Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States.

abstract：:Inhibitory gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated synaptic currents were studied in dissociated primary cultures of neonatal rat cortex with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. Immunocytochemical staining of the cultures showed the presence of a large number of glutamic acid decarboxylase-containing neurons, and electrica...

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

authors： Vicini S,Alho H,Costa E,Mienville JM,Santi MR,Vaccarino FM

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question was addressed whether the risk of cancer of an individual in a heterogeneous population can be predicted on the basis of measurable biochemical and biological variables postulated to be associated with the process of chemical carcinogenesis. Using the skin tumor model with outbred male NMRI mice, the late...

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

authors： Fischer WH,Lutz WK

更新日期：1995-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat brain increases >6x in mass from birth to adulthood, presumably through the addition of glial cells and increasing neuronal size, without the addition of neurons. To test this hypothesis, here we investigate quantitatively the postnatal changes in the total number of neuronal and non-neuronal cells in the deve...

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

authors： Bandeira F,Lent R,Herculano-Houzel S

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant insulin-stimulated ribosomal protein S6 kinase activity was purified to near homogeneity from insulin-treated 32P-labeled rat H4 hepatoma cells and found to copurify with a 70-kDa 32P-labeled polypeptide. The dominant S6 kinase purified from livers of cycloheximide-treated rats is also a 70-kDa polypeptid...

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

authors： Price DJ,Gunsalus JR,Avruch J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifelong interactions between host and the ubiquitous and persistent cytomegalovirus (CMV) have been proposed to contribute to the age-related decline in immunity. Prior work from us and others found some support for that idea, yet evidence that this led to increased vulnerability to other infections was not obtained....

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

authors： Smithey MJ,Venturi V,Davenport MP,Buntzman AS,Vincent BG,Frelinger JA,Nikolich-Žugich J

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of adenovirus to infect primitive hematopoietic cells presents an obstacle to the use of adenovirus vectors for gene transfer to these cell types. Therefore, expanding the tropism of adenovirus vectors to unique cell surface antigens would be an important development for gene therapy protocols. In this s...

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

authors： Smith JS,Keller JR,Lohrey NC,McCauslin CS,Ortiz M,Cowan K,Spence SE

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ritz upper bound to eigenvalues of Hermitian operators is essential for many applications in science. It is a staple of quantum chemistry and physics computations. The lower bound devised by Temple in 1928 [G. Temple, Proc. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 119, 276-293 (1928)] is not, since it converges too slowly....

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

authors： Martinazzo R,Pollak E

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of murine hepatoma (Hepa 1c1c7) cells to a variety of chemical agents known to protect animals against the neoplastic, mutagenic, and other toxic effects of chemical carcinogens results in dose- and time-dependent inductions of NAD(P)H:quinone reductase (EC 1.6.99.2). This enzyme protects against quinone toxi...

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

authors： De Long MJ,Prochaska HJ,Talalay P

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their well-recognized hepatotropism, all hepatitis B viruses (HBVs) display marked species specificity, growing poorly or not at all in species other than those closely related to their natural hosts. We have examined the molecular basis for this narrow host range, using duck HBV (DHBV) and heron HBV (H...

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

authors： Ishikawa T,Ganem D

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many nearshore fish and invertebrate populations are overexploited even when apparently coherent management structures are in place. One potential cause of mismanagement may be a poor understanding and accounting of stochasticity, particularly for stock recruitment. Many of the fishes and invertebrates that comprise n...

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

authors： Siegel DA,Mitarai S,Costello CJ,Gaines SD,Kendall BE,Warner RR,Winters KB

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care is a crucial factor in US economic growth, because growing health care costs have made US corporations less competitive than their counterparts in countries where central governments assume most of those costs. In this paper we illustrate a second, possibly more powerful, effect of health care expenditures...

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

authors： Manton KG,Gu XL,Ullian A,Tolley HD,Headen AE Jr,Lowrimore G

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two prominent members of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily of transmembrane proteins, multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1), can mediate the cellular extrusion of xenobiotics and (anticancer) drugs from normal and tumor cells. The MRP subfamily consists of at least s...

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

authors： Wijnholds J,Mol CA,van Deemter L,de Haas M,Scheffer GL,Baas F,Beijnen JH,Scheper RJ,Hatse S,De Clercq E,Balzarini J,Borst P

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A single, modified nucleoside in Escherichia coli tRNA, 6-(3-methyl-2-butenylamino)-2-methyl-thio-9-beta-D-ribofuranosylpurine, has been desulfurized with Raney nickel to afford its probable biosynthetic precursor. The limitations of the reaction at the nucleoside and tRNA levels and its lack of inhibition of the amin...

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

authors： Hecht SM,Kirkegaard LH,Bock RM

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal arginine-rich motif of phage HK022 Nun protein binds to NUT sequences in phage lambda nascent transcripts and induces transcription termination. Interactions between the Nun C terminus and RNA polymerase as well as the DNA template are required for termination. We have isolated Nun C-terminal point and ...

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

authors： Kim HC,Zhou JG,Wilson HR,Mogilnitskiy G,Court DL,Gottesman ME

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) is generated by cleavage of a membrane-anchored precursor protein, proTGF-alpha. ProTGF-alpha is cleaved at a slow rate and accumulates on the cell surface, thereby mediating cell-cell adhesion and mitogenic stimulation. We show here that cleavage of membrane proTGF-alpha b...

