Dual-modality gene reporter for in vivo imaging.

abstract：:Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example, between 6 to 8 mo and 10 to 12 mo, infants learning American English get better at distinguishing English and [l], as in "rock" vs. "lock," relat...

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

authors： Schatz T,Feldman NH,Goldwater S,Cao XN,Dupoux E

更新日期：2021-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance biosensor technology was used to directly measure the binding interactions of small molecules to the ligand-binding domain of human estrogen receptor. In a screening mode, specific ligands of the receptor were easily discerned from nonligands. In a high-resolution mode, the association and di...

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

authors： Rich RL,Hoth LR,Geoghegan KF,Brown TA,LeMotte PK,Simons SP,Hensley P,Myszka DG

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The multisubunit enzyme aspartate transcarbamylase consists of six copies of two types of polypeptide chains, catalytic (C) and regulatory (R). A complex formed by the partial dissociation of this enzyme has been isolated. This species, which has the structure C(6)R(4), is a likely intermediate in the stepwise dissoci...

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

authors： Evans DR,Pastra-Landis SC,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the developments that have occurred in the field of human genetics of infectious diseases from the second half of the 20th century onward. In particular, it stresses and explains the importance of the recently described monogenic inborn errors of immunity underlying resistance or susceptibility to s...

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

authors： Casanova JL

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid North Atlantic cooling events during the last deglaciation caused atmospheric reorganizations on global and regional scales. Their impact on Asian climate has been investigated for monsoonal domains, but remains largely unknown in westerly wind-dominated semiarid regions. Here we generate a dust record from sout...

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

authors： Safaierad R,Mohtadi M,Zolitschka B,Yokoyama Y,Vogt C,Schefuß E

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria encounter structure (ERMES) comprises mitochondrial distribution and morphology 12 (Mdm12), maintenance of mitochondrial morphology 1 (Mmm1), Mdm34, and Mdm10 and mediates physical membrane contact sites and nonvesicular lipid trafficking between the ER and mitochondria in y...

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

authors： Jeong H,Park J,Jun Y,Lee C

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic loss of Kilimanjaro's ice cover has attracted global attention. The three remaining ice fields on the plateau and the slopes are both shrinking laterally and rapidly thinning. Summit ice cover (areal extent) decreased approximately 1% per year from 1912 to 1953 and approximately 2.5% per year from 1989 to...

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

authors： Thompson LG,Brecher HH,Mosley-Thompson E,Hardy DR,Mark BG

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Both naturally occurring and synthetic phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) molecules show the phenomenon of spontaneous vesiculation on jump in pH value. This method involves a transient increase in pH of smectic PtdOH dispersions to values between 10 and 12. Such a pH increase induces spontaneous vesiculation with the formatio...

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

authors： Hauser H

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs comprise a few percent of animal genes and have been recognized as important regulators of a diverse range of biological processes. Understanding the biological functions of miRNAs requires effective means to identify their targets. Combined efforts from computational prediction, miRNA over-expression or dep...

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

authors： Hong X,Hammell M,Ambros V,Cohen SM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of large intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been identified in the mammalian genome, many of which have important roles in regulating a variety of biological processes. Here, we used a custom microarray to identify lincRNAs associated with activation of the innate immune response. A panel of 159 lincR...

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

authors： Li Z,Chao TC,Chang KY,Lin N,Patil VS,Shimizu C,Head SR,Burns JC,Rana TM

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological membrane is conceptualized as a system in which membrane proteins are naturally matched to the equilibrium thickness of the lipid bilayer. Cholesterol, in addition to lipid composition, has been suggested to be a major regulator of bilayer thickness in vivo because measurements in vitro have shown that ch...

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

authors： Mitra K,Ubarretxena-Belandia I,Taguchi T,Warren G,Engelman DM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex is thought to facilitate accumulation of initially rare beneficial mutations by allowing simultaneous allele replacements at many loci. However, this advantage of sex depends on a restrictive assumption that the fitness of a genotype is determined by fitness potential, a single intermediate variable to which all l...

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

authors： Kondrashov FA,Kondrashov AS

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, family 18 chitinases have been validated as potential targets for the design of drugs against human pathogens that contain or interact with chitin during their normal life cycles. Thus far, only one potent chitinase inhibitor has been described in detail, the pseudotrisaccharide allosamidin. Recen...

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

authors： Houston DR,Shiomi K,Arai N,Omura S,Peter MG,Turberg A,Synstad B,Eijsink VG,van Aalten DM

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocyte differentiation (Ly) antigen phenotype of cytotoxic effector T cells specific for H-2 mutant alloantigens was determined. Cytotoxic effectors generated in primary mixed lymphocyte culture and specific for H-2Kba and H-2Dda alloantigens are sensitive to both anti-Ly-1 and anti-Ly-2 serum plus complement....

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

authors： Wettstein PJ,Bailey DW,Mobraaten LE,Klein J,Frelinger JA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major part of the present understanding of the molecular basis of signal transduction has been gained from in vitro studies using classical biochemical methods. In this study, we used 31P NMR spectroscopy to investigate the response of live M2R mouse melanoma cells to stimulation by melanocyte-stimulating hormone (M...

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

authors： Degani H,DeJordy JO,Salomon Y

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Albumin Redhill is an electrophoretically slow genetic variant of human serum albumin that does not bind 63Ni2+ and has a molecular mass 2.5 kDa higher than normal albumin. Its inability to bind Ni2+ was explained by the finding of an additional residue of Arg at position -1. This did not explain the molecular basis o...

