Identification of a distinct synaptic glutamate receptor on horizontal cells in mudpuppy retina.

abstract：:The efficiency of generating electricity from heat using concentrated solar power plants (which use mirrors or lenses to concentrate sunlight in order to drive heat engines, usually involving turbines) may be appreciably increased by operating with higher turbine inlet temperatures, but this would require improved hea...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Caccia M,Tabandeh-Khorshid M,Itskos G,Strayer AR,Caldwell AS,Pidaparti S,Singnisai S,Rohskopf AD,Schroeder AM,Jarrahbashi D,Kang T,Sahoo S,Kadasala NR,Marquez-Rossy A,Anderson MH,Lara-Curzio E,Ranjan D,Henry A,Sandhag

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-induced allosteric changes in proteins are important in their cellular functions and regulation, and both concerted and sequential examples are known. The distinction has entailed elaborate analysis, however, and only a few systems have been unequivocally analysed. We have investigated the coupling between ATP ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lindsley JE,Wang JC

更新日期：1993-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of APC is a strongly predisposing event in the development of colorectal cancer, prompting the search for vulnerabilities specific to cells that have lost APC function. Signalling through the mTOR pathway is known to be required for epithelial cell proliferation and tumour growth, and the current paradigm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Faller WJ,Jackson TJ,Knight JR,Ridgway RA,Jamieson T,Karim SA,Jones C,Radulescu S,Huels DJ,Myant KB,Dudek KM,Casey HA,Scopelliti A,Cordero JB,Vidal M,Pende M,Ryazanov AG,Sonenberg N,Meyuhas O,Hall MN,Bushell M,W

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:During early mammalian development, as the pluripotent cells that give rise to all of the tissues of the body proliferate and expand in number, they pass through transition states marked by a stepwise restriction in developmental potential and by changes in the expression of key regulatory genes. Recent findings show ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pera MF,Tam PP

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

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

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

更新日期：2003-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Features that were once considered exclusive to modern birds, such as feathers and a furcula, are now known to have first appeared in non-avian dinosaurs. However, relatively little is known of the early evolutionary history of the hyperinflated brain that distinguishes birds from other living reptiles and provides th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Balanoff AM,Bever GS,Rowe TB,Norell MA

更新日期：2013-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine secretion from mast cells may be inhibited by elevated intracellular levels of cyclic AMP and by several anti-allergic drugs. These compounds are claimed to act directly on the calcium-gating mechanism activated by the anaphylactic reaction, preventing influx of Ca2+ from the external environment and so bloc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ennis M,Truneh A,White JR,Pearce FL

更新日期：1981-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens bind class II major histocompatibility proteins and stimulate powerful proliferative responses of T lymphocytes bearing particular V beta sequences as part of their alpha beta antigen receptor. Exogenous bacterial superantigens are responsible for food poisoning and toxic shock syndrome. Murine virus-enc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lafon M,Lafage M,Martinez-Arends A,Ramirez R,Vuillier F,Charron D,Lotteau V,Scott-Algara D

更新日期：1992-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RecBCD enzyme is a processive DNA helicase and nuclease that participates in the repair of chromosomal DNA through homologous recombination. We have visualized directly the movement of individual RecBCD enzymes on single molecules of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Detection involves the optical trapping of solitary, flu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bianco PR,Brewer LR,Corzett M,Balhorn R,Yeh Y,Kowalczykowski SC,Baskin RJ

更新日期：2001-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral nitrogen in nature is often found in the form of nitrate (NO3(-)). Numerous microorganisms evolved to assimilate nitrate and use it as a major source of mineral nitrogen uptake. Nitrate, which is central in nitrogen metabolism, is first reduced to nitrite (NO2(-)) through a two-electron reduction reaction. The...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zheng H,Wisedchaisri G,Gonen T

更新日期：2013-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The global mid-ocean ridge system is the most extensive magmatic system on our planet and is the site of 75 per cent of Earth's volcanism1. The vertical extent of mid-ocean-ridge magmatic systems has been considered to be restricted: even at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel mid-ocean ridge under the Arctic Ocean, where ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bennett EN,Jenner FE,Millet MA,Cashman KV,Lissenberg CJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone has recently emerged as a pleiotropic endocrine organ that secretes at least two hormones, FGF23 and osteocalcin, which regulate kidney function and glucose homeostasis, respectively. These findings have raised the question of whether other bone-derived hormones exist and what their potential functions are. Here ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mosialou I,Shikhel S,Liu JM,Maurizi A,Luo N,He Z,Huang Y,Zong H,Friedman RA,Barasch J,Lanzano P,Deng L,Leibel RL,Rubin M,Nickolas T,Chung W,Zeltser LM,Williams KW,Pessin JE,Kousteni S

更新日期：2017-03-16 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：:While progress in fusion research continues with magnetic and inertial confinement, alternative approaches--such as Coulomb explosions of deuterium clusters and ultrafast laser-plasma interactions--also provide insight into basic processes and technological applications. However, attempts to produce fusion in a room t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Naranjo B,Gimzewski JK,Putterman S

更新日期：2005-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the major source of variability in winter atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere, with large impacts on temperature, precipitation and storm tracks, and therefore also on strategic sectors such as insurance, renewable energy production, crop yields and water manageme...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ortega P,Lehner F,Swingedouw D,Masson-Delmotte V,Raible CC,Casado M,Yiou P

