Synthesis and assembly of self-complementary calix[4]arenes.

abstract：:Compensatory ventilatory responses to increased inspiratory loading are essential for adequate breathing regulation in a number of pulmonary diseases; however, the human brain sites mediating such responses are unknown. Midsagittal and axial images were acquired in 11 healthy volunteers during unloaded and loaded (30 ...

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

authors： Gozal D,Omidvar O,Kirlew KA,Hathout GM,Hamilton R,Lufkin RB,Harper RM

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disorder and is strongly associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Currently, there is no approved pharmacological treatment for this disease, but improvement of insulin resistance using peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) ag...

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

authors： Liu W,Struik D,Nies VJ,Jurdzinski A,Harkema L,de Bruin A,Verkade HJ,Downes M,Evans RM,van Zutphen T,Jonker JW

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies implicate the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in glycemic control. Here, we report that selective inhibition of the subset of VMN neurons that express the transcription factor steroidogenic-factor 1 (VMN(SF1) neurons) blocks recovery from insulin-induced hypoglycemia whereas, conversely, activ...

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

authors： Meek TH,Nelson JT,Matsen ME,Dorfman MD,Guyenet SJ,Damian V,Allison MB,Scarlett JM,Nguyen HT,Thaler JP,Olson DP,Myers MG Jr,Schwartz MW,Morton GJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to dissect the antibody response to an invading microorganism is to clone the antibody repertoire from immune donors and subsequently characterize the specific antibodies. Recently, methodological advances have allowed investigations of neutralizing antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in vitro. We have ...

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

authors： Johansson DX,Voisset C,Tarr AW,Aung M,Ball JK,Dubuisson J,Persson MA

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragility is an empirical property that describes how abruptly a glass-forming material solidifies upon supercooling. The degree of fragility carries important implications for the functionality and processability of a material, as well as for our fundamental understanding of the glass transition. However, the microst...

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

authors： Ciarella S,Biezemans RA,Janssen LMC

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In many plants, osmotic stress induces a rapid accumulation of proline through de novo synthesis from glutamate. This response is thought to play a pivotal role in osmotic stress tolerance [Kishor, P. B. K., Hong, Z., Miao, G.-H., Hu, C.-A. A. and Verma, D. P. S. (1995) Plant Physiol. 108, 1387-1394]. During recovery ...

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

authors： Verbruggen N,Hua XJ,May M,Van Montagu M

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to chromatin proteins of Novikoff hepatoma cells formed precipitin bands in the double-diffusion immunoprecipitation assay with chromatin proteins of Novikoff hepatoma, Walker 256 carcinosarcoma, and 18-day fetal rat liver. The antigen used for preparation of antiserum was the chromatin proteins initially e...

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

authors： Yeoman LC,Jordan JJ,Busch RK,Taylor CW,Savage HE,Busch H

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the forces that shape the structure of prokaryotic genomes: the order of genes, their proximity, and their orientation? Coregulation and coordinated horizontal gene transfer are believed to promote the proximity of functionally related genes and the formation of operons. However, forces that influence the str...

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

authors： Kolesov G,Wunderlich Z,Laikova ON,Gelfand MS,Mirny LA

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tephritid fruit flies belonging to the Rhagoletis pomonella sibling species complex are controversial because they have been proposed to diverge in sympatry (in the absence of geographic isolation) by shifting and adapting to new host plants. Here, we report evidence suggesting a surprising source of genetic variation...

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

authors： Feder JL,Berlocher SH,Roethele JB,Dambroski H,Smith JJ,Perry WL,Gavrilovic V,Filchak KE,Rull J,Aluja M

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a wide range of clinical illness that varies by outbreak, although factors that contribute to variation in disease severity a...

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

authors： Manning SD,Motiwala AS,Springman AC,Qi W,Lacher DW,Ouellette LM,Mladonicky JM,Somsel P,Rudrik JT,Dietrich SE,Zhang W,Swaminathan B,Alland D,Whittam TS

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The helicity in water has been determined for several series of alanine-rich peptides that contain single lysine residues and that are N-terminally linked to a helix-inducing and reporting template termed Ac-Hel1. The helix-propagating constant for alanine (sAla value) that best fits the properties of these peptides l...

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

authors： Groebke K,Renold P,Tsang KY,Allen TJ,McClure KF,Kemp DS

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotoxin VII4 from Naja mossambica mossambica crystallizes in space group P61 (a = b = 73.9 A; c = 59.0 A) with two molecules of toxin (molecular mass = 6715 Da) in the asymmetric unit. The structure was solved by using a combination of multiple isomorphous replacement and density modification methods. Model buildi...

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

authors： Rees B,Samama JP,Thierry JC,Gilibert M,Fischer J,Schweitz H,Lazdunski M,Moras D

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

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

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational proteolytic conversion of somatostatin-14 precursors was studied to characterize the enzyme system responsible for the production of the tetradecapeptide either from its 15-kDa precursor protein or from its COOH-terminal fragment, somatostatin-28. A synthetic undecapeptide Pro-Arg-Glu-Arg-Lys-Al...

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

authors： Gluschankof P,Morel A,Gomez S,Nicolas P,Fahy C,Cohen P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the use of the matrix eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) and pseudoinverse projection and a tensor higher-order EVD (HOEVD) in reconstructing the pathways that compose a cellular system from genome-scale nondirectional networks of correlations among the genes of the system. The EVD formulates a genes x genes n...

