Enzyme catalysis by entropy without Circe effect.

abstract：:The thesis is developed that a low oxygen level Precambrian atmosphere presented early-evolving metazoan organisms with physiological connective tissue priorities resulting from the important molecular oxygen requirements in the biosynthesis of collagen hydroxyproline. Shells, cuticles, and carapaces which are not man...

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

authors： Towe KM

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The science around the use of masks by the public to impede COVID-19 transmission is advancing rapidly. In this narrative review, we develop an analytical framework to examine mask usage, synthesizing the relevant literature to inform multiple areas: population impact, transmission characteristics, source control, wea...

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

authors： Howard J,Huang A,Li Z,Tufekci Z,Zdimal V,van der Westhuizen HM,von Delft A,Price A,Fridman L,Tang LH,Tang V,Watson GL,Bax CE,Shaikh R,Questier F,Hernandez D,Chu LF,Ramirez CM,Rimoin AW

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin IC (myo1c), a widely expressed motor protein that links the actin cytoskeleton to cell membranes, has been associated with numerous cellular processes, including insulin-stimulated transport of GLUT4, mechanosensation in sensory hair cells, endocytosis, transcription of DNA in the nucleus, exocytosis, and membr...

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

authors： Greenberg MJ,Lin T,Goldman YE,Shuman H,Ostap EM

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila splicing factor RBP1 participates together with TRA and TRA-2 in the regulation of alternative splicing of doublesex (dsx) pre-mRNA. It does so by recognizing RBP1 RNA target sequences in the dsx pre-mRNA. RBP1 belongs to the Ser-Arg-rich (SR) protein family of splicing factors, which have in common a N...

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

authors： Heinrichs V,Baker BS

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings demonstrated proinflammatory functions of interleukin (IL)-9-producing T helper type (Th) 9 cells in the pathogenesis of intestinal bowel diseases (IBDs). However, also antiinflammatory properties have been ascribed to Th9 cells, pointing to a functional heterogeneity. To dissect the specific expressio...

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

authors： Stanko K,Iwert C,Appelt C,Vogt K,Schumann J,Strunk FJ,Ahrlich S,Schlickeiser S,Romagnani C,Jürchott K,Meisel C,Willimsky G,Kühl AA,Sawitzki B

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic pheomelanins from enzymic oxidation of the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) derivative 5-S-cysteinyldopa have been examined by ESR spectroscopy. These alkalisoluble polymers contain a novel kind of free radical that is spectroscopically distinct from that found in eumelanins. Delocalization of the unpaired ...

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

authors： Sealy RC,Hyde JS,Felix CC,Menon IA,Prota G,Swartz HM,Persad S,Haberman HF

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commitment of differentiating cells to a specialized fate is fundamental to the correct assembly of tissues within a multicellular organism. Because commitment is often irreversible, entry into and progression through this phase of development must be tightly regulated. Under nitrogen-limiting conditions, the mult...

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

authors： Videau P,Rivers OS,Hurd K,Ushijima B,Oshiro RT,Ende RJ,O'Hanlon SM,Cozy LM

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibin, a gonadal hormone capable of preferential suppression of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion, has recently been purified. The major form of this protein is an alpha beta heterodimer encoded by two separate genes. In contrast to the FSH-suppressing action of the alpha beta heterodimer, the b...

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

authors： Hsueh AJ,Dahl KD,Vaughan J,Tucker E,Rivier J,Bardin CW,Vale W

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine has been identified in the anterior pituitary gland and is secreted from cultured folliculostellate (FS) cells. To determine whether adenosine controls the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones in vitro, adenosine was incubated with anterior pituitaries. It stimulated prolactin (PRL) release at the lowest...

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

authors： Yu WH,Kimura M,Walczewska A,Porter JC,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice have provided invaluable information about gene function and regulation. However, because of marked differences between rodents and primates, some areas of human biology such as early embryonic development, aging, and maternal-fetal interactions would be best studied in a nonhuman primate model. Here, ...

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

authors： Wolfgang MJ,Eisele SG,Browne MA,Schotzko ML,Garthwaite MA,Durning M,Ramezani A,Hawley RG,Thomson JA,Golos TG

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequestration, the adherence of infected erythrocytes containing late developmental stages of the parasite (trophozoites and schizonts) to the endothelium of capillaries and venules, is characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum infections. We have studied two host factors, the spleen and antibody, that influence sequest...

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

authors： David PH,Hommel M,Miller LH,Udeinya IJ,Oligino LD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive Early Jurassic continental strata of southern Africa have yielded an exceptional record of dinosaurs that includes scores of partial to complete skeletons of the sauropodomorph Massospondylus, ranging from embryos to large adults. In 1976 an incomplete egg clutch including in ovo embryos of this dinosaur...

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

authors： Reisz RR,Evans DC,Roberts EM,Sues HD,Yates AM

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping methods are necessary to accomplish many current gene discovery goals. A crucial element in large-scale SNP genotyping is the number of individual biochemical reactions that must be performed. An efficient method that can be used to simultaneously amplify a set...

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

authors： Jordan B,Charest A,Dowd JF,Blumenstiel JP,Yeh Rf RF,Osman A,Housman DE,Landers JE

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is the primary and most ancient defense against infection. Although critical to survival, coordinating protection against a foreign organism is energetically costly, creating the need to reallocate substrates from nonessential functions, such as growth and nutrient storage. However, the mechanism by wh...

