Myocardin is a bifunctional switch for smooth versus skeletal muscle differentiation.

abstract：:Degeneracy, the ability of elements that are structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same output, is a well known characteristic of the genetic code and immune systems. Here, we point out that degeneracy is a ubiquitous biological property and argue that it is a feature of complexity at geneti...

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

authors： Edelman GM,Gally JA

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic comparison of crystal structures of nine different B-DNA dodecamers, in three different space groups, with and without A-tracts, shows that crystal packing or lattice forces are of secondary importance for helix axis bending, minor-groove width, and propeller twist. While other local helix parameters may ...

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

authors： Dickerson RE,Goodsell DS,Neidle S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch-signaling pathway controls cellular differentiation, including proliferation and cell death in all higher metazoans (including flies and men). Signal transduction through activated Notch involves the CSL group of transcriptional regulators. Notch signals need to be tightly regulated, and in Drosophila they a...

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

authors： Maier D,Nagel AC,Preiss A

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shows that proteins display an unexpectedly wide range of behaviors in buffers containing moderate (0.1-10 mM) concentrations of SDS (complete unfolding, formation of stable intermediate states, specific association with SDS, and various kinetic phenomena); capillary electrophoresis provides a convenient me...

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

authors： Gudiksen KL,Gitlin I,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Monte Carlo methods to treat statistical problem of electrostatic interactions among many titrating amino acids and applied these methods to lysozyme and the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, including all titrating sites. We computed the average protonation of residues as a function o...

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

authors： Beroza P,Fredkin DR,Okamura MY,Feher G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the preparation and structural analysis of ordered tubular arrays of the actin-DNase I complex. These structures consist of helically stacked rings; each ring is 73 A thick, has a 240 A outer and a 120 A inner diameter, and has 7-fold rotational symmetry. The actin-DNase I complex forms tubes under conditi...

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

authors： Fowler WE,Buhle EL,Aebi U

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cardiovascular mortality occurs in diabetic patients with or without coronary artery disease and is attributed to the presence of diabetic cardiomyopathy. One potential mechanism is hyperglycemia that has been reported to activate protein kinase C (PKC), preferentially the beta isoform, which has been associ...

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

authors： Wakasaki H,Koya D,Schoen FJ,Jirousek MR,Ways DK,Hoit BD,Walsh RA,King GL

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than a decade of experiments generating and studying the physics of quantized vortices in atomic gas Bose-Einstein condensates, research is beginning to focus on the roles of vortices in quantum turbulence, as well as other measures of quantum turbulence in atomic condensates. Such research directions have ...

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

authors： White AC,Anderson BP,Bagnato VS

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges an...

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

authors： Danziger S,Levav J,Avnaim-Pesso L

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanation of a process of development must ultimately be couched in the terms of the genomic regulatory code. Specification of an embryonic cell lineage is driven by a network of interactions among genes encoding transcription factors. Here, we present the gene regulatory network (GRN) that directs the specification...

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

authors： Oliveri P,Tu Q,Davidson EH

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels and subcellular distribution of connexin 43 (Cx43), a gap junction protein, were studied in hamster leukocytes before and after activation with endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) both in vitro and in vivo. Untreated leukocytes did not express Cx43. However, Cx43 was clearly detectable by indirect immunofluores...

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

authors： Jara PI,Boric MP,Sáez JC

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is one of the most common posttranslational modifications to occur in protein biosynthesis, yet its effect on the thermodynamics and kinetics of proteins is poorly understood. A minimalist model based on the native protein topology, in which each amino acid and sugar ring was represented by a single bead...

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

authors： Shental-Bechor D,Levy Y

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Language and analytic processing are currently thought to be represented in the left hemisphere, whereas spatial and holistic processing would involve primarily the right hemisphere in man. An experimental paradigm for engaging the nonlanguage hemisphere (generally the right) is described. This involves active touch e...

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

authors： Desmedt JE

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter size and mammary number in the mammalian order Rodentia show a significant positive correlation. Mean litter size is typically one-half the number of available mammaries, while maximum litter size approximates mammary number. Similar relationships are found in the families Muridae, Cricetidae, and Sciuridae. Th...

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

authors： Gilbert AN

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking research funding is an essential part of academic life. Funded projects are primarily collaborative in nature through internal and external partnerships, but what role does funding play in the formulation of these partnerships? Here, by examining over 43,000 scientific projects funded over the past three decad...

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

authors： Ma A,Mondragón RJ,Latora V

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA toroids produced by the condensation of lambda phage DNA with hexammine cobalt (III) have been investigated by cryoelectron microscopy. Image resolution obtained by this technique has allowed unprecedented views of DNA packing within toroidal condensates. Toroids oriented coplanar with the microscope image plane e...

