Sugar demand, not auxin, is the initial regulator of apical dominance.

abstract：:If X(1), X(2),... are independent random variables with zero expectation and finite variances, the cumulative sums S(n) are, on the average, of the order of magnitude S(n), where S(n) (2) = E(S(n) (2)). The occasional maxima of the ratios S(n)/S(n) are surprisingly large and the problem is to estimate the extent of th...

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

authors： Feller W

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper finds that a 10-μg/m3 increase in airborne particulate matter [particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10)] reduces life expectancy by 0.64 years (95% confidence interval = 0.21-1.07). This estimate is derived from quasiexperimental variation in PM10 generated by China's Huai River Policy, which provides f...

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

authors： Ebenstein A,Fan M,Greenstone M,He G,Zhou M

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting neuroendocrine tumors expressing somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) with radiolabeled somatostatin agonists is an established diagnostic and therapeutic approach in oncology. While agonists readily internalize into tumor cells, permitting accumulation of radioactivity, radiolabeled antagonists do not, and ...

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

authors： Ginj M,Zhang H,Waser B,Cescato R,Wild D,Wang X,Erchegyi J,Rivier J,Mäcke HR,Reubi JC

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii replicates inside host cells within a large Coxiella-containing vacuole (CCV) whose biogenesis relies on the Dot/Icm-dependent secretion of bacterial effectors. Several membrane trafficking pathways contribute membranes, proteins, and lipids for CCV biogenesis. These include the...

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

authors： Martinez E,Allombert J,Cantet F,Lakhani A,Yandrapalli N,Neyret A,Norville IH,Favard C,Muriaux D,Bonazzi M

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes are different from other chromosomes because of a lack of recombination. Until now, complete sequence information of Y chromosomes has been available only for some primates, although considerable information is available for other organisms, e.g., several species of Drosophila. Here, we report the gene o...

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

authors： Yamato KT,Ishizaki K,Fujisawa M,Okada S,Nakayama S,Fujishita M,Bando H,Yodoya K,Hayashi K,Bando T,Hasumi A,Nishio T,Sakata R,Yamamoto M,Yamaki A,Kajikawa M,Yamano T,Nishide T,Choi SH,Shimizu-Ueda Y,Hanajiri T,Sa

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate side chains of proteoglycans, resulting in disassembly of the extracellular matrix underlying endothelial and epithelial cells and associating with enhanced cell invasion and metastasis. Heparanase expression is induced in carcinomas and sarcomas, often ass...

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

authors： Weissmann M,Arvatz G,Horowitz N,Feld S,Naroditsky I,Zhang Y,Ng M,Hammond E,Nevo E,Vlodavsky I,Ilan N

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated that mammalian cells contain a cytosolic protein disaggregation machinery comprised of Hsc70, DnaJ homologs, and Hsp110 proteins, the last of which acts to accelerate a rate-limiting step of nucleotide exchange of Hsc70. We tested the ability of transgenic overexpression of a Thy1 promote...

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

authors： Nagy M,Fenton WA,Li D,Furtak K,Horwich AL

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier proposed a molecular mechanism for the translocation of hydrophilic proteins across membranes that accounts for the experimental facts and meets the restrictions that we stipulate for such a mechanism. In particular, the restrictions are that translocation occurs by successive segments of the polypepti...

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

authors： Singer SJ,Maher PA,Yaffe MP

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster Polo kinase physically interacts with, and is repressed by, the Matrimony (Mtrm) protein during oogenesis. Females heterozygous for a deletion of the mtrm gene display defects in chromosome segregation at meiosis I. However, a complete absence of Mtrm results in both meiotic catastrophe and fem...

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

authors： Bonner AM,Hughes SE,Chisholm JA,Smith SK,Slaughter BD,Unruh JR,Collins KA,Friederichs JM,Florens L,Swanson SK,Pelot MC,Miller DE,Washburn MP,Jaspersen SL,Hawley RS

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization represents an extreme transformation of more natural systems. Populations of most species decline or disappear with urbanization, and yet some species persist and even thrive in cities. What determines which species persist or thrive in urban habitats? Direct competitive interactions among species can inf...

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

authors： Martin PR,Bonier F

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV photodissociation kinetics of tryptophan amino acid, Trp, attached to the membrane of bacteria, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, have been studied by means of normal and synchronous fluorescence. Our experimental data suggest that the fluorescence intensity of Trp increases during the first minute of irr...

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

authors： Li R,Dhankhar D,Chen J,Cesario TC,Rentzepis PM

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliary epithelium in the eye consists of pigmented epithelial cells that express the α1β1 isoform of Na,K-ATPase and nonpigmented epithelial cells that express mainly the α2β3 isoform. In principle, a Na,K-ATPase inhibitor with selectivity for α2β3 that penetrates the cornea could effectively reduce intraocular p...

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

authors： Katz A,Tal DM,Heller D,Habeck M,Ben Zeev E,Rabah B,Bar Kana Y,Marcovich AL,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations with a regional chemical transport model show that anthropogenic emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (NO(x) = NO + NO(2)) lead to a dramatic diurnal variation of surface ozone (O(3)) in Houston, Texas. During the daytime, photochemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds catalyz...

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

authors： Zhang R,Lei W,Tie X,Hess P

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the myriad complications involved in the current food crisis, the relationship between agriculture and the rest of nature is one of the most important yet remains only incompletely analyzed. Particularly in tropical areas, agriculture is frequently seen as the antithesis of the natural world, where the problem i...

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

authors： Perfecto I,Vandermeer J

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxins are 12-kDa proteins functional in the regulation of cellular processes throughout the animal, plant, and microbial kingdoms. Growing evidence with seeds suggests that an h-type of thioredoxin, reduced by NADPH via NADP-thioredoxin reductase, reduces disulfide bonds of target proteins and thereby acts as a...

