Complete quantum control of a single quantum dot spin using ultrafast optical pulses.

abstract：:The domestication of dogs was an important episode in the development of human civilization. The precise timing and location of this event is debated and little is known about the genetic changes that accompanied the transformation of ancient wolves into domestic dogs. Here we conduct whole-genome resequencing of dogs...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Axelsson E,Ratnakumar A,Arendt ML,Maqbool K,Webster MT,Perloski M,Liberg O,Arnemo JM,Hedhammar A,Lindblad-Toh K

更新日期：2013-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the bacteriophage Mu gene mom modifies adenine residues of DNA within the consensus sequence CGAGCNPy, providing protection against various restriction endonucleases (ref. 1 and D. Kamp, personal communication cited in ref. 2). The mom gene is only expressed during lytic development of the phage. It is ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Plasterk RH,Vrieling H,Van de Putte P

更新日期：1983-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tectal polarity for retinal connections remains reversible long after the anatomical pattern of neural structures has been determined. Cells in the diencephalon seem to control this polarity. Following certain embryonic operations, the diencephalon developed behind the tectum. In such cases, the polarity of the retino...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chung SH,Cooke J

更新日期：1975-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The recruitment model for gene activation stipulates that an activator works by bringing the transcriptional machinery to the DNA. Recent experiments in bacteria and yeast indicate that many genes can be activated by this mechanism. These findings have implications for our understanding of the nature of activating reg...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ptashne M,Gann A

更新日期：1997-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box RNA helicases are vital for the regulation of various aspects of the RNA life cycle, but the molecular underpinnings of their involvement, particularly in mammalian cells, remain poorly understood. Here we show that the DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX21 can sense the transcriptional status of both RNA polymerase (P...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Calo E,Flynn RA,Martin L,Spitale RC,Chang HY,Wysocka J

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial organization of the genome is intimately linked to its biological function, yet our understanding of higher order genomic structure is coarse, fragmented and incomplete. In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, interphase chromosomes occupy distinct chromosome territories, and numerous models have been proposed...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dixon JR,Selvaraj S,Yue F,Kim A,Li Y,Shen Y,Hu M,Liu JS,Ren B

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of galaxies and even larger assemblies) predicts the existence of quasars gravitationally lensed by concentrations of dark ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Inada N,Oguri M,Pindor B,Hennawi JF,Chiu K,Zheng W,Ichikawa S,Gregg MD,Becker RH,Suto Y,Strauss MA,Turner EL,Keeton CR,Annis J,Castander FJ,Eisenstein DJ,Frieman JA,Fukugita M,Gunn JE,Johnston DE,Kent SM,Nichol

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the response of T cells to foreign antigens, the ligand for the T cell alpha/beta receptor is presented on a cell surface as a fragment of antigen complexed to one of the membrane molecules encoded in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The receptor apparently interacts via its variable elements (V beta, D ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marrack P,Kappler J

更新日期：1988-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Homopyrimidine oligonucleotides bind to homopurine-homopyrimidine sequences of duplex DNA forming a local triple helix. This binding can be demonstrated either directly by a footprinting technique, gel assays, or indirectly by inducing irreversible reactions in the target sequence, such as photocrosslinking or cleavag...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Perrouault L,Asseline U,Rivalle C,Thuong NT,Bisagni E,Giovannangeli C,Le Doan T,Hélène C

更新日期：1990-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the influence of electrical activity on neural development has been studied extensively, experiments have only recently focused on the role of activity in the development of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). Using tetrodotoxin (TTX) to abolish sodium-mediated action potentials, studies on the visual...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalil RE,Dubin MW,Scott G,Stark LA

更新日期：1986-09-11 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

abstract：:The alpha-helix defined in 1951 by Pauling et al. on the basis of model building and X-ray fibre diffraction data has 3.65 residues per turn (n) achieved with planar peptides, torsion angles of phi = -48 degrees and psi = -57 degrees and hydrogen bonds which are close to linear. Although X-ray analyses of proteins hav...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Blundell T,Barlow D,Borkakoti N,Thornton J

更新日期：1983-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Important Ca2+ signals in the cytosol and organelles are often extremely localized and hard to measure. To overcome this problem we have constructed new fluorescent indicators for Ca2+ that are genetically encoded without cofactors and are targetable to specific intracellular locations. We have dubbed these fluorescen...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miyawaki A,Llopis J,Heim R,McCaffery JM,Adams JA,Ikura M,Tsien RY

更新日期：1997-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and guidance of specialized endothelial tip cells is essential for both developmental and pathological angiogenesis. Notch-1 signalling regulates the generation of tip cells, which respond to gradients of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A). The molecular cues and signalling pathways that control...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sawamiphak S,Seidel S,Essmann CL,Wilkinson GA,Pitulescu ME,Acker T,Acker-Palmer A

