A defined minimal medium for axenic strains of Dictyostelium discoideum.

abstract：:Using data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, we determined that most neotropical migrant bird species that breed in forests of the eastern United States and Canada have recently (1978-1987) declined in abundance after a period of stable or increasing populations. Most permanent residents and temperate-zone...

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

authors： Robbins CS,Sauer JR,Greenberg RS,Droege S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cells are required for the successful propagation of sexually reproducing species. Understanding the mechanisms by which these cells are specified and how their totipotency is established and maintained has important biomedical and evolutionary implications. Freshwater planarians serve as fascinating models for s...

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

authors： Wang Y,Zayas RM,Guo T,Newmark PA

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Zn2+ on a voltage-dependent, transient potassium current (IA) in acutely dissociated neurons from the suprachiasmatic nucleus was studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. At micromolar concentrations, Zn2+ markedly potentiated IA activated from a holding potential of -60 mV, which is the restin...

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

authors： Huang RC,Peng YW,Yau KW

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serpentine barrens represent extreme hazards for plant colonists. These sites are characterized by high porosity leading to drought, lack of essential mineral nutrients, and phytotoxic levels of metals. Nevertheless, nature forged populations adapted to these challenges. Here, we use a population-based evolutionary ge...

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

authors： Arnold BJ,Lahner B,DaCosta JM,Weisman CM,Hollister JD,Salt DE,Bomblies K,Yant L

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known to be important signal molecules that are involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses as well as in growth regulation. However, the molecular mechanisms by which ROS act as a growth regulator, as well as how ROS-dependent growth regulation relates to its roles in stress resp...

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

authors： Mabuchi K,Maki H,Itaya T,Suzuki T,Nomoto M,Sakaoka S,Morikami A,Higashiyama T,Tada Y,Busch W,Tsukagoshi H

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin mediates the adhesion of cells to collagen by first binding to the collagen substrate, followed by attachment of the cells to the fibronectin-collagen complex. Bovine brain gangliosides were found to block fibronectin-mediated cell adhesion to collagen in a concentration-dependent manner. The gangliosides ...

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

authors： Kleinman HK,Martin GR,Fishman PH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In polymicrobial infections, microbes can interact with both the host immune system and one another through direct contact or the secretion of metabolites, affecting disease progression and treatment options. The thick mucus in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis is highly susceptible to polymicrobial infection...

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

authors： Moree WJ,Phelan VV,Wu CH,Bandeira N,Cornett DS,Duggan BM,Dorrestein PC

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Array technologies have made it straightforward to monitor simultaneously the expression pattern of thousands of genes. The challenge now is to interpret such massive data sets. The first step is to extract the fundamental patterns of gene expression inherent in the data. This paper describes the application of self-o...

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

authors： Tamayo P,Slonim D,Mesirov J,Zhu Q,Kitareewan S,Dmitrovsky E,Lander ES,Golub TR

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins are potent survival factors for developing and injured neurons. However, they are not being used to treat neurodegenerative diseases because of difficulties in administration and numerous side effects that have been encountered in previous clinical trials. Their biological activities use Trk (tropomyosin...

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

authors： Wiese S,Jablonka S,Holtmann B,Orel N,Rajagopal R,Chao MV,Sendtner M

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 3p and 1p deletions are among the most frequent genetic changes in human lung cancer and although candidate tumor suppressor genes have been identified in these regions, no causative correlations have been drawn between deletion or mutation of these and lung carcinogenesis. We identify XPC and Gadd45a as ge...

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

authors： Hollander MC,Philburn RT,Patterson AD,Velasco-Miguel S,Friedberg EC,Linnoila RI,Fornace AJ Jr

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The N,N'-diacetyllactosediamine (lacdiNAc) pathway of complex-type oligosaccharide synthesis is controlled by a UDP-GalNAc:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-N-acetylgalac-tesaminyltransferase (beta 4-GalNAcT) that acts analogously to the common UDP-Gal:GlcNAc beta-R beta 1-->4-galactosyltransferase (beta 4-GalT). LacdiNAc-base...

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

authors： Neeleman AP,van de Eijnden DH

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of local ecological and larger-scale historical processes in causing differences in species richness across the globe remains keenly debated. To gain insight into these questions, we investigated the assembly of plant diversity in the Cerrado in South America, the world's most species-rich trop...

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

authors： Simon MF,Grether R,de Queiroz LP,Skema C,Pennington RT,Hughes CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant techniques allow one to engineer an antibody molecule and, in this way, manipulate its properties and functions. We engineered a chimeric human/mouse antibody to the tumor-associated antigen ganglioside GD2, with the aim of decreasing its serum half-life, maintaining its full antigen-binding capacity, and ...

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

authors： Mueller BM,Reisfeld RA,Gillies SD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homopyrimidine oligonucleotides bind to the major groove of a complementary homopyrimidine.homopurine stretch by triple helix formation. The bla gene from transposon Tn3 contains a homopyrimidine.homopurine sequence of 13 base pairs located just downstream of the RNA polymerase binding site. A 13-mer homopyrimidine ol...

