In vitro genetic analysis of the Tetrahymena self-splicing intron.

abstract：:Synapse assembly requires trans-synaptic signals between the pre- and postsynapse, but our understanding of the essential organizational molecules involved in this process remains incomplete. Teneurin proteins are conserved, epidermal growth factor (EGF)-repeat-containing transmembrane proteins with large extracellula...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mosca TJ,Hong W,Dani VS,Favaloro V,Luo L

更新日期：2012-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Curare has long been regarded as a typical competitive antagonist of acetylcholine (ACh) at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction. Recently, however, it has been shown that curare can also block the channels opened by ACh at the frog neuromuscular junction as well as on rat and Aplysia neurones; moreover, curare is ab...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Trautmann A

更新日期：1982-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In information processing, as in physics, our classical world view provides an incomplete approximation to an underlying quantum reality. Quantum effects like interference and entanglement play no direct role in conventional information processing, but they can--in principle now, but probably eventually in practice--b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bennett CH,DiVincenzo DP

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which an organism is selected to invest in defences against pathogens and parasites depends on the advantages that ensue should infection occur, but also on the costs of maintaining defences in the absence of infection. The presence of heritable variation in resistance suggests that costs exist, but we k...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kraaijeveld AR,Godfray HC

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not yet clear whether humans are able to learn while they are sleeping. Here we show that full-term human newborns can be taught to discriminate between similar vowel sounds when they are fast asleep. It is possible that such sleep training soon after birth could find application in clinical or educational situa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cheour M,Martynova O,Näätänen R,Erkkola R,Sillanpää M,Kero P,Raz A,Kaipio ML,Hiltunen J,Aaltonen O,Savela J,Hämäläinen H

更新日期：2002-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility resulting from a severe defect in sperm production affects 2% of men worldwide. Of these men with azoospermia, the absence of sperm in semen, one in eight carry de novo deletions for a specific region of the Y chromosome. A candidate gene for the Y-chromosome azoospermia factor (AZF) has been identified an...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eberhart CG,Maines JZ,Wasserman SA

更新日期：1996-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Class-V myosin proceeds along actin filaments with large ( approximately 36 nm) steps. Myosin-V has two heads, each of which consists of a motor domain and a long (23 nm) neck domain. In accordance with the widely accepted lever-arm model, it was suggested that myosin-V steps to successive (36 nm) target zones along t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanaka H,Homma K,Iwane AH,Katayama E,Ikebe R,Saito J,Yanagida T,Ikebe M

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of geochemical species in the Earth's interior is largely controlled by fractional melting and crystallization processes that are intimately linked to the thermal state and evolution of the mantle. The existence of patches of dense partial melt at the base of the Earth's mantle, together with estimate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Labrosse S,Hernlund JW,Coltice N

更新日期：2007-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer patients with the same stage of disease can have markedly different treatment responses and overall outcome. The strongest predictors for metastases (for example, lymph node status and histological grade) fail to classify accurately breast tumours according to their clinical behaviour. Chemotherapy or ho...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van 't Veer LJ,Dai H,van de Vijver MJ,He YD,Hart AA,Mao M,Peterse HL,van der Kooy K,Marton MJ,Witteveen AT,Schreiber GJ,Kerkhoven RM,Roberts C,Linsley PS,Bernards R,Friend SH

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial genomes (mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA) encode essential oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) components. Because hundreds of mtDNAs exist per cell, a deletion in a single mtDNA has little impact. However, if the deletion genome is enriched, OXPHOS declines, resulting in cellular dysfunction. For example, Kearn...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lin YF,Schulz AM,Pellegrino MW,Lu Y,Shaham S,Haynes CM

更新日期：2016-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, organisms are exposed to chronic low-dose ultraviolet light (CLUV) as opposed to the acute high doses common to laboratory experiments. Analysis of the cellular response to acute high-dose exposure has delineated the importance of direct DNA repair by the nucleotide excision repair pathway and for checkpoin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hishida T,Kubota Y,Carr AM,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2009-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Therizinosauroids are an enigmatic group of dinosaurs known mostly from the Cretaceous period of Asia, whose derived members are characterized by elongate necks, laterally expanded pelves, small, leaf-shaped teeth, edentulous rostra and mandibular symphyses that probably bore keratinized beaks. Although more than a do...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kirkland JI,Zanno LE,Sampson SD,Clark JM,DeBlieux DD

更新日期：2005-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box RNA helicases are vital for the regulation of various aspects of the RNA life cycle, but the molecular underpinnings of their involvement, particularly in mammalian cells, remain poorly understood. Here we show that the DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX21 can sense the transcriptional status of both RNA polymerase (P...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Calo E,Flynn RA,Martin L,Spitale RC,Chang HY,Wysocka J

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine invertebrates and fish respond to hydrostatic pressure in order to regulate their depth and synchronize their behaviour to tidal cycles. Here we investigate the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the vestibular hair cells located in the labyrinth of the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula, and find that it modula...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fraser PJ,Shelmerdine RL

