Glutamate induces de novo growth of functional spines in developing cortex.

abstract：:Approximately one-third of all mammalian genes are essential for life. Phenotypes resulting from knockouts of these genes in mice have provided tremendous insight into gene function and congenital disorders. As part of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium effort to generate and phenotypically characterize 5,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dickinson ME,Flenniken AM,Ji X,Teboul L,Wong MD,White JK,Meehan TF,Weninger WJ,Westerberg H,Adissu H,Baker CN,Bower L,Brown JM,Caddle LB,Chiani F,Clary D,Cleak J,Daly MJ,Denegre JM,Doe B,Dolan ME,Edie SM,Fuchs

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term reconstitution of the lymphohaematopoietic cells of a mouse after lethal irradiation requires the transplantation of at least (5-10) x 10(3) bone marrow cells. Several cell-separation techniques based on cell-surface characteristics have been used in attempts to identify the pluripotent haematopoietic stem c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jones RJ,Wagner JE,Celano P,Zicha MS,Sharkis SJ

更新日期：1990-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Brosnan and de Waal report that capuchin monkeys show evidence of a sense of fairness or 'inequity aversion' because they rejected a less preferred reward when they saw a partner monkey receive a preferred reward for the same task. However, this does not show that monkeys are averse to inequity, only that they reject ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wynne CD

更新日期：2004-03-11 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：:Caloric restriction extends lifespan in numerous species. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae this effect requires Sir2 (ref. 1), a member of the sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent deacetylases. Sirtuin activating compounds (STACs) can promote the survival of human cells and extend the replicative lifespan of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wood JG,Rogina B,Lavu S,Howitz K,Helfand SL,Tatar M,Sinclair D

更新日期：2004-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomy of a parasite can be an important guide to its pathogenic characteristics. A wide range of anatomical, biochemical and behavioural tests is now being developed to define different strains and subspecies of the main tropical parasites. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Godfrey DG

更新日期：1978-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite observations have transformed our understanding of the Antarctic cryosphere. The continent holds the vast majority of Earth's fresh water, and blankets swathes of the Southern Hemisphere in ice. Reductions in the thickness and extent of floating ice shelves have disturbed inland ice, triggering retreat, acce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shepherd A,Fricker HA,Farrell SL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-GLUTAMATE and L-aspartate are thought to have a widespread function as synaptic transmitters in the mammalian central nervous system and there are at least three types of neuronal glutamate receptors, which can be activated by the selective agonists N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), quisqualate and kainate. Recent experi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Usowicz MM,Gallo V,Cull-Candy SG

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(S)-2-hydroxypropylphosphonate ((S)-2-HPP) epoxidase (HppE) is a mononuclear non-haem-iron-dependent enzyme responsible for the final step in the biosynthesis of the clinically useful antibiotic fosfomycin. Enzymes of this class typically catalyse oxygenation reactions that proceed via the formation of substrate radic...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chang WC,Dey M,Liu P,Mansoorabadi SO,Moon SJ,Zhao ZK,Drennan CL,Liu HW

更新日期：2013-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundant nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase catalyses the synthesis of poly(ADP-ribose) from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). This protein has an N-terminal DNA-binding domain containing two zinc-fingers, which is linked to the C-terminal NAD(+)-binding domain by a short region containing several ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Satoh MS,Lindahl T

更新日期：1992-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biomolecules are characterized by surfaces containing extended nonpolar regions, and the aggregation and subsequent removal of such surfaces from water is believed to play a critical role in the biomolecular assembly in cells. A better understanding of the hydrophobic hydration of biomolecules may therefore yield...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cheng YK,Rossky PJ

更新日期：1998-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change is among the largest uncertainties affecting future climate change projections. The feedback between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate is partly determined by changes in the turnover time of carbon in land ecosystems, which in turn is an ecosystem p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carvalhais N,Forkel M,Khomik M,Bellarby J,Jung M,Migliavacca M,Mu M,Saatchi S,Santoro M,Thurner M,Weber U,Ahrens B,Beer C,Cescatti A,Randerson JT,Reichstein M

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch genes encode single-pass transmembrane receptors that transduce the extracellular signals responsible for cell fate determination during several steps of metazoan development. The mechanism by which extracellular signals affect gene transcription and ultimately cell fate decisions is beginning to emerge for ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Huppert SS,Le A,Schroeter EH,Mumm JS,Saxena MT,Milner LA,Kopan R

更新日期：2000-06-22 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：:The Pax-6 transcription-factor gene, containing a paired domain and a paired-type homeodomain, is conserved in structure and ubiquitously present among Metazoa. It is required for development of the central nervous system, and is mutated in human aniridia, mouse and rat small eye and Drosophila eyeless. We identified ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Y,Emmons SW

