Multifunctionality and mechanical origins: ballistic jaw propulsion in trap-jaw ants.

abstract：:Animal rabies control has been frustrated by the existence of multiple wildlife reservoirs and the lack of efficacious oral vaccines. In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street r...

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

authors： Rupprecht CE,Wiktor TJ,Johnston DH,Hamir AN,Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Glickman LT,Koprowski H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-secreting plasma cells (PCs) arise rapidly during adaptive immunity to control infections. The early PCs are retained within the reactive lymphoid organ where their localization and homeostasis rely on extrinsic factors, presumably produced by local niche cells. While myeloid cells have been proposed to form ...

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

authors： Huang HY,Rivas-Caicedo A,Renevey F,Cannelle H,Peranzoni E,Scarpellino L,Hardie DL,Pommier A,Schaeuble K,Favre S,Vogt TK,Arenzana-Seisdedos F,Schneider P,Buckley CD,Donnadieu E,Luther SA

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This report provides direct evidence that strigolactone (SL) positively regulates drought and high salinity responses in Arabidopsis. Both SL-deficient and SL-response [more axillary growth (max)] mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to drought and salt stress, which was associated with shoot- rather than root-related t...

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

authors： Ha CV,Leyva-González MA,Osakabe Y,Tran UT,Nishiyama R,Watanabe Y,Tanaka M,Seki M,Yamaguchi S,Dong NV,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K,Herrera-Estrella L,Tran LS

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting- or baseline-state low-frequency (0.01-0.2 Hz) brain activity is observed in fMRI, EEG, and local field potential recordings. These fluctuations were found to be correlated across brain regions and are thought to reflect neuronal activity fluctuations between functionally connected areas of the brain. However,...

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

authors： Krishnan GP,González OC,Bazhenov M

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of D-serine occur in mammalian brain, where it appears to be an endogenous ligand of the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. In glial cultures of rat cerebral cortex, D-serine is enriched in type II astrocytes and is released upon stimulation with agonists of non-N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate ...

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

authors： Wolosker H,Sheth KN,Takahashi M,Mothet JP,Brady RO Jr,Ferris CD,Snyder SH

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative studies of protein abundance rarely span more than a small number of experimental conditions and replicates. In contrast, quantitative studies of transcript abundance often span hundreds of experimental conditions and replicates. This situation exists, in part, because extracting quantitative data from la...

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

authors： Khan Z,Bloom JS,Garcia BA,Singh M,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infections with Ebola virus (EBOV) result in a deadly viral disease known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Up to 90% of infected patients die, and there is no available treatment or vaccine. The sporadic human outbreaks are believed to result when EBOV "jumps" from an infected animal to a person and is subsequently t...

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

authors： Strong JE,Wong G,Jones SE,Grolla A,Theriault S,Kobinger GP,Feldmann H

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to vascular injury, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) may switch from a contractile to a proliferative phenotype thereby contributing to neointima formation. Previous studies showed that the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) NEAT1 is critical for paraspeckle formation and tumorigenesis by promoting cell proli...

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

authors： Ahmed ASI,Dong K,Liu J,Wen T,Yu L,Xu F,Kang X,Osman I,Hu G,Bunting KM,Crethers D,Gao H,Zhang W,Liu Y,Wen K,Agarwal G,Hirose T,Nakagawa S,Vazdarjanova A,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas tolaasii severely damages white button mushrooms by secretion of the pore-forming toxin tolaasin, the main virulence factor of brown blotch disease. Yet, fungus-associated helper bacteria of the genus Mycetocola (Mycetocola tolaasinivorans and Mycetocola lacteus) may protect their ho...

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

authors： Hermenau R,Kugel S,Komor AJ,Hertweck C

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex between soluble dextran and human hemoglobin has been synthesized by two different methods. In the alkylation method, hemoglobin was allowed to react with bromoacetyl groups incorporated into the dextran; the yield of the complex was about 80% in terms of the hemoglobin used. In the dialdehyde method, hemogl...

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

authors： Tam SC,Blumenstein J,Wong JT

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented. It has been proposed that expectations lead to prestimulus baseline increases in sensory neurons tuned to the expected stimulus, which ...

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

authors： Kok P,Mostert P,de Lange FP

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosynaptic excitatory connections between cerebellar granule and Purkinje cells were studied in dissociated cell cultures, and identification of the transmitter and the postsynaptic receptor at this synapse was pharmacologically investigated. The presynaptic granule cell and the postsynaptic Purkinje cell were volta...

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

authors： Hirano T,Hagiwara S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-accuracy ab initio folding has remained an elusive objective despite decades of effort. To explore the folding landscape of villin headpiece subdomain HP35, we conducted two sets of replica exchange molecular dynamics for 200 ns each and three sets of conventional microsecond-long molecular dynamics simulations, ...

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

authors： Lei H,Wu C,Liu H,Duan Y

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of the sphenopalatine ganglion in normal cats revealed that virtually all ganglion cells (98.5%) were immunoreactive to vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP). After surgical removal of this ganglion, the content of both VIP and choline acetyltransferase (acetyl-CoA:choline O...

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

authors： Lundberg JM,Anggård A,Emson P,Fahrenkrug J,Hökfelt T

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To probe the structure of the gamma heavy chain of membrane IgG and the mRNA and gene segments that encode it, we have analyzed cDNA clones derived from a gamma 1 membrane RNA of B lymphoma 2PK-3. The nucleotide sequence of the clones indicated that membrane gamma 1 chains bear a COOH-terminal 71-residue segment that ...

