Nociceptin attenuates the escalation of oxycodone self-administration by normalizing CeA-GABA transmission in highly addicted rats.

abstract：:An array of photoreceptors including cryptochromes, phototropin, and phytochromes regulates various light responses in plants. Among these photoreceptors, phytochromes perceive red and far-red light by switching between two interconvertible spectral forms (Pr and Pfr). The Pfr form promotes light responses partly by d...

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

authors： Paik I,Yang S,Choi G

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo signaling pathway is a master regulator of organ growth, tissue homeostasis, and tumorigenesis. The activity of the Hippo pathway is controlled by various upstream components, including Expanded (Ex), but the precise molecular mechanism of how Ex is regulated remains poorly understood. Here we identify Plent...

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

authors： Ma X,Guo X,Richardson HE,Xu T,Xue L

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver ischemia and reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major challenge in liver surgery. Diet restriction reduces liver damage by increasing stress resistance; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated the preventive effect of 12-h fasting on mouse liver IRI. Partial warm hepatic IRI model...

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

authors： Miyauchi T,Uchida Y,Kadono K,Hirao H,Kawasoe J,Watanabe T,Ueda S,Okajima H,Terajima H,Uemoto S

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical cross-linking mass spectrometry (CXMS) is being increasingly used to study protein assemblies and complex protein interaction networks. Existing CXMS chemical cross-linkers target only Lys, Cys, Glu, and Asp residues, limiting the information measurable. Here we report a "plant-and-cast" cross-linking strateg...

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

authors： Yang B,Wu H,Schnier PD,Liu Y,Liu J,Wang N,DeGrado WF,Wang L

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The bottom-up design of protein-based signaling networks is a key goal of synthetic biology; yet, it remains elusive due to our inability to tailor-make signal transducers and receptors that can be readily compiled into defined signaling networks. Here, we report a generic approach for the construction of protein-base...

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

authors： Stein V,Alexandrov K

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex continues to mature after puberty and into early adulthood, mirroring the time course of maturation of cognitive abilities. However, the way in which prefrontal activity changes during peri- and postpubertal cortical maturation is largely unknown. To address this question, we evaluated the develo...

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

authors： Zhou X,Zhu D,Katsuki F,Qi XL,Lees CJ,Bennett AJ,Salinas E,Stanford TR,Constantinidis C

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine hybridoma-derived antibody (IPH.134) has been produced which has apparent high binding specificity for an extract of Schistosoma japonicum adult worms. No binding was detected to extracts of S. japonicum eggs or to extracts from other adult trematodes (Fasciola hepatica, Paragonimus westermanii, Clonorchis si...

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

authors： Mitchell GF,Cruise KM,Garcia EG,Anders RF

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular and molecular signals involved in axon elongation versus collateral and arbor formation may be intrinsic to developing neurons, or they may derive from targets. To identify signals regulating axon growth modes, we have developed a culture system in which trigeminal ganglion cells are challenged by various tar...

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

authors： Erzurumlu RS,Jhaveri S,Takahashi H,McKay RD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The configuration of the heme-carbonyl group upon binding of carbon monoxide to sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) in crystals is evaluated on the basis of infrared spectroscopic methods. Multiplets of the totally symmetric C-O stretching mode are observed for the heme-bound ligand near 1933, 1944, and 1967 cm-1, correspondin...

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

authors： Makinen MW,Houtchens RA,Caughey WS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global supply chains play a critical role in many of the most pressing environmental stresses and social struggles identified by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Responding to calls from the global community, companies are adopting a variety of voluntary practices to improve the environmental ...

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

authors： Thorlakson T,de Zegher JF,Lambin EF

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two genes, Hox-2.8 and Hox-2.9, from the mouse homeobox cluster Hox-2, located on chromosome 11. A 120-kilobase yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) containing a large region of the murine Hox-2 cluster, including 45 kilobases of sequence upstream of the most 5' gene, was cloned. The DNA sequence of the ...

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

authors： Rubock MJ,Larin Z,Cook M,Papalopulu N,Krumlauf R,Lehrach H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid electrical conduction in the His-Purkinje system tightly controls spatiotemporal activation of the ventricles. Although recent work has shed much light on the regulation of early specification and morphogenesis of the His-Purkinje system, less is known about how transcriptional regulation establishes impulse con...

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

authors： Zhang SS,Kim KH,Rosen A,Smyth JW,Sakuma R,Delgado-Olguín P,Davis M,Chi NC,Puviindran V,Gaborit N,Sukonnik T,Wylie JN,Brand-Arzamendi K,Farman GP,Kim J,Rose RA,Marsden PA,Zhu Y,Zhou YQ,Miquerol L,Henkelman RM,Sta

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylhydrazinopyrimidines inhibit DNA synthesis in Bacillus subtilis by promoting formation of a specific, long-lived ternary complex with DNA polymerase III and the template-primer DNA. DNA polymerase III contains an associated, single-strand-selective exonuclease which generates 5'-mononucleotides. Drug inhibition of...

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

authors： Low RL,Rashbaum SA,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 21 million prescriptions for warfarin are written yearly in the U.S. Despite its importance, warfarin's target, vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR), has resisted purification since its identification in 1972. Here, we report its purification and reconstitution. HPC4, a calcium-specific antibody that recognize...

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

authors： Chu PH,Huang TY,Williams J,Stafford DW

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and order of rearrangements in the gene complex encoding T-cell-receptor beta chains were studied by Southern blot hybridization in a collection of hybridomas derived from fetal thymocytes at various stages of ontogeny (day 14 to day 17). Our results show a steady increase in the frequency of rearranged b...

