Sex chromosome evolution: platypus gene mapping suggests that part of the human X chromosome was originally autosomal.

abstract：:Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid have been attached covalently to the 5' terminus of the deoxynucleotide sequence C-A-C-A-A-T-T-C-C-A-C-A-C-A-A-C (16-mer) via an ethylenediamine linker. In the presence of Fe2+ and dithiothreitol, these reagents bring about the hybridization-depend...

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

authors： Chu BC,Orgel LE

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian reovirus S1133 penetrates and uncoats in suspension cultures of mouse L cells. The multiple species of viral transcripts are produced in the cytoplasm of the infected cell, but they fail to associate with polysomes, consistent with the absence of viral protein synthesis. The selective block in avian virus mRNA t...

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

authors： Benavente J,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misalignment between internal circadian rhythmicity and externally imposed behavioral schedules, such as occurs in shift workers, has been implicated in elevated risk of metabolic disorders. To determine underlying mechanisms, it is essential to assess whether and how peripheral clocks are disturbed during shift work ...

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

authors： Skene DJ,Skornyakov E,Chowdhury NR,Gajula RP,Middleton B,Satterfield BC,Porter KI,Van Dongen HPA,Gaddameedhi S

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective vaccine that can protect against HIV infection does not exist. A major reason why a vaccine is not available is the high mutability of the virus, which enables it to evolve mutations that can evade human immune responses. This challenge is exacerbated by the ability of the virus to evolve compensatory mut...

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

authors： Murakowski DK,Barton JP,Peter L,Chandrashekar A,Bondzie E,Gao A,Barouch DH,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic engineering have demonstrated that microbial biosynthesis can provide a viable alternative to chemical synthesis for the production of bulk and fine chemicals. Introduction of a new biosynthetic pathway typically requires the expression of multiple heterologous enzymes in the production ho...

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

authors： Michener JK,Nielsen J,Smolke CD

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative-stranded RNA viruses cover their genome with nucleoprotein (N) to protect it from the human innate immune system. Abrogation of the function of N offers a unique opportunity to combat the spread of the viruses. Here, we describe a unique fold of N from Leanyer virus (LEAV, Orthobunyavirus genus, Bunyaviridae ...

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

authors： Niu F,Shaw N,Wang YE,Jiao L,Ding W,Li X,Zhu P,Upur H,Ouyang S,Cheng G,Liu ZJ

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral axonal branch of primary sensory neurons readily regenerates after peripheral nerve injury, but the central branch, which courses in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord, does not. However, if a peripheral nerve is transected before a spinal cord injury, sensory neurons that course in the dorsal column...

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

authors： Neumann S,Skinner K,Basbaum AI

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterosis is widely applied in agriculture; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms for superior performance are not well understood. Ethylene biosynthesis and signaling genes are shown to be down-regulated in Arabidopsis interspecific hybrids. Ethylene is a plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening and maturati...

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

authors： Song Q,Ando A,Xu D,Fang L,Zhang T,Huq E,Qiao H,Deng XW,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-entrained master central circadian clock (CC) located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) not only controls the diurnal alternance of the active phase (the light period of the human light-dark cycle, but the mouse dark period) and the rest phase (the human dark period, but the mouse light period), but also ...

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

authors： Mukherji A,Kobiita A,Damara M,Misra N,Meziane H,Champy MF,Chambon P

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Nutrition recommendations worldwide emphasize ingestion of plant-based diets rather than diets that rely primarily on animal products. However, this plant-based diet could limit the intake of essential nutrients such as calcium. Osteoporosis is one of the world's most prevalent nutritional disorders, and inadequate di...

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

authors： Morris J,Hawthorne KM,Hotze T,Abrams SA,Hirschi KD

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (antihemophilic factor) is a high molecular weight plasma glycoprotein that participates in the blood clotting cascade. The recent cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA encoding human factor VIII revealed an obvious domain structure for the protein, which can be represented as A1-A2-B-A3-C1-C2. We now ...

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

authors： Toole JJ,Pittman DD,Orr EC,Murtha P,Wasley LC,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family, can induce apoptosis when activated by Fas ligand binding or anti-Fas antibody crosslinking. Genetic studies have shown that a defect in Fas-mediated apoptosis resulted in abnormal development and function of the immune system in mice. A point mutation in the...

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

authors： Chu K,Niu X,Williams LT

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Larger brains have an increasingly folded cerebral cortex whose white matter scales up faster than the gray matter. Here we analyze the cellular composition of the subcortical white matter in 11 primate species, including humans, and one Scandentia, and show that the mass of the white matter scales linearly across spe...

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

authors： Herculano-Houzel S,Mota B,Wong P,Kaas JH

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The with-no-lysine (K) (WNK) signaling pathway to STE20/SPS1-related proline- and alanine-rich kinase (SPAK) and oxidative stress-responsive 1 (OSR1) kinase is an important mediator of cell volume and ion transport. SPAK and OSR1 associate with upstream kinases WNK 1-4, substrates, and other proteins through their C-t...

