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Rasmussen SG Choi HJ Fung JJ Pardon E Casarosa P Chae PS Devree BT Rosenbaum DM Thian FS Kobilka TS Schnapp A Konetzki I Sunahara RK Gellman SH Pautsch A Steyaert J Weis WI Kobilka BK 《Nature》2011,469(7329):175-180
G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) exhibit a spectrum of functional behaviours in response to natural and synthetic ligands. Recent crystal structures provide insights into inactive states of several GPCRs. Efforts to obtain an agonist-bound active-state GPCR structure have proven difficult due to the inherent instability of this state in the absence of a G protein. We generated a camelid antibody fragment (nanobody) to the human β(2) adrenergic receptor (β(2)AR) that exhibits G protein-like behaviour, and obtained an agonist-bound, active-state crystal structure of the receptor-nanobody complex. Comparison with the inactive β(2)AR structure reveals subtle changes in the binding pocket; however, these small changes are associated with an 11?? outward movement of the cytoplasmic end of transmembrane segment 6, and rearrangements of transmembrane segments 5 and 7 that are remarkably similar to those observed in opsin, an active form of rhodopsin. This structure provides insights into the process of agonist binding and activation. 相似文献
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Learning causes a change in how information is processed by neuronal circuits. Whereas synaptic plasticity, an important cellular mechanism, has been studied in great detail, we know much less about how learning is implemented at the level of neuronal circuits and, in particular, how interactions between distinct types of neurons within local networks contribute to the process of learning. Here we show that acquisition of associative fear memories depends on the recruitment of a disinhibitory microcircuit in the mouse auditory cortex. Fear-conditioning-associated disinhibition in auditory cortex is driven by foot-shock-mediated cholinergic activation of layer 1 interneurons, in turn generating inhibition of layer 2/3 parvalbumin-positive interneurons. Importantly, pharmacological or optogenetic block of pyramidal neuron disinhibition abolishes fear learning. Together, these data demonstrate that stimulus convergence in the auditory cortex is necessary for associative fear learning to complex tones, define the circuit elements mediating this convergence and suggest that layer-1-mediated disinhibition is an important mechanism underlying learning and information processing in neocortical circuits. 相似文献
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Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kirkby J Curtius J Almeida J Dunne E Duplissy J Ehrhart S Franchin A Gagné S Ickes L Kürten A Kupc A Metzger A Riccobono F Rondo L Schobesberger S Tsagkogeorgas G Wimmer D Amorim A Bianchi F Breitenlechner M David A Dommen J Downard A Ehn M Flagan RC Haider S Hansel A Hauser D Jud W Junninen H Kreissl F Kvashin A Laaksonen A Lehtipalo K Lima J Lovejoy ER Makhmutov V Mathot S Mikkilä J Minginette P Mogo S Nieminen T Onnela A Pereira P Petäjä T Schnitzhofer R Seinfeld JH Sipilä M Stozhkov Y 《Nature》2011,476(7361):429-433
Atmospheric aerosols exert an important influence on climate through their effects on stratiform cloud albedo and lifetime and the invigoration of convective storms. Model calculations suggest that almost half of the global cloud condensation nuclei in the atmospheric boundary layer may originate from the nucleation of aerosols from trace condensable vapours, although the sensitivity of the number of cloud condensation nuclei to changes of nucleation rate may be small. Despite extensive research, fundamental questions remain about the nucleation rate of sulphuric acid particles and the mechanisms responsible, including the roles of galactic cosmic rays and other chemical species such as ammonia. Here we present the first results from the CLOUD experiment at CERN. We find that atmospherically relevant ammonia mixing ratios of 100 parts per trillion by volume, or less, increase the nucleation rate of sulphuric acid particles more than 100-1,000-fold. Time-resolved molecular measurements reveal that nucleation proceeds by a base-stabilization mechanism involving the stepwise accretion of ammonia molecules. Ions increase the nucleation rate by an additional factor of between two and more than ten at ground-level galactic-cosmic-ray intensities, provided that the nucleation rate lies below the limiting ion-pair production rate. We find that ion-induced binary nucleation of H(2)SO(4)-H(2)O can occur in the mid-troposphere but is negligible in the boundary layer. However, even with the large enhancements in rate due to ammonia and ions, atmospheric concentrations of ammonia and sulphuric acid are insufficient to account for observed boundary-layer nucleation. 相似文献
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This paper evaluates the impact of new releases of financial, real activity and survey data on nowcasting euro area gross domestic product (GDP). We show that all three data categories positively impact on the accuracy of GDP nowcasts, whereby the effect is largest in the case of real activity data. When treating variables as if they were all published at the same time and without any time lag, financial series lose all their significance, while survey data remain an important ingredient for the nowcasting exercise. The subsequent analysis shows that the sectoral coverage of survey data, which is broader than that of timely available real activity data, as well as their information content stemming from questions focusing on agents' expectations, are the main sources of the ‘genuine’ predictive power of survey data. When the forecast period is restricted to the 2008–09 financial crisis, the main change is an enhanced forecasting role for financial data. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Sayer JA Otto EA O'Toole JF Nurnberg G Kennedy MA Becker C Hennies HC Helou J Attanasio M Fausett BV Utsch B Khanna H Liu Y Drummond I Kawakami I Kusakabe T Tsuda M Ma L Lee H Larson RG Allen SJ Wilkinson CJ Nigg EA Shou C Lillo C Williams DS Hoppe B Kemper MJ Neuhaus T Parisi MA Glass IA Petry M Kispert A Gloy J Ganner A Walz G Zhu X Goldman D Nurnberg P Swaroop A Leroux MR Hildebrandt F 《Nature genetics》2006,38(6):674-681
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Consonni C Humphry ME Hartmann HA Livaja M Durner J Westphal L Vogel J Lipka V Kemmerling B Schulze-Lefert P Somerville SC Panstruga R 《Nature genetics》2006,38(6):716-720
In the fungal phylum Ascomycota, the ability to cause disease in plants and animals has been gained and lost repeatedly during phylogenesis. In monocotyledonous barley, loss-of-function mlo alleles result in effective immunity against the Ascomycete Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei, the causal agent of powdery mildew disease. However, mlo-based disease resistance has been considered a barley-specific phenomenon to date. Here, we demonstrate a conserved requirement for MLO proteins in powdery mildew pathogenesis in the dicotyledonous plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. Epistasis analysis showed that mlo resistance in A. thaliana does not involve the signaling molecules ethylene, jasmonic acid or salicylic acid, but requires a syntaxin, glycosyl hydrolase and ABC transporter. These findings imply that a common host cell entry mechanism of powdery mildew fungi evolved once and at least 200 million years ago, suggesting that within the Erysiphales (powdery mildews) the ability to cause disease has been a stable trait throughout phylogenesis. 相似文献
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Colleen McBride and colleagues argue that progress on a multifaceted research agenda is necessary to reap the full benefits and avoid the potential pitfalls of the emerging area of personalized genomics. They also outline one element of this agenda, the Multiplex Initiative, which has been underway since 2006. 相似文献
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Kozyrev SV Abelson AK Wojcik J Zaghlool A Linga Reddy MV Sanchez E Gunnarsson I Svenungsson E Sturfelt G Jönsen A Truedsson L Pons-Estel BA Witte T D'Alfonso S Barizzone N Barrizzone N Danieli MG Gutierrez C Suarez A Junker P Laustrup H González-Escribano MF Martin J Abderrahim H Alarcón-Riquelme ME 《Nature genetics》2008,40(2):211-216