The joining of V and J gene segments creates antibody diversity.

abstract：:The spontaneously hypertensive rat and the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat are useful models for human hypertension. In these strains hypertension is a polygenic trait, in which both autosomal and sex-linked genes can influence blood pressure. Linkage studies in crosses between the stroke-prone spontaneous...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hilbert P,Lindpaintner K,Beckmann JS,Serikawa T,Soubrier F,Dubay C,Cartwright P,De Gouyon B,Julier C,Takahasi S

更新日期：1991-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthquakes radiate from slip on discrete faults, but also commonly involve distributed deformation within a broader fault zone, especially near the surface. Variations in rock strain during an earthquake are caused by heterogeneity in the elastic stress before the earthquake, by variable material properties and geome...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fielding EJ,Lundgren PR,Bürgmann R,Funning GJ

更新日期：2009-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho-family GTPase, Cdc42, can regulate the actin cytoskeleton through activation of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family members. Activation relieves an autoinhibitory contact between the GTPase-binding domain and the carboxy-terminal region of WASP proteins. Here we report the autoinhibited structure of...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kim AS,Kakalis LT,Abdul-Manan N,Liu GA,Rosen MK

更新日期：2000-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance in manganites is generally agreed to be a result of competition between crystal phases with different electronic, magnetic and structural order; a competition which can be strong enough to cause phase separation between metallic ferromagnetic and insulating charge-modulated...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Milward GC,Calderón MJ,Littlewood PB

更新日期：2005-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Long interspersed nuclear elements-1 (LINE-1 or L1s) are abundant retrotransposons that comprise approximately 20% of mammalian genomes. Active L1 retrotransposons can impact the genome in a variety of ways, creating insertions, deletions, new splice sites or gene expression fine-tuning. We have shown previously that ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Muotri AR,Marchetto MC,Coufal NG,Oefner R,Yeo G,Nakashima K,Gage FH

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective interaction between T cells and their targets requires that recognition of specific antigen be coordinated with increased cell-cell adhesion. We show that antigen-receptor cross-linking increases the strength of the adhesion mechanism between lymphocyte function-associated molecule-1 (LFA-1) and intercellula...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dustin ML,Springer TA

更新日期：1989-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Taubenberger et al. claim that the 1918 influenza virus was derived from an avian source and adapted to humans shortly before the pandemic. However, we do not believe that this conclusion, which has been widely disseminated in the popular press and in scientific journals, is supported by their phylogenetic evidence. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Antonovics J,Hood ME,Baker CH

更新日期：2006-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMRs) are aggressive paediatric embryonal brain tumours with a universally poor prognosis1. Here we collected 193 primary ETMRs and 23 matched relapse samples to investigate the genomic landscape of this distinct tumour type. We found that patients with tumours in which t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lambo S,Gröbner SN,Rausch T,Waszak SM,Schmidt C,Gorthi A,Romero JC,Mauermann M,Brabetz S,Krausert S,Buchhalter I,Koster J,Zwijnenburg DA,Sill M,Hübner JM,Mack N,Schwalm B,Ryzhova M,Hovestadt V,Papillon-Cavanagh S,

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Aveline DC,Williams JR,Elliott ER,Dutenhoffer C,Kellogg JR,Kohel JM,Lay NE,Oudrhiri K,Shotwell RF,Yu N,Thompson RJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all organisms that must have been available since the origin of life. Abiotic processes including hydrothermal reduction, photochemical reactions, or lightning discharge could have converted atmospheric N2 into assimilable NH4(+), HCN, or NOx species, collectively termed fixed nit...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stüeken EE,Buick R,Guy BM,Koehler MC

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The global mid-ocean ridge system is the most extensive magmatic system on our planet and is the site of 75 per cent of Earth's volcanism1. The vertical extent of mid-ocean-ridge magmatic systems has been considered to be restricted: even at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel mid-ocean ridge under the Arctic Ocean, where ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bennett EN,Jenner FE,Millet MA,Cashman KV,Lissenberg CJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how ecological communities are organized and how they change through time is critical to predicting the effects of climate change. Recent work documenting the co-occurrence structure of modern communities found that most significant species pairs co-occur less frequently than would be expected by chance....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lyons SK,Amatangelo KL,Behrensmeyer AK,Bercovici A,Blois JL,Davis M,DiMichele WA,Du A,Eronen JT,Faith JT,Graves GR,Jud N,Labandeira C,Looy CV,McGill B,Miller JH,Patterson D,Pineda-Munoz S,Potts R,Riddle B,Terry R

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes group of viruses and the aetiological agent of infectious mononucleosis, is usually thought of as a lymphotrophic virus with the ability to transform B lymphocytes. So the association of EBV with nasopharyngeal carcinoma is puzzling, especially given the lack of success...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sixbey JW,Vesterinen EH,Nedrud JG,Raab-Traub N,Walton LA,Pagano JS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To trigger class II-restricted T cells, antigen presenting cells have to capture antigens, process them and display their fragments in association with class II molecules. In most species, activated T cells express class II molecules; however, no evidence has been found that these cells can present soluble antigens. T...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lanzavecchia A,Roosnek E,Gregory T,Berman P,Abrignani S