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

authors： Alter O,Golub GH

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An endonucleolytic activity is associated with purified PM(2) bacteriophages. It converts the double-stranded supercoiled PM(2) DNA mostly into the linear form that sediments as a homogenous peak in alkaline sucrose gradients. The same activity is found in intact or detergent-lysed phages. Optimal activity is observed...

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

authors： Laval F

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large mandibular defects are clinically challenging to reconstruct due to the complex anatomy of the jaw and the limited availability of appropriate tissue for repair. We envision leveraging current advances in fabrication and biomaterials to create implantable devices that generate bone within the patients themselves...

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

authors： Tatara AM,Koons GL,Watson E,Piepergerdes TC,Shah SR,Smith BT,Shum J,Melville JC,Hanna IA,Demian N,Ho T,Ratcliffe A,van den Beucken JJJP,Jansen JA,Wong ME,Mikos AG

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the world, efforts are under way to restore watersheds, but restoration planning rarely accounts for future climate change. Using a series of linked models of climate, land cover, hydrology, and salmon population dynamics, we investigated the impacts of climate change on the effectiveness of proposed habita...

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

authors： Battin J,Wiley MW,Ruckelshaus MH,Palmer RN,Korb E,Bartz KK,Imaki H

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian CLC proteins function as Cl(-) channels or as electrogenic Cl(-)/H(+) exchangers and are present in the plasma membrane and intracellular vesicles. We now show that the ClC-6 protein is almost exclusively expressed in neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems, with a particularly high expression ...

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

authors： Poët M,Kornak U,Schweizer M,Zdebik AA,Scheel O,Hoelter S,Wurst W,Schmitt A,Fuhrmann JC,Planells-Cases R,Mole SE,Hübner CA,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Single crystal diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at very high growth rates (up to 150 microm/h) has been successfully annealed without graphitization at temperatures up to 2200 degrees C and pressures <300 torr. Crystals were annealed in a hydrogen environment by using microwave plasma techniques for...

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

authors： Meng YF,Yan CS,Lai J,Krasnicki S,Shu H,Yu T,Liang Q,Mao HK,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearic acid is toxic for T lymphocytes in vitro but has little effect on B lymphocytes. To investigate the molecular basis for this difference, purified murine T and B lymphocytes were compared for their abilities to incorporate and metabolize stearic acid. Unstimulated T and B cells incorporated identical amounts of...

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

authors： Buttke TM,Van Cleave S,Steelman L,McCubrey JA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment involving registered voters in the city of New Haven. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were delivered through personal canvassing shortly before the November 1998 election. We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout by approximately 6. ...

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

authors： Gerber AS,Green DP

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of plant microRNAs (miRNAs) takes place in nuclear dicing bodies (D-bodies), where the ribonulease III-type enzyme Dicer-like 1 (DCL1) processes primary transcripts of miRNAs (pri-miRNAs) into miRNA/miRNA* (*, passenger strand) duplexes from either base-to-loop or loop-to-base directions. Hyponastic Leaves ...

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

authors： Gao S,Wang J,Jiang N,Zhang S,Wang Y,Zhang J,Li N,Fang Y,Yang L,Chen S,Yan B,Huang T,Kuai B,Wang Y,Chang F,Ren G

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:According to a current "RNA first" model for the origin of life, RNA emerged in some form on early Earth to become the first biopolymer to support Darwinism here. Threose nucleic acid (TNA) and other polyelectrolytes are also considered as the possible first Darwinian biopolymer(s). This model is being developed by re...

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

authors： Kim HJ,Benner SA

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a specific form of thyroid hormone receptor expressed in human liver, kidney, placenta, and brain was isolated from a human kidney library. Identical clones were found in human placenta and HepG2 cDNA libraries. The cDNA encodes a 490-amino acid protein (Mr, 54,824). When expressed and translated in vi...

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

authors： Nakai A,Seino S,Sakurai A,Szilak I,Bell GI,DeGroot LJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) represent the two central intermediates in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. The recently discovered deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate pathway generates a mixture of IPP and DMAPP in its final step by reductive dehydroxylation of 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-butenyl 4...

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

authors： Gräwert T,Span I,Eisenreich W,Rohdich F,Eppinger J,Bacher A,Groll M

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of the recently identified murMN operon in penicillin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae was shown already to cause two major effects: elimination of branched-structured muropeptides from the cell wall and complete loss of penicillin resistance. We now show that cells with inactivated murMN als...

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

authors： Filipe SR,Severina E,Tomasz A

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Color and black and white line stimulation produce qualitatively and quantitatively different 2-deoxy[14C]glucose column patterns in the striate cortex of macaque monkeys. Microdensitometry of these stimulus-dependent columns reveals interlaminar density differences that serve as a signature for the stimulus condition...

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

authors： Crawford ML,Meharg LS,Johnston DA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenies describe the origins and history of species. However, they can also help to predict species' fates and so can be useful tools for managing the future of biodiversity. This article starts by sketching how phylogenetic, geographic, and trait information can be combined to elucidate present mammalian diversit...

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

authors： Davies TJ,Fritz SA,Grenyer R,Orme CD,Bielby J,Bininda-Emonds OR,Cardillo M,Jones KE,Gittleman JL,Mace GM,Purvis A

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal domain of HIV-1 integrase contains a pair of His and Cys residues (the HHCC motif) that are conserved among retroviral integrases. Although His and Cys residues are often involved in binding zinc, the HHCC motif does not correspond to any recognized class of zinc binding domain. We have investigated the...

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

authors： Zheng R,Jenkins TM,Craigie R

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00