Characterization of rat hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor.

abstract：:Both polarities of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus are sources of self-cleaving sequences. RNA of the less abundant, negative polarity, designated sTobRV-(-)RNA, has cleaving activity that was mapped previously to two noncontiguous regions of the polyribonucleotide chain. Endoribonucleolytic oligoribonucle...

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

authors： Feldstein PA,Buzayan JM,van Tol H,deBear J,Gough GR,Gilham PT,Bruening G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Look-through mutagenesis (LTM) is a multidimensional mutagenesis method that simultaneously assesses and optimizes combinatorial mutations of selected amino acids. The process focuses on a precise distribution within one or more complementarity determining region (CDR) domains and explores the synergistic contribution...

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

authors： Rajpal A,Beyaz N,Haber L,Cappuccilli G,Yee H,Bhatt RR,Takeuchi T,Lerner RA,Crea R

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in determining the induction of T cell responses. IL-27 production by DCs favors induction of IL-10-producing regulatory T cells, whereas osteopontin (OPN) promotes pathogenic IL-17 T cell responses. The regulatory mechanisms in DCs that control these two cells types are not u...

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

authors： Murugaiyan G,Mittal A,Weiner HL

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are socially monogamous, males vary in both sexual and spatial fidelity. Most males form pairbonds, cohabit with one female, and defend territories. Wandering males, in contrast, have expansive home ranges that overlap many males and females. In the laboratory, pairing is ...

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

authors： Ophir AG,Wolff JO,Phelps SM

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T3-induced RNA polymerase, upon copying its specific template, native T3 DNA, initiates RNA chains only with GTP. Denaturation of the DNA results in loss of template specificity for the polymerase. With denatured T3 DNA as template, T3 polymerase initiates RNA chains with both ATP and GTP, and the averag...

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

authors： Maitra U,Huang HH

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High magnetic fields have revealed a surprisingly small Fermi surface in underdoped cuprates, possibly resulting from Fermi-surface reconstruction due to an order parameter that breaks translational symmetry of the crystal lattice. A crucial issue concerns the doping extent of such a state and its relationship to the ...

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

authors： Chan MK,McDonald RD,Ramshaw BJ,Betts JB,Shekhter A,Bauer ED,Harrison N

更新日期：2020-05-05 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：:In the past 15 years, the adoption of subnational immigration policies in the United States, such as those established by individual states, has gone from nearly zero to over 300 per year. These include welcoming policies aimed at attracting and incorporating immigrants, as well as unwelcoming policies directed at den...

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

authors： Huo YJ,Dovidio JF,Jiménez TR,Schildkraut DJ

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The heavy chains of both botulinum neurotoxin type B and tetanus toxin form channels in planar bilayer membranes. These channels have pH-dependent and voltage-dependent properties that are remarkably similar to those previously described for diphtheria toxin. Selectivity experiments with anions and cations show that t...

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

authors： Hoch DH,Romero-Mira M,Ehrlich BE,Finkelstein A,DasGupta BR,Simpson LL

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By considering temperature effects on the mechanical unfolding rates of proteins and RNA, whose energy landscape is rugged, the question posed in the title is answered in the affirmative. Adopting a theory by Zwanzig [Zwanzig, R. (1988) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85, 2029-2030], we show that, because of roughness char...

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

authors： Hyeon C,Thirumalai D

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established a transformation system for Dictyostelium discoideum. The transformation vector contains the protein coding region of the Tn5 neomycin resistance gene fused to the proposed promoter of the Dictyostelium actin 8 gene; the vector also contains a sequence that acts as an autonomously replicating seque...

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

authors： Hirth KP,Edwards CA,Firtel RA

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconscious neural activity has been repeatedly shown to precede and potentially even influence subsequent free decisions. However, to date, such findings have been mostly restricted to simple motor choices, and despite considerable debate, there is no evidence that the outcome of more complex free decisions can be pr...

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

authors： Soon CS,He AH,Bode S,Haynes JD

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous papers of this series, emphasis has been placed on the steady-state phase transition and critical properties of large lattices of interacting, symmetrical, and identical enzyme molecules. The present paper is concerned with a number of examples of enzyme--enzyme interactions that do not belong to the class...

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

authors： Hill TL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of genome stability is essential for the accurate propagation of genetic information and cell growth and survival. Organisms have therefore developed efficient strategies to prevent DNA lesions and rearrangements. Much of the information concerning these strategies has been obtained through the study of ba...

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

authors： Maréchal A,Parent JS,Véronneau-Lafortune F,Joyeux A,Lang BF,Brisson N

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of irreversible cell lineage commitment depends on a delicate balance between positive and negative regulators, which comprise a sophisticated network of transcription factors. Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) stimulates the differentiation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts through the induction o...

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

authors： Nishikawa K,Nakashima T,Hayashi M,Fukunaga T,Kato S,Kodama T,Takahashi S,Calame K,Takayanagi H

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The protooncogene src encodes two proteins, designated pp60c-src+ and pp60c-src.pp60c-src+ is expressed only in neurons, whereas pp60c-src is expressed in neuronal and nonneuronal cells. pp60c-src+ differs from pp60c-src in that it contains an insert of 6 amino acids. To study the evolutionary conservation of the 6-am...

