A molecular switch that governs mitochondrial fusion and fission mediated by the BCL2-like protein CED-9 of Caenorhabditis elegans.

abstract：:Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored despite their potential to contribute to crop production and stability in the face of environmental change. Non-bee pollinators ...

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

authors： Rader R,Bartomeus I,Garibaldi LA,Garratt MP,Howlett BG,Winfree R,Cunningham SA,Mayfield MM,Arthur AD,Andersson GK,Bommarco R,Brittain C,Carvalheiro LG,Chacoff NP,Entling MH,Foully B,Freitas BM,Gemmill-Herren B,Ghazoul

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A defined, minimal medium for the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is reported. ...

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

authors： Franke J,Kessin R

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymus provides multiple microenvironments that are essential for the development and repertoire selection of T lymphocytes. The thymic cortex induces the generation and positive selection of T lymphocytes, whereas the thymic medulla establishes self-tolerance among the positively selected T lymphocytes. Cortical ...

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

authors： Ohigashi I,Zuklys S,Sakata M,Mayer CE,Zhanybekova S,Murata S,Tanaka K,Holländer GA,Takahama Y

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential scanning microcalorimetry provides a noninvasive method for studying heat evolution in living cells. We used this technique to measure the heat evolved by thioglycollate broth-elicited mouse macrophages, and the effects of NaF, KCN, cycloheximide, and cytochalasins B and D on this parameter. The total hea...

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

authors： Loike JD,Silverstein SC,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine if neurons in the estrogen receptor-alpha knockout (ERalphaKO) mouse brain concentrated 16alpha-[125I]iodo-11beta-methoxy-17beta-estradiol (125I-estrogen), and if so, whether estrogen binding augmented the expression of progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA. Mice were injected with 125I-est...

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

authors： Shughrue PJ,Lubahn DB,Negro-Vilar A,Korach KS,Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:For a number of viruses, oligomerization is a critical component of envelope processing and surface expression. Previously, we reported that a synthetic peptide (DP-107) corresponding to the putative leucine zipper region (aa 553-590) of the transmembrane protein (gp41) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) e...

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

authors： Wild C,Dubay JW,Greenwell T,Baird T Jr,Oas TG,McDanal C,Hunter E,Matthews T

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polypeptides contained in the coat and the core of adenovirus type 2 particles have been identified as virus gene products. They are synthesized in vitro by a cell-free protein-making system programmed by adenovirus type 2 messenger RNA that has been hybridized with and eluted from virus DNA. Fractionation by ...

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

authors： Eron L,Westphal H

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes (LTs) are signaling molecules derived from arachidonic acid that initiate and amplify innate and adaptive immunity. In turn, how their synthesis is organized on the nuclear envelope of myeloid cells in response to extracellular signals is not understood. We define the supramolecular architecture of LT syn...

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

authors： Mandal AK,Jones PB,Bair AM,Christmas P,Miller D,Yamin TT,Wisniewski D,Menke J,Evans JF,Hyman BT,Bacskai B,Chen M,Lee DM,Nikolic B,Soberman RJ

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the morphological hallmarks of terminally differentiated secretory cells is highly proliferated membrane of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER), but the molecular basis for the high rate of protein biosynthesis in these cells remains poorly documented. An important aspect of ER translational control is the mol...

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

authors： Ueno T,Taga Y,Yoshimoto R,Mayeda A,Hattori S,Ogawa-Goto K

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance dependence is a complex environmental and genetic disorder that results in serious health and socioeconomic consequences. Many studies have reported and implicated genes associated with various substance dependence outcomes, including addiction to nicotine and addiction to alcohol. Using data from several ge...

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

authors： Chen X,Cho K,Singer BH,Zhang H

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two Drosophila melanogaster transcription units that are highly homologous to a rat Na+-channel cDNA. They appear to encode the major subunits of two distinct Na+-channel proteins. One of these maps to the second chromosome and is identical to a Na+-channel gene whose partial sequence has been previously r...

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

authors： Ramaswami M,Tanouye MA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral organ distribution at the shoot apical meristem defines specific and robust phyllotaxis patterns that have intrigued biologists and mathematicians for centuries. In silico studies have revealed that this self-organizing process can be recapitulated by modeling the polar transport of the phytohormone auxin. Phy...

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

authors： Pinon V,Prasad K,Grigg SP,Sanchez-Perez GF,Scheres B

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test a theoretical perspective in which a universal hallmark of successful literacy acquisition is the convergence of the speech and orthographic processing systems onto a common network of neural structures, regardless of how spoken words are represented orthographically in a writing system. During fun...

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

authors： Rueckl JG,Paz-Alonso PM,Molfese PJ,Kuo WJ,Bick A,Frost SJ,Hancock R,Wu DH,Mencl WE,Duñabeitia JA,Lee JR,Oliver M,Zevin JD,Hoeft F,Carreiras M,Tzeng OJ,Pugh KR,Frost R

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of vertebrate eyes is still enigmatic. The "frontal eye" of amphioxus, our most primitive chordate relative, has long been recognized as a candidate precursor to the vertebrate eyes. However, the amphioxus frontal eye is composed of simple ciliated cells, unlike vertebrate rods and cones, which display more...

