Unified structure theory of icosahedral quasicrystals: Evidence from neutron powder diffraction patterns that AlCrFeMnSi, AlCuLiMg, and TiNiFeSi icosahedral quasicrystals are twins of cubic crystals containing about 820 or 1012 atoms in a primitive unit c

abstract：:Amphibians are a bellwether for environmental degradation, even in natural ecosystems such as Yellowstone National Park in the western United States, where species have been actively protected longer than anywhere else on Earth. We document that recent climatic warming and resultant wetland desiccation are causing sev...

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

authors： McMenamin SK,Hadly EA,Wright CK

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Landscape-scale reconstructions of ancient environments within the cradle of humanity may reveal insights into the relationship between early hominins and the changing resources around them. Many studies of Olduvai Gorge during Pliocene-Pleistocene times have revealed the presence of precession-driven wet-dry cycles a...

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

authors： Sistiaga A,Husain F,Uribelarrea D,Martín-Perea DM,Ferland T,Freeman KH,Diez-Martín F,Baquedano E,Mabulla A,Domínguez-Rodrigo M,Summons RE

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) levels frequently occur in a variety of human cancers. Overexpression of eIF4E promotes cellular transformation by selectively increasing the translation of proliferative and prosurvival mRNAs. These mRNAs possess highly structured 5'-UTRs that impede ribosome recruitme...

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

authors： Feoktistova K,Tuvshintogs E,Do A,Fraser CS

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins play countless critical roles in the cell, each requiring it to be activated at a specific location and time. To control myosin VI with this specificity, we created an optogenetic tool for activating myosin VI by fusing the light-sensitive Avena sativa phototropin1 LOV2 domain to a peptide from Dab2 (LOVDab), ...

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

authors： French AR,Sosnick TR,Rock RS

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:General control nonderepressible 2 (GCN2) plays a major role in the cellular response to amino acid limitation. Although maintenance of amino acid homeostasis is critical for tumor growth, the contribution of GCN2 to cancer cell survival and proliferation is poorly understood. In this study, we generated GCN2 inhibito...

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

authors： Nakamura A,Nambu T,Ebara S,Hasegawa Y,Toyoshima K,Tsuchiya Y,Tomita D,Fujimoto J,Kurasawa O,Takahara C,Ando A,Nishigaki R,Satomi Y,Hata A,Hara T

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In an fMRI experiment, participants were exposed to narratives based on true stories designed to evoke admiration and compassion in 4 distinct categories: admiration for virtue (AV), admiration for skill (AS), compassion for social/psychological pain (CSP), and compassion for physical pain (CPP). The goal was to test ...

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

authors： Immordino-Yang MH,McColl A,Damasio H,Damasio A

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated radiocarbon date ranges). In contrast, to the north of the valley the Mousterian disappears shortly before the Proto-Aurignacian appears at...

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

authors： Wood RE,Barroso-Ruíz C,Caparrós M,Jordá Pardo JF,Galván Santos B,Higham TF

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein defective in hereditary hemochromatosis, called HFE, is similar to MHC class I-type proteins and associates with beta2-microglobulin (beta2M). Its association with beta2M was previously shown to be necessary for its stability, normal intracellular processing, and cell surface expression in transfected COS ...

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

authors： Waheed A,Grubb JH,Zhou XY,Tomatsu S,Fleming RE,Costaldi ME,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Four synthetic peptides that together constitute the cell attachment domain of fibronectin [Pierschbacher, M.D., Ruoslahti, E., Sundelin, J., Lind, P. & Peterson, P. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 9593-9597] were constructed and tested for their ability to induce cell attachment and spreading. One of these peptides, consi...

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

authors： Pierschbacher M,Hayman EG,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid cholesterol is an essential component of eukaryotic membranes, and it functionally modulates membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors. To reveal insight into how cholesterol modulates G protein-coupled receptors, we have used dynamic single-molecule force spectroscopy to quantify the mechan...

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

authors： Zocher M,Zhang C,Rasmussen SG,Kobilka BK,Müller DJ

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies indicate beneficial effects of moderate ethanol consumption in ischemic heart disease. Most studies, however, focus on the effect of long-term consumption of ethanol. In this study, we determined whether brief exposure to ethanol immediately before ischemia also produces cardioprotection...

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

authors： Chen CH,Gray MO,Mochly-Rosen D

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cerebral cortex contains many cell types that likely underwent independent functional changes during evolution. However, cell-type-specific regulatory landscapes in the cortex remain largely unexplored. Here we report epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses of the two main cortical neuronal subtypes, glutamat...

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

authors： Kozlenkov A,Vermunt MW,Apontes P,Li J,Hao K,Sherwood CC,Hof PR,Ely JJ,Wegner M,Mukamel EA,Creyghton MP,Koonin EV,Dracheva S

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a subterranean eusocial rodent with a markedly long lifespan and resistance to tumorigenesis. Multiple data implicate modulation of protein translation in longevity. Here we report that 28S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) of the naked mole-rat is processed into two smaller fragments ...

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

authors： Azpurua J,Ke Z,Chen IX,Zhang Q,Ermolenko DN,Zhang ZD,Gorbunova V,Seluanov A

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the ortho-para conversion rate in solid hydrogen by using Raman scattering in a diamond-anvil cell, extending previous measurements by a factor of 60 in pressure. We confirm previous experiments that suggested a decrease in the conversion rate above about 0.5 GPa. We observe a distinct minimum at 3 GPa fol...

