A close nuclear black-hole pair in the spiral galaxy NGC 3393.

abstract：:The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy, along with transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteom...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang G,Fang X,Guo X,Li L,Luo R,Xu F,Yang P,Zhang L,Wang X,Qi H,Xiong Z,Que H,Xie Y,Holland PW,Paps J,Zhu Y,Wu F,Chen Y,Wang J,Peng C,Meng J,Yang L,Liu J,Wen B,Zhang N,Huang Z,Zhu Q,Feng Y,Mount A

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of many of the complement proteins by cells of the monocyte-macrophage series has been established. Studies on these cells using radiolabelled amino acids demonstrated synthesis of precursor proteins (pro-complement), and the native complement protein similar in size to that found in the plasma. Howev...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ooi YM,Ooi BS

更新日期：1982-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that initial sensitization to airborne environmental allergens occurs typically in early childhood, but subsequent progression to persistent atopic asthma, which may not manifest for several years, is restricted to only a subset of atopics. The key to establishing the link between atopy and a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Holt PG,Macaubas C,Stumbles PA,Sly PD

更新日期：1999-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of planarian regeneration may help us to understand how we can rebuild organs and tissues after injury, disease or ageing. The robust regenerative abilities of planarians are based upon a population of totipotent stem cells (neoblasts), and among the organs regenerated by these animals is a well-organized ce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cebrià F,Kobayashi C,Umesono Y,Nakazawa M,Mineta K,Ikeo K,Gojobori T,Itoh M,Taira M,Sánchez Alvarado A,Agata K

更新日期：2002-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminishing fossil fuel reserves and growing concerns about global warming indicate that sustainable sources of energy are needed in the near future. For fuels to be useful in the transportation sector, they must have specific physical properties that allow for efficient distribution, storage and combustion; these pro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Román-Leshkov Y,Barrett CJ,Liu ZY,Dumesic JA

更新日期：2007-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Juxtaposition between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria is a common structural feature, providing the physical basis for intercommunication during Ca(2+) signalling; yet, the molecular mechanisms controlling this interaction are unknown. Here we show that mitofusin 2, a mitochondrial dynamin-related protein ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： de Brito OM,Scorrano L

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether nicotine, the neuroactive compound of tobacco, is addictive has been open to considerable scientific and public discussion. Although it can serve as a positive reinforcer in several animal species, including man, nicotine is thought to be a weak reinforcer in comparison with addictive drugs suc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pontieri FE,Tanda G,Orzi F,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1996-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of mutations affecting flower structure has led to the identification of some of the genes that direct flower development. Cloning of these genes has allowed the formulation of molecular models of how floral meristem and organ identity may be specified, and has shown that the distantly related flowering p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Coen ES,Meyerowitz EM

更新日期：1991-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycorrhizae, the symbiotic associations of plant roots and fungal hyphae, are classic examples of mutualisms. In these ecologically important associations, the fungi derive photosynthetic sugars from their plant hosts, which in turn benefit from fungus-mediated uptake of mineral nutrients. Early views on the evolution...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hibbett DS,Gilbert LB,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2000-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Arid ecosystems, which occupy about 20% of the earth's terrestrial surface area, have been predicted to be one of the most responsive ecosystem types to elevated atmospheric CO2 and associated global climate change. Here we show, using free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) technology in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem, tha...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Smith SD,Huxman TE,Zitzer SF,Charlet TN,Housman DC,Coleman JS,Fenstermaker LK,Seemann JR,Nowak RS

更新日期：2000-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in quantum physics research. In particular, strong coupling between individual quantum systems and mechanical oscillators is being actively studied1-3. Whereas both read-out of mechanical motion using coherent control of spin systems4-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Delord T,Huillery P,Nicolas L,Hétet G

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid hormone receptors are a class of cell-specific trans-acting transcription regulatory factors whose activity is controlled by specific binding of the hormone. The hormone-receptor complex appears to associate with promoter/enhancer elements of specific target genes, resulting in activation of transcription (see...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Green S,Chambon P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing concern about how loss of biodiversity will affect ecosystems has stimulated numerous studies. Although most studies have assumed that species go extinct randomly, species often go extinct in order of their sensitivity to a stress that intensifies through time (such as climate change). Here we show that the co...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ives AR,Cardinale BJ

更新日期：2004-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:With the discovery1 of superconductivity at 203 kelvin in H3S, attention returned to conventional superconductors with properties that can be described by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer and the Migdal-Eliashberg theories. Although these theories predict the possibility of room-temperature superconductivity in metals th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Drozdov AP,Kong PP,Minkov VS,Besedin SP,Kuzovnikov MA,Mozaffari S,Balicas L,Balakirev FF,Graf DE,Prakapenka VB,Greenberg E,Knyazev DA,Tkacz M,Eremets MI

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast nuclear protein Yra1p is an essential export factor for mRNA. Yra1p interacts directly with the mRNA transport factor Mex67p/Mtr2p, which is associated with the nuclear pore. Here, we report a genetic interaction between YRA1 and SUB2, the gene for a DEAD box helicase involved in splicing. Mutation of SUB2 a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Strässer K,Hurt E

