Genotypes of predomestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art.

abstract：:Transcription of the type 1 herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) genome in trigeminal ganglia of latently infected mice was studied using in situ hybridization. Probes representative of each temporal gene class were used to determine the regions of the genome that encode the transcripts present in latently infected cells. Pro...

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

authors： Deatly AM,Spivack JG,Lavi E,Fraser NW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MuB is an ATP-dependent nonspecific DNA-binding protein that regulates the activity of the MuA transposase and captures target DNA for transposition. Mechanistic understanding of MuB function has previously been hindered by MuB's poor solubility. Here we combine bioinformatic, mutagenic, biochemical, and electron micr...

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

authors： Mizuno N,Dramićanin M,Mizuuchi M,Adam J,Wang Y,Han YW,Yang W,Steven AC,Mizuuchi K,Ramón-Maiques S

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal specificity in retinal ganglion cells of Xenopus subserves the orderly connections of the optic nerve fibers in the tectum. This specificity derives from positional information acquired by the developing retina at embryonic stages 28-31. Here we report that ganglion cells of embryonic stage 28 eyes can acquir...

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

authors： Hunt RK,Jacobson M

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inteins are intervening protein sequences that undergo self-excision from a precursor protein with concomitant joining of the flanking sequences. Here, we demonstrate intein trans-splicing in Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts by using the naturally split Ssp DnaE intein. Trans-splicing occurred whether both intein fragme...

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

authors： Chin HG,Kim GD,Marin I,Mersha F,Evans TC Jr,Chen L,Xu MQ,Pradhan S

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling calorie intake (CCI) extends healthful life-span by a mechanism that may involve reduced rates of cell division without detriment to inducible cellular responses. To test whether inducible cellular proliferation is preserved by CCI and whether the mRNA expression levels of oncogenes activated by cell divis...

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

authors： Himeno Y,Engelman RW,Good RA

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to respond selectively to particular frequency components of sensory inputs is fundamental to signal processing in the ear. The frog (Rana pipiens) sacculus, which is used for social communication and escape behaviors, is an exquisitely sensitive detector of sounds and ground-borne vibrations in the 5- to ...

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

authors： Rutherford MA,Roberts WM

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported metal catalysts are extensively used in industrial and environmental applications. To improve their performance, it is crucial to identify the most active sites. This identification is, however, made challenging by the presence of a large number of potential surface structures that complicate such an assignm...

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

authors： Yang AC,Choksi T,Streibel V,Aljama H,Wrasman CJ,Roling LT,Goodman ED,Thomas D,Bare SR,Sánchez-Carrera RS,Schäfer A,Li Y,Abild-Pedersen F,Cargnello M

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual functions in people, such as pupil constriction and circadian photoentrainment. What contribution melanopsin makes to conscious visual perception is less studied. We devised a stimulus that targeted melanopsin separately from the cones using pulsed (3-s) spectral m...

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

authors： Spitschan M,Bock AS,Ryan J,Frazzetta G,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether and how human populations exposed to the agricultural revolution are still affected by Darwinian selection remains controversial among social scientists, biologists, and the general public. Although methods of studying selection in natural populations are well established, our understanding of selection in hum...

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

authors： Courtiol A,Pettay JE,Jokela M,Rotkirch A,Lummaa V

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C, PKC) has been suggested to play a role in the sensitivity of gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABAA) receptors to ethanol. We tested a line of null mutant mice that lacks the gamma isoform of PKC (PKC gamma) to determine the role of this brain-specific isoenz...

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

authors： Harris RA,McQuilkin SJ,Paylor R,Abeliovich A,Tonegawa S,Wehner JM

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in developing selective protein kinase inhibitors by targeting allosteric sites, but these sites often involve protein-protein or protein-peptide interfaces that are very challenging to target with small molecules. Here we present a systematic approach to targeting a functionally conserved allo...

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

authors： Rettenmaier TJ,Sadowsky JD,Thomsen ND,Chen SC,Doak AK,Arkin MR,Wells JA

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the iconic groundfish fishery for Gulf of Maine cod has endured several dramatic reductions in annual catch limits and been federally declared an economic disaster. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey of fishing captains to assess potential social impacts of the fishery failure, we found that...

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

authors： Scyphers SB,Picou JS,Grabowski JH

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal messenger RNA for the human beta-globin chain, nucleotide sequences have been identified which can be matched to the amino-acid sequence of the abnormally long segment of the beta-chain of hemoglobin Cranston. The finding of these sequences strengthens the hypothesis that the betaCranston chain arose by a fr...

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

authors： Forget BG,Marotta CA,Weissman SM,Cohen-Solal M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus utilizes a type III secretion system to cause death of host cells within hours of infection. We report that cell death is completely independent of apoptosis and occurs by a mechanism in which injection of multiple type III effectors causes induction of autophagy, cell ro...

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

authors： Burdette DL,Yarbrough ML,Orvedahl A,Gilpin CJ,Orth K

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of projected global warming on crop yields has been evaluated by indirect methods using simulation models. Direct studies on the effects of observed climate change on crop growth and yield could provide more accurate information for assessing the impact of climate change on crop production. We analyzed weat...

