Theoretical considerations on the "spine of hydration" in the minor groove of d(CGCGAATTCGCG).d(GCGCTTAAGCGC): Monte Carlo computer simulation.

abstract：:Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and ...

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

authors： VanderWeele TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of partially purified chloroplast DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from maize and some other plants transcribe cloned chloroplast genes preferentially and much more actively from appropriately negatively supercoiled templates than from relaxed templates. We have found that the polymerase in such fractions doe...

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

authors： Zaitlin D,Hu J,Bogorad L

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII is a lysosomal storage disorder resulting from inherited deficiency of beta-glucuronidase (GUS). Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII is characterized by glycosaminoglycan storage in most tissues, including brain. In these disorders, enzyme delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the ...

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

authors： Urayama A,Grubb JH,Sly WS,Banks WA

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a conceptual model for the cytoskeletal organization of endothelial cells (ECs) based on a major dichotomy in structure and function at basal and apical aspects of the cells. Intracellular distributions of filamentous actin (F-actin), vinculin, paxillin, ZO-1, and Cx43 were analyzed from confocal micrograph...

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

authors： Thi MM,Tarbell JM,Weinbaum S,Spray DC

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine decarboxylase (L-histidine carboxylase, EC 4.1.1.22) activity of whole W/W mouse embryos, which are devoid of mast cells, remained very low and did not show the rapid increase before birth (17-20 days of gestation) seen in wild-type +/+ embryos. During the same period, the histamine content also remained...

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

authors： Watanabe T,Kitamura Y,Maeyama K,Go S,Yamatodani A,Wada H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated local inflammation and activation of complement amongst the processes involved in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Several lines of investigation also indicate that bis-retinoid pigments, such as A2E, that accumulate as lipofuscin in retinal pigment epithelial ...

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

authors： Zhou J,Jang YP,Kim SR,Sparrow JR

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated that, properly represented, the amino acid composition of protein sequences contains the information necessary to delineate the global properties of protein structure space. A numerical representation of amino acid sequence in terms of a set of property factors is used, and the values of those prope...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The core protein of a small chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycan expressed by human fibroblasts and present in extracellular matrices in association with collagen has been cloned from a lambda gt11 fibroblast cDNA library. cDNA clones were isolated by use of antibodies specific for the intact proteoglycan and ant...

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

authors： Krusius T,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses constitute a major ecological and evolutionary driving force in the marine ecosystems. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain underexplored. Here we follow the dynamics of Emiliania huxleyi viruses (EhV) that infect the ubiquitous, bloom-forming phytoplankton E. huxleyi and show that EhV are emitted...

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

authors： Sharoni S,Trainic M,Schatz D,Lehahn Y,Flores MJ,Bidle KD,Ben-Dor S,Rudich Y,Koren I,Vardi A

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The three members of the Brn-3 family of POU domain transcription factors are found in highly restricted sets of central nervous system neurons. Within the retina, these factors are present only within subsets of ganglion cells. We show here that in the developing mouse retina, Brn-3b protein is first observed in pres...

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

authors： Gan L,Xiang M,Zhou L,Wagner DS,Klein WH,Nathans J

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic effects of such ecoevolutionary dynamics have not been empirically investigated. Using 70 y of da...

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

authors： Eikeset AM,Richter A,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that isoprene oxidation products can partition to atmospheric aerosols by reacting with condensed phase sulfuric acid, forming low-volatility organosulfate compounds. We have identified organosulfate compounds in free tropospheric aerosols by single particle mass spectrometr...

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

authors： Froyd KD,Murphy SM,Murphy DM,de Gouw JA,Eddingsaas NC,Wennberg PO

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In cultures of spleen cells from normal mice, recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) supported the formation of multipotential blast cell colonies. Serial replating of the blast cell colonies in the presence of G-CSF, however, failed to demonstrate any direct effect of G-CSF on murine multipot...

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

authors： Ikebuchi K,Clark SC,Ihle JN,Souza LM,Ogawa M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated patterns of genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum associated with its two main African vectors: Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. We dissected 10,296 wild-caught mosquitoes from three tropical sites, two in Cameroon (Simbock and Tibati, separated by 320 km) and one in Kenya (Rota, >2,000 k...

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

authors： Annan Z,Durand P,Ayala FJ,Arnathau C,Awono-Ambene P,Simard F,Razakandrainibe FG,Koella JC,Fontenille D,Renaud F

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA array technology has proven to be a powerful way to monitor global changes in gene expression patterns. Here, we present an approach that extends the current utility of cDNA arrays to allow the evaluation of the relative roles of transcription and mRNA turnover in governing gene expression on a global basis, comp...

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

authors： Fan J,Yang X,Wang W,Wood WH 3rd,Becker KG,Gorospe M

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied androgen binding characteristics of cells for androgen insensitivity from an obligate heterozygote, who is the mother of three male pseudohermaphrodites with dihydrotestosterone (17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-3-one) receptor deficiency. Specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts from he...

