Contagious yawning in gelada baboons as a possible expression of empathy.

abstract：:Protein aggregation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, and the mechanism of its progression is poorly understood. Here, we examine the structural and dynamic characteristics of transiently evolving protein aggregates under ambient conditions by directly probing protein surface wat...

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

authors： Pavlova A,Cheng CY,Kinnebrew M,Lew J,Dahlquist FW,Han S

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-shaped hexameric helicases and translocases support essential DNA-, RNA-, and protein-dependent transactions in all cells and many viruses. How such systems coordinate ATPase activity between multiple subunits to power conformational changes that drive the engagement and movement of client substrates is a fundame...

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

authors： Thomsen ND,Lawson MR,Witkowsky LB,Qu S,Berger JM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is devoted to the study of the arithmetic properties of values of G-functions introduced by Siegel [Siegel, C. L. (1929) Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Phys.-Math. Kl. 1]. One of the main results is a theorem on the linear independence of values of G-functions at rational points close to the origin. In this theor...

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

authors： Chudnovsky GV

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA coding for mouse major transplantation antigens of the d haplotype was partially purified, copied into double-stranded cDNA, and cloned in Escherichia coli. Clones were selected by their ability to hybridize specifically with mRNA coding for H-2K, D, or L antigens. One of these clones, pH-2d-1, carries a 1200-bas...

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

authors： Kvist S,Bregegere F,Rask L,Cami B,Garoff H,Daniel F,Wiman K,Larhammar D,Abastado JP,Gachelin G,Peterson PA,Dobberstein B,Kourilsky P

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated the existence of human cytokine synthesis inhibitory factor (CSIF) [interleukin 10 (IL-10)]. cDNA clones encoding human IL-10 (hIL-10) were isolated from a tetanus toxin-specific human T-cell clone. Like mouse IL-10, hIL-10 exhibits strong DNA and amino acid sequence homology to an open reading fr...

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

authors： Vieira P,de Waal-Malefyt R,Dang MN,Johnson KE,Kastelein R,Fiorentino DF,deVries JE,Roncarolo MG,Mosmann TR,Moore KW

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The caspases are cysteine proteases that have been implicated in the execution of programmed cell death in organisms ranging from nematodes to humans. Many members of the Bcl-2 family, including Bcl-XL, are potent inhibitors of programmed cell death and inhibit activation of caspases in cells. Here, we report a direct...

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

authors： Clem RJ,Cheng EH,Karp CL,Kirsch DG,Ueno K,Takahashi A,Kastan MB,Griffin DE,Earnshaw WC,Veliuona MA,Hardwick JM

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins are key players in vital processes involving energy homeostasis and metabolism from the simplest to most complex organisms. We report a 1.5 A x-ray crystal structure of the first identified outer mitochondrial membrane Fe-S protein, mitoNEET. Two protomers intertwine to form a unique dimeri...

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

authors： Paddock ML,Wiley SE,Axelrod HL,Cohen AE,Roy M,Abresch EC,Capraro D,Murphy AN,Nechushtai R,Dixon JE,Jennings PA

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboid algae with unusual chloroplasts. Instead of the usual two membranes that surround the chloroplasts of plants, green algae, and red algae, the chloroplasts of chlorarachniophytes have four bounding membranes. The extra membranes may reflect an unusual origin of chlorarachniophyte chloro...

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

authors： McFadden GI,Gilson PR,Hofmann CJ,Adcock GJ,Maier UG

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of contrast enhancement of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging was investigated in MCF7 human breast cancer implanted in nude mice. Dynamic contrast-enhanced images recorded at high spatial resolution were analyzed by an image analysis method based on a physiological model, which included the blood c...

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

authors： Furman-Haran E,Margalit R,Grobgeld D,Degani H

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The thesis is developed that a low oxygen level Precambrian atmosphere presented early-evolving metazoan organisms with physiological connective tissue priorities resulting from the important molecular oxygen requirements in the biosynthesis of collagen hydroxyproline. Shells, cuticles, and carapaces which are not man...

