Genomic linkage of male song and female acoustic preference QTL underlying a rapid species radiation.

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of alpha-cobra-toxin, the "long" neurotoxin from the venom of Naja naja siamensis, has been determined at 2.8-A resolution. Crystals grown as hexagonal needles have space group P6522 with unit cell parameters a = b = 74.59 A, c = 42.89 A; one molecule per asymmetric unit. Phases were de...

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

authors： Walkinshaw MD,Saenger W,Maelicke A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors (iGluRs) mediate the majority of excitatory synaptic transmission in the CNS and are essential for the induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation and long-term depression, two cellular models of learning and memory. We identi...

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

authors： Wu Y,Arai AC,Rumbaugh G,Srivastava AK,Turner G,Hayashi T,Suzuki E,Jiang Y,Zhang L,Rodriguez J,Boyle J,Tarpey P,Raymond FL,Nevelsteen J,Froyen G,Stratton M,Futreal A,Gecz J,Stevenson R,Schwartz CE,Valle D,Huganir

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of aquatic ecosystems depends on the supply of limiting nutrients. The invasion of the Laurentian Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater ecosystem, by dreissenid (zebra and quagga) mussels has dramatically altered the ecology of these lakes. A key open question is how dreissenids affect the cycli...

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

authors： Li J,Ianaiev V,Huff A,Zalusky J,Ozersky T,Katsev S

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The clonal rat pituitary cell line GH4C1 expresses the genes for several voltage-dependent potassium channels including Kv1.5 and Kv1.4. Dexamethasone, a glucocorticoid agonist, induces a slowly inactivating potassium current in these cells but does not alter the amplitude of a rapidly inactivating component of potass...

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

authors： Chung S,Saal DB,Kaczmarek LK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a computational model for color coding that provides a functional explanation of how humans perceive colors in a homogeneous color space. Beginning with known properties of human cone photoreceptors, the model estimates the locations of the reflectance spectra of Munsell color chips in perceptual c...

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

authors： Romney AK,Chiao CC

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their well-recognized hepatotropism, all hepatitis B viruses (HBVs) display marked species specificity, growing poorly or not at all in species other than those closely related to their natural hosts. We have examined the molecular basis for this narrow host range, using duck HBV (DHBV) and heron HBV (H...

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

authors： Ishikawa T,Ganem D

更新日期：1995-07-03 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 bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus utilizes a type III secretion system to cause death of host cells within hours of infection. We report that cell death is completely independent of apoptosis and occurs by a mechanism in which injection of multiple type III effectors causes induction of autophagy, cell ro...

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

authors： Burdette DL,Yarbrough ML,Orvedahl A,Gilpin CJ,Orth K

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Necessary conditions are derived for a spherical vortex in a perfect fluid to be stationary in the case when the velocities depend on a single surface harmonic. The motion is indeterminate unless an additional condition is imposed. In the case when this condition is incompressibility, the equations are solved, yieldin...

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

authors： Pekeris CL

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc finger motif, exemplified by a segment of the Drosophila gap gene Krüppel, is a nucleic acid-binding domain present in many transcription factors. To investigate the gene family encoding this motif in the human genome, a placental genomic library was screened at moderate stringency with a degenerate oligodeox...

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

authors： Bray P,Lichter P,Thiesen HJ,Ward DC,Dawid IB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA lesions can block replication forks and lead to the formation of single-stranded gaps. These replication complications are mitigated by DNA damage tolerance mechanisms, which prevent deleterious outcomes such as cell death, genomic instability, and carcinogenesis. The two main tolerance strategies are translesion ...

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

authors： Izhar L,Ziv O,Cohen IS,Geacintov NE,Livneh Z

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na channels in several classes of neurons, including cells of the cerebellum, are subject to an open-channel block and unblock by an endogenous protein. The Na(V)beta4 (Scn4b) subunit is a candidate blocking protein because a free peptide from its cytoplasmic tail, the beta4 peptide, can block open Na ch...

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

authors： Bant JS,Raman IM

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the issues currently being debated in the ongoing discussion of the pros and cons of today's globalization concerns the effects of greater world trade as well as of the changes in technology on a country's internal distribution of income, especially on skilled versus unskilled wage rates. In this article, I att...

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

authors： Jones RW

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance is a key factor in the etiology of type 2 diabetes. Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake is mediated by the glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), which is expressed mainly in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Insulin-stimulated translocation of GLUT4 from its intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane...

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

authors： Baeza-Raja B,Li P,Le Moan N,Sachs BD,Schachtrup C,Davalos D,Vagena E,Bridges D,Kim C,Saltiel AR,Olefsky JM,Akassoglou K

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:"Functional connectivity" techniques are commonplace tools for studying brain organization. A critical element of these analyses is to distinguish variance due to neurobiological signals from variance due to nonneurobiological signals. Multiecho fMRI techniques are a promising means for making such distinctions based ...

