Reconciling the working strokes of a single head of skeletal muscle myosin estimated from laser-trap experiments and crystal structures.

abstract：:Social bees harbor a simple and specialized microbiota that is spatially organized into different gut compartments. Recent results on the potential involvement of bee gut communities in pathogen protection and nutritional function have drawn attention to the impact of the microbiota on bee health. However, the contrib...

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

authors： Zheng H,Powell JE,Steele MI,Dietrich C,Moran NA

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin J(2) (PGJ(2)) and its metabolites Delta(12)-PGJ(2) and 15-deoxy-Delta(12,14)-PGJ(2) (15d-PGJ(2)) are naturally occurring derivatives of prostaglandin D(2) that have been suggested to exert antiinflammatory effects in vivo. 15d-PGJ(2) is a high-affinity ligand for the peroxisome proliferator-activated rec...

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

authors： Straus DS,Pascual G,Li M,Welch JS,Ricote M,Hsiang CH,Sengchanthalangsy LL,Ghosh G,Glass CK

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The major auxin-binding protein in maize membranes is thought to function as a physiological receptor. From earlier information, including the use of site-directed irreversible inhibitors, several of the amino acids likely to form part of the active auxin-binding site were provisionally assigned. Inspection of the ami...

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

authors： Venis MA,Napier RM,Barbier-Brygoo H,Maurel C,Perrot-Rechenmann C,Guern J

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:Echolocating big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) broadcast ultrasonic frequency-modulated (FM) biosonar sounds (20-100 kHz frequencies; 10-50 microseconds periods) and perceive target range from echo delay. Knowing the acuity for delay resolution is essential to understand how bats process echoes because they perceive t...

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

authors： Simmons JA,Ferragamo MJ,Moss CF

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic partitioning is predicted to be a general mechanism for proteins to fold into their well defined native three-dimensional structure from unfolded states following multiple folding pathways. However, experimental evidence supporting this mechanism is still limited. By using single-molecule atomic force microsco...

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

authors： Peng Q,Li H

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies sex differences in the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and waking while controlling for menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptive use. We compared the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and alertness of 8 women studied during two phases of the menstrual cycle and 3 women stu...

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

authors： Boivin DB,Shechter A,Boudreau P,Begum EA,Ng Ying-Kin NM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in electrodes for noninvasive recording of electroencephalograms expand opportunities collecting such data for diagnosis of neurological disorders and brain-computer interfaces. Existing technologies, however, cannot be used effectively in continuous, uninterrupted modes for more than a few days due to...

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

authors： Norton JJ,Lee DS,Lee JW,Lee W,Kwon O,Won P,Jung SY,Cheng H,Jeong JW,Akce A,Umunna S,Na I,Kwon YH,Wang XQ,Liu Z,Paik U,Huang Y,Bretl T,Yeo WH,Rogers JA

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl groups placed on varphiXsB1 replicative form DNA by the Escherichia coli B modification enzyme are located in the overlap between fragments Mbo II-3 and Alu I-2, a 61-base-pair DNA segment. Mutations that led to loss of susceptibility to restriction by E. coli B occurred within this segment at three positions s...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Kan NC,Lackey D,Linn S,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1978-05-01 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

abstract：:Electron microscopy is arguably the most powerful tool for spatial imaging of structures. As such, 2D and 3D microscopies provide static structures with subnanometer and increasingly with angstrom-scale spatial resolution. Here we report the development of 4D ultrafast electron microscopy, whose capability imparts ano...

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

authors： Lobastov VA,Srinivasan R,Zewail AH

更新日期：2005-05-17 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：:Elucidating the lineage relationships among different cell types is key to understanding human brain development. Here we developed parallel RNA and DNA analysis after deep sequencing (PRDD-seq), which combines RNA analysis of neuronal cell types with analysis of nested spontaneous DNA somatic mutations as cell lineag...

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

authors： Huang AY,Li P,Rodin RE,Kim SN,Dou Y,Kenny CJ,Akula SK,Hodge RD,Bakken TE,Miller JA,Lein ES,Park PJ,Lee EA,Walsh CA

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils have been associated with fibrosis. To investigate their direct role in fibrosis, human peripheral blood eosinophil sonicate was added to human lung or dermal fibroblasts, and proliferation ([(3)H]thymidine) and collagen synthesis ([(3)H]proline) were evaluated. Proliferation was enhanced significantly in ...

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

authors： Levi-Schaffer F,Garbuzenko E,Rubin A,Reich R,Pickholz D,Gillery P,Emonard H,Nagler A,Maquart FA

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecology of microbes in the gut has been shown to play important roles in the health of the host. To better understand microbial growth and population dynamics in the proximal colon, the primary region of bacterial growth in the gut, we built and applied a fluidic channel that we call the "minigut." This is a chann...

