The Avellino 3780-yr-B.P. catastrophe as a worst-case scenario for a future eruption at Vesuvius.

abstract：:CCAAT enhancer-binding protein-alpha (C/EBPalpha) functions as a pleiotropic transcriptional activator of adipocyte genes during adipogenesis. Nuclear factor C/EBP undifferentiated protein (CUP), an isoform of activator protein-2alpha (AP-2alpha), binds to repressive elements in the C/EBPalpha gene promoter, silencing...

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

authors： Jiang MS,Lane MD

更新日期：2000-11-07 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：: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

abstract：:Rapid development of genetic variability may contribute to the pathogenicity of lentiviruses as it may allow escape from immune surveillance and/or from suppression of virus replication. Although apathogenic in African green monkeys, simian immunodeficiency virus isolated from African green monkeys is shown to display...

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

authors： Baier M,Dittmar MT,Cichutek K,Kurth R

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of mechanisms that regulate hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation would be facilitated by the identification of defined culture conditions that allow these cells to be amplified. We now demonstrate a significant net increase (3-fold, P < 0.001) in vitro of cells that are individually abl...

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

authors： Miller CL,Eaves CJ

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding plant metabolism as an integrated system is essential for metabolic engineering aimed at the effective production of compounds useful to human life and the global environment. The "omics" approach integrates transcriptome and metabolome data into a single data set and can lead to the identification of un...

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

authors： Hirai MY,Sugiyama K,Sawada Y,Tohge T,Obayashi T,Suzuki A,Araki R,Sakurai N,Suzuki H,Aoki K,Goda H,Nishizawa OI,Shibata D,Saito K

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In making sense of the visual world, the brain's processing is driven by two factors: the physical information provided by the eyes ("bottom-up" data) and the expectancies driven by past experience ("top-down" influences). We use degraded stimuli to tease apart the effects of bottom-up and top-down processes because t...

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

authors： Gorlin S,Meng M,Sharma J,Sugihara H,Sur M,Sinha P

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is an evolutionarily conserved process in which recognition of double-stranded RNA ultimately leads to posttranscriptional suppression of gene expression. This suppression is mediated by short (21- to 22-nt) small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which induce degradation of mRNA based on complementary base ...

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

authors： Barton GM,Medzhitov R

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf family GTP-binding proteins are best characterized as regulators of membrane traffic, but recent studies indicate an additional role in cytoskeletal organization. An Arf GTPase-activating protein of the centaurin beta family, ASAP1 (also known as centaurin beta4), binds Arf and two other known regulators of the ac...

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

authors： Randazzo PA,Andrade J,Miura K,Brown MT,Long YQ,Stauffer S,Roller P,Cooper JA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of garlic is inversely correlated with the progression of cardiovascular disease, although the responsible mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that human RBCs convert garlic-derived organic polysulfides into hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), an endogenous cardioprotective vascular cell signaling molecule. ...

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

authors： Benavides GA,Squadrito GL,Mills RW,Patel HD,Isbell TS,Patel RP,Darley-Usmar VM,Doeller JE,Kraus DW

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononegaviruses are promising tools as oncolytic vectors and transgene delivery vectors for gene therapy and regenerative medicine. By using the Magnet proteins, which reversibly heterodimerize upon blue light illumination, photocontrollable mononegaviruses (measles and rabies viruses) were generated. The Magnet prote...

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

authors： Tahara M,Takishima Y,Miyamoto S,Nakatsu Y,Someya K,Sato M,Tani K,Takeda M

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Carney-Stratakis syndrome, an inherited condition predisposing affected individuals to gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and paraganglioma, is caused by germline mutations in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunits B, C, or D, leading to dysfunction of complex II of the electron transport chain. We evaluated the ro...

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

authors： Janeway KA,Kim SY,Lodish M,Nosé V,Rustin P,Gaal J,Dahia PL,Liegl B,Ball ER,Raygada M,Lai AH,Kelly L,Hornick JL,NIH Pediatric and Wild-Type GIST Clinic.,O'Sullivan M,de Krijger RR,Dinjens WN,Demetri GD,Antonescu CR,F

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of an anchoring pocket in allele-specific peptide presentation by a major histocompatibility complex class I molecule, we "transplanted" a B pocket from HLA-A*0201 into HLA-B*2705 by site-directed mutagenesis. The resulting protein, designated B27.A2B, binds a different set of endogenous peptid...

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

authors： Colbert RA,Rowland-Jones SL,McMichael AJ,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three preparations of purified papain-solublized HL-A antigens have been radiolabeled by reductive methylation using formaldehyde and potassium boro[3H]hydride, and their reaction with specific HL-A antisera has been investigated. Greater than 99 percent of the radioactivity in the [3H]HL-A2 preparation could be compl...

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

authors： Parham P,Terhorst C,Herrmann H,Humphreys RE,Waterfield MD,Strominger JL

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of solute-binding protein-dependent transporters in rhizobia is dramatically increased compared with the majority of other bacteria so far sequenced. This increase may be due to the high affinity of solute-binding proteins for solutes, permitting the acquisition of a broad range of growth-limiting nutrients...

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

authors： Mauchline TH,Fowler JE,East AK,Sartor AL,Zaheer R,Hosie AH,Poole PS,Finan TM

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Endangered species recovery programs seek to restore populations to self-sustaining levels. Nonetheless, many recovering species require continuing management to compensate for persistent threats in their environment. Judging true recovery in the face of this management is often difficult, impeding thorough analysis o...

