Long terminal repeats of human T-cell leukaemia virus II genome determine target cell specificity.

abstract：:The chemical evolution of the Earth and the terrestrial planets is largely controlled by the density of silicate melts. If melt density is higher than that of the surrounding solid, incompatible elements dissolved in the melt will be sequestered in the deep mantle. Previous studies on dry (water-free) melts showed tha...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matsukage KN,Jing Z,Karato S

更新日期：2005-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of human H-Ras complexed with the Ras guanine-nucleotide-exchange-factor region of the Son of sevenless (Sos) protein has been determined at 2.8 A resolution. The normally tight interaction of nucleotides with Ras is disrupted by Sos in two ways. First, the insertion into Ras of an alpha-helix fr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Boriack-Sjodin PA,Margarit SM,Bar-Sagi D,Kuriyan J

更新日期：1998-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum physics has remarkable distinguishing characteristics. For example, it gives only probabilistic predictions (non-determinism) and does not allow copying of unknown states (no-cloning). Quantum correlations may be stronger than any classical ones, but information cannot be transmitted faster than light (no-sign...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pawłowski M,Paterek T,Kaszlikowski D,Scarani V,Winter A,Zukowski M

更新日期：2009-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuronal cells, opioid peptides and opiates inhibit neurotransmitter release, which is a calcium-dependent process. They also inhibit adenylyl cyclase, presumably via the membrane signal-transducing component, Gi, a guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G-protein). No causal relationship between these two events has ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hescheler J,Rosenthal W,Trautwein W,Schultz G

更新日期：1987-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The heavy (H) and light (L) chains of antibodies consist of variable (V) and constant (C) regions. The V regions of the heavy and light chains form the antibody combining site. To determine whether a V region could be functional when joined to a polypeptide other than its own C region, we constructed a chimaeric gene ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sharon J,Gefter ML,Manser T,Morrison SL,Oi VT,Ptashne M

更新日期：1984-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The brightness of type Ia supernovae, and their homogeneity as a class, makes them powerful tools in cosmology, yet little is known about the progenitor systems of these explosions. They are thought to arise when a white dwarf accretes matter from a companion star, is compressed and undergoes a thermonuclear explosion...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruiz-Lapuente P,Comeron F,Méndez J,Canal R,Smartt SJ,Filippenko AV,Kurucz RL,Chornock R,Foley RJ,Stanishev V,Ibata R

更新日期：2004-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice gamma delta T-cell populations with distinct T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires and homing properties have been identified. Diversified populations are found in lymphoid organs and intestinal epithelia. By contrast, the gamma delta T-cells that have been found in the murine skin are homogeneous. They express a ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Itohara S,Farr AG,Lafaille JJ,Bonneville M,Takagaki Y,Haas W,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1990-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresnel lenses allow almost perfect imaging in widely different circumstances, but their focus is perfect only for a single wavelength. Wang et al. have shown how the effective bandpass may be widened for X-ray microscopy by using a compound diffractive/refractive lens near to an absorption edge. A compound lens has a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Skinner G,Gorenstein P

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing goal of artificial intelligence is an algorithm that learns, tabula rasa, superhuman proficiency in challenging domains. Recently, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go. The tree search in AlphaGo evaluated positions and selected moves using deep neural networks....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Silver D,Schrittwieser J,Simonyan K,Antonoglou I,Huang A,Guez A,Hubert T,Baker L,Lai M,Bolton A,Chen Y,Lillicrap T,Hui F,Sifre L,van den Driessche G,Graepel T,Hassabis D

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes are blue/ultraviolet-A light receptors that mediate various light responses in plants and animals. But the initial photochemical reaction of cryptochrome is still unclear. For example, although most photoreceptors are known to undergo light-dependent protein modification such as phosphorylation, no blue-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shalitin D,Yang H,Mockler TC,Maymon M,Guo H,Whitelam GC,Lin C

更新日期：2002-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS). Understanding patterns of viral diversity in wildlife and determinants of successful cross-species transmission, or spillover, are therefore key goals f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Olival KJ,Hosseini PR,Zambrana-Torrelio C,Ross N,Bogich TL,Daszak P

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of four new Xenoturbella species from deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean is reported here. The genus and two nominal species were described from the west coast of Sweden, but their taxonomic placement remains unstable. Limited evidence placed Xenoturbella with molluscs, but the tissues can be conta...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rouse GW,Wilson NG,Carvajal JI,Vrijenhoek RC

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells has been used to disrupt the homeobox gene hox-1.5. Mice heterozygous at the hox-1.5 locus appear normal, whereas hox-1.5-/hox-1.5- mice die at or shortly after birth. These homozygotes are athymic, aparathyroid, have reduced thyroid and submaxillary tissue and exhibit...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chisaka O,Capecchi MR

更新日期：1991-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural visual scenes are cluttered with multiple objects whose individual features must somehow be selectively linked (or 'bound') if perception is to coincide with reality. Recent neurophysiological evidence supports a 'binding-by-synchrony' hypothesis: neurons excited by features of the same object fire synchronous...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thiele A,Stoner G

更新日期：2003-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton is regulated by GTP-hydrolysing proteins, the Rho GTPases, which act as molecular switches in diverse signal-transduction processes. Various bacterial toxins can inactivate Rho GTPases by ADP-ribosylation or glucosylation. Previous research has identified Rho proteins as putative targets for Esc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schmidt G,Sehr P,Wilm M,Selzer J,Mann M,Aktories K

