Harnessing adolescent values to motivate healthier eating.

abstract：:In this article we report an experiment that examines how demand-side bidding can discipline generators in a market for electric power. First we develop a treatment without demand-side bidding; two large firms are allocated baseload and intermediate cost generators such that either firm might unilaterally withhold the...

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

authors： Rassenti SJ,Smith VL,Wilson BJ

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer relapse after surgery is a common occurrence, most frequently resulting from the outgrowth of minimal residual disease in the form of metastases. We examined the effectiveness of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) blockade as an adjunctive immunotherapy to reduce metastatic relapse after prima...

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

authors： Kwon ED,Foster BA,Hurwitz AA,Madias C,Allison JP,Greenberg NM,Burg MB

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Understanding the distinct genetic and epigenetic changes contributing to the establishment and growth of metastatic lesions is crucial for the development of novel therapeutic strategies. In a search for key regulators of col...

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

authors： Rychahou PG,Kang J,Gulhati P,Doan HQ,Chen LA,Xiao SY,Chung DH,Evers BM

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial memory enhances an organism's navigational ability. Memory typically resides within the brain, but what if an organism has no brain? We show that the brainless slime mold Physarum polycephalum constructs a form of spatial memory by avoiding areas it has previously explored. This mechanism allows the slime mold...

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

authors： Reid CR,Latty T,Dussutour A,Beekman M

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal peptides of membrane proteins are cleaved by endoplasmic reticulum-resident signal peptidase, and thus, are not present on mature membrane proteins. Here, we report that, contrary to the paradigm, the signal peptide of ruminant CD18, the beta-subunit of beta(2)-integrins, is not cleaved. Intriguingly, the intac...

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

authors： Shanthalingam S,Srikumaran S

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) method for phase evaluation is now widely used in macromolecular crystallography. Successful MAD structure determinations have been carried out at the K or L absorption edges of a variety of elements. In this study, we investigate the anomalous scattering properties of u...

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

authors： Liu Y,Ogata CM,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamyl-tRNA (Glu-tRNA), formed by Glu-tRNA synthetase (GluRS), is a substrate for protein biosynthesis and tetrapyrrole formation by the C(5) pathway. In this route Glu-tRNA is transformed to delta-aminolevulinic acid, the universal precursor of tetrapyrroles (e.g., heme and chlorophyll) by the action of Glu-tRNA re...

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

authors： Levicán G,Katz A,de Armas M,Núñez H,Orellana O

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of cultured human leukemic tissues increased the spleen focus-forming activity of Friend leukemia virus preparations in BALB/c and other partially resistant mice. Such mice carry the Fv-1(b) gene, which inhibits the expression of helper virus indigenous to the Friend virus complex, and allows co-infecting leu...

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

authors： Steeves RA,Fjelde A,Mirand EA

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex of ribosomal DNA with RNA has been isolated from ovaries of metamorphosing tadpoles of Xenopus laevis. The complex is disrupted by treatments that destroy hydrogen bonds, and the sedimentation of the DNA within the complex is sensitive to RNase. We suggest that the RNA-ribosomal DNA complex is an intermediat...

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

authors： Brown RD,Tocchini-Valentini GP

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli RuvA and RuvB protein complex promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions during recombinational repair and homologous recombination and at stalled replication forks. The RuvB protein belongs to the AAA(+) (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) ATPase family and forms a hexameric...

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

authors： Hishida T,Han YW,Fujimoto S,Iwasaki H,Shinagawa H

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Quiescent BALB/c 3T3 cells exposed briefly to a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) become "competent" to replicate their DNA but do not "progress" into S phase unless incubated with growth factors contained in platelet-poor plasma. Plasma from hypophysectomized rats is deficient in progression activity; it does not...

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

authors： Stiles CD,Capone GT,Scher CD,Antoniades HN,Van Wyk JJ,Pledger WJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition is a multistep process in which a transposable element DNA sequence moves from its original genetic location to a new site. Early steps in this process include the formation of a transposition complex in which the end sequences of the transposable element are brought together in a structurally precise fa...

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

authors： Goryshin IYu,Kil YV,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of HeLa cells with poliovirus results in an inhibition of host-cell protein synthesis. Cytoplasmic extracts from infected cells contian an activity that inhibits initiation of protein synthesis in vitro by rabbit reticulocyte lysates. This inhibitory activity has been purified and characterized, and is shown...

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

authors： Ehrenfeld E,Hunt T

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biosynthesis of the pancreatic cancer drug streptozotocin, the tridomain nonheme-iron oxygenase SznF hydroxylates Nδ and Nω' of Nω-methyl-l-arginine before oxidatively rearranging the triply modified guanidine to the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea pharmacophore. A previously published structure visualized the monoiron cofa...

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

authors： McBride MJ,Pope SR,Hu K,Okafor CD,Balskus EP,Bollinger JM Jr,Boal AK

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:How granzymes gain entry into the cytosol of target cells during killer cell attack has been the subject of several studies in the past, but the effective delivery mechanism during target cell encounter has not been clarified. Here we show that granzyme B (GzmB) mutants lacking binding to negatively charged, essential...

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

authors： Kurschus FC,Fellows E,Stegmann E,Jenne DE

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:By optically probing with a focused, low-power laser beam, we measured the spontaneous deflection fluctuations of the sensory hair bundles on frog saccular hair cells with a sensitivity of about 1 pm/square root of Hz. The preparation was illuminated by two orthogonally polarized laser beams separated by only about 0....