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

authors： Brennan SO,Myles T,Peach RJ,Donaldson D,George PM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subventricular zone remains mitotically active throughout life in rodents. Studies with tritiated thymidine, which is incorporated into the DNA of mitotic cells, have revealed that the rodent subventricular zone produces neuroblasts that migrate toward the olfactory bulb along the rostral migratory stream. A simil...

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

authors： Bernier PJ,Bedard A,Vinet J,Levesque M,Parent A

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 family proteins provide costimulatory signals that regulate T cell responses. Here we report the third set of B7 family-related T cell inhibitory molecules with the identification of a homolog of the B7 family, B7x. It is expressed in immune cells, nonlymphoid tissues, and some tumor cell lines. B7x inhibits cell-c...

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

authors： Zang X,Loke P,Kim J,Murphy K,Waitz R,Allison JP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach combining signal detection theory and precise 3D reconstructions from serial section electron microscopy (3DEM) was used to investigate synaptic plasticity and information storage capacity at medial perforant path synapses in adult hippocampal dentate gyrus in vivo. Induction of long-term potentiation (LTP...

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

authors： Bromer C,Bartol TM,Bowden JB,Hubbard DD,Hanka DC,Gonzalez PV,Kuwajima M,Mendenhall JM,Parker PH,Abraham WC,Sejnowski TJ,Harris KM

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of two-dimensional (2D) vibrational spectroscopy, which uses two ultrafast IR laser pulses, is used to examine the structure of a cyclic penta-peptide in solution. Spectrally resolved cross peaks occur in the off-diagonal region of the 2D IR spectrum of the amide I region, analogous to those in 2D NMR spectrosc...

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

authors： Hamm P,Lim M,DeGrado WF,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are hollow cytoskeletal filaments assembled from αβ-tubulin heterodimers. Tau, an unstructured protein found in neuronal axons, binds to MTs and regulates their dynamics. Aberrant Tau behavior is associated with neurodegenerative dementias, including Alzheimer's. Here, we report on a direct force me...

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

authors： Chung PJ,Choi MC,Miller HP,Feinstein HE,Raviv U,Li Y,Wilson L,Feinstein SC,Safinya CR

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The lac operon of Escherichia coli spans approximately 5300 base pairs and includes the lacZ, lacY, and lacA genes in addition to the operator, promoter, and transcription termination regions. We report here the sequence of the lacA gene and the region distal to it, confirming the sequence of thiogalactoside transacet...

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

authors： Hediger MA,Johnson DF,Nierlich DP,Zabin I

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We give a functional generalization of fractal scaling laws applied to response problems as well as to probability distributions. We consider excitations and responses, which are functions of a given state vector. Based on scaling arguments, we derive a general nonlinear response functional scaling law, which expresse...

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

authors： Vlad MO,Morán F,Popa VT,Szedlacsek SE,Ross J

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are key drivers of blood and lymph vessel formation in development, but also in several pathological processes. VEGF-C signaling through VEGFR-3 promotes lymphangiogenesis, which is a clinically relevant target for treating lymphatic insufficienc...

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

authors： Leppänen VM,Tvorogov D,Kisko K,Prota AE,Jeltsch M,Anisimov A,Markovic-Mueller S,Stuttfeld E,Goldie KN,Ballmer-Hofer K,Alitalo K

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, dihydropyridine receptors are functionally coupled to ryanodine receptors of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in triadic or diadic junctional complexes. In cardiac muscle direct physical or functional couplings have not been demonstrated. We have tested the hypothesis of functional coupling of L-type Ca2...

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

authors： Sham JS,Cleemann L,Morad M

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) belong to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae and are unique in that they exhibit a broad species tropism and cause fatal disease in both animals and humans. They infect cells through a pH-independent membrane fusion process mediated by their fusion and attachme...

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

authors： Bonaparte MI,Dimitrov AS,Bossart KN,Crameri G,Mungall BA,Bishop KA,Choudhry V,Dimitrov DS,Wang LF,Eaton BT,Broder CC

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a multinanosecond molecular dynamics study of a bio-nano complex formed by a carbon nanoparticle, a buckyball C(60), and a biological molecule, an antibody, with high binding affinity and specificity. In the simulation, the ball is completely desolvated by the binding site of the antibody by means of a nearly ...

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

authors： Noon WH,Kong Y,Ma J

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical method is developed which enables us to treat exactly the process of coincidental evolution under mutation, unequal intrachromosomal crossing-over as well as ordinary crossing-over between homologous chromosomes in a finite population of the effective size N. It makes use of finite difference equations ...

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

authors： Kimura M,Ohta T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-33 is an important member of the IL-1 family that has pleiotropic activities in innate and adaptive immune responses in host defense and disease. It signals through its ligand-binding primary receptor ST2 and IL-1 receptor accessory protein (IL-1RAcP), both of which are members of the IL-1 receptor fa...

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

authors： Liu X,Hammel M,He Y,Tainer JA,Jeng US,Zhang L,Wang S,Wang X

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns are at increased risk of jaundice, a condition in which excess bilirubin accumulates in blood. Left untreated, jaundice can lead to neurological impairment and death. Jaundice resulting from unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia is easily treated with exposure to blue light, and phototherapy systems have been devel...

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

authors： Keahey PA,Simeral ML,Schroder KJ,Bond MM,Mtenthaonnga PJ,Miros RH,Dube Q,Richards-Kortum RR

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00