A perceptual metric for photo retouching.

abstract：:Tramadol, previously only known as a synthetic analgesic, has now been found in the bark and wood of roots of the African medicinal tree Nauclea latifolia. At present, no direct evidence is available as to the biosynthetic pathway of its unusual skeleton. To provide guidance as to possible biosynthetic precursors, we ...

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

authors： Romek KM,Nun P,Remaud GS,Silvestre V,Taïwe GS,Lecerf-Schmidt F,Boumendjel A,De Waard M,Robins RJ

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between poor paternal diet, perturbed embryonic development, and adult offspring ill health represents a new focus for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis. However, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains ill-defined. We have developed a mouse paternal low-protein ...

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

authors： Watkins AJ,Dias I,Tsuro H,Allen D,Emes RD,Moreton J,Wilson R,Ingram RJM,Sinclair KD

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhancer specific to erythroid cells was identified previously in the 3' flanking sequence of the chicken adult beta-globin gene and shown to act on the beta-globin promoter. This enhancer lies between the adult beta-globin gene and the embryonic epsilon-globin gene, about equidistant from the two promoters. To det...

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

authors： Nickol JM,Felsenfeld G

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine decarboxylase (L-histidine carboxylase, EC 4.1.1.22) activity of whole W/W mouse embryos, which are devoid of mast cells, remained very low and did not show the rapid increase before birth (17-20 days of gestation) seen in wild-type +/+ embryos. During the same period, the histamine content also remained...

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

authors： Watanabe T,Kitamura Y,Maeyama K,Go S,Yamatodani A,Wada H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (GS) was inactivated by a nonenzymic mixed-function oxidation system composed of ascorbate, O2, and Fe(III). Partial inactivation of GS by this system leads to the formation of hybrid GS molecules (dodecamers) composed of both active and inactive subunits. Subunit interactions in ...

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

authors： Nakamura K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas NF-kappaB has potent antiapoptotic function in most cell types, it was reported that in pancreatic beta cells it serves a proapoptotic function and may contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes. To investigate the role of beta cell NF-kappaB in autoimmune diabetes, we produced transgenic mic...

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

authors： Kim S,Millet I,Kim HS,Kim JY,Han MS,Lee MK,Kim KW,Sherwin RS,Karin M,Lee MS

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting whether and how populations will adapt to rapid climate change is a critical goal for evolutionary biology. To examine the genetic basis of fitness and predict adaptive evolution in novel climates with seasonal variation, we grew a diverse panel of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana (multiparent advanced...

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

authors： Fournier-Level A,Perry EO,Wang JA,Braun PT,Migneault A,Cooper MD,Metcalf CJ,Schmitt J

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides covalently linked to an intercalating agent via a polymethylene linker were synthesized. Oligothymidylates attached to an acridine dye (Acr) through the 3'-phosphate group [(Tp)n(CH2) mAcr ] specifically interact with the complementary sequence. The interaction is strongly stabilized by the i...

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

authors： Asseline U,Delarue M,Lancelot G,Toulmé F,Thuong NT,Montenay-Garestier T,Hélène C

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Arabidopsis that contain reduced levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids showed growth characteristics at 22 degrees C that were very similar to wild type. By contrast, at 12 degrees C, the mutants failed to undergo stem elongation during reproductive growth although they produced normal flowers and fertile s...

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

authors： Miquel M,James D Jr,Dooner H,Browse J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a family-based cluster detection approach designed to localize significant rare disease-risk variants clusters within a region of interest to systematically search for schizophrenia (SCZ) susceptibility genes within 49 genomic loci previously implicated by de novo copy number variants. Using two independent wh...

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

authors： Ionita-Laza I,Xu B,Makarov V,Buxbaum JD,Roos JL,Gogos JA,Karayiorgou M

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal deletion of the NESP55 differentially methylated region (DMR) (delNESP55/ASdel3-4(m), delNAS(m)) from the GNAS locus in humans causes autosomal dominant pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ib (AD-PHP-Ib(delNASm)), a disorder of proximal tubular parathyroid hormone (PTH) resistance associated with loss of maternal G...

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

authors： Fernández-Rebollo E,Maeda A,Reyes M,Turan S,Fröhlich LF,Plagge A,Kelsey G,Jüppner H,Bastepe M

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding plant metabolism as an integrated system is essential for metabolic engineering aimed at the effective production of compounds useful to human life and the global environment. The "omics" approach integrates transcriptome and metabolome data into a single data set and can lead to the identification of un...

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

authors： Hirai MY,Sugiyama K,Sawada Y,Tohge T,Obayashi T,Suzuki A,Araki R,Sakurai N,Suzuki H,Aoki K,Goda H,Nishizawa OI,Shibata D,Saito K

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for predicting the structure of alpha beta class proteins in the absence of information from homologous structures. The method is based on an associative memory model for short to intermediate range in sequence contacts and a contact potential for long range in sequence contacts. The coefficients ...

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

authors： Hardin C,Eastwood MP,Prentiss MC,Luthey-Schulten Z,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine dietary consumption of foods that contain aflatoxins is the second leading cause of environmental carcinogenesis worldwide. Aflatoxin-driven mutagenesis is initiated through metabolic activation of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) to its epoxide form that reacts with N7 guanine in DNA. The resulting AFB1-N7-dG adduct under...