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

authors： Denk W,Webb WW,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the LEF-1/TCF family of transcription factors have been implicated in mediating a nuclear response to Wnt signals by association with beta-catenin. Consistent with this view, mice carrying mutations in either the Wnt3a gene or in both transcription factor genes Lef1 and Tcf1 were previously found to show a ...

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

authors： Galceran J,Hsu SC,Grosschedl R

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:While South Americans are underrepresented in human genomic diversity studies, Brazil has been a classical model for population genetics studies on admixture. We present the results of the EPIGEN Brazil Initiative, the most comprehensive up-to-date genomic analysis of any Latin-American population. A population-based ...

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

authors： Kehdy FS,Gouveia MH,Machado M,Magalhães WC,Horimoto AR,Horta BL,Moreira RG,Leal TP,Scliar MO,Soares-Souza GB,Rodrigues-Soares F,Araújo GS,Zamudio R,Sant Anna HP,Santos HC,Duarte NE,Fiaccone RL,Figueiredo CA,Silva TM,

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells respond to mechanical forces whether applied externally or generated internally via the cytoskeleton. To study the cellular response to forces separately, we applied external forces to cells via microfabricated magnetic posts containing cobalt nanowires interspersed among an array of elastomeric posts, which act...

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

authors： Sniadecki NJ,Anguelouch A,Yang MT,Lamb CM,Liu Z,Kirschner SB,Liu Y,Reich DH,Chen CS

更新日期：2007-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal as well as Rous sarcoma virus-infected chicken pectoral and chicken embryo fibroblasts proliferate actively in a plasma containing medium of physiological ion concentrations (Ca2+, 1.2 mM; Mg2+, 0.7 mM). Reduction of medium calcium and magnesium concentrations is necessary to achieve selective quiescence of nor...

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

authors： Balk SD

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transfer dissociation (ETD) is a recently introduced mass spectrometric technique that provides a more comprehensive coverage of peptide sequences and posttranslational modifications. Here, we evaluated the use of ETD for a global phosphoproteome analysis. In all, we identified a total of 1,435 phosphorylatio...

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

authors： Molina H,Horn DM,Tang N,Mathivanan S,Pandey A

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A promising strategy for DNA sequencing exploits transposons to provide mobile sites for the binding of sequencing primers. For such a strategy to be maximally efficient, the location and orientation of the transposon must be readily determined and the insertion sites should be randomly distributed. We demonstrate an ...

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

authors： Strausbaugh LD,Bourke MT,Sommer MT,Coon ME,Berg CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of small molecules to distinctive three-dimensional structures in mRNA provides a new dimension in RNA control, previously limited to the targeting of secondary structures with antisense and RNA interference; such targeting can modulate mRNA function and rates of protein biosynthesis. Small molecules that ...

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

authors： Tibodeau JD,Fox PM,Ropp PA,Theil EC,Thorp HH

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of nerve cells to synaptic inputs and the propagation of this activation is critically dependent on the cell-surface distribution of ion channels. In the hippocampus, Ca2+ influx through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) and/or voltage-dependent calcium channels on dendrites is thought to be critical...

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

authors： Benke TA,Jones OT,Collingridge GL,Angelides KJ

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis has allowed the detection of proteins characteristic of inner cell mass and trophectoderm in mouse blastocyst. Certain of the proteins characterizing trophectoderm copurify with intermediate filaments from trophectoderm and a trophoblastoma cell line. A monoclonal antibody prepared ...

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

authors： Brûlet P,Babinet C,Kemler R,Jacob F

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of gene family members has been aided by the isolation of related genes on the basis of DNA homology. We have adapted the polymerase chain reaction to screen animal genomes very rapidly and reliably for likely gene family members. Using conserved amino acid sequences to design degenerate oligonucleotide prim...

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

authors： Kamb A,Weir M,Rudy B,Varmus H,Kenyon C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linear ubiquitin assembly complex (LUBAC) comprises 3 components: HOIP, HOIL-1, and Sharpin, of which HOIP and HOIL-1 are both members of the RBR subfamily of E3 ubiquitin ligases. HOIP catalyses the formation of Met1-linked ubiquitin oligomers (also called linear ubiquitin), but the function of the E3 ligase acti...

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

authors： Kelsall IR,Zhang J,Knebel A,Arthur JSC,Cohen P

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Established T cell dysfunction is a barrier to antitumor responses, and checkpoint blockade presumably reverses this. Many patients fail to respond to treatment and/or develop autoimmune adverse events. The underlying reason for T cell responsiveness remains elusive. Here, we show that susceptibility to checkpoint blo...

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

authors： Nelson CE,Mills LJ,McCurtain JL,Thompson EA,Seelig DM,Bhela S,Quarnstrom CF,Fife BT,Vezys V

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in protein function can lead to changes in the selection acting on specific residues. This can often be detected as evolutionary rate changes at the sites in question. A maximum-likelihood method for detecting evolutionary rate shifts at specific protein positions is presented. The method determines significan...

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

authors： Knudsen B,Miyamoto MM

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody (anti-p21ser) was raised against a ras p21-related synthetic peptide and was able to recognize specifically the substitution of serine for glycine at amino acid 12 of p21. This substitution causes oncogenic activation of p21. Anti-p21ser was found to immunoprecipitate v-Ki-ras p21 and to strongly inhibit i...

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

authors： Clark R,Wong G,Arnheim N,Nitecki D,McCormick F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00