Differential expression of the ToxR regulon in classical and E1 Tor biotypes of Vibrio cholerae is due to biotype-specific control over toxT expression.

abstract：:The plant aquaporin plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIP) subfamily represents one of the main gateways for water exchange at the plasma membrane (PM). A fraction of this subfamily, known as PIP1, does not reach the PM unless they are coexpressed with a PIP2 aquaporin. Although ubiquitous and abundantly expressed, ...

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

authors： Yaneff A,Sigaut L,Marquez M,Alleva K,Pietrasanta LI,Amodeo G

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of the soluble form of the amyloid beta-protein (ABP) was examined by assaying its interaction with neuronal receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes. ABP weakly activated tachykinin receptors, but in the presence of N-methyl-D-aspartate and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4- propionate-t...

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

authors： Kimura H,Schubert D

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing evidence for perceptual interactions between motion and position, no unifying framework exists to account for these two key features of our visual experience. We show that percepts of both object position and motion derive from a common object-tracking system--a system that optimally integrates sensory...

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

authors： Kwon OS,Tadin D,Knill DC

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of transition states along reaction coordinates (r++) for simple chemical reactions are often estimated from Leffler alpha values, the slope of plots of DeltaG++ (activation energy) versus DeltaG(0) (equilibrium free energy) for a series of structural variants. Protein folding is more complex than simple...

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

authors： Fersht AR

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone is a critical mediator of central nervous system (CNS) development, acting through nuclear receptors to modulate the expression of specific genes. Transcription of the rat hairless (hr) gene is highly up-regulated by thyroid hormone in the developing CNS; we show here that hr is directly induced by thy...

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

authors： Thompson CC,Bottcher MC

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) has recently been shown to influence various cellular functions in the central nervous system. Here we report that AA increases, in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, 2-deoxy-D-[1-3H]glucose ([3H]2DG) uptake in primary cultures of astrocytes prepared from the cerebral cortex of neonatal ...

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

authors： Yu N,Martin JL,Stella N,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatid RNA editing is a unique process and essential for these organisms. It therefore represents a drug target for a group of protozoa that includes the causative agents for African sleeping sickness and other devastating tropical and subtropical diseases. Here, we present drug-like inhibitors of a key enzyme...

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

authors： Amaro RE,Schnaufer A,Interthal H,Hol W,Stuart KD,McCammon JA

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar development occurs mainly postnatally and implies cell proliferation and migration. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and Met are involved in mediating these responses in other tissues and are coexpressed in the cerebellum. Here we show that Met is localized in granule cell precursors and that cultures of thes...

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

authors： Ieraci A,Forni PE,Ponzetto C

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We give a functional generalization of fractal scaling laws applied to response problems as well as to probability distributions. We consider excitations and responses, which are functions of a given state vector. Based on scaling arguments, we derive a general nonlinear response functional scaling law, which expresse...

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

authors： Vlad MO,Morán F,Popa VT,Szedlacsek SE,Ross J

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The kappa-selective opioid peptide dynorphin A (DYN) inhibits neuronal adenylate cyclase activity and reduces neuronal voltage-dependent calcium currents. It is not yet known, however, whether the regulation of calcium channel activity is dependent on or independent of the adenylate cyclase/cAMP system. We used the wh...

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

authors： Gross RA,Moises HC,Uhler MD,Macdonald RL

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand Black (NZB) mice develop after 16 weeks of age an autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disease which is a model for systemic lupus erythematosus and lymphoid malignancy in humans. At this age, the mice manifest a progressive decline in T lymphocyte (thymus-derived lymphocyte) functions and serum thymosin lev...

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

authors： Dauphinee MJ,Talal N,Goldstein AL,White A

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary product of biological nitrogen fixation, ammonia, reversibly regulates nitrogenase activity in a variety of diazotrophs by a process called "NH4(+)-switch-off/on." Strong correlative evidence from work in Azospirillum lipoferum and Rhodospirillum rubrum indicates that this regulation involves both the inac...

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

authors： Fu H,Burris RH,Roberts GP

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa approximately 150-200 thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara remains controversial. Given that the first modern humans north of the Sahara are found in the Levant approximately 120-90 ka, nort...

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

authors： Osborne AH,Vance D,Rohling EJ,Barton N,Rogerson M,Fello N

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of metallic glass-matrix composites represents a particular milestone in engineering materials for structural applications owing to their remarkable combination of strength and toughness. However, metallic glasses are highly susceptible to cyclic fatigue damage, and previous attempts to solve th...

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

authors： Launey ME,Hofmann DC,Johnson WL,Ritchie RO

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary thinking can be applied to both cultural microevolution and macroevolution. However, much of the current literature focuses on cultural microevolution. In this article, we argue that the growing availability of large cross-cultural datasets facilitates the use of computational methods derived from evoluti...

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

authors： Gray RD,Watts J

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis phage SP01, whose DNA contains 5-hydroxymethyluracil (hmUra) in place of thymine, codes for an abundant, small, basic protein called TF1. TF1 binds preferentially to hydroxymethyluracil-containing DNA and thereby selectively inhibits transcription of such DNA in vitro. The gene for TF1 has been s...

