Library preparation methodology can influence genomic and functional predictions in human microbiome research.

abstract：:Estrogens control many physiological and behavioral processes, some of which are connected to reproduction. These include sexual and other social behaviors. Here we implicate four gene products in a micronet required for mammalian social recognition, through which an individual learns to recognize other individuals. F...

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

authors： Choleris E,Gustafsson JA,Korach KS,Muglia LJ,Pfaff DW,Ogawa S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:PIF3 is a phytochrome-interacting basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that negatively regulates light responses, including hypocotyl elongation, cotyledon opening, and hypocotyl negative gravitropism. However, the role of PIF3 in chlorophyll biosynthesis has not been clearly defined. Here, we show that PIF3 al...

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

authors： Shin J,Kim K,Kang H,Zulfugarov IS,Bae G,Lee CH,Lee D,Choi G

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic assumptions of van der Waals theory are contained in two well-known concepts: excluded volume (repulsive forces) and a homogeneous, isotropic field potential (attractive forces). We have superimposed on these, one more well-known concept: the existence of dimers, trimers, etc., at chemical equilibrium. With ...

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

authors： Heidemann RA,Prausnitz JM

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts of Arbacia eggs (Arbacia punctulata) apparently do not contain an enzymatic system for the reduction of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides. However, during an interval of 5 hr after fertilization at 23 degrees , an enzymatic system is produced that is capable of catalyzing the reduction of CDP ...

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

authors： Noronha JM,Sheys GH,Buchanan JM

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glu-126 (helix IV) and Arg-144 (helix V) are charge paired and play a critical role in substrate binding in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli. When Glu-126 is replaced with Asp, the permease has relatively high activity, implying that helix V has sufficient flexibility to allow Arg-144 to accommodate the decrea...

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

authors： Weinglass AB,Kaback HR

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Three lines of evidence for abrupt tropical climate change, both past and present, are presented. First, annually and decadally averaged delta(18)O and net mass-balance histories for the last 400 and 2,000 yr, respectively, demonstrate that the current warming at high elevations in the mid- to low latitudes is unprece...

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

authors： Thompson LG,Mosley-Thompson E,Brecher H,Davis M,León B,Les D,Lin PN,Mashiotta T,Mountain K

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The supernatant fluid (conditioned medium) of cultured human vascular endothelial cells inhibits activation of Hageman factor (factor XII), whether by ellagic acid, bovine brain sulfatides, or bismuth subgallate; inhibition appears to be a property of one or more proteins in the culture supernates. This phenomenon may...

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

authors： Ratnoff OD,Everson B,Embury P,Ziats NP,Anderson JM,Emanuelson MM,Malemud CJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation rates to construct long-term variations in fire during the past 3,000 y in...

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

authors： Marlon JR,Bartlein PJ,Gavin DG,Long CJ,Anderson RS,Briles CE,Brown KJ,Colombaroli D,Hallett DJ,Power MJ,Scharf EA,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutS gene product is involved in mismatch correction in this organism. We have purified a biologically active form of the 97,000 Mr protein to near homogeneity from an overproducing strain. Enzymatic and chemical protection ("footprinting") experiments have demonstrated that mutS-encoded protein s...

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

authors： Su SS,Modrich P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the supposedly buried tryptophan in ribonuclease T1 has been found to be collisionally quenched by acrylamide with a rate constant of 3 X 10(8) M--1 sec--1. Only a slight decrease in the quenching rate is observed upon a 5-fold increase in the viscosity of the solution. For this to be the case, the...

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

authors： Eftink MR,Ghiron CA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes of some aquatic animals form images through reflective optics. Shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, and prawns possess reflecting superposition compound eyes, composed of thousands of square-faceted eye units (ommatidia). Mirrors in the upper part of the eye (the distal mirror) reflect light collected from many ommati...

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

authors： Palmer BA,Hirsch A,Brumfeld V,Aflalo ED,Pinkas I,Sagi A,Rosenne S,Oron D,Leiserowitz L,Kronik L,Weiner S,Addadi L

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A translocation involving human chromosome 10, band q24, in a subset of T-cell acute leukemias disrupts a region surrounding the putative oncogene HOX11, which encodes a protein with a homeodomain. The HOX11 protein binds to a specific DNA sequence, it localizes to the cell nucleus, and it transactivates transcription...

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

authors： Dear TN,Sanchez-Garcia I,Rabbitts TH

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct cell-cell communication is crucial for many processes in biology, particularly embryogenesis, interactions between hematopoetic cells, and in the nervous system. This communication is often mediated by the binding of receptors to cognate ligands at a cell-cell junction. One such interaction that is very importa...

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

authors： Qi S,Krogsgaard M,Davis MM,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The CH family of murine B-cell lymphomas includes several members that are sensitive to growth inhibition when their membrane IgM (mIgM) receptors are cross-linked by anti-mu chain, anti-kappa chain, or anti-idiotypic antibodies. These lymphomas are IgM+, Ia+, and IgD +/- and resemble neonatal B cells in terms of thei...

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

authors： Alés-Martínez JE,Warner GL,Scott DW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We completed the cDNA cloning and sequencing of gp330, the major kidney glomerular antigen for rat Heymann nephritis. The deduced 4660-aa sequence, expected to constitute a mature protein of M(r) 516,715, consists of a probable N-terminal signal peptide sequence (25 aa), an extracellular region (4400 aa), a single tra...

