Two genes encoding steroid 21-hydroxylase are located near the genes encoding the fourth component of complement in man.

abstract：:The technique of self-sustained sequence replication allows isothermal amplification of DNA and RNA molecules in vitro. This method relies on the activities of a reverse transcriptase and a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase to amplify specific nucleic acid sequences. We have modified this protocol to allow selective amplif...

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

authors： Breaker RR,Joyce GF

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-induced inhibition of alpha1C voltage-gated Ca2+ channels is a physiologically important regulatory mechanism that shortens the mean open time of these otherwise long-lasting high-voltage-activated channels. The mechanism of action of Ca2+ has been a matter of some controversy, as previous studies have proposed t...

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

authors： Qin N,Olcese R,Bransby M,Lin T,Birnbaumer L

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In making sense of the visual world, the brain's processing is driven by two factors: the physical information provided by the eyes ("bottom-up" data) and the expectancies driven by past experience ("top-down" influences). We use degraded stimuli to tease apart the effects of bottom-up and top-down processes because t...

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

authors： Gorlin S,Meng M,Sharma J,Sugihara H,Sur M,Sinha P

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for variational calculation of the energy and the spin densities derived from a single-determinant wavefunction. Sum and difference coordinates [unk]R = (1/2)([unk]r(1) + [unk]r(1)) and [unk]r = [unk]r(1) - [unk]r(1) are introduced, and the density matrix P([unk]r(1),[unk]r(1)) is expanded in par...

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

authors： Payne PW

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:The serotonin transporter (SERT) is a major regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and anxiety-related behaviors. SERT is expressed in two alternative polyadenylation forms that differ by an evolutionarily conserved element in the 3' untranslated region of its mRNA. Expression of SERT mRNA containing the distal p...

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

authors： Yoon Y,McKenna MC,Rollins DA,Song M,Nuriel T,Gross SS,Xu G,Glatt CE

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of human platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptors and rat liver alpha 1-adrenergic receptors were compared by utilizing isoelectric focusing, NaDodSO4/PAGE, and monoclonal antibody crossreactivity. Digitonin-solubilized alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenergic receptors have an identical isoelectric point of 4.6. U...

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

authors： Shreeve SM,Fraser CM,Venter JC

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter of the bean PAL2 gene (encoding phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; EC 4.3.1.5) is a model for studies of tissue-restricted gene expression in plants. Petal epidermis is one of the tissues in which this promoter is activated in tobacco. Previous work suggested that a major factor establishing the pattern of PAL2...

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

authors： Sablowski RW,Baulcombe DC,Bevan M

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein attachment protein receptor (SNARE) protein interactions at the synaptic vesicle/plasma membrane interface play an essential role in neurotransmitter release. The membrane-proximal region (amino acids 77-90) of the v-SNARE vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 (VAMP 2,...

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

authors： de Haro L,Ferracci G,Opi S,Iborra C,Quetglas S,Miquelis R,Lévêque C,Seagar M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) to bovine endothelial monolayers is increased by pretreatment of the endothelial cells with leukotriene B4 (LTB4). The response is dose dependent with a maximum at 10(-6) M, requires no more than 1 min of preincubation for the maximal effect, and decays linear...

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

authors： Hoover RL,Karnovsky MJ,Austen KF,Corey EJ,Lewis RA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis for the absence of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in four independent sodium azide-induced ant18 mutants of barley was examined by sequencing the gene encoding dihydroflavonol 4-reductase in these mutants. Sodium azide generated 21 base substitutions, which corresponds to 0.17% of the 12,704 nu...

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

authors： Olsen O,Wang X,von Wettstein D

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly emerging plants provide the best forage for herbivores. To exploit this fleeting resource, migrating herbivores align their movements to surf the wave of spring green-up. With new technology to track migrating animals, the Green Wave Hypothesis has steadily gained empirical support across a diversity of migrator...

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

authors： Geremia C,Merkle JA,Eacker DR,Wallen RL,White PJ,Hebblewhite M,Kauffman MJ

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex prokaryote, Myxococcus xanthus, undergoes a program of multicellular development when starved for nutrients, culminating in sporulation. M. xanthus makes MglA, a 22-kDa, soluble protein that is required for both multicellular development and gliding motility. MglA is similar in sequence to the Saccharomyce...

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

authors： Hartzell PL

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming bacteria move in multicellular groups and exhibit adaptive resistance to multiple antibiotics. Analysis of this phenomenon has revealed the protective power of high cell densities to withstand exposure to otherwise lethal antibiotic concentrations. We find that high densities promote bacterial survival, even ...

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

authors： Butler MT,Wang Q,Harshey RM

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pyrococcus furiosus (PF) ornithine carbamoyltransferase (OTCase; EC 2.1.3.3) is an extremely heat-stable enzyme that maintains about 50% of its activity after heat treatment for 60 min at 100 degrees C. To understand the molecular basis of thermostability of this enzyme, we have determined its three-dimensional st...

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

authors： Villeret V,Clantin B,Tricot C,Legrain C,Roovers M,Stalon V,Glansdorff N,Van Beeumen J

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective animal behavior studies have led the way in developing models that account for a large number of individuals, but mostly have considered situations in which alignment and attraction play a key role, such as in schooling and flocking. By quantifying how animals react to one another's presence, when interacti...

