Molecular mass, biochemical composition, and physicochemical behavior of the infectious form of the scrapie precursor protein monomer.

abstract：:Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and political antecedents to this phenomenon, few studies have explored the role of digital media literacy shortfalls. Using data from preregistered survey experiment...

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

authors： Guess AM,Lerner M,Lyons B,Montgomery JM,Nyhan B,Reifler J,Sircar N

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and partially characterized 24 loci from the human genome which are complementary to U1, U2, or U3, the three major species of small nuclear RNA (snRNA) in HeLa cells. When compared to the known U1 (human) and U2 (rat) snRNA sequences, the DNA sequences we report here for the complementary regions from ...

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

authors： Denison RA,Van Arsdell SW,Bernstein LB,Weiner AM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the spreading behavior of small drops of several fluorocarbon fluids and silicone oil on air-liquid interfaces to measure the surface tension of lungs in situ. The test fluids were calibrated in a surface balance at 37 degrees on monolayers of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. At particular surface tensions...

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

authors： Schürch S,Goerke J,Clements JA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human foamy virus (HFV) genome possesses three open reading frames (bel 1, 2, and 3) located between env and the 3' long terminal repeat. By analogy to other human retroviruses this region was selected as the most likely candidate to encode the viral transactivator. Results presented here confirmed this and showed...

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

authors： Rethwilm A,Erlwein O,Baunach G,Maurer B,ter Meulen V

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serumless, chemically defined medium has been developed for the culture of oligodendrocytes isolated from primary neonatal rat cerebral cultures. Combined together, insulin, transferrin, and fibroblast growth factor synergistically induced an essentially homogenous population (95-98%) of cells expressing glycerol-3-...

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

authors： Saneto RP,de Vellis J

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human financial and social systems, exchanges of information among individuals cause speculative bubbles, behavioral cascades, and other correlated actions that profoundly influence system-level function. Exchanges of information are also widespread in ecological systems, but their effects on ecosystem-level proces...

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

authors： Gil MA,Hein AM

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In epithelial cells, sorting of membrane proteins to the basolateral surface depends on the presence of a basolateral sorting signal (BaSS) in their cytoplasmic domain. Amyloid precursor protein (APP), a basolateral protein implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, contains a tyrosine-based BaSS, and muta...

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

authors： Zheng P,Eastman J,Vande Pol S,Pimplikar SW

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of various opioids were examined on calcium action potentials in the cell somata of guinea pig myenteric neurones and on the release of acetylcholine at synapses onto these cells. The opioids morphine, normorphine, and [D-Ala2, MePhe4, Met5(O)]enkephalin-ol caused membrane hyperpolarizations resulting from...

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

authors： Cherubini E,North RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gal operon of Escherichia coli is negatively regulated by repressor binding to bipartite operators separated by 11 helical turns of DNA. Synergistic binding of repressor to separate sites on DNA results in looping, with the intervening DNA as a topologically closed domain containing the two promoters. A closed DNA...

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

authors： Choy HE,Park SW,Parrack P,Adhya S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens and the androgen receptor (AR) play important roles in the testes. Previously we have shown that male total AR knockout (T-AR-/y) mice revealed incomplete germ cell development and lowered serum testosterone levels, which resulted in azoospermia and infertility. However, the consequences of AR loss in partic...

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

authors： Zhang C,Yeh S,Chen YT,Wu CC,Chuang KH,Lin HY,Wang RS,Chang YJ,Mendis-Handagama C,Hu L,Lardy H,Chang C

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly specific radioimmunoassay for one of the putative adrenomedullary [Met]enkephalin precursors, BAM-12P (Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met-Arg-Arg-Val-Gly-Arg-Pro-Glu-OH), has been developed. The BAM-12P antibodies recognize the COOH-terminal fragment of the peptide from Arg7 to Glu12 and do not crossreact with [Met5]- or [L...

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

authors： Baird A,Ling N,Böhlen P,Benoit R,Klepper R,Guillemin R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sparking of cut grape hemispheres in a household microwave oven has been a poorly explained Internet parlor trick for over two decades. By expanding this phenomenon to whole spherical dimers of various grape-sized fruit and hydrogel water beads, we demonstrate that the formation of plasma is due to electromagnetic...

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

authors： Khattak HK,Bianucci P,Slepkov AD

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial preoptic area has been shown to be intricately involved in many behaviors, including locomotion, sexual behavior, maternal care, and aggression. The gene encoding estrogen receptor-α (ERα) protein is expressed in preoptic area neurons, and a very dense immunoreactive field of ERα is found in the preoptic re...

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

authors： Ribeiro AC,Musatov S,Shteyler A,Simanduyev S,Arrieta-Cruz I,Ogawa S,Pfaff DW

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal centers (GCs) are specialized microenvironments in secondary lymphoid organs where high-affinity antibody-producing B cells are selected based on B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signal strength. BCR signaling required for normal GC selection is uncertain. We have found that protein kinase N1 (PKN1, also known a...

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

authors： Yasui T,Sakakibara-Yada K,Nishimura T,Morita K,Tada S,Mosialos G,Kieff E,Kikutani H

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The land plants and their immediate green algal ancestors, the charophytes, form the Streptophyta. There is evidence that both the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) underwent substantial changes in their architecture (intron insertions, gene losses, scrambling in gene order, and genome expansion in...

