Evolution of consciousness: phylogeny, ontogeny, and emergence from general anesthesia.

abstract：:One of the principles that has emerged from experimental evolutionary studies of microorganisms is that polymorphic alleles or new mutations can sometimes possess a latent potential to respond to selection in different environments, although the alleles may be functionally equivalent or disfavored under typical condit...

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

authors： Stebbins GL,Hartl DL

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed model for the structure and dynamics of the interior of the lipid bilayer in the liquid crystal phase is presented. The model includes two classes of motion: (i) the internal dynamics of the chains, determined from Brownian dynamics simulations with a continuous version of the Marcelja mean-field potential,...

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

authors： Pastor RW,Venable RM,Karplus M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searches of ribosomal RNA sequences for compensatory base changes preserving Watson-Crick base pairing have led to detailed models of the conserved secondary structures of these RNAs. In principle, tertiary interactions can also be detected by searches for phylogenetically covariant bases. Within a highly conserved re...

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

authors： Ryan PC,Draper DE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During primate evolution, a major factor in lengthening life-span and decreasing age-specific cancer rates may have been improved protective mechanisms against oxygen radicals. We propose that one of these protective systems is plasma uric acid, the level of which increased markedly during primate evolution as a conse...

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

authors： Ames BN,Cathcart R,Schwiers E,Hochstein P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transthyretin amyloidoses (ATTR) are invariably fatal diseases characterized by progressive neuropathy and/or cardiomyopathy. ATTR are caused by aggregation of transthyretin (TTR), a natively tetrameric protein involved in the transport of thyroxine and the vitamin A-retinol-binding protein complex. Mutations with...

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

authors： Bulawa CE,Connelly S,Devit M,Wang L,Weigel C,Fleming JA,Packman J,Powers ET,Wiseman RL,Foss TR,Wilson IA,Kelly JW,Labaudinière R

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled monolayer-protected nanoparticles are promising candidates for applications, such as sensing and drug delivery, in which the molecular ligands' interactions with the surrounding environment play a crucial role. We recently showed that, when gold nanoparticles are coated with a binary mixture of immiscib...

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

authors： Centrone A,Penzo E,Sharma M,Myerson JW,Jackson AM,Marzari N,Stellacci F

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancing immune responses with immune-modulatory monoclonal antibodies directed to inhibitory immune receptors is a promising modality in cancer therapy. Clinical efficacy has been demonstrated with antibodies blocking inhibitory immune checkpoints such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) or PD-1/...

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

authors： Romano E,Kusio-Kobialka M,Foukas PG,Baumgaertner P,Meyer C,Ballabeni P,Michielin O,Weide B,Romero P,Speiser DE

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction factors are effectors of the innate immune response to viral pathogens that inhibit viral replication by operating as molecular barriers to steps of the viral life cycle. The restriction factor SAMHD1 blocks lentiviral reverse transcription in myeloid cells and resting CD4+ T cells. Many lineages of lentiv...

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

authors： Spragg CJ,Emerman M

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated...

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

authors： Hidaka H,Asano T

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of long-term cultured and monoclonal T cell populations to provide antigen-specific help was assessed in a system of Ir gene-controlled in vitro antibody responses to soluble antigens. T-cell colonies and monoclonal T-cell lines were generated which proliferated specifically in response to poly(LTyr,Glu)-p...

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

authors： Hodes RJ,Kimoto M,Hathcock KS,Fathman CG,Singer A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China's Huai ...

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

authors： Chen Y,Ebenstein A,Greenstone M,Li H

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding mechanisms of proteins incorporated within supramolecular assemblies, including viruses, are little understood and may differ fundamentally from folding mechanisms of small globular proteins. We describe a novel Raman dynamic probe of hydrogen-isotope exchange to investigate directly these protein folding/asse...

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

authors： Tuma R,Prevelige PE Jr,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of class II gene transcription may involve alleviation of transcription repression as well as stimulation of the assembly and function of the general RNA polymerase (RNAP) II transcription machinery. Here, we investigated whether activator-reversible transcription repression by NC2 (Dr1/DRAP1) contributes t...

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

authors： Castaño E,Gross P,Wang Z,Roeder RG,Oelgeschläger T

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged rats, displaying impairments in spatial learning and memory associated with marked cellular atrophy of forebrain cholinergic neurons, received intracerebroventricular infusions of one of the four neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), neurotrophin 3 (NT-3), or neurotrop...

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

authors： Fischer W,Sirevaag A,Wiegand SJ,Lindsay RM,Björklund A

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy is a widely used cancer treatment, but it causes side effects even when localized radiotherapy is used. Extensive apoptosis of microvascular endothelial cells of the lamina propria is the primary lesion initiating intestinal radiation damage after abdominal radiation therapy. Many in vitro studies su...

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

authors： Cho CH,Kammerer RA,Lee HJ,Yasunaga K,Kim KT,Choi HH,Kim W,Kim SH,Park SK,Lee GM,Koh GY

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteonectin is a prominent noncollagenous protein of developing bone. A 2150-base-pair cDNA coding for osteonectin, isolated from a bovine bone cell lambda gt11 expression library, was sequenced and identified by comparison with protein sequence data. The nucleotide sequence predicts that osteonectin contains 304 amin...

