Severed corticospinal axons recover electrophysiologic control of muscle activity after x-ray therapy in lesioned adult spinal cord.

abstract：:In this article, we address the problem of modeling generic features of structurally but not textually related DNA motifs, that is, motifs whose consensus sequences are entirely different but nevertheless share "metasequence features" reflecting similarities in the DNA-binding domains of their associated protein recog...

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

authors： Xing EP,Karp RM

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among developing organisms, the allocation of energy toward immune function may lead to tradeoffs with physical growth, particularly in high-pathogen, low-resource enviro...

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

authors： Urlacher SS,Ellison PT,Sugiyama LS,Pontzer H,Eick G,Liebert MA,Cepon-Robins TJ,Gildner TE,Snodgrass JJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriovenous (AV) malformation (AVM) is a devastating condition characterized by focal lesions of enlarged, tangled vessels that shunt blood from arteries directly to veins. AVMs can form anywhere in the body and can cause debilitating ischemia and life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke. The mechanisms that underlie AVM...

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

authors： Murphy PA,Kim TN,Huang L,Nielsen CM,Lawton MT,Adams RH,Schaffer CB,Wang RA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies that modulate receptor function have great untapped potential in the control of stem cell differentiation. In contrast to many natural ligands, antibodies are stable, exquisitely specific, and are unaffected by the regulatory mechanisms that act on natural ligands. Here we describe an innovative system for ...

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

authors： Melidoni AN,Dyson MR,Wormald S,McCafferty J

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil bacteria and fungi play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, yet our understanding of their responses to climate change lags significantly behind that of other organisms. This gap in our understanding is particularly true for drylands, which occupy ∼41% of Earth´s surface, because no global, sy...

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

authors： Maestre FT,Delgado-Baquerizo M,Jeffries TC,Eldridge DJ,Ochoa V,Gozalo B,Quero JL,García-Gómez M,Gallardo A,Ulrich W,Bowker MA,Arredondo T,Barraza-Zepeda C,Bran D,Florentino A,Gaitán J,Gutiérrez JR,Huber-Sannwald E,Jan

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiosperms are the largest and most successful clade of land plants with >250,000 species distributed in nearly every terrestrial habitat. Many phylogenetic studies have been based on DNA sequences of one to several genes, but, despite decades of intensive efforts, relationships among early diverging lineages and sev...

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

authors： Jansen RK,Cai Z,Raubeson LA,Daniell H,Depamphilis CW,Leebens-Mack J,Müller KF,Guisinger-Bellian M,Haberle RC,Hansen AK,Chumley TW,Lee SB,Peery R,McNeal JR,Kuehl JV,Boore JL

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted to mammalian hosts through an arthropod (tick) vector. To establish infection, Bb must acquire essential nutrients, including transition metals, from its mammalian and tick hosts. Thus far, no metal transporter has been identified in Bb. He...

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

authors： Ouyang Z,He M,Oman T,Yang XF,Norgard MV

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:If, because of trade-offs or similar considerations, components of fitness are negatively correlated in equilibrium populations, they may then exhibit no correlation with total fitness. Lack of correlation with fitness is a fundamental characteristic of selective neutrality. Hence, selectively important traits become ...

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

authors： Reeve R,Smith E,Wallace B

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA polymerase, EC 2.7.7.49) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 has been examined with respect to the steady-state kinetics of polymerization of dNTPs into product DNA. With dNTPs as variable substrate, the kinetics of polymerization deviated from standard Michaelis-Menten kinet...

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

authors： West AB,Roberts TM,Kolodner RD

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of hearing is remarkable for its auditory dynamic range, which spans more than 10(12) in acoustic intensity. The mechanisms that enable the cochlea to transduce high sound levels without damage are of key interest, particularly with regard to the broad impact of industrial, military, and recreational auditor...

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

authors： Housley GD,Morton-Jones R,Vlajkovic SM,Telang RS,Paramananthasivam V,Tadros SF,Wong AC,Froud KE,Cederholm JM,Sivakumaran Y,Snguanwongchai P,Khakh BS,Cockayne DA,Thorne PR,Ryan AF

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Is there a sense of chance shared by all individuals, regardless of their schooling or culture? To test whether the ability to make correct probabilistic evaluations depends on educational and cultural guidance, we investigated probabilistic cognition in preliterate and prenumerate Kaqchikel and K'iche', two indigenou...

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

authors： Fontanari L,Gonzalez M,Vallortigara G,Girotto V

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Switching from repressed to active status in chromatin regulation is part of the critical responses that plants deploy to survive in an ever-changing environment. We previously reported that HOS15, a WD40-repeat protein, is involved in histone deacetylation and cold tolerance in Arabidopsis However, it remained unknow...

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

authors： Park J,Lim CJ,Shen M,Park HJ,Cha JY,Iniesto E,Rubio V,Mengiste T,Zhu JK,Bressan RA,Lee SY,Lee BH,Jin JB,Pardo JM,Kim WY,Yun DJ

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutants of Balb/c 3T3 cells defective in adhesiveness to substratum have been isolated. After exposure to a mutagen a cell population was treated with prostaglandin E1 and methylisobutylxanthine to elevate the cells 3':5'-cyclic AMP levels and adhesion to the substratum; then, loosley adherent cells were harvested...

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

authors： Pouysségur JM,Pastan I

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse glucocorticoid receptor-interacting protein (GRIP1) is a member of the ERAP160 family of nuclear receptor (NR) coactivators (including SRC-1 and TIF2) which function as bridging proteins between ligand-activated NRs bound to cognate hormone-response elements (HREs) and the transcription initiation apparatus ...

