Synthesis of unnatural alkaloid scaffolds by exploiting plant polyketide synthase.

abstract：:Evidence from more than 100 y of research indicates that conscientiousness (C) is the most potent noncognitive construct for occupational performance. However, questions remain about the magnitudes of its effect sizes across occupational variables, its defining characteristics and functions in occupational settings, a...

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

authors： Wilmot MP,Ones DS

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of proteins involved in cell cycle progression, DNA recombination, and the detection of DNA damage has been recently identified. One of the members of this family, human ATM, is defective in the cells of patients with ataxia telangiectasia and is involved in detection and response of cells to damaged DNA. Oth...

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

authors： Cimprich KA,Shin TB,Keith CT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The expanding behavioral repertoire of the developing brain during childhood and adolescence is shaped by complex brain-environment interactions and flavored by unique life experiences. The transition into young adulthood offers opportunities for adaptation and growth but also increased susceptibility to environmental...

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

authors： Alnæs D,Kaufmann T,Marquand AF,Smith SM,Westlye LT

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions contribute to global environmental change, but the dynamics and consequences of most invasions are difficult to assess at regional scales. We deployed an airborne remote sensing system that mapped the location and impacts of five highly invasive plant species across 221,875 ha of Hawaiian ecosyste...

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

authors： Asner GP,Hughes RF,Vitousek PM,Knapp DE,Kennedy-Bowdoin T,Boardman J,Martin RE,Eastwood M,Green RO

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate how the wavelet transform, which is a powerful tool for compression, filtering, and scaling analysis of signals, may be used to separate large- and short-scale electron density features in X-ray diffraction patterns. Wavelets can isolate the electron density associated with delocalized bonds from the mu...

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

authors： Osipov VA,Kowalewski M,Mukamel S

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of small-molecule tyrosine kinase (TK) inhibitors offers increasing opportunities for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. In this study, we investigated the potential of this new class of drugs to treat and cure type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the NOD mouse. Treatment of prediabetic and new onset dia...

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

authors： Louvet C,Szot GL,Lang J,Lee MR,Martinier N,Bollag G,Zhu S,Weiss A,Bluestone JA

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described how T and natural killer (NK) lineage commitment proceeds from common T/NK progenitors (p-T/NK) in the murine fetal thymus (FT), with the use of a clonal assay system capable of discriminating p-T/NK from unipotent T or NK lineage-committed progenitors (p-T and p-NK, respectively). The mol...

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

authors： Ikawa T,Fujimoto S,Kawamoto H,Katsura Y,Yokota Y

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic fluxes of s-block metals like potassium, sodium, and calcium are of broad importance in cell signaling. In contrast, the concept of mobile transition metals triggered by cell activation remains insufficiently explored, in large part because metals like copper and iron are typically studied as static cellular n...

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

authors： Dodani SC,Domaille DW,Nam CI,Miller EW,Finney LA,Vogt S,Chang CJ

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When the human cDNA, isolated on the basis of homology to the murine carbonic anhydrase (CA) "Y" was expressed in COS cells, the human CA was targeted to and processed in mitochondria, as expected for CA-V. However, tissue distribution reported for the corresponding mouse CA Y mRNA was much more limited than that repo...

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

authors： Nagao Y,Srinivasan M,Platero JS,Svendrowski M,Waheed A,Sly WS

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling topological defects in 3D liquid crystal phases is a crucial element in the development of novel devices, from blue-phase displays to passive biochemical sensors. However, it remains challenging to realize the 3D topological conditions necessary to robustly and arbitrarily direct the formation of defects. ...

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

authors： Honglawan A,Beller DA,Cavallaro M Jr,Kamien RD,Stebe KJ,Yang S

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular models generally used in the in vitro evaluation of anti-human immunodeficiency virus compounds are dividing cells. A model constituted by resting lymphocytes may more accurately reflect a drug's future efficacy in humans, since viral DNA synthesis is known to take place in quiescent cells, creating a res...

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

authors： Malley SD,Grange JM,Hamedi-Sangsari F,Vila JR

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In myocardial ischemia, adrenergic nerves release excessive amounts of norepinephrine (NE), causing dysfunction and arrhythmias. With anoxia and the concomitant ATP depletion, vesicular storage of NE is impaired, resulting in accumulation of free NE in the axoplasm of sympathetic nerves. Intraneuronal acidosis activat...

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

authors： Silver RB,Mackins CJ,Smith NC,Koritchneva IL,Lefkowitz K,Lovenberg TW,Levi R

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in biology is to predict from sequence data the high-resolution structures of proteins and the interactions that occur between them. In this paper, we describe a computational approach that can make these types of predictions for a series of coiled-coil dimers. Our method comprises a dual strategy th...

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

authors： Keating AE,Malashkevich VN,Tidor B,Kim PS

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are thought to replicate in an autocatalytic process that converts cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to the disease-associated misfolded PrP isoform (PrP(Sc)). Our study scrutinizes this hypothesis by in vitro protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA). In serial transmission PMCA experiments, PrP(Sc) was ino...

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

authors： Bieschke J,Weber P,Sarafoff N,Beekes M,Giese A,Kretzschmar H

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Triglyceridemic response to a standard oral fat meal was determined in 28 healthy subjects and related to the levels of several lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins in the post-absorptive plasma. A fatty test meal was administered orally, and postprandial plasma triglyceride levels were determined. In the fasting...

