Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales.

abstract：:By employing the nuclear DNA of the African rice Oryza glaberrima as a reference genome, the timing, natures, mechanisms, and specificities of recent sequence evolution in the indica and japonica subspecies of Oryza sativa were identified. The data indicate that the genome sizes of both indica and japonica have increa...

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

authors： Ma J,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual reproductive success and senescence patterns vary substantially among individuals in the wild. However, it is still seldom considered that senescence may not only affect an individual but also affect age-specific reproductive success in its offspring, generating transgenerational reproductive senescence. We use...

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

authors： Kroeger SB,Blumstein DT,Armitage KB,Reid JM,Martin JGA

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Eusociality is a major evolutionary innovation involving alterations in life history, morphology, and behavior. Advanced eusocial insects, such as ants, termites, and corbiculate bees, cannot provide insights into the earliest stages of eusocial evolution because eusociality in these taxa evolved long ago (in the Cret...

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

authors： Danforth BN

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasectomy is a well accepted global contraceptive approach frequently associated with epididymal granuloma and sperm autoantibody formation. To understand the long-term sequelae of vasectomy, we investigated the early immune response in vasectomized mice. Vasectomy leads to rapid epithelial cell apoptosis and necrosis...

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

authors： Wheeler K,Tardif S,Rival C,Luu B,Bui E,Del Rio R,Teuscher C,Sparwasser T,Hardy D,Tung KS

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The E1A gene of adenovirus type 5 encodes two major proteins of 289 and 243 amino acid residues, which are identical except that the larger protein has an internal stretch of 46 amino acids required for efficient trans-activation of early viral promoters. This domain contains a consensus zinc finger motif (Cys-Xaa2-Cy...

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

authors： Culp JS,Webster LC,Friedman DJ,Smith CL,Huang WJ,Wu FY,Rosenberg M,Ricciardi RP

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active conformation of native peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolases (EC 2.3.1.16) is homodimeric. We have previously shown that a truncated Saccharomyces cerevisiae thiolase lacking its first 16 N-terminal amino acids fails to be translocated into peroxisomes but assembles into an enzymatically active form in the c...

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

authors： Glover JR,Andrews DW,Rachubinski RA

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans who have inherited the class I major histocompatibility allele HLA-A29 have a markedly increased relative risk of developing the eye disease termed birdshot chorioretinopathy. This disease affecting adults is characterized by symmetrically scattered, small, cream-colored spots in the fundus associated with reti...

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

authors： Szpak Y,Vieville JC,Tabary T,Naud MC,Chopin M,Edelson C,Cohen JH,Dausset J,de Kozak Y,Pla M

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of procollagen molecules has been isolated from the culture medium of a clonal line of calf dermatosparactic cells and shown to have the amino-acid composition, physical properties, and molecular structure consistent with collagen precursors. Although this procollagen population shares immunologic determi...

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

authors： Tanzer ML,Church RL,Yaeger JA,Wampler DE,Park E

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MyoD is a master regulatory gene for myogenesis. Its product, the MyoD protein, appears to act by binding to muscle-specific enhancer sequences. We show that MyoD binds cooperatively to two sites in the muscle-specific creatine kinase enhancer; this is dramatically reflected in dissociation-rate measurements. A deleti...

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

authors： Weintraub H,Davis R,Lockshon D,Lassar A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito repellency data on acylpiperidines derived from the U.S. Department of Agriculture archives were modeled by using molecular descriptors calculated by CODESSA PRO software. An artificial neural network model was developed for the correlation of these archival results and used to predict the repellent activity ...

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

authors： Katritzky AR,Wang Z,Slavov S,Tsikolia M,Dobchev D,Akhmedov NG,Hall CD,Bernier UR,Clark GG,Linthicum KJ

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) are central mediators of cardiac hypertrophy and are discussed as potential therapeutic targets. However, direct inhibition of ERK1/2 leads to exacerbated cardiomyocyte death and impaired heart function. We have previously identified ERK(Thr188) autophosphorylati...

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

authors： Ruppert C,Deiss K,Herrmann S,Vidal M,Oezkur M,Gorski A,Weidemann F,Lohse MJ,Lorenz K

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding biological and physical processes involving nucleic acids, such as the binding of proteins to DNA and RNA, DNA condensation, and RNA folding, requires an understanding of the ion atmosphere that surrounds nucleic acids. We have used a simple model DNA system to determine how the ion atmosphere modulates ...

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

authors： Bai Y,Das R,Millett IS,Herschlag D,Doniach S

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with a targeted mutation of the gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) receptor gene (GIPR) were generated to determine the role of GIP as a mediator of signals from the gut to pancreatic beta cells. GIPR-/- mice have higher blood glucose levels with impaired initial insulin response after oral glucose load. Althou...

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

authors： Miyawaki K,Yamada Y,Yano H,Niwa H,Ban N,Ihara Y,Kubota A,Fujimoto S,Kajikawa M,Kuroe A,Tsuda K,Hashimoto H,Yamashita T,Jomori T,Tashiro F,Miyazaki J,Seino Y

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of development has relied primarily on the isolation of mutations in genes with specific functions in development and on the comparison of their expression patterns in normal and mutant phenotypes. Comparative evolutionary analyses can complement these approaches. Phylogenetic analyses of Sonic hedgehog (Shh...

