Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms.

abstract：:Chronic administration of the atypical antipsychotic drug, clozapine, to rodents has been shown to increase the concentration of apolipoprotein D (apoD) in several area of the brain, suggesting that apoD could be involved in the therapeutic effects of antipsychotic drugs and/or the pathology of psychotic illnesses. He...

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

authors： Thomas EA,Dean B,Pavey G,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a defect in the ouabain-sensitive Na+, K+-ATPase (Na+ pump, EC 3.6.1.37) of erythrocytes from streptozocin diabetic rats. This defect was accompanied by an increase in cell volume and osmotic fragility and a decrease in the cytosolic K+/Na+ ratio. There was also a doubling in the time needed for diabetic...

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

authors： Kowluru R,Bitensky MW,Kowluru A,Dembo M,Keaton PA,Buican T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive activation of calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) causes arrhythmias and heart failure, but the cellular mechanisms for CaMKII-targeted proteins causing disordered cell membrane excitability and myocardial dysfunction remain uncertain. Failing human cardiomyocytes exhibit increased CaMKII and voltage-gated Ca(2+) ...

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

authors： Koval OM,Guan X,Wu Y,Joiner ML,Gao Z,Chen B,Grumbach IM,Luczak ED,Colbran RJ,Song LS,Hund TJ,Mohler PJ,Anderson ME

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade or more, contradictory evidence of Martian climate, indicating that surface temperatures seldom if ever approach the melting point of water at midlatitudes, and geomorphic features, consistent with liquid flows at these same latitudes, have proven difficult to reconcile. In this article, we demons...

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

authors： Shinbrot T,Duong NH,Kwan L,Alvarez MM

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and highly sensitive catalysis assay is demonstrated based on analyzing reactions with acridonetagged compounds by thin-layer chromatography. As little as 1 pmol of product is readily visualized by its blue fluorescence under UV illumination and identified by its retention factor (Rf). Each assay requires onl...

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

authors： Reymond JL,Koch T,Schröer J,Tierney E

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by certain human papillomavirus types is regarded as the major risk factor in the development of cervical cancer, one of the most common cancers of women worldwide. Analysis of the immunogenic and structural features of papillomavirus virions has been hampered by the inability to efficiently propagate the vi...

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

authors： Kirnbauer R,Booy F,Cheng N,Lowy DR,Schiller JT

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell wall pectic polysaccharides are arguably the most complex carbohydrates in nature. Progress in understanding pectin synthesis has been slow due to its complex structure and difficulties in purifying and expressing the low-abundance, Golgi membrane-bound pectin biosynthetic enzymes. Arabidopsis galacturonosy...

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

authors： Atmodjo MA,Sakuragi Y,Zhu X,Burrell AJ,Mohanty SS,Atwood JA 3rd,Orlando R,Scheller HV,Mohnen D

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor (NMDAR), long implicated in developmental plasticity, shows decay time kinetics that shorten postnatally as NR2A subunits are added to the receptor. Neither the mechanism nor immediate effect of this change is known. We studied developing NMDAR currents by using visua...

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

authors： Townsend M,Yoshii A,Mishina M,Constantine-Paton M

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A TL+ leukemia of a (B6 X A)F1 hybrid mouse (H-2b/H-2a) was previously subjected to immunoselection against H-2a by passage in (B6 X A.SW)F1 mice (H-2b/H-2s). A variant leukemia line was obtained that serologically lacked not only the H-2a phenotype but also the TL phenotype determined by the linked cis Tlaa allele of...

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

authors： Shen FW,Chaganti RS,Doucette LA,Litman GW,Steinmetz M,Hood L,Boyse EA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and genetic studies have implicated alpha-gustducin as a key component in the transduction of both bitter or sweet taste. Yet, alpha-gustducin-null mice are not completely unresponsive to bitter or sweet compounds. To gain insights into how gustducin mediates responses to bitter and sweet compounds, and to...

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

authors： Ruiz-Avila L,Wong GT,Damak S,Margolskee RF

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gamma frequency oscillations are common in the brain, their functional contributions to neural computation are not understood. Here we report in vitro electrophysiological recordings to evaluate how noisy gamma frequency oscillatory input interacts with the overall activation level of a neuron to determine th...

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

authors： Markowitz DA,Collman F,Brody CD,Hopfield JJ,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that is a serious global health problem. Evasion of IFN-mediated antiviral signaling is a common defense strategy that pathogenic viruses use to replicate and propagate in the...

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

authors： Miorin L,Kehrer T,Sanchez-Aparicio MT,Zhang K,Cohen P,Patel RS,Cupic A,Makio T,Mei M,Moreno E,Danziger O,White KM,Rathnasinghe R,Uccellini M,Gao S,Aydillo T,Mena I,Yin X,Martin-Sancho L,Krogan NJ,Chanda SK,Schot

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first part of a quantitative theory for the structure and dynamics of forests at demographic and resource steady state. The theory uses allometric scaling relations, based on metabolism and biomechanics, to quantify how trees use resources, fill space, and grow. These individual-level traits and propert...

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

authors： West GB,Enquist BJ,Brown JH

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In an autoshaping experiment, food-deprived pigeons pecked rapidly at a moving dot that preceded the delivery of food. When the moving dot and food were no longer correlated, the rate of pecking dropped nearly to zero. When, subsequently, no food was given, pecking reappeared at a high rate (nearly 200 pecks per min f...

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

authors： Epstein R,Skinner BF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monomorphic anti-HLA-G monoclonal antibody (mAb) was obtained by immunization of HLA-B27/human beta 2-microglobulin double-transgenic mice with transfected murine L cells expressing both HLA-G and human beta 2-microglobulin. This mAb, designated BFL.1, specifically recognizes, by flow cytometry analysis, the immuniz...

