Chemotherapy drugs induce pyroptosis through caspase-3 cleavage of a gasdermin.

abstract：:Amyloid beta-protein (AP) is a peptide of relative molecular mass (Mr) 42,000 found in the senile plaques, cerebrovascular amyloid deposits, and neurofibrillary tangles of patients with Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome (trisomy 21). Recent molecular genetic evidence has indicated that AP is encoded as part of a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanzi RE,St George-Hyslop PH,Haines JL,Polinsky RJ,Nee L,Foncin JF,Neve RL,McClatchey AI,Conneally PM,Gusella JF

更新日期：1987-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three environmental groups have filed suit against the National Institutes of Health in an attempt to block an experiment approved in April by the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. The experiment, designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, to enhance the frost resistance of crops, would ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： David P

更新日期：1983-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of synaptic transmission in the brain and periphery, acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) rapidly transduce a chemical signal into an electrical impulse. The speed of transduction is facilitated by rapid ACh association and dissociation, suggesting a binding site relatively non-selective for small cations. Se...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mukhtasimova N,Lee WY,Wang HL,Sine SM

更新日期：2009-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium (Ca(2+))-activated chloride channels are fundamental mediators in numerous physiological processes including transepithelial secretion, cardiac and neuronal excitation, sensory transduction, smooth muscle contraction and fertilization. Despite their physiological importance, their molecular identity has remain...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yang YD,Cho H,Koo JY,Tak MH,Cho Y,Shim WS,Park SP,Lee J,Lee B,Kim BM,Raouf R,Shin YK,Oh U

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Interchromosomal gene conversion between alleles has been shown in yeast frequently to be associated with the recombination of flanking genetic markers. Although this also holds true for gene conversion between two alleles of the yeast mating-type (MAT) locus, initiated by the homothallic switching system, we find no ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Klar AJ,Strathern JN

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tasmanian devil, a large carnivorous Australian marsupial, is under threat from a widespread fatal disease in which a malignant oral-facial tumour obstructs the animal's ability to feed. Here we show that the chromosomes in these tumours have undergone a complex rearrangement that is identical for every animal stu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pearse AM,Swift K

更新日期：2006-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials showing simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic ordering are attracting a great deal of interest because of their unusual physics and potential applications. Hemberger et al. have reported relaxor-like dielectric properties and colossal magnetocapacitance (in excess of 500%) for the cubic spinel compound CdC...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Catalan G,Scott JF

更新日期：2007-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK-3beta) has integral roles in a variety of biological processes, including development, diabetes, and the progression of Alzheimer's disease. As such, a thorough understanding of GSK-3beta function will have a broad impact on human biology and therapeutics. Because GSK-3beta interact...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu KJ,Arron JR,Stankunas K,Crabtree GR,Longaker MT

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Global patterns of species richness and their structuring forces have fascinated biologists since Darwin and provide critical context for contemporary studies in ecology, evolution and conservation. Anthropogenic impacts and the need for systematic conservation planning have further motivated the analysis of diversity...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tittensor DP,Mora C,Jetz W,Lotze HK,Ricard D,Berghe EV,Worm B

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycans such as heparan sulphate and chondroitin sulphate are extracellular sugar chains involved in intercellular signalling. Disruptions of genes encoding enzymes that mediate glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis have severe consequences in Drosophila and mice. Mutations in the Drosophila gene sugarless, which ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mizuguchi S,Uyama T,Kitagawa H,Nomura KH,Dejima K,Gengyo-Ando K,Mitani S,Sugahara K,Nomura K

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cells of the immune system, which secrete antibodies against foreign antigens, are fully specific and effective only after maturation in lymph nodes and other lymphoid tissues. Immunocompetent T cells play a crucial part in this process, but the molecular details of the way in which the two cell types interact h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Clark EA,Ledbetter JA

更新日期：1994-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signalling in astrocytes couples changes in neural activity to alterations in cerebral blood flow by eliciting vasoconstriction or vasodilation of arterioles. However, the mechanism for how these opposite astrocyte influences provide appropriate changes in vessel tone within an environment that has dynamic met...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gordon GR,Choi HB,Rungta RL,Ellis-Davies GC,MacVicar BA

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

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journal_title：Nature

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更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that initial sensitization to airborne environmental allergens occurs typically in early childhood, but subsequent progression to persistent atopic asthma, which may not manifest for several years, is restricted to only a subset of atopics. The key to establishing the link between atopy and a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Holt PG,Macaubas C,Stumbles PA,Sly PD

更新日期：1999-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells proteolytically release (shed) the extracellular domains of many cell-surface proteins. Modification of the cell surface in this way can alter the cell's responsiveness to its environment and release potent soluble regulatory factors. The release of soluble tumour-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) from...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Black RA,Rauch CT,Kozlosky CJ,Peschon JJ,Slack JL,Wolfson MF,Castner BJ,Stocking KL,Reddy P,Srinivasan S,Nelson N,Boiani N,Schooley KA,Gerhart M,Davis R,Fitzner JN,Johnson RS,Paxton RJ,March CJ,Cerretti DP