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

authors： Yano H,Wong JH,Lee YM,Cho MJ,Buchanan BB

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing temporal variability in extreme rainfall events before the historical era is complicated by the sparsity of long-term "direct" storm proxies. Here we present a 2,200-y-long, accurate, and precisely dated record of cave flooding events from the northwest Australian tropics that we interpret, based on an integ...

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

authors： Denniston RF,Villarini G,Gonzales AN,Wyrwoll KH,Polyak VJ,Ummenhofer CC,Lachniet MS,Wanamaker AD Jr,Humphreys WF,Woods D,Cugley J

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells treated with toluene replicate DNA when they are provided with deoxyribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates, ATP, Mg(++), and K(+). However, when deoxycytidine 5'-triphosphate is replaced by hydroxymethyl deoxycytidine 5'-triphosphate, incorporation of nucleotides into acid-precipitable material by tolu...

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

authors： Fleischman RA,Richardson CC

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central role for phenotypic plasticity in adaptive evolution is often posited yet lacks empirical support. Selection for the stable production of an induced phenotype is hypothesized to modify the regulation of preexisting developmental pathways, producing rapid adaptive change. We examined the role of plasticity in...

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

authors： Scoville AG,Pfrender ME

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a hypothesis that dangerous diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Alzheimer's, fatal familial insomnia, and several others are induced by propagation of wrong or misfolded conformations of some vital proteins. If for some reason the misfolded conformations were acquired by many...

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

authors： Małolepsza E,Boniecki M,Kolinski A,Piela L

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofa...

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

authors： McBride MJ,Pope SR,Hu K,Okafor CD,Balskus EP,Bollinger JM Jr,Boal AK

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) has been defined by its ability to promote tumorigenesis on carcinogen-initiated mouse skin. Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling has a decisive role in mouse skin carcinogenesis, but it remains unclear how TPA activates Wnt/β-catenin signaling in mouse s...

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

authors： Su Z,Song J,Wang Z,Zhou L,Xia Y,Yu S,Sun Q,Liu SS,Zhao L,Li S,Wei L,Carson DA,Lu D

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid and DNA sequences of the human 40-kDa keratin are reported. The DNA sequence encodes a protein of 44,098 Da, which is unique in that it lacks the terminal non-alpha-helical tail segment found in all other keratins. When the human 40-kDa keratin amino acid sequence is compared to the correspondi...

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

authors： Eckert RL

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hsp90 chaperone buffers development against a wide range of morphological changes in many organisms and in Drosophila masks the effects of hidden genetic variation. Theory predicts that genetic and nongenetic buffering will share common mechanisms. For example, it is argued that Hsp90 genetic buffering evolved sol...

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

authors： Milton CC,Huynh B,Batterham P,Rutherford SL,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In MtrF, an outer-membrane multiheme cytochrome, the 10 heme groups are arranged in heme binding domains II and IV along the pseudo-C2 axis, forming the electron transfer (ET) pathways. Previous reports based on molecular dynamics simulations showed that the redox potential (Em) values for the heme pairs located in sy...

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

authors： Watanabe HC,Yamashita Y,Ishikita H

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An artificial increase of cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) levels in Sinorhizobium meliloti 8530, a bacterium that does not carry known cellulose synthesis genes, leads to overproduction of a substance that binds the dyes Congo red and calcofluor. Sugar composition and methylation analyses and NMR studies identified this...

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

authors： Pérez-Mendoza D,Rodríguez-Carvajal MÁ,Romero-Jiménez L,Farias Gde A,Lloret J,Gallegos MT,Sanjuán J

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterosis is widely applied in agriculture; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms for superior performance are not well understood. Ethylene biosynthesis and signaling genes are shown to be down-regulated in Arabidopsis interspecific hybrids. Ethylene is a plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening and maturati...

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

authors： Song Q,Ando A,Xu D,Fang L,Zhang T,Huq E,Qiao H,Deng XW,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) tumor-suppressor protein Merlin is a member of the ERM family of proteins that links the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane. In humans, mutations in the NF2 gene cause neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF2), a cancer syndrome characterized by the development of tumors of the nervous system....

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

authors： Benseñor LB,Barlan K,Rice SE,Fehon RG,Gelfand VI

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It was reported that the rate of elongation of partially reconstituted RNA, if prepared without centrifugation, showed dependency upon the state of protein aggregation like that found when free RNA was used as the nucleic acid source [Butler, P. J. G. (1974) J. Mol. Biol. 82, 333-341]. Butler concluded from this resul...

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

authors： Ohno T,Takahashi M,Okada Y

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from bacillus Calmette-Guerin-infected mice injected with endotoxin induces the appearance of surface immunoglobulin, Ia antigen, and complement receptor on the surface of precursor bone-marrow-derived (B) cells. While endotoxin itself causes phenotypic conversion of both thymus-derived (T) cells and B cells in ...

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

authors： Hoffmann MK,Oettgen HF,Old LJ,Chin AF,Hammerling U

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seventh cholera pandemic caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor (ET) has been superseded in Asia and Africa by altered ET possessing the cholera toxin (CTX) gene of classical (CL) biotype. The CL biotype of V. cholerae was isolated, along with prototypic and altered ET, during the 1991 cholera epidemic in Mexico and ...

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

authors： Alam M,Rashed SM,Mannan SB,Islam T,Lizarraga-Partida ML,Delgado G,Morales-Espinosa R,Mendez JL,Navarro A,Watanabe H,Ohnishi M,Hasan NA,Huq A,Sack RB,Colwell RR,Cravioto A

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00