Optical detection of nanometric thermal fluctuations to measure the stiffness of rigid superparamagnetic microrods.

abstract：:The exact role of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) during spermatogenesis has not been clarified. We used purified germ cell fractions representative of all phases of spermatogenesis and primary cultures of spermatogonia. This approach allowed the precise quantification of the cannabinoid receptor ligands, anandamide ...

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

authors： Grimaldi P,Orlando P,Di Siena S,Lolicato F,Petrosino S,Bisogno T,Geremia R,De Petrocellis L,Di Marzo V

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurotransmissions in the striatum play an essential role in motor- and reward-related behaviors. Dysfunction of these neurotransmitter systems has been found in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) negatively regulates postsynaptic sig...

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

authors： Chergui K,Svenningsson P,Greengard P

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions contribute to global environmental change, but the dynamics and consequences of most invasions are difficult to assess at regional scales. We deployed an airborne remote sensing system that mapped the location and impacts of five highly invasive plant species across 221,875 ha of Hawaiian ecosyste...

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

authors： Asner GP,Hughes RF,Vitousek PM,Knapp DE,Kennedy-Bowdoin T,Boardman J,Martin RE,Eastwood M,Green RO

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to treat cancer have focused primarily on the killing of tumor cells. Here, we describe a differential stress resistance (DSR) method that focuses instead on protecting the organism but not cancer cells against chemotherapy. Short-term starved S. cerevisiae or cells lacking proto-oncogene homologs were up t...

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

authors： Raffaghello L,Lee C,Safdie FM,Wei M,Madia F,Bianchi G,Longo VD

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaE intein in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 is the first and only naturally split intein that has been identified so far. It is capable of catalyzing a protein trans-splicing mechanism to assemble a mature protein from two separate precursors. Therefore, it is a powerful tool for protein modification and engin...

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

authors： Yang J,Fox GC Jr,Henry-Smith TV

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased accumulation of lipofuscin in cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is seen in several forms of macular degeneration, a common cause of blindness in humans. A major fluorophore of lipofuscin is the toxic bis-retinoid, N-retinylidene-N-retinylethanolamine (A2E). Previously, we generated mice with a kn...

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

authors： Mata NL,Weng J,Travis GH

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Active matter, both synthetic and biological, demonstrates complex spatiotemporal self-organization and the emergence of collective behavior. A coherent rotational motion, the vortex phase, is of great interest because of its ability to orchestrate well-organized motion of self-propelled particles over large distances...

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

authors： Han K,Kokot G,Tovkach O,Glatz A,Aranson IS,Snezhko A

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tunas are migratory fishes in offshore habitats and top predators with unique features. Despite their ecological importance and high market values, the open-ocean lifestyle of tuna, in which effective sensing systems such as color vision are required for capture of prey, has been poorly understood. To elucidate the ge...

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

authors： Nakamura Y,Mori K,Saitoh K,Oshima K,Mekuchi M,Sugaya T,Shigenobu Y,Ojima N,Muta S,Fujiwara A,Yasuike M,Oohara I,Hirakawa H,Chowdhury VS,Kobayashi T,Nakajima K,Sano M,Wada T,Tashiro K,Ikeo K,Hattori M,Kuhara S,

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polypeptides contained in the coat and the core of adenovirus type 2 particles have been identified as virus gene products. They are synthesized in vitro by a cell-free protein-making system programmed by adenovirus type 2 messenger RNA that has been hybridized with and eluted from virus DNA. Fractionation by ...

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

authors： Eron L,Westphal H

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 has emerged as one of the deadliest and most disruptive events in recent human history. Drawing from political science and psychological theories, we examine the effects of daily confirmed cases in a country on citizens' support for the political leader through the first 120 d of 2020. Using three unique data...

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

authors： Yam KC,Jackson JC,Barnes CM,Lau J,Qin X,Lee HY

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts have evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont and been retained for more than 1 billion years by coordinated chloroplast division in multiplying eukaryotic cells. Chloroplast division is performed by ring structures at the division site, encompassing both the inside and the outside of the two envelopes....

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

authors： Miyagishima SY,Kuwayama H,Urushihara H,Nakanishi H

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio multi-reference second-order perturbation theory computations are used to explore the photochemical behavior of two ion pairs constituted by a chloride counterion interacting with either a rhodopsin or bacteriorhodopsin chromophore model (i.e., the 4-cis-gamma-methylnona-2,4,6,8-tetraeniminium and all-trans-...

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

authors： Cembran A,Bernardi F,Olivucci M,Garavelli M

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides targeted to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor were encapsulated into liposomes linked to folate via a polyethylene glycol spacer (folate-PEG-liposomes) and efficiently delivered into cultured KB cells via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis. The oligonucleotides were a pho...

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

authors： Wang S,Lee RJ,Cauchon G,Gorenstein DG,Low PS

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent single-molecule experiments reveal that mechanical tension on DNA can control both the speed and direction of the DNA polymerase motor. We present a theoretical description of this tension-induced "tuning" and "switching." The internal conformational states of the enzyme motor are represented as nodes, and the ...

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

authors： Goel A,Astumian RD,Herschbach D

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological studies, both positive and negative correlations have been found between cardiovascular disease and mortality and the presence of several inorganic ions in the drinking water. In an attempt to resolve this apparent disagreement, we exposed White Carneau pigeons to drinking water containing calcium (...

