Altered spectra of hypermutation in antibodies from mice deficient for the DNA mismatch repair protein PMS2.

abstract：:It is well-established morphologically that bipolar cells, the second-order neurons in the vertebrate retina, make reciprocal synapses with amacrine cells in the inner plexiform layer. However, neither the property nor the physiological function of the feedback synapse is understood. Autoradiographic and immunohistoch...

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

authors： Tachibana M,Kaneko A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femtosecond and subfemtosecond time scales typically rule electron dynamics at metal surfaces. Recent advance in experimental techniques permits now remarkable precision in the description of these processes. In particular, shorter time scales, smaller system sizes, and spin-dependent effects are current targets of in...

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

authors： Muiño RD,Sánchez-Portal D,Silkin VM,Chulkov EV,Echenique PM

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational processes of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in complex genomes are poorly understood. We examined these processes by introducing a two-phase mutation model. In this model, most mutations are single-step changes, but infrequent large jumps in repeat number also occur. We used computer simulations to determin...

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

authors： Di Rienzo A,Peterson AC,Garza JC,Valdes AM,Slatkin M,Freimer NB

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the dynamics and spatial distribution of land use fragmentation in a rapidly urbanizing region of the United States to test key propositions regarding the evolution of sprawl. Using selected pattern metrics and data from 1973 and 2000 for the state of Maryland, we find significant increases in developed...

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

authors： Irwin EG,Bockstael NE

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation is a fundamental process in early development that results in the formation of three primary germ layers. During avian gastrulation, presumptive mesodermal cells in the dorsal epiblast ingress through a furrow called the primitive streak (PS), and subsequently move away from the PS and form adult tissues....

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

authors： Zamir EA,Czirók A,Cui C,Little CD,Rongish BJ

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokines interleukin (IL) 4 and IL-13 induce many of the same biological responses, including class switching to IgE and induction of major histocompatibility complex class II antigens and CD23 on human B cells. It has recently been shown that IL-4 induces the tyrosine phosphorylation of a 170-kDa protein, a subs...

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

authors： Keegan AD,Johnston JA,Tortolani PJ,McReynolds LJ,Kinzer C,O'Shea JJ,Paul WE

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery, the coupling between ligand binding and protein conformational change, is the heart of biological network and it has often been explained by two representative models, the induced-fit and the population-shift models. Here, we clarified for what systems one model fits better than the other by performing mole...

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

authors： Okazaki K,Takada S

更新日期：2008-08-12 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：:Abnormal H2O2 levels are closely related to many diseases, including inflammation and cancers. Herein, we simultaneously load HRP and its substrate, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), into liposomal nanoparticles, obtaining a Lipo@HRP&ABTS optical nanoprobe for in vivo H2O2-responsive chrom...

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

authors： Chen Q,Liang C,Sun X,Chen J,Yang Z,Zhao H,Feng L,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between performance and ability is a central concern in the social sciences: Are the most successful much more able than others, and are failures unskilled? Prior research has shown that noise and self-reinforcing dynamics make performance unpredictable and lead to a weak association between ability a...

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

authors： Denrell J,Liu C

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamines, including dopamine (DA), have been linked to aggression in various species. However, the precise role or roles served by the amine in aggression have been difficult to define because dopaminergic systems influence many behaviors, and all can be altered by changing the function of dopaminergic neurons. In t...

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

authors： Alekseyenko OV,Chan YB,Li R,Kravitz EA

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genetic diversity in southern Europe is higher than in other regions of the continent. This difference has been attributed to postglacial expansions, the demic diffusion of agriculture from the Near East, and gene flow from Africa. Using SNP data from 2,099 individuals in 43 populations, we show that estimates o...

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

authors： Botigué LR,Henn BM,Gravel S,Maples BK,Gignoux CR,Corona E,Atzmon G,Burns E,Ostrer H,Flores C,Bertranpetit J,Comas D,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that the binding of oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxLDL) to resident mouse peritoneal macrophages can be inhibited (up to 70%) by the apoprotein B (apoB) isolated from OxLDL, suggesting that macrophage recognition of OxLDL is primarily dependent on its modified protein moiety. However,...

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

authors： Bird DA,Gillotte KL,Hörkkö S,Friedman P,Dennis EA,Witztum JL,Steinberg D

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the enormous theoretical attention given to the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction, the validity of the key assumptions on which the theory depends rarely has been evaluated. It is often argued that a reduced ability to purge deleterious mutations condemns asexual lineages to an early extinction....

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

authors： Omilian AR,Cristescu ME,Dudycha JL,Lynch M

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy is commonly used to investigate photophysical phenomena such as light harvesting in photosynthesis in which the system returns back to its ground state after energy transfer. By contrast, we introduce multidimensional spectroscopy to study ultrafast photochemical proce...

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

authors： Ruetzel S,Diekmann M,Nuernberger P,Walter C,Engels B,Brixner T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against human schistosome infection develops slowly, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. For many decades, researchers have attempted to infer properties of the immune response from epidemiological studies, with mathematical models frequently being used to bridge the gap between immunolo...

