A truncated immunoglobulin epsilon pseudogene is found in gorilla and man but not in chimpanzee.

abstract：:We describe two collaborations in which psychologists and economists provided essential support on foundational projects in major research programs. One project involved eliciting adolescents' expectations regarding significant future life events affecting their psychological and economic development. The second proje...

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

authors： Bruine de Bruin W,Fischhoff B

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane emissions due to accidents in the oil and natural gas sector are very challenging to monitor, and hence are seldom considered in emission inventories and reporting. One of the main reasons is the lack of measurements during such events. Here we report the detection of large methane emissions from a gas well bl...

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

authors： Pandey S,Gautam R,Houweling S,Denier van der Gon H,Sadavarte P,Borsdorff T,Hasekamp O,Landgraf J,Tol P,van Kempen T,Hoogeveen R,van Hees R,Hamburg SP,Maasakkers JD,Aben I

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for enzyme-mediated active sliding, disassembly, and sequence-dependent positioning of nucleosomes, we simulate nucleosome occupancy over cell-cycle-scale times using a stochastic kinetic model. We show that ATP-dependent active nucleosome sliding and nucleosome removal processes are essential to obtain in ...

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

authors： Padinhateeri R,Marko JF

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein functions require conformational motions. We show here that the dominant conformational motions are slaved by the hydration shell and the bulk solvent. The protein contributes the structure necessary for function. We formulate a model that is based on experiments, insights from the physics of glass-forming liq...

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

authors： Frauenfelder H,Chen G,Berendzen J,Fenimore PW,Jansson H,McMahon BH,Stroe IR,Swenson J,Young RD

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We study atomic models of the thermodynamics of the structural transition of peptides that form alpha-helices. The effect of sequence variation on alpha-helix formation for alanine-rich peptides, Ac-Ala21-methyl amide (A21) and Ac-A5 (AAARA)3A-methyl amide (Fs peptide), is investigated by atomic simulation studies of ...

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

authors： García AE,Sanbonmatsu KY

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity and stoichiometry of DNA binding by Escherichia coli trp repressor were studied by electrophoresis in nondenaturing gels. The ability of trp repressor to retard the electrophoretic mobility of an operator DNA fragment depends on the pH of the gel system. Above the pI of the protein, little retardation of ...

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

authors： Carey J

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RsgA, a circularly permutated GTPase, whose GTPase activity is dependent on the 30S ribosomal subunit, is a late-stage ribosome biogenesis factor involved in the 30S subunit maturation. The role of RsgA is to release another 30S biogenesis factor, RbfA, from the mature 30S subunit in a GTP-dependent mann...

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

authors： Guo Q,Yuan Y,Xu Y,Feng B,Liu L,Chen K,Sun M,Yang Z,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of gamma-glutamylcysteinylglycyl monomethyl (or monoethyl) ester to mice leads to substantial increases in the levels of glutathione in the liver and kidney. Mice depleted of glutathione by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine, a potent inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, exhibited about a ...

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

authors： Puri RN,Meister A

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster, is a highly conserved chromosomal protein implicated in both heterochromatin formation and gene silencing. We report here characterization of an HP1-interacting protein, heterochromatin protein 2 (HP2), which codistributes with HP1 in the pe...

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

authors： Shaffer CD,Stephens GE,Thompson BA,Funches L,Bernat JA,Craig CA,Elgin SC

更新日期：2002-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens is a brain region in which limbic and motor inputs converge. How these information modalities shape accumbens output is not clearly understood. Here, we report that synaptic inputs from the prefrontal cortex and limbic structures interact differently depending on their timing. Coincident inputs m...

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

authors： Goto Y,O'Donnell P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current structural genomics projects are yielding structures for proteins whose functions are unknown. Accordingly, there is a pressing requirement for computational methods for function prediction. Here we present PHUNCTIONER, an automatic method for structure-based function prediction using automatically extracted f...

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

authors： Pazos F,Sternberg MJ

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate visual motion system performs numerous functions essential for survival in a dynamic visual world. Prominent among these functions is the ability to recover and represent the trajectories of objects in a form that facilitates behavioral responses to those movements. The first step toward this goal, which c...

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

authors： Albright TD,Stoner GR

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs made from polyadenylylated RNAs of the mouse lens were cloned by the G.C tailing procedure in the bacterial plasmid pBR322. Four recombinant DNAs containing gamma-crystallin sequences were identified by hybrid selection and translation. Sequence analysis of the in vivo-labeled gamma-crystallin polypeptides that ...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Robinson EA,Appella E,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic inhibition of the gelation of hemoglobin S is compared to the change in hemoglobin S soulbility, when the solubility is altered by carbon monoxide, pH, or urea. By means of a new technique, the delay time and the extent of gelation are measured on the same sample. They delay time, td, is found to be propor...

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

authors： Hofrichter J,Ross PD,Eaton WA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stepwise, synthetic alteration of oxytocin, guided by conformational and enzymological considerations, has led to analogs with specifically modified activity profiles and resistance to enzymatic inactivation. General requirements for the design of peptides with therapeutic value are discussed. ...

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

authors： Walter R,Yamanaka T,Sakakibara S

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding systems employ a short, standardized gene region to identify species. A 648-bp segment of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) is the core barcode region for animals, but its utility has not been tested in fungi. This study began with an examination of patterns of sequence divergences in this gene ...

