Metastable intermediates in myoglobin at low pH.

abstract：:In this paper is presented the theory of a class of locally convex lattices (L-lattices) of real functions which generalize the classical Lebesgue spaces. The monotone and dominated convergence theorems for convergence almost everywhere and sequential and order completeness of such lattices are established. These resu...

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

authors： Bogdanowicz WM

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumnutation and winding in plants are universal growth movements that allow plants to survive despite their sessile nature. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms controlling these phenomena remain unclear. We previously found that a gravitropic mutant of Japanese morning glory (Pharbitis nil or Ipomoea nil), S...

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

authors： Kitazawa D,Hatakeda Y,Kamada M,Fujii N,Miyazawa Y,Hoshino A,Iida S,Fukaki H,Morita MT,Tasaka M,Suge H,Takahashi H

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a mutS homolog from Drosophila melanogaster called spellchecker1 (spel1) and have constructed spel1 mutant flies. MutS proteins promote the correction of DNA mismatches and serve important roles in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. The spel1 gene belongs to a subfamily of mutS first characteri...

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

authors： Flores C,Engels W

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of type 1 diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse is preceded by an immune cell infiltrate in the pancreatic islets. The exact role of the attracted cells is still poorly understood. Chemokine CCL2/MCP-1 is known to attract CCR2(+) monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs). We have previously shown that tr...

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

authors： Kriegel MA,Rathinam C,Flavell RA

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural and linguistic groups are often expected to represent genetic populations. In this article, we tested the hypothesis that the hierarchical classification of languages proposed by J. Greenberg [(1987) Language in the Americas (Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA)] also represents the genetic structure of Native...

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

authors： Hunley K,Long JC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial clock proteins KaiA and KaiC are proposed as positive and negative regulators in the autoregulatory circadian kaiBC expression, respectively. Here, we show that activation of kaiBC expression by kaiA requires KaiC, suggesting a positive feedback control in the cyanobacterial clockwork. We found that rob...

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

authors： Iwasaki H,Nishiwaki T,Kitayama Y,Nakajima M,Kondo T

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin (CP), the pungent component of chili pepper, acts on sensory neurons to convey the sensation of pain. The CP receptor, vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1), has been shown to be highly expressed by nociceptive neurons in dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia. We demonstrate here that the dendritic cell (DC), a key cell t...

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

authors： Basu S,Srivastava P

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The colligative properties of ATP and catecholamines demonstrated in vitro are thought to be responsible for the extraordinary accumulation of solutes inside chromaffin cell secretory vesicles, although this has yet to be demonstrated in living cells. Because functional cells cannot be deprived of ATP, we have knocked...

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

authors： Estévez-Herrera J,Domínguez N,Pardo MR,González-Santana A,Westhead EW,Borges R,Machado JD

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant alleles at the dilute unconventional myosin heavy chain locus cause diluted coat color, opisthotonic seizures, and death. The dilute coat color phenotype is caused by irregular clumping of pigment in the hair, but amounts of melanin are unchanged from wild-type controls. The melanocyte phenotype has been descri...

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

authors： Provance DW Jr,Wei M,Ipe V,Mercer JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model for necking and detachment of subducting slabs is developed to include the coupling between grain-sensitive rheology and grain-size evolution with damage. Necking is triggered by thickened buoyant crust entrained into a subduction zone, in which case grain damage accelerates necking and allows for relat...

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

authors： Bercovici D,Schubert G,Ricard Y

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Starburst polyamidoamine dendrimers are a new class of synthetic polymers with unique structural and physical characteristics. These polymers were investigated for the ability to bind DNA and enhance DNA transfer and expression in a variety of mammalian cell lines. Twenty different types of polyamidoamine dendrimers w...

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

authors： Kukowska-Latallo JF,Bielinska AU,Johnson J,Spindler R,Tomalia DA,Baker JR Jr

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an intricate network composed of an array of macromolecules capable of regulating the functional responsiveness of cells. Its composition greatly varies among different types of tissue, and dysregulation of its metabolism may contribute to vascular remodeling during the pathogenesis o...

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

authors： Roth M,Eickelberg O,Kohler E,Erne P,Block LH

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of major and rapid transitions observed in biological macroevolution as well as in the evolution of social systems are a subject of much debate. Here we identify the proximate causes of crashes and recoveries that arise dynamically in a model system in which populations of (molecular) species coevolve with ...

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

authors： Jain S,Krishna S

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynein is a microtubule motor that powers motility of cilia and flagella. There is evidence that the relative sliding of the doublet microtubules is due to a conformational change in the motor domain that moves a microtubule bound to the end of an extension known as the stalk. A predominant model for the movement invo...

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

authors： Ueno H,Yasunaga T,Shingyoji C,Hirose K

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The derivation of germ-line competent avian primordial germ cells establishes a cell-based model system for the investigation of germ cell differentiation and the production of genetically modified animals. Current methods to modify primordial germ cells using DNA or retroviral vectors are inefficient and prone to epi...

