Dissecting pigment architecture of individual photosynthetic antenna complexes in solution.

abstract：:Protection of poikilothermic animals from seasonal cold is widely regarded as being causally linked to changes in the unsaturation of membrane phospholipids, yet in animals this proposition remains formally untested. We have now achieved this by the genetic manipulation of lipid biosynthesis of Caenorhabditis elegans ...

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

authors： Murray P,Hayward SA,Govan GG,Gracey AY,Cossins AR

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of endothelin 1 mRNA and endothelin-like immunoreactivity was investigated in samples of neurologically normal nervous system tissue from 10 adults by using in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. Tissue sections of spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia were hybridized with an 35S-radiolabeled en...

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

authors： Giaid A,Gibson SJ,Ibrahim BN,Legon S,Bloom SR,Yanagisawa M,Masaki T,Varndell IM,Polak JM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By incorporating a population number regulating mechanism into the formulation of genic selection involving a pair of alleles (A1 and A2) with respective frequencies x and I-x, it is shown that the change of x in one generation is given by deltax = sx(1-x)/W, in which W is the mean absolute selective value (in Wright'...

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

authors： Kimura M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practicing a motor skill triggers a process of memory consolidation that continues for hours after practice has ended, and becomes manifest in an improved skill at later testing. We used a sequential motor task (finger-to-thumb opposition task) to show that, in humans, the formation of motor skill memories essentially...

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

authors： Fischer S,Hallschmid M,Elsner AL,Born J

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the complete genome sequence of a common avian clone of Pasteurella multocida, Pm70. The genome of Pm70 is a single circular chromosome 2,257,487 base pairs in length and contains 2,014 predicted coding regions, 6 ribosomal RNA operons, and 57 tRNAs. Genome-scale evolutionary analyses based on pairwise...

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

authors： May BJ,Zhang Q,Li LL,Paustian ML,Whittam TS,Kapur V

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The type specimen for Australopithecus africanus (Taung) includes a natural endocast that reproduces most of the external morphology of the right cerebral hemisphere and a fragment of fossilized face that articulates with the endocast. Despite the fact that Taung died between 3 and 4 y of age, the endocast reproduces ...

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

authors： Falk D,Zollikofer CP,Morimoto N,Ponce de León MS

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing primary cultures of cerebellar granule neurons to 100 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) for 24 hr decreases the Ca2+/phosphatidylserine/diolein-dependent protein kinase C (PKC; ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) by approximately 90% in the 100,000 x g supernatant and pellet fractions of neuro...

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

authors： Favaron M,Manev H,Siman R,Bertolino M,Szekely AM,DeErausquin G,Guidotti A,Costa E

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cold-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which there is a deficit of 60S ribosomal subunits. Cold sensitivity and the assembly defect are recessive and cosegregate, defining a single essential gene that we designated DRS1 (deficiency of ribosomal subunits). The wild-type DRS1 gene was cl...

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

authors： Ripmaster TL,Vaughn GP,Woolford JL Jr

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989, populations of North American gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in seven contiguous northeastern states were severely reduced by a fungal pathogen. Based on morphology, development, and pathology, this organism appeared to be Entomophaga maimaiga. We have now used allozyme and restriction fragment length polymorp...

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

authors： Hajek AE,Humber RA,Elkinton JS,May B,Walsh SR,Silver JC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor DNA molecules carrying Tn1 or Tn3 deletion mutants do not need to replicate in order to participate in replicon fusion recombination events during which the Tn1/Tn3 element is duplicated. We have assayed Tn1 delta Ap-mediated replicon fusion events involving plasmid R388 and the bacteriophage lambda-derived plas...

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

authors： Muster CJ,Shapiro JA,MacHattie LA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma delta (γδ) T cells represent a major IL-17 committed T-cell population (γδT17 cells) in the mouse dermis. Following exposure to the inflammatory agent imiquimod (IMQ) the Vγ4(+) subset of γδT cells produce IL-17 in the skin and expand rapidly in draining lymph nodes (LNs). Local IMQ treatment in humans is known ...

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

authors： Ramírez-Valle F,Gray EE,Cyster JG

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTP/GDP nucleotide switch in Ras superfamily GTPases generally involves differential affinity toward downstream effectors, with the GTP-bound state having a higher affinity for effector than the GDP-bound state. We have developed a quantitative model of allosteric regulation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein...

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

authors： Leung DW,Rosen MK

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of monoclonal origin and display many genetic alterations. In an effort to determine whether clonal expansion itself could account for the large number of genetic alterations, we compared spontaneous transformation in cloned and uncloned populations of NIH 3T3 cells. We have reported that progre...

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

authors： Chow M,Rubin H

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured hippocampal slices prepared from apolipoprotein E-deficient mice were exposed to an inhibitor of cathepsins B and L and then processed for immunocytochemistry using antibodies against human paired helical filaments. Dense, AT8-immunopositive deposits were found in the subiculum, stratum oriens of hippocampal ...

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

authors： Bi X,Yong AP,Zhou J,Ribak CE,Lynch G

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of cells with various peptide growth factors induces the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) through activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The action of this enzyme is reversed by that of the tumor suppressor PTEN. With the use of cells overexpressing NADPH oxidase 1 or per...

