Slime mold uses an externalized spatial "memory" to navigate in complex environments.

abstract：:Delayed implantation (embryonic diapause) occurs when the embryo at the blastocyst stage achieves a state of suspended animation. During this period, blastocyst growth is very slow, with minimal or no cell division. Nearly 100 mammals in seven different orders undergo delayed implantation, but the underlying molecular...

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

authors： Hamatani T,Daikoku T,Wang H,Matsumoto H,Carter MG,Ko MS,Dey SK

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The 26S proteasome, a molecular machine responsible for regulated protein degradation, consists of a proteolytic core particle (20S CP) associated with 19S regulatory particles (19S RPs) subdivided into base and lid subcomplexes. The assembly of 19S RP base subcomplex is mediated by multiple dedicated chaperones. Amon...

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

authors： Barrault MB,Richet N,Godard C,Murciano B,Le Tallec B,Rousseau E,Legrand P,Charbonnier JB,Le Du MH,Guérois R,Ochsenbein F,Peyroche A

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Excited electronic states created by UV excitation of the diribonucleoside monophosphates ApA, ApG, ApC, ApU, and CpG were studied by the femtosecond transient-absorption technique. Bleach recovery signals recorded at 252 nm show that long-lived excited states are formed in all five dinucleosides. The lifetimes of the...

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

authors： Takaya T,Su C,de La Harpe K,Crespo-Hernández CE,Kohler B

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonselective ex vivo assay was used to directly detect and quantify zidovudine (AZT)-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the blood of treated and untreated patients. In contrast to previous reports, drug-resistant virus was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a few of the patients ...

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

authors： Mohri H,Singh MK,Ching WT,Ho DD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) most frequently occurs in southern China and southeast Asia. Epidemiology studies link NPC to genetic predisposition, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, and environmental factors. Genetic studies indicate that mutations in chromatin-modifying enzymes are the most frequent genetic altera...

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

authors： Ke L,Zhou H,Wang C,Xiong G,Xiang Y,Ling Y,Khabir A,Tsao GS,Zeng Y,Zeng M,Busson P,Kieff E,Guo X,Zhao B

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis, is triple-infected with distinct lineages of Wolbachia endosymbiont, wBruCon, wBruOri, and wBruAus, which were identified by their wsp (Wolbachia surface protein) gene sequences. Whereas wBruCon and wBruOri caused cytoplasmic incompatibility of the host insect, wBruAus...

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

authors： Kondo N,Nikoh N,Ijichi N,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the secondary structure of some dozen different proteins upon lyophilization of their aqueous solutions have been investigated by means of Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy in the amide III band region. Dehydration markedly (but reversibly) alters the secondary structure of all the proteins studied, a...

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

authors： Griebenow K,Klibanov AM

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Foraminifera are unicellular organisms that inhabit the oceans in various ecosystems. The majority of the foraminifera precipitate calcitic shells and are among the major CaCO(3) producers in the oceans. They comprise an important component of the global carbon cycle and also provide valuable paleoceanographic informa...

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

authors： Bentov S,Brownlee C,Erez J

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing tissues contain motile populations of cells that can self-organize into spatially ordered tissues based on differences in their interfacial surface energies. However, it is unclear how self-organization by this mechanism remains robust when interfacial energies become heterogeneous in either time or space. ...

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

authors： Cerchiari AE,Garbe JC,Jee NY,Todhunter ME,Broaders KE,Peehl DM,Desai TA,LaBarge MA,Thomson M,Gartner ZJ

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus entry into cells requires the coordinated action of multiple virus envelope glycoproteins, including gH, gL, and gB. For EBV, the gp42 protein assembles into complexes with gHgL heterodimers and binds HLA class II to activate gB-mediated membrane fusion with B cells. EBV tropism is dictated by gp42 levels ...

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

authors： Sathiyamoorthy K,Jiang J,Möhl BS,Chen J,Zhou ZH,Longnecker R,Jardetzky TS

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner syndrome and Bloom syndrome result from defects in the RecQ helicases Werner (WRN) and Bloom (BLM), respectively, and display premature aging phenotypes. Similarly, XFE progeroid syndrome results from defects in the ERCC1-XPF DNA repair endonuclease. To gain insight into the origin of cellular senescence and hu...

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

authors： Hagelstrom RT,Blagoev KB,Niedernhofer LJ,Goodwin EH,Bailey SM

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays L. ssp. mays, or corn, one of the most important crops and a model for plant genetics, has a genome approximately 80% the size of the human genome. To gain global insight into the organization of its genome, we have sequenced the ends of large insert clones, yielding a cumulative length of one-eighth of the g...

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

authors： Messing J,Bharti AK,Karlowski WM,Gundlach H,Kim HR,Yu Y,Wei F,Fuks G,Soderlund CA,Mayer KF,Wing RA

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A key energy-saving adaptation to chronic hypoxia that enables cardiomyocytes to withstand severe ischemic insults is hibernation, i.e., a reversible arrest of contractile function. Whereas hibernating cardiomyocytes represent the critical reserve of dysfunctional cells that can be potentially rescued, a lack of a sui...

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

authors： May D,Gilon D,Djonov V,Itin A,Lazarus A,Gordon O,Rosenberger C,Keshet E

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial transposon Tn7 encodes two distinct but overlapping transposition pathways. tnsABC + tnsD promote transposition to a specific site, attTn7, while tnsABC + tnsE promote transposition to many other sites unrelated to attTn7. We have identified a tnsD-dependent DNA binding activity that specifically recogni...

