X-linked H3K27me3 demethylase Utx is required for embryonic development in a sex-specific manner.

abstract：:Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation rates to construct long-term variations in fire during the past 3,000 y in...

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

authors： Marlon JR,Bartlein PJ,Gavin DG,Long CJ,Anderson RS,Briles CE,Brown KJ,Colombaroli D,Hallett DJ,Power MJ,Scharf EA,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A glnB gene is identified in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, and its gene product is found to be covalently modified as a result of imbalance in electron transfer in photosynthesis, where photosystem II is favored over photosystem I. The gene was cloned and sequenced and found to encode a polypeptide of...

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

authors： Tsinoremas NF,Castets AM,Harrison MA,Allen JF,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapeutic interventions for the treatment of respiratory infections are hampered by the evolution of multidrug resistance in pathogens as well as the lack of effective cellular targets. Despite the identification of multiple region-specific lung progenitor cells, the identity of molecules that might be thera...

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

authors： Khatri A,Kraft BD,Tata PR,Randell SH,Piantadosi CA,Pendergast AM

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in growth control during development and regeneration and its dysregulation is widely implicated in various cancers. To further understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Hippo signaling regulation, we have found that activities of core Hippo si...

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

authors： Kim W,Cho YS,Wang X,Park O,Ma X,Kim H,Gan W,Jho EH,Cha B,Jeung YJ,Zhang L,Gao B,Wei W,Jiang J,Chung KS,Yang Y

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are serious genomic insults that can lead to chromosomal rearrangements if repaired incorrectly. To gain insight into the nuclear mechanisms contributing to these rearrangements, we developed an assay in yeast to measure cis (same site) vs. trans (different site) repair for the majority...

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

authors： Sunder S,Wilson TE

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic coupling of blood supply with energy demand is a natural brain property that requires signaling between synapses and endothelial cells. Our previous work showed that cortical arteriole lumen diameter is regulated by N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) expressed by brain endothelial cells. The purpose of th...

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

authors： Hogan-Cann AD,Lu P,Anderson CM

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that Paleozoic hyperoxia enabled animal gigantism, and the subsequent hypoxia drove a reduction in animal size. This evolutionary hypothesis depends on the argument that gas exchange in many invertebrates and skin-breathing vertebrates becomes compromised at large sizes because of distanc...

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

authors： Kaiser A,Klok CJ,Socha JJ,Lee WK,Quinlan MC,Harrison JF

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Our conditional serum response factor (SRF) knockout, Srf (Cko), in the heart-forming region blocked the appearance of rhythmic beating myocytes, one of the earliest cardiac defects caused by the ablation of a cardiac-enriched transcription factor. The appearance of Hand1 and Smyd1, transcription and chromatin remodel...

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

authors： Niu Z,Iyer D,Conway SJ,Martin JF,Ivey K,Srivastava D,Nordheim A,Schwartz RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale biogeographical shifts in vegetation are predicted in response to the altered precipitation and temperature regimes associated with global climate change. Vegetation shifts have profound ecological impacts and are an important climate-ecosystem feedback through their alteration of carbon, water, and energy...

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

authors： Adams HD,Guardiola-Claramonte M,Barron-Gafford GA,Villegas JC,Breshears DD,Zou CB,Troch PA,Huxman TE

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas 234(92)U142 and other actinon nuclei have ground-state bands that indicate that each nucleus consists of a sphere and a single revolving cluster with constant composition and with only a steady increase in the moment of inertia with increase in J, the angular-momentum quantum number, many of the lanthanon grou...

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

authors： Pauling L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is a P-type ATPase that transports Ca2+ from the cytosol into the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum (SR/ER) lumen, driven by ATP. This primary transport activity depends on tight coupling between movements of the transmembrane helices forming the two Ca2+-binding sites a...

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

authors： Geurts MMG,Clausen JD,Arnou B,Montigny C,Lenoir G,Corey RA,Jaxel C,Møller JV,Nissen P,Andersen JP,le Maire M,Bublitz M

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We used gene knockout mice to explore the role of Angiopoietin-like-4 (Angptl4) in lipid metabolism as well as to generate anti-Angptl4 mAbs with pharmacological activity. Angptl4 -/- mice had lower triglyceride (TG) levels resulting both from increased very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) clearance and decreased VLDL ...

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

authors： Desai U,Lee EC,Chung K,Gao C,Gay J,Key B,Hansen G,Machajewski D,Platt KA,Sands AT,Schneider M,Van Sligtenhorst I,Suwanichkul A,Vogel P,Wilganowski N,Wingert J,Zambrowicz BP,Landes G,Powell DR

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the technical bottlenecks in producing nonhuman primate models is that current assisted reproductive techniques, such as in vitro culture and frozen conservation of multicell-stage embryos, often result in poor embryo quality and subsequently lead to low birth rates. We investigated whether pronuclear embryo tr...

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

authors： Sun Q,Dong J,Yang W,Jin Y,Yang M,Wang Y,Wang PL,Hu Y,Tsien JZ

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The p21 RAS subfamily of small GTPases, including KRAS, HRAS, and NRAS, regulates cell proliferation, cytoskeletal organization, and other signaling networks, and is the most frequent target of activating mutations in cancer. Activating germline mutations of KRAS and HRAS cause severe developmental abnormalities leadi...