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

authors： Vopalensky P,Pergner J,Liegertova M,Benito-Gutierrez E,Arendt D,Kozmik Z

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved electron cloud bolometer is analyzed. In this device the cloud temperature is read out not via thermal noise induced by the electrons in a coupled LC circuit but via shift in their axial oscillation frequency in the Penning trap confining them. This shift occurs because as the electron cloud expands with i...

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

authors： Dehmelt H

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron micrographs are shown of the first component of human complement (C1) which has been crosslinked with a water-soluble carbodiimide to prevent dissociation into its C1q and C1r2C1s2 subunits. Two projections of the crosslinked molecule are seen in the electron micrographs, which are called "top" and "profile."...

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

authors： Strang CJ,Siegel RC,Phillips ML,Poon PH,Schumaker VN

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major obstacle to the study of functional/structural interrelationships of spinach chloroplasts by using spin labels has been the rapid loss of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signals upon illumination with visible light. The present study demonstrates that the addition of ferredoxin and NADP+ in the pre...

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

authors： Sun AS,Calvin M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semidwarf phenotype has been extensively selected during modern crop breeding as an agronomically important trait. Introduction of the semidwarf gene, semi-dwarf1 (sd1), which encodes a gibberellin biosynthesis enzyme, made significant contributions to the "green revolution" in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Here we repo...

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

authors： Asano K,Yamasaki M,Takuno S,Miura K,Katagiri S,Ito T,Doi K,Wu J,Ebana K,Matsumoto T,Innan H,Kitano H,Ashikari M,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive cyclooxygenase (COX-1; prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase, EC 1.14.99.1) is present in cells under physiological conditions, whereas COX-2 is induced by some cytokines, mitogens, and endotoxin presumably in pathological conditions, such as inflammation. Therefore, we have assessed the relative inhibitory...

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

authors： Mitchell JA,Akarasereenont P,Thiemermann C,Flower RJ,Vane JR

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are involved in a wide range of regulatory processes in the cell. Owing to their flexibility, their conformations are expected to be particularly sensitive to the crowded cellular environment. Here we use single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer to quantify the effect ...

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

authors： Soranno A,Koenig I,Borgia MB,Hofmann H,Zosel F,Nettels D,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli fMet-tRNAfMet alters the pattern of promoter selection of E. coli RNA polymerase (RNA nucleotidyltransferase, nucleosidetriphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase; EC 2.7.7.6), affecting RNA synthesis from the rRNA, suIII+tRNA, and lac promoters in different ways. The in vitro synthesis of the stable RNA...

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

authors： Debenham PG,Pongs O,Travers AA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental intramolecular vibrational dephasing transients for several large organic molecules are reanalyzed. Fits to the experimental data, as well as full numerical quantum calculations with a factorized potential surface for all active degrees of freedom of fluorene indicate that power law decays, not exponentia...

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

authors： Gruebele M

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Single strands of DNA serve, in rare instances, as promoters for transcription; duplex DNA promoters with individual strands that also have a promoter capacityfunction have not been described. We show that the nontranscribed strand of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae U6 snRNA gene directs transcription initiation factor I...

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

authors： Schroder O,Geiduschek EP,Kassavetis GA

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus acutus of the subfamily Crocodylinae. These species show considerable similarity in their...

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

authors： Wever EG

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells (PCC) have an exceptional propensity to metastasize early into intratumoral, chemokine-secreting nerves. However, we hypothesized the opposite process, that precancerous pancreatic cells secrete chemokines that chemoattract Schwann cells (SC) of nerves and thus induce read...

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

authors： Demir IE,Kujundzic K,Pfitzinger PL,Saricaoglu ÖC,Teller S,Kehl T,Reyes CM,Ertl LS,Miao Z,Schall TJ,Tieftrunk E,Haller B,Diakopoulos KN,Kurkowski MU,Lesina M,Krüger A,Algül H,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation that confers resistance to the drug paromomycin is shown to be in the structural gene that codes for the ribosomal RNA in Tetrahymena. This observation was made by exploiting a variant of the ribosomal DNA that distorts amplification of this locus when a new somatic nucleus develops during conjugation. Beca...

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

authors： Bruns PJ,Katzen AL,Martin L,Blackburn EH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight regarding how diverse enzymatic functions and reactions have evolved from ancestral scaffolds is fundamental to understanding chemical and evolutionary biology, and for the exploitation of enzymes for biotechnology. We undertook an extensive computational analysis using a unique and comprehensive combination o...

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

authors： Akiva E,Copp JN,Tokuriki N,Babbitt PC

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both necessary and sufficient to account for learning and memory. However, network dynamics depends on the complex interacti...

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

authors： Marder E,Abbott LF,Turrigiano GG,Liu Z,Golowasch J

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER) removes at least 20,000 DNA lesions per human cell per day and is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability. We hypothesize that aberrant BER, resulting from mutations in BER genes, can lead to genomic instability and cancer. The first step in BER is catalyzed by DNA N-glycosylases. ...

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

authors： Galick HA,Kathe S,Liu M,Robey-Bond S,Kidane D,Wallace SS,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The apoproteins of pulmonary surfactant (PSAP) are thought to be critical for normal surfactant function. They bind to surfactant phospholipids and enhance their ability to form surface films in vitro. These acidic glycoproteins have monomeric molecular weights of 36,000, 32,000, and 28,000 (PSAP-36, -32, and -28). Ea...

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

authors： Benson B,Hawgood S,Schilling J,Clements J,Damm D,Cordell B,White RT

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00