Musicians have enhanced subcortical auditory and audiovisual processing of speech and music.

abstract：:In recent years, a large body of research has demonstrated that judgments and behaviors can propagate from person to person. Phenomena as diverse as political mobilization, health practices, altruism, and emotional states exhibit similar dynamics of social contagion. The precise mechanisms of judgment propagation are ...

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

authors： Moussaïd M,Herzog SM,Kämmer JE,Hertwig R

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical deforestation for the establishment of tree cash crop plantations causes significant alterations to soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics. Despite this recognition, the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tier 1 method has a SOC change factor of 1 (no SOC loss) for conversion of forests to p...

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

authors： van Straaten O,Corre MD,Wolf K,Tchienkoua M,Cuellar E,Matthews RB,Veldkamp E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a tryptophan synthase gene and the flanking 5' and 3' regions has been determined for Arabidopsis thaliana. The sequence encodes only the beta subunit domain, indicating that alpha and beta subunits are specified by separate genes. The gene contains four introns and encodes 470 amino acid residues....

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

authors： Berlyn MB,Last RL,Fink GR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors mediate biological signals by stimulating nucleotide exchange in heterotrimeric G proteins (Galphabetagamma). Receptor dimers have been proposed as the functional unit responsible for catalytic interaction with Galphabetagamma. To investigate whether a G protein-coupled receptor monomer can...

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

authors： Ernst OP,Gramse V,Kolbe M,Hofmann KP,Heck M

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted symbionts that protect their hosts against parasites and pathogens are well known from insects, yet the underlying mechanisms of symbiont-mediated defense are largely unclear. A striking example of an ecologically important defensive symbiosis involves the woodland fly Drosophila neotestacea, wh...

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

authors： Hamilton PT,Peng F,Boulanger MJ,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although sexual selection theory has proved successful in explaining a wide array of male ornaments, the function of ornaments occurring in females is largely unknown. Traditionally, female ornaments have been considered nonfunctional, being merely a genetically correlated response to selection for male ornamentation....

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

authors： Amundsen T,Forsgren E

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for the RNA-dependent eIF-2 alpha protein kinase (PKR) was isolated from mouse genomic DNA and characterized. The mouse PKR gene contains 16 exons and spans about 28 kilobase pairs. Exon 1 is untranslated; the AUG translation initiation site is located early in the second exon. Exon 16 includes the UAG transl...

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

authors： Tanaka H,Samuel CE

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat adrenal mitochondria accumulated cholesterol during ether stress in vivo when side-chain cleavage was inhibited by aminoglutethimide (control = 14.6 vs. aminoglutethimide = 26.5 micrograms of cholesterol per mg of protein). This accumulation was insensitive to simultaneous administration of cycloheximide (24.2 mic...

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

authors： Privalle CT,Crivello JF,Jefcoate CR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant myeloid leukemic cells and normal macrophages and granulocytes have functional beta-adrenergic receptors, which have been quantitated by radioreceptor binding with the beta-adrenergic antagonist [(3)H]dihydroalprenolol and by induction of cyclic AMP by adrenergic hormones. Both the normal and leukemic cells ...

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

authors： Simantov R,Sachs L

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system (MICOS) is a multisubunit protein complex that is essential for the proper architecture of the mitochondrial inner membrane. MICOS plays a key role in establishing and maintaining crista junctions, tubular or slit-like structures that connect the cristae mem...

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

authors： Pape JK,Stephan T,Balzarotti F,Büchner R,Lange F,Riedel D,Jakobs S,Hell SW

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed for the infectious agents that cause human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and sheep scrapie. Purified proteins and extracted nucleic acids are not infectious. To further identify the critical molecular components of the CJD agent, 120S infectious material with reduced prion protein (...

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

authors： Manuelidis L,Sklaviadis T,Akowitz A,Fritch W

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work has shown that mitochondrial proteins synthesized in the cytosol are initially made as larger precursors which are then transferred into the organelles and processed to their mature size in the absence of protein synthesis. It is now demonstrated that depletion of the mitochondrial matrix ATP in intact ye...

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

authors： Nelson N,Schatz G

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Island biogeography theory posits that species richness increases with island size and decreases with isolation. This logic underpins much conservation policy and regulation, with preference given to conserving large, highly connected areas, and relative ambivalence shown toward protecting small, isolated habitat patc...

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

authors： Wintle BA,Kujala H,Whitehead A,Cameron A,Veloz S,Kukkala A,Moilanen A,Gordon A,Lentini PE,Cadenhead NCR,Bekessy SA

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiosperm reproduction is characterized by alternate diploid sporophytic and haploid gametophytic generations. Gametogenesis shares similarities with that of animals except for the formation of the gametophyte, whereby haploid cells undergo several rounds of postmeiotic mitosis to form gametes and the accessory cells...

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

authors： Park GT,Frost JM,Park JS,Kim TH,Lee JS,Oh SA,Twell D,Brooks JS,Fischer RL,Choi Y

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptor SET domain containing protein 2 (NSD2) catalyzes the methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 (H3K36). It is a determinant in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and is overexpressed in human multiple myeloma. Despite the relevance of NSD2 to cancer, there are no potent, selective inhibitors of this enzyme reported. ...

