Pinching a glass reveals key properties of its soft spots.

abstract：:Esterase 6 is a polymorphic carboxylesterase (carboxylic-ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1) localized to the reproductive tract of male Drosophila melanogaster and transferred to females at copulation. The reproductive fitness of males is strongly affected by temperature and the esterase 6 alleles (active versus null) that ...

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

authors： Gilbert DG,Richmond RC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanation of a process of development must ultimately be couched in the terms of the genomic regulatory code. Specification of an embryonic cell lineage is driven by a network of interactions among genes encoding transcription factors. Here, we present the gene regulatory network (GRN) that directs the specification...

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

authors： Oliveri P,Tu Q,Davidson EH

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the mammalian suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) generate daily rhythms in physiology and behavior, but it is unclear how they maintain and synchronize these rhythms in vivo. We hypothesized that parallel signaling pathways in the SCN are required to synchronize rhythms in these neurons for coherent output. We re...

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

authors： Aton SJ,Huettner JE,Straume M,Herzog ED

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is known to cause tumorigenesis through induction of DNA and lipid damage. It also promotes cancer progression through a largely unknown mechanism. Sulfiredoxin (Srx) is a novel oxidative stress-induced antioxidant protein whose function in tumorigenesis and cancer progression has not been well studie...

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

authors： Wei Q,Jiang H,Xiao Z,Baker A,Young MR,Veenstra TD,Colburn NH

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently determined set of 20 NMR-derived conformations of a 48-residue all-alpha-helical protein, (PDB ID code 2JVD), is validated here by comparing the observed (13)C(alpha) chemical shifts with those computed at the density functional level of theory. In addition, a recently introduced physics-based method, aimed...

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

authors： Vila JA,Aramini JM,Rossi P,Kuzin A,Su M,Seetharaman J,Xiao R,Tong L,Montelione GT,Scheraga HA

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense RNA to the 27/32-kDa rat liver gap junction (GJ) protein was used to explore the role of GJs in preimplantation embryos. When all blastomeres of two- and four-cell embryos were injected with GJ antisense RNA, the percentage of embryos compacted at 60 hr of development was reduced to less than 20%, while 90% ...

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

authors： Bevilacqua A,Loch-Caruso R,Erickson RP

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen monoclonal antibodies derived from fusions with spleen cells of mice immunized with established culture lines of renal cancers identified nine cell-surface antigenic systems. Six of the systems (gp160, S25, gp120r, gp120nr, gp115, and V1) represent antigens not previously described. The other three systems a...

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

authors： Ueda R,Ogata S,Morrissey DM,Finstad CL,Szkudlarek J,Whitmore WF,Oettgen HF,Lloyd KO,Old LJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory mechanisms that use signals of low levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) could be obscured by ROS produced under stress and thus are better investigated under homeostatic conditions. Previous studies showed that the chloroplastic atypical thioredoxin ACHT1 is oxidized by 2-Cys peroxiredoxin (2-Cys Prx...

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

authors： Eliyahu E,Rog I,Inbal D,Danon A

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for the construction of ordered nanoscale arrays have been implicated in fields ranging from separation technologies to microelectronics. Yet, despite the plethora of nanoscale structures assembled in nature that use a templating strategy, chemists have been unable to replicate this success. A technology is re...

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

authors： Willis B,Eubanks LM,Wood MR,Janda KD,Dickerson TJ,Lerner RA

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the role of the hippocampal formation in implicit and explicit memory. Human volunteers studied a list of familiar words, and then they either provided the first word that came to mind in response to three-letter cues (implicit memory) or tried to recall studied wo...

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

authors： Schacter DL,Alpert NM,Savage CR,Rauch SL,Albert MS

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:30S ribosomal proteins from Bacillus stearothermophilus (B. proteins) have been fractionated and characterized with respect to their ability to replace various E. coli 30S proteins (E. proteins) in the E. coli 30S ribosome reconstitution system. The functional counterparts of all the E. proteins, except S1, S6, S9, an...

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

authors： Higo K,Held W,Kahan L,Nomura M

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At high altitude (HA), carbohydrate (CHO) is thought to be the preferred fuel because of its higher yield of ATP per mole of O2. We used indirect calorimetry and D-[6-3H]glucose infusions to determine total CHO and circulatory glucose utilization during exercise in HA-acclimated and sea level (SL) rats. We hypothesize...

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

authors： McClelland GB,Hochachka PW,Weber JM

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is the most common form of intellectual disability. The cognitive alterations in DS are thought to depend on brain regions critical for learning and memory such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC). Neuroimaging studies suggest that increased brain connectivity correlates with lo...

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

authors： Alemany-González M,Gener T,Nebot P,Vilademunt M,Dierssen M,Puig MV

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons, a protein family of multiple IFNalphas and a single IFNbeta, initially identified on the basis of their antiviral activities have recently been attributed important roles in bacterial and parasitic infections. To assess the cellular sources of IFNbeta, the IFN produced first in most situations, we ...

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

authors： Scheu S,Dresing P,Locksley RM

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bar-coded multiplexed sequencing approaches based on new-generation sequencing technologies provide capacity to sequence a mapping population in a single sequencing run. However, such approaches usually generate low-coverage and error-prone sequences for each line in a population. Thus, it is a significant challenge t...

