Epicardial retinoid X receptor alpha is required for myocardial growth and coronary artery formation.

abstract：:Hoxb13 is robustly transcribed in derivatives of posterior endoderm including the colon, rectum, and the prostate gland. Transcriptional activity in the prostate persists unabated under conditions of androgen deprivation and throughout the course of disease progression in a mouse prostate cancer model. To elucidate th...

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

authors： McMullin RP,Dobi A,Mutton LN,Orosz A,Maheshwari S,Shashikant CS,Bieberich CJ

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a color complementation assay that allows rapid screening of specific genomic DNA sequences. It is based on the simultaneous amplification of two or more DNA segments with fluorescent oligonucleotide primers such that the generation of a color, or combination of colors, can be visualized and used for...

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

authors： Chehab FF,Kan YW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are exposed to changes in extracellular stimulus concentration that vary as a function of rate. However, how cells integrate information conveyed from stimulation rate along with concentration remains poorly understood. Here, we examined how varying the rate of stress application alters budding yeast mitogen-act...

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

authors： Johnson AN,Li G,Jashnsaz H,Thiemicke A,Kesler BK,Rogers DC,Neuert G

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts of plants and eukaryotic algae, conversion of light energy to biologically useful chemical energy occurs in the specialized thylakoid membranes. Light-induced charge separation at the reaction centers of photosystems I and II, two multisubunit pigment-pr...

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

authors： Zak E,Norling B,Maitra R,Huang F,Andersson B,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased understanding of the precise molecular mechanisms involved in cell survival and cell death signaling pathways offers the promise of harnessing these molecules to eliminate cancer cells without damaging normal cells. Tyrosine kinase oncoproteins promote the genesis of leukemias through both increased cell pro...

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

authors： Kurokawa M,Ito T,Yang CS,Zhao C,Macintyre AN,Rizzieri DA,Rathmell JC,Deininger MW,Reya T,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:When an unusually high frequency of an allele is encountered in a population, "founder effect" is often invoked as an explanation. As usually used, the term implies the disproportionate increase through chance (rather than selection) of an allele contributed to the population by a particular ancestor. While genetic th...

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

authors： Thompson EA,Neel JV

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders cause much suffering and are the single greatest cause of lost productivity worldwide. Although multiple medications, along with behavioral therapies, have proven effective for some individuals, millions of people lack an effective therapeutic option. A common serotonin (5-HT) transporter (5-HTT/SERT, S...

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

authors： Baganz NL,Horton RE,Calderon AS,Owens WA,Munn JL,Watts LT,Koldzic-Zivanovic N,Jeske NA,Koek W,Toney GM,Daws LC

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal patterning of biological variables, in the form of oscillations and rhythms on many time scales, is ubiquitous. Altering the temporal pattern of an input variable greatly affects the output of many biological processes. We develop here a conceptual framework for a quantitative understanding of such pattern de...

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

authors： Brezina V,Orekhova IV,Weiss KR

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A human metallothionein (MT) gene was inserted into a bovine papillomavirus (BPV) vector. The chimeric vector (pMTII-BPV) transforms rodent fibroblasts to a cadmium-resistant phenotype. The resistance is due to the high level of expression of human MT-II in those cells. The vector is maintained in the cells as a free ...

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

authors： Karin M,Cathala G,Nguyen-Huu MC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rising atmospheric CO2 in modulating estuarine carbonate system dynamics remains poorly characterized, likely due to myriad processes driving the complex chemistry in these habitats. We reconstructed the full carbonate system of an estuarine seagrass habitat for a summer period of 2.5 months utilizing a co...

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

authors： Pacella SR,Brown CA,Waldbusser GG,Labiosa RG,Hales B

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools...

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

authors： Rillig MC,Antonovics J

更新日期：2019-06-04 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：:Gut microbial composition depends on different dietary habits just as health depends on microbial metabolism, but the association of microbiota with different diets in human populations has not yet been shown. In this work, we compared the fecal microbiota of European children (EU) and that of children from a rural Af...

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

authors： De Filippo C,Cavalieri D,Di Paola M,Ramazzotti M,Poullet JB,Massart S,Collini S,Pieraccini G,Lionetti P

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants' sensitivity to contingent reactivity as an indicator of intentional agency has been demonstrated by numerous referential gaze-following studies. Here we propose that variability of signal sequences in a turn-taking exchange provides an informative cue for infants to recognize interactions that may involve com...

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

authors： Tauzin T,Gergely G

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parental effort, offspring growth, and offspring blood parasitemias are poorly known. We examined the effect of parental effort on offspring size and prevalence of trypanosomes in peripheral blood of nestling Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca aged 13 days. Trypanosome infections were likely...

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

authors： Merino S,Potti J,Moreno J

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone III (JH) plays a key role in regulating the reproduction of female mosquitoes. Microarray time-course analysis revealed dynamic changes in gene expression during posteclosion (PE) development in the fat body of female Aedes aegypti. Hierarchical clustering identified three major gene clusters: 1,843 e...

