Chromosomal mapping of two genetic loci associated with blood-pressure regulation in hereditary hypertensive rats.

abstract：:The determination of molecular masses from barometric sedimentation profiles, a main topic in ultracentrifugal analysis, is thought to be quantitatively correct for non-interacting particles. Whereas this expectation is justified for uncharged colloids or macromolecules at low volume fractions, early ultracentrifugati...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Raşa M,Philipse AP

更新日期：2004-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster have long been of interest to the geneticist because of the visible map of the genome provided by their characteristic banding patterns. An issue in the understanding of the molecular basis of chromosome banding has been whether the chromosomal DNA is replicate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Spierer A,Spierer P

更新日期：1984-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeobox is a 183-base-pair DNA sequence originally found in Drosophila segmentation and homeotic genes. In Drosophila, homeotic genes are clustered in the Antennapedia and Bithorax complexes, collectively called the homeotic gene complex (HOM-C). In the mouse genome, about 40 homeobox genes (Hox) are clustered in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tomotsune D,Shoji H,Wakamatsu Y,Kondoh H,Takahashi N

更新日期：1993-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A single U leads to G transversion in the 3' consensus sequence AAUAAA of the adenovirus early region 1A gene was constructed and the effect of this mutation on processing of the 3' end of the nuclear early region 1A RNAs was analysed. The results demonstrate that the intact AAUAAA is not required for RNA polyadenylat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Montell C,Fisher EF,Caruthers MH,Berk AJ

更新日期：1983-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cancer agents that have been made selective for tumour cells by exploiting the known differences in the availability of oxygen between normal and transformed cells are a promising development in cancer chemotherapy. We have recently suggested a new type of bioreductive activity which would depend on a two-electro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reynolds CA,King PM,Richards WG

更新日期：1988-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds can perceive the reflectance of ultraviolet light by biological structures. Here we show that the skin of the mouth and body of starling nestlings substantially reflects light in the ultraviolet range and that young in which this reflectance is reduced will gain less mass than controls, despite low background le...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jourdie V,Moureau B,Bennett AT,Heeb P

更新日期：2004-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks of interacting proteins orchestrate the responses of living cells to a variety of external stimuli, but how sensitive is the functioning of these protein networks to variations in their biochemical parameters? One possibility is that to achieve appropriate function, the reaction rate constants and enzyme conc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Alon U,Surette MG,Barkai N,Leibler S

更新日期：1999-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of several chemical carcinogens to laboratory animals induces a variety of tumours which arise from specific cell populations within the liver. In the rat, diethylnitrosamine induces hepatocellular carcinomas, dimethylnitrosamine induces both angiosarcomas and hepatocellular carcinomas, vinyl ch...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lewis JG,Swenberg JA

更新日期：1980-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the chick embryo, left-right asymmetric patterns of gene expression in the lateral plate mesoderm are initiated by signals located in and around Hensen's node. Here we show that Caronte (Car), a secreted protein encoded by a member of the Cerberus/Dan gene family, mediates the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-dependent inducti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rodríguez Esteban C,Capdevila J,Economides AN,Pascual J,Ortiz A,Izpisúa Belmonte JC

更新日期：1999-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are key receptors in the modulation of excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. Here we have determined three different crystal structures of the extracellular ligand-binding region of mGluR1--in a complex with glutamate and in two unliganded forms. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kunishima N,Shimada Y,Tsuji Y,Sato T,Yamamoto M,Kumasaka T,Nakanishi S,Jingami H,Morikawa K

更新日期：2000-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite observations have transformed our understanding of the Antarctic cryosphere. The continent holds the vast majority of Earth's fresh water, and blankets swathes of the Southern Hemisphere in ice. Reductions in the thickness and extent of floating ice shelves have disturbed inland ice, triggering retreat, acce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shepherd A,Fricker HA,Farrell SL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron-emission tomography (PET) can localize functions of the human brain by imaging regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) during voluntary behaviour. Functional brain mapping with PET, however, has been hindered by PET's poor spatial resolution (typically greater than 1 cm). We have developed an image-analysis strate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fox PT,Mintun MA,Raichle ME,Miezin FM,Allman JM,Van Essen DC

更新日期：1986-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Juxtaposition between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria is a common structural feature, providing the physical basis for intercommunication during Ca(2+) signalling; yet, the molecular mechanisms controlling this interaction are unknown. Here we show that mitofusin 2, a mitochondrial dynamin-related protein ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： de Brito OM,Scorrano L

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:TMV RNA is not an efficient template for translation of the viral coat protein, in spite of containing nucleotide sequences coding for the protein. Efficient translation requires the prior synthesis within infected cells of a smaller RNA carrying only a portion of the information encoded in the whole genome. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hunter TR,Hunt T,Knowland J,Zimmern D

更新日期：1976-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fossil dinosaur embryos are surprisingly rare, being almost entirely restricted to Upper Cretaceous strata that record the late stages of non-avian dinosaur evolution. Notable exceptions are the oldest known embryos from the Early Jurassic South African sauropodomorph Massospondylus and Late Jurassic embryos of a ther...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reisz RR,Huang TD,Roberts EM,Peng S,Sullivan C,Stein K,LeBlanc AR,Shieh D,Chang R,Chiang C,Yang C,Zhong S