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

authors： Patsch JR,Karlin JB,Scott LW,Smith LC,Gotto AM Jr

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that the age-specific incidence curve of many carcinomas is approximately linear on a double logarithmic plot has led to much speculation regarding the number and nature of the critical events involved in carcinogenesis. By a consideration of colorectal and pancreatic cancers in the Surveillance Epidem...

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

authors： Meza R,Jeon J,Moolgavkar SH,Luebeck EG

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Various reconstructive procedures have been attempted to restore a cosmetically acceptable phallus that would allow normal reproductive, sexual, and urinary function in patients requiring penile reconstruction. However, these procedures are limited by a shortage of native penile tissue. We previously demonstrated that...

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

authors： Chen KL,Eberli D,Yoo JJ,Atala A

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and timely surface precipitation measurements are crucial for water resources management, agriculture, weather prediction, climate research, as well as ground validation of satellite-based precipitation estimates. However, the majority of the land surface of the earth lacks such data, and in many parts of the...

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

authors： Overeem A,Leijnse H,Uijlenhoet R

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic poisoning affects millions of people worldwide. Human arsenic intake from rice consumption can be substantial because rice is particularly efficient in assimilating arsenic from paddy soils, although the mechanism has not been elucidated. Here we report that two different types of transporters mediate transpor...

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

authors： Ma JF,Yamaji N,Mitani N,Xu XY,Su YH,McGrath SP,Zhao FJ

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) catalyzes the opening of the heme ring with the release of iron in both plants and animals. In cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophyceae, HO is a key enzyme in the synthesis of the chromophoric part of the photosynthetic antennae. In an attempt to study the regulation of this key metabolic step, ...

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

authors： Richaud C,Zabulon G

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:beta 2-Glycoprotein I (beta 2-GPI), a phospholipid-binding plasma protein, is an absolute requirement (cofactor) for the binding of autoimmune-type anti-cardiolipin (aCL) antibodies to cardiolipin (CL). The nature of this cofactor activity and the specific regions of the molecule involved have not yet been determined....

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

authors： Hunt JE,Simpson RJ,Krilis SA

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Priming of the organ-specific premetastatic sites is thought to be an important yet incompletely understood step during metastasis. In this study, we show that the metastatic tumors we examined overexpress granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), which expands and mobilizes Ly6G+Ly6C+ granulocytes and facilitate...

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

authors： Kowanetz M,Wu X,Lee J,Tan M,Hagenbeek T,Qu X,Yu L,Ross J,Korsisaari N,Cao T,Bou-Reslan H,Kallop D,Weimer R,Ludlam MJ,Kaminker JS,Modrusan Z,van Bruggen N,Peale FV,Carano R,Meng YG,Ferrara N

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the growth plate of endochondral bones, parathyroid hormone (PTH)-related peptide (PTHrP) regulates the rate of chondrocyte maturation from prehypertrophic chondrocytes to hypertrophic chondrocytes. Using an antibody specific for Sox9 phosphorylated at serine 181 (S(181)), one of the two consensus protein kinase A ...

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

authors： Huang W,Chung UI,Kronenberg HM,de Crombrugghe B

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-evoked Ca(2+) influx is the fastest and most ubiquitous chemical trigger for cellular processes, including neurotransmitter release, muscle contraction, and gene expression. The voltage dependence and timing of Ca(2+) entry are thought to be functions of voltage-gated calcium (CaV) channels composed of a ce...

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

authors： Pantazis A,Savalli N,Sigg D,Neely A,Olcese R

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal signatures, idiosyncrasies in the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and/or proteins, are characteristic of the individual domains of life. As such, insight into the early evolution of the domains can be gained from a comparative analysis of their respective signatures in the translational apparatus. In this work, we iden...

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

authors： Roberts E,Sethi A,Montoya J,Woese CR,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Functionally differentiated chicken macrophages were derived by in vitro differentiation of embryonic yolk sac cells and were characterized by several macrophage-specific cell markers. Uniform, infected, virus-producing cultures were obtained after exposure of these macrophages to avian myoblastosis virus (AMV), avian...

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

authors： Durban EM,Boettiger D

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the role of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) in a model of inflammation in vivo. Carrageenan administration to the subcutaneous rat air pouch induces a rapid inflammatory response characterized by high levels of prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes in the fluid exudate. The time course of the induction of CO...

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

authors： Masferrer JL,Zweifel BS,Manning PT,Hauser SD,Leahy KM,Smith WG,Isakson PC,Seibert K

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar-cell axon terminals receive direct synaptic input from amacrine-cell processes, suggesting a possible pathway for modulation of transmitter release. In retinal slices, bath-applied baclofen, a gamma-aminobutyrate type B (GABAB) receptor agonist, reduced a patch-clamp-recorded L-type calcium channel current in ...

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

authors： Maguire G,Maple B,Lukasiewicz P,Werblin F

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum RNase (ribonuclease) of normal persons and of patients with pancreatitis, carcinoma of pancreas, or other neoplasms was determined with poly(C) as substrate. Strikingly abnormal elevations occur in the serum RNase of patients with pancreatic cancer. There is no elevation in the serum RNase level of patients with...

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

authors： Reddi KK,Holland JF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the bacterial RecA protein in plants stimulates homologous recombination in tobacco. Here we show that RecA plays a direct role in DNA strand exchange in vivo. The number of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was increased 2.4-fold over wild type in transgenic tobacco plants expressing a nuclear-targeted ...

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

authors： Reiss B,Schubert I,Köpchen K,Wendeler E,Schell J,Puchta H

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00