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

authors： Saito A,Pietromonaco S,Loo AK,Farquhar MG

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate here that yeast killer viruses, previously thought to be transmitted only by cytoplasmic mixing during division, mating, or other induced forms of cell fusion, are capable of extracellular transmission. Viral particles from standard K1 and K2 killer strains were used to inoculate sensitive cells of Sacc...

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

authors： el-Sherbeini M,Bostian KA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1776 and 1920, the US Congress designed more than 200 distinct securities and stated the maximum amount of each that the Treasury could sell. Between 1917 and 1939, Congress gradually delegated all decisions about designing US debt instruments to the Treasury. In 1939, Congress began imposing a limit on the pa...

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

authors： Hall GJ,Sargent TJ

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:While cells within tissues generate and sense 3D states of strain, the current understanding of the mechanics of fibrous extracellular matrices (ECMs) stems mainly from uniaxial, biaxial, and shear tests. Here, we demonstrate that the multiaxial deformations of fiber networks in 3D cannot be inferred solely based on t...

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

authors： Ban E,Wang H,Franklin JM,Liphardt JT,Janmey PA,Shenoy VB

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests cancer cells exhibit a dependency on metabolic pathways regulated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Nevertheless, how the regulation of this metabolic cofactor interfaces with signal transduction networks remains poorly understood in glioblastoma. Here, we report nicotinamide ...

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

authors： Gujar AD,Le S,Mao DD,Dadey DY,Turski A,Sasaki Y,Aum D,Luo J,Dahiya S,Yuan L,Rich KM,Milbrandt J,Hallahan DE,Yano H,Tran DD,Kim AH

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant theories of human placebo effects rely on a notion that consciously perceptible cues, such as verbal information or distinct stimuli in classical conditioning, provide signals that activate placebo effects. However, growing evidence suggest that behavior can be triggered by stimuli presented outside of co...

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

authors： Jensen KB,Kaptchuk TJ,Kirsch I,Raicek J,Lindstrom KM,Berna C,Gollub RL,Ingvar M,Kong J

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotoxicosis increases endogenous glucose production (EGP) and induces hepatic insulin resistance. We have recently shown that these alterations can be modulated by selective hepatic sympathetic and parasympathetic denervation, pointing to neurally mediated effects of thyroid hormone on glucose metabolism. Here, we ...

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

authors： Klieverik LP,Janssen SF,van Riel A,Foppen E,Bisschop PH,Serlie MJ,Boelen A,Ackermans MT,Sauerwein HP,Fliers E,Kalsbeek A

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimization of hydride transfer (HT) catalysts to enhance rates and selectivities of (photo)electroreduction reactions could be a crucial component of a sustainable chemical industry. Here, we analyze how ring functionalization of the adsorbed transient intermediate 2-pyridinide (2-PyH-*)-predicted to form in situ fr...

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

authors： Xu S,Carter EA

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:India's northward flight and collision with Asia was a major driver of global tectonics in the Cenozoic and, we argue, of atmospheric CO(2) concentration (pCO(2)) and thus global climate. Subduction of Tethyan oceanic crust with a carpet of carbonate-rich pelagic sediments deposited during transit beneath the high-pro...

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

authors： Kent DV,Muttoni G

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Soret-excited resonance Raman spectroscopy yields direct information regarding the iron-carbon bonding interactions in the cyanomet and carbonmonoxy complexes of hemoglobin III from Chironomus thummi thummi (CTT III) in solution. By isotope exchange in cyanide (13CN-, C15N-, and 13C15N-) and carbon monoxide (13CO, C18...

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

authors： Yu NT,Benko B,Kerr EA,Gersonde K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesothelin is a differentiation antigen present on the surface of ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas, and several other types of human cancers. Because among normal tissues, mesothelin is present only on mesothelial cells, it represents a good target for antibody-mediated delivery of cytotoxic agents. In the present study...

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

authors： Chowdhury PS,Viner JL,Beers R,Pastan I

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective animal behavior studies have led the way in developing models that account for a large number of individuals, but mostly have considered situations in which alignment and attraction play a key role, such as in schooling and flocking. By quantifying how animals react to one another's presence, when interacti...

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

authors： Giuggioli L,Potts JR,Rubenstein DI,Levin SA

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured high-resolution x-ray absorption spectra of lanthanide (Ln) and heavy transition metal complexes that display prominent narrow absorption peaks near the L2 and L3 absorption edges. The anomalous scattering factors (f' and f"), which are mathematically related to the absorption cross section, have corr...

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

authors： Lye RC,Phillips JC,Kaplan D,Doniach S,Hodgson KO

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recoverin, a recently discovered member of the EF-hand superfamily of Ca(2+)-binding proteins, serves as a Ca2+ sensor in vision. The amino terminus of the protein from retinal rod cells contains a covalently attached myristoyl or related N-acyl group. We report here studies of unmyristoylated and myristoylated recomb...

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

authors： Zozulya S,Stryer L

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of energy metabolism by external interventions or mutations in metabolic genes can extend lifespan in a wide range of species. We describe mutations in Drosophila melanogaster that confer resistance to oxidative stress and display a longevity phenotype. These phenotypes are associated with molecular lesio...

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

authors： Mourikis P,Hurlbut GD,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The first definitive/adult-type hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the mouse aorta-gonad-mesonephros region emerge between embryonic days 10.5 and 11.5. The discovery of clusters of hematopoietic cells on the ventral luminal surface of the dorsal aorta in various vertebrate species has led to speculation that the floo...

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

authors： Taoudi S,Medvinsky A

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00