Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys.

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where aggregation of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is implicated in causing neurodegeneration. Recent studies have suggested that destabilization and aggregation of the most immature form of SOD1, the disulfide-reduc...

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

authors： Vassall KA,Stubbs HR,Primmer HA,Tong MS,Sullivan SM,Sobering R,Srinivasan S,Briere LA,Dunn SD,Colón W,Meiering EM

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hours after rats receive choline chloride (20 mmol/kg, by stomach tube) the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase [tyrosine 3-monooxygenase; L-tyrosine, tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.16.2] increases by 31% within adrenomedullary chromaffin cells. This treatment also causes...

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

authors： Ulus IH,Hirsch MJ,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryogenesis requires the timely and coordinated activation of developmental regulators. It has been suggested that the recently discovered class of histone demethylases (UTX and JMJD3) that specifically target the repressive H3K27me3 modification play an important role in the activation of "bivalent" genes in respon...

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

authors： Welstead GG,Creyghton MP,Bilodeau S,Cheng AW,Markoulaki S,Young RA,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The starting point for the study of adverse experiences is that some have enduring consequences that continue after the period of exposure to the adversity. That raises four basic issues: whether social adversities can be considered homogeneous, whether the crucial effect lies in the "objective" or subjectively percei...

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

authors： Rutter M

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by inflammation, demyelination, and axonal loss. The immunopathogenesis of demyelination in multiple sclerosis involves an autoantibody response to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), a type I transmembrane protein located...

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

authors： Breithaupt C,Schubart A,Zander H,Skerra A,Huber R,Linington C,Jacob U

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a synthetic adaptation of the fibrillar adhesion surfaces found in nature. The structure consists of protruding fibrils topped by a thin plate and shows an experimentally measured enhancement in adhesion energy of up to a factor of 9 over a flat control. Additionally, this structure solves the robustness pr...

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

authors： Glassmaker NJ,Jagota A,Hui CY,Noderer WL,Chaudhury MK

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To create a universal system for the control of gene expression, we have studied methods for the construction of novel polydactyl zinc finger proteins that recognize extended DNA sequences. Elsewhere we have described the generation of zinc finger domains recognizing sequences of the 5'-GNN-3' subset of a 64-member zi...

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

authors： Beerli RR,Segal DJ,Dreier B,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome is one of the major targets for therapeutic antibiotics; however, the rise in multidrug resistance is a growing threat to the utility of our current arsenal. The orthosomycin antibiotics evernimicin (EVN) and avilamycin (AVI) target the ribosome and do not display cross-resistance with any other classes o...

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

authors： Arenz S,Juette MF,Graf M,Nguyen F,Huter P,Polikanov YS,Blanchard SC,Wilson DN

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Escherichia coli promoters initiate transcription with a purine 7 or 8 nt downstream from the -10 hexamer, but some promoters, including the ribosomal RNA promoter rrnB P1, start 9 nt from the -10 element. We identified promoter and RNA polymerase determinants of this noncanonical rrnB P1 start site using biochem...

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

authors： Winkelman JT,Chandrangsu P,Ross W,Gourse RL

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies provide effective antiviral immunity despite the fact that viruses escape into cells when they infect. Here we show that antibodies remain attached to viruses after cell infection and mediate an intracellular immune response that disables virions in the cytosol. We have discovered that cells possess a cytos...

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

authors： Mallery DL,McEwan WA,Bidgood SR,Towers GJ,Johnson CM,James LC

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We model experience-dependent plasticity in the cortical representation of whiskers (the barrel cortex) in normal adult rats, and in adult rats that were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) caused marked deficits in experience-dependent plasticity in a cortical barrel-column. Cortical pla...

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

authors： Benusková L,Rema V,Armstrong-James M,Ebner FF

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain continuously influences and perceives the physiological condition of the body. Related cortical representations have been proposed to shape emotional experience and guide behavior. Although previous studies have identified brain regions recruited during autonomic processing, neurological lesion studies have ...

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

authors： Guo CC,Sturm VE,Zhou J,Gennatas ED,Trujillo AJ,Hua AY,Crawford R,Stables L,Kramer JH,Rankin K,Levenson RW,Rosen HJ,Miller BL,Seeley WW

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is an autoimmune disease that affects mainly conjunctiva and other squamous epithelia. OCP is histologically characterized by a separation of the epithelium from underlying tissues within the basement membrane zone. Immunopathological studies demonstrate the deposition of anti-basem...

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

authors： Tyagi S,Bhol K,Natarajan K,Livir-Rallatos C,Foster CS,Ahmed AR

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot methane spectra are important in environments ranging from flames to the atmospheres of cool stars and exoplanets. A new spectroscopic line list, 10to10, for (12)CH4 containing almost 10 billion transitions is presented. This comprehensive line list covers a broad spectroscopic range and is applicable for temperat...

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

authors： Yurchenko SN,Tennyson J,Bailey J,Hollis MD,Tinetti G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lampreys are one of the two surviving jawless vertebrate groups and one of a few vertebrate groups with the best exemplified metamorphosis during their life cycle, which consists of a long-lasting larval stage, a peculiar metamorphosis, and a relatively short adulthood with a markedly different anatomy. Although the f...

