Peptide hormone ghrelin enhances neuronal excitability by inhibition of Kv7/KCNQ channels.

abstract：:Acanthamoeba are infected by a remarkable diversity of large dsDNA viruses, the infectious cycles of which have been characterized using genomics, transcriptomics and electron microscopy. Given their gene content and the persistence of the host nucleus throughout their infectious cycle, the Marseilleviridae were initi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fabre E,Jeudy S,Santini S,Legendre M,Trauchessec M,Couté Y,Claverie JM,Abergel C

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing is essential for the courtship of one of the major carriers of human disease, the mosquito. Males locate females through flight-tone recognition and both sexes engage in mid-air acoustic communications, which can take place within swarms containing thousands of individuals. Despite the importance of hearing fo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su MP,Andrés M,Boyd-Gibbins N,Somers J,Albert JT

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we introduce a novel concept for the fabrication of colored materials with significantly reduced dye leaching through covalent immobilization of the desired dye using plasma-generated surface radicals. This plasma dye coating (PDC) procedure immobilizes a pre-adsorbed layer of a dye functionalized with a radical...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： De Smet L,Vancoillie G,Minshall P,Lava K,Steyaert I,Schoolaert E,Van De Walle E,Dubruel P,De Clerck K,Hoogenboom R

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive nitrogen runoff leads to degraded water quality, harming human and ecosystem health. We examine the impact of changes in land use and land management for six combinations of socioeconomic pathways and climate outcomes, and find that societal choices will substantially impact riverine total nitrogen loading (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sinha E,Michalak AM,Calvin KV,Lawrence PJ

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acids (FAs) are not only essential components of cellular energy storage and structure, but play crucial roles in signalling. Here we present a toolkit of photoswitchable FA analogues (FAAzos) that incorporate an azobenzene photoswitch along the FA chain. By modifying the FAAzos to resemble capsaicin, we prepare...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Frank JA,Moroni M,Moshourab R,Sumser M,Lewin GR,Trauner D

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Designing highly durable and active electrocatalysts applied in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzer for the oxygen evolution reaction remains a grand challenge due to the high dissolution of catalysts in acidic electrolyte. Hindering formation of oxygen vacancies by tuning the electronic structure of catal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hao S,Liu M,Pan J,Liu X,Tan X,Xu N,He Y,Lei L,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise frequency discrimination is a hallmark of auditory function in birds and mammals and is required for distinguishing similar sounding words, like 'bat,' 'cat' and 'hat.' In the cochlea, tuning and spectral separation result from longitudinal differences in basilar membrane stiffness and numerous individual grad...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Thiede BR,Mann ZF,Chang W,Ku YC,Son YK,Lovett M,Kelley MW,Corwin JT

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofabricated and nanopatterned surfaces have revealed the sensitivity of cell adhesion to nanoscale variations in the spacing of adhesive ligands such as the tripeptide arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD). To date, surface characterisation and cell adhesion are often examined in two separate experiments so that the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lu X,Nicovich PR,Zhao M,Nieves DJ,Mollazade M,Vivekchand SRC,Gaus K,Gooding JJ

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interactions in the so-called spin-ice compounds stabilize a frustrated ground state with finite zero-point entropy and, interestingly, emergent magnetic monopole excitations. The properties of these monopoles are at the focus of recent research with particular emphasis on their quantum dynamics. It is predi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Grams CP,Valldor M,Garst M,Hemberger J

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrioles are vital cellular structures that form centrosomes and cilia. The formation and function of cilia depends on a set of centriole's distal appendages. In this study, we use correlative super resolution and electron microscopy to precisely determine where distal appendage proteins localize in relation to the ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bowler M,Kong D,Sun S,Nanjundappa R,Evans L,Farmer V,Holland A,Mahjoub MR,Sui H,Loncarek J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts communicate information by signalling to nuclei during acclimation to fluctuating light. Several potential operating signals originating from chloroplasts have been proposed, but none have been shown to move to nuclei to modulate gene expression. One proposed signal is hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) produced by...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Exposito-Rodriguez M,Laissue PP,Yvon-Durocher G,Smirnoff N,Mullineaux PM