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

authors： Oliveira JB,Bidère N,Niemela JE,Zheng L,Sakai K,Nix CP,Danner RL,Barb J,Munson PJ,Puck JM,Dale J,Straus SE,Fleisher TA,Lenardo MJ

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Apis mellifera originated in Africa and extended its range into Eurasia in two or more ancient expansions. In 1956, honey bees of African origin were introduced into South America, their descendents admixing with previously introduced European bees, giving rise to the highly invasive and economically devastating "Afri...

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

authors： Zayed A,Whitfield CW

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines play a key role in inflammation. They are expressed not only in neuroinflammatory conditions, but also constitutively by different cell types, including neurons in the normal brain, suggesting that they may act as modulators of neuronal functions. Here, we investigated a possible neuroendocrine role of the ...

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

authors： Callewaere C,Banisadr G,Desarménien MG,Mechighel P,Kitabgi P,Rostène WH,Mélik Parsadaniantz S

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric ulcer healing is a well recognized problem associated with the use of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. In contrast, NO-releasing COX inhibitors do not interfere with ulcer healing. These divergent effects may in part be due to differences in their effects on platelets, which are known to influence ulce...

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

authors： Ma L,del Soldato P,Wallace JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of adipocytes to antibodies to the insulin receptor results in a blockade of (125)I-labeled insulin binding, stimulation of glucose oxidation, and many more insulin-like effects. Allowing for differences in purity, antireceptor antibody is equipotent with insulin on a molar basis. Both the bivalent F(ab')(2) ...

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

authors： Kahn CR,Baird KL,Jarrett DB,Flier JS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After males of Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) have first been exposed to a conspecific female, the attractiveness of a second female diminishes with increasing genealogical relationship between the two females. The most parsimonious explanation for this is a polygenically controlled female sex pheromo...

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

authors： Smith BH

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tat protein encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is a potent trans-activator of gene expression from the viral long terminal repeat. The domains that are essential for trans-activation, a Pro-Xaa3-Pro triad, a cysteine-rich metal-binding sequence motif, and a cluster of basic residues, are present wi...

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

authors： Jeyapaul J,Reddy MR,Khan SA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotypic proportions for major histocompatibility complex loci, HLA-A and HLA-B, of progeny in families in 23 South Amerindian tribes in which segregation for homozygotes and heterozygotes could occur are examined. Overall, there is a large deficiency of homozygotes compared with Mendelian expectations (for HLA-A...

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

authors： Black FL,Hedrick PW

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a cognate ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) receptor, mediates neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and neurogenesis. However, BDNF has a poor pharmacokinetic profile that limits its therapeutic potential. Here we report the identification of...

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

authors： Jang SW,Liu X,Yepes M,Shepherd KR,Miller GW,Liu Y,Wilson WD,Xiao G,Blanchi B,Sun YE,Ye K

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic and gastrointestinal D cells were examined by immunocytochemistry using antisera against somatostatin-28 (SS28) and its NH2-terminal fragment SS28-(1-12), followed by the staphylococcal protein A-gold (pAg) complex. In pancreatic and gastric D cells incubated with antiserum against SS28-(1-12) the gold part...

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

authors： Ravazzola M,Benoit R,Ling N,Guillemin R,Orci L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exciton is an electron-hole pair bound by attractive Coulomb interaction. Short-lived excitons have been detected by a variety of experimental probes in numerous contexts. An excitonic insulator, a collective state of such excitons, has been more elusive. Here, thanks to Nernst measurements in pulsed magnetic field...

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

authors： Wang J,Nie P,Li X,Zuo H,Fauqué B,Zhu Z,Behnia K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of information that can be stored in working memory is limited but may be improved with practice. The basis of improved efficiency at the level of neural activity is unknown. To investigate this question, we trained monkeys to perform a working memory task that required memory for multiple stimuli. Performa...

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

authors： Tang H,Qi XL,Riley MR,Constantinidis C

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously proven that human macrophages can phagocytose porcine cells even in the absence of Ab or complement opsonization, indicating that macrophages present a pivotal immunological obstacle to xenotransplantation. A recent report indicates that the signal regulatory protein (SIRP)alpha is a critical immune...

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

authors： Ide K,Wang H,Tahara H,Liu J,Wang X,Asahara T,Sykes M,Yang YG,Ohdan H

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of transcription factors (TFs) to DNA controls most aspects of cellular function, making the understanding of their binding kinetics imperative. The standard description of bimolecular interactions posits that TF off rates are independent of TF concentration in solution. However, recent observations have r...

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

authors： Kamar RI,Banigan EJ,Erbas A,Giuntoli RD,Olvera de la Cruz M,Johnson RC,Marko JF

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

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

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not yet clear how bacterial outer membrane proteins reach their correct destination after they are secreted across the cytoplasmic membrane. We show here that porin OmpF is secreted into the medium as a water-soluble monomeric protein by spheroplasts of Escherichia coli. Furthermore, this monomeric porin is take...

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

authors： Sen K,Nikaido H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires the mgtC gene to cause disease. The mgtC transcript includes a long leader region that harbors a short proline codon-rich ORF--termed mgtP--the translation of which is predicted to favor formation of one of two alternative stem-loop structures...

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

authors： Lee EJ,Choi J,Groisman EA

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00