The accessible surface area and stability of oligomeric proteins.

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：:To cause diseases in plants, pathogenic microorganisms have evolved mechanisms to deliver proteins directly into plant cells, where they suppress plant defences and facilitate tissue invasion. How plant pathogenic fungi, which cause many of the world's most serious plant diseases, deliver proteins during plant infecti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gilbert MJ,Thornton CR,Wakley GE,Talbot NJ

更新日期：2006-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Diatremes are carrot-shaped bodies forming the upper parts of very deep magmatic intrusions of kimberlite rock. These unusual, enigmatic and complex features are famous as the source of diamonds. Here we present a new model of kimberlite ascent and eruption, emphasizing the extremely unsteady nature of this process to...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wilson L,Head Iii JW 3rd

更新日期：2007-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an important model for studying the genetics of ageing, with over 50 life-extension mutations known so far. However, little is known about the pathobiology of ageing in this species, limiting attempts to connect genotype with senescent phenotype. Using ultrastructural analysis an...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Herndon LA,Schmeissner PJ,Dudaronek JM,Brown PA,Listner KM,Sakano Y,Paupard MC,Hall DH,Driscoll M

更新日期：2002-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual reproduction by free-living invertebrate larvae is a rare and enigmatic phenomenon and, although it is known to occur in sea stars and brittle stars, it has not been detected in other echinoderms despite more than a century of intensive study. Here we describe spontaneous larval cloning in three species from t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Eaves AA,Palmer AR

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The hot streak-loosely defined as 'winning begets more winnings'-highlights a specific period during which an individual's performance is substantially better than his or her typical performance. Although hot streaks have been widely debated in sports1,2, gambling3-5 and financial markets6,7 over the past several deca...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu L,Wang Y,Sinatra R,Giles CL,Song C,Wang D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase P is the only endonuclease responsible for processing the 5' end of transfer RNA by cleaving a precursor and leading to tRNA maturation. It contains an RNA component and a protein component and has been identified in all organisms. It was one of the first catalytic RNAs identified and the first that acts as a mu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krasilnikov AS,Yang X,Pan T,Mondragón A

更新日期：2003-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements from prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms are discrete DNA segments bounded by inverted or directly repeated sequences that insert into non-homologous DNA in a reaction that is independent of the general recombination functions of the host. The mechanisms proposed generally involve a staggered do...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Murphy E,Löfdahl S

更新日期：1984-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA nucleotidyltransferases (CCA-adding enzymes) are responsible for the maturation or repair of the functional 3' end of tRNAs by means of the addition of the essential nucleotides CCA. However, it is unclear how tRNA nucleotidyltransferases polymerize CCA onto the 3' terminus of immature tRNAs without using...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Xiong Y,Steitz TA

更新日期：2004-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Why sex prevails in nature remains one of the great puzzles of evolution. Sexual reproduction has an immediate cost relative to asexual reproduction, as males only express their contribution to population growth through females. With no males to sustain, an asexual mutant can double its relative representation in the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Doncaster CP,Pound GE,Cox SJ

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to adenosine 5'-diphosphate, the P2Y1 receptor (P2Y1R) facilitates platelet aggregation, and thus serves as an important antithrombotic drug target. Here we report the crystal structures of the human P2Y1R in complex with a nucleotide antagonist MRS2500 at 2.7 Å resolution, and with a non-nucleotide antago...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang D,Gao ZG,Zhang K,Kiselev E,Crane S,Wang J,Paoletta S,Yi C,Ma L,Zhang W,Han GW,Liu H,Cherezov V,Katritch V,Jiang H,Stevens RC,Jacobson KA,Zhao Q,Wu B

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification of human cell-surface glycoprotein with unusual and interesting properties. We initially detected this glycoprotein on the surface of cultured human haematopoietic cell lines by means of a monoclonal antibody. Although it is expressed on all cultured human haematopoietic cell lines te...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Omary MB,Trowbridge IS,Minowada J

更新日期：1980-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A congressional investigation alleges that some researchers have failed to report all the drug-company money that they have received--and that universities may have been too slow to police them. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2008-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the presenilin-1 gene are a major cause of familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Presenilin-1 can associate with members of the catenin family of signalling proteins, but the significance of this association is unknown. Here we show that presenilin-1 forms a complex with beta-catenin in vivo that incr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Z,Hartmann H,Do VM,Abramowski D,Sturchler-Pierrat C,Staufenbiel M,Sommer B,van de Wetering M,Clevers H,Saftig P,De Strooper B,He X,Yankner BA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilia B, or Christmas disease, is an inherited X-chromosome-linked bleeding disorder caused by a defect in clotting factor IX and occurs in about 1 in 30,000 males in the United Kingdom. Injection of factor IX concentrate obtained from blood donors allows most patients to be successfully managed. However, becaus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Anson DS,Austen DE,Brownlee GG

更新日期：1985-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate strongly affects the production of sediment from mountain catchments as well as its transport and deposition within adjacent sedimentary basins. However, identifying climatic influences on basin stratigraphy is complicated by nonlinearities, feedback loops, lag times, buffering and convergence among processes ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foreman BZ,Heller PL,Clementz MT

