Organ boundary1 defines a gene expressed at the junction between the shoot apical meristem and lateral organs.

abstract：:We report the development of a practical ultrafast allelic profiling assay for the analysis of short tandem repeats (STRs) by using a highly optimized microfluidic electrophoresis device. We have achieved baseline-resolved electrophoretic separations of single-locus STR samples in 30 sec. Analyses of PCR samples conta...

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

authors： Schmalzing D,Koutny L,Adourian A,Belgrader P,Matsudaira P,Ehrlich D

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E1 and the beta-adrenergic hormone l-isoproterenol stimulated cyclic AMP formation in both nucleated and enucleated myeloid leukemic cells that could be induced to differentiate normally to mature cells by the macrophage- and granulocyte-inducing protein MGI (MGI+D+ cells). Enucleated as well as nucleate...

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

authors： Simantov R,Shkolnik T,Sachs L

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an antiviral effector of the innate immune system. Viruses that can interfere with NO synthesis may be able to replicate more rapidly than viruses that cannot limit NO synthesis. We show that the adenovirus E1A protein inhibits NO production by decreasing expression of the inducible NO synthase (N...

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

authors： Cao W,Bao C,Lowenstein CJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-33, a cytokine of the IL-1 family, is closely associated with type II T cell responses. Here, we report an unexpected proinflammatory role of IL-33 in inflammatory arthritis. IL-33 was expressed in synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Expression was markedly elevated in vitro by inflam...

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

authors： Xu D,Jiang HR,Kewin P,Li Y,Mu R,Fraser AR,Pitman N,Kurowska-Stolarska M,McKenzie AN,McInnes IB,Liew FY

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of facial expressions may be universal in that they are produced by the same basic affective states and recognized as such throughout the world. However, other aspects of emotionally expressive behavior vary widely across culture. Just why do they vary? We propose that some cultural differences in expre...

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

authors： Rychlowska M,Miyamoto Y,Matsumoto D,Hess U,Gilboa-Schechtman E,Kamble S,Muluk H,Masuda T,Niedenthal PM

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the mechanical separation of the two complementary strands of a single molecule of bacteriophage lambda DNA. The 3' and 5' extremities on one end of the molecule are pulled progressively apart, and this leads to the opening of the double helix. The typical forces along the opening are in the range of 10-15...

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

authors： Essevaz-Roulet B,Bockelmann U,Heslot F

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput screening (HTS) of chemical compounds to identify modulators of molecular targets is a mainstay of pharmaceutical development. Increasingly, HTS is being used to identify chemical probes of gene, pathway, and cell functions, with the ultimate goal of comprehensively delineating relationships between ch...

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

authors： Inglese J,Auld DS,Jadhav A,Johnson RL,Simeonov A,Yasgar A,Zheng W,Austin CP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is maintained by transcription factors that form a highly interconnected protein interaction network surrounding the homeobox protein Nanog. Enforced expression of Nanog in mouse ES (mES) cells promotes self-renewal and alleviates their requirement for leukemia inhibitory fact...

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

authors： Wang J,Levasseur DN,Orkin SH

更新日期：2008-04-29 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：:A sensitive assay for detection of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has been developed. This assay depends on the ability of polymerase II to elongate a small RNA primer, oligo(U), hybridized to a single-stranded homopolymeric DNA template, poly(dA). The poly(dA).oligo(U)-dependent RNA polymerase II from calf thymus has b...

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

authors： Fradkin LG,Leong K,Morrow CD,Berk AJ,Dasgupta A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dantu is a rare antigen of the human MNSs blood group system carried by a hybrid glycophorin on the erythrocyte membrane. To delineate its structure and relationship to alpha and delta glycophorins at the genomic level, we analyzed DNA from a three-generation family, in which both the presence of Dantu and Mi-III (ano...

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

authors： Huang CH,Blumenfeld OO

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical networks that have been found to operate close to a critical point exhibit joint activations of large numbers of neurons. However, in motor cortex of the awake macaque monkey, we observe very different dynamics: massively parallel recordings of 155 single-neuron spiking activities show weak fluctuations on th...

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

authors： Dahmen D,Grün S,Diesmann M,Helias M

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitrate biosynthesis was studied in LPS-sensitive C3H/He and LPS-resistant C3H/HeJ mice. Intraperitoneal injection of 15 micrograms of LPS led to a temporary 5- to 6-fold increase in blood nitrate concentration in the C3H/He strain. Levels of nitrate excreted in the ur...

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

authors： Stuehr DJ,Marletta MA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline resistance encoded by four genetically different determinants residing on plasmids in Escherichia coli was shown to be associated in each case with an energy-dependent decrease in accumulation of the antibiotic in whole cells in which resistance had been induced. The different class determinants examined ...

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

authors： McMurry L,Petrucci RE Jr,Levy SB

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The explosive growth in citizen science combined with a recalcitrance on the part of mainstream science to fully embrace this data collection technique demands a rigorous examination of the factors influencing data quality and project efficacy. Patterns of contributor effort and task performance have been well reviewe...

