Somatostatin: an endogenous peptide in the toad urinary bladder inhibits vasopressin-stimulated water flow.

abstract：:The harvest of wildlife for human consumption is valued at several billion dollars annually and provides an essential source of meat for hundreds of millions of rural people living in poverty. This harvest is also considered among the greatest threats to biodiversity throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Economi...

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

authors： Brashares JS,Golden CD,Weinbaum KZ,Barrett CB,Okello GV

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey shifts in carnivorous predators are events that can initiate the accelerated generation of new biodiversity. However, it is seldom possible to reconstruct how the change in prey preference occurred. Here we describe an evolutionary "smoking gun" that illuminates the transition from worm hunting to fish hunting am...

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

authors： Aman JW,Imperial JS,Ueberheide B,Zhang MM,Aguilar M,Taylor D,Watkins M,Yoshikami D,Showers-Corneli P,Safavi-Hemami H,Biggs J,Teichert RW,Olivera BM

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the small size of a nanoconfinement, the property of water contained inside is rather challenging to probe. Herein, we measured the amount of water molecules released during the folding of individual G-quadruplex and i-motif structures, from which water activities are estimated in the DNA nanocages prepared by ...

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

authors： Jonchhe S,Pandey S,Emura T,Hidaka K,Hossain MA,Shrestha P,Sugiyama H,Endo M,Mao H

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma-glioma hybrid cells (NG108-15) in suspension accumulate the permeant lipophilic cation [(3)H]tetraphenylphosphonium (TPP(+)) against a concentration gradient. The steady-state level of TPP(+) accumulation is about twice as great in physiological media of low K(+) concentration (i.e., 5 mM K(+)/135 mM Na(...

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

authors： Lichtshtein D,Kaback HR,Blume AJ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphologically grounded placement of South American guinea pig-like rodents (Caviomorpha) within one of the two rodent suborders, Hystricognathi, has been disputed by recent analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequence data. The Caviomorpha and possibly all Hystricognathi would be considered a separa...

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

authors： Martignetti JA,Brosius J

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryos carrying null mutations of both retinoid X receptors alpha and beta (RXRalpha-/-/RXRbeta-/- mutants) were generated. These mutant embryos die between 9.5 and 10.5 days of gestation and display a wide range of abnormalities. The cause of the lethality appears to be the lack of formation of the labyrinthine zone...

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

authors： Wendling O,Chambon P,Mark M

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The cochlear implant (CI) is a neuroprosthesis that allows profoundly deaf patients to recover speech intelligibility. This recovery goes through long-term adaptative processes to build coherent percepts from the coarse information delivered by the implant. Here we analyzed the longitudinal postimplantation evolution ...

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

authors： Rouger J,Lagleyre S,Fraysse B,Deneve S,Deguine O,Barone P

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An enconuclease activity that reacts with x-irradiated DNA is present in extracts of E. coli. By using centrifugal methods to monitor the conversion of the supercoiled, circular double-stranded DNA for phage phi-x-174 (replicative form) or PM2 to the relaxed circular form it was possible to quantitate the rate of radi...

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

authors： Strniste GF,Wallace SS

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents some calculated results on the vibrational structuring of the magnetic circular dichroism of the benzene (1)A(1g)"(1)B(2u) transition. The good agreement between the experimental and calculated relative intensities of the B-bands (positive magnetic circular dichroism bands) indicates that these ban...

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

authors： Shieh DJ,Lin SH,Eyring H

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melittin messenger RNA from queen bee venom glands has been translated in a cell-free system from wheat germ. A product larger than promelittin is formed which has the carboxy-terminal sequence-Gln-Gln-GlyCOOH. Melittin and promelittin from venom glands terminate in -Gln-GlnCONH2. The possible role of the extra glycin...

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

authors： Suchanek G,Kreil G

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphiphilic fluorescent styryl pyridinium dyes FM1-43 and FM4-64 are used to probe activity-dependent synaptic vesicle cycling in neurons. Cultured astrocytes can internalize FM1-43 and FM4-64 inside vesicles but their uptake is insensitive to the elevation of cytosolic calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration and the under...

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

authors： Li D,Hérault K,Oheim M,Ropert N

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the immunosuppressive and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) impairs Ca(2+)-dependent transmembrane signaling in human and murine lymphocytes. The purpose of the present studies was to analyze potential mechanisms of immunosuppression by ...

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

authors： Archuleta MM,Schieven GL,Ledbetter JA,Deanin GG,Burchiel SW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities in the bovine hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was studied by use of specific antisera. Proenkephalin and [Met]enkephalin immunoreactivities were found in magnocellular neuronal cell bodies in the dorsal part of the supraoptic nuclei and in th...

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

authors： Vanderhaeghen JJ,Lotstra F,Liston DR,Rossier J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic expansion of plant cells requires organized arrays of cortical microtubules. Mutations in microtubule-associated proteins and a particular mutation in alpha-tubulins were reported to cause abnormal microtubule arrays and result in helical growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the way in which these muta...

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

authors： Ishida T,Kaneko Y,Iwano M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant phylogenetic estimates are most likely to be reliable when congruent evidence is obtained independently from the mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear genomes with all methods of analysis. Here, results are presented from separate and combined genomic analyses of new and previously published data, including six an...

