smoothened encodes a receptor-like serpentine protein required for hedgehog signalling.

abstract：:Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they treat the trade-off mechanisms that underlie plant responses as a black box. Approaches that involve the molecu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scheres B,van der Putten WH

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation of chemical synapses is closely related to memory and learning. Studies of this process have concentrated on chemically mediated excitatory synapses. By contrast, activity-dependent modification of gap junctions, which also widely exist in higher structures such as hippocampus and neocortex, has...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yang XD,Korn H,Faber DS

更新日期：1990-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel capsomeric complexes, pentamers and hexamers were detected as chemical entities in phage Q beta. Both were composed of identical protein subunits and stabilized by intermolecular disulphide bonds. Their numbers per particle were about 12 for pentamers and about 20 for hexamers--consistent with theoretical expect...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Takamatsu H,Iso K

更新日期：1982-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum states of mechanical motion can be important resources for quantum information, metrology and studies of fundamental physics. Recent demonstrations of superconducting qubits coupled to acoustic resonators have opened up the possibility of performing quantum operations on macroscale motional modes1-3, which can...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chu Y,Kharel P,Yoon T,Frunzio L,Rakich PT,Schoelkopf RJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular organisms have co-evolved with complex consortia of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, collectively referred to as the microbiota1. In mammals, changes in the composition of the microbiota can influence many physiologic processes (including development, metabolism and immune cell function) and are a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chu C,Murdock MH,Jing D,Won TH,Chung H,Kressel AM,Tsaava T,Addorisio ME,Putzel GG,Zhou L,Bessman NJ,Yang R,Moriyama S,Parkhurst CN,Li A,Meyer HC,Teng F,Chavan SS,Tracey KJ,Regev A,Schroeder FC,Lee FS,Liston C

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization of a new habitat is a fundamental process in metapopulation biology, but it is difficult to study. The emigration of colonists from established populations might be induced by resource competition owing to high local population density. Migration distances are also important because they determine the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gaggiotti OE,Jones F,Lee WM,Amos W,Harwood J,Nichols RA

更新日期：2002-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision making in an uncertain environment poses a conflict between the opposing demands of gathering and exploiting information. In a classic illustration of this 'exploration-exploitation' dilemma, a gambler choosing between multiple slot machines balances the desire to select what seems, on the basis of accumulate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Daw ND,O'Doherty JP,Dayan P,Seymour B,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable antiquity, diversity and ecological significance of arthropods have inspired numerous attempts to resolve their deep phylogenetic history, but the results of two decades of intensive molecular phylogenetics have been mixed. The discovery that terrestrial insects (Hexapoda) are more closely related to aq...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Regier JC,Shultz JW,Zwick A,Hussey A,Ball B,Wetzer R,Martin JW,Cunningham CW

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gulf Stream transports approximately 31 Sv (1 Sv = 10(6) m(3) s(-1)) of water and 1.3 x 10(15) W of heat into the North Atlantic ocean. The possibility of abrupt changes in Gulf Stream heat transport is one of the key uncertainties in predictions of climate change for the coming centuries. Given the limited length...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lund DC,Lynch-Stieglitz J,Curry WB

更新日期：2006-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The split promoter sequences of a tRNALeuCUG gene of Xenopus laevis have been mapped to nucleotides 13-20 and 51-64 of the tRNALeu coding sequences. The sequences closely coincide with two conserved sequence blocks present in all eukaryotic tRNA genes. The two conserved sequence blocks were found to be exchangeable be...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Galli G,Hofstetter H,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1981-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system has extraordinary plasticity in early life. This is thought to involve N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors which, along with the non-NMDA receptors, mediate fast excitatory synaptic transmission. Although NMDA receptors may be transiently enhanced early in life, it has not been possible to...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hestrin S

更新日期：1992-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Potent marine neurotoxins known as brevetoxins are produced by the 'red tide' dinoflagellate Karenia brevis. They kill large numbers of fish and cause illness in humans who ingest toxic filter-feeding shellfish or inhale toxic aerosols. The toxins are also suspected of having been involved in events in which many mana...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Flewelling LJ,Naar JP,Abbott JP,Baden DG,Barros NB,Bossart GD,Bottein MY,Hammond DG,Haubold EM,Heil CA,Henry MS,Jacocks HM,Leighfield TA,Pierce RH,Pitchford TD,Rommel SA,Scott PS,Steidinger KA,Truby EW,Van Dolah FM

更新日期：2005-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, most individual olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) project bilaterally to both sides of the brain. Having bilateral rather than unilateral projections may represent a useful redundancy. However, bilateral ORN projections to the brain should also compromise the ability to lateralize odours. Nevertheless, ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gaudry Q,Hong EJ,Kain J,de Bivort BL,Wilson RI

更新日期：2013-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 50 years there has been much speculation about the energetic cost of swimming and wave-riding by dolphins. When aligned properly in front of the bow of moving ships in the stern wake of small boats, on wind waves, and even in the wake of larger cetaceans, the animals appear to move effortlessly through t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Williams TM,Friedl WA,Fong ML,Yamada RM,Sedivy P,Haun JE

更新日期：1992-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:More than twenty types of retinal ganglion cells conduct visual information from the eye to the rest of the brain. Each retinal ganglion cell type tessellates the retina in a regular mosaic, so that every point in visual space is processed for visual primitives such as contrast and motion. This information flows to tw...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Feinberg EH,Meister M