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

authors： Eggert JH,Karmon E,Hemley RJ,Mao A,Goncharov AF

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressional waves that sample the lowermost mantle west of Central America show a rapid change in travel times of up to 4 s over a sampling distance of 300 km and a change in waveforms. The differential travel times of the PKP waves (which traverse Earth's core) correlate remarkably well with predictions for S-wave ...

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

authors： Sun X,Song X,Zheng S,Helmberger DV

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The human aspects of conservation are often overlooked but will be critical for identifying strategies for biological conservation in the face of climate change. We surveyed the behavioral intentions of coastal landowners with respect to various conservation strategies aimed at facilitating ecosystem migration for tid...

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

authors： Field CR,Dayer AA,Elphick CS

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor T cells have been shown to be much more radiosensitive than other lymphoïd cells, and we have tried to reduce tumor growth by low-dose irradiation. Syngeneic DBA/2 mice received whole-body irradiation (150 rads; 1 rad = 0.01 J/kg) 6 days after P815 tumor inoculation. Tumor growth is significantly reduced in...

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

authors： Tilkin AF,Schaaf-Lafontaine N,Van Acker A,Boccadoro M,Urbain J

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system [Weil, P. A., Luse, D. S., Segall, J. & Roeder, R. G. (1979) Cell 18, 469-484 and Manley, J. L., Fire, A., Cano, A., Sharp, P. A. & Gefter, M. L., (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 77, 3855-3859] was adapted for studying initiation of transcription of the ovalbumin gene. The DNA template was a cloned...

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

authors： Tsai SY,Tsai MJ,O'Malley BW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the mouse trigeminal ganglia (TG) is the most commonly used model for the study of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency. Its popularity is caused, at least in part, by the perception that latent infection can be studied in this system in the absence of spontaneous viral reactivation. However, this ...

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

authors： Feldman LT,Ellison AR,Voytek CC,Yang L,Krause P,Margolis TP

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of p53 is initiated by first-order processes that generate an aggregation-prone state with parallel pathways of major or partial unfolding. Here, we elaborate the mechanism and explore its consequences, beginning with the core domain and extending to the full-length p53 mutant Y220C. Production of large li...

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

authors： Wang G,Fersht AR

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of agricultural plant species, including corn, respond to insect herbivore damage by releasing large quantities of volatile compounds and, as a result, become highly attractive to parasitic wasps that attack the herbivores. An elicitor of plant volatiles, N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-L-glutamine, named volicitin...

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

authors： Paré PW,Alborn HT,Tumlinson JH

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro DNA synthesis was studied in HeLa cell nuclei, with emphasis on the question of whether newly replicated DNA is associated with nucleosomes. The newly replicated DNA was twice as sensitive to digestion by micrococcal nuclease as mature chromatin DNA, reaching a limit digest at 20-25% acid-insoluble product. E...

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

authors： Seale RL

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 15 years, the adoption of subnational immigration policies in the United States, such as those established by individual states, has gone from nearly zero to over 300 per year. These include welcoming policies aimed at attracting and incorporating immigrants, as well as unwelcoming policies directed at den...

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

authors： Huo YJ,Dovidio JF,Jiménez TR,Schildkraut DJ

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) is regulated by phosphorylation, cyclin levels, the abundance of CDK inhibitors, and, as recently has been shown for cyclin B/cdc2, their localization. It is unclear how localization regulates the action of cyclin E/Cdk2 and its inhibitors. Here, we show that the closest k...

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

authors： Swanson C,Ross J,Jackson PK

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion mutations previously constructed within the proximal region of the yeast invertase signal sequence did not interfere with secretion or glycosylation of the enzyme. We now describe deletion mutations within the same signal sequence. Large deletions truncating the hydrophobic core of the signal peptide prevent...

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

authors： Perlman D,Raney P,Halvorson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By double indirect immunofluorescence, using primary rabbit antibodies to tubulin and guinea pig antibodies to vimentin, we have simultaneously labeled microtubules and intermediate filaments in several types of cultured normal fibroblasts. With well-spread interphase cells there was an extensive but not complete corr...

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

authors： Ball EH,Singer SJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones specific for the light subunit of porcine calpain I have been isolated from a porcine kidney cDNA library. The complete primary structure of the light subunit has been revealed by nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNA clones isolated and amino acid sequence analysis of peptides isolated from the purifie...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Kakidani H,Zenita K,Yumoto N,Kikuchi T,Sasaki T,Kannagi R,Nakanishi S,Ohmori M,Takio K

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the monoclinic and orthorhombic crystal structures of the uncomplexed double-stranded, antiparallel, left-handed beta-helix (5.6 amino acid residues per turn) (increases decreases beta 5.6) conformers of gramicidin A reveals marked differences in the tryptophan side-chain orientations and the degree of...

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

authors： Langs DA,Smith GD,Courseille C,Précigoux G,Hospital M

更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple steps of plant growth and development rely on rapid cell elongation during which secretory and endocytic trafficking via the trans-Golgi network (TGN) plays a central role. Here, we identify the ECHIDNA (ECH) protein from Arabidopsis thaliana as a TGN-localized component crucial for TGN function. ECH partiall...

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

authors： Gendre D,Oh J,Boutté Y,Best JG,Samuels L,Nilsson R,Uemura T,Marchant A,Bennett MJ,Grebe M,Bhalerao RP

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Measured by ultra-slow scanning calorimetry and isothermal circular dichroism, human lung collagen monomers denature at 37 degrees C within a couple of days. Their unfolding rate decreases exponentially at lower temperature, but complete unfolding is observed even below 36 degrees C. Refolding of full-length, native c...

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

authors： Leikina E,Mertts MV,Kuznetsova N,Leikin S

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00