abstract：:Many ecosystems, from vegetation to biofilms, are composed of territorial populations that compete for both nutrients and physical space. What are the implications of such spatial organization for biodiversity? To address this question, we developed and analyzed a model of territorial resource competition. In the mode...

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

authors： Weiner BG,Posfai A,Wingreen NS

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila causes a potentially fatal form of pneumonia by replicating within macrophages in the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). Bacterial survival and proliferation within the LCV rely on hundreds of secreted effector proteins comprising high functional redundancy. The vacuolar membrane-localized Mav...

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

authors： Christenson ET,Isaac DT,Yoshida K,Lipo E,Kim JS,Ghirlando R,Isberg RR,Banerjee A

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The sources of human germline mutations are poorly understood. Part of the difficulty is that mutations occur very rarely, and so direct pedigree-based approaches remain limited in the numbers that they can examine. To address this problem, we consider the spectrum of low-frequency variants in a dataset (Genome Aggreg...

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

authors： Agarwal I,Przeworski M

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unp...

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

authors： Komatsu KJ,Avolio ML,Lemoine NP,Isbell F,Grman E,Houseman GR,Koerner SE,Johnson DS,Wilcox KR,Alatalo JM,Anderson JP,Aerts R,Baer SG,Baldwin AH,Bates J,Beierkuhnlein C,Belote RT,Blair J,Bloor JMG,Bohlen PJ,Bork EW

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In higher eukaryotic cells, mitochondria are essential subcellular organelles for energy production, cell signaling, and the biosynthesis of biomolecules. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome is indispensable for mitochondrial function because it encodes protein subunits of the electron transport chain and a full set ...

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

authors： Xu W,Boyd RM,Tree MO,Samkari F,Zhao L

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This perspective addresses recent advances in lipid transport across the Gram-negative inner and outer membranes. While we include a summary of previously existing literature regarding this topic, we focus on the maintenance of lipid asymmetry (Mla) pathway. Discovered in 2009 by the Silhavy group [J. C. Malinverni, T...

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

authors： Powers MJ,Trent MS

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis DEMETER (DME) DNA glycosylase demethylates the maternal genome in the central cell prior to fertilization and is essential for seed viability. DME preferentially targets small transposons that flank coding genes, influencing their expression and initiating plant gene imprinting. DME also targets interg...

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

authors： Zhang C,Hung YH,Rim HJ,Zhang D,Frost JM,Shin H,Jang H,Liu F,Xiao W,Iyer LM,Aravind L,Zhang XQ,Fischer RL,Huh JH,Hsieh TF

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that the overall size of-or efficiency of carbon export from-the biosphere decreased at the end of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) (ca. 2,400 to 2,050 Ma). However, the timing, tempo, and trigger for this decrease remain poorly constrained. Here we test this hypothesis by studying the isotope ...

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

authors： Hodgskiss MSW,Crockford PW,Peng Y,Wing BA,Horner TJ

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their charac...

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

authors： Frantz LAF,Haile J,Lin AT,Scheu A,Geörg C,Benecke N,Alexander M,Linderholm A,Mullin VE,Daly KG,Battista VM,Price M,Gron KJ,Alexandri P,Arbogast RM,Arbuckle B,Bӑlӑşescu A,Barnett R,Bartosiewicz L,Baryshnikov G,Bons

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is an interferon (IFN)-inducible multifunctional protein. Recent evidence from high-throughput analyses indicates that most IFN-inducible proteins, including viperin, are intrinsically expressed in specific tissues; however, the respective intrinsic functions are unknown. Here we show that the intrinsic expres...

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

authors： Eom J,Kim JJ,Yoon SG,Jeong H,Son S,Lee JB,Yoo J,Seo HJ,Cho Y,Kim KS,Choi KM,Kim IY,Lee HY,Nam KT,Cresswell P,Seong JK,Seo JY

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed experimental investigation of Fe1+y Te (y = 0.11, 0.12) using pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T confirms remarkable magnetic shape-memory (MSM) effects. These effects result from magnetoelastic transformation processes in the low-temperature antiferromagnetic state of these materials. The observation of mod...

