Cats use hollow papillae to wick saliva into fur.

abstract：:In adult rodents, neurons are continually generated in the subventricular zone of the forebrain, from where they migrate tangentially toward the olfactory bulb, the only known target for these neuronal precursors. Within the main olfactory bulb, they ascend radially into the granule and periglomerular cell layers, whe...

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

authors： Gheusi G,Cremer H,McLean H,Chazal G,Vincent JD,Lledo PM

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure of various cell types to adrenergic agonists leads to a decrease in cell surface beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR) number. Sequestration of the receptor away from the cell surface as well as a down-regulation of the total number of cellular receptors are believed to contribute to this agonist-medi...

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

authors： Valiquette M,Bonin H,Hnatowich M,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ,Bouvier M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1)-interacting proteins using a yeast two-hybrid system, we have identified histone acetyltransferase binding to the origin recognition complex 1 (Hbo1) as a potential Plk1 target. Here, we show that the interaction between Plk1 and Hbo1 is mitosis-specific and that Plk1 phosphor...

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

authors： Wu ZQ,Liu X

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in bacteria has emerged as a global challenge over the past 90 years, compromising our ability to effectively treat infections. There has been a dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance-associated determinants in bacterial populations, driven by the mobility and infectious nature of such determ...

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

authors： Klemm EJ,Wong VK,Dougan G

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of the nucleotide analog adenosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (ATP[gamma S]), effects of Ca2+ on stiffness and equatorial x-ray diffraction patterns of single skinned fibers of the rabbit psoas muscle were studied. It is shown that cross-bridges in the presence of ATP[gamma S] have properties of the w...

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

authors： Kraft T,Yu LC,Kuhn HJ,Brenner B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific fraction of chromosomal DNA from both yeast and a wide variety of other eukaryotes, but not from Escherichia coli, promotes high-frequency transformation in yeast. The plasmids containing these sequences are maintained as extra-chromosomal molecules in transformed cells. These results suggest that similar o...

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

authors： Zakian VA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a neurotrophin with the ability to exert specific effects on cells of the immune system. Human monocytes/macrophages (M/M) infected in vitro with HIV type 1 (HIV-1) are able to produce substantial levels of NGF that are associated with enhanced expression of the high-affinity NGF receptor ...

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

authors： Garaci E,Caroleo MC,Aloe L,Aquaro S,Piacentini M,Costa N,Amendola A,Micera A,Caliò R,Perno CF,Levi-Montalcini R

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils have been associated with fibrosis. To investigate their direct role in fibrosis, human peripheral blood eosinophil sonicate was added to human lung or dermal fibroblasts, and proliferation ([(3)H]thymidine) and collagen synthesis ([(3)H]proline) were evaluated. Proliferation was enhanced significantly in ...

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

authors： Levi-Schaffer F,Garbuzenko E,Rubin A,Reich R,Pickholz D,Gillery P,Emonard H,Nagler A,Maquart FA

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-associated and periplasmic proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C-58 were compared with those from avirulent (nontumrigenic) derivative strains by slab and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Two proteins (Per-I and Per-2), with a molecular weight of 37,500 and 37,300, respectively, were detected in the sup...

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

authors： Sonoki S,Kado CI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the extensive literature on phytochrome mutants in the Ler accession of Arabidopsis, we sought to secure a phytochrome-null line in the same genetic background for comparative studies. Here we report the isolation and phenotypic characterization of phyABCDE quintuple and phyABDE quadruple mutants in the Ler...

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

authors： Hu W,Franklin KA,Sharrock RA,Jones MA,Harmer SL,Lagarias JC

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I gene products D, L, and R encoded by the D region of the H-2q haplotype were isolated by sequential immunoprecipitation from Nonidet P-40 extracts of B10.AKM murine spleen cells. Primary structural comparisons of these molecules were made by tryptic peptide map analyses and radiochemical amino acid sequence de...

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

authors： Lillehoj EP,Hansen TH,Sachs DH,Coligan JE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey in natural communities are usually shared by many predator species. How predators coexist while competing for the same prey is one of the fundamental questions in ecology. Here, we show that competing predator species may not only coexist on a single prey but even help each other to persist if they specialize on ...

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

authors： De Roos AM,Schellekens T,Van Kooten T,Persson L

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a model for DNA polymerase fidelity in which free energy differences, delta delta G, between matched and mismatched nucleotides are magnified at the enzyme's active site. Both hydrogen bonding and stacking components of the interaction energy are amplified, with the most profound effect being on the magnitu...

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

authors： Petruska J,Sowers LC,Goodman MF

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsZ, the ancestral homolog of eukaryotic tubulins, is a GTPase that assembles into a cytokinetic ring structure essential for cell division in prokaryotic cells. Similar to tubulin, purified FtsZ polymerizes into dynamic protofilaments in the presence of GTP; polymer assembly is accompanied by GTP hydrolysis. We used...

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

authors： Margalit DN,Romberg L,Mets RB,Hebert AM,Mitchison TJ,Kirschner MW,RayChaudhuri D

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, Pumilio (Pum) is important for neuronal homeostasis as well as learning and memory. We have recently characterized a mammalian homolog of Pum, Pum2, which is found in discrete RNA-containing particles in the somatodendritic compartment of polarized neurons. In this study, we investigated the role of Pum...

