Model-building study of the combining sites of two antibodies to alpha (1----6)dextran.

abstract：:Phylogenetic differences in acetylcholine receptors from skeletal neuromuscular synapses of various species of snakes and lizards have been investigated, using the snake venom alpha-neurotoxins alpha-atratoxin (cobrotoxin) and alpha-bungarotoxin. The acetylcholine receptors of the phylogenetically primitive lizards, l...

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

authors： Burden SJ,Hartzell HC,Yoshikami D

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion mutations previously constructed within the proximal region of the yeast invertase signal sequence did not interfere with secretion or glycosylation of the enzyme. We now describe deletion mutations within the same signal sequence. Large deletions truncating the hydrophobic core of the signal peptide prevent...

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

authors： Perlman D,Raney P,Halvorson HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, genetic, neurological disorder resulting from a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the gene that encodes for the protein huntingtin. These excessive repeats confer a toxic gain of function on huntingtin, which leads to the degeneration of striatal and cortical neurons and a devasta...

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

authors： McBride JL,Ramaswamy S,Gasmi M,Bartus RT,Herzog CD,Brandon EP,Zhou L,Pitzer MR,Berry-Kravis EM,Kordower JH

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobe discharge during both the observation and the execution of motor acts. It has been claimed that these so-called mirror neurons form the basis of action understanding by matching the visual input with the corresponding motor program (direct matching)...

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

authors： Lingnau A,Gesierich B,Caramazza A

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual awareness has been proposed to depend on recurrent processing in early visual cortex areas including the primary visual cortex (V1). Here, we address this hypothesis with high spatiotemporal resolution magnetoencephalographic recordings in subjects performing a substitution masking paradigm. Neural activity ref...

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

authors： Boehler CN,Schoenfeld MA,Heinze HJ,Hopf JM

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic mosaic of the Archaebacterium Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, strain delta H, was analyzed with a panel of six monoclonal antibodies. Five antigenic determinants were identified. One contains N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, another contains N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, and a third contains gamma-glutamylalani...

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

authors： Conway de Macario E,Macario AJ,Magariños MC,König H,Kandler O

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Figure-ground discrimination refers to the perception of an object, the figure, against a nondescript background. Neural mechanisms of figure-ground detection have been associated with feedback interactions between higher centers and primary visual cortex and have been held to index the effect of global analysis on lo...

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

authors： Jones HE,Andolina IM,Shipp SD,Adams DL,Cudeiro J,Salt TE,Sillito AM

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Early forms of the genetic code likely generated "statistical" proteins, with similar side chains occupying the same sequence positions at different ratios. In this scenario, groups of related side chains were treated by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as a single molecular species until a discrimination mechanism develope...

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

authors： Yang XL,Otero FJ,Skene RJ,McRee DE,Schimmel P,Ribas de Pouplana L

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Williams-Beuren syndrome (also known as Williams syndrome) is caused by a deletion of a 1.55- to 1.84-megabase region from chromosome band 7q11.23. GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I, located within this critical region, encode proteins of the TFII-I family with multiple helix-loop-helix domains known as I repeats. In the present wor...

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

authors： Makeyev AV,Erdenechimeg L,Mungunsukh O,Roth JJ,Enkhmandakh B,Ruddle FH,Bayarsaihan D

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the genes associated with primary microcephaly (MCPH) reduce human brain size by about two-thirds, without producing gross abnormalities in brain organization or physiology and leaving other organs largely unaffected [Woods CG, et al. (2005) Am J Hum Genet 76:717-728]. There is also evide...

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

authors： Rimol LM,Agartz I,Djurovic S,Brown AA,Roddey JC,Kähler AK,Mattingsdal M,Athanasiu L,Joyner AH,Schork NJ,Halgren E,Sundet K,Melle I,Dale AM,Andreassen OA,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a lethal weapon used by many bacteria to kill eukaryotic predators or prokaryotic competitors. Killing by the T6SS results from repetitive delivery of toxic effectors. Despite their importance in dictating bacterial fitness, systematic prediction of T6SS effectors remains challen...

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

authors： Liang X,Moore R,Wilton M,Wong MJ,Lam L,Dong TG

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To some extent, the genetic theory of adaptive evolution in bacteria is a simple extension of that developed for sexually reproducing eukaryotes. In other, fundamental ways, the process of adaptive evolution in bacteria is quantitatively and qualitatively different from that of organisms for which recombination is an ...

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

authors： Levin BR,Bergstrom CT

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools...

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

authors： Rillig MC,Antonovics J

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity affecting chromosome 17p has been detected at high frequencies in a variety of human tumors, including cancers of the colon, breast, lung, and brain. One presumed target of these losses is p53, a tumor suppressor gene located on 17p. To our knowledge, loss of heterozygosity has not yet been repo...