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

authors： Meyer WJ 3rd,Migeon BR,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It had long been thought, but never demonstrated, that imino acids are formed in the reactions catalyzed by D- and L-amino acid oxidases (EC 1.4.3.3 and 1.4.3.2). The formation of imino acids is now shown directly by allowing the amino acid oxidase reaction to proceed in the presence of NaBH(4), when the imino acid is...

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

authors： Hafner EW,Wellner D

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that the first living systems on earth were based on self-replicating RNA molecules has recently become popular as a result of the discovery of ribozymes. However, there are several major problems associated with the prebiotic synthesis of ribonucleotides. In addition, there is the newly recognized problem of...

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

authors： Joyce GF,Schwartz AW,Miller SL,Orgel LE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures in key regulatory regions in the genome has emerged as a secondary structure-based epigenetic mechanism for regulating multiple biological processes including transcription, replication, and telomere maintenance. G4 formation (folding), stabilization, and unfolding must be...

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

authors： Roychoudhury S,Pramanik S,Harris HL,Tarpley M,Sarkar A,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Chowdhury D,Band V,Klinkebiel D,Bhakat KK

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Hedgehog (Hh) signaling regulates cell differentiation during pancreas organogenesis, the consequences of pathway up-regulation in adult β-cells in vivo have not been investigated. Here, we elevate Hh signaling in β-cells by expressing an active version of the GLI2 transcription factor, a mediator of the Hh p...

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

authors： Landsman L,Parent A,Hebrok M

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a potent activator of protein kinase C, on Na+ influx were investigated in cultured human foreskin fibroblasts (HSWP cells). We report here that in serum-deprived HSWP cells the addition of PMA alone has no significant effect on Na+ influx. However, the addition of...

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

authors： Vicentini LM,Villereal ML

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and reliable classification of visual stimuli requires that their representations reside a low-dimensional and, therefore, computationally manageable feature space. We investigated the ability of the human visual system to derive such representations from the sensory input-a highly nontrivial task, given the...

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

authors： Cutzu F,Edelman S

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor betas (TGF-betas) regulate key aspects of embryonic development and major human diseases. Although Smad2, Smad3, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) have been proposed as key mediators in TGF-beta signaling, their functional specificities...

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

authors： Yang YC,Piek E,Zavadil J,Liang D,Xie D,Heyer J,Pavlidis P,Kucherlapati R,Roberts AB,Böttinger EP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor Smad4/Dpc4 is a transcription activator that binds specific DNA sequences and whose nuclear localization is induced after exposure to type beta transforming growth factor-like cytokines. We explored an inducible system in which Smad4 protein is activated by translocation to the nucleus when cell l...

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

authors： Dai JL,Bansal RK,Kern SE

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in hippocampal function seem critical for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there is eventual loss of synapses in both AD and animal models of AD, deficits in spatial memory and inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) precede morphological alterations in the models, suggesting earli...

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

authors： Vitolo OV,Sant'Angelo A,Costanzo V,Battaglia F,Arancio O,Shelanski M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p2b domain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) Gag and the p6 domain of HIV-1 Gag contain late assembly (L) domains that engage the ESCRT membrane fission machinery and are essential for virus release. We now show that the PPXY-type RSV L domain specifically recruits the BAR domain protein PACSIN2 into virus-like particle...

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

authors： Popov S,Popova E,Inoue M,Wu Y,Göttlinger H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in nuclear K+ electrochemical activity and total nuclear K+ content in salivary glands of Chironomus tentans were measured with ion-selective microelectrodes based on valinomycin and with flameless atomic absorption spectrometry, respectively. The K+ activity increased by a factor of 2.6 and the total K+, by a...

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

authors： Wuhrmann P,Ineichen H,Riesen-Willi U,Lezzi M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinate:NAD(+) 3-oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.24) from carrot cell suspension cultures has previously been shown to be activated by phosphorylation and inactivated by dephosphorylation. Here it is shown that the reactivation of the inactivated quinate:NAD(+) oxidoreductase is an enzyme-mediated process that requires ATP a...

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

authors： Ranjeva R,Refeno G,Boudet AM,Marmé D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Cloudman melanoma cells undergo rapid arborization in response to [Nle4,D-Phe7]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, a potent analogue of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). The arbors were established by extension of processes and resembled dendrites. We used this system to study the regula...

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

authors： Preston SF,Volpi M,Pearson CM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal dopaminergic amacrine neurons (DA neurons) play a central role in reconfiguring retinal function according to prevailing illumination conditions, yet the mechanisms by which light regulates their activity are poorly understood. We investigated the means by which sustained light responses are evoked in DA neuro...

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

authors： Zhang DQ,Wong KY,Sollars PJ,Berson DM,Pickard GE,McMahon DG

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00