Complete amino acid sequence of variable domains from two monoclonal human anti-gamma globulins of the Wa cross-idiotypic group: suggestion that the J segments are involved in the structural correlate of the idiotype.

abstract：:Plants, as sessile organisms, must coordinate various physiological processes to adapt to ever-changing surrounding environments. Stomata, the epidermal pores facilitating gas and water exchange, play important roles in optimizing photosynthetic efficiency and adaptability. Stomatal development is under the control of...

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

authors： Zhang JY,He SB,Li L,Yang HQ

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater-dependent species are among the least-known components of global biodiversity, as well as some of the most vulnerable because of rapid groundwater depletion at regional and global scales. The karstic Edwards-Trinity aquifer system of west-central Texas is one of the most species-rich groundwater systems in...

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

authors： Devitt TJ,Wright AM,Cannatella DC,Hillis DM

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray crystal structure of the tetrameric T-antigen-binding lectin from peanut, M(r) 110,000, has been determined by using the multiple isomorphous replacement method and refined to an R value of 0.218 for 22,155 reflections within the 10- to 2.95-A resolution range. Each subunit has essentially the same character...

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

authors： Banerjee R,Mande SC,Ganesh V,Das K,Dhanaraj V,Mahanta SK,Suguna K,Surolia A,Vijayan M

更新日期：1994-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is associated with renal dysfunction and vasoconstriction. The kidneys of young SHRs exhibit exaggerated reactivity to angiotensin II (Ang-II) and attenuated responses to vasodilators that normally activate the cAMP signal to buffer hormone-in...

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

authors： Chatziantoniou C,Ruan X,Arendshorst WJ

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in the human oral cavity often grow in an attached multispecies biofilm community. Members of this community display defined interactions that have an impact on the physiology of the individual and the group. Here, we show that during coculture growth with streptococci, the oral pathogen Aggregatibacter actin...

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

authors： Ramsey MM,Whiteley M

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus oocytes injected with rat brain mRNA, as in neurons, glycine greatly potentiated responses of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type of excitatory amino acid receptor. Injected oocytes generated a partially desensitizing inward current in response to NMDA with 30 nM added glycine. As the added glycine concent...

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

authors： Lerma J,Zukin RS,Bennett MV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles virus (MeV) is the poster child for acute infection followed by lifelong immunity. However, recent work shows the presence of MeV RNA in multiple sites for up to 3 mo after infection in a proportion of infected children. Here, we use experimental infection of rhesus macaques to show that prolonged RNA presence...

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

authors： Lin WH,Kouyos RD,Adams RJ,Grenfell BT,Griffin DE

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene IL-3 encodes interleukin 3, a hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) that is capable of supporting the proliferation of a broad range of hematopoietic cell types. By using somatic cell hybrids and in situ chromosomal hybridization, we localized this gene to human chromosome 5 at bands q23-31, a chromos...

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

authors： Le Beau MM,Epstein ND,O'Brien SJ,Nienhuis AW,Yang YC,Clark SC,Rowley JD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) uses the energy released by reduction of O2 to H2O to drive eight charges from the high pH to low pH side of the membrane, increasing the electrochemical gradient. Four electrons and protons are used for chemistry, while four more protons are pumped. Proton pumping requires that residues on ...

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

authors： Lu J,Gunner MR

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro data show that the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein associates with the mitotic spindle and that mouse embryonic stem cells with biallelic Apc mutations are karyotypically unstable. These findings led to suggestions that APC acts in chromosomal segregation and that APC inactivation leads to chromosoma...

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

authors： Sieber OM,Heinimann K,Gorman P,Lamlum H,Crabtree M,Simpson CA,Davies D,Neale K,Hodgson SV,Roylance RR,Phillips RK,Bodmer WF,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the mutagenic effects of site-specific, covalent modifications of biologically active DNA, we need host cells that are permissive for any type of mutation that might be produced in vivo from the modified DNA. Specifically, we require a general, in vivo complementation system for the bacteriophage phi...

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

authors： Humayun MZ,Chambers RW

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Belgrade (b) rat has an autosomal recessively inherited, microcytic, hypochromic anemia associated with abnormal reticulocyte iron uptake and gastrointestinal iron absorption. The b reticulocyte defect appears to be failure of iron transport out of endosomes within the transferrin cycle. Aspects of this phenotype ...

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

authors： Fleming MD,Romano MA,Su MA,Garrick LM,Garrick MD,Andrews NC

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of founder events in promoting evolutionary changes on islands has been a subject of long-running controversy. Resolution of this debate has been hindered by a lack of empirical evidence from naturally founded island populations. Here we undertake a genetic analysis of a series of historically documente...

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

authors： Clegg SM,Degnan SM,Kikkawa J,Moritz C,Estoup A,Owens IP

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification and cloning of a 28-kDa polypeptide (p28) in Tetrahymena macronuclei that shares several features with the well studied heterochromatin-associated protein HP1 from Drosophila. Notably, like HP1, p28 contains both a chromodomain and a chromoshadow domain. p28 also shares features with linke...

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

authors： Huang H,Wiley EA,Lending CR,Allis CD

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells within a genetically identical population exhibit phenotypic variation that in some cases can persist across multiple generations. However, information about the temporal variation and familial dependence of protein levels remains hidden when studying the population as an ensemble. To correlate phenotypes with t...

