Setting the bar: Standards for ecosystem services.

abstract：:We introduce a model of evolution in which competing organisms are represented by percolation lattice models. Fitness is based on the number of occupied sites remaining after removing a cluster connected to a randomly selected site. High-fitness individuals arising through mutation and selection must trade off density...

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

authors： Zhou T,Carlson JM,Doyle J

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological organisms have evolved a wide range of immune mechanisms to defend themselves against pathogens. Beyond molecular details, these mechanisms differ in how protection is acquired, processed, and passed on to subsequent generations-differences that may be essential to long-term survival. Here, we introduce a m...

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

authors： Mayer A,Mora T,Rivoire O,Walczak AM

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:If, because of trade-offs or similar considerations, components of fitness are negatively correlated in equilibrium populations, they may then exhibit no correlation with total fitness. Lack of correlation with fitness is a fundamental characteristic of selective neutrality. Hence, selectively important traits become ...

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

authors： Reeve R,Smith E,Wallace B

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exemplary search capabilities of flying insects have established them as one of the most diverse taxa on Earth. However, we still lack the fundamental ability to quantify, represent, and predict trajectories under natural contexts to understand search and its applications. For example, flying insects have evolved ...

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

authors： Kaushik PK,Renz M,Olsson SB

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of cathepsin B activity (EC 3.4.22.1) in three murine melanomas of increasing metastatic potential (Cloudman less than B16-F1 less than B16 amelanotic) was determined. Cathepsin B activity was localized in the heavy mitochondrial fraction of normal murine liver but in the light mitochondri...

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

authors： Sloane BF,Rozhin J,Johnson K,Taylor H,Crissman JD,Honn KV

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver provides for long-term energy needs of the body by converting excess carbohydrate into fat for storage. Insulin is one factor that promotes hepatic lipogenesis, but there is increasing evidence that glucose also contributes to the coordinated regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism in liver by mechanis...

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

authors： Iizuka K,Bruick RK,Liang G,Horton JD,Uyeda K

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The AG dinucleotide at the 3' splice sites of metazoan nuclear pre-mRNAs plays a critical role in catalytic step II of the splicing reaction. Previous studies have shown that replacement of the guanine by adenine in the AG (AG --> GG) inhibits this step. We find that the second step was even more severely inhibited by...

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

authors： Gaur RK,Beigelman L,Haeberli P,Maniatis T

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin (Ang), an inducer of neovascularization, is secreted by several types of human tumor cells and appears critical for their growth. The murine anti-Ang monoclonal antibody (mAb) 26-2F neutralizes the activities of Ang and dramatically prevents the establishment and metastatic dissemination of human tumor cell...

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

authors： Piccoli R,Olson KA,Vallee BL,Fett JW

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the M-N transition of wild-type bacteriorhodopsin (pH 9, 10 degrees C) by time-resolved x-ray diffraction study at SPring8 BL45XU-A. We confirmed the accumulation of M and N intermediates by absorbance measurements, and we found that the time resolution of x-ray diffraction experiments (244 ms) was suffici...

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

authors： Oka T,Yagi N,Fujisawa T,Kamikubo H,Tokunaga F,Kataoka M

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chlorophyll-protein complexes associated with photosystem II (PSII) of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2 have been detected. The larger of the two complexes, CPVI-1, contained a 71-kDa and a 42-kDa protein. The 71-kDa protein was determined to be the anchor protein of the phycobilisomes (the light-harvestin...

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

authors： Pakrasi HB,Riethman HC,Sherman LA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistic...

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

authors： Yang S,Santillana M,Kou SC

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence decay of the rare earth terbium when bound to the protein calmodulin changes from a simple exponential decay to a complex nonexponential decay as the temperature is lowered below 200 K. We have fit the observed decay curves by assuming that the terbium emission is a forced electric dipole transition a...

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

authors： Austin RH,Stein DL,Wang J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mammalian cell types, including endothelial cells, respond to cell swelling by activating a Cl- current termed ICl,swell, but it is not known how the physical stimulus of cell swelling is transferred to the channels underlying ICl,swell. We have investigated the precise relation between cell volume and ICl,swell ...

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

authors： Voets T,Droogmans G,Raskin G,Eggermont J,Nilius B

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In a primitive chordate model of natural chimerism, one chimeric partner is often eliminated in a process of allogeneic resorption. Here, we identify the cellular framework underlying loss of tolerance to one partner within a natural Botryllus schlosseri chimera. We show that the principal cell type mediating chimeric...

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

authors： Corey DM,Rosental B,Kowarsky M,Sinha R,Ishizuka KJ,Palmeri KJ,Quake SR,Voskoboynik A,Weissman IL

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain afflicts millions of individuals and represents a major health problem for which there is limited effective and safe therapy. Emerging literature links altered sphingolipid metabolism to nociceptive processing. However, the neuropharmacology of sphingolipid signaling in the central nervous system in t...

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

authors： Chen Z,Doyle TM,Luongo L,Largent-Milnes TM,Giancotti LA,Kolar G,Squillace S,Boccella S,Walker JK,Pendleton A,Spiegel S,Neumann WL,Vanderah TW,Salvemini D

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylation, the process of eukaryotic mRNA 3' end formation, is essential for gene expression and cell viability. Polyadenylation of male germ cell mRNAs is unusual, exhibiting increased alternative polyadenylation, decreased AAUAAA polyadenylation signal use, and reduced downstream sequence element dependence. C...

