Power law tails in phylogenetic systems.

abstract：:Meet Jonathan and Elizabeth. One person is a doctor and the other is a nurse. Who is the doctor? When nothing else is known, the base rate principle favors Jonathan to be the doctor and the fairness principle favors both individuals equally. However, when individuating facts reveal who is actually the doctor, base rat...

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

authors： Cao J,Banaji MR

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) belong to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae and are unique in that they exhibit a broad species tropism and cause fatal disease in both animals and humans. They infect cells through a pH-independent membrane fusion process mediated by their fusion and attachme...

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

authors： Bonaparte MI,Dimitrov AS,Bossart KN,Crameri G,Mungall BA,Bishop KA,Choudhry V,Dimitrov DS,Wang LF,Eaton BT,Broder CC

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent DNA supercoiling catalyzed by Escherichia coli DNA gyrase was inhibited by oxolinic acid, a compound similar to but more potent than nalidixic acid and a known inhibitor of DNA replication in E. coli. The supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase purified from nalidixic acid-resistant mutant (nalA(R)) bacteria...

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

authors： Gellert M,Mizuuchi K,O'Dea MH,Itoh T,Tomizawa JI

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage Mu was inserted into the unc genes of Escherichia coli. The resulting mutation AS12 had a polar effect on the unc operon: membranes of the mutant AS12 contained the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-binding protein c and the protein a as sole subunits of the ATP synthase. It was shown by peptide mapping and amino...

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

authors： Friedl P,Bienhaus G,Hoppe J,Schairer HU

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brain functional networks are embedded in anatomical space and have topological properties--small-worldness, modularity, fat-tailed degree distributions--that are comparable to many other complex networks. Although a sophisticated set of measures is available to describe the topology of brain networks, the selec...

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

authors： Vértes PE,Alexander-Bloch AF,Gogtay N,Giedd JN,Rapoport JL,Bullmore ET

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP-tubulin forms a cap on microtubule ends during aggregation. The bulk of the microtubule is GDP-tubulin. This complicates the usual simple kinetic theory of subunit exchange at microtubule ends to such an extent that Monte Carlo calculations are needed to handle the complications, except in special cases. The Monte...

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

authors： Chen Y,Hill TL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology with metallic lithium anodes to replace conventional ion intercalation anode materials is highly desirable because of lithium's highest specific capacity (3,860 mA/g) and lowest negative electrochemical potential (∼3.040 V vs. the standard hydrogen electrode...

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

authors： Fu KK,Gong Y,Dai J,Gong A,Han X,Yao Y,Wang C,Wang Y,Chen Y,Yan C,Li Y,Wachsman ED,Hu L

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is an often fatal disease primarily affecting young women in which tuberin (TSC2)-null cells metastasize to the lungs. The mechanisms underlying the striking female predominance of LAM are unknown. We report here that 17-beta-estradiol (E(2)) causes a 3- to 5-fold increase in pulmonary m...

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

authors： Yu JJ,Robb VA,Morrison TA,Ariazi EA,Karbowniczek M,Astrinidis A,Wang C,Hernandez-Cuebas L,Seeholzer LF,Nicolas E,Hensley H,Jordan VC,Walker CL,Henske EP

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Social and emotional skills are tightly interlinked in human development, and both are negatively impacted by disrupted social development. The same interplay between social and emotional skills, including expressions of empathy, has received scant attention in other primates however, despite the growing interest in c...

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

authors： Clay Z,de Waal FB

更新日期：2013-11-05 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：:There is pronounced seasonal plasticity in the morphology of the neural circuits that regulate song behavior in adult songbirds, primarily in response to changes in plasma testosterone (T) levels. Most song nuclei have androgen receptors. Afferent input from the telencephalic nucleus HVc (also known as the "high vocal...

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

authors： Brenowitz EA,Lent K

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being a fundamental electronic component for over 70 years, it is still possible to develop different transistor designs, including the addition of a diode-like Schottky source electrode to thin-film transistors. The discovery of a dependence of the source barrier height on the semiconductor thickness and deri...

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

authors： Zhang J,Wilson J,Auton G,Wang Y,Xu M,Xin Q,Song A

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-mediated particle interactions depend both on the properties of the particles themselves and the membrane environment in which they are suspended. Experiments have shown that chiral rod-like inclusions dissolved in a colloidal membrane of opposite handedness assemble into colloidal rafts, which are finite-siz...

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

authors： Miller JM,Joshi C,Sharma P,Baskaran A,Baskaran A,Grason GM,Hagan MF,Dogic Z

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serum proteolytic system plasminogen/plasminogen activator as a biochemical tool used by the glia or neurons, or both, for maintaining their temporary and flexible cellular interactions during histogenesis of the nervous system is under study. The present report identifies a glia cell type, the Schwann...

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

authors： Kalderon N

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosylation, the selective modification of cysteine residues in proteins to form S-nitrosocysteine, is a major emerging mechanism by which nitric oxide acts as a signaling molecule. Even though nitric oxide is intimately involved in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions, the potential protein tar...

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

authors： Greco TM,Hodara R,Parastatidis I,Heijnen HF,Dennehy MK,Liebler DC,Ischiropoulos H

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the effect of a 200-microns wavelength free electron laser beam on the ability of asynchronized and synchronized mammalian tissue culture cells to incorporate tritiated thymidine. Compared to controls (unexposed cells), a significant proportion of exposed cells exhibited a reduction in isotope incorporatio...