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

authors： Zou Z,Saha TT,Roy S,Shin SW,Backman TW,Girke T,White KP,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other primates are distinct among placental mammals in having exceptionally slow rates of growth, reproduction, and aging. Primates' slow life history schedules are generally thought to reflect an evolved strategy of allocating energy away from growth and reproduction and toward somatic investment, particul...

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

authors： Pontzer H,Raichlen DA,Gordon AD,Schroepfer-Walker KK,Hare B,O'Neill MC,Muldoon KM,Dunsworth HM,Wood BM,Isler K,Burkart J,Irwin M,Shumaker RW,Lonsdorf EV,Ross SR

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolin, a 21- to 24-kDa integral membrane protein, is a principal component of caveolae membranes. Caveolin interacts directly with heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) and can functionally regulate their activity. Here, an approximately 20-kDa caveolin-related protein, caveolin-2, was ide...

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

authors： Scherer PE,Okamoto T,Chun M,Nishimoto I,Lodish HF,Lisanti MP

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-promoting phorbol esters affect the ability of mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells to form morphologically recognizable colonies in culture. They induce myeloid progenitor cells to form colonies of the monocyte/macrophage type in the absence of exogenous granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Convers...

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

authors： Sieber F,Stuart RK,Spivak JL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase T2 enzymes are conserved in most eukaryotic genomes, and expression patterns and phylogenetic analyses suggest that they may carry out an important housekeeping role. However, the nature of this role has been elusive. Here we show that RNS2, an intracellular RNase T2 from Arabidopsis thaliana, is essential for n...

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

authors： Hillwig MS,Contento AL,Meyer A,Ebany D,Bassham DC,Macintosh GC

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception and cognition in infants have been traditionally investigated using habituation paradigms, assuming that babies' memories in laboratory contexts are best constructed after numerous repetitions of the very same stimulus in the absence of interference. A crucial, yet open, question regards how babies deal wit...

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

authors： Benavides-Varela S,Siugzdaite R,Gómez DM,Macagno F,Cattarossi L,Mehler J

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:pRK212.2, a derivative of the broad host range plasmid RK2, contains two EcoRI cleavage fragments, A and B, neither of which can replicate by itself in Escherichia coli. Fragment A (41.7 kilobases), but not fragment B (14.4 kilobases), can be cloned by insertion into the unrelated plasmids mini-F and ColE1. Fragment B...

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

authors： Figurski DH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine is one of the most prescribed and effective drugs used for the treatment of acute and chronic pain conditions. In addition to its central effects, morphine can also produce peripheral analgesia. However, the mechanisms underlying this peripheral action of morphine have not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we ...

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

authors： Cunha TM,Roman-Campos D,Lotufo CM,Duarte HL,Souza GR,Verri WA Jr,Funez MI,Dias QM,Schivo IR,Domingues AC,Sachs D,Chiavegatto S,Teixeira MM,Hothersall JS,Cruz JS,Cunha FQ,Ferreira SH

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-biomolecule interactions have been extensively studied in dilute solutions, crystals, and rehydrated powders, but none of these model systems may capture the behavior of water in the highly organized intracellular milieu. Because of the experimental difficulty of selectively probing the structure and dynamics of...

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

authors： Persson E,Halle B

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the renin-angiotensin system in blood pressure control and in the development of hypertension was investigated by generating transgenic mice carrying the rat renin or angiotensinogen gene or both genes under the control of the mouse metallothionein I promoter. The systolic blood pressure was significantly ...

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

authors： Ohkubo H,Kawakami H,Kakehi Y,Takumi T,Arai H,Yokota Y,Iwai M,Tanabe Y,Masu M,Hata J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch (N) is a transmembrane receptor that mediates cell-cell interactions to determine many cell-fate decisions. N contains EGF-like repeats, many of which have an O-fucose glycan modification that regulates N-ligand binding. This modification requires GDP-L-fucose as a donor of fucose. The GDP-L-fucose biosynthetic ...

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

authors： Ayukawa T,Matsumoto K,Ishikawa HO,Ishio A,Yamakawa T,Aoyama N,Suzuki T,Matsuno K

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed the spontaneous, pH-dependent insertion of a water-soluble peptide to form a helix across lipid bilayers [Hunt, J. F., Rath, P., Rothschild, K. J. & Engelman, D. M. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 15177-15192]. We now use a related peptide, pH (low) insertion peptide, to translocate cargo molecules...

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

authors： Reshetnyak YK,Andreev OA,Lehnert U,Engelman DM

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-independent cell lines were derived from mouse helper T-cell clones by culture in autologous supernatant obtained after stimulation with concanavalin A. A factor, termed P40, supporting the growth of these lines was purified and characterized as a basic 32- to 39-kDa single-chain glycoprotein functionally dist...

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

authors： Uyttenhove C,Simpson RJ,Van Snick J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhydrohistrionicotoxin, at concentrations of 10(-12)-10(-7) M, depressed the current generated by iontophoretic application of acetylcholine to endplate regions of soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles of rats. However, no changes in the amplitude or time course of spontaneous miniature endplate potentials or...

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

authors： Albuquerque EX,Gage PW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00