Field control of plant growth and development through the laser activation of phytochrome.

abstract：:Developing an optical amplifier on silicon is essential for the success of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic integrated circuits. Recently, optical gain with a 1-nm bandwidth was demonstrated using the Raman effect, which led to the demonstration of a Raman oscillator, lossless optical modulation and optically tunab...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foster MA,Turner AC,Sharping JE,Schmidt BS,Lipson M,Gaeta AL

更新日期：2006-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic hypermutation introduces point mutations into immunoglobulin genes in germinal centre B cells during an immune response. The reaction is initiated by cytosine deamination by the activation-induced deaminase (AID) and completed by error-prone processing of the resulting uracils by mismatch and base excision rep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu M,Duke JL,Richter DJ,Vinuesa CG,Goodnow CC,Kleinstein SH,Schatz DG

更新日期：2008-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several organisms have evolved the ability to measure daylength, or photoperiod, allowing them to adjust their development in anticipation of annual seasonal changes. Daylength measurement requires the integration of temporal information, provided by the circadian system, with light/dark discrimination, initiated by s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yanovsky MJ,Kay SA

更新日期：2002-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that normal cellular sequences on chromosome 13 are lost during the development of retinoblastomas and that sequences on chromosome 11 are similarly lost during the development of Wilms' kidney tumours and embryonal tumours. Cells from these tumors have been found to contain either the patern...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fearon ER,Feinberg AP,Hamilton SH,Vogelstein B

更新日期：1985-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:L-GLUTAMATE and L-aspartate are thought to have a widespread function as synaptic transmitters in the mammalian central nervous system and there are at least three types of neuronal glutamate receptors, which can be activated by the selective agonists N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), quisqualate and kainate. Recent experi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Usowicz MM,Gallo V,Cull-Candy SG

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planet in the system HD209458 is the first one for which repeated transits across the stellar disk have been observed. Together with radial velocity measurements, this has led to a determination of the planet's radius and mass, confirming it to be a gas giant. But despite numerous searches for an atmospheric signa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vidal-Madjar A,Des Etangs AL,Désert JM,Ballester GE,Ferlet R,Hébrard G,Mayor M

更新日期：2003-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The rare Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) stands out among the Old World vultures (Family Accipitridae) because of its brightly ornamented head, which is coloured yellow by carotenoid pigments, and its practice of feeding on faeces. Here we show that Egyptian vultures obtain these pigments from the excrement o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Negro JJ,Grande JM,Tella JL,Garrido J,Hornero D,Donázar JA,Sanchez-Zapata JA,BenItez JR,Barcell M

更新日期：2002-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent computational and psychological theories of human texture vision assert that texture discrimination is based on first-order differences in geometric and luminance attributes of texture elements, called 'textons'. Significant differences in the density, orientation, size, or contrast of line segments or other sm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Voorhees H,Poggio T

更新日期：1988-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of biological membranes is mediated by specific lipid-interacting proteins that induce the formation and expansion of an initial fusion pore. Here we report the crystal structure of the ectodomain of the Semliki Forest virus fusion glycoprotein E1 in its low-pH-induced trimeric form. E1 adopts a folded-back con...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gibbons DL,Vaney MC,Roussel A,Vigouroux A,Reilly B,Lepault J,Kielian M,Rey FA

更新日期：2004-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In the few species of birds in which males form display partnerships to attract females, one male secures most or all of the copulations. This leads to the question of why subordinate males help in the absence of observable reproductive benefits. Hamilton's concept of kin selection, whereby individuals can benefit ind...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krakauer AH

更新日期：2005-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartate) receptors (NMDARs) are a principal subtype of excitatory ligand-gated ion channel with prominent roles in physiological and disease processes in the central nervous system. Recognition that glycine potentiates NMDAR-mediated currents as well as being a requisite co-agonist of the NMDAR subt...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nong Y,Huang YQ,Ju W,Kalia LV,Ahmadian G,Wang YT,Salter MW

更新日期：2003-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein chains coil into alpha-helices and beta-sheet structures. Knowing the timescales and mechanism of formation of these basic structural elements is essential for understanding how proteins fold. For the past 40 years, alpha-helix formation has been extensively investigated in synthetic and natural peptides, incl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Muñoz V,Thompson PA,Hofrichter J,Eaton WA

更新日期：1997-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is highly dynamic during mammalian embryogenesis. It is broadly accepted that the paternal genome is actively depleted of 5-methylcytosine at fertilization, followed by passive loss that reaches a minimum at the blastocyst stage. However, this model is based on limited data, and so far no base-resoluti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Smith ZD,Chan MM,Mikkelsen TS,Gu H,Gnirke A,Regev A,Meissner A

更新日期：2012-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes and archaea use a protease called the proteasome that has an integral role in maintaining cellular function through the selective degradation of proteins. Proteolysis occurs in a barrel-shaped 20S core particle, which in Thermoplasma acidophilum is built from four stacked homoheptameric rings of subunits, α...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruschak AM,Religa TL,Breuer S,Witt S,Kay LE

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:White dwarfs represent the endpoint of stellar evolution for stars with initial masses between approximately 0.07 and 8-10, where is the mass of the Sun (more massive stars end their life as either black holes or neutron stars). The theory of stellar evolution predicts that the majority of white dwarfs have a core mad...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dufour P,Liebert J,Fontaine G,Behara N

