Random evolutions, markov chains, and systems of partial differential equations.

abstract：:The gene for cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP:oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase (transphosphorylating), EC 4.1.1.32] from the rat was isolated from a recombinant library containing the rat genome in phage lambda Charon 4A. The isolated clone, lambda PCK1, contains the complete gene for phosphoenolpyruva...

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

authors： Yoo-Warren H,Monahan JE,Short J,Short H,Bruzel A,Wynshaw-Boris A,Meisner HM,Samols D,Hanson RW

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmons, the collective oscillations of interacting electrons, possess emergent properties that dramatically alter the optical response of metals. We predict the existence of a new class of plasmons-chiral Berry plasmons (CBPs)-for a wide range of 2D metallic systems including gapped Dirac materials. As we show, in t...

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

authors： Song JC,Rudner MS

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transductions by the dual-function CXCR4 and CCR5 chemokine receptors/HIV type 1 (HIV-1) coreceptors were electrophysiologically monitored in Xenopus laevis oocytes that also coexpressed the viral receptor CD4 and a G protein-coupled inward-rectifying K+ channel (Kir 3.1). Large Kir 3.1-dependent currents gener...

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

authors： Madani N,Kozak SL,Kavanaugh MP,Kabat D

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical considerations predict that amplification of expressed gene transcripts by reverse transcription-PCR using arbitrarily chosen primers will result in the preferential amplification of the central portion of the transcript. Systematic, high-throughput sequencing of such products would result in an expressed ...

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

authors： Dias Neto E,Correa RG,Verjovski-Almeida S,Briones MR,Nagai MA,da Silva W Jr,Zago MA,Bordin S,Costa FF,Goldman GH,Carvalho AF,Matsukuma A,Baia GS,Simpson DH,Brunstein A,de Oliveira PS,Bucher P,Jongeneel CV,O'Hare MJ,

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A high proportion of lymphocytes from F/St mice produce infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus (X-MuLV) and express high levels of cell surface antigens, termed XenCSA, related to the major glycoprotein of X-MuLV. In crosses of F/St with AKR, the high-virus phenotype of F/St was found to be recessive and was show...

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

authors： Yetter RA,Hartley JW,Morse HC 3rd

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated form of the third complement protein, C3b, forms a stable complex with components of plasma membranes and particulate entities such as zymosan. The complex resists the action of detergents and protein denaturants as well as extremes of temperature, salt concentration, and pH. It can, however, be broken b...

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

authors： Law SK,Levine RP

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) inhibited [3H]thymidine incorporation in normal adrenocortical cells of adult rats in culture, with a concomitant increase in corticosterone production and a characteristic retraction of cells. Both dibutyryl cyclic AMP and an analog of ACTH, which produces virtually no cyclic AMP, i...

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

authors： Ramachandran J,Suyama AT

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus is the prototypic orthopoxvirus and was the vaccine used to eradicate smallpox, yet the expression profiles of many of its genes remain unknown. Using a genome tiling array approach, we simultaneously measured the expression levels of all 223 annotated vaccinia virus genes during infection and determine...

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

authors： Assarsson E,Greenbaum JA,Sundström M,Schaffer L,Hammond JA,Pasquetto V,Oseroff C,Hendrickson RC,Lefkowitz EJ,Tscharke DC,Sidney J,Grey HM,Head SR,Peters B,Sette A

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In most human follicular B cell lymphomas the bcl-2 gene is up-regulated as a result of the t(14;18) chromosomal translocation generating a hybrid bcl-2-IgH mRNA. Recently, we have identified in t(14;18)-positive cells a bcl-2-IgH mRNA in the antisense orientation, putatively responsible for the overexpression of bcl-...

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

authors： Morelli S,Delia D,Capaccioli S,Quattrone A,Schiavone N,Bevilacqua A,Tomasini S,Nicolin A

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor variable region exons are assembled during lymphocyte development from variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments. Each germ-line gene segment is flanked by recombination signal sequences (RSs). Recombination-activating gene endonuclease initiates V(D)J recombination by cleaving a pair...

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

authors： Zha S,Jiang W,Fujiwara Y,Patel H,Goff PH,Brush JW,Dubois RL,Alt FW

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytochrome family of informational photoreceptors has a central role in regulating light-responsive gene expression, but the mechanism of intracellular signal transduction has remained elusive. In a genetic screen for T DNA-tagged Arabidopsis mutants affected in early signaling intermediates, we identified poc1 (...

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

authors： Halliday KJ,Hudson M,Ni M,Qin M,Quail PH

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global epidemic manifested mainly by chronic infection. One strategy that HCV employs to establish chronic infection is to use the viral Ser protease NS3/4A to cleave some unknown cellular targets involved in innate immunity. Here we show that the target of NS3/4A is the mitochondrial anti...

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

authors： Li XD,Sun L,Seth RB,Pineda G,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 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：:Whereas 234(92)U142 and other actinon nuclei have ground-state bands that indicate that each nucleus consists of a sphere and a single revolving cluster with constant composition and with only a steady increase in the moment of inertia with increase in J, the angular-momentum quantum number, many of the lanthanon grou...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hop2 and Mnd1 are abundant meiosisspecific chromosomal proteins, and mutations in the corresponding genes lead to defects in meiotic recombination and in homologous chromosome interactions during mid-prophase. Analysis of various double mutants suggests that HOP2, MND1, and DMC1 act in the sam...

