An open challenge to advance probabilistic forecasting for dengue epidemics.

abstract：:Maltose-binding protein (MBP) is a two-domain protein that undergoes a ligand-mediated conformational rearrangement from an "open" to a "closed" structure on binding to maltooligosaccharides. To characterize the energy landscape associated with this transition, we have generated five variants of MBP with mutations loc...

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

authors： Millet O,Hudson RP,Kay LE

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-2 is a type I four-alpha-helical bundle cytokine that plays vital roles in antigen-mediated proliferation of peripheral blood T cells and also is critical for activation-induced cell death. We now demonstrate that IL-2 potently decreases expression of IL-7 receptor alpha chain (IL-7Ralpha) mRNA and pr...

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

authors： Xue HH,Kovanen PE,Pise-Masison CA,Berg M,Radovich MF,Brady JN,Leonard WJ

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the successful establishment of a reverse genetics system for rotavirus (RV), a member of the Reoviridae family whose genome consists of 10-12 segmented dsRNA. The system is based on the recombinant vaccinia virus T7 RNA polymerase-driven procedure for supplying artificial viral mRNA in the cytoplasm....

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

authors： Komoto S,Sasaki J,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoralens linked to triplex-forming oligonucleotides (psoTFOs) have been used in conjunction with laser-induced two-photon excitation (TPE) to damage a specific DNA target sequence. To demonstrate that TPE can initiate photochemistry resulting in psoralen-DNA photoadducts, target DNA sequences were incubated with psoT...

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

authors： Oh DH,King BA,Boxer SG,Hanawalt PC

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution studies disclosed that all major cerebral arteries and cortical arterioles of the cat were invested with fine varicose nerve fibers that contained calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity; the trigeminal ganglia likewise contained CGRP immunoreactivity. Sequential immunostaining with a...

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

authors： McCulloch J,Uddman R,Kingman TA,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because many survivors of mass extinctions do not participate in postrecovery diversifications, and therefore fall into a pattern that can be termed "Dead Clade Walking" (DCW), the effects of mass extinctions extend beyond the losses observed during the event itself. Analyses at two taxonomic levels provide a first-or...

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

authors： Jablonski D

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific viral transformation rather than cell selection can explain the previously observed increase in the proportion of type III procollagen compared to type I procollagen in BALB 3T3 cells transformed by Kirsten murine sarcoma virus (Ki-MSV). Two subclones of BALB 3T3 A31 were productively infected with with a tem...

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

authors： Bateman JF,Peterkofsky B

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type O erythrocyte membranes were converted to type A1 by purified human A1-enzyme, to type A2 by purified human A2-enzyme, and to type B by purified human B-enzyme in the presence of radioactive sugar donors (i.e., UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine for A-enzyme and UDP-galactose for B-enzyme, respectively). Type A2 ery...

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

authors： Fujii H,Yoshida A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting- or baseline-state low-frequency (0.01-0.2 Hz) brain activity is observed in fMRI, EEG, and local field potential recordings. These fluctuations were found to be correlated across brain regions and are thought to reflect neuronal activity fluctuations between functionally connected areas of the brain. However,...

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

authors： Krishnan GP,González OC,Bazhenov M

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide dissemination of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is facilitated by plasmids that encode postsegregational killing (PSK) systems. These produce a stable toxin (T) and a labile antitoxin (A) conditioning cell survival to plasmid maintenance, because only this ensures neutralization of toxicity. Shortage of a...

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

authors： Pimentel B,Nair R,Bermejo-Rodríguez C,Preston MA,Agu CA,Wang X,Bernal JA,Sherratt DJ,de la Cueva-Méndez G

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell metastasis is a highly dynamic process that occurs in multiple steps. Understanding this process has been limited by the inability to visualize tumor cell behavior in real time by using animal models. Here, we employ translucent zebrafish and high-resolution confocal microscopy to study how human cancer cells inv...

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

authors： Stoletov K,Montel V,Lester RD,Gonias SL,Klemke R

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomes exhibit diverse patterns of species-specific GC content, GC and AT skews, codon bias, and mutation bias. Despite intensive investigations and the rapid accumulation of sequence data, the causes of these a priori different genome biases have not been agreed on and seem multifactorial and idiosyncratic. We show ...

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

authors： Vetsigian K,Goldenfeld N

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that extensive wildfires occurred after the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) impact event. An abundance of soot and pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pPAHs) in marine K-T boundary impact rocks (BIRs) have been considered support for this hypothesis. However, nonmarine K-T BIRs, from across ...

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

authors： Belcher CM,Finch P,Collinson ME,Scott AC,Grassineau NV

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomics is expanding our knowledge of the gene content, functional significance, and genetic variability in natural microbial communities. Still, there exists limited information concerning the regulation and dynamics of genes in the environment. We report here global analysis of expressed genes in a naturally oc...

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

authors： Frias-Lopez J,Shi Y,Tyson GW,Coleman ML,Schuster SC,Chisholm SW,Delong EF

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) catalyze the site-specific conversion of adenosine to inosine (A to I) in primary mRNA transcripts, thereby affecting the splicing pattern or coding potential of mature mRNAs. Although the subnuclear localization of A-to-I editing has not been precisely defined, ADARs h...

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

authors： Sansam CL,Wells KS,Emeson RB

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue- and cell-specific deletion of the Aqp4 gene is required to differentiate between the numerous pools of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels. A glial-conditional Aqp4 knockout mouse line was generated to resolve whether astroglial AQP4 controls water exchange across the blood-brain interface. The conditional knock...

