Dichotomy and perceptual distortions in absolute pitch ability.

abstract：:Using brain transcriptomic profiles from 853 individual honey bees exhibiting 48 distinct behavioral phenotypes in naturalistic contexts, we report that behavior-specific neurogenomic states can be inferred from the coordinated action of transcription factors (TFs) and their predicted target genes. Unsupervised hierar...

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

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Ament SA,Eddy JA,Rodriguez-Zas SL,Schatz BR,Price ND,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photosensitizer conjugate, chlorin e6 (Ce6) covalently bound to 1-micron-diameter polystyrene microspheres, has been investigated in the photodynamic destruction of MGH-U1 human bladder carcinoma cells in vitro. The microspheres were taken up avidly by the carcinoma cells; confocal laser scanning fluorescence micros...

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

authors： Bachor R,Shea CR,Gillies R,Hasan T

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of adenosine and adenosine analogs on adenylate cyclases from several tissues have been examined. Two adenosine-reactive sites have been identified: (i) the "R" site, occupancy of which usually leads to activation of cyclase and which requires integrity of the ribose ring for activity, and (ii) the "P" sit...

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

authors： Londos C,Wolff J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the partial purification of an endonuclease from calf thymus that nicks phage PM2 DNA irradiated with UV doses producing only a few pyrimidine dimers per molecule. It has much less activity on DNA that has been subjected to enzymatic photoreactivation after UV irradiation. The calf thymus endonuclease is d...

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

authors： Waldstein EA,Peller S,Setlow RB

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States. The two main virulence factors of C. difficile are the large toxins, TcdA and TcdB, which enter colonic epithelial cells and cause fluid secretion, inflammation, and cell death. Using a gene-trap insertional mutagenesis scre...

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

authors： LaFrance ME,Farrow MA,Chandrasekaran R,Sheng J,Rubin DH,Lacy DB

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy is currently being pursued as a treatment for the monogenic disorder α-1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency. Results from phase I and II studies have shown relatively stable and dose-dependent increases in transgene-derived wild-type AAT after local intramuscular vector adm...

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

authors： Calcedo R,Somanathan S,Qin Q,Betts MR,Rech AJ,Vonderheide RH,Mueller C,Flotte TR,Wilson JM

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Primitive cells capable of generating small resistance arterioles and capillary structures in the injured myocardium have been identified repeatedly. However, these cells do not form large conductive coronary arteries that would have important implications in the management of the ischemic heart. In the current study,...

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

authors： Bearzi C,Leri A,Lo Monaco F,Rota M,Gonzalez A,Hosoda T,Pepe M,Qanud K,Ojaimi C,Bardelli S,D'Amario D,D'Alessandro DA,Michler RE,Dimmeler S,Zeiher AM,Urbanek K,Hintze TH,Kajstura J,Anversa P

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing autoreactive B cells edit their B cell antigen receptor (BCR) in the bone marrow and are clonally deleted when they fail to reexpress an innocent BCR. Here, inducible Cre-loxP-mediated gene inversion is used to change the specificity of the BCR on mature IgM+ IgD+ B cells in vivo to address the fate of lymp...

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

authors： Lam KP,Rajewsky K

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of divalent ionophores (A23187 and ionomycin), Ca2+ channel agonist (BAY K 8644), and protein kinase C (C-kinase) activators [phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), mezerein] on bovine tracheal smooth muscle contraction were investigated. A23187 (5 microM) and ionomycin (0.5 microM) produced a prompt but t...

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

authors： Park S,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop species experienced strong selective pressure directed at genes controlling traits of agronomic importance during their domestication and subsequent episodes of selective breeding. Consequently, these genes are expected to exhibit the signature of selection. We screened 501 maize genes for the signature of select...

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

authors： Vigouroux Y,McMullen M,Hittinger CT,Houchins K,Schulz L,Kresovich S,Matsuoka Y,Doebley J

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the rice transcription factor, REB (rice endosperm bZIP) was cloned from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of rice. The cloned 6,227-bp-long Reb gene is composed of six exons and five introns and is flanked by a 1.2-kb 5' promoter and a 1.2-kb 3' terminator region. The function of the Reb gen...

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

authors： Yang D,Wu L,Hwang YS,Chen L,Huang N

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonicated rabbit-liver chromatin is fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography on ECTHAM-cellulose, a weakly cationic adsorbent. The chromatographic procedure provides a series of fractions having a spectrum of thermal denaturation profiles. The earliest-eluting fractions melt cooperatively at a significantly higher ...

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

authors： Reeck GR,Simpson RT,Sober HA

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells irradiated with high doses of UV exhibit cell-cycle responses referred to as G(1)/S, intraS, and G(2)/M checkpoints. After a moderate UV dose that approximates sunlight exposure and is lethal to fission yeast checkpoint mutants, we found unexpectedly that these cell-cycle responses do not occur. Inste...

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

authors： Callegari AJ,Kelly TJ

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Si...

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

authors： Tackney JC,Potter BA,Raff J,Powers M,Watkins WS,Warner D,Reuther JD,Irish JD,O'Rourke DH

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA binding protein (TBP) and at least eight TBP-associated factors (TAFs). As TAFs are required for activated but not basal transcription, we have proposed that TAFs act as coactivators to mediate signals between activators and the basal transcription machinery. Here we report ...

