Dirigent domain-containing protein is part of the machinery required for formation of the lignin-based Casparian strip in the root.

abstract：:There has been recent experimental support for efficiency wage theories of the labor market. This short paper initiates the larger process of evaluating the boundary conditions of the gift- exchange phenomenon. In particular, we will see whether behavior consistent with the fair wage-effort hypothesis can emerge and b...

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

authors： Rigdon ML

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that immunization with hepatitis C virus-like particles (HCV-LPs) generated in insect cells can elicit both humoral and cellular immune responses in BALB/c mice. Here, we evaluate the immunogenicity of HCV-LPs in HLA2.1 transgenic (AAD) mice in comparison to DNA immunization. HCV-LP immun...

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

authors： Murata K,Lechmann M,Qiao M,Gunji T,Alter HJ,Liang TJ

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the basis for the template specificities of the bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.6), we determined the nucleotide sequences of six promoters recognized by the T3 RNA polymerase and compared them with the previously determined promoter sequences recognized by the bacteriophage T7 RNA polymer...

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

authors： Bailey JN,Klement JF,McAllister WT

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection triggers vigorous host immune responses; however, the parasite ligands, host receptors, and the signaling pathways responsible for these reactions remain unknown or controversial. Malaria parasites primarily reside within RBCs, thereby hiding themselves from direct contact and recognition by host imm...

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

authors： Wu J,Tian L,Yu X,Pattaradilokrat S,Li J,Wang M,Yu W,Qi Y,Zeituni AE,Nair SC,Crampton SP,Orandle MS,Bolland SM,Qi CF,Long CA,Myers TG,Coligan JE,Wang R,Su XZ

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We outline a theory to quantify the interplay of entropic and selective forces on nucleotide organization and apply it to the genomes of single-stranded RNA viruses. We quantify these forces as intensive variables that can easily be compared between sequences, outline a computationally efficient transfer-matrix method...

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

authors： Greenbaum BD,Cocco S,Levine AJ,Monasson R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of colloidal metal nanocrystals typically involves an autocatalytic process, in which the salt precursor adsorbs onto the surface of a growing nanocrystal, followed by chemical reduction to atoms for their incorporation into the nanocrystal. Despite its universal role in the synthesis of colloidal nanocryst...

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

authors： Yang TH,Zhou S,Gilroy KD,Figueroa-Cosme L,Lee YH,Wu JM,Xia Y

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes have been proposed as vehicles for microRNA (miRNA) -based intercellular communication and a source of miRNA biomarkers in bodily fluids. Although exosome preparations contain miRNAs, a quantitative analysis of their abundance and stoichiometry is lacking. In the course of studying cancer-associated extracell...

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

authors： Chevillet JR,Kang Q,Ruf IK,Briggs HA,Vojtech LN,Hughes SM,Cheng HH,Arroyo JD,Meredith EK,Gallichotte EN,Pogosova-Agadjanyan EL,Morrissey C,Stirewalt DL,Hladik F,Yu EY,Higano CS,Tewari M

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious RNA transcripts were generated from full-length cDNA clones of the tobacco etch potyvirus genome containing an insertion of the bacterial beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene between the polyprotein-coding sequences for the N-terminal 35-kDa proteinase and the helper component-proteinase. The recombinant virus was...

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

authors： Dolja VV,McBride HJ,Carrington JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that 3-nitropropionate, an isoelectronic analogue of succinate, is a suicide inactivator of succinate dehydrogenase [succinate:(acceptor) oxidoreductase, EC 1.3.99.1] as follows. (i) When rat liver mitochondria oxidize succinate in the presence of 3-nitropropionate carbanion, the rate of O(2) consumption...

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

authors： Alston TA,Mela L,Bright HJ

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the genetic basis of common disease may require comprehensive sequence analysis of coding regions and regulatory elements in patients and controls to find genetic effects caused by rare or heterogeneous mutations. In this study, we demonstrate how mismatch repair detection on tag arrays can be applie...

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

authors： Faham M,Zheng J,Moorhead M,Fakhrai-Rad H,Namsaraev E,Wong K,Wang Z,Chow SG,Lee L,Suyenaga K,Reichert J,Boudreau A,Eberle J,Bruckner C,Jain M,Karlin-Neumann G,Jones HB,Willis TD,Buxbaum JD,Davis RW

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A complementarity-determining region (CDR) of the mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) F58 was constructed with specificity to a neutralization-inducing region of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The mAb has its major reactivity to the amino acid sequence I--GPGRA in the V3 viral envelope region. All CDRs inclu...

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

authors： Levi M,Sällberg M,Rudén U,Herlyn D,Maruyama H,Wigzell H,Marks J,Wahren B

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine direct surface force measurements with thermodynamic arguments to demonstrate that pure ionic liquids are expected to behave as dilute weak electrolyte solutions, with typical effective dissociated ion concentrations of less than 0.1% at room temperature. We performed equilibrium force-distance measurements...

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

authors： Gebbie MA,Valtiner M,Banquy X,Fox ET,Henderson WA,Israelachvili JN

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of primary petite (rho-) clones were isolated after ethidium bromide mutagenesis of various grande (rho+) strains of S. cerevisiae that contained the mitochondrial genetic markers, CR, ER, OIR (or OIIR), and PR. From the frequency of coretention of markers in the petites, we have deduced a probable circ...

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

authors： Boltin-Fukuhara M,Fukuhara H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropospheric O(3) and sulfate both contribute to air pollution and climate forcing. There is a growing realization that air quality and climate change issues are strongly connected. To date, the importance of the coupling between O(3) and sulfate has not been fully appreciated, and thus regulations treat each pollutan...

