Purification of a galanin receptor from pig brain.

abstract：:The difficulty of achieving robust functional expression of insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) has hampered our understanding of these important molecular targets of globally deployed neonicotinoid insecticides at a time when concerns have grown regarding the toxicity of this chemotype to insect pollina...

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

authors： Ihara M,Furutani S,Shigetou S,Shimada S,Niki K,Komori Y,Kamiya M,Koizumi W,Magara L,Hikida M,Noguchi A,Okuhara D,Yoshinari Y,Kondo S,Tanimoto H,Niwa R,Sattelle DB,Matsuda K

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories of evolution that state natural selection acts on individuals have been modified to include multiple levels of selection. Here we demonstrate in chimeric protochordates that primitive germ cell (pgc) and somatic cell (psc) lineages have traits that also make them likely units of natural selection. Specificall...

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

authors： Stoner DS,Rinkevich B,Weissman IL

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of short-day-induced growth cessation and dormancy in the meristems of perennial plants (e.g., forest trees growing in temperate and high-latitude regions) is poorly understood. Using global transcript profiling, we show distinct stage-specific alterations in auxin responsiveness of the transcripto...

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

authors： Baba K,Karlberg A,Schmidt J,Schrader J,Hvidsten TR,Bako L,Bhalerao RP

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically obese (ob/ob) mice, mice that became obese after treatment with gold thioglucose, and lean animals were studied in the euthyroid state, after induction of hypothyroidism, and after treatment with triiodothyronine. The activity of glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (sn-glycerol-3-phosphate:(acceptor) oxidor...

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

authors： York DA,Bray GA,Yukimura Y

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between cancer cells and the surrounding host stromal tissue play a critical role in tumor progression and metastasis, but the molecular nature of this relationship remains largely uncharacterized. Furthermore, although genetic changes of neoplastic cells in tumors contribute significantly to tumor pr...

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

authors： Pelham RJ,Rodgers L,Hall I,Lucito R,Nguyen KC,Navin N,Hicks J,Mu D,Powers S,Wigler M,Botstein D

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron far-IR spectroscopy and density-functional calculations are used to characterize the low-frequency dynamics of model heme FeCO compounds. The "doming" vibrational mode in which the iron atom moves out of the porphyrin plane while the periphery of this ring moves in the opposite direction determines the rea...

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

authors： Klug DD,Zgierski MZ,Tse JS,Liu Z,Kincaid JR,Czarnecki K,Hemley RJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of the atypical antipsychotic drug, clozapine, to rodents has been shown to increase the concentration of apolipoprotein D (apoD) in several area of the brain, suggesting that apoD could be involved in the therapeutic effects of antipsychotic drugs and/or the pathology of psychotic illnesses. He...

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

authors： Thomas EA,Dean B,Pavey G,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock (HS) initiates rapid, extensive, and evolutionarily conserved changes in transcription that are accompanied by chromatin decondensation and nucleosome loss at HS loci. Here we have employed in situ Hi-C to determine how heat stress affects long-range chromatin conformation in human and Drosophila cells. We ...

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

authors： Ray J,Munn PR,Vihervaara A,Lewis JJ,Ozer A,Danko CG,Lis JT

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of diverse neuronal types and subtypes from multipotent progenitors during development is crucial for assembling functional neural circuits in the adult central nervous system. During mouse retinogenesis, early retinal progenitors give rise to several cell types, including ganglion, amacrine, horizontal...

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

authors： Luo H,Jin K,Xie Z,Qiu F,Li S,Zou M,Cai L,Hozumi K,Shima DT,Xiang M

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Utrophin levels have recently been shown to be more abundant in slow vs. fast muscles, but the nature of the molecular events underlying this difference remains to be fully elucidated. Here, we determined whether this difference is due to the expression of utrophin A or B, and examined whether transcriptional regulato...

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

authors： Chakkalakal JV,Stocksley MA,Harrison MA,Angus LM,Deschenes-Furry J,St-Pierre S,Megeney LA,Chin ER,Michel RN,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the effect of language on categorical perception of color is stronger when stimuli are presented in the right visual field than in the left. To examine whether this lateralized effect occurs preattentively at an early stage of processing, we monitored the visual mismatch negativity, wh...

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

authors： Mo L,Xu G,Kay P,Tan LH

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome segregation and mitotic exit are initiated by the 1.2-MDa ubiquitin ligase APC/C (anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome) and its coactivator CDC20 (cell division cycle 20). To avoid chromosome missegregation, APC/C(CDC20) activation is tightly controlled. CDC20 only associates with APC/C in mitosis when APC/...

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

authors： Qiao R,Weissmann F,Yamaguchi M,Brown NG,VanderLinden R,Imre R,Jarvis MA,Brunner MR,Davidson IF,Litos G,Haselbach D,Mechtler K,Stark H,Schulman BA,Peters JM

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopping an action in response to an unexpected event requires both that the event is attended to, and that the action is inhibited. Previous neuroimaging investigations of stopping have failed to adequately separate these cognitive elements. Here we used a version of the widely used Stop Signal Task that controls for...

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

authors： Sharp DJ,Bonnelle V,De Boissezon X,Beckmann CF,James SG,Patel MC,Mehta MA

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation is expanding rapidly in China, with total capacity projected to be 400 GW by 2030. However, severe aerosol pollution over China reduces solar radiation reaching the surface. We estimate the aerosol impact on solar PV electricity generation at the provincial and regional g...

