In vitro assembly of a functional nucleocapsid from the negative-stranded genome RNA of a defective interfering particle of vesicular stomatitis virus.

abstract：:A family of nanoscale-sized supramolecular cage compounds with a polyhedral framework is prepared by self-assembly from tritopic building blocks and rectangular corner units via noncovalent coordination interactions. These highly symmetrical cage compounds are described as face-directed, self-assembled truncated tetra...

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

authors： Leininger S,Fan J,Schmitz M,Stang PJ

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with avian influenza A virus of the H5N1 subtype (isolates A/HK/212/03 and A/HK/213/03) was fatal to one of two members of a family in southern China in 2003. This incident was preceded by lethal outbreaks of H5N1 influenza in waterfowl, which are the natural hosts of these viruses and, therefore, normally h...

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

authors： Guan Y,Poon LL,Cheung CY,Ellis TM,Lim W,Lipatov AS,Chan KH,Sturm-Ramirez KM,Cheung CL,Leung YH,Yuen KY,Webster RG,Peiris JS

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

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

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge in ecology is to define species' niches on the basis of functional traits. Size and shape are important determinants of a species' niche but their causal role is often difficult to interpret. For endotherms, size and shape define the thermal niche through their interaction with core temperature, insula...

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

authors： Porter WP,Kearney M

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving long-term pancellular expression of a transferred gene at therapeutic level in a given hematopoietic lineage remains an important goal of gene therapy. Advances have recently been made in the genetic correction of the hemoglobinopathies by means of lentiviral vectors and large locus control region (LCR) deri...

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

authors： Imren S,Payen E,Westerman KA,Pawliuk R,Fabry ME,Eaves CJ,Cavilla B,Wadsworth LD,Beuzard Y,Bouhassira EE,Russell R,London IM,Nagel RL,Leboulch P,Humphries RK

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that the bacterial transposon Tn7 can recognize and preferentially insert adjacent to triple-helical nucleic acid structures. Both synthetic intermolecular triplexes, formed through the pairing of a short triplex-forming oligonucleotide on a plasmid DNA, and naturally occurring mirror repeat sequences kn...

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

authors： Rao JE,Miller PS,Craig NL

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic species of Yersinia contain the transcriptional regulator RovA. In Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica, RovA regulates expression of the invasion factor invasin (inv), which mediates translocation across the intestinal epithelium. A Y. enterocolitica rovA mutant has a significant dec...

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

authors： Cathelyn JS,Crosby SD,Lathem WW,Goldman WE,Miller VL

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic markers associated with the major internal protein of RNA tumor viruses of the C-type have proven extremely useful in natural history studies of these viruses. This protein possesses species-specific antigenic determinants, and, in the case of mammalian C-type viruses, the protein possesses crossreactive det...

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

authors： Gilden RV,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryogenesis requires the precise activation and repression of many transcriptional regulators. The Polycomb group proteins and the associated H3K27me3 histone mark are essential to maintain the inactive state of many of these genes. Mammalian Hox genes are targets of Polycomb proteins and form local 3D clusters cent...

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

authors： Vieux-Rochas M,Fabre PJ,Leleu M,Duboule D,Noordermeer D

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception and cognition in infants have been traditionally investigated using habituation paradigms, assuming that babies' memories in laboratory contexts are best constructed after numerous repetitions of the very same stimulus in the absence of interference. A crucial, yet open, question regards how babies deal wit...

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

authors： Benavides-Varela S,Siugzdaite R,Gómez DM,Macagno F,Cattarossi L,Mehler J

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying structure is taken as a strongly superharmonic cone [unk], defined as a partially ordered abelian semigroup with identity 0 which admits a multiplication by nonnegative scalars and satisfies two fundamental axioms of a potentialtheoretic character. In terms of a fixed nonzero element e there is introduc...

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

authors： Arsove M,Leutwiler H

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) adopt heterogeneous ensembles of conformations under physiological conditions. Understanding the relationship between amino acid sequence and conformational ensembles of IDPs can help clarify the role of disorder in physiological function. Recent studies revealed that polar IDP...

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

authors： Mao AH,Crick SL,Vitalis A,Chicoine CL,Pappu RV

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial intracellular symbiosis (endosymbiosis) is widespread in nature and impacts many biological processes. In holometabolous symbiotic insects, metamorphosis entails a complete and abrupt internal reorganization that creates a constraint for endosymbiont transmission from larvae to adults. To assess how endosymb...

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

authors： Maire J,Parisot N,Galvao Ferrarini M,Vallier A,Gillet B,Hughes S,Balmand S,Vincent-Monégat C,Zaidman-Rémy A,Heddi A

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus acutus of the subfamily Crocodylinae. These species show considerable similarity in their...

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

authors： Wever EG

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a quantitative framework for assessing the generation of crossovers in DNA shuffling experiments. The approach uses free energy calculations and complete sequence information to model the annealing process. Statistics obtained for the annealing events then are combined with a reassembly algorithm to infer...

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

authors： Moore GL,Maranas CD,Lutz S,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of anti-human placental uracil DNA glycosylase monoclonal antibodies was used to screen a human placental cDNA library in phage lambda gt11. Twenty-seven immunopositive plaques were detected and purified. One clone containing a 1.2-kilobase (kb) human cDNA insert was chosen for further study by insertion into...

