Cell-specific differences in the requirements for translation quality control.

abstract：:We combine direct surface force measurements with thermodynamic arguments to demonstrate that pure ionic liquids are expected to behave as dilute weak electrolyte solutions, with typical effective dissociated ion concentrations of less than 0.1% at room temperature. We performed equilibrium force-distance measurements...

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

authors： Gebbie MA,Valtiner M,Banquy X,Fox ET,Henderson WA,Israelachvili JN

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Collectivistic cultures have been characterized as having harmonious, cooperative ingroup relationships. However, we find evidence that people in collectivistic cultures are more vigilant toward ingroup members, mindful of their possible unethical intentions. Study 1 found that Chinese participants were more vigilant ...

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

authors： Liu SS,Morris MW,Talhelm T,Yang Q

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of new enzymatic activities is believed to require a period of gene sharing in which a single enzyme must serve both its original function and a new function that has become advantageous to the organism. Subsequent gene duplication allows one copy to maintain the original function, while the other diverges t...

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

authors： McLoughlin SY,Copley SD

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma growth hormone (GH) profiles are sexually differentiated in many species and regulate the sex-dependence of peripubescent growth rates and liver function, including steroid hydroxylase cytochrome P450 expression, by mechanisms that are poorly understood. By use of an external pump to deliver to hypophysectomize...

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

authors： Waxman DJ,Pampori NA,Ram PA,Agrawal AK,Shapiro BH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swimming Escherichia coli responds to changes in temperature by modifying its motor behavior. Previous studies using populations of cells have shown that E. coli accumulate in spatial thermal gradients, but these experiments did not cleanly separate thermal responses from chemotactic responses. Here we have isolated t...

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

authors： Paster E,Ryu WS

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin induces platelet aggregation and formation of a fibrin clot in platelet-rich plasma; leupeptin, a protease inhibitor, partially inhibits platelet aggregation, but it does not inhibit fibrin clot formation. Indomethacin does not inhibit either thrombin-induced platelet aggregation or fibrin clot formation. How...

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

authors： Ruggiero M,Lapetina EG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylenediaminetetraacetate and other divalent-cation-complexing agents greatly stimulate the cellular binding of DNA molecules to competent pneumococci, while the appearance of genetic transformants and nuclease-resistant DNA binding are completely inhibited. Based on this finding, we developed an experimental system...

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

authors： Seto H,Tomasz A

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRR1 (Copper Response Regulator) locus, required for both activating and repressing target genes of a copper- and hypoxia-sensing pathway in Chlamydomonas, encodes a 1,232-residue candidate transcription factor with a plant-specific DNA-binding domain named SBP, ankyrin repeats, and a C-terminal Cys-rich region, w...

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

authors： Kropat J,Tottey S,Birkenbihl RP,Depège N,Huijser P,Merchant S

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:There exists a properly embedded minimal surface of genus one with a single end asymptotic to the end of the helicoid. This genus-one helicoid is constructed as the limit of a continuous one-parameter family of screw-motion invariant minimal surfaces, also asymptotic to the helicoid, that have genus equal to one in th...

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

authors： Weber M,Hoffman D,Wolf M

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An excised patch of embryonic muscle membrane was used as a probe for measuring the release of acetylcholine (AcCho) from growing spinal neurons in Xenopus cell culture. The neuron was stimulated extracellularly at the soma, and the evoked AcCho release was monitored at the growth cone, along the neurite, and near the...

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

authors： Sun YA,Poo MM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a general mass spectrometric approach for the rapid identification and characterization of proteins isolated by preparative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This method possesses the inherent power to detect and structurally characterize covalent modifications. Absolute sensitivities of ma...

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

authors： Clauser KR,Hall SC,Smith DM,Webb JW,Andrews LE,Tran HM,Epstein LB,Burlingame AL

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventriculo-cisternal perfusion of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in the mouse brain has demonstrated that a brain-blood barrier exists at the microvascular endothelium in brain parenchyma but not in the median eminence of the hypothalamus. The brain-blood barrier is similar to the blood-brain barrier in that: tight junc...

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

authors： Broadwell RD,Balin BJ,Salcman M,Kaplan RS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the prostate gland of adult mammals, most epithelial cells are in a state of proliferative quiescence. Androgens regulate this effect by inducing cell cycle arrest in the G(0)/G(1) phase. Potential mediators of this androgen-induced proliferative shutoff were identified by means of subtracted cDNA libraries. The ex...

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

authors： Geck P,Maffini MV,Szelei J,Sonnenschein C,Soto AM

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental study of the configurational thermodynamics for a series of near-eutectic Pt80-x Cu x P20 bulk metallic glass-forming alloys is reported where 14 < x < 27. The undercooled liquid alloys exhibit very high fragility that increases as x decreases, resulting in...

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

authors： Na JH,Corona SL,Hoff A,Johnson WL

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein (FRAP; also called RAFT1/mTOR) regulates translation initiation and entry into the cell cycle. Depriving cells of amino acids or treating them with the small molecule rapamycin inhibits FRAP and results in rapid dephosphorylation and inactivation of the translational regulators ...