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fault strength is a fundamental property of seismogenic zones, and its temporal changes can increase or decrease the likelihood of failure and the ultimate triggering of seismic events. Although changes in fault strength have been suggested to explain various phenomena, such as the remote triggering of seismicity, the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Taira T,Silver PG,Niu F,Nadeau RM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, a large group of structural genes exhibit coordinate regulation, not because they function in a common developmental pathway but because they happen to reside on the X chromosome. These genes are subjected to the regulatory mechanism of dosage compensation which insures that their phenotypic products ar...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Belote JM,Lucchesi JC

更新日期：1980-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Demethylation at distinct lysine residues in histone H3 by lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) causes either gene repression or activation. As a component of co-repressor complexes, LSD1 contributes to target gene repression by removing mono- and dimethyl marks from lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4). In contrast, during ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Metzger E,Imhof A,Patel D,Kahl P,Hoffmeyer K,Friedrichs N,Müller JM,Greschik H,Kirfel J,Ji S,Kunowska N,Beisenherz-Huss C,Günther T,Buettner R,Schüle R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNAs for two distinct anglerfish somatostatin peptides (termed I and II) have been cloned in bacterial plasmids and sequenced. The nucleotide sequence for somatostatin I encodes a large percursor peptide (molecular weight 13,300) in which the somatostatin hormones is at the carboxyl terminus. The predict...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hobart P,Crawford R,Shen L,Pictet R,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1980-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a soluble form of the T lymphocyte antigen CD2 provides the first complete view of the extracellular region of a cell adhesion molecule. The topology of the molecule, which comprises two immunoglobulin-like domains, is the same as that of the first two domains of CD4 but the relative domain or...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jones EY,Davis SJ,Williams AF,Harlos K,Stuart DI

更新日期：1992-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Commission has made good progress in gathering support for its new programme of basic and applied research. Now Europe's industries and heads of state need to fulfill promises made two years ago. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus has been determined at close to atomic resolution by X-ray diffraction without experimental phase information. The virus shows similarities with other picornaviruses but also several unique features. The canyon or pit found in other picornaviruses is absent; this has impor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Acharya R,Fry E,Stuart D,Fox G,Rowlands D,Brown F

更新日期：1989-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics, the large-scale analysis of proteins, will contribute greatly to our understanding of gene function in the post-genomic era. Proteomics can be divided into three main areas: (1) protein micro-characterization for large-scale identification of proteins and their post-translational modifications; (2) 'differ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pandey A,Mann M

更新日期：2000-06-15 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：:How does the human visual system 'bind' different fragments in the visual scene to create enduring representations of objects? A visual illusion known as 'metacontrast' or backward masking provides compelling evidence that perception is not instantaneous and that it occurs sequentially in distinct stages. If a solid w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ramachandran VS,Cobb S

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular machinery responsible for the generation of transport carriers moving from the Golgi complex to the plasma membrane relies on a tight interplay between proteins and lipids. Among the lipid-binding proteins of this machinery, we previously identified the four-phosphate adaptor protein FAPP2, the pleckstri...

journal_title：Nature

authors： D'Angelo G,Polishchuk E,Di Tullio G,Santoro M,Di Campli A,Godi A,West G,Bielawski J,Chuang CC,van der Spoel AC,Platt FM,Hannun YA,Polishchuk R,Mattjus P,De Matteis MA

更新日期：2007-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of transformation of the overtly similar cells of the neural plate into the numerous and diverse cell types of the mature vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) can better be understood by studying the clonal development of isolated CNS precursor cells. Here I describe a culture system in which blast ce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Temple S

更新日期：1989-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is thought that in skeletal muscle excitation-contraction (EC) coupling, the release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum is controlled by the dihydropyridine (DHP) receptor in the transverse tubular membrane, where it serves as the voltage sensor. We have shown previously that injection of an expression plasmid...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanabe T,Beam KG,Adams BA,Niidome T,Numa S

更新日期：1990-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A high degree of polymorphism for the length and copy number of rDNA spacers, in both the X and Y chromosome clusters, has been found in a wild population of Drosophila melanogaster. The genetic behaviour of rDNA structural variants in separate and mixed populations derived from isofemale lines suggest that they are n...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Coen ES,Thoday JM,Dover G

更新日期：1982-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard form of back-propagation learning is implausible as a model of perceptual learning because it requires an external teacher to specify the desired output of the network. We show how the external teacher can be replaced by internally derived teaching signals. These signals are generated by using the assumpt...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Becker S,Hinton GE

更新日期：1992-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Colorado plateau is a large, tectonically intact, physiographic province in the southwestern North American Cordillera that stands at ∼1,800-2,000 m elevation and has long been thought to be in isostatic equilibrium. The origin of these high elevations is unclear because unlike the surrounding provinces, which hav...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Levander A,Schmandt B,Miller MS,Liu K,Karlstrom KE,Crow RS,Lee CT,Humphreys ED

更新日期：2011-04-28 00:00:00