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

authors： Giuggioli L,Potts JR,Rubenstein DI,Levin SA

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation elongation factor P (EF-P) stimulates ribosomal peptidyltransferase activity. EF-P is conserved in bacteria and is essential for cell viability. Eukarya and Archaea have an EF-P homologue, eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A). In the present study, we determined the crystal structure of EF-P from Therm...

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

authors： Hanawa-Suetsugu K,Sekine S,Sakai H,Hori-Takemoto C,Terada T,Unzai S,Tame JR,Kuramitsu S,Shirouzu M,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The opposite slopes of "Evolution Canyon" in Israel have served as a natural model system of adaptation to a microclimate contrast. Long-term studies of Drosophila melanogaster populations inhabiting the canyon have exhibited significant interslope divergence in thermal and drought stress resistance, candidate genes, ...

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

authors： Hübner S,Rashkovetsky E,Kim YB,Oh JH,Michalak K,Weiner D,Korol AB,Nevo E,Michalak P

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-membrane attachment in cultures of E. coli B/r is found to depend on the pattern of DNA synthesis, (a) When the number of replication points increases, the fraction of the DNA that is membrane bound also increases. The relationship between the amount of DNA-membrane attachment and the number of replication points ...

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

authors： Parker DL,Glaser DA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most genome-wide linkage studies, implication of a causative disease gene often requires years of expanding the study to more families and finer mapping of the initially described region. Even after such efforts, unobtainable sample sizes can be required to make statistically meaningful conclusions about a single g...

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

authors： Antinozzi PA,Garcia-Diaz A,Hu C,Rothman JE

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Identified over a dozen years ago in the brain and pancreatic islet, βIV-spectrin is critical for the local organization of protein complexes throughout the nervous system. βIV-Spectrin targets ion channels and adapter proteins to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier in neurons, and βIV-spectrin dysfunction unde...

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

authors： Kline CF,Wright PJ,Koval OM,Zmuda EJ,Johnson BL,Anderson ME,Hai T,Hund TJ,Mohler PJ

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of receptor binding in the potent immunogenicity of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) was tested by comparing its immunogical properties with those of a receptor binding mutant, EtxB(G33D). Subcutaneous immunization of EtxB(G33D) resulted in 160-fold reduction in antibody titer c...

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

authors： Nashar TO,Webb HM,Eaglestone S,Williams NA,Hirst TR

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it was shown that yeast ADA2 protein is necessary for the full activity of some activation domains, such as VP16 and GCN4, in vivo and in vitro. These results suggest that ADA2 protein functions as a transcriptional coactivator or adaptor that bridges the interaction between certain acidic activation domain...

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

authors： Silverman N,Agapite J,Guarente L

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the forces that shape the structure of prokaryotic genomes: the order of genes, their proximity, and their orientation? Coregulation and coordinated horizontal gene transfer are believed to promote the proximity of functionally related genes and the formation of operons. However, forces that influence the str...

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

authors： Kolesov G,Wunderlich Z,Laikova ON,Gelfand MS,Mirny LA

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular oxygen (O(2)) began to accumulate in the atmosphere and surface ocean ca. 2,400 million years ago (Ma), but the persistent oxygenation of water masses throughout the oceans developed much later, perhaps beginning as recently as 580-550 Ma. For much of the intervening interval, moderately oxic surface waters ...

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

authors： Johnston DT,Wolfe-Simon F,Pearson A,Knoll AH

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-induced mutations recovered at the fitness-1 (fit1) locus in mouse chromosome 7 cause hematopoietic abnormalities, growth retardation, and shortened life span, with varying severity of the defects in different alleles. Abnormal iron distribution and metabolism and frequent scolios...

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

authors： Klebig ML,Wall MD,Potter MD,Rowe EL,Carpenter DA,Rinchik EM

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The midcycle luteinizing hormone (LH) surge triggers several tightly linked ovarian processes, including steroidogenesis, oocyte maturation, and ovulation. We designed studies to determine whether epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mediated signaling might serve as a common regulator of these activities. Our resu...

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

authors： Jamnongjit M,Gill A,Hammes SR

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dimensional objects such as molecular strands, ladders, and sheets have intrinsic features that affect their propensity to fold into 3D objects. Understanding this relationship remains a challenge for de novo design of functional structures. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the refolding of the...

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

authors： Dodd PM,Damasceno PF,Glotzer SC

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Focally evoked calcium waves in astrocyte cultures have been thought to propagate by gap-junction-mediated intercellular passage of chemical signal(s). In contrast to this mechanism we observed isolated astrocytes, which had no physical contact with other astrocytes in the culture, participating in a calcium wave. Thi...

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

authors： Hassinger TD,Guthrie PB,Atkinson PB,Bennett MV,Kater SB

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:VASP (vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein), an established substrate of cAMP- and cGMP-dependent protein kinases in vitro and in living cells, is associated with focal adhesions, microfilaments, and membrane regions of high dynamic activity. Here, the identification of an 83-kDa protein (p83) that specifically binds...

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

authors： Reinhard M,Jouvenal K,Tripier D,Walter U

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00