Evolutionary erosion of yeast sex chromosomes by mating-type switching accidents.

abstract：:Mutations in sequences at the C terminus of the capsid precursor protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 that affect the viral p6 protein prevent release of budded virus particles from the cell surface. The experiments reported here define an important step in the life cycle of the virus, the release of the bud...

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

authors： Göttlinger HG,Dorfman T,Sodroski JG,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Arabidopsis TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2) MYB family transcription factor leads to massive accumulation of proanthocyanidins (PAs) in hairy roots of Medicago truncatula. Microarray analysis showed that TT2 induces genes for flavonoid/PA biosynthesis, transcription factors, and a large number of genes of ...

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

authors： Pang Y,Peel GJ,Sharma SB,Tang Y,Dixon RA

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic engineering have demonstrated that microbial biosynthesis can provide a viable alternative to chemical synthesis for the production of bulk and fine chemicals. Introduction of a new biosynthetic pathway typically requires the expression of multiple heterologous enzymes in the production ho...

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

authors： Michener JK,Nielsen J,Smolke CD

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral blood flow was measured with positron-emission tomography during two encoding and two retrieval tasks that were designed to compare memory for object features with memory for object locations. Bilateral increases in regional cerebral blood flow were observed in both anterior and posterior regions of ...

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

authors： Owen AM,Milner B,Petrides M,Evans AC

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman and optical absorption spectra of ligand-free (deoxy) myoglobin and CO-bound myoglobin (MbCO) at pH 2.6 have been measured by using continuous-flow/rapid-mixing techniques. The spectra of deoxy myoglobin at low pH within 6 ms of the pH drop demonstrate that the iron-histidine bond has been ruptured but...

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

authors： Han S,Rousseau DL,Giacometti G,Brunori M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry-, occupation-, and location-specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the...

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

authors： Jara-Figueroa C,Jun B,Glaeser EL,Hidalgo CA

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination junctions of several Neurospora mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutants and their revertants were identified. Their nucleotide sequences and putative secondary structures were determined in order to understand the nature of the elements involved in intramolecular recombination. Multiple deletions, involving th...

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

authors： Almasan A,Mishra NC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review a program of research that uses neuroimaging techniques to determine the functional and neural architecture of human working memory. A first set of studies indicates that verbal working memory includes a storage component, which is implemented neurally by areas in the left-hemisphere posterior parietal corte...

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

authors： Smith EE,Jonides J

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A varying oxygen environment is known to affect cellular function in disease as well as activity of various therapeutics. For transient structures, whether they are unconstrained therapeutic transplants, migrating cells during tumor metastasis, or cell populations induced by an immunological response, the role of oxyg...

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

authors： Spanoudaki V,Doloff JC,Huang W,Norcross SR,Farah S,Langer R,Anderson DG

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here direct evidence for the preservation of a transcriptional initiation sequence in a eukaryotic rRNA precursor: the 5'-end group for precursor to 17S rRNA (p17S RNA) from Dictyostelium discoideum is identified as the triphosphate residue pppA-. We also show that mature 5S RNA form Dictyostelium bears a d...

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

authors： Batts-Young B,Lodish HF

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide (PBAN) regulates sex pheromone biosynthesis in female Helicoverpa (Heliothis) zea. Two oligonucleotide probes representing two overlapping amino acid regions of PBAN were used to screen 2.5 x 10(5) recombinant plaques, and a positive recombinant clone was isolated. Sequen...

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

authors： Davis MT,Vakharia VN,Henry J,Kempe TG,Raina AK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reveal that the aragonite CaCO3 platelets in nacre of Haliotis laevigata are covered with a continuous layer of disordered amorphous CaCO3 and that there is no protein interaction with this layer. This finding contradicts classical paradigms of biomineralization, e.g., an epitaxial match between the structural orga...

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

authors： Nassif N,Pinna N,Gehrke N,Antonietti M,Jäger C,Cölfen H

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The major virulence determinant of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium yoelii, has remained unresolved since the discovery of the lethal line in the 1970s. Because virulence in this parasite correlates with the ability to invade different types of erythrocytes, we evaluated the potential role of the parasite eryth...

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

authors： Otsuki H,Kaneko O,Thongkukiatkul A,Tachibana M,Iriko H,Takeo S,Tsuboi T,Torii M

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipocytes, adenylate cyclase is positively regulated by beta-adrenergic agents and negatively regulated by adenosine. Incubation of adipocytes with adenosine deaminase relieves the inhibition of adenylate cyclase by destroying the adenosine that the cells release into the medium. When adipocytes are incubated with...

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

authors： Chung FZ,Weber HW,Appleman MM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella sonnei is a human-adapted pathogen that is emerging globally as the dominant agent of bacterial dysentery. To investigate local establishment, we sequenced the genomes of 263 Vietnamese S. sonnei isolated over 15 y. Our data show that S. sonnei was introduced into Vietnam in the 1980s and has undergone locali...

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

authors： Holt KE,Thieu Nga TV,Thanh DP,Vinh H,Kim DW,Vu Tra MP,Campbell JI,Hoang NV,Vinh NT,Minh PV,Thuy CT,Nga TT,Thompson C,Dung TT,Nhu NT,Vinh PV,Tuyet PT,Phuc HL,Lien NT,Phu BD,Ai NT,Tien NM,Dong N,Parry CM,Hie

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental aspect of climate change is the potential shifts in flowering phenology and pollen initiation associated with milder winters and warmer seasonal air temperature. Earlier floral anthesis has been suggested, in turn, to have a role in human disease by increasing time of exposure to pollen that causes aller...

