Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation.

abstract：:The advent of endothermy, which is achieved through the continuous homeostatic regulation of body temperature and metabolism1,2, is a defining feature of mammalian and avian evolution. However, when challenged by food deprivation or harsh environmental conditions, many mammalian species initiate adaptive energy-conser...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hrvatin S,Sun S,Wilcox OF,Yao H,Lavin-Peter AJ,Cicconet M,Assad EG,Palmer ME,Aronson S,Banks AS,Griffith EC,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has used the latest sequencing and analysis methods to identify somatic variants across thousands of tumours. Here we present data and analytical results for point mutations and small insertions/deletions from 3,281 tumours across 12 tumour types as part of the TCGA Pan-Cancer effort. We...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kandoth C,McLellan MD,Vandin F,Ye K,Niu B,Lu C,Xie M,Zhang Q,McMichael JF,Wyczalkowski MA,Leiserson MDM,Miller CA,Welch JS,Walter MJ,Wendl MC,Ley TJ,Wilson RK,Raphael BJ,Ding L

更新日期：2013-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of amyloid-β peptides into fibrils or other self-assembled states is central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Fibrils formed in vitro by 40- and 42-residue amyloid-β peptides (Aβ40 and Aβ42) are polymorphic, with variations in molecular structure that depend on fibril growth conditions. Recent e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Qiang W,Yau WM,Lu JX,Collinge J,Tycko R

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, is a fast-moving star with a powerful stellar wind that drives a bow shock into its surroundings. This picture has been challenged by the discovery of a dense and almost static shell that is three times closer to the star than the bow shock and has been decelerated by some external...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mackey J,Mohamed S,Gvaramadze VV,Kotak R,Langer N,Meyer DM,Moriya TJ,Neilson HR

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite germ line, sperm and then oocytes are made from a common pool of germ-cell precursors. The decision to differentiate as a sperm or an oocyte is regulated by the sex-determining gene, fem-3. Expression of fem-3 in the hermaphrodite germ line directs spermatogenesis and must b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ahringer J,Kimble J

更新日期：1991-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:On being heated, ice melts into liquid water. Although in practice this process tends to be heterogeneous, it can occur homogeneously inside bulk ice. The thermally induced homogeneous melting of solids is fairly well understood, and involves the formation and growth of melting nuclei. But in the case of water, resili...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mochizuki K,Matsumoto M,Ohmine I

更新日期：2013-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Change history: In this Letter, the bottom blot in Fig. 2g (for 'IB: Myc') was missing. This has been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Su T,Izawa T,Thoms M,Yamashita Y,Cheng J,Berninghausen O,Hartl FU,Inada T,Neupert W,Beckmann R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system is mediated primarily by the release of glutamate from presynaptic terminals onto postsynaptic channels gated by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA) receptors. The myriad intracellular responses arisi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang Y,Small DL,Stanimirovic DB,Morley P,Durkin JP

更新日期：1997-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes are the subset of proteins that catalyse the chemistry of life, transforming both macromolecular substrates and small molecules. The precise three-dimensional architecture of enzymes permits almost unerring selectivity in physical and chemical steps to impose remarkable rate accelerations and specificity in pr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Walsh C

更新日期：2001-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrons in a single sheet of graphene behave quite differently from those in traditional two-dimensional electron systems. Like massless relativistic particles, they have linear dispersion and chiral eigenstates. Furthermore, two sets of electrons centred at different points in reciprocal space ('valleys') have this...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Song YJ,Otte AF,Kuk Y,Hu Y,Torrance DB,First PN,de Heer WA,Min H,Adam S,Stiles MD,MacDonald AH,Stroscio JA

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary biologist "studies the steps by which the miraculous adaptations so characteristic of every aspect of the organic world have evolved". But the general nature of such adaptive steps is still unclear. Evolution is often thought to be random and dependent on unpredictable events. In this light, one might...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gerrish P

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of transcription initiation by proteins binding at DNA sequences some distance from the promoter region itself seems to be a general phenomenon in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Proteins bound to an enhancer site in eukaryotes can turn on a distant gene, whereas efficient repression of some prokaryotic ge...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dandanell G,Valentin-Hansen P,Larsen JE,Hammer K

更新日期：1987-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:When chemical reactions whose rate increases with the concentration of a product species are carried out in imperfectly mixed systems, a variety of complex behaviours can occur. These phenomena, which have relevance for biological processes as well, include chaotic and stochastic behaviour and selection of one final s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Epstein IR

更新日期：1995-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+ + Mg2+-activated ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum is responsible for the active Ca2+ transport of this membrane system, the key feature of which is the formation of an energy-rich phosphorylated transport enzyme (EP) and its conversion. To understand the Ca2+-transport mechanism, it is essential to clarif...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Takisawa H,Makinose M

更新日期：1981-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-coding apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites in DNA are continually created in cells both spontaneously and by damage-specific DNA glycosylases. The biologically critical human base excision repair enzyme APE1 cleaves the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone at a position 5' of AP sites to prime DNA repair synthesis. Here we r...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mol CD,Izumi T,Mitra S,Tainer JA

更新日期：2000-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In multinucleated heterokaryons formed from the fusion of differentiated muscle cells to either hepatocytes or fibroblasts, muscle-specific gene expression is activated, liver-specific gene expression is repressed, and there are changes in the location of the Golgi apparatus. An understanding of the regulatory mechani...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schäfer BW,Blakely BT,Darlington GJ,Blau HM

