A new method for congressional apportionment.

abstract：:The poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are terrestrial anuran amphibians displaying a wide range of coloration and toxicity. These frogs generally have been considered to be aposematic, but relatively little research has been carried out to test the predictions of this hypothesis. Here we use a comparative approach t...

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

authors： Summers K,Clough ME

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have long known that language is lateralized to the left hemisphere (LH) in most neurologically healthy adults. In contrast, findings on lateralization of function during development are more complex. As in adults, anatomical, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies in infants and children indicate LH latera...

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

authors： Olulade OA,Seydell-Greenwald A,Chambers CE,Turkeltaub PE,Dromerick AW,Berl MM,Gaillard WD,Newport EL

更新日期：2020-09-22 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

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：:One signature of adaptive radiation is a high level of trait change early during the diversification process and a plateau toward the end of the radiation. Although the study of the tempo of evolution has historically been the domain of paleontologists, recently developed phylogenetic tools allow for the rigorous exam...

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

authors： Agrawal AA,Fishbein M,Halitschke R,Hastings AP,Rabosky DL,Rasmann S

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae were monitored systematically by the induced expression of five RNA markers after infection challenge. One newly isolated marker encodes a homologue of the moth Gram-negative bacteria-binding protein (GNBP), and another corresponds to a serine protease-...

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

authors： Dimopoulos G,Richman A,Müller HM,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical studies suggest that high-level cognitive decisions (e.g., choosing between financial options) are suboptimal. In contrast, low-level decisions (e.g., choosing where to put your feet on a rocky ridge) appear near-optimal: the perception-cognition gap. Moreover, in classical tasks, people appear to put too mu...

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

authors： Jarvstad A,Hahn U,Rushton SK,Warren PA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex of Aplysia is caused by presynaptic facilitation at the synapses of the mechanoreceptor sensory neurons of the reflex onto the motor neurons and interneurons. The presynaptic facilitation has been shown to be simulated by serotonin (the putative presynaptic facili...

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

authors： Klein M,Kandel ER

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the volume and location of hippocampal tissue required for normal acquisition of a spatial memory task. Ibotenic acid was used to make bilateral symmetric lesions of 20-100% of hippocampal volume. Even a small transverse block (minislab) of the hippocampus (down to 26% of the total) could support sp...

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

authors： Moser MB,Moser EI,Forrest E,Andersen P,Morris RG

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A transcription factor required for synthesis of accurately initiated run-off transcripts by RNA polymerase II has been purified and shown to have an associated DNA-dependent ATPase (dATPase) activity that is strongly stimulated by the TATA region of promoters. This transcription factor, designated delta, was purified...

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

authors： Conaway RC,Conaway JW

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hammerhead ribozyme, as engineered by J. Haseloff and W. L. Gerlach [(1988) Nature (London) 334, 585-591], is an RNA molecule containing two regions of conserved nucleotides, a double helix, called helix II, which connects the two conserved regions, and flanking arms of variable sequence, which hybridize the riboz...

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

authors： McCall MJ,Hendry P,Jennings PA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is an intrinsically dynamic process and requires the coordinated interplay of RNA polymerases (RNAPs) with nucleic acids and transcription factors. Classical structural biology techniques have revealed detailed snapshots of a subset of conformational states of the RNAP as they exist in crystals. A detail...

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

authors： Schulz S,Gietl A,Smollett K,Tinnefeld P,Werner F,Grohmann D

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor Smad4/Dpc4 is a transcription activator that binds specific DNA sequences and whose nuclear localization is induced after exposure to type beta transforming growth factor-like cytokines. We explored an inducible system in which Smad4 protein is activated by translocation to the nucleus when cell l...

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

authors： Dai JL,Bansal RK,Kern SE

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformationally compromised oncogenic mutants of the tumor suppressor protein p53 can, in principle, be rescued by small molecules that bind the native, but not the denatured state. We describe a strategy for the rational search for such molecules. A nine-residue peptide, CDB3, which was derived from a p53 binding pr...

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

authors： Friedler A,Hansson LO,Veprintsev DB,Freund SM,Rippin TM,Nikolova PV,Proctor MR,Rüdiger S,Fersht AR

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The replacement of dopamine (DA) by DA neuron transplants in the treatment of advanced Parkinson disease (PD) is a rational approach. Because of limitations associated with fetal tissue transplants, a clone (1RB3AN27) of simian virus 40 large tumor antigen (LTa) gene-induced immortalized DA neurons were used in this s...

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

authors： Clarkson ED,Rosa FG,Edwards-Prasad J,Weiland DA,Witta SE,Freed CR,Prasad KN

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Seawater Mg:Ca and Sr:Ca ratios are biogeochemical parameters reflecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere dynamic exchange of elements. The ratios' dependence on the environment and organisms' biology facilitates their application in marine sciences. Here, we present a measured single-laboratory dataset, combined with previ...

