Hox protein mutation and macroevolution of the insect body plan.

abstract：:Common genetic contributions to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reside in risk gene variants that individually have minimal effect sizes. As environmental factors that perturb neurodevelopment also underlie idiopathic ASD, it is crucial to identify altered regulators that can orchestrate multiple ASD risk genes during ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Parras A,Anta H,Santos-Galindo M,Swarup V,Elorza A,Nieto-González JL,Picó S,Hernández IH,Díaz-Hernández JI,Belloc E,Rodolosse A,Parikshak NN,Peñagarikano O,Fernández-Chacón R,Irimia M,Navarro P,Geschwind DH,Méndez R,L

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid have recently been shown to modulate the activity of ion channels in nerve and muscle cells. The mechanism of action of these metabolites is, however, unknown. In sensory neurons of Aplysia, the S-K- channel is under the dual modulatory control of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Buttner N,Siegelbaum SA,Volterra A

更新日期：1989-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The silicate Earth is strongly depleted in moderately volatile elements (such as lead, zinc, indium and alkali elements) relative to CI chondrites, the meteorites that compositionally most closely resemble the Sun. This depletion may be explained qualitatively by accretion of 10 to 20 per cent of a volatile-rich body ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Norris CA,Wood BJ

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many collective human activities, including violence, have been shown to exhibit universal patterns. The size distributions of casualties both in whole wars from 1816 to 1980 and terrorist attacks have separately been shown to follow approximate power-law distributions. However, the possibility of universal patterns r...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bohorquez JC,Gourley S,Dixon AR,Spagat M,Johnson NF

更新日期：2009-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:When chemical reactions whose rate increases with the concentration of a product species are carried out in imperfectly mixed systems, a variety of complex behaviours can occur. These phenomena, which have relevance for biological processes as well, include chaotic and stochastic behaviour and selection of one final s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Epstein IR

更新日期：1995-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensation of pain is carried to the central nervous system by small-diameter fibres which terminate in the superficial layers of the spinal grey matter, particularly the substantia gelatinosa. Opiate drugs administered into the substantia gelatinosa inhibit the excitation of deeper dorsal horn neurones by noxious ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yoshimura M,North RA

更新日期：1983-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid differentiation entails the biogenesis of a membrane skeleton, a network of proteins underlying and interacting with the plasma membrane, whose major constituent is the heterodimeric protein spectrin, composed of two structurally similar but distinct subunits, alpha (relative molecular mass (Mr) 240,000) and...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Woods CM,Lazarides E

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradual accumulation of evidence is thought to be fundamental for decision-making, and its neural correlates have been found in several brain regions. Here we develop a generalizable method to measure tuning curves that specify the relationship between neural responses and mentally accumulated evidence, and apply it t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hanks TD,Kopec CD,Brunton BW,Duan CA,Erlich JC,Brody CD

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules capable of mimicking the function of a wide range of mechanical devices have been fabricated, with motors that can induce mechanical movement attracting particular attention. Such molecular motors convert light or chemical energy into directional rotary or linear motion, and are usually prepared and operated...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van Delden RA,ter Wiel MK,Pollard MM,Vicario J,Koumura N,Feringa BL

更新日期：2005-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in free calcium triggers catecholamine secretion from chromaffin cells and calmodulin is strongly implicated as the intracellular Ca2+ receptor. In our recent studies of calmodulin action in the chromaffin cell, micromolar Ca2+ concentrations resulted in calmodulin and cytosolic proteins becoming bound to ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Geisow MJ,Burgoyne RD

更新日期：1983-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle force is generated by myosin crossbridges interacting with actin. As estimated from stiffness and equatorial X-ray diffraction of muscle and muscle fibres, most myosin crossbridges are attached to actin during isometric contraction, but a much smaller fraction is bound stereospecifically. To determine the fract...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bershitsky SY,Tsaturyan AK,Bershitskaya ON,Mashanov GI,Brown P,Burns R,Ferenczi MA

更新日期：1997-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesions to the extracellular matrix (ECM) are necessary for morphogenesis, immunity and wound healing. Focal adhesions are multifunctional organelles that mediate cell-ECM adhesion, force transmission, cytoskeletal regulation and signalling. Focal adhesions consist of a complex network of trans-plasma-membrane ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kanchanawong P,Shtengel G,Pasapera AM,Ramko EB,Davidson MW,Hess HF,Waterman CM

更新日期：2010-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An important step towards understanding the molecular basis of the functional diversity of voltage-gated K+ channels in the mammalian brain has been the discovery of a family of genes encoding rat brain K+ channel-forming (RCK) proteins. All species of these RCK proteins form homomultimeric voltage-gated K+ channels w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruppersberg JP,Schröter KH,Sakmann B,Stocker M,Sewing S,Pongs O

更新日期：1990-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:With only a few exceptions that are well understood, conventional superconductivity does not coexist with long-range magnetic order (for example, ref. 1). Unconventional superconductivity, on the other hand, develops near a phase boundary separating magnetically ordered and magnetically disordered phases. A maximum in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Park T,Ronning F,Yuan HQ,Salamon MB,Movshovich R,Sarrao JL,Thompson JD

更新日期：2006-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The cosmic radio-frequency spectrum is expected to show a strong absorption signal corresponding to the 21-centimetre-wavelength transition of atomic hydrogen around redshift 20, which arises from Lyman-α radiation from some of the earliest stars. By observing this 21-centimetre signal-either its sky-averaged spectrum...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Barkana R

