Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia.

abstract：:The betaalpha barrel is the common protein fold of numerous enzymes and was proposed recently to be the result of gene duplication and fusion of an ancient half-barrel. The initial enzyme of shikimate biosynthesis possesses the additional feature of feedback regulation. The crystal structure and kinetic studies on chi...

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

authors： Hartmann M,Schneider TR,Pfeil A,Heinrich G,Lipscomb WN,Braus GH

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Zn2+ on a voltage-dependent, transient potassium current (IA) in acutely dissociated neurons from the suprachiasmatic nucleus was studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. At micromolar concentrations, Zn2+ markedly potentiated IA activated from a holding potential of -60 mV, which is the restin...

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

authors： Huang RC,Peng YW,Yau KW

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal locations of cellular sequences flanking integrated papillomavirus DNA in four cervical carcinoma cell lines and a primary cervical carcinoma have been determined. The two human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 flanking sequences derived from the tumor were localized to chromosome regions 20pter----20q13 and 3p...

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

authors： Dürst M,Croce CM,Gissmann L,Schwarz E,Huebner K

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A goal of regenerative medicine is to identify cardiovascular progenitors from human ES cells (hESCs) that can functionally integrate into the human heart. Previous studies to evaluate the developmental potential of candidate hESC-derived progenitors have delivered these cells into murine and porcine cardiac tissue, w...

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

authors： Ardehali R,Ali SR,Inlay MA,Abilez OJ,Chen MQ,Blauwkamp TA,Yazawa M,Gong Y,Nusse R,Drukker M,Weissman IL

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Engagement of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) leads to rapid activation of protein tyrosine kinases, which in turn phosphorylate downstream enzymes and adapter proteins. Some adapter proteins, such as SLP-76, Vav, and LAT, positively regulate TCR-mediated signal transduction, whereas others, such as Cbl, play an inh...

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

authors： Tang J,Sawasdikosol S,Chang JH,Burakoff SJ

更新日期：1999-08-17 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：:Most organisms are evolutionary conservatives; they may subdivide their niches but tend to remain within them. Yet the fossil record shows many cases of breakthrough to a new mode of life. How may such evolutionary innovation be recognized at this time level? Three species of Drosophila have accomplished an innovation...

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

authors： Carson HL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) increases the movement of cholesterol from the outer to the inner membrane of adrenal and gonadal mitochondria, thus providing the substrate for steroid hormone biosynthesis. Deletion of 62 amino-terminal aa produces a cytoplasmic form of StAR (N-62 StAR) that lacks th...

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

authors： Bose HS,Whittal RM,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells express thousands of different surface proteins that can be used for cell classification, or to distinguish healthy and disease conditions. A method capable of profiling a substantial fraction of the surface proteome simultaneously and inexpensively would enable more accurate and complete classification of...

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

authors： Pollock SB,Hu A,Mou Y,Martinko AJ,Julien O,Hornsby M,Ploder L,Adams JJ,Geng H,Müschen M,Sidhu SS,Moffat J,Wells JA

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Five peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences predicted from all three reading frames of the nucleotide sequence of the third internal repeat array (IR3) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome were synthesized chemically. All five peptides elicited antipeptide antibodies in rabbits. The antiserum raised against ...

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

authors： Dillner J,Sternås L,Kallin B,Alexander H,Ehlin-Henriksson B,Jörnvall H,Klein G,Lerner R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove theorems on the structure of the fundamental group of a compact riemannian manifold of non-positive curvature. In particular, a conjecture of J. Wolf [J. Differential Geometry, 2, 421-446 (1968)] is proved. ...

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

authors： Yau ST

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high excitation energy-transfer efficiency demanded in photosynthetic organisms relies on the optimal pigment-protein binding orientation in the individual protein complexes and also on the overall architecture of the photosystem. In green sulfur bacteria, the membrane-attached Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna p...

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

authors： Wen J,Zhang H,Gross ML,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2009-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:As new disease threats arise and existing pathogens grow resistant to conventional interventions, attention increasingly focuses on the development of vaccines to induce protective immune responses. Given their admirable safety records, protein subunit vaccines are attractive for widespread immunization, but their dis...

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

authors： Chen DJ,Osterrieder N,Metzger SM,Buckles E,Doody AM,DeLisa MP,Putnam D

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical forces have key roles in regulating activation of T cells and coordination of the adaptive immune response. A recent example is the ability of T cells to sense the rigidity of an underlying substrate through the T-cell receptor (TCR) coreceptor CD3 and CD28, a costimulation signal essential for cell activat...

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

authors： Bashour KT,Gondarenko A,Chen H,Shen K,Liu X,Huse M,Hone JC,Kam LC

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) recently has been shown to give rise to genetic interference in Caenorhabditis elegans and also is likely to be the basis for phenotypic cosuppression in plants in certain instances. While constructing a plasmid vector for transfection of trypanosome cells, we serendipitously discovered tha...