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

authors： Dass B,Tardif S,Park JY,Tian B,Weitlauf HM,Hess RA,Carnes K,Griswold MD,Small CL,Macdonald CC

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the coupled binding and folding of alpha-synuclein, an intrinsically disordered protein linked with Parkinson's disease. Using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and correlation methods, we directly probed protein membrane association, structural distributions, and dynamics. Results reve...

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

authors： Ferreon AC,Gambin Y,Lemke EA,Deniz AA

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of natural killer (NK) cell function in vivo have been challenging primarily due to the lack of animal models in which NK cells are genetically and selectively deficient. Here, we describe a transgenic mouse with defective natural killing and selective deficiency in NK1.1(+) CD3(-) cells. Despite functionally ...

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

authors： Kim S,Iizuka K,Aguila HL,Weissman IL,Yokoyama WM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential involvement of ceramide-related signaling processes in the induction of apoptosis by tumor necrosis factor alpha was assessed by multiple biochemical strategies in the human leukemic cell lines HL-60 and U937 and the murine fibrosarcoma cell lines L929/LM and WEHI 164/13. Exposure of these cells to tumor...

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

authors： Jarvis WD,Kolesnick RN,Fornari FA,Traylor RS,Gewirtz DA,Grant S

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Brefeldin A, a fungal metabolite that inhibits membrane transport, induces the mono(ADP-ribosyl)ation of two cytosolic proteins of 38 and 50 kDa as judged by SDS/PAGE. The 38-kDa substrate has been previously identified as glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). We report that the 50-kDa BFA-induced ADP-ribo...

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

authors： Di Girolamo M,Silletta MG,De Matteis MA,Braca A,Colanzi A,Pawlak D,Rasenick MM,Luini A,Corda D

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma resistance to glucocorticoid treatment is a major health problem with unclear etiology. Glucocorticoids inhibit adrenal androgen production. However, androgens have potential benefits in asthma. HSD3B1 encodes for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (3β-HSD1), which catalyzes peripheral conversion from adrenal de...

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

authors： Zein J,Gaston B,Bazeley P,DeBoer MD,Igo RP Jr,Bleecker ER,Meyers D,Comhair S,Marozkina NV,Cotton C,Patel M,Alyamani M,Xu W,Busse WW,Calhoun WJ,Ortega V,Hawkins GA,Castro M,Chung KF,Fahy JV,Fitzpatrick AM,Israel

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:With the collapse of fisheries in many parts of the world causing widespread economic harm, attention is focused on a possible cause and remedy of fishery collapse. Economic theory for managing a renewable resource, such as a fishery, leads to an ecologically unstable equilibrium as difficult to maintain as balancing ...

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

authors： Roughgarden J,Smith F

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating 3T3 mouse fibroblasts contain higher levels of the lectin carbohydrate-binding protein 35 (CBP35) than do quiescent cultures of the same cells. An immunofluorescence study was carried out with a rabbit antiserum directed against CBP35 to map the cellular fluorescence distribution in a large population of...

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

authors： Moutsatsos IK,Wade M,Schindler M,Wang JL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator-dependent recruitment of TFIID initiates formation of the transcriptional preinitiation complex. TFIID binds core promoter DNA elements and directs the assembly of other general transcription factors, leading to binding of RNA polymerase II and activation of RNA synthesis. How TATA box-binding protein (TBP) ...

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

authors： Wright KJ,Marr MT 2nd,Tjian R

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ants are the world's most conspicuous and important eusocial insects and their diversity, abundance, and extreme behavioral specializations make them a model system for several disciplines within the biological sciences. Here, we report the discovery of a new ant that appears to represent the sister lineage to all ext...

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

authors： Rabeling C,Brown JM,Verhaagh M

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is maintained by transcription factors that form a highly interconnected protein interaction network surrounding the homeobox protein Nanog. Enforced expression of Nanog in mouse ES (mES) cells promotes self-renewal and alleviates their requirement for leukemia inhibitory fact...

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

authors： Wang J,Levasseur DN,Orkin SH

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological dysfunction caused by traumatic brain injury results in profound changes in net synaptic efficacy, leading to impaired cognition. Because excitability is directly controlled by the balance of excitatory and inhibitory activity, underlying mechanisms causing these changes were investigated using lateral fl...

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

authors： Cole JT,Mitala CM,Kundu S,Verma A,Elkind JA,Nissim I,Cohen AS

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is required for the induction of a G(1) and/or G(2) irreversible arrest after gamma irradiation (IR), whereas blocked DNA replication causes a p53-independent S-phase arrest. We have examined the response to p53 when DNA synthesis is blocked by hydroxyurea (HU) or aphidicolin or when DNA is damaged by gamma IR. Si...

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

authors： Gottifredi V,Shieh S,Taya Y,Prives C

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites that suffer strong evolutionary pressure from the host immune system. Rapidly evolving viral genomes can adapt to this pressure by acquiring genes that counteract host defense mechanisms. For example, many vertebrate DNA viruses have hijacked cellular genes encoding cytok...

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

authors： Lamiable O,Kellenberger C,Kemp C,Troxler L,Pelte N,Boutros M,Marques JT,Daeffler L,Hoffmann JA,Roussel A,Imler JL

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several findings suggest that signals from tyrosine kinases are transduced, at least in part, through ras proteins. These findings include (i) blockage of the transforming activity of constitutively active tyrosine kinases by inhibiting ras function and (ii) genetic screens in Caenorhabditis elegans and in Drosophila ...

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

authors： Bowtell D,Fu P,Simon M,Senior P

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00