Oxygen isotope composition of the Phanerozoic ocean and a possible solution to the dolomite problem.

abstract：:A population of procollagen molecules has been isolated from the culture medium of a clonal line of calf dermatosparactic cells and shown to have the amino-acid composition, physical properties, and molecular structure consistent with collagen precursors. Although this procollagen population shares immunologic determi...

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

authors： Tanzer ML,Church RL,Yaeger JA,Wampler DE,Park E

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legumes were among the first plant species to be domesticated, and accompanied cereals in expansion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent into diverse environments across the Mediterranean basin, Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Although several recent studies have outlined the molecular basis for...

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

authors： Weller JL,Liew LC,Hecht VF,Rajandran V,Laurie RE,Ridge S,Wenden B,Vander Schoor JK,Jaminon O,Blassiau C,Dalmais M,Rameau C,Bendahmane A,Macknight RC,Lejeune-Hénaut I

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial membranes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis as well as other types of chronic destructive inflammatory arthritis contain infiltrates of activated T lymphocytes that probably contribute to the pathogenesis of the disease. In an effort to elucidate the nature of these infiltrates, interleukin 2 (IL-2)-respo...

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

authors： Stamenkovic I,Stegagno M,Wright KA,Krane SM,Amento EP,Colvin RB,Duquesnoy RJ,Kurnick JT

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) is a replication-competent retrovirus that induces a rapidly fetal leukemia in susceptible mice (stage I disease). Leukemia cells obtained from these animals do not grow in cell culture using standard tissue culture conditions. However, in the presence of WEHI-3 cell-conditioned m...

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

authors： Oliff A,Oliff I,Schmidt B,Famulari N

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the replication of the adenovirus genome is the covalent attachment of the 5'-terminal nucleotide, dCMP, to the virus-encoded terminal protein precursor (pTP). This reaction can be observed in vitro and has been previously shown to be dependent upon either viral DNA or linearized plasmid DNA containi...

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

authors： Challberg MD,Rawlins DR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncouplers are molecules with protonophoric and ionophoric capabilities that mediate coupled cyclical transport of cations--a transport that takes precedence over all other coupled processes. Uncouplers form cation-containing complexes with electrogenic ionophores that potentiate cyclical transport of cations. The mol...

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

authors： Kessler RJ,Vande Zande H,Tyson CA,Blondin GA,Fairfield J,Glasser P,Green DE

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a multisubunit ubiquitin-protein ligase that targets for degradation cell-cycle regulatory proteins during exit from mitosis and in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. The activity of APC/C in mitosis and in G1 requires interaction with the activator proteins Cdc20 and C...

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

authors： Eytan E,Moshe Y,Braunstein I,Hershko A

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium ljungdahlii is an anaerobic homoacetogen, able to ferment sugars, other organic compounds, or CO(2)/H(2) and synthesis gas (CO/H(2)). The latter feature makes it an interesting microbe for the biotech industry, as important bulk chemicals and proteins can be produced at the expense of CO(2), thus combining...

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

authors： Köpke M,Held C,Hujer S,Liesegang H,Wiezer A,Wollherr A,Ehrenreich A,Liebl W,Gottschalk G,Dürre P

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed molecular definition of the WAGR region at chromosome 11p13 has been achieved by chromosome breakpoint analysis and long-range restriction mapping. Here we describe the molecular detection of a cytogenetically invisible 1-megabase deletion in an individual with aniridia, cryptorchidism, and hypospadias but no...

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

authors： van Heyningen V,Bickmore WA,Seawright A,Fletcher JM,Maule J,Fekete G,Gessler M,Bruns GA,Huerre-Jeanpierre C,Junien C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a diverse class of proteins that depress the kinetically observable freezing point of water. AFPs have been of scientific interest for decades, but the lack of an accurate model for predicting AFP activity has hindered the logical design of novel antifreeze systems. To address this, we p...

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

authors： Kozuch DJ,Stillinger FH,Debenedetti PG

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for designing a funnel-shaped free-energy surface that reproducibly assembles secondary structure elements of proteins into their native conformations from a random extended configuration. Assuming a priori knowledge of secondary structure, our method can design a funnel-shaped surface for folding ...

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

authors： Fain B,Levitt M

更新日期：2003-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities in the bovine hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was studied by use of specific antisera. Proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities were found in magnocellular neuronal cell bodies in the dorsal part of the supraoptic nuclei and in th...

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

authors： Vanderhaeghen JJ,Lotstra F,Liston DR,Rossier J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl groups placed on varphiXsB1 replicative form DNA by the Escherichia coli B modification enzyme are located in the overlap between fragments Mbo II-3 and Alu I-2, a 61-base-pair DNA segment. Mutations that led to loss of susceptibility to restriction by E. coli B occurred within this segment at three positions s...

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

authors： Lautenberger JA,Kan NC,Lackey D,Linn S,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. C. parasitica dicer-like genes dcl-1 and dcl-2 were cloned and shown to share a high level of predicted amino ...

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

authors： Segers GC,Zhang X,Deng F,Sun Q,Nuss DL

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding the variable (V) region of the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) are assembled from V, D (diversity), and J (joining) elements through a RAG-mediated recombination process that relies on the recognition of recombination signal sequences (RSSs) flanking the individual elements. Secondary V(D)J rearrangem...

