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abstract：:Knowledge of the composition of the Earth's core is important for understanding its melting point and therefore the temperature at the inner-core boundary and the temperature profile of the core and mantle. In addition, the partitioning of light elements between solid and liquid, as the outer core freezes at the inner...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Alfe D,Gillan MJ,Price GD

更新日期：2000-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with atoms, molecules have a rich internal structure that offers many opportunities for technological and scientific advancement. The study of this structure could yield critical insights into quantum chemistry, new methods for manipulating quantum information, and improved tests of discrete symmetry violatio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rellergert WG,Sullivan ST,Schowalter SJ,Kotochigova S,Chen K,Hudson ER

更新日期：2013-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary theory of ageing explains why ageing occurs, giving valuable insight into the mechanisms underlying the complex cellular and molecular changes that contribute to senescence. Such understanding also helps to clarify how the genome shapes the ageing process, thereby aiding the study of the genetic facto...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kirkwood TB,Austad SN

更新日期：2000-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifreeze proteins provide fish with protection against the freezing effect of polar environments by binding to ice surfaces and inhibiting growth of ice crystals. We present the X-ray crystal structure at 1.5 A resolution of a lone alpha-helical antifreeze protein from winter flounder, which provides a detailed look...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sicheri F,Yang DS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between animal viruses and antiviral antisera may exceptionally result in an apparent increase in viral infectivity. Halstead and coworkers demonstrated enhanced replication of dengue virus (a Flavivirus, family Togaviridae) in human or simian peripheral blood leucocytes carrying Fc receptors at subneutra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peiris JS,Porterfield JS

更新日期：1979-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune responses are important in combating various microbes during the early phases of infection. Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that, unlike T and B lymphocytes, do not express antigen receptors but rapidly exhibit cytotoxic activities against virus-infected cells and produce various cytokin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moro K,Yamada T,Tanabe M,Takeuchi T,Ikawa T,Kawamoto H,Furusawa J,Ohtani M,Fujii H,Koyasu S

更新日期：2010-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The variable regions of mouse kappa (kappa) chains are coded for by multiple variable (V) gene segments and multiple joining (J) gene segments. The V kappa gene segments code for residues 1 to 95; the J kappa gene segments code for residues 96 to 108 (refs 1-3). This gene organisation is similar to that encoding the V...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Weigert M,Perry R,Kelley D,Hunkapiller T,Schilling J,Hood L

更新日期：1980-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cells of the immune system, which secrete antibodies against foreign antigens, are fully specific and effective only after maturation in lymph nodes and other lymphoid tissues. Immunocompetent T cells play a crucial part in this process, but the molecular details of the way in which the two cell types interact h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Clark EA,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1994-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The repressor of phage 434 binds to six operator sites on the phage chromosome. A comparison of the sequences of these 14-base-pair (bp) operator sites reveals a striking pattern: at five of the six sites, the symmetrically arrayed outer eight base pairs (four in each half-site) are identical and the remaining site di...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Koudelka GB,Harrison SC,Ptashne M

更新日期：1987-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Features that were once considered exclusive to modern birds, such as feathers and a furcula, are now known to have first appeared in non-avian dinosaurs. However, relatively little is known of the early evolutionary history of the hyperinflated brain that distinguishes birds from other living reptiles and provides th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Balanoff AM,Bever GS,Rowe TB,Norell MA

更新日期：2013-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most neurons of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) lose the ability to regenerate severed axons in vivo after a certain point in development. At least part of this loss in regenerative potential is intrinsic to neurons. Although embryonic retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) can grow axons into tectum of any age, mos...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen DF,Schneider GE,Martinou JC,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1997-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenaline releases prostaglandins in the kidney, and in rats these augment rather than reduce vasoconstriction produced by the amine. Homogenates of kidneys of New Zealand rats inbred for hypertension exhibit lower prostaglandin inactivation by 15-hydroxydehydrogenase than controls. At the same time, augmentation ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Armstrong JM,Blackwell GJ,Flower RJ,McGiff JC,Mullane KM,Vane JR

更新日期：1976-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The U6 small nuclear (sn)RNA gene (SNR6) from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is transcribed by RNA polymerase III in vivo. This gene is unusual in having a TATA box at position -30, and an essential B-block element located downstream of the T-rich termination signal. The B block is one of the two intragenic promot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Burnol AF,Margottin F,Huet J,Almouzni G,Prioleau MN,Méchali M,Sentenac A

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, the Ter mutation causes primordial germ cell (PGC) loss in all genetic backgrounds. Ter is also a potent modifier of spontaneous testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) susceptibility in the 129 family of inbred strains, and markedly increases TGCT incidence in 129-Ter/Ter males. In 129-Ter/Ter mice, some of the r...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Youngren KK,Coveney D,Peng X,Bhattacharya C,Schmidt LS,Nickerson ML,Lamb BT,Deng JM,Behringer RR,Capel B,Rubin EM,Nadeau JH,Matin A

更新日期：2005-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel, structurally distinct POU-domain protein has been identified that inhibits activation by another positive POU-domain regulator of neuron-specific transcription units. Two Drosophila POU-domain proteins, I-POU and Cf1-a, are coexpressed in overlapping subsets of neurons during development. Because I-POU lacks ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Treacy MN,He X,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：1991-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Very large collisions in the asteroid belt could lead temporarily to a substantial increase in the rate of impacts of meteorites on Earth. Orbital simulations predict that fragments from such events may arrive considerably faster than the typical transit times of meteorites falling today, because in some large impacts...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Heck PR,Schmitz B,Baur H,Halliday AN,Wieler R

