An enzyme isolated from arteries transforms prostaglandin endoperoxides to an unstable substance that inhibits platelet aggregation.

abstract：:Interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide repeats (IFITs) are innate immune effector molecules that are thought to confer antiviral defence through disruption of protein-protein interactions in the host translation-initiation machinery. However, it was recently discovered that IFITs can directly recognize vir...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Abbas YM,Pichlmair A,Górna MW,Superti-Furga G,Nagar B

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:How left/right functional asymmetry is layered on top of an anatomically symmetrical nervous system is poorly understood. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, two morphologically bilateral taste receptor neurons, ASE left (ASEL) and ASE right (ASER), display a left/right asymmetrical expression pattern of putative ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Johnston RJ,Hobert O

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) is essential for normal cell function, and controlled changes in pHi may play a central role in cell activation. Sodium-dependent Cl-HCO3 exchange is the dominant mechanism of pHi regulation in the invertebrate cells examined, and also occurs in mammalian cells. The transporter...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Boron WF,Hogan E,Russell JM

更新日期：1988-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation in many animal taxa is catalysed by the evolutionary diversification of mating signals. According to classical theories of speciation, mating signals diversify, in part, as an incidental byproduct of adaptation by natural selection to divergent ecologies, although empirical evidence in support of this hypot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Podos J

更新日期：2001-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Trophic control over the expression and membrane distribution of voltage-dependent ion channels is one of the principal organizing events underlying the maturation of excitable cells. The myelin sheath is a major structural determinant of regional ion channel topography in central axons, but the exact molecular signal...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Noebels JL,Marcom PK,Jalilian-Tehrani MH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease) is an adult-onset form of motorneuron disease which may be associated with signs of androgen insensitivity. We have now investigated whether the androgen receptor gene on the proximal long arm of the X chromosome is a candidate gene for this disease. In p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： La Spada AR,Wilson EM,Lubahn DB,Harding AE,Fischbeck KH

更新日期：1991-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A model catalyst is described which has properties in common with carbonic anhydrase. The model demonstrates the availability of a mechanism, previously only hypothetical, for the action of the enzyme. It also shows, however, that this mechanism alone is not adequate to produce the high activity of the enzyme. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Woolley P

更新日期：1975-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein design provides a rigorous test of our knowledge about proteins and allows the creation of novel enzymes for biotechnological applications. Whereas progress has been made in designing proteins that mimic native proteins structurally, it is more difficult to design functional proteins. In comparison to recent s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yeung N,Lin YW,Gao YG,Zhao X,Russell BS,Lei L,Miner KD,Robinson H,Lu Y

更新日期：2009-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein, one of the unique proteins found in the nervous system, has recently been discovered unexpectedly in the rat anterior pituitary. Immunocytochemistry reveals that stellate, follicular and folliculostellate cells, and marginal cells of the rat anterior pituitary contain this protein; however, as far as we...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ishikawa H,Nogami H,Shirasawa N

更新日期：1983-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules are highly polymorphic cell-surface glycoproteins that present antigenic peptides to CD4+ T lymphocytes. The normal assembly of class II molecules with cognate peptides for antigen presentation requires an accessory function provided by a gene mapping to the cl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fling SP,Arp B,Pious D

更新日期：1994-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been established that many eukaryotic mRNAs contain poly(adenylic acid) tracts at their 3'-termini. The polyadenylation of mRNA occurs post-transcriptionally in the nucleus as a rapid, initial addition of 100-200 adenylate residues to the pre-mRNA (ref. 1). Subsequently, a slower chain extension (6-8 bases) of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rose KM,Bell LE,Jacob ST

更新日期：1977-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is characterized by abnormally high blood glucose resulting from a relative deficiency of insulin. It affects about 2% of the world's population and treatment of diabetes and its complications are an increasing health-care burden. Genetic factors are...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yamagata K,Oda N,Kaisaki PJ,Menzel S,Furuta H,Vaxillaire M,Southam L,Cox RD,Lathrop GM,Boriraj VV,Chen X,Cox NJ,Oda Y,Yano H,Le Beau MM,Yamada S,Nishigori H,Takeda J,Fajans SS,Hattersley AT,Iwasaki N,Hansen T,

更新日期：1996-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster have long been of interest to the geneticist because of the visible map of the genome provided by their characteristic banding patterns. An issue in the understanding of the molecular basis of chromosome banding has been whether the chromosomal DNA is replicate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Spierer A,Spierer P

更新日期：1984-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The flow of terrestrial groundwater to the sea is an important natural component of the hydrological cycle. This process, however, does not explain the large volumes of low-salinity groundwater that are found below continental shelves. There is mounting evidence for the global occurrence of offshore fresh and brackish...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Post VE,Groen J,Kooi H,Person M,Ge S,Edmunds WM

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Convection is a fundamental physical process in the fluid cores of planets. It is the primary transport mechanism for heat and chemical species and the primary energy source for planetary magnetic fields. Key properties of convection-such as the characteristic flow velocity and length scale-are poorly quantified in pl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guervilly C,Cardin P,Schaeffer N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piezoelectric materials, which convert mechanical to electrical energy (and vice versa), are crucial in medical imaging, telecommunication and ultrasonic devices. A new generation of single-crystal materials, such as Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PZN-PT) and Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PMN-PT), exhibit a piezoelectric effect ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fu H,Cohen RE

