Shear-assisted grain coarsening in colloidal polycrystals.

abstract：:Human activities have increased N availability dramatically in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Extensive research demonstrates that local plant species diversity generally declines in response to nutrient enrichment, yet the mechanisms for this decline remain unclear. Based on an analysis of >900 species responses...

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

authors： Suding KN,Collins SL,Gough L,Clark C,Cleland EE,Gross KL,Milchunas DG,Pennings S

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallophilicity is defined as the interaction among closed-shell metal centers, the origin of which remains controversial, particularly for the roles of spd orbital hybridization (mixing of the spd atomic orbitals of the metal atom in the molecular orbitals of metal complex) and the relativistic effect. Our studies r...

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

authors： Wan Q,Yang J,To WP,Che CM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis, a process characterized in part by excessive smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation in areas of vascular injury, occurs in up to 50% of patients undergoing balloon angioplasty. In an effort to develop a treatment strategy for restenosis, we constructed a replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus (AdMLP....

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

authors： Guzman RJ,Hirschowitz EA,Brody SL,Crystal RG,Epstein SE,Finkel T

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical hypotheses regarding the evolutionary origin of paired appendages propose transformation of precursor structures (gill arches and lateral fin folds) into paired fins. During development, gnathostome paired appendages form as outgrowths of body wall somatopleure, a tissue composed of somatic lateral plate mes...

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

authors： Tulenko FJ,McCauley DW,Mackenzie EL,Mazan S,Kuratani S,Sugahara F,Kusakabe R,Burke AC

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox potentials of electron transfer proteins vary over a wide range, even when the type of redox center is the same. Rees [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1985) 82, 3082-3085] proposed that this variation of redox potential partly reflects the different net charges of the proteins, and he presented a linear correlat...

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

authors： Moore GR,Pettigrew GW,Rogers NK

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With efforts underway to develop a preventive human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine, it remains unclear which immune responses are sufficient to protect against infection and whether prior HIV-1 immunity can alter the subsequent course of HIV-1 infection. We investigated these issues in the context of a ...

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

authors： McElrath MJ,Corey L,Greenberg PD,Matthews TJ,Montefiori DC,Rowen L,Hood L,Mullins JI

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Figs (Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) constitute perhaps the most tightly integrated pollination mutualism that is known. Figs are characterized by extraordinarily high global and local species diversity. It has been proposed that the diversification of this mutualism has oc...

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

authors： Machado CA,Robbins N,Gilbert MT,Herre EA

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library derived from human cerebral cortex was screened for the presence of sodium channel alpha subunit-specific clones. Ligation of three overlapping clones generated a full-length cDNA clone, HBA, that provided the complete nucleotide sequence coding for a protein of 2005 amino acids. The predicted structure...

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

authors： Ahmed CM,Ware DH,Lee SC,Patten CD,Ferrer-Montiel AV,Schinder AF,McPherson JD,Wagner-McPherson CB,Wasmuth JJ,Evans GA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanobacteria-like objects evidenced at the surface of the orthopyroxenes of the Tataouine meteorite in South Tunisia have been studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopies. A method of micromanipulation has been developed to ensure that exactly the same objects were studied by both methods. We have shown...

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

authors： Benzerara K,Menguy N,Guyot F,Dominici C,Gillet P

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Shigella to spread within the cytosol of infected epithelial cells and to infect adjacent cells is critical for the development of infection foci, which lead to mucosal abscesses. Shigella is a nonmotile microorganism that appears to utilize host cell microfilaments to generate intra- as well as interc...

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

authors： Bernardini ML,Mounier J,d'Hauteville H,Coquis-Rondon M,Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae translation initiation factor eIF-4A, an RNA helicase of the Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD) box protein family, was mutated in the putative ATP binding site and expressed in Escherichia coli. Mutant proteins with alanine at position 66 replaced by glycine [eIF-4A(A66G)] or valine [eIF-4A(A66V)] were p...

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

authors： Blum S,Schmid SR,Pause A,Buser P,Linder P,Sonenberg N,Trachsel H

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:FKBP12-rapamycin associated protein (FRAP, also known as mTOR or RAFT) is the founding member of the phosphatidylinositol kinase-related kinase family and functions as a sensor of physiological signals that regulate cell growth. Signals integrated by FRAP include nutrients, cAMP levels, and osmotic stress, and cellula...

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

authors： Desai BN,Myers BR,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical spectra of biological polymers contain important information about their structure and function in living organisms. This information can be accessed by extracting an optical interaction of monomers, i.e., their exciton coupling, from experimental data. This coupling is sensitive to molecular structure, geomet...

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

authors： Burin AL,Armbruster ME,Hariharan M,Lewis FD

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:At meiotic prophase, chromatin loops around a proteinaceous core, with the sizes of these loops varying between species. Comparison of the morphology of sequence-related inserts at different sites in transgenic mice demonstrates that loop size also varies with chromosomal geography. Similarly, chromatin loop lengths d...

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

authors： Heng HH,Chamberlain JW,Shi XM,Spyropoulos B,Tsui LC,Moens PB

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The default mode network (DMN) has been suggested to support a variety of self-referential functions in humans and has been fractionated into subsystems based on distinct responses to cognitive tasks and functional connectivity architecture. Such subsystems are thought to reflect functional hierarchy and segregation w...

