Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes.

abstract：:Using defined oligomers of IgE, our group previously studied the quantitative relationship between the aggregation of the high affinity receptors for IgE (Fc epsilonRI) and the earliest signals initiated by such aggregation: the phosphorylation of tyrosines on the receptor. Notably, at certain doses of the oligomers s...

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

authors： Torigoe C,Goldstein B,Wofsy C,Metzger H

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues are transmitted to the interior of the cell via a complex network of signaling hubs. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and trimeric G proteins are two such major signaling hubs in eukaryotes. Conventionally, canonical signal transduction via trimeric G proteins is thought to be triggered exclusively ...

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

authors： Midde KK,Aznar N,Laederich MB,Ma GS,Kunkel MT,Newton AC,Ghosh P

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of the number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws but often show strong deviations from such laws. Previously, these deviations were attributed to finite-time effects in a continuous-time branching process at the generic level. Inste...

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

authors： Chu J,Adami C

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a lipid-enveloped, pleomorphic virus. We combine electron cryotomography and analysis of images of frozen-hydrated virions to determine the structural organization of filamentous influenza A virus. Influenza A/Udorn/72 virions are capsule-shaped or filamentous particles of highly uniform diameter. We show...

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

authors： Calder LJ,Wasilewski S,Berriman JA,Rosenthal PB

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras CAAX (C = cysteine, A = aliphatic amino acid, and X = any amino acid) peptidomimetic inhibitors of farnesyl protein transferase suppress Ras-dependent cell transformation by preventing farnesylation of the Ras oncoprotein. These compounds are potential anticancer agents for tumors associated with Ras mutations. Th...

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

authors： Kauffmann RC,Qian Y,Vogt A,Sebti SM,Hamilton AD,Carthew RW

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to numerous products, including 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE). That 4-hydroxy-2-alkenal compounds react with sulfhydryl groups of proteins to form thioether adducts possessing a carbonyl function has been established [Schauenstein, E. & Esterbauer, H. (1979) Ciba Found. S...

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

authors： Uchida K,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is proposed to account for large increases in transporter-mediated ion flux across cell membranes that are elicited by small fractional changes of cell volume. The model is based upon the concept that, as a result of large excluded volume effects in cytoplasm (macromolecular crowding), the tendency of s...

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

authors： Minton AP,Colclasure GC,Parker JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) have emerged as important cellular players in tissue repair and innate immunity. Whether these cells meaningfully regulate adaptive immune responses upon activation has yet to be explored. Here we show that upon IL-1β stimulation, peripheral ILC3s become activated, secrete cytokin...

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

authors： von Burg N,Chappaz S,Baerenwaldt A,Horvath E,Bose Dasgupta S,Ashok D,Pieters J,Tacchini-Cottier F,Rolink A,Acha-Orbea H,Finke D

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fall migratory monarch butterflies, tested for their directional responses to magnetic cues under three conditions, amagnetic, normal, and reversed magnetic fields, showed three distinct patterns. In the absence of a magnetic field, monarchs lacked directionality as a group. In the normal magnetic field, monarchs orie...

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

authors： Etheredge JA,Perez SM,Taylor OR,Jander R

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death regulates a number of biological phenomena, and the apoptotic signal must itself be tightly controlled to avoid inappropriate cell death. We established a genetic screen to search for molecules that inhibit the apoptotic signal from the Fas receptor. Here we report the isolation of a gene, LFG, t...

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

authors： Somia NV,Schmitt MJ,Vetter DE,Van Antwerp D,Heinemann SF,Verma IM

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation is refractory to repair and may trigger carcinogenic events for reasons that are not well understood. Here, we used an in situ method to directly monitor induction and repair of clustered DNA lesions in individual cells. We showed, consistent with biophysical modeling...

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

authors： Asaithamby A,Hu B,Chen DJ

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many materials phenomena are governed by the interaction between chemistry and mechanics. However, it was only in the second half of the 20th century that the theory of open system elasticity by Francis Larché and John W. Cahn concatenated the fields of solid mechanics and alloy chemistry. As the theory's central mate...

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

authors： Shi S,Markmann J,Weissmüller J

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter size and mammary number in the mammalian order Rodentia show a significant positive correlation. Mean litter size is typically one-half the number of available mammaries, while maximum litter size approximates mammary number. Similar relationships are found in the families Muridae, Cricetidae, and Sciuridae. Th...

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

authors： Gilbert AN

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of 13 amino acids from the carboxyl terminus of the 149-amino acid staphylococcal nuclease molecule results in a denatured, partly unfolded molecule that lacks persistent secondary structure but is compact under physiological conditions. Since the modification is a carboxyl-terminal deletion, it is argued tha...

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

authors： Flanagan JM,Kataoka M,Shortle D,Engelman DM

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) binds sites from which DNA replication is initiated. We address ORC binding selectivity in vivo by mapping ∼52,000 ORC2 binding sites throughout the human genome. The ORC binding profile is broader than those of sequence-specific transcription factors, suggesting that ORC is not bo...

