Comparative genomics of the nonlegume Parasponia reveals insights into evolution of nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbioses.

abstract：:Animal epithelial tissue becomes reproducibly colonized by specific environmental bacteria. The bacteria (microbiota) perform critical functions for the host's tissue development, immune system development, and nutrition; yet the processes by which bacterial diversity in the environment is selected to assemble the cor...

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

authors： Brooks JF 2nd,Gyllborg MC,Cronin DC,Quillin SJ,Mallama CA,Foxall R,Whistler C,Goodman AL,Mandel MJ

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes of some aquatic animals form images through reflective optics. Shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, and prawns possess reflecting superposition compound eyes, composed of thousands of square-faceted eye units (ommatidia). Mirrors in the upper part of the eye (the distal mirror) reflect light collected from many ommati...

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

authors： Palmer BA,Hirsch A,Brumfeld V,Aflalo ED,Pinkas I,Sagi A,Rosenne S,Oron D,Leiserowitz L,Kronik L,Weiner S,Addadi L

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition, insertion, and turnover of externally disposed proteins on the macrophage plasma membrane were analyzed. Cells labeled with [35S]methionine were incubated with the nonpermeant reagent trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid to introduce the trinitrophenyl moiety on free amino groups of externally oriented membr...

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

authors： Kaplan G,Unkeless JC,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequence of the first constant (C) region domain (C delta 1) and the hinge region of the delta heavy chain of human IgD WAH and also the sequence of the adjacent COOH-terminal portion of the variable (V) region, including the JH region. Together with the sequence of the Fc fragment al...

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

authors： Putnam FW,Takahashi N,Tetaert D,Debuire B,Lin LC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have postulated that the toxic neuropathies associated with neurofilament-filled axonal swellings have a common pathogenesis, the covalent crosslinking of neurofilaments during anterograde transport. The newly described gamma-diketone, 3,4-dimethyl-2,5-hexanedione (DMHD), is a more potent analogue of the toxic meta...

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

authors： Graham DG,Szakál-Quin G,Priest JW,Anthony DC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a method for introducing mtDNA mutations into the mouse female germ line by means of embryonic stem (ES) cell cybrids. Mitochondria were recovered from the brain of a NZB mouse by fusion of synaptosomes to a mtDNA-deficient (rho degrees ) cell line. These cybrids were enucleated and the cytoplasts were elect...

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

authors： Sligh JE,Levy SE,Waymire KG,Allard P,Dillehay DL,Nusinowitz S,Heckenlively JR,MacGregor GR,Wallace DC

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The candidate phylum TM7 is globally distributed and often associated with human inflammatory mucosal diseases. Despite its prevalence, the TM7 phylum remains recalcitrant to cultivation, making it one of the most enigmatic phyla known. In this study, we cultivated a TM7 phylotype (TM7x) from the human oral cavity. Th...

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

authors： He X,McLean JS,Edlund A,Yooseph S,Hall AP,Liu SY,Dorrestein PC,Esquenazi E,Hunter RC,Cheng G,Nelson KE,Lux R,Shi W

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution studies disclosed that all major cerebral arteries and cortical arterioles of the cat were invested with fine varicose nerve fibers that contained calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity; the trigeminal ganglia likewise contained CGRP immunoreactivity. Sequential immunostaining with a...

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

authors： McCulloch J,Uddman R,Kingman TA,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) was found to increase the adherence of purified peripheral blood monocytes to plastic surfaces and to monolayers of human umbilical vein endothelial cells. With plastic surfaces as a model 9-hr culture with GM-CSF was necessary for enhancement...

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

authors： Gamble JR,Elliott MJ,Jaipargas E,Lopez AF,Vadas MA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission depends on the continued availability of neurotransmitter-filled synaptic vesicles (SVs) for triggered release from presynaptic boutons. Surprisingly, small boutons in the brain, that already contain comparatively few SVs, are thought to retain the majority of these SVs in a "reserve" pool that i...

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

authors： Ikeda K,Bekkers JM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Betidamino acids (a contraction of "beta" position and "amide") are N'-monoacylated (optionally, N'-monoacylated and N-mono- or N,N'-dialkylated) aminoglycine derivatives in which each N'acyl/alkyl group may mimic naturally occurring amino acid side chains or introduce novel functionalities. Betidamino acids are most ...

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

authors： Rivier JE,Jiang G,Koerber SC,Porter J,Simon L,Craig AG,Hoeger CA

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular morphogenesis relies partly on cell polarization by the cytoskeleton. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, it is well established that microtubules (MTs) deliver the spatial cue Tea1, a kelch repeat protein, to the tip regions to direct the growth machinery at the cell tips driving the linear exten...

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

authors： Scheffler K,Recouvreux P,Paoletti A,Tran PT

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood viscosity decreases with shear stress, a property essential for an efficient perfusion of the vascular tree. Shear thinning is intimately related to the dynamics and mutual interactions of RBCs, the major component of blood. Because of the lack of knowledge about the behavior of RBCs under physiological conditio...

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

authors： Lanotte L,Mauer J,Mendez S,Fedosov DA,Fromental JM,Claveria V,Nicoud F,Gompper G,Abkarian M

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of exogenous mRNA purified from various tissue preparations into cellular translation systems such as Xenopus oocytes has allowed expression of complex proteins (e.g., receptors for neurotransmitters). No evidence for expression of injected exogenous mRNA, however, has been reported in terminally differentia...

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

authors： Mochida S,Poulain B,Eisel U,Binz T,Kurazono H,Niemann H,Tauc L

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat skeletal muscle selenoprotein W cDNA was isolated and sequenced. The isolation strategy involved design of degenerate PCR primers from reverse translation of a partial peptide sequence. A reverse transcription-coupled PCR product from rat muscle mRNA was used to screen a muscle cDNA library prepared from selenium-...