更新日期：1988-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite observations have transformed our understanding of the Antarctic cryosphere. The continent holds the vast majority of Earth's fresh water, and blankets swathes of the Southern Hemisphere in ice. Reductions in the thickness and extent of floating ice shelves have disturbed inland ice, triggering retreat, acce...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shepherd A,Fricker HA,Farrell SL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human nose is often considered something of a luxury, but in the rest of the animal world, from bacteria to mammals, detecting chemicals in the environment has been critical to the successful organism. An indication of the importance of olfactory systems is the significant proportion - as much as 4% - of the genom...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Firestein S

更新日期：2001-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Globular star clusters that formed at the same cosmic time may have evolved rather differently from the dynamical point of view (because that evolution depends on the internal environment) through a variety of processes that tend progressively to segregate stars more massive than the average towards the cluster centre...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ferraro FR,Lanzoni B,Dalessandro E,Beccari G,Pasquato M,Miocchi P,Rood RT,Sigurdsson S,Sills A,Vesperini E,Mapelli M,Contreras R,Sanna N,Mucciarelli A

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of papillomaviruses in epithelial-derived cancers from several animal species has led to the speculation that these viruses may also have a pathogenic role in the development of certain human carcinomas, particularly those associated with the anogenital tract. Recently, human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zachow KR,Ostrow RS,Bender M,Watts S,Okagaki T,Pass F,Faras AJ

更新日期：1982-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is a major health problem, affecting 5% of the world population. Genetic factors are important in NIDDM, but the mechanisms leading to glucose intolerance are unknown. Genetic linkage has been investigated in multigeneration families to localize, and ultimately identify,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Froguel P,Vaxillaire M,Sun F,Velho G,Zouali H,Butel MO,Lesage S,Vionnet N,Clément K,Fougerousse F

更新日期：1992-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mec-2 gene is required for the function of a set of six touch receptor neurons in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; mec-2 mutants, which are touch-insensitive, have touch cells that appear morphologically normal. Gene interaction studies suggest that mec-2 positively regulates the activity of the putative mecha...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Huang M,Gu G,Ferguson EL,Chalfie M

更新日期：1995-11-16 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：:Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are blood cancers that are characterized by the excessive production of mature myeloid cells and arise from the acquisition of somatic driver mutations in haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Epidemiological studies indicate a substantial heritable component of MPNs that is among the h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bao EL,Nandakumar SK,Liao X,Bick AG,Karjalainen J,Tabaka M,Gan OI,Havulinna AS,Kiiskinen TTJ,Lareau CA,de Lapuente Portilla AL,Li B,Emdin C,Codd V,Nelson CP,Walker CJ,Churchhouse C,de la Chapelle A,Klein DE,Nilsson

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a mutant adenovirus carrying an insertion of cellular DNA has led to the identification of a new family of human repetitive sequences, which are found tandemly arranged in the genome. The sequence of the viral insert resembles that of eukaryotic transposable elements. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shimizu Y,Yoshida K,Ren CS,Fujinaga K,Rajagopalan S,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1983-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During fertilization, an egg and a sperm fuse to form a new embryo. Eggs develop from oocytes in a process called meiosis. Meiosis in human oocytes is highly error-prone, and defective eggs are the leading cause of pregnancy loss and several genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Which genes safeguard accurate pro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pfender S,Kuznetsov V,Pasternak M,Tischer T,Santhanam B,Schuh M

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of human embryonic stem (ES) cells in medicine and biology has an inherent reliance on understanding the starting cell population. Human ES cells differ from mouse ES cells and the specific embryonic origin of both cell types is unclear. Previous work suggested that mouse ES cells could only be obtaine...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tesar PJ,Chenoweth JG,Brook FA,Davies TJ,Evans EP,Mack DL,Gardner RL,McKay RD

更新日期：2007-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:p97 is a 97,000 molecular weight cell-surface glycoprotein, which is present in human melanomas but in only trace amounts in normal adult tissues. Amino acid sequence and iron binding studies have shown that p97 is structurally and functionally related to transferrin. Reports that the genes for the transferrin recepto...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Plowman GD,Brown JP,Enns CA,Schröder J,Nikinmaa B,Sussman HH,Hellström KE,Hellström I

更新日期：1983-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Red colobus are one of a small number of primate species in which females have been reported to transfer between breeding groups more commonly than males. Several authors have hypothesised that in such species transference may serve to reduce the risk to females of producing offspring of lower fitness through inbreedi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Marsh CW

更新日期：1979-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Witze A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoinflammatory disease that affects 1-2% of the world's population and is characterized by widespread joint inflammation. Interleukin-1 is an important mediator of cartilage destruction in rheumatic diseases, but our understanding of the upstream mechanisms leading to production of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vande Walle L,Van Opdenbosch N,Jacques P,Fossoul A,Verheugen E,Vogel P,Beyaert R,Elewaut D,Kanneganti TD,van Loo G,Lamkanfi M

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:One goal of regenerative medicine, to use stem cells to replace cells lost by injury or disease, depends on producing an excess of the relevant cell for study or transplantation. To this end, the stepwise differentiation of stem cells into specialized derivatives has been successful for some cell types, but a major pr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sneddon JB,Borowiak M,Melton DA

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00