Cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA for the rat atrial natriuretic factor precursor.

abstract：:Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level rise in future warming scenarios1-4. Although both geological data5-7 and ice sheet models3,8 indicate that marine-based sectors of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wilson DJ,Bertram RA,Needham EF,van de Flierdt T,Welsh KJ,McKay RM,Mazumder A,Riesselman CR,Jimenez-Espejo FJ,Escutia C

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:The human AIDS viruses human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2) represent cross-species (zoonotic) infections. Although the primate reservoir of HIV-2 has been clearly identified as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys), the origin of HIV-1 remains uncertain. Viruses related to HIV-1 have been iso...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gao F,Bailes E,Robertson DL,Chen Y,Rodenburg CM,Michael SF,Cummins LB,Arthur LO,Peeters M,Shaw GM,Sharp PM,Hahn BH

更新日期：1999-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Some people inherit an unfortunate combination of genetic sequences, such that exposure to an external trigger causes their immune response to turn on their own tissues. Although mutations in a single gene can cause autoimmunity, most autoimmune diseases are associated with several sequence variants. Marked advances i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rioux JD,Abbas AK

更新日期：2005-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation of the mammals provides a 165-million-year test case for evolutionary theories of how species occupy and then fill ecological niches. It is widely assumed that species often diverge rapidly early in their evolution, and that this is followed by a longer, drawn-out period of slower evolutionary fine-tunin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Venditti C,Meade A,Pagel M

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The extreme resistance of bacterial endospores to heat may result from dehydration of the central protoplast brought about and maintained by osmotic activity of expanded electronegative peptidoglycan polymer, and positively charged counterions associated with it, in the surrounding cortex. The cortex may thus act as a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gould GW,Dring GJ

更新日期：1975-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic access to genetic information is central to organismal development and environmental response. Consequently, genomic processes must be regulated by mechanisms that alter genome function relatively rapidly. Conventional chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments measure transcription factor occupancy, but...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lickwar CR,Mueller F,Hanlon SE,McNally JG,Lieb JD

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lord Rothschild presents his personal views about the terminology used to describe research and development. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rothschild L

更新日期：1972-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene IL2RG encodes the gamma-chain of the interleukin-2 receptor and is mutated in patients with X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID). Woods et al. report the development of thymus tumours in a mouse model of X-SCID after correction by lentiviral overexpression of IL2RG and claim that these were cau...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pike-Overzet K,de Ridder D,Weerkamp F,Baert MR,Verstegen MM,Brugman MH,Howe SJ,Reinders MJ,Thrasher AJ,Wagemaker G,van Dongen JJ,Staal FJ

更新日期：2006-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic relationships of human populations have been studied by comparing gene frequency data for protein and blood-group loci of different populations. DNA analysis now promises to be more informative since not only do the DNA coding sequences have more variation than their corresponding proteins but, in addition...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wainscoat JS,Hill AV,Boyce AL,Flint J,Hernandez M,Thein SL,Old JM,Lynch JR,Falusi AG,Weatherall DJ

更新日期：1986-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexploitation of renewable resources today has a high cost on the welfare of future generations. Unlike in other public goods games, however, future generations cannot reciprocate actions made today. What mechanisms can maintain cooperation with the future? To answer this question, we devise a new experimental para...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hauser OP,Rand DG,Peysakhovich A,Nowak MA

更新日期：2014-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a class of protein antigens of high relative molecular mass (Mt) which can induce protective immunity against blood-stage malaria has been identified. In Plasmodium falciparum the protein has a Mr of approximately 195,000 (P195). It is the precursor of three proteins of Mr 83,000 (83K), 42K and 19K which are...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Holder AA,Lockyer MJ,Odink KG,Sandhu JS,Riveros-Moreno V,Nicholls SC,Hillman Y,Davey LS,Tizard ML,Schwarz RT

更新日期：1985-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The best spectrographs are limited in stability by their calibration light source. Laser frequency combs are the ideal calibrators for astronomical spectrographs. They emit a spectrum of lines that are equally spaced in frequency and that are as accurate and stable as the atomic clock relative to which the comb is sta...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wilken T,Curto GL,Probst RA,Steinmetz T,Manescau A,Pasquini L,González Hernández JI,Rebolo R,Hänsch TW,Udem T,Holzwarth R

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined analyses of gene networks and DNA sequence variation can provide new insights into the aetiology of common diseases that may not be apparent from genome-wide association studies alone. Recent advances in rat genomics are facilitating systems-genetics approaches. Here we report the use of integrated genome-wid...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Heinig M,Petretto E,Wallace C,Bottolo L,Rotival M,Lu H,Li Y,Sarwar R,Langley SR,Bauerfeind A,Hummel O,Lee YA,Paskas S,Rintisch C,Saar K,Cooper J,Buchan R,Gray EE,Cyster JG,Cardiogenics Consortium.,Erdmann J,Heng

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) has largely been ignored in considering possible mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of tricyclic anti-depressants (TCA). Most previous work done has focused on the ability of some TCAs to block the in vitro re-uptake of DA--an effect which unfortunately requires very high doses. Recently, howe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chiodo LA,Antelman SM