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

authors： Zardoya R,Abouheif E,Meyer A

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Much discussion has occurred in recent years on whether observed patterns of structure in island bird communities are the result of competitive interactions among species or independent rates of colonization and extinction. Here two patterns of structure are presented for birds on 12 West Indian islands. Each of four ...

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

authors： Faaborg J

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly polymorphic system of serologically defined genetic markers on human IgG heavy chains (Gm allotypes) is second only to the HLA complex in terms of the large number of determinants, alleles, and haplotypes that can be used for analyses of disease associations and other genetic studies. However, present typin...

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

authors： Zelaschi D,Newby C,Parsons M,van West B,Cavalli-Sforza LL,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies on human insulins prepared by semisynthetic and biosynthetic methods have recently been undertaken. Human insulin differs from porcine insulin only at the COOH terminus of the B-chain. The present study reports the crystal structure of 4-zinc human insulin, which is used clinically as a slow-acting prepa...

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

authors： Smith GD,Swenson DC,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Reynolds CD

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the antigen-binding fragment (Fab) of an anti-phenylarsonate monoclonal antibody (36-71) bearing a major crossreacting idiotype of A/J mice has been solved and refined to an R factor of 19.3% at a resolution of 2.9 A. An initial electron density map was obtained with phase information from a total of ...

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

authors： Rose DR,Strong RK,Margolies MN,Gefter ML,Petsko GA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As long-term changes in life expectancy and fertility drive the emergence of aging societies across the globe, individual countries vary widely in the development of age-relevant policies and programs. While failure to adapt to the demographic transformation carries not only important financial risks but also social r...

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

authors： Chen C,Goldman DP,Zissimopoulos J,Rowe JW,Research Network on an Aging Society.

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-frequency thalamocortical oscillations that underlie drowsiness and slow-wave sleep depend on rhythmic inhibition of relay cells by neurons in the reticular nucleus (RTN) under the influence of corticothalamic fibers that branch to innervate RTN neurons and relay neurons. To generate oscillations, input to RTN pre...

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

authors： Golshani P,Liu XB,Jones EG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to assess subtle, potentially exploitable changes in serial structure is paramount in the analysis of financial data. Herein, we demonstrate the utility of approximate entropy (ApEn), a model-independent measure of sequential irregularity, toward this goal, by several distinct applications. We consider both e...

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

authors： Pincus S,Kalman RE

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase from Escherichia coli and mammalian cells provides the deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates for DNA synthesis. The active enzyme contains a tyrosyl free radical whose formation requires oxygen. Earlier genetic evidence suggested that the enzyme is not required for anaerobic growth of ...

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

authors： Fontecave M,Eliasson R,Reichard P

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus is an abundant marine cyanobacterium that grows rapidly in the environment and contributes significantly to global primary production. This cyanobacterium coexists with many cyanophages in the oceans, likely aided by resistance to numerous co-occurring phages. Spontaneous resistance occurs frequently i...

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

authors： Avrani S,Lindell D

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and test a Markov chain model of microsatellite evolution that can explain the different distributions of microsatellite lengths across different organisms and repeat motifs. Two key features of this model are the dependence of mutation rates on microsatellite length and a mutation process that includes bo...

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

authors： Kruglyak S,Durrett RT,Schug MD,Aquadro CF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global agricultural emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased by around 20% over the last 100 y, but regulation of these emissions and their impact on bacterial cellular metabolism are poorly understood. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate in soils to inert di-nitrogen gas (N2) via N2O and t...

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

authors： Sullivan MJ,Gates AJ,Appia-Ayme C,Rowley G,Richardson DJ

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the expression of thymidine kinase (tk) activity in synchronized populations of mouse cells that have been transformed to the tk+ phenotype with purified DNA from various sources or with metaphase chromosomes from human cells. The viral (herpes) tk gene is constitutively expressed but, in all other cases ...

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

authors： Schlosser CA,Steglich C,deWet JR,Scheffler IE

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual deficits caused by abnormal visual experience during development are hard to recover in adult animals. Removal of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans from the mature extracellular matrix with chondroitinase ABC promotes plasticity in the adult visual cortex. We tested whether chondroitinase ABC treatment of adult...

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

authors： Pizzorusso T,Medini P,Landi S,Baldini S,Berardi N,Maffei L

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba castellanii contains two enzymes, myosins IA and IB, that exhibit the catalytic properties of a myosin but possess very unusual physical properties, the most striking of which are their single, low molecular weight heavy chain, their globular shape, and their inability to form bipolar filaments. We have n...

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

authors： Hammer JA 3rd,Jung G,Korn ED

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse glucocorticoid receptor-interacting protein (GRIP1) is a member of the ERAP160 family of nuclear receptor (NR) coactivators (including SRC-1 and TIF2) which function as bridging proteins between ligand-activated NRs bound to cognate hormone-response elements (HREs) and the transcription initiation apparatus ...

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

authors： Walfish PG,Yoganathan T,Yang YF,Hong H,Butt TR,Stallcup MR

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) have been proposed to transport hydrophobic chemicals from air to olfactory or taste receptors. They have been isolated from several sensory organs of a wide range of insect species. The x-ray structure of CSPMbraA6, a 112-aa antennal protein from the moth Mamestra brassicae (Mbra), was sh...

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

authors： Campanacci V,Lartigue A,Hällberg BM,Jones TA,Giudici-Orticoni MT,Tegoni M,Cambillau C

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00