Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem.

abstract：:Bax (Bcl2-associated X protein) is an apoptosis-inducing protein that participates in cell death during normal development and in various diseases. Bax resides in an inactive state in the cytosol of many cells. In response to death stimuli, Bax protein undergoes conformational changes that expose membrane-targeting do...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guo B,Zhai D,Cabezas E,Welsh K,Nouraini S,Satterthwait AC,Reed JC

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Q beta replicase, in the absence of added template, will synthesize RNA autocatalytically. A variety of small RNa species, termed '6S RNAs' are generated. As this reaction purportedly occurs in the absence of template, it has been termed 'de novo' RNA synthesis. The question of whether Q beta replicase can polymerize ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hill D,Blumenthal T

更新日期：1983-01-27 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：:MyoD1 and myogenin are muscle-specific proteins which can convert non-myogenic cells in culture to differentiated muscle fibres, implicating them in myogenic determination. The pattern of expression of MyoD1 and myogenin during the early stages of muscle formation in the mouse embryo in vivo and in limb-bud explants c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sassoon D,Lyons G,Wright WE,Lin V,Lassar A,Weintraub H,Buckingham M

更新日期：1989-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Helium-neon lasers emitting at 632.8 nm can influence the phytochrome controlled growth and development of plants more than a quarter of a mile away. It may therefore be possible to control the growth of crops using lasers to activate the phytochrome system. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Paleg LG,Aspinall D

更新日期：1970-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a spectral disease in which immune responses to Mycobacterium leprae correlate with the clinical, bacteriological and histopathological manifestations of disease, so study of its pathology provides insights into immunoregulatory mechanisms in man. At the tuberculoid pole, patients have few lesions in the sk...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Modlin RL,Kato H,Mehra V,Nelson EE,Fan XD,Rea TH,Pattengale PK,Bloom BR

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:During endocytosis, clathrin and the clathrin adaptor protein AP-2, assisted by a variety of accessory factors, help to generate an invaginated bud at the cell membrane. One of these factors is Eps15, a clathrin-coat-associated protein that binds the alpha-adaptin subunit of AP-2. Here we investigate the function of E...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen H,Fre S,Slepnev VI,Capua MR,Takei K,Butler MH,Di Fiore PP,De Camilli P

更新日期：1998-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:At fertilization, an increase of cytosolic calcium ions (Ca2+) triggers various activation responses in animal eggs. In vertebrates, these responses include exit from metaphase arrest in meiosis II (MII exit) and cortical remodelling initiated by cortical granule exocytosis. Although the essential requirement of Ca2+/...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nishiyama T,Yoshizaki N,Kishimoto T,Ohsumi K

更新日期：2007-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor family (M1-M5) have central roles in the regulation of many fundamental physiological functions. Identifying the specific receptor subtype(s) that mediate the diverse muscarinic actions of acetylcholine is of considerable therapeutic interest, but has proved difficult p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yamada M,Miyakawa T,Duttaroy A,Yamanaka A,Moriguchi T,Makita R,Ogawa M,Chou CJ,Xia B,Crawley JN,Felder CC,Deng CX,Wess J

更新日期：2001-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian central nervous system (CNS) contains a remarkable array of neural cells, each with a complex pattern of connections that together generate perceptions and higher brain functions. Here we describe a large-scale screen to create an atlas of CNS gene expression at the cellular level, and to provide a libra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gong S,Zheng C,Doughty ML,Losos K,Didkovsky N,Schambra UB,Nowak NJ,Joyner A,Leblanc G,Hatten ME,Heintz N

更新日期：2003-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis is a complex process by which postmeiotic male germ cells differentiate into mature spermatozoa. This process involves remarkable structural and biochemical changes including nuclear DNA compaction and acrosome formation. Transcription activator CREM (cyclic AMP-responsive element modulator) is highly e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nantel F,Monaco L,Foulkes NS,Masquilier D,LeMeur M,Henriksén K,Dierich A,Parvinen M,Sassone-Corsi P

更新日期：1996-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division ends with septation, the constriction of the cell wall and cell membranes that leads to the formation of two daughter cells. During septation, FtsZ, a protein of relative molecular mass 40,000 which is ubiquitous in eubacteria and is also found in archaea and chloroplasts, localizes early at th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Löwe J,Amos LA

更新日期：1998-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule cytoskeleton is essential to cell morphogenesis. Growing microtubule plus ends have emerged as dynamic regulatory sites in which specialized proteins, called plus-end-binding proteins (+TIPs), bind and regulate the proper functioning of microtubules. However, the molecular mechanism of plus-end associa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bieling P,Laan L,Schek H,Munteanu EL,Sandblad L,Dogterom M,Brunner D,Surrey T

更新日期：2007-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermethylation is associated with the silencing of tumour susceptibility genes in several forms of cancer; however, the mechanisms responsible for this aberrant methylation are poorly understood. The prototypic DNA methyltransferase, DNMT1, has been widely assumed to be responsible for most of the methylation of the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rhee I,Jair KW,Yen RW,Lengauer C,Herman JG,Kinzler KW,Vogelstein B,Baylin SB,Schuebel KE

更新日期：2000-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An outstanding question is how cells control the number and size of membrane organelles. The small GTPase Rab5 has been proposed to be a master regulator of endosome biogenesis. Here, to test this hypothesis, we developed a mathematical model of endosome dependency on Rab5 and validated it by titrating down all three ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zeigerer A,Gilleron J,Bogorad RL,Marsico G,Nonaka H,Seifert S,Epstein-Barash H,Kuchimanchi S,Peng CG,Ruda VM,Del Conte-Zerial P,Hengstler JG,Kalaidzidis Y,Koteliansky V,Zerial M

