abstract：:The mouse major transplantation antigens H-2K, H-2D and H-2L are highly polymorphic cell-surface glycoproteins which may serve as recognition elements in cell-cell interactions. Each antigen possesses a number of alloantigenic determinants defined by antisera of various specificities. Recently, monoclonal antibodies h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Evans GA,Margulies DH,Shykind B,Seidman JG,Ozato K

更新日期：1982-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of cancer is contingent on the emergence of at least one clone of transformed cells. One method used to investigate whether human tumours are monoclonal depends on the mosaicism in the normal tissues of women heterozygous for the two forms of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). This ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Woodruff MF,Ansell JD,Forbes GM,Gordon JC,Burton DI,Micklem HS

更新日期：1982-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A parliamentary and union delegation has expressed to the British government its concern over the possible demise of the Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group (GMAG). The delegation proposed that GMAG continue to ensure the safe development of recombinant DNA technology and extend its role to cover the ethics of human ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wynn J

更新日期：1982-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional assay of a eukaryotic mRNA, into which additional AUG codons have been introduced by in vitro mutagenesis, shows that a translational initiation site need not necessarily be the nearest AUG codon to the 5' end of a mRNA. Hence, the sequence surrounding the AUG, and not simply its position relative to th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lomedico PT,McAndrew SJ

更新日期：1982-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacterium halobium is an obligately halophilic archaebacterium of interest to molecular biologists for many reasons, one of which is the unexplained high frequency (10(-4)-10(-2) mutants per cell plated) at which it yields readily identifiable and unstable mutants. We showed previously that the genome of H. halobi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sapienza C,Rose MR,Doolittle WF

更新日期：1982-09-09 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：:Since the initial discovery that the DNase I sensitivity of the globin genes in different cell types correlates with globin gene expression, this relationship has been shown to hold true for a variety of genes, including the genes for ovalbumin, conalbumun, alpha- and beta-globin in chicken, several heat-shock protein...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Coveney J,Woodland HR

更新日期：1982-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypogonadism in the mutant hpg mouse is characterized by a deficiency of hypothalamic gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). Affected male mice exhibit immature reproductive organs, small abdominal testes and low pituitary and plasma gonadotropin concentrations. Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of fetal ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krieger DT,Perlow MJ,Gibson MJ,Davies TF,Zimmerman EA,Ferin M,Charlton HM

更新日期：1982-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the operator-binding domain of the lambda repressor has been determined at 3.2 A resolution. This domain contains an extended N-terminal arm and five alpha-helices. Model-building studies of the repressor-operator complex suggest that alpha-helices, especially the N-terminal parts of these helices, ma...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pabo CO,Lewis M

更新日期：1982-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of receptors are located at the blood sinusoidal aspect of the hepatocyte plasma membrane. Many circulating ligands that bind to receptors on the cell surfaces are interiorized along two pathways. Asialoglycoproteins are transferred from the plasma membrane to lysosomes and degraded, whereas immunoglobuli...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Debanne MT,Evans WH,Flint N,Regoeczi E

更新日期：1982-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of many of the complement proteins by cells of the monocyte-macrophage series has been established. Studies on these cells using radiolabelled amino acids demonstrated synthesis of precursor proteins (pro-complement), and the native complement protein similar in size to that found in the plasma. Howev...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ooi YM,Ooi BS

更新日期：1982-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Curare has long been regarded as a typical competitive antagonist of acetylcholine (ACh) at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction. Recently, however, it has been shown that curare can also block the channels opened by ACh at the frog neuromuscular junction as well as on rat and Aplysia neurones; moreover, curare is ab...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Trautmann A

更新日期：1982-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of fossil mammalian faunas from the Middle Awash indicates they span most of the later Neogene and document evolutionary change in several mammalian groups, especially Primates, Proboscidea and Artiodactyla. Oldowan artefacts first appear in the late Pliocene, while Acheulian and later industries and apparent...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalb JE,Jolly CJ,Mebrate A,Tebedge S,Smart C,Oswald EB,Cramer D,Whitehead P,Wood CB,Conroy GC,Adefris T,Sperling L,Kana B

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreceptors of the vertebrate retina hyperpolarize in response to light. The hyperpolarization elicited by a brief flash is approximately ten times slower in rods than in cones of the same retina. We have examined the amplification and temporal properties of synaptic transfer of rod and cone signals to a common pos...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schnapf JL,Copenhagen DR