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

authors： DiAngelo JR,Bland ML,Bambina S,Cherry S,Birnbaum MJ

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Forkhead box g1 (Foxg1) is a nuclear-cytosolic transcription factor essential for the forebrain development and involved in neurodevelopmental and cancer pathologies. Despite the importance of this protein, little is known about the modalities by which it exerts such a large number of cellular functions. Here we show ...

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

authors： Pancrazi L,Di Benedetto G,Colombaioni L,Della Sala G,Testa G,Olimpico F,Reyes A,Zeviani M,Pozzan T,Costa M

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular localization of Ocrl, the inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase that is mutated in Lowe syndrome, was investigated by fluorescence microscopy. Ocrl was localized to endosomes and Golgi membranes along with clathrin, giantin, the mannose 6-phosphate receptor, transferrin, and the early endosomal antigen ...

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

authors： Ungewickell A,Ward ME,Ungewickell E,Majerus PW

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete state models are a common tool of modeling in many areas. E.g., Markov state models as a particular representative of this model family became one of the major instruments for analysis and understanding of processes in molecular dynamics (MD). Here we extend the scope of discrete state models to the case of s...

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

authors： Gerber S,Horenko I

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:After the start of transcription, the 5' ends of eukaryotic mRNA molecules are modified by the addition of a guanylyl residue to form a cap structure, G(5')ppp(5')N. The guanylyltransferase (GTP:mRNA guanylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.50) reaction responsible for cap formation usually proceeds via a covalent enzyme-GMP int...

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

authors： Ahola T,Kääriäinen L

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library derived from human cerebral cortex was screened for the presence of sodium channel alpha subunit-specific clones. Ligation of three overlapping clones generated a full-length cDNA clone, HBA, that provided the complete nucleotide sequence coding for a protein of 2005 amino acids. The predicted structure...

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

authors： Ahmed CM,Ware DH,Lee SC,Patten CD,Ferrer-Montiel AV,Schinder AF,McPherson JD,Wagner-McPherson CB,Wasmuth JJ,Evans GA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman primates possess a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is typically tested by having subjects compare facial images, whereas there has been virtually no attention to how they connect these images to reality. C...

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

authors： Pokorny JJ,de Waal FB

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific protein domains and amino acids responsible for the apparent capacity of P-glycoprotein (mdr) to recognize and transport a large group of structurally unrelated drugs have not been identified. We have introduced a single Ser----Phe substitution within the predicted TM11 domain of mdr1 (position 941) and mdr3 ...

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

authors： Gros P,Dhir R,Croop J,Talbot F

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in cell biology is to understand how spatial information is recognized and integrated into morphogenetic responses. Budding yeast undergoes differentiation to filamentous growth, which involves changes in cell polarity through mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we define a regulatory input wher...

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

authors： Basu S,Vadaie N,Prabhakar A,Li B,Adhikari H,Pitoniak A,Chow J,Chavel CA,Cullen PJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have failed to detect an interaction between monomeric soluble CD4 (sCD4) and class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, suggesting that oligomerization of CD4 on the cell surface may be required to form a stable class II MHC binding site. To test this possibility, we transfected the F4...

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

authors： Sakihama T,Smolyar A,Reinherz EL

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system detects viral nucleic acids and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses. The RNA- and DNA-sensing pathways converge on the protein kinase TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and the transcription factor IFN-regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is known to trigger the ...

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

authors： Seo M,Lee SO,Kim JH,Hong Y,Kim S,Kim Y,Min DH,Kong YY,Shin J,Ahn K

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic evidence indicates that the PrlA (SecY) protein of Escherichia coli functions as a membrane integrated signal sequence receptor in protein "export"--i.e., in protein translocation across (or integration into) the plasma membrane. We have raised antibodies in rabbits against two synthetic peptides representing ...

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

authors： Watanabe M,Blobel G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies show that plant organ positioning may be mediated by localized concentrations of the plant hormone auxin. Auxin patterning in the shoot apical meristem is in turn brought about by the subcellular polar distribution of the putative auxin efflux mediator, PIN1. However, the question of what signals determ...

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

authors： Jönsson H,Heisler MG,Shapiro BE,Meyerowitz EM,Mjolsness E

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:An explicitly polarizable force field based exclusively on quantum data is applied to calculations of relative binding affinities of ligands to proteins. Five ligands, differing by replacement of an atom or functional group, in complexes with three serine proteases-trypsin, thrombin, and urokinase-type plasminogen act...

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

authors： Khoruzhii O,Donchev AG,Galkin N,Illarionov A,Olevanov M,Ozrin V,Queen C,Tarasov V

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid fills intracellular, extracellular, and capillary spaces within muscle. During normal physiological activity, intramuscular fluid pressures develop as muscle exerts a portion of its developed force internally. These pressures, typically ranging between 10 and 250 mmHg, are rarely considered in mechanical models ...

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

authors： Sleboda DA,Roberts TJ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangiogenesis plays an important role in promoting cancer metastasis to sentinel lymph nodes and beyond and also promotes organ transplant rejection. We used human lymphatic endothelial cells to establish a reliable three-dimensional lymphangiogenic sprouting assay with automated image acquisition and analysis for...

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

authors： Schulz MM,Reisen F,Zgraggen S,Fischer S,Yuen D,Kang GJ,Chen L,Schneider G,Detmar M

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila heteroneura and D. silvestris are sympatric species living on the island of Hawaii, while D. planitibia is allopatric on the nearby island of Maui. A pronounced ethological isolation is found between the sympatric species, and none between allopatric ones, except that D. planitibia females discriminate agai...

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

authors： Ahearn JN,Carson HL,Dobzhansky T,Kaneshiro KY

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00