Gasification of coal and biomass as a net carbon-negative power source for environment-friendly electricity generation in China.

abstract：:Selective therapeutics for nuclear receptors would revolutionize treatment for endocrine disease. Specific control of nuclear receptor activity is challenging because the internal cavities that bind hormones can be virtually identical. Only one highly selective hormone analog is known for the thyroid receptor, GC-24, ...

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

authors： Borngraeber S,Budny MJ,Chiellini G,Cunha-Lima ST,Togashi M,Webb P,Baxter JD,Scanlan TS,Fletterick RJ

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Early conformational events during folding of acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP), an 86-residue alpha-helical protein, were explored by using a continuous-flow mixing apparatus with a dead time of 70 micros to measure changes in intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence and tryptophan-dansyl fluorescence energy transfer. Althoug...

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

authors： Teilum K,Maki K,Kragelund BB,Poulsen FM,Roder H

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Remembering is a complex process that involves recalling specific details, such as who you were with when you celebrated your last birthday, as well as contextual information, such as the place where you celebrated. It is well established that the act of remembering enhances long-term retention of the retrieved inform...

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

authors： Jonker TR,Dimsdale-Zucker H,Ritchey M,Clarke A,Ranganath C

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work showed that cultured human pancreatic cancer cells overexpress the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. In the present study, we sought to determine whether some of these cell lines produce transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). Utilizing a radiolabeled TGF-alpha cDNA in hybridization experimen...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Derynck R,Korc M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological properties of the flagellar rotary motor have been taken to indicate a tightly coupled mechanism in which each revolution is driven by a fixed number of energizing ions. Measurements that would directly test the tight-coupling hypothesis have not been made. Energizing ions flow through membrane-bound com...

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

authors： Boschert R,Adler FR,Blair DF

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular model of poorly understood hydrophobic effects is heuristically developed using the methods of information theory. Because primitive hydrophobic effects can be tied to the probability of observing a molecular-sized cavity in the solvent, the probability distribution of the number of solvent centers in a ca...

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

authors： Hummer G,Garde S,García AE,Pohorille A,Pratt LR

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) and myostatin (MSTN) are closely related transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family members, but their biological functions are quite distinct. While MSTN has been widely shown to inhibit muscle growth, GDF11 regulates skeletal patterning and organ development during embry...

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

authors： Suh J,Kim NK,Lee SH,Eom JH,Lee Y,Park JC,Woo KM,Baek JH,Kim JE,Ryoo HM,Lee SJ,Lee YS

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the origins and functional evolution of the Shaker and KCNQ families of voltage-gated K(+) channels to better understand how neuronal excitability evolved. In bilaterians, the Shaker family consists of four functionally distinct gene families (Shaker, Shab, Shal, and Shaw) that share a subunit structure co...

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

authors： Li X,Liu H,Chu Luo J,Rhodes SA,Trigg LM,van Rossum DB,Anishkin A,Diatta FH,Sassic JK,Simmons DK,Kamel B,Medina M,Martindale MQ,Jegla T

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsyndromic clefting of the lip and palate in humans has a highly complex etiology, with both multiple genetic loci and exposure to teratogens influencing susceptibility. Previous studies using mouse models have examined only very small portions of the genome. Here we report the findings of a genome-wide search for s...

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

authors： Diehl SR,Erickson RP

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic sequences encoding the human lysosomal acid lipase/cholesteryl esterase (sterol esterase; EC 3.1.1.13) have been isolated and sequenced, and the information has been used to identify mutations in both alleles of the gene from a patient with Wolman disease, an autosomal recessive lysosomal lipid storage dis...

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

authors： Anderson RA,Byrum RS,Coates PM,Sando GN

更新日期：1994-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells irradiated with high doses of UV exhibit cell-cycle responses referred to as G(1)/S, intraS, and G(2)/M checkpoints. After a moderate UV dose that approximates sunlight exposure and is lethal to fission yeast checkpoint mutants, we found unexpectedly that these cell-cycle responses do not occur. Inste...

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

authors： Callegari AJ,Kelly TJ

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD) refers to the diaphragm muscle weakness that occurs following prolonged controlled mechanical ventilation (MV). The presence of VIDD impedes recovery from respiratory failure. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms accounting for VIDD are still not fully understo...

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

authors： Matecki S,Dridi H,Jung B,Saint N,Reiken SR,Scheuermann V,Mrozek S,Santulli G,Umanskaya A,Petrof BJ,Jaber S,Marks AR,Lacampagne A

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed the biochemical and biophysical characterization of a red fluorescent protein, eqFP611, from the sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor cloned in Escherichia coli. With an excitation maximum at 559 nm and an emission maximum at 611 nm, the recombinant protein shows the most red-shifted emission and the largest...

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

authors： Wiedenmann J,Schenk A,Röcker C,Girod A,Spindler KD,Nienhaus GU

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological membrane is conceptualized as a system in which membrane proteins are naturally matched to the equilibrium thickness of the lipid bilayer. Cholesterol, in addition to lipid composition, has been suggested to be a major regulator of bilayer thickness in vivo because measurements in vitro have shown that ch...

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

authors： Mitra K,Ubarretxena-Belandia I,Taguchi T,Warren G,Engelman DM

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In all photosynthetic organisms, light energy is used to drive electrons from a donor chlorophyll species via a series of acceptors across a biological membrane. These light-induced electron-transfer processes display a remarkably high quantum efficiency, indicating a near-complete inhibition of unproductive charge re...

