Stigmergy, collective actions, and animal social spacing.

abstract：:Specific protein domains and amino acids responsible for the apparent capacity of P-glycoprotein (mdr) to recognize and transport a large group of structurally unrelated drugs have not been identified. We have introduced a single Ser----Phe substitution within the predicted TM11 domain of mdr1 (position 941) and mdr3 ...

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

authors： Gros P,Dhir R,Croop J,Talbot F

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells (line A10, ATCC CRL 1476) display a high density of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) receptors. ANF stimulated the accumulation of cGMP in these cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. These cells are known to display a high density of vasopressin receptors of the vascular V...

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

authors： Nambi P,Whitman M,Gessner G,Aiyar N,Crooke ST

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of chondrocytes to collagen substrates is stimulated by serum but not by fibronectin. The active material in serum was partially purified and was shown to be a protein by its sensitivity to trypsin and heat and its chromatographic properties. This factor, which we have named chondronectin, is distinct f...

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

authors： Hewitt AT,Kleinman HK,Pennypacker JP,Martin GR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) has revolutionized the oil and gas industry worldwide but has been accompanied by highly controversial incidents of reported water contamination. For example, groundwater contamination by stray natural gas and spillage of brine and other gas drilling-related fluids is known to o...

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

authors： Llewellyn GT,Dorman F,Westland JL,Yoxtheimer D,Grieve P,Sowers T,Humston-Fulmer E,Brantley SL

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of respiratory cytochrome c551 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, with 82 amino acids, has been solved by x-ray analysis and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 16.2%. It has the same basic folding pattern and hydrophobic heme environment as cytochromes c, c2, and c550, except for a large deletion at the b...

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

authors： Almassy RJ,Dickerson RE

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahymena ribozymes hold promise for repairing genetic disorders but are largely limited by their modest splicing efficiency and low production of final therapeutic proteins. Ribozyme evolution in intact living mammalian cells would greatly facilitate the discovery of new ribozyme variants with high in vivo activity...

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

authors： Hasegawa S,Jackson WC,Tsien RY,Rao J

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free DNA shed by cancer cells has been shown to be a rich source of putative tumor-specific biomarkers. Because cell-free DNA from brain and spinal cord tumors cannot usually be detected in the blood, we studied whether the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the CNS is enriched for tumor DNA, here termed CSF-t...

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

authors： Wang Y,Springer S,Zhang M,McMahon KW,Kinde I,Dobbyn L,Ptak J,Brem H,Chaichana K,Gallia GL,Gokaslan ZL,Groves ML,Jallo GI,Lim M,Olivi A,Quinones-Hinojosa A,Rigamonti D,Riggins GJ,Sciubba DM,Weingart JD,Wolinsky JP

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have grown crystals of a soluble recombinant form of human CD4, a transmembrane glycoprotein found predominantly on the surface of helper T cells. Crystals composed of the entire extracellular portion of CD4 exhibit extensive polymorphism. Of the five crystal types that have been grown, the best diffracts to Bragg ...

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

authors： Kwong PD,Ryu SE,Hendrickson WA,Axel R,Sweet RM,Folena-Wasserman G,Hensley P,Sweet RW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The osteopontin (Opn) glycoprotein has been implicated in diverse physiological processes, including vascularization, bone formation, and inflammatory responses. Studies of its role in immune responses has suggested that Opn can set the early stage of type-1 immune (cell-mediated) responses through differential regula...

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

authors： Shinohara ML,Jansson M,Hwang ES,Werneck MB,Glimcher LH,Cantor H

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotoxicosis increases endogenous glucose production (EGP) and induces hepatic insulin resistance. We have recently shown that these alterations can be modulated by selective hepatic sympathetic and parasympathetic denervation, pointing to neurally mediated effects of thyroid hormone on glucose metabolism. Here, we ...

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

authors： Klieverik LP,Janssen SF,van Riel A,Foppen E,Bisschop PH,Serlie MJ,Boelen A,Ackermans MT,Sauerwein HP,Fliers E,Kalsbeek A

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from certain patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and related rheumatic diseases contain antibodies that selectively deplete extracts of HeLa cells of RNase P activity. Most of the sera that recognize RNase P, an endoribonuclease with an essential RNA subunit, also contain antibodies against another s...

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

authors： Gold HA,Craft J,Hardin JA,Bartkiewicz M,Altman S

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that incubation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) with cultured endothelial cells (EC) converts it to a new form (EC-modified LDL) that is now recognized by a specific receptor on macrophages (the acetyl LDL receptor) and is taken up and degraded 3-10 times more rapidly than native LDL...

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

authors： Parthasarathy S,Steinbrecher UP,Barnett J,Witztum JL,Steinberg D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite substantial evidence that nitric oxide (NO) and/or endogenous S-nitrosothiols (SNOs) exert protective effects in a variety of cardiovascular diseases, the molecular details are largely unknown. Here we show that following left coronary artery ligation, mice with a targeted deletion of the S-nitrosoglutathione ...

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

authors： Lima B,Lam GK,Xie L,Diesen DL,Villamizar N,Nienaber J,Messina E,Bowles D,Kontos CD,Hare JM,Stamler JS,Rockman HA

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase, which consists of two nonidentical subunits, is rapidly inactivated with respect to its transpeptidase and hydrolase activities by the gamma-glutamyl analogs 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine and L-azaserine. Inactivation, which is prevented by gamma-glutamyl substrates (but not by acceptor sub...

