Dynamics and determinants of the force of infection of dengue virus from 1994 to 2015 in Managua, Nicaragua.

abstract：:The bystander effect, originating from cells irradiated in vitro, describes the biologic response(s) of surrounding cells not directly targeted by a radiation insult. To overcome the limitations of in vitro tissue culture models and determine whether a bystander effect that is initiated by the in vivo decay of a radio...

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

authors： Xue LY,Butler NJ,Makrigiorgos GM,Adelstein SJ,Kassis AI

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sudden appearance of calcified skeletons among many different invertebrate taxa at the Precambrian-Cambrian transition may have required minor reorganization of preexisting secretory functions. In particular, features of the skeletal organic matrix responsible for regulating crystal growth by inhibition may be der...

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

authors： Marin F,Smith M,Isa Y,Muyzer G,Westbroek P

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:p150(glued) belongs to a group of proteins accumulating at microtubule plus ends (+TIPs). It plays a key role in initiating retrograde transport by recruiting and tethering endosomes and dynein to microtubules. p150(glued) contains an N-terminal microtubule-binding cytoskeleton-associated protein glycine-rich (CAP-Gly...

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

authors： Wang Q,Crevenna AH,Kunze I,Mizuno N

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Karrikins are a class of seed germination stimulants identified in smoke from wildfires. Microarray analysis of imbibed Arabidopsis thaliana seeds was performed to identify transcriptional responses to KAR(1) before germination. A small set of genes that are regulated by KAR(1), even when germination is prevented by t...

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

authors： Nelson DC,Flematti GR,Riseborough JA,Ghisalberti EL,Dixon KW,Smith SM

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient 3'-end processing of cell cycle-regulated mammalian histone premessenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) requires an upstream stem-loop and a histone downstream element (HDE) that base pairs with the U7 small ribonucleoprotein. Insertions between these elements have two effects: the site of cleavage moves in concert with t...

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

authors： Scharl EC,Steitz JA

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen bonds and their relative strengths in proteins are of importance for understanding protein structure and protein motions. The correct strength of such hydrogen bonds is experimentally known to vary greatly from approximately 5-6 kcal/mol for the isolated bond to approximately 0.5-1.5 kcal/mol for proteins in ...

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

authors： Sheu SY,Yang DY,Selzle HL,Schlag EW

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve the mission of personalized medicine, centering on delivering the right drug to the right patient at the right dose, therapeutic drug monitoring solutions are necessary. In that regard, wearable biosensing technologies, capable of tracking drug pharmacokinetics in noninvasively retrievable biofluids (e.g., ...

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

authors： Lin S,Yu W,Wang B,Zhao Y,En K,Zhu J,Cheng X,Zhou C,Lin H,Wang Z,Hojaiji H,Yeung C,Milla C,Davis RW,Emaminejad S

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of lactoferrin, an intact lactoferrin and a "nicked" but apparently intact (i.e., 78-kDa) form, have been isolated from the urine of preterm infants fed human milk. These two forms of lactoferrin, demonstrated to be entirely of maternal origin, were copurified using affinity columns of immobilized single-str...

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

authors： Hutchens TW,Henry JF,Yip TT

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace greenhouse gases are a fundamentally important component of Earth's global climate system sensitive to global change. However, their concentration in the pre-Pleistocene atmosphere during past warm greenhouse climates is highly uncertain because we lack suitable geochemical or biological proxies. This long-stand...

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

authors： Beerling DJ,Fox A,Stevenson DS,Valdes PJ

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A rigorous numerical test of a hypothetical mechanism of a molecular motor should model explicitly the diffusive motion of the motor's degrees of freedom as well as the transition rates between the motor's chemical states. We present such a Brownian dynamics, mechanochemcial model of the coarse-grain structure of the ...

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

authors： Craig EM,Linke H

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) have been proposed to transport hydrophobic chemicals from air to olfactory or taste receptors. They have been isolated from several sensory organs of a wide range of insect species. The x-ray structure of CSPMbraA6, a 112-aa antennal protein from the moth Mamestra brassicae (Mbra), was sh...

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

authors： Campanacci V,Lartigue A,Hällberg BM,Jones TA,Giudici-Orticoni MT,Tegoni M,Cambillau C

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays an essential role in regulating emotion, including inhibiting fear when danger has passed. The extinction of fear, however, is labile and a number of factors, including stress, cause extinguished fear to relapse. Here we show that fear relapse in rats limits single-unit activi...

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

authors： Giustino TF,Fitzgerald PJ,Ressler RL,Maren S

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a tryptophan synthase gene and the flanking 5' and 3' regions has been determined for Arabidopsis thaliana. The sequence encodes only the beta subunit domain, indicating that alpha and beta subunits are specified by separate genes. The gene contains four introns and encodes 470 amino acid residues....

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

authors： Berlyn MB,Last RL,Fink GR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To generate antibodies with different effector functions, B cells undergo Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain (IgH) class switch recombination (CSR). The ligation step of CSR is usually mediated by the classical nonhomologous end-joining (cNHEJ) pathway. In cNHEJ-deficient cells, a remarkable ∼25% of CSR can be achieved by the...

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

authors： Wang XS,Zhao J,Wu-Baer F,Shao Z,Lee BJ,Cupo OM,Rabadan R,Gautier J,Baer R,Zha S

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophenoloxidases (PPOs) are key enzymes of the melanization reaction, which is a prominent defense mechanism of arthropods. The mosquito Aedes aegypti has ten PPO genes in the genome, four of which (PPO1, PPO3, PPO5, and PPO8) were expressed in response to microbial infection. Cactus depletion resulted in transcripti...

