Atomic scale dynamics of ultrasmall germanium clusters.

abstract：:Most genome-wide association studies are based on samples of European descent. We assess whether the genetic determinants of blood lipids, a major cardiovascular risk factor, are shared across populations. Genetic correlations for lipids between European-ancestry and Asian cohorts are not significantly different from ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kuchenbaecker K,Telkar N,Reiker T,Walters RG,Lin K,Eriksson A,Gurdasani D,Gilly A,Southam L,Tsafantakis E,Karaleftheri M,Seeley J,Kamali A,Asiki G,Millwood IY,Holmes M,Du H,Guo Y,Kumari M,Dedoussis G,Li L,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomic sequencing provides a window into microbial community structure and metabolic potential; however, linking these data to exogenous metabolites that microorganisms process and produce (the exometabolome) remains challenging. Previously, we observed strong exometabolite niche partitioning among bacterial isol...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Swenson TL,Karaoz U,Swenson JM,Bowen BP,Northen TR

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes containing the histone H3 variant CENP-A are the epigenetic mark of centromeres, the kinetochore assembly sites required for chromosome segregation. HJURP is the CENP-A chaperone, which associates with Mis18α, Mis18β, and M18BP1 to target centromeres and deposit new CENP-A. How these proteins interact to p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pan D,Walstein K,Take A,Bier D,Kaiser N,Musacchio A

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of domain walls in ferroelectrics is not energetically favourable in low-dimensional systems. Instead, vortex-type structures are formed that are driven by depolarization fields occurring in such systems. Consequently, polarization vortices have only been experimentally found in systems in which these fields...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Peters JJP,Apachitei G,Beanland R,Alexe M,Sanchez AM

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria and peroxisomes proliferate by division. During division, a part of their membrane is pinched off by constriction of the ring-shaped mitochondrial division (MD) and peroxisome-dividing (POD) machinery. This constriction is mediated by a dynamin-like GTPase Dnm1 that requires a large amount of GTP as an en...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Imoto Y,Abe Y,Honsho M,Okumoto K,Ohnuma M,Kuroiwa H,Kuroiwa T,Fujiki Y

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Samarium hexaboride is a classic three-dimensional mixed valence system with a high-temperature metallic phase that evolves into a paramagnetic charge insulator below 40 K. A number of recent experiments have suggested the possibility that the low-temperature insulating bulk hosts electrically neutral gapless fermioni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chowdhury D,Sodemann I,Senthil T

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cities globally are seeking strategies to counter the consequences of both a hotter and drier climate. While urban heat mitigation strategies have been shown to have beneficial effects on health, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions, their implications for water conservation have not been widely exami...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Vahmani P,Jones AD

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Visualization of ion transport in electrolytes provides fundamental understandings of electrolyte dynamics and electrolyte-electrode interactions. However, this is challenging because existing techniques are hard to capture low ionic concentrations and fast electrolyte dynamics. Here we show that stimulated Raman scat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cheng Q,Wei L,Liu Z,Ni N,Sang Z,Zhu B,Xu W,Chen M,Miao Y,Chen LQ,Min W,Yang Y

更新日期：2018-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the geographic spread of fossil localities strongly biases inferences about the evolution of biodiversity, due to the ubiquitous scaling of species richness with area. This obscures answers to key questions, such as how tetrapods attained their tremendous extant diversity. Here, we address this problem by...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Close RA,Benson RBJ,Upchurch P,Butler RJ

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of endogenous adult stem cells by administering soluble molecules provides an advantageous approach for tissue damage repair, which could be a clinically applicable and cost-effective alternative to transplantation of embryonic or pluripotent stem cell-derived tissues for the treatment of acute organ failure...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin Y,Fang ZP,Liu HJ,Wang LJ,Cheng Z,Tang N,Li T,Liu T,Han HX,Cao G,Liang L,Ding YQ,Zhou WJ

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic reconnection (MR) is a fundamental plasma process associated with conversion of the magnetic field energy into kinetic plasma energy, which is invoked to explain many non-thermal signatures in astrophysical events. Here we demonstrate that ultrafast relativistic MR in a magnetically dominated regime can be tr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yi L,Shen B,Pukhov A,Fülöp T

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm infants exhibit different microbiome colonization patterns relative to full-term infants, and it is speculated that the hospital room environment may contribute to infant microbiome development. Here, we present a genome-resolved metagenomic study of microbial genotypes from the gastrointestinal tracts of infa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Brooks B,Olm MR,Firek BA,Baker R,Thomas BC,Morowitz MJ,Banfield JF

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteogenomics enable the discovery of novel peptides (from unannotated genomic protein-coding loci) and single amino acid variant peptides (derived from single-nucleotide polymorphisms and mutations). Increasing the reliability of these identifications is crucial to ensure their usefulness for genome annotation and p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu Y,Orre LM,Johansson HJ,Huss M,Boekel J,Vesterlund M,Fernandez-Woodbridge A,Branca RMM,Lehtiö J

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:How rapidly natural selection sorts genome-wide standing genetic variation during adaptation remains largely unstudied experimentally. Here, we present a genomic release-recapture experiment using paired threespine stickleback fish populations adapted to selectively different lake and stream habitats. First, we use po...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Laurentino TG,Moser D,Roesti M,Ammann M,Frey A,Ronco F,Kueng B,Berner D

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Blends of electron-donating and -accepting organic semiconductors are widely used as photoactive materials in next-generation solar cells and photodetectors. The yield of free charges in these systems is often determined by the separation of interfacial electron-hole pairs, which is expected to depend on the ability o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stolterfoht M,Armin A,Shoaee S,Kassal I,Burn P,Meredith P

