Effect of oil spills on infant mortality in Nigeria.

abstract：:Reinforcement learning models now provide principled guides for a wide range of reward learning experiments in animals and humans. One key learning (error) signal in these models is experiential and reports ongoing temporal differences between expected and experienced reward. However, these same abstract learning mode...

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

authors： Lohrenz T,McCabe K,Camerer CF,Montague PR

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) mediates several biological actions, including relaxation of blood vessels, cytotoxicity of activated macrophages, and formation of cGMP by activation of glutamate receptors in cerebellar slices. Nitric oxide synthase (EC 1.14.23.-) immunoreactivity is colocalized with nicotinamide adenine di-nucleot...

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

authors： Dawson VL,Dawson TM,London ED,Bredt DS,Snyder SH

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of protein farnesylation in lamin A biogenesis and the pathogenesis of progeria has been studied in considerable detail, but the importance of farnesylation for the B-type lamins, lamin B1 and lamin B2, has received little attention. Lamins B1 and B2 are expressed in nearly every cell type from the earliest s...

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

authors： Jung HJ,Nobumori C,Goulbourne CN,Tu Y,Lee JM,Tatar A,Wu D,Yoshinaga Y,de Jong PJ,Coffinier C,Fong LG,Young SG

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling and two-dimensional NMR techniques enable us to identify structural features in the third variable region (V3) loop of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surface glycoprotein gp120, in particular the principal neutralizing determinant (PND), that remain conserved despite the sequence variation. ...

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

authors： Fontenot JD,Gatewood JM,Mariappan SV,Pau CP,Parekh BS,George JR,Gupta G

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish have somehow colonized isolated water bodies all over the world without human assistance. It has long been speculated that these colonization events are assisted by waterbirds, transporting fish eggs attached to their feet and feathers, yet empirical support for this is lacking. Recently, it was suggested that en...

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

authors： Lovas-Kiss Á,Vincze O,Löki V,Pallér-Kapusi F,Halasi-Kovács B,Kovács G,Green AJ,Lukács BA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against human schistosome infection develops slowly, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. For many decades, researchers have attempted to infer properties of the immune response from epidemiological studies, with mathematical models frequently being used to bridge the gap between immunolo...

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

authors： Mitchell KM,Mutapi F,Savill NJ,Woolhouse ME

更新日期：2012-08-14 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：:Stroke patients with small central nervous system infarcts often demonstrate an acute dysexecutive syndrome characterized by difficulty with attention, concentration, and processing speed, independent of lesion size or location. We use magnetoencephalography (MEG) to show that disruption of network dynamics may be res...

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

authors： Marsh EB,Brodbeck C,Llinas RH,Mallick D,Kulasingham JP,Simon JZ,Llinás RR

更新日期：2020-12-29 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：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules displayed clustered patterns at the surfaces of T (HUT-102B2) and B (JY) lymphoma cells characterized by interreceptor distances in the micrometer range as detected by scanning force microscopy of immunogold-labeled antigens. Electron microscopy revealed that a...

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

authors： Jenei A,Varga S,Bene L,Mátyus L,Bodnár A,Bacsó Z,Pieri C,Gáspár R Jr,Farkas T,Damjanovich S

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the preparation and structural analysis of ordered tubular arrays of the actin-DNase I complex. These structures consist of helically stacked rings; each ring is 73 A thick, has a 240 A outer and a 120 A inner diameter, and has 7-fold rotational symmetry. The actin-DNase I complex forms tubes under conditi...

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

authors： Fowler WE,Buhle EL,Aebi U

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S3I-201 (NSC 74859) is a chemical probe inhibitor of Stat3 activity, which was identified from the National Cancer Institute chemical libraries by using structure-based virtual screening with a computer model of the Stat3 SH2 domain bound to its Stat3 phosphotyrosine peptide derived from the x-ray crystal structure of...

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

authors： Siddiquee K,Zhang S,Guida WC,Blaskovich MA,Greedy B,Lawrence HR,Yip ML,Jove R,McLaughlin MM,Lawrence NJ,Sebti SM,Turkson J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter of the bean PAL2 gene (encoding phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; EC 4.3.1.5) is a model for studies of tissue-restricted gene expression in plants. Petal epidermis is one of the tissues in which this promoter is activated in tobacco. Previous work suggested that a major factor establishing the pattern of PAL2...

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

authors： Sablowski RW,Baulcombe DC,Bevan M

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:L-type Ca(2+) currents conducted by CaV1.2 channels initiate excitation-contraction coupling in the heart. Their activity is increased by β-adrenergic/cAMP signaling via phosphorylation by PKA in the fight-or-flight response, but the sites of regulation are unknown. We describe the functional role of phosphorylation o...

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

authors： Fu Y,Westenbroek RE,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACCs) are rare and highly malignant cancers associated with poor survival of patients. Currently, mitotane, a nonspecific derivative of the pesticide DDT (1,1-(dichlorobiphenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane), is used as the standard treatment, but its mechanism of action in ACCs remains elusive. Here ...

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

authors： Belavgeni A,Bornstein SR,von Mässenhausen A,Tonnus W,Stumpf J,Meyer C,Othmar E,Latk M,Kanczkowski W,Kroiss M,Hantel C,Hugo C,Fassnacht M,Ziegler CG,Schally AV,Krone NP,Linkermann A

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Several significant steps have been completed toward a general method for the site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. An "orthogonal" suppressor tRNA was derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA2Gln. This yeast orthogonal tRNA is not a substrate in vitro or in vivo for any Escheri...

