Foldable structures and the natural design of pollen grains.

abstract：:Fibrosis is caused by scar tissue formation in internal organs and is associated with 45% of deaths in the United States. Two closely related human serum proteins, serum amyloid P (SAP) and C-reactive protein (CRP), strongly affect fibrosis. In multiple animal models, and in Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials, SAP af...

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

authors： Cox N,Pilling D,Gomer RH

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualisms between fungi and fungus-growing animals are model systems for studying coevolution and complex interactions between species. Fungal growing behavior has enabled cultivating animals to rise to major ecological importance, but evolution of farming symbioses is thought to be restricted to three terrestrial in...

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

authors： Silliman BR,Newell SY

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher-level cognitive processes strongly depend on a complex interplay between mediodorsal thalamus nuclei and the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Alteration of thalamofrontal connectivity has been involved in cognitive deficits of schizophrenia. Prefrontal serotonin (5-HT)2A receptors play an essential role in cortical net...

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

authors： Barre A,Berthoux C,De Bundel D,Valjent E,Bockaert J,Marin P,Bécamel C

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the cell surface expression of CD4 and CD8 molecules, murine thymocytes can be divided into four populations: these include CD4-, CD8- double-negative and CD4+, CD8+ double-positive subpopulations, both of which consist largely of immature cells, and the single positive, CD4+ or CD8+, subsets that contain fun...

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

authors： Nikolić-Zugić J,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule formation from lamb brain tubulin isolated by affinity chromatography and freed of exchangeable nucleotide requires GTP for maximal rate and extent of polymerization. The nucleotide analogs guanylylmethylenediphosphate and guanylylimidodiphosphate fail to replace GTP; in addition, neither the presence of m...

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

authors： Maccioni R,Seeds NW

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic role of endogenous IL-17A in spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis has not been addressed previously to our knowledge. Ablation of IL-17A significantly reduced tumor development in mice bearing a heterozygote mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene (Apc(Min/+) mice). There was also a decreas...

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

authors： Chae WJ,Gibson TF,Zelterman D,Hao L,Henegariu O,Bothwell AL

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylation stimulates the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) channel and enhances its activation by protein kinase A (PKA) through mechanisms that remain poorly understood. We have examined the effects of mutating consensus sequences for PKC phosphorylation and repor...

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

authors： Chappe V,Hinkson DA,Howell LD,Evagelidis A,Liao J,Chang XB,Riordan JR,Hanrahan JW

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The subdivision of all the experimental days of the Whitetop project into two approximately equal groups, group W with predominantly westerly winds aloft and group E with frequent easterly winds, shows a remarkable difference in the apparent effect of seeding. On W days there was no detectable effect of seeding on rai...

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

authors： Lovasich JL,Neyman J,Scott EL,Smith JA

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type I collagenopathies are a group of heterogeneous connective tissue disorders, that are caused by mutations in the genes encoding type I collagen and include specific forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). These disorders present with a broad disease spectrum and large clini...

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

authors： Gistelinck C,Kwon RY,Malfait F,Symoens S,Harris MP,Henke K,Hawkins MB,Fisher S,Sips P,Guillemyn B,Bek JW,Vermassen P,De Saffel H,Witten PE,Weis M,De Paepe A,Eyre DR,Willaert A,Coucke PJ

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove theorems on the structure of the fundamental group of a compact riemannian manifold of non-positive curvature. In particular, a conjecture of J. Wolf [J. Differential Geometry, 2, 421-446 (1968)] is proved. ...

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

authors： Yau ST

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on structural information derived from the F NMR data of labeled rhodopsins, rhodopsin crystal structure, and excited-state properties of model polyenes, we propose a molecular mechanism that accounts specifically for the causes of the well-known enhanced photoreactivity of rhodopsin (increased rates and quantum...

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

authors： Liu RS,Colmenares LU

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a machine-learning strategy for design of organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) for zeolite beta. We use machine learning to replace a computationally expensive molecular dynamics evaluation of the stabilization energy of the OSDA inside zeolite beta with a neural network prediction. We train the neural...

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

authors： Daeyaert F,Ye F,Deem MW

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment with nitrite, Japanese soy sauce was strongly mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium TA100 without S9 mixture. Two precursors of the mutagen were isolated from Japanese soy sauce, and these were identified as (-)-(1S,3S)-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline-3-carboxylic acid [(-)-(1S,3S)-MTCA] and i...

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

authors： Wakabayashi K,Ochiai M,Saitô H,Tsuda M,Suwa Y,Nagao M,Sugimura T

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP), a potential mediator of vitamin A action, was found to enable retinol to bind in a specific manner to isolated nuclei from livers of vitamin A deficient rats. Binding was followed after complexing [3H]retinol with CRBP. The binding was specific, saturable, and temperat...

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

authors： Takase S,Ong DE,Chytil F

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases (DNAPs) responsible for genome replication are highly faithful enzymes that nonetheless cannot deal with damaged DNA. In contrast, translesion synthesis (TLS) DNAPs are suitable for replicating modified template bases, although resulting in very low-fidelity products. Here we report the biochemical cha...

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

authors： Berjón-Otero M,Villar L,de Vega M,Salas M,Redrejo-Rodríguez M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of specific trans-acting transcription factors in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes has been greatly facilitated by genetic analysis of mutant strains deficient in such factors. We have developed such a system to study mammalian trans-acting factors that regulate the transcription of class II major histocompa...

