The Hawthorne effect and energy awareness.

abstract：:Over the past decade, seafood mislabeling has been increasingly documented, raising public concern over the identity, safety, and sustainability of seafood. Negative outcomes from seafood mislabeling are suspected to be substantial and pervasive as seafood is the world's most highly traded food commodity. Here we prov...

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

authors： Kroetz K,Luque GM,Gephart JA,Jardine SL,Lee P,Chicojay Moore K,Cole C,Steinkruger A,Donlan CJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical genetic selection was combined with site-directed mutagenesis to study bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase 3'----5' exonuclease activity. A mutant DNA polymerase with very little (less than or equal to 1%) 3'----5' exonuclease activity was generated. In vivo, the 3'----5' exonuclease-deficient DNA polymerase pro...

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

authors： Reha-Krantz LJ,Stocki S,Nonay RL,Dimayuga E,Goodrich LD,Konigsberg WH,Spicer EK

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) promotes the acquisition of the cholinergic phenotype in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCN) during development and protects these neurons from cholinergic dedifferentiation following axotomy when administered in vivo. A decline in BFCN function occurs in patients with Alzhei...

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

authors： Burke RM,Norman TA,Haydar TF,Slack BE,Leeman SE,Blusztajn JK,Mellott TJ

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal adult rats anesthetized with urethane, intravenous injections of beta-endorphin (30--150 micrograms kg-1) induced a transient fall of blood pressure followed by a small hypertension and a prolonged hypotension. Prior administration of naloxone completely blocked these effects, whereas naloxone, given 1 hr af...

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

authors： Lemaire I,Tseng R,Lemaire S

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the basal ganglia, acetylcholine and dopamine play a central role in the extrapyramidal control of motor function. The physiologic effects of these neurotransmitters are mediated by a diversity of receptor subtypes, several of which have now been cloned. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are encoded by five ge...

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

authors： Weiner DM,Levey AI,Brann MR

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the murine Fab S-20-4 from a protective anti-cholera Ab specific for the lipopolysaccharide Ag of the Ogawa serotype has been determined in its unliganded form and in complex with synthetic fragments of the Ogawa O-specific polysaccharide (O-SP). The upstream terminal O-SP monosaccharide is sh...

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

authors： Villeneuve S,Souchon H,Riottot MM,Mazie JC,Lei P,Glaudemans CP,Kovác P,Fournier JM,Alzari PM

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in metabolic engineering have demonstrated that microbial biosynthesis can provide a viable alternative to chemical synthesis for the production of bulk and fine chemicals. Introduction of a new biosynthetic pathway typically requires the expression of multiple heterologous enzymes in the production ho...

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

authors： Michener JK,Nielsen J,Smolke CD

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:China has experienced rapid urbanization and dramatic economic growth since its reform process started in late 1978. In this article, we present evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate based on analysis of impacts of land-use changes on surface temperature in southeast China, where rapid urbanization...

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

authors： Zhou L,Dickinson RE,Tian Y,Fang J,Li Q,Kaufmann RK,Tucker CJ,Myneni RB

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Color and black and white line stimulation produce qualitatively and quantitatively different 2-deoxy[14C]glucose column patterns in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys. Microdensitometry of these stimulus-dependent columns reveals interlaminar density differences that serve as a signature for the stimulus condition...

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

authors： Crawford ML,Meharg LS,Johnston DA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonenzymatic manganese was first shown to provide protection against superoxide toxicity in vivo in 1981, but the chemical mechanism responsible for this protection subsequently became controversial due to conflicting reports concerning the ability of Mn to catalyze superoxide disproportionation in vitro. In a recent ...

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

authors： Barnese K,Gralla EB,Valentine JS,Cabelli DE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of freshwater protozoa and human macrophages. Recent studies determined that the macrophage infectivity potentiator (Mip) surface protein, a prokaryotic homolog of the FK506-binding proteins, is required for optimal infection of macrophages. To determine whether Mip ...

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

authors： Cianciotto NP,Fields BS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins are potent survival factors for developing and injured neurons. However, they are not being used to treat neurodegenerative diseases because of difficulties in administration and numerous side effects that have been encountered in previous clinical trials. Their biological activities use Trk (tropomyosin...

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

authors： Wiese S,Jablonka S,Holtmann B,Orel N,Rajagopal R,Chao MV,Sendtner M

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant isolates of Salmonella enterica were selected on plates containing lethal concentrations of rifampicin, kanamycin, and nalidixic acid. The stability of the resistance phenotype was scored after nonselective growth. Rifampicin-resistant (Rif(r)) isolates were stable, suggesting that they had arisen...

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

authors： Sánchez-Romero MA,Casadesús J

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on global patterns of diversity has been dominated by studies seeking explanations for the equator-to-poles decline in richness of most groups of organisms, namely the latitudinal diversity gradient. A problem with this gradient is that it conflates two key explanations, namely biome stability (age and area) ...

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

authors： Colville JF,Beale CM,Forest F,Altwegg R,Huntley B,Cowling RM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause the neurodegenerative disease familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from an as-yet-unidentified toxic property(ies). Analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of a broad range of human familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked SOD1 mutants (A4V, G37R, G41D, H46R, H...

