How thick is the lithosphere?

abstract：:Villin is an actin-binding protein of relative molecular mass (Mr) 95,000 found in the core bundle of microfilaments in brush border microvilli from intestine. In physiological calcium concentrations (less than 1 microM), villin crosslinks actin filaments into bundles. However, in free calcium concentrations (greater ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matsudaira P,Jakes R,Walker JE

更新日期：1985-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane, the second most important greenhouse gas. Methane flux to the atmosphere depends strongly on the climate; however, by far the largest part of the methane formed in wetland ecosystems is recycled and does not reach the atmosphere. The biogeochemical contro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Raghoebarsing AA,Smolders AJ,Schmid MC,Rijpstra WI,Wolters-Arts M,Derksen J,Jetten MS,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS,Lamers LP,Roelofs JG,Op den Camp HJ,Strous M

更新日期：2005-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA nucleotidyltransferases (CCA-adding enzymes) are responsible for the maturation or repair of the functional 3' end of tRNAs by means of the addition of the essential nucleotides CCA. However, it is unclear how tRNA nucleotidyltransferases polymerize CCA onto the 3' terminus of immature tRNAs without using...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xiong Y,Steitz TA

更新日期：2004-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian Kruppel-like transcription factors are implicated in regulating terminal differentiation of several tissue types. Deficiency in Kruppel-like factor (KLF) 2 (also known as LKLF) leads to a massive loss of the peripheral T-cell pool, suggesting KLF2 regulates T-cell quiescence and survival. Here we show, howev...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carlson CM,Endrizzi BT,Wu J,Ding X,Weinreich MA,Walsh ER,Wani MA,Lingrel JB,Hogquist KA,Jameson SC

更新日期：2006-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The key behavioural, physiological and anatomical components of a magnetite-based magnetic sense have been demonstrated in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Candidate receptor cells located within a discrete sub-layer of the olfactory lamellae contained iron-rich crystals that were similar in size and shape to magn...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Diebel CE,Proksch R,Green CR,Neilson P,Walker MM

更新日期：2000-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fanconi anaemia (FA) pathway repairs DNA damage caused by endogenous and chemotherapy-induced DNA crosslinks, and responds to replication stress1,2. Genetic inactivation of this pathway by mutation of genes encoding FA complementation group (FANC) proteins impairs development, prevents blood production and promote...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shakeel S,Rajendra E,Alcón P,O'Reilly F,Chorev DS,Maslen S,Degliesposti G,Russo CJ,He S,Hill CH,Skehel JM,Scheres SHW,Patel KJ,Rappsilber J,Robinson CV,Passmore LA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is an allele-specific gene expression system that is important for mammalian development and function. The molecular basis of genomic imprinting is allele-specific DNA methylation. Although it is well known that the de novo DNA methyltransferases Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b are responsible for the establishme...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yamaguchi S,Shen L,Liu Y,Sendler D,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the electroweak sector of the standard model of particle physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is surprisingly symmetric under time reversal. As there is no obvious reason for QCD being so symmetric, this phenomenon poses a theoretical problem, often referred to as the strong CP problem. The most attractive sol...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Borsanyi S,Fodor Z,Guenther J,Kampert KH,Katz SD,Kawanai T,Kovacs TG,Mages SW,Pasztor A,Pittler F,Redondo J,Ringwald A,Szabo KK

更新日期：2016-11-03 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：:The limited ranges of the wild progenitors of many of the primary European domestic species point to their origins further east in Anatolia or the fertile crescent. The wild ox (Bos primigenius), however, ranged widely and it is unknown whether it was domesticated within Europe as one feature of a local contribution t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Troy CS,MacHugh DE,Bailey JF,Magee DA,Loftus RT,Cunningham P,Chamberlain AT,Sykes BC,Bradley DG

