In vivo magnetic resonance vascular imaging using laser-polarized 3He microbubbles.

abstract：:We have obtained the electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of Cu2+ bound in a tetragonal single crystal of hen egg-white lysozyme. A part of this spectrum has been shown to originate from Cu2+ ions bound at the site designated as B by Teichberg et al. [Teichberg, V.I., Sharon, N., Moult, J., Smilansky, A. & Yonath,...

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

authors： Hutchison CA Jr,Singel DJ,Hadad MN,Kemple MD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic genomes are substantially diverse, even when from closely related species, with the resulting phenotypic diversity representing a repertoire of adaptations to specific constraints. Within the microbial population, genome content may not be fixed, as changing selective forces favor particular phenotypes; ho...

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

authors： Aras RA,Kang J,Tschumi AI,Harasaki Y,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Protecting hydrologic connectivity of freshwater ecosystems is fundamental to ensuring species persistence, ecosystem integrity, and human well-being. More frequent and severe droughts associated with climate change are poised to significantly alter flow intermittence patterns and hydrologic connectivity in dryland st...

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

authors： Jaeger KL,Olden JD,Pelland NA

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Several domains of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein have been identified that are involved in HIV-1-mediated membrane fusion. One domain that is involved in membrane fusion is the hydrophobic amino terminus of the HIV-1 transmembrane glycoprotein gp41. Here we show that a polar sub...

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

authors： Freed EO,Delwart EL,Buchschacher GL Jr,Panganiban AT

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein methylation reaction involved in chemotaxis of Escherichia coli has been identified. The involvement of this reaction in chemotaxis in indicated by four lines of evidence. (a) The methylation reaction is altered in several classes of generally nonchemotactic mutants and is coreverted with the chemotaxis defe...

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

authors： Kort EN,Goy MF,Larsen SH,Adler J

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of fluctuations in rate constants on the kinetic behavior of cyclic reacting systems, caused by a fluctuating external parameter, is studied. It is shown (i) that the stochastic properties of the system can be analyzed analytically by using the usual master equation approach when the external parameter is f...

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

authors： Chen YD

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a unique proxy for the reconstruction of variation in precipitation over the Amazon: oxygen isotope ratios in annual rings in tropical cedar (Cedrela odorata). A century-long record from northern Bolivia shows that tree rings preserve the signal of oxygen isotopes in precipitation during the wet season, wit...

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

authors： Brienen RJ,Helle G,Pons TL,Guyot JL,Gloor M

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of tolerance to opiate drugs is poorly understood. We have used single-channel patch-clamp recordings to study opiate receptor effects on dissociated neurons from rat amygdala, a limbic region implicated in addiction processes. A 130-pS inwardly rectifying K(+)-preferring cation channel was act...

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

authors： Chen X,Marrero HG,Murphy R,Lin YJ,Freedman JE

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:After endocytosis, transmembrane cargo reaches endosomes, where it encounters complexes dedicated to opposing functions: recycling and degradation. Microdomains containing endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT)-0 component Hrs [hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (HGRS-1) i...

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

authors： Norris A,Tammineni P,Wang S,Gerdes J,Murr A,Kwan KY,Cai Q,Grant BD

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CBP is a transcriptional coactivator required by many transcription factors for transactivation. Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, which is an autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by abnormal pattern formation, has been shown to be associated with mutations in the Cbp gene. Furthermore, Drosophila CBP is required in hed...

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

authors： Tanaka Y,Naruse I,Maekawa T,Masuya H,Shiroishi T,Ishii S

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A Poincaré resolution is given for the supersymmetric ring of brackets over a signed alphabet. As a consequence, a resolution is found for the ring of coordinates of the Grassmanian variety in projective space over any infinite field. ...

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

authors： Anick D,Rota GC

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the expression of thymidine kinase (tk) activity in synchronized populations of mouse cells that have been transformed to the tk+ phenotype with purified DNA from various sources or with metaphase chromosomes from human cells. The viral (herpes) tk gene is constitutively expressed but, in all other cases ...

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

authors： Schlosser CA,Steglich C,deWet JR,Scheffler IE

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice prefer to mate with individuals expressing different MHC genes from their own. Volatile components presenting MHC-dependent odor types are present in urine and can be detected by mice, as shown by extensive behavioral studies. Similar odor types are suspected to influence human behavior as well. Although a recent...

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

authors： Montag S,Frank M,Ulmer H,Wernet D,Göpel W,Rammensee HG

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane protein complex between the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) and phospholamban (PLN) controls Ca(2+) transport in cardiomyocytes, thereby modulating cardiac contractility. β-Adrenergic-stimulated phosphorylation of PLN at Ser-16 enhances SERCA activity via an unknown mechanism. Using solid-sta...

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

authors： Gustavsson M,Verardi R,Mullen DG,Mote KR,Traaseth NJ,Gopinath T,Veglia G

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed spin labeling EPR (SDSL-EPR) was used to determine the structure of the inhibitory region of TnI in the intact cardiac troponin ternary complex. Maeda and collaborators have modeled the inhibitory region of TnI (skeletal 96-112: the structural motif that communicates the Ca(2+) signal to actin) as a kink...

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

authors： Brown LJ,Sale KL,Hills R,Rouviere C,Song L,Zhang X,Fajer PG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is given for the existence of an electron transport pathway to oxygen in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts (chlororespiration). Plastoquinone is shown to be a redox carrier common to both photosynthetic and chlororespiratory pathways. It is shown that, in dark-adapted chloroplasts, an electrochemical gr...

