Compositional heterogeneity of human heterochromatin.

abstract：:The phytochrome family of informational photoreceptors has a central role in regulating light-responsive gene expression, but the mechanism of intracellular signal transduction has remained elusive. In a genetic screen for T DNA-tagged Arabidopsis mutants affected in early signaling intermediates, we identified poc1 (...

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

authors： Halliday KJ,Hudson M,Ni M,Qin M,Quail PH

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of geographic isolation in marine microbial speciation is hotly debated because of the high dispersal potential and large population sizes of planktonic microorganisms and the apparent lack of strong dispersal barriers in the open sea. Here, we show that gene flow between distant populations of the globally d...

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

authors： Casteleyn G,Leliaert F,Backeljau T,Debeer AE,Kotaki Y,Rhodes L,Lundholm N,Sabbe K,Vyverman W

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To scrutinize how a protein folds at atomic resolution, we performed 200 molecular dynamics simulations (each of 50 ns) of the miniprotein Trp-cage on the computational grid. Within the trajectories, 58 folding and 31 unfolding events were identified and subjected to extensive comparison and classification. Based on a...

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

authors： Ota M,Ikeguchi M,Kidera A

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Across the Upper Missouri River Basin, the recent drought of 2000 to 2010, known as the "turn-of-the-century drought," was likely more severe than any in the instrumental record including the Dust Bowl drought. However, until now, adequate proxy records needed to better understand this event with regard to long-term v...

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

authors： Martin JT,Pederson GT,Woodhouse CA,Cook ER,McCabe GJ,Anchukaitis KJ,Wise EK,Erger PJ,Dolan L,McGuire M,Gangopadhyay S,Chase KJ,Littell JS,Gray ST,St George S,Friedman JM,Sauchyn DJ,St-Jacques JM,King J

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommend...

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

authors： Daniels RJ

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate genetic analysis of the human pathogenic parvovirus B19, we constructed a hybrid B19 viral genome in which the defective B19 inverted terminal repeats were replaced with the full-length inverted terminal repeats from a nonpathogenic human parvovirus, the adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV). The hybrid AAV-B19...

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

authors： Srivastava CH,Samulski RJ,Lu L,Larsen SH,Srivastava A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex pheromone biosynthetic pathways of lepidopterans require the concerted actions of multiple gene products. A number of pheromone gland (PG)-specific genes have been cloned in recent years and, whereas in vitro characterizations have indicated functions consistent with roles in pheromone production, there have b...

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

authors： Ohnishi A,Hull JJ,Matsumoto S

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the analysis of genomic DNA from single healthy animals of each of five primate species, nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequences of the infectious amyloid precursor gene of higher apes (Gorilla and Pan) and Old World (Macaca) and New World (Ateles, Saimiri) monkeys showed 95-99% homology to the human se...

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

authors： Cervenáková L,Brown P,Goldfarb LG,Nagle J,Pettrone K,Rubenstein R,Dubnick M,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human transcription factor IIA (TFIIA) is composed of three subunits (alpha, beta, and gamma). TFIIA interacts with the TATA-box binding protein and can overcome repression of transcription. TFIIA was found to be necessary for VP16-mediated transcriptional activation through a coactivator function. We have separated t...

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

authors： MA D,Olave I,Merino A,Reinberg D

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial mutations are the driving force of adaptive evolution. In asexual populations, the identification of beneficial alleles is confounded by the presence of genetically linked hitchhiker mutations. Parallel evolution experiments enable the recognition of common targets of selection; yet these targets are inhere...

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

authors： Buskirk SW,Peace RE,Lang GI

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS remains incurable due to the permanent integration of HIV-1 into the host genome, imparting risk of viral reactivation even after antiretroviral therapy. New strategies are needed to ablate the viral genome from latently infected cells, because current methods are too inefficient and prone to adverse off-target e...

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

authors： Hu W,Kaminski R,Yang F,Zhang Y,Cosentino L,Li F,Luo B,Alvarez-Carbonell D,Garcia-Mesa Y,Karn J,Mo X,Khalili K

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 30 patients with astrocytoma were tested for antibody reacting with cell surface antigens of cultured autologous astrocytoma cells. Ten percent of the patients had antibody detectable by mixed hemadsorption assays, approximately 50% by immune adherence and protein A assays, and 100% by anti-C3-mixed hemadsor...

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

authors： Pfreundschuh M,Shiku H,Takahashi T,Ueda R,Ransohoff J,Oettgen HF,Old LJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro translation of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) virion RNA in the messenger-dependent reticulocyte lysate system yielded polypeptides that were not synthesized by translation of RNA from a transformation-defective deletion mutant of RSV. These RSV-specific products migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide ge...

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

authors： Beemon K,Hunter T

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosses between closely related animal species often result in male hybrids that are sterile, and the molecular and functional basis of genetic factors for hybrid male sterility is of great interest. Here, we report a molecular and functional analysis of HMS1, a region of 9.2 kb in chromosome 3 of Drosophila mauritian...

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

authors： Liénard MA,Araripe LO,Hartl DL

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin, a toxic bicyclic peptide of rapid action from the toadstool, Amanita phalloides, gives rise to polymerization of G-actin to filamentous structures (Ph-actin) in a medium of low ionic strength. Ph-actin closely resembles the microfilaments found in liver membrane fractions (Ph-filaments) after in vivo or in...

