Multiple ligands for cytoadherence can be present simultaneously on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes.

abstract：:The identities between homogeneous expressions in rank 1 vectors and rank n - 1 covectors in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of rank n, in which one set occurs multilinearly, are shown to represent a set of dimension-independent identities. The theorem yields an infinite set of nontrivial geometric identities from a given ...

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

authors： Hawrylycz M

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it has become apparent that N = 2 supersymmetric quantum field theory has something to do with cluster algebras. I review one aspect of the connection: supersymmetric quantum field theories have associated hyperkähler moduli spaces, and these moduli spaces carry a structure that looks like an extension of the...

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

authors： Neitzke A

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell signaling systems sense and respond to ligands that bind cell surface receptors. These systems often respond to changes in the concentration of extracellular ligand more rapidly than the ligand equilibrates with its receptor. We demonstrate, by modeling and experiment, a general "systems level" mechanism cells us...

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

authors： Ventura AC,Bush A,Vasen G,Goldín MA,Burkinshaw B,Bhattacharjee N,Folch A,Brent R,Chernomoretz A,Colman-Lerner A

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildfire can influence climate directly and indirectly, but little is known about the relationships between wildfire and climate during the Quaternary, especially how wildfire patterns varied over glacial-interglacial cycles. Here, we present a high-resolution soot record from the Chinese Loess Plateau; this is a reco...

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

authors： Han Y,An Z,Marlon JR,Bradley RS,Zhan C,Arimoto R,Sun Y,Zhou W,Wu F,Wang Q,Burr GS,Cao J

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) in the endoplasmic reticulum mediates calcium signaling that impinges on intracellular processes. IP3Rs are allosteric proteins comprising four subunits that form an ion channel activated by binding of IP3 at a distance. Defective allostery in IP3R is considered crucial...

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

authors： Hamada K,Terauchi A,Nakamura K,Higo T,Nukina N,Matsumoto N,Hisatsune C,Nakamura T,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormone and retinoid X receptors form a heterodimer with each other and mediate thyroid hormone (T3)-dependent transcription. Retinoid X receptor, in addition, forms a homodimer and mediates 9-cis-retinoic acid-dependent transcription. Here, recombinant thyroid hormone receptor and recombinant retinoid X r...

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

authors： Lee IJ,Driggers PH,Medin JA,Nikodem VM,Ozato K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastid development in seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana is affected by the transfer of (1)O(2)-mediated retrograde signals from the plastid to the nucleus and changes in nuclear gene expression during late embryogenesis. The potential impact of these mechanisms on plastid differentiation is maintained throughout seed...

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

authors： Kim C,Lee KP,Baruah A,Nater M,Göbel C,Feussner I,Apel K

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic beta-galactoside transport in whole cells and membrane vesicles from E. coli ML 308-225 is coupled to the oxidation of alpha-glycerol-P or D-lactate with fumarate as an electron acceptor. Alternatively, anaerobic beta-galactoside transport may be coupled to the oxidation of formate utilizing nitrate as elect...

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

authors： Konings WN,Kaback HR

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of life expectancy in 1963 reveals twin peaks in the empirical distribution across countries: one group of countries clustered around a life expectancy of 40 years and a second group clustered around a life expectancy of 65 years. By 2003, the mode of each cluster had moved up by approximately 10 years....

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

authors： Bloom DE,Canning D

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense granules of platelets contain a high content of diadenosine 5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A). We have previously demonstrated an antithrombotic effect of this compound in a live rabbit model. In the present study we find that certain synthetic Ap4A analogues are superior to Ap4A in inhibiting ADP-induced aggr...

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

authors： Zamecnik PC,Kim B,Gao MJ,Taylor G,Blackburn GM

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular recognition code has been hypothesized to exist in which ligands and their binding sites are encoded on complementary segments of genomic DNA. We have tested this hypothesis by generating a rabbit antibody to a synthetic decapeptide (complementary peptide) encoded by an RNA complementary to the mRNA for lu...

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

authors： Mulchahey JJ,Neill JD,Dion LD,Bost KL,Blalock JE

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar granule cells grown in the presence of a serum complex differentiate but are resistant to the lethal action of excitatory amino acids. When these cells are grown also in the presence of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) they become fully susceptible to the toxic, lethal action of glutamate. The glutamate...

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

authors： Calissano P,Ciotti MT,Battistini L,Zona C,Angelini A,Merlo D,Mercanti D

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of red blood cells is normally tightly regulated by a classic homeostatic mechanism based on oxygen sensing in the kidney. Decreased oxygen delivery resulting from anemia induces the production of erythropoietin, which increases red cell production and hence oxygen delivery. Investigations of erythropoietin...

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

authors： Percy MJ,Zhao Q,Flores A,Harrison C,Lappin TR,Maxwell PH,McMullin MF,Lee FS

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:When we grasp and manipulate an object, populations of tactile nerve fibers become activated and convey information about the shape, size, and texture of the object and its motion across the skin. The response properties of tactile fibers have been extensively characterized in single-unit recordings, yielding importan...

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

authors： Saal HP,Delhaye BP,Rayhaun BC,Bensmaia SJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) comprises a significant portion of atmospheric particular matter. The impact of particular matter on both human health and global climate has long been recognized. Despite its importance, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the formation and evolution of SOA in the atmos...