更新日期：1997-06-12 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：:Neuroblastoma, the most common paediatric solid tumour, arises from defective neural crest cells. Genetic alterations occur frequently in the most aggressive neuroblastomas. In particular, deletion or suppression of the proapoptotic enzyme caspase-8 is common in malignant, disseminated disease, although the effect of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stupack DG,Teitz T,Potter MD,Mikolon D,Houghton PJ,Kidd VJ,Lahti JM,Cheresh DA

更新日期：2006-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of brain amyloid-beta, a secreted peptide cleavage product of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is believed to be critical in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease. Increased amyloid-beta can cause synaptic depression, reduce the number of spine protrusions (that is, sites of synaptic contacts) and bloc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kessels HW,Nguyen LN,Nabavi S,Malinow R

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Substitutions of single glycine residues of alpha 1(I) collagen have previously been associated with the inherited disease osteogenesis imperfecta type II. Transgenic mice bearing a mutant alpha 1(I) collagen gene into which specific glycine substitutions have been engineered show a dominant lethal phenotype character...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stacey A,Bateman J,Choi T,Mascara T,Cole W,Jaenisch R

更新日期：1988-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) remained obscure until the recent explosive outbreaks in French Polynesia (2013-2014) and South America (2015-2016). Phylogenetic studies have shown that ZIKV has evolved into African and Asian lineages. The Asian lineage of ZIKV was responsible for the recent epidemics in the Americas. However, the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liu Y,Liu J,Du S,Shan C,Nie K,Zhang R,Li XF,Zhang R,Wang T,Qin CF,Wang P,Shi PY,Cheng G

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the transcription factor FOXA1 define a unique subset of prostate cancers but the functional consequences of these mutations and whether they confer gain or loss of function is unknown1-9. Here, by annotating the landscape of FOXA1 mutations from 3,086 human prostate cancers, we define two hotspots in the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Adams EJ,Karthaus WR,Hoover E,Liu D,Gruet A,Zhang Z,Cho H,DiLoreto R,Chhangawala S,Liu Y,Watson PA,Davicioni E,Sboner A,Barbieri CE,Bose R,Leslie CS,Sawyers CL

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the 470-million-year history of plants on land belongs to bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms, which eventually yielded to the ecological dominance by angiosperms 90 Myr ago. Our knowledge of angiosperm phylogeny, particularly the branching order of the earliest lineages, has recently been increased by t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pryer KM,Schneider H,Smith AR,Cranfill R,Wolf PG,Hunt JS,Sipes SD

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofabrication strategies are becoming increasingly expensive and equipment-intensive, and consequently less accessible to researchers. As an alternative, scanning probe lithography has become a popular means of preparing nanoscale structures, in part owing to its relatively low cost and high resolution, and a regist...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shim W,Braunschweig AB,Liao X,Chai J,Lim JK,Zheng G,Mirkin CA

更新日期：2011-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several distinct cell lineages are established during mouse embryogenesis. The trophectoderm and primitive endoderm give rise to extraembryonic structures alone, while the primitive ectoderm becomes the fetus proper. Recent studies suggest that the levels of DNA modification are lower in inactive X chromosomes from ex...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chapman V,Forrester L,Sanford J,Hastie N,Rossant J

更新日期：1984-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of planarian regeneration may help us to understand how we can rebuild organs and tissues after injury, disease or ageing. The robust regenerative abilities of planarians are based upon a population of totipotent stem cells (neoblasts), and among the organs regenerated by these animals is a well-organized ce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cebrià F,Kobayashi C,Umesono Y,Nakazawa M,Mineta K,Ikeo K,Gojobori T,Itoh M,Taira M,Sánchez Alvarado A,Agata K

更新日期：2002-10-10 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：:Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is a phenomenon whereby the absorption of light by a chemical species provides an energetic driving force for an electron-transfer reaction1-4. This mechanism is relevant in many areas of chemistry, including the study of natural and artificial photosynthesis, photovoltaics and pho...

journal_title：Nature

authors： MacKenzie IA,Wang L,Onuska NPR,Williams OF,Begam K,Moran AM,Dunietz BD,Nicewicz DA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent protease (calcium protease) is apparently involved in a variety of cellular processes. Here we have attempted to clarify the role and regulatory mechanism of calcium protease by analysing its structure. The complete primary structure of calcium protease (relative molecular mass (Mr) 80,000 (80K), 705...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ohno S,Emori Y,Imajoh S,Kawasaki H,Kisaragi M,Suzuki K

更新日期：1984-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of superconductivity in the high-transition-temperature (high-T(c)) copper oxides two decades ago, it has been firmly established that the CuO(2) plane is essential for superconductivity and gives rise to a host of other very unusual properties. A new family of superconductors with the general comp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen TY,Tesanovic Z,Liu RH,Chen XH,Chien CL

更新日期：2008-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Distance determination in animals can be achieved by visual or non-visual cues. Weakly electric fish use active electrolocation for orientation in the dark. By perceiving self-produced electric signals with epidermal electroreceptors, fish can detect, locate and analyse nearby objects. Distance discrimination, however...

journal_title：Nature

authors： von der Emde G,Schwarz S,Gomez L,Budelli R,Grant K

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00