Components of fitness become effectively neutral in equilibrium populations.

abstract：:A number of rare copy number variants (CNVs), including both deletions and duplications, have been associated with developmental disorders, including schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Pathogenicity may derive from dosage sensitivity of one or more genes contained within the CNV locus. To un...

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

authors： McLysaght A,Makino T,Grayton HM,Tropeano M,Mitchell KJ,Vassos E,Collier DA

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ribosome is a very general catalyst, it cannot synthesize all protein sequences equally well. For example, ribosomes stall on the secretion monitor (SecM) leader peptide to regulate expression of a downstream gene. Using a genetic selection in Escherichia coli, we identified additional nascent peptide mot...

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

authors： Woolstenhulme CJ,Parajuli S,Healey DW,Valverde DP,Petersen EN,Starosta AL,Guydosh NR,Johnson WE,Wilson DN,Buskirk AR

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation studied the influence of the blastocyst's state of activity on the "window" of implantation in the receptive uterus in the mouse. The receptive state of the uterus is defined as the limited time when the uterine milieu is favorable to blastocyst acceptance and implantation. In the mouse, impl...

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

authors： Paria BC,Huet-Hudson YM,Dey SK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral membrane fusion proteins of class I are trimers in which the protomeric unit is a complex of a surface subunit (SU) and a fusion active transmembrane subunit (TM). Here we have studied how the protomeric units of Moloney murine leukemia virus envelope protein (Env) are activated in relation to each other, sequen...

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

authors： Sjöberg M,Löving R,Lindqvist B,Garoff H

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of autosomal dominant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is caused by a nonconservative missense mutation, A322D, in the GABAA receptor alpha1 subunit M3 transmembrane helix. We reported previously that the A322D mutation reduced total and surface alpha1(A322D) subunit protein and that residual alpha1(A322D) subunit r...

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

authors： Gallagher MJ,Ding L,Maheshwari A,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal infections often induce epithelial damage that must be repaired for optimal gut function. While intestinal stem cells are critical for this regeneration process [R. C. van der Wath, B. S. Gardiner, A. W. Burgess, D. W. Smith, PLoS One 8, e73204 (2013); S. Kozar et al., Cell Stem Cell 13, 626-633 (2013...

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

authors： Mileto SJ,Jardé T,Childress KO,Jensen JL,Rogers AP,Kerr G,Hutton ML,Sheedlo MJ,Bloch SC,Shupe JA,Horvay K,Flores T,Engel R,Wilkins S,McMurrick PJ,Lacy DB,Abud HE,Lyras D

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse celestial sources of relatively low surface brightness such as the Milky Way, zodiacal light, and gegenschein (or contre lumière) can be studied most reliably from above the earth's atmosphere with equipment flown in artificial satellites. We review the techniques used and some of the difficulties encountered ...

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

authors： Roach FE,Carroll B,Aller LH,Smith L

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human glucocerebrosidase gene cause Gaucher disease. A cDNA clone containing the entire human glucocerebrosidase coding region from normal cells has been isolated using lambda gt11 expression libraries. The complete nucleotide sequence, a restriction map, and a hydropathy profile are presented. Hybrid...

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

authors： Sorge J,West C,Westwood B,Beutler E

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the properties of r-eag voltage-activated potassium channels in a stably transfected human embryonic kidney cell line. It was found that r-eag channels are rapidly and reversibly inhibited by a rise in intracellular calcium from 30 to 300 nM. The inhibition does not appear to depend on the activity of ...

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

authors： Stansfeld CE,Röper J,Ludwig J,Weseloh RM,Marsh SJ,Brown DA,Pongs O

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

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 importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many physical and chemical properties of the light rare-earths and actinides are governed by the active role of f electrons, and despite intensive efforts the details of the mechanisms of phase stability and transformation are not fully understood. A prominent example which has attracted a lot of interest, both experi...

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

authors： Krisch M,Farber DL,Xu R,Antonangeli D,Aracne CM,Beraud A,Chiang TC,Zarestky J,Kim DY,Isaev EI,Ahuja R,Johansson B

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-derived adhesion factor (TAF) was previously identified as a cell adhesion molecule secreted by human bladder carcinoma cell line EJ-1. To elucidate the physiological function of TAF, we examined its distribution in human normal and tumor tissues. Immunochemical staining with an anti-TAF monoclonal antibody show...

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

authors： Akaogi K,Okabe Y,Sato J,Nagashima Y,Yasumitsu H,Sugahara K,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, biosynthesis of the essential thiol antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), is plastid-regulated, but many GSH functions, including heavy metal detoxification and plant defense activation, depend on cytosolic GSH. This finding suggests that plastid and cytosol thiol pools are closely integrated and we...

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

authors： Maughan SC,Pasternak M,Cairns N,Kiddle G,Brach T,Jarvis R,Haas F,Nieuwland J,Lim B,Müller C,Salcedo-Sora E,Kruse C,Orsel M,Hell R,Miller AJ,Bray P,Foyer CH,Murray JA,Meyer AJ,Cobbett CS

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The posteromedial barrel subfield of the somatosensory cortex of mice was examined histochemically for cytochrome oxidase activity (cytochrome c oxidase; ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1). In normal mice a high enzymatic activity was found within the barrel hollows, rather than in the sides and sept...

