TCR-peptide-MHC interactions in situ show accelerated kinetics and increased affinity.

abstract：:Comprehensive protein protein interaction maps promise to reveal many aspects of the complex regulatory network underlying cellular function. Recently, large-scale approaches have predicted many new protein interactions in yeast. To measure their accuracy and potential as well as to identify biases, strengths and weak...

journal_title：Nature

authors： von Mering C,Krause R,Snel B,Cornell M,Oliver SG,Fields S,Bork P

更新日期：2002-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide-loading complex (PLC) is a transient, multisubunit membrane complex in the endoplasmic reticulum that is essential for establishing a hierarchical immune response. The PLC coordinates peptide translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum with loading and editing of major histocompatibility complex class I (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Blees A,Januliene D,Hofmann T,Koller N,Schmidt C,Trowitzsch S,Moeller A,Tampé R

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene disruption in the mouse shows that the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) gene plays a critical role in patterning of vertebrate embryonic tissues, including the brain and spinal cord, the axial skeleton and the limbs. Early defects are observed in the establishment or maintenance of midline structures, such as the no...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chiang C,Litingtung Y,Lee E,Young KE,Corden JL,Westphal H,Beachy PA

更新日期：1996-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational activation of BRAF is the most prevalent genetic alteration in human melanoma, with ≥50% of tumours expressing the BRAF(V600E) oncoprotein. Moreover, the marked tumour regression and improved survival of late-stage BRAF-mutated melanoma patients in response to treatment with vemurafenib demonstrates the ess...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Das Thakur M,Salangsang F,Landman AS,Sellers WR,Pryer NK,Levesque MP,Dummer R,McMahon M,Stuart DD

更新日期：2013-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Hedgehog family of secreted proteins control a number of important inductive interactions in the development of both vertebrates and Drosophila, but little is known about the ways in which their signalling activities are transduced. In Drosophila, hedgehog is one of the segment-polarity genes, mutations...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van den Heuvel M,Ingham PW

更新日期：1996-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported widespread declines of wild and managed insect pollinators have serious consequences for global ecosystem services and agricultural production. Bees contribute approximately 80% of insect pollination, so it is important to understand and mitigate the causes of current declines in bee populations . Recent stud...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gill RJ,Ramos-Rodriguez O,Raine NE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signals by contacting two distantly related transmembrane serine/threonine kinases called receptors I and II. The role of these molecules in signalling has now been determined. TGF-beta binds directly to receptor II, which is a constitutively active kinase. Bound TGF-beta is ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wrana JL,Attisano L,Wieser R,Ventura F,Massagué J

更新日期：1994-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kondo effect--a many-body phenomenon in condensed-matter physics involving the interaction between a localized spin and free electrons--was discovered in metals containing small amounts of magnetic impurities, although it is now recognized to be of fundamental importance in a wide class of correlated electron syst...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sasaki S,De Franceschi S,Elzerman JM,van der Wiel WG,Eto M,Tarucha S,Kouwenhoven LP

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sulphatase deficiency disease is an unusual autosomal recessive disorder characterised biochemically by a deficiency of several sulphohydrolase activities. The laboratory diagnosis of this combined neurological connective tissue disorder is made on the basis of decreased activities of the lysosomal enzymes, a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fiddler MB,Vine D,Shapira E,Nadler HL

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processes such as the scattering of alpha particles ((4)He), the triple-alpha reaction, and alpha capture play a major role in stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, alpha capture on carbon determines the ratio of carbon to oxygen during helium burning, and affects subsequent carbon, neon, oxygen, and silicon burning...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Elhatisari S,Lee D,Rupak G,Epelbaum E,Krebs H,Lähde TA,Luu T,Meißner UG

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although stars form from clouds of gas and dust, there are insignificant amounts of gas around ordinary (Sun-like) stars. This suggests that hydrogen and helium, the primary constituents of planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, are not easily retained in orbit as a star matures. The gas-giant planets in the Solar System...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zuckerman B,Forveille T,Kastner JH

更新日期：1995-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular contacts between actin and myosin is central to understanding the force-generating process in muscle and other cells. Actin, a highly conserved globular protein found in all eukaryotes, polymerizes into filaments (F-actin) for most of its biological functions. Myosins, which are more diver...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schröder RR,Manstein DJ,Jahn W,Holden H,Rayment I,Holmes KC,Spudich JA

更新日期：1993-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of receptors are located at the blood sinusoidal aspect of the hepatocyte plasma membrane. Many circulating ligands that bind to receptors on the cell surfaces are interiorized along two pathways. Asialoglycoproteins are transferred from the plasma membrane to lysosomes and degraded, whereas immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Debanne MT,Evans WH,Flint N,Regoeczi E

更新日期：1982-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) orchestrate a repertoire of immune responses that bring about resistance to infection and silencing or tolerance to self. In the settings of infection and cancer, microbes and tumours can exploit DCs to evade immunity, but DCs also can generate resistance, a capacity that is readily enhanced with...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Steinman RM,Banchereau J

