Abrupt recent shift in delta 13C and delta 15N values in Adélie penguin eggshell in Antarctica.

abstract：:We have investigated the biochemical basis for negative regulation of interleukin 2 receptor alpha-chain (IL-2R alpha) gene expression. Transient transfection studies employing internally deleted forms of the IL-2R alpha promoter localized a negative regulatory element (NRE) between nucleotides -400 and -368 relative ...

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

authors： Smith MR,Greene WC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution examination of pulse sequences generated by single visual cortex cells of the rhesus monkey in response to precisely controlled visual stimuli has disclosed (i) that the outputs of such neurons contain highly improbable (P less than 10(-7) numbers of identical triplets of precisely repeating pulse patt...

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

authors： Strehler BL,Lestienne R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of mitotic cell rounding in tissue development and cell proliferation, there remains a paucity of approaches to investigate the mechanical robustness of cell rounding. Here we introduce ion beam-sculpted microcantilevers that enable precise force-feedback-controlled confinement of single cells w...

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

authors： Cattin CJ,Düggelin M,Martinez-Martin D,Gerber C,Müller DJ,Stewart MP

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A pH-dependent transition between delocalized and trapped mixed valence states of an engineered CuA center in azurin has been investigated by UV-visible absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic techniques. At pH 7.0, the CuA azurin displays a typical delocalized mixed valence dinuclear [Cu(1.5).......

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

authors： Hwang HJ,Lu Y

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that exhibits a wide range of GFP expression levels under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy provides data about short-term fluctuations in promoter activity, and ...

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

authors： Sisan DR,Halter M,Hubbard JB,Plant AL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured fibroblast cells derived from a skin biopsy sample taken from normal human adult were exposed to a potent carcinogen, 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide. Alterations of cell growth pattern such as higher density and piling up of cells were noticed in some fractions of cultures that were successively subcultured after n...

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

authors： Kakunaga T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoperiodic control of testis growth in Passer domesticus (house sparrow) is mediated entirely by extraretinal photoreceptors in the brain. The eyes do not participate in photoperiodically significant photoreception. Removal of the pineal organ does not affect either the response to light or, to a first approximatio...

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

authors： Menaker M,Roberts R,Elliott J,Underwood H

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During sporulation of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, transcription of genes encoding spore coat proteins in the mother-cell compartment of the sporangium is controlled by RNA polymerase containing the sigma subunit called sigma K. Based on comparison of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of sigma K wit...

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

authors： Lu S,Halberg R,Kroos L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the plant cell wall by glycoside hydrolases is central to environmentally sustainable industries. The major polysaccharides of the plant cell wall are cellulose and xylan, a highly decorated β-1,4-xylopyranose polymer. Glycoside hydrolases displaying multiple catalytic functions may simplify the enz...

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

authors： McKee LS,Peña MJ,Rogowski A,Jackson A,Lewis RJ,York WS,Krogh KB,Viksø-Nielsen A,Skjøt M,Gilbert HJ,Marles-Wright J

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Even in the absence of sensory stimulation, the neocortex shows complex spontaneous activity patterns, often consisting of alternating "DOWN" states of generalized neural silence and "UP" states of massive, persistent network activity. To investigate how this spontaneous activity propagates through neuronal assemblies...

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

authors： Luczak A,Barthó P,Marguet SL,Buzsáki G,Harris KD

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a second messenger protein that has evolved to bind tightly to a variety of targets and, as such, exhibits low binding specificity. We redesigned CaM by using a computational protein design algorithm to improve its binding specificity for one of its targets, smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase ...

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

authors： Shifman JM,Mayo SL

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During the analysis of liver protein expression in the offspring of male mice irradiated with fission-spectrum neutrons, one offspring displayed a heritable 50% decrease in the abundance of two proteins. Homozygous mice lacking detectable quantities of these proteins were obtained through breeding. Characterization of...

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

authors： Champion KM,Cook RJ,Tollaksen SL,Giometti CS

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome segregation and mitotic exit are initiated by the 1.2-MDa ubiquitin ligase APC/C (anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome) and its coactivator CDC20 (cell division cycle 20). To avoid chromosome missegregation, APC/C(CDC20) activation is tightly controlled. CDC20 only associates with APC/C in mitosis when APC/...

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

authors： Qiao R,Weissmann F,Yamaguchi M,Brown NG,VanderLinden R,Imre R,Jarvis MA,Brunner MR,Davidson IF,Litos G,Haselbach D,Mechtler K,Stark H,Schulman BA,Peters JM

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid type A (GABA-A) receptors are a major mediator of inhibitory neurotransmission in the mammalian central nervous system, and the site of action of a number of clinically important drugs. These receptors exist as a family of subtypes with distinct temporal and spatial patterns of expression and d...

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

authors： Bonnert TP,McKernan RM,Farrar S,le Bourdellès B,Heavens RP,Smith DW,Hewson L,Rigby MR,Sirinathsinghji DJ,Brown N,Wafford KA,Whiting PJ

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged periods of extreme heat or drought in the first year after fire affect the resilience and diversity of fire-dependent ecosystems by inhibiting seed germination or increasing mortality of seedlings and resprouting individuals. This interaction between weather and fire is of growing concern as climate changes,...

