Further comments on the ascorbic acid requirement.

abstract：:The requirement for protein synthesis in the mechanism of a circadian pacemaker was investigated by using inhibitors of protein synthesis. Continuous treatment of the ocular circadian pacemaker of the mollusc Bulla gouldiana with anisomycin or cycloheximide substantially lengthened (up to 39 and 52 hr, respectively) t...

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

authors： Khalsa SB,Whitmore D,Block GD

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research and theory suggest that two stable personality dimensions, extroversion and neuroticism, differentially influence emotional reactivity to a variety of pleasurable phenomena. Here, we use event-related functional MRI to address the putative neural and behavioral associations between humor appreciation...

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

authors： Mobbs D,Hagan CC,Azim E,Menon V,Reiss AL

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteins often localize to distinct sites within the cell, but the primary cues that dictate localization are largely unknown. Recent evidence has shown that positive membrane curvature can serve as a cue for localization of a peripheral membrane protein. Here we report that localization of the peripheral me...

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

authors： Ramamurthi KS,Losick R

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The strikingly high incidence of obstructed labor due to the disproportion of fetal size and the mother's pelvic dimensions has puzzled evolutionary scientists for decades. Here we propose that these high rates are a direct consequence of the distinct characteristics of human obstetric selection. Neonatal size relativ...

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

authors： Mitteroecker P,Huttegger SM,Fischer B,Pavlicev M

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance to multiple unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs impedes the treatment of several cancers. Although the involvement of ATP-binding cassette transporters has long been known, there is no in situ method capable of tracking this transporter-related resistance at the single-cell level without inter...

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

authors： Kuss S,Polcari D,Geissler M,Brassard D,Mauzeroll J

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonesterified fatty acids accumulate at sites of tissue injury and necrosis. In cardiac tissue the concentrations of oleic acid, arachidonic acid, leukotrienes, and other fatty acids increase greatly during ischemia due to receptor or nonreceptor-mediated activation of phospholipases and/or diminished reacylation. In ...

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

authors： Huang JM,Xian H,Bacaner M

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that the Myc and Mad1 proteins are implicated in the regulation of the gene encoding the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), the catalytic subunit of telomerase. We have analyzed the in vivo interaction between endogenous c-Myc and Mad1 proteins and the hTERT promoter in HL60 cells...

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

authors： Xu D,Popov N,Hou M,Wang Q,Björkholm M,Gruber A,Menkel AR,Henriksson M

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gating currents of the cloned delayed-rectifier K+ channel DRK1 expressed in Xenopus oocytes were measured with the open-oocyte Vaseline-gap voltage-clamp technique. DRK1 gating charge had the following salient properties: (i) gating-charge amplitude correlated positively with size of the expressed ionic K+ currents; ...

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

authors： Taglialatela M,Stefani E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase-2 (HIPK2) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. The transcriptional corepressor CtBP (carboxyl-terminal binding protein) also plays a fundamental role in these processes. Our previous studies indicate that HIPK2 participates in a pathw...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Nottke A,Goodman RH

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue dysfunction is causally implicated in the impaired metabolic homeostasis associated with obesity; however, detailed mechanisms underlying dysregulated adipocyte functions in obesity remain to be elucidated. Here we searched for genes that provide a previously unknown mechanism in adipocyte metabolic fun...

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

authors： Wardhana DA,Ikeda K,Barinda AJ,Nugroho DB,Qurania KR,Yagi K,Miyata K,Oike Y,Hirata KI,Emoto N

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most poxviruses, including variola, the causative agent of smallpox, express a secreted protein of 35 kDa, vCCI, which binds CC-chemokines with high affinity. This viral protein competes with the host cellular CC-chemokine receptors (CCRs), reducing inflammation and interfering with the host immune response. Such prot...

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

authors： Carfí A,Smith CA,Smolak PJ,McGrew J,Wiley DC

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In extracts of interferon-treated HeLa cells, RNA covalently linked to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is preferentially degraded compared with mRNA not linked in dsRNA. This was established by following the degradation of poly(A)-containing mRNA annealed with poly(U), of poly(C)-containing encephalomyocarditis virus RNA ...

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

authors： Nilsen TW,Baglioni C

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins are a family of ubiquitous proteins that are the intracellular target of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A. Although cyclophilins catalyze peptidylprolyl cis-trans isomerization in vitro, it has remained open whether they also perform this function in vivo. Here we show that Cpr3p, a cyclophilin in...

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

authors： Matouschek A,Rospert S,Schmid K,Glick BS,Schatz G

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the mutation responsible for the autosomal recessive wasted (wst) mutation of the mouse. Wasted mice are characterized by wasting and neurological and immunological abnormalities starting at 21 days after birth; they die by 28 days. A deletion of 15.8 kb in wasted mice abolishes expression of a gene...

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

authors： Chambers DM,Peters J,Abbott CM

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) appears to mediate the rapid increase in pregnenolone synthesis stimulated by tropic hormones. cDNAs encoding StAR were isolated from a human adrenal cortex library. Human StAR, coexpressed in COS-1 cells with cytochrome P450scc and adrenodoxin, increased pregnenolone synt...

