Parameters affecting conscious versus unconscious visual discrimination with damage to the visual cortex (V1).

abstract：:Bacterial capsules are surface layers made of long-chain polysaccharides. They are anchored to the outer membrane of many Gram-negative bacteria, including pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Pasteurella multocida. Capsules protect pathogens from host defenses includ...

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

authors： Willis LM,Stupak J,Richards MR,Lowary TL,Li J,Whitfield C

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat-86 gene in plasmid pPL603 specifies chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) and is selectively expressed in Bacillus subtilis at a stage in sporulation in which internal spores are first observed (approximately T8). The gene is unexpressed in vegetatively growing cells. cat-86 expression and spore formation ar...

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

authors： Mongkolsuk S,Lovett PS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The late Pleistocene witnessed the extinction of 35 genera of North American mammals. The last appearance dates of 16 of these genera securely fall between 12,000 and 10,000 radiocarbon years ago (approximately 13,800-11,400 calendar years B.P.), although whether the absence of fossil occurrences for the remaining 19 ...

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

authors： Faith JT,Surovell TA

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Covariance analysis of protein sequence alignments uses coevolving pairs of sequence positions to predict features of protein structure and function. However, current methods ignore the phylogenetic relationships between sequences, potentially corrupting the identification of covarying positions. Here, we use random m...

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

authors： Qin C,Colwell LJ

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lines containing two third-chromosome inversions (Arrowhead and Pikes Peak) of Drosophila pseudoobscura selected for fast and slow mating speed were crossed to a multichromosomal, dominant marker inversion stock, and strains with various combinations of chromosomal derivation were tested for their mating activity. Whe...

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

authors： Sherwin RN,Spiess EB

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legumes were among the first plant species to be domesticated, and accompanied cereals in expansion of agriculture from the Fertile Crescent into diverse environments across the Mediterranean basin, Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Although several recent studies have outlined the molecular basis for...

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

authors： Weller JL,Liew LC,Hecht VF,Rajandran V,Laurie RE,Ridge S,Wenden B,Vander Schoor JK,Jaminon O,Blassiau C,Dalmais M,Rameau C,Bendahmane A,Macknight RC,Lejeune-Hénaut I

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The 32-kDa subunit of replication protein A (RPA) is phosphorylated during the S phase of the cell cycle in vivo and during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. To explore the functional significance of this modification, we purified a HeLa cell protein kinase that phosphorylates RPA in the presence of single-str...

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

authors： Brush GS,Anderson CW,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a debilitating mental illness and is often comorbid with metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived hormone with antidiabetic and insulin-sensitizing properties. Here we show that adiponectin levels in plasma are reduced in a chronic social-defeat stress model of dep...

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

authors： Liu J,Guo M,Zhang D,Cheng SY,Liu M,Ding J,Scherer PE,Liu F,Lu XY

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic nematicity, a correlated state that spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry, is observed in several layered quantum materials. In contrast to their liquid-crystal counterparts, the nematic director cannot usually point in an arbitrary direction (XY nematics), but is locked by the crystal to discrete direct...

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

authors： Ishida K,Tsujii M,Hosoi S,Mizukami Y,Ishida S,Iyo A,Eisaki H,Wolf T,Grube K,V Löhneysen H,Fernandes RM,Shibauchi T

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the role of the hippocampal formation in implicit and explicit memory. Human volunteers studied a list of familiar words, and then they either provided the first word that came to mind in response to three-letter cues (implicit memory) or tried to recall studied wo...

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

authors： Schacter DL,Alpert NM,Savage CR,Rauch SL,Albert MS

更新日期：1996-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The shape of a plant is largely determined by regulation of lateral branching. Branching architecture can vary widely in response to both genotype and environment, suggesting regulation by a complex interaction of autonomous genetic factors and external signals. Tillers, branches initiated at the base of grass plants,...

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

authors： Whipple CJ,Kebrom TH,Weber AL,Yang F,Hall D,Meeley R,Schmidt R,Doebley J,Brutnell TP,Jackson DP

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We used gene knockout mice to explore the role of Angiopoietin-like-4 (Angptl4) in lipid metabolism as well as to generate anti-Angptl4 mAbs with pharmacological activity. Angptl4 -/- mice had lower triglyceride (TG) levels resulting both from increased very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) clearance and decreased VLDL ...

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

authors： Desai U,Lee EC,Chung K,Gao C,Gay J,Key B,Hansen G,Machajewski D,Platt KA,Sands AT,Schneider M,Van Sligtenhorst I,Suwanichkul A,Vogel P,Wilganowski N,Wingert J,Zambrowicz BP,Landes G,Powell DR

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450(BioI) (CYP107H1) from the biotin operon of Bacillus subtilis forms a seven-carbon diacid through a multistep oxidative cleavage of a fatty acid linked to acyl carrier protein (ACP). Crystal structures of P450(BioI) in complex with three different length fatty acyl-ACP (Escherichia coli) ligands show th...

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

authors： Cryle MJ,Schlichting I

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genetic maps of Papuan Saccharum officinarum L. (2n = 80) and S. robustum (2n = 80) were constructed by using single-dose DNA markers (SDMs). SDM-framework maps of S. officinarum and S. robustum were compared with genetic maps of sorghum and maize by way of anchor restriction fragment length polymorphism p...

