A neuropeptide ligand of the G protein-coupled receptor GPR103 regulates feeding, behavioral arousal, and blood pressure in mice.

abstract：:Oligomerization plays a critical role in shaping the light-harvesting properties of many photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, but a detailed understanding of this process at the level of individual pigments is still lacking. To study the effects of oligomerization, we designed a single-molecule approach to probe ...

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

authors： Wang Q,Moerner WE

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The live cold-adapted (ca) A/AA/6/60 influenza vaccine is being commercially developed for worldwide use in children and is being used as a model for other live vaccines. Although it has been proven safe and immunogenic, the molecular basis of cold adaptation has never been determined. To identify sequence changes res...

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

authors： Herlocher ML,Maassab HF,Webster RG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superhydrophobic surfaces display water contact angles greater than 150 degrees in conjunction with low contact angle hysteresis. Microscopic pockets of air trapped beneath the water droplets placed on these surfaces lead to a composite solid-liquid-air interface in thermodynamic equilibrium. Previous experimental and...

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

authors： Tuteja A,Choi W,Mabry JM,McKinley GH,Cohen RE

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The excision and reintegration of transposable elements (TEs) restructure their host genomes, generating cellular diversity involved in evolution, development, and the etiology of human diseases. Our current knowledge of TE behavior primarily results from bulk techniques that generate time and cell ensemble averages, ...

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

authors： Kim NH,Lee G,Sherer NA,Martini KM,Goldenfeld N,Kuhlman TE

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an all-electronic digital microfluidic device for microscale chemical synthesis in organic solvents, operated by electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD). As an example of the principles, we demonstrate the multistep synthesis of [(18)F]FDG, the most common radiotracer for positron emission tomography (PE...

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

authors： Keng PY,Chen S,Ding H,Sadeghi S,Shah GJ,Dooraghi A,Phelps ME,Satyamurthy N,Chatziioannou AF,Kim CJ,van Dam RM

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosation is a posttranslational, oxidative addition of NO to cysteine residues of proteins that has been proposed as a cGMP-independent signaling pathway [Hess DT, Matsumoto A, Kim SO, Marshall HE, Stamler JS (2005) Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 6:150-166]. A paradox of S-nitrosation is that only a small set of reactive ...

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

authors： Mitchell DA,Morton SU,Fernhoff NB,Marletta MA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hatchlings of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) are unique as the only reptile and highest vertebrate life form known to tolerate the natural freezing of extracellular body fluids during winter hibernation. Turtles survived frequent exposures to temperatures as low as -6 degrees C to -8 degrees C in their...

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

authors： Storey KB,Storey JM,Brooks SP,Churchill TA,Brooks RJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-copper oxygen reductases are redox-driven proton pumps. In the current work, the effects of mutations in a proposed exit pathway for pumped protons are examined in the ba(3)-type oxygen reductase from Thermus thermophilus, leading from the propionates of heme a(3) to the interface between subunits I and II. R...

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

authors： Chang HY,Choi SK,Vakkasoglu AS,Chen Y,Hemp J,Fee JA,Gennis RB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the ecological impacts of climate change is a crucial challenge of the twenty-first century. There is a clear lack of general rules regarding the impacts of global warming on biota. Here, we present a metaanalysis of the effect of climate change on body size of ectothermic aquatic organisms (bacteria, ph...

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

authors： Daufresne M,Lengfellner K,Sommer U

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of adaptive immunity displayed by animals, plants respond locally to biotic challenge via inducible basal defense networks activated through recognition and response to conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. In addition, immunity can be induced in tissues remote from infection sites by system...

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

authors： Truman W,Bennett MH,Kubigsteltig I,Turnbull C,Grant M

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate here that yeast killer viruses, previously thought to be transmitted only by cytoplasmic mixing during division, mating, or other induced forms of cell fusion, are capable of extracellular transmission. Viral particles from standard K1 and K2 killer strains were used to inoculate sensitive cells of Sacc...

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

authors： el-Sherbeini M,Bostian KA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental constraint is indicated when one finds that similar genetic mechanisms are responsible for independent origins of the same derived phenotype. We studied three independent origins of rosette flowering within the mustard family and attempted to evaluate the extent to which the same mechanisms were involved...

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

authors： Yoon HS,Baum DA

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and isolated a presumptive leukemogenic provirus from myeloblasts of a chicken in which leukemia had been induced by avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). Leukemic myeloblasts isolated from peripheral blood or from converted yolk sac cultures of various strains of chickens, regardless of the endogenous ...

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

authors： Souza LM,Komaromy MC,Baluda MA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a genome-wide approach, we asked how many transporter genes contribute to symbiotic phosphate uptake and analyzed their evolutionary conservation. Considering the sequenced rice genome at hand, only the Oryza sativa phosphate transporter (OsPT) gene OsPT11 was specifically induced during the arbuscular mycorrhiz...

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

authors： Paszkowski U,Kroken S,Roux C,Briggs SP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells provide in vivo control of orthopoxvirus infections in association with their expansion in the draining lymph node (LN), where they are normally very rare. The mechanism of this expansion is unclear. Herein, we determined that NK-cell depletion results in enhanced infection following footpad ...

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

authors： Pak-Wittel MA,Yang L,Sojka DK,Rivenbark JG,Yokoyama WM

更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte endowment dwindles away during prepubertal and adult life until menopause occurs, and apoptosis has been identified as a central mechanism responsible for oocyte elimination. A few recent reports suggest that uncontrolled inflammation may adversely affect ovarian reserve. We tested the possible role of the proi...

