Mechanism of IgM polymerization.

abstract：:Over the past decade or more, contradictory evidence of Martian climate, indicating that surface temperatures seldom if ever approach the melting point of water at midlatitudes, and geomorphic features, consistent with liquid flows at these same latitudes, have proven difficult to reconcile. In this article, we demons...

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

authors： Shinbrot T,Duong NH,Kwan L,Alvarez MM

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction and valence bands. However, the bulk-band inversion, which is intimately tied to the topologically nontrivial nature of 3...

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

authors： Chen ZG,Chen RY,Zhong RD,Schneeloch J,Zhang C,Huang Y,Qu F,Yu R,Li Q,Gu GD,Wang NL

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most basic predictions of almost any model of crime is that individual time preferences matter. However, empirical evidence on this fundamental property is essentially nonexistent. To our knowledge, this paper provides the first pieces of evidence on the link between time discounting and crime. We use a uni...

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

authors： Åkerlund D,Golsteyn BH,Grönqvist H,Lindahl L

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis, a devastating complication of tuberculosis in man, is poorly understood. We previously reported that rabbits with experimental tuberculous meningitis were protected from death by a combination of antibiotics and thalidomide therapy. Survival was associated with inhibition of...

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

authors： Tsenova L,Bergtold A,Freedman VH,Young RA,Kaplan G

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual way to compute Hartree-Fock type functions for molecules is by an expansion of the one-electron functions (molecular orbitals) in a linear combination of analytical functions (LCAO-MO-SCF, linear combination of atomic orbitals-Molecular Orbital-Self Consistent field). The expansion coefficients are obtained ...

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

authors： Clementi E

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ghrelin and somatostatin (SST) inhibit glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic β-cells, but how these independent actions are regulated has been unclear. The mechanism must accommodate noncanonical ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a)-G-protein coupling to Gα(i/o) instead of Gα(q11) and dependence on en...

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

authors： Park S,Jiang H,Zhang H,Smith RG

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin transporter (SERT) is a major regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and anxiety-related behaviors. SERT is expressed in two alternative polyadenylation forms that differ by an evolutionarily conserved element in the 3' untranslated region of its mRNA. Expression of SERT mRNA containing the distal p...

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

authors： Yoon Y,McKenna MC,Rollins DA,Song M,Nuriel T,Gross SS,Xu G,Glatt CE

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin polymerization provides a powerful propulsion force for numerous types of cell motility. Although tremendous progress has been made in identifying the biochemical components necessary for actin-based motility, the precise biophysical mechanisms of force generation remain unclear. To probe the polymerization forc...

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

authors： Upadhyaya A,Chabot JR,Andreeva A,Samadani A,van Oudenaarden A

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is implicated in multiple biological processes including metabolism, gene expression, cell fate determination, proliferation, and survival. GSK-3 activity is inhibited through phosphorylation of serine 21 in GSK-3 alpha and serine 9 in GSK-3 beta. These serine residues of GSK-3 have ...

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

authors： Fang X,Yu SX,Lu Y,Bast RC Jr,Woodgett JR,Mills GB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comparative study of calorimetrically derived thermodynamic profiles for the binding of a series of drugs with selected DNA host duplexes. We use these data to demonstrate that comparisons between complete thermodynamic profiles (delta G zero, delta H zero, delta S zero, delta Cp) are required before drug...

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

authors： Breslauer KJ,Remeta DP,Chou WY,Ferrante R,Curry J,Zaunczkowski D,Snyder JG,Marky LA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Paramyxoviridae family of enveloped viruses enters cells through the concerted action of two viral glycoproteins. The receptor-binding protein, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN), H, or G, binds its cellular receptor and activates the fusion protein, F, which, through an extensive refolding event, brings viral and c...

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

authors： Bose S,Zokarkar A,Welch BD,Leser GP,Jardetzky TS,Lamb RA

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the primary visual cortex (V1) of many mammalian species, neurons are spatially organized according to their preferred orientation into a highly ordered map. However, whether and how the various presynaptic inputs to V1 neurons are organized relative to the neuronal orientation map remain unclear. To address this i...

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

authors： Zhang QF,Li H,Chen M,Guo A,Wen Y,Poo MM

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the complete amino acid sequence of human plasma Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein was determined. This protein whose biological function is unknown consists of a single polypeptide chain of 276 amino acid residues including 8 tryptophan residues and has a pyroglutamyl residue at the amino terminus. The loc...

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

authors： Araki T,Gejyo F,Takagaki K,Haupt H,Schwick HG,Bürgi W,Marti T,Schaller J,Rickli E,Brossmer R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a form of amnesia, which we have called visual memory-deficit amnesia, that is caused by damage to areas of the visual system that store visual information. Because it is caused by a deficit in access to stored visual material and not by an impaired ability to encode or retrieve new material, it has the ot...

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

authors： Rubin DC,Greenberg DL

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human skin and lung mast cells and rodent peritoneal mast cells contain a carboxypeptidase in their secretory granules. We have screened human lung cDNA libraries with a mouse mast cell carboxypeptidase A (MC-CPA) cDNA probe to isolate a near-full-length cDNA that encodes human MC-CPA. The 5' end of the human MC-CPA t...