更新日期：2001-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical development of an inhibitor of cellular proteasome function suggests that compounds targeting other components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system might prove useful for the treatment of human malignancies. NEDD8-activating enzyme (NAE) is an essential component of the NEDD8 conjugation pathway that contro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Soucy TA,Smith PG,Milhollen MA,Berger AJ,Gavin JM,Adhikari S,Brownell JE,Burke KE,Cardin DP,Critchley S,Cullis CA,Doucette A,Garnsey JJ,Gaulin JL,Gershman RE,Lublinsky AR,McDonald A,Mizutani H,Narayanan U,Olhava EJ

更新日期：2009-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins (activators) function, at least in part, by increasing preinitiation complex assembly (for reviews see refs 1-4). Previous studies have shown that an acidic activator forms a contact with the general transcription factor TFIIB (refs 5-7) and recruits it into the preinitiation complex...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roberts SG,Green MR

更新日期：1994-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermethylation of the promoters of tumour suppressor genes represses transcription of these genes, conferring growth advantages to cancer cells. How these changes arise is poorly understood. Here we show that the activity of oxygen-dependent ten-eleven translocation (TET) enzymes is reduced by tumour hypoxia in huma...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thienpont B,Steinbacher J,Zhao H,D'Anna F,Kuchnio A,Ploumakis A,Ghesquière B,Van Dyck L,Boeckx B,Schoonjans L,Hermans E,Amant F,Kristensen VN,Peng Koh K,Mazzone M,Coleman M,Carell T,Carmeliet P,Lambrechts D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, heterozygous animal cells express both alleles at a particular locus. The only exceptions are cells of XX genotype after inactivation of one X chromosome, and immunoglobulin-producing cells; in each case only one of the two alleles is expressed in differentiated cells and their progeny. This phenomenon, te...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Joho R,Weissman IL

更新日期：1980-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuronal cells, opioid peptides and opiates inhibit neurotransmitter release, which is a calcium-dependent process. They also inhibit adenylyl cyclase, presumably via the membrane signal-transducing component, Gi, a guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G-protein). No causal relationship between these two events has ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hescheler J,Rosenthal W,Trautwein W,Schultz G

更新日期：1987-01-29 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：: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：:The lack of a reliable theory of glass physics has led to the pursuit of correlations between various glass or viscous liquid parameters, one of which is the slope m of the plot of log(viscosity) against Tg/T, extrapolated at the glass-transition temperature, Tg, also termed 'fragility'. Novikov and Sokolov conclude t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yannopoulos SN,Johari GP

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of photolabile caged neurotransmitters has made possible the study of the split-second kinetics of receptor-ligand interactions. An instrument has now been developed for activating the neurotransmitter and measuring the neuron's response. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marque JJ

更新日期：1989-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about metabolic regulation in stem cells and how this modulates tissue regeneration or tumour suppression. We studied the Lkb1 tumour suppressor and its substrate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), kinases that coordinate metabolism with cell growth. Deletion of the Lkb1 (also called Stk11) gene in m...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nakada D,Saunders TL,Morrison SJ

更新日期：2010-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of death from infection worldwide1. The only available vaccine, BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), is given intradermally and has variable efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis, the major cause of mortality and disease transmission1,2. Here we show that intravenous ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Darrah PA,Zeppa JJ,Maiello P,Hackney JA,Wadsworth MH 2nd,Hughes TK,Pokkali S,Swanson PA 2nd,Grant NL,Rodgers MA,Kamath M,Causgrove CM,Laddy DJ,Bonavia A,Casimiro D,Lin PL,Klein E,White AG,Scanga CA,Shalek AK,Roede

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid decrease in shear velocity in the suboceanic mantle is used to infer the thickness of the lithosphere. It is proposed that new and highly precise group velocity data constrain the solutions and imply a thickness near 70 km. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kanamori H,Press F

更新日期：1970-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent and characterized by open chromatin and high transcription levels, achieved through auto-regulatory and feed-forward transcription factor loops. ES-cell identity is maintained by a core of factors including Oct4 (also known as Pou5f1), Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc (OSKM) and Nanog, and f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pijnappel WW,Esch D,Baltissen MP,Wu G,Mischerikow N,Bergsma AJ,van der Wal E,Han DW,Bruch Hv,Moritz S,Lijnzaad P,Altelaar AF,Sameith K,Zaehres H,Heck AJ,Holstege FC,Schöler HR,Timmers HT

更新日期：2013-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southern Ocean is very important for the potential sequestration of carbon dioxide in the oceans and is expected to be vulnerable to changes in carbon export forced by anthropogenic climate warming. Annual phytoplankton blooms in seasonal ice zones are highly productive and are thought to contribute significantly ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： DiTullio GR,Grebmeier JM,Arrigo KR,Lizotte MP,Robinson DH,Leventer A,Barry JP,VanWoert ML,Dunbar RB

更新日期：2000-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare and fatal human premature ageing disease, characterized by premature arteriosclerosis and degeneration of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs). HGPS is caused by a single point mutation in the lamin A (LMNA) gene, resulting in the generation of progerin, a truncated...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu GH,Barkho BZ,Ruiz S,Diep D,Qu J,Yang SL,Panopoulos AD,Suzuki K,Kurian L,Walsh C,Thompson J,Boue S,Fung HL,Sancho-Martinez I,Zhang K,Yates J 3rd,Izpisua Belmonte JC

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00