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

authors： Lengsfeld AM,Löw I,Wieland T,Dancker P,Hasselbach W

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system of the macaque monkey has provided a useful model for understanding the neural basis of human vision, yet, there are few detailed comparisons of neural populations other than photoreceptors for the two species. Using intracellular staining in an in vitro preparation of the isolated and intact human r...

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

authors： Dacey DM,Petersen MR

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Global warming is intensifying interest in the mechanisms enabling ectothermic animals to adjust physiological performance and cope with temperature change. Here we show that embryonic temperature can have dramatic and persistent effects on thermal acclimation capacity at multiple levels of biological organization. Ze...

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

authors： Scott GR,Johnston IA

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes, the hydroxylated carotenoid zeaxanthin is produced from preexisting violaxanthin upon exposure to excess light conditions. Zeaxanthin binding to components of the photosystem II (PSII) antenna system has been investigated thoroughly and shown to help in the dissipation of excess ...

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

authors： Ballottari M,Alcocer MJ,D'Andrea C,Viola D,Ahn TK,Petrozza A,Polli D,Fleming GR,Cerullo G,Bassi R

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical Euler-Poisson equations describing the motion of a heavy rigid body about a fixed point are generalized to arbitrary Lie algebras as Hamiltonian systems on coad-joint orbits of a tangent bundle Lie group. the N-dimensional Lagrange and symmetric heavy top are thereby shown to be completely integrable. ...

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

authors： Ratiu T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF family members and their receptors contribute to increased gene expression for inflammatory processes and intracellular cascades leading to programmed cell death, both via activation of NF-kappaB. TNF receptor (TNFR)-associated factors (TRAFs) are cytoplasmic adaptor proteins binding to various receptors of the TN...

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

authors： Hauer J,Püschner S,Ramakrishnan P,Simon U,Bongers M,Federle C,Engelmann H

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of transformation, cell lethality, and DNA lesions were quantitatively compared in Syrian hamster embryo cells (HEC) treated with three different methylating agents: N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU), or methyl methanesulfonate (MMS). Each induced transformation in a d...

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

authors： Doniger J,Day RS,DiPaolo JA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class-switch recombination (CSR) of the Ig gene require both the transcription of the locus and the expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). During CSR, AID decreases the amount of topoisomerase I (Top1); this decrease alters the DNA structure and induces cleavage in t...

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

authors： Kobayashi M,Sabouri Z,Sabouri S,Kitawaki Y,Pommier Y,Abe T,Kiyonari H,Honjo T

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have postulated that the toxic neuropathies associated with neurofilament-filled axonal swellings have a common pathogenesis, the covalent crosslinking of neurofilaments during anterograde transport. The newly described gamma-diketone, 3,4-dimethyl-2,5-hexanedione (DMHD), is a more potent analogue of the toxic meta...

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

authors： Graham DG,Szakál-Quin G,Priest JW,Anthony DC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theory, and its computer implementation, of how mental simulations underlie the abductions of informal algorithms and deductions from these algorithms. Three experiments tested the theory's predictions, using an environment of a single railway track and a siding. This environment is akin to a universal Tu...

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

authors： Khemlani SS,Mackiewicz R,Bucciarelli M,Johnson-Laird PN

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult brain exhibits a local increase in cortical blood flow in response to external stimulus. However, broadly varying hemodynamic responses in the brains of newborn and young infants have been reported. Particular controversy exists over whether the "true" neonatal response to stimulation consists of a decrease ...

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

authors： Kozberg MG,Chen BR,DeLeo SE,Bouchard MB,Hillman EM

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequences of wheat Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci, encoding the plastid and cytosolic forms of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase, were analyzed with a view to understanding the evolution of these genes and the origin of the three genomes in modern hexaploid wheat. Acc-1 and Acc-2 loci from each of the wheats Triticum ur...

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

authors： Chalupska D,Lee HY,Faris JD,Evrard A,Chalhoub B,Haselkorn R,Gornicki P

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the length of poly(A) tails of bacterial mRNAs result from a competition between poly(A) polymerase and exoribonucleases that attack the 3' ends of RNAs. Here, we show that host factor Hfq is also involved in poly(A) tail metabolism. Inactivation of the hfq gene reduces the length of pol...

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

authors： Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces with patterned wettability contrast are important in industrial applications such as heat transfer, water collection, and particle separation. Traditional methods of fabricating such surfaces rely on microfabrication technologies, which are only applicable to certain substrates and are difficult to scale up a...

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

authors： Chen D,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons respond to sensory stimuli associated with future rewards. When reward is delivered probabilistically, DA neurons reflect this uncertainty by increasing their firing rates in a period between the sensory cue and reward delivery time. Probability of reward, however, has been externally co...

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

authors： de Lafuente V,Romo R

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is an autoimmune disease that affects mainly conjunctiva and other squamous epithelia. OCP is histologically characterized by a separation of the epithelium from underlying tissues within the basement membrane zone. Immunopathological studies demonstrate the deposition of anti-basem...

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

authors： Tyagi S,Bhol K,Natarajan K,Livir-Rallatos C,Foster CS,Ahmed AR

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00