Food limitation leads to behavioral diversification and dietary specialization in sea otters.

abstract：:The bacterio-opsin gene was introduced into a "blind" Halobacterium salinarium mutant that (i) lacked all the four retinal proteins [bacteriorhodopsin (BR), halorhodopsin, and sensory rhodopsins (SRs) I and II] and the transducer protein for SRI and (ii) showed neither attractant response to long wavelength light nor ...

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

authors： Bibikov SI,Grishanin RN,Kaulen AD,Marwan W,Oesterhelt D,Skulachev VP

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed molecular definition of the WAGR region at chromosome 11p13 has been achieved by chromosome breakpoint analysis and long-range restriction mapping. Here we describe the molecular detection of a cytogenetically invisible 1-megabase deletion in an individual with aniridia, cryptorchidism, and hypospadias but no...

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

authors： van Heyningen V,Bickmore WA,Seawright A,Fletcher JM,Maule J,Fekete G,Gessler M,Bruns GA,Huerre-Jeanpierre C,Junien C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological properties of the flagellar rotary motor have been taken to indicate a tightly coupled mechanism in which each revolution is driven by a fixed number of energizing ions. Measurements that would directly test the tight-coupling hypothesis have not been made. Energizing ions flow through membrane-bound com...

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

authors： Boschert R,Adler FR,Blair DF

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of strain A mice with p-azophenylarsonate-conjugated protein stimulates B cells that synthesize anti-p-azophenylarsonate antibodies. A large fraction of these cells produce antibodies with variable (V) regions encoded by a single heavy chain V gene segment together with multiple combinations of diversity,...

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

authors： Wysocki L,Manser T,Gefter ML

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural landscape homogenization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. Increasing agricultural landscape heterogeneity by increasing seminatural cover can help to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, the amount of seminatural cover is generally low and difficult to increase in many i...

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

authors： Sirami C,Gross N,Baillod AB,Bertrand C,Carrié R,Hass A,Henckel L,Miguet P,Vuillot C,Alignier A,Girard J,Batáry P,Clough Y,Violle C,Giralt D,Bota G,Badenhausser I,Lefebvre G,Gauffre B,Vialatte A,Calatayud F,Gil-T

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) DNA, a small sequence, designated the a sequence, flanks the reiterated sequences at the ends of both the L and S components. The a sequence is the only sequence shared by the termini of all isomeric arrangements of HSV-1 DNA that arise from inversions of the covalently linked L and S...

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

authors： Knipe DM,Ruyechan WT,Honess RW,Roizman B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) contains an amino-terminal oxygenase domain, a carboxy-terminal reductase domain, and an intervening calmodulin-binding region. For the synthesis of nitric oxide (NO), iNOS is active as a homodimer. The human iNOS mRNA is subject to alternative splicing, including deletion of...

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

authors： Eissa NT,Yuan JW,Haggerty CM,Choo EK,Palmer CD,Moss J

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the single-stranded DNA genome of geminiviruses occurs via a double-stranded intermediate that is subsequently used as a template for rolling-circle replication of the viral strand. Only one of the proteins encoded by the virus, here referred to as replication initiator protein (Rep protein), is indispe...

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

authors： Laufs J,Traut W,Heyraud F,Matzeit V,Rogers SG,Schell J,Gronenborn B

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The output of the cerebellar cortex is controlled by two main inputs, (i.e., the climbing fiber and mossy fiber-parallel fiber pathway) and activations of these inputs elicit characteristic effects in its Purkinje cells: that is, the so-called complex spikes and simple spikes. Target neurons of the Purkinje cells in t...

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

authors： Hoebeek FE,Witter L,Ruigrok TJ,De Zeeuw CI

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Most genetic regulatory mechanisms involve protein-DNA interactions. In these processes, the classical Watson-Crick DNA structure sometimes is distorted severely, which in turn enables the precise recognition of the specific sites by the protein. Despite its key importance, very little is known about such deformation ...

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

authors： Leger JF,Robert J,Bourdieu L,Chatenay D,Marko JF

更新日期：1998-10-13 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：:Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ("air capture") in an industrial process has been proposed as an option for stabilizing global CO(2) concentrations. Published analyses suggest these air capture systems may cost a few hundred dollars per tonne of CO(2), making it cost competitive with mainstream CO(2) miti...

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

authors： House KZ,Baclig AC,Ranjan M,van Nierop EA,Wilcox J,Herzog HJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of engineered ribozymes to shuffle exon cassettes in vitro. Specifically, we have designed derivatives of a group II intron that insert into selected sites in the human tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) mRNA. The insertion reaction links t-PA sequences to the group II intron sequences so that trans...

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

authors： Mikheeva S,Jarrell KA

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA clone from a human fibroblast cDNA library that contains the entire protein-coding region of a 1.1-kilobase mRNA. This mRNA encodes a 284-amino acid tropomyosin, the primary structure of which most closely resembles smooth muscle tropomyosin. Thus, the expression of both 284-amino acid muscle-t...