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin is considered to be one of the most effective therapeutics for treating type 2 diabetes because it specifically reduces hepatic gluconeogenesis without increasing insulin secretion, inducing weight gain or posing a risk of hypoglycaemia. For over half a century, this agent has been prescribed to patients wit...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Madiraju AK,Erion DM,Rahimi Y,Zhang XM,Braddock DT,Albright RA,Prigaro BJ,Wood JL,Bhanot S,MacDonald MJ,Jurczak MJ,Camporez JP,Lee HY,Cline GW,Samuel VT,Kibbey RG,Shulman GI

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) possess a highly conserved skeleton of eight shell plates (valves) surrounded by spicules or scales, and fossil evidence suggests that the chiton skeleton has changed little since the first appearance of the class in the Late Cambrian period (about 500 million years before pre...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vendrasco MJ,Wood TE,Runnegar BN

更新日期：2004-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During embryogenesis, body pattern is established in a stepwise process. After specification of the body axis, the embryo is subdivided into smaller units. Within these units, a diverse array of cell types is then generated. The subdivisions of the Drosophila embryo, called parasegments, are defined by the interface b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dougan S,DiNardo S

更新日期：1992-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobic signal-sequences direct the transfer of secretory proteins across the inner membrane of prokaryotes and the endoplasmic reticulum membranes of eukaryotes. In mammalian cells, signal-sequences are recognized by the 54K protein (M(r) 54,000) of the signal recognition particle (SRP) which is believed to hold ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Luirink J,High S,Wood H,Giner A,Tollervey D,Dobberstein B

更新日期：1992-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral T cells are thought to regulate whether hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections result in viral control, asymptomatic persistence or severe disease, although the reasons for these different outcomes remain unclear. Recent genetic evidence, however, has indicated a correlatio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Waggoner SN,Cornberg M,Selin LK,Welsh RM

更新日期：2011-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The wavefunction is the complex distribution used to completely describe a quantum system, and is central to quantum theory. But despite its fundamental role, it is typically introduced as an abstract element of the theory with no explicit definition. Rather, physicists come to a working understanding of the wavefunct...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lundeen JS,Sutherland B,Patel A,Stewart C,Bamber C

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the deposition of amyloid fibrils in the brain. The principal component of amyloid fibrils is beta/A4 amyloid protein, which can be generated by the aberrant processing of a large membrane-bound glycoprotein, the beta/A4 amyloid protein precursor (APP)3. To test whethe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yoshikawa K,Aizawa T,Hayashi Y

更新日期：1992-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed description of the interactions between an antibody and its epitope is necessary to allow an understanding of the way in which antibodies bind to antigenic surfaces presented by foreign molecules. Ideally this should be done by analysis of crystal structures of antibody-antigen complexes, but so far only tw...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roberts S,Cheetham JC,Rees AR

更新日期：1987-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal structures of insulin have been determined in various distinct forms, the relevance of which to receptor recognition has long been the subject of speculation. Recently the crystal structure of an inactive insulin analogue has been determined and, surprisingly, found to have a conformation identical to native i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hua QX,Shoelson SE,Kochoyan M,Weiss MA

更新日期：1991-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin receptor TrkB is essential for normal function of the mammalian brain. It is expressed in three splice variants. Full-length receptors (TrkB(FL)) possess an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain and are considered as those TrkB receptors that mediate the crucial effects of brain-derived neurotrophic fa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rose CR,Blum R,Pichler B,Lepier A,Kafitz KW,Konnerth A

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures to prevent sexual mucosal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 are urgently needed to curb the growth of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic and ultimately bring it to an end. Studies in animal models and acute HIV-1 infection reviewed here reveal potential viral vulnerabili...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Haase AT

更新日期：2010-03-11 00:00:00

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：:Haemophilia B (Christmas disease) is an inherited, recessive, sex-linked, haemorrhagic condition caused by a defect in the intrinsic clotting factor IX. This disease occurs in males at a frequency of approximately 1 in 30,000. Patients differ in the severity of their clinical symptoms, and variation in the clotting ac...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rees DJ,Rizza CR,Brownlee GG

更新日期：1985-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-induced changes in the efficacy of synaptic transmission between neurones are central to several prominent theories of learning. In both in vivo and in vitro preparations of the hippocampus, a conditioning high-frequency stimulus delivered to afferent fibres results in a long-term potentiation of synaptic tra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Malinow R,Miller JP

更新日期：1986-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Octopamine is highly concentrated in neurones of several invertebrate species. Unlike in mammals, octopaminergic neurones in invertebrates are spatially separated from catecholaminergic neurons. In identified nerve cells of Aplysia, however, this amine coexists with other putative neurotransmitters. Octopamine is synt...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Axelrod J,Saavedra JM

更新日期：1977-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), as purified from fresh human platelets, is a protein of relative molecular mass (Mr) 30,000 composed of two disulphide-linked subunit chains of similar size, named A and B (ref. 1). The dimer structure of PDGRF seems to be important for its biological effects, as reduction irreve...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Heldin CH,Johnsson A,Wennergren S,Wernstedt C,Betsholtz C,Westermark B

更新日期：1986-02-06 00:00:00