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

authors： Peng S,Huang J,Sheehy JE,Laza RC,Visperas RM,Zhong X,Centeno GS,Khush GS,Cassman KG

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1, SDF-1, is an important regulator of leukocyte and hematopoietic precursor migration and pre-B cell proliferation. The receptor for SDF-1, CXCR4, also functions as a coreceptor for T-tropic HIV-1 entry. We find that mice deficient for CXCR4 die perinatally and display profou...

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

authors： Ma Q,Jones D,Borghesani PR,Segal RA,Nagasawa T,Kishimoto T,Bronson RT,Springer TA

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolution and diversification of surviving clades. Today, the synergistic effects of human impacts are laying the groundwork for a comparably great Anthropocene mas...

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

authors： Jackson JB

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional organization of the Cct complex was addressed by genetic analyses of subunit interactions and catalytic cooperativity among five of the eight different essential subunits, Cct1p-Cct8p, in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The cct1-1, cct2-3, and cct3-1 alleles, containing mutations at t...

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

authors： Lin P,Sherman F

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A revelation of the genomic age has been the contributions of the mobile DNA segments called transposable elements to chromosome structure, function, and evolution in virtually all organisms. Substantial fractions of vertebrate genomes derive from transposable elements, being dominated by retroelements that move via R...

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

authors： Mitra R,Li X,Kapusta A,Mayhew D,Mitra RD,Feschotte C,Craig NL

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically available drugs active against Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and other human herpesviruses are limited to those targeting viral DNA replication. To identify compounds directed against other steps in the viral life cycle, we searched for drugs active against the EBV SM protein, which is essential for infectious v...

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

authors： Verma D,Thompson J,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a major blue-light receptor for phototropism in seed plants, exhibits blue-light-dependent autophosphorylation and contains two light, oxygen, or voltage (LOV) domains and a serine/threonine kinase domain. The LOV domains share homology with the PER-ARNT-SIM (PAS) superfamily, a diverse group of sensor pr...

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

authors： Crosson S,Moffat K

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined that a pigeon cytochrome c-derived peptide, p43-58, possesses two anchor residues, 46 and 54, for binding with the I-Ab molecule that are compatible to the position 1 (P1) and position 9 (P9) of the core region in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II binding peptides, respectively. In the ...

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

authors： Itoh Y,Kajino K,Ogasawara K,Takahashi A,Namba K,Negishi I,Matsuki N,Iwabuchi K,Kakinuma M,Good RA,Onoé K

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemically, the syntrophic bacteria constitute the missing link in our understanding of anaerobic flow of carbon in the biosphere. The completed genome sequence of Syntrophus aciditrophicus SB, a model fatty acid- and aromatic acid-degrading syntrophic bacterium, provides a glimpse of the composition and architectu...

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

authors： McInerney MJ,Rohlin L,Mouttaki H,Kim U,Krupp RS,Rios-Hernandez L,Sieber J,Struchtemeyer CG,Bhattacharyya A,Campbell JW,Gunsalus RP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' end of a eukaryotic mRNA transcript generally has a 7-methylguanosine (m7G) cap that protects mRNA from degradation and mediates almost all other aspects of gene expression. Some RNAs in Escherichia coli, yeast, and mammals were recently found to contain an NAD+ cap. Here, we report the development of the metho...

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

authors： Zhang H,Zhong H,Zhang S,Shao X,Ni M,Cai Z,Chen X,Xia Y

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many urological studies rely on models of animals, such as rats and pigs, but their relation to the human urinary system is poorly understood. Here, we elucidate the hydrodynamics of urination across five orders of magnitude in body mass. Using high-speed videography and flow-rate measurement obtained at Zoo Atlanta, ...

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

authors： Yang PJ,Pham J,Choo J,Hu DL

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In a classic model of mammalian brain formation, precursors of principal glutamatergic neurons migrate radially along radial glia fibers whereas GABAergic interneuron precursors migrate tangentially. These migration modes have significant implications for brain function. Here we used clonal lineage tracing of active r...

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

authors： Sun GJ,Zhou Y,Stadel RP,Moss J,Yong JH,Ito S,Kawasaki NK,Phan AT,Oh JH,Modak N,Reed RR,Toni N,Song H,Ming GL

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal guidance is key to the formation of neuronal circuitry. Semaphorin 3A (Sema 3A; previously known as semaphorin III, semaphorin D, and collapsin-1), a secreted subtype of the semaphorin family, is an important axonal guidance molecule in vitro and in vivo. The molecular mechanisms of the repellent activity of se...

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

authors： Behar O,Mizuno K,Badminton M,Woolf CJ

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An enconuclease activity that reacts with x-irradiated DNA is present in extracts of E. coli. By using centrifugal methods to monitor the conversion of the supercoiled, circular double-stranded DNA for phage phi-x-174 (replicative form) or PM2 to the relaxed circular form it was possible to quantitate the rate of radi...

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

authors： Strniste GF,Wallace SS

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic endothelial cells were isolated and maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium)/10% citrate-treated human plasma. They were stimulated by DME medium/10% human serum to grow from a density of 10,100 +/- 500 per well to a final density of 83,000 +/- 1,800 per well over a 9-day period. On...

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

authors： Clemmons DR,Isley WL,Brown MT

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary diversity often varies inversely with prey resource abundance. This pattern, although typically measured at the population level, is usually assumed to also characterize the behavior of individual animals within the population. However, the pattern might also be produced by changes in the degree of variation a...

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

authors： Tinker MT,Bentall G,Estes JA

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00