V-J joining of immunoglobulin kappa genes only occurs on one homologous chromosome.

abstract：:High-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs), which lose energy quickly during their propagation, provide a probe of Galactic high-energy processes and may enable the observation of phenomena such as dark-matter particle annihilation or decay. The CRE spectrum has been measured directly up to approximately 2 ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： DAMPE Collaboration.

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We often face alternatives that we are free to choose between. Planning movements to select an alternative involves several areas in frontal and parietal cortex that are anatomically connected into long-range circuits. These areas must coordinate their activity to select a common movement goal, but how neural circuits...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pesaran B,Nelson MJ,Andersen RA

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems of colour vision are normally identical in all members of a species, but a single design may not be adequate for species living in a diverse range of light environments. Here we show that in the mantis shrimp Haptosquilla trispinosa, which occupies a range of depths in the ocean, long-wavelength colour recepto...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cronin TW,Caldwell RL,Marshall J

更新日期：2001-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:XX female mammals undergo transcriptional silencing of most genes on one of their two X chromosomes to equalize X-linked gene dosage with XY males in a process referred to as X-chromosome inactivation (XCI). XCI is an example of epigenetic regulation. Once enacted in individual cells of the early female embryo, XCI is...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalantry S,Purushothaman S,Bowen RB,Starmer J,Magnuson T

更新日期：2009-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairs of asteroids sharing similar heliocentric orbits, but not bound together, were found recently. Backward integrations of their orbits indicated that they separated gently with low relative velocities, but did not provide additional insight into their formation mechanism. A previously hypothesized rotational fissi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pravec P,Vokrouhlický D,Polishook D,Scheeres DJ,Harris AW,Galád A,Vaduvescu O,Pozo F,Barr A,Longa P,Vachier F,Colas F,Pray DP,Pollock J,Reichart D,Ivarsen K,Haislip J,Lacluyze A,Kusnirák P,Henych T,Marchis F,Mac

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte proliferation and perivascular lymphocyte infiltration are conspicuous among the cellular changes in the active brain lesions of multiple sclerosis patients. Recent observations have indicated that most of the perivascular lymphocytes are T cells which may be actively involved in the generation of the brain ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fontana A,Fierz W,Wekerle H

更新日期：1984-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that obesity and associated metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, are intimately linked to diet. However, the gut microbiota has also become a focus for research at the intersection of diet and metabolic health. Mechanisms that link the gut microbiota with obesity are coming to light thr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sonnenburg JL,Bäckhed F

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of blood vessels (a process known as angiogenesis) is essential for organ growth and repair. An imbalance in this process contributes to numerous malignant, inflammatory, ischaemic, infectious and immune disorders. Recently, the first anti-angiogenic agents have been approved for the treatment of cancer and...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carmeliet P

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Excision of introns from nuclear precursors to messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) by the spliceosome requires two distinct phosphodiester transfer (transesterification) reactions: exchange of a 3'-5' for a 2'-5' bond in the first step (lariat formation) and exchange of one 3'-5' phosphodiester for another in the second step (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Moore MJ,Sharp PA

更新日期：1993-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear protein, CREB, has been isolated from rat brain and shown to stimulate transcription of the cyclic AMP-responsive gene somatostatin as a dimer. Biochemical analysis suggests that dimerization and transcriptional efficacy of CREB protein in vitro are regulated by phosphorylation. These findings demonstrate th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yamamoto KK,Gonzalez GA,Biggs WH 3rd,Montminy MR

更新日期：1988-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to reproduce the findings of Benveniste and co-workers, who reported in 1988 that degranulation of human basophil leukocytes is triggered by very dilute (10(2)-10(120)) antiserum against IgE. The results were contrary to conventional scientific theory and were not satisfactorily explained. Following ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hirst SJ,Hayes NA,Burridge J,Pearce FL,Foreman JC

更新日期：1993-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the trans-sarcolemmal influx of Ca2+ occurring during the plateau of the mammalian cardiac action potentials is insufficient in itself to activate the myofilaments, but can trigger a release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) which is sufficient for activation. The demonstration of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fabiato A,Fabiato F

更新日期：1979-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fixed nitrogen (N) often limits the growth of organisms in terrestrial and aquatic biomes, and N availability has been important in controlling the CO2 balance of modern and ancient oceans. The fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen gas (N2) to ammonia is catalysed by nitrogenase and provides a fixed N for N-limited envir...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zehr JP,Waterbury JB,Turner PJ,Montoya JP,Omoregie E,Steward GF,Hansen A,Karl DM

