Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses.

abstract：:Using previously isolated Bacillus brevis strains that secrete large amounts of proteins but little protease into the medium, we have developed a host-vector system for very efficient synthesis and secretion of heterologous proteins. The multiple promoters and the signal-peptide-coding region of the MWP gene, a struct...

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

authors： Yamagata H,Nakahama K,Suzuki Y,Kakinuma A,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose, one of the most important nutrients for animals, acts as a regulatory signal that controls the secretion of hormones, such as insulin, by endocrine tissues. However, how organisms respond to extracellular glucose and how glucose controls nutrient homeostasis remain unknown. Here, we show that a putative Droso...

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

authors： Kohyama-Koganeya A,Kim YJ,Miura M,Hirabayashi Y

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen isotope record of the last million years, as provided by a deep sea core sediment, is analyzed by a method recently developed in the theory of dynamical systems. The analysis suggests that climatic variability is the manifestation of a chaotic dynamics described by an attractor of fractal dimensionality. A ...

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

authors： Nicolis C,Nicolis G

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of biomolecular isomerization processes, such as protein folding, is governed by a free-energy surface of high dimensionality and complexity. As an alternative to projections into one or two dimensions, the free-energy surface can be mapped into a weighted network where nodes and links are configurations ...

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

authors： Gfeller D,De Los Rios P,Caflisch A,Rao F

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Excellent electrophoretic separations of a variety of biological molecules can be accomplished by using uncharged, triblock copolymers as the "gel" media. These copolymers form uncrosslinked, lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of large micelles between which molecules must travel. Unlike crosslinked hydrogels in comm...

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

authors： Rill RL,Locke BR,Liu Y,Van Winkle DH

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita is a premature aging syndrome characterized by muco-cutaneous features and a range of other abnormalities, including early greying, dental loss, osteoporosis, and malignancy. Dyskeratosis congenita cells age prematurely and have very short telomeres. Patients have mutations in genes that encode ...

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

authors： Vulliamy T,Beswick R,Kirwan M,Marrone A,Digweed M,Walne A,Dokal I

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical efficacy of local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic drugs is due to their voltage- and frequency-dependent block of Na+ channels. Quaternary local anesthetic analogs such as QX-314, which are permanently charged and membrane-impermeant, effectively block cardiac Na+ channels when applied from either side of t...

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

authors： Qu Y,Rogers J,Tanada T,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified, cultured, characterized, and propagated adult pluripotent stem cells (PSC) from a subset of human peripheral blood monocytes. These cells, which in appearance resemble fibroblasts, expand in the presence of macrophage colony-stimulating factor and display monocytic and hematopoietic stem cell marke...

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

authors： Zhao Y,Glesne D,Huberman E

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A mammalian A-type cyclin, cyclin A1, is highly expressed in testes of both human and mouse and targeted mutagenesis in the mouse has revealed the unique requirement for cyclin A1 in the progression of male germ cells through the meiotic cell cycle. While very low levels of cyclin A1 have been reported in the human he...

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

authors： Liao C,Wang XY,Wei HQ,Li SQ,Merghoub T,Pandolfi PP,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：2001-06-05 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：:The 14-3-3 family of phosphoserine/threonine-recognition proteins engage multiple nodes in signaling networks that control diverse physiological and pathophysiological functions and have emerged as promising therapeutic targets for such diseases as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Thus, small molecule modulator...

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

authors： Zhao J,Du Y,Horton JR,Upadhyay AK,Lou B,Bai Y,Zhang X,Du L,Li M,Wang B,Zhang L,Barbieri JT,Khuri FR,Cheng X,Fu H

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic mapping has been used to identify a region of the host genome that determines resistance to fusiform rust disease in loblolly pine where no discrete, simply inherited resistance factors had been previously found by conventional genetic analysis over four decades. A resistance locus, behaving as a single domina...

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

authors： Wilcox PL,Amerson HV,Kuhlman EG,Liu BH,O'Malley DM,Sederoff RR

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate cytokinesis it is thought that contractile ring constriction is driven by nonmuscle myosin II (NM II) translocation of antiparallel actin filaments. Here we report in situ, in vitro, and in vivo observations that challenge this hypothesis. Graded knockdown of NM II in cultured COS-7 cells reveals tha...

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

authors： Ma X,Kovács M,Conti MA,Wang A,Zhang Y,Sellers JR,Adelstein RS

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching single polysaccharide molecules with an atomic force microscope. In those early experiments, the molecules were stretche...

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

authors： Marszalek PE,Li H,Oberhauser AF,Fernandez JM

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated hepadnaviral DNA in livers and tumors of chronic hepatitis B patients has been reported for many years. In this study, we investigated whether hepatitis B virus DNA integration occurs preferentially at sites of cell DNA damage. A single I-SceI homing endonuclease recognition site was introduced into the DNA...

