Early patterns of skill acquisition and immigrants' specialization in STEM careers.

abstract：:Many newly synthesized proteins have to become unfolded during translocation across biological membranes. We have analyzed the effects of various stabilization/destabilization mutations in the Ig-like module of the muscle protein titin upon its import from the N terminus or C terminus into mitochondria. The effects of...

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

authors： Sato T,Esaki M,Fernandez JM,Endo T

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes purified from primary cultures of neonatal rat cerebrum can now be grown in a synthetic medium supplemented with putrescine, prostaglandin F2 alpha, insulin, fibroblast growth factor, and hydrocortisone. These five supplements have a marked synergistic effect on growth when used in combination but have litt...

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

authors： Morrison RS,de Vellis J

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental stresses, the mammalian serine threonine kinases PERK, GCN2, HRI, and PKR phosphorylate the regulatory serine 51 of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) to inhibit global protein synthesis. Plasmodium, the protozoan that causes malaria, expresses three eIF2α kinases: IK1...

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

authors： Zhang M,Mishra S,Sakthivel R,Rojas M,Ranjan R,Sullivan WJ Jr,Fontoura BM,Ménard R,Dever TE,Nussenzweig V

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminished Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling is associated with the most common forebrain defect in humans, holoprosencephaly (HPE), which includes cyclopia, a phenotype also seen in mice and other vertebrates with defective Shh signaling. The secreted protein Shh acts as a crucial factor that patterns the ventral forebr...

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

authors： Roessler E,Du YZ,Mullor JL,Casas E,Allen WP,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Roeder ER,Ming JE,Ruiz i Altaba A,Muenke M

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels and nerves often follow parallel trajectories, suggesting that distal targets use common cues that induce vascularization and innervation. Netrins are secreted by the floor plate and attract commissural axons toward the midline of the neural tube. Here, we show that Netrin-1 is also a potent vascular mit...

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

authors： Park KW,Crouse D,Lee M,Karnik SK,Sorensen LK,Murphy KJ,Kuo CJ,Li DY

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiostrepton (TSR), an archetypal bimacrocyclic thiopeptide antibiotic that arises from complex posttranslational modifications of a genetically encoded precursor peptide, possesses a quinaldic acid (QA) moiety within the side-ring system of a thiopeptide-characteristic framework. Focusing on selective engineering of ...

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

authors： Zheng Q,Wang S,Duan P,Liao R,Chen D,Liu W

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity is presumed to be involved in adaptive change toward species diversification. We thus examined how candidate genes underlying natural variation across populations might also mediate plasticity within an individual. Our implementation of an integrative "plasticity space" approach revealed that the...

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

authors： Rosas U,Cibrian-Jaramillo A,Ristova D,Banta JA,Gifford ML,Fan AH,Zhou RW,Kim GJ,Krouk G,Birnbaum KD,Purugganan MD,Coruzzi GM

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a quantitative framework for assessing the generation of crossovers in DNA shuffling experiments. The approach uses free energy calculations and complete sequence information to model the annealing process. Statistics obtained for the annealing events then are combined with a reassembly algorithm to infer...

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

authors： Moore GL,Maranas CD,Lutz S,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1950, John Nash contributed a remarkable one-page PNAS article that defined and characterized a notion of equilibrium for n- person games. This notion, now called the "Nash equilibrium," has been widely applied and adapted in economics and other behavioral sciences. Indeed, game theory, with the Nash equilibrium as...

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

authors： Holt CA,Roth AE

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of rat monoclonal antibodies was used to classify mouse mast cells from four different sources on the basis of their surface determinants. Three populations of mast cells were derived by culturing normal bone marrow, spleen, and peripheral blood cells, whereas the fourth population was isolated directly from t...

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

authors： Katz HR,LeBlanc PA,Russell SW

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defining the molecules that regulate tumor cell survival is an essential prerequisite for the development of targeted approaches to cancer treatment. Whereas many studies aimed at identifying such targets use human tumor cells grown in vitro or as s.c. xenografts, it is unclear whether such experimental models replica...

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

authors： Camphausen K,Purow B,Sproull M,Scott T,Ozawa T,Deen DF,Tofilon PJ

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles are increasingly used in various fields, including biomedicine and electronics. One application utilizes the opacifying effect of nano-TiO(2), which is frequently used as pigment in cosmetics. Although TiO(2) is believed to be biologically inert, an emerging literature reports increased incidence of resp...

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

authors： Yazdi AS,Guarda G,Riteau N,Drexler SK,Tardivel A,Couillin I,Tschopp J

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF) is the only major fiber bundle connecting dorsolateral and ventrolateral visual cortex. Only a handful of studies have examined the anatomy of the VOF or its role in cognition in the living human brain. Here, we trace the contentious history of the VOF, beginning with its origin...

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

authors： Yeatman JD,Weiner KS,Pestilli F,Rokem A,Mezer A,Wandell BA

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with a lesion to the primary visual cortex (V1) show "blindsight": the remarkable ability to guess correctly about attributes of stimuli presented to the blind hemifield. Here, we show that blindsight can be induced in normal observers by using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital cortex bu...

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

authors： Jolij J,Lamme VA

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal deletion provides an important mechanism for the elimination of autoreactive T cells. Deletion is accomplished by programmed cell death directed by interaction of the T-cell receptor (TCR) of the developing thymocyte with major histocompatibility complex elements in the thymic environment. In this report we pre...