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

authors： Sun A,Novobrantseva TI,Coffre M,Hewitt SL,Jensen K,Skok JA,Rajewsky K,Koralov SB

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The neu gene is distantly related to the erbB gene and encodes a cell surface protein that appears to function as a growth factor receptor. To study the mechanisms that caused the conversion of the normal neu gene to an oncogenic allele, we have isolated molecular clones of the neu oncogene as well as a clone of the c...

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

authors： Hung MC,Schechter AL,Chevray PY,Stern DF,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landscape-scale reconstructions of ancient environments within the cradle of humanity may reveal insights into the relationship between early hominins and the changing resources around them. Many studies of Olduvai Gorge during Pliocene-Pleistocene times have revealed the presence of precession-driven wet-dry cycles a...

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

authors： Sistiaga A,Husain F,Uribelarrea D,Martín-Perea DM,Ferland T,Freeman KH,Diez-Martín F,Baquedano E,Mabulla A,Domínguez-Rodrigo M,Summons RE

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has evolved a remarkable strategy to thwart the antiviral effects of the cellular cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G (hA3G). HTLV-1 infects T lymphocytes in vivo, where, like HIV-1, it is likely to encounter hA3G. HIV-1 counteracts the innate antiviral activity of hA3G by producing...

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

authors： Derse D,Hill SA,Princler G,Lloyd P,Heidecker G

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenine-thymine (AT)-rich interactive domain 5a (Arid5a) is an RNA-binding protein found in the cytoplasm and nucleus of normally growing cells. Although Arid5a is known to play an important role in immune regulation, whether and how Arid5a subcellular localization impacts immune regulation has remained unclear. In th...

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

authors： Higa M,Oka M,Fujihara Y,Masuda K,Yoneda Y,Kishimoto T

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixing genomes of different species by hybridization can disrupt species-specific genetic interactions that were adapted and fixed within each species population. Such disruption can predispose the hybrids to abnormalities and disease that decrease the overall fitness of the hybrids and is therefore named as hybrid in...

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

authors： Lu Y,Sandoval A,Voss S,Lai Z,Kneitz S,Boswell W,Boswell M,Savage M,Walter C,Warren W,Schartl M,Walter R

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 60,000 y humans have expanded across the globe and now occupy a wider range than any other terrestrial species. Our ability to successfully adapt to such a diverse range of habitats is often explained in terms of our cognitive ability. Humans have relatively bigger brains and more computing power than othe...

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

authors： Boyd R,Richerson PJ,Henrich J

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic morphine administration is associated with the development of tolerance, both clinically and in animal models. Many assume that tolerance is a continually progressive response to chronic opioid dosing. However, clinicians have long appreciated the ability to manage cancer pain in patients for months on stable ...

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

authors： Xu J,Faskowitz AJ,Rossi GC,Xu M,Lu Z,Pan YX,Pasternak GW

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato plants overexpressing a prosystemin gene that encodes the precursor of a mobile wound signal called systemin have been shown previously to constitutively synthesize extraordinarily high levels of two defensive proteinase inhibitor proteins in leaves in the absence of wounding. We herein report that leaves of th...

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

authors： Constabel CP,Bergey DR,Ryan CA

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial transpeptidase and transglycosylase on the surface are essential for cell wall synthesis, and many antibiotics have been developed to target the transpeptidase; however, the problem of antibiotic resistance has arisen and caused a major threat in bacterial infection. The transglycosylase has been considered ...

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

authors： Huang CY,Shih HW,Lin LY,Tien YW,Cheng TJ,Cheng WC,Wong CH,Ma C

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains are Ca(2+)-dependent intracellular proteases. We show here that calpain-generated natural C-terminal fragments of proteins that include G protein-coupled receptors, transmembrane ion channels, transcriptional regulators, apoptosis controllers, kinases, and phosphatases (Phe-GluN2a, Lys-Ica512, Arg-Ankrd2, Tyr...

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

authors： Piatkov KI,Oh JH,Liu Y,Varshavsky A

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the past tense of verbs in English has been the focus of the debate concerning connectionist vs. symbolic accounts of language. Brain-injured patients differ with respect to whether they are more impaired in generating irregular past tenses (TAKE-TOOK) or past tenses for nonce verbs (WUG-WUGGED). Such...

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

authors： Joanisse MF,Seidenberg MS

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Control over structural transformations in supramolecular entities by external stimuli is critical for the development of adaptable and functional soft materials. Herein, we have designed and synthesized a dipyridyl donor containing a central Z-configured stiff-stilbene unit that self-assembles in the presence of two ...

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

authors： Yan X,Xu JF,Cook TR,Huang F,Yang QZ,Tung CH,Stang PJ

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the most important models to account for the specificity and sensitivity of the T cell receptor (TCR) are the kinetic proofreading and serial ligation models. However, although kinetic proofreading provides a means for individual TCRs to measure accurately the length of time they are engaged and signal appropri...

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

authors： Chan C,George AJ,Stark J

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a comprehensive cartography of selective responses to visual letters and words in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) with direct neural recordings, clarifying key aspects of the neural basis of reading. Intracerebral recordings were performed in a large group of patients (n = 37) presented wit...

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

authors： Lochy A,Jacques C,Maillard L,Colnat-Coulbois S,Rossion B,Jonas J

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ghrelin and somatostatin (SST) inhibit glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic β-cells, but how these independent actions are regulated has been unclear. The mechanism must accommodate noncanonical ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a)-G-protein coupling to Gα(i/o) instead of Gα(q11) and dependence on en...

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

authors： Park S,Jiang H,Zhang H,Smith RG

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00