Nematode sperm maturation triggered by protease involves sperm-secreted serine protease inhibitor (Serpin).

abstract：:Costly interactions between species that arise as a by-product of ancestral similarities in communication signals are expected to persist only under specific evolutionary circumstances. Territorial aggression between species, for instance, is widely assumed to persist only when extrinsic barriers prevent niche diverge...

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

authors： Drury JP,Cowen MC,Grether GF

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although normal fatty acids (FAs) are degraded via β-oxidation, unusual FAs such as 2-hydroxy (2-OH) FAs and 3-methyl-branched FAs are degraded via α-oxidation. Phytosphingosine (PHS) is one of the long-chain bases (the sphingolipid components) and exists in specific tissues, including the epidermis and small intestin...

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

authors： Kitamura T,Seki N,Kihara A

更新日期：2017-03-28 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：:α-SNAP [soluble NSF (N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) attachment protein] and NSF proteins are conserved across eukaryotes and sustain cellular vesicle trafficking by mediating disassembly and reuse of SNARE protein complexes, which facilitate fusion of vesicles to target membranes. However, certain haplotypes of th...

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

authors： Bayless AM,Smith JM,Song J,McMinn PH,Teillet A,August BK,Bent AF

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometry of J chain in pentamer IgM has been determined by measuring the radiolabeled thiols in the constituent chains after complete reduction and alkylation of the polymer. One mole of J was found to be disulfide bonded to 1 mol of pentamer. The linkage of J chain in IgM has been determined by correlating t...

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

authors： Chapuis RM,Koshland ME

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we extend the well-known Vitali-Hahn-Saks and Nikodým theorems for measures to finitely additive vector-valued set functions. ...

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

authors： Brooks JK,Jewett RS

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Origins of DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe lack a specific consensus sequence analogous to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) consensus, raising the question of how they are recognized by the replication machinery. Because all well characterized S. pombe origins are locat...

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

authors： Dai J,Chuang RY,Kelly TJ

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:While 9-O-acetylation of sialic acids has been reported in some mammalian tissues, the distribution of this modification on specific cell types and molecules is largely unknown. The influenza C virus hemagglutinin-esterase is a membrane-bound glycoprotein that binds specifically to 9-O-acetylated sialic acids (hemaggl...

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

authors： Klein A,Krishna M,Varki NM,Varki A

更新日期：1994-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory is stored in neural networks via changes in synaptic strength mediated in part by NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP). Here we show that a cholecystokinin (CCK)-B receptor (CCKBR) antagonist blocks high-frequency stimulation-induced neocortical LTP, whereas local infusion of CCK induces...

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

authors： Chen X,Li X,Wong YT,Zheng X,Wang H,Peng Y,Feng H,Feng J,Baibado JT,Jesky R,Wang Z,Xie H,Sun W,Zhang Z,Zhang X,He L,Zhang N,Zhang Z,Tang P,Su J,Hu LL,Liu Q,He X,Tan A,Sun X,Li M,Wong K,Wang X,Cheung

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Under particular circumstances like lactation and fasting, the blood-borne monocarboxylates acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate represent significant energy substrates for the brain. Their utilization is dependent on a transport system present on both endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier and o...

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

authors： Pellerin L,Pellegri G,Martin JL,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary ablation (hypophysectomy) in rats was previously reported to cause a precipitous change in the relative abundance of two alternative splice variants of the "BK"- or "Maxi K"-encoding Slo gene in adrenal chromaffin cells. Inclusion of the optional "STREX" exon (STRess axis-regulated EXon) in a C-terminal spli...

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

authors： Lai GJ,McCobb DP

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the microbial community in the human intestine may play an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity. We examined 184,094 sequences of microbial 16S rRNA genes from PCR amplicons by using the 454 pyrosequencing technology to compare the microbial community structures of 9 individuals,...

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

authors： Zhang H,DiBaise JK,Zuccolo A,Kudrna D,Braidotti M,Yu Y,Parameswaran P,Crowell MD,Wing R,Rittmann BE,Krajmalnik-Brown R

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:E12 and E47 are two non-tissue-specific helix-loop-helix (HLH) transcription factors encoded by the E2A gene. Previous studies suggested that they are involved in regulation of differentiation in many tissue types including muscle, blood, and nerve through direct heterodimer interactions with tissue-specific HLH prote...

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

authors： Zhuang Y,Kim CG,Bartelmez S,Cheng P,Groudine M,Weintraub H

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proofreading mechanisms increase specificity in biochemical reactions by allowing for the dissociation of intermediate complexes. These mechanisms disrupt and reset the reaction to undo errors at the cost of increased time of reaction and free energy expenditure. Here, we draw an analogy between proofreading and micro...

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

authors： Murugan A,Huse DA,Leibler S

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid receptor beta (RAR beta), which codes for a nuclear receptor for retinoic acid, is localized in a chromosomal region frequently deleted in lung cancer cells. The gene is expressed in normal lung tissue and in the majority of the cell lines derived from lung tumors but not in most of the lines derived fro...