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we see motion, our perception of how one image feature moves depends on the behaviour of other features nearby. In particular, the Gestaltists proposed the law of shared common fate, in which features tend to be perceived as moving together, that is, coherently. Recent psychophysical findings, such as the coopera...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yuille AL,Grzywacz NM

更新日期：1988-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The human serum response factor is a transcription factor belonging to the MADS domain protein family with members characterized from the plant and animal kingdoms. The X-ray crystal structure of the serum response factor core in a specific-recognition DNA complex shows that the functions of DNA binding, dimerization ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pellegrini L,Tan S,Richmond TJ

更新日期：1995-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsomes prepared from rabbit or pig aortas transformed endoperoxides (PGG2 or PGH2) to an unstable substance (PGX) that inhibited human platelet aggregation. PGX was 30 times more potent in this respect than prostaglandin E1. PGX contracted some gastrointestinal smooth muscle and relaxed certain isolated blood vess...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moncada S,Gryglewski R,Bunting S,Vane JR

更新日期：1976-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics, the large-scale analysis of proteins, will contribute greatly to our understanding of gene function in the post-genomic era. Proteomics can be divided into three main areas: (1) protein micro-characterization for large-scale identification of proteins and their post-translational modifications; (2) 'differ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pandey A,Mann M

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II is the site of photosynthetic water oxidation and contains 20 subunits with a total molecular mass of 350 kDa. The structure of photosystem II has been reported at resolutions from 3.8 to 2.9 Å. These resolutions have provided much information on the arrangement of protein subunits and cofactors but are...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Umena Y,Kawakami K,Shen JR,Kamiya N

更新日期：2011-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis (programmed cell death), an essential process in the development and homeostasis of metazoans, is carried out by caspases. The mitochondrial protein Smac/DIABLO performs a critical function in apoptosis by eliminating the inhibitory effect of IAPs (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins) on caspases. Here we show t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chai J,Du C,Wu JW,Kyin S,Wang X,Shi Y

更新日期：2000-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for excitatory amino acids in the mammalian central nervous system are classified into three major subtypes, ones which prefer N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), quisqualate (QA), or kainate (KA) as type agonists respectively. These receptors are considered to mediate fast postsynaptic potentials by activating ion...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sugiyama H,Ito I,Hirono C

更新日期：1987-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Class-V myosin proceeds along actin filaments with large ( approximately 36 nm) steps. Myosin-V has two heads, each of which consists of a motor domain and a long (23 nm) neck domain. In accordance with the widely accepted lever-arm model, it was suggested that myosin-V steps to successive (36 nm) target zones along t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanaka H,Homma K,Iwane AH,Katayama E,Ikebe R,Saito J,Yanagida T,Ikebe M

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons, which proliferate by reverse transcription of RNA intermediates, comprise a major portion of plant genomes. Plants often change the genome size and organization during evolution by rapid proliferation and deletion of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons. Precise transposon sequences throughout...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tsukahara S,Kobayashi A,Kawabe A,Mathieu O,Miura A,Kakutani T

更新日期：2009-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the RNA polymerase binding site at a promotor on fd RF DNA has been determined in comparison with the starting sequence of RNA initiated at this promoter. The RNA polymerase binding site contained the startpoint of transcription in the centre and a region with twofold symmetry in the non-tra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sugimoto K,Okamoto T,Sugisaki H,Takanami M

更新日期：1975-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern giant sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, one of the largest known predators, preys upon cephalopods at great depths. Lacking a functional upper dentition, it relies on suction for catching its prey; in contrast, several smaller Miocene sperm whales (Physeteroidea) have been interpreted as raptorial (versus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lambert O,Bianucci G,Post K,de Muizon C,Salas-Gismondi R,Urbina M,Reumer J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The midbrain region periaqueductal grey (PAG) is rich in opioid receptors and endogenous opioids and is a major target of analgesic action in the central nervous system. It has been proposed that the analgesic effect of opioids on the PAG works by suppressing the inhibitory influence of the neurotransmitter GABA (gamm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vaughan CW,Ingram SL,Connor MA,Christie MJ

更新日期：1997-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The class II region of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) encodes a polymorphic set of cell surface glycoproteins involved in the regulation of the immune response. Each glycoprotein is a heterodimer composed of a alpha-chain of relative molecular mass (Mr) 34,000 (34 K) and a beta-chain of Mr = 28K. The...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hardy DA,Bell JI,Long EO,Lindsten T,McDevitt HO

更新日期：1986-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical stimuli can modify the energy landscape of chemical reactions and enable reaction pathways, offering a synthetic strategy that complements conventional chemistry. These mechanochemical mechanisms have been studied extensively in one-dimensional polymers under tensile stress using ring-opening and reorganiza...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yan H,Yang F,Pan D,Lin Y,Hohman JN,Solis-Ibarra D,Li FH,Dahl JEP,Carlson RMK,Tkachenko BA,Fokin AA,Schreiner PR,Galli G,Mao WL,Shen ZX,Melosh NA

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