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

authors： Klemm RD,Goodrich JA,Zhou S,Tjian R

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of color categories in the world's languages is contested. One major view holds that color categories are organized around universal focal colors, whereas an opposing view holds instead that categories are defined at their boundaries by linguistic convention. Both of these standardly opposed views are chall...

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

authors： Regier T,Kay P,Khetarpal N

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator activity associated with the common male recombination (MR) chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster appears to be suppressed in natural populations. Crosses between geographically separated populations, however, lead to the release of mutator activity as measured by a significant increase in visible mutations. ...

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

authors： Thompson JN Jr,Woodruff RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ediacara biota include macroscopic, morphologically complex soft-bodied organisms that appear globally in the late Ediacaran Period (575-542 Ma). The physiology, feeding strategies, and functional morphology of the modular Ediacara organisms (rangeomorphs and erniettomorphs) remain debated but are critical for und...

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

authors： Laflamme M,Xiao S,Kowalewski M

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria use acyl homoserine lactone signals to monitor cell density in a type of gene regulation termed quorum sensing and response. Synthesis of these signals is directed by homologs of the luxi gene of Vibrio fischeri. This communication resolves two critical issues concerning the synthesis of the V. fischeri ...

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

authors： Schaefer AL,Val DL,Hanzelka BL,Cronan JE Jr,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic level characterization of proteins and other macromolecules in the living cell is challenging. Recent advances in NMR instrumentation and methods, however, have enabled in-cell studies with prospects for multidimensional spectral characterization of individual macromolecular components. We present NMR data on t...

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

authors： Augustus AM,Reardon PN,Spicer LD

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease tolerance, the capacity of tissues to withstand damage caused by a stimulus without a decline in host fitness, varies across tissues, environmental conditions, and physiologic states. While disease tolerance is a known strategy of host defense, its role in noninfectious diseases has been understudied. Here, we...

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

authors： Man K,Bowman C,Braverman KN,Escalante V,Tian Y,Bisanz JE,Ganeshan K,Wang B,Patterson A,Bayrer JR,Turnbaugh PJ,Chawla A

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle (Calvin cycle) catalyzes virtually all primary productivity on Earth and is the major sink for atmospheric CO(2). A less appreciated function of CO(2) fixation is as an electron-accepting process. It is known that anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria require the Calvin cycle to accept elect...

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

authors： McKinlay JB,Harwood CS

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screening is the most powerful method through which to uncover gene function. It has been applied very successfully in lower organisms but seldom attempted in mammalian species because of their long generation time. In this study, we exploit RNA interference (RNAi) for its potential use in genetic screening in...

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

authors： Peng S,York JP,Zhang P

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) signaling in vascular cells can have antiatherogenic consequences, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. TNFalpha is released by free cholesterol-loaded apoptotic macrophages, and the clearance of these cells by phagocytic macrophages may help to...

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

authors： Gerbod-Giannone MC,Li Y,Holleboom A,Han S,Hsu LC,Tabas I,Tall AR

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer therapies using genes and other macromolecules might realize their full clinical potential if they could be delivered to tumor tissue in optimal quantities. Unfortunately, the compromised circulation within tumors poses a formidable resistance to adequate and uniform penetration of these agents. Previously, we ...

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

authors： Netti PA,Hamberg LM,Babich JW,Kierstead D,Graham W,Hunter GJ,Wolf GL,Fischman A,Boucher Y,Jain RK

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular hemoglobin of Ascaris has an extremely high oxygen affinity (P50 = 0.004 mmHg). It consists of eight identical subunits of molecular weight 40,600. Their sequence, determined by protein chemistry, shows two tandemly linked globin-like sequences and an 18-residue C-terminal extension. Two N-linked gly...

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

authors： De Baere I,Liu L,Moens L,Van Beeumen J,Gielens C,Richelle J,Trotman C,Finch J,Gerstein M,Perutz M

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI based on blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast is well established as a neuroimaging technique for detecting neural activity in the cortex of the human brain. While detection and characterization of BOLD signals, as well as their electrophysiological and hemodynamic/metabolic origins, have b...

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

authors： Ding Z,Huang Y,Bailey SK,Gao Y,Cutting LE,Rogers BP,Newton AT,Gore JC

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between mutations in the tumor-suppressor genes Apc and p53 was studied in congenic mouse strains to minimize the influence of polymorphic modifiers. The multiplicity and invasiveness of intestinal adenomas of Apc(Min/+) (Min) mice was enhanced by deficiency for p53. In addition, the occurrence of desm...

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

authors： Halberg RB,Katzung DS,Hoff PD,Moser AR,Cole CE,Lubet RA,Donehower LA,Jacoby RF,Dove WF

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To some extent, the genetic theory of adaptive evolution in bacteria is a simple extension of that developed for sexually reproducing eukaryotes. In other, fundamental ways, the process of adaptive evolution in bacteria is quantitatively and qualitatively different from that of organisms for which recombination is an ...

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

authors： Levin BR,Bergstrom CT

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00