Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction.

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:If they are able to spread in wild populations, CRISPR-based gene-drive elements would provide new ways to address ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the potential for uncontrolled spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use. Here, we detail a self-exhausting form of CRIS...

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

authors： Noble C,Min J,Olejarz J,Buchthal J,Chavez A,Smidler AL,DeBenedictis EA,Church GM,Nowak MA,Esvelt KM

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of eicosanoid formation in larvae of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta, using specific inhibitors of phospholipase A2, cyclooxygenase, and lipoxygenase, severely weakened the ability of larvae to clear the bacterium Serratia marscescens from their hemolymph. The reduced capability to remove bacteria is ass...

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

authors： Stanley-Samuelson DW,Jensen E,Nickerson KW,Tiebel K,Ogg CL,Howard RW

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short noncoding RNAs that regulate protein-coding genes posttranscriptionally. In animals, most known miRNA targeting occurs within the 3'UTR of mRNAs, but the extent of biologically relevant targeting in the ORF or 5'UTR of mRNAs remains unknown. Here, we develop an algorithm (MinoTa...

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

authors： Schnall-Levin M,Zhao Y,Perrimon N,Berger B

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a simple molecular indexing method for quantitative targeted RNA sequencing, in which mRNAs of interest are selectively captured from complex cDNA libraries and sequenced to determine their absolute concentrations. cDNA fragments are individually labeled so that each molecule can be tracked from the origina...

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

authors： Fu GK,Xu W,Wilhelmy J,Mindrinos MN,Davis RW,Xiao W,Fodor SP

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetics of the TiO(2) polymorphs (rutile, anatase, and brookite) were studied by high temperature oxide melt drop solution calorimetry. Relative to bulk rutile, bulk brookite is 0.71 +/- 0.38 kJ/mol (6) and bulk anatase is 2.61 +/- 0.41 kJ/mol higher in enthalpy. The surface enthalpies of rutile, brookite, and ...

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

authors： Ranade MR,Navrotsky A,Zhang HZ,Banfield JF,Elder SH,Zaban A,Borse PH,Kulkarni SK,Doran GS,Whitfield HJ

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Band 3, the major intrinsic protein of the human erythrocyte membrane, was specifically labeled with the covalent fluorescent probe eosin isothiocyanate. The lateral mobility of labeled band 3 in the plane of the membrane under various conditions of ionic strength and temperature was examined by using the fluorescence...

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

authors： Golan DE,Veatch W

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the role of the immune system in limiting HIV type 1 replication, it is critical to know to what extent the rapid turnover of productively infected cells is caused by viral cytopathicity or by immune-mediated lysis. We show that uncultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells of many patients contain cytot...

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

authors： Klenerman P,Phillips RE,Rinaldo CR,Wahl LM,Ogg G,May RM,McMichael AJ,Nowak MA

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear bodies are RNA and protein-rich, membraneless organelles that play important roles in gene regulation. The largest and most well-known nuclear body is the nucleolus, an organelle whose primary function in ribosome biogenesis makes it key for cell growth and size homeostasis. The nucleolus and other nuclear bod...

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

authors： Berry J,Weber SC,Vaidya N,Haataja M,Brangwynne CP

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:As global climate continues to warm, melting of glaciers releases a large quantity of mercury (Hg) originally locked in ice into the atmosphere and downstream ecosystems. Here, we show an opposite process that captures atmospheric Hg through glacier-to-vegetation succession. Our study using stable isotope techniques a...

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

authors： Wang X,Luo J,Yuan W,Lin CJ,Wang F,Liu C,Wang G,Feng X

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdate- and ATP-dependent in vitro synthesis of the iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMo-co) of nitrogenase requires the protein products of at least the nifB, nifN, and nifE genes. Extracts of FeMo-co-negative mutants of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Azotobacter vinelandii with lesions in different genes can be complemented...

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

authors： Shah VK,Imperial J,Ugalde RA,Ludden PW,Brill WJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TCR is an alpha beta heterodimer, a part of the multimeric structure through which physiological T-cell activation occurs. The expression of TCR alpha chain is greatly diminished in a beta-chain-deficient mutant Jurkat cell line (J.RT3-T3.5). The relationship between the expression of the TCR alpha and beta chains...

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

authors： Chung S,Strominger JL

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to transitions to environmental sustainability is that consumers lack information about the full environmental footprints of their purchases. Sellers' incentives do not support reducing the footprints unless customers have such information and are willing to act on it. We explore the potential of moder...

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

authors： Isley SC,Stern PC,Carmichael SP,Joseph KM,Arent DJ

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful events evoke long-term changes in behavioral responses; however, the underlying mechanisms in the brain are not well understood. Previous work has shown that epigenetic changes and immediate-early gene (IEG) induction in stress-activated dentate gyrus (DG) granule neurons play a crucial role in these behavio...

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

authors： Saunderson EA,Spiers H,Mifsud KR,Gutierrez-Mecinas M,Trollope AF,Shaikh A,Mill J,Reul JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An amine-functionalized derivative of 1,3-dipropyl-8-phenylxanthine has been prepared in tritiated form as a xanthine amine congener ([3H]XAC) for use as an antagonist radioligand for adenosine receptors. [3H]XAC has higher receptor affinity, higher specific activity, lower nonspecific membrane binding, and more favor...

