Myosin IIA interacts with the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton to control red blood cell membrane curvature and deformability.

abstract：:This paper presents a computational model for color coding that provides a functional explanation of how humans perceive colors in a homogeneous color space. Beginning with known properties of human cone photoreceptors, the model estimates the locations of the reflectance spectra of Munsell color chips in perceptual c...

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

authors： Romney AK,Chiao CC

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:2(S)-dihydroxypropanesulfonate (DHPS) is a microbial degradation product of 6-deoxy-6-sulfo-d-glucopyranose (sulfoquinovose), a component of plant sulfolipid with an estimated annual production of 1010 tons. DHPS is also at millimolar levels in highly abundant marine phytoplankton. Its degradation and sulfur recycling...

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

authors： Liu J,Wei Y,Lin L,Teng L,Yin J,Lu Q,Chen J,Zheng Y,Li Y,Xu R,Zhai W,Liu Y,Liu Y,Cao P,Ang EL,Zhao H,Yuchi Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial membrane potentials and resistances have been determined under various metabolic conditions by the use of piezoelectric-driven microelectrodes. The mean state 3 potentials (about +19 mv) are higher than the potentials in state 4 (about +9 mv). DNP in uncoupling concentrations or KCN have no significant e...

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

authors： Tupper JT,Tedeschi H

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive Burkitt lymphoma (BL) the role of EBV in the translocation and deregulation of the MYC oncogene remains unknown. By utilizing an EBV-negative BL (BJAB) and several EBV-positive sublines derived from it by in vitro infection, it was possible to show that the presence of the virus wa...

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

authors： Lacy J,Summers WP,Watson M,Glazer PM,Summers WC

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore protein space from a global perspective, we consider 9,710 SCOP (Structural Classification of Proteins) domains with up to 70% sequence identity and present all similarities among them as networks: In the "domain network," nodes represent domains, and edges connect domains that share "motifs," i.e., signifi...

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

authors： Nepomnyachiy S,Ben-Tal N,Kolodny R

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is strongly associated with obesity in most, but not all, ethnic groups, suggesting important ethnic differences in disease susceptibility. Although it is clear that insulin resistance plays a major role in the pathogenesis of T2DM and that insulin resistance is strongly associated with...

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

authors： Petersen KF,Dufour S,Feng J,Befroy D,Dziura J,Dalla Man C,Cobelli C,Shulman GI

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulation of the alpha(2A)-adrenergic receptor (alpha(2A)-AR) in mice has revealed the role of this subtype in numerous responses, including agonist-induced hypotension and sedation. Unexpectedly, alpha(2)-agonist treatment of mice heterozygous for the alpha(2A)-AR (alpha(2A)-AR(+/-)) lowers blood pressure ...

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

authors： Tan CM,Wilson MH,MacMillan LB,Kobilka BK,Limbird LE

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchange proteins directly activated by cAMP (Epac1 and Epac2) have been recently recognized as key players in β-adrenergic-dependent cardiac arrhythmias. Whereas Epac1 overexpression can lead to cardiac hypertrophy and Epac2 activation can be arrhythmogenic, it is unknown whether distinct subcellular distribution of ...

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

authors： Pereira L,Rehmann H,Lao DH,Erickson JR,Bossuyt J,Chen J,Bers DM

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexan parasites replicate within a protective organelle, called the parasitophorous vacuole (PV). The Toxoplasma gondii PV is filled with a network of tubulated membranes, which are thought to facilitate trafficking of effectors and nutrients. Despite being critical to parasite virulence, there is scant mechani...

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

authors： Beraki T,Hu X,Broncel M,Young JC,O'Shaughnessy WJ,Borek D,Treeck M,Reese ML

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:For a constant membrane potential, a predominantly inhibitory GABAergic synaptic response is shown to undergo long-term transformation into an excitatory response after pairing of exogenous gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) with postsynaptic depolarization or pairing of pre- and postsynaptic stimulation. Current- and vol...

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

authors： Alkon DL,Sánchez-Andrés JV,Ito E,Oka K,Yoshioka T,Collin C

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut is home to trillions of microbes, thousands of bacterial phylotypes, as well as hydrogen-consuming methanogenic archaea. Studies in gnotobiotic mice indicate that Methanobrevibacter smithii, the dominant archaeon in the human gut ecosystem, affects the specificity and efficiency of bacterial digestion of...

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

authors： Samuel BS,Hansen EE,Manchester JK,Coutinho PM,Henrissat B,Fulton R,Latreille P,Kim K,Wilson RK,Gordon JI

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein 2.1 is a 210-kilodalton protein that connects erythrocyte spectrin to the NH2-terminal cytoplasmic domain of band 3 and thereby functions as the essential linkage between the membrane skeleton and the bilayer. We cleaved this protein into specific chemical domains by limited digestion with trypsin and alpha-ch...

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

authors： Wallin R,Culp EN,Coleman DB,Goodman SR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ graft rejection is a T-cell-dependent process. The activation of alloreactive T cells requires stimulation of the T-cell receptor/CD3 complex by foreign major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded gene products. However, accumulating evidence suggests that, in addition to T-cell receptor occupancy, other cost...

