The geographic mosaic of coevolution in mutualistic networks.

abstract：:Patients with chronic ulcerative colitis (UC) are at high risk for developing colorectal cancer. In this study, archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colonic tissue from patients with UC who developed carcinoma (CA) or high-grade dysplasia (HGD) was examined for changes in expression of the proinflammatory and mit...

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

authors： Gillespie E,Leeman SE,Watts LA,Coukos JA,O'Brien MJ,Cerda SR,Farraye FA,Stucchi AF,Becker JM

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are associated with dysbiosis of the gut microbiome. Emerging evidence suggests that small-molecule metabolites derived from bacterial breakdown of a variety of dietary nutrients confer a wide array of host benefits, including amelio...

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

authors： Scott SA,Fu J,Chang PV

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus is associated with a strain of transovarially-transmitted SR-spirochetes, NSR, of Drosophila. This virus, designated spv-1, is able to infect and to multiply in another strain of SR-spirochetes, WSR, thereby eliminating the SR condition from the host flies. Spv-1 contains DNA, has a buoyant density of 1.480 in...

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

authors： Oishi K,Poulson DF

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG2a monoclonal antibody TH-1, which reacts specifically with blood group A1 but with neither A2 nor O erythrocytes, has been established. The antibody reacted only with A1 erythrocytes in hemagglutination and antibody absorption assays; it did not react with A2 erythrocytes, even after trypsin or sialidase treat...

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

authors： Clausen H,Levery SB,Nudelman E,Tsuchiya S,Hakomori S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardin and the myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs) A and B act as coactivators for serum response factor, which plays a key role in cardiovascular development. To determine the functions of MRTF-B in vivo, we generated MRTF-B mutant mice by targeted inactivation of the MRTF-B gene. We show that mice hom...

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

authors： Oh J,Richardson JA,Olson EN

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons respond to sensory stimuli associated with future rewards. When reward is delivered probabilistically, DA neurons reflect this uncertainty by increasing their firing rates in a period between the sensory cue and reward delivery time. Probability of reward, however, has been externally co...

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

authors： de Lafuente V,Romo R

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic affinities of the grass family (Poaceae) have long been debated. The chloroplast genomes of at least some grasses have been known to possess three inversions relative to the typical gene arrangement found in most flowering plants. We have surveyed for the presence of these inversions in grasses and ot...

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

authors： Doyle JJ,Davis JI,Soreng RJ,Garvin D,Anderson MJ

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The his4 region of yeast contains the information necessary for the catalysis of three steps in the histidine biosynthetic pathway. The three activities specified by this region remain physically associated during gel filtration and ultracentrifugation and after extensive purification. Nonsense mutations in the "opera...

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

authors： Shaffer B,Rytka J,Fink GR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes encoding thymidylate synthetase from Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages were cloned in Escherichia coli. Chimeric plasmids pCD1 and pCD3 were constructed from site-specific endonuclease digests of bacteriophage phi3T DNA cloned in pMB9 in E. coli. Similar cloning techniques with bacteriophage beta22 DNA yielded ch...

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

authors： Duncan CH,Wilson GA,Young FE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the in vivo signaling mechanisms involved in nociceptin/orphanin FQ (Noci)-induced pain responses by using a flexor-reflex paradigm. Noci was 10,000 times more potent than substance P (SP) in eliciting flexor responses after intraplantar injection into the hind limb of mice, but the action of Noci seem...

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

authors： Inoue M,Kobayashi M,Kozaki S,Zimmer A,Ueda H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that normal human salivary gland-derived epithelial cells exclusively express keratinocyte growth factor receptor (KGFR). In the process of malignant transformation of human salivary gland tumors, KGFR gene expression disappeared concomitantly with the de novo expression of the fibroblast growth facto...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Wang H,Toratani S,Sato JD,Kan M,McKeehan WL,Okamoto T

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism, mediated by deiodinase types 1, 2, and 3 (D1, D2, and D3) is profoundly affected by acute illness. We examined the role of TH metabolism during ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in mice. Mice exposed to VILI recapitulated the serum TH findings of acute illness, namely a decrease in...

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

authors： Barca-Mayo O,Liao XH,DiCosmo C,Dumitrescu A,Moreno-Vinasco L,Wade MS,Sammani S,Mirzapoiazova T,Garcia JG,Refetoff S,Weiss RE

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A short interspersed nuclear element, Mg-SINE, was isolated and characterized from the genome of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Mg-SINE was isolated as an insertion element within Pot2, an inverted-repeat transposon from M. grisea and shows typical features of a mammalian SINE. Mg-SINE is present as a 0.47...

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

authors： Kachroo P,Leong SA,Chattoo BB

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the apoptotic role of caspases has been largely understood, accumulating evidence in Drosophila suggests that caspases also control other processes than apoptotic cell death. However, how caspases contribute to the development of the mammalian nervous system remains obscure. Here, we provide unique evidence t...