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

authors： Corson LB,Strain JJ,Culotta VC,Cleveland DW

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that histidine residues in proteins are major targets for reaction with the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (HNE). Reaction of insulin (which contains no sulfhydryl groups) with HNE leads to the generation of HNE-protein adducts, which are converted to radioactive derivatives upon subsequent tre...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a unique conductance-based model of awake thalamic alpha and some of its implications for function. The full model includes a model for a specialized class of high-threshold thalamocortical cells (HTC cells), which burst at the alpha frequency at depolarized membrane potentials (~-56 mV). Our model generat...

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

authors： Vijayan S,Kopell NJ

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Echoviruses have been implicated in multiple human disease syndromes, including aseptic meningitis, paralysis, and heart disease, but no animal model is available for studying the pathogenesis of infection. Production of human integrin very late antigen 2, a receptor for echovirus type 1, in transgenic mice conferred ...

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

authors： Hughes SA,Thaker HM,Racaniello VR

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Both stem cells and mast cells express c-kit and proliferate after exposure to c-kit ligand. Mutations in c-kit may enhance or interfere with the ability of c-kit receptor to initiate the intracellular pathways resulting in cell proliferation. These observations suggested to us that mastocytosis might in some patients...

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

authors： Nagata H,Worobec AS,Oh CK,Chowdhury BA,Tannenbaum S,Suzuki Y,Metcalfe DD

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid mixing in active suspensions of microorganisms is important to ecological phenomena and presents a fascinating stochastic process. We investigate the mixing produced by swimming unicellular algal cells (Chlamydomonas) in quasi-two-dimensional liquid films by simultaneously tracking the motion of the cells and th...

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

authors： Kurtuldu H,Guasto JS,Johnson KA,Gollub JP

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During genome transcription in rotavirus, as with many segmented double-stranded RNA viruses, mRNA is transcribed within the intact subviral particle and translocated through specific channels in the capsid. To understand how the conformation of the capsid affects the efficiency of transcriptional events in the viral ...

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

authors： Lawton JA,Estes MK,Prasad BV

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of binding of the competitive inhibitor 2-benzyl-3-formylpropanoic acid to the active site of carboxypeptidase A has been studied by x-ray diffraction methods to a resolution of 1.7 A. The actual species bound to the enzyme was determined to be the gem-diol resulting from covalent hydration at the aldehyde ca...

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

authors： Christianson DW,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diabetogenic agent alloxan exerts a preferential cytotoxic effect on the pancreatic B cell. The determinants of such a tissue specificity were investigated. Alloxan accumulated rapidly in liver and pancreatic islets but much more slowly in muscle. The activity of glutathione peroxidase and the resistance to exogen...

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

authors： Malaisse WJ,Malaisse-Lagae F,Sener A,Pipeleers DG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid monogalactosyl diacylglycerol (MGD) is a major structural component of photosynthetic membranes in chloroplasts. Its formation is catalyzed by the enzyme MGD synthase. In many plants, MGD derives from two different biosynthetic pathways: the prokaryotic pathway, which operates entirely within the plastid, an...

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

authors： Jarvis P,Dörmann P,Peto CA,Lutes J,Benning C,Chory J

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is crucial for cellular information processing and decision-making. With suitable inputs, PPI networks drive the cells to diverse functional outcomes such as cell proliferation or cell death. Here, we characterize the structural controllability of a large directed human PP...

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

authors： Vinayagam A,Gibson TE,Lee HJ,Yilmazel B,Roesel C,Hu Y,Kwon Y,Sharma A,Liu YY,Perrimon N,Barabási AL

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein phosphatase calcineurin is rapidly phosphorylated (0.8 mol of 32PO4 per mol of 60-kDa subunit of calcineurin) by brain Ca2+/CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II). This reaction requires the autophosphorylated, Ca2+-independent form of CaM-kinase II since Ca2+/CaM b...

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

authors： Hashimoto Y,King MM,Soderling TR

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:The heart has not been regarded as a major target organ of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) toxicity notwithstanding that lethal cardiac dysfunction can occur in the absence of histopathological changes. To assess possible TCDD cardiotoxicity, we studied the effect of TCDD five days after treatment (10 micro...

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

authors： Canga L,Levi R,Rifkind AB

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annealed metals are surprisingly difficult to cut, involving high forces and an unusually thick "chip." This anomaly has long been explained, based on ex situ observations, using a model of smooth plastic flow with uniform shear to describe material removal by chip formation. Here we show that this phenomenon is actua...

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

authors： Yeung H,Viswanathan K,Compton WD,Chandrasekar S

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The "disease-specific" (dsp) region next to the hrp gene cluster of Erwinia amylovora is required for pathogenicity but not for elicitation of the hypersensitive reaction. A 6.6-kb apparent operon, dspEF, was found responsible for this phenotype. The operon contains genes dspE and dspF and is positively regulated by h...

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

authors： Bogdanove AJ,Kim JF,Wei Z,Kolchinsky P,Charkowski AO,Conlin AK,Collmer A,Beer SV

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00