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

authors： Makita H,Hastings G

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis have become an increasingly important subject as pathogens have become increasingly resistant to current antibiotics. The adhesion of microorganisms to the surface of host tissue is often a first step in pathogenesis and is a plausible target for new antiinfective agents. Examinati...

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

authors： Liang MN,Smith SP,Metallo SJ,Choi IS,Prentiss M,Whitesides GM

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a HeLa cell line stably transfected with the tat gene from human immunodeficiency virus type 1, we have found that the expression of the regulatory Tat protein suppresses the expression of cellular Mn-containing superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD). This enzyme is one of the cell's primary defenses against oxygen-deriv...

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

authors： Flores SC,Marecki JC,Harper KP,Bose SK,Nelson SK,McCord JM

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the influence of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) on tumorigenicity, we established constitutively IFN-gamma-producing cell lines from a malignant mouse neuroblastoma, C1300, by retroviral transfer of a mouse IFN-gamma cDNA. The gene-transferred cells generally showed an enhanced high-level expression of the ma...

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

authors： Watanabe Y,Kuribayashi K,Miyatake S,Nishihara K,Nakayama E,Taniyama T,Sakata T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mitosis, chromosome, cytoskeleton, and organelle dynamics must be coordinated for successful cell division. Here, we present evidence for a role for Arf1, a small GTPase associated with the Golgi apparatus, in the orchestration of mitotic Golgi breakdown, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis. We show that early ...

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

authors： Altan-Bonnet N,Phair RD,Polishchuk RS,Weigert R,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex of ribosomal DNA with RNA has been isolated from ovaries of metamorphosing tadpoles of Xenopus laevis. The complex is disrupted by treatments that destroy hydrogen bonds, and the sedimentation of the DNA within the complex is sensitive to RNase. We suggest that the RNA-ribosomal DNA complex is an intermediat...

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

authors： Brown RD,Tocchini-Valentini GP

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA is dependent upon a single viral protein [tumor (T) antigen] and multiple cellular proteins. To define the required cellular proteins, we have made use of a cell-free system that supports the replication of plasmid DNA molecules containing the SV40 origin of replication. W...

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

authors： Virshup DM,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rad51 is a highly conserved eukaryotic homolog of the prokaryotic recombination protein RecA, which has been shown to function in both recombinational repair of DNA damage and meiotic recombination in yeast. In primary murine B cells cultured with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to stimulate heavy chain class switch recombin...

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

authors： Li MJ,Peakman MC,Golub EI,Reddy G,Ward DC,Radding CM,Maizels N

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the search for selective and long-acting analogs of somatostatin, nearly 200 compounds were synthesized by solid-phase methods, purified, and tested biologically. Among these octapeptides, some contained N-terminal (Formula: see text) were 177 times and 113 times more potent, respectively, than somatostatin in test...

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

authors： Cai RZ,Szoke B,Lu R,Fu D,Redding TW,Schally AV

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 10,000 female live births. The underlying cause of RTT is mutations in the X-linked gene, methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2); however, the molecular mechanism by which these mutations mediate the RTT neuropathology remains enigmatic....

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

authors： Osenberg S,Karten A,Sun J,Li J,Charkowick S,Felice CA,Kritzer M,Nguyen MVC,Yu P,Ballas N

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that recognize the core sequence GATA are important regulators of hematopoietic-specific gene transcription. We have characterized cDNAs encoding the Xenopus laevis homologues of three related transcription factors, designated GATA-1, -2, and -3. Comparative sequence analysis reveals strong conservation of th...

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

authors： Zon LI,Mather C,Burgess S,Bolce ME,Harland RM,Orkin SH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "projection function," P(x,z), is defined as the partial integral of the molecular electron density, rho(x,y,z), over the region -infinity < y < +infinity. The projection provides a three-dimensional representation of molecular electron distributions. Chemically useful information can be discerned from graphical dis...

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

authors： Streitwieser A,Collins JB,McKelvey JM,Grier D,Sender J,Toczko AG

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when communication is successful, close temporal dependencies arise between adult speakers' and listeners' neural activity. However, it is not known whether s...

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

authors： Leong V,Byrne E,Clackson K,Georgieva S,Lam S,Wass S

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now abundant evidence to substantiate an important role of hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein in cellular gene expression as well as in the viral cycle. Thus the subcellular localization of this protein has important implications. However, several studies have shown controversial results: the HCV core has b...

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

authors： Barba G,Harper F,Harada T,Kohara M,Goulinet S,Matsuura Y,Eder G,Schaff Z,Chapman MJ,Miyamura T,Bréchot C

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrying premature termination codons in 1 allele of the ABCA7 gene is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). While the primary function of ABCA7 is to regulate the transport of phospholipids and cholesterol, ABCA7 is also involved in maintaining homeostasis of the immune system. Since inflamm...

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

authors： Aikawa T,Ren Y,Yamazaki Y,Tachibana M,Johnson MR,Anderson CT,Martens YA,Holm ML,Asmann YW,Saito T,Saido TC,Fitzgerald ML,Bu G,Kanekiyo T

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory transduction is thought to take place in the outer dendritic membrane of insect olfactory receptor neurons. Here we show that the outer dendritic plasma membrane of silkmoth olfactory receptor neurons seems to be exclusively equipped with a specific ion channel activated by low concentrations of the species-...

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

authors： Zufall F,Hatt H

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00