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

authors： Taylor CA 4th,An SW,Kankanamalage SG,Stippec S,Earnest S,Trivedi AT,Yang JZ,Mirzaei H,Huang CL,Cobb MH

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly selective alpha 1-adrenergic receptor antagonist prazosin was used to identify binding sites having alpha-adrenergic specificity in rat hepatic plasma membranes. Solubilization of the membrane-bound receptors was achieved by incubation with the nonionic detergent digitonin, and binding activity was assayed ...

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

authors： Graham RM,Hess HJ,Homcy CJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) represents a significant genetic resource for crop improvement in barley (Hordeum vulgare) and for the study of the evolution and domestication of plant populations. The Isa gene from barley has a putative role in plant defense. This gene encodes a bifunctional alpha-amylase/subtilisin...

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

authors： Cronin JK,Bundock PC,Henry RJ,Nevo E

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a mediator of host immunity and functions as a high, upstream activator of cells within the innate and the adaptive immunological systems. Recent studies have suggested a potentially broader role for MIF in growth regulation because of its ability to antagonize p53-media...

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

authors： Fingerle-Rowson G,Petrenko O,Metz CN,Forsthuber TG,Mitchell R,Huss R,Moll U,Müller W,Bucala R

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the direct observation of the fundamental processes is lacking. By combining rational peptide design with topographical (atomic force microsc...

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

authors： Rakowska PD,Jiang H,Ray S,Pyne A,Lamarre B,Carr M,Judge PJ,Ravi J,Gerling UI,Koksch B,Martyna GJ,Hoogenboom BW,Watts A,Crain J,Grovenor CR,Ryadnov MG

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method based on a phagemid vector with helper phage rescue for the construction and rapid analysis of combinatorial antibody Fab libraries. This approach should allow the generation and selection of many monoclonal antibodies. Antibody genes are expressed in concert with phage morphogenesis, thereby allo...

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

authors： Kang AS,Barbas CF,Janda KD,Benkovic SJ,Lerner RA

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of newborn rats with Borne disease virus (BDV) results in selective degeneration of granule cell neurons of the dentate gyrus (DG). To study cellular countermechanisms that might prevent this pathology, we screened for rat strains resistant to this BDV-induced neuronal degeneration. To this end, we infected ...

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

authors： Wu YJ,Schulz H,Lin CC,Saar K,Patone G,Fischer H,Hübner N,Heimrich B,Schwemmle M

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenoviral mediated delivery of suicide and cytokine genes has been investigated as a treatment for hepatic metastases of colon carcinoma in mice. Liver tumors were established by intrahepatic implantation of a poorly immunogenic colon carcinoma cell line (MCA-26), which is syngeneic in BALB/c mice. Intrat...

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

authors： Caruso M,Pham-Nguyen K,Kwong YL,Xu B,Kosai KI,Finegold M,Woo SL,Chen SH

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending t...

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

authors： Ai W,Chen R,Chen Y,Mei Q,Phillips W

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Some tumor cell lines secrete high concentrations of TGFbeta or IL-1. Similarly high concentrations of each of these cytokines cross-activate the other pathway: TGFbeta activates NFkappaB, and IL-1beta activates Smads. The IL-1 signaling components IRAK, MyD88, TRAF6, and TAK1 are all required for cross-activation of ...

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

authors： Lu T,Tian L,Han Y,Vogelbaum M,Stark GR

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fractionation of cells of a parsley suspension culture [Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A. Hill] by protoplasting and subsequent removal of the vacuoles led to physiologically intact evacuolated protoplasts retaining light inducibility of chalcone synthase expression. Lysis of the evacuolated protoplasts permitted th...

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

authors： Harter K,Frohnmeyer H,Kircher S,Kunkel T,Mühlbauer S,Schäfer E

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), a DNA/RNA-binding protein involved in RNA transcription and splicing, has been associated with the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS. However, the function of TDP-43 in motor neurons remains undefined. Here we use both gain- and loss-of-function approache...

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

authors： Shan X,Chiang PM,Price DL,Wong PC

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismic magnitudes determined from surface and body waves for the Soviet underground nuclear explosion of September 14, 1988, are used to calculate the yield of that event from previously derived calibration curves. The yield obtained by combining the two seismic estimates is 113 kilotons, which is very close to those...

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

authors： Sykes LR,Ekström G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure to low density lipoprotein (LDL) that had been minimally modified by oxidation (MM-LDL), human endothelial cells (EC) and smooth muscle cells (SMC) cultured separately or together produced 2- to 3-fold more monocyte chemotactic activity than did control cells or cells exposed to freshly isolated LDL. Th...

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

authors： Cushing SD,Berliner JA,Valente AJ,Territo MC,Navab M,Parhami F,Gerrity R,Schwartz CJ,Fogelman AM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recA-independent recombinational event is described which results in insertion of an entire plasmid genome at a unique site of another plasmid, and coincident excision of a precisely defined DNA segment originally present at the point of the insertion. The resulting recombinant molecules subsequently can undergo sit...

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

authors： Kopecko DJ,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00