Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes.

abstract：:HIV has advanced from high-risk groups such as intravenous drug users to some in the general population, according to comprehensive new data from the south of China. What needs to be done to halt its spread? ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lu L,Jia M,Ma Y,Yang L,Chen Z,Ho DD,Jiang Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2008-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:De novo-designed proteins1-3 hold great promise as building blocks for synthetic circuits, and can complement the use of engineered variants of natural proteins4-7. One such designer protein-degronLOCKR, which is based on 'latching orthogonal cage-key proteins' (LOCKR) technology8-is a switch that degrades a protein o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ng AH,Nguyen TH,Gómez-Schiavon M,Dods G,Langan RA,Boyken SE,Samson JA,Waldburger LM,Dueber JE,Baker D,El-Samad H

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum mechanical experiments in ring geometries have long fascinated physicists. Open rings connected to leads, for example, allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, one of the best examples of quantum mechanical phase coherence. The phase coherence of electrons travelling through a quantum dot embedded in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fuhrer A,Lüscher S,Ihn T,Heinzel T,Ensslin K,Wegscheider W,Bichler M

更新日期：2001-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear import of the NF-AT transcription factors during T-cell activation requires the calcium-activated phosphatase calcineurin, which unmasks nuclear-location signals on NF-AT. We show here that the nuclear import of NF-ATs is not sufficient to activate NF-AT target genes, as NF-ATs are subject to a futile cycling ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhu J,McKeon F

更新日期：1999-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a series of mutants of an Escherichia coli alanine transfer RNA shows that substitution of a single G-U base pair in the acceptor helix eliminates aminoacylation with alanine in vivo and in vitro. Introduction of that base pair into the analogous position of a cysteine and a phenylalanine transfer RNA conf...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hou YM,Schimmel P

更新日期：1988-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The colorectal adenoma-carcinoma sequence has provided a paradigmatic framework for understanding the successive somatic genetic changes and consequent clonal expansions that lead to cancer1. However, our understanding of the earliest phases of colorectal neoplastic changes-which may occur in morphologically normal ti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lee-Six H,Olafsson S,Ellis P,Osborne RJ,Sanders MA,Moore L,Georgakopoulos N,Torrente F,Noorani A,Goddard M,Robinson P,Coorens THH,O'Neill L,Alder C,Wang J,Fitzgerald RC,Zilbauer M,Coleman N,Saeb-Parsy K,Martincorena

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational activation of BRAF is the most prevalent genetic alteration in human melanoma, with ≥50% of tumours expressing the BRAF(V600E) oncoprotein. Moreover, the marked tumour regression and improved survival of late-stage BRAF-mutated melanoma patients in response to treatment with vemurafenib demonstrates the ess...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Das Thakur M,Salangsang F,Landman AS,Sellers WR,Pryer NK,Levesque MP,Dummer R,McMahon M,Stuart DD

更新日期：2013-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to form integrated circuits on flexible sheets of plastic enables attributes (for example conformal and flexible formats and lightweight and shock resistant construction) in electronic devices that are difficult or impossible to achieve with technologies that use semiconductor wafers or glass plates as sub...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cao Q,Kim HS,Pimparkar N,Kulkarni JP,Wang C,Shim M,Roy K,Alam MA,Rogers JA

更新日期：2008-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A connection between thunderstorms and the ionosphere has been hypothesized since the mid-1920s. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this connection, and evidence from modelling as well as various types of measurements demonstrate that lightning can interact with the lower ionosphere. It has been proposed...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Davis CJ,Johnson CG

更新日期：2005-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocytes are phenotypically prominent but histologically inconspicuous skin cells. They are responsible for the pigmentation of skin and hair, and thereby contribute to the appearance of skin and provide protection from damage by ultraviolet radiation. Pigmentation mutants in various species are highly informative ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lin JY,Fisher DE

更新日期：2007-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative growth hormone receptor from rabbit liver and the growth hormone binding protein from rabbit serum have the same amino-terminal amino-acid sequence, indicating that the binding protein corresponds to the extracellular hormone-binding domain of the liver receptor. The complete amino-acid sequences derived fr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Leung DW,Spencer SA,Cachianes G,Hammonds RG,Collins C,Henzel WJ,Barnard R,Waters MJ,Wood WI

更新日期：1987-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most debated questions in evolutionary biology is whether female choice of males with exaggerated sexual displays can evolve as a correlated response to selection acting on genes coding for male attractiveness or high overall viability. To date, empirical studies have provided support for parts of this scen...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Qvarnström A,Brommer JE,Gustafsson L

更新日期：2006-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are cell-surface molecules that transduce signals for cell growth and differentiation. The RTK encoded by the c-ret proto-oncogene is rearranged and constitutively activated in a large proportion of thyroid papillary carcinomas, and germ-line point mutations in c-ret seem to be respons...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schuchardt A,D'Agati V,Larsson-Blomberg L,Costantini F,Pachnis V

更新日期：1994-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:X-chromosome inactivation results in the strictly cis-limited inactivation of many but not all genes on one of the two X chromosomes during early development in somatic cells of mammalian females. One feature of virtually all models of X inactivation is the existence of an X-inactivation centre (XIC) required in cis f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brown CJ,Lafreniere RG,Powers VE,Sebastio G,Ballabio A,Pettigrew AL,Ledbetter DH,Levy E,Craig IW,Willard HF