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

authors： Ziska L,Knowlton K,Rogers C,Dalan D,Tierney N,Elder MA,Filley W,Shropshire J,Ford LB,Hedberg C,Fleetwood P,Hovanky KT,Kavanaugh T,Fulford G,Vrtis RF,Patz JA,Portnoy J,Coates F,Bielory L,Frenz D

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic genes for human insulin A and B chains were cloned separately in plasmid pBR322. The cloned synthetic genes were then fused to an Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene to provide efficient transcription and translation and a stable precursor protein. The insulin peptides were cleaved from beta-galactosida...

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

authors： Goeddel DV,Kleid DG,Bolivar F,Heyneker HL,Yansura DG,Crea R,Hirose T,Kraszewski A,Itakura K,Riggs AD

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) comprise a highly heritable, multifarious group of neurodevelopmental disorders, which are characterized by repetitive behaviors and impairments in social interactions. Point mutations have been identified in X-linked Neuroligin (NLGN) 3 and 4X genes in patients with ASDs and all of th...

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

authors： Bemben MA,Nguyen QA,Wang T,Li Y,Nicoll RA,Roche KW

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme rates are usually considered to be dependent on local properties of the molecules involved in reactions. However, for large molecules, distant constraints might affect reaction rates by affecting dynamics leading to transition states. In single-molecule experiments we have found that enzymes that relax DNA tors...

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

authors： Bai H,Kath JE,Zörgiebel FM,Sun M,Ghosh P,Hatfull GF,Grindley ND,Marko JF

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of cells that mediate positive selection of CD8(+) T cells was investigated in two T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic systems. Irradiated beta(2)-microglobulin mutant mice or mice with mutations in both the K(b) and D(b) genes were repopulated with fetal liver cells from class I(+) TCR transgenic mice. In t...

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

authors： Zerrahn J,Volkmann A,Coles MC,Held W,Lemonnier FA,Raulet DH

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel Kv1.5 mediates the I(Kur) repolarizing current in human atrial myocytes and regulates vascular tone in multiple peripheral vascular beds. Understanding the complex regulation of Kv1.5 function is of substantial interest because it represents a promising pharmacological target f...

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

authors： Benson MD,Li QJ,Kieckhafer K,Dudek D,Whorton MR,Sunahara RK,Iñiguez-Lluhí JA,Martens JR

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferential inactivation of the paternal X chromosome in extraembryonic cells during early mouse development is an example of parental imprinting, but it has not been studied at the transcriptional level because standard methods of measuring RNA levels do not allow detection of allele-specific RNAs in individual ...

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

authors： Singer-Sam J,Chapman V,LeBon JM,Riggs AD

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a subclone derived from mouse L(tk-) cells, we found a plasmid present in a high copy number (greater than 5000 copies per cell) that was stably maintained extrachromosomally without any cytopathic effect to the host cells. This plasmid, termed L factor, has two forms: 5.3 and 5.5 kilobase pairs. DNA sequencing and...

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

authors： Kusano T,Uehara H,Saito H,Segawa K,Oishi M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene superlattices were shown to exhibit high-temperature quantum oscillations due to periodic emergence of delocalized Bloch states in high magnetic fields such that unit fractions of the flux quantum pierce a superlattice unit cell. Under these conditions, semiclassical electron trajectories become straight agai...

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

authors： Krishna Kumar R,Mishchenko A,Chen X,Pezzini S,Auton GH,Ponomarenko LA,Zeitler U,Eaves L,Fal'ko VI,Geim AK

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.1) deficiency is a recessive disorder that results in hemolytic anemia and neuromuscular dysfunction. To determine the molecular basis of this disorder, a TPI allele from two unrelated patients homozygous for TPI deficiency was com...

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

authors： Daar IO,Artymiuk PJ,Phillips DC,Maquat LE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective therapies for most solid cancers, especially those that have progressed to metastasis, remain elusive because of inherent and acquired resistance of tumor cells to conventional treatments. Additionally, the effective therapeutic window for many protocols can be very narrow, frequently resulting in toxicity. ...

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

authors： Lebedeva IV,Washington I,Sarkar D,Clark JA,Fine RL,Dent P,Curiel DT,Turro NJ,Fisher PB

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian rhythms of melatonin and body temperature are set to an earlier hour in women than in men, even when the women and men maintain nearly identical and consistent bedtimes and wake times. Moreover, women tend to wake up earlier than men and exhibit a greater preference for morning activities than men. Altho...

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

authors： Duffy JF,Cain SW,Chang AM,Phillips AJ,Münch MY,Gronfier C,Wyatt JK,Dijk DJ,Wright KP Jr,Czeisler CA

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

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

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:That the yolk proteins (YPs), or vitellins, stored in the oocytes of insects are a nutritional store for subsequent embryogenesis has long been assumed. Exhaustive data base searching programs revealed highly significant sequence similarity between the three YPs of Drosophila melanogaster and part of the triacylglycer...

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

authors： Bownes M,Shirras A,Blair M,Collins J,Coulson A

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) catalyzes the synthesis of DNA from DNA or RNA templates. During this process, it must transfer its primer from one template to another RNA or DNA template. Binary complexes made of RT and a primer/template bind an additional single-stranded RNA molecule of the same nucleotide sequence...

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

authors： Canard B,Sarfati R,Richardson CC

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00