Adult and fetal human globin genes are expressed following chromosomal transfer into MEL cells.

abstract：:Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) or the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a simulation algorithm that has made modern Bayesian statistical inference possible. Nevertheless, the efficiency of different Metropolis-Hastings proposal kernels has rarely been studied except for the Gaussian proposal. Here we propose a unique ...

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

authors： Yang Z,Rodríguez CE

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of glycogen metabolism is critical for the maintenance of glucose and energy homeostasis in mammals. Glycogen synthase, the enzyme responsible for glycogen production, is regulated by multisite phosphorylation in yeast and mammals. We have previously identified PAS kinase as a physiological regulator of...

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

authors： Wilson WA,Skurat AV,Probst B,de Paoli-Roach A,Roach PJ,Rutter J

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cardinal symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD) is the disruption of circadian patterns. However, to date, there is no direct evidence of circadian clock dysregulation in the brains of patients who have MDD. Circadian rhythmicity of gene expression has been observed in animals and peripheral human tissues, but i...

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

authors： Li JZ,Bunney BG,Meng F,Hagenauer MH,Walsh DM,Vawter MP,Evans SJ,Choudary PV,Cartagena P,Barchas JD,Schatzberg AF,Jones EG,Myers RM,Watson SJ Jr,Akil H,Bunney WE

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryogenesis requires the timely and coordinated activation of developmental regulators. It has been suggested that the recently discovered class of histone demethylases (UTX and JMJD3) that specifically target the repressive H3K27me3 modification play an important role in the activation of "bivalent" genes in respon...

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

authors： Welstead GG,Creyghton MP,Bilodeau S,Cheng AW,Markoulaki S,Young RA,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the primary region of factor IX and IXa responsible for saturable specific binding to bovine aortic endothelial cells resides in residues 3-11 at the amino terminus of factor IX. We also demonstrated that mutations of lysine to alanine at residue 5, factor IX K5A, or valine to lysine at...

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

authors： Cheung WF,van den Born J,Kühn K,Kjellén L,Hudson BG,Stafford DW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in external light patterns can alter cell activities in peripheral tissues through slow entrainment of the central clock in suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It remains unclear whether cells in otherwise photo-insensitive tissues can achieve rapid responses to changes in external light. Here we show that light st...

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

authors： Fan SM,Chang YT,Chen CL,Wang WH,Pan MK,Chen WP,Huang WY,Xu Z,Huang HE,Chen T,Plikus MV,Chen SK,Lin SJ

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:During organogenesis, the final size of mature cell populations depends on their rates of differentiation and expansion. Because transient expression of Neurogenin3 (Neurog3) in progenitor cells in the developing pancreas initiates their differentiation to mature islet cells, we examined the role of Neurog3 in cell cy...

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

authors： Miyatsuka T,Kosaka Y,Kim H,German MS

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, but it is poorly quality assured. Quality assurance was performed in eight VL endemic districts in Bihar State, India, in 2014. Residual dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was sampled from walls using Bostik tape discs, and DDT ...

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

authors： Coleman M,Foster GM,Deb R,Pratap Singh R,Ismail HM,Shivam P,Ghosh AK,Dunkley S,Kumar V,Coleman M,Hemingway J,Paine MJ,Das P

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between swimming cells and surfaces are essential to many microbiological processes, from bacterial biofilm formation to human fertilization. However, despite their fundamental importance, relatively little is known about the physical mechanisms that govern the scattering of flagellated or ciliated cells ...

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

authors： Kantsler V,Dunkel J,Polin M,Goldstein RE

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition recommendations worldwide emphasize ingestion of plant-based diets rather than diets that rely primarily on animal products. However, this plant-based diet could limit the intake of essential nutrients such as calcium. Osteoporosis is one of the world's most prevalent nutritional disorders, and inadequate di...

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

authors： Morris J,Hawthorne KM,Hotze T,Abrams SA,Hirschi KD

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covaria...

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

authors： Weigt M,White RA,Szurmant H,Hoch JA,Hwa T

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-world studies show that the facial expressions produced during pain and orgasm-two different and intense affective experiences-are virtually indistinguishable. However, this finding is counterintuitive, because facial expressions are widely considered to be a powerful tool for social interaction. Consequently, de...

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

authors： Chen C,Crivelli C,Garrod OGB,Schyns PG,Fernández-Dols JM,Jack RE

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The posteromedial barrel subfield of the somatosensory cortex of mice was examined histochemically for cytochrome oxidase activity (cytochrome c oxidase; ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.9.3.1). In normal mice a high enzymatic activity was found within the barrel hollows, rather than in the sides and sept...

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

authors： Wong-Riley MT,Welt C

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the roles of Sm proteins in forming the cores of many RNA-processing ribonucleoproteins, we determined the crystal structure of an atypical Sm-like archaeal protein (SmAP3) in which the conserved Sm domain is augmented by a previously uncharacterized, mixed alpha/beta C-terminal domain. The struct...

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

authors： Mura C,Phillips M,Kozhukhovsky A,Eisenberg D

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo isoforms (Nogo-A and -B) have been implicated in regulating neural and cardiovascular functions, such as cell spreading and chemotaxis. Unlike the loop domain (Nogo-66) found in all Nogo isoforms that can interact with a neural-specific Nogo-66 receptor, the receptor for the amino terminus of Nogo-B that mediates...