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

authors： Bensussan A,Mansur IG,Mallet V,Rodriguez AM,Girr M,Weiss EH,Brem G,Boumsell L,Gluckman E,Dausset J

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ("air capture") in an industrial process has been proposed as an option for stabilizing global CO(2) concentrations. Published analyses suggest these air capture systems may cost a few hundred dollars per tonne of CO(2), making it cost competitive with mainstream CO(2) miti...

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

authors： House KZ,Baclig AC,Ranjan M,van Nierop EA,Wilcox J,Herzog HJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart of the H+ conductance mechanism in the homotetrameric M2 H+ channel from influenza A is a set of four histidine side chains. Here, we show that protonation of the third of these imidazoles coincides with acid activation of this transmembrane channel and that, at physiological pH, the channel is closed by two...

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

authors： Hu J,Fu R,Nishimura K,Zhang L,Zhou HX,Busath DD,Vijayvergiya V,Cross TA

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I PI3-kinases signal downstream of receptor tyrosine kinases and G protein-coupled receptors and have been implicated in tumorigenesis. Although the oncogenic potential of the PI3-kinase subunit p110α requires its mutational activation, other p110 isoforms can induce transformation when overexpressed in the wild...

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

authors： Dbouk HA,Pang H,Fiser A,Backer JM

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian testis, the blood-testis barrier (BTB), unlike the blood-brain and blood-retina barriers, is composed of coexisting tight junctions (TJs) and adherens junctions (AJs). Yet these junctions must open (or disassemble) to accommodate the migration of preleptotene and leptotene spermatocytes across the BTB...

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

authors： Yan HH,Cheng CY

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signaling pathway is essential for many aspects of development, cell fate determination, and tissue homeostasis. Notch signaling can be modulated by posttranslational modifications to the Notch receptor, which are known to alter both ligand binding and receptor activation. We have modified the ligand-binding...

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

authors： Taylor P,Takeuchi H,Sheppard D,Chillakuri C,Lea SM,Haltiwanger RS,Handford PA

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the trimeric HIV-1 envelope (Env) spike, the first and second variable loops (V1V2 region) and the third variable loop (V3) of the gp120 subunit play dual roles in antibody recognition, because they contain neutralization epitopes and also participate in epitope masking. The spatial relationships between V1V2 a...

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

authors： Liu L,Cimbro R,Lusso P,Berger EA

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The venoms from three spider species, Araneus gemma, Neoscona arabesca, and Argiope aurantia, were shown to inhibit the high-affinity, sodium-independent L-glutamate-binding sites in rat brain synaptic membranes. The same three venoms caused concentration-dependent inhibition of the activity of the glutamate-binding g...

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

authors： Michaelis EK,Galton N,Early SL

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins internalized into the endocytic pathway are usually degraded. Efficient proteolysis requires denaturation, induced by acidic conditions within lysosomes, and reduction of inter- and intrachain disulfide bonds. Cytosolic reduction is mediated enzymatically by thioredoxin, but the mechanism of lysosomal reducti...

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

authors： Arunachalam B,Phan UT,Geuze HJ,Cresswell P

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although major research efforts have focused on how specific components of foodstuffs affect health, relatively little is known about a more fundamental aspect of diet, the frequency and circadian timing of meals, and potential benefits of intermittent periods with no or very low energy intakes. The most common eating...

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

authors： Mattson MP,Allison DB,Fontana L,Harvie M,Longo VD,Malaisse WJ,Mosley M,Notterpek L,Ravussin E,Scheer FA,Seyfried TN,Varady KA,Panda S

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein (G protein)-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) constitute a family of serine/threonine kinases that play a major role in the agonist-induced phosphorylation and desensitization of G-protein-coupled receptors. Herein we describe the generation of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) t...

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

authors： Oppermann M,Diversé-Pierluissi M,Drazner MH,Dyer SL,Freedman NJ,Peppel KC,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:T-helper 17 (Th17) cells have important functions in adaptor immunity and have also been implicated in inflammatory disorders. The bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) family proteins regulate gene transcription during lineage-specific differentiation of naïve CD4+ T cells to produce mature T-helper cells. Inhib...

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

authors： Cheung K,Lu G,Sharma R,Vincek A,Zhang R,Plotnikov AN,Zhang F,Zhang Q,Ju Y,Hu Y,Zhao L,Han X,Meslamani J,Xu F,Jaganathan A,Shen T,Zhu H,Rusinova E,Zeng L,Zhou J,Yang J,Peng L,Ohlmeyer M,Walsh MJ,Zhang DY,

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have intercellular channels, plasmodesmata (PD), that span the cell wall to enable cell-to-cell transport of micro- and macromolecules. We identified an Arabidopsis thaliana embryo lethal mutant increased size exclusion limit 1 (ise1) that results in increased PD-mediated transport of fluorescent tracers. The i...

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

authors： Stonebloom S,Burch-Smith T,Kim I,Meinke D,Mindrinos M,Zambryski P

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Migrations allow animals to track seasonal changes in resources, find mates, and avoid harsh climates, but these regular, long-distance movements also have implications for parasite dynamics and animal health. Migratory animals have been dubbed "superspreaders" of infection, but migration can also reduce parasite burd...

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

authors： Peacock SJ,Krkošek M,Lewis MA,Molnár PK

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular factors tightly regulate the architecture of bundles of filamentous cytoskeletal proteins, giving rise to assemblies with distinct morphologies and physical properties, and a similar control of the supramolecular organization of nanotubes and nanorods in synthetic materials is highly desirable. However, it is...

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

authors： Needleman DJ,Ojeda-Lopez MA,Raviv U,Miller HP,Wilson L,Safinya CR

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00