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

authors： Waddell CS,Craig NL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' flanking sequences and the intron of the mouse Hoxa-7 gene were searched for regulatory elements that can function in Drosophila. Only the intron is able to activate a lacZ fusion gene in various tissues of Drosophila embryos. This enhancer function requires a cluster of three homeodomain binding sites (HB1-ele...

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

authors： Haerry TE,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of extracellular stimuli, including soluble cytokines and insoluble matrix factors, are known to influence murine embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation behavioral responses via intracellular signaling pathways, but their net effects in combination are difficult to understand. To gain insight co...

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

authors： Prudhomme W,Daley GQ,Zandstra P,Lauffenburger DA

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide diversity of biological molecules are modified by the addition of sugar residues, and a large number of glycosyltransferases have been identified that are responsible for these reactions. Despite catalyzing closely related reactions, many of these transferases show little apparent sequence homology. By comparin...

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

authors： Wiggins CA,Munro S

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) is critical for recognition memory. The MTL is known to be composed of distinct structures that are organized in a hierarchical manner. At present, it remains controversial whether lower structures in this hierarchy, such as perirhinal cortex, support memory f...

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

authors： Bowles B,Crupi C,Mirsattari SM,Pigott SE,Parrent AG,Pruessner JC,Yonelinas AP,Köhler S

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, the asymmetrical division of the zygote is the first hallmark of apical-basal polarity of the embryo and is controlled by a MAP kinase pathway that includes the MAPKKK YODA (YDA). In Arabidopsis, YDA is activated by the membrane-associated pseudokinase SHORT SUSPENSOR (SSP) through an unusual pare...

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

authors： Neu A,Eilbert E,Asseck LY,Slane D,Henschen A,Wang K,Bürgel P,Hildebrandt M,Musielak TJ,Kolb M,Lukowitz W,Grefen C,Bayer M

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of protein function through ligand-induced conformational changes is crucial for many signal transduction processes. The binding of a ligand alters the delicate energy balance within the protein structure, eventually leading to such conformational changes. In this study, we elucidate the energetic and m...

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

authors： Bauer D,Merz DR,Pelz B,Theisen KE,Yacyshyn G,Mokranjac D,Dima RI,Rief M,Žoldák G

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling has been implicated in an AP axis polarizing mechanism in most animals, despite limited evidence from arthropods. In the long-germ insect, Drosophila, Wnt signaling is not required for global AP patterning, but in short-germ insects including Tribolium castaneum, loss of Wnt signaling affects d...

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

authors： Fu J,Posnien N,Bolognesi R,Fischer TD,Rayl P,Oberhofer G,Kitzmann P,Brown SJ,Bucher G

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred Lewis (LEW/N) female rats develop an arthritis in response to group A streptococcal cell wall peptidoglycan polysaccharide (SCW), which mimics human rheumatoid arthritis. Histocompatible Fischer (F344/N) rats do not develop arthritis in response to the same SCW stimulus. To evaluate this difference in inflammat...

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

authors： Sternberg EM,Hill JM,Chrousos GP,Kamilaris T,Listwak SJ,Gold PW,Wilder RL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substance P (SP)-preferring receptor neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) has two forms: a full-length receptor consisting of 407 aa and a truncated receptor consisting of 311 aa. These two receptors differ in the length of the C terminus of NK-1R. We studied the undifferentiated and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-diffe...

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

authors： Lai JP,Ho WZ,Kilpatrick LE,Wang X,Tuluc F,Korchak HM,Douglas SD

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic pluripotency in the mouse is established and maintained by a gene-regulatory network under the control of a core set of transcription factors that include octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct4; official name POU domain, class 5, transcription factor 1, Pou5f1), sex-determining region Y (SRY)-box containing gene 2 ...

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

authors： Fernandez-Tresguerres B,Cañon S,Rayon T,Pernaute B,Crespo M,Torroja C,Manzanares M

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of macrophages and B cells to function as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for murine TH1 and TH2 cloned T helper cell lines. Antigen presented by concanavalin A-elicited peritoneal macrophages or resting splenic B cells stimulated antigen-dependent proliferation of both T helper subsets. Parafo...

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

authors： Weaver CT,Hawrylowicz CM,Unanue ER

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of RNA secondary structure on rho-independent and rho-dependent termination of transcription of T3 DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase has been studied by incorporating, into nascent transcripts, base analogs that lead to altered base-pairing properties. A guanine --> hypoxanthine substitution, with atte...

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

authors： Adhya S,Sarkar P,Valenzuela D,Maitra U

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin (NT) brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays an essential role in the formation of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we address whether this modulation by BDNF requires its continuous presence, or whether a local increase in BDNF is necessary during a specific time period of LTP initiation. U...

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

authors： Gärtner A,Staiger V

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the conformational landscape of the proteinogenic amino acid serine [CH(2)OH CH(NH(2)) COOH] in the gas phase. Solid serine was vaporized by laser ablation, expanded in a supersonic jet, and characterized by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. In the isolation conditions of the jet there have been di...

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

authors： Blanco S,Sanz ME,López JC,Alonso JL

更新日期：2007-12-18 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：:We studied the abundance and structure of globin mRNAs present in K562 cells both before and after induction of hemoglobin synthesis by hemin. In vitro translation of poly(A)+ RNA from K562 cells generated protein products corresponding to alpha, A gamma-, G gamma-, epsilon-, and zeta-globin mRNAs. Individual globin m...

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

authors： Dean A,Ley TJ,Humphries RK,Fordis M,Schechter AN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00