NEK7 is an essential mediator of NLRP3 activation downstream of potassium efflux.

abstract：:The remarkable antiquity, diversity and ecological significance of arthropods have inspired numerous attempts to resolve their deep phylogenetic history, but the results of two decades of intensive molecular phylogenetics have been mixed. The discovery that terrestrial insects (Hexapoda) are more closely related to aq...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Regier JC,Shultz JW,Zwick A,Hussey A,Ball B,Wetzer R,Martin JW,Cunningham CW

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In influenza the combined virus-bacterial pneumonia is approximately three times more common than primary viral pneumonia. The bacteria most commonly involved are Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. S. aureus co-infection is reported to have a fatality rate of up to 42% (ref. 2)...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tashiro M,Ciborowski P,Klenk HD,Pulverer G,Rott R

更新日期：1987-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes group of viruses and the aetiological agent of infectious mononucleosis, is usually thought of as a lymphotrophic virus with the ability to transform B lymphocytes. So the association of EBV with nasopharyngeal carcinoma is puzzling, especially given the lack of success...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sixbey JW,Vesterinen EH,Nedrud JG,Raab-Traub N,Walton LA,Pagano JS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During animal development, cells have to respond appropriately to localized secreted signals. Proper responses to Hedgehog, transforming growth factor-beta, epidermal growth factor and fibroblast growth factor/Ras signals require cognate inducible antagonists such as Patched, Dad, Argos and Sprouty. Wnt signals are cr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zeng W,Wharton KA Jr,Mack JA,Wang K,Gadbaw M,Suyama K,Klein PS,Scott MP

更新日期：2000-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discoveries of RNA interference and related RNA silencing pathways have revolutionized our understanding of gene regulation. RNA interference has been used as a research tool to control the expression of specific genes in numerous experimental organisms and has potential as a therapeutic strategy to reduce ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mello CC,Conte D Jr

更新日期：2004-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:More than twenty types of retinal ganglion cells conduct visual information from the eye to the rest of the brain. Each retinal ganglion cell type tessellates the retina in a regular mosaic, so that every point in visual space is processed for visual primitives such as contrast and motion. This information flows to tw...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Feinberg EH,Meister M

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimuli-responsive hydrogels that undergo abrupt changes in volume in response to external stimuli such as pH, temperature and solvent composition have potential applications in biomedicine and the creation of 'intelligent' materials systems, for example as media for drug delivery, separation processes and protein imm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miyata T,Asami N,Uragami T

更新日期：1999-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22-nucleotide endogenous RNAs that often repress the expression of complementary messenger RNAs. In animals, miRNAs derive from characteristic hairpins in primary transcripts through two sequential RNase III-mediated cleavages; Drosha cleaves near the base of the stem to liberate a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruby JG,Jan CH,Bartel DP

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two large-scale yeast two-hybrid screens were undertaken to identify protein-protein interactions between full-length open reading frames predicted from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome sequence. In one approach, we constructed a protein array of about 6,000 yeast transformants, with each transformant expressing on...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Uetz P,Giot L,Cagney G,Mansfield TA,Judson RS,Knight JR,Lockshon D,Narayan V,Srinivasan M,Pochart P,Qureshi-Emili A,Li Y,Godwin B,Conover D,Kalbfleisch T,Vijayadamodar G,Yang M,Johnston M,Fields S,Rothberg JM

更新日期：2000-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant hominid that inhabited densely forested environments of Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch1. Its evolutionary relationships to other great ape species, and the divergence of these species during the Middle and Late Miocene epoch (16-5.3 million years ago), remain unclear2,3....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Welker F,Ramos-Madrigal J,Kuhlwilm M,Liao W,Gutenbrunner P,de Manuel M,Samodova D,Mackie M,Allentoft ME,Bacon AM,Collins MJ,Cox J,Lalueza-Fox C,Olsen JV,Demeter F,Wang W,Marques-Bonet T,Cappellini E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine is the thirteenth most abundant element in the earth's crust, but fluoride concentrations in surface water are low and fluorinated metabolites are extremely rare. The fluoride ion is a potent nucleophile in its desolvated state, but is tightly hydrated in water and effectively inert. Low availability and a la...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dong C,Huang F,Deng H,Schaffrath C,Spencer JB,O'Hagan D,Naismith JH

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption by carnivorous reptiles increases enormously after they have eaten a large meal in order to meet metabolic demands, and this places an extra load on the cardiovascular system. Here we show that there is an extraordinarily rapid 40% increase in ventricular muscle mass in Burmese pythons (Python molur...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Andersen JB,Rourke BC,Caiozzo VJ,Bennett AF,Hicks JW

更新日期：2005-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In associative learning, the activated neurones undergo a variety of concomitant functional alterations--increases or decreases of firing activity and modifications of membrane potential or resistance and of synaptic responsiveness. Synaptic transmission which can be strengthened only when there is paired activity in ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baranyi A,Fehér O

更新日期：1981-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding of newly synthesized proteins to the native state is a major challenge within the crowded cellular environment, as non-productive interactions can lead to misfolding, aggregation and degradation1. Cells cope with this challenge by coupling synthesis with polypeptide folding and by using molecular chaperone...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shiber A,Döring K,Friedrich U,Klann K,Merker D,Zedan M,Tippmann F,Kramer G,Bukau B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal transfer (HT), or the passage of genetic material between non-mating species, is increasingly recognized as an important force in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes. Transposons, with their inherent ability to mobilize and amplify within genomes, may be especially prone to HT. However, the means by which t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gilbert C,Schaack S,Pace JK 2nd,Brindley PJ,Feschotte C