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

authors： Cremer J,Segota I,Yang CY,Arnoldini M,Sauls JT,Zhang Z,Gutierrez E,Groisman A,Hwa T

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human diploid fibroblasts underwent lysis when resuspended in isotonic sucrose. After preparation of a granular fraction by differential centrifugation, lysosomes were almost completely purified by free-flow electrophoresis. Electron micrographs of the final fraction of fibroblast lysosomes (about 25-fold purified) sh...

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

authors： Harms E,Kern H,Schneider JA

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combinations of low dosages of purified murine hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors (CSFs)--L-cell CSF type 1 (CSF-1), recombinant interleukin 3 (IL-3), and recombinant granulocyte/macrophage CSF (GM-CSF)--were compared with single CSFs for their influence on the cycling rates and numbers of bone marrow granulocyt...

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

authors： Broxmeyer HE,Williams DE,Hangoc G,Cooper S,Gillis S,Shadduck RK,Bicknell DC

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maintain genome stability, cells with damaged DNA must arrest to allow repair of mutations before replication. Although several key components required to elicit this arrest have been discovered, much of the pathway remains elusive. Here we report that pRB acts as a central mediator of the proliferative block induc...

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

authors： Harrington EA,Bruce JL,Harlow E,Dyson N

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics study was performed to compare the differences in the active-site dynamics of the wild-type and W137F mutant enzymes of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase. Only in the wild-type simulation are conformations formed between the catalytic Asp-145 and 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA, which resemble the ab initio ca...

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

authors： Lau EY,Bruice TC

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A de novo mutation in the KCND2 gene, which encodes the Kv4.2 K+ channel, was identified in twin boys with intractable, infant-onset epilepsy and autism. Kv4.2 channels undergo closed-state inactivation (CSI), a mechanism by which channels inactivate without opening during subthreshold depolarizations. CSI dynamically...

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

authors： Lin MA,Cannon SC,Papazian DM

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding enhancement by tertiary interactions is a strategy that takes advantage of the higher order folding of functionally important RNAs to bind short nucleic acid-based compounds tightly and more specifically than possible by simple base pairing. For example, tertiary interactions enhance binding of specific hexame...

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

authors： Testa SM,Gryaznov SM,Turner DH

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimyristoyl lecithin liposomes, containing cytochrome b5 reductase (NADH:ferricytochrome b5 oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.2) and varying amounts of cytochrome b5, were used to measure flavoprotein catalysis alone and catalysis requiring electron transfer between the reductase and cytochrome as a function of temperature. Wh...

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

authors： Strittmatter P,Rogers MJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an in vivo system to engender supercoiled "minicircle" DNA containing a single promoter by using the integrative recombination system of bacteriophage lambda. The resulting minicircle templates allow quantitative analysis of the stages of transcription initiation from a promoter, including synthesis ...

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

authors： Choy HE,Adhya S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-caused environmental changes are creating regional combinations of environmental conditions that, within the next 50 to 100 years, may fall outside the envelope within which many of the terrestrial plants of a region evolved. These environmental modifications might become a greater cause of global species extinc...

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

authors： Tilman D,Lehman C

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an intricate network composed of an array of macromolecules capable of regulating the functional responsiveness of cells. Its composition greatly varies among different types of tissue, and dysregulation of its metabolism may contribute to vascular remodeling during the pathogenesis o...

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

authors： Roth M,Eickelberg O,Kohler E,Erne P,Block LH

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) results in intellectual disability (ID) most often caused by silencing of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene. The resulting absence of fragile X mental retardation protein 1 (FMRP) leads to both pre- and postsynaptic defects, yet whether the pre- and postsynaptic functions of FMRP ...

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

authors： Myrick LK,Deng PY,Hashimoto H,Oh YM,Cho Y,Poidevin MJ,Suhl JA,Visootsak J,Cavalli V,Jin P,Cheng X,Warren ST,Klyachko VA

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and other aspects of their biology, numerous genomic and transcriptomic studies have been performed, generating a variety of hypotheses abo...

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

authors： Cleves PA,Strader ME,Bay LK,Pringle JR,Matz MV

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific low-affinity receptors for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), oncostatin M (OSM; gp130), and ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF; receptor alpha, CNTFR alpha) may be utilized in various combinations to generate high-affinity binding sites and signal transduction. We have tested the ability of combinations of the...

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

authors： Gearing DP,Ziegler SF,Comeau MR,Friend D,Thoma B,Cosman D,Park L,Mosley B

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00