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

authors： Xie W,Feng Q,Yu H,Huang X,Zhao Q,Xing Y,Yu S,Han B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the multiple steps constituting the kinesin mechanochemical cycle, one of the most interesting events is observed when kinesins move an 8-nm step from one microtubule (MT)-binding site to another. The stepping motion that occurs within a relatively short time scale ( approximately 100 mus) is, however, beyond th...

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

authors： Hyeon C,Onuchic JN

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and the expression of 11 cellular oncogenes (protooncogenes) were analyzed in primary cells from 20 acute lymphocytic (ALL) and 31 acute myelogenous (AML) leukemia patients. Neoplastic cells, obtained prior to initiation of therapy, were purified and classified, on the basis of both surface antigen patte...

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

authors： Mavilio F,Sposi NM,Petrini M,Bottero L,Marinucci M,De Rossi G,Amadori S,Mandelli F,Peschle C

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is proposed to account for large increases in transporter-mediated ion flux across cell membranes that are elicited by small fractional changes of cell volume. The model is based upon the concept that, as a result of large excluded volume effects in cytoplasm (macromolecular crowding), the tendency of s...

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

authors： Minton AP,Colclasure GC,Parker JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carboxymethylase, an enzyme capable of methylating proteins and polypeptides, was purified from bovine pituitary. The anterior pituitary hormones, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, and prolactin, were found to be substra...

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

authors： Diliberto EJ Jr,Axelrod J

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food choices are shifting globally in ways that are negatively affecting both human health and the environment. Here we consider how consuming an additional serving per day of each of 15 foods is associated with 5 health outcomes in adults and 5 aspects of agriculturally driven environmental degradation. We find that ...

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

authors： Clark MA,Springmann M,Hill J,Tilman D

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment involving registered voters in the city of New Haven. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were delivered through personal canvassing shortly before the November 1998 election. We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout by approximately 6. ...

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

authors： Gerber AS,Green DP

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic mixer is applied to study the kinetics of calmodulin conformational changes upon Ca2+ binding. The device facilitates rapid, uniform mixing by decoupling hydrodynamic focusing from diffusive mixing and accesses time scales of tens of microseconds. The mixer is used in conjunction with multiphoton micros...

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

authors： Park HY,Kim SA,Korlach J,Rhoades E,Kwok LW,Zipfel WR,Waxham MN,Webb WW,Pollack L

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intron removal from tRNA precursors involves cleavage by a tRNA splicing endonuclease to yield tRNA 3'-halves beginning with a 5'-hydroxyl, and 5'-halves ending in a 2',3'-cyclic phosphate. A tRNA ligase then incorporates this phosphate into the internucleotide bond that joins the two halves. Although this 3'-P RNA sp...

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

authors： Englert M,Sheppard K,Aslanian A,Yates JR 3rd,Söll D

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ice streams are narrow corridors of fast-flowing ice that constitute the arterial drainage network of ice sheets. Therefore, changes in ice stream flow are key to understanding paleoclimate, sea level changes, and rapid disintegration of ice sheets during deglaciation. The dynamics of ice flow are tightly coupled to t...

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

authors： Mantelli E,Bertagni MB,Ridolfi L

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation is an innate defense mechanism intended to limit blood loss and trap invading pathogens during infection. However, Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to hijack the coagulation cascade and generate clots via secretion of coagulases. Although many S. aureus have this characteristic, some do not. The popul...

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

authors： Trivedi U,Madsen JS,Everett J,Fell C,Russel J,Haaber J,Crosby HA,Horswill AR,Burmølle M,Rumbaugh KP,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic infections and tissue injuries trigger the assembly of inflammasomes, cytosolic protein complexes that activate caspase-1, leading to cleavage of pro-IL-1β and pro-IL-18 and to pyroptosis, a proinflammatory cell death program. Although microbial recognition by Toll-like receptors (TLRs) is known to induce t...

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

authors： Lin KM,Hu W,Troutman TD,Jennings M,Brewer T,Li X,Nanda S,Cohen P,Thomas JA,Pasare C

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes experiments in which cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) and catecholamine release were measured in two populations of chromaffin cells stimulated with a solution enriched in K+ (100 mM). Once depolarized, external Ca2+ or Ba2+ ions were offered to cells either as a single 2.5 mM step or as a ...

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

authors： Michelena P,García-Pérez LE,Artalejo AR,García AG

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of actin stress fibers in normal and regenerating (after endothelial denudation by means of a balloon catheter) rabbit aortic endothelial cells has been studied by means of immunofluorescence with human actin autoantibodies on en face endothelial cell preparations. Our results show that: (i) under nor...

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

authors： Gabbiani G,Gabbiani F,Lombardi D,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides with site-specific modifications have been used as substrates for Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I holoenzyme and Klenow fragment. Modifications included the bulky guanine-8-aminofluorene adduct and a guanine oxidation product resembling the product of photosensitized DNA oxidation. By a com...

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

authors： O'Connor D,Stöhrer G

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environments we humans encounter daily are sources of exposure to diverse microbial communities, some of potential concern to human health. In this study, we used culture-independent technology to investigate the microbial composition of biofilms inside showerheads as ecological assemblages in the human indoor env...

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

authors： Feazel LM,Baumgartner LK,Peterson KL,Frank DN,Harris JK,Pace NR

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00