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of the silk glands of Bombyx mori during the last larval instar shows two phases. During the first 4 days, in both the middle and posterior parts of the silk glands, the ribosomal machinery is assembled and the synthesis of housekeeping proteins starts. During the second phase (the last 4 days), ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hentzen D,Chevallier A,Garel JP

更新日期：1981-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, hippocampal pyramidal cells use temporal as well as rate coding to signal spatial aspects of the animal's environment or behaviour. The temporal code takes the form of a phase relationship to the concurrent cycle of the hippocampal electroencephalogram theta rhythm. These two codes could each represent a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Huxter J,Burgess N,O'Keefe J

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear exclusion of the PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted in chromosome 10) tumour suppressor has been associated with cancer progression. However, the mechanisms leading to this aberrant PTEN localization in human cancers are currently unknown. We have previously reported that ubiquitinylation of PTEN a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Song MS,Salmena L,Carracedo A,Egia A,Lo-Coco F,Teruya-Feldstein J,Pandolfi PP

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T (T(reg)) cells are a critical sub-population of CD4+ T cells that are essential for maintaining self tolerance and preventing autoimmunity, for limiting chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, and for regulating homeostatic lymphocyte expansion. However, they also sup...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Collison LW,Workman CJ,Kuo TT,Boyd K,Wang Y,Vignali KM,Cross R,Sehy D,Blumberg RS,Vignali DA

更新日期：2007-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogens are involved in the growth, development and homeostasis of a number of tissues. The physiological effects of these steroids are mediated by a ligand-inducible nuclear transcription factor, the oestrogen receptor (ER). Hormone binding to the ligand-binding domain (LBD) of the ER initiates a series of molecul...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brzozowski AM,Pike AC,Dauter Z,Hubbard RE,Bonn T,Engström O,Ohman L,Greene GL,Gustafsson JA,Carlquist M

更新日期：1997-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signalling in astrocytes couples changes in neural activity to alterations in cerebral blood flow by eliciting vasoconstriction or vasodilation of arterioles. However, the mechanism for how these opposite astrocyte influences provide appropriate changes in vessel tone within an environment that has dynamic met...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gordon GR,Choi HB,Rungta RL,Ellis-Davies GC,MacVicar BA

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of immunodeficiency in patients with specific purine enzyme defects indicates a crucial role of the purine salvage pathway in the acquisition and expression of normal immune function. One current hypothesis links the failure of normal lymphocyte development in these diseases to the accumulation of deoxy...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dosch HM,Mansour A,Cohen A,Shore A,Gelfand EW

更新日期：1980-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylyl cyclase is the prototypical second messenger generator. Nearly all of the eight cloned adenylyl cyclases are regulated by one or other arm of the phospholipase C pathway. Functional and ultrastructural investigations have shown that adenylyl cyclases are intimately associated with sites of calcium ion entry i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cooper DM,Mons N,Karpen JW

更新日期：1995-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrathin ferroelectric materials could potentially enable low-power perovskite ferroelectric tetragonality logic and nonvolatile memories1,2. As ferroelectric materials are made thinner, however, the ferroelectricity is usually suppressed. Size effects in ferroelectrics have been thoroughly investigated in perovskite...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cheema SS,Kwon D,Shanker N,Dos Reis R,Hsu SL,Xiao J,Zhang H,Wagner R,Datar A,McCarter MR,Serrao CR,Yadav AK,Karbasian G,Hsu CH,Tan AJ,Wang LC,Thakare V,Zhang X,Mehta A,Karapetrova E,Chopdekar RV,Shafer P,Arenh

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary persistance of fetal haemoglobin (HPFH) is a benign condition characterized by the production in adulthood of more than 1% fetal haemoglobin (HbF, alpha 2 gamma 2) in the absence of erythropoietic stress. Several genetic types have been discerned based on the level of HbF produced, the relative contribution...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Collins FS,Metherall JE,Yamakawa M,Pan J,Weissman SM,Forget BG

更新日期：1985-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics explain the dominance of matter over antimatter in our Universe by neutrinos being their own antiparticles. This would imply the existence of neutrinoless double-β decay, which is an extremely rare lepton-number-violating radioactive decay process whose detecti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： GERDA Collaboration.

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex between HLA-DR3 and a fragment of invariant chain called CLIP was isolated from a human cell line defective in antigen presentation and its X-ray crystal structure determined. Previous data indicate that this complex is an intermediate in class II histocompatibility maturation, occurring between invariant ch...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ghosh P,Amaya M,Mellins E,Wiley DC

更新日期：1995-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Plate tectonics successfully describes the surface of Earth as a mosaic of moving lithospheric plates. But it is not clear what happens at the base of the plates, the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The LAB has been well imaged with converted teleseismic waves, whose 10-40-kilometre wavelength controls the s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stern TA,Henrys SA,Okaya D,Louie JN,Savage MK,Lamb S,Sato H,Sutherland R,Iwasaki T

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals learn that a tone can predict the occurrence of an electric shock through classical conditioning. Mice or rats trained in this manner display fear responses, such as freezing behaviour, when they hear the conditioned tone. Studies using amygdalectomized rats have shown that the amygdala is required for both th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Garcia R,Vouimba RM,Baudry M,Thompson RF

更新日期：1999-11-18 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