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

authors： Turmel M,Otis C,Lemieux C

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we introduce a method to account for the shape of the potential energy curve in the evaluation of conformational free energies. The method is based on a procedure that generates a set of conformations, each with its own force-field energy, but adds a term to this energy that favors conformations that ar...

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

authors： Xiang Z,Soto CS,Honig B

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent linkage of supramolecular monomers provides a powerful strategy for constructing dynamic polymeric materials whose properties can be readily tuned either by the selection of monomers or the choice of functional linkers. In this strategy, the stabilities of the supramolecular monomers and the reactions use...

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

authors： Zhang M,Li S,Yan X,Zhou Z,Saha ML,Wang YC,Stang PJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced serum testosterone (T), or hypogonadism, affects millions of men and is associated with many pathologies, including infertility, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and decreased libido and sexual function. Administering T-replacement therapy (TRT) reverses many of the symptoms associated with low T l...

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

authors： Li L,Li Y,Sottas C,Culty M,Fan J,Hu Y,Cheung G,Chemes HE,Papadopoulos V

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of selective translation of T4 template RNA by ribosomes from T4-infected cells, or factors derived therefrom, has been extended to studies on the initiation of protein synthesis. A high-salt extract derived from T4-infected ribosomes inhibits the formation of initiation complexes of MS2 and Escherichia...

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

authors： Klem EB,Hsu WT,Weiss SB

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation is catalyzed by the highly evolutionarily conserved multiprotein complex known as Set1/COMPASS or MLL/COMPASS-like complexes from yeast to human, respectively. Here we have reconstituted fully functional yeast Set1/COMPASS and human MLL/COMPASS-like complex in vitro and have iden...

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

authors： Takahashi YH,Westfield GH,Oleskie AN,Trievel RC,Shilatifard A,Skiniotis G

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding two human receptors for retinoic acid (RA), RAR-alpha and RAR-beta, have been characterized recently. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the cDNA-deduced amino acid sequences unique to RAR-alpha and RAR-beta were used to generate anti-RAR-alpha antiserum (SP171) and anti-RAR-beta antisera (SP172 an...

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

authors： Gaub MP,Lutz Y,Ruberte E,Petkovich M,Brand N,Chambon P

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the regulatory protein of an inducible operon for a catabolic pathway is a positive or a negative element in the control of expression is correlated with the frequent or infrequent presence, respectively, of the system's substrate in the natural environment. ...

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

authors： Savageau MA

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of lysosomes to move within the cytoplasm is important for many cellular functions. This ability is particularly critical in neurons, which comprise vast, highly differentiated domains such as the axon and dendrites. The mechanisms that control lysosome movement in these domains, however, remain poorly und...

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

authors： Farías GG,Guardia CM,De Pace R,Britt DJ,Bonifacino JS

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebae of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum possess an extensive and dynamic endomembrane system that includes many types of acidic vacuoles. A light membrane fraction from Dictyostelium, rich in vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase, has been described [Padh, H., Lavasa, M. & Steck, T.L. (1989) J. Cell Biol. 108,...

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

authors： Rooney EK,Gross JD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often, resistance to drugs is an obstacle to a successful treatment of cancer. In spite of the importance of the problem, the actual mechanisms that control the evolution of drug resistance are not fully understood. Many attempts to study drug resistance have been made in the mathematical modeling literature. Clearly,...

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

authors： Tomasetti C,Levy D

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant germ cells develop in specialized haploid structures, termed gametophytes. The female gametophyte patterns of flowering plants are diverse, with often unknown adaptive value. Here we present the Arabidopsis fiona mutant, which forms a female gametophyte that is structurally and functionally reminiscent of a phyl...

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

authors： Kägi C,Baumann N,Nielsen N,Stierhof YD,Gross-Hardt R

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tidal deltas are characterized by a dendritic network of distributaries that transport water and sediments to the ocean. Here, I show that the distributaries self-organize to uniformly redistribute the tidal prism across the entire delta system. The 2 opposite mechanisms of channel formation by avulsion and channel ab...

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

authors： Fagherazzi S

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Global agricultural emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased by around 20% over the last 100 y, but regulation of these emissions and their impact on bacterial cellular metabolism are poorly understood. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate in soils to inert di-nitrogen gas (N2) via N2O and t...

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

authors： Sullivan MJ,Gates AJ,Appia-Ayme C,Rowley G,Richardson DJ

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results suggested that a large subset of heat shock protein HSP-60 reactive peripheral lymphoid gamma delta T cells preexists in normal adult mice, all members of which respond to a single segment of this common HSP. However, the experimental evidence supporting this idea involved in vitro peptide responses of ...

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

authors： Fu YX,Cranfill R,Vollmer M,Van Der Zee R,O'Brien RL,Born W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATR (ATM- and rad3-related)-mediated checkpoint pathway has a crucial role in regulating the cellular responses to DNA damage and DNA-replication stress. ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein), the regulatory partner of ATR, binds directly to replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA and enables the ATR-ATRIP complex to r...

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

authors： Namiki Y,Zou L

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00