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

authors： Jacobson KA,Ukena D,Kirk KL,Daly JW

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color and black and white line stimulation produce qualitatively and quantitatively different 2-deoxy[14C]glucose column patterns in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys. Microdensitometry of these stimulus-dependent columns reveals interlaminar density differences that serve as a signature for the stimulus condition...

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

authors： Crawford ML,Meharg LS,Johnston DA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vaccine capable of stimulating protective antiviral antibody responses is needed to curtail the global AIDS epidemic caused by HIV-1. Although rarely elicited during the course of natural infection or upon conventional vaccination, the membrane-proximal ectodomain region (MPER) of the HIV-1 glycoprotein of M(r) 41,0...

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

authors： Song L,Sun ZY,Coleman KE,Zwick MB,Gach JS,Wang JH,Reinherz EL,Wagner G,Kim M

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The helical ribosome structures of Mycoplasma gallisepticum have been analyzed by optical diffraction and the rotational symmetry technique. The helix repeat (510 A) is composed of 10 ribosomes in 3 turns. The rotational studies show some ribosome fine structure. ...

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

authors： Maniloff J

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles were extracted from etiolated and light-grown plants, a plant cell suspension culture, and an alga. Upon addition of ATP and Mg(2+), active Ca(2+) uptake into the vesicles against a concentration gradient was shown. The dependence of this uptake on ATP and Mg(2+) concentrations, pH, and temperature i...

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

authors： Gross J,Marmé D

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine kinase-deficient mouse L cells have been transformed with plasmid DNAs carrying 8-base-pair Xho I linker insertion mutations in the coding region of the herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase gene. When the mutant plasmids are introduced individually into LTK- cells, transformation efficiencies are gre...

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

authors： Shapira G,Stachelek JL,Letsou A,Soodak LK,Liskay RM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide-releasing compounds were shown to activate an ADP-ribosyltransferase activity in the cytosol of Dictyostelium discoideum. The enzyme ADP-ribosylated a cytosolic protein of approximately 41 kDa, p41. Neither cGMP nor GTP and its analogues affected this ADP-ribosylation. p41 differs from other substrates AD...

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

authors： Tao Y,Howlett A,Klein C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are expressed on innate immune cells and trigger inflammation upon detection of pathogens and host tissue injury. TLR-mediated proinflammatory-signaling pathways are counteracted by partially characterized anti-inflammatory mechanisms that prevent exaggerated inflammation and host tissue dam...

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

authors： Zhou J,Wu R,High AA,Slaughter CA,Finkelstein D,Rehg JE,Redecke V,Häcker H

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the direct observation of the fundamental processes is lacking. By combining rational peptide design with topographical (atomic force microsc...

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

authors： Rakowska PD,Jiang H,Ray S,Pyne A,Lamarre B,Carr M,Judge PJ,Ravi J,Gerling UI,Koksch B,Martyna GJ,Hoogenboom BW,Watts A,Crain J,Grovenor CR,Ryadnov MG

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) signaling is thought to mediate quorum sensing in many species of Proteobacteria. The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses acyl-HSLs to regulate hundreds of genes, including many that code for extracellular virulence factors. The idea that the P. aeruginosa acyl-H...

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

authors： Yarwood JM,Volper EM,Greenberg EP

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in T cell receptor (TCR) signaling initiated by interactions among TCRs, coreceptors, and self-peptide-MHC complexes determine the outcome of CD4 versus CD8 lineage of T cell differentiation. The H-2Ld and Kbm3 alloreactive 2C TCR is positively selected by MHC class I Kb and a yet-to-be identified nonclass...

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

authors： Ge Q,Holler PD,Mahajan VS,Nuygen T,Eisen HN,Chen J

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Global loss of DNA methylation has been known for decades as an epigenomic aberration associated with carcinogenesis and cancer progression. Loss of DNA methylation affects predominantly repetitive elements, which encompass >50% of the CpG dinucleotides present in the human genome. Because of the lack of an effective ...

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

authors： Xie H,Wang M,Bonaldo Mde F,Rajaram V,Stellpflug W,Smith C,Arndt K,Goldman S,Tomita T,Soares MB

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription termination is a critical step in the control of gene expression. One of the major termination mechanisms is mediated by Rho factor that dissociates the complex mRNA-DNA-RNA polymerase upon binding with RNA polymerase. Rho promotes termination at the end of operons, but it can also terminate transcriptio...

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

authors： Silva IJ,Barahona S,Eyraud A,Lalaouna D,Figueroa-Bossi N,Massé E,Arraiano CM

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromogranin A (CGA) is a secretory protein present in the adrenal medulla and in a variety of endocrine organs. This protein may serve as precursor for pancreastatin (PST) and for other biologically active peptides. Recently, chromostatin (CST), a CGA derivative, has been identified that possesses high biological act...

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

authors： Cetin Y,Aunis D,Bader MF,Galindo E,Jörns A,Bargsten G,Grube D

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is assumed to contribute to goal-directed episodic encoding by exerting cognitive control on medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory processes. However, it is thus far unclear to what extent the contribution of PFC-MTL interactions to memory manifests at a structural anatomical level. We combined...

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

authors： Schott BH,Niklas C,Kaufmann J,Bodammer NC,Machts J,Schütze H,Düzel E

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00