Enzymatic activity of the conserved core of a group I self-splicing intron.

abstract：:Recent work demonstrates that stochastic fluctuations in molecular populations have consequences for gene regulation. Previous experiments focused on noise sources or noise propagation through gene networks by measuring noise magnitudes. However, in theoretical analysis, we showed that noise frequency content is deter...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Austin DW,Allen MS,McCollum JM,Dar RD,Wilgus JR,Sayler GS,Samatova NF,Cox CD,Simpson ML

更新日期：2006-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary biologist "studies the steps by which the miraculous adaptations so characteristic of every aspect of the organic world have evolved". But the general nature of such adaptive steps is still unclear. Evolution is often thought to be random and dependent on unpredictable events. In this light, one might...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gerrish P

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossover recombination events between homologous chromosomes are required to form chiasmata, temporary connections between homologues that ensure their proper segregation at meiosis I. Despite this requirement for crossovers and an excess of the double-strand DNA breaks that are the initiating events for meiotic reco...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Libuda DE,Uzawa S,Meyer BJ,Villeneuve AM

更新日期：2013-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, enlargement of the heart during embryonic development is primarily dependent on the increase in cardiomyocyte numbers. Shortly after birth, however, cardiomyocytes stop proliferating and further growth of the myocardium occurs through hypertrophic enlargement of the existing myocytes. As a consequence of t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eulalio A,Mano M,Dal Ferro M,Zentilin L,Sinagra G,Zacchigna S,Giacca M

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin dynamics in antiferromagnets has much shorter timescales than in ferromagnets, offering attractive properties for potential applications in ultrafast devices1-3. However, spin-current generation via antiferromagnetic resonance and simultaneous electrical detection by the inverse spin Hall effect in heavy metals h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li J,Wilson CB,Cheng R,Lohmann M,Kavand M,Yuan W,Aldosary M,Agladze N,Wei P,Sherwin MS,Shi J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins plays an important part in mediating protein interactions and/or the recruitment of specific protein targets. PTM can be mediated by the addition of functional groups (for example, acetylation or phosphorylation), peptides (for example, ubiquitylation or sumoylation), ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ahel I,Ahel D,Matsusaka T,Clark AJ,Pines J,Boulton SJ,West SC

更新日期：2008-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins (activators) function, at least in part, by increasing preinitiation complex assembly (for reviews see refs 1-4). Previous studies have shown that an acidic activator forms a contact with the general transcription factor TFIIB (refs 5-7) and recruits it into the preinitiation complex...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roberts SG,Green MR

更新日期：1994-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring the completeness of the fossil record is essential to understanding evolution over long timescales, particularly when comparing evolutionary patterns among biological groups with different preservational properties. Completeness measures have been presented for various groups based on gaps in the stratigraph...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foote M,Sepkoski JJ Jr

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the originally published version of this Article, the sequenced axolotl strain (the homozygous white mutant) was denoted as 'D/D' rather than 'd/d' in Fig. 1a and the accompanying legend, the main text and the Methods section. The original Article has been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nowoshilow S,Schloissnig S,Fei JF,Dahl A,Pang AWC,Pippel M,Winkler S,Hastie AR,Young G,Roscito JG,Falcon F,Knapp D,Powell S,Cruz A,Cao H,Habermann B,Hiller M,Tanaka EM,Myers EW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spider mite Tetranychus urticae is a cosmopolitan agricultural pest with an extensive host plant range and an extreme record of pesticide resistance. Here we present the completely sequenced and annotated spider mite genome, representing the first complete chelicerate genome. At 90 megabases T. urticae has the sma...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Grbić M,Van Leeuwen T,Clark RM,Rombauts S,Rouzé P,Grbić V,Osborne EJ,Dermauw W,Ngoc PC,Ortego F,Hernández-Crespo P,Diaz I,Martinez M,Navajas M,Sucena É,Magalhães S,Nagy L,Pace RM,Djuranović S,Smagghe G,Iga M,Chr

更新日期：2011-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective epidemiological data have indicated that cutaneous malignant melanoma may arise as a consequence of intense, intermittent exposure of the skin to ultraviolet radiation, particularly in children, rather than from the cumulative lifetime exposure that is associated with other forms of skin cancer. Here we ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Noonan FP,Recio JA,Takayama H,Duray P,Anver MR,Rush WL,De Fabo EC,Merlino G

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common knowledge that our feelings of alertness or drowsiness vary throughout the day. Indeed, this diurnal variation is so widely accepted that it has been used to validate the drowsy/alert component of activation obtained from mood adjective checklists. There is, however, some evidence from sleep deprivation a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Folkard S,Hume KI,Minors DS,Waterhouse JM,Watson FL

更新日期：1985-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Only 17% of 111 reef-building coral genera and none of the 18 coral families with reef-builders are considered endemic to the Atlantic, whereas the corresponding percentages for the Indo-west Pacific are 76% and 39%. These figures depend on the assumption that genera and families spanning the two provinces belong to t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fukami H,Budd AF,Paulay G,Solé-Cava A,Allen Chen C,Iwao K,Knowlton N

更新日期：2004-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are organized on length scales ranging from ångström to micrometres. However, the mechanisms by which ångström-scale molecular properties are translated to micrometre-scale macroscopic properties are not well understood. Here we show that interactions between diverse synthetic, multivalent macromolecules (includ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li P,Banjade S,Cheng HC,Kim S,Chen B,Guo L,Llaguno M,Hollingsworth JV,King DS,Banani SF,Russo PS,Jiang QX,Nixon BT,Rosen MK

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD), one of the most frequently encountered forms of mental illness and a leading cause of disability worldwide, poses a major challenge to genetic analysis. To date, no robustly replicated genetic loci have been identified, despite analysis of more than 9,000 cases. Here, using low-coverag...

journal_title：Nature

authors： CONVERGE consortium.