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

authors： Calman AF,Peterlin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many eukaryotic systems during immune responses, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) link cytoplasmic signaling to chromatin events by targeting transcription factors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and the RNA polymerase machinery. So far, knowledge on these events is scarce in plants and no attempts have b...

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

authors： Rayapuram N,Jarad M,Alhoraibi HM,Bigeard J,Abulfaraj AA,Völz R,Mariappan KG,Almeida-Trapp M,Schlöffel M,Lastrucci E,Bonhomme L,Gust AA,Mithöfer A,Arold ST,Pflieger D,Hirt H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia (PHP-Ia) results from the loss of one allele of G(salpha), causing resistance to parathyroid hormone and other hormones that transduce signals via G(s). Most G(salpha)mutations cause the complete loss of protein expression, but some cause loss of function only, and these have provided ...

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

authors： Makita N,Sato J,Rondard P,Fukamachi H,Yuasa Y,Aldred MA,Hashimoto M,Fujita T,Iiri T

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a cDNA from a human phytohemagglutinin-activated lymphoblast library encoding a protein that binds 125I-labeled human interleukin 12 (125I-huIL-12) with a Kd of about 5 nM when expressed in COS-7 cells. When coexpressed in COS-7 cells with the previously identified IL-12 beta receptor (IL-12R beta) ...

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

authors： Presky DH,Yang H,Minetti LJ,Chua AO,Nabavi N,Wu CY,Gately MK,Gubler U

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody (anti-p21ser) was raised against a ras p21-related synthetic peptide and was able to recognize specifically the substitution of serine for glycine at amino acid 12 of p21. This substitution causes oncogenic activation of p21. Anti-p21ser was found to immunoprecipitate v-Ki-ras p21 and to strongly inhibit i...

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

authors： Clark R,Wong G,Arnheim N,Nitecki D,McCormick F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In movies or on TV, a wheel can seem to rotate backwards, due to the temporal subsampling inherent in the recording process (the wagon wheel illusion). Surprisingly, this effect has also been reported under continuous light, suggesting that our visual system, too, might sample motion in discrete "snapshots." Recently,...

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

authors： VanRullen R,Reddy L,Koch C

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-target residence time (t = 1/k(off), where k(off) is the dissociation rate constant) has become an important index in discovering better- or best-in-class drugs. However, little effort has been dedicated to developing computational methods that can accurately predict this kinetic parameter or related parameters, ...

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

authors： Bai F,Xu Y,Chen J,Liu Q,Gu J,Wang X,Ma J,Li H,Onuchic JN,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the kinetics of the interaction between endodeoxyribonuclease EcoRI (EC 3.1.23.13) and nine linear DNA fragments that range in size between 34 and 6,200 base pairs and contain the EcoRI site of plasmid pBR322 in a central location. The kinetic parameters governing both formation and decay of specific ...

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

authors： Jack WE,Terry BJ,Modrich P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon, R2, encodes a sequence-specific endonuclease responsible for its insertion at a unique site in the 28S rRNA genes of arthropods. Although most non-LTR retrotransposons encode an apurinic-like endonuclease upstream of a common reverse transcriptase domain, R2 and many...

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

authors： Yang J,Malik HS,Eickbush TH

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular and cellular basis of selective motor neuron (MN) vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is not known. In genetically distinct mouse models of familial ALS expressing mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and fused in sarcoma (FUS), we demonstrate select...

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

authors： Lalancette-Hebert M,Sharma A,Lyashchenko AK,Shneider NA

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:By exploiting the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to infect a variety of vertebrate and nonvertebrate hosts, we have developed model systems that use plants and nematodes as adjuncts to mammalian models to help elucidate the molecular basis of P. aeruginosa pathogenesis. Our studies reveal a remarkable degree of con...

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

authors： Rahme LG,Ausubel FM,Cao H,Drenkard E,Goumnerov BC,Lau GW,Mahajan-Miklos S,Plotnikova J,Tan MW,Tsongalis J,Walendziewicz CL,Tompkins RG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A)+ mRNA was isolated from the brains of C57BL/6J (B6), DBA/2J (D2), and F1 hybrid mice (B6 X D2) of 16-17 days of age. The yield of polysomal RNA, both poly(A)+ and poly(A)-, from the three strains of mice was comparable. When translated in vitro in a reticulocyte lysate system, the mRNA preparations had the sam...

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

authors： Miskimins R,Ebato H,Seyfried TN,Yu RK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin2 (PFN2) is a target of the embryonic stem cell (ESC)-enriched miR-290 family of microRNAs (miRNAs) and an actin/dynamin-binding protein implicated in endocytosis. Here we show that the miR-290-PFN2 pathway regulates many aspects of ESC biology. In the absence of miRNAs, PFN2 is up-regulated in ESCs, with a re...

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

authors： Sangokoya C,Blelloch R

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins from eight eukaryotic families in the cytochrome P-450 superfamily share one region of sequence similarity. This region begins 275-310 amino acids from the amino terminus of each P-450, continues for approximately 170 residues, and ends 35-50 amino acids before the carboxyl terminus. The region can be divided...

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

authors： Kalb VF,Loper JC

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glucose-responsive "closed-loop" insulin delivery system mimicking the function of pancreatic cells has tremendous potential to improve quality of life and health in diabetics. Here, we report a novel glucose-responsive insulin delivery device using a painless microneedle-array patch ("smart insulin patch") containi...

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

authors： Yu J,Zhang Y,Ye Y,DiSanto R,Sun W,Ranson D,Ligler FS,Buse JB,Gu Z

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00