Experimental and statistical reevaluation provides no evidence for Drosophila courtship song rhythms.

abstract：:We have identified cis-acting regulatory elements in the 5' flanking region of the mouse alpha-fetoprotein (Afp) gene, using the expression of the bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) in a transient expression assay. Tissue-specific enhancer activity was determined by transfection of mouse hepato...

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

authors： Widen SG,Papaconstantinou J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the influence of a photothrombotic lesion in somatosensory cortex on plasticity in the mouse visual system and the efficacy of anti-inflammatory treatment to rescue compromised learning. To challenge plasticity mechanisms, we induced monocular deprivation (MD) in 3-mo-old mice. In control animals, MD induced...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Schmidt S,Schmidt KF,Kreikemeier K,Witte OW,Löwel S

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiregulin (AR) and cripto are proteins that are structurally related to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). AR is also functionally related to this family of growth regulatory molecules and is able to bind and activate the 170-kDa EGF receptor (EGFR). Human EGFR-3 (HER3)/...

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

authors： Ciardiello F,Kim N,Saeki T,Dono R,Persico MG,Plowman GD,Garrigues J,Radke S,Todaro GJ,Salomon DS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat shock proteins in three species of Leishmania, L. tropica, L. enrietti, and L. donovani is reported. When cultures of promastigotes are shifted from 26 degrees C to 37 degrees C or 40 degrees C, the synthesis of proteins with apparent molecular weights of 88,000, 74,000, and 54,000 is stimulated....

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

authors： Lawrence F,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified influenza viral cores catalyze the entire process of viral RNA transcription, which includes the endonucleolytic cleavage of heterologous RNAs containing cap 1 (m(7)GpppNm) structures to generate capped primers 10-13 nucleotides long, the initiation of transcription via the incorporation of a guanosine residu...

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

authors： Ulmanen I,Broni BA,Krug RM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen that successfully adapts to the host environment via an efficient uptake system for free DNA liberated from other organisms in the upper respiratory tract, facilitating immune evasion and drug resistance. Although the initial signaling events leading to pneumococcal c...

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

authors： Balaban M,Bättig P,Muschiol S,Tirier SM,Wartha F,Normark S,Henriques-Normark B

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether and how human populations exposed to the agricultural revolution are still affected by Darwinian selection remains controversial among social scientists, biologists, and the general public. Although methods of studying selection in natural populations are well established, our understanding of selection in hum...

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

authors： Courtiol A,Pettay JE,Jokela M,Rotkirch A,Lummaa V

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational activation of the Ras oncogene products (H-Ras, K-Ras, and N-Ras) is frequently observed in human cancers, making them promising anticancer drug targets. Nonetheless, no effective strategy has been available for the development of Ras inhibitors, partly owing to the absence of well-defined surface pockets s...

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

authors： Shima F,Yoshikawa Y,Ye M,Araki M,Matsumoto S,Liao J,Hu L,Sugimoto T,Ijiri Y,Takeda A,Nishiyama Y,Sato C,Muraoka S,Tamura A,Osoda T,Tsuda K,Miyakawa T,Fukunishi H,Shimada J,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Kataoka T

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the Escherichia coli secB gene is required for efficient export of proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. The studies described in this report show that in wild-type growing cells, SecB protein associates with precursor forms of exported proteins, such as the periplasmic maltose-binding protein (MBP)...

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

authors： Kumamoto CA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear import of classical nuclear localization sequence-bearing proteins is mediated by karyopherin alpha/beta1 heterodimers. A second nuclear import pathway, mediated by karyopherin beta2 (transportin), recently was described for mRNA-binding proteins. Here we report the cloning and characterization of human karyop...

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

authors： Yaseen NR,Blobel G

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic switches based on the [Formula: see text] system are master regulators of an array of cellular responses. Recent kinetic experiments have shown that [Formula: see text] can actively remove NF-κB bound to its genetic sites via a process called "molecular stripping." This allows the [Formula: see text] switch to...

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

authors： Potoyan DA,Zheng W,Komives EA,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There are approximately 350 non-odorant G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) encoded by the human genome, many of which are predicted to be potential therapeutic targets, but there are only two structures available to represent the whole of the family. We hypothesized that improving the detergent stability of these rec...

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

authors： Serrano-Vega MJ,Magnani F,Shibata Y,Tate CG

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy. The quasi-experimental empirical approach is based on China's Huai ...

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

authors： Chen Y,Ebenstein A,Greenstone M,Li H

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of biotic remains of polar ice caps have been limited to morphological identification of plant pollen and spores. By using sensitive molecular techniques, we now demonstrate a much greater range of detectable organisms; from 2000- and 4000-year-old ice-core samples, we obtained and characterized 120 clones tha...

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

authors： Willerslev E,Hansen AJ,Christensen B,Steffensen JP,Arctander P

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that elevate amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide levels are associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. Insulysin has been identified as one of several proteases potentially involved in Abeta degradation based on its hydrolysis of Abeta peptides in vitro. In this study, in vivo levels of brain Abeta40 ...

