Evolution in the hypervariable environment of Madagascar.

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of chondrocytes to collagen substrates is stimulated by serum but not by fibronectin. The active material in serum was partially purified and was shown to be a protein by its sensitivity to trypsin and heat and its chromatographic properties. This factor, which we have named chondronectin, is distinct f...

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

authors： Hewitt AT,Kleinman HK,Pennypacker JP,Martin GR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in clearing apoptotic debris disrupt tissue and immunological homeostasis, leading to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Herein, we report that macrophages from lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice have impaired lysosomal maturation, resulting in heightened ROS production and attenuated lysosomal acidification. Impaire...

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

authors： Monteith AJ,Kang S,Scott E,Hillman K,Rajfur Z,Jacobson K,Costello MJ,Vilen BJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) controls a key metabolic step in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. This step is the NAD-dependent oxidation of inosine 5' monophosphate (IMP) to xanthosine 5' monophosphate, the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of the guanine nucleotides. Two isoforms of ...

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

authors： Colby TD,Vanderveen K,Strickler MD,Markham GD,Goldstein BM

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis during human development relies on the interplay between physiochemical cues that are mediated in part by cellular density and cytoskeletal tension. Here, we interrogated these factors on vascular lineage specification during human-induced pluripotent stem-cell (hiPSC) fate decision. We found that indepe...

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

authors： Smith Q,Rochman N,Carmo AM,Vig D,Chan XY,Sun S,Gerecht S

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a hybridoma cell line secreting a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to the surfaces of oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells, the cells involved in myelin formation in the central and peripheral nervous systems, respectively. Binding studies using purified sphingolipids showed that this antibo...

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

authors： Ranscht B,Clapshaw PA,Price J,Noble M,Seifert W

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the occurrence of epistasis and pleiotropy is widely accepted at the molecular level, its effect on the adaptive value of fitness-related genes is rarely investigated in plants. Knowledge of these features of a gene is critical to understand the molecular basis of adaptive evolution. Here we investigate the i...

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

authors： Scarcelli N,Cheverud JM,Schaal BA,Kover PX

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic polyketides make up a large class of natural products with diverse bioactivity. During biosynthesis, linear poly-β-ketone intermediates are regiospecifically cyclized, yielding molecules with defined cyclization patterns that are crucial for polyketide bioactivity. The aromatase/cyclases (ARO/CYCs) are respon...

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

authors： Caldara-Festin G,Jackson DR,Barajas JF,Valentic TR,Patel AB,Aguilar S,Nguyen M,Vo M,Khanna A,Sasaki E,Liu HW,Tsai SC

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible relationship between the susceptibility of cells to differentiation induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and the subcellular translocation of calcium- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) activity from the cytosol to the membrane. These two events were a...

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

authors： Homma Y,Henning-Chubb CB,Huberman E

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curved DNA molecules and unusually small circles have been obtained by ligation of synthetic 21-base precursors: (sequence in text). The ligation resulted in the formation of double-stranded oligo-(precursor)s possessing a strong 10.5-base-pair (bp) periodicity of the runs of adenines. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide g...

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

authors： Ulanovsky L,Bodner M,Trifonov EN,Choder M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamines, including dopamine (DA), have been linked to aggression in various species. However, the precise role or roles served by the amine in aggression have been difficult to define because dopaminergic systems influence many behaviors, and all can be altered by changing the function of dopaminergic neurons. In t...

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

authors： Alekseyenko OV,Chan YB,Li R,Kravitz EA

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated patterns of genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum associated with its two main African vectors: Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. We dissected 10,296 wild-caught mosquitoes from three tropical sites, two in Cameroon (Simbock and Tibati, separated by 320 km) and one in Kenya (Rota, >2,000 k...

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

authors： Annan Z,Durand P,Ayala FJ,Arnathau C,Awono-Ambene P,Simard F,Razakandrainibe FG,Koella JC,Fontenille D,Renaud F

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix of second derivatives of 21 apparent local energy minima of deca-L-alanine has been computed. The results show that all these conformations are true local energy minima and, therefore, potentially stable conformations for this peptide. Calculations of the relative statistical weights of these conformations ...

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

authors： Gibson KD,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature optic nerve cannot regenerate when injured, leaving victims of traumatic nerve damage or diseases such as glaucoma with irreversible visual losses. Recent studies have identified ways to stimulate retinal ganglion cells to regenerate axons part-way through the optic nerve, but it remains unknown whether mat...

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

authors： de Lima S,Koriyama Y,Kurimoto T,Oliveira JT,Yin Y,Li Y,Gilbert HY,Fagiolini M,Martinez AM,Benowitz L

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calls for the eradication of malaria require the development of global and regional strategies based on a strong and consistent evidence base. Evidence from the previous global malaria eradication program and more recent transborder control campaigns have shown the importance of accounting for human movement in introd...

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

authors： Tatem AJ,Smith DL

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of a steadily growing number of tumor antigens (TAs) has made generic, cell-free, peptide-based cancer vaccines a possible alternative to cytokine-transfected autologous cellular cancer vaccines. The major drawback of peptide vaccines, however, is the poor immunogenicity of peptides. It is commonly thoug...