更新日期：2007-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of fossil and archaeological data it has been hypothesized that the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Eurasia between ~50-120 thousand years ago occurred in several orbitally paced migration episodes. Crossing vegetated pluvial corridors from northeastern Africa into the Arabian Peninsula and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Timmermann A,Friedrich T

更新日期：2016-10-06 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 alpha beta T-cell receptors (TCRs) react with complex ligands composed of peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins. In the absence of foreign antigens the peptides bound to MHC molecules come from the proteins of the host itself. Interactions between TCRs and these self-peptide-MHC ligands...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kozono H,White J,Clements J,Marrack P,Kappler J

更新日期：1994-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the major source of variability in winter atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere, with large impacts on temperature, precipitation and storm tracks, and therefore also on strategic sectors such as insurance, renewable energy production, crop yields and water manageme...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ortega P,Lehner F,Swingedouw D,Masson-Delmotte V,Raible CC,Casado M,Yiou P

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual reproduction by free-living invertebrate larvae is a rare and enigmatic phenomenon and, although it is known to occur in sea stars and brittle stars, it has not been detected in other echinoderms despite more than a century of intensive study. Here we describe spontaneous larval cloning in three species from t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eaves AA,Palmer AR

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human history. The origin of the Indo-European language family is "the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics". Numerous genetic studies of Indo-European origins have also produced inconclusive results. Here we analyse l...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gray RD,Atkinson QD

更新日期：2003-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic da...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Joshi PK,Esko T,Mattsson H,Eklund N,Gandin I,Nutile T,Jackson AU,Schurmann C,Smith AV,Zhang W,Okada Y,Stančáková A,Faul JD,Zhao W,Bartz TM,Concas MP,Franceschini N,Enroth S,Vitart V,Trompet S,Guo X,Chasman DI,

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult brain, new synapses are formed and pre-existing ones are lost, but the function of this structural plasticity has remained unclear. Learning of new skills is correlated with formation of new synapses. These may directly encode new memories, but they may also have more general roles in memory encoding and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruediger S,Vittori C,Bednarek E,Genoud C,Strata P,Sacchetti B,Caroni P

更新日期：2011-05-26 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：:During fertilization, an egg and a sperm fuse to form a new embryo. Eggs develop from oocytes in a process called meiosis. Meiosis in human oocytes is highly error-prone, and defective eggs are the leading cause of pregnancy loss and several genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Which genes safeguard accurate pro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pfender S,Kuznetsov V,Pasternak M,Tischer T,Santhanam B,Schuh M

更新日期：2015-08-13 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 Earth's mantle is isotopically heterogeneous on length scales ranging from centimetres to more than 10(4) kilometres. This heterogeneity originates from partial melt extraction and plate tectonic recycling, whereas stirring during mantle convection tends to reduce it. Here we show that mid-ocean ridge basalts from...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Graham DW,Blichert-Toft J,Russo CJ,Rubin KH,Albarède F

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A key event in the domestication and breeding of the oil palm Elaeis guineensis was loss of the thick coconut-like shell surrounding the kernel. Modern E. guineensis has three fruit forms, dura (thick-shelled), pisifera (shell-less) and tenera (thin-shelled), a hybrid between dura and pisifera. The pisifera palm is us...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Singh R,Low ET,Ooi LC,Ong-Abdullah M,Ting NC,Nagappan J,Nookiah R,Amiruddin MD,Rosli R,Manaf MA,Chan KL,Halim MA,Azizi N,Lakey N,Smith SW,Budiman MA,Hogan M,Bacher B,Van Brunt A,Wang C,Ordway JM,Sambanthamurthi

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human B cell stimulatory factor 2 (BSF-2) was originally characterized and isolated as a T cell-derived factor that caused the terminal maturation of activated B cells to immunoglobulin-producing cells. Molecular cloning of the complementary DNA predicts that BSF-2 is a protein of relative molecular mass (Mr) 26,000 s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kawano M,Hirano T,Matsuda T,Taga T,Horii Y,Iwato K,Asaoku H,Tang B,Tanabe O,Tanaka H

更新日期：1988-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to direct a movement towards a visual stimulus, visual spatial information must be combined with postural information. For example, directing gaze (eye plus head) towards a visible target requires the combination of retinal image location with eye and head position to determine the location of the target rela...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Snyder LH,Grieve KL,Brotchie P,Andersen RA

更新日期：1998-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The satellites Rhea and Dione orbit within the magnetosphere of Saturn, where they are exposed to particle irradiation from trapped ions. A similar situation applies to the galilean moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, which reside within Jupiter's radiation belts. All of these satellites have surfaces rich in water i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Noll KS,Roush TL,Cruikshank DP,Johnson RE,Pendleton YJ

更新日期：1997-07-03 00:00:00