Reassessing the atmospheric oxidation mechanism of toluene.

abstract：:Do people judge hurricane risks in the context of gender-based expectations? We use more than six decades of death rates from US hurricanes to show that feminine-named hurricanes cause significantly more deaths than do masculine-named hurricanes. Laboratory experiments indicate that this is because hurricane names lea...

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

authors： Jung K,Shavitt S,Viswanathan M,Hilbe JM

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences is a set of known backbone structures for each protein, a rotamer library, and a well established classical empirical for...

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

authors： Jaramillo A,Wernisch L,Héry S,Wodak SJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a microfluidics-based model to quantify cell-level processes modulating the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease (SCD). This in vitro model enabled quantitative investigations of the kinetics of cell sickling, unsickling, and cell rheology. We created short-term and long-term hypoxic conditions to simul...

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

authors： Du E,Diez-Silva M,Kato GJ,Dao M,Suresh S

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cell surface immunoglobulin in helper T-cell-dependent B-cell activation was analyzed using a B-cell lymphoma, CH12, with known antigen specificity and activation properties similar to those of a resting B cell. Two sources of helper T cells were used, both selected such that they interact with H-2-encoded...

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

authors： LoCascio NJ,Haughton G,Arnold LW,Corley RB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the integration of laser-scanning fluorometric cytometry and nonseparation ligand-binding techniques to provide new assay methods adaptable to miniaturization and high-throughput screening. Receptor-bound, cyanine dye-labeled ligands, [Cy]ligands, were discriminated from those free in solution by...

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

authors： Zuck P,Lao Z,Skwish S,Glickman JF,Yang K,Burbaum J,Inglese J

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned Bacillus subtilis gene (sprE) expressed only during the stationary growth phase is shown to encode the subtilisin E protease, an enzyme associated with sporulation. We have determined the DNA sequence of the sprE promoter region and the promoter-proximal half of the structural gene. The sprE gene codes for a ...

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

authors： Wong SL,Price CW,Goldfarb DS,Doi RH

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate to others how they feel, including facial, vocal, and gestural signals. We examined the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations, such a...

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

authors： Sauter DA,Eisner F,Ekman P,Scott SK

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptic vesicle membrane protein synaptotagmin (tagmin) is essential for fast, calcium-dependent, neurotransmitter release and is likely to be the calcium sensor for exocytosis, because of its many calcium-dependent properties. Polyphosphoinositides are needed for exocytosis, but it has not been known why. We now...

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

authors： Schiavo G,Gu QM,Prestwich GD,Söllner TH,Rothman JE

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In all but the poorest countries of South Asia and Africa, the supply and quality of food will rise to meet the demand. Biotechnology, accelerated by genomics, will create wealth for both producers and consumers by reducing the cost and increasing the quality of food. Famine and malnutrition in the poorest countries m...

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

authors： Briggs SP

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are among the most abundant prokaryotes on Earth and are widely distributed in marine, terrestrial, and geothermal environments. All studied Thaumarchaeota couple the oxidation of ammonia at extremely low concentrations with carbon fixation. As the predominant nitrifiers in the oce...

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

authors： Könneke M,Schubert DM,Brown PC,Hügler M,Standfest S,Schwander T,Schada von Borzyskowski L,Erb TJ,Stahl DA,Berg IA

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidimensional free energy surface for a small fast folding helical protein is explored based on first-principle calculations. The model represents the 46-residue segment from fragment B of staphylococcal protein A. The relationship between collapse and tertiary structure formation, and the order of collapse and...

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

authors： Guo Z,Brooks CL 3rd,Boczko EM

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report on studies of the nature of the dynamics and hydrophobic binding in cyclodextrins and human serum albumin protein complexes with orange II. With femtosecond time resolution, we examined the proton-transfer and trans-cis isomerization reactions of the ligand in these nanocavities and in pure sol...

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

authors： Douhal A,Sanz M,Tormo L

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The tau and gamma subunits of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme are both products of the dnaX gene. Since tau and gamma are required as stoichiometric components of the replicative complex, a mechanism must exist for the cell to coordinate their synthesis and ensure that both subunits are present in an adequate quantity a...

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

authors： Flower AM,McHenry CS

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T4-encoded RegB endoribonuclease is produced during the early stage of phage development and targets mostly (but not exclusively) the Shine-Dalgarno sequences of early genes. In this work, we show that the degradation of RegB-cleaved mRNAs depends on a functional T4 polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase ...

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

authors： Durand S,Richard G,Bontems F,Uzan M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In a field study, we show that a young song sparrow (i) selects his songs from three or four older birds who have neighboring territories, (ii) preferentially learns song types that these tutor neighbors share, and (iii) ultimately sets up his territory next to, or replaces, one of these tutor neighbors. The consequen...

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

authors： Beecher MD,Campbell SE,Stoddard PK

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the usefulness of in vivo mode for the investigation of the pathophysiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, we modified the construction of SCID mice implanted with human fetal thymus and liver (thy/liv-SCID-hu mice) so that the peripheral blood of the mice contained significant numbers of ...