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

authors： Vessey JP,Schoderboeck L,Gingl E,Luzi E,Riefler J,Di Leva F,Karra D,Thomas S,Kiebler MA,Macchi P

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequence of the first constant (C) region domain (C delta 1) and the hinge region of the delta heavy chain of human IgD WAH and also the sequence of the adjacent COOH-terminal portion of the variable (V) region, including the JH region. Together with the sequence of the Fc fragment al...

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

authors： Putnam FW,Takahashi N,Tetaert D,Debuire B,Lin LC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified bovine leukemia virus (BLV) glycoproteins were expressed by using vaccinia virus recombinants, and their fusogenic capacities were examined by a syncytia-formation assay. This analysis indicates that (i) both BLV envelope glycoproteins gp51 and gp30 are necessary for cell fusion; (ii) insertion of the N-termi...

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

authors： Vonèche V,Portetelle D,Kettmann R,Willems L,Limbach K,Paoletti E,Ruysschaert JM,Burny A,Brasseur R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI based on blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast is well established as a neuroimaging technique for detecting neural activity in the cortex of the human brain. While detection and characterization of BOLD signals, as well as their electrophysiological and hemodynamic/metabolic origins, have b...

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

authors： Ding Z,Huang Y,Bailey SK,Gao Y,Cutting LE,Rogers BP,Newton AT,Gore JC

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling in the nervous system requires matching of neurotransmitter receptors with cognate neurotransmitters at synapses. The vertebrate neuromuscular junction is the best studied cholinergic synapse, but the mechanisms by which acetylcholine is matched with acetylcholine receptors are not fully understood. Because ...

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

authors： Borodinsky LN,Spitzer NC

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-defense cationic antimicrobial peptides ( approximately 12-50 aa long) play an essential protective role in the innate immune system of all organisms. Lipopeptides, however, are produced only in bacteria and fungi during cultivation, and they are composed of specific lipophilic moieties attached to anionic peptid...

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

authors： Makovitzki A,Avrahami D,Shai Y

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range conformational changes in proteins are ubiquitous in biology for the transmission and amplification of signals; such conformational changes can be triggered by small-amplitude, nanosecond protein domain motion. Understanding how conformational changes are initiated requires the characterization of protein d...

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

authors： Bu Z,Biehl R,Monkenbusch M,Richter D,Callaway DJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In signal-recognition particle (SRP)-dependent protein targeting to the bacterial plasma membrane, two GTPases, Ffh (a subunit of the bacterial SRP) and FtsY (the bacterial SRP receptor), act as GTPase activating proteins for one another. The molecular mechanism of this reciprocal GTPase activation is poorly understoo...

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

authors： Shan SO,Walter P

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases replicate DNA by adding nucleotides to a growing primer strand while avoiding frameshift and point mutations. Here we present a series of up to six successive replication events that were obtained by extension of a primed template directly in a crystal of the thermostable Bacillus DNA polymerase I. The...

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

authors： Johnson SJ,Taylor JS,Beese LS

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mathematical theory of compressed sensing (CS) asserts that one can acquire signals from measurements whose rate is much lower than the total bandwidth. Whereas the CS theory is now well developed, challenges concerning hardware implementations of CS-based acquisition devices--especially in optics--have only start...

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

authors： Studer V,Bobin J,Chahid M,Mousavi HS,Candes E,Dahan M

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Because most human squamous carcinoma cell lines of the aerodigestive and genital tracts are refractory to the antiproliferative action of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) in vitro, we have begun to identify the causes for resistance of squamous carcinoma cell lines to TGF beta 1 by using somatic cell ge...

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

authors： Reiss M,Muñoz-Antonia T,Cowan JM,Wilkins PC,Zhou ZL,Vellucci VF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice immunized with myeloma proteins 315 or 460 made antibodies to the individually specific ("idiotypic") determinants of these proteins and suppressed growth of the corresponding transplanted tumor cells (MOPC-315 or MOPC-460). Stable, variant MOPC-315 tumors that produce only the light chain of protein 315 g...

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

authors： Lynch RG,Graff RJ,Sirisinha S,Simms ES,Eisen HN

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant factor IX, designated factor IXCambridge, was isolated from a patient with hemophilia B. This protein includes an 18-residue propeptide attached to the NH2 terminus of factor IX. A point mutation at residue -1, from an arginine to a serine, precludes cleavage of the propeptide by a processing protease and int...

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

authors： Diuguid DL,Rabiet MJ,Furie BC,Liebman HA,Furie B

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of nitrogenase components (MoFe protein and Fe protein) from Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) have been obtained in the near infrared-visible-near ultraviolet spectral region. Previously, visible CD was reported to be absen...

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

authors： Stephens PJ,McKenna CE,Smith BE,Nguyen HT,McKenna MC,Thomson AJ,Devlin F,Jones JB

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To successfully colonize the human gut, enteric bacteria must activate acid resistance systems to survive the extreme acidity (pH 1.5-3.5) of the stomach. The antiporter AdiC is the master orchestrator of the arginine-dependent system. Upon acid shock, it imports extracellular arginine (Arg) into the cytoplasm, provid...

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

authors： Tsai MF,Miller C

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00