Slowing down of North Pacific climate variability and its implications for abrupt ecosystem change.

abstract：:To identify genetic factors that interact with social environments to impact human health, we used a bioinformatic strategy that couples expression array-based detection of environmentally responsive transcription factors with in silico discovery of regulatory polymorphisms to predict genetic loci that modulate transc...

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

authors： Cole SW,Arevalo JM,Takahashi R,Sloan EK,Lutgendorf SK,Sood AK,Sheridan JF,Seeman TE

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here studies of tryptophan (Trp) solvation dynamics in water and in the Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin protein, including the native and its apo and denatured forms. We also report results on energy transfer from Trp to the iron-sulfur [Fe-S] cluster. Trp fluorescence decay with the onset of solvation dynami...

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

authors： Zhong D,Pal SK,Zhang D,Chan SI,Zewail AH

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent therapies, originating through deliberate mixing of drugs in a clinical setting, through happenstance, and through rational design, have a successful history in a number of areas of medicine, including cancer, infectious diseases, and CNS disorders. We have developed a high-throughput screening method f...

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

authors： Borisy AA,Elliott PJ,Hurst NW,Lee MS,Lehar J,Price ER,Serbedzija G,Zimmermann GR,Foley MA,Stockwell BR,Keith CT

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) requires proteolytic processing of the replicase polyprotein by two viral cysteine proteases, a chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) and a papain-like protease (PLpro). These proteases are important targets for development of antiviral drugs...

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

authors： Ratia K,Saikatendu KS,Santarsiero BD,Barretto N,Baker SC,Stevens RC,Mesecar AD

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytokine I-309 is a small glycoprotein secreted by activated T lymphocytes and structurally related to a number of inflammatory cytokines. To investigate the biological activities of I-309 protein, we produced a stable Chinese hamster ovary cell transfectant, CDI.10, which constitutively secretes I-309 prote...

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

authors： Miller MD,Krangel MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genome-wide nucleosome mappings along with bioinformatics studies have confirmed that the DNA sequence plays a more important role in the collective organization of nucleosomes in vivo than previously thought. Yet in living cells, this organization also results from the action of various external factors like D...

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

authors： Milani P,Chevereau G,Vaillant C,Audit B,Haftek-Terreau Z,Marilley M,Bouvet P,Argoul F,Arneodo A

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model describing how Mg(2+) binds and stabilizes specific RNA structures. In this model, RNA stabilization arises from two energetically distinct modes of Mg(2+) binding: diffuse- and site-binding. Diffusely bound Mg(2+) are electrostatically attracted to the strong anionic field around the RNA and are ac...

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

authors： Misra VK,Draper DE

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of promoter chromatin determines the ability of transcription factors (TFs) to bind to DNA and therefore has a profound effect on the expression levels of genes. However, the role of spontaneous nucleosome movements in this process is not fully understood. Here, we developed a single-molecule optical twe...

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

authors： Rudnizky S,Khamis H,Malik O,Melamed P,Kaplan A

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a hybrid E beta gene by replacing the second exon of the Ed beta gene (which encodes the majority of the beta 1 protein domain) with the corresponding exon from the Eb beta gene. The hybrid gene has been introduced into a d haplotype host, the lymphoma beta-cell line A20-2J, and an E alpha E beta d...

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

authors： Folsom V,Gay D,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with advanced breast cancer were treated with pooled dialyzable transfer factor from healthy adult donors. The period of treatment ranged from 21 to 310 days, the total dose from 20 to 257 ml. Transfer factor did not elicit inflammatory or hypersensitivity reactions or detectable formation of antibody to...

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

authors： Oettgen HF,Old LJ,Farrow JH,Valentine FT,Lawrence HS,Thomas L

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the angle-resolved transverse resistivity (ARTR), a sensitive indicator of electronic anisotropy, in high-quality thin films of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 grown on various substrates. The ARTR signal, heralding the electronic nematicity or a large nematic susceptibility, is present and ...

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

authors： Wu J,Nair HP,Bollinger AT,He X,Robinson I,Schreiber NJ,Shen KM,Schlom DG,Božović I

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A rice Dwarf 1 gene was identified by using a map-based cloning strategy. Its recessive mutant allele confers a dwarf phenotype. Linkage analysis revealed that a cDNA encoding the alpha-subunit of GTP-binding protein cosegregated with d1 in 3,185 d1 segregants. Southern hybridization analysis with this cDNA as a probe...

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

authors： Ashikari M,Wu J,Yano M,Sasaki T,Yoshimura A

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (cSOD; superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) in metabolic defense against O2 toxicity in Drosophila is examined through the properties of a mutant strain carrying a cSOD-null mutation, cSODn108. Homozygotes are viable as larvae, which indicates that ...

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

authors： Phillips JP,Campbell SD,Michaud D,Charbonneau M,Hilliker AJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) is a widely employed metaphor for problems associated with the evolution of cooperative behavior. We have recently proposed an alternative approach to the PD, by exploring "spatial games" in which players--who are either pure cooperators, C, or pure defectors, D--interact with neighbors in ...

