Decentralization for cost-effective conservation.

abstract：:Sex is thought to facilitate accumulation of initially rare beneficial mutations by allowing simultaneous allele replacements at many loci. However, this advantage of sex depends on a restrictive assumption that the fitness of a genotype is determined by fitness potential, a single intermediate variable to which all l...

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

authors： Kondrashov FA,Kondrashov AS

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton often encounter turbulence in their habitat. As most toxic phytoplankton species are motile, resolving the interplay of motility and turbulence has fundamental repercussions on our understanding of their own ecology and of the entire ecosystems they inhabit. The spatial distribution of motile phytoplankt...

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

authors： Breier RE,Lalescu CC,Waas D,Wilczek M,Mazza MG

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination of a system consisting of a vertical tube containing an unstirred homogeneous suspension of thylakoids in an imposed linear concentration gradient of an electron acceptor, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, gave rise to a one-dimensional banded pattern of the acceptor that evolved in a time-dependent manner. The spa...

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

authors： Aon M,Thomas D,Hervagault JF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pax-6 in vertebrates and its homolog eyeless in Drosophila are known to be essential for eye development. Here we investigate the role of Pax-6 in eye development in another major systematic group, molluscs. We demonstrate that alternatively spliced RNAs derived from a single Pax-6 gene in the squid (Loligo opalescens...

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

authors： Tomarev SI,Callaerts P,Kos L,Zinovieva R,Halder G,Gehring W,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine has been identified in the anterior pituitary gland and is secreted from cultured folliculostellate (FS) cells. To determine whether adenosine controls the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones in vitro, adenosine was incubated with anterior pituitaries. It stimulated prolactin (PRL) release at the lowest...

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

authors： Yu WH,Kimura M,Walczewska A,Porter JC,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of superoxide and H2O2 in the cytotoxicity of paraquat were assessed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Neither catalase nor superoxide dismutase inhibited the loss of ability to form colonies when added to the medium. When introduced into the cells, superoxide dismutase but not catalase inhibited the toxicity ...

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

authors： Bagley AC,Krall J,Lynch RE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell aggregates are a tool for in vitro studies of morphogenesis, cancer invasion, and tissue engineering. They respond to mechanical forces as a complex rather than simple liquid. To change an aggregate's shape, cells have to overcome energy barriers. If cell shape fluctuations are active enough, the aggregate sponta...

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

authors： Marmottant P,Mgharbel A,Käfer J,Audren B,Rieu JP,Vial JC,van der Sanden B,Marée AF,Graner F,Delanoë-Ayari H

更新日期：2009-10-13 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：:In the last few years, data from experiments employing transgenic models of autoimmune disease have strengthened a particular concept of autoimmunity: disease results not so much from cracks in tolerance induction systems, leading to the generation of anti-self repertoire, as from the breakdown of secondary systems th...

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

authors： André I,Gonzalez A,Wang B,Katz J,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of adipocytes to antibodies to the insulin receptor results in a blockade of (125)I-labeled insulin binding, stimulation of glucose oxidation, and many more insulin-like effects. Allowing for differences in purity, antireceptor antibody is equipotent with insulin on a molar basis. Both the bivalent F(ab')(2) ...

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

authors： Kahn CR,Baird KL,Jarrett DB,Flier JS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss and noise-induced hearing loss are major causes of human morbidity. Here we used genetics and functional studies to show that a shared cause of these disorders may be loss of function of the ATP-gated P2X(2) receptor (ligand-gated ion channel, purinergic receptor 2) that is expressed in sensor...

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

authors： Yan D,Zhu Y,Walsh T,Xie D,Yuan H,Sirmaci A,Fujikawa T,Wong AC,Loh TL,Du L,Grati M,Vlajkovic SM,Blanton S,Ryan AF,Chen ZY,Thorne PR,Kachar B,Tekin M,Zhao HB,Housley GD,King MC,Liu XZ

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently determined that high calcium concentrations, in parallel with their suppressive effects on parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion, reversibly and specifically decrease preproPTH mRNA in cultured bovine parathyroid cells. In order to determine whether vitamin D metabolites also regulate the content of pre...

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

authors： Silver J,Russell J,Sherwood LM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the molecules that regulate tumor cell survival is an essential prerequisite for the development of targeted approaches to cancer treatment. Whereas many studies aimed at identifying such targets use human tumor cells grown in vitro or as s.c. xenografts, it is unclear whether such experimental models replica...

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

authors： Camphausen K,Purow B,Sproull M,Scott T,Ozawa T,Deen DF,Tofilon PJ

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells contain numerous enzymes that use molecular oxygen for their reactions. Often, their active sites are buried deeply inside the protein, which raises the question whether there are specific access channels guiding oxygen to the site of catalysis. Choosing 12/15-lipoxygenase as a typical example for such oxygen-de...

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

authors： Saam J,Ivanov I,Walther M,Holzhütter HG,Kuhn H

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical biochemical techniques are used to establish the structure, subunit stoichiometry, and assembly pathway of the primosome complex of the bacteriophage T4 DNA replication system. Analytical ultracentrifugation and fluorescence anisotropy methods show that the functional T4 primosome consists of six gp41 helicas...