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

authors： Buschle M,Schmidt W,Zauner W,Mechtler K,Trska B,Kirlappos H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In confluent fibroblast monolayers, an increase in the selective uptake of free cholesterol (FC) from plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL) was accompanied by an increase in FC efflux. The rate of FC efflux was proportional to the FC content of the cell surface caveolae and to mRNA levels of caveolin, an FC-binding pro...

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

authors： Fielding CJ,Bist A,Fielding PE

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokines interleukin (IL) 4 and IL-13 induce many of the same biological responses, including class switching to IgE and induction of major histocompatibility complex class II antigens and CD23 on human B cells. It has recently been shown that IL-4 induces the tyrosine phosphorylation of a 170-kDa protein, a subs...

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

authors： Keegan AD,Johnston JA,Tortolani PJ,McReynolds LJ,Kinzer C,O'Shea JJ,Paul WE

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that the T-cell compartment has more CD4 helper than CD8 cytotoxic T cells, and this is most evident looking at T-cell development in the thymus. However, it remains unknown how thymocyte development so favors CD4 lineage development. To identify the basis of this asymmetry, we analyzed dev...

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

authors： Sinclair C,Bains I,Yates AJ,Seddon B

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Orai1 and stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) mediate store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) in immune cells. STIM1, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor, detects store depletion and interacts with plasma membrane (PM)-resident Orai1 channels at the ER-PM junctions. However, the molecular composition of these ju...

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

authors： Woo JS,Srikanth S,Nishi M,Ping P,Takeshima H,Gwack Y

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase 6 is a polymorphic carboxylesterase (carboxylic-ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1) localized to the reproductive tract of male Drosophila melanogaster and transferred to females at copulation. The reproductive fitness of males is strongly affected by temperature and the esterase 6 alleles (active versus null) that ...

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

authors： Gilbert DG,Richmond RC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data reported here demonstrate that a preparation extracted from nonpathogenic mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and hereafter referred to as interphase material protected mice against Ehrlich ascitic carcinoma, L-1210 leukemia, and another syngeneic lymphoid leukemia. Furthermore, mice treated by this ...

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

authors： Lamensans A,Chedid L,Lederer E,Rosselet JP,Gustafson RH,Spencer HJ,Ludwig B,Berger FM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrachromosomal copies of the 1.6-kilobase transposable element Tc1 are present at the level of between 0.1 and 1.0 copy per cell in Caenorhabditis elegans strain Bergerac. Extrachromosomal elements were detected and studied using Southern hybridizations employing a Tc1-specific probe. The amount of extrachromosomal ...

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

authors： Ruan K,Emmons SW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron metabolism caused by common mutations in the gene HFE. The HFE protein binds to transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) in competition with transferrin, and in vitro, reduces cellular iron by reducing iron uptake. However, in vivo, HFE is strongly expressed by liver macropha...

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

authors： Drakesmith H,Sweetland E,Schimanski L,Edwards J,Cowley D,Ashraf M,Bastin J,Townsend AR

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike αβ-T lineage cells, where the role of ligand in intrathymic selection is well established, the role of ligand in the development of γδ-T cells remains controversial. Here we provide evidence for the role of a bona fide selecting ligand in shaping the γδ-T cell-receptor (TCR) repertoire. Reactivity of the γδ-TCR...

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

authors： Fahl SP,Coffey F,Kain L,Zarin P,Dunbrack RL Jr,Teyton L,Zúñiga-Pflücker JC,Kappes DJ,Wiest DL

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After males of Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) have first been exposed to a conspecific female, the attractiveness of a second female diminishes with increasing genealogical relationship between the two females. The most parsimonious explanation for this is a polygenically controlled female sex pheromo...

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

authors： Smith BH

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HOX11, a divergent homeodomain-containing transcription factor, was isolated from the breakpoint of the nonrandom t(10;14)(q24;q11) chromosome translocation found in human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias. The translocation places the HOX11 coding sequence under the transcriptional control of TCR alpha/delta regul...

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

authors： Hough MR,Reis MD,Singaraja R,Bryce DM,Kamel-Reid S,Dardick I,Breitman ML,Dubé ID

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, a rhizosphere-inhabiting bacterium that suppresses several soilborne pathogens of plants, produces the antibiotics pyrrolnitrin, pyoluteorin, and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol. A gene necessary for pyrrolnitrin production by Pf-5 was identified as rpoS, which encodes the stationary-phase sig...

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

authors： Sarniguet A,Kraus J,Henkels MD,Muehlchen AM,Loper JE

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We define an integer invariant [Formula: see text] of a smooth, compact, closed 4-manifold X by minimizing a certain complexity of a trisection of X over all trisections. The good feature of [Formula: see text] is that when [Formula: see text] and X is a homology 4-sphere, then X is diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere. Natu...

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

authors： Kirby R,Thompson A

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezrin plays a key role in coupling signal transduction to cortical cell organization. This actin-membrane linker undergoes a series of conformational changes that modulate its interactions with various partners and its localization in membrane or cytosolic pools. Its mobility and exchange rates within and between thes...

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

authors： Coscoy S,Waharte F,Gautreau A,Martin M,Louvard D,Mangeat P,Arpin M,Amblard F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00