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

authors： Chang MM,Wu F,Miao D,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In liquids realm, surface tension and capillarity are the key forces driving the formation of the shapes pervading the nature. The steady dew drops appearing on plant leaves and spider webs result from the minimization of the overall surface energy [Zheng Y, et al. (2010) Nature 463:640-643]. Thanks to the surface ten...

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

authors： Grilli S,Coppola S,Vespini V,Merola F,Finizio A,Ferraro P

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possibility of positive selection acting on members of the putative seven-pass chemoreceptor superfamily in Caenorhabditis elegans, which comprises approximately 1,300 genes encoding seven-pass G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Using a maximum-likelihood approach, we conducted statistical tests ...

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

authors： Thomas JH,Kelley JL,Robertson HM,Ly K,Swanson WJ

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The 32-kDa subunit of replication protein A (RPA) is phosphorylated during the S phase of the cell cycle in vivo and during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. To explore the functional significance of this modification, we purified a HeLa cell protein kinase that phosphorylates RPA in the presence of single-str...

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

authors： Brush GS,Anderson CW,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line stem cells (GSCs) are maintained by the somatic microenvironment, or GSC niche, which ensures that GSCs can both self-renew and produce functional gametes. However, it remains unclear how the proper niche size and location are regulated within the developing gonads. In the Drosophila testis, the hub cells th...

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

authors： Kitadate Y,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of catalytic amounts of optically active dipyridylphosphine and CuF(2) along with hydride donor PhSiH(3) generated in situ a remarkably reactive catalyst system (substrate-to-ligand molar ratio up to 100,000) for the highly enantioselective hydrosilylation of a broad spectrum of aryl alkyl ketones (up ...

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

authors： Wu J,Ji JX,Chan AS

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Water oxidation by cyanobacteria, algae, and plants is pivotal in oxygenic photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth, and is the paradigm for engineering solar fuel-production systems. Each complete reaction cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation requires the removal of four electrons and four protons fro...

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

authors： Klauss A,Haumann M,Dau H

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress can either promote or impair learning and memory. Such opposing effects depend on whether synapses persist or decay after learning. Maintenance of new synapses formed at the time of learning upon neuronal network activation depends on the stress hormone-activated glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and neurotrophic fa...

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

authors： Arango-Lievano M,Borie AM,Dromard Y,Murat M,Desarmenien MG,Garabedian MJ,Jeanneteau F

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoride activation of adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] is significantly enhanced (2 to 5 times) by a protein factor isolated from rat brain. The fluoride-dependent adenylate cyclase stimulator (FCS) is nondialyzable, trypsin-labile, and stable at 90 degrees C for 10 min. FCS stimula...

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

authors： Rasenick MM,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the decanucleotide d(CGCAATTGCG)2 has been solved by a combination of molecular replacement and heavy-atom procedures and has been refined to an R factor of 20.2% at 2.7 A. It is not a fully base-paired duplex but has a central core of eight Watson-Crick base pairs flanked by unpaired terminal...

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

authors： Spink N,Nunn CM,Vojtechovsky J,Berman HM,Neidle S

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The hereditary hearing-vision loss disease Usher syndrome (USH) is caused by defects in several proteins, most of which form an integrated protein network called Usher interactome. Harmonin/Ush1C is a master scaffold in the assembly of the Usher protein complexes, because harmonin is known to bind to every protein in ...

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

authors： Pan L,Yan J,Wu L,Zhang M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To initiate class switch recombination (CSR) activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) induces staggered nick cleavage in the S region, which lies 5' to each Ig constant region gene and is rich in palindromic sequences. Topoisomerase 1 (Top1) controls the supercoiling of DNA by nicking, rotating, and religating one ...

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

authors： Kobayashi M,Aida M,Nagaoka H,Begum NA,Kitawaki Y,Nakata M,Stanlie A,Doi T,Kato L,Okazaki IM,Shinkura R,Muramatsu M,Kinoshita K,Honjo T

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the application of quantitative mass spectrometry to identify plasma membrane proteins differentially expressed in melanoma cells with high vs. low metastatic abilities. Using stable isotope labeling with amino acids in culture (SILAC) coupled with nanospray tandem mass spectrometry, we identified CUB-domain...

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

authors： Liu H,Ong SE,Badu-Nkansah K,Schindler J,White FM,Hynes RO

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly emerging plants provide the best forage for herbivores. To exploit this fleeting resource, migrating herbivores align their movements to surf the wave of spring green-up. With new technology to track migrating animals, the Green Wave Hypothesis has steadily gained empirical support across a diversity of migrator...

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

authors： Geremia C,Merkle JA,Eacker DR,Wallen RL,White PJ,Hebblewhite M,Kauffman MJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor gene has been found to be amplified and rearranged in human glioblastomas in vivo. Here we present the sequence across a splice junction of aberrant epidermal growth factor receptor transcripts derived from corresponding and uniquely rearranged genes that are coamplified and coexpr...

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

authors： Sugawa N,Ekstrand AJ,James CD,Collins VP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00