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

authors： Tate SS,Meister A

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several 400- to 800-kb murine chromosome domains switch from early to late replication during loss of pluripotency, accompanied by a stable form of gene silencing that is resistant to reprogramming. We found that, whereas enhanced nuclease accessibility correlated with early replication genome-wide, domains that switc...

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

authors： Takebayashi S,Dileep V,Ryba T,Dennis JH,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In FRTL5 rat thyroid cells, norepinephrine, by interacting with alpha 1-adrenergic receptors, stimulates inositol phosphate formation, through activation of phospholipase C, and arachidonic acid release. Recent studies have shown that GTP-binding proteins couple several types of receptors to phospholipase C activation...

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

authors： Burch RM,Luini A,Axelrod J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells mediate vital control of cancer and viral infection. They rely on MHC class I (MHC I)-specific self-receptors to identify and lyse diseased cells without harming self-MHC I-bearing host cells. NK cells bearing inhibitory self-receptors for host MHC I also undergo education, referred to as lic...

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

authors： Gamache A,Cronk JM,Nash WT,Puchalski P,Gillespie A,Wei H,Gray L,Hammarskjold ML,Xu W,Brown MG

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of polynucleotides or polynucleotide duplexes such as poly(I).poly(C) to induce interferon production is proposed to depend on the existence of certain stable glycosidic orientations. It appears that a slight increase in instability of 1--3 kcal/mole (1 cal = 4.184 J) in the conformational regions near 20 ...

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

authors： Miles DL,Miles DW,Eyring H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside ototoxicity has been related to a surprisingly large number of cellular structures and metabolic pathways. The finding that patients with mutations in mitochondrial rRNA are hypersusceptible to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss has indicated a possible role for mitochondrial protein synthesis. To stud...

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

authors： Hobbie SN,Akshay S,Kalapala SK,Bruell CM,Shcherbakov D,Böttger EC

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) by cAMP-dependent protein kinase leads to chloride flux in epithelial cells. Is CFTR also required for the calcium-dependent activation of chloride channels? We used antisense oligodeoxynucleotides to CFTR to reduce the expression of CFT...

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

authors： Wagner JA,McDonald TV,Nghiem PT,Lowe AW,Schulman H,Gruenert DC,Stryer L,Gardner P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent transgene insertions differ in expression based on their location in the genome; these position effects are of interest because they reflect the influence of genome organization on gene regulation. Position effects also represent potentially insurmountable obstacles to the rigorous functional comparison of...

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

authors： Siegal ML,Hartl DL

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human breast cancers contain an RNA related to that of mouse mammary tumor virus. In 79% of the breast malignancies examined, this type of RNA is a 70S-component encapsulated with RNA-instructed DNA polymerase in a particle possessing the density characteristics of RNA tumor viruses. Further, the DNA synthesized by th...

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

authors： Axel R,Gulati SC,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, scientists have debated whether supercooled liquids stop flowing below a glass transition temperature [Formula: see text] or whether motion continues to slow gradually down to zero temperature. Answering this question is challenging because human time scales set a limit on the largest measurable viscosity...

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

authors： Jadhao V,Robbins MO

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others have reported that the vast majority of virus-producing CD4(+) T cells during the acute infection of rhesus macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or CXCR4 (X4)-using simian/human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) exhibited a nonactivated phenotype. These findings have been extended to show tha...

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

authors： Nishimura Y,Sadjadpour R,Mattapallil JJ,Igarashi T,Lee W,Buckler-White A,Roederer M,Chun TW,Martin MA

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased understanding of the precise molecular mechanisms involved in cell survival and cell death signaling pathways offers the promise of harnessing these molecules to eliminate cancer cells without damaging normal cells. Tyrosine kinase oncoproteins promote the genesis of leukemias through both increased cell pro...

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

authors： Kurokawa M,Ito T,Yang CS,Zhao C,Macintyre AN,Rizzieri DA,Rathmell JC,Deininger MW,Reya T,Kornbluth S

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of syntaxin 1 with the alpha(1D) subunit of the voltage-gated L type Ca(2+) channel was investigated in the pancreatic beta cell. Coexpression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein-linked alpha(1D) subunit with the enhanced blue fluorescent protein-linked syntaxin 1 and Western blot analysis together w...

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

authors： Yang SN,Larsson O,Bränström R,Bertorello AM,Leibiger B,Leibiger IB,Moede T,Köhler M,Meister B,Berggren PO

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To monitor inaccuracy in gene expression in living cells, we designed an experimental system in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis whereby spontaneous errors can be visualized and quantified at a single-cell level. Our strategy was to introduce mutations into a chromosomally encoded gfp allele, such that errors in protei...

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

authors： Meyerovich M,Mamou G,Ben-Yehuda S

更新日期：2010-06-22 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：:Unlike parasitic protist groups that are defined by the absence of mitochondria, the Pelobiontida is composed mostly of free-living species. Because of the presence of ultrastructural and cellular features that set them apart from all other eukaryotic organisms, it has been suggested that pelobionts are primitively am...

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

authors： Stiller JW,Duffield EC,Hall BD

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper segregation of chromosomes in meiosis is essential to prevent miscarriages and birth defects. This requires that sister chromatids maintain cohesion at the centromere as cohesion is released on the chromatid arms when the homologs segregate at anaphase I. The Shugoshin proteins preserve centromere cohesion by p...

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

authors： Pinto BS,Orr-Weaver TL

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00