更新日期：2000-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interneuronal messenger nitric oxide (NO) may play a central role in the processing of olfactory information. Several circuit elements in the mammalian olfactory bulb contain NO synthase or its functional equivalent, NADPH diaphorase. The effects of NO on cellular excitability or circuit dynamics in the olfactory ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gelperin A

更新日期：1994-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated age-related reactivation of the X chromosome by devising a model in which reactivation of a single gene in one cell among many can be identified. We have used mice with an X-autosomal translocation giving consistent non-random inactivation of the normal X (as judged by biochemical and cytogenetic ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wareham KA,Lyon MF,Glenister PH,Williams ED

更新日期：1987-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of oncogenes by mechanisms other than genetic aberrations such as mutations, translocations, or amplifications is largely undefined. Here we report a novel isoform of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) that is expressed in ∼11% of melanomas and sporadically in other human cancer types, but not in normal t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wiesner T,Lee W,Obenauf AC,Ran L,Murali R,Zhang QF,Wong EW,Hu W,Scott SN,Shah RH,Landa I,Button J,Lailler N,Sboner A,Gao D,Murphy DA,Cao Z,Shukla S,Hollmann TJ,Wang L,Borsu L,Merghoub T,Schwartz GK,Postow MA

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious, and occasionally fatal, anaphylactic-like (anaphylactoid) reactions may occur when a patient is exposed to a drug for the first time. Apart from the penicillins, nothing is known of the nature of antigenic or sensitizing drug determinants and, as yet, there is no evidence for the involvement of IgE antibodies...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baldo BA,Fisher MM

更新日期：1983-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding of two monomeric enzymes mediated by groE has been reconstituted in vitro. The groEL protein stabilizes the polypeptides in a conformation resembling the 'molten globule' state. Mg-ATP and groES then promote the acquisition of ordered tertiary structure at the surface of groEL. Folding requires the hydrolysis ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Martin J,Langer T,Boteva R,Schramel A,Horwich AL,Hartl FU

更新日期：1991-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mistranslation arising from confusion of serine for alanine by alanyl-tRNA synthetases (AlaRSs) has profound functional consequences. Throughout evolution, two editing checkpoints prevent disease-causing mistranslation from confusing glycine or serine for alanine at the active site of AlaRS. In both bacteria and mice,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guo M,Chong YE,Shapiro R,Beebe K,Yang XL,Schimmel P

更新日期：2009-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cosmic radio-frequency spectrum is expected to show a strong absorption signal corresponding to the 21-centimetre-wavelength transition of atomic hydrogen around redshift 20, which arises from Lyman-α radiation from some of the earliest stars. By observing this 21-centimetre signal-either its sky-averaged spectrum...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Barkana R

更新日期：2018-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) has a key role in the antigen-specific clonal growth of T lymphocytes, by virtue of its interaction with a specific cell-surface receptor (IL-2R). The growth signal seems to be delivered by IL-2 bound to the high-affinity, but not the low-affinity, receptor. Genes encoding IL-2 and its receptor (t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hatakeyama M,Minamoto S,Uchiyama T,Hardy RR,Yamada G,Taniguchi T

更新日期：1985-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To ensure cell survival, it is essential that the ubiquitous pro-apoptotic machinery is kept quiescent. As death is irreversible, cells must continually integrate developmental information with regulatory inputs to control the switch between repressing and activating apoptosis. Inappropriate activation or suppression ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bloss TA,Witze ES,Rothman JH

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission of most vertebrate synapses is thought to be terminated by rapid transport of the neurotransmitter into presynaptic nerve terminals or neuroglia. L-Glutamate is the major excitatory transmitter in brain and its transport represents the mechanism by which it is removed from the synaptic cleft and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pines G,Danbolt NC,Bjørås M,Zhang Y,Bendahan A,Eide L,Koepsell H,Storm-Mathisen J,Seeberg E,Kanner BI

更新日期：1992-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A short, 14-amino-acid segment called SP1, located in the Gag structural protein1, has a critical role during the formation of the HIV-1 virus particle. During virus assembly, the SP1 peptide and seven preceding residues fold into a six-helix bundle, which holds together the Gag hexamer and facilitates the formation o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dick RA,Zadrozny KK,Xu C,Schur FKM,Lyddon TD,Ricana CL,Wagner JM,Perilla JR,Ganser-Pornillos BK,Johnson MC,Pornillos O,Vogt VM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors determining disease severity in malaria are complex and include host polymorphisms, acquired immunity and parasite virulence. Studies in Africa have shown that severe malaria is associated with the ability of erythrocytes infected with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum to bind uninfected erythrocytes and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rowe JA,Moulds JM,Newbold CI,Miller LH

更新日期：1997-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of colloidal quantum dots has led to practical applications of quantum confinement, such as in solution-processed solar cells, lasers and as biological labels. Further scientific and technological advances should be achievable if these colloidal quantum systems could be electronically coupled in a gene...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Milliron DJ,Hughes SM,Cui Y,Manna L,Li J,Wang LW,Alivisatos AP

更新日期：2004-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite tremendous efforts, development of an effective vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has proved an elusive goal. Recently, however, numerous antibodies have been identified that are capable of neutralizing most circulating HIV strains. These antibodies all exhibit an unusually high level of somat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Balazs AB,Chen J,Hong CM,Rao DS,Yang L,Baltimore D

更新日期：2011-11-30 00:00:00