Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers.

abstract：:The ability to trap an object-whether a single atom or a macroscopic entity-affects fields as diverse as quantum optics, soft condensed-matter physics, biophysics and clinical medicine. Many sophisticated methodologies have been developed to counter the randomizing effect of Brownian motion in solution, but stable tra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krishnan M,Mojarad N,Kukura P,Sandoghdar V

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system allows sequence-specific gene editing in many organisms and holds promise as a tool to generate models of human diseases, for example, in human pluripotent stem cells. CRISPR/Cas9 introduces targeted double-stranded breaks (DSBs) with high efficiency, which are typically repaired by no...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Paquet D,Kwart D,Chen A,Sproul A,Jacob S,Teo S,Olsen KM,Gregg A,Noggle S,Tessier-Lavigne M

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Blazars are active galactic nuclei, which are powerful sources of radiation whose central engine is located in the core of the host galaxy. Blazar emission is dominated by non-thermal radiation from a jet that moves relativistically towards us, and therefore undergoes Doppler beaming. This beaming causes flux enhancem...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Raiteri CM,Villata M,Acosta-Pulido JA,Agudo I,Arkharov AA,Bachev R,Baida GV,Benítez E,Borman GA,Boschin W,Bozhilov V,Butuzova MS,Calcidese P,Carnerero MI,Carosati D,Casadio C,Castro-Segura N,Chen WP,Damljanovic G,D'

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they treat the trade-off mechanisms that underlie plant responses as a black box. Approaches that involve the molecu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scheres B,van der Putten WH

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the nuclear properties of the late actinides (plutonium, americium and curium) are fully understood and widely applied to energy generation, their solid-state properties do not fit within standard models and are the subject of active research. Plutonium displays phases with enormous volume differences, and bo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shim JH,Haule K,Kotliar G

更新日期：2007-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The axial relationship between the collagen and mineral componetns in calcified turkey leg tendon was investigated using low-angle X-ray and neutron diffraction. The results indicate that the mineral is arranged with the same axial periodicity as the collagen and occupies the gap region of the collagen structure. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： White SW,Hulmes DJ,Miller A,Timmins PA

更新日期：1977-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation in many animal taxa is catalysed by the evolutionary diversification of mating signals. According to classical theories of speciation, mating signals diversify, in part, as an incidental byproduct of adaptation by natural selection to divergent ecologies, although empirical evidence in support of this hypot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Podos J

更新日期：2001-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of the effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations on future global plant production rely on the physiological response of individual plants or plant communities when exposed to high CO2 (refs 1-6). Plant populations may adapt to the changing atmosphere, however, such that the evolved plant communiti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Collins S,Bell G

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Abl, a non-receptor tyrosine kinase, is activated by agents that damage DNA. This activation results in either arrest of the cell cycle in phase G1 or apoptotic cell death, both of which are dependent on the kinase activity of c-Abl. p73, a member of the p53 family of tumour-suppressor proteins, can also induce apop...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Agami R,Blandino G,Oren M,Shaul Y

更新日期：1999-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocular lid suture during the sensitive period early in the life of a kitten disrupts normal development of inputs from the two eyes to the visual cortex, causing a decrease in the fraction of cortical cells responding to the deprived eye. Such an ocular dominance shift has been assumed to depend on patterned visual...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chapman B,Jacobson MD,Reiter HO,Stryker MP

更新日期：1986-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging infectious diseases present a formidable challenge to the conservation of native species in the twenty-first century. Diseases caused by introduced pathogens have had large impacts on species abundances, including the American chestnut, Hawaiian bird species and many amphibians. Changes in host population siz...

journal_title：Nature

authors： LaDeau SL,Kilpatrick AM,Marra PP

更新日期：2007-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species related to Drosophila melanogaster have two loci containing sequences which code for the major heat-shock protein of molecular weight 70,000 (hsp70). These sequences are arranged as two pairs of inverted repeats. The structure of the 87C locus in D. melanogaster seems to have arisen through DNA inserti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Leigh Brown AJ,Ish-Horowicz D

更新日期：1981-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile proteins of adult skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue are very similar. Some of these proteins are identical in amino acid sequence or differ only slightly. Various structural studies have shown that the heavy and light chains of myosin are also homologous in skeletal and cardiac muscles. In developing ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Whalen RG,Sell SM

更新日期：1980-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour, arises in the cerebellum and disseminates through the cerebrospinal fluid in the leptomeningeal space to coat the brain and spinal cord. Dissemination, a marker of poor prognosis, is found in up to 40% of children at diagnosis and in most children at ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wu X,Northcott PA,Dubuc A,Dupuy AJ,Shih DJ,Witt H,Croul S,Bouffet E,Fults DW,Eberhart CG,Garzia L,Van Meter T,Zagzag D,Jabado N,Schwartzentruber J,Majewski J,Scheetz TE,Pfister SM,Korshunov A,Li XN,Scherer SW,Ch

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophies represent the second most common fatal, autosomal recessive disorder after cystic fibrosis. The childhood form is classically subdivided into three groups: acute Werdnig-Hoffmann (type I), intermediate Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (type II) and Kugelberg-Welander disease (type III). Thes...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Melki J,Abdelhak S,Sheth P,Bachelot MF,Burlet P,Marcadet A,Aicardi J,Barois A,Carriere JP,Fardeau M

