Masking the 5' terminal nucleotides of the hepatitis C virus genome by an unconventional microRNA-target RNA complex.

abstract：:Social bees harbor a simple and specialized microbiota that is spatially organized into different gut compartments. Recent results on the potential involvement of bee gut communities in pathogen protection and nutritional function have drawn attention to the impact of the microbiota on bee health. However, the contrib...

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

authors： Zheng H,Powell JE,Steele MI,Dietrich C,Moran NA

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Conclusive proof that the mouse egg is capable of carrying out repair of genetic lesions present in the male genome was obtained through dominant-lethal studies of chemically treated spermatozoa and spermatids and through cytological analysis of first-cleavage metaphases. The maximum difference in repair capability be...

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

authors： Generoso WM,Cain KT,Krishna M,Huff SW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of small molecules to distinctive three-dimensional structures in mRNA provides a new dimension in RNA control, previously limited to the targeting of secondary structures with antisense and RNA interference; such targeting can modulate mRNA function and rates of protein biosynthesis. Small molecules that ...

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

authors： Tibodeau JD,Fox PM,Ropp PA,Theil EC,Thorp HH

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We searched for germ-line mutations of the APC gene in 79 unrelated patients with familial adenomatous polyposis using a ribonuclease protection analysis coupled with polymerase chain reaction amplifications of genomic DNA. Mutations were found in 53 patients (67%); 28 of the mutations were small deletions and 2 were ...

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

authors： Miyoshi Y,Ando H,Nagase H,Nishisho I,Horii A,Miki Y,Mori T,Utsunomiya J,Baba S,Petersen G

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lethal factor, the principal virulence factor of Bacillus anthracis, inhibits mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling by proteolytically cleaving MAPK kinases. Edema factor, another component of anthrax toxin, is an adenylate cyclase, which increases intracellular cAMP. Inhibition of MAPK signaling with eith...

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

authors： Koo HM,VanBrocklin M,McWilliams MJ,Leppla SH,Duesbery NS,Vande Woude GF

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the transport sector is responsible for a large and growing share of global emissions affecting climate, its overall contribution has not been quantified. We provide a comprehensive analysis of radiative forcing from the road transport, shipping, aviation, and rail subsectors, using both past- and forward-loo...

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

authors： Fuglestvedt J,Berntsen T,Myhre G,Rypdal K,Skeie RB

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes purified from primary cultures of neonatal rat cerebrum can now be grown in a synthetic medium supplemented with putrescine, prostaglandin F2 alpha, insulin, fibroblast growth factor, and hydrocortisone. These five supplements have a marked synergistic effect on growth when used in combination but have litt...

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

authors： Morrison RS,de Vellis J

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted parasitism proteins encoded by parasitism genes expressed in esophageal gland cells mediate infection and parasitism of plants by root-knot nematodes (RKN). Parasitism gene 16D10 encodes a conserved RKN secretory peptide that stimulates root growth and functions as a ligand for a putative plant transcription ...

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

authors： Huang G,Allen R,Davis EL,Baum TJ,Hussey RS

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the feasibility of designing retroviral vectors that can target human breast cancer cells with characteristic receptors via ligand-receptor interaction. The ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus envelope was modified by insertion of sequences encoding human heregulin. Ecotropic virus, which normally does...

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

authors： Han X,Kasahara N,Kan YW

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied mutants of E. coli originally identified as being deficient in either endonuclease II (deoxyribonucleate oligonucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.30) or exonuclease III [deoxyribonucleate (double-stranded) 5'-nucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.27] activity. Twelve independently derived mutants were tested, including t...

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

authors： Yajko DM,Weiss B

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate ordered orientation of the hydration water at the surface of phospholipid bilayers by use of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy, a highly sensitive vibrational imaging method recently developed. We investigated negatively charged POPS (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-l-ser...

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

authors： Cheng JX,Pautot S,Weitz DA,Xie XS

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the methyl-CpG binding protein gene (MECP2). MeCP2 is a methyl-cytosine binding protein that is proposed to function as a transcriptional repressor. However, multiple gene expression studies comparing wild-type and MeCP2-deficient neurons hav...

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

authors： Kinde B,Wu DY,Greenberg ME,Gabel HW

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria encounter structure (ERMES) comprises mitochondrial distribution and morphology 12 (Mdm12), maintenance of mitochondrial morphology 1 (Mmm1), Mdm34, and Mdm10 and mediates physical membrane contact sites and nonvesicular lipid trafficking between the ER and mitochondria in y...

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

authors： Jeong H,Park J,Jun Y,Lee C

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed to search for homologous members of a protein family in databases, and the reliability of results and conclusions may be compromised if only one method is used, neglecting the others. Here we introduce a general scheme for combining such methods. Based on this scheme, we implemented a ...

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

authors： Alam I,Dress A,Rehmsmeier M,Fuellen G

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that polyelectrolyte complexes and coacervates can form on mixing oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions, due to mainly electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged polymers. Here, we report the first (to the best of our knowledge) complexation and coacervation of two posi...

