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Gardner MJ Shallom SJ Carlton JM Salzberg SL Nene V Shoaibi A Ciecko A Lynn J Rizzo M Weaver B Jarrahi B Brenner M Parvizi B Tallon L Moazzez A Granger D Fujii C Hansen C Pederson J Feldblyum T Peterson J Suh B Angiuoli S Pertea M Allen J Selengut J White O Cummings LM Smith HO Adams MD Venter JC Carucci DJ Hoffman SL Fraser CM 《Nature》2002,419(6906):531-534
The mosquito-borne malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum kills an estimated 0.7-2.7 million people every year, primarily children in sub-Saharan Africa. Without effective interventions, a variety of factors-including the spread of parasites resistant to antimalarial drugs and the increasing insecticide resistance of mosquitoes-may cause the number of malaria cases to double over the next two decades. To stimulate basic research and facilitate the development of new drugs and vaccines, the genome of Plasmodium falciparum clone 3D7 has been sequenced using a chromosome-by-chromosome shotgun strategy. We report here the nucleotide sequences of chromosomes 10, 11 and 14, and a re-analysis of the chromosome 2 sequence. These chromosomes represent about 35% of the 23-megabase P. falciparum genome. 相似文献
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The spacecraft Voyager 1 is at a distance greater than 85 au from the Sun, in the vicinity of the termination shock that marks the abrupt slowing of the supersonic solar wind and the beginning of the extended and unexplored distant heliosphere. This shock is expected to accelerate 'anomalous cosmic rays', as well as to re-accelerate Galactic cosmic rays and low-energy particles from the inner Solar System. Here we report a significant increase in the numbers of energetic ions and electrons that persisted for seven months beginning in mid-2002. This increase differs from any previously observed in that there was a simultaneous increase in Galactic cosmic ray ions and electrons, anomalous cosmic rays and low-energy ions. The low-intensity level and spectral energy distribution of the anomalous cosmic rays, however, indicates that Voyager 1 still has not reached the termination shock. Rather, the observed increase is an expected precursor event. We argue that the radial anisotropy of the cosmic rays is expected to be small in the foreshock region, as is observed. 相似文献
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Gehrels N Sarazin CL O'Brien PT Zhang B Barbier L Barthelmy SD Blustin A Burrows DN Cannizzo J Cummings JR Goad M Holland ST Hurkett CP Kennea JA Levan A Markwardt CB Mason KO Meszaros P Page M Palmer DM Rol E Sakamoto T Willingale R Angelini L Beardmore A Boyd PT Breeveld A Campana S Chester MM Chincarini G Cominsky LR Cusumano G de Pasquale M Fenimore EE Giommi P Gronwall C Grupe D Hill JE Hinshaw D Hjorth J Hullinger D Hurley KC Klose S Kobayashi S Kouveliotou C Krimm HA Mangano V 《Nature》2005,437(7060):851-854
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) come in two classes: long (> 2 s), soft-spectrum bursts and short, hard events. Most progress has been made on understanding the long GRBs, which are typically observed at high redshift (z approximately 1) and found in subluminous star-forming host galaxies. They are likely to be produced in core-collapse explosions of massive stars. In contrast, no short GRB had been accurately (< 10') and rapidly (minutes) located. Here we report the detection of the X-ray afterglow from--and the localization of--the short burst GRB 050509B. Its position on the sky is near a luminous, non-star-forming elliptical galaxy at a redshift of 0.225, which is the location one would expect if the origin of this GRB is through the merger of neutron-star or black-hole binaries. The X-ray afterglow was weak and faded below the detection limit within a few hours; no optical afterglow was detected to stringent limits, explaining the past difficulty in localizing short GRBs. 相似文献
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Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Development of strategies for mitigating the severity of a new influenza pandemic is now a top global public health priority. Influenza prevention and containment strategies can be considered under the broad categories of antiviral, vaccine and non-pharmaceutical (case isolation, household quarantine, school or workplace closure, restrictions on travel) measures. Mathematical models are powerful tools for exploring this complex landscape of intervention strategies and quantifying the potential costs and benefits of different options. Here we use a large-scale epidemic simulation to examine intervention options should initial containment of a novel influenza outbreak fail, using Great Britain and the United States as examples. We find that border restrictions and/or internal travel restrictions are unlikely to delay spread by more than 2-3 weeks unless more than 99% effective. School closure during the peak of a pandemic can reduce peak attack rates by up to 40%, but has little impact on overall attack rates, whereas case isolation or household quarantine could have a significant impact, if feasible. Treatment of clinical cases can reduce transmission, but only if antivirals are given within a day of symptoms starting. Given enough drugs for 50% of the population, household-based prophylaxis coupled with reactive school closure could reduce clinical attack rates by 40-50%. More widespread prophylaxis would be even more logistically challenging but might reduce attack rates by over 75%. Vaccine stockpiled in advance of a pandemic could significantly reduce attack rates even if of low efficacy. Estimates of policy effectiveness will change if the characteristics of a future pandemic strain differ substantially from those seen in past pandemics. 相似文献
