Why do we age?

abstract：:By means of in vivo selection, transcriptomic analysis, functional verification and clinical validation, here we identify a set of genes that marks and mediates breast cancer metastasis to the lungs. Some of these genes serve dual functions, providing growth advantages both in the primary tumour and in the lung microe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Minn AJ,Gupta GP,Siegel PM,Bos PD,Shu W,Giri DD,Viale A,Olshen AB,Gerald WL,Massagué J

更新日期：2005-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the pioneering work of the Millers it has become clear that most chemical carcinogens require metabolism to reactive electrophiles and then exhibit their carcinogenic potential by reacting chemically with, and modifying, cellular macromolecules. At first modification of proteins was considered most likely to be ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allen JA,Coombs MM

更新日期：1980-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbialites, including biogenic stromatolites, thrombolites and dendrolites, were formed by various microbial mats that trapped and bound sediments or formed the locus of mineral precipitation. Microbialites were common and diverse during the Proterozoic, but declined in abundance and morphological diversity when mu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sheehan PM,Harris MT

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional organization of the genome supports regulated gene expression, recombination, DNA repair, and chromosome segregation during mitosis. Chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C)1,2 analysis has revealed a complex genomic landscape of internal chromosomal structures in vertebrate cells3-7, but the ident...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mitter M,Gasser C,Takacs Z,Langer CCH,Tang W,Jessberger G,Beales CT,Neuner E,Ameres SL,Peters JM,Goloborodko A,Micura R,Gerlich DW

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is a molecular process that has multiple important roles in DNA metabolism, both for DNA repair and genetic variation in all forms of life. Generally, homologous recombination involves the exchange of genetic information between two identical or nearly identical DNA molecules; however, homolog...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Keskin H,Shen Y,Huang F,Patel M,Yang T,Ashley K,Mazin AV,Storici F

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding repressor proteins mediate regulation of yeast genes by cell type (Mcm1/alpha 2 and a1/alpha 2), glucose (Mig1) and oxygen (Rox1) (refs 1-4 respectively). An unusual feature of all these regulatory pathways is that transcriptional repression requires two physically associated proteins that do not bind DNA ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tzamarias D,Struhl K

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes and archaea use a protease called the proteasome that has an integral role in maintaining cellular function through the selective degradation of proteins. Proteolysis occurs in a barrel-shaped 20S core particle, which in Thermoplasma acidophilum is built from four stacked homoheptameric rings of subunits, α...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruschak AM,Religa TL,Breuer S,Witt S,Kay LE

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian somatic-cell cycles, progression through the G1-phase restriction point and initiation of DNA replication are controlled by the ability of the retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor protein (pRb) family to regulate the E2F/DP transcription factors. Continuing transcription of E2F target genes beyond the G1/S tr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lukas C,Sørensen CS,Kramer E,Santoni-Rugiu E,Lindeneg C,Peters JM,Bartek J,Lukas J

更新日期：1999-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The additional author support information was erroneously omitted from the Supplementary Information. This has been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hilf N,Kuttruff-Coqui S,Frenzel K,Bukur V,Stevanović S,Gouttefangeas C,Platten M,Tabatabai G,Dutoit V,van der Burg SH,Straten PT,Martinez-Ricarte F,Ponsati B,Okada H,Lassen U,Admon A,Ottensmeier CH,Ulges A,Kreiter S,

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult animals, sensory neurons innervating the skin are phenotypically diverse. We have now investigated whether nerve growth factor (NGF) has a physiological role in the development of this diversity. We gave antisera against NGF to rats from postnatal day 1 (PND 1) to adulthood (5 weeks). We found a virtually com...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ritter AM,Lewin GR,Kremer NE,Mendell LM

更新日期：1991-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most tetrapods have retained terrestrial locomotion since it evolved in the Palaeozoic era, but bats have become so specialized for flight that they have almost lost the ability to manoeuvre on land at all. Vampire bats, which sneak up on their prey along the ground, are an important exception. Here we show that commo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Riskin DK,Hermanson JW

更新日期：2005-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human B cell-specific alloantigen which is closely linked genetically to HLA contains two non-covalently associated, sialogycoprotein subunits of molecular weight (MW) 29,000 (p29), and 34,000 (p34). Although p29 and p34 have different amino-terminal sequences, their tyrosine peptide maps indicate considerable sim...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Springer TA,Kaufman JF,Terhorst C,Strominger JL

更新日期：1977-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinases, MAP kinases or ERKs (extracellular signal-regulated kinases) are rapidly stimulated by growth-promoting factors acting on a variety of cell-surface receptors. In turn, ERKs phosphorylate and regulate key intracellular enzymes and transcription factors involved in the control of cellu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Crespo P,Xu N,Simonds WF,Gutkind JS

更新日期：1994-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion (T3S) injectisome is a specialized protein nanomachine that is critical for the pathogenicity of many Gram-negative bacteria, including purveyors of plague, typhoid fever, whooping cough, sexually transmitted infections and major nosocomial infections. This syringe-shaped 3.5-MDa macromolecular ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Worrall LJ,Hong C,Vuckovic M,Deng W,Bergeron JRC,Majewski DD,Huang RK,Spreter T,Finlay BB,Yu Z,Strynadka NCJ

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is one of man's commonest hereditary diseases. Several studies have implicated a defect in DNA mismatch repair in the pathogenesis of this disease. In particular, hMSH2 and hMLH1 homologues of the bacterial DNA mismatch repair genes mutS and mutL, respectively, were sh...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nicolaides NC,Papadopoulos N,Liu B,Wei YF,Carter KC,Ruben SM,Rosen CA,Haseltine WA,Fleischmann RD,Fraser CM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding exotic forms of magnetism in quantum mechanical systems is a central goal of modern condensed matter physics, with implications for systems ranging from high-temperature superconductors to spintronic devices. Simulating magnetic materials in the vicinity of a quantum phase transition is computationally i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Simon J,Bakr WS,Ma R,Tai ME,Preiss PM,Greiner M