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

authors： Miao RQ,Gao Y,Harrison KD,Prendergast J,Acevedo LM,Yu J,Hu F,Strittmatter SM,Sessa WC

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequence of the first constant (C) region domain (C delta 1) and the hinge region of the delta heavy chain of human IgD WAH and also the sequence of the adjacent COOH-terminal portion of the variable (V) region, including the JH region. Together with the sequence of the Fc fragment al...

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

authors： Putnam FW,Takahashi N,Tetaert D,Debuire B,Lin LC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of at least 30 proteins disappears from the two-dimensional electrophoretic pattern of human lymphoid cells treated with various antimitochondrial agents. This set is similar to the set of proteins found in isolated mitochondria (except for the presence of action in the latter group), indicating that the inhibit...

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

authors： Anderson L

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of distinct regions in the amniote vertebral column results from somite formation and Hox gene expression, with the adult morphology displaying remarkable variation among lineages. Mammalian regionalization is reportedly very conservative or even constrained, but there has been no study investigating v...

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

authors： Müller J,Scheyer TM,Head JJ,Barrett PM,Werneburg I,Ericson PG,Pol D,Sánchez-Villagra MR

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:HD domain phosphohydrolase enzymes are characterized by a conserved set of histidine and aspartate residues that coordinate an active site metallocenter. Despite the important roles these enzymes play in nucleotide metabolism and signal transduction, few have been both biochemically and structurally characterized. Her...

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

authors： Bridwell-Rabb J,Kang G,Zhong A,Liu HW,Drennan CL

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As assessed by ultrastructure, histochemical staining, and T-cell dependency, in vitro-differentiated inter-leukin 3-dependent mouse mast cells are comparable to the mast cells that reside in the gastrointestinal mucosa but not in the skin or the serosal cavity of the mouse. We now demonstrate that when cloned interle...

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

authors： Dayton ET,Pharr P,Ogawa M,Serafin WE,Austen KF,Levi-Schaffer F,Stevens RL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Participation of two medial temporal lobe structures, the hippocampal region and the amygdala, in long-term declarative memory encoding was examined by using positron emission tomography of regional cerebral glucose. Positron emission tomography scanning was performed in eight healthy subjects listening passively to a...

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

authors： Alkire MT,Haier RJ,Fallon JH,Cahill L

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Deamidation of asparaginyl and glutaminyl residues causes time-dependent changes in charge and conformation of peptides and proteins. Quantitative and experimentally verified predictive calculations of the deamidation rates of 1,371 asparaginyl residues in a representative collection of 126 human proteins have been pe...

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

authors： Robinson NE,Robinson AB

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) are two major cytokines controlling murine B cell development. IL-7 has been studied extensively, but only recently has it become possible to unravel the role of TSLP in detail. We studied the biological activities of TSLP in B cell development at distinct ages in the mouse...

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

authors： Vosshenrich CA,Cumano A,Müller W,Di Santo JP,Vieira P

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid cells have unusual responses to an increase in the external calcium concentration--a reduction in secretion and a depolarization. In an attempt to explain this behavior, we have studied voltage-clamped inside-out patches from bovine parathyroid cells. We found a potassium-selective channel that requires in...

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

authors： Jia M,Ehrenstein G,Iwasa K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery of an Apaf-1-dominant negative inhibitor was tested for its antiapoptotic effect on degenerating nigrostriatal neurons in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of Parkinson's disease. The wild-type caspase recruitment domain of Apaf-1 was used as a dom...

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

authors： Mochizuki H,Hayakawa H,Migita M,Shibata M,Tanaka R,Suzuki A,Shimo-Nakanishi Y,Urabe T,Yamada M,Tamayose K,Shimada T,Miura M,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the ecological impacts of climate change is a crucial challenge of the twenty-first century. There is a clear lack of general rules regarding the impacts of global warming on biota. Here, we present a metaanalysis of the effect of climate change on body size of ectothermic aquatic organisms (bacteria, ph...

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

authors： Daufresne M,Lengfellner K,Sommer U

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin cofactor in photoenzyme photolyase and photoreceptor cryptochrome may exist in an oxidized state and should be converted into reduced state(s) for biological functions. Such redox changes can be efficiently achieved by photoinduced electron transfer (ET) through a series of aromatic residues in the enzyme. ...

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

authors： Liu Z,Tan C,Guo X,Li J,Wang L,Sancar A,Zhong D

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gamma frequency oscillations are common in the brain, their functional contributions to neural computation are not understood. Here we report in vitro electrophysiological recordings to evaluate how noisy gamma frequency oscillatory input interacts with the overall activation level of a neuron to determine th...

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

authors： Markowitz DA,Collman F,Brody CD,Hopfield JJ,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic status of Neanderthals lies at the center of the modern human origins debate. Proponents of the single-origin model often view this group as a distinct species with little or no contribution to the evolution of modern humans. Adherents to the regional continuity model consider Neanderthals a subspecies o...

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

authors： Harvati K,Frost SR,McNulty KP

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The leukocyte common antigen (CD45) is an abundant lymphocyte surface antigen that has been reported to be involved in signaling through the T-cell antigen receptor. CD45 is a transmembrane protein-tyrosine-phosphatase. An internal segment comprises two domains each of which is homologous to other protein-tyrosine-pho...

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

authors： Stover DR,Charbonneau H,Tonks NK,Walsh KA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00