Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates.

abstract：:Norepinephrine, epinephrine, and histamine cause a rapid increase in the concentration of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) in a tumor astrocyte cell line derived from a primary culture of a human glioblastoma multiforme. The catecholamine-induced increase in cAMP is dependent on the cell density, being far ...

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

authors： Clark RB,Perkins JP

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of complex but highly organized neural circuits requires interactions between neurons and glia. During the assembly of the Drosophila olfactory circuit, 50 olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) classes and 50 projection neuron (PN) classes form synaptic connections in 50 glomerular compartments in the antennal...

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

authors： Wu B,Li J,Chou YH,Luginbuhl D,Luo L

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological significance of multiple G-protein-coupled receptor subtypes, such as the beta-adrenergic receptors (beta ARs), remains obscure, since in many cases several subtypes activate the same effector and utilize the same physiological agonists. We inspected the deduced amino acid sequences of the beta AR su...

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

authors： Liggett SB,Freedman NJ,Schwinn DA,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Although the prenatal diagnosis of DS has become feasible, there are no therapies available for the rescue of DS-related neurocognitive impairment. A growth inducer newly identified in our screen of neura...

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

authors： Nakano-Kobayashi A,Awaya T,Kii I,Sumida Y,Okuno Y,Yoshida S,Sumida T,Inoue H,Hosoya T,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary innovations often arise from complex genetic and ecological interactions, which can make it challenging to understand retrospectively how a novel trait arose. In a long-term experiment, Escherichia coli gained the ability to use abundant citrate (Cit(+)) in the growth medium after ∼31,500 generations of e...

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

authors： Quandt EM,Deatherage DE,Ellington AD,Georgiou G,Barrick JE

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Dystroglycan (α-DG) is a highly glycosylated basement membrane receptor that is cleaved by the proprotein convertase furin, which releases its N-terminal domain (α-DGN). Before cleavage, α-DGN interacts with the glycosyltransferase LARGE1 and initiates functional O-glycosylation of the mucin-like domain of α-DG. Not...

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

authors： de Greef JC,Slütter B,Anderson ME,Hamlyn R,O'Campo Landa R,McNutt EJ,Hara Y,Pewe LL,Venzke D,Matsumura K,Saito F,Harty JT,Campbell KP

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the dimeric gene V protein of bacteriophage f1 was determined using multiwavelength anomalous diffraction on the selenomethionine-containing wild-type and isoleucine-47-->methionine mutant proteins with x-ray diffraction data phased to 2.5 A resolution. The structure of the wild-type protein h...

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

authors： Skinner MM,Zhang H,Leschnitzer DH,Guan Y,Bellamy H,Sweet RM,Gray CW,Konings RN,Wang AH,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines often deliver simultaneous, yet distinct, cell growth and cell survival signals. The 70-kDa ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70S6K) is known to regulate cell growth by inducing protein synthesis components. We purified membrane-based p70S6K as a kinase responsible for site-specific phosphorylation of BAD, which...

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

authors： Harada H,Andersen JS,Mann M,Terada N,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes contain an extraordinary diversity of lipids. Phospholipids function as major structural elements of cellular membranes, and analysis of changes in the highly heterogeneous mixtures of lipids found in eukaryotic cells is central to understanding the complex functions in which lipids participate. P...

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

authors： Ivanova PT,Cerda BA,Horn DM,Cohen JS,McLafferty FW,Brown HA

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neovascular diseases of the retina include age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, and together they comprise the leading causes of adult-onset blindness in developed countries. Current surgical, pharmaceutical, and laser therapies for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) rarely result in improved...

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

authors： Raisler BJ,Berns KI,Grant MB,Beliaev D,Hauswirth WW

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently cross-linked pilus polymers displayed on the cell surface of Gram-positive bacteria are assembled by class C sortase enzymes. These pilus-specific transpeptidases located on the bacterial membrane catalyze a two-step protein ligation reaction, first cleaving the LPXTG motif of one pilin protomer to form an ...

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

authors： Chang C,Amer BR,Osipiuk J,McConnell SA,Huang IH,Hsieh V,Fu J,Nguyen HH,Muroski J,Flores E,Ogorzalek Loo RR,Loo JA,Putkey JA,Joachimiak A,Das A,Clubb RT,Ton-That H

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pH on the membrane-fusion activity of Sendai virus was examined (pH 5.0-9.5) by using, as assays of activity, hemolysis of chicken erythrocytes and the fusion of baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells. Exposure of virus to basic pH increased fusion activity; the optimum pH was found to be approximately equal...

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

authors： Hsu MC,Scheid A,Choppin PW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because synaptic vesicle exocytosis is a nano-mechanical process, it should be influenced by the mechanical properties of the cell membrane to which the vesicle fuses. By dissolving surfactants at various concentrations in the neuronal membrane, we have perturbed mechanical properties of the membrane and have found th...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Stevens CF

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Various concentrations of L-dopa (levodopa, L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) were incorporated in the diets of young male Swiss albino mice, and the highest concentrations to which these mice became adapted within 3 weeks were determined. One such concentration administered indefinitely eventually induced a youthful appe...

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

authors： Cotzias GC,Miller ST,Nicholson AR Jr,Maston WH,Tang LC

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of young humans. Each year 150,000 children in the United States experience their first seizure. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), used to treat seizures in children, infants, and pregnant women, cause cognitive impairment, microcephaly, and birth defects. The cause of unwan...

