Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly.

abstract：:We develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that exhibits a wide range of GFP expression levels under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy provides data about short-term fluctuations in promoter activity, and ...

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

authors： Sisan DR,Halter M,Hubbard JB,Plant AL

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We found that 3 independent measures of mitochondrial function-mitochondrial oxidation, membrane potential, and mitochondri...

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

authors： Du J,Wang Y,Hunter R,Wei Y,Blumenthal R,Falke C,Khairova R,Zhou R,Yuan P,Machado-Vieira R,McEwen BS,Manji HK

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 methylations. Herein, we report a strategy for the site-specific chemical attachment of ubiquitin to preassembled nucleosomes. This allowed ...

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

authors： Holt MT,David Y,Pollock S,Tang Z,Jeon J,Kim J,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the compositions of the Earth and chondritic meteorites is at the center of many important debates. A basic assumption in most models for the Earth's composition is that the refractory elements are present in chondritic proportions relative to each other. This assumption is now challenged by r...

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

authors： Huang S,Jacobsen SB,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:By using titin as a model system, we have demonstrated that fluorescence quenching can be used to study protein folding at the single molecule level. The unfolded titin molecules with multiple dye molecules attached are able to fold to the native state. In the native folded state, the fluorescence from dye molecules i...

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

authors： Zhuang X,Ha T,Kim HD,Centner T,Labeit S,Chu S

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with whole tumor lysates can mediate potent antitumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo. Because successful therapy was dependent on host immune T cells, we have now evaluated whether the systemic administration of the T c...

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

authors： Shimizu K,Fields RC,Giedlin M,Mulé JJ

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The labeled inorganic phosphate formed by enzymatic hydrolysis of [gamma-18O]ATP in normal water was derivatized to trimethyl phosphate and analyzed for the proportions of [18O3]Pi, [18O2]Pi, [18O1]Pi, and [18O0]Pi. The proportions observed were correlated with the kinetics of intermediate exchange by using a kinetic ...

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

authors： Midelfort CF

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that the renal proximal tubular epithelium of the hamster is a bona fide estrogen target tissue. The effect of estrogens on the growth of proximal tubule cell explants and dissociated single cells derived from these explant outgrowths has been studied in culture. Renal tubular cells were gr...

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

authors： Oberley TD,Lauchner LJ,Pugh TD,Gonzalez A,Goldfarb S,Li SA,Li JJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pH-dependent transition between delocalized and trapped mixed valence states of an engineered CuA center in azurin has been investigated by UV-visible absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic techniques. At pH 7.0, the CuA azurin displays a typical delocalized mixed valence dinuclear [Cu(1.5).......

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

authors： Hwang HJ,Lu Y

更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two Drosophila melanogaster transcription units that are highly homologous to a rat Na+-channel cDNA. They appear to encode the major subunits of two distinct Na+-channel proteins. One of these maps to the second chromosome and is identical to a Na+-channel gene whose partial sequence has been previously r...

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

authors： Ramaswami M,Tanouye MA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Node characteristics and behaviors are often correlated with the structure of social networks over time. While evidence of this type of assortative mixing and temporal clustering of behaviors among linked nodes is used to support claims of peer influence and social contagion in networks, homophily may also explain suc...

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

authors： Aral S,Muchnik L,Sundararajan A

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that high olive oil intake reduces blood pressure (BP). These positive effects of olive oil have frequently been ascribed to its minor components, such as alpha-tocopherol, polyphenols, and other phenolic compounds that are not present in other oils. However, in this study we demonstrate th...

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

authors： Terés S,Barceló-Coblijn G,Benet M,Alvarez R,Bressani R,Halver JE,Escribá PV

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing primary cultures of cerebellar granule neurons to 100 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) for 24 hr decreases the Ca2+/phosphatidylserine/diolein-dependent protein kinase C (PKC; ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) by approximately 90% in the 100,000 x g supernatant and pellet fractions of neuro...

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

authors： Favaron M,Manev H,Siman R,Bertolino M,Szekely AM,DeErausquin G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite motif 39 (Trim39) is a RING domain-containing E3 ubiquitin ligase able to inhibit the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C) directly. Through analysis of Trim39 function in p53-positive and p53-negative cells, we have found, surprisingly, that p53-positive cells lacking Trim39 could not traverse the G1/S trans...

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

authors： Zhang L,Huang NJ,Chen C,Tang W,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms that enabled primitive cell membranes to self-reproduce have been discussed based on the physicochemical properties of fatty acids; however, there must be a transition to modern cell membranes composed of phospholipids [Budin I, Szostak JW (2011) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:5249-5254]. Thus, a growth-divisio...

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

authors： Terasawa H,Nishimura K,Suzuki H,Matsuura T,Yomo T

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon, with its great abundance and mature infrastructure, is a foundational material for a range of applications, such as electronics, sensors, solar cells, batteries, and thermoelectrics. These applications rely on the purification of Si to different levels. Recently, it has been shown that nanosized silicon can o...