更新日期：1997-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive repertoire of modifications is known to underlie the versatile coding, structural and catalytic functions of RNA, but it remains largely uncharted territory. Although biochemical studies indicate that N(6)-methyladenosine (m(6)A) is the most prevalent internal modification in messenger RNA, an in-depth st...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dominissini D,Moshitch-Moshkovitz S,Schwartz S,Salmon-Divon M,Ungar L,Osenberg S,Cesarkas K,Jacob-Hirsch J,Amariglio N,Kupiec M,Sorek R,Rechavi G

更新日期：2012-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of methods for the amplification of nucleic acid sequences allows the genetic analysis in vitro of the structural and functional properties of many nucleic acids. We have now developed an in vitro selection and amplification system, and used it to analyse the self-splicing Tetrahymena ribozyme. A much...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Green R,Ellington AD,Szostak JW

更新日期：1990-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:COPII-coated vesicles form on the endoplasmic reticulum by the stepwise recruitment of three cytosolic components: Sar1-GTP to initiate coat formation, Sec23/24 heterodimer to select SNARE and cargo molecules, and Sec13/31 to induce coat polymerization and membrane deformation. Crystallographic analysis of the Sacchar...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bi X,Corpina RA,Goldberg J

更新日期：2002-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several microorganisms, including Yersinia sp., Salmonella sp., Brucella sp., Mycobacterium sp. and Leishmania sp., have successfully adapted to grow within macrophage phagolysosomes. Infections caused by these intracellular pathogens are among the most difficult to treat. As part of an antimicrobial strategy directed...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pollack C,Straley SC,Klempner MS

更新日期：1986-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic field penetrates a superconductor through an array of 'vortices', each of which carries one quantum of flux that is surrounded by a circulating supercurrent. In this vortex state, the resistivity is determined by the dynamical properties of the vortex 'matter'. For the high-temperature copper oxide supercon...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bouquet F,Marcenat C,Steep E,Calemczuk R,Kwok WK,Welp U,Crabtree GW,Fisher RA,Phillips NE,Schilling A

更新日期：2001-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchange dynamics between molecules free in solution and bound to the surface of a large supramolecular structure, a polymer, a membrane or solid support are important in many phenomena in biology and materials science. Here we present a novel and generally applicable solution NMR technique, known as dark-state exchan...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fawzi NL,Ying J,Ghirlando R,Torchia DA,Clore GM

更新日期：2011-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The E6 oncoprotein derived from tumour-associated human papillomaviruses (HPVs) binds to and induces the degradation of the cellular tumour-suppressor protein p53. A common polymorphism that occurs in the p53 amino-acid sequence results in the presence of either a proline or an arginine at position 72. The effect of t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Storey A,Thomas M,Kalita A,Harwood C,Gardiol D,Mantovani F,Breuer J,Leigh IM,Matlashewski G,Banks L

更新日期：1998-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that monkeys and humans can use signals from the brain to guide computer cursors. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) may one day assist patients suffering from neurological injury or disease, but relatively low system performance remains a major obstacle. In fact, the speed and accuracy ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Santhanam G,Ryu SI,Yu BM,Afshar A,Shenoy KV

更新日期：2006-07-13 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 widely occurring tetradecapeptide somatostatin (SRIF-14) has been variously implicated as a neurotransmitter, a neurohormone, a cybernin (local regulatory factor) and a hormone. In the first isolation of SRIF-14 from hypothalamic extracts and subsequent extracts of other tissues, peptides of higher molecular weigh...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mandarino L,Stenner D,Blanchard W,Nissen S,Gerich J,Ling N,Brazeau P,Bohlen P,Esch F,Guillemin R

更新日期：1981-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In somatic cells, entry into mitosis depends on the completion of DNA synthesis. This dependency is established by S-phase feedback controls that arrest cell division when damaged or unreplicated DNA is present. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, mutations that interfere with the phosphorylation of tyrosi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sorger PK,Murray AW

更新日期：1992-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophies represent the second most common fatal, autosomal recessive disorder after cystic fibrosis. The childhood form is classically subdivided into three groups: acute Werdnig-Hoffmann (type I), intermediate Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (type II) and Kugelberg-Welander disease (type III). Thes...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Melki J,Abdelhak S,Sheth P,Bachelot MF,Burlet P,Marcadet A,Aicardi J,Barois A,Carriere JP,Fardeau M

更新日期：1990-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature's high-performance polymer, spider silk, consists of specific proteins, spidroins, with repetitive segments flanked by conserved non-repetitive domains. Spidroins are stored as a highly concentrated fluid dope. On silk formation, intermolecular interactions between repeat regions are established that provide st...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Askarieh G,Hedhammar M,Nordling K,Saenz A,Casals C,Rising A,Johansson J,Knight SD

更新日期：2010-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is an important crop that provides a sustainable source of protein and oil worldwide. Soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) is a microscopic roundworm that feeds on the roots of soybean and is a major constraint to soybean production. This nematode causes more than US$1 ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu S,Kandoth PK,Warren SD,Yeckel G,Heinz R,Alden J,Yang C,Jamai A,El-Mellouki T,Juvale PS,Hill J,Baum TJ,Cianzio S,Whitham SA,Korkin D,Mitchum MG,Meksem K

更新日期：2012-12-13 00:00:00