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

authors： Power JD,Plitt M,Gotts SJ,Kundu P,Voon V,Bandettini PA,Martin A

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Four polyimidazoles were used in the binding and cleavage studies with poly(U). The two polydisperse polyvinylimidazoles were previously described by others, while the other two new polymers of polyethyleneimines were prepared by cationic polymerization of oxazolines. The latter had imidazole units attached to each ni...

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

authors： Cheng L,Abhilash KG,Breslow R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy ocean ecosystems are needed to sustain people and livelihoods and to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Using the ocean sustainably requires overcoming many formidable challenges: overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution. Despite gloomy forecasts, there is reason f...

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

authors： Lubchenco J,Cerny-Chipman EB,Reimer JN,Levin SA

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Watson-Crick model for DNA duplex duplication proposes that the two parental chains separate and that each directs the synthesis of a complementary chain with which it is found associated after the duplication act. Previous experiments have left unchallenged alternative models which propose that in any single act ...

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

authors： Russo VE,Stahl MM,Stahl FW

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature peripheral T cells respond to foreign but not to self-antigens. During development in the thymus, deletion of high-affinity self-reactive immature thymocytes contributes to tolerance of mature T cells. However, double-positive thymocytes are positively selected to survive if they respond to self-peptide-MHC com...

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

authors： Stephen TL,Wilson BS,Laufer TM

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the Ig superfamily (IgSF), intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAMs) form a subfamily that binds the leukocyte integrin alphaLbeta2. We report a 1.65-A-resolution crystal structure of the ICAM-3 N-terminal domain (D1) in complex with the inserted domain, the ligand-binding domain of alphaLbeta2. This high-resolu...

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

authors： Song G,Yang Y,Liu JH,Casasnovas JM,Shimaoka M,Springer TA,Wang JH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a diverse class of proteins that depress the kinetically observable freezing point of water. AFPs have been of scientific interest for decades, but the lack of an accurate model for predicting AFP activity has hindered the logical design of novel antifreeze systems. To address this, we p...

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

authors： Kozuch DJ,Stillinger FH,Debenedetti PG

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamics and kinetics of the interaction between T cell receptor specific for cytomegalovirus peptide (TCR(CMV)) and its specific ligand, pp65-HLA-A*0201 complex, were studied by surface plasmon resonance and stopped-flow methods. In the latter measurements, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between ...

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

authors： Gakamsky DM,Lewitzki E,Grell E,Saulquin X,Malissen B,Montero-Julian F,Bonneville M,Pecht I

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are common vascular malformations, which may result in hemorrhagic strokes and neurological deficits. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and Notch signaling are both involved in the development of cerebral AVMs, but the cross-talk between the two signaling pathways is poorly u...

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

authors： Yao Y,Yao J,Radparvar M,Blazquez-Medela AM,Guihard PJ,Jumabay M,Boström KI

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosome 22q11.2 has been implicated in various behavioral abnormalities, including schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric/behavioral disorders. However, the specific genes within 22q11.2 that contribute to these disorders are still poorly understood. Here, we show that an approximately 200-kb segment of hum...

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

authors： Hiroi N,Zhu H,Lee M,Funke B,Arai M,Itokawa M,Kucherlapati R,Morrow B,Sawamura T,Agatsuma S

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the role of the hippocampal formation in implicit and explicit memory. Human volunteers studied a list of familiar words, and then they either provided the first word that came to mind in response to three-letter cues (implicit memory) or tried to recall studied wo...

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

authors： Schacter DL,Alpert NM,Savage CR,Rauch SL,Albert MS

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays important roles in development and genome defense against transposons. Methylation patterns are established and maintained by DNA methyltransferases that catalyze transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine bases ...

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

authors： Morales-Ruiz T,Ortega-Galisteo AP,Ponferrada-Marín MI,Martínez-Macías MI,Ariza RR,Roldán-Arjona T

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the pathway of protein folding determined by the relative stability of folding intermediates, or by the relative height of the activation barriers leading to these intermediates? This is a fundamental question for resolving the Levinthal paradox, which stated that protein folding by a random search mechanism would ...

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

authors： Su ZD,Arooz MT,Chen HM,Gross CJ,Tsong TY

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongylocentrotus intermedius (A. Agassiz, 1863) is an economically important sea urchin inhabiting the northwest Pacific region of Asia. The northern Primorye (Sea of Japan) populations of S. intermedius consist of two sympatric morphological forms, "usual" (U) and "gray" (G). The two forms are significantly differe...

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

authors： Balakirev ES,Pavlyuchkov VA,Ayala FJ

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology-directed repair (HDR) is a critical pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. Efficient HDR is thought to be crucial for maintenance of genomic integrity during organismal development and tumor suppression. However, most mammalian HDR studies have focused on transformed and...

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

authors： Kass EM,Helgadottir HR,Chen CC,Barbera M,Wang R,Westermark UK,Ludwig T,Moynahan ME,Jasin M

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00