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

authors： Macdonald J,Taylor L,Sherman A,Kawakami K,Takahashi Y,Sang HM,McGrew MJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes condense during mitotic entry to facilitate their segregation. Condensation is typically assayed in fixed preparations, limiting analysis of contributing factors. Here, we describe a quantitative method to monitor condensation kinetics in living cells expressing GFP fused to a core histone. We demonstrate ...

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

authors： Maddox PS,Portier N,Desai A,Oegema K

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the future often seems intangible, we can make it more concrete by imagining prospective events. Here, using functional MRI, we demonstrate a mechanism by which the ventromedial prefrontal cortex supports such episodic simulations, and thereby contributes to affective foresight: This region supports processes...

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

authors： Benoit RG,Szpunar KK,Schacter DL

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine and bovine GH receptor (GHR) cDNAs were stably expressed in mouse L cells, which normally do not possess detectable levels of mouse GHR. Expression of the GHR cDNAs resulted in specific binding of 125I-labeled GH by these cell lines. To study GHR-related signaling events in these cells, protein tyrosine phosph...

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

authors： Wang X,Xu B,Souza SC,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts cultured from the skin of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy have been found to manifest the biochemical defect of this inborn error of metabolism, a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. Diseased cells had less than five per cent of normal arylsulfatase-A activity, while activities of other lysosomal en...

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

authors： Porter MT,Fluharty AL,Kihara H

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of viable genetic chimeras in mammals through the transfer of cells between siblings in utero is rare. Using microsatellite DNA markers, we show here that chimerism in marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii) twins is not limited to blood-derived hematopoietic tissues as was previously described. All somatic tissue ...

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

authors： Ross CN,French JA,Ortí G

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A short, highly stereoselective (over 97%) synthesis of all-trans squalene is described. Starting with succinaldehyde, a tetraenedichlorodione having the complete squalene skeleton with the four internal trans olefinic bonds has been developed in four steps involving a sequence of two double Claisen rearrangements. Th...

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

authors： Werthemann L,Johnson WS

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-su...

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

authors： Colnot S,Decaens T,Niwa-Kawakita M,Godard C,Hamard G,Kahn A,Giovannini M,Perret C

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro data show that the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein associates with the mitotic spindle and that mouse embryonic stem cells with biallelic Apc mutations are karyotypically unstable. These findings led to suggestions that APC acts in chromosomal segregation and that APC inactivation leads to chromosoma...

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

authors： Sieber OM,Heinimann K,Gorman P,Lamlum H,Crabtree M,Simpson CA,Davies D,Neale K,Hodgson SV,Roylance RR,Phillips RK,Bodmer WF,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular membrane structures are widespread in eukaryotic cells, but the mechanisms underlying their formation and stability are not well understood. Previous work has focused on tube extrusion from cells and model membranes under the application of external forces. Here, we present novel membrane/polymer systems, wher...

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

authors： Li Y,Lipowsky R,Dimova R

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiology is increasingly focused on identifying coincident activity among neurons. Strong inferences about neural computation are made from the results of such studies, so it is important that these results be accurate. However, the preliminary step in the analysis of such data, the assignment of spike waveform...

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

authors： Ventura V,Gerkin RC

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the transforming region of simian sarcoma virus (SSV) has been determined by using molecularly cloned viral DNA. This region encompassed the 1.0-kilobase pair woolly monkey cell-derived insertion sequence, v-sis, and flanking simian sarcoma-associated viral (SSAV) sequences. A 675-nucleotide-long open ...

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

authors： Devare SG,Reddy EP,Robbins KC,Andersen PR,Tronick SR,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bounded organelle with the characteristic shape of a series of stacked flat cisternae. During mitosis in mammalian cells, the Golgi apparatus is once fragmented into small vesicles and then reassembled to form the characteristic shape again in each daughter cell. The mechanism and det...

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

authors： Tachikawa M,Mochizuki A

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) or the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a simulation algorithm that has made modern Bayesian statistical inference possible. Nevertheless, the efficiency of different Metropolis-Hastings proposal kernels has rarely been studied except for the Gaussian proposal. Here we propose a unique ...

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

authors： Yang Z,Rodríguez CE

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the transcription factor FOXC2 is induced and necessary for successful epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a developmental program that when activated in cancer endows cells with metastatic potential and the properties of stem cells. As such, identifying agents that inhibit the growth of FOXC2-transformed...

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

authors： Bollong MJ,Pietilä M,Pearson AD,Sarkar TR,Ahmad I,Soundararajan R,Lyssiotis CA,Mani SA,Schultz PG,Lairson LL

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The with-no-lysine (K) (WNK) kinases are an atypical family of protein kinases that regulate ion transport across cell membranes. Mutations that result in their overexpression cause hypertension-related disorders in humans. Of the four mammalian WNKs, only WNK1 is expressed throughout the body. We report that WNK1 inh...

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

authors： Gallolu Kankanamalage S,Lee AY,Wichaidit C,Lorente-Rodriguez A,Shah AM,Stippec S,Whitehurst AW,Cobb MH

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00