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

authors： Tyler BM,Cowman AF,Gerondakis SD,Adams JM,Bernard O

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils is a phenomenon central to many increasingly common and currently incurable human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Oligomeric species form transiently during this process and not only act as essential intermediates in the assembly of n...

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

authors： Dear AJ,Michaels TCT,Meisl G,Klenerman D,Wu S,Perrett S,Linse S,Dobson CM,Knowles TPJ

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are nonequilibrium systems that exchange matter and energy with the environment to sustain their metabolic needs. The nonequilibrium nature of this system presents considerable challenges to developing a general theory describing its behavior; however, when studied at appropriate spatiotemporal scales, the behav...

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

authors： Chang AY,Marshall WF

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clusters of configurations of the main proteolytic subunit β5 were identified by principal component analysis of crystal structures of the yeast proteasome core particle (yCP). The apo-cluster encompasses unliganded species and complexes with nonpeptidic ligands, and the pep-cluster comprises complexes with peptid...

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

authors： Arciniega M,Beck P,Lange OF,Groll M,Huber R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that KIF3A and KIF3B form a heterodimer that functions as a microtubule-based fast anterograde translocator of membranous organelles. We have also shown that this KIF3A/3B forms a complex with other associated polypeptides, named kinesin superfamily-associated protein 3 (KAP3). In the present st...

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

authors： Yamazaki H,Nakata T,Okada Y,Hirokawa N

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleic acid sequence of the 3' region of human T-cell leukemia virus type II (HTLV-II) proviral DNA was determined using a HTLV-II proviral clone that could be recovered as infectious, transforming virus. The sequence data indicate a region of unknown function of approximately equal to 1.6 kilobase pairs in the 3...

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

authors： Shimotohno K,Wachsman W,Takahashi Y,Golde DW,Miwa M,Sugimura T,Chen IS

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells contain numerous enzymes that use molecular oxygen for their reactions. Often, their active sites are buried deeply inside the protein, which raises the question whether there are specific access channels guiding oxygen to the site of catalysis. Choosing 12/15-lipoxygenase as a typical example for such oxygen-de...

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

authors： Saam J,Ivanov I,Walther M,Holzhütter HG,Kuhn H

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a synthetic adaptation of the fibrillar adhesion surfaces found in nature. The structure consists of protruding fibrils topped by a thin plate and shows an experimentally measured enhancement in adhesion energy of up to a factor of 9 over a flat control. Additionally, this structure solves the robustness pr...

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

authors： Glassmaker NJ,Jagota A,Hui CY,Noderer WL,Chaudhury MK

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the cloning, sequencing, and partial characterization of Kid-1, a zinc finger-encoding cDNA from the rat kidney. The Kid-1 protein and approximately one-third of all other zinc finger proteins contain a highly conserved region of approximately 75 amino acids at their NH2 terminus named Krüp...

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

authors： Witzgall R,O'Leary E,Leaf A,Onaldi D,Bonventre JV

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostatic load (AL) is a measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear over the life course, which could partially be the consequence of early life exposures. AL could allow a better understanding of the potential biological pathways playing a role in the construction of the social gradient in adult health. To explo...

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

authors： Barboza Solís C,Kelly-Irving M,Fantin R,Darnaudéry M,Torrisani J,Lang T,Delpierre C

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific antibodies against types I and III collagens and procollagens were used to localize these proteins in cultured human cells. These studies indicate that the same cell makes both proteins. No type III procollagen synthesis was observed in cells from two patients with two patients with the Ehlers-Danlos type IV ...

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

authors： Gay S,Martin GR,Muller PK,Timpl R,Kuhn K

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Although the prenatal diagnosis of DS has become feasible, there are no therapies available for the rescue of DS-related neurocognitive impairment. A growth inducer newly identified in our screen of neura...

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

authors： Nakano-Kobayashi A,Awaya T,Kii I,Sumida Y,Okuno Y,Yoshida S,Sumida T,Inoue H,Hosoya T,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel technique of modulated photo-dissociation of carbon monoxide from hemoglobin, we have obtained the rates for conversion between the two quaternary states, R, and T, at 3-fold ligation. Our measurements at pH 7 and 22 degrees give rates of 780 +/- 40 sec-1 for going from R to T, and 2500 +/- 200 sec-1 fro...

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

authors： Ferrone FA,Hopfield JJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen binding to receptors on stimulated platelets is a prerequisite for platelet aggregation. To gain further insight into the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation and to identify the platelet fibrinogen receptor, we developed a monoclonal anti-platelet antibody that inhibited platelet aggregation. The pur...

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

authors： Bennett JS,Hoxie JA,Leitman SF,Vilaire G,Cines DB

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a 130-kDa transmembrane receptor for semaphorins, mediators of neuronal guidance, and for vascular endothelial growth factor 165 (VEGF(165)), an angiogenesis factor. A 2.2-kb truncated NRP1 cDNA was cloned that encodes a 644-aa soluble NRP1 (sNRP1) isoform containing just the a/CUB and b/coagula...

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

authors： Gagnon ML,Bielenberg DR,Gechtman Z,Miao HQ,Takashima S,Soker S,Klagsbrun M

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00