Adherens junction protein nectin-4 is the epithelial receptor for measles virus.

abstract：:At birth the trans-placental nutrient supply is suddenly interrupted, and neonates face severe starvation until supply can be restored through milk nutrients. Here, we show that neonates adapt to this adverse circumstance by inducing autophagy. Autophagy is the primary means for the degradation of cytoplasmic constitu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kuma A,Hatano M,Matsui M,Yamamoto A,Nakaya H,Yoshimori T,Ohsumi Y,Tokuhisa T,Mizushima N

更新日期：2004-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin reorganization is governed by multiple post-translational modifications of chromosomal proteins and DNA. These histone modifications are reversible, dynamic events that can regulate DNA-driven cellular processes. However, the molecular mechanisms that coordinate histone modification patterns remain largely u...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fujiki R,Hashiba W,Sekine H,Yokoyama A,Chikanishi T,Ito S,Imai Y,Kim J,He HH,Igarashi K,Kanno J,Ohtake F,Kitagawa H,Roeder RG,Brown M,Kato S

更新日期：2011-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apo B) is crucial for the transport of cholesterol in humans. It is a large secretory protein that mediates the uptake of low-density lipoproteins and renders several forms of lipid droplets soluble in the blood. The binding of lipid by apo B also prevents this hydrophobic protein from precipitating ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chuck SL,Yao Z,Blackhart BD,McCarthy BJ,Lingappa VR

更新日期：1990-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) elicits multiple biological effects through two distinct cell surface receptors, TNF-R1 (p55) and TNF-R2 (p75). Most TNF-mediated biological responses, such as cell death, gene induction, antiviral activity and cytokine production, have been attributed to TNF-R1 (refs 1-5). Gene targeting ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Erickson SL,de Sauvage FJ,Kikly K,Carver-Moore K,Pitts-Meek S,Gillett N,Sheehan KC,Schreiber RD,Goeddel DV,Moore MW

更新日期：1994-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:7SL RNA is an abundant cytoplasmic RNA which functions in protein secretion as a component of the signal recognition particle. Alu sequences are the most abundant family of human and rodent middle repetitive DNA sequences (reviewed in ref. 2). The primary structure of human 7SL RNA consists of an Alu sequence interrup...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ullu E,Tschudi C

更新日期：1984-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:External agents of mortality (disturbances) occur over a wide range of scales of space and time, and are believed to have large effects on species diversity. The "intermediate disturbance hypothesis", which proposes maximum diversity at intermediate frequencies of disturbance, has received support from both field and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Buckling A,Kassen R,Bell G,Rainey PB

更新日期：2000-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine secretion from mast cells may be inhibited by elevated intracellular levels of cyclic AMP and by several anti-allergic drugs. These compounds are claimed to act directly on the calcium-gating mechanism activated by the anaphylactic reaction, preventing influx of Ca2+ from the external environment and so bloc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ennis M,Truneh A,White JR,Pearce FL

更新日期：1981-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Information--be it classical or quantum--is measured by the amount of communication needed to convey it. In the classical case, if the receiver has some prior information about the messages being conveyed, less communication is needed. Here we explore the concept of prior quantum information: given an unknown quantum ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Horodecki M,Oppenheim J,Winter A

更新日期：2005-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have the ability to renew themselves and to give rise to all lineages of the blood; however, the signals that regulate HSC self-renewal remain unclear. Here we show that the Wnt signalling pathway has an important role in this process. Overexpression of activated beta-catenin expands t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reya T,Duncan AW,Ailles L,Domen J,Scherer DC,Willert K,Hintz L,Nusse R,Weissman IL

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells proteolytically release (shed) the extracellular domains of many cell-surface proteins. Modification of the cell surface in this way can alter the cell's responsiveness to its environment and release potent soluble regulatory factors. The release of soluble tumour-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) from...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Black RA,Rauch CT,Kozlosky CJ,Peschon JJ,Slack JL,Wolfson MF,Castner BJ,Stocking KL,Reddy P,Srinivasan S,Nelson N,Boiani N,Schooley KA,Gerhart M,Davis R,Fitzner JN,Johnson RS,Paxton RJ,March CJ,Cerretti DP

更新日期：1997-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative motion is one of the most salient cues for segmentation of a visual scene into separate objects. This is illustrated by the vivid contours that are perceived when random dot patterns move in different directions. Once motion is halted in such displays the segmentation contours disappear. This makes random dot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lamme VA,van Dijk BW,Spekreijse H

更新日期：1993-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscles of the limbs develop from myogenic progenitors that originate in the paraxial mesoderm and migrate into the limb-bud mesenchyme. Among the genes known to be important for muscle development in mammalian embryos are those encoding the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs;...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mankoo BS,Collins NS,Ashby P,Grigorieva E,Pevny LH,Candia A,Wright CV,Rigby PW,Pachnis V

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry and dimensions of branched structures such as blood vessels or airways are important factors in determining the efficiency of physiological processes. It has been shown that fractal trees can be space filling and can ensure minimal dissipation. The bronchial tree of most mammalian lungs is a good example ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mauroy B,Filoche M,Weibel ER,Sapoval B