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Central nervous system control of food intake and body weight 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
The capacity to adjust food intake in response to changing energy requirements is essential for survival. Recent progress has provided an insight into the molecular, cellular and behavioural mechanisms that link changes of body fat stores to adaptive adjustments of feeding behaviour. The physiological importance of this homeostatic control system is highlighted by the severe obesity that results from dysfunction of any of several of its key components. This new information provides a biological context within which to consider the global obesity epidemic and identifies numerous potential avenues for therapeutic intervention and future research. 相似文献
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Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn's disease 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fisher SA Tremelling M Anderson CA Gwilliam R Bumpstead S Prescott NJ Nimmo ER Massey D Berzuini C Johnson C Barrett JC Cummings FR Drummond H Lees CW Onnie CM Hanson CE Blaszczyk K Inouye M Ewels P Ravindrarajah R Keniry A Hunt S Carter M Watkins N Ouwehand W Lewis CM Cardon L;Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Lobo A Forbes A Sanderson J Jewell DP Mansfield JC Deloukas P Mathew CG Parkes M Satsangi J 《Nature genetics》2008,40(6):710-712
We report results of a nonsynonymous SNP scan for ulcerative colitis and identify a previously unknown susceptibility locus at ECM1. We also show that several risk loci are common to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (IL23R, IL12B, HLA, NKX2-3 and MST1), whereas autophagy genes ATG16L1 and IRGM, along with NOD2 (also known as CARD15), are specific for Crohn's disease. These data provide the first detailed illustration of the genetic relationship between these common inflammatory bowel diseases. 相似文献
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Carlton JM Angiuoli SV Suh BB Kooij TW Pertea M Silva JC Ermolaeva MD Allen JE Selengut JD Koo HL Peterson JD Pop M Kosack DS Shumway MF Bidwell SL Shallom SJ van Aken SE Riedmuller SB Feldblyum TV Cho JK Quackenbush J Sedegah M Shoaibi A Cummings LM Florens L Yates JR Raine JD Sinden RE Harris MA Cunningham DA Preiser PR Bergman LW Vaidya AB van Lin LH Janse CJ Waters AP Smith HO White OR Salzberg SL Venter JC Fraser CM Hoffman SL Gardner MJ Carucci DJ 《Nature》2002,419(6906):512-519
Species of malaria parasite that infect rodents have long been used as models for malaria disease research. Here we report the whole-genome shotgun sequence of one species, Plasmodium yoelii yoelii, and comparative studies with the genome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum clone 3D7. A synteny map of 2,212 P. y. yoelii contiguous DNA sequences (contigs) aligned to 14 P. falciparum chromosomes reveals marked conservation of gene synteny within the body of each chromosome. Of about 5,300 P. falciparum genes, more than 3,300 P. y. yoelii orthologues of predominantly metabolic function were identified. Over 800 copies of a variant antigen gene located in subtelomeric regions were found. This is the first genome sequence of a model eukaryotic parasite, and it provides insight into the use of such systems in the modelling of Plasmodium biology and disease. 相似文献
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Burrows DN Kennea JA Ghisellini G Mangano V Zhang B Page KL Eracleous M Romano P Sakamoto T Falcone AD Osborne JP Campana S Beardmore AP Breeveld AA Chester MM Corbet R Covino S Cummings JR D'Avanzo P D'Elia V Esposito P Evans PA Fugazza D Gelbord JM Hiroi K Holland ST Huang KY Im M Israel G Jeon Y Jeon YB Jun HD Kawai N Kim JH Krimm HA Marshall FE P Mészáros Negoro H Omodei N Park WK Perkins JS Sugizaki M Sung HI Tagliaferri G Troja E Ueda Y Urata Y Usui R Antonelli LA Barthelmy SD Cusumano G 《Nature》2011,476(7361):421-424
Supermassive black holes have powerful gravitational fields with strong gradients that can destroy stars that get too close, producing a bright flare in ultraviolet and X-ray spectral regions from stellar debris that forms an accretion disk around the black hole. The aftermath of this process may have been seen several times over the past two decades in the form of sparsely sampled, slowly fading emission from distant galaxies, but the onset of the stellar disruption event has not hitherto been observed. Here we report observations of a bright X-ray flare from the extragalactic transient Swift J164449.3+573451. This source increased in brightness in the X-ray band by a factor of at least 10,000 since 1990 and by a factor of at least 100 since early 2010. We conclude that we have captured the onset of relativistic jet activity from a supermassive black hole. A companion paper comes to similar conclusions on the basis of radio observations. This event is probably due to the tidal disruption of a star falling into a supermassive black hole, but the detailed behaviour differs from current theoretical models of such events. 相似文献