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

authors： Lin YC,Owen N,Minko IG,Lange SS,Tomida J,Li L,Stone MP,Wood RD,McCullough AK,Lloyd RS

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests hold most of Earth's biodiversity. Their continued loss through deforestation and agriculture is the main threat to species globally, more than disease, invasive species, and climate change. However, not all tropical forests have the same ability to sustain biodiversity. Those that have been disturbed...

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

authors： Hedges SB,Cohen WB,Timyan J,Yang Z

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The tubercle bacillus parasitizes macrophages by inhibiting phagosome maturation into the phagolysosome. This phenomenon underlies the tuberculosis pandemic involving 2 billion people. We report here how Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes phagosome maturation arrest. A glycosylated M. tuberculosis phosphatidylinositol ...

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

authors： Fratti RA,Chua J,Vergne I,Deretic V

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge density distribution of a protein has been refined experimentally. Diffraction data for a crambin crystal were measured to ultra-high resolution (0.54 A) at low temperature by using short-wavelength synchrotron radiation. The crystal structure was refined with a model for charged, nonspherical, multipolar a...

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

authors： Jelsch C,Teeter MM,Lamzin V,Pichon-Pesme V,Blessing RH,Lecomte C

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In insulin resistant states such as type 2 diabetes, there is a high demand on the β-cell to synthesize and secrete insulin, which challenges the ability of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to synthesize and fold nascent proteins. This creates a state of ER stress that triggers a coordinated program referred to as the u...

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

authors： Winnay JN,Dirice E,Liew CW,Kulkarni RN,Kahn CR

更新日期：2014-01-21 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：:A Poincaré resolution is given for the supersymmetric ring of brackets over a signed alphabet. As a consequence, a resolution is found for the ring of coordinates of the Grassmanian variety in projective space over any infinite field. ...

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

authors： Anick D,Rota GC

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones are an essential part of the machinery that avoids protein aggregation and misfolding in vivo. However, understanding the molecular basis of how chaperones prevent such undesirable interactions requires the conformational changes within substrate proteins to be probed during chaperone action. Here...

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

authors： Kellner R,Hofmann H,Barducci A,Wunderlich B,Nettels D,Schuler B

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A parathyroid hormone-like peptide (PTH-LP) has recently been identified in human tumors associated with the syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. The peptide appears to be encoded by a single-copy gene that gives rise to multiple mRNAs that are heterogeneous at both their 5' and their 3' ends. Alternative ...

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

authors： Mangin M,Ikeda K,Dreyer BE,Broadus AE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been demonstrated that coupled enzymatic processes may possess, for a particular choice of the state variables, multidimensional inflection points in thermodynamic force-flow space. The conditions for reciprocity in the linear region near such a reference state, which may be far from equilibrium, are o...

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

authors： Caplan SR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia is a ravaging condition of progressive lung scarring and destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies including corticosteroids have limited efficacy in this ultimately fatal disorder. An important unmet need is to identify new agents that interact with key ...

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

authors： Henderson WR Jr,Chi EY,Ye X,Nguyen C,Tien YT,Zhou B,Borok Z,Knight DA,Kahn M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Like protein enzymes, RNA enzymes (ribozymes) provide specific binding sites for their substrates. We now show that equilibrium dissociation constants for complexes between the Tetrahymena ribozyme and its RNA substrates and products can be directly measured by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels containing divalen...

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

authors： Pyle AM,McSwiggen JA,Cech TR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of trocars, needles, and catheters into unintended tissues or tissue compartments results in hundreds of thousands of complications annually. Current methods for blood vessel cannulation or epidural, chest tube, and initial trocar placement often involve the blind pass of a needle through several layers of t...

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

authors： Bassett EK,Slocum AH,Masiakos PT,Pryor HI 2nd,Farokhzad OC,Karp JM

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.5-fold stimulation of cyclic AMP cellular content is measured 60 sec after addition of 100 nM synthetic ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (C-RF; corticoliberin) to rat anterior pituitary cells in culture. A maximal response of cyclic AMP content at 400% above control is observed between 2 and 30 min after addit...

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

authors： Giguère V,Labrie F,Côté J,Coy DH,Sueiras-Diaz J,Schally AV

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that α-synuclein (α-syn) occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation. However, the mechanisms underlying the regulation of formation of α-syn tetramers are still mostly unknown. Cellular membrane lipids are thought to play an important role in the regul...

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

authors： Kim S,Yun SP,Lee S,Umanah GE,Bandaru VVR,Yin X,Rhee P,Karuppagounder SS,Kwon SH,Lee H,Mao X,Kim D,Pandey A,Lee G,Dawson VL,Dawson TM,Ko HS

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytochrome family of informational photoreceptors has a central role in regulating light-responsive gene expression, but the mechanism of intracellular signal transduction has remained elusive. In a genetic screen for T DNA-tagged Arabidopsis mutants affected in early signaling intermediates, we identified poc1 (...

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

authors： Halliday KJ,Hudson M,Ni M,Qin M,Quail PH

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is defined by the limited proliferative capacity of normal cultured cells. Immortal cells overcome this regulation and proliferate indefinitively. One step in the immortalization process may be reactivation of telomerase activity, a ribonucleoprotein complex, which, by de novo synthesized telomeric...

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

authors： Härle-Bachor C,Boukamp P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00