Nucleation and growth of fibres and gel formation in sickle cell haemoglobin.

Abstract:

:Deoxygenated sickle haemoglobin polymerizes into long 210-A diameter fibres that distort and decrease the deformability of red blood cells, and cause sickle cell disease. The fibres consist of seven intertwined double strands. They can form birefringent nematic liquid crystals (tactoids) and spherulites. Rheologically, the system behaves as a gel. The equilibria show a phase separation and a solubility. The reaction kinetics show a delay time, are then roughly exponential and are highly dependent on concentration and temperature, and accord with the double nucleation model. But these conclusions are derived from macroscopic data, without direct observation of individual fibres. We have now used non-invasive video-enhanced differential interference contrast (DIC) and dark-field microscopy to observe nucleation, growth and interaction of sickle deoxyhaemoglobin fibres in real time. The fibres originate both from centres that produce many radially distributed fibres and on the surface of pre-existing fibres, from which they then branch. The resulting network is cross-linked and dynamic in that it is flexible and continues to grow and cross-link. Our results support most aspects of the double nucleation model.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Samuel RE,Salmon ED,Briehl RW

doi

10.1038/345833a0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-06-28 00:00:00

pages

833-5

issue

6278

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

journal_volume

345

pub_type

杂志文章

相关文献

NATURE文献大全
  • Measurement of thermal contribution to photoreceptor sensitivity.

    abstract::Activation of a visual pigment molecule to initiate phototransduction requires a minimum energy, Ea, that need not be wholly derived from a photon, but may be supplemented by heat. Theory predicts that absorbance at very long wavelengths declines with the fraction of molecules that have a sufficient complement of ther...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/35003242

    authors: Koskelainen A,Ala-Laurila P,Fyhrquist N,Donner K

    更新日期:2000-01-13 00:00:00

  • A glimmer of light for neuropsychiatric disorders.

    abstract::Understanding the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders is a substantial challenge for neurobiologists. It has long been hoped that identifying alleles that confer increased risk of such disorders would provide clues for neurobiological investigation. But this quest has been stymied by a lack of validated biologi...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature07454

    authors: Hyman SE

    更新日期:2008-10-16 00:00:00

  • Long terminal repeats of human T-cell leukaemia virus II genome determine target cell specificity.

    abstract::Human T-cell leukaemias and lymphomas associated with the human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV) are invariably neoplasms of cells with mature T-lymphocyte phenotype. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B- lymphoycte lines which are productively infected with HTLV may be isolated from patients with HTLV malignancies, but no...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/309276a0

    authors: Chen IS,McLaughlin J,Golde DW

    更新日期:1984-05-17 00:00:00

  • Rocket UV flash spectra from the solar eclipse of March 7, 1970.

    abstract::Flash spectra of the total solar eclipse throughout all its phases have been obtained in the extreme ultraviolet for the first time. ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/226249a0

    authors: Speer RJ,Garton WR,Morgan JF,Nicholls RW,Goldberg L,Parkinson WH,Reeves EM,Jones TJ,Paxton HJ,Shenton DB,Wilson R

    更新日期:1970-04-18 00:00:00

  • GLI activation by atypical protein kinase C ι/λ regulates the growth of basal cell carcinomas.

    abstract::Growth of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) requires high levels of hedgehog (HH) signalling through the transcription factor GLI. Although inhibitors of membrane protein smoothened (SMO) effectively suppress HH signalling, early tumour resistance illustrates the need for additional downstream targets for therapy. Here we ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature11889

    authors: Atwood SX,Li M,Lee A,Tang JY,Oro AE

    更新日期:2013-02-28 00:00:00

  • Mentorship training curbs academic abuse.

    abstract:: ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 信件

    doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07308-x

    authors: Liao SE

    更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00

  • A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function.

    abstract::Gene targeting in embryonic stem cells has become the principal technology for manipulation of the mouse genome, offering unrivalled accuracy in allele design and access to conditional mutagenesis. To bring these advantages to the wider research community, large-scale mouse knockout programmes are producing a permanen...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature10163

    authors: Skarnes WC,Rosen B,West AP,Koutsourakis M,Bushell W,Iyer V,Mujica AO,Thomas M,Harrow J,Cox T,Jackson D,Severin J,Biggs P,Fu J,Nefedov M,de Jong PJ,Stewart AF,Bradley A

    更新日期:2011-06-15 00:00:00

  • A rapid mechanism to remobilize and homogenize highly crystalline magma bodies.

    abstract::The largest products of magmatic activity on Earth, the great bodies of granite and their corresponding large eruptions, have a dual nature: homogeneity at the large scale and spatial and temporal heterogeneity at the small scale. This duality calls for a mechanism that selectively removes the large-scale heterogeneit...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature09799

    authors: Burgisser A,Bergantz GW

    更新日期:2011-03-10 00:00:00

  • CCR3 is a target for age-related macular degeneration diagnosis and therapy.

