The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru.

abstract：:The intestinal tract maintains proper function by replacing aged cells with freshly produced cells that arise from a population of self-renewing intestinal stem cells (ISCs). In the mammalian intestine, ISC self renewal, amplification and differentiation take place along the crypt-villus axis, and are controlled by th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Takashima S,Mkrtchyan M,Younossi-Hartenstein A,Merriam JR,Hartenstein V

更新日期：2008-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Letter, Supplementary Fig. 1 was missing. This error has been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eaglesham JB,Pan Y,Kupper TS,Kranzusch PJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced and annotated the genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a eukaryote: 4,824. The centromeres are between 35 and 110 kilobases (kb) and contain related repeats including a highly conserved 1.8-kb element. Regions...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wood V,Gwilliam R,Rajandream MA,Lyne M,Lyne R,Stewart A,Sgouros J,Peat N,Hayles J,Baker S,Basham D,Bowman S,Brooks K,Brown D,Brown S,Chillingworth T,Churcher C,Collins M,Connor R,Cronin A,Davis P,Feltwell T,Fr

更新日期：2002-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Several of the thousands of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been functionally characterized; however, potential roles for lncRNAs in somatic tissue differentiation remain poorly understood. Here we show that a 3.7-kilobase lncRNA, terminal differentiation-induced ncRNA (TINCR), controls human epidermal diffe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kretz M,Siprashvili Z,Chu C,Webster DE,Zehnder A,Qu K,Lee CS,Flockhart RJ,Groff AF,Chow J,Johnston D,Kim GE,Spitale RC,Flynn RA,Zheng GX,Aiyer S,Raj A,Rinn JL,Chang HY,Khavari PA

更新日期：2013-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Jawless vertebrates use variable lymphocyte receptors (VLR) comprised of leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) segments as counterparts of the immunoglobulin-based receptors that jawed vertebrates use for antigen recognition. Highly diverse VLR genes are somatically assembled by the insertion of variable LRR sequences into incomp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guo P,Hirano M,Herrin BR,Li J,Yu C,Sadlonova A,Cooper MD

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:For life to be sustained, mistakes in DNA repair must be tolerated when damage obscures the genetic information. In bacteria such as Escherichia coli, DNA damage elicits the well regulated 'SOS response'. For the extreme case of damage that cannot be repaired by conventional enzymes, there are proteins that allow the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peat TS,Frank EG,McDonald JP,Levine AS,Woodgate R,Hendrickson WA

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-challenged vertebrate females transfer specific antibodies to their offspring, but this gratuitous immunity cannot operate in invertebrates. Here we show that constitutive immune defence is enhanced in sexual offspring of the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris L. when the parental colony is immune-challenged. Our fin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moret Y,Schmid-Hempel P

更新日期：2001-11-29 00:00:00

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journal_title：Nature

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更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cells are important in the pathogenesis of many, and perhaps all, immune-mediated diseases. Each B cell expresses a single B cell receptor (BCR)1, and the diverse range of BCRs expressed by the total B cell population of an individual is termed the 'BCR repertoire'. Our understanding of the BCR repertoire in the con...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bashford-Rogers RJM,Bergamaschi L,McKinney EF,Pombal DC,Mescia F,Lee JC,Thomas DC,Flint SM,Kellam P,Jayne DRW,Lyons PA,Smith KGC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition and removal of apoptotic cells by professional phagocytes, including dendritic cells and macrophages, preserves immune self-tolerance and prevents chronic inflammation and autoimmune pathologies. The diverse array of phagocytes that reside within different tissues, combined with the necessarily prompt natu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cummings RJ,Barbet G,Bongers G,Hartmann BM,Gettler K,Muniz L,Furtado GC,Cho J,Lira SA,Blander JM

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Asteroids are primitive Solar System bodies that evolve both collisionally and through disruptions arising from rapid rotation. These processes can lead to the formation of binary asteroids and to the release of dust, both directly and, in some cases, through uncovering frozen volatiles. In a subset of the asteroids c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Agarwal J,Jewitt D,Mutchler M,Weaver H,Larson S

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) synthesizes triacylglycerides and is required for dietary fat absorption and fat storage in humans1. DGAT1 belongs to the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase (MBOAT) superfamily, members of which are found in all kingdoms of life and are involved in the acylation of lipids and p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang L,Qian H,Nian Y,Han Y,Ren Z,Zhang H,Hu L,Prasad BVV,Laganowsky A,Yan N,Zhou M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded DNA copies of the RNA gene coding for the haemagglutinin glycoproteins from human H2 and H3 pandemic strains of influenza virus have been cloned. DNA sequence analysis provides the first reported complete nucleotide sequence of an H2 haemagglutinin gene and a partial sequence (45%) of the H3 gene. The ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gething MJ,Bye J,Skehel J,Waterfield M

更新日期：1980-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The optics of the eye cause different wavelengths of light to be differentially focused at the retina. This phenomenon is due to longitudinal chromatic aberration, a wavelength-dependent change in refractive power. Retinal image quality may consequently vary for the different classes of cone photoreceptors, cells tune...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McLellan JS,Marcos S,Prieto PM,Burns SA

更新日期：2002-05-09 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：:A product encoded at the claret locus in Drosophila is needed for normal chromosome segregation in meiosis in females and in early mitotic divisions of the embryo. The predicted amino-acid sequence of the segregation protein was shown recently to be strikingly similar to Drosophila kinesin heavy chain. We have express...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Walker RA,Salmon ED,Endow SA

