Cultural macroevolution matters.

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear, the mechanosensory receptors, convert sound waves into neural signals that are passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the development of hair cell-neuronal connections. We ascertained a family with autosomal recessive deafness...

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

authors： Diaz-Horta O,Abad C,Sennaroglu L,Foster J 2nd,DeSmidt A,Bademci G,Tokgoz-Yilmaz S,Duman D,Cengiz FB,Grati M,Fitoz S,Liu XZ,Farooq A,Imtiaz F,Currall BB,Morton CC,Nishita M,Minami Y,Lu Z,Walz K,Tekin M

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Group II intron RNAs self-splice in vitro but only at high salt and/or Mg2+ concentrations and have been thought to require proteins to stabilize their active structure for efficient splicing in vivo. Here, we show that a DEAD-box protein, CYT-19, can by itself promote the splicing and reverse splicing of the yeast aI...

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

authors： Mohr S,Matsuura M,Perlman PS,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) is the central cerebral neurohormone in insect development. Its release has been believed for decades to be confined to one (or two) critical moments early in each developmental stage at which time it triggers prolonged activation of the prothoracic glands to synthesize and release th...

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

authors： Vafopoulou X,Steel CG

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes engage in a multitude of beneficial and deleterious interactions with bacteria. Hamiltonella defensa, an endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects, protects its aphid host from attack by parasitoid wasps. Thus H. defensa is only conditionally beneficial to hosts, unlike ancient nutritional symbio...

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

authors： Degnan PH,Yu Y,Sisneros N,Wing RA,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The basolateral membranes of Aplysia californica foregut absorptive cells contain both Cl(-)-stimulated ATPase and ATP-dependent Cl- transport activities, and each was inhibited by orthovanadate. Both of these orthovanadate-sensitive activities were reconstituted into proteoliposomes. The reaction sequence kinetics we...

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

authors： Gerencser GA,Zelezna B

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of a...

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

authors： Swanson LW,Hahn JD,Jeub LGS,Fortunato S,Sporns O

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric epoxidation of various styrenes using carbocyclic oxazolidinone-containing ketone 3 has been investigated. High enantioselectivity (89-93% enantiomeric excess) has been attained for this challenging class of alkenes. Mechanistic studies show that substituents on the ketone catalyst can have electronic influ...

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

authors： Hickey M,Goeddel D,Crane Z,Shi Y

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription in eukaryotic nuclei is carried out by DNA-dependent RNA polymerases I, II, and III. Human RNA polymerase III (Pol III) transcribes small untranslated RNAs that include tRNAs, 5S RNA, U6 RNA, and some microRNAs. Increased Pol III transcription has been reported to accompany or cause cell transformation. ...

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

authors： Haurie V,Durrieu-Gaillard S,Dumay-Odelot H,Da Silva D,Rey C,Prochazkova M,Roeder RG,Besser D,Teichmann M

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthase [succinyl-CoA:glycine C-succinyltransferase (decarboxylating), EC 2.3.1.37] activity was detected in cell extracts of the unicellular green flagellate alga Euglena gracilis. The enzyme was identified by substrate and cofactor requirements, and activity was proportional to numbe...

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

authors： Beale SI,Foley T,Dzelzkalns V

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative vertebrate genome sequencing offers a powerful method for detecting conserved regulatory sequences. We propose that the compact genome of the teleost Fugu rubripes is well suited for this purpose. The evolutionary distance of teleosts from other vertebrates offers the maximum stringency for such evolutiona...

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

authors： Aparicio S,Morrison A,Gould A,Gilthorpe J,Chaudhuri C,Rigby P,Krumlauf R,Brenner S

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection is widely accepted as the principal force shaping phenotypic variation within populations. Its importance in speciation and macroevolution has been questioned, however, because phenotypic differences between species or higher taxa sometimes appear to be nonadaptive. Here, we use the quantitative trait locus ...

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

authors： Rieseberg LH,Widmer A,Arntz AM,Burke JM

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we explore the nature of the inductive stimuli leading to expression of the divergently regulated lymphokines interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 4 (IL-4). Elevation of cAMP levels blocks IL-2 induction while sparing IL-4 induction. These effects are gene-specific, not cell-specific, and can be observ...

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

authors： Novak TJ,Rothenberg EV

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase P (PK-P) activated by histones or certain other basic compounds has been purified previously from yeast [Yanagita, Y., Abdel-Ghany, M., Raden, D., Nelson, N. & Racker, E. (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 925-929]. It is shown here that PK-P is present in solubilized membranes of A-431 carcinoma cel...

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

authors： Abdel-Ghany M,Kole HK,Racker E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and tomato aspermy virus (TAV) belong to the Cucumovirus genus. They have a tripartite genome consisting of single-stranded RNAs, designated 1, 2, and 3. Previous studies have shown that viable pseudorecombinants could be created in vitro by reciprocal exchanges between CMV and TAV RNA 3, b...

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

authors： Masuta C,Ueda S,Suzuki M,Uyeda I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GroE chaperonins assist substrate protein (SP) folding by cycling through several conformational states. With each cycle the SP is, in turn, captured, unfolded, briefly encapsulated (t1/2 ∼ 1 s), and released by the chaperonin complex. The protein-folding functional form is the US-football-shaped GroEL:GroES2 comp...