更新日期：1990-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukaemias and lymphomas associated with the human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV) are invariably neoplasms of cells with mature T-lymphocyte phenotype. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B- lymphoycte lines which are productively infected with HTLV may be isolated from patients with HTLV malignancies, but no...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen IS,McLaughlin J,Golde DW

更新日期：1984-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two main forms of long-term potentiation (LTP)-a prominent model for the cellular mechanism of learning and memory-have been distinguished in the mammalian brain. One requires activation of postsynaptic NMDA (N-methyl d-aspartate) receptors, whereas the other, called mossy fibre LTP, has a principal presynaptic compon...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Castillo PE,Schoch S,Schmitz F,Südhof TC,Malenka RC

更新日期：2002-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks are generated by genotoxic agents and by cellular endonucleases as intermediates of several important physiological processes. The cellular response to genotoxic DNA breaks includes the activation of transcriptional programs known primarily to regulate cell-cycle checkpoints and cell survival....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bredemeyer AL,Helmink BA,Innes CL,Calderon B,McGinnis LM,Mahowald GK,Gapud EJ,Walker LM,Collins JB,Weaver BK,Mandik-Nayak L,Schreiber RD,Allen PM,May MJ,Paules RS,Bassing CH,Sleckman BP

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine is a powerfully addictive substance and new strategies are needed to treat its abuse. Generating an active immunization to cocaine offers a means of blocking the actions of the drug by preventing it from entering the central nervous system, and should have fewer side effects than treatments based on manipulati...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carrera MR,Ashley JA,Parsons LH,Wirsching P,Koob GF,Janda KD

更新日期：1995-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect reciprocity is a key mechanism for the evolution of human cooperation. Our behaviour towards other people depends not only on what they have done to us but also on what they have done to others. Indirect reciprocity works through reputation. The standard model of indirect reciprocity offers a binary choice: p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ohtsuki H,Iwasa Y,Nowak MA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) regulates the K+ conductance (GK) of the many types of cell membrane. The Ca2+ influx during an action potential activates this [Ca2+]i-linked GK in most neurones. In caffeine-treated sympathetic ganglion cells, however, Ca2+ released from an intracellular Ca2+ reservoir site anal...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Morita K,Koketsu K,Kuba K

更新日期：1980-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is an important crop that provides a sustainable source of protein and oil worldwide. Soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) is a microscopic roundworm that feeds on the roots of soybean and is a major constraint to soybean production. This nematode causes more than US$1 ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu S,Kandoth PK,Warren SD,Yeckel G,Heinz R,Alden J,Yang C,Jamai A,El-Mellouki T,Juvale PS,Hill J,Baum TJ,Cianzio S,Whitham SA,Korkin D,Mitchum MG,Meksem K

更新日期：2012-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a tumour of transformed melanocytes, which are originally derived from the embryonic neural crest. It is unknown to what extent the programs that regulate neural crest development interact with mutations in the BRAF oncogene, which is the most commonly mutated gene in human melanoma. We have used zebrafish...

journal_title：Nature

authors： White RM,Cech J,Ratanasirintrawoot S,Lin CY,Rahl PB,Burke CJ,Langdon E,Tomlinson ML,Mosher J,Kaufman C,Chen F,Long HK,Kramer M,Datta S,Neuberg D,Granter S,Young RA,Morrison S,Wheeler GN,Zon LI

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the actin-based motility of the intracellular pathogens Listeria monocytogenes and Shigella flexneri have provided important insight into the events occurring at the leading edges of motile cells. Like the bacteria Listeria and Shigella, vaccinia virus, a relative of the causative agent of smallpox, uses ac...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Frischknecht F,Moreau V,Röttger S,Gonfloni S,Reckmann I,Superti-Furga G,Way M

更新日期：1999-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Distance determination in animals can be achieved by visual or non-visual cues. Weakly electric fish use active electrolocation for orientation in the dark. By perceiving self-produced electric signals with epidermal electroreceptors, fish can detect, locate and analyse nearby objects. Distance discrimination, however...

journal_title：Nature

authors： von der Emde G,Schwarz S,Gomez L,Budelli R,Grant K

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth and differentiation of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL) is regulated by soluble growth hormones, of which interleukin-2 (IL-2) is considered to be of prime importance. Here we report that the lymphokine B-cell stimulatory factor (BSF-1 or interleukin-4) also has profound effects on the generation of these func...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Widmer MB,Grabstein KH

更新日期：1987-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The restriction of intermingling between specific cell populations is crucial for the maintenance of organized patterns during development. A striking example is the restriction of cell mixing between segments in the insect epidermis and the vertebrate hindbrain that may enable each segment to maintain a distinct iden...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xu Q,Mellitzer G,Robinson V,Wilkinson DG

更新日期：1999-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most abundant biological organisms of the world's oceans. Viral infections are a substantial source of mortality in a range of organisms-including autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton-but their impact on the deep ocean and benthic biosphere is completely unknown. Here we report that viral production ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Danovaro R,Dell'Anno A,Corinaldesi C,Magagnini M,Noble R,Tamburini C,Weinbauer M

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphabeta T lymphocytes are able to detect even a single peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on the surface of an antigen-presenting cell. This is despite clear evidence, at least with CD4+ T cells, that monomeric ligands are not stimulatory. In an effort to understand how this remarkable sensitivity is ach...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krogsgaard M,Li QJ,Sumen C,Huppa JB,Huse M,Davis MM

更新日期：2005-03-10 00:00:00