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

authors： Zou Z,Shin SW,Alvarez KS,Bian G,Kokoza V,Raikhel AS

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noted consistent structural similarities among unrelated proteases. In comparison with other proteins of similar size, proteases have smaller than average surface areas, smaller radii of gyration, and higher C(alpha) densities. These findings imply that proteases are, as a group, more tightly packed than other...

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

authors： Stawiski EW,Baucom AE,Lohr SC,Gregoret LM

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An in-depth knowledge of the interaction of water with amorphous silica is critical to fundamental studies of interfacial hydration water, as well as to industrial processes such as catalysis, nanofabrication, and chromatography. Silica has a tunable surface comprising hydrophilic silanol groups and moderately hydroph...

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

authors： Schrader AM,Monroe JI,Sheil R,Dobbs HA,Keller TJ,Li Y,Jain S,Shell MS,Israelachvili JN,Han S

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shows that the most predictable components of internal variability in coupled atmosphere-ocean models are remarkably similar to the most predictable components of climate models without interactive ocean dynamics (i.e., models whose ocean is represented by a 50-m-deep slab ocean mixed layer with no interact...

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

authors： Srivastava A,DelSole T

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The I-J subregion of the mouse major histocompatibility complex has been reported to encode antigenic determinants expressed by suppressor T cells. Previously, cosmid clones were obtained from mouse sperm DNA that contain all of the sequences between the I-A and I-E subregions, where I-J has been mapped genetically. H...

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

authors： Kronenberg M,Steinmetz M,Kobori J,Kraig E,Kapp JA,Pierce CW,Sorensen CM,Suzuki G,Tada T,Hood L

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proofreading mechanisms increase specificity in biochemical reactions by allowing for the dissociation of intermediate complexes. These mechanisms disrupt and reset the reaction to undo errors at the cost of increased time of reaction and free energy expenditure. Here, we draw an analogy between proofreading and micro...

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

authors： Murugan A,Huse DA,Leibler S

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments investigate the capacity of thalamic and cortical structures in a sensory system to process information of a modality normally associated with another system. Retinal ganglion cells in newborn Syrian hamsters were made to project permanently to the main thalamic somatosensory (ventrobasal) nucleus. W...

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

authors： Métin C,Frost DO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons respond to sensory stimuli by altering the rate and temporal pattern of action potentials. These spike trains both encode and propagate information that guides behavior. Local inhibitory networks can affect the information encoded and propagated by neurons by altering correlations between different spike train...

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

authors： Giridhar S,Doiron B,Urban NN

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous international bodies have advocated the development of strategies to achieve the sustainability of marine environments. Typically, such strategies are based on information from expert groups about causes of degradation and policy options to address them, but these strategies rarely take into account assessed ...

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

authors： Gelcich S,Buckley P,Pinnegar JK,Chilvers J,Lorenzoni I,Terry G,Guerrero M,Castilla JC,Valdebenito A,Duarte CM

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the dominant role of one class II invariant chain peptide (CLIP) in blocking MHC class II, comparative lipidomics analysis shows that human cluster of differentiation (CD) proteins CD1a, CD1b, CD1c, and CD1d bind lipids corresponding to hundreds of diverse accurate mass retention time values. Although most ions...

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

authors： Huang S,Cheng TY,Young DC,Layre E,Madigan CA,Shires J,Cerundolo V,Altman JD,Moody DB

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mecp2 gene has been shown to be mutated in most cases of human Rett syndrome, and mouse models deleted for the ortholog have been generated. Lineage-specific deletion of the gene indicated that the Rett-like phenotype is caused by Mecp2 deficiency in neurons. Biochemical evidence suggests that Mecp2 acts as a glob...

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

authors： Tudor M,Akbarian S,Chen RZ,Jaenisch R

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing the sequences coding for the envelope proteins of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the liver have been used as a model of the HBV chronic carrier state. We evaluated the possibility of inducing a specific immune response to the viral envelope antigens and thus potentially controlling chronic H...

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

authors： Mancini M,Hadchouel M,Davis HL,Whalen RG,Tiollais P,Michel ML

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic uptake of cholephilic organic anions is a carrier-mediated process. Three distinct proteins [bilitranslocase (BTL), sulfobromophthalein (BSP)/bilirubin-binding protein (BBBP), and organic anion-binding protein] have been isolated from the basolateral plasma-membrane domain of the hepatocyte. To investigate...

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

authors： Torres AM,Lunazzi GC,Stremmel W,Tiribelli C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair (NER) prevents skin cancer by eliminating highly genotoxic cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) induced in DNA by the UVB component of sunlight. NER consists of two distinct but overlapping subpathways, i.e., global NER, which removes CPD from the genome overall, and transcription-coupled NE...

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

authors： Mathonnet G,Leger C,Desnoyers J,Drouin R,Therrien JP,Drobetsky EA

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational engineering methods can be applied with reasonable success to optimize physicochemical characteristics of proteins, in particular, antibodies. Here, we describe a combined CDR3 walking randomization and rational design-based approach to enhance the affinity of the human anti-gastrin TA4 scFv. The application ...

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

authors： Barderas R,Desmet J,Timmerman P,Meloen R,Casal JI

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial virulence factors are typically surface-associated or secreted molecules that in Gram-negative bacteria must cross the outer membrane (OM). Protein translocation across the bacterial OM is not well understood. To elucidate this process we studied P pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli. We present high-resolu...

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

authors： Thanassi DG,Saulino ET,Lombardo MJ,Roth R,Heuser J,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00