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

authors： Houle B,Rochette-Egly C,Bradley WE

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are predicted to regulate approximately 30% of all human genes by targeting sequences in their 3' UTR. Polymorphisms in 3' UTR of several genes have been reported to affect gene expression, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we demonstrate that 829C-->T, a naturally occurring SNP, near the miR-...

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

authors： Mishra PJ,Humeniuk R,Mishra PJ,Longo-Sorbello GS,Banerjee D,Bertino JR

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the recombinant squid kinesin head domain in Escherichia coli and studied its interaction with microtubules. The head is active as a microtubule-stimulated ATPase and binds to microtubules, but it does not support microtubule gliding by itself. The head binds to both microtubules and depolymerized tu...

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

authors： Song YH,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of sleep's putative functions is mediation of adaptation to waking experiences. Chronic stress is a common waking experience; however, which specific aspect of sleep is most responsive, and how sleep changes relate to behavioral disturbances and molecular correlates remain unknown. We quantified sleep, physical, e...

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

authors： Nollet M,Hicks H,McCarthy AP,Wu H,Möller-Levet CS,Laing EE,Malki K,Lawless N,Wafford KA,Dijk DJ,Winsky-Sommerer R

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for predicting protein folding class based on global protein chain description and a voting process. Selection of the best descriptors was achieved by a computer-simulated neural network trained on a data base consisting of 83 folding classes. Protein-chain descriptors include overall composition, ...

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

authors： Dubchak I,Muchnik I,Holbrook SR,Kim SH

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the role of a cell surface galactosyltransferase, laminin, and laminin-binding protein (receptor) in the invasion of clonal derivatives of a murine adrenal carcinoma cell line. Although a 10-fold variation was found in the ability to invade a reconstituted basement membrane matrix, levels of intracell...

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

authors： Penno MB,Passaniti A,Fridman R,Hart GW,Jordan C,Kumar S,Scott AF

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The "false thumb" of pandas is a carpal bone, the radial sesamoid, which has been enlarged and functions as an opposable thumb. If the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) are not closely related, their sharing of this adaptation implies a remarkable convergence. The discovery of pr...

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

authors： Salesa MJ,Antón M,Peigné S,Morales J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras over a field, whose antipodes have arbitrary even orders >/=4 as mappings, are furnished. The dimension of the Hopf algebra is q(n+1), where the antipode has order 2q, q >/= 2, and n is an arbitrary positive integer. The algebras are not semisimple, and neither they nor the...

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

authors： Taft EJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) in metastasis, we generated human-in-mouse breast cancer orthotopic models using patient tumor specimens, labeled with optical reporter fusion genes. These models recapitulate human cancer features not captured with previous models, including spontaneous metastas...

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

authors： Liu H,Patel MR,Prescher JA,Patsialou A,Qian D,Lin J,Wen S,Chang YF,Bachmann MH,Shimono Y,Dalerba P,Adorno M,Lobo N,Bueno J,Dirbas FM,Goswami S,Somlo G,Condeelis J,Contag CH,Gambhir SS,Clarke MF

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of genetic means has been a serious limitation in studying mosquito immunity. We generated Relish-mediated immune deficiency (RMID) by transforming Aedes aegypti with the Delta Rel transgene driven by the vitellogenin (Vg) promoter using the pBac[3xP3-EGFP, afm] vector. A stable transformed line had a single ...

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

authors： Shin SW,Kokoza V,Lobkov I,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The drought of progress in clinical brain tumor therapy provides an impetus for developing new treatments as well as methods for testing therapeutics in animal models. The inability of traditional assays to simultaneously measure tumor size, location, growth kinetics, and cell kill achieved by a treatment complicates ...

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

authors： Ross BD,Zhao YJ,Neal ER,Stegman LD,Ercolani M,Ben-Yoseph O,Chenevert TL

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of a nucleotide region of f1 bacteriophage was determined on a bonded ultrathin acrylamide gel with a discontinuous buffer system by using the dideoxy-DNA sequencing method. This sequence and one other were analyzed for maximal base pairing with tRNAs. The results allow a prediction of the direction and p...

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

authors： Pieczenik G

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure of various cell types to adrenergic agonists leads to a decrease in cell surface beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) number. Sequestration of the receptor away from the cell surface as well as a down-regulation of the total number of cellular receptors are believed to contribute to this agonist-medi...

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

authors： Valiquette M,Bonin H,Hnatowich M,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Bouvier M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 150-200 thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara remains controversial. Given that the first modern humans north of the Sahara are found in the Levant approximately 120-90 ka, nort...

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

authors： Osborne AH,Vance D,Rohling EJ,Barton N,Rogerson M,Fello N

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of Khoisan populations (southern African hunter-gatherers and pastoral...

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

authors： Pickrell JK,Patterson N,Loh PR,Lipson M,Berger B,Stoneking M,Pakendorf B,Reich D

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00