Visual motion induces synchronous oscillations in turtle visual cortex.

abstract：:Venom peptide toxins such as conotoxins play a critical role in the characterization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) structure and function and have potential as nervous system therapeutics as well. However, the lack of solved structures of conotoxins bound to nAChRs and the large size of these peptides ar...

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

authors： Leffler AE,Kuryatov A,Zebroski HA,Powell SR,Filipenko P,Hussein AK,Gorson J,Heizmann A,Lyskov S,Tsien RW,Poget SF,Nicke A,Lindstrom J,Rudy B,Bonneau R,Holford M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

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

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:B-1a cells, an anatomically, phenotypically, and functionally distinct subset of B cells that produce the bulk of natural serum IgM and much of gut-associated IgA, are an important component of the early response to pathogens. Because the induced expression of CD5, a hallmark of B-1a cells, requires a nuclear factor o...

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

authors： Berland R,Wortis HH

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant (r) Mycobacterium bovis strains were constructed that secrete biologically active listeriolysin (Hly) fusion protein of Listeria monocytogenes. The r-BCG strains pAT261:Hly or pMV306:Hly expressed plasmid multicopies or chromosomal single copies of the hly gene, respectively. Human and murine macrophage-li...

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

authors： Hess J,Miko D,Catic A,Lehmensiek V,Russell DG,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently evolved Hawaiian species Drosophila silvestris has a subdivided population structure and shows great spatial heterogeneity in chromosome inversion distributions and frequencies within its extremely limited geographic range. Pattern analysis of the 11 chromosomal polymorphisms in the context of the recentl...

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

authors： Craddock EM,Carson HL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tikal has long been viewed as one of the leading polities of the ancient Maya realm, yet how the city was able to maintain its substantial population in the midst of a tropical forest environment has been a topic of unresolved debate among researchers for decades. We present ecological, paleoethnobotanical, hydraulic,...

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

authors： Lentz DL,Dunning NP,Scarborough VL,Magee KS,Thompson KM,Weaver E,Carr C,Terry RE,Islebe G,Tankersley KB,Grazioso Sierra L,Jones JG,Buttles P,Valdez F,Ramos Hernandez CE

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-terminal triphosphate of the 35S RNA isolated from Rous sarcoma virus is blocked by 7-methylguanosine in 5' linkage with the penultimate nucleoside which is methylated in the 2'-O-ribose position, a type of endgroup found in all animal mRNAs investigated during the past year. The specific nuclease-resistant ter...

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

authors： Keith J,Fraenkel-Conrat H

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of investment has been devoted to protecting and restoring ecosystem services worldwide. The efficiency of conservation investments, including payments for ecosystem services (PES), has been found to be affected by biological, political, economic, demographic, and social factors, but little is kno...

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

authors： Chen X,Lupi F,He G,Liu J

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect gut microbiota plays crucial roles in modulating the interactions between the host and intestinal pathogens. Unlike viruses, bacteria, and parasites, which need to be ingested to cause disease, entomopathogenic fungi infect insects through the cuticle and proliferate in the hemolymph. However, interactions ...

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

authors： Wei G,Lai Y,Wang G,Chen H,Li F,Wang S

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that ancestral mechanisms are often duplicated, repurposed, and differentially regulated to support social behavior. Focusing on recent research from no...

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

authors： Chang SW,Brent LJ,Adams GK,Klein JT,Pearson JM,Watson KK,Platt ML

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear RNA of high molecular weight, approximately 15 to 30 x 10(3) nucleotides long, isolated from rat ascites cells, has been shown previously to contain both middle repetitive and single-copy sequences. However, it was not known whether these sequences were located on separate molecules or whether they were inters...

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

authors： Holmes DS,Bonner J

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNA replicons have been reported in plants and, in one case, in animal cells. We describe such an element in yeast. In certain yeast strains, a 20S RNA species appears on transfer of cells to acetate medium. This phenotype shows cytoplasmic (non-Mendelian) inheritance and the 20S RNA is associated with 23-kDa...

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

authors： Matsumoto Y,Fishel R,Wickner RB

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases contain polypeptide chains of about either 50,000 or 100,000 daltons. Peptide mapping of tryptic, chymotryptic, or Staphylococcus aureus acid protease digests of seryl-tRNA synthetase (100,000, dimer) and leucyl-tRNA synthetase (100,000, monomer) from E. coli was done after selective mo...

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

authors： Waterson RM,Konigsberg WH

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful transmission of genetic material to daughter cells involves a characteristic temporal order of DNA replication, which may play a significant role in the inheritance of epigenetic states. We developed a genome-scale approach--Repli Seq--to map temporally ordered replicating DNA using massively parallel sequenc...

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

authors： Hansen RS,Thomas S,Sandstrom R,Canfield TK,Thurman RE,Weaver M,Dorschner MO,Gartler SM,Stamatoyannopoulos JA

更新日期：2010-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theory indicates that mitochondria were obtained 1.5 billion years ago from an ancient prokaryote. The mitochondria provided the capacity for aerobic respiration, the creation of the eukaryotic cell, and eventually complex multicellular organisms. Recent reports have found that mitochondria play essential role...

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

authors： Spees JL,Olson SD,Whitney MJ,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two prominent timekeeping systems, the cell cycle, which controls cell division, and the circadian system, which controls 24-h rhythms of physiology and behavior, are found in nearly all living organisms. A distinct feature of circadian rhythms is that they are temperature-compensated such that the period of the rhyth...