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

authors： Kollmann TR,Pettoello-Mantovani M,Katopodis NF,Hachamovitch M,Rubinstein A,Kim A,Goldstein H

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic islands, large potentially mobile regions of bacterial chromosomes, are a major contributor to bacteria evolution. Here, we investigated the fitness cost and phenotypic differences between the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and a derivative carrying one integrated copy of the clc element, a 103-kb genom...

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

authors： Gaillard M,Pernet N,Vogne C,Hagenbüchle O,van der Meer JR

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial barrier disruption is a major cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the cellular and molecular regulation of intestinal epithelial homeostasis remains largely undefined. Here, we show that the C-type lectin receptor LSECtin (Clec4g) on macrophages is required for protection against dextran sul...

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

authors： Yang Z,Li Q,Wang X,Jiang X,Zhao D,Lin X,He F,Tang L

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Burmese python (Python molurus), the rapid up-regulation of gastrointestinal (GI) function and morphology after feeding, and subsequent down-regulation on completing digestion, are expected to be mediated by GI hormones and neuropeptides. Hence, we examined postfeeding changes in plasma and tissue concentration...

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

authors： Secor SM,Fehsenfeld D,Diamond J,Adrian TE

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Melan-A/MART-1 gene encodes an HLA-A2-restricted peptide epitope recognized by melanoma-reactive CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here we report that this gene also encodes at least one HLA-DR4-presented peptide recognized by CD4(+) T cells. The Melan-A/MART-1(51-73) peptide was able to induce the in vitro ex...

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

authors： Zarour HM,Kirkwood JM,Kierstead LS,Herr W,Brusic V,Slingluff CL Jr,Sidney J,Sette A,Storkus WJ

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine subjects were studied by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging while performing language-based tasks. Subjects were asked either to repeat or to generate verbs associated with nouns read by an experimenter while magnetic resonance images were obtained of the left inferior frontal lobe. The echo-planar imaging seq...

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

authors： McCarthy G,Blamire AM,Rothman DL,Gruetter R,Shulman RG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinoviruses (RVs) are the major causes of common colds in humans. They have a nonenveloped, icosahedral capsid surrounding a positive-strand RNA genome. Here we report that the antigen-binding (Fab) fragment of a neutralizing antibody (C5) can trigger genome release from RV-B14 to form emptied particles and neutraliz...

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

authors： Dong Y,Liu Y,Jiang W,Smith TJ,Xu Z,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens produce diffusible signal factor (DSF)-type quorum sensing (QS) signals in modulation of virulence and biofilm formation. Previous work on Xanthomonas campestris showed that the RpfC/RpfG two-component system is involved in sensing and responding to DSF signals, but little is known in other mi...

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

authors： Deng Y,Schmid N,Wang C,Wang J,Pessi G,Wu D,Lee J,Aguilar C,Ahrens CH,Chang C,Song H,Eberl L,Zhang LH

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging and some pathological conditions are associated with the accumulation of altered (inactive or less active) forms of enzymes. It was suggested that these age-related alterations reflect spontaneous changes in protein conformation and/or posttranslational modifications (e.g., oxidation). Because changes in protein...

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

authors： Chao CC,Ma YS,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone of one member of the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase (S-adenosyl-L-methionine methylthioadenosine-lyase, EC 4.4.1.14) gene family (AT-ACC1) was isolated and sequenced. A region of homology was found in the 5'-untranslated region with the promoter of a z...

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

authors： Van der Straeten D,Rodrigues-Pousada RA,Villarroel R,Hanley S,Goodman HM,Van Montagu M

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolichol phosphate mannose (Dol-P-Man), formed upon transfer of Man from GDPMan to Dol-P, is a mannosyl donor in pathways leading to N-glycosylation, glycosyl phosphatidylinositol membrane anchoring, and O-mannosylation of protein. Dol-P-Man synthase is an essential protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have cloned ...

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

authors： Colussi PA,Taron CH,Mack JC,Orlean P

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in hippocampal function seem critical for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there is eventual loss of synapses in both AD and animal models of AD, deficits in spatial memory and inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) precede morphological alterations in the models, suggesting earli...

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

authors： Vitolo OV,Sant'Angelo A,Costanzo V,Battaglia F,Arancio O,Shelanski M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RAD52 epistasis group genes are involved in homologous DNA recombination, and their primary structures are conserved from yeast to humans. Although biochemical studies have suggested that the fundamental mechanism of homologous DNA recombination is conserved from yeast to mammals, recent studies of vertebrate cell...

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

authors： Sonoda E,Takata M,Yamashita YM,Morrison C,Takeda S

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In confluent fibroblast monolayers, an increase in the selective uptake of free cholesterol (FC) from plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL) was accompanied by an increase in FC efflux. The rate of FC efflux was proportional to the FC content of the cell surface caveolae and to mRNA levels of caveolin, an FC-binding pro...

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

authors： Fielding CJ,Bist A,Fielding PE

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00