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

authors： Rößler S,Koz C,Wang Z,Skourski Y,Doerr M,Kasinathan D,Rosner H,Schmidt M,Schwarz U,Rößler UK,Wirth S

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of molecular tension probes for real-time mapping of piconewton forces in living systems has had a major impact on mechanobiology. For example, DNA-based tension probes have revealed roles for mechanics in platelet, B cell, T cell, and fibroblast function. Nonetheless, imaging short-lived forces transmitted...

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

authors： Ma R,Kellner AV,Ma VP,Su H,Deal BR,Brockman JM,Salaita K

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive sequences are hotspots of evolution at multiple levels. However, due to difficulties involved in their assembly and analysis, the role of repeats in tumor evolution is poorly understood. We developed a rigorous motif-based methodology to quantify variations in the repeat content, beyond microsatellites, in ...

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

authors： Persi E,Prandi D,Wolf YI,Pozniak Y,Barnabas GD,Levanon K,Barshack I,Barbieri C,Gasperini P,Beltran H,Faltas BM,Rubin MA,Geiger T,Koonin EV,Demichelis F,Horn D

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To repurpose compounds for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), we screened a library of drugs and other targeted compounds approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on 9 cell lines and validated the results on a panel of 32 genetically characterized DLBCL cell lines. Dasatinib, a multikinase inhibitor, was ef...

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

authors： Scuoppo C,Wang J,Persaud M,Mittan SK,Basso K,Pasqualucci L,Rabadan R,Inghirami G,Grandori C,Bosch F,Dalla-Favera R

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid flippases (P4-ATPases) utilize ATP to translocate specific phospholipids from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytoplasmic leaflet of biological membranes, thus generating and maintaining transmembrane lipid asymmetry essential for a variety of cellular processes. P4-ATPases belong to the P-type ATPase prote...

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

authors： Tadini-Buoninsegni F,Mikkelsen SA,Mogensen LS,Molday RS,Andersen JP

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the approach to faulting in continental rocks is critical for identifying processes leading to fracturing in geomaterials and the preparation process of large earthquakes. In situ dynamic X-ray imaging and digital volume correlation analysis of a crystalline rock core, under a constant confining pressure...

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

authors： Renard F,McBeck J,Kandula N,Cordonnier B,Meakin P,Ben-Zion Y

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex liquids flow through channels faster than expected, an effect attributed to the formation of low-viscosity depletion layers at the boundaries. Characterization of depletion layer length scale, concentration, and dynamics has remained elusive due in large part to the lack of suitable real-space experimental tec...

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

authors： Park SJ,Shakya A,King JT

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent scholarship suggests that the genomes of those around us affect our own phenotypes. Much of the empirical evidence for such "metagenomic" effects comes from animal studies, where the socio-genetic environment can be easily manipulated. Among humans, it is more difficult to identify such effects given the nonran...

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

authors： Sotoudeh R,Harris KM,Conley D

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced seismicity linked to geothermal resource exploitation, hydraulic fracturing, and wastewater disposal is evolving into a global issue because of the increasing energy demand. Moderate to large induced earthquakes, causing widespread hazards, are often related to fluid injection into deep permeable formations th...

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

authors： Zhai G,Shirzaei M,Manga M,Chen X

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural landscape homogenization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. Increasing agricultural landscape heterogeneity by increasing seminatural cover can help to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, the amount of seminatural cover is generally low and difficult to increase in many i...

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

authors： Sirami C,Gross N,Baillod AB,Bertrand C,Carrié R,Hass A,Henckel L,Miguet P,Vuillot C,Alignier A,Girard J,Batáry P,Clough Y,Violle C,Giralt D,Bota G,Badenhausser I,Lefebvre G,Gauffre B,Vialatte A,Calatayud F,Gil-T

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bluetongue virus (BTV), a major threat to livestock, is a multilayered, nonturreted member of the Reoviridae, a family of segmented dsRNA viruses characterized by endogenous RNA transcription through an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). To date, the structure of BTV RdRp has been unknown, limiting our mechanistic u...