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

authors： Reynolds DS,Gurley DS,Stevens RL,Sugarbaker DJ,Austen KF,Serafin WE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of isogenic embryonic stem cells or clonal bacteria often exhibit extensive phenotypic heterogeneity that arises from intrinsic stochastic dynamics of cells. The phenotypic state of a cell can be transmitted epigenetically in cell division, leading to correlations in the states of cells related by descent....

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

authors： Hormoz S,Desprat N,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (Epo) is a glycoprotein factor that specifically regulates the proliferation and differentiation of erythroid progenitor cells. Here we describe the isolation of Epo-responsive mouse erythroleukemia cell line SKT6, the characterization of the specific binding of biologically active 125I-labeled human Ep...

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

authors： Todokoro K,Kanazawa S,Amanuma H,Ikawa Y

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of intraspecific and interspecific interactions in structuring biotic communities at fine spatial scales is well documented, but the signature of species interactions at coarser spatial scales is unclear. We present evidence that species interactions may be a significant factor in mediating the regional assem...

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

authors： Gotelli NJ,Graves GR,Rahbek C

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological processes such as circadian rhythms, cell division, metabolism, and development occur as ordered sequences of events. The synchronization of these coordinated events is essential for proper cell function, and hence the determination of critical time points in biological processes is an important component o...

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

authors： Ramakrishnan N,Tadepalli S,Watson LT,Helm RF,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor-κB (NFκB) family of transcription factors has been implicated in inflammatory disorders, viral infections, and cancer. Most of the drugs that inhibit NFκB show significant side effects, possibly due to sustained NFκB suppression. Drugs affecting induced, but not basal, NFκB activity may have the pot...

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

authors： Chen M,Liang J,Ji H,Yang Z,Altilia S,Hu B,Schronce A,McDermott MSJ,Schools GP,Lim CU,Oliver D,Shtutman MS,Lu T,Stark GR,Porter DC,Broude EV,Roninson IB

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal distribution of the major extinctions over the past 250 million years has been investigated statistically using various forms of time series analysis. The analyzed record is based on variation in extinction intensity for fossil families of marine vertebrates, invertebrates, and protozoans and contains 12 ...

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

authors： Raup DM,Sepkoski JJ Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids containing the replication origin of the Escherichia coli chromosome (oriC plasmids) are unstable in certain recA strains of E. coli. However, they can be maintained more stably in other recA strains. This stable maintenance has allowed us to study the incompatibility properties of oriC plasmids. We have foun...

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

authors： Yamaguchi K,Yamaguchi M,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enolase genes from land plants and apicomplexa (intracellular parasites, including the malarial parasite, Plasmodium) share two short insertions. This observation has led to the suggestion that the apicomplexan enolase is the product of a lateral transfer event involving the algal endosymbiont from which the apicomple...

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

authors： Keeling PJ,Palmer JD

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The tails of newborn rats, consisting of slender continuous cones of avascular cartilage, were transplanted in subcutaneous spaces of allogeneic adolescents; colloidal carbon was injected in a vein before the transplants were harvested on days 7-28. Between 97 and 100% of the transplants were accepted, underwent diffe...

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

authors： Huggins CB,Anderson KP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of carboxylate ions (acetate, butyrate) with nucleic aicd bases and nucleosides has been investigated by proton magnetic resonance in dimethyl sulfoxide (d6)/H2O mixtures. Carboxylate ions interacted only with guanine derivatives and led to a large downfield shift of the NH2 resonance. A 1:1 stoichiome...

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

authors： Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared chicken erythrocyte linker histones H1 and H5 binding to a synthetic four-way DNA junction. Each histone binds to form a single complex, with an affinity which permits competition against a large excess of linear duplex DNA. The affinity of H5 is higher than that of H1. The globular domain from either...

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

authors： Varga-Weisz P,Zlatanova J,Leuba SH,Schroth GP,van Holde K

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During CsCl isopycnic centrifugation at 20 mM Mg(++), Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunits specifically lose proteins S1, S2, S3, S5, S9, S10, and S14. The resultant 30S core is unable to stimulate the GTPase activity of EF-G in the presence of 50S subunits. Activity could be restored to a small extent by adding ba...

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

authors： Marsh RC,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical dynamics of lakes and streams affect their suitability as aquatic habitats and as water supplies for human needs. Because water quality is typically monitored only weekly or monthly, however, the higher-frequency dynamics of stream chemistry have remained largely invisible. To illuminate a wider spectrum ...

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

authors： Kirchner JW,Neal C

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase II lacking a C-terminal domain (CTD) was active in transcription with purified proteins from yeast but failed to support transcription in a yeast extract. CTD dependence could be reconstituted in the purified system by addition of two fractions from the extract. An inhibitory fraction abolished transcri...

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

authors： Li Y,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a helper-dependent adenoviral vector for cystic fibrosis lung gene therapy. The vector expresses cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cftr) using control elements from cytokeratin 18. The vector expressed properly localized CFTR in cultured cells and in the airway epithelia of mice. Cftr R...

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

authors： Koehler DR,Sajjan U,Chow YH,Martin B,Kent G,Tanswell AK,McKerlie C,Forstner JF,Hu J

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00