Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species.

abstract：:Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays important roles in development and genome defense against transposons. Methylation patterns are established and maintained by DNA methyltransferases that catalyze transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine bases ...

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

authors： Morales-Ruiz T,Ortega-Galisteo AP,Ponferrada-Marín MI,Martínez-Macías MI,Ariza RR,Roldán-Arjona T

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparatus of photosynthetic energy conversion in chloroplasts is quite well characterized with respect to structure and function. Light-driven electron transport in the thylakoid membrane is coupled to synthesis of ATP, used to drive energy-dependent metabolic processes in the stroma and the outer surface of the t...

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

authors： Spetea C,Hundal T,Lundin B,Heddad M,Adamska I,Andersson B

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:With continued debate over the functional significance of adult neurogenesis, identifying an in vivo correlate of neurogenesis has become an important goal. Here we rely on the coupling between neurogenesis and angiogenesis and test whether MRI measurements of cerebral blood volume (CBV) provide an imaging correlate o...

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

authors： Pereira AC,Huddleston DE,Brickman AM,Sosunov AA,Hen R,McKhann GM,Sloan R,Gage FH,Brown TR,Small SA

更新日期：2007-03-27 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：:Electrically excitable cells harness voltage-coupled calcium influx to transmit intracellular signals, typically studied in neurons and cardiomyocytes. Despite intense study in higher organisms, investigations of voltage and calcium signaling in bacteria have lagged due to their small size and a lack of sensitive tool...

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

authors： Bruni GN,Weekley RA,Dodd BJT,Kralj JM

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

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

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cycle of the ATP/Mg(2+)-dependent enzyme beta-lactam synthetase (beta-LS) from Streptomyces clavuligerus has been observed through a series of x-ray crystallographic snapshots. Chemistry is initiated by the ordered binding of ATP/Mg(2+) and N(2)-(carboxyethyl)-l-arginine (CEA) to the apoenzyme. The apo a...

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

authors： Miller MT,Bachmann BO,Townsend CA,Rosenzweig AC

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is described for calculating the electrostatic energy of lipid domains at the air-water interface, taking account of dipole-dipole repulsions between the lipid molecules themselves, as well as interactions between the molecular dipoles and image dipoles in the subphase. The model assumes that the molecu...

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

authors： McConnell HM,Bazaliy YB

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The FMS gene encodes the functional cell surface receptor for colony-stimulating factor 1, the macrophage- and monocyte-specific growth factor. Codons 969 and 301 have been identified as potentially involved in promoting the transforming activity of FMS. Mutations at codon 301 are believed to lead to neoplastic transf...

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

authors： Ridge SA,Worwood M,Oscier D,Jacobs A,Padua RA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hierarchical cellular structures are ubiquitous in nature because of their low-density, high-specific properties, and multifunctionality. Inspired by these systems, we created lightweight ceramic architectures composed of closed-cell porous struts patterned in the form of hexagonal and triangular honeycombs by direct ...

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

authors： Muth JT,Dixon PG,Woish L,Gibson LJ,Lewis JA

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of proteolysis lies at the heart of our understanding of biocatalysis, enzyme evolution, and drug development. To understand the degree of natural variation in protease active sites, we systematically evaluated simple active site features from all serine, cysteine and threonine proteases of independent linea...

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

authors： Buller AR,Townsend CA

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a soluble cyclase, using for assay radioactively marked ATP as precursor. The reaction product was isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by specific degradation. After homogenization, part of the activity remained in the particulate fraction but could be easily extracted. The cyclase was c...

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

authors： Tao M,Lipmann F

更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey shifts in carnivorous predators are events that can initiate the accelerated generation of new biodiversity. However, it is seldom possible to reconstruct how the change in prey preference occurred. Here we describe an evolutionary "smoking gun" that illuminates the transition from worm hunting to fish hunting am...

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

authors： Aman JW,Imperial JS,Ueberheide B,Zhang MM,Aguilar M,Taylor D,Watkins M,Yoshikami D,Showers-Corneli P,Safavi-Hemami H,Biggs J,Teichert RW,Olivera BM

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The influential role of Wnt5a in tumor progression underscores the requirement for developing molecules that can target Wnt5a-mediated cellular responses. In the aggressive skin cancer, melanoma, elevated Wnt5a expression promotes cell motility and drives metastasis. Two approaches can be used to counteract these effe...

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

authors： Jenei V,Sherwood V,Howlin J,Linnskog R,Säfholm A,Axelsson L,Andersson T

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human chaperonin Hsp60 is thought to play a role in the progression of Alzheimer's disease by mitigating against intracellular β-amyloid stress. Here, we show that the bacterial homolog GroEL (51% sequence identity) reduces the neurotoxic effects of amyloid-β(1-42) (Aβ42) on human neural stem cell-derived neuronal...

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

authors： Wälti MA,Steiner J,Meng F,Chung HS,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Tugarinov V,Nath A,Clore GM

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the effect of language on categorical perception of color is stronger when stimuli are presented in the right visual field than in the left. To examine whether this lateralized effect occurs preattentively at an early stage of processing, we monitored the visual mismatch negativity, wh...