更新日期：1980-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNAs for two distinct anglerfish somatostatin peptides (termed I and II) have been cloned in bacterial plasmids and sequenced. The nucleotide sequence for somatostatin I encodes a large percursor peptide (molecular weight 13,300) in which the somatostatin hormones is at the carboxyl terminus. The predict...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hobart P,Crawford R,Shen L,Pictet R,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1980-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Proximal spinal muscular atrophies represent the second most common fatal, autosomal recessive disorder after cystic fibrosis. The childhood form is classically subdivided into three groups: acute Werdnig-Hoffmann (type I), intermediate Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (type II) and Kugelberg-Welander disease (type III). Thes...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Melki J,Abdelhak S,Sheth P,Bachelot MF,Burlet P,Marcadet A,Aicardi J,Barois A,Carriere JP,Fardeau M

更新日期：1990-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartments in food webs are subgroups of taxa in which many strong interactions occur within the subgroups and few weak interactions occur between the subgroups. Theoretically, compartments increase the stability in networks, such as food webs. Compartments have been difficult to detect in empirical food webs becaus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krause AE,Frank KA,Mason DM,Ulanowicz RE,Taylor WW

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity in the motor cortex predicts movements, seconds before they are initiated. This preparatory activity has been observed across cortical layers, including in descending pyramidal tract neurons in layer 5. A key question is how preparatory activity is maintained without causing movement, and is ultimately conver...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Economo MN,Viswanathan S,Tasic B,Bas E,Winnubst J,Menon V,Graybuck LT,Nguyen TN,Smith KA,Yao Z,Wang L,Gerfen CR,Chandrashekar J,Zeng H,Looger LL,Svoboda K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour suppressor genes (TSGs) inhibiting normal cellular growth are frequently silenced epigenetically in cancer. DNA methylation is commonly associated with TSG silencing, yet mutations in the DNA methylation initiation and recognition machinery in carcinogenesis are unknown. An intriguing possible mechanism for gen...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yu W,Gius D,Onyango P,Muldoon-Jacobs K,Karp J,Feinberg AP,Cui H

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of many peptide growth factors include both stimulation and inhibition of cell proliferation, as well as effects unrelated to the control of cell growth. One peptide can have both stimulatory and inhibitory activity in a single cell, depending on the context of the other signal molecules present. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sporn MB,Roberts AB

更新日期：1988-03-17 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：:Many animals rely on an internal heading representation when navigating in varied environments1-10. How this representation is linked to the sensory cues that define different surroundings is unclear. In the fly brain, heading is represented by 'compass' neurons that innervate a ring-shaped structure known as the elli...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kim SS,Hermundstad AM,Romani S,Abbott LF,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the lower eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum comprises six chromosomes. Here we report the sequence of the largest, chromosome 2, which at 8 megabases (Mb) represents about 25% of the genome. Despite an A + T content of nearly 80%, the chromosome codes for 2,799 predicted protein coding genes and 73 tran...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Glöckner G,Eichinger L,Szafranski K,Pachebat JA,Bankier AT,Dear PH,Lehmann R,Baumgart C,Parra G,Abril JF,Guigó R,Kumpf K,Tunggal B,Cox E,Quail MA,Platzer M,Rosenthal A,Noegel AA,Dictyostelium Genome Sequencing Consort

更新日期：2002-07-04 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：:Pinocytosis and membrane ruffling are among the earliest and most dramatic cellular responses to stimulation by growth factors or other mitogens. The small Ras-related G proteins Rho and Rac have a regulatory role in membrane ruffling and activated Rho has been shown to stimulate pinocytosis when microinjected into Xe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lamaze C,Chuang TH,Terlecky LJ,Bokoch GM,Schmid SL

更新日期：1996-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:B LYMPHOCYTES are key participants in the immune response because of their specificity, their ability to take up and present antigens to T cells, and their capacity to differentiate into antibody-secreting cells. To limit reactivity to self antigens, autospecific B cells can be functionally inactivated or deleted. Dev...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Russell DM,Dembić Z,Morahan G,Miller JF,Bürki K,Nemazee D

更新日期：1991-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A multitude of heptahelical receptors use heterotrimeric G proteins to transduce signals to specific effector target molecules. The G protein transducin, Gt, couples photon-activated rhodopsin with the effector cyclic GMP phosophodiesterase (PDE) in the vertebrate phototransduction cascade. The interactions of the Gt ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Slep KC,Kercher MA,He W,Cowan CW,Wensel TG,Sigler PB

更新日期：2001-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, accompanied by synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration. Antibody-based immunotherapy against Aβ to trigger its clearance or mitigate its neurotoxicity has so far been unsuccessful. Here we rep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sevigny J,Chiao P,Bussière T,Weinreb PH,Williams L,Maier M,Dunstan R,Salloway S,Chen T,Ling Y,O'Gorman J,Qian F,Arastu M,Li M,Chollate S,Brennan MS,Quintero-Monzon O,Scannevin RH,Arnold HM,Engber T,Rhodes K,Ferr

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures to prevent sexual mucosal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 are urgently needed to curb the growth of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic and ultimately bring it to an end. Studies in animal models and acute HIV-1 infection reviewed here reveal potential viral vulnerabili...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Haase AT

更新日期：2010-03-11 00:00:00