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

authors： Wong-Riley MT,Welt C

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main differences between bacteria and archaea concerns their membrane composition. Whereas bacterial membranes are made up of glycerol-3-phosphate ester lipids, archaeal membranes are composed of glycerol-1-phosphate ether lipids. Here, we report the construction of a stable hybrid heterochiral membrane thr...

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

authors： Caforio A,Siliakus MF,Exterkate M,Jain S,Jumde VR,Andringa RLH,Kengen SWM,Minnaard AJ,Driessen AJM,van der Oost J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the polo subfamily of protein kinases play pivotal roles in cell-cycle control and proliferation. In addition to a high degree of sequence similarity in the kinase domain, polo kinases contain a strikingly conserved motif termed "polo-box" in the noncatalytic C-terminal domain. We have previously shown that...

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

authors： Lee KS,Song S,Erikson RL

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two cDNA clones, NaPi-2 and NaPi-3, by screening rat kidney cortex and human kidney cortex cDNA libraries, respectively, for expression of sodium-dependent phosphate transport in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Substrate specificity and a detailed kinetic analysis (Na, Pi, H+ concentrations) suggested that ex...

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

authors： Magagnin S,Werner A,Markovich D,Sorribas V,Stange G,Biber J,Murer H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The up-regulation of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D(3)-24-hydroxylase by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] is well established and occurs at the transcriptional level through two vitamin D response elements in the promoter of the gene. However, the mechanism of down-regulation of the 24-hydroxylase by parathyroid ...

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

authors： Zierold C,Mings JA,DeLuca HF

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The core structures of many viruses move within cells by association with host cytoskeletal motor proteins; however, the mechanisms by which intracellular viral particles are transported toward sites of replication or the cell periphery at distinct stages of infection remain to be understood. The regulation of herpesv...

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

authors： Smith GA,Pomeranz L,Gross SP,Enquist LW

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological resurfacing of entire articular surfaces represents an important but challenging strategy for treatment of cartilage degeneration that occurs in osteoarthritis. Not only does this approach require anatomically sized and functional engineered cartilage, but the inflammatory environment within an arthritic jo...

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

authors： Moutos FT,Glass KA,Compton SA,Ross AK,Gersbach CA,Guilak F,Estes BT

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones encoding a glucose transporter-like protein have been isolated from adult human liver and kidney cDNA libraries by cross-hybridization with the human HepG2/erythrocyte glucose transporter cDNA. Analysis of the sequence of this 524-amino acid glucose transporter-like protein indicates that it has 55.5% iden...

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

authors： Fukumoto H,Seino S,Imura H,Seino Y,Eddy RL,Fukushima Y,Byers MG,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of mouse metallothionein (MT)-I and MT-II is transcriptionally induced by the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (DEX) or both in vivo as well as in numerous cell lines. However, the location(s) of a glucocorticoid response element (GRE) has not been described. The observation that a marked MT-I gene, a...

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

authors： Kelly EJ,Sandgren EP,Brinster RL,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was investigated for the presence of well-known endoplasmic reticulum (ER) markers: the lumenal protein BiP and a group of membrane proteins recognized by an antibody raised against ER membrane vesicles. Western blots of SR fractions revealed the presence of BiP in fast-...

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

authors： Volpe P,Villa A,Podini P,Martini A,Nori A,Panzeri MC,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-catenin has functions as both an adhesion and a signaling molecule. Disruption of these functions through mutations of the beta-catenin gene (CTNNB1) may be important in the development of colorectal tumors. We examined the entire coding sequence of beta-catenin by reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) and direct se...

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

authors： Ilyas M,Tomlinson IP,Rowan A,Pignatelli M,Bodmer WF

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli phage N4 transcription is resistant to rifampicin, an inhibitor of the host RNA polymerase, even when the drug is added prior to infection. A rifampicin-resistant RNA polymerase has been detected in disrupted N4 virions. This enzyme shows a requirement for the four ribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates and ...

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

authors： Falco SC,Laan KV,Rothman-Denes LB

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy (H) chain binding protein (BiP), which binds to free immunoglobulin H chain of the mu and gamma classes, can be demonstrated in pre-B-cells. It is proposed that the displacement of BiP from H chain by light (L) chain terminates the activity of the enzyme system, L-generase, which catalyzes DNA rearrangement at t...

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

authors： Wabl M,Steinberg C

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli cells treated with the bifunctional crosslinking reagents dimethyl malonimidate, succinimidate, adipimidate, suberimidate, and sebacinimidate served for the isolation of rod-shaped "ghosts." These ghosts proved to be crosslinked over their entire surface; i.e., a macromolecule (resistant to boiling 1% Na dodec...

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

authors： Haller I,Henning U

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of harmful species, including invasive species, pests, parasites, and diseases, is a major global challenge. Harmful species cause severe damage to ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, and human health. In particular, managing harmful species often requires cooperation among multiple agents, such as l...

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

authors： Lampert A

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential phosphorylation of specific proteins by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) may be mediated in part by the anchoring of PKA to a family of A-kinase anchor proteins (AKAPs) positioned in close proximity to target proteins. This interaction is thought to depend on binding of the type II regulatory (RII) sub...

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

authors： Burton KA,Johnson BD,Hausken ZE,Westenbroek RE,Idzerda RL,Scheuer T,Scott JD,Catterall WA,McKnight GS

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00