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

authors： Greene JR,Brennan SM,Andrew DJ,Thompson CC,Richards SH,Heinrikson RL,Geiduschek EP

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol synthesis in animals is controlled by the regulated transport of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi, where the transcription factors are processed proteolytically to release active fragments. Transport is inhibited by either cholesterol or oxyste...

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

authors： Radhakrishnan A,Ikeda Y,Kwon HJ,Brown MS,Goldstein JL

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is a normal physiological process, which could in principle be manipulated to play an important role in cancer therapy. The key importance of p53 expression in the apoptotic response to DNA-damaging agents has been stressed because mutant or deleted p53 is so common in most kinds of c...

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

authors： Xu C,Meikrantz W,Schlegel R,Sager R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular differentiation leading to formation of the bradyzoite tissue cyst stage is the underlying cause of chronic toxoplasmosis. Consequently, mechanisms responsible for controlling development in the Toxoplasma intermediate life cycle have long been sought. Here, we identified 15 Toxoplasma mRNAs induced in early ...

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

authors： Radke JB,Lucas O,De Silva EK,Ma Y,Sullivan WJ Jr,Weiss LM,Llinas M,White MW

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The NMR spectra at 220 MHz of lysinevasopressin and its precursors were measured in dimethyl sulfoxide, and the peaks were assigned to specific protons. Information about hydrogen bonding was obtained from the temperature coefficients of the chemical shifts. With these data, and with several chemical-shift positions a...

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

authors： Von Dreele PH,Brewster AI,Scheraga HA,Ferger MF,Du Vigneaud V

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several 400- to 800-kb murine chromosome domains switch from early to late replication during loss of pluripotency, accompanied by a stable form of gene silencing that is resistant to reprogramming. We found that, whereas enhanced nuclease accessibility correlated with early replication genome-wide, domains that switc...

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

authors： Takebayashi S,Dileep V,Ryba T,Dennis JH,Gilbert DM

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the success statistical physics has enjoyed at predicting the properties of materials for given parameters, the inverse problem, identifying which material parameters produce given, desired properties, is only beginning to be addressed. Recently, several methods have emerged across disciplines that draw upon o...

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

authors： Miskin MZ,Khaira G,de Pablo JJ,Jaeger HM

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete experimental format is given for the reconstitution of human hemoglobin from the separated heme-free alpha- and beta-globin chains (alpha degrees, beta degrees) and hemin, by two alternative routes. Based on their oxygen binding properties, the reaction of the ferri-forms with reducing agent, and the respon...

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

authors： Yip YK,Waks M,Beychok S

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells recognize lipid antigens presented by CD1d and play a central role in regulating immunity and inflammation in peripheral tissues. However, the mechanisms which govern iNKT cell homeostasis after thymic emigration are incompletely understood. Here we demonstrate that microsomal t...

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

authors： Zeissig S,Peuker K,Iyer S,Gensollen T,Dougan SK,Olszak T,Kaser A,Blumberg RS

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two deletion-substitution mutations of phage lambda, spi-113 and spi-274, are shown to remove about half of the rightward operator OR. Physiological studies show that spi-113 is still repressible. Thus, the 50 or so nucleotides of OR deleted in this mutant are not absolutely essential for repression. prm-116, which in...

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

authors： Smith GR,Eisen H,Reichardt L,Hedgepeth J

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasponia, a woody member of the elm family, is the only nonlegume genus whose members are known to form an effective nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with a Rhizobium species. The bacterial strain RP501 is a slow-growing strain of Rhizobium isolated from Parasponia nodules. Strain RP501 also nodulates the legumes siratro (...

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

authors： Marvel DJ,Kuldau G,Hirsch A,Richards E,Torrey JG,Ausubel FM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intake of nutrients [calorie restriction (CR)] extends longevity in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. Mutations affecting somatotropic, insulin, or homologous signaling pathways can increase life span in worms, flies, and mice, and there is considerable evidence that reduced secretion of insulin-like gr...

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

authors： Bonkowski MS,Rocha JS,Masternak MM,Al Regaiey KA,Bartke A

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor and tumor suppressor protein p53 is frequently inactivated in human cancers. In many cases, p53 gene mutations result in high levels of inactive, full-length p53 protein with one amino acid change in the core domain that recognizes p53 DNA-binding sites. The ability to endow function to mutate...

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

authors： Baroni TE,Wang T,Qian H,Dearth LR,Truong LN,Zeng J,Denes AE,Chen SW,Brachmann RK

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined whether dissociation of the histone octamer is required for elongation of RNA transcripts through arrays of nucleosome cores in vitro. Control or dimethyl suberimidate-crosslinked histone octamers were reconstituted onto supercoiled, closed circular pT207-18 DNA, which contains tandemly repeated 207-b...

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

authors： O'Neill TE,Smith JG,Bradbury EM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to instantly create a state of immunity as achieved in the passive transfer of hyperimmune globulin has had a tremendous impact on public health. Unlike passive immunization, active immunization, which is the foundation of vaccinology, is an anticipatory strategy with inherent limitations. Here we show tha...

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

authors： Popkov M,Gonzalez B,Sinha SC,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00