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abstract：:The identification of properties that contribute to the persistence and resilience of ecosystems despite climate change constitutes a research priority of global relevance. Here we present a novel, empirical approach to assess the relative sensitivity of ecosystems to climate variability, one property of resilience th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Seddon AW,Macias-Fauria M,Long PR,Benz D,Willis KJ

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of CD4(+) T cells characterized by secretion of interleukin (IL)-17 (T(H)17 cells) and the naturally occurring regulatory FOXP3(+) CD4 T cell (nT(reg)) has had a major impact on our understanding of immune processes not readily explained by the T(H)1/T(H)2 paradigm. T(H)17 and nT(reg) cells have b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yang L,Anderson DE,Baecher-Allan C,Hastings WD,Bettelli E,Oukka M,Kuchroo VK,Hafler DA

更新日期：2008-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly conserved protein gamma-tubulin is required for microtubule nucleation in vivo. When viewed in the electron microscope, a highly purified gamma-tubulin complex from Xenopus consisting of at least seven different proteins is seen to have an open ring structure. This complex acts as an active microtubule-nucl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zheng Y,Wong ML,Alberts B,Mitchison T

更新日期：1995-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The TGFβ pathway has essential roles in embryonic development, organ homeostasis, tissue repair and disease. These diverse effects are mediated through the intracellular effectors SMAD2 and SMAD3 (hereafter SMAD2/3), whose canonical function is to control the activity of target genes by interacting with transcriptiona...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bertero A,Brown S,Madrigal P,Osnato A,Ortmann D,Yiangou L,Kadiwala J,Hubner NC,de Los Mozos IR,Sadée C,Lenaerts AS,Nakanoh S,Grandy R,Farnell E,Ule J,Stunnenberg HG,Mendjan S,Vallier L

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary biologist "studies the steps by which the miraculous adaptations so characteristic of every aspect of the organic world have evolved". But the general nature of such adaptive steps is still unclear. Evolution is often thought to be random and dependent on unpredictable events. In this light, one might...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gerrish P

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients1,2 of unknown origin. Two possible mechanisms that could generate extremely coherent emission from FRBs invoke neutron star magnetospheres3-5 or relativistic shocks far from the central energy source6-8. Detailed polarization observations may help us t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Luo R,Wang BJ,Men YP,Zhang CF,Jiang JC,Xu H,Wang WY,Lee KJ,Han JL,Zhang B,Caballero RN,Chen MZ,Chen XL,Gan HQ,Guo YJ,Hao LF,Huang YX,Jiang P,Li H,Li J,Li ZX,Luo JT,Pan J,Pei X,Qian L,Sun JH,Wang M,Wa

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleation of aerosol particles from trace atmospheric vapours is thought to provide up to half of global cloud condensation nuclei. Aerosols can cause a net cooling of climate by scattering sunlight and by leading to smaller but more numerous cloud droplets, which makes clouds brighter and extends their lifetimes. At...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Almeida J,Schobesberger S,Kürten A,Ortega IK,Kupiainen-Määttä O,Praplan AP,Adamov A,Amorim A,Bianchi F,Breitenlechner M,David A,Dommen J,Donahue NM,Downard A,Dunne E,Duplissy J,Ehrhart S,Flagan RC,Franchin A,Guida R

更新日期：2013-10-17 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：:To understand the mechanism of muscular contraction and its regulation by Ca2+ (ref. 3), it is important to know the arrangement and configuration of the myosin heads in the space between thin and thick filaments in relaxed muscle. This information is still lacking, mainly because the myosin reflections in the X-ray d...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Maéda Y

更新日期：1983-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour suppressor genes (TSGs) inhibiting normal cellular growth are frequently silenced epigenetically in cancer. DNA methylation is commonly associated with TSG silencing, yet mutations in the DNA methylation initiation and recognition machinery in carcinogenesis are unknown. An intriguing possible mechanism for gen...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yu W,Gius D,Onyango P,Muldoon-Jacobs K,Karp J,Feinberg AP,Cui H

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse genetic revolution has shown repeatedly that most organs have more functions than expected. This has led to the realization that, in addition to a molecular and cellular approach, there is a need for a whole-organism study of physiology. The skeleton is an example of how a whole-organism approach to physiolo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Karsenty G,Ferron M

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian tissues the C-terminal amide structure has been found to occur only in neuroactive or hormonally-active peptides. About half known neuropeptide and peptide hormones have this unique chemical feature. Using a chemical detection method, a search for previously unknown peptides that possess the C-terminal am...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tatemoto K,Efendić S,Mutt V,Makk G,Feistner GJ,Barchas JD

更新日期：1986-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilms' tumour (WT), a paediatric renal neoplasm, affect approximately 1 in 10,000 children. One or both kidneys can be affected and 5-10% of tumours are bilateral. Most tumours occur sporadically; however, around 1% of the cases are familial, with siblings or cousins most often being affected. Familial cases are more ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Huff V,Compton DA,Chao LY,Strong LC,Geiser CF,Saunders GF

更新日期：1988-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals owe part of their evolutionary success to the harmonious exchanges of information, energy and immunity between females and their offspring. This functional reciprocity is vital for the survival and normal development of infants, and for the inclusive fitness of parents. It is best seen in the intense exchanges...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schaal B,Coureaud G,Langlois D,Giniès C,Sémon E,Perrier G

更新日期：2003-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer contributes to an increase in terrestrial solar ultraviolet-B radiation. This has deleterious effects on living organisms, such as DNA damage. When exposed to elevated ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B; 280-315 nm), plants display a wide variety of physiological and mor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ries G,Heller W,Puchta H,Sandermann H,Seidlitz HK,Hohn B