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

authors： He Y,Shivakoti S,Ding K,Cui Y,Roy P,Zhou ZH

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of IFN signaling is critical in host recognition and response to pathogens while its dysregulation underlies the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases. STimulator of IFN Genes (STING) has been identified as a critical mediator of IFN inducing innate immune pathways, but little is known about direct coreg...

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

authors： Li Y,James SJ,Wyllie DH,Wynne C,Czibula A,Bukhari A,Pye K,Bte Mustafah SM,Fajka-Boja R,Szabo E,Angyal A,Hegedus Z,Kovacs L,Hill AVS,Jefferies CA,Wilson HL,Yongliang Z,Kiss-Toth E

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are conserved transcription factor-encoding genes that specify the identity of body regions in bilaterally symmetrical animals. In the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, a member of the hemimetabolous insect group Orthoptera, the induction of a subset of mesodermal cells to form the primordial germ cells (PGCs) is...

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

authors： Barnett AA,Nakamura T,Extavour CG

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms of neural circuit assembly is far from complete. Identification of wiring molecules with novel mechanisms of action will provide insights into how complex and heterogeneous neural circuits assemble during development. In the Drosophila olfactory system, 50 classes of olfactory recep...

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

authors： Xie Q,Wu B,Li J,Xu C,Li H,Luginbuhl DJ,Wang X,Ward A,Luo L

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccades are rapid eye movements that orient the visual axis toward objects of interest to allow their processing by the central, high-acuity retina. Our ability to collect visual information efficiently relies on saccadic accuracy, which is limited by a combination of uncertainty in the location of the target and mot...

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

authors： Lisi M,Solomon JA,Morgan MJ

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:During the first 2 postnatal years, cortical thickness of the human brain develops dynamically and spatially heterogeneously and likely peaks between 1 and 2 y of age. The striking development renders this period critical for later cognitive outcomes and vulnerable to early neurodevelopmental disorders. However, due t...

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

authors： Wang F,Lian C,Wu Z,Zhang H,Li T,Meng Y,Wang L,Lin W,Shen D,Li G

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-mediated particle interactions depend both on the properties of the particles themselves and the membrane environment in which they are suspended. Experiments have shown that chiral rod-like inclusions dissolved in a colloidal membrane of opposite handedness assemble into colloidal rafts, which are finite-siz...

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

authors： Miller JM,Joshi C,Sharma P,Baskaran A,Baskaran A,Grason GM,Hagan MF,Dogic Z

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane contact sites known as triads. JPHs are anchored to the membrane of the SR by a C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and bind the T-tubule mem...

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

authors： Rossi D,Scarcella AM,Liguori E,Lorenzini S,Pierantozzi E,Kutchukian C,Jacquemond V,Messa M,De Camilli P,Sorrentino V

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mpemba effect occurs when a hot system cools faster than an initially colder one, when both are refrigerated in the same thermal reservoir. Using the custom-built supercomputer Janus II, we study the Mpemba effect in spin glasses and show that it is a nonequilibrium process, governed by the coherence length ξ of t...

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

authors： Baity-Jesi M,Calore E,Cruz A,Fernandez LA,Gil-Narvión JM,Gordillo-Guerrero A,Iñiguez D,Lasanta A,Maiorano A,Marinari E,Martin-Mayor V,Moreno-Gordo J,Muñoz Sudupe A,Navarro D,Parisi G,Perez-Gaviro S,Ricci-Tersenghi F,Rui

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Type-1 reactions (T1R) are pathological inflammatory episodes and main contributors to nerve damage in leprosy. Here, we evaluate the genewise enrichment of rare protein-altering variants in 7 genes where common variants were previously associated with T1R. We selected 474 Vietnamese leprosy patients of which 237 were...