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

authors： Turka LA,Linsley PS,Lin H,Brady W,Leiden JM,Wei RQ,Gibson ML,Zheng XG,Myrdal S,Gordon D

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human low density lipoproteins (LDL) are the major cholesterol carriers in the blood. Elevated concentration of LDL is a major risk factor for atherosclerotic disease. Purified LDL particles appear heterogeneous in images obtained with a 400-kV electron cryomicroscope. Using multivariate statistical and cluster analys...

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

authors： Orlova EV,Sherman MB,Chiu W,Mowri H,Smith LC,Gotto AM Jr

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified preparations of rabbit skeletal white, red, and cardiac muscle myosin (WM, RM, and CM) were subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Significant differences in both the molecular weights and number of light chains in these myosins were found. WM has three distinct light-chain co...

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

authors： Sarkar S,Sreter FA,Gergely J

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic basis of primate phenotypic uniqueness remains obscure, despite increasing genome and transcriptome sequence data availability. Although factors such as segmental duplications and positive selection have received much attention as potential drivers of primate phenotypes, single-copy primate-specific genes ...

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

authors： Tay SK,Blythe J,Lipovich L

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies investigating the relationship between crop genetic diversity and human cultural diversity patterns showed that seed exchanges are embedded in farmers' social organization. However, our understanding of the social processes involved remains limited. We investigated how farmers' membership in three major...

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

authors： Labeyrie V,Thomas M,Muthamia ZK,Leclerc C

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Termites are responsible for ∼1 to 3% of global methane (CH4) emissions. However, estimates of global termite CH4 emissions span two orders of magnitude, suggesting that fundamental knowledge of CH4 turnover processes in termite colonies is missing. In particular, there is little reliable information on the extent and...

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

authors： Nauer PA,Hutley LB,Arndt SK

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the human erythrocyte glucose transporter identified a recombinant lambda gt11 bacteriophage in a cDNA library prepared from immunoselected polysomal RNA from adult rat brain. The cDNA predicts a 492-amino acid protein that demonstrates 97.6% identity to the human hepatoma hexose carrier. The t...

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

authors： Birnbaum MJ,Haspel HC,Rosen OM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting with assignments of proton nuclear magnetic resonance previously made for oxytocin in deuterated dimethylsulfoxide at 220 MHz, we have assigned resonances for the mammalian antidiuretic hormone, lysine vasopressin. The results demonstrate that spectral assignments of neurohypophyseal hormones and their congen...

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

authors： Walter R,Glickson JD,Schwartz IL,Havran RT,Meienhofer J,Urry DW

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the CCAAT-binding transcription factor (CTF) family of proteins stimulate the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and act as transcriptional activators. To investigate the mechanisms underlying CTF-mediated transactivation patterns, we expressed several natural CTF variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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

authors： Altmann H,Wendler W,Winnacker EL

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal host from which to obtain high levels of posttranslationally modified eukaryotic proteins for x-ray crystallography. However, extensive replacement of methionine by selenomethionine for anomalous dispersion phasing has proven intractable in yeast. We report a general method to inco...

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

authors： Malkowski MG,Quartley E,Friedman AE,Babulski J,Kon Y,Wolfley J,Said M,Luft JR,Phizicky EM,DeTitta GT,Grayhack EJ

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Daytime sleepiness impairs cognitive ability, but recent evidence suggests it is also an important driver of human motivation and behavior. We aimed to investigate the relationship between sleepiness and a behavior strongly associated with better health: social activity. We additionally aimed to investigate whether a ...

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

authors： Holding BC,Sundelin T,Schiller H,Åkerstedt T,Kecklund G,Axelsson J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution maps integrated with the enhanced location data base software (LDB+) give improved estimates of genetic parameters and reveal characteristics of cytogenetic bands. Chiasma interference is intermediate between Kosambi and Carter-Falconer levels, as in Drosophila and the mouse. The autosomal genetic map ...

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

authors： Collins A,Frezal J,Teague J,Morton NE

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic alterations contribute to exacerbated activation or deregulation of the mechanisms that maintain tolerance to self-antigens in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can be triggered by medications taken to treat a variety of conditions. Here, we tested ...

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

authors： Mazari L,Ouarzane M,Zouali M

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have noted that nucleotide substitution rates at the chloroplast-encoded rbcL locus violate the molecular clock principle. Substitution rate variation at this plastid gene is particularly pronounced between palms and grasses; for example, a previous study estimated that substitution rates in rbcL s...

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

authors： Gaut BS,Morton BR,McCaig BC,Clegg MT

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary stability of cooperation is a problem of fundamental importance for the biological and social sciences. Different claims have been made about this issue: whereas Axelrod and Hamilton's [Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. (1981) Science 211, 1390-1398] widely recognized conclusion is that cooperative rules suc...

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

authors： Bendor J,Swistak P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA fragments encoding the mouse steroid 21-hydroxylase (C21 or Cyp21A1) gene are de novo methylated when introduced into the mouse adrenocortical tumor cell line Y1 by DNA-mediated gene transfer. Although CCGG sequences within the C21 gene are de novo methylated, CCGG sites within flanking vector sequences, other mam...

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

authors： Szyf M,Schimmer BP,Seidman JG

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00