    abstract::Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness worldwide, is as prevalent as cancer in industrialized nations. Most blindness in AMD results from invasion of the retina by choroidal neovascularisation (CNV). Here we show that the eosinophil/mast cell chemokine receptor CCR3 is specifically expres...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature08151

    authors: Takeda A,Baffi JZ,Kleinman ME,Cho WG,Nozaki M,Yamada K,Kaneko H,Albuquerque RJ,Dridi S,Saito K,Raisler BJ,Budd SJ,Geisen P,Munitz A,Ambati BK,Green MG,Ishibashi T,Wright JD,Humbles AA,Gerard CJ,Ogura Y,Pan Y,S

    更新日期:2009-07-09 00:00:00

  • Evolution of the MHC class I genes of a New World primate from ancestral homologues of human non-classical genes.

    abstract::The products of the classical human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes (HLA-A, -B, -C) are highly polymorphic molecules that bind peptides and present them to T lymphocytes. The non-polymorphic, non-classical MHC class I gene products (HLA-E, -F, -G) are not restricting elements for the majority of T...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/346060a0

    authors: Watkins DI,Chen ZW,Hughes AL,Evans MG,Tedder TF,Letvin NL

    更新日期:1990-07-05 00:00:00

  • The gut microbiota is associated with immune cell dynamics in humans.

    abstract::The gut microbiota influences development1-3 and homeostasis4-7 of the mammalian immune system, and is associated with human inflammatory8 and immune diseases9,10 as well as responses to immunotherapy11-14. Nevertheless, our understanding of how gut bacteria modulate the immune system remains limited, particularly in ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2971-8

    authors: Schluter J,Peled JU,Taylor BP,Markey KA,Smith M,Taur Y,Niehus R,Staffas A,Dai A,Fontana E,Amoretti LA,Wright RJ,Morjaria S,Fenelus M,Pessin MS,Chao NJ,Lew M,Bohannon L,Bush A,Sung AD,Hohl TM,Perales MA,van den

    更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00

  • Ecology: ultraviolet reflectance by the skin of nestlings.

    abstract::Birds can perceive the reflectance of ultraviolet light by biological structures. Here we show that the skin of the mouth and body of starling nestlings substantially reflects light in the ultraviolet range and that young in which this reflectance is reduced will gain less mass than controls, despite low background le...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/431262a

    authors: Jourdie V,Moureau B,Bennett AT,Heeb P

    更新日期:2004-09-16 00:00:00

  • A mouse homologue of the Drosophila tumour-suppressor gene l(2)gl controlled by Hox-C8 in vivo.

    abstract::The homeobox is a 183-base-pair DNA sequence originally found in Drosophila segmentation and homeotic genes. In Drosophila, homeotic genes are clustered in the Antennapedia and Bithorax complexes, collectively called the homeotic gene complex (HOM-C). In the mouse genome, about 40 homeobox genes (Hox) are clustered in...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/365069a0

    authors: Tomotsune D,Shoji H,Wakamatsu Y,Kondoh H,Takahashi N

    更新日期:1993-09-02 00:00:00

  • Localized sex in bacteria.

    abstract::Electrophoretic studies suggest that bacterial populations consist of a number of independent clones and that genetic recombination is rare in nature. But DNA sequencing reveals that individual bacterial genes have a mosaic structure that could have arisen only by recombination. How can these observations be reconcile...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/349029a0

    authors: Smith JM,Dowson CG,Spratt BG

    更新日期:1991-01-03 00:00:00

  • Contour from motion processing occurs in primary visual cortex.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/363541a0

    authors: Lamme VA,van Dijk BW,Spekreijse H

    更新日期:1993-06-10 00:00:00

  • Ligand binding and co-activator assembly of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma.

    abstract::The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that is important in adipocyte differentiation and glucose homeostasis and which depends on interactions with co-activators, including steroid receptor co-activating factor-1 (SRC-1). Here we present the X-ray ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/25931

    authors: Nolte RT,Wisely GB,Westin S,Cobb JE,Lambert MH,Kurokawa R,Rosenfeld MG,Willson TM,Glass CK,Milburn MV

    更新日期:1998-09-10 00:00:00

  • B220: a B cell-specific member of th T200 glycoprotein family.

    abstract::T200, a major cell-surface glycoprotein on lymphoid cells, exists in several forms with different electrophoretic mobilities. These forms have been correlated with different classes of lymphoid cell. The smaller forms, with molecular weights (MWs) of congruent to 170,000 and 180,000 are found predominantly on T cells ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/289681a0

    authors: Coffman RL,Weissman IL

    更新日期:1981-02-19 00:00:00

  • Rock legend retells the race to the Moon - in 3D.

    abstract:: ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 新闻

    doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07342-9

    authors: Chiao M

    更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00

  • Animal behaviour: fair refusal by capuchin monkeys.