更新日期：2011-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases are present in virtually all organisms and function both inside and outside the cell; they exist as two families, the 'trypsin-like' and the 'subtilisin-like', that have independently evolved a similar catalytic device characterized by the Ser, His, Asp triad, an oxyanion binding site, and possibly ot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carter P,Wells JA

更新日期：1988-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of disulphide bonds is essential to the structure and function of proteins. These bonds rapidly form either cotranslationally or immediately post-translationally in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. Native disulphide pairing for such proteins has been achieved in vitro; however, the rates of reasse...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Edman JC,Ellis L,Blacher RW,Roth RA,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1985-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis--localized clotting of the blood--can occur in the arterial or the venous circulation and has a major medical impact. Acute arterial thrombosis is the proximal cause of most cases of myocardial infarction (heart attack) and of about 80% of strokes, collectively the most common cause of death in the develope...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mackman N

更新日期：2008-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding of two monomeric enzymes mediated by groE has been reconstituted in vitro. The groEL protein stabilizes the polypeptides in a conformation resembling the 'molten globule' state. Mg-ATP and groES then promote the acquisition of ordered tertiary structure at the surface of groEL. Folding requires the hydrolysis ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Martin J,Langer T,Boteva R,Schramel A,Horwich AL,Hartl FU

更新日期：1991-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem in the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms governing development is the distinction between direct and indirect regulatory interactions among developmental control genes. In vivo studies have indicated that the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu (ftz) directly or indirectly autoregulates its...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schier AF,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1992-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle actin genes are the earliest yet described to show cell type-specific activation in amphibian embryos. Gene-specific probes show that alpha-skeletal and alpha-cardiac actin genes start to be transcribed simultaneously at the end of gastrulation, but only in those regions of the mesoderm that subsequently form e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mohun TJ,Brennan S,Dathan N,Fairman S,Gurdon JB

更新日期：1984-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum computation, a paradigm of computing that is completely different from classical methods, benefits from theoretically proved speed-ups for certain problems and can be used to study the properties of quantum systems1. Yet, because of the inherently fragile nature of the physical computing elements (qubits), ach...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kandala A,Temme K,Córcoles AD,Mezzacapo A,Chow JM,Gambetta JM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many intracellular targets of protein-tyrosine kinases possess Src homology 2 (SH2) domains that directly recognize phosphotyrosine-containing sites on autophosphorylated growth factor receptors and cytoplasmic proteins, and thereby mediate the activation of biochemical signalling pathways. SH2 domains possess relativ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marengere LE,Songyang Z,Gish GD,Schaller MD,Parsons JT,Stern MJ,Cantley LC,Pawson T

更新日期：1994-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the introduction of antiproliferative drug-eluting stents, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. In-stent restenosis and bypass graft failure are characterized by excessive smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation and concomitant myointima formation with luminal oblitera...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Deuse T,Hua X,Wang D,Maegdefessel L,Heeren J,Scheja L,Bolaños JP,Rakovic A,Spin JM,Stubbendorff M,Ikeno F,Länger F,Zeller T,Schulte-Uentrop L,Stoehr A,Itagaki R,Haddad F,Eschenhagen T,Blankenberg S,Kiefmann R,Reic

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) sense viral and microbial DNA through endosomal Toll-like receptors to produce type 1 interferons. pDCs do not normally respond to self-DNA, but this restriction seems to break down in human autoimmune disease by an as yet poorly understood mechanism. Here we identify the antimicrob...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lande R,Gregorio J,Facchinetti V,Chatterjee B,Wang YH,Homey B,Cao W,Wang YH,Su B,Nestle FO,Zal T,Mellman I,Schröder JM,Liu YJ,Gilliet M

更新日期：2007-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Multistranded DNA structures based upon guanine association have been proposed to be important in the structure of chromosome telomeres and in immunoglobulin class switching. Nucleic acids containing runs of guanine bases form a number of structures in vitro, including fold-back structures (Fig. 1a) and parallel-stran...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aboul-ela F,Murchie AI,Lilley DM

更新日期：1992-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive protein protein interaction maps promise to reveal many aspects of the complex regulatory network underlying cellular function. Recently, large-scale approaches have predicted many new protein interactions in yeast. To measure their accuracy and potential as well as to identify biases, strengths and weak...

journal_title：Nature

authors： von Mering C,Krause R,Snel B,Cornell M,Oliver SG,Fields S,Bork P

更新日期：2002-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:How does the human visual system 'bind' different fragments in the visual scene to create enduring representations of objects? A visual illusion known as 'metacontrast' or backward masking provides compelling evidence that perception is not instantaneous and that it occurs sequentially in distinct stages. If a solid w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ramachandran VS,Cobb S

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous melanoma is a type of cancer with an inherent potential for lymph node colonization, which is generally preceded by neolymphangiogenesis. However, sentinel lymph node removal does not necessarily extend the overall survival of patients with melanoma. Moreover, lymphatic vessels collapse and become dysfunctio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Olmeda D,Cerezo-Wallis D,Riveiro-Falkenbach E,Pennacchi PC,Contreras-Alcalde M,Ibarz N,Cifdaloz M,Catena X,Calvo TG,Cañón E,Alonso-Curbelo D,Suarez J,Osterloh L,Graña O,Mulero F,Megías D,Cañamero M,Martínez-Torrecuadrad

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00