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

authors： Yeom M,Pendergast JS,Ohmiya Y,Yamazaki S

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We expressed a cDNA encoding the Arabidopsis thaliana defense-related protein ELI3-2 in Escherichia coli to determine its biochemical function. Based on a protein database search, this protein was recently predicted to be a mannitol dehydrogenase [Williamson, J. D., Stoop, J. M. H., Massel, M. O., Conkling, M. A. & Ph...

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

authors： Somssich IE,Wernert P,Kiedrowski S,Hahlbrock K

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Water oxidation by cyanobacteria, algae, and plants is pivotal in oxygenic photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth, and is the paradigm for engineering solar fuel-production systems. Each complete reaction cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation requires the removal of four electrons and four protons fro...

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

authors： Klauss A,Haumann M,Dau H

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:China has experienced rapid urbanization and dramatic economic growth since its reform process started in late 1978. In this article, we present evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate based on analysis of impacts of land-use changes on surface temperature in southeast China, where rapid urbanization...

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

authors： Zhou L,Dickinson RE,Tian Y,Fang J,Li Q,Kaufmann RK,Tucker CJ,Myneni RB

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When an ice crystal is born from liquid water, two key changes occur: (i) The molecules order and (ii) the mobility of the molecules drops as they adopt their lattice positions. Most research on ice nucleation (and crystallization in general) has focused on understanding the former with less attention paid to the latt...

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

authors： Fitzner M,Sosso GC,Cox SJ,Michaelides A

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Male white Swiss mice that had previously been made aggressive by several weeks of individual housing were allowed to fight for 5 to 10 minutes each day for 5, 10, or 14 consecutive days; fighting caused a marked enlargement of their adrenals, spleens, and hearts, and a large increase in adrenal catecholamines; brain ...

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

authors： Welch BL,Welch AS

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-specific DNA-binding small molecules that can permeate human cells potentially could regulate transcription of specific genes. Multiple cellular DNA-binding transcription factors are required by HIV type 1 for RNA synthesis. Two pyrrole-imidazole polyamides were designed to bind DNA sequences immediately adja...

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

authors： Dickinson LA,Gulizia RJ,Trauger JW,Baird EE,Mosier DE,Gottesfeld JM,Dervan PB

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:IFNs are a family of cytokines that are essential for the antiviral response in vertebrates. Not surprisingly, viruses have adapted to encode virulence factors to cope with the IFN response. Intriguingly, we show here that all three types of interferons, IFN-α, IFN-γ, and IFN-λ, efficiently promote infection by a huma...

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

authors： Zhao X,Guo F,Liu F,Cuconati A,Chang J,Block TM,Guo JT

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we explore the nature of the inductive stimuli leading to expression of the divergently regulated lymphokines interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 4 (IL-4). Elevation of cAMP levels blocks IL-2 induction while sparing IL-4 induction. These effects are gene-specific, not cell-specific, and can be observ...

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

authors： Novak TJ,Rothenberg EV

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid and cyclic AMP increase tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity and mRNA levels in pheochromocytoma cultures. The transcriptional activity of the TH gene, as measured by nuclear run-on assay, is also increased when cultures are treated with the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone or agents that increase i...

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

authors： Lewis EJ,Harrington CA,Chikaraishi DM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The empirical criteria for defining a clinical subtype of lung cancer are gradually transiting from histopathology to genetic variations in driver genes. Targeting these driver mutations, such as sensitizing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, has dramatically improved the prognosis of advanced non-smal...

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

authors： Wang Z,Shen Z,Li Z,Duan J,Fu S,Liu Z,Bai H,Zhang Z,Zhao J,Wang X,Wang J

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed a very large set of molecular interactions that had been derived automatically from biological texts. We found that published statements, regardless of their verity, tend to interfere with interpretation of the subsequent experiments and, therefore, can act as scientific "microparadigms," similar to domina...

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

authors： Rzhetsky A,Iossifov I,Loh JM,White KP

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed Differential Specificity and Energy Landscape (DiSEL) analysis to comprehensively compare DNA-protein interactomes (DPIs) obtained by high-throughput experimental platforms and cutting edge computational methods. While high-affinity DNA binding sites are identified by most methods, DiSEL uncovered nu...

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

authors： Bhimsaria D,Rodríguez-Martínez JA,Pan J,Roston D,Korkmaz EN,Cui Q,Ramanathan P,Ansari AZ

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Acetylpyridine 5-[(dimethylamino)thiocarbonyl]thiocarbonohydrazone (A1110U) was found to be a potent inactivator of the ribonucleotide reductases (EC 1.17.4.1) encoded by herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 and by varicella-zoster virus and to be a weaker inactivator of human ribonucleotide reductase. It also markedl...

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

authors： Spector T,Harrington JA,Morrison RW Jr,Lambe CU,Nelson DJ,Averett DR,Biron K,Furman PA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase (EC 4.4.1.14), extracted from tomato pericarp tissue, was purified 6500-fold by conventional and high-performance liquid chromatography. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of this preparation indicated that ACC synthase activity was associated with a protein band at 50...

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

authors： Bleecker AB,Kenyon WH,Somerville SC,Kende H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00