    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

    pub_type: 评论,杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/428140a

    authors: Wynne CD

    更新日期:2004-03-11 00:00:00

  • Chemical glycosylation in the synthesis of glycoconjugate antitumour vaccines.

    abstract::Therapeutic vaccines derived from carbohydrate antigen-adjuvant combinations are a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy. One of the critical limitations in this area is access to sufficient quantities of tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens and glycoconjugate adjuvants. At present, availability of the comple...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1038/nature05813

    authors: Galonić DP,Gin DY

    更新日期:2007-04-26 00:00:00

  • Peripheral deletion of self-reactive B cells.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/354308a0

    authors: Russell DM,Dembić Z,Morahan G,Miller JF,Bürki K,Nemazee D

    更新日期:1991-11-28 00:00:00

  • Intense equatorial flux spots on the surface of the Earth's core.

    abstract::A large number of high-accuracy vector measurements of the Earth's magnetic field have recently become available from the satellite Oersted, complementing previous vector data from the satellite Magsat, which operated in 1979/80. These data can be used to infer the morphology of the magnetic field at the surface of th...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature01879

    authors: Jackson A

    更新日期:2003-08-14 00:00:00

  • Functional dissection of the yeast Cyc8-Tup1 transcriptional co-repressor complex.

    abstract::DNA-binding repressor proteins mediate regulation of yeast genes by cell type (Mcm1/alpha 2 and a1/alpha 2), glucose (Mig1) and oxygen (Rox1) (refs 1-4 respectively). An unusual feature of all these regulatory pathways is that transcriptional repression requires two physically associated proteins that do not bind DNA ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/369758a0

    authors: Tzamarias D,Struhl K

    更新日期:1994-06-30 00:00:00

  • Beating the Stoner criterion using molecular interfaces.

    abstract::Only three elements are ferromagnetic at room temperature: the transition metals iron, cobalt and nickel. The Stoner criterion explains why iron is ferromagnetic but manganese, for example, is not, even though both elements have an unfilled 3d shell and are adjacent in the periodic table: according to this criterion, ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature14621

    authors: Ma'Mari FA,Moorsom T,Teobaldi G,Deacon W,Prokscha T,Luetkens H,Lee S,Sterbinsky GE,Arena DA,MacLaren DA,Flokstra M,Ali M,Wheeler MC,Burnell G,Hickey BJ,Cespedes O

    更新日期:2015-08-06 00:00:00

  • Membrane association of Rab5 mediated by GDP-dissociation inhibitor and accompanied by GDP/GTP exchange.

    abstract::The Rab GTPases function as specific regulators of membrane transport. The GTP/GDP cycle is believed to control shuttling of Rab proteins between the cytosol and organelle membranes. In vitro, Rab proteins are removed from membranes by a protein that inhibits GDP dissociation (rabGDI), which leads to formation of a cy...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/368157a0

    authors: Ullrich O,Horiuchi H,Bucci C,Zerial M

    更新日期:1994-03-10 00:00:00

  • The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb.

    abstract::Wrists, ankles and digits distinguish tetrapod limbs from fins, but direct evidence on the origin of these features has been unavailable. Here we describe the pectoral appendage of a member of the sister group of tetrapods, Tiktaalik roseae, which is morphologically and functionally transitional between a fin and a li...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature04637

    authors: Shubin NH,Daeschler EB,Jenkins FA Jr

    更新日期:2006-04-06 00:00:00

  • Do animal personalities emerge?

    abstract::The evolution of animal personalities is a topic of primary importance in behavioural ecology. An intriguing empirical fact is the consistency of animal responses to repeated stresses or threats. Wolf et al. propose an evolutionary model to explain the emergence of consistent personalities. They show that a population...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 评论,杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature06743

    authors: Massol F,Crochet PA

    更新日期:2008-02-28 00:00:00

  • Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes.

    abstract::Molecular self-assembly offers a 'bottom-up' route to fabrication with subnanometre precision of complex structures from simple components. DNA has proved to be a versatile building block for programmable construction of such objects, including two-dimensional crystals, nanotubes, and three-dimensional wireframe nanop...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature08016

    authors: Douglas SM,Dietz H,Liedl T,Högberg B,Graf F,Shih WM

    更新日期:2009-05-21 00:00:00

  • Correlative genetic variation in natural populations of cats, mice and men.

    abstract::The study of the extent and basis of gene-enzyme variation has long been a principal concern of population genetics. Numerous surveys have indicated considerable amounts of genetic variation detectable in natural populations, with few exceptions. The variances of average heterozygosities (H) between species and among ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/288580a0

    authors: O'Brien SJ,Gail MH,Levin DL

    更新日期:1980-12-11 00:00:00

  • Haem can bind to and inhibit mammalian calcium-dependent Slo1 BK channels.

    abstract::Haem is essential for living organisms, functioning as a crucial element in the redox-sensitive reaction centre in haemproteins. During the biogenesis of these proteins, the haem cofactor is typically incorporated enzymatically into the haem pockets of the apo-haemprotein as the functionally indispensable prosthetic g...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature02003

    authors: Tang XD,Xu R,Reynolds MF,Garcia ML,Heinemann SH,Hoshi T

    更新日期:2003-10-02 00:00:00