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

authors： Mitchell KM,Mutapi F,Savill NJ,Woolhouse ME

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Profiling the dynamic interaction of p300 with proximal promoters of human T cells identified a class of genes that rapidly coassemble p300 and RNA polymerase II (pol II) following mitogen stimulation. Several of these p300 targets are immediate early genes, including FOS, implicating a prominent role for p300 in the ...

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

authors： Byun JS,Wong MM,Cui W,Idelman G,Li Q,De Siervi A,Bilke S,Haggerty CM,Player A,Wang YH,Thirman MJ,Kaberlein JJ,Petrovas C,Koup RA,Longo D,Ozato K,Gardner K

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Confined liquid crystals (LC) provide a unique platform for technological applications and for the study of LC properties, such as bulk elasticity, surface anchoring, and topological defects. In this work, lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) are confined in spherical droplets, and their director configurations...

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

authors： Jeong J,Davidson ZS,Collings PJ,Lubensky TC,Yodh AG

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that p-terphenyl-3,5,3',5'-tetracarboxylic acid adsorbed on graphite self-assembles into a two-dimensional rhombus random tiling. This tiling is close to ideal, displaying long-range correlations punctuated by sparse localized tiling defects. In this article we explore the analogy between dynami...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Stannard A,Blunt MO,Beton PH

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:When a sensory stimulus repeats, neuronal firing rate and functional MRI blood oxygen level-dependent responses typically decline, yet perception and behavioral performance either stay constant or improve. An additional aspect of neuronal activity is neuronal synchronization, which can enhance the impact of neurons on...

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

authors： Brunet NM,Bosman CA,Vinck M,Roberts M,Oostenveld R,Desimone R,De Weerd P,Fries P

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated that mammalian cells contain a cytosolic protein disaggregation machinery comprised of Hsc70, DnaJ homologs, and Hsp110 proteins, the last of which acts to accelerate a rate-limiting step of nucleotide exchange of Hsc70. We tested the ability of transgenic overexpression of a Thy1 promote...

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

authors： Nagy M,Fenton WA,Li D,Furtak K,Horwich AL

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular remodeling that occurs after myocardial infarction (MI) and pressure overload is generally accepted as a determinant of the clinical course of heart failure. The molecular mechanism of this process, however, remains to be elucidated. Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) is a mitogen-activated p...

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

authors： Yamaguchi O,Higuchi Y,Hirotani S,Kashiwase K,Nakayama H,Hikoso S,Takeda T,Watanabe T,Asahi M,Taniike M,Matsumura Y,Tsujimoto I,Hongo K,Kusakari Y,Kurihara S,Nishida K,Ichijo H,Hori M,Otsu K

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining active growth and effective immune responses is often costly for a living organism to survive. Fine-tuning the shared cross-regulators is crucial for metazoans and plants to make a trade-off between growth and immunity. The Arabidopsis regulatory receptor-like kinase BAK1 complexes with the receptor kinase...

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

authors： Lin W,Lu D,Gao X,Jiang S,Ma X,Wang Z,Mengiste T,He P,Shan L

更新日期：2013-07-16 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：:Deuterium oxide, D(2)O, increases the temperature-tolerance of Drosophila pseudoobscura when it is administered to adult flies as a sucrose solution. The effect is very rapidly exerted; it is detected within 10 min after the flies have a brief (10 min) opportunity to drink. This increased resistance to heat-death sure...

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

authors： Pittendrigh CS,Cosbey ES

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental observations indicate a role for VEGF secreted by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in the maintenance of the choriocapillaris (CC). VEGF in mice is produced as three isoforms, VEGF120, VEGF164, and VEGF188, that differ in their ability to bind heparan sulfate proteoglycan. RPE normally pr...

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

authors： Saint-Geniez M,Kurihara T,Sekiyama E,Maldonado AE,D'Amore PA

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methodologies that monitor immune responses rely on invasive techniques that sample tissues at a given point in time. New technologies are needed to elucidate the temporal patterns of immune responses and the spatial distribution of immune cells on a whole-body scale. We describe a noninvasive, quantitative, a...

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

authors： Shu CJ,Guo S,Kim YJ,Shelly SM,Nijagal A,Ray P,Gambhir SS,Radu CG,Witte ON

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the NH2-terminal DNA-binding domain of lac repressor with synthetic oligo[d(AT)] was studied by a photo-CIDNP technique (CIDNP is chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization). Three of the four tyrosines of the NH2-terminal region were found to be accessible to the photosensitive dye. The corres...

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

authors： Buck F,Rüterjans H,Kaptein R,Beyreuther K

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nations in the 21st century face a complex mix of environmental and social challenges, as highlighted by the on-going Sustainable Development Goals process. The "planetary boundaries" concept [Rockström J, et al. (2009) Nature 461(7263):472-475], and its extension through the addition of social well-being indicators t...

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

authors： Cole MJ,Bailey RM,New MG

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells transformed by Friend virus in liquid suspension culture respond to low concentrations of dimethylsulfoxide by initiating hemoglobin synthesis. The kinetics of appearance of such differentiated erythroid cells is consistent with either the induction of differentiation in a uniformly susceptible population of tra...

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

authors： Singer D,Cooper M,Maniatis GM,Marks PA,Rifkind RA

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00