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

authors： Peterson RT,Desai BN,Hardwick JS,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regeneration of appendages is frequent among invertebrates as well as some vertebrates. However, in mammals this has been largely relegated to digit tip regeneration, as found in mice and humans. The regenerated structures are formed from a mound of undifferentiated cells called a blastema, found just below the site o...

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

authors： Lehoczky JA,Robert B,Tabin CJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is associated with the Philadelphia chromosome, which arises by a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 and harbors the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene. It is unknown whether any other mutations are needed for the chronic phase of the disease. The CML incidence increases as a fun...

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

authors： Michor F,Iwasa Y,Nowak MA

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmentally regulated genes in Drosophila, which are conserved through evolution, are potential candidates for key functions in biological processes such as cell cycle, programmed cell death, and cancer. We report cloning and characterization of the human homologue of the Drosophila seven in absentia gene (HUMSIAH...

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

authors： Nemani M,Linares-Cruz G,Bruzzoni-Giovanelli H,Roperch JP,Tuynder M,Bougueleret L,Cherif D,Medhioub M,Pasturaud P,Alvaro V,der Sarkissan H,Cazes L,Le Paslier D,Le Gall I,Israeli D,Dausset J,Sigaux F,Chumakov I,Oren M,

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from rhesus monkeys were screened by PCR for the presence of sequences homologous to known adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes 1-6. DNA spanning entire rep-cap ORFs from two novel AAVs, called AAV7 and AAV8, were isolated. Sequence comparisons among these and previously described AAVs revealed the greatest ...

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

authors： Gao GP,Alvira MR,Wang L,Calcedo R,Johnston J,Wilson JM

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorting objects and events into categories and concepts is a fundamental cognitive capacity that reduces the cost of learning every particular situation encountered in our daily lives. Relational concepts such as "same," "different," "better than," or "larger than"--among others--are essential in human cognition becau...

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

authors： Avarguès-Weber A,Dyer AG,Combe M,Giurfa M

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the conversion of nucleoside diphosphates to deoxynucleoside diphosphates (dNDPs). The Escherichia coli class Ia RNR uses a mechanism of radical propagation by which a cysteine in the active site of the RNR large (α2) subunit is transiently oxidized by a stable tyrosyl radical ...

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

authors： Minnihan EC,Ando N,Brignole EJ,Olshansky L,Chittuluru J,Asturias FJ,Drennan CL,Nocera DG,Stubbe J

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used in vitro selection techniques to characterize DNA sequences that are ligated efficiently by T4 RNA ligase. We find that the ensemble of selected sequences ligated about 10 times as efficiently as the random mixture of sequences used as the input for selection. Surprisingly, the majority of the selected se...

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

authors： Harada K,Orgel LE

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Single crystal diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at very high growth rates (up to 150 microm/h) has been successfully annealed without graphitization at temperatures up to 2200 degrees C and pressures <300 torr. Crystals were annealed in a hydrogen environment by using microwave plasma techniques for...

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

authors： Meng YF,Yan CS,Lai J,Krasnicki S,Shu H,Yu T,Liang Q,Mao HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of transition states along reaction coordinates (r++) for simple chemical reactions are often estimated from Leffler alpha values, the slope of plots of DeltaG++ (activation energy) versus DeltaG(0) (equilibrium free energy) for a series of structural variants. Protein folding is more complex than simple...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An evolutionary framework for viewing the formation, the stability, the organizational structure, and the social dynamics of biological families is developed. This framework is based upon three conceptual pillars: ecological constraints theory, inclusive fitness theory, and reproductive skew theory. I offer a set of 1...

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

authors： Emlen ST

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The major protein extracted from anyloid deposits induced in mice by injection of either Candida albicans cells or sodium caseinate was found to have chromatographic and electrophoretic properties and an amino-acid compostiion characteristic of the AA class of amyloid proteins. The homology of the mouse protein with p...

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

authors： Eriksen N,Ericsson LH,Pearsall N,Lagunoff D,Benditt EP

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellulose synthesizing terminal complex consisting of subunits A, B, C, and D in Acetobacter xylinum spans the outer and inner cell membranes to synthesize and extrude glucan chains, which are assembled into subelementary fibrils and further into a ribbon. We determined the structures of subunit D (AxCeSD/AxBcsD) ...

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

authors： Hu SQ,Gao YG,Tajima K,Sunagawa N,Zhou Y,Kawano S,Fujiwara T,Yoda T,Shimura D,Satoh Y,Munekata M,Tanaka I,Yao M

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Before secretory vesicles undergo exocytosis, they must recruit the proteins syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) in the plasma membrane. GFP-labeled versions of both proteins cluster at sites where secretory granules have docked. Single-particle tracking shows that minority populations of both ...

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

authors： Knowles MK,Barg S,Wan L,Midorikawa M,Chen X,Almers W

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A human liver cDNA library was screened by colony hybridization with a bovine factor X cDNA probe. Three of the positive plasmids contained overlapping DNA that coded for most of human factor X mRNA. DNA sequence analysis of these three clones allowed the prediction of the complete amino acid sequence of plasma factor...

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

authors： Fung MR,Hay CW,MacGillivray RT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00