Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa.

abstract：:X-ray grating interferometry is a coherent imaging technique that bears tremendous potential for three-dimensional tomographic imaging of soft biological tissue and other specimens whose details exhibit very weak absorption contrast. It is intrinsically trimodal, delivering phase contrast, absorption contrast, and sca...

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

authors： Zanette I,Bech M,Rack A,Le Duc G,Tafforeau P,David C,Mohr J,Pfeiffer F,Weitkamp T

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing with engineered site-specific endonucleases involves nonhomologous end-joining, leading to reading frame disruption. The approach is applicable to dominant negative disorders, which can be treated simply by knocking out the mutant allele, while leaving the normal allele intact. We applied this strategy ...

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

authors： Shinkuma S,Guo Z,Christiano AM

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain-associated tetrapeptide, tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg), known for its phagocytosis-stimulating activity, was found to augment the antigen-specific, macrophage-dependent education of T lymphocytes. The investigation of stereospecific characteristics of the tetrapeptide, by use of structural a...

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

authors： Tzehoval E,Segal S,Stabinsky Y,Fridkin M,Spirer Z,Feldman M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal protein in the respiratory chain, converts oxygen into water and helps generate the electrochemical gradient used in the synthesis of ATP. The catalytic action of cytochrome c oxidase involves electron transfer, proton transfer, and O2 reduction. These events trigger specific molecul...

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

authors： Nyquist RM,Heitbrink D,Bolwien C,Gennis RB,Heberle J

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin is the most widely prescribed biopharmaceutical in production globally. Its potent anticoagulant activity and safety makes it the drug of choice for preventing deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. In 2008, adulterated material was introduced into the heparin supply chain, resulting in several hundred d...

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

authors： Weiss RJ,Spahn PN,Toledo AG,Chiang AWT,Kellman BP,Li J,Benner C,Glass CK,Gordts PLSM,Lewis NE,Esko JD

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal RNA, which is a component of the chromosomes of higher organisms, and whose participation is required for sequence-specific interaction of chromosomal proteins with chromosomal DNA, occurs in chromosomes bound to DNA. We have found that the DNA sequences to which chromosomal RNA binds are repetitive ones. ...

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

authors： Sivolap YM,Bonner J

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recognition involves three processes: extraction of acoustic indices from the speech signal, estimation of the probability that the observed index string was caused by a hypothesized utterance segment, and determination of the recognized utterance via a search among hypothesized alternatives. This paper is not ...

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

authors： Jelinek F

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In binocular rivalry, a subject views two incongruent stimuli through each eye but consciously perceives only one stimulus at a time, with a switch in perceptual dominance every few seconds. To investigate the neural correlates of perceptual dominance in humans, seven subjects were recorded with a 148-channel magnetoe...

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

authors： Tononi G,Srinivasan R,Russell DP,Edelman GM

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate side chains of proteoglycans, resulting in disassembly of the extracellular matrix underlying endothelial and epithelial cells and associating with enhanced cell invasion and metastasis. Heparanase expression is induced in carcinomas and sarcomas, often ass...

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

authors： Weissmann M,Arvatz G,Horowitz N,Feld S,Naroditsky I,Zhang Y,Ng M,Hammond E,Nevo E,Vlodavsky I,Ilan N

更新日期：2016-01-19 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：:The neuroactive steroids dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), its sulfate ester DHEA sulfate (DHEAS), and allopregnanolone (Allo), produced by the CNS and the adrenals, appear to exert a protective effect in hippocampal and cortical neuron ischemia- and excitotoxicity-induced injury. We hypothesized that they may also play ...

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

authors： Charalampopoulos I,Tsatsanis C,Dermitzaki E,Alexaki VI,Castanas E,Margioris AN,Gravanis A

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is limited, because of the processes of positive and negative T cell selection. To obtain T cells with specificities beyond the immune system's capacity, we have developed a strategy for retroviral TCR display. In this approach, a library of T cell variants is gene...

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

authors： Kessels HW,van Den Boom MD,Spits H,Hooijberg E,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitatively identifying direct dependencies between variables is an important task in data analysis, in particular for reconstructing various types of networks and causal relations in science and engineering. One of the most widely used criteria is partial correlation, but it can only measure linearly direct associ...

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

authors： Zhao J,Zhou Y,Zhang X,Chen L

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have identified noncoding variants near TBX3 that are associated with PR interval and QRS duration, suggesting that subtle changes in TBX3 expression affect atrioventricular conduction system function. To explore whether and to what extent the atrioventricular conduction system is affec...

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

authors： Mohan RA,Bosada FM,van Weerd JH,van Duijvenboden K,Wang J,Mommersteeg MTM,Hooijkaas IB,Wakker V,de Gier-de Vries C,Coronel R,Boink GJJ,Bakkers J,Barnett P,Boukens BJ,Christoffels VM

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mahogany (mg) locus originally was identified as a recessive suppressor of agouti, a locus encoding a skin peptide that modifies coat color by antagonizing the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor or MC1-R. Certain dominant alleles of agouti cause an obesity syndrome when ectopic expression of the peptide aberr...

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

authors： Dinulescu DM,Fan W,Boston BA,McCall K,Lamoreux ML,Moore KJ,Montagno J,Cone RD

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of myeloid cells associated with solid tumor development is a key contributor to neoplastic progression. Despite their clinical relevance, the mechanisms controlling myeloid cell production and activity in cancer remains poorly understood. Using a multistage mouse model of breast cancer, we show that product...

