BDNF pro-peptide actions facilitate hippocampal LTD and are altered by the common BDNF polymorphism Val66Met.

abstract：:To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two of them, the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain to Green Program (GTGP), are among the biggest programs in the world becau...

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

authors： Liu J,Li S,Ouyang Z,Tam C,Chen X

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of beta-sitosterol (42 mg/kg per day) for 3 weeks to 8-month-old male LXRbeta-/- mice resulted in the death of motor neurons in the lumbar region of the spinal cord and loss of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. In mice at 5 months of age, beta-sitosterol had no ...

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

authors： Kim HJ,Fan X,Gabbi C,Yakimchuk K,Parini P,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on transfection into cells in culture or natural transduction into retroviruses, proto-ras genes seem to derive transforming function either from heterologous promoters or from point mutations. Here we ask how such different events could achieve the same results. To identify homologous regulatory elements, about...

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

authors： Chakraborty AK,Cichutek K,Duesberg PH

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons and retroviruses integrate nonrandomly into eukaryotic genomes. For the yeast retrotransposon Ty5, integration preferentially occurs within domains of heterochromatin. Targeting to these locations is determined by interactions between an amino acid sequence motif at the C terminus of Ty5 integrase (IN...

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

authors： Zhu Y,Dai J,Fuerst PG,Voytas DF

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum. The transformation vector contains the protein coding region of the Tn5 neomycin resistance gene fused to the proposed promoter of the Dictyostelium actin 8 gene; the vector also contains a sequence that acts as an autonomously replicating seque...

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

authors： Hirth KP,Edwards CA,Firtel RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is a brain region in which limbic and motor inputs converge. How these information modalities shape accumbens output is not clearly understood. Here, we report that synaptic inputs from the prefrontal cortex and limbic structures interact differently depending on their timing. Coincident inputs m...

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

authors： Goto Y,O'Donnell P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosses between closely related animal species often result in male hybrids that are sterile, and the molecular and functional basis of genetic factors for hybrid male sterility is of great interest. Here, we report a molecular and functional analysis of HMS1, a region of 9.2 kb in chromosome 3 of Drosophila mauritian...

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

authors： Liénard MA,Araripe LO,Hartl DL

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying potentially unique features of the human cerebral cortex is a first step to understanding how evolution has shaped the brain in our species. By analyzing MR images obtained from 177 humans and 73 chimpanzees, we observed a human-specific asymmetry in the superior temporal sulcus at the heart of the communi...

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

authors： Leroy F,Cai Q,Bogart SL,Dubois J,Coulon O,Monzalvo K,Fischer C,Glasel H,Van der Haegen L,Bénézit A,Lin CP,Kennedy DN,Ihara AS,Hertz-Pannier L,Moutard ML,Poupon C,Brysbaert M,Roberts N,Hopkins WD,Mangin JF,Dehaene-

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression has a stochastic component because of the single-molecule nature of the gene and the small number of copies of individual DNA-binding proteins in the cell. We show how the statistics of such systems can be mapped onto quantum many-body problems. The dynamics of a single gene switch resembles the spin-b...

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

authors： Sasai M,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screens have been performed to identify mutants with altered auxin homeostasis in Arabidopsis. A tagged allele of the auxin-overproducing mutant sur2 was identified within a transposon mutagenized population. The SUR2 gene was cloned and shown to encode the CYP83B1 protein, which belongs to the large family of...

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

authors： Barlier I,Kowalczyk M,Marchant A,Ljung K,Bhalerao R,Bennett M,Sandberg G,Bellini C

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormone cytokinin influences many aspects of plant growth and development, several of which also involve the cellular process of autophagy, including leaf senescence, nutrient remobilization, and developmental transitions. The Arabidopsis type-A response regulators (type-A ARR) are negative regulators of cyto...

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

authors： Acheampong AK,Shanks C,Cheng CY,Schaller GE,Dagdas Y,Kieber JJ

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a well known fact that stirring keeps particles suspended in fluids. This is apparent, for instance, when shaking medicine flasks, when agitating tea deposits in a mug, or when heavy winds fill the air with dust particles. The commonplace nature of such observations makes it easy to accept that this feature will...

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

authors： Ruiz J,Macías D,Peters F

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints are evolutionarily conserved surveillance systems that protect genomic stability and prevent oncogenesis in mammals. One important target of checkpoint control is ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which catalyzes the rate-limiting step in dNTP and DNA synthesis. In both yeast and humans, RNR is tr...

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

authors： Zhao X,Rothstein R

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to influence the capacities of the land and oceans to act as repositories for anthropogenic CO2 and hence provide a feedback to climate change. A series of experiments with the National Center for Atmospheric Research-Climate System Model 1 coupled carbon-climate model shows that carbon sink...

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

authors： Fung IY,Doney SC,Lindsay K,John J

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic neuromodulation is involved in all aspects of sensory processing and is crucial for processes such as attention, learning and memory, etc. However, despite the known roles of acetylcholine (ACh), we still do not how to disentangle ACh contributions from sensory or task-evoked changes in functional magnetic...

