Analyzing variation in egg-to-adult viability in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:HIV-1 maturation involves conversion of the immature Gag polyprotein lattice, which lines the inner surface of the viral membrane, to the mature capsid protein (CA) lattice, which encloses the viral RNA. Maturation inhibitors such as bevirimat (BVM) bind within six-helix bundles, formed by a segment that spans the jun...

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

authors： Gupta S,Louis JM,Tycko R

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-copper oxygen reductases are redox-driven proton pumps. In the current work, the effects of mutations in a proposed exit pathway for pumped protons are examined in the ba(3)-type oxygen reductase from Thermus thermophilus, leading from the propionates of heme a(3) to the interface between subunits I and II. R...

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

authors： Chang HY,Choi SK,Vakkasoglu AS,Chen Y,Hemp J,Fee JA,Gennis RB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation by imposed localization was studied by using designed zinc finger proteins that bind 18-bp DNA sequences in the 5' untranslated regions of the protooncogenes erbB-2 and erbB-3. Transcription factors were generated by fusion of the DNA-binding proteins to repression or activation domains. When introduce...

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

authors： Beerli RR,Dreier B,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of lactoferrin, an intact lactoferrin and a "nicked" but apparently intact (i.e., 78-kDa) form, have been isolated from the urine of preterm infants fed human milk. These two forms of lactoferrin, demonstrated to be entirely of maternal origin, were copurified using affinity columns of immobilized single-str...

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

authors： Hutchens TW,Henry JF,Yip TT

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microtubules (MTs) frequently form highly dynamic networks, subsets of MTs become stabilized in response to environmental cues and function as specialized tracks for vesicle and macromolecular trafficking. MT stabilization is controlled by specialized plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) whose accumulation at t...

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

authors： Naghavi MH,Gundersen GG,Walsh D

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes exhibit diverse patterns of species-specific GC content, GC and AT skews, codon bias, and mutation bias. Despite intensive investigations and the rapid accumulation of sequence data, the causes of these a priori different genome biases have not been agreed on and seem multifactorial and idiosyncratic. We show ...

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

authors： Vetsigian K,Goldenfeld N

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixing genomes of different species by hybridization can disrupt species-specific genetic interactions that were adapted and fixed within each species population. Such disruption can predispose the hybrids to abnormalities and disease that decrease the overall fitness of the hybrids and is therefore named as hybrid in...

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

authors： Lu Y,Sandoval A,Voss S,Lai Z,Kneitz S,Boswell W,Boswell M,Savage M,Walter C,Warren W,Schartl M,Walter R

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous addition of [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]-enkephalin and morphiceptin at concentrations at which 98% of enkephalin (delta) and morphine (mu) receptors are occupied only partially inhibits the binding of [3H]diprenorphine to rat brain membranes. These conditions, furthermore, do not affect the curves for displaceme...

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

authors： Chang KJ,Hazum E,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe five individuals who have constitutional deletions of the short arm of one chromosome 11, including all or part of the band p13. All of these individuals suffer from aniridia; two have had a Wilms tumor removed. We have established lymphoblastoid cell lines from these and in three cases constructed somatic...

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

authors： van Heyningen V,Boyd PA,Seawright A,Fletcher JM,Fantes JA,Buckton KE,Spowart G,Porteous DJ,Hill RE,Newton MS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explaining the maintenance of tropical forest diversity under the countervailing forces of drift and competition poses a major challenge to ecological theory. Janzen-Connell effects, in which host-specific natural enemies restrict the recruitment of juveniles near conspecific adults, provide a potential mechanism. Jan...

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

authors： Levi T,Barfield M,Barrantes S,Sullivan C,Holt RD,Terborgh J

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrin-1 is critical for axonal pathfinding which shares similarities with formation of vascular network. Here we report that netrin-1 induction of angiogenesis is mediated by an increase in endothelial nitric oxide (NO*) production, which occurs via a DCC-dependent, ERK1/2-eNOS feed-forward mechanism. Exposure of mat...

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

authors： Nguyen A,Cai H

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribbon synapses of photoreceptor cells and second-order bipolar neurons in the retina are specialized to transmit graded signals that encode light intensity. Neurotransmitter release at ribbon synapses exhibits two kinetically distinct components, which serve different sensory functions. The faster component is deplet...

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

authors： Vaithianathan T,Matthews G

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct conversion of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products remains as a grand challenge in electrochemical CO2 reduction. Various forms of oxidized copper have been demonstrated as electrocatalysts that still require large overpotentials. Here, we show that an ensemble of Cu nanoparticles (NPs) enables selective form...

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

authors： Kim D,Kley CS,Li Y,Yang P

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare nucleated fetal cells circulate within maternal blood. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis by isolation and genetic analysis of these cells is currently being undertaken. We sought to determine if genetic evidence existed for persistent circulation of fetal cells from prior pregnancies. Venous blood samples were obtai...

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

authors： Bianchi DW,Zickwolf GK,Weil GJ,Sylvester S,DeMaria MA

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the strategies used by organisms to adapt to life under conditions of short energy supply is to use the by-product pyrophosphate to support cation gradients in membranes. Transport reactions are catalyzed by membrane-integral pyrophosphatases (PPases), which are classified into two homologous subfamilies: H(+)-...

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

authors： Luoto HH,Baykov AA,Lahti R,Malinen AM

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is a two-member family of proteins (IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta) that mediates a diverse series of immune and inflammatory responses. These two proteins have only 26% amino acid homology yet bind to the same receptor. It is of importance to define the active sites of these molecules in order to under...