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

authors： Bittigau P,Sifringer M,Genz K,Reith E,Pospischil D,Govindarajalu S,Dzietko M,Pesditschek S,Mai I,Dikranian K,Olney JW,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome is the photoreceptor that controls red light-mediated morphogenesis in higher plants. It exists in two photointerconvertible forms, a red light-absorbing form, Pr, and a far-red light-absorbing form, Pfr. Because photoconversion of Pr to Pfr by a brief light pulse decreases the in vivo half-life of this ch...

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

authors： Shanklin J,Jabben M,Vierstra RD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with developmental dyslexia vary in their ability to improve reading skills, but the brain basis for improvement remains largely unknown. We performed a prospective, longitudinal study over 2.5 y in children with dyslexia (n = 25) or without dyslexia (n = 20) to discover whether initial behavioral or brain...

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

authors： Hoeft F,McCandliss BD,Black JM,Gantman A,Zakerani N,Hulme C,Lyytinen H,Whitfield-Gabrieli S,Glover GH,Reiss AL,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecules of biological origin continue to yield the most promising leads for drug design, but systematic approaches for exploring nature's cache of structural diversity are lacking. Here, we demonstrate the use of 2D NMR spectroscopy to screen a library of biorationally selected insect metabolite samples for pa...

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

authors： Deyrup ST,Eckman LE,McCarthy PH,Smedley SR,Meinwald J,Schroeder FC

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the presence of an N-acetyl-D-galactosaminyltransferase in human serum and in erythrocyte membranes. This enzyme catalyzes the transfer of N-acetyl-D-galactosamine from UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine to a mucin receptor and 2'-fucosyllactose that have blood group H activity and may be responsible...

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

authors： Kim YS,Perdomo J,Bella A Jr,Nordberg J

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection does not necessarily favor maximal reproduction because reproduction imposes fitness costs, reducing parental survival, and offspring quality. Here, we show that parents in a preindustrial population in North America incurred fitness costs from reproduction, and women incurred greater costs than men....

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

authors： Penn DJ,Smith KR

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod-like colloids distort fluid interfaces and interact by capillarity. We explore this interaction at the free surface of aligned nematic liquid crystal films. Naive comparison of capillary and elastic energies suggests that particle assembly would be determined solely by surface tension. Here, we demonstrate that, u...

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

authors： Liu IB,Gharbi MA,Ngo VL,Kamien RD,Yang S,Stebe KJ

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been nearly 40 y since it was suggested that genomic methylation patterns could be transmitted via maintenance methylation during S phase and might play a role in the dynamic regulation of gene expression during development [Holliday R, Pugh JE (1975) Science 187(4173):226-232; Riggs AD (1975) Cytogenet Cell Ge...

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

authors： Bestor TH,Edwards JR,Boulard M

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increased popularity of zebrafish (Danio rerio) for mutagenesis studies, efficient methods for manipulation of its genome are needed. One approach is the use of a transposable element as a vector for gene transfer in this species. We report here the transformation of zebrafish and germ-line transmission of th...

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

authors： Fadool JM,Hartl DL,Dowling JE

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal tubulofilamentous structures have been identified in electron micrographs of thin sections and negatively stained impression grids prepared from brains of animals with scrapie and other spongiform encephalopathies, and we showed that such tubules contain a core of filamentous structures resembling scrapie-ass...

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

authors： Narang HK,Asher DM,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is believed to have been domesticated ∼9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains contentious. A single-origin model suggests that two main subspecies of Asian rice, indica and japonica, were domesticated from the wild ric...

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

authors： Molina J,Sikora M,Garud N,Flowers JM,Rubinstein S,Reynolds A,Huang P,Jackson S,Schaal BA,Bustamante CD,Boyko AR,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Wine chemical compositions, which result from a complex interplay between environmental factors, genetic factors, and viticultural practices, have mostly been studied using targeted analyses of selected families of metabolites. Detailed studies have particularly concerned volatile and polyphenolic compounds because of...

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

authors： Gougeon RD,Lucio M,Frommberger M,Peyron D,Chassagne D,Alexandre H,Feuillat F,Voilley A,Cayot P,Gebefügi I,Hertkorn N,Schmitt-Kopplin P

更新日期：2009-06-09 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：:Immunotherapy is emerging as one of the most effective methods for treating many cancers. However, immunotherapy can still introduce significant off-target toxicity, and methods are sought to enable targeted immunotherapy at tumor sites. Here, we show that relatively large (>100-nm) anionic nanoparticles administered ...

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

authors： Haber T,Cornejo YR,Aramburo S,Flores L,Cao P,Liu A,Mooney R,Gilchrist M,Tirughana R,Nwokafor U,Abidi W,Han E,Dellinger T,Wakabayashi MT,Aboody KS,Berlin JM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a coarse-grained model for atomic glass formers. Its elements are physically motivated local microscopic dynamical rules parameterized by observables. Results of the model are established and used to interpret the measured behaviors of supercooled fluids approaching glass transitions. The model predicts t...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Chandler D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolution and diversification of surviving clades. Today, the synergistic effects of human impacts are laying the groundwork for a comparably great Anthropocene mas...

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

authors： Jackson JB

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00