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

authors： Walfish PG,Yoganathan T,Yang YF,Hong H,Butt TR,Stallcup MR

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter. The method has been applied to purified cholinergic synaptic vesicles from Torpedo electric organ, and the membrane properties of these fused structures have been studied by the "cell"-attached version o...

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

authors： Rahamimoff R,DeRiemer SA,Sakmann B,Stadler H,Yakir N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiology is increasingly focused on identifying coincident activity among neurons. Strong inferences about neural computation are made from the results of such studies, so it is important that these results be accurate. However, the preliminary step in the analysis of such data, the assignment of spike waveform...

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

authors： Ventura V,Gerkin RC

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We use quantized molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the role of enzyme vibrations in facilitating dihydrofolate reductase hydride transfer. By sampling the full ensemble of reactive trajectories, we are able to quantify and distinguish between statistical and dynamical correlations in the enzyme motion. We...

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

authors： Boekelheide N,Salomón-Ferrer R,Miller TF 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Irrigation of the dog's oxyntic glandular mucosa contained in a chronically prepared, vagally denervated, separated pouch of the dog's stomach with a solution (0.5 mg ml-1) of lyophilized venom of the hooded cobra (Naja naja) increases the permeability of the mucosa. If irrigation with venom solution is repeated at we...

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

authors： Davenport HW

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unintended block of HERG K+ channels is a side effect of many common medications and is the most common cause of acquired long QT syndrome associated with increased risk of life-threatening arrhythmias. The molecular mechanism of high-affinity HERG block by structurally diverse compounds has been attributed to pi-stac...

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

authors： Chen J,Seebohm G,Sanguinetti MC

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A fraction obtained by gel filtration at neutral pH of the extracellular Hb of Lumbricus terrestris dissociated either at pH 9.8 or at pH 4.0, consisting of the three subunits D1 (31 kDa), D2 (37 kDa), and T (50 kDa), was found to produce two peaks when subjected to gel filtration on Superose 6 at pH 7. The first peak...

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

authors： Kapp OH,Mainwaring MG,Vinogradov SN,Crewe AV

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of spontaneous suppressors to the temperature-sensitive phenotype of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein mutation ssb-1 were isolated. A genomic library of EcoRI fragments from one of these suppressor strains was prepared by using pBR325 as the cloning vector. A 10.0-kilobase class of inserts was identifi...

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

authors： Ruben SM,VanDenBrink-Webb SE,Rein DC,Meyer RR

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras is a guanine nucleotide-binding protein that cycles between inactive GDP-bound and active GTP-bound states to regulate a diverse array of cellular processes, including cell growth, apoptosis, and differentiation. The guanine nucleotide-bound state of Ras is tightly maintained by regulatory factors to promote regul...

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

authors： Williams JG,Pappu K,Campbell SL

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), currently the only FDA-approved medication for ischemic stroke, exerts important biological actions on the CNS besides its well-known thrombolytic effect. In this study, we investigated the role of tPA on primary neurons in culture and on brain recove...

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

authors： Pu H,Shi Y,Zhang L,Lu Z,Ye Q,Leak RK,Xu F,Ma S,Mu H,Wei Z,Xu N,Xia Y,Hu X,Hitchens TK,Bennett MVL,Chen J

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The human major histocompatibility complex encodes three classical class I antigens, HLA-A, -B, and -C. Of these HLA-A and -B act as strong transplantation antigens and as restriction molecules for recognition of foreign antigen by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. In contrast, little is known about HLA-C and it is not clear w...

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

authors： Dill O,Kievits F,Koch S,Ivanyi P,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that cleaves Holliday junctions was partially purified approximately 500- to 1000-fold by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, gel filtration on Sephacryl S300, and chromatography on single-stranded DNA-cellulose. The partially purified enzyme did not have any detectable nuclease acti...

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

authors： Symington LS,Kolodner R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Bestrophin 1 (hBest1) is a calcium-activated chloride channel that regulates neuronal excitability, synaptic activity, and retinal homeostasis. Mutations in hBest1 cause the autosomal-dominant Best macular dystrophy (BMD). Because hBest1 mutations cause BMD, but a knockout does not, we wondered if hBest1 mutants...

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

authors： Bharill S,Fu Z,Palty R,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental and physiological responses are regulated by light throughout the entire life cycle of higher plants. To sense changes in the light environment, plants have developed various photoreceptors, including the red/far-red light-absorbing phytochromes and blue light-absorbing cryptochromes. A wide variety of p...

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

authors： Bognár LK,Hall A,Adám E,Thain SC,Nagy F,Millar AJ

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin boundaries or insulators modulate enhancer-promoter interactions in complex genetic loci. However, the mechanism underlying insulator activity is not known. Previous studies showed that the activity of the Drosophila suHw insulator is abolished by the tandem arrangement (pairing) of the insulator elements, s...

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

authors： Majumder P,Cai HN

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a culture system, simulating in vivo conditions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, to evaluate the long-term efficacy of antisense oligonucleotide treatment. Five oligonucleotide phosphorothioates (28-mers), complementary to different regions of HIV-1 RNA, blocked replication o...

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

authors： Lisziewicz J,Sun D,Klotman M,Agrawal S,Zamecnik P,Gallo R

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae initiates polarized growth or budding once per cell cycle at a specific time of the cell cycle and at a specific location on the cell surface. Little is known about the molecular nature of the temporal and spatial regulatory mechanisms. It is also unclear what factors, if any...

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

authors： Caviston JP,Tcheperegine SE,Bi E

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00