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

authors： Towe KM

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆Ca = future minus historic CO2) compensates for increased physiological stresses from higher temperature (∆T). We predicted the outcome of these competing responses by using optimization the...

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

authors： Sperry JS,Venturas MD,Todd HN,Trugman AT,Anderegg WRL,Wang Y,Tai X

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is crucial for cellular information processing and decision-making. With suitable inputs, PPI networks drive the cells to diverse functional outcomes such as cell proliferation or cell death. Here, we characterize the structural controllability of a large directed human PP...

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

authors： Vinayagam A,Gibson TE,Lee HJ,Yilmazel B,Roesel C,Hu Y,Kwon Y,Sharma A,Liu YY,Perrimon N,Barabási AL

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such an extent that it has been argued that "Human voice recognition depends on language ability" [Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE (2011) Science 333(6042):595]. However, 7-mo-old infants discriminate speakers of their ...

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

authors： Fleming D,Giordano BL,Caldara R,Belin P

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The IL-2R gamma chain (IL-2R gamma) is an essential component of high- and intermediate-affinity IL-2Rs, playing critical roles for ligand binding and internalization. Recently, our laboratory has demonstrated that IL-2R gamma mutation results in X chromosome-linked severe combined immunodeficiency in humans, suggesti...

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

authors： Cao X,Kozak CA,Liu YJ,Noguchi M,O'Connell E,Leonard WJ

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Improper function of voltage-gated sodium channels (NaVs), obligatory membrane proteins for bioelectrical signaling, has been linked to a number of human pathologies. Small-molecule agents that target NaVs hold considerable promise for treatment of chronic disease. Absent a comprehensive understanding of channel struc...

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

authors： Thomas-Tran R,Du Bois J

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory suggests that animals should switch facultatively among canonical movement modes as a complex function of internal state, landscape characteristics, motion capacity, and navigational capacity. We tested the generality of this paradigm for free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) over 5 orders of magnitude in ti...

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

authors： Fryxell JM,Hazell M,Börger L,Dalziel BD,Haydon DT,Morales JM,McIntosh T,Rosatte RC

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is highly efficient in targeting pathogens, but lack of its apposite regulation results in host-cell damage, which is linked to diseases. Thus, complement activation is tightly regulated by a series of proteins, which primarily belong to the regulators of complement activation (RCA) family. Struc...

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

authors： Panwar HS,Ojha H,Ghosh P,Barage SH,Raut S,Sahu A

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics regulation plays a critical role in determining cell identity by controlling the accessibility of lineage-specific regulatory regions. In muscle stem cells, epigenetic mechanisms of how chromatin accessibility is modulated during cell fate determination are not fully understood. Here, we identified a long ...

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

authors： Dong A,Preusch CB,So WK,Lin K,Luan S,Yi R,Wong JW,Wu Z,Cheung TH

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational and biochemical studies implicate the blue-light sensor cryptochrome (CRY) as an endogenous light-dependent magnetosensor enabling migratory birds to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. Validation of such a mechanism has been hampered by the absence of structures of vertebrate CRYs that have funct...

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

authors： Zoltowski BD,Chelliah Y,Wickramaratne A,Jarocha L,Karki N,Xu W,Mouritsen H,Hore PJ,Hibbs RE,Green CB,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodical cicadas are well known for their prime-numbered life cycles (17 and 13 years) and their mass periodical emergences. The origination and persistence of prime-numbered cycles are explained by the hybridization hypothesis on the basis of their lower likelihood of hybridization with other cycles. Recently, we s...

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

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshimura J,Simon C,Cooley JR,Tainaka K

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic water splitting, coupled to hydrogenase-catalyzed hydrogen production, is considered a promising clean, renewable source of energy. It is widely accepted that the oxygen sensitivity of hydrogen production, combined with competition between hydrogenases and NADPH-dependent carbon dioxide fixation are the...