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

authors： Parrish JK,Jones T,Burgess HK,He Y,Fortson L,Cavalier D

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), the prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus, was recovered from a full-length cDNA clone of the viral genome. Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase expressed from a recombinant vaccinia virus was used to drive the synthesis of a genome-length positive-sense transcript o...

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

authors： Whelan SP,Ball LA,Barr JN,Wertz GT

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Because synaptic vesicle exocytosis is a nano-mechanical process, it should be influenced by the mechanical properties of the cell membrane to which the vesicle fuses. By dissolving surfactants at various concentrations in the neuronal membrane, we have perturbed mechanical properties of the membrane and have found th...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Stevens CF

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite structural knowledge of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (NMAbs) complexed to HIV-1 gp120 and gp41 envelope glycoproteins, virus inactivation mechanisms have been difficult to prove, in part because neutralization assays are complex and were previously not understood. Concordant with recent evidence ...

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

authors： Platt EJ,Gomes MM,Kabat D

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased accumulation of lipofuscin in cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is seen in several forms of macular degeneration, a common cause of blindness in humans. A major fluorophore of lipofuscin is the toxic bis-retinoid, N-retinylidene-N-retinylethanolamine (A2E). Previously, we generated mice with a kn...

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

authors： Mata NL,Weng J,Travis GH

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) catalyzes the oxidation of l-cysteine to cysteine sulfinic acid. Deficiencies in this enzyme have been linked to autoimmune diseases and neurological disorders. The x-ray crystal structure of CDO from Mus musculus was solved to a nominal resolution of 1.75 Angstroms. The sequence is 91% iden...

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

authors： McCoy JG,Bailey LJ,Bitto E,Bingman CA,Aceti DJ,Fox BG,Phillips GN Jr

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells recognize major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-bound peptides that are primarily obtained from extracellular sources. Endogenously synthesized proteins that readily enter the MHC class I presentation pathway are generally excluded from the MHC class II presentation pathway. We show here that en...

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

authors： Sanderson S,Frauwirth K,Shastri N

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription-translation into cell-sized compartments, such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The dynamic synthesis and proper self-assembly of macromolecular structures inside liposomes, the cytoskeleton in particular, stands as a c...

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

authors： Garenne D,Libchaber A,Noireaux V

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High molecular weight polypeptides (HMWPs) of 270,000 to 340,000 were found to be major components of intermediate filaments prepared by Triton X-100 extraction after spreading of rat glioma C6, HeLa, Chinese hamster ovary, and simian virus 40-transformed Chinese hamster lung cells. C6 HMWPs were shown to resemble hig...

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

authors： Pytela R,Wiche G

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a tightly coupled bidirectional interaction between visual cortex and visual thalamus [lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)]. Using drifting sinusoidal grating stimuli, we compared the response of cells in the LGN with and without feedback from the visual cortex. Raster plots revealed a striking difference in the...

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

authors： Andolina IM,Jones HE,Wang W,Sillito AM

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin II is a molecular motor that converts chemical to mechanical energy and enables muscle operations. After a power stroke, a recovery transition completes the cycle and returns the molecular motor to its prestroke state. Atomically detailed simulations in the framework of the Milestoning theory are used to calcul...

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

authors： Elber R,West A

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned four lambda light chain constant region (C) genes from mouse embryo DNA. Each carries its own joining (J) segment approximately 1.3 kilobases to its 5' side. The four C genes occur in two clusters, 5' J3C3J1C13' and 5' J2C2J4C43', with C4 being a new C lambda gene. We have also shown that V lambda 1 is ...

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

authors： Blomberg B,Traunecker A,Eisen H,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine hematopoietic blast colony-forming cells (BL-CFCs) are able to generate up to 30,000 progeny blast cells within 10 d in agar cultures. Contained in these populations are large numbers of lineage-committed progenitor cells in the granulocytic and macrophage lineages. Sequential analyses of blast colonies reveale...

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

authors： Metcalf D,Ng A,Mifsud S,Di Rago L

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:As long-term changes in life expectancy and fertility drive the emergence of aging societies across the globe, individual countries vary widely in the development of age-relevant policies and programs. While failure to adapt to the demographic transformation carries not only important financial risks but also social r...

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

authors： Chen C,Goldman DP,Zissimopoulos J,Rowe JW,Research Network on an Aging Society.

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex prokaryote, Myxococcus xanthus, undergoes a program of multicellular development when starved for nutrients, culminating in sporulation. M. xanthus makes MglA, a 22-kDa, soluble protein that is required for both multicellular development and gliding motility. MglA is similar in sequence to the Saccharomyce...

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

authors： Hartzell PL

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoaminergic neurons use dopa decarboxylase (DDC; aromatic-L-amino-acid carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.28) to form dopamine from L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa). We measured regional dopa decarboxylase activity in brains of six healthy volunteers with 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa and positron emission tomography. We calculate...

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

authors： Gjedde A,Reith J,Dyve S,Léger G,Guttman M,Diksic M,Evans A,Kuwabara H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00