Increase in tracheal investment with beetle size supports hypothesis of oxygen limitation on insect gigantism.

abstract：:The rabbit kappa light chain gene family is characterized by the presence of two constant region (C kappa) genes; the C kappa 1 gene encodes the constant region of the principal rabbit immunoglobulin light chain, the C kappa 2 gene being not or very poorly expressed in domestic rabbits. There exist four major K1 allel...

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

authors： Akimenko MA,Mariamé B,Rougeon F

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the concept of hybridization chain reaction (HCR), in which stable DNA monomers assemble only upon exposure to a target DNA fragment. In the simplest version of this process, two stable species of DNA hairpins coexist in solution until the introduction of initiator strands triggers a cascade of hybridizat...

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

authors： Dirks RM,Pierce NA

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:When Drosophila melanogaster embryos were ligated at very early stages of nuclear multiplication (45-60 min after egg deposition) for the entire period of embryogenesis, egg fragments of variable sizes were able to continue development up to the hatching stage. These ligated embryos differentiated larval structures; a...

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

authors： Schubiger G,Moseley RC,Wood WJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic sorghum plants have been obtained after microprojectile bombardment of immature zygotic embryos of a drought-resistant sorghum cultivar, P898012. DNA delivery parameters were optimized based on transient expression of R and C1 maize anthocyanin regulatory elements in scutellar cells. The protocol for obtain...

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

authors： Casas AM,Kononowicz AK,Zehr UB,Tomes DT,Axtell JD,Butler LG,Bressan RA,Hasegawa PM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion mutations previously constructed within the proximal region of the yeast invertase signal sequence did not interfere with secretion or glycosylation of the enzyme. We now describe deletion mutations within the same signal sequence. Large deletions truncating the hydrophobic core of the signal peptide prevent...

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

authors： Perlman D,Raney P,Halvorson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although preterm delivery is a major global health issue, its causes and underlying mechanism remain elusive. Using mutant mice, mimicking aspects of human preterm birth, we show here that uterine decidual senescence early in pregnancy via heightened mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling is a sign...

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

authors： Hirota Y,Cha J,Yoshie M,Daikoku T,Dey SK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin, a toxic bicyclic peptide of rapid action from the toadstool, Amanita phalloides, gives rise to polymerization of G-actin to filamentous structures (Ph-actin) in a medium of low ionic strength. Ph-actin closely resembles the microfilaments found in liver membrane fractions (Ph-filaments) after in vivo or in...

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

authors： Lengsfeld AM,Löw I,Wieland T,Dancker P,Hasselbach W

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of duplex DNA from varphiX174 single-stranded DNA by extracts of E. coli was previously shown to require the gene product of dna B. Using as an assay the stimulation of varphiX174 DNA-dependent synthesis in inactivated extracts of dna B temperature-sensitive cells, we purified the dna B gene product from wil...

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

authors： Wright M,Wickner S,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference, mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), is a conserved regulatory process that has evolved as an antiviral defense mechanism in plants and animals. It is not known whether host cells also use siRNAs as an antibacterial defense mechanism in eukaryotes. Here, we report the discovery of an endogeno...

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

authors： Katiyar-Agarwal S,Morgan R,Dahlbeck D,Borsani O,Villegas A Jr,Zhu JK,Staskawicz BJ,Jin H

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Willebrand factor (vWF) was purified from the plasma of a patient with type IIB von Willebrand disease (vWF from such a patient, IIB vWF) who had a normal platelet count and showed no evidence of spontaneous platelet aggregation. Large multimers of IIB vWF were absent from purified preparations and from plasma. Ri...

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

authors： De Marco L,Girolami A,Zimmerman TS,Ruggeri ZM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate insulin secretion were investigated using capacitance measurements of exocytosis in single beta cells maintained in tissue culture. Exocytosis was stimulated by voltage-clamp depolarizations to activate the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels that mediate Ca2+ influx into the beta cell. Under ...

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

authors： Ammälä C,Eliasson L,Bokvist K,Berggren PO,Honkanen RE,Sjöholm A,Rorsman P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Random graphs are useful models of social and technological networks. To date, most of the research in this area has concerned geometric properties of the graphs. Here we focus on processes taking place on the network. In particular we are interested in how their behavior on networks differs from that in homogeneously...

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

authors： Durrett R

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention allows animals to respond selectively to competing stimuli, enabling some stimuli to evoke a behavioral response while others are ignored. How the brain does this remains mysterious, although it is increasingly evident that even animals with the smallest brains display this capacity. For example, insects res...

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

authors： Paulk AC,Stacey JA,Pearson TW,Taylor GJ,Moore RJ,Srinivasan MV,van Swinderen B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) mediates the replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA by reversing the effects of a protein that inhibits the elongation reaction. Two other protein fractions, activator I and activator II, were also shown to play important roles in this process. We report that activator II i...

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

authors： Lee SH,Eki T,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human craniofacial cDNA library was screened with a degenerate oligonucleotide probe based on the conserved third helix of homeobox genes. From this screening, we identified a homeobox gene, H6, which shared only 57-65% amino acid identity to previously reported homeodomains. H6 was physically mapped to the 4p16.1 r...