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface-supported isolated atoms in single-atom catalysts (SACs) are usually stabilized by diverse defects. The fabrication of high-metal-loading and thermally stable SACs remains a formidable challenge due to the difficulty of creating high densities of underpinning stable defects. Here we report that isolated Pt ato...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lang R,Xi W,Liu JC,Cui YT,Li T,Lee AF,Chen F,Chen Y,Li L,Li L,Lin J,Miao S,Liu X,Wang AQ,Wang X,Luo J,Qiao B,Li J,Zhang T

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-partite entangled states are important for developing studies of quantum networking and quantum computation. To date, the largest number of particles that have been successfully manipulated is 14 trapped ions. Yet in quantum information science, photons have partic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang YF,Liu BH,Peng L,Li YH,Li L,Li CF,Guo GC

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging evidence suggests that the default mode network (DMN) exhibits antagonistic activity with dorsal attention (DAN) and salience (SN) networks. Here we use human intracranial electroencephalography to investigate the behavioral relevance of fine-grained dynamics within and between these networks. The three n...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kucyi A,Daitch A,Raccah O,Zhao B,Zhang C,Esterman M,Zeineh M,Halpern CH,Zhang K,Zhang J,Parvizi J

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9, transgene integration often remains challenging. Here, we present an approach for increasing the efficiency of transgene integration by homology-dependent repair (HDR). CtIP, a key protein in early steps of homologous recombination, is fused to Cas9 and stimulates transgene integrat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Charpentier M,Khedher AHY,Menoret S,Brion A,Lamribet K,Dardillac E,Boix C,Perrouault L,Tesson L,Geny S,De Cian A,Itier JM,Anegon I,Lopez B,Giovannangeli C,Concordet JP

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Riboswitches are naturally occurring RNA aptamers that regulate gene expression by binding to specific small molecules. Riboswitches control the expression of essential bacterial genes and are important models for RNA-small molecule recognition. Here, we report the discovery of a class of synthetic small molecules tha...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Connelly CM,Numata T,Boer RE,Moon MH,Sinniah RS,Barchi JJ,Ferré-D'Amaré AR,Schneekloth JS Jr

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring single crystals having a multidomain morphology are a counterintuitive phenonomon: the macroscopic appearance is expected to follow the symmetry of the unit cell. Growing such crystals in the lab is a great challenge, especially from organic molecules. We achieve here uniform metallo-organic crysta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： di Gregorio MC,Shimon LJW,Brumfeld V,Houben L,Lahav M,van der Boom ME

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:High-intensity lasers can be used to generate shockwaves, which have found applications in nuclear fusion, proton imaging, cancer therapies and materials science. Collisionless electrostatic shocks are one type of shockwave widely studied for applications involving ion acceleration. Here we show a novel mechanism for ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Turrell AE,Sherlock M,Rose SJ

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9 is a promising technology for genome editing. Here we use Cas9 nuclease-induced double-strand break DNA (DSB) at the UROS locus to model and correct congenital erythropoietic porphyria. We demonstrate that homology-directed repair is rare compared with NHEJ pathway leading to on-target indels and causing u...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cullot G,Boutin J,Toutain J,Prat F,Pennamen P,Rooryck C,Teichmann M,Rousseau E,Lamrissi-Garcia I,Guyonnet-Duperat V,Bibeyran A,Lalanne M,Prouzet-Mauléon V,Turcq B,Ged C,Blouin JM,Richard E,Dabernat S,Moreau-Gaudry F,

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Van der Waals materials and their heterostructures offer a versatile platform for studying a variety of quantum transport phenomena due to their unique crystalline properties and the exceptional ability in tuning their electronic spectrum. However, most experiments are limited to devices that have lateral dimensions o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kumaravadivel P,Greenaway MT,Perello D,Berdyugin A,Birkbeck J,Wengraf J,Liu S,Edgar JH,Geim AK,Eaves L,Krishna Kumar R

