A polysaccharide bioprotonic field-effect transistor.

abstract：:Defensins are cationic antimicrobial peptides expressed throughout the plant and animal kingdoms as a first line of defense against pathogens. Membrane targeting and disruption is a crucial function of many defensins, however the precise mechanism remains unclear. Certain plant defensins form dimers that specifically ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Järvå M,Lay FT,Phan TK,Humble C,Poon IKH,Bleackley MR,Anderson MA,Hulett MD,Kvansakul M

更新日期：2018-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor KLF5 is highly expressed in basal-like breast cancer and promotes breast cancer cell proliferation, survival, migration and tumour growth. Here we show that, in breast cancer cells, KLF5 is stabilized by the deubiquitinase (DUB) BAP1. With a genome-wide siRNA library screen of DUBs, we identif...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qin J,Zhou Z,Chen W,Wang C,Zhang H,Ge G,Shao M,You D,Fan Z,Xia H,Liu R,Chen C

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyridine ring is a potent pharmacophore in alkaloid natural products. Nonetheless, its biosynthetic pathways are poorly understood. Rubrolones A and B are tropolone alkaloid natural products possessing a unique tetra-substituted pyridine moiety. Here, we report the gene cluster and propose a biosynthetic pathway f...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yan Y,Yang J,Yu Z,Yu M,Ma YT,Wang L,Su C,Luo J,Horsman GP,Huang SX

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from the gas phase, small clusters can be produced and deposited with huge flexibility with regard to composition, materials choice and cluster size. Despite many advances in experimental characterization, a detailed morphology of such clusters is still lacking. Here we present an atomic scale observation as ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bals S,Van Aert S,Romero CP,Lauwaet K,Van Bael MJ,Schoeters B,Partoens B,Yücelen E,Lievens P,Van Tendeloo G

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Some bacteria can feed on fungi, a phenomenon known as mycophagy. Here we show that a prophage tail-like protein (Bg_9562) is essential for mycophagy in Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1. The purified protein causes hyphal disintegration and inhibits growth of several fungal species. Disruption of the Bg_9562 gene abo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Swain DM,Yadav SK,Tyagi I,Kumar R,Kumar R,Ghosh S,Das J,Jha G

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin/IGF-1 signalling pathway is a key regulator of metabolism and the rate of ageing. We previously documented that systemic inactivation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) p110α, the principal PI3K isoform that positively regulates insulin signalling, results in a beneficial metabolic effect in aged mice. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Araiz C,Yan A,Bettedi L,Samuelson I,Virtue S,McGavigan AK,Dani C,Vidal-Puig A,Foukas LC

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:FDA proactively invests in tools to support innovation of emerging technologies, such as infectious disease next generation sequencing (ID-NGS). Here, we introduce FDA-ARGOS quality-controlled reference genomes as a public database for diagnostic purposes and demonstrate its utility on the example of two use cases. We...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sichtig H,Minogue T,Yan Y,Stefan C,Hall A,Tallon L,Sadzewicz L,Nadendla S,Klimke W,Hatcher E,Shumway M,Aldea DL,Allen J,Koehler J,Slezak T,Lovell S,Schoepp R,Scherf U

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 2013, a series of earthquakes began along a mapped ancient fault system near Azle, Texas. Here we assess whether it is plausible that human activity caused these earthquakes. Analysis of both lake and groundwater variations near Azle shows that no significant stress changes were associated with the shallow...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hornbach MJ,DeShon HR,Ellsworth WL,Stump BW,Hayward C,Frohlich C,Oldham HR,Olson JE,Magnani MB,Brokaw C,Luetgert JH

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling and microRNAs (miRNAs) are important gene regulatory components in cancer. Usually in advanced malignant stages, TGF-β signaling is elevated but global miRNA expression is suppressed. Such a gene expression signature is well illustrated in a fibrosis (or mesenchymal) subt...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ahn JH,Lee HS,Lee JS,Lee YS,Park JL,Kim SY,Hwang JA,Kunkeaw N,Jung SY,Kim TJ,Lee KS,Jeon SH,Lee I,Johnson BH,Choi JH,Lee YS

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Translatome reprogramming is a primary determinant of protein levels during stimuli adaptation. This raises the question: what are the translatome remodelers that reprogram protein output to activate biochemical adaptations. Here, we identify a translational pathway that represses metabolism to safeguard genome integr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Balukoff NC,Ho JJD,Theodoridis PR,Wang M,Bokros M,Llanio LM,Krieger JR,Schatz JH,Lee S