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

authors： Fava VM,Xu YZ,Lettre G,Van Thuc N,Orlova M,Thai VH,Tao S,Croteau N,Eldeeb MA,MacDougall EJ,Cambri G,Lahiri R,Adams L,Fon EA,Trempe JF,Cobat A,Alcaïs A,Abel L,Schurr E

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants' sensitivity to contingent reactivity as an indicator of intentional agency has been demonstrated by numerous referential gaze-following studies. Here we propose that variability of signal sequences in a turn-taking exchange provides an informative cue for infants to recognize interactions that may involve com...

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

authors： Tauzin T,Gergely G

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual arousal is a dynamical, highly coordinated neurophysiological process that is often induced by visual stimuli. Numerous studies have proposed that the cognitive processing stage of responding to sexual stimuli is the first stage, in which sex differences occur, and the divergence between men and women has been ...

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

authors： Mitricheva E,Kimura R,Logothetis NK,Noori HR

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Several next-generation (universal) influenza vaccines and broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are in clinical development. Some of these mediate inhibitions of virus replication at the postentry stage or use Fc-dependent mechanisms. Nonneutralizing antibodies have the potential to mediate enhancement of viral inf...

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

authors： Winarski KL,Tang J,Klenow L,Lee J,Coyle EM,Manischewitz J,Turner HL,Takeda K,Ward AB,Golding H,Khurana S

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoskeletal filaments assemble into dense parallel, antiparallel, or disordered networks, providing a complex environment for active cargo transport and positioning by molecular motors. The interplay between the network architecture and intrinsic motor properties clearly affects transport properties but remains poorl...

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

authors： Richard M,Blanch-Mercader C,Ennomani H,Cao W,De La Cruz EM,Joanny JF,Jülicher F,Blanchoin L,Martin P

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis of solid tumors is a key determinant of cancer patient survival. Targeting micrometastases using nanoparticles could offer a way to stop metastatic tumor growth before it causes excessive patient morbidity. However, nanoparticle delivery to micrometastases is difficult to investigate because micrometastases...

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

authors： Kingston BR,Syed AM,Ngai J,Sindhwani S,Chan WCW

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead pollution in Arctic ice reflects large-scale historical changes in midlatitude industrial activities such as ancient lead/silver production and recent fossil fuel burning. Here we used measurements in a broad array of 13 accurately dated ice cores from Greenland and Severnaya Zemlya to document spatial and tempor...

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

authors： McConnell JR,Chellman NJ,Wilson AI,Stohl A,Arienzo MM,Eckhardt S,Fritzsche D,Kipfstuhl S,Opel T,Place PF,Steffensen JP

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for perceptual periodicity emerges from studies showing periodic fluctuations in visual perception and decision making that are accompanied by neural oscillations in brain activity. We have uncovered signs of periodicity in the time course of binocular rivalry, a widely studied form of multistable perception....

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

authors： Cha O,Blake R

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully atomistic molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations of perfluoroalkylalkane molecules at the surface of water show the spontaneous formation of aggregates whose size and topography closely resemble the experimentally observed hemimicelles for this system. Furthermore, the grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) pat...

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

authors： Silva GMC,Morgado P,Lourenço P,Goldmann M,Filipe EJM

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell (DC) lectins mediate the recognition, uptake, and processing of antigens, but they can also be coopted by pathogens for infection. These distinct activities depend upon the routing of antigens within the cell. Antigens directed to endosomal compartments are degraded, and the peptides are presented on ma...

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

authors： Jarvis CM,Zwick DB,Grim JC,Alam MM,Prost LR,Gardiner JC,Park S,Zimdars LL,Sherer NM,Kiessling LL

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) is associated with vulnerability to affective disorders and pharmacotherapy efficacy. We recently identified sequence polymorphisms in the common marmoset SLC6A4 repeat region (AC/C/G and CT/T/C) associated with individual differences in anxiety-like trait, ...

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

authors： Santangelo AM,Sawiak SJ,Fryer T,Hong Y,Shiba Y,Clarke HF,Riss PJ,Ferrari V,Tait R,Suckling J,Aigbirhio FI,Roberts AC

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00