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

authors： Vendeland SC,Beilstein MA,Yeh JY,Ream W,Whanger PD

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-rings of ATP synthases consist of individual c-subunits, all of which harbor a conserved motif of repetitive glycine residues (GxGxGxG) important for tight transmembrane α-helix packing. The c-ring stoichiometry determines the number of ions transferred during enzyme operation and has a direct impact on the ion-...

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

authors： Preiss L,Klyszejko AL,Hicks DB,Liu J,Fackelmayer OJ,Yildiz Ö,Krulwich TA,Meier T

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of P2X2 receptor channels by extracellular ATP is thought to play important roles in cochlear adaptation to elevated sound levels and protection from overstimulation. Each subunit of a trimeric P2X2 receptor is composed of intracellular N and C termini, a large extracellular domain containing the ATP bindin...

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

authors： George B,Swartz KJ,Li M

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a motility mechanism that may result in the displacement of objects within the cell. The mechanism, which we call polymer-guided diffusion, involves a microscopic cycle of polymer association and dissociation from a lateral binding site. Reassociation occurs at the polymer subunit adjacent to that which has...

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

authors： Garel JR,Job D,Margolis RL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of the vertebrate eye has been found to require the activity of several genes encoding homeodomain proteins (Freund, C., Horsford, D. J. & McInnes, R. R. (1996) Hum. Mol. Genet. 5, 1471-1488). Some of these genes, or portions thereof, are highly conserved across phyla. In this paper, we report the identifi...

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

authors： Furukawa T,Kozak CA,Cepko CL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead pollution in Arctic ice reflects large-scale historical changes in midlatitude industrial activities such as ancient lead/silver production and recent fossil fuel burning. Here we used measurements in a broad array of 13 accurately dated ice cores from Greenland and Severnaya Zemlya to document spatial and tempor...

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

authors： McConnell JR,Chellman NJ,Wilson AI,Stohl A,Arienzo MM,Eckhardt S,Fritzsche D,Kipfstuhl S,Opel T,Place PF,Steffensen JP

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews food (especially cereal) production trends and prospects for the world and its main regions. Despite fears to the contrary, in recent years we have seen continued progress toward better methods of feeding humanity. Sub-Saharan Africa is the sole major exception. Looking to the future, this paper arg...

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

authors： Dyson T

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent scholarship suggests that the genomes of those around us affect our own phenotypes. Much of the empirical evidence for such "metagenomic" effects comes from animal studies, where the socio-genetic environment can be easily manipulated. Among humans, it is more difficult to identify such effects given the nonran...

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

authors： Sotoudeh R,Harris KM,Conley D

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively low concentrations of methylxanthines increase spontaneous twitching in cultured muscle fibers; they also cause a second activity, escalation, which is the initiation and undiminished propagation of visible waves. The effect on twitching is abolished by depolarizing concentrations of K(+) or by tetrodotoxin...

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

authors： Coleman AW,Coleman JR,Griffin JD,Weltman JK,Chapman KM

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas all mammals have one glutamate dehydrogenase gene (GLUD1), humans and apes carry an additional gene (GLUD2), which encodes an enzyme with distinct biochemical properties. We inserted a bacterial artificial chromosome containing the human GLUD2 gene into mice and analyzed the resulting changes in the transcript...

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

authors： Li Q,Guo S,Jiang X,Bryk J,Naumann R,Enard W,Tomita M,Sugimoto M,Khaitovich P,Pääbo S

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An ovarian cell line was developed that requires hormonal conditioning of the host for growth in vivo and that requires special factors for growth in vitro. It is necessary to prepare special culture media to demonstrate the effects of growth factors in vitro. To this end, methods were developed for removing from seru...

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

authors： Nishikawa K,Armelin HA,Sato G

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/β-catenin signaling controls development and adult tissue homeostasis by regulating cell proliferation and cell fate decisions. Wnt binding to its receptors Frizzled (FZD) and low-density lipoprotein-related 6 (LRP6) at the cell surface initiates a signaling cascade that leads to the transcription of Wnt target ge...

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

authors： Gerlach JP,Jordens I,Tauriello DVF,van 't Land-Kuper I,Bugter JM,Noordstra I,van der Kooij J,Low TY,Pimentel-Muiños FX,Xanthakis D,Fenderico N,Rabouille C,Heck AJR,Egan DA,Maurice MM

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the extent of tyrosine phosphorylation of talin, a component of the cytoskeleton localized in the focal adhesions and, therefore, a potential substrate of p60v-src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. p60v-src is a tyrosine kinase that induces high levels of phosphotyrosine and the disorga...

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

authors： Pasquale EB,Maher PA,Singer SJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive assay for detection of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II has been developed. This assay depends on the ability of polymerase II to elongate a small RNA primer, oligo(U), hybridized to a single-stranded homopolymeric DNA template, poly(dA). The poly(dA).oligo(U)-dependent RNA polymerase II from calf thymus has b...

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

authors： Fradkin LG,Leong K,Morrow CD,Berk AJ,Dasgupta A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of fatty acid spin label resonance spectra and freeze fracture micrographs of sonicated dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles in the absence and presence of concanavalin A demonstrate a strong interaction of concanavalin A with these lipid membranes, which results in fusion of the vesicles...

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

authors： van der Bosch J,McConnell M

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive dysfunction of central neurons. Recent experimental evidence indicates that in the cortex, in addition to the silencing of a fraction of neurons, other neurons are hyperactive in amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque-enriched regions. However, it has remained unknown what com...

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

authors： Busche MA,Chen X,Henning HA,Reichwald J,Staufenbiel M,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00