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

authors： Uri-Belapolsky S,Shaish A,Eliyahu E,Grossman H,Levi M,Chuderland D,Ninio-Many L,Hasky N,Shashar D,Almog T,Kandel-Kfir M,Harats D,Shalgi R,Kamari Y

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the complementary strands of two human diversity region (D) minigenes, D2 and D4, show stretches of homology with two human variable region kappa chain (V kappa) genes, NG9 and HK101, respectively, in the first complementarity-determining region. In one V kappa sequence, the homology includ...

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

authors： Chen PP,Kabat EA,Wu TT,Fong S,Carson DA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges (Porifera), the simplest and earliest multicellular organisms, are thought to have evolved from their unicellular ancestors about 1 billion years ago by developing cell-recognition and adhesion mechanisms to discriminate against "non-self." Consequently, they are used as models for investigating recognition ph...

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

authors： Haseley SR,Vermeer HJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Size-selective mortality inevitably leads to a decrease in population density and exerts a direct negative effect on targeted size classes. But density and population size structure are also shaped by food-dependent processes, such as individual growth, maturation, and reproduction. Mortality relaxes competition and t...

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

authors： Schröder A,Persson L,de Roos AM

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:After exposure of segments of rabbit taenia coli to the nonionic detergent Triton X-100, tension could be induced by increasing the [Ca2+] in the micromolar range. In the presence of a saturating [Ca2+], this preparation developed nearly 100% of the control tetanus tension recorded from the intact muscle prior to the ...

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

authors： Gordon AR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to environmental changes, the connections ("arrows") in gene regulatory networks determine which genes modulate their expression, but the quantitative parameters of the network ("the numbers on the arrows") are equally important in determining the resulting phenotype. What are the objectives and constraint...

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

authors： Chubukov V,Zuleta IA,Li H

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuolated lens (vl) mouse mutant causes congenital cataracts and neural tube defects (NTDs), with the NTDs being caused by abnormal neural fold apposition and fusion. Our positional cloning of vl indicates these phenotypes result from a deletion mutation in an uncharacterized orphan G protein-coupled receptor (GP...

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

authors： Matteson PG,Desai J,Korstanje R,Lazar G,Borsuk TE,Rollins J,Kadambi S,Joseph J,Rahman T,Wink J,Benayed R,Paigen B,Millonig JH

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembling dendrimers have facilitated the discovery of periodic and quasiperiodic arrays of supramolecular architectures and the diverse functions derived from them. Examples are liquid quasicrystals and their approximants plus helical columns and spheres, including some that disregard chirality. The same period...

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

authors： Rodriguez-Emmenegger C,Xiao Q,Kostina NY,Sherman SE,Rahimi K,Partridge BE,Li S,Sahoo D,Reveron Perez AM,Buzzacchera I,Han H,Kerzner M,Malhotra I,Möller M,Wilson CJ,Good MC,Goulian M,Baumgart T,Klein ML,Percec V

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effects of a stromal cell-derived cytokine designated interleukin 11 (IL-11) on the proliferation of murine hemopoietic progenitors in methylcellulose culture. COS cell-conditioned medium containing IL-11 supported formation of granulocyte/macrophage colonies and a small number of multilineage col...

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

authors： Musashi M,Yang YC,Paul SR,Clark SC,Sudo T,Ogawa M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To generate transgenic planarians we used a set of versatile vectors for animal transgenesis based on the promiscuous transposons, mariner, Hermes and piggyBac, and a universal enhanced GFP (EGFP) marker system with three Pax6 dimeric binding sites, the 3xP3-EGFP developed by Berghammer et al. [Berghammer, A. J., Klin...

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

authors： González-Estévez C,Momose T,Gehring WJ,Saló E

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue cultures of Actinidia kolomikta can be maintained as callus through repeated passages on a nutrient medium devoid of cytokinin but containing inorganic nutrients, sucrose, and other basal organics plus auxin. Under these conditions, actively growing callus contained 2 and 0.5 nmol of the cytokinins zeatin [io(6...

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

authors： Einset JW

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetric and asymmetric dimethylation of arginine are isomeric protein posttranslational modifications with distinct biological effects, evidenced by the methylation of arginine 3 of histone H4 (H4R3): symmetric dimethylation of H4R3 leads to repression of gene expression, while asymmetric dimethylation of H4R3 is as...

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

authors： Sun L,Wang M,Lv Z,Yang N,Liu Y,Bao S,Gong W,Xu RM

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of identifying VEGF-independent pathways in pathological angiogenesis is increasingly recognized as a result of the emerging drug resistance to anti-VEGF therapies. PDGF-CC is the third member of the PDGF family discovered after more than two decades of studies on PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB. The biological fun...

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

authors： Hou X,Kumar A,Lee C,Wang B,Arjunan P,Dong L,Maminishkis A,Tang Z,Li Y,Zhang F,Zhang SZ,Wardega P,Chakrabarty S,Liu B,Wu Z,Colosi P,Fariss RN,Lennartsson J,Nussenblatt R,Gutkind JS,Cao Y,Li X

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease composed of divergent molecular and histologic subtypes, including prostate adenocarcinoma (PrAd) and neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). While PrAd is the major histology in prostate cancer, NEPC can evolve from PrAd as a mechanism of treatment resistance that involves a ...

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

authors： Lee JK,Bangayan NJ,Chai T,Smith BA,Pariva TE,Yun S,Vashisht A,Zhang Q,Park JW,Corey E,Huang J,Graeber TG,Wohlschlegel J,Witte ON

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal variations in the properties of rabbit-liver fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase have now been linked to corresponding changes in the levels of proteolytic activity in the liver extracts. Incubation of native fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase with purified liver lysosomes causes a 3-fold increase in catalytic activity at p...

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

authors： Pontremoli S,Melloni E,Balestrero F,Franzi AT,De Flora A,Horecker BL

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00