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

authors： Russell JH,White CL,Loh DY,Meleedy-Rey P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cell surface receptors are multimeric proteins, composed of several structural domains, some involved in ligand recognition, whereas others are responsible for signal transduction. In most cases, the mechanism of how ligand interaction in the extracellular domains leads to the activation of effector domains remai...

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

authors： Huang S,Cao J,Jiang M,Labesse G,Liu J,Pin JP,Rondard P

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, the asymmetrical division of the zygote is the first hallmark of apical-basal polarity of the embryo and is controlled by a MAP kinase pathway that includes the MAPKKK YODA (YDA). In Arabidopsis, YDA is activated by the membrane-associated pseudokinase SHORT SUSPENSOR (SSP) through an unusual pare...

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

authors： Neu A,Eilbert E,Asseck LY,Slane D,Henschen A,Wang K,Bürgel P,Hildebrandt M,Musielak TJ,Kolb M,Lukowitz W,Grefen C,Bayer M

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The replacement of dopamine (DA) by DA neuron transplants in the treatment of advanced Parkinson disease (PD) is a rational approach. Because of limitations associated with fetal tissue transplants, a clone (1RB3AN27) of simian virus 40 large tumor antigen (LTa) gene-induced immortalized DA neurons were used in this s...

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

authors： Clarkson ED,Rosa FG,Edwards-Prasad J,Weiland DA,Witta SE,Freed CR,Prasad KN

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Involution of the thymus is accompanied by a decline in the number of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and a severely restricted peripheral repertoire of T-cell specificities. TECs are essential for T-cell differentiation; they originate from a bipotent progenitor that gives rise to cells of cortical (cTEC) and medullar...

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

authors： Rode I,Boehm T

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of an anticancer innate immune response is highly desirable because of its inherent ability to generate an adaptive antitumor T-cell response. However, insufficient safety of innate immune modulators limits clinical use to topical applications. Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) agonists are favorably positioned a...

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

authors： Brackett CM,Kojouharov B,Veith J,Greene KF,Burdelya LG,Gollnick SO,Abrams SI,Gudkov AV

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the regulation of midbrain dopamine neurons, recordings were obtained from single neurons of freely moving, genetically engineered dopamine-deficient (DD) mice. DD mice were tested without dopamine signaling (basal state) and with endogenous dopamine signaling (after L-dopa administration). In the basal sta...

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

authors： Robinson S,Smith DM,Mizumori SJ,Palmiter RD

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique for transferring electrophoretically separated bands of RNA from an agarose gel to paper strips. The RNA is coupled covalently to diazobenzyloxymethyl groups on the paper. After transfer and appropriate treatment of the paper to destroy remaining diazo groups, specific RNA bands can be detected...

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

authors： Alwine JC,Kemp DJ,Stark GR

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the Copenhagen Accord indicates, most of the international community agrees that global mean temperature should not be allowed to rise more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels to avoid unacceptable damages from climate change. The scientific evidence distilled in the Fourth Assessment Report of the ...

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

authors： Heitzig J,Lessmann K,Zou Y

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Let E and F be vector bundles and D:E --> F an operator of order k. We associate a sequence of invariants ((l))(D), l >/= 0 with D which generalize the concept of curvature in a natural way. In the case where D = D(theta) is the differential operator of a connection theta on a vector bundle E, ((1))(D(theta)) is the c...

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

authors： Knapp RE

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-immunoglobulin treatment of fura-2-loaded Daudi cells induces a calcium mobilization as judged by the increase in the fluorescence of the dye fura-2, AM. No calcium mobilization by N-fMet-Leu-Phe is observed in these cells. However, exposure of the cells to N-fMet-Leu-Phe after the first hit with anti-immunoglobu...

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

authors： Kalunta CI,Kaptein JS,Niedzin H,Scott SJ,Lee GH,Lad PM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional capacities of CD8(+) T cells important for virus clearance are influenced by interactions with antigen presenting cells (APCs) and CD4(+) T cells during initial selection, subsequent expansion, and development of memory. Recently, investigators have shown that polyfunctional T cells correlate best with ...

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

authors： Ndhlovu ZM,Oelke M,Schneck JP,Griffin DE

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe the self-splicing of an RNA that consists of exon sequences flanked by group II intron sequences. I find that this RNA undergoes accurate splicing in vitro, yielding an excised exon circle. This splicing reaction involves the joining of the 5' splice site at the end of an exon to the 3' splice site at the b...

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

authors： Jarrell KA

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired immunoglobulin-like type 2 receptor α (PILRα) and β (PILRβ) belong to the PILR family and are related to innate immune regulation in various species. Despite their high sequence identity, PILRα and PILRβ are shown to have variant sialic acid (SA) binding avidities. To explore the molecular basis of this interac...

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

authors： Lu Q,Lu G,Qi J,Wang H,Xuan Y,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhang Y,Zheng C,Fan Z,Yan J,Gao GF

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified and purified a cell surface glycoprotein from retina and brain, called neural cell adhesion molecule or N-CAM, that appears to be involved in neural cell--cell adhesion, the fasciculation of neurites, and the formation of normal tissue patterns in the retina. The present studies reveal th...

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

authors： Rutishauser U,Hoffman S,Edelman GM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of tropical palaeoclimates is crucial for understanding global climate change, because it is a test bench for general circulation models that are ultimately used to predict future global warming. A longstanding issue concerning the last glacial maximum in the tropics is the discrepancy between the decrea...

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

authors： Wu H,Guiot J,Brewer S,Guo Z,Peng C

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00