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A large impact by a comet or meteorite releases an enormous amount of energy, which evaporates, melts and fractures the surrounding rocks. Distinctive features of such impacts are 'shatter cones', deformed rocks characterized by hierarchical striated features. Although such features have been used for decades as unequ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sagy A,Reches Z,Fineberg J

更新日期：2002-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of innate immune responses by nucleic acids is crucial to protective and pathological immunities and is mediated by the transmembrane Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and cytosolic receptors. However, it remains unknown whether a mechanism exists that integrates these nucleic-acid-sensing systems. Here we sho...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yanai H,Ban T,Wang Z,Choi MK,Kawamura T,Negishi H,Nakasato M,Lu Y,Hangai S,Koshiba R,Savitsky D,Ronfani L,Akira S,Bianchi ME,Honda K,Tamura T,Kodama T,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2009-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:CDKN2A (INK4a/ARF) is frequently disrupted in various types of human cancer, and germline mutations of this locus can confer susceptibility to melanoma and other tumours. However, because CDKN2A encodes two distinct cell cycle inhibitory proteins, p16INK4a and p14ARF (p19Arf in mice), the mechanism of tumour suppressi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krimpenfort P,Quon KC,Mooi WJ,Loonstra A,Berns A

更新日期：2001-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22-nucleotide endogenous RNAs that often repress the expression of complementary messenger RNAs. In animals, miRNAs derive from characteristic hairpins in primary transcripts through two sequential RNase III-mediated cleavages; Drosha cleaves near the base of the stem to liberate a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruby JG,Jan CH,Bartel DP

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes and archaea use a protease called the proteasome that has an integral role in maintaining cellular function through the selective degradation of proteins. Proteolysis occurs in a barrel-shaped 20S core particle, which in Thermoplasma acidophilum is built from four stacked homoheptameric rings of subunits, α...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruschak AM,Religa TL,Breuer S,Witt S,Kay LE

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear protein, CREB, has been isolated from rat brain and shown to stimulate transcription of the cyclic AMP-responsive gene somatostatin as a dimer. Biochemical analysis suggests that dimerization and transcriptional efficacy of CREB protein in vitro are regulated by phosphorylation. These findings demonstrate th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yamamoto KK,Gonzalez GA,Biggs WH 3rd,Montminy MR

更新日期：1988-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of ATP hydrolysis to electron transfer by the enzyme nitrogenase during biological nitrogen fixation is an important example of a nucleotide-dependent transduction mechanism. The crystal structure has been determined for the complex between the Fe-protein and MoFe-protein components of nitrogenase stabili...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schindelin H,Kisker C,Schlessman JL,Howard JB,Rees DC

更新日期：1997-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrosulphide ion (HS(-)) and its undissociated form, hydrogen sulphide (H(2)S), which are believed to have been critical to the origin of life on Earth, remain important in physiology and cellular signalling. As a major metabolite in anaerobic bacterial growth, hydrogen sulphide is a product of both assimilatory ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Czyzewski BK,Wang DN

更新日期：2012-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of self-fertilization in hermaphrodites is opposed by costs that decrease the value of self progeny relative to that of outcross progeny. However, self-fertilization is common in plants; 20% are highly selfing and 33% are intermediate between selfing and outcrossing. Darwin proposed an adaptive benefit o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalisz S,Vogler DW,Hanley KM

更新日期：2004-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:For cells of the innate immune system to mount a host defence response to infection, they must recognize products of microbial pathogens such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the endotoxin secreted by Gram-negative bacteria. These cellular responses require intracellular signalling pathways, such as the four MAP kinase (M...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Han J,Jiang Y,Li Z,Kravchenko VV,Ulevitch RJ

更新日期：1997-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) is essential for normal cell function, and controlled changes in pHi may play a central role in cell activation. Sodium-dependent Cl-HCO3 exchange is the dominant mechanism of pHi regulation in the invertebrate cells examined, and also occurs in mammalian cells. The transporter...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Boron WF,Hogan E,Russell JM

更新日期：1988-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous post-translational modifications of histones have been described in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. Growing evidence for dynamic regulation of these modifications, position- and modification-specific protein interactions, and biochemical crosstalk between modifications has strengthened the 'histone co...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McGinty RK,Kim J,Chatterjee C,Roeder RG,Muir TW

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gewin V

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arrest of dorsal root axonal regeneration at the transitional zone between the peripheral and central nervous system has been repeatedly described since the early twentieth century. Here we show that, with trophic support to damaged sensory axons, this regenerative barrier is surmountable. In adult rats with injur...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ramer MS,Priestley JV,McMahon SB

更新日期：2000-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Species that depend on membership in social groups for survival exhibit changes in neuronal gene expression and behaviour when they face restricted social interactions or isolation1-3. Here we show that, across the lifespan of zebrafish (Danio rerio), social isolation specifically decreased the level of transcription ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Anneser L,Alcantara IC,Gemmer A,Mirkes K,Ryu S,Schuman EM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00