更新日期：2000-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Joining dissimilar materials such as plastics and metals in engineered structures remains a challenge1. Mechanical fastening, conventional welding and adhesive bonding are examples of techniques currently used for this purpose, but each of these methods presents its own set of problems2 such as formation of stress con...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rivera J,Hosseini MS,Restrepo D,Murata S,Vasile D,Parkinson DY,Barnard HS,Arakaki A,Zavattieri P,Kisailus D

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide (p(CO(2))) will almost certainly be double that of pre-industrial levels by 2100 and will be considerably higher than at any time during the past few million years. The oceans are a principal sink for anthropogenic CO(2) where it is estimated to have caused a 30% incr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hall-Spencer JM,Rodolfo-Metalpa R,Martin S,Ransome E,Fine M,Turner SM,Rowley SJ,Tedesco D,Buia MC

更新日期：2008-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitters modulate the activity of ion channels through a variety of second messengers, including cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP and the products of phosphatidylinositol breakdown. Little is known about how different transmitters acting through different second-messenger systems interact within a cell to regulate sing...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Belardetti F,Kandel ER,Siegelbaum SA

更新日期：1987-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyc- variants of S49 lymphoma cells have served as powerful tools for studying the components and mechanisms of hormone-induced adenylate cyclase stimulation, as these cells are deficient in the guanine nucleotide regulatory site (Ns) mediating hormone, guanine nucleotide, cholera toxin and fluoride-induced stimul...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jakobs KH,Aktories K,Schultz G

更新日期：1983-05-12 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：:The carotid body type I cell contains amines and has features, both morphological and cytochemical, which indicate that it may also produce a peptide. Many regulatory peptides are now known to be present in both central and peripheral tissues. In the periphery these neuropeptides occur in both classical endocrine (APU...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wharton J,Polak JM,Pearse AG,McGregor GP,Bryant MG,Bloom SR,Emson PC,Bisgard GE,Will JA

更新日期：1980-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that the 5' to 3' polarity of DNA synthesis results in both a leading and lagging strand at all replication forks. Until now, however, there has been no evidence that leading or lagging strands are spatially organized in any way within a cell. Here we show that chromosome segregation in Escheric...

journal_title：Nature

authors： White MA,Eykelenboom JK,Lopez-Vernaza MA,Wilson E,Leach DR

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:P2Y receptors (P2YRs), a family of purinergic G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), are activated by extracellular nucleotides. There are a total of eight distinct functional P2YRs expressed in human, which are subdivided into P2Y1-like receptors and P2Y12-like receptors. Their ligands are generally charged molecules w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang K,Zhang J,Gao ZG,Zhang D,Zhu L,Han GW,Moss SM,Paoletta S,Kiselev E,Lu W,Fenalti G,Zhang W,Müller CE,Yang H,Jiang H,Cherezov V,Katritch V,Jacobson KA,Stevens RC,Wu B,Zhao Q

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of iron limits primary productivity and the associated uptake of carbon over large areas of the ocean. Iron thus plays an important role in the carbon cycle, and changes in its supply to the surface ocean may have had a significant effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over glacial-inter...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Blain S,Quéguiner B,Armand L,Belviso S,Bombled B,Bopp L,Bowie A,Brunet C,Brussaard C,Carlotti F,Christaki U,Corbière A,Durand I,Ebersbach F,Fuda JL,Garcia N,Gerringa L,Griffiths B,Guigue C,Guillerm C,Jacquet S,J

更新日期：2007-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The versatility of Ca2+ signals derives from their spatio-temporal organization. For Ca2+ signals initiated by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3), this requires local interactions between InsP3 receptors (InsP3Rs) mediated by their rapid stimulation and slower inhibition\ by cytosolic Ca2+. This allows hierarchical ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Taufiq-Ur-Rahman,Skupin A,Falcke M,Taylor CW

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell clones that grow continuously in tissue culture have become a major tool for studying the properties of T lymphocytes. It is therefore important to know to what extent such clones resemble their normal counterparts. Several reports have appeared recently which demonstrate that long-term T-cell lines may lose th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Simon MM,Weltzien HU,Bühring HJ,Eichmann K

更新日期：1984-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease is a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that can involve the entire digestive tract. A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) encoding a missense variant in the autophagy gene ATG16L1 (rs2241880, Thr300Ala) is strongly associated with the incidence of Crohn's disease. Numerous studies have dem...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Murthy A,Li Y,Peng I,Reichelt M,Katakam AK,Noubade R,Roose-Girma M,DeVoss J,Diehl L,Graham RR,van Lookeren Campagne M

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanomachines of the future will require molecular-scale motors that can perform work and collectively induce controlled motion of much larger objects. We have designed a synthetic, light-driven molecular motor that is embedded in a liquid-crystal film and can rotate objects placed on the film that exceed the size of t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eelkema R,Pollard MM,Vicario J,Katsonis N,Ramon BS,Bastiaansen CW,Broer DJ,Feringa BL

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitter/sodium symporters (NSSs) couple the uptake of neurotransmitter with one or more sodium ions, removing neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft. NSSs are essential to the function of chemical synapses, are associated with multiple neurological diseases and disorders, and are the targets of therapeutic ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Piscitelli CL,Krishnamurthy H,Gouaux E

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective lowering of Abeta42 levels (the 42-residue isoform of the amyloid-beta peptide) with small-molecule gamma-secretase modulators (GSMs), such as some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, is a promising therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's disease. To identify the target of these agents we developed biotinyla...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kukar TL,Ladd TB,Bann MA,Fraering PC,Narlawar R,Maharvi GM,Healy B,Chapman R,Welzel AT,Price RW,Moore B,Rangachari V,Cusack B,Eriksen J,Jansen-West K,Verbeeck C,Yager D,Eckman C,Ye W,Sagi S,Cottrell BA,Torpey J

更新日期：2008-06-12 00:00:00