Noncell-autonomous photoreceptor degeneration in a zebrafish model of choroideremia.

abstract：:Changes in the amount, intensity, and timing of precipitation are increasing hydrologic variability in many regions, but we have little understanding of how these changes are affecting freshwater species. Stream-breeding amphibians-a diverse group in North America-may be particularly sensitive to hydrologic variabilit...

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

authors： Lowe WH,Swartz LK,Addis BR,Likens GE

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope spike of HIV is one of the most highly N-glycosylated structures found in nature. However, despite extensive research revealing essential functional roles in infection and immune evasion, the chemical structures of the glycans on the native viral envelope glycoprotein gp120--as opposed to recombinantly ge...

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

authors： Doores KJ,Bonomelli C,Harvey DJ,Vasiljevic S,Dwek RA,Burton DR,Crispin M,Scanlan CN

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An unprecedented, spontaneous, and complete cleavage of the triple bond of N2 in the thermal reaction of 15N2 with Ta214N+ was observed experimentally by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; mechanistic aspects of the degenerate ligand exchange were addressed by high-level quantum chemical calc...

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

authors： Geng C,Li J,Weiske T,Schwarz H

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Cloudman melanoma cells undergo rapid arborization in response to [Nle4,D-Phe7]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, a potent analogue of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). The arbors were established by extension of processes and resembled dendrites. We used this system to study the regula...

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

authors： Preston SF,Volpi M,Pearson CM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) contributes to cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome. With aging, the partial trisomy 16 (Ts65Dn) mouse model of Down's syndrome exhibited reductions in BFCN size and number and regressive changes in the hippocampal terminal...

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

authors： Cooper JD,Salehi A,Delcroix JD,Howe CL,Belichenko PV,Chua-Couzens J,Kilbridge JF,Carlson EJ,Epstein CJ,Mobley WC

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum. The transformation vector contains the protein coding region of the Tn5 neomycin resistance gene fused to the proposed promoter of the Dictyostelium actin 8 gene; the vector also contains a sequence that acts as an autonomously replicating seque...

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

authors： Hirth KP,Edwards CA,Firtel RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an algorithm to compute trisections of orientable four-manifolds using arbitrary triangulations as input. This results in explicit complexity bounds for the trisection genus of a 4-manifold in terms of the number of pentachora (4-simplices) in a triangulation. ...

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

authors： Bell M,Hass J,Rubinstein JH,Tillmann S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of previous preclinical and clinical studies have identified angiogenin (ANG) as a potentially important target for anticancer therapy. Here we report the design and implementation of a high-throughput screening assay to identify small molecules that bind to the ribonucleolytic active site of ANG, which is...

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

authors： Kao RY,Jenkins JL,Olson KA,Key ME,Fett JW,Shapiro R

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Membraneless organelles contain a wide spectrum of molecular chaperones, indicating their important roles in modulating the metastable conformation and biological function of membraneless organelles. Here we report that class I and II Hsp40 (DNAJ) proteins possess a high ability of phase separation rendered by the fle...

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

authors： Gu J,Liu Z,Zhang S,Li Y,Xia W,Wang C,Xiang H,Liu Z,Tan L,Fang Y,Liu C,Li D

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of a region contained within a large, interspersed repetitive family of mice reveals a long open reading frame. This sequence extends 978 base pairs between two stop codons, creating a reading frame that is open for 326 amino acids. The DNA sequence in this region is conserved between three dista...

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

authors： Martin SL,Voliva CF,Burton FH,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient technique has been developed for performing in vivo site-directed mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. This procedure involves directed repair of P-element-induced DNA lesions after injection of a modified DNA sequence into early embryos. An oligonucleotide of 50 base pairs, whose sequence spans the P-...

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

authors： Banga SS,Boyd JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), a major pituitary product, is also present in the adult mouse testis. We have shown previously that POMC mRNAs are most abundant in a subpopulation of Leydig cells associated with tubules in specific stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. In the present study, we examined the e...

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

authors： Gizang-Ginsberg E,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a full report of our enantioselective synthesis of (-)-longithorone A (1). The synthesis was designed to test the feasibility of the biosynthetic proposal for 1 put forward by Schmitz involving intermolecular and transannular Diels-Alder reactions of two [12]-paracyclophane quinones. We have found that if t...

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

authors： Morales CA,Layton ME,Shair MD

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the relationship among certain generalizations of results of Hida, Ribet, and Wiles on congruences between modular forms. Hida's result accounts for congruences in terms of the value of an L-function, and Ribet's result is related to the behavior of the period that appears there. Wiles' theory leads to a cl...

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

authors： Diamond F

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of different total enzyme concentrations on the flux through the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) in vitro was determined by measuring PTS-mediated carbohydrate phosphorylation at different dilutions of cell-free extract of Escherichia coli. The dependence of the fl...