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

authors： Guimarães CT,Sills GR,Sobral BW

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigma-N (sigmaN) subunit of the bacterial RNA polymerase is a sequence specific DNA-binding protein. The RNA polymerase holoenzyme formed with sigmaN binds to promoters in an inactive form and only initiates transcription when activated by enhancer-binding positive control proteins. We now provide evidence to show...

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

authors： Cannon WV,Chaney MK,Wang X,Buck M

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:G9a is an epigenetic regulator that methylates H3K9, generally causing repression of gene expression, and participates in diverse cellular functions. G9a is genetically deregulated in a variety of tumor types and can silence tumor suppressor genes and, therefore, is important for carcinogenesis. Although hypoxia is re...

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

authors： Casciello F,Al-Ejeh F,Kelly G,Brennan DJ,Ngiow SF,Young A,Stoll T,Windloch K,Hill MM,Smyth MJ,Gannon F,Lee JS

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and their conformational transitions play an important role in neurotransmitter release at the neuronal synapse. Here, the SNARE proteins are essential by forming the SNARE complex that drives vesicular membrane fusion. While it is widely accepted that the SNARE proteins are in...

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

authors： Lakomek NA,Yavuz H,Jahn R,Pérez-Lara Á

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation is a process with many steps allowing for stochastic biochemical reactions, which leads to expression noise-i.e., the cell-to-cell stochastic fluctuation in protein abundance. Such expression noise can give rise to drastically diverse phenotypes, even within isogenic cell populations. Although numerous...

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

authors： Li J,Min R,Vizeacoumar FJ,Jin K,Xin X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms regulating expression of mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-encoded superantigens from the viral sag gene are largely unknown, due to problems with detection and quantification of these low-abundance proteins. To study the expression and regulation of the MMTV sag gene, we have developed a sensitive and q...

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

authors： Reuss FU,Coffin JM

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia in animals are colonized by complex communities of microbes. Although a topic of long-standing interest, understanding the evolution of the microbial communities and their role in triggering innate immune responses has resisted analysis. Cnidaria are among the simplest animals at the tissue grade of organiza...

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

authors： Fraune S,Bosch TC

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the angle-resolved transverse resistivity (ARTR), a sensitive indicator of electronic anisotropy, in high-quality thin films of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 grown on various substrates. The ARTR signal, heralding the electronic nematicity or a large nematic susceptibility, is present and ...

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

authors： Wu J,Nair HP,Bollinger AT,He X,Robinson I,Schreiber NJ,Shen KM,Schlom DG,Božović I

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles were extracted from etiolated and light-grown plants, a plant cell suspension culture, and an alga. Upon addition of ATP and Mg(2+), active Ca(2+) uptake into the vesicles against a concentration gradient was shown. The dependence of this uptake on ATP and Mg(2+) concentrations, pH, and temperature i...

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

authors： Gross J,Marmé D

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of long-term information storage by brain type II Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase molecules is explored. Recent evidence indicates that this protein has switch-like properties. Equations are derived showing that a single kinase holoenzyme could form a bistable switch having the stability neces...

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

authors： Lisman JE,Goldring MA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key component of scientific communication is sufficient information for other researchers in the field to reproduce published findings. For computational and data-enabled research, this has often been interpreted to mean making available the raw data from which results were generated, the computer code that generate...

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

authors： Stodden V,Seiler J,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice carrying mutations in either the dominant white-spotting (W) or Steel (Sl) loci exhibit deficits in melanogenesis, gametogenesis, and hematopoiesis. W encodes the Kit receptor tyrosine kinase, while Sl encodes the Kit ligand, Steel factor, and the receptor-ligand pair are contiguously expressed at anatomical site...

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

authors： Motro B,Wojtowicz JM,Bernstein A,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient societies are often used to illustrate the potential problems stemming from unsustainable land-use practices because the past seems rife with examples of sociopolitical "collapse" associated with the exhaustion of finite resources. Just as frequently, and typically in response to such presentations, archaeolog...

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

authors： Wills WH,Drake BL,Dorshow WB

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:β subunits of high voltage-gated Ca2+ (CaV) channels promote cell-surface expression of pore-forming α1 subunits and regulate channel gating through binding to the α-interaction domain (AID) in the first intracellular loop. We addressed the stability of CaV α1B-β interactions by rapamycin-translocatable CaV β subunits...

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

authors： Yeon JH,Park CG,Hille B,Suh BC

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest cell derivatives have been suggested to be involved in thymus development. We established nonlymphoid thymic stromal cell cultures capable of supporting T-cell differentiation. In these nonlymphoid cell cultures, we identified cells with phenotypic and biochemical markers specific for neuronal cells. Neur...

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

authors： Screpanti I,Meco D,Scarpa S,Morrone S,Frati L,Gulino A,Modesti A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional asymmetric PCR is inefficient and difficult to optimize because limiting the concentration of one primer lowers its melting temperature below the reaction annealing temperature. Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR describes a new paradigm for primer design that renders assays as efficient as symmetric...

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

authors： Sanchez JA,Pierce KE,Rice JE,Wangh LJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion of the expected mechanism of radical reduction of carbonyl compounds by dihydroflavin as it relates to the structure of the carbonyl compound is provided. Factors which must be taken into account are the free energies of formation of the radical anions (CR2O), THE ACIDITY OF THE CONJUGATE ACID OF THE CARB...

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

authors： Williams RF,Shinkai S,Bruice TC

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00