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

authors： Jose D,Weitzel SE,Jing D,von Hippel PH

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock is a global regulatory mechanism that controls the expression of 50 to 80% of transcripts in mammals. Some of the genes controlled by the circadian clock are oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Among these Myc has been the focus of several studies which have investigated the effect of clock genes and p...

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

authors： Liu Z,Selby CP,Yang Y,Lindsey-Boltz LA,Cao X,Eynullazada K,Sancar A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several related classes of operators on nilpotent Lie groups are considered. These operators involve the following features: (i) oscillatory factors that are exponentials of imaginary polynomials, (ii) convolutions with singular kernels supported on lower-dimensional submanifolds, (iii) validity in the general context...

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

authors： Ricci F,Stein EM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the NH2-terminal, 20-residue membrane-bound portion of melittin has been computed with empirical energies (ECEPP, Empirical Conformational Energy Program for Peptides). First, a search was made for long stretches of nonpolar residues. Then, the low-energy conformations of these segments were built up ...

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

authors： Pincus MR,Klausner RD,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin is the canonical plus-end microtubule motor and has been the focus of intense study since its discovery in 1985. We previously demonstrated a time-dependent inactivation of kinesin in vitro that was fully reversible by the addition of purified casein kinase 2 (CK2) and showed that this inactivation/reactivatio...

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

authors： Mattson-Hoss MK,Niitani Y,Gordon EA,Jun Y,Bardwell L,Tomishige M,Gross SP

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of peptide signaling molecules (AtPeps) and their plasma membrane receptor AtPepR1 are known to act in pathogen-defense signaling cascades in plants. Little is currently known about the molecular mechanisms that link these signaling peptides and their receptor, a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase, to d...

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

authors： Qi Z,Verma R,Gehring C,Yamaguchi Y,Zhao Y,Ryan CA,Berkowitz GA

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian central nervous system is mediated predominantly by glutamate receptor (GluR) channels of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate/kainate (AMPA/KA) receptor type. A major improvement in our understanding of glutamatergic synaptic transmission has been ...

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

authors： Keller BU,Blaschke M,Rivosecchi R,Hollmann M,Heinemann SF,Konnerth A

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Species expanding into new habitats as a result of climate change or human introductions will frequently encounter resident competitors. Theoretical models suggest that such interspecific competition can alter the speed of expansion and the shape of expanding range boundaries. However, competitive interactions are rar...

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

authors： Legault G,Bitters ME,Hastings A,Melbourne BA

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Suppressor of Fused [Su(fu)] protein plays a conserved role in the regulation of Gli transcription factors of the hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway that controls cell fate and tissue patterning during development. In both Drosophila and mammals, Su(fu) represses Gli-mediated transcription, but the mode of its action...

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

authors： Cheng SY,Bishop JM

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon can exist as isolated dumbbell, 1D chain, 2D plane, and 3D network in carbon solids or carbon-based compounds, which attributes to its rich chemical binding way, including sp-, sp(2)-, and sp(3)-hybridized bonds. sp(2)-hybridizing carbon always captures special attention due to its unique physical and chemical ...

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

authors： Li YL,Luo W,Zeng Z,Lin HQ,Mao HK,Ahuja R

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient and disrupted sleep is linked with cardiovascular and metabolic dysregulation and morbidity. The current study examines the degree to which differences in sleep between black/African American (AA) and white/European American (EA) adults explain racial differences in cardiometabolic (CMB) disease risk. Tot...

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

authors： Curtis DS,Fuller-Rowell TE,El-Sheikh M,Carnethon MR,Ryff CD

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GH-RH) inhibit the growth of various tumors through mechanisms that involve the suppression of the insulin-like growth factor I and/or insulin-like growth factor II levels or secretion. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that the tumor inhibition is associat...

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

authors： Kiaris H,Schally AV

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled monolayer-protected nanoparticles are promising candidates for applications, such as sensing and drug delivery, in which the molecular ligands' interactions with the surrounding environment play a crucial role. We recently showed that, when gold nanoparticles are coated with a binary mixture of immiscib...

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

authors： Centrone A,Penzo E,Sharma M,Myerson JW,Jackson AM,Marzari N,Stellacci F

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian brains, multielectrode recordings during sensory stimulation have revealed oscillations in different cortical areas that are transiently synchronous. These synchronizations have been hypothesized to support integration of sensory information or represent the operation of attentional mechanisms, but their ...

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

authors： Prechtl JC

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral hepatitis is a disease of antiquity, but evidence for more than one etiologic agent has been recognized only since the 1940s, when two viruses (hepatitis A virus and hepatitis B virus) were thought to account for all disease. In the past 20 years, three additional hepatitis agents (hepatitis C virus, hepatitis D...

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

authors： Purcell RH

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene modification mediated by single-stranded oligonucleotides (SSOs) holds great potential for widespread use in a number of biological and biomedical fields, including functional genomics and gene therapy. By using this approach, specific genetic changes have been created in a number of prokaryotic and euka...

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

authors： Wu XS,Xin L,Yin WX,Shang XY,Lu L,Watt RM,Cheah KS,Huang JD,Liu DP,Liang CC

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00