A viral regulator of glycoprotein complexes contributes to human cytomegalovirus cell tropism.

abstract：:Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. ...

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

authors： Bian J,Christiansen JR,Moreno JA,Kane SJ,Khaychuk V,Gallegos J,Kim S,Telling GC

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of perception usually emphasize processes that are largely universal across observers and--except for short-term fluctuations--stationary over time. Here we test the universality and stationarity assumptions with two families of ambiguous visual stimuli. Each stimulus can be perceived in two different ways, pa...

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

authors： Wexler M,Duyck M,Mamassian P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies provide an attractive alternative to small-molecule therapies for a wide range of diseases. Given the importance of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as pharmaceutical targets, there has been an immense interest in developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies that act on GPCRs. Here we present ...

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

authors： Ishchenko A,Wacker D,Kapoor M,Zhang A,Han GW,Basu S,Patel N,Messerschmidt M,Weierstall U,Liu W,Katritch V,Roth BL,Stevens RC,Cherezov V

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lck gene encodes a membrane-associated protein tyrosine kinase (p56lck) that is believed to participate in lymphocyte-specific signal transduction pathways. To investigate the function of this molecule, transgenic mice were generated carrying the wild-type lck gene or a mutated lck gene encoding a constitutively a...

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

authors： Abraham KM,Levin SD,Marth JD,Forbush KA,Perlmutter RM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine and human cDNAs, related to but distinct from c-raf-1, have been isolated and designated mA-raf and hA-raf, respectively. The mA-raf and hA-raf cDNAs detect the same murine and human fragments in Southern blots of restriction enzyme-cleaved murine and human cellular DNA. The murine restriction enzyme fragments ...

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

authors： Huebner K,ar-Rushdi A,Griffin CA,Isobe M,Kozak C,Emanuel BS,Nagarajan L,Cleveland JL,Bonner TI,Goldsborough MD

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable capacity of the adult olfactory epithelium (OE) to regenerate fully both neurosensory and nonneuronal cell types after severe epithelial injury depends on life-long persistence of two stem cell populations: the horizontal basal cells (HBCs), which are quiescent and held in reserve, and mitotically activ...

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

authors： Herrick DB,Lin B,Peterson J,Schnittke N,Schwob JE

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the folding dynamics of Thermus thermophilus cytochrome c(552) by time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer between the heme and each of seven site-specific fluorescent probes. We have found both an equilibrium unfolding intermediate and a distinct refolding intermediate from kinetics studies. De...

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

authors： Yamada S,Bouley Ford ND,Keller GE,Ford WC,Gray HB,Winkler JR

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an automated laser tracking and optogenetic manipulation system (ALTOMS) for studying social memory in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). ALTOMS comprises an intelligent central control module for high-speed fly behavior analysis and feedback laser scanning (∼40 frames per second) for targeting two lase...

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

authors： Wu MC,Chu LA,Hsiao PY,Lin YY,Chi CC,Liu TH,Fu CC,Chiang AS

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment in allergic, autoimmune, and infectious diseases often requires altering the nature of a detrimental immune response mediated by a particular CD4+ T helper (Th) cell subset. While several factors contribute to the development of CD4+ Th1 and Th2 cells, the requirements for switching an established...

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

authors： Nabors GS,Afonso LC,Farrell JP,Scott P

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest folding events in single-tryptophan mutants of RNase A were investigated by fluorescence measurements by using a combination of stopped-flow and continuous-flow mixing experiments covering the time range from 70 micros to 10 s. An ultrarapid double-jump mixing protocol was used to study refolding from an ...

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

authors： Welker E,Maki K,Shastry MC,Juminaga D,Bhat R,Scheraga HA,Roder H

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human 15-lipoxygenase (h15-LO) is present on chromosome 17p13.3 in close proximity to the tumor-suppressor gene, p53. 15-LO is implicated in antiinflammation, membrane remodeling, and cancer development/metastasis. The murine BALB/c embryo fibroblast cell line, (10)1val, expresses p53 in mutant (mt) conformation when ...

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

authors： Kelavkar UP,Badr KF

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper resolution of inflammation is vital for repair and restoration of homeostasis after tissue damage, and its dysregulation underlies various noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Macrophages play diverse roles throughout initial inflammation, its resolution, and tissue repair. D...

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

authors： Nakayama Y,Fujiu K,Yuki R,Oishi Y,Morioka MS,Isagawa T,Matsuda J,Oshima T,Matsubara T,Sugita J,Kudo F,Kaneda A,Endo Y,Nakayama T,Nagai R,Komuro I,Manabe I

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA of a common strain of tobacco mosaic virus was sequentially reconstituted first with protein of the same strain and then with protein of a tomato strain. The reconstituted particles were treated with specific antibodies against the two strain particles and were examined electron microscopically to locate the regio...

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

authors： Otsuki Y,Takebe I,Ohno T,Fukuda M,Okada Y

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend and apply theories of filled foam elasticity and failure to recently available data on foods. The predictions of elastic modulus and failure mode dependence on internal pressure and on wall integrity are borne out by photographic evidence of distortion and failure under compressive loading and under the loca...

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

authors： Warner M,Thiel BL,Donald AM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct counterexamples to classical calculus facts such as the inverse and implicit function theorems in scale calculus-a generalization of multivariable calculus to infinite-dimensional vector spaces, in which the reparameterization maps relevant to symplectic geometry are smooth. Scale calculus is a corner sto...