更新日期：2012-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium channels in plasma membranes can be blocked by a large variety of toxins and local anaesthetics. This property, however, is not confined to relatively large molecules. For instance, extracellularly applied small ions like hydrogen may also prevent the passive transport of permeant cations across open Na+ channe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wanke E,Carbone E,Testa PL

更新日期：1980-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22-nucleotide endogenous RNAs that often repress the expression of complementary messenger RNAs. In animals, miRNAs derive from characteristic hairpins in primary transcripts through two sequential RNase III-mediated cleavages; Drosha cleaves near the base of the stem to liberate a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruby JG,Jan CH,Bartel DP

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer contributes to an increase in terrestrial solar ultraviolet-B radiation. This has deleterious effects on living organisms, such as DNA damage. When exposed to elevated ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B; 280-315 nm), plants display a wide variety of physiological and mor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ries G,Heller W,Puchta H,Sandermann H,Seidlitz HK,Hohn B

更新日期：2000-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is an evolutionarily conserved surveillance mechanism that responds to double-stranded RNA by sequence-specific silencing of homologous genes. Here we show that transgene expression can be suppressed in adult mice by synthetic small interfering RNAs and by small-hairpin RNAs transcribed in vivo from D...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McCaffrey AP,Meuse L,Pham TT,Conklin DS,Hannon GJ,Kay MA

更新日期：2002-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lake Victoria, together with its satellite lakes, harbours roughly 200 endemic forms of cichlid fishes that are classified as 'haplochromines' and yet the lake system is less than a million years old. This 'flock' has attracted attention because of the possibility that it evolved within the lake from one ancestral spe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Meyer A,Kocher TD,Basasibwaki P,Wilson AC

更新日期：1990-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The injection of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) into the wing web of newly hatched chicks causes a rapidly growing sarcomatous tumour which is palpable within 1 week of inoculation; and cultures of fibroblasts derived from chick embryos (CEF) and infected with RSV become rapidly transformed. Genetic studies have determined ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dolberg DS,Bissell MJ

更新日期：1984-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A major effect of insulin is to increase glucose transport in muscle and fat. A family of genes encoding distinct mammalian glucose transporters has recently been elucidated. One of these, the insulin-regulatable glucose transporter (IRGT), is primarily expressed in muscle and fat, tissues that exhibit insulin-depende...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Slot JW,Moxley R,Geuze HJ,James DE

更新日期：1990-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions of CD4 with the class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are crucial during thymic ontogeny and subsequently for helper and cytotoxic functions of CD4+CD8- T lymphocytes. CD4 is the receptor for the T-lymphotropic human immunodeficiency virus and binds its envelope glycoprotein, gp120. The residues...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Clayton LK,Sieh M,Pious DA,Reinherz EL

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of death from infection worldwide1. The only available vaccine, BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), is given intradermally and has variable efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis, the major cause of mortality and disease transmission1,2. Here we show that intravenous ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Darrah PA,Zeppa JJ,Maiello P,Hackney JA,Wadsworth MH 2nd,Hughes TK,Pokkali S,Swanson PA 2nd,Grant NL,Rodgers MA,Kamath M,Causgrove CM,Laddy DJ,Bonavia A,Casimiro D,Lin PL,Klein E,White AG,Scanga CA,Shalek AK,Roede

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ensure cell survival, it is essential that the ubiquitous pro-apoptotic machinery is kept quiescent. As death is irreversible, cells must continually integrate developmental information with regulatory inputs to control the switch between repressing and activating apoptosis. Inappropriate activation or suppression ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bloss TA,Witze ES,Rothman JH

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-dependent forms of microscopy (such as phase contrast, interference, or polarization microscopy) have been used for many years; the amount of phase retardation produces images based mainly on index of refraction. We have developed a microscope that forms images that depend on small differences in extinction for ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mickols W,Maestre MF,Tinoco I Jr

更新日期：1987-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA repair by homologous recombination is highly suppressed in G1 cells to ensure that mitotic recombination occurs solely between sister chromatids. Although many homologous recombination factors are cell-cycle regulated, the identity of the events that are both necessary and sufficient to suppress recombination in G...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Orthwein A,Noordermeer SM,Wilson MD,Landry S,Enchev RI,Sherker A,Munro M,Pinder J,Salsman J,Dellaire G,Xia B,Peter M,Durocher D

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacteria promote the formation of ice in super-cooled water by means of ice nucleators which contain a unique protein associated with the cell membrane. Ice nucleators in general are believed to act by mimicking the structure of an ice crystal surface, thus imposing an ice-like arrangement on the water molecul...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Parody-Morreale A,Murphy KP,Di Cera E,Fall R,DeVries AL,Gill SJ

更新日期：1988-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesolimbic dopamine-releasing neurons appear to be important in the brain reward system. One behavioural paradigm that supports this hypothesis is intracranial self-stimulation (ICS), during which animals repeatedly press a lever to stimulate their own dopamine-releasing neurons electrically. Here we study dopamine re...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Garris PA,Kilpatrick M,Bunin MA,Michael D,Walker QD,Wightman RM

更新日期：1999-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There are large amounts of heavy alpha-emitters in nuclear waste and nuclear materials inventories stored in various sites around the world. These include plutonium and minor actinides such as americium and curium. In preparation for geological disposal there is consensus that actinides that have been separated from s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Farnan I,Cho H,Weber WJ

更新日期：2007-01-11 00:00:00