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

authors： Nowak MA,Bonhoeffer S,May RM

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to elicit Abs that can neutralize diverse strains of a highly mutable pathogen are likely to result in a potent vaccine. Broadly neutralizing Abs (bnAbs) against HIV have been isolated from patients, proving that the human immune system can evolve them. Using computer simulations and theory, we study immuni...

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

authors： Shaffer JS,Moore PL,Kardar M,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tried to find out why Ascaris hemoglobin has such an exceptionally high oxygen affinity (P50 approximately 0.004 mmHg; 1 mmHg = 133 Pa). Following Kloek et al., we have synthesized the N-terminal globin domain of Ascaris hemoglobin in Escherichia coli [Kloek, A. P., Yang, J., Mathews, F. S. & Goldberg, D. (199...

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

authors： De Baere I,Perutz MF,Kiger L,Marden MC,Poyart C

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas is a cell surface death receptor that regulates peripheral tolerance and lymphoid homeostasis. In many pathologic conditions, ectopic Fas activation mediates tissue destruction. Several proteins that can bind to the cytoplasmic death domain of Fas have been implicated in Fas signal transduction. Here we show that ...

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

authors： Chang HY,Yang X,Baltimore D

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two methods to probe the energy landscape and motions of proteins in the context of molecular dynamics simulations of the helix-forming S-peptide of RNase A and the RNase A-3'-UMP enzyme-product complex. The first method uses the generalized ergodic measure to compute the rate of conformational space sampli...

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

authors： Straub JE,Thirumalai D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, rate constants were determined in vitro and it was unknown whether they were valid for in vivo biological processes. Here, we bridge this gap by measuring binding dynamics between a pair of proteins in living HeLa cells. Binding of a β-lactamase to its protein inhibitor was initiated by microinjection an...

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

authors： Phillip Y,Kiss V,Schreiber G

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory formation requires the placement of experienced events in the same order in which they appeared. A large body of evidence from human studies indicates that structures in the medial temporal lobe are critically involved in forming and maintaining such memories, and complementing evidence from lesion and electrop...

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

authors： Paz R,Gelbard-Sagiv H,Mukamel R,Harel M,Malach R,Fried I

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I Interferons (IFNs) are requisite components in antiviral innate immunity. Classically, a Toll-like receptor-dependent pathway induces type I interferons. However, recent recognition of melanoma differentiation associated gene-5 (MDA-5) and retinoic acid inducible gene-I (RIG-I) as primary sensors of RNA viruses...

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

authors： Sarkar D,Desalle R,Fisher PB

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that CD3- natural killer (NK) cells express the zeta chain of the T-cell receptor complex (zeta NK) in association with higher molecular weight structures whose expression differs between individual NK cell clones. Because NK cell cytolytic activity is known to be triggered by perturbation of the ...

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

authors： Anderson P,Caligiuri M,O'Brien C,Manley T,Ritz J,Schlossman SF

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olivo-cerebellar network is a key neuronal circuit that provides high-level motor control in the vertebrate CNS. Functionally, its network dynamics is organized around the oscillatory membrane potential properties of inferior olive (IO) neurons and their electrotonic connectivity. Because IO action potentials are ...

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

authors： Kazantsev VB,Nekorkin VI,Makarenko VI,Llinás R

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular assembly based on derivatized polystyrene is described, which mimics both the light-harvesting and energy-conversion steps of photosynthesis. The system is unique in that the two key parts of a photosynthetic system are incorporated in a functional assembly constructed from polypyridine complexes of Ru(II)...

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

authors： Sykora M,Maxwell KA,DeSimone JM,Meyer TJ

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusions with the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase followed by P-element-mediated germ-line transformation in Drosophila have permitted localization of the DNA sequence that confers a high degree of developmental specificity on a pair of silkmoth eggshell (chorion) genes. The short, 272-base-pair, 5...

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

authors： Mitsialis SA,Spoerel N,Leviten M,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Down's syndrome associated gene, Single Minded 2 gene short form (SIM2-s), is specifically expressed in colon tumors but not in the normal colon. Antisense inhibition of SIM2-s in a RKO-derived colon carcinoma cell line causes growth inhibition, apoptosis, and inhibition of tumor growth in a nude mouse tumoriginicit...

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

authors： Aleman MJ,DeYoung MP,Tress M,Keating P,Perry GW,Narayanan R

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interpretations of human origins and evolution have recently proliferated despite the accelerated pace of fossil discovery. These controversies parallel those involving other vertebrate families and result from the difficulty of studying evolution among closely related species. Recent advances in development...

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

authors： Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other social phenomena, prostitution is increasingly coordinated over the Internet. The online behavior affects the offline activity; the reverse is also true. We investigated the reported sexual contacts between 6,624 anonymous escorts and 10,106 sex buyers extracted from an online community from its beginn...

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

authors： Rocha LE,Liljeros F,Holme P

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values. Public participation inevitably involves both facts and values. Research on public participation...

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

authors： Dietz T

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00