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

authors： Pandiella A,Massagué J

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant viruses alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) and brome mosaic virus (BMV) each divide their genetic information among three RNAs while tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) contains a single genomic RNA. Amino acid sequence comparisons suggest that the single proteins encoded by AMV RNA 1 and BMV RNA 1 and by AMV RNA 2 and BMV R...

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

authors： Haseloff J,Goelet P,Zimmern D,Ahlquist P,Dasgupta R,Kaesberg P

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context and as an approach to de novo "bottom-up" synthetic protocells. How chemicals come together to produce li...

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

authors： Ortega-Arroyo J,Bissette AJ,Kukura P,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented for the simultaneous release of platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether) and of its deacetylated derivative (lyso-PAF-acether) from hog leukocytes. On the basis of spectroscopy and chemical reactions, the structure of O-deacetyl-PAF is shown to be 1-O-alkylglyceryl 3-phosphorylcholine, an alkyl e...

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

authors： Polonsky J,Tencé M,Varenne P,Das BC,Lunel J,Benveniste J

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified preparations of trp repressor (TrpR) protein derived from Escherichia coli strains that were engineered to overexpress this material were found to contain another protein, of 21 kDa. The second protein, designated WrbA [for tryptophan (W) repressor-binding protein] remained associated with its namesake...

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

authors： Yang W,Ni L,Somerville RL

更新日期：1993-06-15 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：:In the penis, nitric oxide (NO) can be formed by both neuronal NO synthase and endothelial NOS (eNOS). eNOS is activated by viscous drag/shear stress in blood vessels to produce NO continuously, a process mediated by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3kinase)/Akt pathway. Here we show that PI3-kinase/Akt physiologi...

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

authors： Hurt KJ,Musicki B,Palese MA,Crone JK,Becker RE,Moriarity JL,Snyder SH,Burnett AL

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA synthesis in isolated brain nuclei was analyzed 2.5 hr after the intravenous administration of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to young rabbits. The drug stimulated transcription by 54% in brain stem nuclei and by 13% in cerebral hemisphere nuclei expressed over saline controls. Both nucleoplasmic and nucleolar...

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

authors： Brown IR

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized the presence of hepatic receptors for galactose-terminal glycoproteins to achieve specific rescue of differentiated hepatocytes from methotrexate toxicity. This was accomplished by administration of a conjugate formed by covalent coupling of the methotrexate antagonist, folinic acid (leucovorin), to galact...

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

authors： Wu GY,Wu CH,Stockert RJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive organisms pose a global threat and are exceptionally difficult to eradicate after they become abundant in their new habitats. We report a successful multitactic strategy for combating the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), one of the world's most invasive pests. A coordinated program in the southwester...

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

authors： Tabashnik BE,Liesner LR,Ellsworth PC,Unnithan GC,Fabrick JA,Naranjo SE,Li X,Dennehy TJ,Antilla L,Staten RT,Carrière Y

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizenship endows legal protections and is associated with economic and social gains for immigrants and their communities. In the United States, however, naturalization rates are relatively low. Yet we lack reliable knowledge as to what constrains immigrants from applying. Drawing on data from a public/private natura...

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

authors： Hainmueller J,Lawrence D,Gest J,Hotard M,Koslowski R,Laitin DD

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We know a great deal about the cellular response to starvation via AMPK, but less is known about the reaction to nutrient excess. Insulin resistance may be an appropriate response to nutrient excess, but the cellular sensors that link these parameters remain poorly defined. In the present study we provide evidence tha...

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

authors： Hoehn KL,Salmon AB,Hohnen-Behrens C,Turner N,Hoy AJ,Maghzal GJ,Stocker R,Van Remmen H,Kraegen EW,Cooney GJ,Richardson AR,James DE

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports on the dystrophic mouse mutant suggest that the prominent extracellular matrix component of peripheral nerve tissues plays an important role in peripheral nerve development. We have examined the disposition of two prominent extracellular matrix components, fibronectin and laminin, both in mature periphe...

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

authors： Cornbrooks CJ,Carey DJ,McDonald JA,Timpl R,Bunge RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an adaptation of the hydroxyl radical DNA "footprinting" technique that permits high-resolution mapping of protected regions of RNA. Hydroxyl radical cleaves RNA independently of base sequence and secondary structure of the RNAs examined and allows resolution of protected regions at the single nucleotide le...

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

authors： Wang XD,Padgett RA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins (GRXs), also known as thioltransferases, use glutathione as a cofactor for reduction of disulfides in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. We demonstrate that the vaccinia virus O2L open reading frame encodes a functional GRX, as predicted by Johnson et al. [Johnson, G. P., Goebel, S. J., Perkus, M. E., Davis, S....

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

authors： Ahn BY,Moss B

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the complete primary structure of human hemopexin, a plasma beta-glycoprotein that specifically binds one heme with high affinity and transports it to hepatocytes for salvage of the iron. Human hemopexin (Mr approximately equal to 63,000) consists of a single polypeptide chain containing 439 amino a...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Takahashi Y,Putnam FW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00