NMR study of parallel-stranded tetraplex formation by the hexadeoxynucleotide d(TG4T).

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis is a major cause of death worldwide and is characterized by extensive fibrosis. There are currently no effective antifibrotic therapies available. To obtain a better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in disease pathogenesis and enable the discovery of therapeutic targets, ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ramachandran P,Dobie R,Wilson-Kanamori JR,Dora EF,Henderson BEP,Luu NT,Portman JR,Matchett KP,Brice M,Marwick JA,Taylor RS,Efremova M,Vento-Tormo R,Carragher NO,Kendall TJ,Fallowfield JA,Harrison EM,Mole DJ,Wigmore SJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cas9 is an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease that targets foreign DNA for destruction as part of a bacterial adaptive immune system mediated by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). Together with single-guide RNAs, Cas9 also functions as a powerful genome engineering tool in plants and animals,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sternberg SH,LaFrance B,Kaplan M,Doudna JA

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a highly regulated process that is crucial for normal development and homeostasis of multicellular organisms. The p35 protein from baculoviruses effectively prevents apoptosis by its broad-spectrum caspase inhibition. Here we report the crystal structure of p35 in complex with human caspase-8 at 3.0 A res...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xu G,Cirilli M,Huang Y,Rich RL,Myszka DG,Wu H

更新日期：2001-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria possess a complex cell envelope that consists of a plasma membrane, a peptidoglycan cell wall and an outer membrane. The envelope is a selective chemical barrier1 that defines cell shape2 and allows the cell to sustain large mechanical loads such as turgor pressure3. It is widely believed that t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rojas ER,Billings G,Odermatt PD,Auer GK,Zhu L,Miguel A,Chang F,Weibel DB,Theriot JA,Huang KC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner's syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the affected individuals display symptoms of premature ageing. The substantial phenotypic overlap between WS and normal ageing indicates that these two conditions may have pathogenetic mechanisms in common. The WS mutation has pleiotropic effects, a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Goto M,Rubenstein M,Weber J,Woods K,Drayna D

更新日期：1992-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of the superfluid to Mott insulator phase transition of ultracold atoms in optical lattices was an enabling discovery in experimental many-body physics, providing the first tangible example of a quantum phase transition (one that occurs even at zero temperature) in an ultracold atomic gas. For a trappe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gemelke N,Zhang X,Hung CL,Chin C

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of strong serological responses to protein antigens in experimental animals usually requires the use of potent adjuvants, most of which cannot be used in human or veterinary vaccines because of deleterious side effects. Attempting to circumvent this problem, we have assessed an adjuvant-free antigen-del...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carayanniotis G,Barber BH

更新日期：1987-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fullerenes are graphitic cage structures incorporating exactly twelve pentagons. The smallest possible fullerene is thus C20, which consists solely of pentagons. But the extreme curvature and reactivity of this structure have led to doubts about its existence and stability. Although theoretical calculations have ident...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Prinzbach H,Weiler A,Landenberger P,Wahl F,Worth J,Scott LT,Gelmont M,Olevano D,v. Issendorff B

更新日期：2000-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells seem to use GTP hydrolysis to regulate vesicular traffic in exocytosis and endocytosis. The best evidence for this comes from studies on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that have identified two small Ras-related GTP-binding proteins, Sec4p and Ypt1p, which control distinct stages of the secretory p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Goud B,Zahraoui A,Tavitian A,Saraste J

更新日期：1990-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Several viral and bacterial live recombinant vaccine vehicles are being developed to produce a new generation of vaccines against a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. The human tuberculosis vaccine Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) has features that make it a particularly attractive live recombina...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aldovini A,Young RA

更新日期：1991-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Palaeomagnetic measurements of meteorites suggest that, shortly after the birth of the Solar System, the molten metallic cores of many small planetary bodies convected vigorously and were capable of generating magnetic fields. Convection on these bodies is currently thought to have been thermally driven, implying that...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bryson JF,Nichols CI,Herrero-Albillos J,Kronast F,Kasama T,Alimadadi H,van der Laan G,Nimmo F,Harrison RJ

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many homeobox genes are clustered in a linear array along a chromosome, reflecting their ordered expression along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo. Expression patterns as well as grafting, ectopic expression and loss-of-function experiments suggest that the Hox genes encode a combinatorial system of positiona...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roberts CW,Shutter JR,Korsmeyer SJ

更新日期：1994-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to some human diseases is linked, albeit weakly, to major transplantation antigens (HLA) encoded by the major histocompatibility gene complex (MHC). Here we have studied MHC/disease association in inbred strains of mice after intracerebral (i.c.) injection of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). T...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zinkernagel RM,Pfau CJ,Hengartner H,Althage A

更新日期：1985-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic properties of heterostructures of atomically thin van der Waals crystals can be modified substantially by moiré superlattice potentials from an interlayer twist between crystals1,2. Moiré tuning of the band structure has led to the recent discovery of superconductivity3,4 and correlated insulating phase...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kerelsky A,McGilly LJ,Kennes DM,Xian L,Yankowitz M,Chen S,Watanabe K,Taniguchi T,Hone J,Dean C,Rubio A,Pasupathy AN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The angle between the spin of a star and the orbital planes of its planets traces the history of the planetary system. Exoplanets orbiting close to cool stars are expected to be on circular, aligned orbits because of strong tidal interactions with the stellar convective envelope. Spin-orbit alignment can be measured w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bourrier V,Lovis C,Beust H,Ehrenreich D,Henry GW,Astudillo-Defru N,Allart R,Bonfils X,Ségransan D,Delfosse X,Cegla HM,Wyttenbach A,Heng K,Lavie B,Pepe F

