Substitution rate comparisons between grasses and palms: synonymous rate differences at the nuclear gene Adh parallel rate differences at the plastid gene rbcL.

abstract：:The sequence of a nucleotide region of f1 bacteriophage was determined on a bonded ultrathin acrylamide gel with a discontinuous buffer system by using the dideoxy-DNA sequencing method. This sequence and one other were analyzed for maximal base pairing with tRNAs. The results allow a prediction of the direction and p...

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

authors： Pieczenik G

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the effect of a 200-microns wavelength free electron laser beam on the ability of asynchronized and synchronized mammalian tissue culture cells to incorporate tritiated thymidine. Compared to controls (unexposed cells), a significant proportion of exposed cells exhibited a reduction in isotope incorporatio...

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

authors： Berns MW,Bewley W,Sun CH,Templin P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleoanthropologists and vertebrate paleontologists have for decades debated the etiology of tooth wear and its implications for understanding the diets of human ancestors and other extinct mammals. The debate has recently taken a twist, calling into question the efficacy of dental microwear to reveal diet. Some argue...

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

authors： Xia J,Zheng J,Huang D,Tian ZR,Chen L,Zhou Z,Ungar PS,Qian L

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:cGMP is a key regulatory molecule in visual transduction, integration of neuronal response to excitatory neurotransmitters, relaxation of smooth muscle, intestinal secretion of water and salt, and reabsorption of sodium and water in the distal tubules of the nephron. Some of these cellular functions are associated wit...

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

authors： Ruth P,Wang GX,Boekhoff I,May B,Pfeifer A,Penner R,Korth M,Breer H,Hofmann F

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection leads to a state of chronic immune activation and progressive deterioration in immune function, manifested most recognizably by the progressive depletion of CD4+ T cells. A substantial percentage of natural killer (NK) cells from patients with HIV infection are activated and express the natural cytotoxic...

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

authors： Vieillard V,Strominger JL,Debré P

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:By indirect immunofluorescence techniques, microtubules and mitochondria were localized in normal rat kidney cells, human WI38 fibroblasts, mouse peritoneal macrophages, and a putative smooth muscle rat cell line, in monolayer culture. The mitochondria were found to be arranged along the cytoplasmic microtubules in ea...

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

authors： Heggeness MH,Simon M,Singer SJ

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAC5 is a component of the conserved MOS4-associated complex. It plays critical roles in development and immunity. Here we report that MAC5 is required for microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis. MAC5 interacts with Serrate (SE), which is a core component of the microprocessor that processes primary miRNA transcripts (pri-miRNAs...

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

authors： Li S,Li M,Liu K,Zhang H,Zhang S,Zhang C,Yu B

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-box represents a protein motif originally identified as a conserved amino-terminal domain within the Neurospora crassa negative regulator sulfur controller-2. Recently, F-boxes have been found within a number of cell cycle regulatory proteins, where they mediate ubiquitin-driven proteolytic events required for m...

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

authors： Kumar A,Paietta JV

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many experiments have been done to determine how far and how freely holes can move along the stack of base pairs in DNA. The results of these experiments are usually described in terms of a parameter beta under the assumption that it describes an exponential decay with distance. The reported values range from beta < 0...

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

authors： Conwell EM,Rakhmanova SV

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that, under certain standard assumptions, such as extended Riemann hypotheses, the scattering matrix varphi(s) for generic Gamma

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

authors： Deshouillers JM,Iwaniec H,Phillips RS,Sarnak P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human, cone photoreceptors (L, M, and S) and the melanopsin-containing, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are active at daytime light intensities. Signals from cones are combined both additively and in opposition to create the perception of overall light and color. Similar mechanisms ...

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

authors： Spitschan M,Jain S,Brainard DH,Aguirre GK

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed variability in outer surface protein B (OspB) from Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, to determine how Bb escapes immune destruction. We have shown that vaccination with OspB from Bb strain B31 protected mice from infection with Bb B31 but not against Bb N40. The present study ...

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

authors： Fikrig E,Tao H,Kantor FS,Barthold SW,Flavell RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zif268, a zinc finger protein whose mRNA is rapidly activated in cells exposed to growth factors or other signaling agents, is thought to play a role in regulating the genetic program induced by extracellular ligands. We report that Zif268 has one of the characteristics of a transcriptional regulator, namely, sequence...

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

authors： Christy B,Nathans D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the medial-temporal lobe (MTL) is critical for recognition memory. The MTL is known to be composed of distinct structures that are organized in a hierarchical manner. At present, it remains controversial whether lower structures in this hierarchy, such as perirhinal cortex, support memory f...

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

authors： Bowles B,Crupi C,Mirsattari SM,Pigott SE,Parrent AG,Pruessner JC,Yonelinas AP,Köhler S

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (sst2) behaves as a tumor suppressor when expressed and stimulated by its ligand somatostatin in pancreatic cancer. We reveal a mechanism underlying oncosuppressive action of sst2, whereby this inhibitory receptor upregulates the expression of the secreted angioinhibitory factor thr...