更新日期：1982-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The first open meeting to discuss the growing issue of commercialism in academic research was convened by the New York Bar Association's patent committee. Participants included Steven Muller, president of Johns Hopkins University, Joshua Lederberg, president of Rockefeller University, and A. Thomas Bartlett, presiden...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stein MD

更新日期：1982-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble enzyme system has been discovered which specifically recognizes and replicates plasmids containing the Escherichia coli chromosomal origin, oriC. Electron microscopy has shown that plasmid replication begins at or near oriC from which it progresses bidirectionally to completion. Control of initiation of a cy...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kaguni JM,Fuller RS,Kornberg A

更新日期：1982-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A report adopted by the Council of Europe lists eight recommendations on the legal, ethical, and social issues raised by recombinant DNA research. The legislators stressed that the right to a "genetic inheritance free from any form of engineering" should be included in the European Human Rights Convention, and that s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Becker J

更新日期：1982-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A high degree of polymorphism for the length and copy number of rDNA spacers, in both the X and Y chromosome clusters, has been found in a wild population of Drosophila melanogaster. The genetic behaviour of rDNA structural variants in separate and mixed populations derived from isofemale lines suggest that they are n...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Coen ES,Thoday JM,Dover G

更新日期：1982-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Proviruses of avian leukosis virus (ALV) are located in the vicinity of a putative cellular oncogene (c-myc) in ALV-induced bursal lymphomas. Enhanced expression of c-myc occurs in association with proviruses found in any of three configurations: (I) on the 5' side ('upstream') of c-myc in the same transcriptional ori...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Payne GS,Bishop JM,Varmus HE

更新日期：1982-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning and DNA sequencing have yielded considerable structural information about proenkephalin. All previously characterized intermediate peptides of the enkephalin pathways in bovine adrenal medulla have now been aligned into an unambiguous primary structure. Two basic amino acid residues serve as processi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gubler U,Seeburg P,Hoffman BJ,Gage LP,Udenfriend S

更新日期：1982-01-21 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：:Kalka is one of about 14 major layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions forming the Giles Complex in central Australia1. The stratigraphical section of the Kalka Intrusion passes from a basal pyroxenite zone (450 + m) through norite and olivine gabbro zones (3,500 m) to an uppermost anorthosite zone (800 + m)2. Further res...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gray CM,Goode ADT

更新日期：1981-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The single endogenous DBA/2J ectropic provirus segregated concordantly with the dilute (d) coat colour mutation on chromosome 9 in 53/53 DBA/2J-derived recombinant inbred mouse strains and all seven inbred and mutant strains tested that carry the d allele. Analysis of DNA from a spontaneous DBA/2J d revertant (d+2J) s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jenkins NA,Copeland NG,Taylor BA,Lee BK

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ions on the light-sensitive current of retinal rods was studied by sucking the inner segment into a tightly fitting capillary with the outer segment projecting into a flowing solution. This new method showed that the light-sensitive pathway, in which Na+ is the normal carrier of current, has an ionic sel...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yau KW,McNaughton PA,Hodgkin AL

更新日期：1981-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitotic recombination behaviour of a duplication of the his4 region on chromosome III in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied. The major recombination event between the duplicated segments is gene conversion unassociated with reciprocal recombination. The rad52-1 mutation preferentially decreases mitotic...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jackson JA,Fink GR

更新日期：1981-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothioneins are small cysteine-rich proteins that bind heavy metals such as zinc, cadmium, copper and mercury. Recent interest in these proteins has focused on the part they play in zinc metabolism and heavy metal detoxification. Our interest in metallothionein genes stems largely from the observations that these...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Glanville N,Durnam DM,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1981-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of the poliovirus genome has been determined. The RNA molecule is 7,433 nucleotides long, polyadenylated at the 3' terminus, and covalently linked to a small protein (VPg) at the 5' terminus. An open reading frame of 2,207 consecutive triplets spans over 89% of the nucleotide sequence and codes f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kitamura N,Semler BL,Rothberg PG,Larsen GR,Adler CJ,Dorner AJ,Emini EA,Hanecak R,Lee JJ,van der Werf S,Anderson CW,Wimmer E