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Moonlighting proteins are a subclass of multifunctional proteins whose functions are unrelated. Although they may play important roles in cells, there has been no large-scale method to identify them, nor any effort to characterize them as a group. Here, we propose the first method for the identification of 'extreme mu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chapple CE,Robisson B,Spinelli L,Guien C,Becker E,Brun C

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this key era that marks the dawn of modern European societies, we obtained ancient genomic DNA from 63 samples from two cemeteries (from Hungar...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Amorim CEG,Vai S,Posth C,Modi A,Koncz I,Hakenbeck S,La Rocca MC,Mende B,Bobo D,Pohl W,Baricco LP,Bedini E,Francalacci P,Giostra C,Vida T,Winger D,von Freeden U,Ghirotto S,Lari M,Barbujani G,Krause J,Caramelli D

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on the possibilities of additionally employing proposed climate geoengineering technologies, either through atmospheric carbon dioxide re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lawrence MG,Schäfer S,Muri H,Scott V,Oschlies A,Vaughan NE,Boucher O,Schmidt H,Haywood J,Scheffran J

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lead-up to the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, dinosaur diversity is argued to have been either in long-term decline, or thriving until their sudden demise. The latest Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian [83-66 Ma]) of North America provides the best record to address this debate, but even here diversity ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chiarenza AA,Mannion PD,Lunt DJ,Farnsworth A,Jones LA,Kelland SJ,Allison PA

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The timely mobilization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) is essential for maintaining hematopoietic and tissue leukocyte homeostasis. Understanding how HSPCs migrate between bone marrow (BM) and peripheral tissues is of great significance in the clinical setting, where therapeutic strategies for modu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bae J,Choi SP,Isono K,Lee JY,Park SW,Choi CY,Han J,Kim SH,Lee HH,Park K,Jin HY,Lee SJ,Park CG,Koseki H,Lee YS,Chun T

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium metal is an ideal anode for lithium batteries due to its low electrochemical potential and high theoretical capacity. However, safety issues arising from lithium dendrite growth have significantly reduced the practical applicability of lithium metal batteries. Here, we report the addition of octaphenyl polyoxy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dai H,Gu X,Dong J,Wang C,Lai C,Sun S

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient electroreduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products in aqueous solution is of great importance and challenging. Unfortunately, the low efficiency of the production of C2 products limits implementation at scale. Here, we report reduction of carbon dioxide to C2 products (acetic acid and ethanol) over a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu Q,Sun X,Yang D,Ma J,Kang X,Zheng L,Zhang J,Wu Z,Han B

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A key mechanism of bacterial resistance to macrolide antibiotics is the dimethylation of a nucleotide in the large ribosomal subunit by erythromycin resistance methyltransferases. The majority of erm genes are expressed only when the antibiotic is present and the erythromycin resistance methyltransferase activity is c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gupta P,Sothiselvam S,Vázquez-Laslop N,Mankin AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules can efficiently and selectively convert light energy into other degrees of freedom. Disentangling the underlying ultrafast motion of electrons and nuclei of the photoexcited molecule presents a challenge to current spectroscopic approaches. Here we explore the photoexcited dynamics of molecules by an interac...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： McFarland BK,Farrell JP,Miyabe S,Tarantelli F,Aguilar A,Berrah N,Bostedt C,Bozek JD,Bucksbaum PH,Castagna JC,Coffee RN,Cryan JP,Fang L,Feifel R,Gaffney KJ,Glownia JM,Martinez TJ,Mucke M,Murphy B,Natan A,Osipov T,

更新日期：2014-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Most seafloor hydrothermal circulation occurs far from the magmatic influence of mid-ocean ridges, driving large flows of water, heat and solutes through volcanic rock outcrops on ridge flanks. Here we create three-dimensional simulations of ridge-flank hydrothermal circulation, flowing between and through seamounts, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Winslow DM,Fisher AT

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-range chromosomal interactions bring distal regulatory elements and promoters together to regulate gene expression in biological processes. By performing promoter capture Hi-C (PCHi-C) on human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hESC-CMs), we show that such promoter interactions are a key mechanism by wh...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Choy MK,Javierre BM,Williams SG,Baross SL,Liu Y,Wingett SW,Akbarov A,Wallace C,Freire-Pritchett P,Rugg-Gunn PJ,Spivakov M,Fraser P,Keavney BD