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

authors： Mosley B,Dower SK,Gillis S,Cosman D

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanophthalmos is a rare disorder of eye development characterized by extreme hyperopia (farsightedness), with refractive error in the range of +8.00 to +25.00 diopters. Because the cornea and lens are normal in size and shape, hyperopia occurs because insufficient growth along the visual axis places these lensing comp...

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

authors： Sundin OH,Leppert GS,Silva ED,Yang JM,Dharmaraj S,Maumenee IH,Santos LC,Parsa CF,Traboulsi EI,Broman KW,Dibernardo C,Sunness JS,Toy J,Weinberg EM

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:von Willebrand factor (VWF), a protein present in our circulatory system, is necessary to stop bleeding under high shear-stress conditions as found in small blood vessels. The results presented here help unravel how an increase in hydrodynamic shear stress activates VWF's adhesion potential, leading to the counterintu...

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

authors： Schneider SW,Nuschele S,Wixforth A,Gorzelanny C,Alexander-Katz A,Netz RR,Schneider MF

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an "anti-alpha" factor Spx in Bacillus subtilis that blocks transcriptional activation by binding to the alpha-C-terminal domain, thereby...

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

authors： Nakano S,Nakano MM,Zhang Y,Leelakriangsak M,Zuber P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-derived free radicals have been implicated in the pathogenesis of vasogenic edema and infarction caused by ischemia and reperfusion injury. In earlier studies, exogenously supplied liposome-entrapped CuZn superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD) ameliorated ischemic brain edema and infarction in rats following focal cer...

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

authors： Kinouchi H,Epstein CJ,Mizui T,Carlson E,Chen SF,Chan PH

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein prenylation with farnesyl or geranylgeranyl moieties is an important posttranslational modification that affects the activity of such diverse proteins as the nuclear lamins, the yeast mating factor mata, and the ras oncogene products. In this article, we show that whole retinal cultures incorporate radioactive...

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

authors： Lai RK,Perez-Sala D,Cañada FJ,Rando RR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor/resistance protein (TIR) domains has been implicated in signaling in plant and animal immunity receptors. Structure-based studies identified different TIR-domain dimerization interfaces required for signaling of the plant nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-lik...

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

authors： Zhang X,Bernoux M,Bentham AR,Newman TE,Ve T,Casey LW,Raaymakers TM,Hu J,Croll TI,Schreiber KJ,Staskawicz BJ,Anderson PA,Sohn KH,Williams SJ,Dodds PN,Kobe B

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:All of the heme-degrading enzymes that have been characterized to date require molecular oxygen as a cosubstrate. Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been shown to express heme uptake and transport proteins, as well as use heme as an iron source. This enteric pathogen colonizes the anaerobic space of the lower intestine in m...

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

authors： LaMattina JW,Nix DB,Lanzilotta WN

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a measurement of the transverse momentum correlation between two photons by detecting only one of them. Our method uses two identical sources in an arrangement in which the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission is observed. In this way, we produce an interference pattern in the superpositi...

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

authors： Hochrainer A,Lahiri M,Lapkiewicz R,Lemos GB,Zeilinger A

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the participation of genomic regulatory events in the response of the songbird brain to a natural auditory stimulus of known physiological and behavioral relevance, birdsong. Using in situ hybridization, we detected a rapid increase in forebrain mRNA levels of an immediate-early gene encoding a transcr...

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

authors： Mello CV,Vicario DS,Clayton DF

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active form of vitamin D, 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1alpha,25(OH)2D], is synthesized from its precursor 25 hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] via the catalytic action of the 25(OH)D-1alpha-hydroxylase [1alpha(OH)ase] enzyme. Many roles in cell growth and differentiation have been attributed to 1,25(OH)2D, including a ...

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

authors： Panda DK,Miao D,Tremblay ML,Sirois J,Farookhi R,Hendy GN,Goltzman D

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary deficiency of factor IXa (fIXa), a key enzyme in blood coagulation, causes hemophilia B, a severe X chromosome-linked bleeding disorder afflicting 1 in 30,000 males; clinical studies have identified nearly 500 deleterious variants. The x-ray structure of porcine fIXa described here shows the atomic origins ...

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

authors： Brandstetter H,Bauer M,Huber R,Lollar P,Bode W

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Notch signaling in cartilage differentiation and maturation in vivo was examined. Conditional Notch pathway gain and loss of function was achieved using a Cre/loxP approach to manipulate Notch signaling in cartilage precursors and chondrocytes of the developing mouse embryo. Conditional overexpression of a...

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

authors： Mead TJ,Yutzey KE

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An argument is presented in favor of the hypothesis that, bovine carboxypeptidases A and B fit by and large, the concept of homology on the levels of both amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure. Two peptide sequences from carboxypeptidases A and B, comprising 46 amino acid residues, display structural hom...

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

authors： Bradshaw RA,Neurath H,Walsh KA

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate binding specificity of leukoagglutinin (La; Phaseolus vulgaris isolectin L4) was studied by using quantitative precipitation and precipitation-inhibition. A series of purified glycopeptides and synthetic oligosaccharides were used as inhibitors. The minimal structural unit required for La binding was ...

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

authors： Hammarström S,Hammarström ML,Sundblad G,Arnarp J,Lönngren J

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00