Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment.

abstract：:Stepwise, synthetic alteration of oxytocin, guided by conformational and enzymological considerations, has led to analogs with specifically modified activity profiles and resistance to enzymatic inactivation. General requirements for the design of peptides with therapeutic value are discussed. ...

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

authors： Walter R,Yamanaka T,Sakakibara S

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that isoprene oxidation products can partition to atmospheric aerosols by reacting with condensed phase sulfuric acid, forming low-volatility organosulfate compounds. We have identified organosulfate compounds in free tropospheric aerosols by single particle mass spectrometr...

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

authors： Froyd KD,Murphy SM,Murphy DM,de Gouw JA,Eddingsaas NC,Wennberg PO

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The first essential step in protein photoreception is the capture and storage of energy from a photon. We have recently identified and isolated, from the purple photoautotrophic bacterium, Ectothiorhodospira halophila, a 13,000-dalton photoactive yellow protein (PYP) that has a photocycle with kinetics similar to sens...

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

authors： McRee DE,Tainer JA,Meyer TE,Van Beeumen J,Cusanovich MA,Getzoff ED

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of insect resistance to pesticides poses a continuing threat to agriculture and human health. While much is known about the proximate molecular and biochemical mechanisms that confer resistance, far less is known about the regulation of the specific genes/gene families involved, particularly by trans-act...

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

authors： Yang X,Deng S,Wei X,Yang J,Zhao Q,Yin C,Du T,Guo Z,Xia J,Yang Z,Xie W,Wang S,Wu Q,Yang F,Zhou X,Nauen R,Bass C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock in eukaryotes controls transcriptional and posttranscriptional events, including regulation of the levels and phosphorylation state of translation factors. However, the mechanisms underlying clock control of translation initiation, and the impact of this potential regulation on rhythmic protein syn...

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

authors： Karki S,Castillo K,Ding Z,Kerr O,Lamb TM,Wu C,Sachs MS,Bell-Pedersen D

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide (PBAN) regulates sex pheromone biosynthesis in female Helicoverpa (Heliothis) zea. Two oligonucleotide probes representing two overlapping amino acid regions of PBAN were used to screen 2.5 x 10(5) recombinant plaques, and a positive recombinant clone was isolated. Sequen...

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

authors： Davis MT,Vakharia VN,Henry J,Kempe TG,Raina AK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic recombination between homologous chromosomes is a genetic technique for mosaic analysis in model organisms. The general application of this technique in the mouse depends on establishment of effective recombination systems for individual chromosomes and reliable and sensitive methods for detection of recombina...

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

authors： Sun L,Wu X,Han M,Xu T,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a heritable disorder that predisposes to sudden cardiac death. LQTS is caused by mutations in ion channel genes including HERG and KCNE1, but the precise mechanisms remain unclear. To clarify this situation we injected adenoviral vectors expressing wild-type or LQT mutants of HERG and KC...

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

authors： Hoppe UC,Marbán E,Johns DC

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic field fluctuations arising from fundamental spins are ubiquitous in nanoscale biology, and are a rich source of information about the processes that generate them. However, the ability to detect the few spins involved without averaging over large ensembles has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the detect...

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

authors： Kaufmann S,Simpson DA,Hall LT,Perunicic V,Senn P,Steinert S,McGuinness LP,Johnson BC,Ohshima T,Caruso F,Wrachtrup J,Scholten RE,Mulvaney P,Hollenberg L

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncompliance with social distancing during the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a great challenge to the public health system. These noncompliance behaviors partly reflect people's concerns for the inherent costs of social distancing while discounting its public health benefits. W...

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

authors： Xie W,Campbell S,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the order Nidovirales express their structural protein ORFs from a nested set of 3' subgenomic mRNAs (sg mRNAs), and for most of these ORFs, a single genomic transcription regulatory sequence (TRS) was identified. Nine TRSs were previously reported for the arterivirus Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV). ...

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

authors： Di H,Madden JC Jr,Morantz EK,Tang HY,Graham RL,Baric RS,Brinton MA

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after...

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

authors： Olkkonen VM,Gottlieb P,Strassman J,Qiao XY,Bamford DH,Mindich L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex II inhibitors 3-nitropropionic acid (3NP) and malonate cause striatal damage reminiscent of Huntington's disease and have been shown to involve oxidative stress in their pathogenesis. Because nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-dependent transcriptional activation by means of the antioxidant res...

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

authors： Calkins MJ,Jakel RJ,Johnson DA,Chan K,Kan YW,Johnson JA

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transporters are essential for recovery of the neurotransmitter glutamate from the synaptic cleft. Crystal structures in the outward- and inward-facing conformations of a glutamate transporter homolog from archaebacterium Pyrococcus horikoshii, sodium/aspartate symporter GltPh, suggested the molecular basis ...

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

authors： Ruan Y,Miyagi A,Wang X,Chami M,Boudker O,Scheuring S

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes encoding steroid 21-hydroxylase [21-OHase; steroid 21-monooxygenase; steroid, hydrogen-donor: oxygen oxidoreductase (21-hydroxylating); EC 1.14.99.10], a cytochrome P-450 enzyme, have been located within the HLA major histocompatibility complex. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-OHase deficiency is a ...

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

authors： White PC,Grossberger D,Onufer BJ,Chaplin DD,New MI,Dupont B,Strominger JL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons are FRET-based target-activatable probes. They offer control of fluorescence emission in response to specific cancer targets, thus are useful tools for in vivo cancer imaging. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a cell-killing process by light activation of a photosensitizer (PS) in the presence of oxygen....