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial communities living in the human intestine can have profound impact on our well-being and health. However, we have limited understanding of the mechanisms that control this complex ecosystem. Here, based on a deep phylogenetic analysis of the intestinal microbiota in a thousand western adults, we identify...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lahti L,Salojärvi J,Salonen A,Scheffer M,de Vos WM

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and assembly of artificial protocell consortia displaying dynamical behaviours and systems-based properties are emerging challenges in bottom-up synthetic biology. Cellular processes such as morphogenesis and differentiation rely in part on reaction-diffusion gradients, and the ability to mimic rudimentary ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tian L,Li M,Patil AJ,Drinkwater BW,Mann S

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging data suggest that locoregional cancer therapeutic approaches with oncolytic viruses can lead to systemic anti-tumour immunity, although the appropriate targets for intratumoral immunomodulation using this strategy are not known. Here we find that intratumoral therapy with Newcastle disease virus (NDV), in add...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zamarin D,Holmgaard RB,Ricca J,Plitt T,Palese P,Sharma P,Merghoub T,Wolchok JD,Allison JP

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin looping allows enhancer-bound regulatory factors to influence transcription. Large domains, referred to as topologically associated domains, participate in genome organization. However, the mechanisms underlining interactions within these domains, which control gene expression, are not fully understood. Here...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Magli A,Baik J,Pota P,Cordero CO,Kwak IY,Garry DJ,Love PE,Dynlacht BD,Perlingeiro RCR

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Timescales of magma ascent in conduit models are typically assumed to be much longer than crystallization and gas exsolution for basaltic eruptions. However, it is now recognized that basaltic magmas may rise fast enough for disequilibrium processes to play a key role on the ascent dynamics. The quantification of the ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： La Spina G,Burton M,De' Michieli Vitturi M,Arzilli F

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Control over interactions with biomolecules holds the key to applications of graphene in biotechnology. One such application is nanopore sequencing, where a DNA molecule is electrophoretically driven through a graphene nanopore. Here we investigate how interactions of single-stranded DNA and a graphene membrane can be...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shankla M,Aksimentiev A

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA strands of well-defined sequence are valuable in synthetic biology and nanostructure assembly. Drawing inspiration from solid-phase synthesis, here we describe a DNA assembly method that uses time, or order of addition, as a parameter to define structural complexity. DNA building blocks are sequentially added with...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hamblin GD,Rahbani JF,Sleiman HF

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing concern about potential long-term effects of antibiotics on children's health. Epidemiological studies have revealed that early-life antibiotic exposure can increase the risk of developing immune and metabolic diseases, and rodent studies have shown that administration of high doses of antibiotics ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Leclercq S,Mian FM,Stanisz AM,Bindels LB,Cambier E,Ben-Amram H,Koren O,Forsythe P,Bienenstock J

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:India is located at a critical geographic crossroads for understanding the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Asia and Oceania. Here we report evidence for long-term human occupation, spanning the last ~80 thousand years, at the site of Dhaba in the Middle Son River Valley of Central India. An unchanging...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Clarkson C,Harris C,Li B,Neudorf CM,Roberts RG,Lane C,Norman K,Pal J,Jones S,Shipton C,Koshy J,Gupta MC,Mishra DP,Dubey AK,Boivin N,Petraglia M

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ethanol from non-petroleum carbon resources via syngas (a mixture of H2 and CO) is an important but challenging research target. The current conversion of syngas to ethanol suffers from low selectivity or multiple processes with high energy consumption. Here, we report a high-selective conversion of synga...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kang J,He S,Zhou W,Shen Z,Li Y,Chen M,Zhang Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrodesulfurization process is one of the cornerstones of the chemical industry, removing harmful sulfur from oil to produce clean hydrocarbons. The reaction is catalyzed by the edges of MoS2 nanoislands and is operated in hydrogen-oil mixtures at 5-160 bar and 260-380 °C. Until now, it has remained unclear how t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mom RV,Louwen JN,Frenken JWM,Groot IMN

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer persister cells tolerate anticancer drugs and serve as the founders of acquired resistance and cancer relapse. Here we show that a subpopulation of BRAFV600 mutant melanoma cells that tolerates exposure to BRAF and MEK inhibitors undergoes a reversible remodelling of mRNA translation that evolves in parallel wi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen S,Faouzi S,Bastide A,Martineau S,Malka-Mahieu H,Fu Y,Sun X,Mateus C,Routier E,Roy S,Desaubry L,André F,Eggermont A,David A,Scoazec JY,Vagner S,Robert C

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing complex viral transcriptomes by conventional RNA sequencing approaches is complicated by high gene density, overlapping reading frames, and complex splicing patterns. Direct RNA sequencing (direct RNA-seq) using nanopore arrays offers an exciting alternative whereby individual polyadenylated RNAs are se...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Depledge DP,Srinivas KP,Sadaoka T,Bready D,Mori Y,Placantonakis DG,Mohr I,Wilson AC

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many physical phenomena can be understood by single-particle physics; that is, treating particles as non-interacting entities. When this fails, many-body interactions lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking and phenomena such as fundamental particles' mass generation, superconductivity and magnetism. Competition between...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee Y,Tran D,Myhro K,Velasco J,Gillgren N,Lau CN,Barlas Y,Poumirol JM,Smirnov D,Guinea F

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To balance immunity and tolerance, the endogenous pool of Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells is tightly controlled, but the underlying mechanisms of this control remain poorly understood. Here we show that the number of Treg cells is negatively regulated by the kinase Lkb1 in dendritic cells (DCs). Conditional knockout ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen S,Fang L,Guo W,Zhou Y,Yu G,Li W,Dong K,Liu J,Luo Y,Wang B,Li Z,Zhao C,Sun Z,Shen Y,Leng Q,Zhou D,Han Z,Huang H,Ren H,Xu G,Feng X

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00