Local alterations of Krox-20 and Hox gene expression in the hindbrain suggest lack of rhombomeres 4 and 5 in homozygote null Hoxa-1 (Hox-1.6) mutant embryos.

abstract：:A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually decli...

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

authors： Way SF,Morgan AC,Clauset A,Larremore DB

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological and genetic association studies show that genetics play an important role in the attainment of education. Here, we investigate the effect of this genetic component on the reproductive history of 109,120 Icelanders and the consequent impact on the gene pool over time. We show that an educational attainm...

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

authors： Kong A,Frigge ML,Thorleifsson G,Stefansson H,Young AI,Zink F,Jonsdottir GA,Okbay A,Sulem P,Masson G,Gudbjartsson DF,Helgason A,Bjornsdottir G,Thorsteinsdottir U,Stefansson K

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression vector containing the murine c-ets-2 protooncogene cDNA was introduced into NIH 3T3 cells by DNA transfection. The cells transfected with this construct showed foci of densely growing, morphologically altered cells, when grown either in low-serum (0.05%) or in serum-free medium. The c-ets-2-derived foci ...

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

authors： Seth A,Watson DK,Blair DG,Papas TS

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of gamma-glutamylcysteinylglycyl monomethyl (or monoethyl) ester to mice leads to substantial increases in the levels of glutathione in the liver and kidney. Mice depleted of glutathione by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine, a potent inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, exhibited about a ...

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

authors： Puri RN,Meister A

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium ljungdahlii is an anaerobic homoacetogen, able to ferment sugars, other organic compounds, or CO(2)/H(2) and synthesis gas (CO/H(2)). The latter feature makes it an interesting microbe for the biotech industry, as important bulk chemicals and proteins can be produced at the expense of CO(2), thus combining...

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

authors： Köpke M,Held C,Hujer S,Liesegang H,Wiezer A,Wollherr A,Ehrenreich A,Liebl W,Gottschalk G,Dürre P

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating platelets have important functions in thrombosis and in modulating immune and inflammatory responses. However, the role of platelets in innate immunity to bacterial infection is largely unexplored. While human platelets rapidly kill Staphylococcus aureus, we found the neonatal pathogen group B Streptococcu...

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

authors： Uchiyama S,Sun J,Fukahori K,Ando N,Wu M,Schwarz F,Siddiqui SS,Varki A,Marth JD,Nizet V

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A determinanat for chloramphenicol resistance, cam, initially detected on a resistance transfer factor (RTF) and since transferred to phage P1, may be acquired from P1 by coliphage lambda. Lambdapcam are obtained when a lambda prophage is induced in bacteria which also harbor P1 cam prophage. Lambdacam formation is no...

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

authors： Gottesman MM,Rosner JL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of pathogen clone emergence is relatively poorly understood. Acquisition of a bacteriophage encoding a previously unknown secreted phospholipase A(2) (designated SlaA) has been implicated in the rapid emergence in the mid-1980s of a new hypervirulent clone of serotype M3 group A Streptococcus. Alth...

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

authors： Sitkiewicz I,Nagiec MJ,Sumby P,Butler SD,Cywes-Bentley C,Musser JM

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundances of (92)Nb and (146)Sm in the early solar system are determined from meteoritic analysis, and their stellar production is attributed to the p process. We investigate if their origin from thermonuclear supernovae deriving from the explosion of white dwarfs with mass above the Chandrasekhar limit is in agr...

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

authors： Lugaro M,Pignatari M,Ott U,Zuber K,Travaglio C,Gyürky G,Fülöp Z

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In human adults, learning and memory under acute stress are characterized by an increased use of rigid habitual response strategies at the cost of flexible cognitive strategies. The immediate effects of stress on cognitive functioning early in life are not well understood. Here we show experimentally that acute stress...

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

authors： Seehagen S,Schneider S,Rudolph J,Ernst S,Zmyj N

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock modulates expression of a large fraction of the Arabidopsis genome and affects many aspects of plant growth and development. We have discovered one way in which the circadian system regulates hormone signaling, identifying a node that links the clock and auxin networks. Auxin plays key roles in dev...

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

authors： Rawat R,Schwartz J,Jones MA,Sairanen I,Cheng Y,Andersson CR,Zhao Y,Ljung K,Harmer SL

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When purified dimers of hemagglutinin-neuraminidase molecules released by protease digestion from three strains of human parainfluenza virus 1 were used in crystallization trials, long thin needle crystals formed. Electron microscopic analysis of these needle crystals revealed that they are composed of stacks of tripl...

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

authors： Murti KG,Takimoto T,Laver WG,Portner A

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as important cellular-signaling agents for cellular survival. Herein, we demonstrate that ROS-mediated oxidation of DNA to yield 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in gene promoters is a signaling agent for gene activation. Enhanced gene expression occurs when OG is formed in guan...

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

authors： Fleming AM,Ding Y,Burrows CJ

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron flow is increasingly recognized as being essential in plant growth, generating a pH gradient across thylakoid membrane (ΔpH) that contributes to ATP synthesis and triggers the protective process of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) under stress conditions. Here, we report experiments demonstrating the i...

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

authors： Joliot P,Johnson GN

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The restoration of planar cell polarity is an essential but poorly understood step toward physiological recovery during sensory-organ regeneration. Investigating this issue in the lateral line of the zebrafish, we found that hair cells regenerate in pairs along a single axis established by the restricted localization ...