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

authors： Hud NV,Downing KH

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that, under certain standard assumptions, such as extended Riemann hypotheses, the scattering matrix varphi(s) for generic Gamma

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

authors： Deshouillers JM,Iwaniec H,Phillips RS,Sarnak P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl groups placed on varphiXsB1 replicative form DNA by the Escherichia coli B modification enzyme are located in the overlap between fragments Mbo II-3 and Alu I-2, a 61-base-pair DNA segment. Mutations that led to loss of susceptibility to restriction by E. coli B occurred within this segment at three positions s...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Kan NC,Lackey D,Linn S,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic extraskeletal bone formation, or heterotopic ossification (HO), occurs following mechanical trauma, burns, orthopedic operations, and in patients with hyperactivating mutations of the type I bone morphogenetic protein receptor ACVR1 (Activin type 1 receptor). Extraskeletal bone forms through an endochondral...

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

authors： Agarwal S,Loder S,Brownley C,Cholok D,Mangiavini L,Li J,Breuler C,Sung HH,Li S,Ranganathan K,Peterson J,Tompkins R,Herndon D,Xiao W,Jumlongras D,Olsen BR,Davis TA,Mishina Y,Schipani E,Levi B

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The local conformations of proteins and peptides are determined by the amino acid sequence. However, the 20 amino acids encoded by the genome allow the peptide backbone to fold into many conformations, so that even for a small peptide it becomes very difficult to predict the three-dimensional structure. By using empir...

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

authors： Burgess AW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cancer cells that had had high (greater than 160) tissue culture passages, when transplanted into antithymocyte-treated F344 newborn rats, caused induction of rat sarcomas in the rats within 2 or 3 subcultures, whereas human cancer cells with low (5-33) passages in vitro did not cause overt induction of rat sarc...

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

authors： Huebner RJ,Fish DC,Djurickovic D,Trimmer RW,Bare AL,Bare RM,Smith GT

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Drosophila non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons actively transpose into internal, gene-rich regions of chromosomes but do not transpose onto chromosome ends. HeT-A and TART are remarkable exceptions; they form telomeres of Drosophila by repeated transpositions onto the ends of chromosomes and never tra...

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

authors： Rashkova S,Karam SE,Pardue ML

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of insect resistance to pesticides poses a continuing threat to agriculture and human health. While much is known about the proximate molecular and biochemical mechanisms that confer resistance, far less is known about the regulation of the specific genes/gene families involved, particularly by trans-act...

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

authors： Yang X,Deng S,Wei X,Yang J,Zhao Q,Yin C,Du T,Guo Z,Xia J,Yang Z,Xie W,Wang S,Wu Q,Yang F,Zhou X,Nauen R,Bass C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-73 cDNA was shown to encode a kinesin heavy chain protein that contains an N-terminal motor domain and a long central region that lacks extensive coiled-coils. The amino acid sequence of the motor domain of kinesin-73 protein is most closely related to the motor domains of Caenorhabditis elegans unc-104 and mo...

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

authors： Li HP,Liu ZM,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that rrn P1 promoters require unusually high concentrations of the initiating nucleoside triphosphates (ATP or GTP, depending on the promoter) for maximal transcription in vitro. We proposed that this requirement for high initiating NTP concentrations contributes to control of the rrn P1 promoters...

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

authors： Schneider DA,Gaal T,Gourse RL

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:TREK channels produce background currents that regulate cell excitability. These channels are sensitive to a wide variety of stimuli including polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), phospholipids, mechanical stretch, and intracellular acidification. They are inhibited by neurotransmitters, hormones, and pharmacological ...

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

authors： Sandoz G,Bell SC,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-assimilating organisms reduce inorganic sulfate for Cys biosynthesis. There are two leading hypotheses for the mechanism of sulfate reduction in higher plants. In one, adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) (5'-adenylysulfate) sulfotransferase carries out reductive transfer of sulfate from APS to reduced glutathion...

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

authors： Setya A,Murillo M,Leustek T

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with primary (AL) cardiac amyloidosis suffer from progressive cardiomyopathy with a median survival of less than 8 months and a 5-year survival of <10%. Contributing to this poor prognosis is the fact that these patients generally do not tolerate standard heart failure therapies. The molecular mechanisms unde...

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

authors： Shi J,Guan J,Jiang B,Brenner DA,Del Monte F,Ward JE,Connors LH,Sawyer DB,Semigran MJ,Macgillivray TE,Seldin DC,Falk R,Liao R

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously developed a biological containment system using recombinant Salmonella Typhimurium strains that are attenuated yet capable of synthesizing protective antigens. The regulated delayed attenuation and programmed self-destructing features designed into these S. Typhimurium strains enable them to efficiently ...

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

authors： Kong W,Brovold M,Koeneman BA,Clark-Curtiss J,Curtiss R 3rd

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression is usually separated into cis and trans components. The separation may become artificial if much of the variation in expression is under multigenic and epistatic (e.g., cis-by-trans) control. There is hence a need to quantify the relative contribution of cis, trans, and cis-by-trans effec...

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

authors： Wang HY,Fu Y,McPeek MS,Lu X,Nuzhdin S,Xu A,Lu J,Wu ML,Wu CI

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00