Spermatophore size as determinant of paternity in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix).

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of community-acquired and nosocomial infections including the life-threatening conditions endocarditis, necrotizing pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis, and septicemia. Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2, a membrane-bound microbial sensor, detects staphylococcal components, but macrophages ...

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

authors： Hruz P,Zinkernagel AS,Jenikova G,Botwin GJ,Hugot JP,Karin M,Nizet V,Eckmann L

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the basis of resistance and sensitivity of normal and transformed cells to histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi)-induced cell death, specifically the role of caspases and thioredoxin (Trx). An important attribute of HDACis is that they induce cancer cell death at concentrations to which normal cell...

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

authors： Ungerstedt JS,Sowa Y,Xu WS,Shao Y,Dokmanovic M,Perez G,Ngo L,Holmgren A,Jiang X,Marks PA

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) signaling is thought to mediate quorum sensing in many species of Proteobacteria. The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses acyl-HSLs to regulate hundreds of genes, including many that code for extracellular virulence factors. The idea that the P. aeruginosa acyl-H...

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

authors： Yarwood JM,Volper EM,Greenberg EP

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Three allelic variants of P-pilus-associated G-adhesins (lectins) with different cell-binding properties were recently described. Here we have analyzed Escherichia coli HB101 strains expressing the recombinant G-adhesin variants for their ability to agglutinate erythrocytes from various species as this relates to the ...

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

authors： Strömberg N,Nyholm PG,Pascher I,Normark S

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin is a blue light photoreceptor for tropic responses, relocation of chloroplasts, and stomata opening in plants. Phototropin has two chromophoric domains named light-oxygen-voltage-sensing (LOV) 1 and 2 in the N-terminal half, and a serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) protein kinase motif in the C-terminal half. Conc...

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

authors： Matsuoka D,Tokutomi S

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24 nucleotides comprising the carbohydrate-recognition domain of Maackia amurensis hemagglutinin (MAH) cDNA were randomly mutated. The mutant lectins were expressed as glutathione-S-transferase fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and 16 clones were randomly chosen. Although all of 16 recombinant lectins reacted st...

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

authors： Yim M,Ono T,Irimura T

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in B-lymphocyte precursors requires the expression of the recombination activating genes (Rag), which leads to the generation of a highly diverse B-cell repertoire. We can use the level of Rag-1 mRNA in the bone marrow as an index of its capacity to support the maturation of B...

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

authors： Ben-Yehuda A,Szabo P,Dyall R,Weksler ME

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of biological phenomena occurs in all types of systems, being manifested in many different reaction types, from allosteric behavior in proteins, through modulation in energy and information transfer, to the control of growth and differentiation in cells, organelles, and organisms. In this communication, a m...

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

authors： Sligar SG,Gunsalus IC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compulsive behavior is a debilitating clinical feature of many forms of neuropsychiatric disease, including Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and autism. Although several studies link striatal dysfunction to compulsivity, the pathophysiology remains poorly understood. Here, ...

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

authors： Xu P,Grueter BA,Britt JK,McDaniel L,Huntington PJ,Hodge R,Tran S,Mason BL,Lee C,Vong L,Lowell BB,Malenka RC,Lutter M,Pieper AA

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the nucleotide sequences of iaaM and iaaH, the genetic determinants for, respectively, tryptophan 2-monooxygenase and indoleacetamide hydrolase, the enzymes that catalyze the conversion of L-tryptophan to indoleacetic acid in the tumor-forming bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. savastanoi. The sequence analy...

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

authors： Yamada T,Palm CJ,Brooks B,Kosuge T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of c-myc, c-fos, and JE mRNAs accumulate in a biphasic pattern following infection of quiescent BALB/c 3T3 mouse cells with polyomavirus. Maximal levels of c-myc and c-fos mRNAs were seen within 1 hr and were nearly undetectable at 6 hr after infection. At 12 hr after infection mRNA levels were again maxima...

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

authors： Zullo J,Stiles CD,Garcea RL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin plays an essential role in growth of mycobacteria. Synthesis of the cofactor is essential for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to establish and maintain chronic infections in a murine model of tuberculosis. Although the late steps of mycobacterial biotin synthesis, assembly of the heterocyclic rings, are thought to f...

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

authors： Hu Z,Cronan JE

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation between North Korean and Latin American isolates in the circumsporozoite (CS) protein encoding gene of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax was studied. Polymorphic positions are confined to the central tandemly repeated sequences. Nucleotide substitutions in the tandem repeats produce variants; these...

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

authors： Arnot DE,Barnwell JW,Stewart MJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most basic predictions of almost any model of crime is that individual time preferences matter. However, empirical evidence on this fundamental property is essentially nonexistent. To our knowledge, this paper provides the first pieces of evidence on the link between time discounting and crime. We use a uni...

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

authors： Åkerlund D,Golsteyn BH,Grönqvist H,Lindahl L

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal deletion provides an important mechanism for the elimination of autoreactive T cells. Deletion is accomplished by programmed cell death directed by interaction of the T-cell receptor (TCR) of the developing thymocyte with major histocompatibility complex elements in the thymic environment. In this report we pre...