更新日期：2001-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep neural networks have achieved impressive successes in fields ranging from object recognition to complex games such as Go1,2. Navigation, however, remains a substantial challenge for artificial agents, with deep neural networks trained by reinforcement learning3-5 failing to rival the proficiency of mammalian spat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Banino A,Barry C,Uria B,Blundell C,Lillicrap T,Mirowski P,Pritzel A,Chadwick MJ,Degris T,Modayil J,Wayne G,Soyer H,Viola F,Zhang B,Goroshin R,Rabinowitz N,Pascanu R,Beattie C,Petersen S,Sadik A,Gaffney S,King H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of voltage-gated K+ channels are involved in the regulation of neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission. Their heterogeneity arises in part from the large number of genes encoding different K+ channel subunits (reviewed in ref. 1). In addition, heterologous expression studies indicate that assemb...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sheng M,Liao YJ,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1993-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1928, Dirac published an equation 1 that combined quantum mechanics and special relativity. Negative-energy solutions to this equation, rather than being unphysical as initially thought, represented a class of hitherto unobserved and unimagined particles-antimatter. The existence of particles of antimatter was conf...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ahmadi M,Alves BXR,Baker CJ,Bertsche W,Capra A,Carruth C,Cesar CL,Charlton M,Cohen S,Collister R,Eriksson S,Evans A,Evetts N,Fajans J,Friesen T,Fujiwara MC,Gill DR,Hangst JS,Hardy WN,Hayden ME,Isaac CA,Johnson M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dry valleys of southern Victoria Land in Antarctica contain several closed basins in which perennially ice-covered lakes are found. One of the most unusual features of these lakes is the occurrence of high O2 concentrations in the water column; values ranging from slightly more than saturation to more than four t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wharton RA Jr,McKay CP,Mancinelli RL,Simmons GM Jr

更新日期：1987-01-22 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：:Theories of the origin of optical asymmetry in living systems place fundamental importance on the amplification of optical asymmetry by an autocatalytic process. The replication of a polynucleotide is one obvious choice for such an autocatalytic growth mechanism. If an optically homogeneous polynucleotide could replic...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Joyce GF,Visser GM,van Boeckel CA,van Boom JH,Orgel LE,van Westrenen J

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multistranded DNA structures based upon guanine association have been proposed to be important in the structure of chromosome telomeres and in immunoglobulin class switching. Nucleic acids containing runs of guanine bases form a number of structures in vitro, including fold-back structures (Fig. 1a) and parallel-stran...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aboul-ela F,Murchie AI,Lilley DM

更新日期：1992-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to protein-coding sequences, the significance of variation in non-coding DNA in human disease has been minimally explored. A great number of recent genome-wide association studies suggest that non-coding variation is a significant risk factor for common disorders, but the mechanisms by which this variation...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Visel A,Rubin EM,Pennacchio LA

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic structural gene mutations occurring spontaneously in a mouse myeloma cell line offer the opportunity to study somatic mutation in animal cells at the molecular level. Studies on the myeloma protein and on mRNA have enabled us to characterise four such mutants representing four different mutation mechanisms....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Adetugbo K,Milstein C,Secher DS

更新日期：1977-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1980s, most electronics have relied on the use of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors. However, the principles of CMOS operation, involving a switchable semiconductor conductance controlled by an insulating gate, have remained largely unchanged, even as transistors are miniaturiz...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Manipatruni S,Nikonov DE,Lin CC,Gosavi TA,Liu H,Prasad B,Huang YL,Bonturim E,Ramesh R,Young IA

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Epithelial organs undergo steady-state turnover throughout adult life, with old cells being continually replaced by the progeny of stem cell divisions. To avoid hyperplasia or atrophy, organ turnover demands strict equilibration of cell production and loss. However, the mechanistic basis of this equilibrium is unknown...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liang J,Balachandra S,Ngo S,O'Brien LE

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced in its contemporary form in 1946 (ref. 1), but with roots that go back to the eighteenth century, the gravity law is the prevailing framework with which to predict population movement, cargo shipping volume and inter-city phone calls, as well as bilateral trade flows between nations. Despite its widespread ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Simini F,González MC,Maritan A,Barabási AL

更新日期：2012-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid have recently been shown to modulate the activity of ion channels in nerve and muscle cells. The mechanism of action of these metabolites is, however, unknown. In sensory neurons of Aplysia, the S-K- channel is under the dual modulatory control of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Buttner N,Siegelbaum SA,Volterra A

更新日期：1989-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts, which have been a component of the human diet for at least 7,000 years, possess an elaborate cell wall α-mannan. The influence of yeast mannan on the ecology of the human microbiota is unknown. Here we show that yeast α-mannan is a viable food source for the Gram-negative bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cuskin F,Lowe EC,Temple MJ,Zhu Y,Cameron E,Pudlo NA,Porter NT,Urs K,Thompson AJ,Cartmell A,Rogowski A,Hamilton BS,Chen R,Tolbert TJ,Piens K,Bracke D,Vervecken W,Hakki Z,Speciale G,Munōz-Munōz JL,Day A,Peña MJ,

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact inhibition of locomotion was discovered by Abercrombie more than 50 years ago and describes the behaviour of fibroblast cells confronting each other in vitro, where they retract their protrusions and change direction on contact. Its failure was suggested to contribute to malignant invasion. However, the molecu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Carmona-Fontaine C,Matthews HK,Kuriyama S,Moreno M,Dunn GA,Parsons M,Stern CD,Mayor R

更新日期：2008-12-18 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