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

authors： Zong L,Zhu B,Lu Z,Tan Y,Jin Y,Liu N,Hu Y,Gu S,Zhu J,Cui Y

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The 93-residue transmembrane protein CrgA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a central component of the divisome, a large macromolecular machine responsible for cell division. Through interactions with multiple other components including FtsZ, FtsQ, FtsI (PBPB), PBPA, and CwsA, CrgA facilitates the recruitment of the pr...

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

authors： Das N,Dai J,Hung I,Rajagopalan MR,Zhou HX,Cross TA

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine-virus-infected erythroleukemia cells cultured in a medium with dimethylsulfoxide or N,N-dimethylformamide are induced to differentiate to erythroid cells. A number of highly polar compounds have a similar effect in inducing erythroid differentiation of the virus-infected cells, as assayed by the appearance of h...

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

authors： Tanaka M,Levy J,Terada M,Breslow R,Rifkind RA,Marks PA

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) inhibit the proliferation of various human cancers in vitro and in vivo by mechanisms that include apparent direct effects through specific binding sites expressed on tumors and that differ from pituitary human GHRH (hGHRH) receptors. In this study, GHRH antagonis...

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

authors： Halmos G,Schally AV,Varga JL,Plonowski A,Rekasi Z,Czompoly T

更新日期：2000-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There exists a properly embedded minimal surface of genus one with a single end asymptotic to the end of the helicoid. This genus-one helicoid is constructed as the limit of a continuous one-parameter family of screw-motion invariant minimal surfaces, also asymptotic to the helicoid, that have genus equal to one in th...

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

authors： Weber M,Hoffman D,Wolf M

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetramer of the Mu transposase (MuA) pairs the recombination sites, cleaves the donor DNA, and joins these ends to a target DNA by strand transfer. Juxtaposition of the recombination sites is accomplished by the assembly of a stable synaptic complex of MuA protein and Mu DNA. This initial critical step is facilitate...

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

authors： Clubb RT,Mizuuchi M,Huth JR,Omichinski JG,Savilahti H,Mizuuchi K,Clore GM,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of gene expression is a major mechanism used by plants to confer phenotypic plasticity, and yet compared with other eukaryotes or bacteria, little is known about the design principles. We generated an extensive catalog of nascent and steady-state transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings...

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

authors： Hetzel J,Duttke SH,Benner C,Chory J

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus is considered a directly transmitted disease due to its high infectivity. Environmental pathways have, therefore, largely been ignored. Rotavirus, however, persists in water sources, and both its surface water concentrations and infection incidence vary with temperature. Here, we examine the potential for wa...

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

authors： Kraay ANM,Brouwer AF,Lin N,Collender PA,Remais JV,Eisenberg JNS

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of methylcytosine dioxygenases initiates demethylation of DNA and is associated with tumorigenesis in many cancers; however, the mechanism is mostly unknown. Here we identify upstream activators and downstream effectors of TET1 in breast cancer using human breast cancer cells ...

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

authors： Sun M,Song CX,Huang H,Frankenberger CA,Sankarasharma D,Gomes S,Chen P,Chen J,Chada KK,He C,Rosner MR

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities in the bovine hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was studied by use of specific antisera. Proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities were found in magnocellular neuronal cell bodies in the dorsal part of the supraoptic nuclei and in th...

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

authors： Vanderhaeghen JJ,Lotstra F,Liston DR,Rossier J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of complexity derived from ergodic theory of dynamical systems were developed and applied to an exemplary data set describing locomotor movements of rats in a bounded space. A symbolic dynamical system was obtained by partitioning the event space into equally probable partition elements, using a k-dimensional...

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

authors： Paulus MP,Geyer MA,Gold LH,Mandell AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning has established the primary structures of two precursors of the human pancreas growth hormone-releasing factor (hpGRF-44), somatocrinin. Both polypeptides contain the sequence of hpGRF-44 flanked by basic processing sites. Furthermore, the precursors include a putative signal sequence and a carboxyl-...

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

authors： Gubler U,Monahan JJ,Lomedico PT,Bhatt RS,Collier KJ,Hoffman BJ,Böhlen P,Esch F,Ling N,Zeytin F,Brazeau P,Poonian MS,Gage LP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans cells are a subset of dendritic cells (DCs) found in the human epidermis with unique morphological and molecular properties that enable their function as "sentinels" of the immune system. DCs are pivotal in the initiation and regulation of primary MHC class I restricted T lymphocyte immune responses and are...

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

authors： MacAry PA,Lindsay M,Scott MA,Craig JI,Luzio JP,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past five decades, ultra high vacuum (uhv) techniques applied to well-defined single-crystal samples (the "surface science paradigm") have transformed our understanding of fundamental surface chemistry. To translate this success to the world of realistic heterogeneous catalysis, however, requires one seriousl...

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

authors： Iyngaran P,Madden DC,Jenkins SJ,King DA

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The thin layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) contains antimicrobial substances that kill the small numbers of bacteria that are constantly being deposited in the lungs. An increase in ASL salt concentration inhibits the activity of airway antimicrobial factors and may partially explain the pathogenesis of cystic fibr...

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

authors： Zabner J,Seiler MP,Launspach JL,Karp PH,Kearney WR,Look DC,Smith JJ,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00