更新日期：1981-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal region of the common corticotropin/beta-lipotrophin (beta-LPH) precursor has been identified in the AtT-20 mouse tumor cells as a glycopeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 16,000 (the '16K fragment'). A third melanotropin core sequence or gamma-MSH similar to that found in ACTH and beta-LPH ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Al-Dujaili EA,Hope J,Estivariz FE,Lowry PJ,Edwards CR

更新日期：1981-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely occurring tetradecapeptide somatostatin (SRIF-14) has been variously implicated as a neurotransmitter, a neurohormone, a cybernin (local regulatory factor) and a hormone. In the first isolation of SRIF-14 from hypothalamic extracts and subsequent extracts of other tissues, peptides of higher molecular weigh...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mandarino L,Stenner D,Blanchard W,Nissen S,Gerich J,Ling N,Brazeau P,Bohlen P,Esch F,Guillemin R

更新日期：1981-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:An amino acid sequence analysis of the N-terminal immunoglobulin heavy and light chain variable regions (VH and VL) from 16 hybridoma proteins which bind phosphorylcholine as well as the complete sequence analysis of 9 of these VH regions is presented. There seem to be more VH regions participating in the phosphorylch...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gearhart PJ,Johnson ND,Douglas R,Hood L

更新日期：1981-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of intervening sequences (introns) in DNA led Gilbert and Tonegawa to suggest that a new protein could have been produced by bringing together certain segments of pre-existing ones. However, Blake argued that if DNA was so organized that coding sequences (exons) correspond to structural as well as functi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Go M

更新日期：1981-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the 66-amino acid cro repressor protein of bacteriophage lambda suggests how it binds to its operator DNA. We propose that a dimer of cro protein is bound to the B-form of DNA with the 2-fold axis of the dimer coincident with the 2-fold axis of DNA. A pair of 2-fold-related alpha-hel...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Anderson WF,Ohlendorf DH,Takeda Y,Matthews BW

更新日期：1981-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species related to Drosophila melanogaster have two loci containing sequences which code for the major heat-shock protein of molecular weight 70,000 (hsp70). These sequences are arranged as two pairs of inverted repeats. The structure of the 87C locus in D. melanogaster seems to have arisen through DNA inserti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Leigh Brown AJ,Ish-Horowicz D

更新日期：1981-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The histocompatibility-Y (H-Y) antigen is a minor histocompatibility antigen which has been detected on cell surfaces from the heterogametic sexes of mammalian, bird, amphibian, teleost and invertebrate species. H-Y is thought to be a male-determining substance in mammals because of its almost perfect correlation with...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shapiro M,Erickson RP

更新日期：1981-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In associative learning, the activated neurones undergo a variety of concomitant functional alterations--increases or decreases of firing activity and modifications of membrane potential or resistance and of synaptic responsiveness. Synaptic transmission which can be strengthened only when there is paired activity in ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baranyi A,Fehér O

更新日期：1981-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme complex nitrogenase, which reduces N2 to NH+4, involves two redox proteins, both irreversibly damaged by O2 (ref. 1). Enzyme activity therefore requires anaerobic conditions, a source of reductant and a large amount of ATP (approximately 16 ATPs per N2). In both aerobic and facultative anaerobic N2-fixing b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hill S,Kennedy C,Kavanagh E,Goldberg RB,Hanau R

更新日期：1981-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:(Na+ + K+)ATPase contains two different subunits, a catalytic subunit (alpha) and a subunit with uncertain function (beta). The enzyme binds ATP, ouabain and vanadate, and can be phosphorylated by ATP as well as by inorganic phosphate. From the previously reported maximal binding and phosphorylation capacities of 3.5-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peters WH,Swarts HG,de Pont JJ,Schuurmans Stekhoven FM,Bonting SL

更新日期：1981-03-26 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：:The Ca2+ + Mg2+-activated ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum is responsible for the active Ca2+ transport of this membrane system, the key feature of which is the formation of an energy-rich phosphorylated transport enzyme (EP) and its conversion. To understand the Ca2+-transport mechanism, it is essential to clarif...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Takisawa H,Makinose M

更新日期：1981-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The identical structure of two racially distinct alpha 1-globin alleles and the high degree of homology between the alpha 1- and alpha 2-globin loci indicate that mechanisms exist for suppression of allelic polymorphisms and for exchange of genetic information within the alpha-globin gene complex. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liebhaber SA,Goossens M,Kan YW

更新日期：1981-03-05 00:00:00