Discovery and analysis of the first endogenous lentivirus.

abstract：:A number of extracellular stimuli, including soluble cytokines and insoluble matrix factors, are known to influence murine embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation behavioral responses via intracellular signaling pathways, but their net effects in combination are difficult to understand. To gain insight co...

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

authors： Prudhomme W,Daley GQ,Zandstra P,Lauffenburger DA

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination of a system consisting of a vertical tube containing an unstirred homogeneous suspension of thylakoids in an imposed linear concentration gradient of an electron acceptor, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, gave rise to a one-dimensional banded pattern of the acceptor that evolved in a time-dependent manner. The spa...

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

authors： Aon M,Thomas D,Hervagault JF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of robust blood flow to the brain is crucial to the health of brain tissue. We examined the pial network of the middle cerebral artery, which distributes blood from the cerebral arteries to the penetrating arterioles that source neocortical microvasculature, to characterize how vascular topology may su...

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

authors： Blinder P,Shih AY,Rafie C,Kleinfeld D

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of each of the four framework segments FR1, FR2, FR3, and FR4 of the variable regions (V-regions) of light and heavy chains of immunoglobulins were grouped into sets with identical sequences. Sets contained from 1 to 18 members. When each V-region was traced from one FR to the next, it was seen that members ...

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

authors： Kabat EA,Wu TT,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to make a specific change in the beta-lactamase (EC 3.5.2.6) (ampicillin resistance) gene of the plasmid pBR322. Evidence suggests that the active site for this enzyme may include a serine-threonine dyad (residues 70 and 71). By priming in vitro DNA synthesis with a ch...

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

authors： Dalbadie-McFarland G,Cohen LW,Riggs AD,Morin C,Itakura K,Richards JH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical animal models have largely ignored the immune-suppressive mechanisms that are important in human cancers. The identification and use of such models should allow better predictions of successful human responses to immunotherapy. As a model for changes induced in nonmalignant cells by cancer, we examined T-c...

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

authors： Gorgun G,Ramsay AG,Holderried TA,Zahrieh D,Le Dieu R,Liu F,Quackenbush J,Croce CM,Gribben JG

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Horse heart cytochrome c can be split with cyanogen bromide into a heme peptide (residues 1-65) and a nonheme peptide (residues 66-104). In a process involving (i) complex formation between the two fragments and (ii) restoration of the severed peptide linkage, a fully active cytochrome c preparation can be re-formed. ...

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

authors： Barstow LE,Young RS,Yakali E,Sharp JJ,O'Brien JC,Berman PW,Harbury HA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is composed of linear chains of phosphate groups linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. However, this simple, ubiquitous molecule remains poorly understood. The use of nonstandardized analytical methods has contributed to this lack of clarity. By using improved polyacrylamide gel...

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

authors： Livermore TM,Chubb JR,Saiardi A

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

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

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of leukotriene A4 (LTA4) synthase in crude human leukocyte homogenates was found to have a similar requirement for Ca2+ and ATP as had been noted previously for 5-lipoxygenase activity. Purification of the 5-lipoxygenase using ammonium sulfate fractionation, AcA 44 gel-filtration chromatography, and HPLC ...

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

authors： Rouzer CA,Matsumoto T,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory interneurons regulate the responses of cortical circuits. In auditory cortical areas, inhibition from these neurons narrows spectral tuning and shapes response dynamics. Acute disruptions of inhibition expand spectral receptive fields. However, the effects of long-term perturbations of inhibitory circuitry ...

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

authors： Seybold BA,Stanco A,Cho KK,Potter GB,Kim C,Sohal VS,Rubenstein JL,Schreiner CE

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen with a small genome of 1.64-1.67 Mb. More than 20 putative DNA restriction-modification (R-M) systems, comprising more than 4% of the total genome, have been identified in the two completely sequenced H. pylori strains, 26695 and J99, based on sequence similari...

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

authors： Lin LF,Posfai J,Roberts RJ,Kong H

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations with a regional chemical transport model show that anthropogenic emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (NO(x) = NO + NO(2)) lead to a dramatic diurnal variation of surface ozone (O(3)) in Houston, Texas. During the daytime, photochemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds catalyz...

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

authors： Zhang R,Lei W,Tie X,Hess P

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF and angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) are two major angiogenic factors being investigated for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI). Targeting VEGF and Ang1 expression in the ischemic myocardium can increase their local therapeutic effects and reduce possible adverse effects. Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) expre...

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

authors： Tao Z,Chen B,Tan X,Zhao Y,Wang L,Zhu T,Cao K,Yang Z,Kan YW,Su H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of the nematic electronic state that breaks rotational symmetry is one of the most fascinating properties of the iron-based superconductors, and has relevance to cuprates as well. FeSe has a unique ground state in which superconductivity coexists with a nematic order without long-range magnetic ordering,...