更新日期：1991-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) has a key role in the antigen-specific clonal growth of T lymphocytes, by virtue of its interaction with a specific cell-surface receptor (IL-2R). The growth signal seems to be delivered by IL-2 bound to the high-affinity, but not the low-affinity, receptor. Genes encoding IL-2 and its receptor (t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hatakeyama M,Minamoto S,Uchiyama T,Hardy RR,Yamada G,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1985-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cai W,Ng B,Geng T,Wu L,Santoso A,McPhaden MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi proteins and Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) have conserved functions in transposon silencing. The murine Piwi proteins Mili and Miwi2 (also called Piwil2 and Piwil4, respectively) direct epigenetic LINE1 and intracisternal A particle transposon silencing during genome reprogramming in the embryonic male germ line...

journal_title：Nature

authors： De Fazio S,Bartonicek N,Di Giacomo M,Abreu-Goodger C,Sankar A,Funaya C,Antony C,Moreira PN,Enright AJ,O'Carroll D

更新日期：2011-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:High-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs), which lose energy quickly during their propagation, provide a probe of Galactic high-energy processes and may enable the observation of phenomena such as dark-matter particle annihilation or decay. The CRE spectrum has been measured directly up to approximately 2 ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： DAMPE Collaboration.

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDARs) are a major class of excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in the central nervous system. They form glutamate-gated ion channels that are highly permeable to calcium and mediate activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. NMDAR dysfunction is implicated in multiple brain diso...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gielen M,Siegler Retchless B,Mony L,Johnson JW,Paoletti P

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas short-term memory lasts from minutes to hours, long-term memory (LTM) can last for days or even an entire lifetime. LTM generally forms after spaced repeated training sessions and involves the regulation of gene expression, thereby implicating transcription factors in the initial steps of LTM establishment. Ho...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Comas D,Petit F,Preat T

更新日期：2004-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cancer agents that have been made selective for tumour cells by exploiting the known differences in the availability of oxygen between normal and transformed cells are a promising development in cancer chemotherapy. We have recently suggested a new type of bioreductive activity which would depend on a two-electro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reynolds CA,King PM,Richards WG

更新日期：1988-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly growing cells produce thousands of new ribosomes each minute, in a tightly regulated process that is essential to cell growth. How the Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA and the 20 proteins that make up the 30S ribosomal subunit can assemble correctly in a few minutes remains a challenging problem, partly beca...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Adilakshmi T,Bellur DL,Woodson SA

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-resolution intensity spectra of Earth's atmosphere obtained from space reveal strong signatures of life ('biosignatures'), such as molecular oxygen and methane with abundances far from chemical equilibrium, as well as the presence of a 'red edge' (a sharp increase of albedo for wavelengths longer than 700 nm) caus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sterzik MF,Bagnulo S,Palle E

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal gene bicoid (bcd) determines pattern in the anterior half of the Drosophila embryo. It is reported here that the injection of bcd mutant embryos with messenger RNAs that encode proteins consisting of heterologous acidic transcriptional activating sequences fused to the DNA-binding portion of the bcd gene ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Driever W,Ma J,Nüsslein-Volhard C,Ptashne M

更新日期：1989-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether DNA is able to transport electrons has attracted much interest, particularly as this ability may play a role as a repair mechanism after radiation damage to the DNA helix. Experiments addressing DNA conductivity have involved a large number of DNA strands doped with intercalated donor and accep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fink HW,Schönenberger C

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deviations from the universal genetic code have been reported for several microorganisms. Termination codons are used for coding some amino acids in Paramecium, Mycoplasma or Tetrahymena, and in Escherichia coli, the UGA termination codon is used to code for selenocysteine. In mitochondria, the changes of sense codons...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kawaguchi Y,Honda H,Taniguchi-Morimura J,Iwasaki S

更新日期：1989-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning and sequencing of the complementary DNA for platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor indicates that it is a novel factor distinct from previously characterized proteins. The factor, a protein with a relative molecular mass of about 45,000, stimulates endothelial cell growth and chemotaxis in vitro and a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ishikawa F,Miyazono K,Hellman U,Drexler H,Wernstedt C,Hagiwara K,Usuki K,Takaku F,Risau W,Heldin CH

更新日期：1989-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a highly regulated process that is crucial for normal development and homeostasis of multicellular organisms. The p35 protein from baculoviruses effectively prevents apoptosis by its broad-spectrum caspase inhibition. Here we report the crystal structure of p35 in complex with human caspase-8 at 3.0 A res...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xu G,Cirilli M,Huang Y,Rich RL,Myszka DG,Wu H

更新日期：2001-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in the architecture or integrity of the nuclear envelope are associated with a variety of human diseases1. Micronuclei, one common nuclear aberration, are an origin for chromothripsis2, a catastrophic mutational process that is commonly observed in cancer3-5. Chromothripsis occurs after micronuclei spontaneous...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu S,Kwon M,Mannino M,Yang N,Renda F,Khodjakov A,Pellman D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationships between major living vertebrate, and even chordate, groups are now reasonably well resolved thanks to a large amount of generally congruent data derived from molecular sequences, anatomy and physiology. But fossils provide unexpected combinations of characters that help us to understand how the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Janvier P

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00