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

authors： Barkman TJ,Chenery G,McNeal JR,Lyons-Weiler J,Ellisens WJ,Moore G,Wolfe AD,dePamphilis CW

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results suggested that a large subset of heat shock protein HSP-60 reactive peripheral lymphoid gamma delta T cells preexists in normal adult mice, all members of which respond to a single segment of this common HSP. However, the experimental evidence supporting this idea involved in vitro peptide responses of ...

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

authors： Fu YX,Cranfill R,Vollmer M,Van Der Zee R,O'Brien RL,Born W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone containing two linked human pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (PS beta G) genes has been isolated and characterized. The two genes are arranged in the same 5'----3' orientation; the 3' region (including the A2 and B-C exons) of the upstream gene, PSGGA, is linked to the 5' region (including the 5'...

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

authors： Leslie KK,Watanabe S,Lei KJ,Chou DY,Plouzek CA,Deng HC,Torres J,Chou JY

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphavirus envelope proteins, organized as trimers of E2-E1 heterodimers on the surface of the pathogenic alphavirus, mediate the low pH-triggered fusion of viral and endosomal membranes in human cells. The lack of specific treatment for alphaviral infections motivates our exploration of potential antiviral approaches...

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

authors： Zeng X,Mukhopadhyay S,Brooks CL 3rd

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tumor promoters on electrical coupling between human FL cells was investigated with a microelectrode technique. When a low concentration (100 ng/ml) of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) was added to culture medium, only 6% of the cells showed electrical coupling after 5 hr, whereas in control me...

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

authors： Enomoto T,Sasaki Y,Shiba Y,Kanno Y,Yamasaki H

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes are the fundamental structural unit of chromatin. In addition to stabilizing the DNA polymer, nucleosomes are modified in ways that reflect and affect gene expression in their vicinity. It has long been assumed that nucleosomes can transmit memory of gene expression through their covalent posttranslational...

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

authors： Schlissel G,Rine J

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin binding to insulin receptors, on skin fibroblasts established in culture from an infant with insulin resistance and clinical features of leprechaunism was markedly decreased in comparison with cultures from an age-matched control. By contrast, the binding of epidermal growth factor, a polypeptide growth factor...

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

authors： Schilling EE,Rechler MM,Grunfeld C,Rosenberg AM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cofactor composition and electron-transfer kinetics of the reaction center (RC) from a magnesium chelatase (bchD) mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides were characterized. In this RC, the special pair (P) and accessory (B) bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) -binding sites contain Zn-BChl rather than BChl a. Spectroscopic meas...

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

authors： Lin S,Jaschke PR,Wang H,Paddock M,Tufts A,Allen JP,Rosell FI,Mauk AG,Woodbury NW,Beatty JT

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Few mechanisms are known that explain how transcription factors can adjust phenotypic outputs to accommodate differing environments. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the decision to mate or invade relies on environmental cues that converge on a shared transcription factor, Ste12. Specificity toward invasion occurs via Ste...

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

authors： Dorrity MW,Cuperus JT,Carlisle JA,Fields S,Queitsch C

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-helix secondary structural model is proposed for eukaryotic cytoplasmic 5S rRNA. All available sequence data are consistent with this model including those from Chlorella 5S rRNA whose sequence is revised by data included here. Various architectural features of eukaryotic 5S rRNA are summarized in terms of this...

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

authors： Luehrsen KR,Fox GE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1000 primary gastric carcinomas, 70 (7.0%) contained Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genomic sequences detected by PCR and Southern blots. The positive tumors comprised 8 of 9 (89%) undifferentiated lymphoepithelioma-like carcinomas, 27 of 476 (5.7%) poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas, and 35 of 515 (6.8%) moderately t...

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

authors： Imai S,Koizumi S,Sugiura M,Tokunaga M,Uemura Y,Yamamoto N,Tanaka S,Sato E,Osato T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonnative species richness typically declines along environmental gradients such as elevation. It is usually assumed that this is because few invaders possess the necessary adaptations to succeed under extreme environmental conditions. Here, we show that nonnative plants reaching high elevations around the world are n...

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

authors： Alexander JM,Kueffer C,Daehler CC,Edwards PJ,Pauchard A,Seipel T,MIREN Consortium.

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed three zinc-finger proteins with different DNA binding specificities. The design strategy combines a consensus zinc-finger framework sequence with previously characterized recognition regions such that the specificity of each protein is predictable. The first protein consists of three identical zinc fi...

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

authors： Desjarlais JR,Berg JM

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Shell shape and shell thickness of the intertidal snail Littorina obtusata changed markedly between 1871 and 1984 in northern New England. Shells collected prior to 1900 were high-spired with thin walls, whereas shells collected in 1982-84 were low-spired with thick walls. An intertidal crab (Carcinus maenas) which pr...

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

authors： Seeley RH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 289,868 locus tests, based on 28 different protein phenotypes and using one-dimensional electrophoresis to detect variant proteins, has yielded one probable mutation in the offspring of "proximally exposed" parents, who received an estimated average gonadal exposure of 31 to 39 rem in the atomic bombings of...

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

authors： Neel JV,Satoh C,Hamilton HB,Otake M,Goriki K,Kageoka T,Fujita M,Neriishi S,Asakawa J

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) method for phase evaluation is now widely used in macromolecular crystallography. Successful MAD structure determinations have been carried out at the K or L absorption edges of a variety of elements. In this study, we investigate the anomalous scattering properties of u...

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

authors： Liu Y,Ogata CM,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00