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

authors： Chen YK,Leng CH,Olivares H,Lee MH,Chang YC,Kung WM,Ti SC,Lo YH,Wang AH,Chang CS,Bishop DK,Hsueh YP,Wang TF

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray crystal structure of the tetrameric T-antigen-binding lectin from peanut, M(r) 110,000, has been determined by using the multiple isomorphous replacement method and refined to an R value of 0.218 for 22,155 reflections within the 10- to 2.95-A resolution range. Each subunit has essentially the same character...

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

authors： Banerjee R,Mande SC,Ganesh V,Das K,Dhanaraj V,Mahanta SK,Suguna K,Surolia A,Vijayan M

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-binding growth factor type 1 (HBGF-1; sometimes termed acidic fibroblast growth factor) is potentially an important factor in liver regeneration. HBGF-1 alone (half-maximal effect at 60 pM) stimulated hepatocyte DNA synthesis and bound to a high-affinity receptor (Kd = 62 pM; 5000 per cell). Epidermal growth f...

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

authors： Kan M,Huang JS,Mansson PE,Yasumitsu H,Carr B,McKeehan WL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in developing selective protein kinase inhibitors by targeting allosteric sites, but these sites often involve protein-protein or protein-peptide interfaces that are very challenging to target with small molecules. Here we present a systematic approach to targeting a functionally conserved allo...

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

authors： Rettenmaier TJ,Sadowsky JD,Thomsen ND,Chen SC,Doak AK,Arkin MR,Wells JA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical eyeblink conditioning is a well-characterized model paradigm that engages the septohippocampal cholinergic system. This form of associative learning is impaired in normal aging and severely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Some nicotinic cholinergic receptor subtypes are lost in AD, making the use of n...

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

authors： Woodruff-Pak DS,Vogel RW 3rd,Wenk GL

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of tryptophan (Trp) radicals in biology, very few radicals have been trapped and characterized in a physiologically meaningful context. Here we demonstrate that the diheme enzyme MauG uses Trp radical chemistry to catalyze formation of a Trp-derived tryptophan tryptophylquinone cofactor on its s...

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

authors： Yukl ET,Liu F,Krzystek J,Shin S,Jensen LM,Davidson VL,Wilmot CM,Liu A

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminthosporoside is a host-specific toxin produced by Helminthosporium sacchari, both in culture and in infected sugarcane tissue. The susceptibility of any given clone of sugarcane to disease is invariably associated with the presence of a toxin-binding protein. This report presents evidence for the presence of the...

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

authors： Strobel GA,Hess WM

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of gene-targeted mice deficient in the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), urokinase receptor (uPAR), tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), and plasminogen permits a critical, genetic-based analysis of the physiological and pathological roles of the two mammalian plasminogen activators. We ...

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

authors： Bugge TH,Flick MJ,Danton MJ,Daugherty CC,Romer J,Dano K,Carmeliet P,Collen D,Degen JL

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of partially purified chloroplast DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from maize and some other plants transcribe cloned chloroplast genes preferentially and much more actively from appropriately negatively supercoiled templates than from relaxed templates. We have found that the polymerase in such fractions doe...

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

authors： Zaitlin D,Hu J,Bogorad L

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amyloid fibrils is a common biochemical characteristic that occurs in Alzheimer's disease and several other amyloidoses. The unifying structural feature of amyloid fibrils is their specific type of beta-sheet conformation that differentiates these fibrils from the products of normal protein folding re...

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

authors： Habicht G,Haupt C,Friedrich RP,Hortschansky P,Sachse C,Meinhardt J,Wieligmann K,Gellermann GP,Brodhun M,Götz J,Halbhuber KJ,Röcken C,Horn U,Fändrich M

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (Nramp) family transporters catalyze uptake of essential divalent transition metals like iron and manganese. To discriminate against abundant competitors, the Nramp metal-binding site should favor softer transition metals, which interact either covalently or ionically w...

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

authors： Bozzi AT,Bane LB,Weihofen WA,McCabe AL,Singharoy A,Chipot CJ,Schulten K,Gaudet R

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Global increases in population, consumption, and gross domestic product raise concerns about the sustainability of the current and future use of natural resources. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) provides a useful measure of human intervention into the biosphere. The productive capacity of la...

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

authors： Krausmann F,Erb KH,Gingrich S,Haberl H,Bondeau A,Gaube V,Lauk C,Plutzar C,Searchinger TD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear nature of integration among cortical brain areas renders the effective connectivity between them inherently dynamic and context-sensitive. One emerging architectural principle of functional brain organization, which rests explicitly on these nonlinear interactions, is that neuronal responses expressed at...

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

authors： Friston KJ,Büchel C

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:ClpB is a ring-forming, ATP-dependent protein disaggregase that cooperates with the cognate Hsp70 system to recover functional protein from aggregates. How ClpB harnesses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to facilitate the mechanical unfolding of previously aggregated, stress-damaged proteins remains unclear. H...

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

authors： Biter AB,Lee S,Sung N,Tsai FT

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi that are resistant or sensitive to the singlet oxygen-generating toxin cercosporin were assayed for their ability to detoxify it by reduction. Cercosporin reduction was assayed microscopically by using bandpass filters to differentiate between fluorescence emission from cercosporin and reduced cercosporin. Hypha...

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

authors： Daub ME,Leisman GB,Clark RA,Bowden EF

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin is a unique alkaloid of the plant kingdom restricted to the genus Capsicum. Capsaicin is the pungency factor, a bioactive molecule of food and of medicinal importance. Capsaicin is useful as a counterirritant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antioxidant, and anticancer agent. Capsaicin biosynthesis involves conden...

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

authors： Prasad BC,Kumar V,Gururaj HB,Parimalan R,Giridhar P,Ravishankar GA

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00