Nuclear quantum effect with pure anharmonicity and the anomalous thermal expansion of silicon.

abstract：:One of the strategies used by organisms to adapt to life under conditions of short energy supply is to use the by-product pyrophosphate to support cation gradients in membranes. Transport reactions are catalyzed by membrane-integral pyrophosphatases (PPases), which are classified into two homologous subfamilies: H(+)-...

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

authors： Luoto HH,Baykov AA,Lahti R,Malinen AM

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiological basis for higher brain activity during rest and internally directed cognition within the human default mode network (DMN) remains largely unknown. Here we use intracranial recordings in the human posteromedial cortex (PMC), a core node within the DMN, during conditions of cued rest, autobiogra...

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

authors： Dastjerdi M,Foster BL,Nasrullah S,Rauschecker AM,Dougherty RF,Townsend JD,Chang C,Greicius MD,Menon V,Kennedy DP,Parvizi J

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal chromaffin granules contain at least 10 peptides, ranging in size from 3 to 5 kilodaltons, that yield, upon digestion with trypsin, peptides that show specific binding to opiate receptors. All are distinctly different from beta-endorphin. Two of these peptides have been purified to homogeneity and subjected to...

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

authors： Kimura S,Lewis RV,Stern AS,Rossier J,Stein S,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragility is an empirical property that describes how abruptly a glass-forming material solidifies upon supercooling. The degree of fragility carries important implications for the functionality and processability of a material, as well as for our fundamental understanding of the glass transition. However, the microst...

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

authors： Ciarella S,Biezemans RA,Janssen LMC

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon can exist as isolated dumbbell, 1D chain, 2D plane, and 3D network in carbon solids or carbon-based compounds, which attributes to its rich chemical binding way, including sp-, sp(2)-, and sp(3)-hybridized bonds. sp(2)-hybridizing carbon always captures special attention due to its unique physical and chemical ...

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

authors： Li YL,Luo W,Zeng Z,Lin HQ,Mao HK,Ahuja R

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the mycorrhizal associations of two nonphotosynthetic orchids from distant tribes within the Orchidaceae. The two orchids were found to associate exclusively with two distinct clades of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetous fungi over wide geographic ranges. Yet both orchids retained the internal mycorr...

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

authors： Taylor DL,Bruns TD

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are important mediators of much of the signal transduction that occurs in eukaryotic cells. Unfortunately, the identification of protein kinase substrates has proven to be a difficult task, and we generally know few, if any, of the physiologically relevant targets of any particular kinase. Here, we des...

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

authors： Budovskaya YV,Stephan JS,Deminoff SJ,Herman PK

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past five decades, ultra high vacuum (uhv) techniques applied to well-defined single-crystal samples (the "surface science paradigm") have transformed our understanding of fundamental surface chemistry. To translate this success to the world of realistic heterogeneous catalysis, however, requires one seriousl...

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

authors： Iyngaran P,Madden DC,Jenkins SJ,King DA

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies directed against the native beta 2 subunit of Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase [L-serine hydro-lyase (adding indoleglycerol-phosphate), EC 4.2.1.20], one recognizing the C-terminal F1 domain and the other the N-terminal F2 domain, were used to detect immunoreactive intermediates in the fo...

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

authors： Blond S,Goldberg M

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad proteins are key intracellular signaling effectors for the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily of peptide growth factors. Following receptor-induced activation, Smads move into the nucleus to activate transcription of a select set of target genes. The activity of Smad proteins must be tightly regulated to...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Chang C,Gehling DJ,Hemmati-Brivanlou A,Derynck R

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy-storing artificial-photosynthetic systems for CO2 reduction must derive the reducing equivalents from a renewable source rather than from sacrificial donors. To this end, a homogeneous, integrated chromophore/two-catalyst system is described that is thermodynamically capable of photochemically driving the energ...

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

authors： La Porte NT,Moravec DB,Hopkins MD

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) signaling in vascular cells can have antiatherogenic consequences, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. TNFalpha is released by free cholesterol-loaded apoptotic macrophages, and the clearance of these cells by phagocytic macrophages may help to...

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

authors： Gerbod-Giannone MC,Li Y,Holleboom A,Han S,Hsu LC,Tabas I,Tall AR

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium specified by the czc determinant on plasmid pMOL30 in Alcaligenes eutrophus results from a cation efflux system. Five membrane-bound polypeptides that were expressed in Escherichia coli from this determinant under the control of a phage T7 promoter were assigned to four open rea...

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

authors： Nies DH,Nies A,Chu L,Silver S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coatomer, the major component of the coat of COPI transport vesicles, binds both to the dilysine motif of resident membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum and to the cytoplasmic domain of p23, a major type I membrane protein of COPI vesicles. Using a photocrosslinking approach, we find that under native conditi...

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

authors： Harter C,Wieland FT

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that poly(dA-dT) can adopt two conformations in solution, with the relative proportions dependent on the nature and concentration of the counter ion and cationic ligands. The synthetic DNA exhibits a dinucleotide repeat conformation on addition of CsF and Me4NCl at molar concentrations, with the NMR spe...

