Resonance Raman spectra of bacteriorhodopsin's primary photoproduct: evidence for a distorted 13-cis retinal chromophore.

abstract：:We examine how presentations of organ donation cases in the media may affect people's willingness to sign organ donation commitment cards, donate the organs of a deceased relative, support the transition to an "opt-out" policy, or donate a kidney while alive. We found that providing identifying information about the p...

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

authors： Harel I,Kogut T,Pinchas M,Slovic P

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is a causative agent of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). To elucidate the role of HTLV-I in leukemogenesis, we examined the biological activity of a defective HTLV-I provirus with the env-pX 3' long terminal repeat region cloned from leukemic cells of an ATL patient. Transfectio...

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

authors： Tanaka A,Takahashi C,Yamaoka S,Nosaka T,Maki M,Hatanaka M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of PC12 cells with either nerve growth factor or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate caused a decrease in the phosphorylation of a soluble 100-kDa protein (Nsp100). After treatment with nerve growth factor, the activity of Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) in the cytosol was incre...

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

authors： Hama T,Huang KP,Guroff G

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory is a hallmark of adaptive immunity, and understanding T cell memory will be central to the development of effective cell-mediated vaccines. The characteristics and functions of CD4 memory cells have not been well defined. Here we demonstrate that the increased size of the secondary response is sol...

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

authors： MacLeod MK,McKee A,Crawford F,White J,Kappler J,Marrack P

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal integration in visual perception is thought to occur within cycles of occipital alpha-band (8-12 Hz) oscillations. Successive stimuli may be integrated when they fall within the same alpha cycle and segregated for different alpha cycles. Consequently, the speed of alpha oscillations correlates with the tempor...

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

authors： Wutz A,Melcher D,Samaha J

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex three-dimensional biophotonic nanostructures produce the vivid structural colors of many butterfly wing scales, but their exact nanoscale organization is uncertain. We used small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on single scales to characterize the 3D photonic nanostructures of five butterfly species from two fam...

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

authors： Saranathan V,Osuji CO,Mochrie SG,Noh H,Narayanan S,Sandy A,Dufresne ER,Prum RO

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of phospholipase C regulation by inhibitory receptors was analyzed both in intact and in permeabilized rat thyroid cells (FRTL5). In this system, the muscarinic agonist carbachol inhibited phospholipase C, as indicated by the decrease in the basal levels of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate as well as by the ...

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

authors： Bizzarri C,Di Girolamo M,D'Orazio MC,Corda D

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that cause aging are not well understood. The oxidative stress hypothesis proposes that the changes associated with aging are a consequence of random oxidative damage to biomolecules. We hypothesized that oxidation of specific proteins is critical in controlling the rate of the aging process. Utilizing ...

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

authors： Yan LJ,Levine RL,Sohal RS

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanidinium group of arginine-166 has been postulated to act as an electrophilic species during phosphorylation of alkaline phosphatase. Its role could be either to stabilize the developing negative charge on the oxygen of the leaving group or the pentacoordinate transition state or to help bind the -PO2-3 group. ...

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

authors： Butler-Ransohoff JE,Kendall DA,Kaiser ET

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized the presence of hepatic receptors for galactose-terminal glycoproteins to achieve specific rescue of differentiated hepatocytes from methotrexate toxicity. This was accomplished by administration of a conjugate formed by covalent coupling of the methotrexate antagonist, folinic acid (leucovorin), to galact...

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

authors： Wu GY,Wu CH,Stockert RJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ES cells represent a valuable model for investigating early embryo development and hold promise for future regenerative medicine strategies. The self-renewal of pluripotent mouse ES cells has been shown to require extrinsic stimulation by the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and leukemia inhibitory factor signaling pa...

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

authors： Suzuki A,Raya Á,Kawakami Y,Morita M,Matsui T,Nakashima K,Gage FH,Rodríguez-Esteban C,Izpisúa Belmonte JC

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome translocations between Ig (Ig) and non-Ig genes are frequently associated with B-cell lymphomas in humans and mice. The best characterized of these is c-myc/IgH translocation, which is associated with Burkitt's lymphoma. These translocations are caused by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which p...

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

authors： Jankovic M,Robbiani DF,Dorsett Y,Eisenreich T,Xu Y,Tarakhovsky A,Nussenzweig A,Nussenzweig MC

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The supposition that agricultural intensification results in land sparing for conservation has become central to policy formulations across the tropics. However, underlying assumptions remain uncertain and have been little explored in the context of conservation incentive schemes such as policies for Reducing Emission...

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

authors： Phelps J,Carrasco LR,Webb EL,Koh LP,Pascual U

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated developing plastids from greening cucumber cotyledons or from photoperiodically grown pea seedlings incorporated (14)C-labeled 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) into chlorophyll (Chl). Incorporation was light dependent, enhanced by S-adenosylmethionine, and linear for 1 hr. The in vitro rate of Chl synthesis from A...

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

authors： Bhaya D,Castelfranco PA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct structural insights on the fundamental mechanisms of permeation, selectivity, and gating remain unavailable for the Na(+) and Ca(2+) channel families. Here, we report the spectroscopic structural characterization of the isolated Voltage-Sensor Domain (VSD) of the prokaryotic Na(+) channel NaChBac in a lipid bil...