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

authors： Kim S,Huang J,Lee Y,Dutta S,Yoo HY,Jung YM,Jho Y,Zeng H,Hwang DS

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrochemistry is an old but still flourishing field of research due to the importance of the efficiency and kinetics of electrochemical reactions in industrial processes and (bio-)electrochemical devices. The heterogeneous electron transfer from an electrode to a reactant in the solution has been well studied for m...

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

authors： Wijeratne K,Ail U,Brooke R,Vagin M,Liu X,Fahlman M,Crispin X

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hierarchical cellular structures are ubiquitous in nature because of their low-density, high-specific properties, and multifunctionality. Inspired by these systems, we created lightweight ceramic architectures composed of closed-cell porous struts patterned in the form of hexagonal and triangular honeycombs by direct ...

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

authors： Muth JT,Dixon PG,Woish L,Gibson LJ,Lewis JA

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context and as an approach to de novo "bottom-up" synthetic protocells. How chemicals come together to produce li...

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

authors： Ortega-Arroyo J,Bissette AJ,Kukura P,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Kappa-on-Heavy (KoH) mouse that produces a class of highly diverse, fully human, antibody-like agents. This mouse was made by replacing the germline variable sequences of both the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and Ig kappa (IgK) loci with the human IgK germline variable sequences, producing antibody-like molecule...

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

authors： Macdonald LE,Meagher KA,Franklin MC,Levenkova N,Hansen J,Badithe AT,Zhong M,Krueger P,Rafique A,Tu N,Shevchuk J,Wadhwa S,Ehrlich G,Bautista J,Grant C,Esau L,Poueymirou WT,Auerbach W,Morton L,Babb R,Chen G,Huang

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of O,O',N-trimethyl-d-tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocking agent, has been determined by x-ray crystallography. This may help to provide insight into its pharmacologic action. ...

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

authors： Sobell HM,Sakore TD,Tavale SS,Canepa FG,Pauling P,Petcher TJ

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across phyla, the ribosomes-the central molecular machines for translation of genetic information-exhibit an overall preserved architecture and a conserved functional core. The natural heterogeneity of the ribosome periodically phases a debate on their functional specialization and the tissue-specific variations of th...

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

authors： Amirbeigiarab S,Kiani P,Velazquez Sanchez A,Krisp C,Kazantsev A,Fester L,Schlüter H,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocell models are used to investigate how cells might have first assembled on Earth. Some, like oil-in-water droplets, can be seemingly simple models, while able to exhibit complex and unpredictable behaviors. How such simple oil-in-water systems can come together to yield complex and life-like behaviors remains a ...

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

authors： Points LJ,Taylor JW,Grizou J,Donkers K,Cronin L

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial structure of genetic diversity underlying social variation is a critical determinant of how cooperation and conflict evolve. Here we investigated whether natural social groups of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus harbor internal genetic and phenotypic variation and thus the potential for so...

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

authors： Kraemer SA,Velicer GJ

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizenship endows legal protections and is associated with economic and social gains for immigrants and their communities. In the United States, however, naturalization rates are relatively low. Yet we lack reliable knowledge as to what constrains immigrants from applying. Drawing on data from a public/private natura...

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

authors： Hainmueller J,Lawrence D,Gest J,Hotard M,Koslowski R,Laitin DD

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We deal with the issue of quantifying and optimizing the rotation dynamics of synthetic molecular motors. For this purpose, the continuous four-stage rotation behavior of a typical light-activated molecular motor was measured in detail. All reaction constants were determined empirically. Next, we developed a Markov mo...

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

authors： Geertsema EM,van der Molen SJ,Martens M,Feringa BL

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to insect attack, many plants exhibit dynamic biochemical changes, resulting in the induced production of direct and indirect defenses. Elicitors present in herbivore oral secretions are believed to positively regulate many inducible plant defenses; however, little is known about the specificity of elicito...

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

authors： Schmelz EA,Engelberth J,Alborn HT,Tumlinson JH 3rd,Teal PE

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an "anti-alpha" factor Spx in Bacillus subtilis that blocks transcriptional activation by binding to the alpha-C-terminal domain, thereby...

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

authors： Nakano S,Nakano MM,Zhang Y,Leelakriangsak M,Zuber P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) resolution has advanced because newer techniques use increasingly decondensed chromatin. FISH cannot analyze restriction enzyme cutting sites due to limitations of the hybridization and detection technologies. The RecA-assisted restriction endonuclease (RARE) technique cleaves...

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

authors： Wang YK,Huff EJ,Schwartz DC

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human beta-globin locus is activated transcriptionally by a complex series of events that culminate in appropriate temporal and tissue-specific control over five separate genes during embryonic and early postnatal development. One cis-regulatory element in the locus, originally identified as an enhancer 3' to the ...

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

authors： Liu Q,Tanimoto K,Bungert J,Engel JD

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00