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ line undergoes a unique sequence of differentiation processes that confers totipotency to the egg. The reconstitution of these events in vitro using pluripotent stem cells is a key achievement in reproductive biology and regenerative medicine. Here we report successful reconstitution in vitro of the en...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hikabe O,Hamazaki N,Nagamatsu G,Obata Y,Hirao Y,Hamada N,Shimamoto S,Imamura T,Nakashima K,Saitou M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein, one of the unique proteins found in the nervous system, has recently been discovered unexpectedly in the rat anterior pituitary. Immunocytochemistry reveals that stellate, follicular and folliculostellate cells, and marginal cells of the rat anterior pituitary contain this protein; however, as far as we...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ishikawa H,Nogami H,Shirasawa N

更新日期：1983-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired uniparental disomy (aUPD) is a common feature of cancer genomes, leading to loss of heterozygosity. aUPD is associated not only with loss-of-function mutations of tumour suppressor genes, but also with gain-of-function mutations of proto-oncogenes. Here we show unique gain-of-function mutations of the C-CBL (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sanada M,Suzuki T,Shih LY,Otsu M,Kato M,Yamazaki S,Tamura A,Honda H,Sakata-Yanagimoto M,Kumano K,Oda H,Yamagata T,Takita J,Gotoh N,Nakazaki K,Kawamata N,Onodera M,Nobuyoshi M,Hayashi Y,Harada H,Kurokawa M,Chiba

更新日期：2009-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) detect and destroy cells displaying class I molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that present oligopeptides derived from aberrant self or foreign proteins. Most class I peptide ligands are created from proteins that are degraded by proteasomes and transported, by the t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hanada K,Yewdell JW,Yang JC

更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleosome subunit of chromatin consists of DNA folded around a histone core as a 1.8-turn left-handed solenoid. The crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle revealed that it has a dyad symmetry axis and that the minor helix groove faces outwards from the protein core. Richmond et al. noticed that the pat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hogan ME,Rooney TF,Austin RH

更新日期：1987-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tissues including blood, skin, gut and germ cells are continuously maintained by tissue stem cells. Under certain conditions, however, other organs can undergo repair using stem-cell-like progenitors generated by cell de-differentiation. Cell fates have been broadened experimentally, but mechanisms allowing de-di...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kai T,Spradling A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a dismal prognosis largely owing to inefficient diagnosis and tenacious drug resistance. Activation of pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) and consequent development of dense stroma are prominent features accounting for this aggressive biology1,2. The reciprocal interplay betwe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shi Y,Gao W,Lytle NK,Huang P,Yuan X,Dann AM,Ridinger-Saison M,DelGiorno KE,Antal CE,Liang G,Atkins AR,Erikson G,Sun H,Meisenhelder J,Terenziani E,Woo G,Fang L,Santisakultarm TP,Manor U,Xu R,Becerra CR,Borazanci

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system is critical for the early detection of invading pathogens and for initiating cellular host defence countermeasures, which include the production of type I interferon (IFN). However, little is known about how the innate immune system is galvanized to respond to DNA-based microbes. Here we show ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ishikawa H,Ma Z,Barber GN

更新日期：2009-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The large degeneracy of states resulting from the geometrical frustration of competing interactions is an essential ingredient of important problems in fields as diverse as magnetism, protein folding and neural networks. As first explained by Pauling, geometrical frustration of proton positions is also responsible for...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Snyder J,Slusky JS,Cava RJ,Schiffer P

更新日期：2001-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In vast areas of the ocean, the scarcity of iron controls the growth and productivity of phytoplankton. Although most dissolved iron in the marine environment is complexed with organic molecules, picomolar amounts of labile inorganic iron species (labile iron) are maintained within the euphotic zone and serve as an im...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McQuaid JB,Kustka AB,Oborník M,Horák A,McCrow JP,Karas BJ,Zheng H,Kindeberg T,Andersson AJ,Barbeau KA,Allen AE

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The erosion of mountain belts controls their topographic and structural evolution and is the main source of sediment delivered to the oceans. Mountain erosion rates have been estimated from current relief and precipitation, but a more complete evaluation of the controls on erosion rates requires detailed measurements ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dadson SJ,Hovius N,Chen H,Dade WB,Hsieh ML,Willett SD,Hu JC,Horng MJ,Chen MC,Stark CP,Lague D,Lin JC

更新日期：2003-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The instruction of the immune system to be tolerant of self, thereby preventing autoimmunity, is facilitated by the education of T cells in a specialized organ, the thymus, in which self-reactive cells are either eliminated or differentiated into tolerogenic Foxp3(+) regulatory T (T(reg)) cells. However, it is unknown...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lathrop SK,Bloom SM,Rao SM,Nutsch K,Lio CW,Santacruz N,Peterson DA,Stappenbeck TS,Hsieh CS

更新日期：2011-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factors raise intracellular pH (pHi) by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange in the absence of HCO3-. In mutant cells that lack the Na+/H+ exchange activity, this alkalinization does not occur, and the cells do not proliferate without artificial elevation of pHi. It has therefore been widely suggested that an early pHi ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ganz MB,Boyarsky G,Sterzel RB,Boron WF

更新日期：1989-02-16 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：:In the present-day climate, surface water salinities are low in the western tropical Pacific Ocean and increase towards the eastern part of the basin. The salinity of surface waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean is thought to be controlled by a combination of atmospheric convection, precipitation, evaporation and ocea...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stott L,Cannariato K,Thunell R,Haug GH,Koutavas A,Lund S

更新日期：2004-09-02 00:00:00