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

authors： Laklai H,Laval S,Dumartin L,Rochaix P,Hagedorn M,Bikfalvi A,Le Guellec S,Delisle MB,Schally AV,Susini C,Pyronnet S,Bousquet C

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin mediates the adhesion of cells to collagen by first binding to the collagen substrate, followed by attachment of the cells to the fibronectin-collagen complex. Bovine brain gangliosides were found to block fibronectin-mediated cell adhesion to collagen in a concentration-dependent manner. The gangliosides ...

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

authors： Kleinman HK,Martin GR,Fishman PH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial adaptation to nutrient limitation and increased population densities is central to survival and virulence. Surprisingly, <3% of Escherichia coli genes are known to play roles specific to the stationary phase. There is evidence that the leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) may play an important role in...

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

authors： Tani TH,Khodursky A,Blumenthal RM,Brown PO,Matthews RG

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors are key factors in the onset and progression of AIDS. Among them, accumulating evidence strongly indicates the involvement of IL-8 and its receptors, CXCR1 and CXCR2, in AIDS-related conditions. Through extensive investigation of genetic variations of the human CXCR1-CXCR2 locus, we iden...

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

authors： Vasilescu A,Terashima Y,Enomoto M,Heath S,Poonpiriya V,Gatanaga H,Do H,Diop G,Hirtzig T,Auewarakul P,Lauhakirti D,Sura T,Charneau P,Marullo S,Therwath A,Oka S,Kanegasaki S,Lathrop M,Matsushima K,Zagury JF,Matsuda

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Our conditional serum response factor (SRF) knockout, Srf (Cko), in the heart-forming region blocked the appearance of rhythmic beating myocytes, one of the earliest cardiac defects caused by the ablation of a cardiac-enriched transcription factor. The appearance of Hand1 and Smyd1, transcription and chromatin remodel...

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

authors： Niu Z,Iyer D,Conway SJ,Martin JF,Ivey K,Srivastava D,Nordheim A,Schwartz RJ

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters use ATP to drive solute transport across biological membranes. Members of this superfamily have crucial roles in cell physiology, and some of the transporters are linked to severe diseases. However, understanding of the transport mechanism, especially of human ABC exporters, is ...

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

authors： Zollmann T,Moiset G,Tumulka F,Tampé R,Poolman B,Abele R

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

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

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast, the mRNA encoded by the MAT alpha 1 gene is unstable (t1/2 = 5 min) and the mRNAs encoded by the ACT1 gene (t1/2 = 30 min) and the PGK1 gene (t1/2 = 45 min) are stable. To understand the RNA structural features that dictate mRNA decay rates in yeast, we have constructed PGK1/MAT alpha 1 and ACT1/MAT alpha 1 ...

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

authors： Parker R,Jacobson A

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:Histone acetylation is a major epigenetic control mechanism that is tightly linked to the promotion of gene expression. Histone acetylation levels are balanced through the opposing activities of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). Arabidopsis HDAC genes (AtHDACs) compose a large gene fa...

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

authors： Kim YJ,Wang R,Gao L,Li D,Xu C,Mang H,Jeon J,Chen X,Zhong X,Kwak JM,Mo B,Xiao L,Chen X

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem. In this paper we report on new methods,...

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

authors： Warnow T

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of physiological concentrations of 125I-labeled insulin with liver membranes in the presence of anti-insulin IgG results in a 7- to 15-fold increase in the specific binding of the hormone. The low-affinity/high-capacity binding sites are replaced by an apparently homogeneous class of high-affinity sites, an...

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

authors： Shechter Y,Chang KJ,Jacobs S,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in cell biology is to understand how spatial information is recognized and integrated into morphogenetic responses. Budding yeast undergoes differentiation to filamentous growth, which involves changes in cell polarity through mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we define a regulatory input wher...

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

authors： Basu S,Vadaie N,Prabhakar A,Li B,Adhikari H,Pitoniak A,Chow J,Chavel CA,Cullen PJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeatin is the most active and ubiquitous of the naturally occurring cytokinins. The O-glucoside of zeatin, found in all plants examined, is considered to be important in cytokinin transport, storage, and protection against cytokinin oxidases. The enzyme UDPglucose:zeatin O-glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.203) was previo...

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

authors： Martin RC,Mok MC,Mok DW

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMC) from patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICMP) show a reduced neovascularization capacity in vivo. NO plays an important role in neovascularization, and NO bioavailability is typically reduced in patients with ICMP. We investigated whether the impaired neovascularization capacity...

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

authors： Sasaki K,Heeschen C,Aicher A,Ziebart T,Honold J,Urbich C,Rossig L,Koehl U,Koyanagi M,Mohamed A,Brandes RP,Martin H,Zeiher AM,Dimmeler S

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent results suggested that a large subset of heat shock protein HSP-60 reactive peripheral lymphoid gamma delta T cells preexists in normal adult mice, all members of which respond to a single segment of this common HSP. However, the experimental evidence supporting this idea involved in vitro peptide responses of ...

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

authors： Fu YX,Cranfill R,Vollmer M,Van Der Zee R,O'Brien RL,Born W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00