更新日期：2001-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria, organelles specialized in energy conservation reactions in eukaryotic cells, have evolved from eubacteria-like endosymbionts whose closest known relatives are the rickettsial group of alpha-proteobacteria. Because characterized mitochondrial genomes vary markedly in structure, it has been impossible to i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lang BF,Burger G,O'Kelly CJ,Cedergren R,Golding GB,Lemieux C,Sankoff D,Turmel M,Gray MW

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of DNA recognition by the activated form of the restriction endonuclease from E. coli K involves three enzyme-DNA complexes which can be differentiated experimentally. These are: an initial complex formed at a nonspecific site; a recognition complex involving the host specificity site; and a cleavage compl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yuan R,Bickle TA,Ebbers W,Brack C

更新日期：1975-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apo B) is crucial for the transport of cholesterol in humans. It is a large secretory protein that mediates the uptake of low-density lipoproteins and renders several forms of lipid droplets soluble in the blood. The binding of lipid by apo B also prevents this hydrophobic protein from precipitating ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chuck SL,Yao Z,Blackhart BD,McCarthy BJ,Lingappa VR

更新日期：1990-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced and annotated the genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a eukaryote: 4,824. The centromeres are between 35 and 110 kilobases (kb) and contain related repeats including a highly conserved 1.8-kb element. Regions...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wood V,Gwilliam R,Rajandream MA,Lyne M,Lyne R,Stewart A,Sgouros J,Peat N,Hayles J,Baker S,Basham D,Bowman S,Brooks K,Brown D,Brown S,Chillingworth T,Churcher C,Collins M,Connor R,Cronin A,Davis P,Feltwell T,Fr

更新日期：2002-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A major aim in immunology has been to understand how the immune system evokes characteristic responses to infection, foreign tissue grafts and tumours. The current view of immunoregulation is based mainly on studies of lymphocyte subsets, either in vitro or by adoptive transfer to irradiated recipients. Many reagents ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cobbold SP,Jayasuriya A,Nash A,Prospero TD,Waldmann H

更新日期：1984-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells operate in dynamic environments using extraordinary communication capabilities that emerge from the interactions of genetic circuitry. The mammalian immune response is a striking example of the coordination of different cell types. Cell-to-cell communication is primarily mediated by signalling molecules that for...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tay S,Hughey JJ,Lee TK,Lipniacki T,Quake SR,Covert MW

更新日期：2010-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:At early stages of the mammalian visual cortex, neurons with similar stimulus selectivities are vertically arrayed through the thickness of the cortical sheet and clustered in patches or bands across the surface. This organization, referred to as a 'column', has been found with respect to one-dimensional stimulus para...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fujita I,Tanaka K,Ito M,Cheng K

更新日期：1992-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA ligases have essential roles in many cellular processes in eukaryotes, archaea and bacteria, including in RNA repair and stress-induced splicing of messenger RNA. In archaea and eukaryotes, RNA ligases also have a role in transfer RNA splicing to generate functional tRNAs required for protein synthesis. We recentl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Popow J,Jurkin J,Schleiffer A,Martinez J

更新日期：2014-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult brain, new synapses are formed and pre-existing ones are lost, but the function of this structural plasticity has remained unclear. Learning of new skills is correlated with formation of new synapses. These may directly encode new memories, but they may also have more general roles in memory encoding and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruediger S,Vittori C,Bednarek E,Genoud C,Strata P,Sacchetti B,Caroni P

更新日期：2011-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaldehyde is a highly reactive, DNA-damaging metabolite that is produced upon alcohol consumption1. Impaired detoxification of acetaldehyde is common in the Asian population, and is associated with alcohol-related cancers1,2. Cells are protected against acetaldehyde-induced damage by DNA crosslink repair, which whe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hodskinson MR,Bolner A,Sato K,Kamimae-Lanning AN,Rooijers K,Witte M,Mahesh M,Silhan J,Petek M,Williams DM,Kind J,Chin JW,Patel KJ,Knipscheer P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is the world's most common dementing illness. Deposition of amyloid-β peptide drives cerebral neuroinflammation by activating microglia. Indeed, amyloid-β activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in microglia is fundamental for interleukin-1β maturation and subsequent inflammatory events. However, it r...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Heneka MT,Kummer MP,Stutz A,Delekate A,Schwartz S,Vieira-Saecker A,Griep A,Axt D,Remus A,Tzeng TC,Gelpi E,Halle A,Korte M,Latz E,Golenbock DT