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

authors： Berns MW,Bewley W,Sun CH,Templin P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin kappa chain gene formation involves site-specific somatic recombination between one of several hundred germ-line variable region genes and a joining site (or "J segment") encoded close to the constant region gene. We have cloned and determined the nucleotide sequence of major portions of the recombinati...

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

authors： Max EE,Seidman JG,Leder P

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage lambda integrates into the chromosome of its Escherichia coli host by means of a site-specific recombination between a locus on the phage chromosome (phage att site) and a locus on the bacterial chromosome (bacterial att site). The nucleotide sequence of four lambda att sites altered in site-specific rec...

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

authors： Hoess RH,Landy A

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metastasis is the cause of most cancer deaths. Although metastases can form in multiple end organs, the liver is recognized as a highly permissive organ. Nevertheless, there is evidence for immune cell-mediated mechanisms that function to suppress liver metastasis by certain tumors, although the underlying mecha...

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

authors： Kimura Y,Inoue A,Hangai S,Saijo S,Negishi H,Nishio J,Yamasaki S,Iwakura Y,Yanai H,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cdc7p protein kinase is essential for the G1/S transition and initiation of DNA replication during the cell division cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cdc7p appears to be an evolutionarily conserved protein, since a homolog Hsk1 has been isolated from Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Here, we report the isolation of a ...

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

authors： Jiang W,Hunter T

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In rod photoreceptors, several phototransduction components display light-dependent translocation between cellular compartments. Notably, the G protein transducin translocates from rod outer segments to inner segments/spherules in bright light, but the functional consequences of translocation remain unclear. We genera...

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

authors： Majumder A,Pahlberg J,Boyd KK,Kerov V,Kolandaivelu S,Ramamurthy V,Sampath AP,Artemyev NO

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a methodology, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), in which the contrast depends on the fluorescence lifetime at each point in a two-dimensional image and not on the local concentration and/or intensity of the fluorophore. We used FLIM to create lifetime images of NADH when free in solution and when bou...

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

authors： Lakowicz JR,Szmacinski H,Nowaczyk K,Johnson ML

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing populations in shared spaces with nonrenewable resources do not necessarily wage a battle for dominance at the cost of extinction of the less-fit strain if there are fitness advantages to the presence of the other strain. We report on the use of nanofabricated habitat landscapes to study the population dynam...

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

authors： Keymer JE,Galajda P,Lambert G,Liao D,Austin RH

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin J(2) (PGJ(2)) and its metabolites Delta(12)-PGJ(2) and 15-deoxy-Delta(12,14)-PGJ(2) (15d-PGJ(2)) are naturally occurring derivatives of prostaglandin D(2) that have been suggested to exert antiinflammatory effects in vivo. 15d-PGJ(2) is a high-affinity ligand for the peroxisome proliferator-activated rec...

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

authors： Straus DS,Pascual G,Li M,Welch JS,Ricote M,Hsiang CH,Sengchanthalangsy LL,Ghosh G,Glass CK

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the chemical relationships between rat liver lysosomal and microsomal beta-D-glucuronidases (EC 3.2.1.31), which are essentially identical catalytically and in reactivity with antibody and similar in molecular weight, the two enzymes were isolated by procedures in which modifications of the proteins wer...

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

authors： Tulsiani DR,Six H,Touster O

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to hypoxia the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) mediates transcriptional activation of a network of genes encoding erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor, and several glycolytic enzymes. HIF-1 consists of a heterodimer of two basic helix-loop-helix PAS (Per/Arnt/Sim) proteins, HIF-1alpha and ...

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

authors： Kallio PJ,Pongratz I,Gradin K,McGuire J,Poellinger L

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, Vafa's approach to the formulation of conformal field theories is combined with the formal calculus developed in Frenkel, Lepowsky, and Meurman's work on the vertex operator construction of the Monster to give a geometric definition of vertex operator algebras. The main result announced is the equivalen...

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

authors： Huang YZ

更新日期：1991-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory protein that binds calmodulin and thus prevents activation of several Ca2+-dependent enzymes by calmodulin is shown to also bind four Ca2+ per mol of protein with high affinity (Kd less than or equal to 10(-6) M). On the basis of its Ca2+- binding properties and its localization to nervous tissue, the i...

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

authors： Klee CB,Crouch TH,Krinks MH

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the major glycerophospholipid in eukaryotic cells and is an essential component in all cellular membranes. The biochemistry of de novo PC synthesis by the Kennedy pathway is well established, but less is known about the physiological functions of PC. We identified two unrelated patients wit...

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

authors： Payne F,Lim K,Girousse A,Brown RJ,Kory N,Robbins A,Xue Y,Sleigh A,Cochran E,Adams C,Dev Borman A,Russel-Jones D,Gorden P,Semple RK,Saudek V,O'Rahilly S,Walther TC,Barroso I,Savage DB

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of predator intimidation on habitat use and behavior of prey species are rarely quantified for large marine vertebrates over ecologically relevant scales. Using state space movement models followed by a series of step selection functions, we analyzed movement data of concurrently tracked prey, bowhead whal...

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

authors： Matthews CJD,Breed GA,LeBlanc B,Ferguson SH

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00