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical structures with periodic variations of the dielectric constant in one or more directions (photonic crystals) have been employed extensively for studying optical diffraction phenomena. Practical interest in such structures arises from the possibilities they offer for tailoring photon modes, and thereby the char...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pier H,Kapon E,Moser M

更新日期：2000-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria living within eukaryotic cells can be essential for the survival or reproduction of the host but in other cases are among the most successful pathogens. Environmental Chlamydiae, including strain UWE25, thrive as obligate intracellular symbionts within protozoa; are recently discovered relatives of major bact...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Haferkamp I,Schmitz-Esser S,Linka N,Urbany C,Collingro A,Wagner M,Horn M,Neuhaus HE

更新日期：2004-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Juxtaposition between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria is a common structural feature, providing the physical basis for intercommunication during Ca(2+) signalling; yet, the molecular mechanisms controlling this interaction are unknown. Here we show that mitofusin 2, a mitochondrial dynamin-related protein ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： de Brito OM,Scorrano L

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been a potent tool in our understanding of human evolution, owing to characteristics such as high copy number, apparent lack of recombination, high substitution rate and maternal mode of inheritance. However, almost all studies of human evolution based on mtDNA sequencing ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ingman M,Kaessmann H,Pääbo S,Gyllensten U

更新日期：2000-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion pore is the first crucial intermediate formed during exocytosis, yet little is known about the mechanisms that determine the size and kinetic properties of these transient structures. Here, we reduced the number of available SNAREs (proteins that mediate vesicle fusion) in neurons and observed changes in tr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bao H,Das D,Courtney NA,Jiang Y,Briguglio JS,Lou X,Roston D,Cui Q,Chanda B,Chapman ER

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairwise recognition of splice sites as a result of a scanning mechanism is an attractive model to explain the coordination of vertebrate splicing. Such a mechanism would predict a polarity-of-site recognition in the scanned unit, but no evidence for a polarity gradient across introns has been found. We have suggested...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Niwa M,MacDonald CC,Berget SM

更新日期：1992-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 recessive X chromosome-linked diseases, typically affecting only hemizygous males, have been identified. In many of these, prenatal diagnosis is possible by chorion villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis, followed by cytogenetic, biochemical or molecular analysis of the cells recovered from the conceptus. In ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Handyside AH,Kontogianni EH,Hardy K,Winston RM

更新日期：1990-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility resulting from a severe defect in sperm production affects 2% of men worldwide. Of these men with azoospermia, the absence of sperm in semen, one in eight carry de novo deletions for a specific region of the Y chromosome. A candidate gene for the Y-chromosome azoospermia factor (AZF) has been identified an...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eberhart CG,Maines JZ,Wasserman SA

更新日期：1996-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain has generally been considered an insulin-independent organ, because insulin does not apparently exert a direct effect on brain glucose consumption. Recently, however, insulin receptors have been detected throughout the central nervous system (CNS) of several species. Since important insights into the functio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van Houten M,Posner BI

更新日期：1979-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A T-cell-mediated immune response is initiated by the T-cell receptor (TCR) interacting with peptide-bound major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) on an infected cell. The mechanism by which this interaction triggers intracellular phosphorylation of the TCR, which lacks a kinase domain, remains poorly understood. Here...

journal_title：Nature

authors： James JR,Vale RD

更新日期：2012-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Witze A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad and deep tumour genome sequencing has shed new light on tumour heterogeneity and provided important insights into the evolution of metastases arising from different clones. There is an additional layer of complexity, in that tumour evolution may be influenced by selective pressure provided by therapy, in a simil...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Juric D,Castel P,Griffith M,Griffith OL,Won HH,Ellis H,Ebbesen SH,Ainscough BJ,Ramu A,Iyer G,Shah RH,Huynh T,Mino-Kenudson M,Sgroi D,Isakoff S,Thabet A,Elamine L,Solit DB,Lowe SW,Quadt C,Peters M,Derti A,Scheg

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins encoded by the ras oncogene are thought to trigger expression of the transformed phenotype in some types of cancer cells. In human cells, the ras protein family consists of several members including normal (proto-oncogene) and mutant (oncogene) forms. In general, the proto-oncogene forms are thought to be...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Feramisco JR,Clark R,Wong G,Arnheim N,Milley R,McCormick F

更新日期：1985-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to excise (repair) UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in Escherichia coli is not related to its ability to remove N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG)-induced O6-methylguanine (O6-MeG) from DNA. It was therefore surprising that certain xeroderma pigmentosum cell lines, deficient in dimer excision, were al...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sklar R,Strauss B

更新日期：1981-01-29 00:00:00

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

authors： Burgisser A,Bergantz GW

更新日期：2011-03-10 00:00:00