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

authors： Meltzer SJ,Yin J,Huang Y,McDaniel TK,Newkirk C,Iseri O,Vogelstein B,Resau JH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive organisms pose a global threat and are exceptionally difficult to eradicate after they become abundant in their new habitats. We report a successful multitactic strategy for combating the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), one of the world's most invasive pests. A coordinated program in the southwester...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Liesner LR,Ellsworth PC,Unnithan GC,Fabrick JA,Naranjo SE,Li X,Dennehy TJ,Antilla L,Staten RT,Carrière Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of transcription factors might be a powerful approach to modification of metabolism for a generation of crops having superior characteristics because a single transcription factor frequently regulates coordinated expression of a set of key genes for respective pathways. Here, we apply the plant-specific Do...

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

authors： Yanagisawa S,Akiyama A,Kisaka H,Uchimiya H,Miwa T

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the permanency of response to selection for a quantitative character in finite populations and the nature of the genetic effects that contribute to this response, we have used the covariance between ancestors and descendents within populations. Effects and variances are defined for an initial equilibrium rand...

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

authors： Cockerham CC,Tachida H

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common in birds, social monogamy, or pair-living, is rare among mammals because internal gestation and lactation in mammals makes it advantageous for males to seek additional mating opportunities. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of social monogamy among mammals: as a male ma...

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

authors： Opie C,Atkinson QD,Dunbar RI,Shultz S

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) DNA, a small sequence, designated the a sequence, flanks the reiterated sequences at the ends of both the L and S components. The a sequence is the only sequence shared by the termini of all isomeric arrangements of HSV-1 DNA that arise from inversions of the covalently linked L and S...

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

authors： Knipe DM,Ruyechan WT,Honess RW,Roizman B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse serosal mast cells (SMCs) and Kirsten sarcoma virus-immortalized mast cells store large amounts of mast cell carboxypeptidase A and serine proteases in their secretory granules. Secretory granule proteins from 2.6 x 10(6) purified SMCs were separated by NaDodSO4/PAGE, trans-blotted to poly(vinylidine difluoride)...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Stevens RL,Lane WS,Carr MH,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomixis is a naturally occurring mode of reproduction that results in embryo formation without the involvement of meiosis or fertilization of the egg. Seed-derived progeny of an apomictic plant are genetically identical to the maternal parent. We are studying a form of apomixis called apospory that occurs in the genu...

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

authors： Ozias-Akins P,Roche D,Hanna WW

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. It is made in the cytosol as a precursor (pLHCP), imported into chloroplasts, and subsequently integrated into thylakoids. Integration of pLHCP into thylakoids requires a stromal protein factor that functions in part to main...

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

authors： Yuan J,Henry R,Cline K

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of Drosophila melanogaster DNA polymerase alpha on DNA-primed single-stranded DNA templates has been examined. The DNA templates contain a 1471-nucleotide sequence from the heavy-strand origin region of mouse mtDNA inserted into the single-stranded bacteriophage vector M13Gori1. Preferred sites for pausin...

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

authors： Kaguni LS,Clayton DA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signaling pathway defines an evolutionarily conserved cell-cell interaction mechanism that throughout development controls the ability of precursor cells to respond to developmental signals. Here we show that Notch signaling regulates the expression of the master control genes eyeless, vestigial, and Distal-...

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

authors： Kurata S,Go MJ,Artavanis-Tsakonas S,Gehring WJ

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In a classic model of mammalian brain formation, precursors of principal glutamatergic neurons migrate radially along radial glia fibers whereas GABAergic interneuron precursors migrate tangentially. These migration modes have significant implications for brain function. Here we used clonal lineage tracing of active r...

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

authors： Sun GJ,Zhou Y,Stadel RP,Moss J,Yong JH,Ito S,Kawasaki NK,Phan AT,Oh JH,Modak N,Reed RR,Toni N,Song H,Ming GL

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A compact, well-organized, and natural motif, stabilized by three disulfide bonds, is proposed as a basic scaffold for protein engineering. This motif contains 37 amino acids only and is formed by a short helix on one face and an antiparallel triple-stranded beta-sheet on the opposite face. It has been adopted by scor...

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

authors： Vita C,Roumestand C,Toma F,Ménez A

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium oxide, D(2)O, increases the temperature-tolerance of Drosophila pseudoobscura when it is administered to adult flies as a sucrose solution. The effect is very rapidly exerted; it is detected within 10 min after the flies have a brief (10 min) opportunity to drink. This increased resistance to heat-death sure...

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

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Cosbey ES

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have enhanced energy production but raised concerns about drinking-water contamination and other environmental impacts. Identifying the sources and mechanisms of contamination can help improve the environmental and economic sustainability of shale-gas extraction. We analyze...

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

authors： Darrah TH,Vengosh A,Jackson RB,Warner NR,Poreda RJ

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen that successfully adapts to the host environment via an efficient uptake system for free DNA liberated from other organisms in the upper respiratory tract, facilitating immune evasion and drug resistance. Although the initial signaling events leading to pneumococcal c...

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

authors： Balaban M,Bättig P,Muschiol S,Tirier SM,Wartha F,Normark S,Henriques-Normark B

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A lysine-to-arginine substitution at amino acid 65 (K65R) in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) is associated with resistance to 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC), 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI), and the (-) enantiomer of 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine (3TC). To further characterize the molecu...

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

authors： Gu Z,Arts EJ,Parniak MA,Wainberg MA

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00