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

authors： Yang XM,Martinez R,Le Beau J,Wiestler O,Walter G

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with a severe attack of acute intermittent porphyria, hematin given intravenously caused marked diminution of serum delta-aminolevulinic acid and porphobilinogen. The decline of aminolevulinate was more rapid than that of porphobilinoge. After 2 days of hematin administration, about 5 days were required f...

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

authors： Bonkowsky HL,Tschudy DP,Collins A,Doherty J,Bossenmaier I,Cardinal R,Watson CJ

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a genetic disease caused by genomic instability. In many cancers, this instability is manifested by chromosomal reconfigurations and karyotypic complexity. These features are particular hallmarks of the epithelial cancers that are some of the malignancies most resistant to long term control by current chemot...

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

authors： Roschke AV,Lababidi S,Tonon G,Gehlhaus KS,Bussey K,Weinstein JN,Kirsch IR

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual loss of telomeric repeat sequences with aging previously has been noted in normal adult tissues, and this process has been implicated in cell senescence. No data exist that address the rate of telomere shortening in normal human cells within families or early in life. To address these questions, we measured ...

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

authors： Frenck RW Jr,Blackburn EH,Shannon KM

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal vision requires the precise control of vascular growth to maintain corneal transparency. Here we provide evidence for a unique mechanism by which the Forkhead box transcription factor FoxC1 regulates corneal vascular development. Murine Foxc1 is essential for development of the ocular anterior segment, and in h...

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

authors： Seo S,Singh HP,Lacal PM,Sasman A,Fatima A,Liu T,Schultz KM,Losordo DW,Lehmann OJ,Kume T

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In many plants, osmotic stress induces a rapid accumulation of proline through de novo synthesis from glutamate. This response is thought to play a pivotal role in osmotic stress tolerance [Kishor, P. B. K., Hong, Z., Miao, G.-H., Hu, C.-A. A. and Verma, D. P. S. (1995) Plant Physiol. 108, 1387-1394]. During recovery ...

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

authors： Verbruggen N,Hua XJ,May M,Van Montagu M

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I multimer technology has become an indispensable immunological assay system to dissect antigen-specific cytotoxic CD8(+) T cell responses by flow cytometry. However, the development of high-throughput assay systems, in which T cell responses against a multitude of epitopes...

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

authors： Bakker AH,Hoppes R,Linnemann C,Toebes M,Rodenko B,Berkers CR,Hadrup SR,van Esch WJ,Heemskerk MH,Ovaa H,Schumacher TN

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins and inhibins, members of the type beta transforming growth factor superfamily of growth regulatory proteins, are produced in multiple tissues and affect diverse physiologic processes. Using embryonic stem cell technology, we previously demonstrated that inhibin can function as a gonadal tumor suppressor. In t...

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

authors： Matzuk MM,Finegold MJ,Mather JP,Krummen L,Lu H,Bradley A

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species, the by-products of oxidative energy metabolism, are considered a main proximate cause of aging. Accordingly, overexpression of the enzyme Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) can lengthen lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster in the laboratory. However, the role of SOD1 as a main determinant of l...

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

authors： Parker JD,Parker KM,Sohal BH,Sohal RS,Keller L

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The qualities of perception depend not only on the sensory inputs but also on the brain state before stimulus presentation. Although the collective evidence from neuroimaging studies for a relation between prestimulus state and perception is strong, the interpretation in the context of sensory computations or decision...

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

authors： Kayser SJ,McNair SW,Kayser C

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolution and diversification of surviving clades. Today, the synergistic effects of human impacts are laying the groundwork for a comparably great Anthropocene mas...

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

authors： Jackson JB

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) gene encodes a cytokine whose activities have been implicated in many immunopathological processes, including the activation and differentiation of lymphocytes. Originally identified as a monocyte factor, our studies and those of others have demonstrated that B and T l...

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

authors： Goldfeld AE,Flemington EK,Boussiotis VA,Theodos CM,Titus RG,Strominger JL,Speck SH

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unambiguous evidence is presented that two X-chromosome inversions produce lethality in X/O males because of position-effect suppression of genes in the basal heterochromatin. The data support the hypothesis that the ribosomal RNA cistrons are the genes suppressed. There is evidence for a region in the X basal heteroc...

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

authors： Baker WK

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soon after the initiation of sporulation, Bacillus subtilis divides asymmetrically to produce sister cells that have very different developmental fates. Recently, it has been proposed that the differential gene expression which begins soon after this division is due to cell-specific activation of the transcription fac...

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

authors： Lewis PJ,Partridge SR,Errington J

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular DNA and RNA were simultaneously quantitated in individual cells of cycling and quiescent populations by flow cytometry. Based on differences in RNA content, two distinct subcompartments, G1A and G1B, were recognized in the G1 phase of exponentially growing cells. After mitosis, cells reside in the low-RNA, G1...

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

authors： Darzynkiewicz Z,Sharpless T,Staiano-Coico L,Melamed MR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00