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

authors： Hsu LM,Liang X,Gu H,Brynildsen JK,Stark JA,Ash JA,Lin CP,Lu H,Rapp PR,Stein EA,Yang Y

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for a model cell system that might allow studies of the function of the Rho-related GTPase CDC42Hs in human cells, we measured the content and distribution of CDC42Hs in monocytes that were differentiating into macrophages. The total content of this protein increased 5- to 6-fold in phorbol ester-treated h...

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

authors： Aepfelbacher M,Vauti F,Weber PC,Glomset JA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins need to be tightly regulated as they control biological processes in most normal cellular functions. The precise mechanisms of regulation are rarely completely understood but can involve binding of endogenous ligands and/or partner proteins at specific locations on a protein that can modulate function. Often,...

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

authors： Ludlow RF,Verdonk ML,Saini HK,Tickle IJ,Jhoti H

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of light energy into ion gradients across biological membranes is one of the most fundamental reactions in primary biological energy transduction. Recently, the structure of the first light-activated Na+ pump, Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2), was resolved at atomic resolution [Kato HE, et al. (...

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

authors： Suomivuori CM,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Sundholm D,Kaila VRI

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of desensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), the NO receptor, has long remained unresolved. Posttranslational modification and redox state have been postulated to affect sGC sensitivity to NO but evidence has been lacking. We now show that sGC can be S-nitrosylated in primary aortic sm...

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

authors： Sayed N,Baskaran P,Ma X,van den Akker F,Beuve A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine mammary tumor virus (MMTV) expression is analyzed in a T-lymphoid cell line (T1M1) sensitive to the killing effect of glucocorticoids and in two of its variants, one resistant (T1M1r) and one supersensitive (T1M1ss) to glucocorticoid-induced lymphocytolysis. In the T1M1 line, MMTV is expressed and induced appro...

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

authors： Mermod JJ,Bourgeois S,Defer N,Crépin M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid containing the rat preproinsulin I gene was entrapped in large liposomes and intravenously administered to rats. Four hours after inoculation, the livers were processed for the isolation of hepatocytes. Kupffer cells, and endothelial cells, DNA was purified, and the exogenous DNA was detected in the differen...

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

authors： Soriano P,Dijkstra J,Legrand A,Spanjer H,Londos-Gagliardi D,Roerdink F,Scherphof G,Nicolau C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell mechanics plays a role in stem cell reprogramming and differentiation. To understand this process better, we created a genetically encoded optical probe, named actin-cpstFRET-actin (AcpA), to report forces in actin in living cells in real time. We showed that stemness was associated with increased force in actin....

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

authors： Guo J,Wang Y,Sachs F,Meng F

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The first essential step in protein photoreception is the capture and storage of energy from a photon. We have recently identified and isolated, from the purple photoautotrophic bacterium, Ectothiorhodospira halophila, a 13,000-dalton photoactive yellow protein (PYP) that has a photocycle with kinetics similar to sens...

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

authors： McRee DE,Tainer JA,Meyer TE,Van Beeumen J,Cusanovich MA,Getzoff ED

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic lymphocytes eliminate virus-infected and cancerous cells by immune recognition and killing through the perforin-granzyme pathway. Traditional killing assays measure average target cell lysis at fixed times and high effector:target ratios. Such assays obscure kinetic details that might reveal novel physiology...

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

authors： Choi PJ,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cocaine to inhibit the dopamine transporter (DAT) appears to be crucial for its reinforcing properties. The potential use of drugs that produce long-lasting inhibition of the DAT as a mean of preventing the "high" and reducing drug-seeking behavior has become a major strategy in medication development. ...

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

authors： Volkow ND,Wang GJ,Fowler JS,Gatley SJ,Ding YS,Logan J,Dewey SL,Hitzemann R,Lieberman J

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, a conserved pathway that delivers intracellular materials into lysosomes for degradation, is involved in development, aging, and a variety of diseases. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that autophagy plays a protective role against infectious diseases by diminishing intracellular pathogens, including bact...

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

authors： Zou CG,Ma YC,Dai LL,Zhang KQ

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign DNA molecules and chromosomal fragments are generally eliminated from proliferating cells, but we know little about how mammalian cells prevent their propagation. Here, we show that dividing human and canine cells partition transfected plasmid DNA asymmetrically, preferentially into the daughter cell harboring...

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

authors： Wang X,Le N,Denoth-Lippuner A,Barral Y,Kroschewski R

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradox in bone tissue is that tissue-level strains due to animal and human locomotion are too small to initiate intracellular chemical responses directly. A model recently was proposed to resolve this paradox, which predicts that the fluid flow through the pericellular matrix in the lacunar-canalicular porosity due...

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

authors： Han Y,Cowin SC,Schaffler MB,Weinbaum S

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper regulation of the intracellular ion concentration is essential to maintain life and is achieved by ion transporters that transport their substrates across the membrane in a strictly regulated manner. MgtE is a Mg(2+) transporter that may function in the homeostasis of the intracellular Mg(2+) concentration. A r...

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

authors： Ishitani R,Sugita Y,Dohmae N,Furuya N,Hattori M,Nureki O

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty years after their discovery, knots in proteins are now quite well understood. They are believed to be functionally advantageous and provide extra stability to protein chains. In this work, we go one step further and search for links-entangled structures, more complex than knots, which consist of several compone...

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

authors： Dabrowski-Tumanski P,Sulkowska JI

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00