Atlas of nonribosomal peptide and polyketide biosynthetic pathways reveals common occurrence of nonmodular enzymes.

abstract：:Microprocessor [Drosha-DGCR8 (DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8) complex] processing of primary microRNA (pri-miRNA) is the critical first step in miRNA biogenesis, but how the Drosha cleavage site is determined has been unclear. Previous models proposed that the Drosha-DGCR8 complex measures either ~22 nt from...

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

authors： Ma H,Wu Y,Choi JG,Wu H

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms that initiate meiosis have been studied in fungi and mammals, but little is known about the mechanisms directing the meiosis transition in other organisms. To elucidate meiosis initiation in plants, we characterized and cloned the ameiotic1 (am1) gene, which affects the transition to meiosis and p...

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

authors： Pawlowski WP,Wang CJ,Golubovskaya IN,Szymaniak JM,Shi L,Hamant O,Zhu T,Harper L,Sheridan WF,Cande WZ

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The method presented here refines molecular conformations directly against projections of single particles measured by electron microscopy. By optimizing the orientation of the projection at the same time as the conformation, the method is well-suited to two-dimensional class averages from cryoelectron microscopy. Suc...

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

authors： Zhang J,Minary P,Levitt M

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurogenesis has recently been observed in the adult human brain, suggesting the possibility of endogenous neural repair. However, the augmentation of neurogenesis in the adult human brain in response to neuronal cell loss has not been demonstrated. This study was undertaken to investigate whether neurogenesis occurs ...

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

authors： Curtis MA,Penney EB,Pearson AG,van Roon-Mom WM,Butterworth NJ,Dragunow M,Connor B,Faull RL

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy is a widely used cancer treatment, but it causes side effects even when localized radiotherapy is used. Extensive apoptosis of microvascular endothelial cells of the lamina propria is the primary lesion initiating intestinal radiation damage after abdominal radiation therapy. Many in vitro studies su...

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

authors： Cho CH,Kammerer RA,Lee HJ,Yasunaga K,Kim KT,Choi HH,Kim W,Kim SH,Park SK,Lee GM,Koh GY

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper 17 (TH17) cells represent a discrete TH cell subset instrumental in the immune response to extracellular bacteria and fungi. However, TH17 cells are considered to be detrimentally involved in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). In contrast to TH17 cells, regulatory T (Treg) cells were shown to b...

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

authors： Ulges A,Witsch EJ,Pramanik G,Klein M,Birkner K,Bühler U,Wasser B,Luessi F,Stergiou N,Dietzen S,Brühl TJ,Bohn T,Bündgen G,Kunz H,Waisman A,Schild H,Schmitt E,Zipp F,Bopp T

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the brain's functional organization is genetically predetermined, it appears that some noninnate functions can come to depend on dedicated and segregated neural tissue. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments that have investigated the neural development and organization of one such noninna...

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

authors： Polk TA,Farah MJ

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribonucleotide reductase system of Escherichia coli B participates in the biosynthesis of DNA by reducing ribonucleoside diphosphates to the corresponding deoxyribonucleotides. The enzyme is regulated in a complicated way by allosteric modifiers. We now find that infection of E. coli with the bacteriophage T4 resu...

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

authors： Berglund O,Karlström O,Reichard P

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blanket resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to all beta-lactam antibiotics--which had such a devastating impact on chemotherapy of staphylococcal infections--is related to the properties of the key component of this resistance mechanism: the "acquired" penicillin-binding protein (PBP)-2A, whi...

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

authors： Pinho MG,de Lencastre H,Tomasz A

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such an extent that it has been argued that "Human voice recognition depends on language ability" [Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE (2011) Science 333(6042):595]. However, 7-mo-old infants discriminate speakers of their ...

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

authors： Fleming D,Giordano BL,Caldara R,Belin P

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activity and neurotrophins induce synaptic remodeling in part by altering gene expression. A cDNA encoding a glycosylphoshatidylinositol-anchored protein was identified by screening for hippocampal genes that are induced by neural activity. This molecule, named neuritin, is expressed in postmitotic-differentiat...

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

authors： Naeve GS,Ramakrishnan M,Kramer R,Hevroni D,Citri Y,Theill LE

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleoclimate studies suggest that increased global warmth during the Eocene epoch was greatly amplified at high latitudes, a state that climate models cannot fully reproduce. However, proxy estimates of Eocene near-Antarctic sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have produced widely divergent results at similar latitudes, w...

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

authors： Douglas PM,Affek HP,Ivany LC,Houben AJ,Sijp WP,Sluijs A,Schouten S,Pagani M

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of predator intimidation on habitat use and behavior of prey species are rarely quantified for large marine vertebrates over ecologically relevant scales. Using state space movement models followed by a series of step selection functions, we analyzed movement data of concurrently tracked prey, bowhead whal...

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

authors： Matthews CJD,Breed GA,LeBlanc B,Ferguson SH

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophilic neurite outgrowth-promoting prostaglandin (NEPP) compounds protect neurons from oxidative insults. At least part of the neuroprotective action of NEPPs lies in induction of hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1), which, along with other phase II enzymes, serve as a defense system against oxidative stress. Here, we found...

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

authors： Satoh T,Okamoto SI,Cui J,Watanabe Y,Furuta K,Suzuki M,Tohyama K,Lipton SA

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In preeclampsia (PE), cytotrophoblast (CTB) invasion of the uterus and spiral arteries is often shallow. Thus, the placenta's role has been a focus. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that decidual defects are an important determinant of the placental phenotype. We isolated human endometrial stromal cells from no...