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

authors： Finkelstein ME,Doak DF,George D,Burnett J,Brandt J,Church M,Grantham J,Smith DR

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative adaptive immune system of jawless vertebrates is based on different isotypes of variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) that are composed of leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and expressed by distinct B- and T-like lymphocyte lineages. VLRB is expressed by B-like cells, whereas VLRA and VLRC are expressed by tw...

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

authors： Holland SJ,Gao M,Hirano M,Iyer LM,Luo M,Schorpp M,Cooper MD,Aravind L,Mariuzza RA,Boehm T

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable genetic selection strategy for isolating interacting proteins based on the "hitchhiker" mechanism of the Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. This method, designated FLI-TRAP (functional ligand-binding identification by Tat-based recognition of associating proteins),...

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

authors： Waraho D,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe burn trauma is generally followed by a catabolic response that leads to muscle wasting and weakness affecting skeletal musculature. Here, we perform whole-genome expression and in vivo NMR spectroscopy studies to define respectively the full set of burn-induced changes in skeletal muscle gene expression and the...

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

authors： Padfield KE,Astrakas LG,Zhang Q,Gopalan S,Dai G,Mindrinos MN,Tompkins RG,Rahme LG,Tzika AA

更新日期：2005-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing a cell-free chromatin transcription system that recapitulates progesterone receptor (PR)-mediated transcription in vivo, we have investigated further the coactivator functions of steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) in terms of its functional domains as well as cooperation with other coactivators in PR tra...

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

authors： Liu Z,Wong J,Tsai SY,Tsai MJ,O'Malley BW

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite an important role in vascular development and repair, the origin of endothelial progenitors remains unknown. Accumulating evidence indicates that cells derived from the hematopoietic system participate in angiogenesis. However, the identity and functional role of these cells remain controversial. Here we show ...

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

authors： Bailey AS,Willenbring H,Jiang S,Anderson DA,Schroeder DA,Wong MH,Grompe M,Fleming WH

更新日期：2006-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid flippases (P4-ATPases) utilize ATP to translocate specific phospholipids from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytoplasmic leaflet of biological membranes, thus generating and maintaining transmembrane lipid asymmetry essential for a variety of cellular processes. P4-ATPases belong to the P-type ATPase prote...

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

authors： Tadini-Buoninsegni F,Mikkelsen SA,Mogensen LS,Molday RS,Andersen JP

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the single-stranded DNA genome of geminiviruses occurs via a double-stranded intermediate that is subsequently used as a template for rolling-circle replication of the viral strand. Only one of the proteins encoded by the virus, here referred to as replication initiator protein (Rep protein), is indispe...

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

authors： Laufs J,Traut W,Heyraud F,Matzeit V,Rogers SG,Schell J,Gronenborn B

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets is the hallmark of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a spontaneous autoimmune disease of non-obese diabetic mice resembling human juvenile (type I) diabetes. Histochemical analysis of diabetic pancreata revealed that mononuclear cells...

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

authors： Weiss L,Slavin S,Reich S,Cohen P,Shuster S,Stern R,Kaganovsky E,Okon E,Rubinstein AM,Naor D

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During the entry process, the human papillomavirus (HPV) capsid is trafficked to the trans-Golgi network (TGN), whereupon it enters the nucleus during mitosis. We previously demonstrated that the minor capsid protein L2 assumes a transmembranous conformation in the TGN. Here we provide evidence that the incoming viral...

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

authors： DiGiuseppe S,Luszczek W,Keiffer TR,Bienkowska-Haba M,Guion LG,Sapp MJ

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal excretion of water and major electrolytes exhibits a significant circadian rhythm. This functional periodicity is believed to result, at least in part, from circadian changes in secretion/reabsorption capacities of the distal nephron and collecting ducts. Here, we studied the molecular mechanisms underlying circ...

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

authors： Zuber AM,Centeno G,Pradervand S,Nikolaeva S,Maquelin L,Cardinaux L,Bonny O,Firsov D

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been found in lungs of patients with familial and sporadic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. We tested whether ER stress causes or exacerbates lung fibrosis by (i) conditional expression of a mutant form of surfactant protein C (L188Q SFTPC) found in familial interstitial...

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

authors： Lawson WE,Cheng DS,Degryse AL,Tanjore H,Polosukhin VV,Xu XC,Newcomb DC,Jones BR,Roldan J,Lane KB,Morrisey EE,Beers MF,Yull FE,Blackwell TS

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual deficits caused by abnormal visual experience during development are hard to recover in adult animals. Removal of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans from the mature extracellular matrix with chondroitinase ABC promotes plasticity in the adult visual cortex. We tested whether chondroitinase ABC treatment of adult...

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

authors： Pizzorusso T,Medini P,Landi S,Baldini S,Berardi N,Maffei L

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the realm of protein-protein interactions, the assembly process of homooligomers plays a fundamental role because the majority of proteins fall into this category. A comprehensive understanding of this multistep process requires the characterization of the driving molecular interactions and the transient intermedia...

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

authors： Barducci A,Bonomi M,Prakash MK,Parrinello M

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes were employed as the active element of a switchable transdermal drug delivery device that can facilitate more effective treatments of drug abuse and addiction. Due to the dramatically fast flow through CNT cores, high charge density, and small pore dimensions, highly efficient electroph...

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

authors： Wu J,Paudel KS,Strasinger C,Hammell D,Stinchcomb AL,Hinds BJ

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00