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

authors： Ohsawa S,Hamada S,Kuida K,Yoshida H,Igaki T,Miura M

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-dependent adhesions mediate reciprocal exchange of force and information between the cell and the extracellular matrix. These effects are attributed to the "focal adhesion clutch," in which moving actin filaments transmit force to integrins via dynamic protein interactions. To elucidate these processes, we me...

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

authors： Driscoll TP,Ahn SJ,Huang B,Kumar A,Schwartz MA

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies indicate beneficial effects of moderate ethanol consumption in ischemic heart disease. Most studies, however, focus on the effect of long-term consumption of ethanol. In this study, we determined whether brief exposure to ethanol immediately before ischemia also produces cardioprotection...

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

authors： Chen CH,Gray MO,Mochly-Rosen D

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze Niels Bohr's proposed two-slit interference experiment with highly charged particles which argues that the consistency of elementary quantum mechanics requires that the electromagnetic field must be quantized. In the experiment a particle's path through the slits is determined by measuring the Coulomb field...

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

authors： Baym G,Ozawa T

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a recombinant DNA molecule carrying the coding region and the 3' flanking sequences of the rat preproinsulin I gene, replacing the late region of a simian virus 40 (SV40) viral vector. The sequences making up the single intron of the preproinsulin I gene, located within the nontranslated leader region, ...

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

authors： Gruss P,Efstratiadis A,Karathanasis S,König M,Khoury G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharides have been isolated, fractionated, and characterized from the nuclei of cultured B16 mouse melanoma cells grown in the presence of (3-H)-glucosamine and (35-S)sulfate. Digestion of the nuclei with DNase followed by Pronase gave a mixture of complex carbohydrates from which the mucopolysaccharides we...

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

authors： Bhavanandan VP,Davidson EA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional asymmetric PCR is inefficient and difficult to optimize because limiting the concentration of one primer lowers its melting temperature below the reaction annealing temperature. Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR describes a new paradigm for primer design that renders assays as efficient as symmetric...

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

authors： Sanchez JA,Pierce KE,Rice JE,Wangh LJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is composed of linear chains of phosphate groups linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. However, this simple, ubiquitous molecule remains poorly understood. The use of nonstandardized analytical methods has contributed to this lack of clarity. By using improved polyacrylamide gel...

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

authors： Livermore TM,Chubb JR,Saiardi A

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings suggest that neurons can efficiently repair oxidatively damaged DNA, and that both DNA damage and repair are enhanced by activation of excitatory glutamate receptors. However, in pathological conditions such as ischemic stroke, excessive DNA damage can trigger the death of neurons. Oxidative DNA damage...

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

authors： Canugovi C,Yoon JS,Feldman NH,Croteau DL,Mattson MP,Bohr VA

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological significance of multiple G-protein-coupled receptor subtypes, such as the beta-adrenergic receptors (beta ARs), remains obscure, since in many cases several subtypes activate the same effector and utilize the same physiological agonists. We inspected the deduced amino acid sequences of the beta AR su...

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

authors： Liggett SB,Freedman NJ,Schwinn DA,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence coding for murine granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has been isolated from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA derived from murine fibrosarcoma NFSA cells, which produce G-CSF constitutively. Identification of murine G-CSF cDNA was based on the cross-hybridization with human G-CSF cDNA under ...

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

authors： Tsuchiya M,Asano S,Kaziro Y,Nagata S

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-1a cells, an anatomically, phenotypically, and functionally distinct subset of B cells that produce the bulk of natural serum IgM and much of gut-associated IgA, are an important component of the early response to pathogens. Because the induced expression of CD5, a hallmark of B-1a cells, requires a nuclear factor o...

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

authors： Berland R,Wortis HH

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals and plants use modified cell cycles to achieve particular developmental strategies. In one common example, most animals and plants have tissues in which the cells become polyploid or polytene by means of an S-G cycle, but the mechanism by which mitosis is inhibited in the endo cycle is not understood. The Dros...

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

authors： Kashevsky H,Wallace JA,Reed BH,Lai C,Hayashi-Hagihara A,Orr-Weaver TL

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Costimulation is required for optimal T cell activation, yet it is unclear whether poxviruses dedicatedly subvert costimulation during infection. Here, we report that the secreted M2 protein encoded by cowpox virus (CPXV) specifically interacts with human and murine B7.1 (CD80) and B7.2 (CD86). We also show that M2 co...

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

authors： Wang X,Piersma SJ,Elliott JI,Errico JM,Gainey MD,Yang L,Nelson CA,Yokoyama WM,Fremont DH

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated radiocarbon date ranges). In contrast, to the north of the valley the Mousterian disappears shortly before the Proto-Aurignacian appears at...

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

authors： Wood RE,Barroso-Ruíz C,Caparrós M,Jordá Pardo JF,Galván Santos B,Higham TF

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotransfection assays were used to show that the members of the GTP-binding protein Gq class of alpha subunits could activate phospholipase C (PLC) beta 2. Similar experiments also demonstrated that G beta 1 gamma 1, G beta 1 gamma 5, and G beta 2 gamma 5 could activate the beta 2 isoform of PLC but not the beta 1 iso...

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

authors： Wu D,Katz A,Simon MI

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00