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

authors： Patel DJ,Kozlowski SA,Suggs JW,Cox SD

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-1,2-Dioctanoylglycerol (1,2-DiC8) added to human peripheral resting T lymphocytes was rapidly metabolized to produce octanoic acid and further to small molecules, probably by the action of diacylglycerol lipase and/or nonspecific esterase. Only a small portion was converted to the corresponding phosphatidic acid or...

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

authors： Asaoka Y,Oka M,Yoshida K,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-xylose is a sugar donor required for the synthesis of diverse and important glycan structures in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Xylose-containing glycans are particularly abundant in plants and in the polysaccharide capsule that is the major virulence factor of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans....

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

authors： Bar-Peled M,Griffith CL,Doering TL

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein framework alterations in heritable Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) mutants cause misassembly and aggregation in cells affected by the motor neuron disease ALS. However, the mechanistic relationship between superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mutations and human disease is controversial, with many hypotheses postul...

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

authors： Pratt AJ,Shin DS,Merz GE,Rambo RP,Lancaster WA,Dyer KN,Borbat PP,Poole FL 2nd,Adams MW,Freed JH,Crane BR,Tainer JA,Getzoff ED

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F is a cellular transcription factor that binds to two sites in the adenovirus E2 promoter. Previous experiments have implicated E2F in the E1A-dependent transactivation of the E2 gene since levels of active E2F increase markedly during adenovirus infection in parallel with the increase in E2 transcription, and an E...

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

authors： Hiebert SW,Lipp M,Nevins JR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pRK212.2, a derivative of the broad host range plasmid RK2, contains two EcoRI cleavage fragments, A and B, neither of which can replicate by itself in Escherichia coli. Fragment A (41.7 kilobases), but not fragment B (14.4 kilobases), can be cloned by insertion into the unrelated plasmids mini-F and ColE1. Fragment B...

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

authors： Figurski DH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms by which compounds discovered using cell-based phenotypic screening strategies might exert their effects would be highly augmented by new approaches exploring their potential interactions with the genome. For example, altered androgen receptor (AR) transcriptional programs, including castr...

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

authors： Jin C,Yang L,Xie M,Lin C,Merkurjev D,Yang JC,Tanasa B,Oh S,Zhang J,Ohgi KA,Zhou H,Li W,Evans CP,Ding S,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of old human lenses indicates that low-molecular-weight alpha crystallin is not present in the inner 30-40%, the nucleus, of the lens. The remainder of such lenses, the periphery, contains normal levels of this protein. This finding is in marked contrast to observations in young lenses, where a large quant...

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

authors： Roy D,Spector A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidirectional self-assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV, common or U1 strain) has been studied extensively in vitro. Foreign single-stranded RNA molecules containing the TMV origin-of-assembly sequence (OAS, 75-432 nt in length) are also packaged by TMV coat protein (CP) in vitro to form helical pseudovirus parti...

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

authors： Hwang DJ,Roberts IM,Wilson TM

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type O erythrocyte membranes were converted to type A1 by purified human A1-enzyme, to type A2 by purified human A2-enzyme, and to type B by purified human B-enzyme in the presence of radioactive sugar donors (i.e., UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine for A-enzyme and UDP-galactose for B-enzyme, respectively). Type A2 ery...

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

authors： Fujii H,Yoshida A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lod scores provide a method to unify linkage tests based on identity by descent and identity in marker state while permitting selection of the most informative individuals through their disease-related phenotypes and markers in relatives. After parametric lods are reviewed, a nonparametric approach that depends on a s...

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

authors： Morton NE

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human, cone photoreceptors (L, M, and S) and the melanopsin-containing, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are active at daytime light intensities. Signals from cones are combined both additively and in opposition to create the perception of overall light and color. Similar mechanisms ...

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

authors： Spitschan M,Jain S,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent failure of infants to understand "object permanence" by reaching for hidden objects is perhaps the most striking and debated phenomenon in cognitive development. Of particular interest is the extent to which infants perceive and remember objects in a similar way to that of adults. Here we report two findi...

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

authors： Kaufman J,Csibra G,Johnson MH

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier Monte Carlo studies on a single-helix model of the GTP cap at the end of a microtubule are extended here to a more realistic five-start helix model of the microtubule end. As in the earlier work, phase changes occur at the microtubule end: the end is either capped with GTP and growing slowly or uncapped and sh...

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

authors： Chen YD,Hill TL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bottom-up design of protein-based signaling networks is a key goal of synthetic biology; yet, it remains elusive due to our inability to tailor-make signal transducers and receptors that can be readily compiled into defined signaling networks. Here, we report a generic approach for the construction of protein-base...

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

authors： Stein V,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Uniparentally inherited mutations to antibiotic resistance and dependence in Chlamydomonas reinhardi exhibit an altered chloroplast ribosome phenotype. Genetic studies demonstrate an absolute correlation between the drug resistance or dependence and the ribosome phenotype in two such mutants. ...

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

authors： Gillham NW,Boynton JE,Burkholder B

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00