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abstract：:The 2.1-A resolution crystal structure of wild-type green fluorescent protein and comparison of it with the recently determined structure of the Ser-65 --> Thr (S65T) mutant explains the dual wavelength absorption and photoisomerization properties of the wild-type protein. The two absorption maxima are caused by a cha...

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

authors： Brejc K,Sixma TK,Kitts PA,Kain SR,Tsien RY,Ormö M,Remington SJ

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclonic atmospheric vortices of varying intensity, collectively known as low-pressure systems (LPS), travel northwest across central India and produce more than half of the precipitation received by that fertile region and its ∼600 million inhabitants. Yet, future changes in LPS activity are poorly understood, due in...

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

authors： Sandeep S,Ajayamohan RS,Boos WR,Sabin TP,Praveen V

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was performed to estimate the frequency of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 or O157:nonmotile (EHEC O157) in feces and on hides within groups of fed cattle from single sources (lots) presented for slaughter at meat processing plants in the Midwestern United States, as well as frequency of carcass co...

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

authors： Elder RO,Keen JE,Siragusa GR,Barkocy-Gallagher GA,Koohmaraie M,Laegreid WW

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine dietary consumption of foods that contain aflatoxins is the second leading cause of environmental carcinogenesis worldwide. Aflatoxin-driven mutagenesis is initiated through metabolic activation of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) to its epoxide form that reacts with N7 guanine in DNA. The resulting AFB1-N7-dG adduct under...

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

authors： Lin YC,Owen N,Minko IG,Lange SS,Tomida J,Li L,Stone MP,Wood RD,McCullough AK,Lloyd RS

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype and antigenic specificity of cells secreting interleukin (IL) 4, IL-6, and interferon gamma was studied in mice during primary and secondary immune responses. T lymphocytes were the major source of interferon gamma, whereas non-B/non-T cells were the dominant source of IL-4 and IL-6 in the spleens of imm...

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

authors： Aoki I,Kinzer C,Shirai A,Paul WE,Klinman DM

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the complexity of anisotropic turbulent processes over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales in engineering shear turbulence as well as climate atmosphere ocean science is a grand challenge of contemporary science with important societal impact. In such inhomogeneous turbulent dynamical systems there is ...

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

authors： Majda AJ

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are refractory to infection by retroviruses because retroviral long terminal repeat (LTR) enhancers have little activity in EC cells. A previous report described the isolation of clonal EC cell lines that express the integrated neomycin-resistance gene (neo) linked to the Moloney ...

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

authors： Taketo M,Tanaka M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of about 50 pairs of homologous nucleotide sequences for different genes revealed that the substitutions between synonymous codons occurred at much higher rates than did amino acid substitutions. Furthermore, five pairs of mRNA sequences for different genes were compared in species that had diverged at the ...

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

authors： Miyata T,Yasunaga T,Nishida T

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that the mammalian genome encodes >1,000 large intergenic noncoding (linc)RNAs that are clearly conserved across mammals and, thus, functional. Gene expression patterns have implicated these lincRNAs in diverse biological processes, including cell-cycle regulation, immune surveillance, and embryonic...

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

authors： Khalil AM,Guttman M,Huarte M,Garber M,Raj A,Rivea Morales D,Thomas K,Presser A,Bernstein BE,van Oudenaarden A,Regev A,Lander ES,Rinn JL

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys that were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions: mother rearing, peer reari...

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

authors： Conti G,Hansman C,Heckman JJ,Novak MF,Ruggiero A,Suomi SJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-potential iron-sulfur center associated with the g = 1.89-1.90 electron paramagnetic resonance signal in spinach chloroplasts is fully reduced in the dark. It is photooxidized in the presence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea and reduced after illumination with red actinic light in the absence of inh...

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

authors： Whitmarsh J,Cramer WA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We advance a theory of resilience as it applies to the challenges of international development. The conceptualization we advance for development resilience focuses on the stochastic dynamics of individual and collective human well-being, especially on the avoidance of and escape from chronic poverty over time in the f...

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

authors： Barrett CB,Constas MA

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The human aspects of conservation are often overlooked but will be critical for identifying strategies for biological conservation in the face of climate change. We surveyed the behavioral intentions of coastal landowners with respect to various conservation strategies aimed at facilitating ecosystem migration for tid...

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

authors： Field CR,Dayer AA,Elphick CS

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence resonance energy transfer assay has been developed for monitoring Bacillus anthracis lethal factor (LF) protease activity. A fluorogenic 16-mer peptide based on the known LF protease substrate MEK1 was synthesized and found to be cleaved by the enzyme at the anticipated site. Extension of this work to a...

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

authors： Cummings RT,Salowe SP,Cunningham BR,Wiltsie J,Park YW,Sonatore LM,Wisniewski D,Douglas CM,Hermes JD,Scolnick EM

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the F-specific ssRNA phage MS2 has long had paradigm status, little is known about penetration of the genomic RNA (gRNA) into the cell. The phage initially binds to the F-pilus using its maturation protein (Mat), and then the Mat-bound gRNA is released from the viral capsid and somehow crosses the bacterial e...

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

authors： Harb L,Chamakura K,Khara P,Christie PJ,Young R,Zeng L

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses evolved from long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons by acquisition of envelope functions, and subsequently reinvaded host genomes. Together, endogenous retroviruses and LTR retrotransposons represent major components of animal, plant, and fungal genomes. Sequences from these elements have been exapte...