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

authors： Vollberg TM,Siegler KM,Cool BL,Sirover MA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements make up half of the mammalian genome. One of the most abundant is the short interspersed nuclear element (SINE). Among their million copies, B2 accounts for ∼350,000 in the mouse genome and has garnered special interest because of emerging roles in epigenetic regulation. Our recent work demonstra...

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

authors： Hernandez AJ,Zovoilis A,Cifuentes-Rojas C,Han L,Bujisic B,Lee JT

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that individuals from invasive populations of many different plant species grow larger than individuals from native populations and that this difference has a genetic basis. This increased vigor in invasive populations is thought to be due to life history tradeoffs, in which selection favors th...

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

authors： Feng YL,Lei YB,Wang RF,Callaway RM,Valiente-Banuet A,Inderjit,Li YP,Zheng YL

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized pulmonary surfactant apoprotein SP-B peptides by solid-phase chemistry and demonstrated their ability to enhance the surface-active properties of synthetic lipid mixtures. The synthetic peptides were reactive with antiserum generated against the native bovine surfactant peptide. Both peptides confe...

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

authors： Sarin VK,Gupta S,Leung TK,Taylor VE,Ohning BL,Whitsett JA,Fox JL

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From what viruses the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) originated is an extremely controversial question. To address this question, we have analyzed nucleotide sequences of simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) and HIVs by using the techniques for understanding molecular evolution. In particular, we compared the...

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

authors： Gojobori T,Moriyama EN,Ina Y,Ikeo K,Miura T,Tsujimoto H,Hayami M,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent RNA ligases are agents of RNA repair that join 3'-OH and 5'-PO4 RNA ends. Naegleria gruberi RNA ligase (NgrRnl) exemplifies a family of RNA nick-sealing enzymes found in bacteria, viruses, and eukarya. Crystal structures of NgrRnl at three discrete steps along the reaction pathway-covalent ligase-(lysyl-...

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

authors： Unciuleac MC,Goldgur Y,Shuman S

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mammals and birds use the interaural time difference (ITD) for localization of sound in the horizontal plane. They may localize either real or phantom sound sources, when the signal consists of a narrow frequency band. This ambiguity does not occur with broadband signals. A plot of impulse rates or amplitude of e...

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

authors： Peña JL,Konishi M

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the downstream targets of microRNAs (miRNAs) is essential to understanding cellular regulatory networks. We devised a direct biochemical method for miRNA target discovery that combined RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) purification with microarray analysis of bound mRNAs. Because targets of miR-124a hav...

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

authors： Karginov FV,Conaco C,Xuan Z,Schmidt BH,Parker JS,Mandel G,Hannon GJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to elucidate the mode of action of aldosterone have been carried out in the amphibian urinary bladder. The following previously reported hypotheses were evaluated: (1) aldosterone stimulates sodium transport by increasing the amount of sodium available to the sodium pump; (2) aldosterone enhances energy produc...

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

authors： Goodman DB,Allen JE,Rasmussen H

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a protein family in Drosophila containing six adenosine deaminase-related growth factors (ADGFs), which are homologous to a mitogenic growth factor discovered in conditioned medium from cells of a different fly species, Sarcophaga. Closely related proteins have been identified in other animals, and a human...

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

authors： Zurovec M,Dolezal T,Gazi M,Pavlova E,Bryant PJ

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that, in rats, the lethal consequences of high-dose endotoxin challenge are exacerbated by the intravascular administration of prostaglandin E1 but attenuated by the intravascular administration of endocytosable particles. This protection is mediated by opsonins. Nonopsonizable particles were unable to provi...

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

authors： Eierman DF,Yagami M,Erme SM,Minchey SR,Harmon PA,Pratt KJ,Janoff AS

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Cloudman melanoma cells undergo rapid arborization in response to [Nle4,D-Phe7]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, a potent analogue of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). The arbors were established by extension of processes and resembled dendrites. We used this system to study the regula...

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

authors： Preston SF,Volpi M,Pearson CM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five DNA fragments have been cloned from yeast, chicken, and mouse DNA that titrate lac repressor in an Escherichia coli lac+ I+Z+ wild-type strain when on a multi-copy plasmid. The five repressor-binding sequences have been identified by DNA sequence determinations and DNase cleavage-inhibition patterns. They share t...

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

authors： Simons A,Tils D,von Wilcken-Bergmann B,Müller-Hill B

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-metal oxides play a very important role in many areas of chemistry, physics, materials science, and geochemistry. Recently, there has been a strong interest in understanding phenomena associated with the deposition of oxide nanoparticles on the surface of a second (host) oxide. Here, scanning tunneling microscop...

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

authors： Park JB,Graciani J,Evans J,Stacchiola D,Ma S,Liu P,Nambu A,Sanz JF,Hrbek J,Rodriguez JA

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is devoted to the study of the arithmetic properties of values of G-functions introduced by Siegel [Siegel, C. L. (1929) Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Phys.-Math. Kl. 1]. One of the main results is a theorem on the linear independence of values of G-functions at rational points close to the origin. In this theor...

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

authors： Chudnovsky GV

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00