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor type I (TGF) are polypeptides of 53 and 50 amino acid residues, respectively. Both bind to EGF receptor, a 1,200-residue transmembranous glycoprotein, leading to phosphorylation of the receptor, enhancement of its tyrosine-specific kinase activity and ultima...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brown JP,Twardzik DR,Marquardt H,Todaro GJ

更新日期：1985-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the substantia nigra, the dendrites of dopaminergic neurons that project to the striatum appear to play an active and nonclassical role in the physiology of the neuron in that they release transmitter and protein, but little is known of the factors controlling release of substances from these dendrites. In this...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nedergaard S,Bolam JP,Greenfield SA

更新日期：1988-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Over half of the inherited predisposition to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus maps to the region of chromosome 6 that contains the highly polymorphic HLA class II genes which determine immune responsiveness. Analysis of DNA sequences from diabetics indicates that alleles of HLA-DQ beta determine both disease suscep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Todd JA,Bell JI,McDevitt HO

更新日期：1987-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines that activate and direct the migration of leukocytes. There are two subfamilies, the CXC and the CC chemokines. We recently found that the CXC-chemokine stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is a highly efficacious lymphocyte chemoattractant. Chemokines act on responsive leukocyte ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bleul CC,Farzan M,Choe H,Parolin C,Clark-Lewis I,Sodroski J,Springer TA

更新日期：1996-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common knowledge that our feelings of alertness or drowsiness vary throughout the day. Indeed, this diurnal variation is so widely accepted that it has been used to validate the drowsy/alert component of activation obtained from mood adjective checklists. There is, however, some evidence from sleep deprivation a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Folkard S,Hume KI,Minors DS,Waterhouse JM,Watson FL

更新日期：1985-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The wavefunction is the complex distribution used to completely describe a quantum system, and is central to quantum theory. But despite its fundamental role, it is typically introduced as an abstract element of the theory with no explicit definition. Rather, physicists come to a working understanding of the wavefunct...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lundeen JS,Sutherland B,Patel A,Stewart C,Bamber C

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulates glucose uptake in muscle and adipocytes by signalling the translocation of GLUT4 glucose transporters from intracellular membranes to the cell surface. The translocation of GLUT4 may involve signalling pathways that are both independent of and dependent on phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI(3)K). ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bose A,Guilherme A,Robida SI,Nicoloro SM,Zhou QL,Jiang ZY,Pomerleau DP,Czech MP

更新日期：2002-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to generate patient-specific human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offers a new paradigm for modelling human disease and for individualizing drug testing. Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a familial arrhythmogenic syndrome characterized by abnormal ion channel function and sudden cardiac death....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Itzhaki I,Maizels L,Huber I,Zwi-Dantsis L,Caspi O,Winterstern A,Feldman O,Gepstein A,Arbel G,Hammerman H,Boulos M,Gepstein L

更新日期：2011-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that arginine vasopressin (AVP) is involved in the retention of learned responses, in addition to its classical physiological functions of water retention and modulation of blood pressure. AVP administered subcutaneously (s.c.), intraventricularly or intracerebrally can prolong extinction of acti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Koob GF,Dantzer R,Rodriguez F,Bloom FE,Le Moal M

更新日期：1985-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory amino acids (EAAs) are important neurotransmitters in the vertebrate central nervous system. Electrophysiological and ligand-binding studies indicate that at least three different receptor subtypes for EAAs exist--N-methyl-D-aspartate, kainate and quisqualate receptor subtypes--on the basis of the preferred...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wada K,Dechesne CJ,Shimasaki S,King RG,Kusano K,Buonanno A,Hampson DR,Banner C,Wenthold RJ,Nakatani Y

更新日期：1989-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In a very short time the scanning tunnelling microscope has become an important tool in surface science, and physics in general. Its primary use has been to obtain atomic-resolution images of surfaces, but recently, efforts have been made to use it to manipulate materials as well as image them. One may now reasonably ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foster JS,Frommer JE,Arnett PC

更新日期：1988-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transporters are integral membrane proteins that catalyse neurotransmitter uptake from the synaptic cleft into the cytoplasm of glial cells and neurons. Their mechanism of action involves transitions between extracellular (outward)-facing and intracellular (inward)-facing conformations, whereby substrate bin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Akyuz N,Altman RB,Blanchard SC,Boudker O

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyroptosis is a form of cell death that is critical for immunity. It can be induced by the canonical caspase-1 inflammasomes or by activation of caspase-4, -5 and -11 by cytosolic lipopolysaccharide. The caspases cleave gasdermin D (GSDMD) in its middle linker to release autoinhibition on its gasdermin-N domain, which...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang Y,Gao W,Shi X,Ding J,Liu W,He H,Wang K,Shao F

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of smell is highly evolved in mammals, allowing discrimination between a vast number of odorants, with detection thresholds as low as 10(-17) M (ref. 1). Although several features of mammalian olfactory transduction have been revealed by biochemical and molecular biological studies, the odorant-induced membr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lowe G,Gold GH

更新日期：1993-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult newts regenerate functional limbs after amputation. This process normally depends on the trophic influence of nerves on the regenerating limbs, particularly in the early stages before differentiation of the regeneration blastema, when it stimulates growth by maintaining high rates of macromolecular synthesis. Th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rathbone MP,Petri J,Choo AF,Logan DM,Carlone RL,Foret JE

更新日期：1980-01-24 00:00:00