更新日期：2013-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS, the Acanthaster planci species group) is a highly fecund predator of reef-building corals throughout the Indo-Pacific region. COTS population outbreaks cause substantial loss of coral cover, diminishing the integrity and resilience of reef ecosystems. Here we sequenced genomes of CO...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hall MR,Kocot KM,Baughman KW,Fernandez-Valverde SL,Gauthier MEA,Hatleberg WL,Krishnan A,McDougall C,Motti CA,Shoguchi E,Wang T,Xiang X,Zhao M,Bose U,Shinzato C,Hisata K,Fujie M,Kanda M,Cummins SF,Satoh N,Degnan SM

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative growth hormone receptor from rabbit liver and the growth hormone binding protein from rabbit serum have the same amino-terminal amino-acid sequence, indicating that the binding protein corresponds to the extracellular hormone-binding domain of the liver receptor. The complete amino-acid sequences derived fr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Leung DW,Spencer SA,Cachianes G,Hammonds RG,Collins C,Henzel WJ,Barnard R,Waters MJ,Wood WI

更新日期：1987-12-10 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：:Shiga toxin and some other protein toxins that act on targets in the cytosol have previously been shown to enter the trans-Golgi network. Transport by this route may be necessary for translocation of the toxin to the cytosol and for intoxication, but it is not known whether the enzymatically active part of the toxins ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sandvig K,Garred O,Prydz K,Kozlov JV,Hansen SH,van Deurs B

更新日期：1992-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:At the molecular level, muscle contraction is the result of cyclic interaction between myosin crossbridges, which extend from the thick filament, and the thin filament, which consists mainly of actin. The energy for work done by a single crossbridge during a cycle of attachment, generation of force, shortening and det...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lombardi V,Piazzesi G,Linari M

更新日期：1992-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The tropical forests of Borneo and Amazonia may each contain more tree species diversity in half a square kilometre than do all the temperate forests of Europe, North America, and Asia combined. Biologists have long been fascinated by this disparity, using it to investigate potential drivers of biodiversity. Latitudin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Usinowicz J,Chang-Yang CH,Chen YY,Clark JS,Fletcher C,Garwood NC,Hao Z,Johnstone J,Lin Y,Metz MR,Masaki T,Nakashizuka T,Sun IF,Valencia R,Wang Y,Zimmerman JK,Ives AR,Wright SJ

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-inflammatory cytokines activate the transcription factor NF-kappaB by stimulating the activity of a protein kinase that phosphorylates IkappaB, an inhibitor of NF-kappaB, at sites that trigger its ubiquitination and degradation. This results in the nuclear translocation of freed NF-kappaB dimers and the activation...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rothwarf DM,Zandi E,Natoli G,Karin M

更新日期：1998-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis is commonly associated with a local humoral immune response within the central nervous system. A hallmark of this intrathecal response is the presence of electrophoretically demonstrable oligoclonal bands of IgG in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of up to 95% of patients. Observations indicating that ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vandvik B,Norrby E

更新日期：1989-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal cellular function requires that organelles be positioned in specific locations. The direction in which molecular motors move organelles is based in part on the polarity of microtubules and actin filaments. However, this alone does not determine the intracellular destination of organelles. For example, the yeast...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tang F,Kauffman EJ,Novak JL,Nau JJ,Catlett NL,Weisman LS

更新日期：2003-03-06 00:00:00