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

authors： Bennoun P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the plant Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is synthesized in the cytoplasm as a preprotein and is subsequently translocated to the mitochondrial matrix with corresponding cleavage of an NH2-terminal leader sequence. To determine whether the plant enzyme could replace the endogenous ...

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

authors： Bowler C,Alliotte T,Van den Bulcke M,Bauw G,Vandekerckhove J,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two main types of peroxisomal targeting signals have been identified that reside either at the extreme C terminus (PTS1) or the N terminus (PTS2) of the protein. In the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha the majority of peroxisomal matrix proteins are of the PTS1 type. Thus far, for H. polymorpha only amine oxi...

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

authors： Faber KN,Haima P,Gietl C,Harder W,Ab G,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin/Insulin-like growth factor signaling regulates homeostasis and growth in mammals, and is implicated in diseases from diabetes to cancer. In Drosophila melanogaster, as in other invertebrates, multiple Insulin-Like Peptides (DILPs) are encoded by a family of related genes. To assess DILPs' physiological roles, ...

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

authors： Zhang H,Liu J,Li CR,Momen B,Kohanski RA,Pick L

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally thought that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV-1 infection should elicit both strong neutralizing antibody and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses. We recently demonstrated that potent, boostable, long-lived HIV-1 envelope (Env)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses can be elicited in rhesus monkeys...

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

authors： Letvin NL,Montefiori DC,Yasutomi Y,Perry HC,Davies ME,Lekutis C,Alroy M,Freed DC,Lord CI,Handt LK,Liu MA,Shiver JW

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species,...

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

authors： Caramelli D,Lalueza-Fox C,Vernesi C,Lari M,Casoli A,Mallegni F,Chiarelli B,Dupanloup I,Bertranpetit J,Barbujani G,Bertorelle G

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-binding specificity of HA, the major surface glycoprotein of influenza virus, primarily determines the host ranges that the virus can infect. Influenza type B virus almost exclusively infects humans and contributes to the annual "flu" sickness. Here we report the structures of influenza B virus HA in complex ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Tian X,Chen X,Ma J

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging and some pathological conditions are associated with the accumulation of altered (inactive or less active) forms of enzymes. It was suggested that these age-related alterations reflect spontaneous changes in protein conformation and/or posttranslational modifications (e.g., oxidation). Because changes in protein...

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

authors： Chao CC,Ma YS,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found that the mutator phenotype of the recA441 and recA730 strains that express the SOS response constitutively is suppressed by pIP1, a high-copy plasmid carrying the dnaQ gene encoding the 3'----5' exonuclease subunit (epsilon) of DNA polymerase III. We have constructed plasmid pIP11, in which the dnaQ ...

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

authors： Jonczyk P,Fijalkowska I,Ciesla Z

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the metabolic pathway that generates choline (Cho) for acetylcholine (AcCho) from its storage pool in membrane phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho), human neuronal cells (LA-N-2) were radioisotopically labeled with 1-O-hexadecyl-2-hydroxy-sn-glycero(3)phospho[14C]choline. The compound was efficiently taken up by t...

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

authors： Lee HC,Fellenz-Maloney MP,Liscovitch M,Blusztajn JK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astronomers and physicists noticed centuries ago that visual spatial resolution is higher for dark than light stimuli, but the neuronal mechanisms for this perceptual asymmetry remain unknown. Here we demonstrate that the asymmetry is caused by a neuronal nonlinearity in the early visual pathway. We show that neurons ...

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

authors： Kremkow J,Jin J,Komban SJ,Wang Y,Lashgari R,Li X,Jansen M,Zaidi Q,Alonso JM

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of urine, or micturition, serves a fundamental physiological function and, in many species, is critical for social communication. In mice, the pattern of urine release is modulated by external and internal factors and transmitted to the spinal cord via the pontine micturition center (PMC). Here, we exploit...

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

authors： Hyun M,Taranda J,Radeljic G,Miner L,Wang W,Ochandarena N,Huang KW,Osten P,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage analysis with restriction fragment length polymorphisms for the gene for type II procollagen (COL2A1) was carried out in a family with the Stickler syndrome, or arthro-ophthalmopathy, an autosomal dominant disorder that affects the eyes, ears, joints, and skeleton. The analysis demonstrated linkage of the dise...

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

authors： Ahmad NN,Ala-Kokko L,Knowlton RG,Jimenez SA,Weaver EJ,Maguire JI,Tasman W,Prockop DJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercropping, which grows at least two crop species on the same pieces of land at the same time, can increase grain yields greatly. Legume-grass intercrops are known to overyield because of legume nitrogen fixation. However, many agricultural soils are deficient in phosphorus. Here we show that a new mechanism of ove...

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

authors： Li L,Li SM,Sun JH,Zhou LL,Bao XG,Zhang HG,Zhang FS

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system detects viral nucleic acids and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses. The RNA- and DNA-sensing pathways converge on the protein kinase TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and the transcription factor IFN-regulatory factor 3 (IRF3). Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is known to trigger the ...

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

authors： Seo M,Lee SO,Kim JH,Hong Y,Kim S,Kim Y,Min DH,Kong YY,Shin J,Ahn K

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00