更新日期：2004-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of language origin and divergence is important for understanding the history of human populations and their cultures. The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world after Indo-European, and there is a long-running debate about its phylogeny and the time depth of its original divergence1....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang M,Yan S,Pan W,Jin L

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：:Natural composite materials are renowned for their mechanical strength and toughness: despite being highly mineralized, with the organic component constituting not more than a few per cent of the composite material, the fracture toughness exceeds that of single crystals of the pure mineral by two to three orders of ma...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kamat S,Su X,Ballarini R,Heuer AH

更新日期：2000-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Representations of sensory stimuli in the cerebral cortex can undergo progressive remodelling according to the behavioural importance of the stimuli. The cortex receives widespread projections from dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which are activated by new stimuli or unpredicted rewards, and are ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bao S,Chan VT,Merzenich MM

更新日期：2001-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that certain RNA molecules may be able to catalyse RNA replication is central to current theories of the early evolution of life. In support of this idea, we describe here an RNA that synthesizes RNA using the same reaction as that employed by protein enzymes that catalyse RNA polymerization. In the pre...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ekland EH,Bartel DP

更新日期：1996-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothioneins are small cysteine-rich proteins that bind heavy metals such as zinc, cadmium, copper and mercury. Recent interest in these proteins has focused on the part they play in zinc metabolism and heavy metal detoxification. Our interest in metallothionein genes stems largely from the observations that these...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Glanville N,Durnam DM,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1981-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartments in food webs are subgroups of taxa in which many strong interactions occur within the subgroups and few weak interactions occur between the subgroups. Theoretically, compartments increase the stability in networks, such as food webs. Compartments have been difficult to detect in empirical food webs becaus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krause AE,Frank KA,Mason DM,Ulanowicz RE,Taylor WW

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery that epidermal growth factor (EGF) can accelerate opening of the eyelids, the EGF receptor (EGF-R) has been extensively studied and is now considered to be a prototype tyrosine kinase receptor. Binding of EGF or of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) or other related factors activates the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miettinen PJ,Berger JE,Meneses J,Phung Y,Pedersen RA,Werb Z,Derynck R

更新日期：1995-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary function of the adenovirus E1A-region genes is to activate other adenoviral genes during a permissive viral infection by modifying the host cell transcriptional apparatus. Host cell immortalization, or transformation by the whole adenoviral early region, presumably results as a consequence of these modific...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Webster KA,Muscat GE,Kedes L

更新日期：1988-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endochondral ossification, an important process in vertebrate bone formation, is highly dependent on correct functioning of growth plate chondrocytes1. Proliferation of these cells determines longitudinal bone growth and the matrix deposited provides a scaffold for future bone formation. However, these two energy-depe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stegen S,Laperre K,Eelen G,Rinaldi G,Fraisl P,Torrekens S,Van Looveren R,Loopmans S,Bultynck G,Vinckier S,Meersman F,Maxwell PH,Rai J,Weis M,Eyre DR,Ghesquière B,Fendt SM,Carmeliet P,Carmeliet G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opening and closing of voltage-activated Na+, Ca2+ and K+ (Kv) channels underlies electrical and chemical signalling throughout biology, yet the structural basis of voltage sensing is unknown. Hanatoxin is a tarantula toxin that inhibits Kv channels by binding to voltage-sensor paddles, crucial helix-turn-helix mo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Phillips LR,Milescu M,Li-Smerin Y,Mindell JA,Kim JI,Swartz KJ

更新日期：2005-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophilin I is a presynaptic protein of unknown function that binds to dynamin, a GTPase that is implicated in endocytosis and recycling of synaptic vesicles. Here we show that endophilin I is essential for the formation of synaptic-like microvesicles (SLMVs) from the plasma membrane. Endophilin I exhibits lysophosph...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schmidt A,Wolde M,Thiele C,Fest W,Kratzin H,Podtelejnikov AV,Witke W,Huttner WB,Söling HD

更新日期：1999-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of synaptic transmission in the brain and periphery, acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) rapidly transduce a chemical signal into an electrical impulse. The speed of transduction is facilitated by rapid ACh association and dissociation, suggesting a binding site relatively non-selective for small cations. Se...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mukhtasimova N,Lee WY,Wang HL,Sine SM

更新日期：2009-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For many decades comparative analyses of protein sequences and structures have been used to investigate fundamental principles of molecular evolution. In contrast, relatively little is known about the long-term evolution of species' phenotypic and genetic properties. This represents an important gap in our understandi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Plata G,Henry CS,Vitkup D

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences containing the 5'-flanking regions of the insulin and chymotrypsin genes were linked to the coding sequence of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. The insulin gene recombinant elicits preferential expression of CAT activity when introduced into cells producing insulin; similarly, the chymot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Walker MD,Edlund T,Boulet AM,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1983-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells recognize foreign proteins as peptides bound to self molecules encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The kinetics of interaction between purified class II MHC molecules and peptides is unusual, in that the rate of association is very slow, but once formed, the complexes are extremely stable. T...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Adorini L,Appella E,Doria G,Cardinaux F,Nagy ZA

更新日期：1989-12-14 00:00:00