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

authors： Sugawara T,Holt JA,Driscoll D,Strauss JF 3rd,Lin D,Miller WL,Patterson D,Clancy KP,Hart IM,Clark BJ

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multigenic autoimmune disease, and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II polymorphism serves as a key genetic element. In SLE-prone (NZB x NZW)F(1) mice, the MHC H-2(d/z) heterozygosity (H-2(d) of NZB and H-2(z) of NZW) has a strong impact on disease; thus, congeni...

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

authors： Zhang D,Fujio K,Jiang Y,Zhao J,Tada N,Sudo K,Tsurui H,Nakamura K,Yamamoto K,Nishimura H,Shira T,Hirose S

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The building evidence for the contribution of microbiota to human disease has spurred an effort to develop therapies that target the gut microbiota. This is particularly evident in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), where clinical trials of fecal microbiota transplantation have shown some efficacy. To aid the develop...

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

authors： Britton GJ,Contijoch EJ,Spindler MP,Aggarwala V,Dogan B,Bongers G,San Mateo L,Baltus A,Das A,Gevers D,Borody TJ,Kaakoush NO,Kamm MA,Mitchell H,Paramsothy S,Clemente JC,Colombel JF,Simpson KW,Dubinsky MC,Grinspan A,

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers have found a small number of lithium-depleted halo stars in the temperature range of the Spite plateau. The current status of the mass-loss hypothesis for producing the observed lithium dip in Population (Pop) I stars is briefly discussed and extended to Pop II stars as a possible explanation for these halo ...

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

authors： Dearborn DS,Schramm DN

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus were supplied with [2-13C, 3-2H]-deoxyxylulose or [2-13C,4-2H]1-deoxyxylulose. Lutein and chlorophylls were isolated from the cell mass, and hydrolysis of the chlorophyll mixtures afforded phytol. Isotope labeling patterns of phytol and lutein were determined by 2H NMR and 1H,2H-de...

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

authors： Arigoni D,Eisenreich W,Latzel C,Sagner S,Radykewicz T,Zenk MH,Bacher A

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apolipoprotein E (apoE) was produced in Escherichia coli by transforming cells with an expression vector containing a reconstructed apoE cDNA, a lambda PL promoter regulated by the thermolabile cI repressor, and a ribosomal binding site derived from the lambda cII or the E. coli beta-lactamase gene. Transformed ...

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

authors： Vogel T,Weisgraber KH,Zeevi MI,Ben-Artzi H,Levanon AZ,Rall SC Jr,Innerarity TL,Hui DY,Taylor JM,Kanner D

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volcanic eruptions caused major weather and climatic changes on timescales ranging from hours to centuries in the past. Volcanic particles are injected in the atmosphere both as primary particles rapidly deposited due to their large sizes on time scales of minutes to a few weeks in the troposphere, and secondary parti...

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

authors： Boulon J,Sellegri K,Hervo M,Laj P

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe some recent observations of large-scale structure in the galaxy distribution. The best constraints come from two-dimensional galaxy surveys and studies of angular correlation functions. Results from galaxy redshift surveys are much less precise but are consistent with the angular correlations, provided the ...

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

authors： Efstathiou G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of heritable cellular change, known as habituation, occurs spontaneously in plant tissue and cell culture. This phenomenon is characterized by a newly acquired capacity of plant cells to produce growth regulatory substances. Using cloned lines of tobacco pith parenchyma cells, we demonstrated that a newly acqui...

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

authors： Binns A,Meins F

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last two decades, the number of gene/protein sequences gleaned from sequencing projects of individual genomes and environmental DNA has grown exponentially. Only a tiny fraction of these predicted proteins has been experimentally characterized, and the function of most proteins remains hypothetical or only pr...

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

authors： Helbert W,Poulet L,Drouillard S,Mathieu S,Loiodice M,Couturier M,Lombard V,Terrapon N,Turchetto J,Vincentelli R,Henrissat B

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma delta (γδ) T cells represent a major IL-17 committed T-cell population (γδT17 cells) in the mouse dermis. Following exposure to the inflammatory agent imiquimod (IMQ) the Vγ4(+) subset of γδT cells produce IL-17 in the skin and expand rapidly in draining lymph nodes (LNs). Local IMQ treatment in humans is known ...

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

authors： Ramírez-Valle F,Gray EE,Cyster JG

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial cells from early amphibian embryos display regional specializations of their cell surfaces. That portion of the plasma membrane facing the perivitelline space (apical surface) is nonadhesive, whereas, in the same cell, the lateral and basal portions of the plasma membrane will adhere to other cells. These ...

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

authors： Roberson MM,Armstrong PB

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in vitro have established that free tryptophan induces tna operon expression by binding to the ribosome that has just completed synthesis of TnaC-tRNA(Pro), the peptidyl-tRNA precursor of the leader peptide of this operon. Tryptophan acts by inhibiting Release Factor 2-mediated cleavage of this peptidyl-tRNA a...

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

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Gong M,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that single interneurons can toggle the output neurons of the cerebellar cortex (the Purkinje cells) between their two states. The firing of Purkinje cells has previously been shown to alternate between an "up" state in which the cell fires spontaneous action potentials and a silent "down" state. We sho...

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

authors： Oldfield CS,Marty A,Stell BM

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally believed that the old quantum theory, as presented by Niels Bohr in 1913, fails when applied to few electron systems, such as the H(2) molecule. Here, we find previously undescribed solutions within the Bohr theory that describe the potential energy curve for the lowest singlet and triplet states of H(...

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

authors： Svidzinsky AA,Scully MO,Herschbach DR

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00