更新日期：2013-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive health problem associated with cigarette smoking is exacerbated by the addictive properties of tobacco smoke and the limited success of current approaches to cessation of smoking. Yet little is known about the neuropharmacological actions of cigarette smoke that contribute to smoking behaviour, or why smok...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fowler JS,Volkow ND,Wang GJ,Pappas N,Logan J,MacGregor R,Alexoff D,Shea C,Schlyer D,Wolf AP,Warner D,Zezulkova I,Cilento R

更新日期：1996-02-22 00:00:00

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：:The biochemical and morphological differentiation of actinomycetes makes them academically and economically interesting. Their secondary metabolites provide the majority of medically and agriculturally important antibiotics (streptomycete genes may also be the primary source of clinically important antibiotic resistan...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thompson CJ,Ward JM,Hopwood DA

更新日期：1980-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of electric polarization in crystals defines the dipole moment of an insulator in terms of a Berry phase (geometric phase) associated with its electronic ground state. This concept not only solves the long-standing puzzle of how to calculate dipole moments in crystals, but also explains topological band str...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peterson CW,Benalcazar WA,Hughes TL,Bahl G

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylyl cyclase is the prototypical second messenger generator. Nearly all of the eight cloned adenylyl cyclases are regulated by one or other arm of the phospholipase C pathway. Functional and ultrastructural investigations have shown that adenylyl cyclases are intimately associated with sites of calcium ion entry i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cooper DM,Mons N,Karpen JW

更新日期：1995-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult stem cells undergo asymmetric cell division to self-renew and give rise to differentiated cells that comprise mature tissue. Sister chromatids may be distinguished and segregated nonrandomly in asymmetrically dividing stem cells, although the underlying mechanism and the purpose it may serve remain elusive. Here...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yadlapalli S,Yamashita YM

更新日期：2013-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Because their molecular signatures are often prominent in extracts of sediments, bacteria are thought to be important contributors to petroleum source beds. It has been shown recently, however, that abundances of biomarkers do not always reflect relative contributions to sedimentary organic carbon (Corg). The contrib...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hartgers WA,Sinninghe Damste JS,Requejo AG,Allan J,Hayes JM,de Leeuw JW

更新日期：1994-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular response to hypoxia is critical for cell survival and is fine-tuned to allow cells to recover from hypoxic stress and adapt to heterogeneous or fluctuating oxygen levels. The hypoxic response is mediated by the α-subunit of the transcription factor HIF-1 (HIF-1α), which interacts through its intrinsically...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Berlow RB,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes and imported into mitochondria. The imported proteins are directed to one of four submitochondrial compartments--the outer mitochondrial membrane, the inner mitochondrial membrane, the intramembraneous space, or the matrix--where the protein then fun...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bose HS,Lingappa VR,Miller WL

更新日期：2002-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Oryza sativa cultivars die within a week of complete submergence--a major constraint to rice production in south and southeast Asia that causes annual losses of over US 1 billion dollars and affects disproportionately the poorest farmers in the world. A few cultivars, such as the O. sativa ssp. indica cultivar FR...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xu K,Xu X,Fukao T,Canlas P,Maghirang-Rodriguez R,Heuer S,Ismail AM,Bailey-Serres J,Ronald PC,Mackill DJ

更新日期：2006-08-10 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

abstract：:A kinase distinct from the MEK activator Raf, termed MEK kinase-1 (MEKK), was originally identified by virtue of its homology to kinases involved in yeast mating signal cascades. Like Raf, MEKK is capable of activating MEK in vitro. High-level expression of MEKK in COS-7 cells or using vaccinia virus vectors also acti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yan M,Dai T,Deak JC,Kyriakis JM,Zon LI,Woodgett JR,Templeton DJ

更新日期：1994-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid precursors can be grown in vitro in the presence of specific growth factors; however, their expansion is limited by a competing process of terminal differentiation. Proto-oncogenes seem to be involved in cellular proliferation and/or differentiation and may also play a role in the myelopoietic process. Murine ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Blasi E,Mathieson BJ,Varesio L,Cleveland JL,Borchert PA,Rapp UR

更新日期：1985-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of synaptic transmission in the brain and periphery, acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) rapidly transduce a chemical signal into an electrical impulse. The speed of transduction is facilitated by rapid ACh association and dissociation, suggesting a binding site relatively non-selective for small cations. Se...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mukhtasimova N,Lee WY,Wang HL,Sine SM

更新日期：2009-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A product encoded at the claret locus in Drosophila is needed for normal chromosome segregation in meiosis in females and in early mitotic divisions of the embryo. The predicted amino-acid sequence of the segregation protein was shown recently to be strikingly similar to Drosophila kinesin heavy chain. We have express...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Walker RA,Salmon ED,Endow SA

更新日期：1990-10-25 00:00:00