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

authors： Stadler HS,Padanilam BJ,Buetow K,Murray JC,Solursh M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding modulation of memory, as well as the mechanisms underlying memory formation, has become a key issue in neuroscience research. Previously, we found that the formation of long-term, but not short-term, memory for a nonassociative form of learning, sensitization, was modulated by the circadian clock in the ...

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

authors： Lyons LC,Rawashdeh O,Katzoff A,Susswein AJ,Eskin A

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

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：:NMDA receptors are excitatory channels with critical functions in the physiology of central synapses. Their activation reaction proceeds as a series of kinetically distinguishable, reversible steps, whose structural bases are currently under investigation. Very likely, the earliest steps include glutamate binding to g...

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

authors： Iacobucci GJ,Wen H,Helou M,Liu B,Zheng W,Popescu GK

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The difficulty of achieving robust functional expression of insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) has hampered our understanding of these important molecular targets of globally deployed neonicotinoid insecticides at a time when concerns have grown regarding the toxicity of this chemotype to insect pollina...

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

authors： Ihara M,Furutani S,Shigetou S,Shimada S,Niki K,Komori Y,Kamiya M,Koizumi W,Magara L,Hikida M,Noguchi A,Okuhara D,Yoshinari Y,Kondo S,Tanimoto H,Niwa R,Sattelle DB,Matsuda K

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 enzymes are monooxygenases that contain a functional heme b group linked to a conserved cysteine with a thiolate bond. In the native state, the central iron atom is hexacoordinated with a covalently bound water molecule. The exclusion of solvent molecules from the active site is essential for efficient...

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

authors： Oprea TI,Hummer G,Garcia AE

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides constitute an important component of the mammalian innate immune response. Several types of antimicrobial peptides, including the beta-defensins, are produced at epithelial surfaces in response to infectious threats. Here we show that a class of small molecules, including l-isoleucine and severa...

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

authors： Fehlbaum P,Rao M,Zasloff M,Anderson GM

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification of a pollen-specific gene from Zea mays that contains multiple Ser-(Pro)n repeats, the motif found in the cell wall-associated extensins. Sequence analysis reveals that the encoded protein has a putative globular domain at the N terminus and an extensin-like domain at the C terminus. ...

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

authors： Rubinstein AL,Broadwater AH,Lowrey KB,Bedinger PA

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast centromeric DNA (CEN DNA) binding factor 3 (CBF3) is a multisubunit protein complex that binds to the essential CDEIII element in CEN DNA. The four CBF3 proteins are required for accurate chromosome segregation and are considered to be core components of the yeast kinetochore. We have examined the structure of t...

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

authors： Pietrasanta LI,Thrower D,Hsieh W,Rao S,Stemmann O,Lechner J,Carbon J,Hansma H

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of proteins involved in cell cycle progression, DNA recombination, and the detection of DNA damage has been recently identified. One of the members of this family, human ATM, is defective in the cells of patients with ataxia telangiectasia and is involved in detection and response of cells to damaged DNA. Oth...

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

authors： Cimprich KA,Shin TB,Keith CT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal genetic disorder caused by an absence of the dystrophin protein in bodywide muscles, including the heart. Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of death in DMD. Exon skipping via synthetic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs) represents one of the most promising ther...

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

authors： Echigoya Y,Nakamura A,Nagata T,Urasawa N,Lim KRQ,Trieu N,Panesar D,Kuraoka M,Moulton HM,Saito T,Aoki Y,Iversen P,Sazani P,Kole R,Maruyama R,Partridge T,Takeda S,Yokota T

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of additional promoter sites by production of an alternative sigma subunit for RNA polymerase is a common strategy for the coordinate regulation of gene expression. Many alternative sigma factors control genes for specialized, and often narrowly distributed, functions. For example, most of the alternati...

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

authors： Chen YF,Helmann JD

更新日期：1992-06-01 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

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that immunization with hepatitis C virus-like particles (HCV-LPs) generated in insect cells can elicit both humoral and cellular immune responses in BALB/c mice. Here, we evaluate the immunogenicity of HCV-LPs in HLA2.1 transgenic (AAD) mice in comparison to DNA immunization. HCV-LP immun...

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

authors： Murata K,Lechmann M,Qiao M,Gunji T,Alter HJ,Liang TJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The M2 protein of influenza A virus forms a transmembrane proton channel important for viral infection and replication. Amantadine blocks this channel, thus inhibiting viral replication. Elucidating the high-resolution structure of the M2 protein and its change upon amantadine binding is crucial for designing antivira...

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

authors： Cady SD,Hong M

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation dose rates were evaluated in three areas neighboring a restricted area within a 20- to 50-km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in August-September 2012 and projected to 2022 and 2062. Study participants wore personal dosimeters measuring external dose equivalents, almost entirely from depos...

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

authors： Harada KH,Niisoe T,Imanaka M,Takahashi T,Amako K,Fujii Y,Kanameishi M,Ohse K,Nakai Y,Nishikawa T,Saito Y,Sakamoto H,Ueyama K,Hisaki K,Ohara E,Inoue T,Yamamoto K,Matsuoka Y,Ohata H,Toshima K,Okada A,Sato H,Kuwa

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00