Top performers are not the most impressive when extreme performance indicates unreliability.

abstract：:The heme-copper oxidases constitute a superfamily of terminal dioxygen-reducing enzymes located in the inner mitochondrial or in the bacterial cell membrane. The presence of a mechanistically important covalent bond between a histidine ligand of the copper ion (Cu(B)) in the active site and a generally conserved tyros...

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

authors： Rauhamäki V,Baumann M,Soliymani R,Puustinen A,Wikström M

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetic analysis of dynamic-contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI data yields K(trans) and k(ep), two parameters independently measuring the capillary wall contrast reagent transfer rate. The almost universally used standard model (SM) embeds the implicit assumption that equilibrium transcytolemmal water exchange is...

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

authors： Huang W,Li X,Morris EA,Tudorica LA,Seshan VE,Rooney WD,Tagge I,Wang Y,Xu J,Springer CS

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite substantial evidence that nitric oxide (NO) and/or endogenous S-nitrosothiols (SNOs) exert protective effects in a variety of cardiovascular diseases, the molecular details are largely unknown. Here we show that following left coronary artery ligation, mice with a targeted deletion of the S-nitrosoglutathione ...

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

authors： Lima B,Lam GK,Xie L,Diesen DL,Villamizar N,Nienaber J,Messina E,Bowles D,Kontos CD,Hare JM,Stamler JS,Rockman HA

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale analysis of the GC-content distribution at the gene level reveals both common features and basic differences in genomes of different groups of species. Sharp changes in GC content are detected at the transcription boundaries for all species analyzed, including human, mouse, rat, chicken, fruit fly, and wor...

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

authors： Zhang L,Kasif S,Cantor CR,Broude NE

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cheA locus of Escherichia coli, which is required for chemotactic behavior, encodes two polypeptide products designated p[cheA]L and p[cheA]S. The mode of synthesis of these two proteins was investigated by transferring various missense and nonsense mutations to a lambda transducing phage and observing the mutant ...

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

authors： Smith RA,Parkinson JS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a highly prevalent gynecological disease with severe negative impacts on life quality and financial burden. Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease, which highlights the need for further investigation about the pathophysiology of this disease to provide clues for developing novel therapeutic ...

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

authors： Li WN,Hsiao KY,Wang CA,Chang N,Hsu PL,Sun CH,Wu SR,Wu MH,Tsai SJ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium is a unique model system as well as a major biotechnological tool for genetic manipulation of plant cells. It is still unknown, however, whether host cellular factors exist that are limiting for infection, and whether their overexpression in plant cells can increase the efficiency of the infection. Here,...

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

authors： Tzfira T,Vaidya M,Citovsky V

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of antibodies to extravasate out of blood vessels is critical for therapeutic activity, because molecular targets for most diseases are located outside of the endothelial lining. By performing detailed biodistribution studies with a novel IL9-armed cancer-specific antibody, we identified a clear correlatio...

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

authors： Venetz D,Hess C,Lin CW,Aebi M,Neri D

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have failed to detect an interaction between monomeric soluble CD4 (sCD4) and class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, suggesting that oligomerization of CD4 on the cell surface may be required to form a stable class II MHC binding site. To test this possibility, we transfected the F4...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Smolyar A,Reinherz EL

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Let T(k) (epsilon)(lambda; t(1),..., t(k)) = rho(X(t) (1))q(epsilon)(X(t) (2) - X(t) (1))... q(epsilon)(X(t(k) ) - X(t(k) )-1), where X(t) is a Brownian motion in R(2), lambda(dx) = rho(x)dx, and q(epsilon) converges to Dirac's delta function as epsilon downward arrow 0. The self-intersection local times of order k ar...

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

authors： Dynkin EB

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe two mammalian transcription factors selectively expressed in the central nervous system. Both proteins, neuronal PAS domain protein (NPAS) 1 and NPAS2, are members of the basic helix-loop-helix-PAS family of transcription factors. cDNAs encoding mouse and human forms of NPAS1 and NPAS2 have been isola...

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

authors： Zhou YD,Barnard M,Tian H,Li X,Ring HZ,Francke U,Shelton J,Richardson J,Russell DW,McKnight SL

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine pulmonary surfactant is bactericidal for Pasteurella haemolytica when surfactant and bacteria mixtures are incubated with normal ovine serum. To isolate this component, surfactant (1 mg/ml) was centrifuged at 100,000 x gav, and the supernatant was fractionated by HPLC. Fractions were eluted with acetonitrile (10...

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

authors： Brogden KA,De Lucca AJ,Bland J,Elliott S

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-factor cross between two strains of Phycomyces involving two auxotrophic, one color, and the mating type marker is described. Samples of 40 germspores from 84 individual fertile germsporangia were characterized. The results show: (i) The germspores of a germsporangium are derived from one meiosis in approximate...

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

authors： Eslava AP,Alvarez MI,Delbrück M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper initiation of transcription by RNA polymerase II requires the TATA-consensus-binding transcription factor TFIID. A cDNA clone encoding the Drosophila TFIID protein has been isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence reveals an open reading frame of 353 residues. The carboxyl-terminal 180 amino ...

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

authors： Muhich ML,Iida CT,Horikoshi M,Roeder RG,Parker CS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic capacitance refers to the ability of a genome to accumulate mutations that are conditionally hidden and only reveal phenotype-altering effects after certain environmental or genetic changes. Capacitance has important implications for the evolution of novel forms and functions, but experimentally studied mec...