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

authors： Kwon J,Lee SR,Yang KS,Ahn Y,Kim YJ,Stadtman ER,Rhee SG

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used wild-type and variants of the T-lymphoma cell line S49 to explore internalization and down-regulation of adenylate cyclase-linked beta-adrenergic receptors. Internalization was defined by the loss in "surface receptors" detected at 4 degrees C on intact cells by the antagonists [3H]CGP-12177 or [125I]iodo...

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

authors： Mahan LC,Koachman AM,Insel PA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lac operon of Escherichia coli spans approximately 5300 base pairs and includes the lacZ, lacY, and lacA genes in addition to the operator, promoter, and transcription termination regions. We report here the sequence of the lacA gene and the region distal to it, confirming the sequence of thiogalactoside transacet...

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

authors： Hediger MA,Johnson DF,Nierlich DP,Zabin I

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neo (neomycin-resistance) gene of transposon Tn5 encodes the enzyme neomycin phosphotransferase II (EC 2.7.1.95), which confers resistance to various aminoglycoside antibiotics, including kanamycin and G418. The gene is widely used as a selectable marker in the transformation of organisms as diverse as bacteria, y...

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

authors： Yenofsky RL,Fine M,Pellow JW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays specific for the N and C termini of human prothymosin alpha and the N terminus of human parathymosin alpha were employed for the measurement of the levels of alpha-thymosins in human thymus, spleen, and liver during normal growth and intestine and breast in malignant growth. A differential expression...

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

authors： Tsitsiloni OE,Stiakakis J,Koutselinis A,Gogas J,Markopoulos C,Yialouris P,Bekris S,Panoussopoulos D,Kiortsis V,Voelter W

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species,...

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

authors： Caramelli D,Lalueza-Fox C,Vernesi C,Lari M,Casoli A,Mallegni F,Chiarelli B,Dupanloup I,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G,Bertorelle G

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies indicate beneficial effects of moderate ethanol consumption in ischemic heart disease. Most studies, however, focus on the effect of long-term consumption of ethanol. In this study, we determined whether brief exposure to ethanol immediately before ischemia also produces cardioprotection...

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

authors： Chen CH,Gray MO,Mochly-Rosen D

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional organization of HLA antigens has been investigated by spectroscopic and immunochemical techniques. Measurement of the circular dichroism shows that in papain-solubilized HLA the heavy chain as well as the previously studied light chain (beta 2-microglobulin) consists predominantly of beta-pleated...

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

authors： Lancet D,Parham P,Strominger JL

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic agriculture promotes sustainability compared to conventional agriculture. However, the multifunctional sustainability benefits of organic farms might be mediated by landscape context. Assessing how landscape context affects sustainability may aid in targeting organic production to landscapes that promote high ...

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

authors： Smith OM,Cohen AL,Reganold JP,Jones MS,Orpet RJ,Taylor JM,Thurman JH,Cornell KA,Olsson RL,Ge Y,Kennedy CM,Crowder DW

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The active form of vitamin D, 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1alpha,25(OH)2D], is synthesized from its precursor 25 hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] via the catalytic action of the 25(OH)D-1alpha-hydroxylase [1alpha(OH)ase] enzyme. Many roles in cell growth and differentiation have been attributed to 1,25(OH)2D, including a ...

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

authors： Panda DK,Miao D,Tremblay ML,Sirois J,Farookhi R,Hendy GN,Goltzman D

更新日期：2001-06-19 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：:An immunoglobulin light chain protein was isolated from the urine of an individual (BRE) with systemic amyloidosis. Complete amino acid sequence of the variable region of the light chain (VL) protein established it as a kappa I, which when compared with other kappa I amyloid associated proteins had unique residues, in...

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

authors： Schormann N,Murrell JR,Liepnieks JJ,Benson MD

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The precipitation and assembly of calcium carbonate skeletons by stony corals is a precisely controlled process regulated by the secretion of an ECM. Recently, it has been reported that the proteome of the skeletal organic matrix (SOM) contains a group of coral acid-rich proteins as well as an assemblage of adhesion a...

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

authors： Mass T,Drake JL,Peters EC,Jiang W,Falkowski PG

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence and reemergence of viruses in the human population has highlighted the need to develop broader panels of therapeutic molecules. High-throughput screening assays opening access to untargeted steps of the viral replication cycle will provide powerful leverage to identify innovative antiviral molecul...

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

authors： Fernandez J,Hassen-Khodja C,Georget V,Rose T,Jacob Y,Janin YL,Nisole S,Vidalain PO,Arhel NJ

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is a permeability barrier and an intrinsic antibiotic resistance factor. Lipoproteins are OM components that function in cell wall synthesis, diverse secretion systems, and antibiotic efflux pumps. Moreover, each of the essential OM machines that assemble the barrier r...

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

authors： Grabowicz M,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit chondrocyte cultures on plastic dishes are capable of depositing a cartilaginous matrix, although the matrix does not calcify unless high levels of phosphate are added to the medium. In the present study, we cultivated a pelleted mass of rabbit growth-plate chondrocytes in the presence of Eagle's minimum essent...

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

authors： Kato Y,Iwamoto M,Koike T,Suzuki F,Takano Y

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00