Meal frequency and timing in health and disease.

abstract：:alpha-Trichosanthin, a eukaryotic ribosome-inactivating protein from Trichosanthes kirilowii, inhibits the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in vitro. The alpha-trichosanthin gene was placed under the transcriptional control of a tobamovirus subgenomic promoter in a plant RNA viral vector. Two week...

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

authors： Kumagai MH,Turpen TH,Weinzettl N,della-Cioppa G,Turpen AM,Donson J,Hilf ME,Grantham GL,Dawson WO,Chow TP

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of spontaneous suppressors to the temperature-sensitive phenotype of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein mutation ssb-1 were isolated. A genomic library of EcoRI fragments from one of these suppressor strains was prepared by using pBR325 as the cloning vector. A 10.0-kilobase class of inserts was identifi...

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

authors： Ruben SM,VanDenBrink-Webb SE,Rein DC,Meyer RR

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying presynaptic mechanisms of general anesthetics is critical to understanding their effects on synaptic transmission. We show that the volatile anesthetic isoflurane inhibits synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis at nerve terminals in dissociated rat hippocampal neurons through inhibition of presynaptic Ca(2+) inf...

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

authors： Baumgart JP,Zhou ZY,Hara M,Cook DC,Hoppa MB,Ryan TA,Hemmings HC Jr

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) levels frequently occur in a variety of human cancers. Overexpression of eIF4E promotes cellular transformation by selectively increasing the translation of proliferative and prosurvival mRNAs. These mRNAs possess highly structured 5'-UTRs that impede ribosome recruitme...

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

authors： Feoktistova K,Tuvshintogs E,Do A,Fraser CS

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical deforestation for the establishment of tree cash crop plantations causes significant alterations to soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics. Despite this recognition, the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tier 1 method has a SOC change factor of 1 (no SOC loss) for conversion of forests to p...

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

authors： van Straaten O,Corre MD,Wolf K,Tchienkoua M,Cuellar E,Matthews RB,Veldkamp E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Necessary conditions are derived for a spherical vortex in a perfect fluid to be stationary in the case when the velocities depend on a single surface harmonic. The motion is indeterminate unless an additional condition is imposed. In the case when this condition is incompressibility, the equations are solved, yieldin...

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

authors： Pekeris CL

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how genetic variation and epigenetic marks interact to shape differences in behavior. The foraging (for) gene regulates behavioral differences between the rover and sitter Drosophila melanogaster strains, but the molecular mechanisms through which it does so have remained elusive. We show that th...

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

authors： Anreiter I,Kramer JM,Sokolowski MB

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the theory that the insulin-induced loss of insulin binding from adipocytes is due to internalization of insulin receptors. Cell-surface receptors were assessed by the binding capacity of intact cells at 16 degrees C. Total (i.e., cell-surface plus intracellular) receptors were assessed by solubil...

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

authors： Green A,Olefsky JM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-immunoglobulin treatment of fura-2-loaded Daudi cells induces a calcium mobilization as judged by the increase in the fluorescence of the dye fura-2, AM. No calcium mobilization by N-fMet-Leu-Phe is observed in these cells. However, exposure of the cells to N-fMet-Leu-Phe after the first hit with anti-immunoglobu...

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

authors： Kalunta CI,Kaptein JS,Niedzin H,Scott SJ,Lee GH,Lad PM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) A chain, B chain/c-sis, and the PDGF receptor are expressed in human malignant glioma cell lines. In the present investigation we have studied the expression of these genes in biopsy specimens from human glioblastomas. Hyperplasia of the vascular endothelium is a pro...

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

authors： Hermansson M,Nistér M,Betsholtz C,Heldin CH,Westermark B,Funa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We modeled the behavior of recessive mutations with deleterious effects to either the sporophyte or the gametophyte, or both, in polysomic tetraploid populations by allowing for varying levels of double reduction, mutation, and self-fertilization. Double reduction causes a decrease of the equilibrium frequencies of de...

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

authors： Butruille DV,Boiteux LS

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A change-point detection is proposed by using a Bayesian-type statistic based on the shortest Hamiltonian path, and the change-point is estimated by using ratio cut. A permutation procedure is applied to approximate the significance of Bayesian-type statistics. The change-point test is proven to be consistent, and an ...

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

authors： Shi X,Wu Y,Rao CR

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A human peripheral T-cell cDNA library was screened with two labeled synthetic oligonucleotides encoding regions of a human placenta protein-tyrosine-phosphatase (protein-tyrosine-phosphate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.48). One positive clone was isolated and the nucleotide sequence was determined. It contained 1305 bas...

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

authors： Cool DE,Tonks NK,Charbonneau H,Walsh KA,Fischer EH,Krebs EG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculates were the longest-lived order of the Class Mammalia and, during the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic, were among the most diverse and abundant representatives of the class. However, until the recent discovery of two Cretaceous teeth, one from South America and one from Africa, they were known only from nor...

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

authors： Krause DW,Bonaparte JF

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding Hadean (>4 Ga) Earth requires knowledge of its crust. The composition of the crust and volatiles migrating through it directly influence the makeup of the atmosphere, the composition of seawater, and nutrient availability. Despite its importance, there is little known and less agreed upon regarding the n...