更新日期：2007-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide GsMTx4, isolated from the venom of the tarantula Grammostola spatulata, is a selective inhibitor of stretch-activated cation channels (SACs). The mechanism of inhibition remains unknown; but both GsMTx4 and its enantiomer, enGsMTx4, modify the gating of SACs, thus violating a trademark of the traditional l...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Suchyna TM,Tape SE,Koeppe RE 2nd,Andersen OS,Sachs F,Gottlieb PA

更新日期：2004-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:More than twelve morphologically and physiologically distinct subtypes of primary somatosensory neuron report salient features of our internal and external environments1-4. It is unclear how specialized gene expression programs emerge during development to endow these subtypes with their unique properties. To assess t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sharma N,Flaherty K,Lezgiyeva K,Wagner DE,Klein AM,Ginty DD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic basis of the autosomal recessive disease cystic fibrosis (CF) remains unidentified. Elevated levels of a serum protein in CF homozygotes and obligate heterozygotes have been described. As heterozygotes are clinically unaffected, any consistently observed abnormality in these individuals is a likely point...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dorin JR,Novak M,Hill RE,Brock DJ,Secher DS,van Heyningen V

更新日期：1987-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the dynamics of the India Asia collision zone, it is important to know the strain distribution in Central Asia, whose determination relies on the slip rates for active faults. Many previous slip-rate estimates of faults in Central Asia were based on the assumption that offset landforms are young...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hetzel R,Niedermann S,Tao M,Kubik PW,Ivy-Ochs S,Gao B,Strecker MR

更新日期：2002-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Runs of adenines (adenine tracts) have been implicated as the main determinant of sequence-directed DNA bending. The most widely used experimental test for bending relies on the observation that bent DNA migrates more slowly than straight DNA on a polyacrylamide electrophoresis gel. It was shown recently that the poly...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Burkhoff AM,Tullius TD

更新日期：1988-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and other neurotrophins have a vital role in the development of the rat and mouse nervous system by influencing the expression of many specific genes that promote differentiation, cell survival, synapse formation and, later, synaptic plasticity. Although nitric oxide (NO) is kn...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nott A,Watson PM,Robinson JD,Crepaldi L,Riccio A

更新日期：2008-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Diatoms dominate the biomass of phytoplankton in nutrient-rich conditions and form the basis of some of the world's most productive marine food webs. The diatom nuclear genome contains genes with bacterial and plastid origins as well as genes of the secondary endosymbiotic host (the exosymbiont), yet little is known a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allen AE,Dupont CL,Oborník M,Horák A,Nunes-Nesi A,McCrow JP,Zheng H,Johnson DA,Hu H,Fernie AR,Bowler C

更新日期：2011-05-12 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：:We have postulated that an excitatory postsynaptic potential (e.p.s.p.) may open voltage-sensitive K+ ('M') channels, in an appropriate depolarizing range, and that this could alter the e.p.s.p. waveform. Consequently, the fast e.p.s.p. in neurones of sympathetic ganglia, elicited by a nicotinic action of acetylcholin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tosaka T,Tasaka J,Miyazaki T,Libet B

更新日期：1983-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to determine the Hubble constant empirically with an accuracy of one per cent or better1. At present, the uncertainty on this constant is dominated by the uncertainty in the calibration of the Cepheid period-luminosity relationship2,3 (also known as the Leavitt law). ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pietrzyński G,Graczyk D,Gallenne A,Gieren W,Thompson IB,Pilecki B,Karczmarek P,Górski M,Suchomska K,Taormina M,Zgirski B,Wielgórski P,Kołaczkowski Z,Konorski P,Villanova S,Nardetto N,Kervella P,Bresolin F,Kudritzki RP

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner in which phase transformations occur in solids determines important structural and physical properties of many materials. The main problem in characterizing the kinetic processes that occur during phase transformations is the difficulty of observing directly, in real time, the growth of one phase at the exp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hannon JB,Hibino H,Bartelt NC,Swartzentruber BS,Ogino T,Kellogg GL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection and design of modern high-performance structural engineering materials is driven by optimizing combinations of mechanical properties such as strength, ductility, toughness, elasticity and requirements for predictable and graceful (non-catastrophic) failure in service. Highly processable bulk metallic gla...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hofmann DC,Suh JY,Wiest A,Duan G,Lind ML,Demetriou MD,Johnson WL

更新日期：2008-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird songs frequently contain trilling sounds that demand extremely fast vocalization control. Here we show that doves control their syrinx, a vocal organ that is unique to birds, by using superfast muscles. These muscles, which are similar to those that operate highly specialist acoustic organs such as the rattle of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Elemans CP,Spierts IL,Müller UK,Van Leeuwen JL,Goller F

更新日期：2004-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for excitatory amino acids in the mammalian central nervous system are classified into three major subtypes, ones which prefer N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), quisqualate (QA), or kainate (KA) as type agonists respectively. These receptors are considered to mediate fast postsynaptic potentials by activating ion...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sugiyama H,Ito I,Hirono C

更新日期：1987-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lunar crystalline rocks are essentially devoid of nitrogen, the same is not true of the lunar regolith. The nitrogen contents of individual regolith samples (which can be as high as 0.012% by mass) correlate strongly with abundances of noble gases known to be implanted in the lunar surface by solar radiation,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kim JS,Kim Y,Marti K,Kerridge JF

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00