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

authors： Chang WL,Griffin RJ,Dabdub D

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of mammalian cells in progressively increasing concentrations of methotrexate results in selective amplification of DNA sequences coding for dihydrofolate reductase (tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase, 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate:NADP+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.5.1.3). In some cell variants the amplified genes are stabl...

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

authors： Kaufman RJ,Brown PC,Schimke RT

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data indicate that sustained elevations in plasma insulin suppress the mRNA for IRS-2, a component of the insulin signaling pathway in liver, and that this deficiency contributes to hepatic insulin resistance and inappropriate gluconeogenesis. Here, we use nuclear run-on assays to show that insulin inhibits tra...

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

authors： Zhang J,Ou J,Bashmakov Y,Horton JD,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative autoradiographic 2-deoxy-[14C]glucose technique has been used with conscious rats to investigate the functional consequences (reflected as alterations in local rates of glucose utilization) of unilateral intrastriatal administration of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide. Intrastriatal administration of...

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

authors： McCulloch J,Kelly PA,Uddman R,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed model for the structure and dynamics of the interior of the lipid bilayer in the liquid crystal phase is presented. The model includes two classes of motion: (i) the internal dynamics of the chains, determined from Brownian dynamics simulations with a continuous version of the Marcelja mean-field potential,...

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

authors： Pastor RW,Venable RM,Karplus M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the most potent toxins known, disrupt neurotransmission through proteolysis of proteins involved in neuroexocytosis. The light chains of BoNTs are unique zinc proteases that have stringent substrate specificity and require exceptionally long substrates. We have determined the...

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

authors： Segelke B,Knapp M,Kadkhodayan S,Balhorn R,Rupp B

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequence of the first constant (C) region domain (C delta 1) and the hinge region of the delta heavy chain of human IgD WAH and also the sequence of the adjacent COOH-terminal portion of the variable (V) region, including the JH region. Together with the sequence of the Fc fragment al...

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

authors： Putnam FW,Takahashi N,Tetaert D,Debuire B,Lin LC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searches of ribosomal RNA sequences for compensatory base changes preserving Watson-Crick base pairing have led to detailed models of the conserved secondary structures of these RNAs. In principle, tertiary interactions can also be detected by searches for phylogenetically covariant bases. Within a highly conserved re...

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

authors： Ryan PC,Draper DE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial hibernating 100S ribosome is a poorly understood form of the dimeric 70S particle that has been linked to pathogenesis, translational repression, starvation responses, and ribosome turnover. In the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and most other bacteria, hibernation-promoting factor (HPF) ho...

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

authors： Basu A,Yap MN

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In many adult tissues, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are closely associated with perivascular niches and coexpress many markers in common with pericytes. The ability of pericytes to act as MSCs, however, remains controversial. By using genetic lineage tracing, we show that some pericytes differentiate into specialized...

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

authors： Feng J,Mantesso A,De Bari C,Nishiyama A,Sharpe PT

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic mechanisms are required to control formation and maintenance of synaptic connections to maintain the general level of neural impulse activity within normal limits. How genes controlling these processes are co-coordinately regulated during homeostatic synaptic plasticity is unknown. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) exert...

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

authors： Cohen JE,Lee PR,Chen S,Li W,Fields RD

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During Drosophila development, nuclear and cell divisions are coordinated in response to developmental signals. In yeast and mammalian cells, signals that control cell division regulate the activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) through proteins such as cyclins that interact with the Cdks. Here we describe two Dr...

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

authors： Finley RL Jr,Thomas BJ,Zipursky SL,Brent R

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced structural remodeling in the adult hippocampus, involving debranching and shortening of dendrites and suppression of neurogenesis, provides a cellular basis for understanding the impairment of neural plasticity in the human hippocampus in depressive illness. Accordingly, reversal of structural remodelin...

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

authors： Czéh B,Michaelis T,Watanabe T,Frahm J,de Biurrun G,van Kampen M,Bartolomucci A,Fuchs E

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch-signaling pathway controls cellular differentiation, including proliferation and cell death in all higher metazoans (including flies and men). Signal transduction through activated Notch involves the CSL group of transcriptional regulators. Notch signals need to be tightly regulated, and in Drosophila they a...

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

authors： Maier D,Nagel AC,Preiss A

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of temperature on biological processes are complex. Diffusion is less affected than the diverse enzymatic reactions that have distinct individual temperature profiles. Hence thermal fluctuations pose a formidable challenge to ectothermic organisms in which body temperature is largely dictated by the ambient te...

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

authors： Radermacher PT,Myachina F,Bosshardt F,Pandey R,Mariappa D,Müller HA,Lehner CF

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report direct evidence for the existence of an iron(IV)-hydroxide. Resonance Raman measurements on chloroperoxidase compound II (CPO-II) reveal an isotope ((18)O and (2)H)-sensitive band at nu(Fe-O) = 565 cm(-1). Preparation of CPO-II in H(2)O using H(2)(18)O(2) results in a red-shift of 22 cm(-1), while preparatio...

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

authors： Stone KL,Behan RK,Green MT

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00