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

authors： Miller BC,Eckman EA,Sambamurti K,Dobbs N,Chow KM,Eckman CB,Hersh LB,Thiele DL

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi produce numerous low molecular weight molecules endowed with a multitude of biological activities. However, mining the full-genome sequences of fungi indicates that their potential to produce secondary metabolites is greatly underestimated. Because most of the biosynthesis gene clusters are silent under laborato...

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

authors： Schroeckh V,Scherlach K,Nützmann HW,Shelest E,Schmidt-Heck W,Schuemann J,Martin K,Hertweck C,Brakhage AA

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

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

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding systems employ a short, standardized gene region to identify species. A 648-bp segment of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) is the core barcode region for animals, but its utility has not been tested in fungi. This study began with an examination of patterns of sequence divergences in this gene ...

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

authors： Seifert KA,Samson RA,Dewaard JR,Houbraken J,Lévesque CA,Moncalvo JM,Louis-Seize G,Hebert PD

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen is known to influence pain, but the specific roles of the two estrogen receptors (ERs) in the spinal cord are unknown. In the present study, we have examined the expression of ERalpha and ERbeta in the spinal cord and have looked for defects in pain pathways in ERbeta knockout (ERbeta(-/-)) mice. In the spina...

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

authors： Fan X,Kim HJ,Warner M,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and computational simulations revealed that boron clusters, which favor planar (2D) structures up to 18 atoms, prefer 3D structures beginning at 20 atoms. Using global optimization methods, we found that the B20 neutral cluster has a double-ring tubular structure with a diameter of 5.2 A. For the B(-)20 a...

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

authors： Kiran B,Bulusu S,Zhai HJ,Yoo S,Zeng XC,Wang LS

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between various treatment parameters within a latent variable model when the effects of treatment depend on the recipient's observed and unobserved characteristics. We show how this relationship can be used to identify the treatment parameters when they are identified and to bound ...

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

authors： Heckman JJ,Vytlacil EJ

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate cellular diversity and clonal evolution in tissues and tumors, one must resolve genomic heterogeneity in single cells. To this end, we have developed low-cost, mass-producible micro-/nanofluidic chips for DNA extraction from individual cells. These chips have modules that collect genomic DNA for sequencin...

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

authors： Marie R,Pedersen JN,Bærlocher L,Koprowska K,Pødenphant M,Sabatel C,Zalkovskij M,Mironov A,Bilenberg B,Ashley N,Flyvbjerg H,Bodmer WF,Kristensen A,Mir KU

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Total heterogeneous nuclear RNA from HeLa cells infected with adenovirus for 18-20 hr stimulates amino acid incorporation into protein in a cell-free system from Ehrlich ascites tumors. This stimulation of protein synthesis by the nuclear RNA requires intact nuclei. The role of nuclei in this system is unknown, but ev...

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

authors： Chatterjee NK,Weissbach H

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expressions of emotion in humans are believed to be produced by contracting one's facial muscles, generally called action units. However, the surface of the face is also innervated with a large network of blood vessels. Blood flow variations in these vessels yield visible color changes on the face. Here, we stu...

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

authors： Benitez-Quiroz CF,Srinivasan R,Martinez AM

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For beta-D-glucosylisophosphoramide mustard (beta-D-Glc-IPM), a new alkylating drug in which isophosphoramide mustard is stabilized, a higher selectivity and lower myelotoxicity was observed than for the currently used cytostatic ifosfamide. Because beta-D-Glc-IPM is hydrophilic and does not diffuse passively through ...

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

authors： Veyhl M,Wagner K,Volk C,Gorboulev V,Baumgarten K,Weber WM,Schaper M,Bertram B,Wiessler M,Koepsell H

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:ES cells represent a valuable model for investigating early embryo development and hold promise for future regenerative medicine strategies. The self-renewal of pluripotent mouse ES cells has been shown to require extrinsic stimulation by the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and leukemia inhibitory factor signaling pa...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Raya Á,Kawakami Y,Morita M,Matsui T,Nakashima K,Gage FH,Rodríguez-Esteban C,Izpisúa Belmonte JC

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of reassociation of DNA from a monkey cell line (Vero), from SV40 pseudovirus (consisting of Vero DNA and virus protein coat), and from mature SV40 were measured. The results show that the host DNA in the pseudovirus contains repeated and unique sequences in the same proportions as normal host DNA; hence, no...

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

authors： Grady L,Axelrod D,Trilling D

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many naturally occurring habitats, bacteria live in micrometer-size confined spaces. Although bacterial growth and motility in such constrictions is of great interest to fields as varied as soil microbiology, water purification, and biomedical research, quantitative studies of the effects of confinement on bacteria...

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

authors： Männik J,Driessen R,Galajda P,Keymer JE,Dekker C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented that demonstrate that a dose of 10 R of x-rays to mature oocytes in Drosophila causes a significant increase, more than double the spontaneous frequency, of inherited translocations. The dose-frequency relationship appears to fit best a linear response between 10 and 50 R. From 50 to 500 R, the freq...

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

authors： Abrahamson S,Gullifor P,Sabol E,Voigtlander J

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00