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

authors： Dodonova SO,Prinz S,Bilanchone V,Sandmeyer S,Briggs JAG

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is an ATP-requiring enzyme capable of carrying out multielectron reductions of inert molecules. A purified remodeled nitrogenase containing two amino acid substitutions near the site of its FeMo cofactor was recently described as having the capacity to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) to methane (CH4). Here, we...

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

authors： Fixen KR,Zheng Y,Harris DF,Shaw S,Yang ZY,Dean DR,Seefeldt LC,Harwood CS

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The five alpha genes of herpes simplex virus 1 are the first set of genes to be expressed after infection. Previous studies have shown that alpha genes resident in eukaryotic cells are induced by infection with herpes simplex virus 1 or 2 but not by other herpesviruses and indicate that the alpha trans-inducing factor...

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

authors： Pellett PE,McKnight JL,Jenkins FJ,Roizman B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental hemoglobin switching involves sequential globin gene activations and repressions that are incompletely understood. Earlier observations, described herein, led us to hypothesize that nuclear ferritin is a repressor of the adult beta-globin gene in embryonic erythroid cells. Our data show that a ferritin-f...

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

authors： Broyles RH,Belegu V,DeWitt CR,Shah SN,Stewart CA,Pye QN,Floyd RA

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesive P pili of uropathogenic Escherichia coli were not assembled by a strain that lacks the periplasmic disulfide isomerase DsbA. This defect was mostly attributed to the immunoglobulin-like pilus chaperone PapD, which possesses an unusual intrasheet disulfide bond between the last two beta-strands of its CD4-like...

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

authors： Jacob-Dubuisson F,Pinkner J,Xu Z,Striker R,Padmanhaban A,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin (PG) D2 has been shown to be transformed by human 11-ketoreductase to 9 alpha,11 beta-PGF2, a biologically active metabolite that is produced in vivo. During the course of developing a mass spectrometric assay for 9 alpha,11 beta-PGF2, several compounds with characteristics similar to PGF2 were detected ...

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

authors： Wendelborn DF,Seibert K,Roberts LJ 2nd

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 25 to 29 April 2020, the state of Indiana undertook testing of 3,658 randomly chosen state residents for the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, the agent causing COVID-19 disease. This was the first statewide randomized study of COVID-19 testing in the United States. Both PC...

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

authors： Yiannoutsos CT,Halverson PK,Menachemi N

更新日期：2021-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid, at nontoxic concentrations, causes a substantial reduction in the ability of avian tumor viruses to replicate in both primary avian tendon cells and chicken embryo fibroblasts. The virus-infected cultures appear to be less transformed in the presence of ascorbic acid by the criteria of morphology, reduc...

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

authors： Bissell MJ,Hatie C,Farson DA,Schwarz RI,Soo WJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA clones corresponding to the polypeptide that has been shown to be an endogenous diazepam binding inhibitor and may act as a physiological ligand for the benzodiazepine/beta-carboline receptor have been isolated from bacteriophage lambda recombinant libraries from rat hypothalamus, total brain, and liver. The clon...

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

authors： Mocchetti I,Einstein R,Brosius J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of a rapid radioautographic screening procedure, two mutants of Bacillus brevis ATCC 8185 that have lost the ability to produce gramicidin have been isolated. These mutants produced normal levels of tyrocidine and sporulated at the same frequency as the parent strain. Their spores, however, were more heat-s...

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

authors： Mukherjee PK,Paulus H

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new nondefective hybrid virus has been plaque-isolated from the Ad.2-SV40 hybrid population. This virus replicates efficiently with one-hit kinetics in both human embryonic kidney and African green monkey kidney cells, induces an SV40 specific antigen which is detectable by immunofluorescence and complement-fixation...

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

authors： Lewis AM Jr,Levin MJ,Wiese WH,Crumpacker CS,Henry PH

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies are created and refined by somatic evolution in B cell populations, which endows the human immune system with the ability to recognize and eliminate diverse pathogens. However, the evolutionary processes that sculpt antibody repertoires remain poorly understood. Here, using an unbiased repertoire-scale appr...

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

authors： Horns F,Vollmers C,Dekker CL,Quake SR

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of rebeccamycin, an antitumor compound, involves the remarkable eight-electron oxidation of chlorinated chromopyrrolic acid. Although one rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme is capable of generating low levels of the eight-electron oxidation product on its own, a second protein, RebC, is required to acce...

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

authors： Ryan KS,Howard-Jones AR,Hamill MJ,Elliott SJ,Walsh CT,Drennan CL

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of tethered cells of Escherichia coli to impulse, step, exponential-ramp or exponentiated sine-wave stimuli are internally consistent, provided that allowance is made for the nonlinear effect of thresholds. This result confirms that wild-type cells exposed to stimuli in the physiological range make short-ter...

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

authors： Segall JE,Block SM,Berg HC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing knowledge of the key molecular components involved in biological processes such as endocytosis, exocytosis, and motility has enabled direct testing of proposed mechanistic models by reconstitution. However, current techniques for building increasingly complex cellular structures and functions from purified com...

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

authors： Richmond DL,Schmid EM,Martens S,Stachowiak JC,Liska N,Fletcher DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00