Keeping time with the human genome.

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：:For unknown reasons, autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes develop after prolonged periods of inflammation of mononuclear cells in target tissues. Here we show that progression of pancreatic islet inflammation to overt diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice is driven by the 'avidity maturation' of a prevailing...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Amrani A,Verdaguer J,Serra P,Tafuro S,Tan R,Santamaria P

更新日期：2000-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ball P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for new drugs to treat malaria, with broad therapeutic potential and novel modes of action, to widen the scope of treatment and to overcome emerging drug resistance. Here we describe the discovery of DDD107498, a compound with a potent and novel spectrum of antimalarial activity against multipl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baragaña B,Hallyburton I,Lee MC,Norcross NR,Grimaldi R,Otto TD,Proto WR,Blagborough AM,Meister S,Wirjanata G,Ruecker A,Upton LM,Abraham TS,Almeida MJ,Pradhan A,Porzelle A,Luksch T,Martínez MS,Luksch T,Bolscher JM,

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell competition-the sensing and elimination of less fit 'loser' cells by neighbouring 'winner' cells-was first described in Drosophila. Although cell competition has been proposed as a selection mechanism to optimize tissue and organ development, its evolutionary generality remains unclear. Here, by using live imagin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ellis SJ,Gomez NC,Levorse J,Mertz AF,Ge Y,Fuchs E

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifreeze proteins provide fish with protection against the freezing effect of polar environments by binding to ice surfaces and inhibiting growth of ice crystals. We present the X-ray crystal structure at 1.5 A resolution of a lone alpha-helical antifreeze protein from winter flounder, which provides a detailed look...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sicheri F,Yang DS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant fraction of patients with advanced prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy experience relapse with relentless progression to lethal metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Immune checkpoint blockade using antibodies against cytotoxic-T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (C...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lu X,Horner JW,Paul E,Shang X,Troncoso P,Deng P,Jiang S,Chang Q,Spring DJ,Sharma P,Zebala JA,Maeda DY,Wang YA,DePinho RA

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific theories of how subduction and plate tectonics began on Earth--and what the tectonic structure of Earth was before this--remain enigmatic and contentious. Understanding viable scenarios for the onset of subduction and plate tectonics is hampered by the fact that subduction initiation processes must have bee...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gerya TV,Stern RJ,Baes M,Sobolev SV,Whattam SA

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of changes in tropical cyclone activity within the context of anthropogenically influenced climate change has been limited by the short temporal resolution of the instrumental tropical cyclone record (less than 50 years). Furthermore, controversy exists regarding the robustness of the observational reco...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Haig J,Nott J,Reichart GJ

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Milankovitch theory states that global climate variability on orbital timescales from tens to hundreds of thousands of years is dominated by the summer insolation at high northern latitudes. The supporting evidence includes reconstructed air temperatures in Antarctica that are nearly in phase with boreal summer in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Laepple T,Werner M,Lohmann G

更新日期：2011-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute stress suppresses pain by activating brain pathways that engage opioid or non-opioid mechanisms. Here we show that an opioid-independent form of this phenomenon, termed stress-induced analgesia, is mediated by the release of endogenous marijuana-like (cannabinoid) compounds in the brain. Blockade of cannabinoid ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hohmann AG,Suplita RL,Bolton NM,Neely MH,Fegley D,Mangieri R,Krey JF,Walker JM,Holmes PV,Crystal JD,Duranti A,Tontini A,Mor M,Tarzia G,Piomelli D

更新日期：2005-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical research highlights the role of punishment in promoting collaborative efforts. However, both the emergence and the stability of costly punishment are problematic issues. It is not clear how punishers can invade a society of defectors by social learning or natural selection, or how second-orde...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sigmund K,De Silva H,Traulsen A,Hauert C

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most abundant biological organisms of the world's oceans. Viral infections are a substantial source of mortality in a range of organisms-including autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton-but their impact on the deep ocean and benthic biosphere is completely unknown. Here we report that viral production ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Danovaro R,Dell'Anno A,Corinaldesi C,Magagnini M,Noble R,Tamburini C,Weinbauer M

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Many natural products that contain basic nitrogen atoms--for example alkaloids like morphine and quinine-have the potential to treat a broad range of human diseases. However, the presence of a nitrogen atom in a target molecule can complicate its chemical synthesis because of the basicity of nitrogen atoms and their s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mercado-Marin EV,Garcia-Reynaga P,Romminger S,Pimenta EF,Romney DK,Lodewyk MW,Williams DE,Andersen RJ,Miller SJ,Tantillo DJ,Berlinck RGS,Sarpong R

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinocytosis and membrane ruffling are among the earliest and most dramatic cellular responses to stimulation by growth factors or other mitogens. The small Ras-related G proteins Rho and Rac have a regulatory role in membrane ruffling and activated Rho has been shown to stimulate pinocytosis when microinjected into Xe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lamaze C,Chuang TH,Terlecky LJ,Bokoch GM,Schmid SL