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

authors： Russell JH,White CL,Loh DY,Meleedy-Rey P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The λ exonuclease is an ATP-independent enzyme that binds to dsDNA ends and processively digests the 5'-ended strand to form 5' mononucleotides and a long 3' overhang. The crystal structure of λ exonuclease revealed a toroidal homotrimer with a central funnel-shaped channel for tracking along the DNA, and a mechanism ...

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

authors： Zhang J,McCabe KA,Bell CE

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage analysis with restriction fragment length polymorphisms for the gene for type II procollagen (COL2A1) was carried out in a family with the Stickler syndrome, or arthro-ophthalmopathy, an autosomal dominant disorder that affects the eyes, ears, joints, and skeleton. The analysis demonstrated linkage of the dise...

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

authors： Ahmad NN,Ala-Kokko L,Knowlton RG,Jimenez SA,Weaver EJ,Maguire JI,Tasman W,Prockop DJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against the porcine 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor were immobilized on Sepharose CL-4B and used to obtain a highly purified 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor fraction with a 45% recovery of the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 binding capacity. The porcine receptor was purified to homogeneity by prepa...

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

authors： Brown TA,Prahl JM,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patch-clamp technique allows currents to be recorded through single ion channels in patches of cell membrane in the tips of glass pipettes. When recording, voltage is typically applied across the membrane patch to drive ions through open channels and to probe the voltage-sensitivity of channel activity. In this st...

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

authors： Gil Z,Silberberg SD,Magleby KL

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) may act as regulators of morphogenesis by constraining cell motion, forming borders, and controlling intercellular communications that lead to embryonic induction. This postulated causal role of CAMs in inductive events was tested here in an in vitro system of feather induction. In the d...

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

authors： Gallin WJ,Chuong CM,Finkel LH,Edelman GM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor hypoxia and the hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) play a central role in the development of cancer. To study the relationship between tumor growth, tumor hypoxia, the stabilization of HIF-1alpha, and HIF transcriptional activity, we have established an in vivo imaging tool that allows longitudinal and noninvasive...

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

authors： Lehmann S,Stiehl DP,Honer M,Dominietto M,Keist R,Kotevic I,Wollenick K,Ametamey S,Wenger RH,Rudin M

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) was used to determine regional brain volumetric changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. These transgenic (Tg) mice overexpress human mutant amyloid precursor protein (APP) V717F under control of platelet-derived growth factor promoter (PDAPP mice), and corti...

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

authors： Redwine JM,Kosofsky B,Jacobs RE,Games D,Reilly JF,Morrison JH,Young WG,Bloom FE

更新日期：2003-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that normal human presenilins can substitute for Caenorhabditis elegans SEL-12 protein in functional assays in vivo. In addition, six familial Alzheimer disease-linked mutant human presenilins were tested and found to have reduced ability to rescue the sel-12 mutant phenotype, suggesting that they ...

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

authors： Levitan D,Doyle TG,Brousseau D,Lee MK,Thinakaran G,Slunt HH,Sisodia SS,Greenwald I

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of light energy into ion gradients across biological membranes is one of the most fundamental reactions in primary biological energy transduction. Recently, the structure of the first light-activated Na+ pump, Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2), was resolved at atomic resolution [Kato HE, et al. (...

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

authors： Suomivuori CM,Gamiz-Hernandez AP,Sundholm D,Kaila VRI

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain cheU mutants of Salmonella show inverted chemotactic behavior, being repelled by attractants and attracted by repellents. Such a dramatic change in behavioral pattern would seem at first glance to require drastic and complex alterations in the sensory processing system. In fact, the behavior can be explained b...

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

authors： Khan S,Macnab RM,DeFranco AL,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a second-order nonlinear optical process, sum-frequency generation is highly surface-specific and accordingly has been developed into a very powerful and versatile surface spectroscopic tool. It has found many unique applications in different disciplines and thus provided many exciting new research opportunities in...

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

authors： Shen YR

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transport (CT) through the DNA base pairs provides a means to promote redox reactions at a remote site and potentially to effect signaling between molecules bound to DNA. Here we describe the oxidation of a cell-cycle regulatory protein, p53, from a distance through DNA-mediated CT. A consensus p53 binding site...

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

authors： Augustyn KE,Merino EJ,Barton JK

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:p97/VCP (Cdc48 in yeast) is an essential and abundant member of the AAA+ family of ATPases and is involved in a number of diverse cellular pathways through interactions with different adaptor proteins. The two most characterized adaptors for p97 are p47 and the Ufd1 (ubiquitin fusion degradation 1)-Npl4 (nuclear prote...

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

authors： Pye VE,Beuron F,Keetch CA,McKeown C,Robinson CV,Meyer HH,Zhang X,Freemont PS

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro recombination of cloned H-2 genes resulted in two allogeneically novel mouse transplantation antigens in which the C2 domains of H-2Ld and H-2Dd were exchanged. These genes were introduced into mouse L cells by DNA-mediated gene transfer. We have used these transformed fibroblast lines, expressing recombinant...

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

authors： Ozato K,Evans GA,Shykind B,Margulies DH,Seidman JG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus, which is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes while feeding on birds and humans, has emerged as the dominant vector borne disease in North America. We have identified natural compounds from humans and birds, which are detected with extreme sensitivity by olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) on the antennae of...

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

authors： Syed Z,Leal WS

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00