subsequently can undergo sit...

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

authors： Kopecko DJ,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how chromatin folds in its native state. Using optimized in situ hybridization and live imaging techniques have determined compaction ratios and fiber flexibility for interphase chromatin in budding yeast. Unlike previous studies, ours examines nonrepetitive chromatin at intervals short enough to...

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

authors： Bystricky K,Heun P,Gehlen L,Langowski J,Gasser SM

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the apoptotic role of caspases has been largely understood, accumulating evidence in Drosophila suggests that caspases also control other processes than apoptotic cell death. However, how caspases contribute to the development of the mammalian nervous system remains obscure. Here, we provide unique evidence t...

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

authors： Ohsawa S,Hamada S,Kuida K,Yoshida H,Igaki T,Miura M

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many discoveries in cell biology rely on making specific proteins visible within their native cellular environment. There are various genetically encoded tags, such as fluorescent proteins, developed for fluorescence microscopy (FM). However, there are almost no genetically encoded tags that enable cellular proteins t...

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

authors： Doh JK,White JD,Zane HK,Chang YH,López CS,Enns CA,Beatty KE

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intake of nutrients [calorie restriction (CR)] extends longevity in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. Mutations affecting somatotropic, insulin, or homologous signaling pathways can increase life span in worms, flies, and mice, and there is considerable evidence that reduced secretion of insulin-like gr...

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

authors： Bonkowski MS,Rocha JS,Masternak MM,Al Regaiey KA,Bartke A

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model for necking and detachment of subducting slabs is developed to include the coupling between grain-sensitive rheology and grain-size evolution with damage. Necking is triggered by thickened buoyant crust entrained into a subduction zone, in which case grain damage accelerates necking and allows for relat...

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

authors： Bercovici D,Schubert G,Ricard Y

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unp...

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

authors： Komatsu KJ,Avolio ML,Lemoine NP,Isbell F,Grman E,Houseman GR,Koerner SE,Johnson DS,Wilcox KR,Alatalo JM,Anderson JP,Aerts R,Baer SG,Baldwin AH,Bates J,Beierkuhnlein C,Belote RT,Blair J,Bloor JMG,Bohlen PJ,Bork EW

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic crossfeeding is an important process that can broadly shape microbial communities. However, little is known about specific crossfeeding principles that drive the formation and maintenance of individuals within a mixed population. Here, we devised a series of synthetic syntrophic communities to probe the comp...

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

authors： Mee MT,Collins JJ,Church GM,Wang HH

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The pleiotropic activities of interferons (IFNs) are mediated primarily through the transcriptional regulation of many downstream effector genes. The mRNA profiles from IFN-alpha, -beta, or -gamma treatments of the human fibrosarcoma cell line, HT1080, were determined by using oligonucleotide arrays with probe sets co...

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

authors： Der SD,Zhou A,Williams BR,Silverman RH

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-actinin-4 is a widely expressed protein that employs an actin-binding site with two calponin homology domains to crosslink actin filaments (F-actin) in a Ca(2+)-sensitive manner in vitro. An inherited, late-onset form of kidney failure is caused by point mutations in the alpha-actinin-4 actin-binding domain. Her...

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

authors： Weins A,Schlondorff JS,Nakamura F,Denker BM,Hartwig JH,Stossel TP,Pollak MR

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00