更新日期：2018-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:With the world's focus on reducing our dependency on fossil-fuel energy, the scientific community can investigate new plastic materials that are much less dependent on petroleum than are conventional plastics. Given increasing environmental issues, the idea of replacing plastics with water-based gels, so-called hydrog...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang Q,Mynar JL,Yoshida M,Lee E,Lee M,Okuro K,Kinbara K,Aida T

更新日期：2010-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-activated chloride channel (PAC) is active across a wide range of mammalian cells and is involved in acid-induced cell death and tissue injury1-3. PAC has recently been shown to represent a novel and evolutionarily conserved protein family4,5. Here we present two cryo-electron microscopy structures of human...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruan Z,Osei-Owusu J,Du J,Qiu Z,Lü W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of photolabile caged neurotransmitters has made possible the study of the split-second kinetics of receptor-ligand interactions. An instrument has now been developed for activating the neurotransmitter and measuring the neuron's response. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marque JJ

更新日期：1989-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho-family GTPase, Cdc42, can regulate the actin cytoskeleton through activation of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family members. Activation relieves an autoinhibitory contact between the GTPase-binding domain and the carboxy-terminal region of WASP proteins. Here we report the autoinhibited structure of...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kim AS,Kakalis LT,Abdul-Manan N,Liu GA,Rosen MK

更新日期：2000-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereopsis is the perception of depth based on small positional differences between images formed on the two retinae (known as binocular disparity). Neurons that respond selectively to binocular disparity were first described three decades ago, and have since been observed in many visual areas of the primate brain, in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： DeAngelis GC,Cumming BG,Newsome WT

更新日期：1998-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for the T-cell receptor, like the immunoglobulin genes, are rearranged as DNA. The mechanism of this rearrangement is not clear; unequal crossover between chromosomes and the looping-out and excision of the excess DNA have both been suggested. We isolated small polydisperse circular (spc) DNAs from mouse thy...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fujimoto S,Yamagishi H

更新日期：1987-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 140 years, pollen tube guidance in flowering plants has been thought to be mediated by chemoattractants derived from target ovules. However, there has been no convincing evidence of any particular molecule being the true attractant that actually controls the navigation of pollen tubes towards ovules. Eme...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Okuda S,Tsutsui H,Shiina K,Sprunck S,Takeuchi H,Yui R,Kasahara RD,Hamamura Y,Mizukami A,Susaki D,Kawano N,Sakakibara T,Namiki S,Itoh K,Otsuka K,Matsuzaki M,Nozaki H,Kuroiwa T,Nakano A,Kanaoka MM,Dresselhaus T,Sa

更新日期：2009-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Red colobus are one of a small number of primate species in which females have been reported to transfer between breeding groups more commonly than males. Several authors have hypothesised that in such species transference may serve to reduce the risk to females of producing offspring of lower fitness through inbreedi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marsh CW

更新日期：1979-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-volcanic tremor is a weak, extended duration seismic signal observed episodically on some major faults, often in conjunction with slow slip events. Such tremor may hold the key to understanding fundamental processes at the deep roots of faults, and could signal times of accelerated slip and hence increased seismic...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shelly DR,Beroza GC,Ide S

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences have been analysed using models, such as an n-step Markov chain, that incorporate the possibility of short-range nucleotide correlations. We propose here a method for studying the stochastic properties of nucleotide sequences by constructing a 1:1 map of the nucleotide sequence onto a walk, which we term...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peng CK,Buldyrev SV,Goldberger AL,Havlin S,Sciortino F,Simons M,Stanley HE

更新日期：1992-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the bacteriophage Mu gene mom modifies adenine residues of DNA within the consensus sequence CGAGCNPy, providing protection against various restriction endonucleases (ref. 1 and D. Kamp, personal communication cited in ref. 2). The mom gene is only expressed during lytic development of the phage. It is ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Plasterk RH,Vrieling H,Van de Putte P

更新日期：1983-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human serum response factor is a transcription factor belonging to the MADS domain protein family with members characterized from the plant and animal kingdoms. The X-ray crystal structure of the serum response factor core in a specific-recognition DNA complex shows that the functions of DNA binding, dimerization ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pellegrini L,Tan S,Richmond TJ

更新日期：1995-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamin is a mechanochemical GTPase that oligomerizes around the neck of clathrin-coated pits and catalyses vesicle scission in a GTP-hydrolysis-dependent manner. The molecular details of oligomerization and the mechanism of the mechanochemical coupling are currently unknown. Here we present the crystal structure of h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Faelber K,Posor Y,Gao S,Held M,Roske Y,Schulze D,Haucke V,Noé F,Daumke O

更新日期：2011-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta-protein (AP) is a peptide of relative molecular mass (Mr) 42,000 found in the senile plaques, cerebrovascular amyloid deposits, and neurofibrillary tangles of patients with Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome (trisomy 21). Recent molecular genetic evidence has indicated that AP is encoded as part of a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanzi RE,St George-Hyslop PH,Haines JL,Polinsky RJ,Nee L,Foncin JF,Neve RL,McClatchey AI,Conneally PM,Gusella JF

更新日期：1987-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cell adhesion to substrate must ultimately depend on 'sticking' by physical forces at the outer surface, we suggest that control is exercised through the 'grip' of the cytoskeleton. Our experiments indicate that grip can be relaxed by agents which release surface glycoproteins from some form of side-to-side o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rees DA,Lloyd CW,Thom D

更新日期：1977-05-12 00:00:00