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

authors： Born W,Yagüe J,Palmer E,Kappler J,Marrack P

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Functional connectivity" techniques are commonplace tools for studying brain organization. A critical element of these analyses is to distinguish variance due to neurobiological signals from variance due to nonneurobiological signals. Multiecho fMRI techniques are a promising means for making such distinctions based ...

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

authors： Power JD,Plitt M,Gotts SJ,Kundu P,Voon V,Bandettini PA,Martin A

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens produce diffusible signal factor (DSF)-type quorum sensing (QS) signals in modulation of virulence and biofilm formation. Previous work on Xanthomonas campestris showed that the RpfC/RpfG two-component system is involved in sensing and responding to DSF signals, but little is known in other mi...

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

authors： Deng Y,Schmid N,Wang C,Wang J,Pessi G,Wu D,Lee J,Aguilar C,Ahrens CH,Chang C,Song H,Eberl L,Zhang LH

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus laevis oocytes were injected with poly(A)+-mRNA isolated from chorionating follicular epithelium of the domesticated silk moth (Bombyx mori). On two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the resultant translation products comigrated with authentic, secreted, chorion standards, demonstrating that the frog oocyte sys...

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

authors： Bock SC,Tiemeier DC,Mester K,Wu M,Goldsmith MR

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mammalian A-type cyclin, cyclin A1, is highly expressed in testes of both human and mouse and targeted mutagenesis in the mouse has revealed the unique requirement for cyclin A1 in the progression of male germ cells through the meiotic cell cycle. While very low levels of cyclin A1 have been reported in the human he...

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

authors： Liao C,Wang XY,Wei HQ,Li SQ,Merghoub T,Pandolfi PP,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the most potent toxins known, disrupt neurotransmission through proteolysis of proteins involved in neuroexocytosis. The light chains of BoNTs are unique zinc proteases that have stringent substrate specificity and require exceptionally long substrates. We have determined the...

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

authors： Segelke B,Knapp M,Kadkhodayan S,Balhorn R,Rupp B

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme from Saccharomyces cerevisiae that cleaves Holliday junctions was partially purified approximately 500- to 1000-fold by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, gel filtration on Sephacryl S300, and chromatography on single-stranded DNA-cellulose. The partially purified enzyme did not have any detectable nuclease acti...

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

authors： Symington LS,Kolodner R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SgrS RNA is a model for the large class of Hfq-associated small RNAs that act to posttranscriptionally regulate bacterial mRNAs. The function of SgrS is well-characterized in nonpathogenic Escherichia coli, where it was originally shown to counteract glucose-phosphate stress by acting as a repressor of the ptsG mRNA, ...

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

authors： Papenfort K,Podkaminski D,Hinton JC,Vogel J

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyketides represent an extremely diverse class of secondary metabolites often explored for their bioactive traits. These molecules are also attractive building blocks for chemical catalysis and polymerization. However, the use of polyketides in larger scale chemistry applications is stymied by limited titers and yie...

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

authors： Markham KA,Palmer CM,Chwatko M,Wagner JM,Murray C,Vazquez S,Swaminathan A,Chakravarty I,Lynd NA,Alper HS

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature increase have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly developed multigas mitigation scenarios, based on a wide range of modeling approaches and socioeconomic assumptions, now allow the assessment of possible impacts of clim...

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

authors： Van Vuuren DP,Meinshausen M,Plattner GK,Joos F,Strassmann KM,Smith SJ,Wigley TM,Raper SC,Riahi K,de la Chesnaye F,den Elzen MG,Fujino J,Jiang K,Nakicenovic N,Paltsev S,Reilly JM

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonia are the male germ stem cells that continuously produce sperm for the next generation. Spermatogenesis is a complicated process that proceeds through mitotic phase of stem cell renewal and differentiation, meiotic phase, and postmeiotic phase of spermiogenesis. Full recapitulation of spermatogenesis in vi...

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

authors： Hong Y,Liu T,Zhao H,Xu H,Wang W,Liu R,Chen T,Deng J,Gui J

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational model is presented that can be used as a tool in the design of safer chemicals. This model predicts the rate of hydrogen-atom abstraction by cytochrome P450 enzymes. Excellent correlations between biotransformation rates and the calculated activation energies (delta Hact) of the cytochrome P450-mediate...

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

authors： Yin H,Anders MW,Korzekwa KR,Higgins L,Thummel KE,Kharasch ED,Jones JP

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies sex differences in the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and waking while controlling for menstrual cycle phase and hormonal contraceptive use. We compared the diurnal and circadian variation of sleep and alertness of 8 women studied during two phases of the menstrual cycle and 3 women stu...

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

authors： Boivin DB,Shechter A,Boudreau P,Begum EA,Ng Ying-Kin NM

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomics is expanding our knowledge of the gene content, functional significance, and genetic variability in natural microbial communities. Still, there exists limited information concerning the regulation and dynamics of genes in the environment. We report here global analysis of expressed genes in a naturally oc...

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

authors： Frias-Lopez J,Shi Y,Tyson GW,Coleman ML,Schuster SC,Chisholm SW,Delong EF

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapsins are abundant synaptic-vesicle phosphoproteins that are known to regulate neurotransmitter release but whose precise function has been difficult to pinpoint. Here, we use knockout mice to analyze the role of synapsins 1 and 2 in the calyx of Held synapse, allowing precise measurements of neurotransmitter rele...

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

authors： Sun J,Bronk P,Liu X,Han W,Südhof TC

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cryo-electron tomography in conjunction with single-particle averaging techniques to study the structures of frozen-hydrated envelope glycoprotein (Env) complexes on intact Moloney murine leukemia retrovirus particles. Cryo-electron tomography allows 3D imaging of viruses in toto at a resolution sufficient to ...

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

authors： Förster F,Medalia O,Zauberman N,Baumeister W,Fass D

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00