更新日期：1990-10-25 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：:Changes in redox status are a conspicuous feature of immune responses in a variety of eukaryotes, but the associated signalling mechanisms are not well understood. In plants, attempted microbial infection triggers the rapid synthesis of nitric oxide and a parallel accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates, the lat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yun BW,Feechan A,Yin M,Saidi NB,Le Bihan T,Yu M,Moore JW,Kang JG,Kwon E,Spoel SH,Pallas JA,Loake GJ

更新日期：2011-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoelectric energy harvesting-the transformation of waste heat into useful electricity-is of great interest for energy sustainability. The main obstacle is the low thermoelectric efficiency of materials for converting heat to electricity, quantified by the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. The best available n-ty...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rhyee JS,Lee KH,Lee SM,Cho E,Kim SI,Lee E,Kwon YS,Shim JH,Kotliar G

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals are regarded as relatively sedentary and specialized in marginal parts of their geographical distributions. They are expected to be slow at colonizing new habitats. Despite this, the cool margins of many species' distributions have expanded rapidly in association with recent climate warming. We examined f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thomas CD,Bodsworth EJ,Wilson RJ,Simmons AD,Davies ZG,Musche M,Conradt L

更新日期：2001-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of intact human rhinovirus 14 (HRV-14) complexed with Fab fragments (Fab17-IA) from a strongly neutralizing antibody that binds bivalently to the virion has been determined to 4.0 angstrom resolution by a combination of X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. In contradictio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Smith TJ,Chase ES,Schmidt TJ,Olson NH,Baker TS

更新日期：1996-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular self-assembly offers a 'bottom-up' route to fabrication with subnanometre precision of complex structures from simple components. DNA has proved to be a versatile building block for programmable construction of such objects, including two-dimensional crystals, nanotubes, and three-dimensional wireframe nanop...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Douglas SM,Dietz H,Liedl T,Högberg B,Graf F,Shih WM

更新日期：2009-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death that is caused by the iron-dependent peroxidation of lipids1,2. The glutathione-dependent lipid hydroperoxidase glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) prevents ferroptosis by converting lipid hydroperoxides into non-toxic lipid alcohols3,4. Ferroptosis has previously been implica...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bersuker K,Hendricks JM,Li Z,Magtanong L,Ford B,Tang PH,Roberts MA,Tong B,Maimone TJ,Zoncu R,Bassik MC,Nomura DK,Dixon SJ,Olzmann JA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000-65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan from the Altai Mountains in Siberia together with the sequences of chromosome 21 of two Neanderthals from Spain and Croatia. We find that a p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kuhlwilm M,Gronau I,Hubisz MJ,de Filippo C,Prado-Martinez J,Kircher M,Fu Q,Burbano HA,Lalueza-Fox C,de la Rasilla M,Rosas A,Rudan P,Brajkovic D,Kucan Ž,Gušic I,Marques-Bonet T,Andrés AM,Viola B,Pääbo S,Meyer M,Sie

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:B LYMPHOCYTES are key participants in the immune response because of their specificity, their ability to take up and present antigens to T cells, and their capacity to differentiate into antibody-secreting cells. To limit reactivity to self antigens, autospecific B cells can be functionally inactivated or deleted. Dev...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Russell DM,Dembić Z,Morahan G,Miller JF,Bürki K,Nemazee D

更新日期：1991-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydration embrittlement has been proposed to explain both intermediate- and deep-focus earthquakes in subduction zones. Because such earthquakes primarily occur at shallow depths or within the core of the subducting plate, dehydration at relatively low temperatures has been emphasized. However, recent careful reloca...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang J,Green HW,Bozhilov K,Jin Z

更新日期：2004-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Initial studies of somatically acquired mutations in immunoglobulin V regions from hybridomas and myelomas that are not derived from joining aberrations, suggested a controlled and specific hypermutation process, because spontaneous mutation rates observed for other genes are extremely low. Some evidence for the idea ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： O'Brien RL,Brinster RL,Storb U

更新日期：1987-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in the world resulting from a single bacterial infection. Despite its enormous burden on world health, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bacterial multiplication and concomitant tissue damage within an infected host,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cox JS,Chen B,McNeil M,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：1999-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern high-power lasers can generate extreme states of matter that are relevant to astrophysics, equation-of-state studies and fusion energy research. Laser-driven implosions of spherical polymer shells have, for example, achieved an increase in density of 1,000 times relative to the solid state. These densities are ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kodama R,Norreys PA,Mima K,Dangor AE,Evans RG,Fujita H,Kitagawa Y,Krushelnick K,Miyakoshi T,Miyanaga N,Norimatsu T,Rose SJ,Shozaki T,Shigemori K,Sunahara A,Tampo M,Tanaka KA,Toyama Y,Yamanaka T,Zepf M

更新日期：2001-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The main function of postural nervous mechanisms in different species, from mollusc to man, is to counteract the force of gravity and stabilize body orientation in space. Here we investigate the basic principles of postural control in a simple animal model, the marine mollusc Clione limacina. When swimming, C. limacin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Deliagina TG,Arshavsky YI,Orlovsky GN

更新日期：1998-05-14 00:00:00