更新日期：1990-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth cycle in nutrient-rich, aquatic environments starts with a diatom bloom that ends in mass sinking of ungrazed cells and phytodetritus. The low grazing pressure on these blooms has been attributed to the inability of overwintering copepod populations to track them temporally. We tested an alternative explana...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ianora A,Miralto A,Poulet SA,Carotenuto Y,Buttino I,Romano G,Casotti R,Pohnert G,Wichard T,Colucci-D'Amato L,Terrazzano G,Smetacek V

更新日期：2004-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical research highlights the role of punishment in promoting collaborative efforts. However, both the emergence and the stability of costly punishment are problematic issues. It is not clear how punishers can invade a society of defectors by social learning or natural selection, or how second-orde...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sigmund K,De Silva H,Traulsen A,Hauert C

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The hot streak-loosely defined as 'winning begets more winnings'-highlights a specific period during which an individual's performance is substantially better than his or her typical performance. Although hot streaks have been widely debated in sports1,2, gambling3-5 and financial markets6,7 over the past several deca...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu L,Wang Y,Sinatra R,Giles CL,Song C,Wang D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbialites are organosedimentary structures that can be constructed by a variety of metabolically distinct taxa. Consequently, microbialite structures abound in the fossil record, although the exact nature of the biogeochemical processes that produced them is often unknown. One such class of ancient calcareous stru...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Laval B,Cady SL,Pollack JC,McKay CP,Bird JS,Grotzinger JP,Ford DC,Bohm HR

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptic (touch) perception normally entails an active exploration of object surfaces over time. This is called active touch. When exploring the shape of an object, we experience both geometrical and force cues. For example, when sliding a finger across a surface with a rigid bump on it, the finger moves over the bump w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Robles-De-La-Torre G,Hayward V

更新日期：2001-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genetics and genomics have fuelled a revolution in discovery-based, or hypothesis-generating, research that provides a powerful complement to the more directly hypothesis-driven molecular, cellular and systems neuroscience. Genetic and functional genomic studies have already yielded important insights into...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Geschwind DH,Konopka G

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory neurotransmission mediated by GABA(A) receptors can be modulated by the endogenous neurosteroids, allopregnanolone and tetrahydro-deoxycorticosterone. Neurosteroids are synthesized de novo in the brain during stress, pregnancyand after ethanol consumption, and disrupted steroid regulation of GABAergic trans...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hosie AM,Wilkins ME,da Silva HM,Smart TG

更新日期：2006-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) by chromosomal translocations or point mutations is a frequent event in haematological malignancies. JAK2 is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase that regulates several cellular processes by inducing cytoplasmic signalling cascades. Here we show that human JAK2 is present in the nucleus o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dawson MA,Bannister AJ,Göttgens B,Foster SD,Bartke T,Green AR,Kouzarides T

更新日期：2009-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA polymerase V (pol V) and RecA proteins are essential components of a mutagenic translesion synthesis pathway in Escherichia coli designed to cope with DNA damage. Previously, it has been assumed that RecA binds to the DNA template strand being copied. Here we show, however, that pol-V-catalysed translesion syn...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schlacher K,Cox MM,Woodgate R,Goodman MF

更新日期：2006-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to excise (repair) UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in Escherichia coli is not related to its ability to remove N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG)-induced O6-methylguanine (O6-MeG) from DNA. It was therefore surprising that certain xeroderma pigmentosum cell lines, deficient in dimer excision, were al...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sklar R,Strauss B

更新日期：1981-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory experiences exert a powerful influence on the function and future performance of neuronal circuits in the mammalian neocortex. Restructuring of synaptic connections is believed to be one mechanism by which cortical circuits store information about the sensory world. Excitatory synaptic structures, such as dend...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hofer SB,Mrsic-Flogel TD,Bonhoeffer T,Hübener M

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High-harmonic generation by focusing a femtosecond laser onto a gas is a well-known method of producing coherent extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) light. This nonlinear conversion process requires high pulse intensities, greater than 10(13) W cm(-2), which are not directly attainable using only the output power of a femtoseco...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kim S,Jin J,Kim YJ,Park IY,Kim Y,Kim SW

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is produced in significant quantities by aerobic marine organisms. These bacteria apparently catalyse the formation of methane through the cleavage of the highly unreactive carbon-phosphorus bond in methyl phosphonate (MPn), but the biological or terrestrial source of this compo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kamat SS,Williams HJ,Dangott LJ,Chakrabarti M,Raushel FM

更新日期：2013-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest cell fate decision in the mammalian embryo separates the extra-embryonic trophoblast lineage, which forms the fetal portion of the placenta, from the embryonic cell lineages. The body plan of the embryo proper is established only later at gastrulation, when the pluripotent epiblast gives rise to the germ ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Russ AP,Wattler S,Colledge WH,Aparicio SA,Carlton MB,Pearce JJ,Barton SC,Surani MA,Ryan K,Nehls MC,Wilson V,Evans MJ

更新日期：2000-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradual accumulation of evidence is thought to be fundamental for decision-making, and its neural correlates have been found in several brain regions. Here we develop a generalizable method to measure tuning curves that specify the relationship between neural responses and mentally accumulated evidence, and apply it t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hanks TD,Kopec CD,Brunton BW,Duan CA,Erlich JC,Brody CD

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00