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

authors： Liu DR,Schultz PG

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) may act as regulators of morphogenesis by constraining cell motion, forming borders, and controlling intercellular communications that lead to embryonic induction. This postulated causal role of CAMs in inductive events was tested here in an in vitro system of feather induction. In the d...

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

authors： Gallin WJ,Chuong CM,Finkel LH,Edelman GM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a high-titer recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector to express WT or mutant human alpha-synuclein in the substantia nigra of adult marmosets. The alpha-synuclein protein was expressed in 90-95% of all nigral dopamine neurons and distributed by anterograde transport throughout their axonal and dendrit...

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

authors： Kirik D,Annett LE,Burger C,Muzyczka N,Mandel RJ,Björklund A

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:New advances in polarized light microscopy were used to image Congo red-stained cerebral amyloidosis in sharp relief. The rotating-polarizer method was used to separate the optical effects of transmission, linear birefringence, extinction, linear dichroism, and orientation of the electric dipole transition moments and...

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

authors： Jin LW,Claborn KA,Kurimoto M,Geday MA,Maezawa I,Sohraby F,Estrada M,Kaminksy W,Kahr B

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screens have been performed to identify mutants with altered auxin homeostasis in Arabidopsis. A tagged allele of the auxin-overproducing mutant sur2 was identified within a transposon mutagenized population. The SUR2 gene was cloned and shown to encode the CYP83B1 protein, which belongs to the large family of...

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

authors： Barlier I,Kowalczyk M,Marchant A,Ljung K,Bhalerao R,Bennett M,Sandberg G,Bellini C

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate modification of the 3 billion-base-pair human genome requires tools with exceptional sequence specificity. Here, we describe a general strategy for the design of enzymes that target a single site within the genome. We generated chimeric zinc finger recombinases with cooperative DNA-binding and catalytic speci...

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

authors： Gordley RM,Gersbach CA,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60,000-dalton polypeptide (p60) has been identified in the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) pseudotype of Moloney sarcoma virus [MSV(FeLV)]. This polypeptide is present in the purified virus complex in concentrations greater than either the murine p30 or the feline p27. Purified p60 crossreacts immunologically with muri...

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

authors： Oskarsson MK,Robey WG,Harris CL,Fischinger PJ,Haapala DK,Vande Woude GF

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-kDa glycoprotein has been described recently, whose synthesis is dramatically increased after injury of the rat sciatic and optic nerves. Cells in the nerve sheath, distal to the site of injury, produce and secrete large amounts of this protein, so that by 3 weeks after injury, it represents 2-5% of the total sol...

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

authors： Ignatius MJ,Gebicke-Härter PJ,Skene JH,Schilling JW,Weisgraber KH,Mahley RW,Shooter EM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that a scanning transmission electron microscope with a high brightness field emission source is capable of obtaining better than 3 A resolution using 30 to 40 keV electrons. Elastic dark field images of single atoms of uranium and mercury are shown which demonstrate this fact as determined by a modified...

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

authors： Wall J,Langmore J,Isaacson M,Crewe AV

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tadpole collagenase (EC 3.4.24.3) cleaved chick cranial bone procollagen into two triple-stranded fragments, PCA and PCB. Only PCB, with an estimated molecular weight of about 60,000 for each component chain after reduction, was found to contain interchain disulfide bonds. The analogous cleavage of collagen is known t...

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

authors： Byers PH,Click EM,Harper E,Bornstein P

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deleting an important active-site residue of diphtheria toxin, glutamic acid-148, reduces the toxin's ADP-ribosyltransferase activity by a factor of greater than 10(4). We considered using this mutation to construct a recombinant toxoid for expression by live attenuated vaccines and explored second-site mutations that...

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

authors： Killeen KP,Escuyer V,Mekalanos JJ,Collier RJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After primary infection, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) persists as a life-long latent infection, with host immunosuppression often resulting in clinical reactivation. During lytic infection, major changes in the expression of secreted cellular proteins (the secretome) occur that have profound effects on host-cell inter...

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

authors： Mason GM,Poole E,Sissons JG,Wills MR,Sinclair JH

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP1) hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond at a DNA 3'-end linked to a tyrosyl moiety and has been implicated in the repair of topoisomerase I (Top1)-DNA covalent complexes. TDP1 can also hydrolyze other 3'-end DNA alterations including 3'-phosphoglycolate and 3'-abasic sites, and ex...

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

authors： Das BB,Dexheimer TS,Maddali K,Pommier Y

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:All cell functions that involve membrane deformation or a change in cell shape (e.g., endocytosis, exocytosis, cell motility, and cytokinesis) are regulated by membrane tension. While molecular contacts between the plasma membrane and the underlying actin cytoskeleton are known to make significant contributions to mem...

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

authors： Nambiar R,McConnell RE,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A construct, MRE-beta Geo, with five metal response elements fused to a selectable reporter gene was transfected into BHK cells and a stable clone that could be induced up to 100-fold by zinc, cadmium, bismuth, silver, cobalt, copper, mercury, or nickle was isolated. Some, and perhaps all, of these metals induce MRE-b...

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

authors： Palmiter RD

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00