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

authors： Miotto B,Ji Z,Struhl K

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Division of labor among the workers of insect societies is a conspicuous feature of their biology. Social tasks are commonly shared among age groups but not between larvae and adults with completely different morphologies, as in bees, wasps, ants, and beetles (i.e., Holometabola). A unique yet hardly studied holometab...

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

authors： Biedermann PH,Taborsky M

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is maintained by transcription factors that form a highly interconnected protein interaction network surrounding the homeobox protein Nanog. Enforced expression of Nanog in mouse ES (mES) cells promotes self-renewal and alleviates their requirement for leukemia inhibitory fact...

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

authors： Wang J,Levasseur DN,Orkin SH

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of fibronectin during the in vivo development of matrix-induced endochondral bone was investigated by using [35S]methionine in rats. The dmineralized bone matrix that was implanted subcutaneously to induce local bone formation bound circulating fibronectin. This may be an important initial requirement...

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

authors： Weiss RE,Reddi AH

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：:Phosphorylation of purified microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) inhibits the rate and extent of MAP-stimulated microtubule assembly. The extent of microtubule assembly is reduced as a result of a decrease in the fraction of tubulin polymerized, without a significant change in the critical protein concentration. The...

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

authors： Jameson L,Caplow M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that, under certain standard assumptions, such as extended Riemann hypotheses, the scattering matrix varphi(s) for generic Gamma

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

authors： Deshouillers JM,Iwaniec H,Phillips RS,Sarnak P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E2F1 transcription factor has a well-characterized activation domain at its C terminus and the E1A protein has a recently defined activation domain at its N terminus. Here we show that these activation domains are highly related in sequence. The sequence homology reflects, at least partly, the conservation of comm...

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

authors： Trouche D,Kouzarides T

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of hyperthermophilic Archaea encode dozens of methylation guide, C/D box small RNAs that guide 2'-O-methylation of ribose to specific sites in rRNA and various tRNAs. The genes encoding the Sulfolobus homologues of eukaryotic proteins that are known to be present in C/D box small nucleolar ribonucleoprotei...

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

authors： Omer AD,Ziesche S,Ebhardt H,Dennis PP

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of oriented, polymerized sickle cell hemoglobin (hemoglobin S) in erythrocytes is visualized with a microscope that produces an image proportional to linear dichroism. Monochromatic light alternately polarized along two perpendicular directions is incident on the sample. The image is focused on a diod...

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

authors： Mickols W,Maestre MF,Tinoco I Jr,Embury SH

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal microchimerism (MMc) has been associated with development of allospecific transplant tolerance, antitumor immunity, and cross-generational reproductive fitness, but its mode of action is unknown. We found in a murine model that MMc caused exposure to the noninherited maternal antigens in all offspring, but in...

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

authors： Bracamonte-Baran W,Florentin J,Zhou Y,Jankowska-Gan E,Haynes WJ,Zhong W,Brennan TV,Dutta P,Claas FH,van Rood JJ,Burlingham WJ

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiregulin (AR) and cripto are proteins that are structurally related to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). AR is also functionally related to this family of growth regulatory molecules and is able to bind and activate the 170-kDa EGF receptor (EGFR). Human EGFR-3 (HER3)/...

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

authors： Ciardiello F,Kim N,Saeki T,Dono R,Persico MG,Plowman GD,Garrigues J,Radke S,Todaro GJ,Salomon DS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated several lines of rat embryo cells transformed by simian virus 40. All these lines are fully transformed with regard to saturation density and serum sensitivity, but they differ greatly in their anchorage dependence, as assayed by efficiency of plating in methyl cellulose suspension. This set of lines ...

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

authors： Pollack R,Risser R,Conlon S,Rifkin D

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared whole-exome sequencing (WES) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in six unrelated individuals. In the regions targeted by WES capture (81.5% of the consensus coding genome), the mean numbers of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small insertions/deletions (indels) detected per sample were 84,192 and 13,32...

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

authors： Belkadi A,Bolze A,Itan Y,Cobat A,Vincent QB,Antipenko A,Shang L,Boisson B,Casanova JL,Abel L

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen atoms constitute about half of all atoms in proteins and play a critical role in enzyme mechanisms and macromolecular and solvent structure. Hydrogen atom positions can readily be determined by neutron diffraction, and as such, neutron diffraction is an invaluable tool for elucidating molecular mechanisms. Jo...

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

authors： Blum MM,Mustyakimov M,Rüterjans H,Kehe K,Schoenborn BP,Langan P,Chen JC

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced ethylene production is an early response of plants to pathogen attack and has been associated with both resistance and susceptibility to disease. Tobacco plants were transformed with the mutant etr1-1 gene from Arabidopsis, conferring dominant ethylene insensitivity. Besides lacking known ethylene responses, ...

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

authors： Knoester M,van Loon LC,van den Heuvel J,Hennig J,Bol JF,Linthorst HJ

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00