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

authors： Lebrato M,Garbe-Schönberg D,Müller MN,Blanco-Ameijeiras S,Feely RA,Lorenzoni L,Molinero JC,Bremer K,Jones DOB,Iglesias-Rodriguez D,Greeley D,Lamare MD,Paulmier A,Graco M,Cartes J,Barcelos E Ramos J,de Lara A,Sanchez-Lea

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS interacts with the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM) using a hybrid anchor that comprises a lysine-rich polybasic domain (PBD) and a C-terminal farnesyl chain. Electrostatic interactions have been envisaged as the primary determinant of interactions between KRAS and membranes. Here, we integrated molecula...

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

authors： Zhou Y,Prakash PS,Liang H,Gorfe AA,Hancock JF

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid monogalactosyl diacylglycerol (MGD) is a major structural component of photosynthetic membranes in chloroplasts. Its formation is catalyzed by the enzyme MGD synthase. In many plants, MGD derives from two different biosynthetic pathways: the prokaryotic pathway, which operates entirely within the plastid, an...

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

authors： Jarvis P,Dörmann P,Peto CA,Lutes J,Benning C,Chory J

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies to extravasate out of blood vessels is critical for therapeutic activity, because molecular targets for most diseases are located outside of the endothelial lining. By performing detailed biodistribution studies with a novel IL9-armed cancer-specific antibody, we identified a clear correlatio...

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

authors： Venetz D,Hess C,Lin CW,Aebi M,Neri D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular progenitors of the coronary vasculature are believed to enter the chicken heart during epicardial morphogenesis between stages 17 and 27 (days 3-5) of egg incubation. To trace cells which give rise to the coronary arteries in vivo, we applied retroviral cell tagging procedures and analyzed clonal populations ...

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

authors： Mikawa T,Fischman DA

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression networks are complicated by the assortment of regulatory factors that bind DNA and modulate transcription combinatorially. Single-cell measurements can reveal biological mechanisms hidden by population averages, but their value has not been fully explored in the context of mRNA regulation. Here, we ada...

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

authors： Wang L,Brugge JS,Janes KA

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-grown, wild type Euglena gracilis contains two aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases for both phenylalanine and isoleucine. Only one of the two synthetases for each amino acid is found in isolated chloroplasts, as are the light-induced phenylalanine and isoleucine tRNAs. In each case the light-induced chloroplast tRNAs can...

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

authors： Reger BJ,Fairfield SA,Epler JL,Barnett WE

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus is considered a directly transmitted disease due to its high infectivity. Environmental pathways have, therefore, largely been ignored. Rotavirus, however, persists in water sources, and both its surface water concentrations and infection incidence vary with temperature. Here, we examine the potential for wa...

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

authors： Kraay ANM,Brouwer AF,Lin N,Collender PA,Remais JV,Eisenberg JNS

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells form three functionally distinct populations of effectors: competent cytolytic effectors able to bind and kill target cells and two subsets of nonlytic effectors, one able and the other unable to bind target cells. A flow cytometric method was developed, based on size and two-color fluorescen...

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

authors： Lebow LT,Bonavida B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural landscape homogenization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. Increasing agricultural landscape heterogeneity by increasing seminatural cover can help to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, the amount of seminatural cover is generally low and difficult to increase in many i...

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

authors： Sirami C,Gross N,Baillod AB,Bertrand C,Carrié R,Hass A,Henckel L,Miguet P,Vuillot C,Alignier A,Girard J,Batáry P,Clough Y,Violle C,Giralt D,Bota G,Badenhausser I,Lefebvre G,Gauffre B,Vialatte A,Calatayud F,Gil-T

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Creative cognition requires mental exploration of remotely connected concepts while suppressing dominant ones. Across four experiments using different samples of participants, we provide evidence that right temporal alpha oscillations play a crucial role in inhibiting habitual thinking modes, thereby paving the way fo...

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

authors： Luft CDB,Zioga I,Thompson NM,Banissy MJ,Bhattacharya J

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkylation of DNA by 7r,8t-dihydroxy,9t,10t-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (anti-BPDE) forms mainly trans adducts (with respect to the C-9/10 positions). We recently described a halide-catalyzed pathway that preferentially generates cis adducts and now report that the trans chlorohydrin of anti-BPDE (trans-BP...

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

authors： Meehan T,Wolfe AR,Negrete GR,Song Q

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A subpopulation of phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450 in rat liver has been shown to consist of four closely related forms of the enzyme that appeared to be strain-related. In the present study, polypeptides composing this family were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis of hepatic microsomes from 64 indivi...

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

authors： Rampersaud A,Walz FG Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of the controls on carbon storage and losses is essential for our capacity to predict and mitigate human impacts on the global carbon cycle. Plant litter decomposition is an important first step for carbon and nutrient turnover, and litter inputs and losses are essential in determining soil...

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

authors： Austin AT,Méndez MS,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00