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacterial cell division, the tubulin-homolog FtsZ forms a ring-like structure at the center of the cell. This Z-ring not only organizes the division machinery, but treadmilling of FtsZ filaments was also found to play a key role in distributing proteins at the division site. What regulates the architecture, dyn...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Caldas P,López-Pelegrín M,Pearce DJG,Budanur NB,Brugués J,Loose M

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive malignancy with no effective targeted therapies. The oncogenic MUC1-C protein is overexpressed in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and NEPC, but its specific role is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that upregulation of MUC1-C in androgen-dependent PC cell...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yasumizu Y,Rajabi H,Jin C,Hata T,Pitroda S,Long MD,Hagiwara M,Li W,Hu Q,Liu S,Yamashita N,Fushimi A,Kui L,Samur M,Yamamoto M,Zhang Y,Zhang N,Hong D,Maeda T,Kosaka T,Wong KK,Oya M,Kufe D

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by mammalian skins, soft hybrids integrating the merits of elastomers and hydrogels have potential applications in diverse areas including stretchable and bio-integrated electronics, microfluidics, tissue engineering, soft robotics and biomedical devices. However, existing hydrogel-elastomer hybrids have limi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuk H,Zhang T,Parada GA,Liu X,Zhao X

更新日期：2016-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The hierarchical relationships between various stem and progenitor cell subpopulations driving mammary gland morphogenesis and homoeostasis are poorly understood. Conditional inactivation experiments previously demonstrated that expression of the zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/PRDM1 is essential for the ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Elias S,Morgan MA,Bikoff EK,Robertson EJ

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Intentional doping is the core of semiconductor technologies to tune electrical and optical properties of semiconductors for electronic devices, however, it has shown to be a grand challenge for halide perovskites. Here, we show that some metal ions, such as silver, strontium, cerium ions, which exist in the precursor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin Y,Shao Y,Dai J,Li T,Liu Y,Dai X,Xiao X,Deng Y,Gruverman A,Zeng XC,Huang J

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pineoblastoma is a rare pediatric cancer induced by germline mutations in the tumor suppressors RB1 or DICER1. Presence of leptomeningeal metastases is indicative of poor prognosis. Here we report that inactivation of Rb plus p53 via a WAP-Cre transgene, commonly used to target the mammary gland during pregnancy, indu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chung PED,Gendoo DMA,Ghanbari-Azarnier R,Liu JC,Jiang Z,Tsui J,Wang DY,Xiao X,Li B,Dubuc A,Shih D,Remke M,Ho B,Garzia L,Ben-David Y,Kang SG,Croul S,Haibe-Kains B,Huang A,Taylor MD,Zacksenhaus E

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (Epo) supports both primitive erythropoiesis in the yolk sac and definitive erythropoiesis in the fetal liver and bone marrow. Although definitive erythropoiesis requires kidney- and liver-secreted Epo, it is unclear which cells produce Epo for primitive erythropoiesis. Here we find neural Epo-producing...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Suzuki N,Hirano I,Pan X,Minegishi N,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean ventilation is the integrated effect of various processes that exchange surface properties with the ocean interior and is essential for oxygen supply, storage of anthropogenic carbon and the heat budget of the ocean, for instance. Current observational methods utilise transient tracers, e.g. tritium, SF6, CFCs a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ebser S,Kersting A,Stöven T,Feng Z,Ringena L,Schmidt M,Tanhua T,Aeschbach W,Oberthaler MK

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer proteogenomics promises new insights into cancer biology and treatment efficacy by integrating genomics, transcriptomics and protein profiling including modifications by mass spectrometry (MS). A critical limitation is sample input requirements that exceed many sources of clinically important material. Here we ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Satpathy S,Jaehnig EJ,Krug K,Kim BJ,Saltzman AB,Chan DW,Holloway KR,Anurag M,Huang C,Singh P,Gao A,Namai N,Dou Y,Wen B,Vasaikar SV,Mutch D,Watson MA,Ma C,Ademuyiwa FO,Rimawi MF,Schiff R,Hoog J,Jacobs S,Malov

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00