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

authors： Garrido-Gomez T,Dominguez F,Quiñonero A,Diaz-Gimeno P,Kapidzic M,Gormley M,Ona K,Padilla-Iserte P,McMaster M,Genbacev O,Perales A,Fisher SJ,Simón C

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A renin promoter-large tumor antigen (T antigen) fusion gene was constructed to provide a reporter function for renin expression in transgenic mice. These transgenic mice gave rise to tumors in subcutaneous soft tissue, which was attributed to transgene expression at this site. An immunohistochemical analysis of trans...

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

authors： Sigmund CD,Jones CA,Mullins JJ,Kim U,Gross KW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome demonstrated the potential threat an infectious disease poses in a closely interconnected and interdependent world. Here we introduce a probabilistic model that describes the worldwide spread of infectious diseases and demonstrate that a forecast of the g...

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

authors： Hufnagel L,Brockmann D,Geisel T

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Representations of the (infinite) canonical anticommutation relations and the associated operator algebra, the fermion algebra, are studied. A "coupling constant" (in (0,1]) is defined for primary states of "finite type" of that algebra. Primary, faithful states of finite type with arbitrary coupling are constructed a...

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

authors： Kadison RV

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants adapt to alterations in light conditions by controlling their gene expression profiles. Expression of light-inducible genes is transcriptionally induced by transcription factors such as HY5. However, few detailed analyses have been carried out on the control of transcription start sites (TSSs). Of the various w...

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

authors： Kurihara Y,Makita Y,Kawashima M,Fujita T,Iwasaki S,Matsui M

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of cooperation has a well established theoretical framework based on game theory. This approach has made valuable contributions to a wide variety of disciplines, including political science, economics, and evolutionary biology. Existing cancer theory suggests that individual clones of cancer cells evolve...

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

authors： Axelrod R,Axelrod DE,Pienta KJ

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary--i.e., nonsyndromal-postlingual deafness is inherited as an autosomal dominant phenotype in a large kindred in Costa Rica. Genetically susceptible individuals begin to lose hearing at low frequencies at about age 10 years, after language and speaking are learned. Deafness inevitably progresses by age 30 years ...

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

authors： Leon PE,Raventos H,Lynch E,Morrow J,King MC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The semaphorins comprise a large family of membrane-bound and secreted proteins, some of which have been shown to function in axon guidance. We have cloned a transmembrane semaphorin, Sema W, that belongs to the class IV subgroup of the semaphorin family. The mouse and rat forms of Sema W show 97% amino acid sequence ...

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

authors： Encinas JA,Kikuchi K,Chedotal A,de Castro F,Goodman CS,Kimura T

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the endothelin receptor type B (EDNRB) produce congenital aganglionic megacolon and pigment abnormalities in mice and humans. Here we report a naturally occurring null mutation of the EDNRB gene in spotting lethal (sl) rats, which exhibit aganglionic megacolon associated with white coat ...

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

authors： Gariepy CE,Cass DT,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:How can collective action evolve when individuals benefit from cooperation regardless of whether they pay its participation costs? According to one influential perspective, collective action problems are common, especially when groups are large, but may be solved when individuals who have more to gain from the collect...

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

authors： Langergraber KE,Watts DP,Vigilant L,Mitani JC

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial extent of the cortical filters selective for different spatial frequencies and orientations is limited. We studied psychophysically how information from the local filters is integrated into global pattern shapes, i.e., whether performance in the identification of a global pattern consisting of small, local...

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

authors： Saarinen J,Levi DM,Shen B

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a thorough study of the transport properties of the normal and superconducting states of black phosphorus (BP) under magnetic field and high pressure with a large-volume apparatus that provides hydrostatic pressure to induce transitions from the layered A17 phase to the layered A7 phase and to the cubic phas...

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

authors： Li X,Sun J,Shahi P,Gao M,MacDonald AH,Uwatoko Y,Xiang T,Goodenough JB,Cheng J,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:When two vortices cross, each of them breaks into two parts and exchanges part of itself for part of the other. This process, called vortex reconnection, occurs in classical and superfluids, and in magnetized plasmas and superconductors. We present the first experimental observations of reconnection between quantized ...

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

authors： Bewley GP,Paoletti MS,Sreenivasan KR,Lathrop DP

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae, prepared by differential solvent extraction, were shown to contain arabinogalactan, mycolates, and peptidoglycan. In addition, amino acid analysis revealed the unexpected presence of large amounts of protein that retained potent immunological reactivity. Purified cell walls stimulat...

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

authors： Melancon-Kaplan J,Hunter SW,McNeil M,Stewart C,Modlin RL,Rea TH,Convit J,Salgame P,Mehra V,Bloom BR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of organisms (or cells) is typically an adaptive response to spatiotemporal variation in resources that requires individuals to detect and respond to long-range and noisy environmental gradients. Many organisms, from wildebeest to bacteria, migrate en masse in a process that can involve a vast number of indi...

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

authors： Guttal V,Couzin ID

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to transitions to environmental sustainability is that consumers lack information about the full environmental footprints of their purchases. Sellers' incentives do not support reducing the footprints unless customers have such information and are willing to act on it. We explore the potential of moder...

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

authors： Isley SC,Stern PC,Carmichael SP,Joseph KM,Arent DJ

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00