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

authors： Mo L,Xu G,Kay P,Tan LH

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Several different families of DNA viruses encode proteins that inactivate the cellular retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRb), which normally functions to bind E2F transcription factors and restrict expression of genes necessary for cellular processes including DNA replication. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) UL97...

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

authors： Kamil JP,Hume AJ,Jurak I,Münger K,Kalejta RF,Coen DM

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA (tRNA) is essential for decoding the genome sequence into proteins. In Archaea, previous studies have revealed unique multiple intron-containing tRNAs and tRNAs that are encoded on 2 separate genes, so-called split tRNAs. Here, we discovered 10 fragmented tRNA genes in the complete genome of the hyperther...

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

authors： Fujishima K,Sugahara J,Kikuta K,Hirano R,Sato A,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the effect of a 200-microns wavelength free electron laser beam on the ability of asynchronized and synchronized mammalian tissue culture cells to incorporate tritiated thymidine. Compared to controls (unexposed cells), a significant proportion of exposed cells exhibited a reduction in isotope incorporatio...

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

authors： Berns MW,Bewley W,Sun CH,Templin P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection does not necessarily favor maximal reproduction because reproduction imposes fitness costs, reducing parental survival, and offspring quality. Here, we show that parents in a preindustrial population in North America incurred fitness costs from reproduction, and women incurred greater costs than men....

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

authors： Penn DJ,Smith KR

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex of mammals differentiates into functionally distinct areas that exhibit unique cytoarchitecture, connectivity, and molecular characteristics. Molecular specification of cells fated for limbic cortical areas, based on the expression of the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP), occurs dur...

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

authors： Barbe MF,Levitt P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis, the truly lethal aspect of cancer, occurs when metastatic cancer cells in a tumor break through the basement membrane and penetrate the extracellular matrix. We show that MDA-MB-231 metastatic breast cancer cells cooperatively invade a 3D collagen matrix while following a glucose gradient. The invasion fro...

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

authors： Liu L,Duclos G,Sun B,Lee J,Wu A,Kam Y,Sontag ED,Stone HA,Sturm JC,Gatenby RA,Austin RH

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage lambda encodes a number of genes involved in the recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks. The product of one of these genes, rap, has been purified. Truncated Rap proteins that copurify with the full-length form are derived, at least in part, from a rho-dependent transcription terminator locat...

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

authors： Sharples GJ,Corbett LM,Graham IR

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) is associated with vulnerability to affective disorders and pharmacotherapy efficacy. We recently identified sequence polymorphisms in the common marmoset SLC6A4 repeat region (AC/C/G and CT/T/C) associated with individual differences in anxiety-like trait, ...

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

authors： Santangelo AM,Sawiak SJ,Fryer T,Hong Y,Shiba Y,Clarke HF,Riss PJ,Ferrari V,Tait R,Suckling J,Aigbirhio FI,Roberts AC

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has become apparent that N = 2 supersymmetric quantum field theory has something to do with cluster algebras. I review one aspect of the connection: supersymmetric quantum field theories have associated hyperkähler moduli spaces, and these moduli spaces carry a structure that looks like an extension of the...

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

authors： Neitzke A

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea (200-400 milliosmolar) activates transcription, translation of, and trans-activation by the immediate-early gene transcription factor Egr-1 in a renal epithelial cell-specific fashion. The effect at the transcriptional level has been attributed to multiple serum response elements and their adjacent Ets motifs loc...

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

authors： Cohen DM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordinated redistribution of sugars from mature "source" leaves to developing "sink" leaves requires tight regulation of sugar transport between cells via plasmodesmata (PD). Although fundamental to plant physiology, the mechanisms that control PD transport and thereby support development of new leaves have remai...

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

authors： Brunkard JO,Xu M,Scarpin MR,Chatterjee S,Shemyakina EA,Goodman HM,Zambryski P

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinants of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin C include the relationship between vitamin C dose and steady-state plasma concentration, bioavailability, urinary excretion, cell concentration, and potential adverse effects. Because current data are inadequate, an in-hospital depletion-repletion stu...

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

authors： Levine M,Conry-Cantilena C,Wang Y,Welch RW,Washko PW,Dhariwal KR,Park JB,Lazarev A,Graumlich JF,King J,Cantilena LR

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several significant steps have been completed toward a general method for the site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. An "orthogonal" suppressor tRNA was derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA2Gln. This yeast orthogonal tRNA is not a substrate in vitro or in vivo for any Escheri...

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

authors： Liu DR,Schultz PG

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas all mammals have one glutamate dehydrogenase gene (GLUD1), humans and apes carry an additional gene (GLUD2), which encodes an enzyme with distinct biochemical properties. We inserted a bacterial artificial chromosome containing the human GLUD2 gene into mice and analyzed the resulting changes in the transcript...

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

authors： Li Q,Guo S,Jiang X,Bryk J,Naumann R,Enard W,Tomita M,Sugimoto M,Khaitovich P,Pääbo S

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00