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are versatile heme-thiolate enzymes that catalyze a wide range of reactions. Self-sufficient cytochrome P450 enzymes contain the redox partners in a single polypeptide chain. Here, we present the crystal structure of full-length CYP116B46, a self-sufficient P450. The continuous polypepti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang L,Xie Z,Liu Z,Zhou S,Ma L,Liu W,Huang JW,Ko TP,Li X,Hu Y,Min J,Yu X,Guo RT,Chen CC

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant survival depends on seed germination and progression through post-germinative developmental checkpoints. These processes are controlled by the stress phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA). ABA regulates the basic leucine zipper transcriptional factor ABI5, a central hub of growth repression, while the reactive nitrog...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Albertos P,Romero-Puertas MC,Tatematsu K,Mateos I,Sánchez-Vicente I,Nambara E,Lorenzo O

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify cause-effect relations is an essential component of the scientific method. The identification of causal relations is generally accomplished through statistical trials where alternative hypotheses are tested against each other. Traditionally, such trials have been based on classical statistics. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chiribella G,Ebler D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease epidemiology during ageing shows a transition from cancer to degenerative chronic disorders as dominant contributors to mortality in the old. Nevertheless, it has remained unclear to what extent molecular signatures of ageing reflect this phenomenon. Here we report on the identification of a conserved transcri...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Aramillo Irizar P,Schäuble S,Esser D,Groth M,Frahm C,Priebe S,Baumgart M,Hartmann N,Marthandan S,Menzel U,Müller J,Schmidt S,Ast V,Caliebe A,König R,Krawczak M,Ristow M,Schuster S,Cellerino A,Diekmann S,Englert C

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Active biofluid management is central to the realization of wearable bioanalytical platforms that are poised to autonomously provide frequent, real-time, and accurate measures of biomarkers in epidermally-retrievable biofluids (e.g., sweat). Accordingly, here, a programmable epidermal microfluidic valving system is de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin H,Tan J,Zhu J,Lin S,Zhao Y,Yu W,Hojaiji H,Wang B,Yang S,Cheng X,Wang Z,Tang E,Yeung C,Emaminejad S

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen vacancies, especially their distribution, are directly coupled to the electromagnetic properties of oxides and related emergent functionalities that have implications for device applications. Here using a homoepitaxial strontium titanate thin film, we demonstrate a controlled manipulation of the oxygen vacancy ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Das S,Wang B,Cao Y,Rae Cho M,Jae Shin Y,Mo Yang S,Wang L,Kim M,Kalinin SV,Chen LQ,Noh TW

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-collinear spin transport is at the heart of spin or magnetization control in spintronics devices. The use of nanoscale conductors exhibiting quantum effects in transport could provide new paths for that purpose. Here we study non-collinear spin transport in a quantum dot. We use a device made out of a single-wall ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Crisan AD,Datta S,Viennot JJ,Delbecq MR,Cottet A,Kontos T

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature has developed striking light-powered proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin, which can convert light energy into conformational changes for biological functions. Such natural machines are a great source of inspiration for creation of their synthetic analogues. However, synthetic molecular machines typically operate...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kuzyk A,Yang Y,Duan X,Stoll S,Govorov AO,Sugiyama H,Endo M,Liu N

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular spins have become key enablers for exploring magnetic interactions, quantum information processes and many-body effects in metals. Metal-organic molecules, in particular, let the spin state of the core metal ion to be modified according to its organic environment, allowing localized magnetic moments to emerg...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Atxabal A,Ribeiro M,Parui S,Urreta L,Sagasta E,Sun X,Llopis R,Casanova F,Hueso LE

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling the properties of quantum dots at the atomic scale, such as dangling bonds, is a general motivation as they allow studying various nanoscale processes including atomic switches, charge storage, or low binding energy state interactions. Adjusting the coupling of individual silicon dangling bonds to form a 2...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yengui M,Duverger E,Sonnet P,Riedel D

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00