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

authors： Zaldivar D,Rauch A,Logothetis NK,Goense J

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary processes leading to adaptive radiation regularly occur too fast to be accurately recorded in the fossil record but too slowly to be readily observed in living biota. The study of evolutionary radiations is thereby confronted with an epistemological gap between the timescales and approaches used by neonto...

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

authors： Van Bocxlaer B,Hunt G

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that an electric field can drive single-stranded RNA and DNA molecules through a 2.6-nm diameter ion channel in a lipid bilayer membrane. Because the channel diameter can accommodate only a single strand of RNA or DNA, each polymer traverses the membrane as an extended chain that partially blocks the channel. ...

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

authors： Kasianowicz JJ,Brandin E,Branton D,Deamer DW

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The human retinoic acid receptor (hRAR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates the transcription of target genes in a ligand-dependent manner. The three hRAR isotypes are targets for retinoids that are used in the treatment of various diseases, including breast cancer and skin diseases. Drug ef...

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

authors： Klaholz BP,Mitschler A,Belema M,Zusi C,Moras D

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To evade host immune mechanisms, many bacteria secrete immunomodulatory enzymes. Streptococcus pyogenes, one of the most common human pathogens, secretes a large endoglycosidase, EndoS, which removes carbohydrates in a highly specific manner from IgG antibodies. This modification renders antibodies incapable of elicit...

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

authors： Trastoy B,Lomino JV,Pierce BG,Carter LG,Günther S,Giddens JP,Snyder GA,Weiss TM,Weng Z,Wang LX,Sundberg EJ

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of therapeutic recombinant proteins in medicine has led to a variety of tactics to increase their circulation time or to enable routes of administration other than injection. One clinically successful tactic to improve both protein circulation and delivery is to fuse the Fc domain of IgG to therapeutic ...

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

authors： Sockolosky JT,Tiffany MR,Szoka FC

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human X chromosome DNA was partially purified from a mouse-human hybrid cell line containing a single human chromosome, the X. Enrichment of such DNA was accomplished by two sequential reassociations of radiolabeled hybrid cell DNA with large excesses of mouse DNA. Unreassociated hybrid cell DNA was used as a probe fo...

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

authors： Schmeckpeper BJ,Smith KD,Dorman BP,Ruddle FH,Talbot CC Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light emission produced by the reversible collapse of a cavity in a dielectric medium is given an initial, simplified treatment. The agreement between planar and spherical shapes indicates the volume nature of the effect. ...

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

authors： Schwinger J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity affecting chromosome 17p has been detected at high frequencies in a variety of human tumors, including cancers of the colon, breast, lung, and brain. One presumed target of these losses is p53, a tumor suppressor gene located on 17p. To our knowledge, loss of heterozygosity has not yet been repo...

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

authors： Meltzer SJ,Yin J,Huang Y,McDaniel TK,Newkirk C,Iseri O,Vogelstein B,Resau JH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliovirus RNA polymerase requires a host factor to initiate RNA synthesis in vitro. The host factor was previously purified to near homogeneity from HeLa cells but was not assigned an enzymatic activity. This report describes the purification of a terminal uridylyltransferase that can act as host factor. By all crite...

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

authors： Andrews NC,Baltimore D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the role of identity and self-image consideration under "pay-what-you-want" pricing. Results from three field experiments show that often, when granted the opportunity to name the price of a product, fewer consumers choose to buy it than when the price is fixed and low. We show that this opt-out behavio...

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

authors： Gneezy A,Gneezy U,Riener G,Nelson LD

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Argonaute (Ago) proteins are the key component of the RNA-induced silencing complex and mediate RNA interference (RNAi) in association with small RNAs. Although overall the mechanism of RNAi is well understood, many molecular details of this complex process are not. Here we report about in-depth steady-state and, in p...

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

authors： Deerberg A,Willkomm S,Restle T

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A vitamin D(3) metabolite in intestine more polar than 25-hydroxy-vitamin D(3)(25-OH D(3)) has been detected by countercurrent distribution. The intestinal metabolite is found also after administration of labeled hydroxy D(3), indicating that it arises from vitamin D(3) via the intermediate 25-hydroxy derivative. The ...

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

authors： Haussler MR,Boyce DW,Littledike ET,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiology is increasingly focused on identifying coincident activity among neurons. Strong inferences about neural computation are made from the results of such studies, so it is important that these results be accurate. However, the preliminary step in the analysis of such data, the assignment of spike waveform...

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

authors： Ventura V,Gerkin RC

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and widespread observation is that higher-order folding for many RNAs is very slow, often requiring minutes. In some cases, slow folding reflects the need to disrupt stable, but incorrect, interactions. However, a molecular explanation for slow folding in most RNAs is unknown. The specificity domain of the ...

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

authors： Mortimer SA,Weeks KM

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified human breast tumor particles possessing many of the features characteristic of RNA tumor viruses. In addition to the expected size (600 S) and density (1.16 g/ml) these include possession of an outer membrane and an inner one surrounding a "core" containing a DNA polymerase and a large...

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

authors： Ohno T,Sweet RW,Dejak D,Spiegelman S

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00