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

authors： Revis NW,Zinsmeister AR,Bull R

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human X chromosome DNA was partially purified from a mouse-human hybrid cell line containing a single human chromosome, the X. Enrichment of such DNA was accomplished by two sequential reassociations of radiolabeled hybrid cell DNA with large excesses of mouse DNA. Unreassociated hybrid cell DNA was used as a probe fo...

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

authors： Schmeckpeper BJ,Smith KD,Dorman BP,Ruddle FH,Talbot CC Jr

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O(2) reduction site of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO), comprising iron (Fe(a3)) and copper (Cu(B)) ions, is probed by x-ray structural analyses of CO, NO, and CN(-) derivatives to investigate the mechanism of the complete reduction of O(2). Formation of the derivative contributes to the trigonal planar coordination of...

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

authors： Muramoto K,Ohta K,Shinzawa-Itoh K,Kanda K,Taniguchi M,Nabekura H,Yamashita E,Tsukihara T,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in macaque primary visual cortex are spatially arranged by their global topographic position and in at least three overlapping local modular systems: ocular dominance columns, orientation pinwheels, and cytochrome oxidase (CO) blobs. Individual neurons in the blobs are not tuned to orientation, and populations...

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

authors： Polimeni JR,Granquist-Fraser D,Wood RJ,Schwartz EL

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parental effort, offspring growth, and offspring blood parasitemias are poorly known. We examined the effect of parental effort on offspring size and prevalence of trypanosomes in peripheral blood of nestling Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca aged 13 days. Trypanosome infections were likely...

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

authors： Merino S,Potti J,Moreno J

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During reverse transcription of retroviral RNA, synthesis of (-) strand DNA is primed by a cellular tRNA that anneals to an 18-nt primer binding site within the 5' long terminal repeat. For (+) strand synthesis using a (-) strand DNA template linked to the tRNA primer, only the first 18 nt of tRNA are replicated to re...

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

authors： Burnett BP,McHenry CS

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressional waves that sample the lowermost mantle west of Central America show a rapid change in travel times of up to 4 s over a sampling distance of 300 km and a change in waveforms. The differential travel times of the PKP waves (which traverse Earth's core) correlate remarkably well with predictions for S-wave ...

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

authors： Sun X,Song X,Zheng S,Helmberger DV

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Imbalances between proinflammatory and proresolving mediators can lead to chronic inflammatory diseases. The balance of arachidonic acid-derived mediators in leukocytes is thought to be achieved through intracellular localization of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX): nuclear 5-LOX favors the biosynthesis of proinflammatory leuko...

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

authors： Fredman G,Ozcan L,Spolitu S,Hellmann J,Spite M,Backs J,Tabas I

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges (Porifera), the simplest and earliest multicellular organisms, are thought to have evolved from their unicellular ancestors about 1 billion years ago by developing cell-recognition and adhesion mechanisms to discriminate against "non-self." Consequently, they are used as models for investigating recognition ph...

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

authors： Haseley SR,Vermeer HJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequence of the first constant (C) region domain (C delta 1) and the hinge region of the delta heavy chain of human IgD WAH and also the sequence of the adjacent COOH-terminal portion of the variable (V) region, including the JH region. Together with the sequence of the Fc fragment al...

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

authors： Putnam FW,Takahashi N,Tetaert D,Debuire B,Lin LC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recent studies have shown that brown adipose tissue (BAT) arises from progenitor cells that also give rise to skeletal muscle, the developmental signals that control the formation of BAT remain largely unknown. Here, we show that brown preadipocytes possess primary cilia and can respond to Hedgehog (Hh) signa...

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

authors： Nosavanh L,Yu DH,Jaehnig EJ,Tong Q,Shen L,Chen MH

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Coimmunoprecipitation of members of the phytochrome red/farred photoreceptor family from plant extracts has been used to analyze their heteromeric binding interactions. Phytochrome (phy)B or phyD apoproteins with six myc epitopes fused to their N termini are biologically active when expressed in Arabidopsis. Immunopre...

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

authors： Sharrock RA,Clack T

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 40 y the dominant theory of stomatal behavior has been that plants should open stomates until the carbon gained by an infinitesimal additional opening balances the additional water lost times a water price that is constant at least over short periods. This theory has persisted because of its remarkable succes...

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

authors： Wolf A,Anderegg WR,Pacala SW

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The different isoforms of PDGF bind with different affinities to two different receptor types. Previously, these receptors have been demonstrated mainly on mesenchymal and glial cells. We show here that PDGF beta-type receptors are present also on rat brain neurons in vivo as well as in vitro. Immunohistochemical anal...

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

authors： Smits A,Kato M,Westermark B,Nistér M,Heldin CH,Funa K

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) activity has been attributed to the highly labile nitric oxide radical (NO). In view of the fact that the plasma and cellular milieux contain reactive species that can rapidly inactivate NO, it has been postulated that NO is stabilized by a carrier molecule that preserves its...

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

authors： Stamler JS,Simon DI,Osborne JA,Mullins ME,Jaraki O,Michel T,Singel DJ,Loscalzo J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza virus genes that confer efficient transmission of epidemic and pandemic strains in humans have not been identified. The rapid spread and severe disease caused by the 1918 influenza pandemic virus makes it an ideal virus to study the transmissibility of potentially pandemic influenza strains. Here, we use...

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

authors： Van Hoeven N,Pappas C,Belser JA,Maines TR,Zeng H,García-Sastre A,Sasisekharan R,Katz JM,Tumpey TM

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00