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

authors： Filippenko B,Zhou Z,Wehrheim K

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently several attempts to identify oxygen-derived radicals in whole cells by spin trapping and electron spin resonance have been reported by using 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide as the spin trap. In the present study, the feasibility of this method is examined. Chinese hamster V79 cells and human erythrocytes ser...

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

authors： Samuni A,Carmichael AJ,Russo A,Mitchell JB,Riesz P

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant metabolites are crucial for both plant life and human nutrition. Despite recent advance in metabolomics, the genetic control of plant metabolome remains largely unknown. Here, we performed a genetic analysis of the rice metabolome that provided over 2,800 highly resolved metabolic quantitative trait loci for 900...

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

authors： Gong L,Chen W,Gao Y,Liu X,Zhang H,Xu C,Yu S,Zhang Q,Luo J

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer 5 pyramidal neurons process information from multiple cortical layers to provide a major output of cortex. Because of technical limitations it has remained unclear how these cells integrate widespread synaptic inputs located in distantly separated basal and tuft dendrites. Here, we obtained in vivo two-photon ca...

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

authors： Hill DN,Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate warming is expected to mobilize northern permafrost and peat organic carbon (PP-C), yet magnitudes and system specifics of even current releases are poorly constrained. While part of the PP-C will degrade at point of thaw to CO2 and CH4 to directly amplify global warming, another part will enter the fluvial ne...

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

authors： Wild B,Andersson A,Bröder L,Vonk J,Hugelius G,McClelland JW,Song W,Raymond PA,Gustafsson Ö

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of protein-ligand binding kinetics, in which slow solvent dynamics results from hydrophobic drying transitions, is investigated. Molecular dynamics simulations show that solvent in the receptor pocket can fluctuate between wet and dry states with lifetimes in each state that are long enough for the extraction ...

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

authors： Mondal J,Morrone JA,Berne BJ

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking and widespread observation is that higher-order folding for many RNAs is very slow, often requiring minutes. In some cases, slow folding reflects the need to disrupt stable, but incorrect, interactions. However, a molecular explanation for slow folding in most RNAs is unknown. The specificity domain of the ...

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

authors： Mortimer SA,Weeks KM

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To use recombinant DNA technology to functionally analyze mutations introduced into cloned eukaryotic genes, a rapid procedure is necessary to assay the steps along the gene expression pathway. Since cloned rat insulin genes are not transcribed efficiently after transfection into various cell lines, I have asked wheth...

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

authors： Lomedico PT

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium sulfate fractionation of crude extracts of E. coli yields a soluble enzyme fraction (about 25-fold purification) that catalyzes the conversion of phiX174 single-stranded DNA to duplex DNA. The reaction is rifampicin-resistant, requires single-stranded DNA, Mg++, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and ATP, and is ...

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

authors： Schuster H,Mikolajczyk M,Rohrschneider J,Geschke B

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How can collective action evolve when individuals benefit from cooperation regardless of whether they pay its participation costs? According to one influential perspective, collective action problems are common, especially when groups are large, but may be solved when individuals who have more to gain from the collect...

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

authors： Langergraber KE,Watts DP,Vigilant L,Mitani JC

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological responses to on-going climate change are numerous, diverse, and taxonomically widespread. However, with one exception, the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and microevolution as mechanisms in explaining these responses are largely unknown. Several recent studies have uncovered evidence for temporal d...

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

authors： Teplitsky C,Mills JA,Alho JS,Yarrall JW,Merilä J

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During brain maturation, the occurrence of the extracellular matrix (ECM) terminates juvenile plasticity by mediating structural stability. Interestingly, enzymatic removal of the ECM restores juvenile forms of plasticity, as for instance demonstrated by topographical reconnectivity in sensory pathways. However, to wh...

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

authors： Happel MF,Niekisch H,Castiblanco Rivera LL,Ohl FW,Deliano M,Frischknecht R

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate-based vaccines have shown therapeutic efficacy for infectious disease and cancer. The mushroom Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) containing complex polysaccharides has been used as antitumor supplement, but the mechanism of immune response has rarely been studied. Here, we show that the mice immunized with a l-f...

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

authors： Liao SF,Liang CH,Ho MY,Hsu TL,Tsai TI,Hsieh YS,Tsai CM,Li ST,Cheng YY,Tsao SM,Lin TY,Lin ZY,Yang WB,Ren CT,Lin KI,Khoo KH,Lin CH,Hsu HY,Wu CY,Wong CH

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple paleoclimate proxies are required for robust assessment of past hydroclimatic conditions. Currently, estimates of drought variability over the past several thousand years are based largely on tree-ring records. We produced a 1,500-y record of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest using a physical mode...

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

authors： Steinman BA,Abbott MB,Mann ME,Stansell ND,Finney BP

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations. Here, we provide compelling evidence for this continuity assumption by using a continuous response,...

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

authors： Spivey MJ,Grosjean M,Knoblich G

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspite of several stimulating developments in gene therapy, the formulation of a targeted gene delivery "vector" is still far from ideal. We have demonstrated the potential of reconstituted Sendai viral envelopes containing only the fusion glycoprotein (F-virosomes) in targeted delivery of reporter genes to liver cel...

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

authors： Ramani K,Hassan Q,Venkaiah B,Hasnain SE,Sarkar DP

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00