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

authors： Fei X,Ye X,LaRonde NA,Lorimer GH

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:All available complete mitochondrial genomes (21 species) are evaluated for dinucleotide over- and under-representation. The CpG dinucleotide is pervasively under-represented in all animal mitochondria, but it is of variable relative abundance in fungal, protist, and plant mitochondrial genomes. Interpretations and hy...

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

authors： Cardon LR,Burge C,Clayton DA,Karlin S

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine possible differences in the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases of normal and psoriatic human fibroblasts, the levels of the regulatory subunits (RI and RII, respectively) of protein kinase I and protein kinase II were quantitated by photoaffinity labeling with 8-azido[32P]cAMP. The level of RII was sign...

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

authors： Brion DE,Raynaud F,Plet A,Laurent P,Leduc B,Anderson W

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of genetic diseases characterized by storage of incompletely degraded glycosaminoglycans. Such storage causes marked distortion of many tissues with consequent severe somatic changes and mental retardation. Storage of glycosaminoglycans results from markedly diminished activity of...

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

authors： Dorfman A,Matalon R

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal rat mast cells were stimulated by antibodies against IgE receptors (anti-RBL) or by anti-IgE, and [3H]methyl group incorporation into phospholipids, 45Ca uptake, and histamine release were examined. Anti-RBL or its F(ab')2 fragments and anti-IgE induced an increase in the incorporation of [3H]methyl into phosph...

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

authors： Ishizaka T,Hirata F,Ishizaka K,Axelrod J

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent climate change has increased arctic soil temperatures and thawed large areas of permafrost, allowing for microbial respiration of previously frozen C. Furthermore, soil destabilization from melting ice has caused an increase in thermokarst failures that expose buried C and release dissolved organic C (DOC) to s...

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

authors： Cory RM,Crump BC,Dobkowski JA,Kling GW

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-awareness, but is disrupted in many neurological, psychiatric, and psychological conditions that are also characterized by disruption of skin temperature regulation, sometimes in a single limb. We hypothesized that skin temperature in a specific l...

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

authors： Moseley GL,Olthof N,Venema A,Don S,Wijers M,Gallace A,Spence C

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The paucity of integral membrane protein structures creates a major bioinformatics gap, whose origin is the difficulty of crystallizing these detergent-solubilized proteins. The problem is particularly formidable for hetero-oligomeric integral membrane proteins, where crystallization is impeded by the heterogeneity an...

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

authors： Zhang H,Kurisu G,Smith JL,Cramer WA

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells are generally regarded as helpers and regulators of the immune response. Although cytolytic CD4(+) T cells have been described, whether those generated during the course of a viral infection play a role in virus control remains unknown. Here we show that during acute infection with ectromelia virus, the...

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

authors： Fang M,Siciliano NA,Hersperger AR,Roscoe F,Hu A,Ma X,Shamsedeen AR,Eisenlohr LC,Sigal LJ

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PT), a protein produced by Bordetella pertussis, was studied for its effect on lipolysis in isolated rat epididymal adipocytes. Exposure of adipocytes to pertussis toxin resulted in a significant increase in cyclic AMP levels and lipolysis after a lag of 1-2 hr. Both the maximal rate of lipolysis and ...

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

authors： Olansky L,Myers GA,Pohl SL,Hewlett EL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noniridescent coloration by the spongy keratin in parrot feather barbs has fascinated scientists. Nonetheless, its ultimate origin remains as yet unanswered, and a quantitative structural and optical description is still lacking. Here we report on structural and optical characterizations and numerical simulations of t...

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

authors： Yin H,Dong B,Liu X,Zhan T,Shi L,Zi J,Yablonovitch E

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recently halted HIV type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine STEP trial, individuals that were seropositive for adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) showed increased rates of HIV-1 infection on vaccination with an Ad5 vaccine. We propose that this was due to activation and expansion of Ad5-specific mucosal-homing memory CD4 T cells. To t...

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

authors： Benlahrech A,Harris J,Meiser A,Papagatsias T,Hornig J,Hayes P,Lieber A,Athanasopoulos T,Bachy V,Csomor E,Daniels R,Fisher K,Gotch F,Seymour L,Logan K,Barbagallo R,Klavinskis L,Dickson G,Patterson S

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This article considers replicability of the performance of predictors across studies. We suggest a general approach to investigating this issue, based on ensembles of prediction models trained on different studies. We quantify how the common practice of training on a single study accounts in part for the observed chal...

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

authors： Patil P,Parmigiani G

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The impossibility theorems that abound in the theory of social choice show that there can be no satisfactory method for electing and ranking in the context of the traditional, 700-year-old model. A more realistic model, whose antecedents may be traced to Laplace and Galton, leads to a new theory that avoids all imposs...

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

authors： Balinski M,Laraki R

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of large intramembrane particles associated with sites of synaptic vesicle release at the squid giant synapse was determined and compared to the average maximal presynaptic calcium current in order to derive an estimate of the conductance each particle would have if it were a calcium channel. This value, 0....

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

authors： Pumplin DW,Reese TS,Llinás R

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00