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

authors： MacLeod AR,Houlker C,Reinach FC,Smillie LB,Talbot K,Modi G,Walsh FS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A line of nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice expressing the human diabetes-associated HLA-DQ8 transgene in the absence of mouse IAbeta failed to show spontaneous insulitis or diabetes, but rather developed dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to early death from heart failure. Pathology in these animals results from an organ- an...

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

authors： Elliott JF,Liu J,Yuan ZN,Bautista-Lopez N,Wallbank SL,Suzuki K,Rayner D,Nation P,Robertson MA,Liu G,Kavanagh KM

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal and smooth muscle can mutually transdifferentiate, but little molecular insight exists as to how each muscle program may be subverted to the other. The myogenic basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors MyoD and myogenin (Myog) direct the development of skeletal muscle and are thought to be dominant over t...

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

authors： Long X,Creemers EE,Wang DZ,Olson EN,Miano JM

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:ChIP-on-chip has emerged as a powerful tool to dissect the complex network of regulatory interactions between transcription factors and their targets. However, most ChIP-on-chip analysis methods use conservative approaches aimed at minimizing false-positive transcription factor targets. We present a model with improve...

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

authors： Margolin AA,Palomero T,Sumazin P,Califano A,Ferrando AA,Stolovitzky G

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the NH2-terminal DNA-binding domain of lac repressor with synthetic oligo[d(AT)] was studied by a photo-CIDNP technique (CIDNP is chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization). Three of the four tyrosines of the NH2-terminal region were found to be accessible to the photosensitive dye. The corres...

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

authors： Buck F,Rüterjans H,Kaptein R,Beyreuther K

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic techniques have been used to reveal two classes of subunits of tubulin in ordered arrays. Presumably the two classes correspond to the alpha and beta polypeptide chains of tubulin that have been distinguished by chemical criteria. The two types of subunits alternate along individual protofilaments...

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

authors： Crepeau RH,McEwen B,Edelstein SJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), the frequency of pulsatile gonadotropic hormone release is relatively constant in the face of widely varying levels of estradiol (E2) in the peripheral circulation--e.g., in the course of the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle and after ovariectomy. This suggests that modula...

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

authors： Kesner JS,Wilson RC,Kaufman JM,Hotchkiss J,Chen Y,Yamamoto H,Pardo RR,Knobil E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome ba3 from Thermus thermophilus reacts slowly with excess HCN at pH 7.4 to create a form of the enzyme in which CuA, cytochrome b, and CuB remain oxidized, while cytochrome a3 is reduced by one electron, presumably with the formation of cyanogen. We have examined this form of the enzyme by UV-visible, resonan...

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

authors： Surerus KK,Oertling WA,Fan C,Gurbiel RJ,Einarsdóttir O,Antholine WE,Dyer RB,Hoffman BM,Woodruff WH,Fee JA

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral genome packaging into capsids is powered by high-force-generating motor proteins. In the presence of all packaging components, ATP-powered translocation in vitro expels all detectable tightly bound YOYO-1 dye from packaged short dsDNA substrates and removes all aminoacridine dye from packaged genomic DNA in vivo...

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

authors： Dixit AB,Ray K,Black LW

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria possess a characteristic outer membrane, of which the lipid A constituent elicits a strong host immune response through the Toll-like receptor 4 complex, and acts as a component of the permeability barrier to prevent uptake of bactericidal compounds. Lipid A species comprise the bulk of the oute...

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

authors： Dovala D,Rath CM,Hu Q,Sawyer WS,Shia S,Elling RA,Knapp MS,Metzger LE 4th

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the biogeochemical roles of microorganisms in the environment, it is important to determine when and under which conditions they are metabolically active. Bioorthogonal noncanonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) can reveal active cells by tracking the incorporation of synthetic amino acids into newly synth...

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

authors： Hatzenpichler R,Connon SA,Goudeau D,Malmstrom RR,Woyke T,Orphan VJ

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of marine sponge cells (Microciona prolifera) resembles stimulus-response coupling of higher organisms in which activation of protein kinase C and movements of intracellular Ca provide twin signals. We now report that activators of protein kinase C (phorbol esters) and ionomycin act synergistically to aggr...

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

authors： Weissmann G,Azaroff L,Davidson S,Dunham P

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Located within the brain's ventricles, the choroid plexus produces cerebrospinal fluid and forms an important barrier between the central nervous system and the blood. For unknown reasons, the choroid plexus produces high levels of the protein klotho. Here, we show that these levels naturally decline with aging. Deple...

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

authors： Zhu L,Stein LR,Kim D,Ho K,Yu GQ,Zhan L,Larsson TE,Mucke L

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:During cellular stresses, phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2 (eIF2) elicits gene expression designed to ameliorate the underlying cellular disturbance. Central to this stress response is the transcriptional regulator activating transcription factor, ATF4. Here we describe the mechanism regulating ATF4 e...

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

authors： Vattem KM,Wek RC

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymopoietin, a polypeptide hormone of the thymus that has pleiotropic actions on the immune, endocrine, and nervous systems, potently interacts with the neuromuscular nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Thymopoietin binds to the nicotinic alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-BGT) receptor in muscle and, like alpha-BGT, inhibits c...

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

authors： Quik M,Babu U,Audhya T,Goldstein G

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00