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

authors： Chakrapani S,Sompornpisut P,Intharathep P,Roux B,Perozo E

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, genetic, neurological disorder resulting from a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the gene that encodes for the protein huntingtin. These excessive repeats confer a toxic gain of function on huntingtin, which leads to the degeneration of striatal and cortical neurons and a devasta...

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

authors： McBride JL,Ramaswamy S,Gasmi M,Bartus RT,Herzog CD,Brandon EP,Zhou L,Pitzer MR,Berry-Kravis EM,Kordower JH

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional regulation is an important step in the regulation of gene expression. In this article, we show an unexpected connection between two proteins that participate in different processes of posttranscriptional regulation that ensures the production of functional mRNA molecules. Specifically, we show that...

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

authors： Agranat L,Raitskin O,Sperling J,Sperling R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H(2)O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770 °C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shal...

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

authors： Mibe K,Kawamoto T,Matsukage KN,Fei Y,Ono S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of metal ions and amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregates found in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been suggested to be involved in AD pathogenesis. To investigate metal-Aβ-associated pathways in AD, development of chemical tools to target metal-Aβ species is desired. Only a few efforts, how...

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

authors： Choi JS,Braymer JJ,Nanga RP,Ramamoorthy A,Lim MH

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of catecholamine release was studied in the isolated adrenal of the cat during retrograde perfusion. Theophylline, adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP), and dibutyryl-cyclic AMP stimulated catecholamine release in adrenal chromaffin tissue; adenosine, 2'-AMP, 3'-AMP, and 5'-AMP were ineffectiv...

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

authors： Peach MJ

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible binding of the haptens 2,4-dinitrophenyllysine (DNP-lysine) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyllysine (TNP-lysine) to either the nitrophenyl-binding myeloma protein MOPC-315 or to pooled mouse anti-DNP or anti-TNP antibodies produces large and characteristic extrinsic Cotton effects (in the circular dichroic spect...

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

authors： Glaser M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid that consists of an 812-base-pair segment containing the replication origin of plasmid ColE1 and of a 1240-base-pair segment containing a beta-lactamase gene has been constructed. The plasmid DNA has three principal sites where transcription is initiated in vitro. One is located in the ColE1 segment 555 nucl...

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

authors： Itoh T,Tomizawa J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+ glycohydrolase activity is found at high levels in submitochondrial particles. It leads to the reaction products ADP-ribose, nicotinamide, and small amounts of 5'-AMP. Furthermore, submitochondrial particles catalyze the exchange reaction: [adenosine-14C]ADP-ribose + NAD+ in equilibrium [adenosine-14C]-NAD+ + ADP...

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

authors： Richter C,Winterhalter KH,Baumhüter S,Lötscher HR,Moser B

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New neurons are generated in adult mammalians and may contribute to repairing the brain after injury. Here, we show that the number of new neurons in the dentate gyrus of adult rats increased in cerebral ischemic stroke and correlated with activation of the cAMP-response-element-binding protein (CREB). Inhibition of e...

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

authors： Zhu DY,Lau L,Liu SH,Wei JS,Lu YM

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a fracture network is a key process for many geophysical and industrial practices from energy resource recovery to induced seismic management. We focus on the initial stage of a fracture network formation using experiments on the symmetric coalescence of two equal coplanar, fluid-driven, penny-shaped ...

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

authors： O'Keeffe NJ,Zheng Z,Huppert HE,Linden PF

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations-coined "soft spots"-, which follow a universal [Formula: see text] density of states in the limit of low frequencies ω. All glass-specific properties, such as the dependence on the preparation protocol or composition, are encapsulat...

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

authors： Rainone C,Bouchbinder E,Lerner E

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In facultative photoperiodic flowering plants, noninductive photoperiods result in a delay in flowering, but such plants eventually flower, illustrating plasticity in an important developmental transition, flowering. The model plant, Arabidopsis, has a facultative photoperiod response. Although the inductive flowering...

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

authors： Kim DH,Sung S

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of genes associated with sexual traits and reproduction evolve at the sequence level faster than the majority of genes coding for non-sex-related traits. Whole genome analyses allow this observation to be extended beyond the limited set of genes that have been studied thus far. We use cDNA microarrays to demo...

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

authors： Meiklejohn CD,Parsch J,Ranz JM,Hartl DL

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured high-resolution x-ray absorption spectra of lanthanide (Ln) and heavy transition metal complexes that display prominent narrow absorption peaks near the L2 and L3 absorption edges. The anomalous scattering factors (f' and f"), which are mathematically related to the absorption cross section, have corr...

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

authors： Lye RC,Phillips JC,Kaplan D,Doniach S,Hodgson KO

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of dystrophin and its associated proteins in normal muscle function is now well established. Many of these proteins are expressed in nonmuscle tissues, particularly the brain. Here we describe the characterization of beta-dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related protein that is abundantly expressed in brain a...

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

authors： Blake DJ,Nawrotzki R,Loh NY,Górecki DC,Davies KE

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00