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

authors： Duval-Valentin G,Thuong NT,Hélène C

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast RNA polymerase II initiation factor e was purified to homogeneity and identified by biochemical criteria as the counterpart of human transcription factor IIB. Factor e was essential for initiation of transcription from yeast and mammalian promoters in a reconstituted yeast transcription system. Activity resided ...

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

authors： Tschochner H,Sayre MH,Flanagan PM,Feaver WJ,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of Ca2+-dependent protein-protein interaction and enzyme activation by calmodulin was investigated with the phosphoprotein phosphatase, calcineurin. Dimethylaminonaphthalene (dansyl)-calmodulin, a fluorescent derivative used to monitor complex formation, produced similar maximal activation (10- to 12-fol...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Vaughan M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrovirus containing the entire human platelet-derived growth factor B-chain (PDGF-B) gene was constructed in order to investigate the in vivo biological activity of its encoded growth factor. When this virus was introduced into newborn mice, it reproducibly generated fibrosarcomas at the site of inoculation. Provi...

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

authors： Pech M,Gazit A,Arnstein P,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have established that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the initiation and progression of cancer. Notably, miR-155 is one of the most overexpressed miRNAs in several solid and hematological malignancies. Ectopic miR-155 expression in mice B cells (Eμ-miR-155 transgenic mice) has been shown to induce ...

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

authors： Sandhu SK,Volinia S,Costinean S,Galasso M,Neinast R,Santhanam R,Parthun MR,Perrotti D,Marcucci G,Garzon R,Croce CM

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin, an ∼800-kDa heterotrimeric protein, is a major functional component of the extracellular matrix, contributing to tissue development and maintenance. The unique architecture of laminin is not currently amenable to determination at high resolution, as its flexible and narrow segments complicate both crystalliza...

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

authors： Armony G,Jacob E,Moran T,Levin Y,Mehlman T,Levy Y,Fass D

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) plays an essential role in tumor development and progression by regulating genes that are vital for proliferation, glycolysis, angiogenesis, and metastasis. To identify strategies of targeting the HIF-1 pathway, we screened a siRNA library against the entire druggable genome and a sm...

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

authors： Lin X,David CA,Donnelly JB,Michaelides M,Chandel NS,Huang X,Warrior U,Weinberg F,Tormos KV,Fesik SW,Shen Y

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We are interested in tracking changes in large-scale data by periodically creating an agglomerative clustering and examining the evolution of clusters (communities) over time. We examine a large real-world data set: the NEC CiteSeer database, a linked network of >250,000 papers. Tracking changes over time requires a c...

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

authors： Hopcroft J,Khan O,Kulis B,Selman B

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of an organism reflects its metabolic rate, growth rate, mortality, and other important characteristics; therefore, the distribution of body size is a major determinant of ecosystem structure and function. Body-size distributions often are multimodal, with several peaks of abundant sizes, and previous studies...

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

authors： Lampert A,Tlusty T

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of complementary-strand DNA in filamentous phages is initiated by a primer RNA that is synthesized at the minus-strand origin on the viral single-stranded DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase holoenzyme containing the sigma70 subunit. We have demonstrated that the affinity of RNA polymerase in vitro to t...

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

authors： Higashitani A,Higashitani N,Horiuchi K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrates can modulate the sound levels entering their inner ears in the face of intense external sound or during their own vocalizations. Middle ear muscle contractions restrain the motion of the middle ear ossicles, attenuating the transmission of low-frequency sound and thereby protecting the hair cells in the in...

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

authors： Gridi-Papp M,Feng AS,Shen JX,Yu ZL,Rosowski JJ,Narins PM

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonucleases such as EcoRI bind and cleave DNA with great specificity and represent a paradigm for protein-DNA interactions and molecular recognition. Using osmotic pressure to induce water release, we demonstrate the participation of bound waters in the sequence discrimination of substrate DNA by EcoRI. ...

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

authors： Robinson CR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:DNase I hypersensitive regions were mapped within the 17.3-kilobase qa (quinic acid) gene cluster of Neurospora crassa. The 5'-flanking regions of the five qa structural genes and the two qa regulatory genes each contain DNase I hypersensitive sites under noninducing conditions and generally exhibit increases in DNase...

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

authors： Baum JA,Giles NH

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Despite the promise of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy against cancer, challenges associated with low objective response rates and severe systemic side effects still remain and limit its clinical applications. Here, we described a cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)-mediated ICB therapy integrated with microneedles...

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

authors： Chen G,Chen Z,Wen D,Wang Z,Li H,Zeng Y,Dotti G,Wirz RE,Gu Z

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Two molecular forms of pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase (PP(i)-PFK; pyrophosphate:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase; EC 2.7.1.90) have been found whose activity depends upon association and dissociation characteristics regulated by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate (Fru-2,6-P(2)). PP(i)-PFK was purified 2...

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

authors： Wu MX,Smyth DA,Black CC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma growth hormone (GH) profiles are sexually differentiated in many species and regulate the sex-dependence of peripubescent growth rates and liver function, including steroid hydroxylase cytochrome P450 expression, by mechanisms that are poorly understood. By use of an external pump to deliver to hypophysectomize...

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

authors： Waxman DJ,Pampori NA,Ram PA,Agrawal AK,Shapiro BH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00