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

authors： Li X,Wagner F,Peng W,Yang J,Mauzerall DL

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions catalyzed by Mo enzymes each find the product differing from the substrate by two electrons and two protons (or some multiple thereof). The coordination chemistry of Mo suggests that there is a distinct relationship between acid-base and redox properties of Mo complexes, and that a coupled electron-proto...

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

authors： Stiefel EI

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartmentalization of proteins into subcellular organelles in eukaryotic cells is a fundamental mechanism of regulating complex cellular functions. Many proteins of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites involved in invasion are compartmentalized into apical organelles. We have identified a new merozoite organelle that co...

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

authors： Singh S,Plassmeyer M,Gaur D,Miller LH

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpoS gene of Escherichia coli encodes a putative RNA polymerase sigma factor that is considered to be the central regulator of gene expression in stationary phase. The gene product (sigma 38) was overproduced using the cloned rpoS gene and purified to homogeneity. Reconstituted RNA polymerase holoenzyme (E sigma 3...

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

authors： Tanaka K,Takayanagi Y,Fujita N,Ishihama A,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the pathogenic mechanism of dominant mutations affecting the carboxyl terminus of rhodopsin that cause retinitis pigmentosa, we generated five lines of transgenic mice carrying the proline-347 to serine (P347S) mutation. The severity of photoreceptor degeneration correlated with the levels of transgene expr...

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

authors： Li T,Snyder WK,Olsson JE,Dryja TP

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are well-known accelerants of aging, but, paradoxically, we show that physiological levels of ROS extend life span in pupae of the moth Helicoverpa armigera, resulting in the dormant state of diapause. This developmental switch appears to operate through a variant of the conventional insu...

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

authors： Zhang XS,Wang T,Lin XW,Denlinger DL,Xu WH

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms by which macrophages discriminate between "mature-self" and "senescent-self" were investigated using the human red blood cell (RBC) system as a model. Conditions simulating those encountered in situ were adhered to as closely as possible by using short term culture techniques and incubating with autologous ...

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

authors： Kay MM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing is one of the last sensory modalities to be subjected to genetic analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. We describe a behavioral assay for auditory function involving courtship among groups of males triggered by the pulse component of the courtship song. In a mutagenesis screen for mutations that disrupt the aud...

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

authors： Eberl DF,Duyk GM,Perrimon N

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones increase the level of hepatic tryptophan oxygenase (EC 1.13.11.11; L-tryptophan:oxygen 2,3-oxidoreductase (decyclizing) by increasing its rate of synthesis. Studies were performed to determine whether this induction is mediated by controlling the level of the mRNA for tryptophan oxygenase of by...

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

authors： Schutz G,Killewich L,Chen G,Feigelson P

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autocatalytic chemical reactions are widely studied as models of biological processes and to better understand the origins of life on Earth. Minimal self-reproducing amphiphiles have been developed in this context and as an approach to de novo "bottom-up" synthetic protocells. How chemicals come together to produce li...

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

authors： Ortega-Arroyo J,Bissette AJ,Kukura P,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis R2c is the prototype for a recently discovered group of ribonucleotide reductase R2 proteins that use a heterodinuclear Mn/Fe redox cofactor for radical generation and storage. Here, we show that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein Rv0233, an R2 homologue and a potential virulence factor, cont...

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

authors： Andersson CS,Högbom M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorder resulting from mutations in an X-linked gene, PIG-A, that encodes an enzyme required for the first step in the biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. PIG-A mutations result in absent or decreased cell surface ex...

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

authors： Brodsky RA,Vala MS,Barber JP,Medof ME,Jones RJ

更新日期：1997-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of red blood cells is normally tightly regulated by a classic homeostatic mechanism based on oxygen sensing in the kidney. Decreased oxygen delivery resulting from anemia induces the production of erythropoietin, which increases red cell production and hence oxygen delivery. Investigations of erythropoietin...

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

authors： Percy MJ,Zhao Q,Flores A,Harrison C,Lappin TR,Maxwell PH,McMullin MF,Lee FS

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A fibroblast growth regulator, which inhibits the growth and division of proliferating fibroblasts, has been isolated from medium conditioned by exposure to density-inhibited mouse 3T3 cells. This partially purified preparation of the growth-inhibitory activity, termed FGR-s, contained two major polypeptides (Mrs, 10,...

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

authors： Hsu YM,Barry JM,Wang JL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton is a critical regulator of cytoplasmic architecture and mechanics, essential in a myriad of physiological processes. Here we demonstrate a liquid phase of actin filaments in the presence of the physiological cross-linker, filamin. Filamin condenses short actin filaments into spindle-shaped dropl...

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

authors： Weirich KL,Banerjee S,Dasbiswas K,Witten TA,Vaikuntanathan S,Gardel ML

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Both polarities of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus are sources of self-cleaving sequences. RNA of the less abundant, negative polarity, designated sTobRV-(-)RNA, has cleaving activity that was mapped previously to two noncontiguous regions of the polyribonucleotide chain. Endoribonucleolytic oligoribonucle...

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

authors： Feldstein PA,Buzayan JM,van Tol H,deBear J,Gough GR,Gilham PT,Bruening G

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven antigenic variants obtained from a single field isolate of foot-and-mouth disease virus, serotype A12, differ only at residues 148 and 153 in the immunodominant loop of viral protein VP1. Synthetic peptides corresponding to the region 141-160 are highly immunogenic. UV circular dichroism shows that (i) in aqueou...

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

authors： France LL,Piatti PG,Newman JF,Toth I,Gibbons WA,Brown F

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00