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

authors： Casbon AJ,Reynaud D,Park C,Khuc E,Gan DD,Schepers K,Passegué E,Werb Z

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) [GTP:oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase (transphosphorylating), EC 4.1.1.32] from the rat was isolated from a recombinant library containing the rat genome in phage lambda Charon 4A. The isolated clone, lambda PCK1, contains the complete gene for phosphoenolpyruva...

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

authors： Yoo-Warren H,Monahan JE,Short J,Short H,Bruzel A,Wynshaw-Boris A,Meisner HM,Samols D,Hanson RW

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is present throughout life in rodents and plays an important role in energy balance. However, whereas BAT is clearly recognizable in the neonates of larger mammals (including dogs, cats, sheep, cattle, and humans), it is undetectable or present in only small quantities in adults of these spe...

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

authors： Champigny O,Ricquier D,Blondel O,Mayers RM,Briscoe MG,Holloway BR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 8;21 translocation is one of the most common specific rearrangements in acute myelogenous leukemia. We have identified markers (D21S65 and a Not I boundary clone, Not-42, referred to as probe B) flanking the chromosome 21 translocation breakpoint (21q22.3) that demonstrate physical linkage in normal genomic DNA, b...

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

authors： Gao J,Erickson P,Gardiner K,Le Beau MM,Diaz MO,Patterson D,Rowley JD,Drabkin HA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 18O/16O of calcite fossils increased by ∼8‰ between the Cambrian and present. It has long been controversial whether this change reflects evolution in the δ18O of seawater, or a decrease in ocean temperatures, or greater extents of diagenesis of older strata. Here, we present measurements of the oxygen and ‟clumpe...

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

authors： Ryb U,Eiler JM

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Zfp57 is a maternal-zygotic effect gene that maintains genomic imprinting. Here we report that Zfp57 mutants exhibited a variety of cardiac defects including atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), thin myocardium, and reduced trabeculation. Zfp57 maternal-zygotic mutant embryos displayed more sev...

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

authors： Shamis Y,Cullen DE,Liu L,Yang G,Ng SF,Xiao L,Bell FT,Ray C,Takikawa S,Moskowitz IP,Cai CL,Yang X,Li X

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Group II intron RNAs self-splice in vitro but only at high salt and/or Mg2+ concentrations and have been thought to require proteins to stabilize their active structure for efficient splicing in vivo. Here, we show that a DEAD-box protein, CYT-19, can by itself promote the splicing and reverse splicing of the yeast aI...

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

authors： Mohr S,Matsuura M,Perlman PS,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistics of extrasolar planetary systems indicate that the default mode of planet formation generates planets with orbital periods shorter than 100 days and masses substantially exceeding that of the Earth. When viewed in this context, the Solar System is unusual. Here, we present simulations which show that a p...

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

authors： Batygin K,Laughlin G

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of lymphocytes with inducers of interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) results in the production of corticotropin (ACTH) and endorphin-like activities. The pro-opiomelanocortin-derived hormones ACTH and alpha-, beta-, and gamma-endorphin and the structurally related hormones [Leu]- and [Met]enkephalin were therefore t...

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

authors： Johnson HM,Smith EM,Torres BA,Blalock JE

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the pathways that control epithelial carcinogenesis is vital to the development of effective treatments. The Polycomb group family member Bmi1 is overexpressed in numerous epithelial tumors, but its role in their development has not been established. We now show a key role for Bmi1 in lung adenocarcinoma...

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

authors： Dovey JS,Zacharek SJ,Kim CF,Lees JA

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal oligopyrimidine (TOP) motifs are sequences at the 5' ends of mRNAs that link their translation to the mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) nutrient-sensing signaling pathway. They are commonly regarded as discrete elements that reside on ∼100 mRNAs that mostly encode translation factors. However, the full spectrum of TOP ...

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

authors： Philippe L,van den Elzen AMG,Watson MJ,Thoreen CC

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A biologically active vitamin D(3) metabolite ("peak V metabolite") more polar than 25-hydroxycholecalciferol has been isolated from chicken intestines in pure form as a mono(trimethylsilyl)ether derivative. The molecule has been identified as 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol by means of mass spectrometry, ultraviolet ab...

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

authors： Holick MF,Schnoes HK,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite enormous body plan variation, genes regulating embryonic development are highly conserved. Here, we probe the mechanisms that predispose ancient regulatory genes to reutilization and diversification rather than evolutionary loss. The Hox gene fushi tarazu (ftz) arose as a homeotic gene but functions as a pair-...

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

authors： Heffer A,Xiang J,Pick L

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In mitosis, chromosome, cytoskeleton, and organelle dynamics must be coordinated for successful cell division. Here, we present evidence for a role for Arf1, a small GTPase associated with the Golgi apparatus, in the orchestration of mitotic Golgi breakdown, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis. We show that early ...

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

authors： Altan-Bonnet N,Phair RD,Polishchuk RS,Weigert R,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cryoEM density maps of Abeta(42) fibrils obtained at low pH revealed two protofilaments winding around a hollow core raising the question if such tubular structures also exist at physiological pH. Based on the cryoEM measurements and on NMR data, we probe amyloid fibril organizations corresponding to the observ...

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

authors： Miller Y,Ma B,Tsai CJ,Nussinov R

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00