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

authors： Rohwer JM,Postma PW,Kholodenko BN,Westerhoff HV

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of many of the uncharacterized open reading frames discovered by genomic sequencing can be determined at the level of expressed gene products, the proteome. However, identifying the cognate gene from minute amounts of protein has been one of the major problems in molecular biology. Using yeast as an examp...

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

authors： Shevchenko A,Jensen ON,Podtelejnikov AV,Sagliocco F,Wilm M,Vorm O,Mortensen P,Shevchenko A,Boucherie H,Mann M

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature immunologically competent dendritic cells are the most efficient antigen-presenting cells that powerfully activate T cells and initiate and sustain immune responses. Indeed, dendritic cells are able to efficiently capture antigens, express high levels of costimulatory molecules, and produce the combination of c...

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

authors： Quaratino S,Duddy LP,Londei M

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of induction of an adult rabbit cytochrome P-450, prostaglandin (PG) omega-hydroxylase (P-450PG-omega), during pregnancy has been investigated. This P-450 isozyme regiospecifically hydroxylates PGE1, PGA1, and PGF2 alpha at carbon-20 (the omega position). The specific activity of this enzyme is induced f...

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

authors： Muerhoff AS,Williams DE,Leithauser MT,Jackson VE,Waterman MR,Masters BS

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of the moment of inertia of the ground-state band of (168)Hf from J = 0(+) to 22(+) are interpreted as involving a revolving cluster with composition increasing steadily from p(10.5)n(14) to p(20.5)n(24), with radius of revolution 6.390 fm. The excited bands from 14(+) to 34(+), 21(-) to 33(-), and 18(-) to...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary diversity often varies inversely with prey resource abundance. This pattern, although typically measured at the population level, is usually assumed to also characterize the behavior of individual animals within the population. However, the pattern might also be produced by changes in the degree of variation a...

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

authors： Tinker MT,Bentall G,Estes JA

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses enter cells via a process of membrane fusion between the viral envelope and a cellular membrane. For influenza virus, mutational data have shown that the membrane-inserted portions of the hemagglutinin protein play a critical role in achieving fusion. In contrast to the relatively well-understood ect...

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

authors： Pabis A,Rawle RJ,Kasson PM

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Yellow, orange, and red coloration is a fundamental aspect of avian diversity and serves as an important signal in mate choice and aggressive interactions. This coloration is often produced through the deposition of diet-derived carotenoid pigments, yet the mechanisms of carotenoid uptake and transport are not well-un...

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

authors： Toomey MB,Lopes RJ,Araújo PM,Johnson JD,Gazda MA,Afonso S,Mota PG,Koch RE,Hill GE,Corbo JC,Carneiro M

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment involving registered voters in the city of New Haven. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were delivered through personal canvassing shortly before the November 1998 election. We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout by approximately 6. ...

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

authors： Gerber AS,Green DP

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously linked aging, carcinogenesis, and de novo methylation within the promoter of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene in human colon. We now examine the dynamics of this process for the imprinted gene for insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2). In young individuals, the P2-4 promoters of IGF2 are methylated ex...

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

authors： Issa JP,Vertino PM,Boehm CD,Newsham IF,Baylin SB

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region (VH) locus in a phylogenetically primitive teleost (Elops saurus) has been characterized by a strategy that relied initially on cross-hybridization between genomic VH segments and a murine VH probe. Using a homologous (Elops) VH probe and DNA sequencing, this gene family ...

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

authors： Amemiya CT,Litman GW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain complex phenotypes appear repeatedly across diverse species due to processes of evolutionary conservation and convergence. In some contexts like developmental body patterning, there is increased appreciation that common molecular mechanisms underlie common phenotypes; these molecular mechanisms include highly ...

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

authors： Rittschof CC,Bukhari SA,Sloofman LG,Troy JM,Caetano-Anollés D,Cash-Ahmed A,Kent M,Lu X,Sanogo YO,Weisner PA,Zhang H,Bell AM,Ma J,Sinha S,Robinson GE,Stubbs L

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) are ubiquitous growth factors that regulate proliferation in most mammalian tissues including pancreatic islets. To explore the specificity of insulin receptors in compensatory beta-cell growth, we examined two models of insulin resistance. In the first model, we used li...

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

authors： Okada T,Liew CW,Hu J,Hinault C,Michael MD,Krtzfeldt J,Yin C,Holzenberger M,Stoffel M,Kulkarni RN

更新日期：2007-05-22 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：:The Arabidopsis thaliana SOS2 and SOS3 genes are required for intracellular Na(+) and K(+) homeostasis and plant tolerance to high Na(+) and low K(+) environments. SOS3 is an EF hand type calcium-binding protein having sequence similarities with animal neuronal calcium sensors and the yeast calcineurin B. SOS2 is a se...

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

authors： Halfter U,Ishitani M,Zhu JK

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00