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

authors： Bill CA,Summers J

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive potentials of carcinomas greatly contribute to their metastasis, which is a major threat in most cancers. We have recently shown that Arf6 plays a pivotal role in breast cancer invasive activities and identified AMAP1 as an effector of GTP-Arf6 in invasion. Expression of AMAP1 correlates well with invasive ph...

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

authors： Hashimoto S,Hirose M,Hashimoto A,Morishige M,Yamada A,Hosaka H,Akagi K,Ogawa E,Oneyama C,Agatsuma T,Okada M,Kobayashi H,Wada H,Nakano H,Ikegami T,Nakagawa A,Sabe H

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering time (i.e., heading date in crops) is an important ecological trait that determines growing seasons and regional adaptability of plants to specific natural environments. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a short-day plant that originated in the tropics. Increasing evidence suggests that the northward expansion of cu...

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

authors： Wu W,Zheng XM,Lu G,Zhong Z,Gao H,Chen L,Wu C,Wang HJ,Wang Q,Zhou K,Wang JL,Wu F,Zhang X,Guo X,Cheng Z,Lei C,Lin Q,Jiang L,Wang H,Ge S,Wan J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits that enable species to persist in ecological environments are often maintained over time, a phenomenon known as niche conservatism. Here we argue that ecological niches function at levels above species, notably at the level of genus for mammals, and that niche conservatism is also evident above the species leve...

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

authors： Hadly EA,Spaeth PA,Li C

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of residue Tyr-19 of Chromatium vinosum HiPIP has been evaluated by site-directed mutagenesis experiments. The stability of the [Fe4S4] cluster prosthetic center is sensitive to side-chain replacements. Polar residues result in significant instability, while nonpolar residues (especially with aroma...

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

authors： Agarwal A,Li D,Cowan JA

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic neuroepithelium gives rise to the components of the central nervous system in the mature animal. To study the early development of the murine central nervous system we have sought to isolate growth factor receptors from the neuroepithelium of the neural tube of 10-day-old mouse embryos. Because many grow...

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

authors： Reid HH,Wilks AF,Bernard O

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal pancreatic beta cells demonstrate a deficient insulin release in response to glucose, but the underlying mechanism at the cellular level is unknown. By using beta cells from 21-day fetal rats we made an attempt to clarify the mechanism(s) behind this reduced glucose response. In addition to measuring insulin rel...

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

authors： Rorsman P,Arkhammar P,Bokvist K,Hellerström C,Nilsson T,Welsh M,Welsh N,Berggren PO

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic pluripotency in the mouse is established and maintained by a gene-regulatory network under the control of a core set of transcription factors that include octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4; official name POU domain, class 5, transcription factor 1, Pou5f1), sex-determining region Y (SRY)-box containing gene 2 ...

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

authors： Fernandez-Tresguerres B,Cañon S,Rayon T,Pernaute B,Crespo M,Torroja C,Manzanares M

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian tetradecapeptide, bombesin (BBS) has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion both in vivo and by pancreatic islet cells in vitro. To determine whether BBS can act directly on pancreatic beta cells, we examined its effects on insulin secretion by HIT-T15 cells (HIT cells), a clonal islet cell line. Addi...

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

authors： Swope SL,Schonbrunn A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human declarative memory involves a systematic organization of information that supports generalizations and inferences from acquired knowledge. This kind of memory depends on the hippocampal region in humans, but the extent to which animals also have declarative memory, and whether inferential expression of memory de...

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

authors： Dusek JA,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mid-winter development of refractoriness to melatonin (Mel) triggers recrudescence of the atrophied reproductive apparatus of rodents. As a consequence, over-wintering animals become reproductively competent just before the onset of spring conditions favorable for breeding. The neural target tissues that cease to ...

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

authors： Freeman DA,Zucker I

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) is a 27-amino acid neuroendocrine hormone that may play a role in the pathophysiology of small cell lung carcinoma. GRP and bombesin, a structurally related peptide, stimulate the growth of some cultured cell types. C-terminal GRP peptide analogs were developed that inhibited 6 nM bombe...

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

authors： Leban JJ,Kull FC Jr,Landavazo A,Stockstill B,McDermed JD

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid mixing in active suspensions of microorganisms is important to ecological phenomena and presents a fascinating stochastic process. We investigate the mixing produced by swimming unicellular algal cells (Chlamydomonas) in quasi-two-dimensional liquid films by simultaneously tracking the motion of the cells and th...

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

authors： Kurtuldu H,Guasto JS,Johnson KA,Gollub JP

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify proteins that regulate the transcriptional activity of c-Jun, we have used the yeast two-hybrid screen to detect mammalian polypeptides that might interact functionally with the N-terminal segment of c-Jun, a known regulatory region. Among the proteins identified is a short form of Stat3 (designated Stat3 ...

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

authors： Schaefer TS,Sanders LK,Nathans D

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00