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

authors： Haj-Yasein NN,Vindedal GF,Eilert-Olsen M,Gundersen GA,Skare Ø,Laake P,Klungland A,Thorén AE,Burkhardt JM,Ottersen OP,Nagelhus EA

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed phenomenology of low energy excitations is a crucial starting point for microscopic understanding of complex materials, such as the cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Because of its unique momentum-space discrimination, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is ideally suited for this task...

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

authors： Vishik IM,Hashimoto M,He RH,Lee WS,Schmitt F,Lu D,Moore RG,Zhang C,Meevasana W,Sasagawa T,Uchida S,Fujita K,Ishida S,Ishikado M,Yoshida Y,Eisaki H,Hussain Z,Devereaux TP,Shen ZX

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively short read lengths associated with the most cost-effective DNA sequencing technologies have limited their use in de novo genome assembly, structural variation detection, and haplotype-resolved genome sequencing. Consequently, there is a strong need for methods that capture various scales of contiguity i...

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

authors： Schwartz JJ,Lee C,Hiatt JB,Adey A,Shendure J

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostasis of intravascular volume, Na(+), Cl(-), and K(+) is interdependent and determined by the coordinated activities of structurally diverse mediators in the distal nephron and the distal colon. The behavior of these flux pathways is regulated by the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; however, the mechanisms ...

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

authors： Ring AM,Cheng SX,Leng Q,Kahle KT,Rinehart J,Lalioti MD,Volkman HM,Wilson FH,Hebert SC,Lifton RP

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein defective in hereditary hemochromatosis, called HFE, is similar to MHC class I-type proteins and associates with beta2-microglobulin (beta2M). Its association with beta2M was previously shown to be necessary for its stability, normal intracellular processing, and cell surface expression in transfected COS ...

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

authors： Waheed A,Grubb JH,Zhou XY,Tomatsu S,Fleming RE,Costaldi ME,Britton RS,Bacon BR,Sly WS

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of iron homeostasis is essential for healthy central nervous system function: iron deficiency is associated with cognitive impairment, yet iron overload is thought to promote neurodegenerative diseases. Specific genetic markers have been previously identified that influence levels of transferrin, the protein t...

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

authors： Jahanshad N,Kohannim O,Hibar DP,Stein JL,McMahon KL,de Zubicaray GI,Medland SE,Montgomery GW,Whitfield JB,Martin NG,Wright MJ,Toga AW,Thompson PM

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that a stereochemical correspondence between two molecular systems can be represented by a commuting diagram of the point groups and permutation groups involved. The effect of the diagrammatic condition on the mappings of the cosets, double cosets, subgroup lattice, and double coset algebra determined for ...

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

authors： Nourse JG

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in macaque primary visual cortex are spatially arranged by their global topographic position and in at least three overlapping local modular systems: ocular dominance columns, orientation pinwheels, and cytochrome oxidase (CO) blobs. Individual neurons in the blobs are not tuned to orientation, and populations...

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

authors： Polimeni JR,Granquist-Fraser D,Wood RJ,Schwartz EL

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:At the neuromuscular junction, two motor neuron-derived signals have been implicated in the regulation of synaptogenesis. Neuregulin-1 is thought to induce transcription of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) genes in subsynaptic muscle nuclei by activating ErbB receptors. Neural agrin aggregates AChRs by activating the rec...

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

authors： Moore C,Leu M,Müller U,Brenner HR

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box RNA helicase proteins use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to drive the unwinding of duplex RNA. However, the mechanism that couples ATP utilization to duplex RNA unwinding is unknown. We measured ATP utilization and duplex RNA unwinding by DbpA, a non-processive bacterial DEAD-box RNA helicase specifically activ...

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

authors： Henn A,Cao W,Licciardello N,Heitkamp SE,Hackney DD,De La Cruz EM

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanogen bromide fragments were isolated from the heavy chains of three human IgG myeloma proteins of the V(H)III subgroup, sequenced by an automated method, and localized to the variable region. Inspection of these sequences, together with corresponding stretches from both human and animal proteins (studied in other ...

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

authors： Kehoe JM,Capra JD

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that many residues in enzyme active sites can be computationally predicted by the optimization of scoring functions based on substrate binding affinity, subject to constraints on the geometry of catalytic residues and protein stability. Here, we explore the generality of this surprising observation. ...

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

authors： Chakrabarti R,Klibanov AM,Friesner RA

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and vascular injury triggered by ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in a number of clinical settings. Wnt and its homolog partners R-spondins, in addition to regulating embryonic development have recently been demonstrated to serve as wound-healing agents in in...

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

authors： Kannan L,Kis-Toth K,Yoshiya K,Thai TH,Sehrawat S,Mayadas TN,Dalle Lucca JJ,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Volcanic rifted margins are typically associated with a thick magmatic layer of seaward dipping reflectors and anomalous regional uplift. This is conventionally interpreted as due to melting of an arriving mantle plume head at the onset of rifting. However, seaward dipping reflectors and uplift are sometimes asymmetri...

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

authors： Morgan JP,Taramón JM,Araujo M,Hasenclever J,Perez-Gussinye M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides bind MHC class I molecules by anchoring hydrophobic side chains into pockets in the peptide binding groove. Here, we report an immunogenic (in vitro and in vivo) MUC1 glycopeptide (MUC1-8-5GalNAc) bound to H-2Kb, fully crossreactive with the nonglycosylated variant. Molecular modeling showed that the central ...

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

authors： Apostolopoulos V,Yuriev E,Ramsland PA,Halton J,Osinski C,Li W,Plebanski M,Paulsen H,McKenzie IF

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00