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Type-A γ-aminobutyric (GABAA) receptors are ligand-gated chloride channels with a very rich pharmacology. Some of their modulators, including benzodiazepines and general anaesthetics, are among the most successful drugs in clinical use and are common substances of abuse. Without reliable structural data, the mechanist...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Masiulis S,Desai R,Uchański T,Serna Martin I,Laverty D,Karia D,Malinauskas T,Zivanov J,Pardon E,Kotecha A,Steyaert J,Miller KW,Aricescu AR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the introduction of antiproliferative drug-eluting stents, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. In-stent restenosis and bypass graft failure are characterized by excessive smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation and concomitant myointima formation with luminal oblitera...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Deuse T,Hua X,Wang D,Maegdefessel L,Heeren J,Scheja L,Bolaños JP,Rakovic A,Spin JM,Stubbendorff M,Ikeno F,Länger F,Zeller T,Schulte-Uentrop L,Stoehr A,Itagaki R,Haddad F,Eschenhagen T,Blankenberg S,Kiefmann R,Reic

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small-cell lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Chemotherapies such as the topoisomerase II (TopoII) inhibitor etoposide effectively reduce disease in a minority of patients with this cancer; therefore, alternative drug targets, including epigenetic enzymes, are under consideration f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fillmore CM,Xu C,Desai PT,Berry JM,Rowbotham SP,Lin YJ,Zhang H,Marquez VE,Hammerman PS,Wong KK,Kim CF

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structures of macromolecules and their complexes are mainly elucidated by X-ray protein crystallography. A major limitation of this method is access to high-quality crystals, which is necessary to ensure X-ray diffraction extends to sufficiently large scattering angles and hence yields informatio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ayyer K,Yefanov OM,Oberthür D,Roy-Chowdhury S,Galli L,Mariani V,Basu S,Coe J,Conrad CE,Fromme R,Schaffer A,Dörner K,James D,Kupitz C,Metz M,Nelson G,Xavier PL,Beyerlein KR,Schmidt M,Sarrou I,Spence JC,Weierstall

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:On 12 May 2008, the devastating magnitude 7.9 (Wenchuan) earthquake struck the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, collapsing buildings and killing thousands in major cities aligned along the western Sichuan basin in China. After such a large-magnitude earthquake, rearrangement of stresses in the crust commonly leads...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Parsons T,Ji C,Kirby E

更新日期：2008-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of anthropogenic noise and night lighting across our planet1,2 is of increasing conservation concern3-6. Despite growing knowledge of physiological and behavioural responses to these stimuli from single-species and local-scale studies, whether these pollutants affect fitness is less clear, as is how and why ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Senzaki M,Barber JR,Phillips JN,Carter NH,Cooper CB,Ditmer MA,Fristrup KM,McClure CJW,Mennitt DJ,Tyrrell LP,Vukomanovic J,Wilson AA,Francis CD

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sex chromosomes share a small terminal region of homologous DNA sequences, which pair and recombine during male meiosis. Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal. Genes from this so-called pseudoautosomal region (PAR) are present in two d...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gough NM,Gearing DP,Nicola NA,Baker E,Pritchard M,Callen DF,Sutherland GR

更新日期：1990-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of collapsing (cavitating) bubbles to focus and concentrate energy, forces and stresses is at the root of phenomena such as cavitation damage, sonochemistry or sonoluminescence. In a biomedical context, ultrasound-driven microbubbles have been used to enhance contrast in ultrasonic images. The observation ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marmottant P,Hilgenfeldt S

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon-carbon (C-C) bond formation is paramount in the synthesis of biologically relevant molecules, modern synthetic materials and commodity chemicals such as fuels and lubricants. Traditionally, the presence of a functional group is required at the site of C-C bond formation. Strategies that allow C-C bond formation...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chu JC,Rovis T

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that sexual behaviour in animals can evolve rapidly, accelerating the rate of species formation. Here we estimate the rate of speciation in Laupala, a group of forest-dwelling Hawaiian crickets that is characterized primarily through differences in male courtship song. We find that Laupala has the high...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mendelson TC,Shaw KL

更新日期：2005-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far. Here, we report 83 height-associated coding variants with lower minor-allele frequencies (in the range of 0.1-4.8%) and effects of up to 2 centimetres per a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marouli E,Graff M,Medina-Gomez C,Lo KS,Wood AR,Kjaer TR,Fine RS,Lu Y,Schurmann C,Highland HM,Rüeger S,Thorleifsson G,Justice AE,Lamparter D,Stirrups KE,Turcot V,Young KL,Winkler TW,Esko T,Karaderi T,Locke AE,Mas

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice express a collection of superantigens, which bind to class II major histocompatibility proteins and interact with T cells bearing particular V beta chains as part of their alpha beta receptors. These superantigens have been suggested to be encoded by exogenous or endogenous mouse mammary tumour viruses. One such ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Choi Y,Kappler JW,Marrack P

更新日期：1991-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the organic component of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic technologies, particular with respect to wooden tools. Here I describe some wooden throwing spears about 400,000 years old that were discovered in 1995 at the Pleistocene site at Schöningen, Germany. They are thought to be the oldest complete...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thieme H

更新日期：1997-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of papillomaviruses in epithelial-derived cancers from several animal species has led to the speculation that these viruses may also have a pathogenic role in the development of certain human carcinomas, particularly those associated with the anogenital tract. Recently, human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zachow KR,Ostrow RS,Bender M,Watts S,Okagaki T,Pass F,Faras AJ

更新日期：1982-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal differentiation of myogenic cells initiates in the proximal portion of the limb bud whereas the distal region remains undifferentiated and proliferative. The apical ectodermal ridge maintains the progress zone in an undifferentiated state and induces proliferation of limb mesenchymal cells. Hox-7.1, a hom...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Song K,Wang Y,Sassoon D

更新日期：1992-12-03 00:00:00