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

authors： López-Schier H,Hudspeth AJ

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose differential principal component analysis (dPCA) for analyzing multiple ChIP-sequencing datasets to identify differential protein-DNA interactions between two biological conditions. dPCA integrates unsupervised pattern discovery, dimension reduction, and statistical inference into a single framework. It use...

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

authors： Ji H,Li X,Wang QF,Ning Y

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of specific trans-acting transcription factors in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes has been greatly facilitated by genetic analysis of mutant strains deficient in such factors. We have developed such a system to study mammalian trans-acting factors that regulate the transcription of class II major histocompa...

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

authors： Calman AF,Peterlin BM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that platelets express high levels of the tyrosine protein kinase pp60c-src. By a quantitative immunoblot assay, it is shown in this report that pp60c-src represents 0.2-0.4% of total platelet protein. The expression of high levels of pp60c-src in platelets correlated with high levels of tot...

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

authors： Golden A,Brugge JS

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol, an activator of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors of NG108-15 hybrid cells, inhibits adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] rapidly and reversibly and slowly evokes a 200-300% increase in adenylate cyclase activity over a period of 24-30 hr. Both the inhibition of adenylate cyc...

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

authors： Nathanson NM,Klein WL,Nirenberg M

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated changes in gene expression underlie the early patterning and cell-type specification of the central nervous system. However, much less is known about how such changes contribute to later stages of circuit assembly and refinement. In this study, we employ single-cell RNA sequencing to develop a detailed, wh...

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

authors： Kalish BT,Cheadle L,Hrvatin S,Nagy MA,Rivera S,Crow M,Gillis J,Kirchner R,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:As the Conus shell grows by spiraling of the outer lip around the axis, profound internal shell dissolution thins the walls of the protected penultimate whorl from several millimeters to <50mum. Shell material is added to the inside of the spire and the anterior part of the columella. The resulting shell has a uniform...

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

authors： Kohn AJ,Myers ER,Meenakshi VR

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In translation, elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) molecules deliver aminoacyl-tRNAs to the mRNA-programmed ribosome. The GTPase activity of EF-Tu is triggered by ribosome-induced conformational changes of the factor that play a pivotal role in the selection of the cognate aminoacyl-tRNAs. We present a 6.7-A cryo-electron m...

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

authors： Villa E,Sengupta J,Trabuco LG,LeBarron J,Baxter WT,Shaikh TR,Grassucci RA,Nissen P,Ehrenberg M,Schulten K,Frank J

更新日期：2009-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of actin stress fibers in normal and regenerating (after endothelial denudation by means of a balloon catheter) rabbit aortic endothelial cells has been studied by means of immunofluorescence with human actin autoantibodies on en face endothelial cell preparations. Our results show that: (i) under nor...

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

authors： Gabbiani G,Gabbiani F,Lombardi D,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription initiation factor TFIID is a multimeric protein complex that plays a central role in transcriptional regulation by facilitating promoter responses to various activators. cDNAs encoding the 110-kDa subunit of Drosophila TFIID (p110) were isolated with a degenerate oligodeoxynucleotide probe based on an am...

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

authors： Kokubo T,Gong DW,Roeder RG,Horikoshi M,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most paleo-episodes of ocean acidification (OA) were either too slow or too small to be instructive in predicting near-future impacts. The end-Cretaceous event (66 Mya) is intriguing in this regard, both because of its rapid onset and also because many pelagic calcifying species (including 100% of ammonites and more t...

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

authors： Tyrrell T,Merico A,Armstrong McKay DI

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The human retinoic acid receptor (hRAR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates the transcription of target genes in a ligand-dependent manner. The three hRAR isotypes are targets for retinoids that are used in the treatment of various diseases, including breast cancer and skin diseases. Drug ef...

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

authors： Klaholz BP,Mitschler A,Belema M,Zusi C,Moras D

更新日期：2000-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Helicobacter pylori immunodominant protein, CagA, is associated with severe gastritis and carcinoma. Injection of CagA into gastric epithelial cells by type IV secretion leads to actin-cytoskeletal rearrangements and cell scattering. CagA has been reported to have no role in the induction of transcription factor N...

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

authors： Brandt S,Kwok T,Hartig R,König W,Backert S

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:After sublethal (6 Gy) whole-body irradiation, the C57BL/Ba (Thy-1.1) murine thymus regenerated in two waves, on days 3-10 and 25-32, separated by a severe relapse. The second phase of depletion-reconstitution reproduced the first one, in a less synchronous manner. The depletion affected all cell subsets, but CD4+ CD8...

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

authors： Penit C,Ezine S

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based largely on studies in xenograft models, lipocalin-2 (Lcn2) has been implicated in the progression of multiple types of human tumors, including breast cancer. Here we examine the role of Lcn2 in mammary tumorigenesis and lung metastasis using an in vivo molecular genetics approach. We crossed a well-characterized...

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

authors： Berger T,Cheung CC,Elia AJ,Mak TW

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is reviewed from a personal perspective. This review is necessarily biased and limited by space because it attempts to cover a time span approaching five decades. ...

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

authors： Weisskopf MC

更新日期：2010-04-20 00:00:00