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

authors： Ngô H,Tschudi C,Gull K,Ullu E

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA) is activated during sympathetic stimulation of the heart and phosphorylates key proteins involved in cardiac Ca(2+) handling, including the L-type Ca(2+) channel (Ca(V)1.2) and phospholamban (PLN). This results in acceleration and amplification of the beat-to-beat changes in cytosolic Ca(2+) in ...

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

authors： Jones BW,Brunet S,Gilbert ML,Nichols CB,Su T,Westenbroek RE,Scott JD,Catterall WA,McKnight GS

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the murine Fab S-20-4 from a protective anti-cholera Ab specific for the lipopolysaccharide Ag of the Ogawa serotype has been determined in its unliganded form and in complex with synthetic fragments of the Ogawa O-specific polysaccharide (O-SP). The upstream terminal O-SP monosaccharide is sh...

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

authors： Villeneuve S,Souchon H,Riottot MM,Mazie JC,Lei P,Glaudemans CP,Kovác P,Fournier JM,Alzari PM

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:High-entropy alloys are made from random mixtures of principal elements on simple lattices, stabilized by a high mixing entropy. The recently discovered body-centered cubic (BCC) Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor appears to display properties of both simple crystalline intermetallics and amorphous mater...

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

authors： von Rohr F,Winiarski MJ,Tao J,Klimczuk T,Cava RJ

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Active coping underlies a healthy stress response, but neural processes supporting such resilient coping are not well-known. Using a brief, sustained exposure paradigm contrasting highly stressful, threatening, and violent stimuli versus nonaversive neutral visual stimuli in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fM...

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

authors： Sinha R,Lacadie CM,Constable RT,Seo D

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Half-cystine peptic peptides representing the intrachain disulfide bonds of the light chain from an apparently homogeneous rabbit anti-p-azobenzoate antibody were isolated in good yields after reduction and alkylation with [(14)C]iodoacetate, and their sequences were determined. The sequence of the first 21 amino-term...

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

authors： Appella E,Chersi A,Roholt OA,Pressman D

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca channel currents were studied in freshly dispersed bovine adrenal glomerulosa cells to better understand the control of aldosterone secretion by extracellular K concentration (Ko) and angiotensin II (AII). The whole-cell variation of the patch voltage clamp technique was used. Two types of Ca channels were found. O...

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

authors： Cohen CJ,McCarthy RT,Barrett PQ,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational engineering methods can be applied with reasonable success to optimize physicochemical characteristics of proteins, in particular, antibodies. Here, we describe a combined CDR3 walking randomization and rational design-based approach to enhance the affinity of the human anti-gastrin TA4 scFv. The application ...

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

authors： Barderas R,Desmet J,Timmerman P,Meloen R,Casal JI

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that mammary epithelial specific expression of the activated erbB2 allele under the control of the endogenous promoter in mice resulted in the formation of mammary adenocarcinomas. To assess whether mammary tumorigenesis in this model is influenced by the developmental window of expression, we...

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

authors： Andrechek ER,Hardy WR,Laing MA,Muller WJ

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that active transport, muscle contraction, and ribosomal translocation may all make use of a common allosteric mechanism in which ATP or GTP serves as both the effector and substrate and in which a conformational change in a protein (enzyme) moves or exerts a force on a second ligand. The enzymatic spl...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant I1A cells, lacking IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) mRNA and protein, have been used to study the involvement of IRAK in NFkappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation. A series of IRAK deletion constructs were expressed in I1A cells, which were then tested for their ability to respond to IL-1. Bot...

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

authors： Li X,Commane M,Jiang Z,Stark GR

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) are endogenous neuropeptide ligands for the G protein-coupled receptors NPBWR1 and NPBWR2. Here we report that the majority of NPW neurons in the mesolimbic region possess tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity, indicating that a small subset of dopaminergic neurons coexpre...

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

authors： Motoike T,Long JM,Tanaka H,Sinton CM,Skach A,Williams SC,Hammer RE,Sakurai T,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNA replicons have been reported in plants and, in one case, in animal cells. We describe such an element in yeast. In certain yeast strains, a 20S RNA species appears on transfer of cells to acetate medium. This phenotype shows cytoplasmic (non-Mendelian) inheritance and the 20S RNA is associated with 23-kDa...

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

authors： Matsumoto Y,Fishel R,Wickner RB

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increasing interest in cyanobacteria because these photosynthetic organisms convert solar energy into biomass and because of their potential for the production of biofuels. However, the exploitation of cyanobacteria for bioengineering requires knowledge of their transcriptional organization. Using di...

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

authors： Mitschke J,Georg J,Scholz I,Sharma CM,Dienst D,Bantscheff J,Voss B,Steglich C,Wilde A,Vogel J,Hess WR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How did language evolve? A popular approach points to the similarities between the ontogeny and phylogeny of language. Young children's language and nonhuman primates' signing both appear formulaic with limited syntactic combinations, thereby suggesting a degree of continuity in their cognitive abilities. To evaluate ...

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

authors： Yang C

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00