Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events.

abstract：:The introduction of foreign genes into early mouse embryos and embryonic stem (ES) cells is invaluable for the analysis of gene function and regulation in the living animal. The use of vectors derived from retroviruses as gene transfer vehicles in this setting has had limited success because of silencing of transgene ...

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

authors： Pfeifer A,Ikawa M,Dayn Y,Verma IM

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni has a general N-linked glycosylation pathway (encoded by the pgl gene cluster), which culminates in the transfer of a heptasaccharide: GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-(Glcbeta1,3)-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,3-Bac [where Bac is bacillosamine (2,4-diacetamido-2,4,6-trideoxyglucose...

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

authors： Glover KJ,Weerapana E,Imperiali B

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:While the concept of intercellular mechanical communication has been revealed, the mechanistic insights have been poorly evidenced in the context of myofibroblast-fibroblast interaction during fibrosis expansion. Here we report and systematically investigate the mechanical force-mediated myofibroblast-fibroblast cross...

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

authors： Liu L,Yu H,Zhao H,Wu Z,Long Y,Zhang J,Yan X,You Z,Zhou L,Xia T,Shi Y,Xiao B,Wang Y,Huang C,Du Y

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter at the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ) where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the signaling between nerve terminals and muscle fibers. We show that under glutamatergic transmission, rat NMJ switches from cholinergic type synapse to glutamatergic synapse. Conne...

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

authors： Brunelli G,Spano P,Barlati S,Guarneri B,Barbon A,Bresciani R,Pizzi M

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine finger and hand movements in humans, monkeys, and rats are under the direct control of the corticospinal tract (CST). CST lesions lead to severe, long-term deficits of precision movements. We transected completely both CSTs in adult rats and treated the animals for 2 weeks with an antibody that neutralized the ce...

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

authors： Raineteau O,Fouad K,Noth P,Thallmair M,Schwab ME

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubc13 is a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme responsible for noncanonical ubiquitination of TNF receptor-associated factor (TRAF)-family adapter proteins involved in Toll-like receptor and TNF-family cytokine receptor signaling, which are regulators of innate immunity. Gene ablation was used to study the function of Ubc13 ...

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

authors： Fukushima T,Matsuzawa S,Kress CL,Bruey JM,Krajewska M,Lefebvre S,Zapata JM,Ronai Z,Reed JC

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine milk lipoprotein lipase was subjected to amino acid sequence analysis. The first 19 amino-terminal residues were Asp-Arg-Ile-Thr-Gly-Gly-Lys-Asp-Phe-Arg-Asp-Ile-Glu-Ser-Lys-Phe-Ala-Leu- Arg. In addition, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography of a tryptic digest of reduced and alkylated lipase re...

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

authors： Ben-Avram CM,Ben-Zeev O,Lee TD,Haaga K,Shively JE,Goers J,Pedersen ME,Reeve JR Jr,Schotz MC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein sequences are often highly redundant and evolution can change them beyond recognition. It can therefore be difficult to identify proteins with functional or structural similarities by inspection of their sequences. Here we have used an experimental evolutionary approach to detect hidden similarities between th...

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

authors： Christ D,Winter G

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During vertebrate brain development, the onset of neuronal differentiation is under strict temporal control. In the mammalian thalamus and other brain regions, neurogenesis is regulated also in a spatially progressive manner referred to as a neurogenetic gradient, the underlying mechanism of which is unknown. Here we ...

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

authors： Scholpp S,Delogu A,Gilthorpe J,Peukert D,Schindler S,Lumsden A

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, recombinant human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) monoclonal antibody Fabs were generated by antigen selection from random combinatorial libraries displayed at the tip of filamentous phage. Two such Fabs, which exhibited high binding affinity for RSV F glycoprotein (a major protective antigen), were eval...

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

authors： Crowe JE Jr,Murphy BR,Chanock RM,Williamson RA,Barbas CF 3rd,Burton DR

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation and characterization of an endogenous peptide ligand of GPR103 from rat brains. The purified peptide was found to be the 43-residue RF-amide peptide QRFP. We also describe two mouse homologues of human GPR103, termed mouse GPR103A and GPR103B. QRFP binds and activates the human GPR103, as...

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

authors： Takayasu S,Sakurai T,Iwasaki S,Teranishi H,Yamanaka A,Williams SC,Iguchi H,Kawasawa YI,Ikeda Y,Sakakibara I,Ohno K,Ioka RX,Murakami S,Dohmae N,Xie J,Suda T,Motoike T,Ohuchi T,Yanagisawa M,Sakai J

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Significantly above-chance detection of stimuli presented within the field defect of patients with postgeniculate lesions is termed "blindsight." It has been proposed that those with blindsight are more likely to benefit from visual rehabilitation by repeated stimulation, leading to increased visual sensitivity within...

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

authors： Sahraie A,Trevethan CT,MacLeod MJ,Urquhart J,Weiskrantz L

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that glycolate oxidation in unicellular green algae is linked to mitochondrial electron transport, rather than to peroxisomal metabolism as in higher plants and animals, was studied in a mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (dk97) deficient in cytochrome oxidase. This mutant had normal rates of dark res...

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

authors： Husic DW,Tolbert NE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of a number of closely related proteins ("napin") isolated from Brassica napus were determined by mass spectrometry without prior separation into individual components. Some of these proteins correspond to those previously deduced (napA, BngNAP1, and gNa), chiefly from DNA sequences. Others we...