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

authors： Seifert KA,Samson RA,Dewaard JR,Houbraken J,Lévesque CA,Moncalvo JM,Louis-Seize G,Hebert PD

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Early events in the action of 17-beta-estradiol can be studied in soluble extracts of rat uterus by exposure of the estradiol-receptor protein to a DNA-cellulose matrix. After complexing with [(3)H]estradiol, the 4S receptor protein binds to the DNA, and it can be eluted with buffer of high ionic strength as a more ti...

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

authors： Yamamoto KR,Alberts BM

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are cyclic parameters of the Earth's orbit whose climatic implications have been widely demonstrated on recent and short time intervals. Amplitude modulations of these parameters on million-year time scales induce "grand orbital cycles," but the behavior and the paleoenvironment...

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

authors： Martinez M,Dera G

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Any isospectral family of two-dimensional Euclidean domains is shown to be compact in the C(infinity) topology. Previously Melrose, using heat invariants, was able to establish the C(infinity) compactness of the curvature of the boundary curves. The additional ingredient used in this paper to obtain the compactness of...

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

authors： Osgood B,Phillips R,Sarnak P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoprotein (LDL) isolated from human plasma anticoagulated with EDTA (EDTA/LDL) was 4-fold more resistant to oxidation by reagent H2O2, as assayed by the thiobarbituric acid (TBA) assay, than LDL prepared from plasma anticoagulated with citrate (CDP/LDL). The LDLs required 1-3 mM H2O2 for maximal oxidatio...

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

authors： Montgomery RR,Nathan CF,Cohn ZA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial carriers are believed widely to be homodimers both in the inner membrane of the organelle and in detergents. The dimensions and molecular masses of the detergent and protein-detergent micelles were measured for yeast ADP/ATP carriers in a range of different detergents. The radius of the carrier at the mi...

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

authors： Bamber L,Harding M,Butler PJ,Kunji ER

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Jun is a transcription factor belonging to the activator protein 1 family. A mutated version of Jun (v-Jun) transduced by the avian retrovirus ASV17 induces oncogenic transformation in avian cell cultures and sarcomas in young galliform birds. The oncogenicity of Jun probably results from transcriptional deregulation ...

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

authors： Fu Sl,Bottoli I,Goller M,Vogt PK

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms for plant growth restriction during stress conditions remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that a phytochrome-interacting factor-like protein, OsPIL1/OsPIL13, acts as a key regulator of reduced internode elongation in rice under drought conditions. The level of OsPIL1 mRNA in rice seedlings grown under...

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

authors： Todaka D,Nakashima K,Maruyama K,Kidokoro S,Osakabe Y,Ito Y,Matsukura S,Fujita Y,Yoshiwara K,Ohme-Takagi M,Kojima M,Sakakibara H,Shinozaki K,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we uncovered a critical role for norepinephrine and beta(1)-adrenergic signaling in hippocampus-dependent memory retrieval. Because the beta(1) receptor couples to G(s), we examine here whether cAMP is also required for contextual memory retrieval. Using pharmacologic and genetic approaches to manipulate cA...

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

authors： Ouyang M,Zhang L,Zhu JJ,Schwede F,Thomas SA

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis HYL1 gene encodes a nuclear double-stranded RNA-binding protein. A knockout mutation of the hyl1 gene is recessive and pleiotropic, causing developmental abnormalities, increasing sensitivity to abscisic acid, and reducing sensitivity to auxin and cytokinin. We report that levels of several microRNAs (...

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

authors： Han MH,Goud S,Song L,Fedoroff N

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In genotypic mutation analysis DNA sequence changes are determined without the in vivo or in vitro selection of phenotypically altered cells. We have studied the induction of base-pair changes by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea in Taq I endonuclease recognition site 2508-2511 (TCGA) of the c-H-ras1 gene in human fibroblasts by ...

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

authors： Chiocca SM,Sandy MS,Cerutti PA

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about stem cell biology or the specialized environments or niches believed to control stem cell renewal and differentiation in self-renewing tissues of the body. Functional assays for stem cells are available only for hematopoiesis and spermatogenesis, and the microenvironment, or niche, for hematopoie...

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

authors： Shinohara T,Orwig KE,Avarbock MR,Brinster RL

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses of subtypes H5 and H7 are the causative agents of fowl plague in poultry. Influenza A viruses of subtype H5N1 also caused severe respiratory disease in humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and 2003, including at least seven fatal cases, posing a serious human pandemic threat. Between...

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

authors： Fouchier RA,Schneeberger PM,Rozendaal FW,Broekman JM,Kemink SA,Munster V,Kuiken T,Rimmelzwaan GF,Schutten M,Van Doornum GJ,Koch G,Bosman A,Koopmans M,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models suggest that social networks influence the evolution of cooperation, but to date there have been few experimental studies. Observational data suggest that a wide variety of behaviors may spread in human social networks, but subjects in such studies can choose to befriend people with similar behavior...

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

authors： Fowler JH,Christakis NA

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of glycine receptors (GlyRs) from newborn and adult rat spinal cord were studied in Xenopus oocytes injected with whole mRNA or the heavy (H) or light (L) mRNA fractions encoding their respective GlyRs. Mean open times and conductances of channels gated by H- or L-GlyRs were determined by noise analysis...

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

authors： Morales A,Nguyen QT,Miledi R

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00