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

authors： Poulin MB,Schneck JL,Matico RE,McDevitt PJ,Huddleston MJ,Hou W,Johnson NW,Thrall SH,Meek TD,Schramm VL

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring evolutionary relationships among highly divergent protein sequences is a daunting task. In particular, when pairwise sequence alignments between protein sequences fall <25% identity, the phylogenetic relationships among sequences cannot be estimated with statistical certainty. Here, we show that phylogenetic...

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

authors： Chang GS,Hong Y,Ko KD,Bhardwaj G,Holmes EC,Patterson RL,van Rossum DB

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of embryo implantation accounts for a significant percentage of female infertility. Exquisitely coordinated molecular programs govern the interaction between the competent blastocyst and the receptive uterus. Decidualization, the rapid proliferation and differentiation of endometrial stromal cells into decidua...

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

authors： Haller M,Yin Y,Ma L

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The pore domain of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels consists of transmembrane helices S5 and S6, the turret, the pore helix, the selectivity filter, and the loop preceding S6, with a tertiary reentrant structure between S5 and S6. Using biogenic intermediates, mass tagging (pegylation), and a molecular tape measu...

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

authors： Gajewski C,Dagcan A,Roux B,Deutsch C

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are mammalian proteins (PrPs) with a unique pathogenic property: a nonendogenous isoform PrP(Sc) can catalyze conversion of the endogenous PrP(C) isoform into additional PrP(Sc). In this work, we demonstrate that PrP(C) helix 1 has certain properties (hydrophilicity, charge distribution) that make it unique amo...

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

authors： Morrissey MP,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult cardiomyocytes are irreversibly postmitotic but respond to a variety of stimuli by hypertrophic growth, which is associated with an increase in cell size and protein content, organization of sarcomeres, and activation of a fetal gene program. Recently, we described a novel cardiac helicase activated by MEF2 prot...

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

authors： Liu ZP,Olson EN

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent expeditions to the Fayum Depression, Egypt, have made possible the discovery of mandibles and a maxilla of a new genus and species of late Eocene elephant-shrew as well as initial evidence of the upper dentition of the early Oligocene taxon Metoldobotes. These fossils demonstrate that macroscelideans underwent ...

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

authors： Simons EL,Holroyd PA,Bown TM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:McKay et al. [(1996) Science 273, 924-930] suggested that carbonate globules in the meteorite ALH84001 contained the fossil remains of Martian microbes. We have characterized a subpopulation of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) crystals present in abundance within the Fe-rich rims of these carbonate globules. We find these Martia...

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

authors： Thomas-Keprta KL,Clemett SJ,Bazylinski DA,Kirschvink JL,McKay DS,Wentworth SJ,Vali H,Gibson EK Jr,McKay MF,Romanek CS

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the earliest and most important stages during tumorigenesis is the activation of the angiogenic process, an event that is termed the "switch to the angiogenic phenotype." We have developed an in vivo system that can reliably recapitulate the stages in tumor development that represent this transition. Using this ...

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

authors： Fang J,Shing Y,Wiederschain D,Yan L,Butterfield C,Jackson G,Harper J,Tamvakopoulos G,Moses MA

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced structural remodeling in the adult hippocampus, involving debranching and shortening of dendrites and suppression of neurogenesis, provides a cellular basis for understanding the impairment of neural plasticity in the human hippocampus in depressive illness. Accordingly, reversal of structural remodelin...

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

authors： Czéh B,Michaelis T,Watanabe T,Frahm J,de Biurrun G,van Kampen M,Bartolomucci A,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is ubiquitous in cancer, and its phenotypes are inevitably dominant and abnormal. In view of these facts we recently proposed that aneuploidy is sufficient for carcinogenesis generating cancer-specific aneusomies via a chain reaction of autocatalytic aneuploidizations. According to this hypothesis a carcino...

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

authors： Fabarius A,Willer A,Yerganian G,Hehlmann R,Duesberg P

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP activates a family of cell surface receptors that modulate signaling pathways in a broad range of cells. ADP receptor antagonists are widely used to treat cardiovascular disease states. These studies identify a critical role for the stable reactive oxygen species hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in mediating cellular resp...

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

authors： Kalwa H,Sartoretto JL,Martinelli R,Romero N,Steinhorn BS,Tao M,Ozaki CK,Carman CV,Michel T

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals are typically colonized by diverse bacterial symbionts, many of which are commensal and, in numerous cases, even essential for their host's proper development and growth. In exchange, the host must supply a sufficient array and quantity of nutrients to support the proliferation and persistence of its microbial...

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

authors： Graf J,Ruby EG

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in the study of human language acquisition centers around apportioning explanatory force between the experience of the learner and the core knowledge that allows learners to represent that experience. We provide a previously unidentified kind of data identifying children's contribution to langua...

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

authors： Han CH,Musolino J,Lidz J

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic microbes impact the severity of a variety of diseases through regulation of T-cell development. However, little is known regarding the molecular mechanisms by which this is accomplished. Here we report that a secreted factor, Erdr1, is regulated by the microbiota to control T-cell apoptosis. Erdr1 expression...

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

authors： Soto R,Petersen C,Novis CL,Kubinak JL,Bell R,Stephens WZ,Lane TE,Fujinami RS,Bosque A,O'Connell RM,Round JL

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin acts as a potent inhibitory factor against obesity by regulating energy expenditure, food intake, and adiposity. The obese diabetic db/db mouse, which has defects in leptin receptor, displays enhanced neural responses and elevated behavioral preference to sweet stimuli. Here, we show the effects of leptin on th...

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

authors： Kawai K,Sugimoto K,Nakashima K,Miura H,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00