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

authors： Gehrig PM,Krzyzaniak A,Barciszewski J,Biemann K

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Parvalbumin (PV) is a Ca2+-binding protein found only in vertebrates. It is postulated to serve as a soluble relaxing factor in fast mammalian muscle. We have isolated a rat PV cDNA clone and used this as a probe to examine changes in PV mRNA during muscle and brain development. A cDNA library was constructed in PUC8/...

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

authors： Berchtold MW,Means AR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system detects viral nucleic acids and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses. The RNA- and DNA-sensing pathways converge on the protein kinase TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and the transcription factor IFN-regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is known to trigger the ...

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

authors： Seo M,Lee SO,Kim JH,Hong Y,Kim S,Kim Y,Min DH,Kong YY,Shin J,Ahn K

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient expression of either alpha or alpha + beta subunits of the high-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ (maxi-K) channel has been achieved in COS-1 cells. Expression has been studied using charybdotoxin (ChTX), a peptidyl inhibitor that binds in the pore on the alpha subunit. Although some properties of monoiodotyrosi...

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

authors： Hanner M,Schmalhofer WA,Munujos P,Knaus HG,Kaczorowski GJ,Garcia ML

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental exclusion of the Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) from shallow water areas of a salt lake in the Bolivian Andes caused large increases in the biomass of microorganisms inhabiting the surface sediments, especially a large diatom (Surirella wetzeli), amebas, ciliates, and nematodes. This is a conser...

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

authors： Hurlbert SH,Chang CC

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial patterns of floral determination in cultured internode segments of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Wisconsin 38 were investigated. Segments from internodes, when cultured on hormone-free medium, either produced some de novo floral shoots or produced only vegetative shoots. Segments that produced some...

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

authors： Singer SR,McDaniel CN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of messages initiated by one receptor on the covalent modification of a second receptor were studied by use of a technique for rapidly separating the receptors. Methylation of the bacterial-chemotactic serine receptor increases as a result of aspartate binding to the aspartate receptor. The aspartate-induc...

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

authors： Sanders DA,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term quantum turbulence denotes the turbulent motion of quantum fluids, systems such as superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, which are characterized by quantized vorticity, superfluidity, and, at finite temperatures, two-fluid behavior. This article introduces their basic properties, describes t...

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

authors： Barenghi CF,Skrbek L,Sreenivasan KR

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:With the completion of genome sequences of major model organisms, increasingly sophisticated genetic tools are necessary for investigating the complex and coordinated functions of genes. Here we describe a genetic manipulation system termed "genomic engineering" in Drosophila. Genomic engineering is a 2-step process t...

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

authors： Huang J,Zhou W,Dong W,Watson AM,Hong Y

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:CD31 is an Ig-like molecule expressed by leukocytes and endothelial cells with an established role in the regulation of leukocyte trafficking. Despite genetic deletion of CD31 being associated with exacerbation of T cell-mediated autoimmunity, the contribution of this molecule to T-cell responses is largely unknown. H...

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

authors： Ma L,Mauro C,Cornish GH,Chai JG,Coe D,Fu H,Patton D,Okkenhaug K,Franzoso G,Dyson J,Nourshargh S,Marelli-Berg FM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Band 3, the major intrinsic protein of the human erythrocyte membrane, was specifically labeled with the covalent fluorescent probe eosin isothiocyanate. The lateral mobility of labeled band 3 in the plane of the membrane under various conditions of ionic strength and temperature was examined by using the fluorescence...

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

authors： Golan DE,Veatch W

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus bacterial canker (CBC) caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri (Xac) was first documented in India and Java in the mid 19th century. Since that time, the known distribution of the disease has steadily increased. Concurrent with the dispersion of the pathogen, the diversity of described strains continues to i...

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

authors： Li W,Song Q,Brlansky RH,Hartung JS

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of the anti-T-cell monoclonal antibodies OKT3, OKT5, and OKT8 on T-cell surface properties and cell functions were evaluated. Incubation of mononuclear cells isolated from peripheral blood for 48 hr with each monoclonal antibody in the absence of complement resulted in modulation of their respective surface an...

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

authors： Antel J,Oger JJ,Jackevicius S,Kuo HH,Arnason BG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

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

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine pulmonary surfactant is bactericidal for Pasteurella haemolytica when surfactant and bacteria mixtures are incubated with normal ovine serum. To isolate this component, surfactant (1 mg/ml) was centrifuged at 100,000 x gav, and the supernatant was fractionated by HPLC. Fractions were eluted with acetonitrile (10...

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

authors： Brogden KA,De Lucca AJ,Bland J,Elliott S

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia is a ravaging condition of progressive lung scarring and destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies including corticosteroids have limited efficacy in this ultimately fatal disorder. An important unmet need is to identify new agents that interact with key ...

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

authors： Henderson WR Jr,Chi EY,Ye X,Nguyen C,Tien YT,Zhou B,Borok Z,Knight DA,Kahn M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations from human microbiome studies are often conflicting or inconclusive. Many factors likely contribute to these issues including small cohort sizes, sample collection, and handling and processing differences. The field of microbiome research is moving from 16S rDNA gene sequencing to a more comprehensive gen...

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

authors： Jones MB,Highlander SK,Anderson EL,Li W,Dayrit M,Klitgord N,Fabani MM,Seguritan V,Green J,Pride DT,Yooseph S,Biggs W,Nelson KE,Venter JC

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00