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junction channels are structurally distinct from other ion channels in that they comprise two hemichannels which interact head-to-head to form an aqueous channel between cells. Intercellular voltage differences together with increased intracellular concentrations of H+ and Ca2+ cause closure of these normally pate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Suchyna TM,Xu LX,Gao F,Fourtner CR,Nicholson BJ

更新日期：1993-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Large low-velocity seismic anomalies have been detected in the Earth's lower mantle beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean that are not easily explained by temperature variations alone. The African anomaly has been interpreted to be a northwest-southeast-trending structure with a sharp-edged linear, ridge-like morpholog...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McNamara AK,Zhong S

更新日期：2005-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotransmitters glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transmit synaptic signals by activating fast-acting ligand-gated ion channels and more slowly acting G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The GPCRs for these neurotransmitters, metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) and GABAB receptors, are atypical GPCRs with a la...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pin JP,Bettler B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In infected cells, the RNA genomes of RNA tumour viruses are copied into DNA by a virus-encoded reverse transcriptase enzyme. This transfer of information from RNA into DNA was thought to be a unique feature of RNA tumour viruses, but recent results suggest it may be a more general strategy. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) ha...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Toh H,Hayashida H,Miyata T

更新日期：1983-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcomes of evolution are determined by a stochastic dynamical process that governs how mutations arise and spread through a population. However, it is difficult to observe these dynamics directly over long periods and across entire genomes. Here we analyse the dynamics of molecular evolution in twelve experimenta...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Good BH,McDonald MJ,Barrick JE,Lenski RE,Desai MM

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylation within the globular core domain of histone H3 on lysine 56 (H3K56) has recently been shown to have a critical role in packaging DNA into chromatin following DNA replication and repair in budding yeast. However, the function or occurrence of this specific histone mark has not been studied in multicellular e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Das C,Lucia MS,Hansen KC,Tyler JK

更新日期：2009-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:During an immune response, hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes in B cells proliferating within germinal centres (GCs) generates variant antibodies that react with higher affinity against either foreign or self antigens. Several experiments suggest that self-reactive B cells may be censored at this stage of the immun...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shokat KM,Goodnow CC

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The death of massive stars produces a variety of supernovae, which are linked to the structure of the exploding stars. The detection of several precursor stars of type II supernovae has been reported (see, for example, ref. 3), but we do not yet have direct information on the progenitors of the hydrogen-deficient type...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pastorello A,Smartt SJ,Mattila S,Eldridge JJ,Young D,Itagaki K,Yamaoka H,Navasardyan H,Valenti S,Patat F,Agnoletto I,Augusteijn T,Benetti S,Cappellaro E,Boles T,Bonnet-Bidaud JM,Botticella MT,Bufano F,Cao C,Deng J,

更新日期：2007-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The four-chambered mammalian heart develops from two fields of cardiac progenitor cells distinguished by their spatiotemporal patterns of differentiation and contributions to the definitive heart. The first heart field differentiates earlier in lateral plate mesoderm, generates the linear heart tube and ultimately giv...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhou Y,Cashman TJ,Nevis KR,Obregon P,Carney SA,Liu Y,Gu A,Mosimann C,Sondalle S,Peterson RE,Heideman W,Burns CE,Burns CG

更新日期：2011-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Most normal mammalian cells have a finite lifespan, thought to constitute a protective mechanism against unlimited proliferation. This phenomenon, called senescence, is driven by telomere attrition, which triggers the induction of tumour suppressors including p16(INK4a) (ref. 5). In cultured cells, senescence can be e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Michaloglou C,Vredeveld LC,Soengas MS,Denoyelle C,Kuilman T,van der Horst CM,Majoor DM,Shay JW,Mooi WJ,Peeper DS

更新日期：2005-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of our current knowledge about mitochondria has come from studying patients who have respiratory chain disorders. These disorders comprise a large collection of individually rare syndromes, each presenting in a unique and often devastating way. In recent years, there has been great progress in defining their gene...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vafai SB,Mootha VK

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 protease processes the Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins into mature structural and functional proteins, including itself, and is therefore indispensable for viral maturation. The mature protease is active only as a dimer with each subunit contributing catalytic residues. The full-length transframe region protease pr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tang C,Louis JM,Aniana A,Suh JY,Clore GM

更新日期：2008-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that arginine vasopressin (AVP) is involved in the retention of learned responses, in addition to its classical physiological functions of water retention and modulation of blood pressure. AVP administered subcutaneously (s.c.), intraventricularly or intracerebrally can prolong extinction of acti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Koob GF,Dantzer R,Rodriguez F,Bloom FE,Le Moal M

更新日期：1985-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) was the first enzyme to have its three-dimensional structure determined by X-ray diffraction techniques. A catalytic mechanism, featuring a long-lived oxocarbenium-ion intermediate, was proposed on the basis of model-building studies. The 'Phillips' mechanism is widely held as the paradig...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vocadlo DJ,Davies GJ,Laine R,Withers SG

更新日期：2001-08-23 00:00:00