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

authors： Sato Y,Kasahara S,Taniguchi T,Xing X,Kasahara Y,Tokiwa Y,Yamakawa Y,Kontani H,Shibauchi T,Matsuda Y

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional mRNA splicing on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane is the sole conserved mechanism in eukaryotes to transmit information regarding misfolded protein accumulation to the nucleus to activate the stress response. In metazoans, the unspliced form of X-box-binding protein 1 (XBP1u) mRNA is recruited to...

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

authors： Kanda S,Yanagitani K,Yokota Y,Esaki Y,Kohno K

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking research funding is an essential part of academic life. Funded projects are primarily collaborative in nature through internal and external partnerships, but what role does funding play in the formulation of these partnerships? Here, by examining over 43,000 scientific projects funded over the past three decad...

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

authors： Ma A,Mondragón RJ,Latora V

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat superior cervical sympathetic ganglion was used to begin studying the regulation of molecular components of the synapse. Ganglionic postsynaptic densities (PSDs)exhibited a thin, disc-shaped profile electron microscopically, comparable to that described for brain. Moreover, the presumptive ganglionic PSD protein (...

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

authors： Wu K,Black IB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of genomic DNA forms the guanine lesion 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG). When in the template base position during DNA synthesis the 8-oxoG lesion has dual coding potential by virtue of its anti- and syn-conformations, base pairing with cytosine and adenine, respectively. This impacts mutagenesis, because ...

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

authors： Batra VK,Shock DD,Beard WA,McKenna CE,Wilson SH

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the consensus sequence for termination of replication (ter) in Escherichia coli and the isolation of the ter-binding protein (TBP) allowed us to test their effects on replication forks initiated at the unique origin of the E. coli chromosome (oriC) in a purified enzyme system. Replication was severel...

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

authors： Lee EH,Kornberg A,Hidaka M,Kobayashi T,Horiuchi T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor/resistance protein (TIR) domains has been implicated in signaling in plant and animal immunity receptors. Structure-based studies identified different TIR-domain dimerization interfaces required for signaling of the plant nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-lik...

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

authors： Zhang X,Bernoux M,Bentham AR,Newman TE,Ve T,Casey LW,Raaymakers TM,Hu J,Croll TI,Schreiber KJ,Staskawicz BJ,Anderson PA,Sohn KH,Williams SJ,Dodds PN,Kobe B

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting neuroendocrine tumors expressing somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) with radiolabeled somatostatin agonists is an established diagnostic and therapeutic approach in oncology. While agonists readily internalize into tumor cells, permitting accumulation of radioactivity, radiolabeled antagonists do not, and ...

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

authors： Ginj M,Zhang H,Waser B,Cescato R,Wild D,Wang X,Erchegyi J,Rivier J,Mäcke HR,Reubi JC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ecosystems, from vegetation to biofilms, are composed of territorial populations that compete for both nutrients and physical space. What are the implications of such spatial organization for biodiversity? To address this question, we developed and analyzed a model of territorial resource competition. In the mode...

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

authors： Weiner BG,Posfai A,Wingreen NS

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular and cellular basis of selective motor neuron (MN) vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not known. In genetically distinct mouse models of familial ALS expressing mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and fused in sarcoma (FUS), we demonstrate select...

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

authors： Lalancette-Hebert M,Sharma A,Lyashchenko AK,Shneider NA

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The two major disease-causing biotypes of Vibrio cholerae, classical and El Tor, exhibit differences in their epidemic nature. Their behavior in the laboratory also differs in that El Tor strains produce two major virulence factors, cholera toxin (CT) and the toxin coregulated pilus (TCP), only under very restricted g...

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

authors： DiRita VJ,Neely M,Taylor RK,Bruss PM

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A promising strategy for DNA sequencing exploits transposons to provide mobile sites for the binding of sequencing primers. For such a strategy to be maximally efficient, the location and orientation of the transposon must be readily determined and the insertion sites should be randomly distributed. We demonstrate an ...

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

authors： Strausbaugh LD,Bourke MT,Sommer MT,Coon ME,Berg CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage ...

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

authors： Chance Z,Norton MI,Gino F,Ariely D

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Urodeles and fetal mammals are capable of impressive epimorphic regeneration in a variety of tissues, whereas the typical default response to injury in adult mammals consists of inflammation and scar tissue formation. One component of epimorphic regeneration is the recruitment of resident progenitor and stem cells to ...

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

authors： Agrawal V,Johnson SA,Reing J,Zhang L,Tottey S,Wang G,Hirschi KK,Braunhut S,Gudas LJ,Badylak SF

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-electron oxidation of cobaltous octaethylporphyrin [Co(II)(Et)(8)P] yields a stable pi-cation radical [Co(III)(Et)(8)P](2+.), the optical spectrum of which exhibits spectral changes dependent upon the nature of the counterion. Comparison of these spectra with those of Compounds I of horseradish peroxidase and cata...

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

authors： Dolphin D,Forman A,Borg DC,Fajer J,Felton RH

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00