更新日期：1996-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the determinants of healthy mental ageing is a priority for society today. So far, we know that intelligence differences show high stability from childhood to old age and there are estimates of the genetic contribution to intelligence at different ages. However, attempts to discover whether genetic cause...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Deary IJ,Yang J,Davies G,Harris SE,Tenesa A,Liewald D,Luciano M,Lopez LM,Gow AJ,Corley J,Redmond P,Fox HC,Rowe SJ,Haggarty P,McNeill G,Goddard ME,Porteous DJ,Whalley LJ,Starr JM,Visscher PM

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct dating of ductile shear zones and calculation of uplift/exhumation rates can be done using various radiometric dating techniques. But radiometric dating of shallow crustal faulting, which occurs in the crust's brittle regime, has remained difficult because the low temperatures typical of shallow crusted faults ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van der Pluijm BA,Hall CM,Vrolijk PJ,Pevear DR,Covey MC

更新日期：2001-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) has largely been ignored in considering possible mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of tricyclic anti-depressants (TCA). Most previous work done has focused on the ability of some TCAs to block the in vitro re-uptake of DA--an effect which unfortunately requires very high doses. Recently, howe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chiodo LA,Antelman SM

更新日期：1980-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Delaney clause, embodied in US legislation in 1958, prohibits the addition to food of any level of any carcinogen. This position cannot be sustained in the face of progress in understanding chemically induced cancer. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ashby J

更新日期：1994-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change is among the largest uncertainties affecting future climate change projections. The feedback between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate is partly determined by changes in the turnover time of carbon in land ecosystems, which in turn is an ecosystem p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carvalhais N,Forkel M,Khomik M,Bellarby J,Jung M,Migliavacca M,Mu M,Saatchi S,Santoro M,Thurner M,Weber U,Ahrens B,Beer C,Cescatti A,Randerson JT,Reichstein M

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transfer (HT), or the passage of genetic material between non-mating species, is increasingly recognized as an important force in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. Transposons, with their inherent ability to mobilize and amplify within genomes, may be especially prone to HT. However, the means by which t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gilbert C,Schaack S,Pace JK 2nd,Brindley PJ,Feschotte C

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The variable (V) regions of heavy and light immunoglobulin chains are encoded by multiple germline DNA elements which are assembled into complete variable-region genes in precursor(pre-) B lymphocytes. The heavy-chain V region (VH) is assembled from three separate germline DNA elements, the variable (VH), diversity (D...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reth MG,Ammirati P,Jackson S,Alt FW

更新日期：1985-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the nature of the gene interactions that underly the sterility of interspecific hybrids is important in evolutionary biology. The interactions between the heterospecific X and Y (or Z and W) chromosomes are often used as an explanation for two reasons. First, the fertility of the hybrids of the heteroga...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Johnson NA,Perez DE,Cabot EL,Hollocher H,Wu CI

更新日期：1992-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The major excitatory amino acids, glutamate (Glu) and aspartate (Asp), are thought to act at three receptor subtypes in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). These are termed quisqualate (QA), N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and kainate (KA) receptors according to the specific agonist properties of these compounds r...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sladeczek F,Pin JP,Récasens M,Bockaert J,Weiss S

更新日期：1985-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The first event in the initiation of an immune response is the capture and presentation of antigen to T cells. Such presentation involves two distinct steps: (1) display of the antigen, which requires uptake, processing and re-expression of the antigen in association with MHC molecules on the presenting cell surface; ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lassila O,Vainio O,Matzinger P

更新日期：1988-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of membrane proteins in response to lipid binding has a critical role in many cell-signalling pathways but is often difficult to define or predict. Here we report the development of a mass spectrometry platform to determine simultaneously the presence of interfacial lipids and oligomeric stability and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gupta K,Donlan JAC,Hopper JTS,Uzdavinys P,Landreh M,Struwe WB,Drew D,Baldwin AJ,Stansfeld PJ,Robinson CV

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Polar molecules have a rich internal structure and long-range dipole-dipole interactions, making them useful for quantum-controlled applications and fundamental investigations. Their potential fully unfolds at ultracold temperatures, where various effects are predicted in many-body physics, quantum information science...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zeppenfeld M,Englert BG,Glöckner R,Prehn A,Mielenz M,Sommer C,van Buuren LD,Motsch M,Rempe G

更新日期：2012-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) remained obscure until the recent explosive outbreaks in French Polynesia (2013-2014) and South America (2015-2016). Phylogenetic studies have shown that ZIKV has evolved into African and Asian lineages. The Asian lineage of ZIKV was responsible for the recent epidemics in the Americas. However, the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu Y,Liu J,Du S,Shan C,Nie K,Zhang R,Li XF,Zhang R,Wang T,Qin CF,Wang P,Shi PY,Cheng G

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance in manganites is generally agreed to be a result of competition between crystal phases with different electronic, magnetic and structural order; a competition which can be strong enough to cause phase separation between metallic ferromagnetic and insulating charge-modulated...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Milward GC,Calderón MJ,Littlewood PB

更新日期：2005-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that is important in adipocyte differentiation and glucose homeostasis and which depends on interactions with co-activators, including steroid receptor co-activating factor-1 (SRC-1). Here we present the X-ray ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nolte RT,Wisely GB,Westin S,Cobb JE,Lambert MH,Kurokawa R,Rosenfeld MG,Willson TM,Glass CK,Milburn MV

更新日期：1998-09-10 00:00:00