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

authors： Yacoby I,Pochekailov S,Toporik H,Ghirardi ML,King PW,Zhang S

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary surfactant contains two hydrophobic polypeptides, SP-B and SP-C, with known amino acid sequences and with truncated subforms lacking the N-terminal residues. Treatment of SP-C with KOH releases fatty acids (palmitic acid to more than 85%) in molar ratios of 1.8-2.0 relative to the polypeptide. Furthermore, p...

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

authors： Curstedt T,Johansson J,Persson P,Eklund A,Robertson B,Löwenadler B,Jörnvall H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cells express hundreds of metalloenzymes, the mechanisms by which apoenzymes receive their metal cofactors are largely unknown. Poly(rC)-binding proteins PCBP1 and PCBP2 are multifunctional adaptor proteins that bind iron and deliver it to ferritin for storage or to prolyl and asparagyl hydroxylases to metall...

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

authors： Frey AG,Nandal A,Park JH,Smith PM,Yabe T,Ryu MS,Ghosh MC,Lee J,Rouault TA,Park MH,Philpott CC

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The int-1 and int-2 genes were first isolated as targets for transcriptional activation by proviral insertion mutations in mammary carcinomas induced by the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV). Since these proto-oncogenes are not expressed at detectable levels in previously tested normal tissues from adult mice, we sough...

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

authors： Jakobovits A,Shackleford GM,Varmus HE,Martin GR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) patients carry a missense mutation in ACVR1 [617G > A (R206H)] that leads to hyperactivation of BMP-SMAD signaling. Contrary to a previous study, here we show that FOP fibroblasts showed an increased efficiency of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) generation. This positiv...

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

authors： Hayashi Y,Hsiao EC,Sami S,Lancero M,Schlieve CR,Nguyen T,Yano K,Nagahashi A,Ikeya M,Matsumoto Y,Nishimura K,Fukuda A,Hisatake K,Tomoda K,Asaka I,Toguchida J,Conklin BR,Yamanaka S

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited electronic states created by UV excitation of the diribonucleoside monophosphates ApA, ApG, ApC, ApU, and CpG were studied by the femtosecond transient-absorption technique. Bleach recovery signals recorded at 252 nm show that long-lived excited states are formed in all five dinucleosides. The lifetimes of the...

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

authors： Takaya T,Su C,de La Harpe K,Crespo-Hernández CE,Kohler B

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid is a morphogenetic signaling molecule derived from vitamin A and involved in vertebrate development. Two groups of receptors, retinoic acid receptors and retinoid X receptors (RXRs), have been identified. All-trans-retinoic acid is the high-affinity ligand for retinoic acid receptors, and 9-cis-retinoic ...

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

authors： Yang Y,Vacchio MS,Ashwell JD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinases of the Janus kinase family initiate cellular responses through their association with receptors for alpha-helical cytokines. In addition to a tyrosine kinase domain, these enzymes possess a kinase-like (KL) domain, whose function remains elusive. To investigate the role of the KL domain of Tyk2 in int...

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

authors： Yeh TC,Dondi E,Uze G,Pellegrini S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some cells from cultured embryonic mouse hypothalamus were found to express aromatic-L-amino acid decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.28) activity and serotonin uptake and storage. These neuron-like cells differed from serotoninergic neurons in cultured embryonic mouse brain stem since they did not contain tryptophan hydroxylase....

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

authors： De Vitry F,Hamon M,Catelon J,Dubois M,Thibault J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimyristoyl lecithin liposomes, containing cytochrome b5 reductase (NADH:ferricytochrome b5 oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.2.2) and varying amounts of cytochrome b5, were used to measure flavoprotein catalysis alone and catalysis requiring electron transfer between the reductase and cytochrome as a function of temperature. Wh...

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

authors： Strittmatter P,Rogers MJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00