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

authors： Boehnke P,Bell EA,Stephan T,Trappitsch R,Keller CB,Pardo OS,Davis AM,Harrison TM,Pellin MJ

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are molecular motors that power diverse cellular processes, such as rapid organelle transport, muscle contraction, and tension-sensitive anchoring. The structural adaptations in the motor that allow for this functional diversity are not known, due, in part, to the lack of high-resolution structures of highly t...

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

authors： Shuman H,Greenberg MJ,Zwolak A,Lin T,Sindelar CV,Dominguez R,Ostap EM

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analyses of Na,K-ATPase abundance and alpha-subunit isoform distribution were performed to determine whether pump expression varies at different points through the thickness of the circular layer of colonic smooth muscle. The mRNA and polypeptides of Na,K-ATPase alpha 1 and beta subunits were twice as abunda...

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

authors： Burke EP,Sanders KM,Horowitz B

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The local conformations of proteins and peptides are determined by the amino acid sequence. However, the 20 amino acids encoded by the genome allow the peptide backbone to fold into many conformations, so that even for a small peptide it becomes very difficult to predict the three-dimensional structure. By using empir...

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

authors： Burgess AW

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An in-depth knowledge of the interaction of water with amorphous silica is critical to fundamental studies of interfacial hydration water, as well as to industrial processes such as catalysis, nanofabrication, and chromatography. Silica has a tunable surface comprising hydrophilic silanol groups and moderately hydroph...

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

authors： Schrader AM,Monroe JI,Sheil R,Dobbs HA,Keller TJ,Li Y,Jain S,Shell MS,Israelachvili JN,Han S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of cellular targets in the autoimmune diseases is both large and varied and includes among the nuclear components the so-called Sm and RNP antigens associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. The use of immunoaffinity chromatography with dual specificity for the Sm and RNP antigens has allowed for their...

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

authors： White PJ,Gardner WD,Hoch SO

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus extracted from a naturally occurring frog renal carcinoma (Lucké tumor) induced virus-free Lucké tumors in developing frogs. Herpesvirus recovered from an induced tumor after incubation at low temperature of tumor fragments cultured in vitro was oncogenic when injected into developing frog embryos. With th...

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

authors： Naegele RF,Granoff A,Darlington RW

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA from several mammalian species has been digested with a site-specific restriction endonuclease (HaeIII) from Haemophilus aegyptius. A quantitative analysis of the resulting specific fragments indicates that the mtDNA of any individual mammal is predominantly a single molecular clone. Gel analysis of ...

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

authors： Potter SS,Newbold JE,Hutchison CA 3rd,Edgell MH

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of highly magnetized white dwarfs has remained a mystery since their initial discovery. Recent observations indicate that the formation of high-field magnetic white dwarfs is intimately related to strong binary interactions during post-main-sequence phases of stellar evolution. If a low-mass companion, such...

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

authors： Nordhaus J,Wellons S,Spiegel DS,Metzger BD,Blackman EG

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mice indicate that the gut microbiota promotes energy harvest and storage from components of the diet when these components are plentiful. Here we examine how the microbiota shapes host metabolic and physiologic adaptations to periods of nutrient deprivation. Germ-free (GF) mice and mice who had received a ...

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

authors： Crawford PA,Crowley JR,Sambandam N,Muegge BD,Costello EK,Hamady M,Knight R,Gordon JI

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a special reverse transcriptase that extends one strand of the telomere repeat by using a template embedded in an RNA subunit. Like other polymerases, telomerase is believed to use a pair of divalent metal ions (coordinated by a triad of aspartic acid residues) for catalyzing nucleotide addition. Here we...

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

authors： Lue NF,Bosoy D,Moriarty TJ,Autexier C,Altman B,Leng S

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Old noninbred fly mortality decreases according to the inverse linear law and reduces to a single suborder-specific age. Relative child mortality (the mortality at a given age related to the mortality at 10 years) from 1 mo to 11 years is the same with 8% mean accuracy for all humans, independent of race, country, sex...

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

authors： Azbel' MY

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle plasminogen activators (PAs), such as urokinase-like PA and, to a lesser extent, tissue PA, increase dramatically after denervation induced by axotomy. The PA/plasmin system has also been implicated in degradation of specific components of the muscle fiber basement membrane after local activation of plasminogen...

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

authors： Hantaï D,Rao JS,Festoff BW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular response to ionizing radiation (IR) includes induction of the c-jun and EGR1 early response genes. The present work has examined potential cytoplasmic signaling cascades that transduce IR-induced signals to the nucleus. The results demonstrate activation of the 40S ribosomal protein S6 kinase, pp90rsk, in...

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

authors： Kharbanda S,Saleem A,Shafman T,Emoto Y,Weichselbaum R,Kufe D

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of ornithine decarboxylase (OrnDCase, EC 4.1.1.17) and of the polyamines [putrescine (Put), spermidine (Spd), and spermine (Spm)] in mouse skin tumor promotion was investigated by the use of alpha-difluoromethylornithine (CHF2-Orn), an enzyme-activated irreversible inhibitor of OrnDCase. 12-O-Tetradecanoylpho...

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

authors： Weeks CE,Herrmann AL,Nelson FR,Slaga TJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome crystal structures have revealed that two small subunit proteins, S9 and S13, have C-terminal tails, which, together with several features of 16S rRNA, contact the anticodon stem-loop of P-site tRNA. To test the functional importance of these protein tails, we created genomic deletions of the C-terminal regio...

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

authors： Hoang L,Fredrick K,Noller HF

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00