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

authors： Rowat AC,Bird JC,Agresti JJ,Rando OJ,Weitz DA

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic arcuate nucleus is involved in the control of energy intake and expenditure and may participate in the pathogenesis of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). Two systems are of particular interest in this respect, synthesizing alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alp...

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

authors： Fetissov SO,Hallman J,Oreland L,Af Klinteberg B,Grenbäck E,Hulting AL,Hökfelt T

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mandible recovered in 2003 from the Aurora Stratum of the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain). The specimen, catalogued as ATD6-96, adds to the hominin sample recovered from this site in 1994-1996, and assigned to Homo antecessor. ATD6-96 is the left half of a gracile m...

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

authors： Carbonell E,Bermúdez de Castro JM,Arsuaga JL,Allue E,Bastir M,Benito A,Cáceres I,Canals T,Díez JC,van der Made J,Mosquera M,Ollé A,Pérez-González A,Rodríguez J,Rodríguez XP,Rosas A,Rosell J,Sala R,Vallverdú J,Vergés

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotypical patterns of vascular and neuronal networks suggest that specific genetic programs tightly control path determination and, consequently, angiogenesis and axon-guidance mechanisms. Our study focuses on one member of the roundabout family of receptors, which traditionally mediate repulsion from the midline....

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

authors： Bedell VM,Yeo SY,Park KW,Chung J,Seth P,Shivalingappa V,Zhao J,Obara T,Sukhatme VP,Drummond IA,Li DY,Ramchandran R

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An inversion loop seen in heteroduplex mapping of the DNA of mature Mu phage induced from a lysogen is observed also in defective lambda phage carrying one end of Mu. 14% of the DNA of Mu, including this region, designated the G loop, is shown to be to the right of all known genes in the prophage map. The inhomogeneou...

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

authors： Daniell E,Boram W,Abelson J

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although they lie at the conceptual core of a wide range of scientific questions, the notions of irregular or "random" arrangement and the process of randomization itself have never been unambiguously defined. Algorithmic implementation of these concepts requires a combinatorial, rather than a probability-theoretic, f...

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

authors： Singer BH,Pincus S

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-hairpin-helix DNA glycosylases are typically small proteins that initiate repair of DNA by excising damaged or mispaired bases. An invariant aspartic acid in the active site is involved in catalyzing the excision reaction. Replacement of this critical residue with an asparagine severely reduces catalytic activit...

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

authors： Choi Y,Harada JJ,Goldberg RB,Fischer RL

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s,...

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

authors： Schulz Paulsson B

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose entry, as measured by 5-min uptake into the acid-soluble fraction, is enhanced 15-30 times by long-term (12-24 hr) hexose starvation of chick fibroblasts. The rate of galactose accumulation in the cells increases only 5 times under the same conditions of starvation. Several carbon and energy sources that were ...

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

authors： Martineau R,Kohlbacher M,Shaw SN,Amos H

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses modulate biochemical cellular pathways to permit infection. A recently described mechanism mediates selective protein interactions between acidic domain readers and unacetylated, lysine-rich regions, opposite of bromodomain function. Kaposi´s sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is tightly linked with KS...

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

authors： Juillard F,de Miranda MP,Li S,Franco A,Seixas AF,Liu B,Álvarez ÁL,Tan M,Szymula A,Kaye KM,Simas JP

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Serine biosynthesis, a crucial metabolic process in most domains of life, is initiated by d-3-phosphoglycerate (d-3-PG) dehydrogenation, a thermodynamically unfavorable reaction catalyzed by d-3-PG dehydrogenase (SerA). d-2-Hydroxyglutarate (d-2-HG) is traditionally viewed as an abnormal metabolite associated with c...

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

authors： Zhang W,Zhang M,Gao C,Zhang Y,Ge Y,Guo S,Guo X,Zhou Z,Liu Q,Zhang Y,Ma C,Tao F,Xu P

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The human amygdala plays a key role in recognizing facial emotions and neurons in the monkey and human amygdala respond to the emotional expression of faces. However, it remains unknown whether these responses are driven primarily by properties of the stimulus or by the perceptual judgments of the perceiver. We invest...

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

authors： Wang S,Tudusciuc O,Mamelak AN,Ross IB,Adolphs R,Rutishauser U

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured quantitatively the binding affinities of purified Cro repressor to the chemically synthesized wild-type and mutant OR1 operators, consisting of all three possible base-pair substitutions and of thymine to uracil substitutions at each base-pair position of the 17-base-pair operator sequence. The sequence-sp...

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

authors： Takeda Y,Sarai A,Rivera VM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is an activating ligand of the Met receptor tyrosine kinase, whose activity is essential for normal tissue development and organ regeneration but abnormal activation of Met has been implicated in growth, invasion, and metastasis of many types of solid tumors. HGF has two natural splice v...

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

authors： Tolbert WD,Daugherty-Holtrop J,Gherardi E,Vande Woude G,Xu HE

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The sophistication of the insect olfactory system is elegantly demonstrated by the reception of sex pheromone by the Japanese beetle. In this insect, two olfactory receptor neurons housed in antennal sensilla placodea are highly sensitive. One neuron specifically detects the sex pheromone produced by conspecific femal...

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

authors： Ishida Y,Leal WS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial cells are organized into either a single layer (simple epithelia) or multiple layers (stratified epithelia). Maintenance of these cellular organizations requires distinct adhesive mechanisms involving many cell surface molecules. One such molecule is a cell surface proteoglycan, named syndecan, that contain...

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

authors： Sanderson RD,Bernfield M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00