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

authors： Zheng G,Chen J,Stefflova K,Jarvi M,Li H,Wilson BC

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the first observations of the inhibitory effect of methylation on gene activity were made almost a decade ago, the mechanism by which methyl groups affect transcription is still obscure. Here we use engineered promoters methylated in vitro in transient transfections to study the mechanism by which methylation...

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

authors： Levine A,Cantoni GL,Razin A

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic hydroperoxide resistance (Ohr) enzymes are unique Cys-based, lipoyl-dependent peroxidases. Here, we investigated the involvement of Ohr in bacterial responses toward distinct hydroperoxides. In silico results indicated that fatty acid (but not cholesterol) hydroperoxides docked well into the active site of Ohr...

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

authors： Alegria TG,Meireles DA,Cussiol JR,Hugo M,Trujillo M,de Oliveira MA,Miyamoto S,Queiroz RF,Valadares NF,Garratt RC,Radi R,Di Mascio P,Augusto O,Netto LE

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dbf4Cdc7 kinase acts at the level of individual origins to promote the initiation of DNA replication. We demonstrate through both immunoprecipitation and two-hybrid assays that a domain comprising the first 296 aa of Dbf4p interacts with Orc2p and Orc3p subunits of the origin recognition complex (ORC). Given that ...

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

authors： Duncker BP,Shimada K,Tsai-Pflugfelder M,Pasero P,Gasser SM

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced functional bladder capacity and concomitant increased micturition frequency (pollakisuria) are common lower urinary tract symptoms associated with conditions such as cystitis, prostatic hyperplasia, neurological disease, and overactive bladder syndrome. These symptoms can profoundly affect the quality of life ...

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

authors： Everaerts W,Zhen X,Ghosh D,Vriens J,Gevaert T,Gilbert JP,Hayward NJ,McNamara CR,Xue F,Moran MM,Strassmaier T,Uykal E,Owsianik G,Vennekens R,De Ridder D,Nilius B,Fanger CM,Voets T

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective autophagy of damaged mitochondria requires autophagy receptors optineurin (OPTN), NDP52 (CALCOCO2), TAX1BP1, and p62 (SQSTM1) linking ubiquitinated cargo to autophagic membranes. By using quantitative proteomics, we show that Tank-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) phosphorylates all four receptors on several autophagy...

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

authors： Richter B,Sliter DA,Herhaus L,Stolz A,Wang C,Beli P,Zaffagnini G,Wild P,Martens S,Wagner SA,Youle RJ,Dikic I

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis allows the release of secretory products and the delivery of new membrane material to the plasma membrane. So far, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanism and its control in plant cells. We have used the whole-cell patch-clamp technique to monitor changes in membrane capacitance to study ex...

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

authors： Homann U,Tester M

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the iconic groundfish fishery for Gulf of Maine cod has endured several dramatic reductions in annual catch limits and been federally declared an economic disaster. Using a repeated cross-sectional survey of fishing captains to assess potential social impacts of the fishery failure, we found that...

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

authors： Scyphers SB,Picou JS,Grabowski JH

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore protein space from a global perspective, we consider 9,710 SCOP (Structural Classification of Proteins) domains with up to 70% sequence identity and present all similarities among them as networks: In the "domain network," nodes represent domains, and edges connect domains that share "motifs," i.e., signifi...

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

authors： Nepomnyachiy S,Ben-Tal N,Kolodny R

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequences of wheat Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci, encoding the plastid and cytosolic forms of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase, were analyzed with a view to understanding the evolution of these genes and the origin of the three genomes in modern hexaploid wheat. Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci from each of the wheats Triticum ur...

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

authors： Chalupska D,Lee HY,Faris JD,Evrard A,Chalhoub B,Haselkorn R,Gornicki P

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of urea in renal medullary cells is high enough to affect enzymes seriously by reducing Vmax or raising Km, yet the cells survive and function. The usual explanation is that the methylamines found in the renal medulla, namely glycerophosphocholine and betaine, have actions opposite to those of urea a...

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

authors： Burg MB,Peters EM,Bohren KM,Gabbay KH

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We present molecular dating analyses for land plants that incorporate 33 fossil calibrations, permit rates of molecular evolution to be uncorrelated across the tree, and take into account uncertainties in phylogenetic relationships and the fossil record. We attached a prior probability to each fossil-based minimum age...

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

authors： Smith SA,Beaulieu JM,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The anticonvulsants phenytoin and carbamazepine interact allosterically with the batrachotoxin binding site of sodium channels. In the present study, we demonstrate an autoradiographic technique to localize the batrachotoxin binding site on sodium channels in rat brain using [3H]batrachotoxinin-A 20-alpha-benzoate (BT...

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

authors： Worley PF,Baraban JM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that p-terphenyl-3,5,3',5'-tetracarboxylic acid adsorbed on graphite self-assembles into a two-dimensional rhombus random tiling. This tiling is close to ideal, displaying long-range correlations punctuated by sparse localized tiling defects. In this article we explore the analogy between dynami...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Stannard A,Blunt MO,Beton PH

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of human high density lipoproteins (HDL) with isolated human monocytes from control and Tangier patients was studied in tissue culture experiments. It was observed that normal monocytes, similar to mouse peritoneal macrophages, bind HDL to a cell surface receptor, internalize the bound HDL particles, t...

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

authors： Schmitz G,Assmann G,Robenek H,Brennhausen B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00