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

authors： Slingsby JA,Merow C,Aiello-Lammens M,Allsopp N,Hall S,Kilroy Mollmann H,Turner R,Wilson AM,Silander JA Jr

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:More than a thousand proteins are thought to contribute to mammalian chromatin and its regulation, but our understanding of the genomic occupancy and function of most of these proteins is limited. Here we describe an approach, which we call "chromatin proteomic profiling," to identify proteins associated with genomic ...

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

authors： Ji X,Dadon DB,Abraham BJ,Lee TI,Jaenisch R,Bradner JE,Young RA

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine fetal thymus lobes isolated from both normal and scid/scid mice can be colonized by donor cells from either human bone marrow or human umbilical cord blood in vitro. Subsequent organ culture results in a transient production of a few CD4+ CD8+ (double-positive) cells and then the accumulation of CD4+ or CD8+ (s...

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

authors： Yeoman H,Gress RE,Bare CV,Leary AG,Boyse EA,Bard J,Shultz LD,Harris DT,DeLuca D

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Because most human squamous carcinoma cell lines of the aerodigestive and genital tracts are refractory to the antiproliferative action of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) in vitro, we have begun to identify the causes for resistance of squamous carcinoma cell lines to TGF beta 1 by using somatic cell ge...

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

authors： Reiss M,Muñoz-Antonia T,Cowan JM,Wilkins PC,Zhou ZL,Vellucci VF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecology of microbes in the gut has been shown to play important roles in the health of the host. To better understand microbial growth and population dynamics in the proximal colon, the primary region of bacterial growth in the gut, we built and applied a fluidic channel that we call the "minigut." This is a chann...

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

authors： Cremer J,Segota I,Yang CY,Arnoldini M,Sauls JT,Zhang Z,Gutierrez E,Groisman A,Hwa T

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the activity/levels of the extralarge G protein α-subunit (XLαs) are implicated in various human disorders, such as perinatal growth retardation. Encoded by GNAS, XLαs is partly identical to the α-subunit of the stimulatory G protein (Gsα), but the cellular actions of XLαs remain poorly defined. Followi...

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

authors： He Q,Bouley R,Liu Z,Wein MN,Zhu Y,Spatz JM,Wang CY,Divieti Pajevic P,Plagge A,Babitt JL,Bastepe M

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major public health concern, being responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths annually through pneumonia, meningitis, and septicemia. Available vaccines target only a subset of serotypes, so vaccination is often accompanied by a rise in the frequency of nonvaccine...

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

authors： Obolski U,Lourenço J,Thompson C,Thompson R,Gori A,Gupta S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of peptides with secondary structures and functions would have been a key step in the chemical evolution which led to life. As with modern biology, amino acid sequence would have been a primary determinant of peptide structure and activity in an origins-of-life scenario. It is a commonly held hypothesis that ...

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

authors： Forsythe JG,Petrov AS,Millar WC,Yu SS,Krishnamurthy R,Grover MA,Hud NV,Fernández FM

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthetase (DHFR-TS) gene of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major (dihydrofolate reductase, EC 1.5.1.3 and thymidylate synthase, EC 2.1.1.45). The DHFR-TS protein is encoded by a single 1560-base-pair open reading frame within gen...

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

authors： Beverley SM,Ellenberger TE,Cordingley JS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social insects are promising new models in aging research. Within single colonies, longevity differences of several magnitudes exist that can be found elsewhere only between different species. Reproducing queens (and, in termites, also kings) can live for several decades, whereas sterile workers often have a lifespan ...

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

authors： Elsner D,Meusemann K,Korb J

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is an important biological process that occurs in all organisms and facilitates genome rearrangements and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Eukaryotic Rad51 proteins (Rad51sp or Rhp51 in fission yeast) are functional and structural homologs of bacterial RecA protein, an evolutionarily conser...

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

authors： Akamatsu Y,Dziadkowiec D,Ikeguchi M,Shinagawa H,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficiently regenerated single colonies from mixed multiply auxotrophic Bacillus subtilis protoplasts, fused with polyethylene glycol, reveal colonies carrying each of the parent types (biparentals) and recombinant colonies. The latter appear in high yields (up to 1% of certain recombinant classes); the yield of bipar...

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

authors： Hotchkiss RD,Gabor MH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression can lead to cancer initiation and progression. However, limited information exists on the function of miRNAs in cancer maintenance. We examined these issues in the case of myeloproliferative diseases and neoplasms (MPN), a collection of hematopoietic neoplasms regarded as pr...

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

authors： Guo S,Bai H,Megyola CM,Halene S,Krause DS,Scadden DT,Lu J

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of beta-sitosterol (42 mg/kg per day) for 3 weeks to 8-month-old male LXRbeta-/- mice resulted in the death of motor neurons in the lumbar region of the spinal cord and loss of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. In mice at 5 months of age, beta-sitosterol had no ...

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

authors： Kim HJ,Fan X,Gabbi C,Yakimchuk K,Parini P,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes polarize by forming functionally distinct sinusoidal (basolateral) and canalicular (apical) plasma membrane domains. Two distinct routes are used for delivery of membrane proteins to the canaliculus. Proteins having glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors or single transmembrane domains are targeted to the si...

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

authors： Wakabayashi Y,Dutt P,Lippincott-Schwartz J,Arias IM

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00