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

authors： Unger N,Shindell DT,Koch DM,Streets DG

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (Nramp) family transporters catalyze uptake of essential divalent transition metals like iron and manganese. To discriminate against abundant competitors, the Nramp metal-binding site should favor softer transition metals, which interact either covalently or ionically w...

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

authors： Bozzi AT,Bane LB,Weihofen WA,McCabe AL,Singharoy A,Chipot CJ,Schulten K,Gaudet R

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is believed to have been domesticated ∼9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains contentious. A single-origin model suggests that two main subspecies of Asian rice, indica and japonica, were domesticated from the wild ric...

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

authors： Molina J,Sikora M,Garud N,Flowers JM,Rubinstein S,Reynolds A,Huang P,Jackson S,Schaal BA,Bustamante CD,Boyko AR,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A debate has recently surfaced concerning the degree of precommitment attained by alpha beta and gamma delta T-cell precursors prior to T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement. It has been suggested that precursors may be precommitted to rearrange either alpha or delta genes, but not both, thus giving rise to alpha b...

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

authors： Thompson SD,Pelkonen J,Hurwitz JL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic pheomelanins from enzymic oxidation of the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) derivative 5-S-cysteinyldopa have been examined by ESR spectroscopy. These alkalisoluble polymers contain a novel kind of free radical that is spectroscopically distinct from that found in eumelanins. Delocalization of the unpaired ...

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

authors： Sealy RC,Hyde JS,Felix CC,Menon IA,Prota G,Swartz HM,Persad S,Haberman HF

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and metabolic rate of cells affect processes from the molecular to the organismal level. We present a quantitative, theoretical framework for studying relationships among cell volume, cellular metabolic rate, body size, and whole-organism metabolic rate that helps reveal the feedback between these levels of o...

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

authors： Savage VM,Allen AP,Brown JH,Gillooly JF,Herman AB,Woodruff WH,West GB

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-hairpin-helix DNA glycosylases are typically small proteins that initiate repair of DNA by excising damaged or mispaired bases. An invariant aspartic acid in the active site is involved in catalyzing the excision reaction. Replacement of this critical residue with an asparagine severely reduces catalytic activit...

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

authors： Choi Y,Harada JJ,Goldberg RB,Fischer RL

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gamma frequency oscillations are common in the brain, their functional contributions to neural computation are not understood. Here we report in vitro electrophysiological recordings to evaluate how noisy gamma frequency oscillatory input interacts with the overall activation level of a neuron to determine th...

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

authors： Markowitz DA,Collman F,Brody CD,Hopfield JJ,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:PH-30, a sperm surface protein involved in sperm-egg fusion, is composed of two subunits, alpha and beta, which are synthesized as precursors and processed, during sperm development, to yield the mature forms. The mature PH-30 alpha/beta complex resembles certain viral fusion proteins in membrane topology and predicte...

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

authors： Wolfsberg TG,Bazan JF,Blobel CP,Myles DG,Primakoff P,White JM

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage disequilibrium between polymorphisms in a natural population may result from various evolutionary forces, including random genetic drift due to sampling of gametes during reproduction, restricted migration between subpopulations in a subdivided population, or epistatic selection. In this report, we present evi...

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

authors： Kirby DA,Muse SV,Stephan W

更新日期：1995-09-26 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：:The Ca(2+) channel alpha(1A)-subunit is a voltage-gated, pore-forming membrane protein positioned at the intersection of two important lines of research: one exploring the diversity of Ca(2+) channels and their physiological roles, and the other pursuing mechanisms of ataxia, dystonia, epilepsy, and migraine. alpha(1A...

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

authors： Jun K,Piedras-Rentería ES,Smith SM,Wheeler DB,Lee SB,Lee TG,Chin H,Adams ME,Scheller RH,Tsien RW,Shin HS

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Kirsten sarcoma virus (Ki-MSV) and Harvey sarcoma virus (Ha-MSV) are mouse-rat recombinant viruses that were originally isolated by experimental inoculation of rats with helper-independent mouse type C viruses. We have recently identified in cells transformed by Ki-MSV or Ha-MSV, a phosphoprotein, p21, coded for by Ki...

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

authors： Young HA,Shih TY,Scolnick EM,Rasheed S,Gardner MB

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We visualized synchronous dynamic brain networks by using prewhitened (stationary) magnetoencephalography signals. Data were acquired from 248 axial gradiometers while 10 subjects fixated on a spot of light for 45 s. After fitting an autoregressive integrative moving average model and taking the residuals, all pairwis...

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

authors： Langheim FJ,Leuthold AC,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern Old World Monkeys (Superfamily Cercopithecoidea, Family Cercopithecidae) can be traced back into the late Miocene, but their origin and subsequent diversification is obscured by the scarcity of terrestrial fossil sites in Africa between 15 and 6 Ma. Here, we document the presence of cercopithecids at 12.5 M...

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

authors： Rossie JB,Gilbert CC,Hill A

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We suggested to 228 subjects in two experiments that, as children, they had had negative experiences with a fattening food. An additional 107 subjects received no such suggestion and served as controls. In Experiment 1, a minority of subjects came to believe that they had felt ill after eating strawberry ice cream as ...

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

authors： Bernstein DM,Laney C,Morris EK,Loftus EF

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:NY-ESO-1 is a "cancer-testis" antigen frequently expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and is among the most immunogenic tumor antigens defined to date. In an effort to understand in vivo tolerance mechanisms, we assessed the phenotype and function of NY-ESO-1-specific CD8(+) T cells derived from peripheral blo...

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

authors： Matsuzaki J,Gnjatic S,Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Beck A,Miller A,Tsuji T,Eppolito C,Qian F,Lele S,Shrikant P,Old LJ,Odunsi K

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00