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

authors： Bolander ME,Young MF,Fisher LW,Yamada Y,Termine JD

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanomas occur mainly in sunlight-exposed skin. Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients have 1,000-fold higher incidence of melanoma, suggesting that sunlight-induced "bulky" photoproducts are responsible for melanomagenesis. Sunlight induces a high level of reactive oxygen species in melanocytes (MCs); oxidative DNA dam...

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

authors： Wang HT,Choi B,Tang MS

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification within the genus Pistacia has been based on leaf morphology and geographical distribution. Molecular genetic tools (PCR amplification followed by restriction analysis of a 3.2-kb region of variable chloroplast DNA, and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the Pistacia cpDNA with tobacco ...

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

authors： Parfitt DE,Badenes ML

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:C-tail-anchored (TA) proteins often require a transmembrane domain of moderate hydrophobicity to maintain their endoplasmic reticulum residence, but the suggested role of protein-lipid interactions in this phenomenon has not been established. Here, we studied the interaction of TA proteins with lipids by differential ...

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

authors： Ceppi P,Colombo S,Francolini M,Raimondo F,Borgese N,Masserini M

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to intrinsic aggressiveness and lack of effective therapies, prognosis of pancreatic cancer remains dismal. Because the only molecular targeted drug approved for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a kinase inhibitor specific to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and this receptor collaborates with anoth...

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

authors： Maron R,Schechter B,Mancini M,Mahlknecht G,Yarden Y,Sela M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumor effect of doxorubicin (DOX) conjugated to a biodegradable dendrimer was evaluated in mice bearing C-26 colon carcinomas. An asymmetric biodegradable polyester dendrimer containing 8-10 wt % DOX was prepared. The design of the dendrimer carrier optimized blood circulation time through size and molecular a...

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

authors： Lee CC,Gillies ER,Fox ME,Guillaudeu SJ,Fréchet JM,Dy EE,Szoka FC

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the mutagenic effects of site-specific, covalent modifications of biologically active DNA, we need host cells that are permissive for any type of mutation that might be produced in vivo from the modified DNA. Specifically, we require a general, in vivo complementation system for the bacteriophage phi...

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

authors： Humayun MZ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER) is a transcriptional repressor, which, because of alternate promoter use, is generated from the 3' region of the cAMP response modulator (Crem) gene. Its expression and nuclear occurrence are elevated by high cAMP levels in naturally occurring regulatory T cells (nTregs). Using tw...

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

authors： Vaeth M,Gogishvili T,Bopp T,Klein M,Berberich-Siebelt F,Gattenloehner S,Avots A,Sparwasser T,Grebe N,Schmitt E,Hünig T,Serfling E,Bodor J

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of insect resistance to pesticides poses a continuing threat to agriculture and human health. While much is known about the proximate molecular and biochemical mechanisms that confer resistance, far less is known about the regulation of the specific genes/gene families involved, particularly by trans-act...

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

authors： Yang X,Deng S,Wei X,Yang J,Zhao Q,Yin C,Du T,Guo Z,Xia J,Yang Z,Xie W,Wang S,Wu Q,Yang F,Zhou X,Nauen R,Bass C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covaria...

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

authors： Weigt M,White RA,Szurmant H,Hoch JA,Hwa T

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The memory for a new episode is formed immediately upon experience and can last up to a lifetime. It has been shown that the hippocampal network plays a fundamental role in the rapid acquisition of a memory of a one-time experience, in which the novelty component of the experience promotes the prompt formation of the ...

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

authors： Wagatsuma A,Okuyama T,Sun C,Smith LM,Abe K,Tonegawa S

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenovirus (Ad) early region 3 (E3) genes code for at least four proteins that inhibit the host immune responses mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and tumor necrosis factor alpha. To evaluate the potential use of these immunoregulatory viral functions in facilitating allogeneic cell transplantation, the Ad E3 ge...

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

authors： Efrat S,Fejer G,Brownlee M,Horwitz MS

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recently halted HIV type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine STEP trial, individuals that were seropositive for adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) showed increased rates of HIV-1 infection on vaccination with an Ad5 vaccine. We propose that this was due to activation and expansion of Ad5-specific mucosal-homing memory CD4 T cells. To t...

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

authors： Benlahrech A,Harris J,Meiser A,Papagatsias T,Hornig J,Hayes P,Lieber A,Athanasopoulos T,Bachy V,Csomor E,Daniels R,Fisher K,Gotch F,Seymour L,Logan K,Barbagallo R,Klavinskis L,Dickson G,Patterson S

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report direct evidence for the existence of an iron(IV)-hydroxide. Resonance Raman measurements on chloroperoxidase compound II (CPO-II) reveal an isotope ((18)O and (2)H)-sensitive band at nu(Fe-O) = 565 cm(-1). Preparation of CPO-II in H(2)O using H(2)(18)O(2) results in a red-shift of 22 cm(-1), while preparatio...

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

authors： Stone KL,Behan RK,Green MT

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00