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

authors： Hayden EJ,Bendixsen DP,Wagner A

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma norepinephrine and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (EC 1.14.17.1) activity were measured in rats. Adrenergic neuron blockade with bretylium for 4 hr and ganglion blockade with chlorisondamine for 72 hr lowered plasma norepinephrine. Neither treatment altered plasma dopamine beta-hydroxylase activity. Phenoxybenzamine...

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

authors： Reid JL,Kopin IJ

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptors (ERs) are believed to be ligand-activated transcription factors belonging to the nuclear receptor superfamily, which on ligand binding translocate into the nucleus and activate gene transcription. To date, two ERs have been identified: ERalpha and ERbeta. ERalpha plays major role in the estrogen-med...

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

authors： Yang SH,Liu R,Perez EJ,Wen Y,Stevens SM Jr,Valencia T,Brun-Zinkernagel AM,Prokai L,Will Y,Dykens J,Koulen P,Simpkins JW

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Is there a sense of chance shared by all individuals, regardless of their schooling or culture? To test whether the ability to make correct probabilistic evaluations depends on educational and cultural guidance, we investigated probabilistic cognition in preliterate and prenumerate Kaqchikel and K'iche', two indigenou...

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

authors： Fontanari L,Gonzalez M,Vallortigara G,Girotto V

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:"Functional connectivity" techniques are commonplace tools for studying brain organization. A critical element of these analyses is to distinguish variance due to neurobiological signals from variance due to nonneurobiological signals. Multiecho fMRI techniques are a promising means for making such distinctions based ...

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

authors： Power JD,Plitt M,Gotts SJ,Kundu P,Voon V,Bandettini PA,Martin A

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:All classes of antidepressants increase hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis, which contributes, in part, to the behavioral actions of these treatments. Among antidepressant treatments, electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) is the most robust stimulator of hippocampal cell proliferation and the most efficacious t...

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

authors： Segi-Nishida E,Warner-Schmidt JL,Duman RS

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated RNA ligands with low-nanomolar affinity and high specificity to basic fibroblast growth factor from a pool of 10(14) molecules containing 30 randomized positions by the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) procedure. High-affinity ligands could be classified into two famil...

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

authors： Jellinek D,Lynott CK,Rifkin DB,Janjić N

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an aid to the study of bovine tuberculosis (TB), a simple model has been developed of an epidemic involving two species, cattle and badgers. Each species may infect the other. The proportion of animals affected is assumed relatively small so that the usual nonlinear aspects of epidemic theory are avoided. The model...

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

authors： Cox DR,Donnelly CA,Bourne FJ,Gettinby G,McInerney JP,Morrison WI,Woodroffe R

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO) mutant (strain 58), defective in CDP-choline synthetase (cholinephosphate cytidylyltransferase; CTP:cholinephosphate cytidylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.15), is temperature sensitive for growth and contains less than half of the normal amount of phosphatidylcholine under nonpermissive con...

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

authors： Esko JD,Nishijima M,Raetz CR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We deal with the issue of quantifying and optimizing the rotation dynamics of synthetic molecular motors. For this purpose, the continuous four-stage rotation behavior of a typical light-activated molecular motor was measured in detail. All reaction constants were determined empirically. Next, we developed a Markov mo...

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

authors： Geertsema EM,van der Molen SJ,Martens M,Feringa BL

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human migration inhibitory factor (MIF), isolated through functional expression cloning in COS-1 cells, up-regulates expression of genes encoding HLA-DR and interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) and elaboration of IL-1 beta by human monocyte-derived macrophages. Administration of soluble bovine serum albumin or h...

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

authors： Weiser WY,Pozzi LM,Titus RG,David JR

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosducin is a soluble phosphoprotein found in retinal photoreceptor cells and in the pineal gland. It binds to the beta gamma subunits of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) (G beta gamma) and may regulate G-protein function. In this study, the ability of specific regions of phosducin to bind G beta gamm...

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

authors： Xu J,Wu D,Slepak VZ,Simon MI

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Oligomeric species form transiently during this process and not only act as essential intermediates in the assembly of n...

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

authors： Dear AJ,Michaels TCT,Meisl G,Klenerman D,Wu S,Perrett S,Linse S,Dobson CM,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Under steady-state conditions, the immune system is poised to sense and respond to the microbiota. As such, immunity to the microbiota, including T cell responses, is expected to precede any inflammatory trigger. How this pool of preformed microbiota-specific T cells contributes to tissue pathologies remains unclear. ...

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

authors： Hurabielle C,Link VM,Bouladoux N,Han SJ,Merrill ED,Lightfoot YL,Seto N,Bleck CKE,Smelkinson M,Harrison OJ,Linehan JL,Tamoutounour S,Lionakis MS,Kaplan MJ,Nakajima S,Belkaid Y

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Asn-linked glycans (N-glycans) play important roles in the quality control (QC) of glycoprotein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen and in ER-associated degradation (ERAD) of proteins by cytosolic proteasomes. A UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase glucosylates N-glycans of misfolded proteins, which ar...

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

authors： Banerjee S,Vishwanath P,Cui J,Kelleher DJ,Gilmore R,Robbins PW,Samuelson J

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00