The transcriptional repressor NKAP is required for the development of iNKT cells.

abstract：:Urinary sodium and potassium excretion are associated with blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The exact biological link between these traits is yet to be elucidated. Here, we identify 50 loci for sodium and 13 for potassium excretion in a large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) on urinary s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pazoki R,Evangelou E,Mosen-Ansorena D,Pinto RC,Karaman I,Blakeley P,Gill D,Zuber V,Elliott P,Tzoulaki I,Dehghan A

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria release membrane vesicles (MVs) that play important roles in various biological processes. However, the mechanisms of MV formation in Gram-positive bacteria are unclear, as these cells possess a single cytoplasmic membrane that is surrounded by a thick cell wall. Here we use live cell imaging and electron cry...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Toyofuku M,Cárcamo-Oyarce G,Yamamoto T,Eisenstein F,Hsiao CC,Kurosawa M,Gademann K,Pilhofer M,Nomura N,Eberl L

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clock mechanisms have been extensively investigated but the main rate-limiting step that determines circadian period remains unclear. Formation of a stable complex between clock proteins and CK1 is a conserved feature in eukaryotic circadian mechanisms. Here we show that the FRQ-CK1 interaction, but not FRQ ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu X,Chen A,Caicedo-Casso A,Cui G,Du M,He Q,Lim S,Kim HJ,Hong CI,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-09-25 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：:Somatic mutations contribute to tumorigenesis. Although these mutations occur in all proliferating cells, their accumulation under non-malignant conditions, such as in autoimmune disorders, has not been investigated. Here, we show that patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis have expanded CD8+ T-cell clones...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Savola P,Kelkka T,Rajala HL,Kuuliala A,Kuuliala K,Eldfors S,Ellonen P,Lagström S,Lepistö M,Hannunen T,Andersson EI,Khajuria RK,Jaatinen T,Koivuniemi R,Repo H,Saarela J,Porkka K,Leirisalo-Repo M,Mustjoki S

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of quantum magnetometer is challenged by control errors and, especially in the solid state, by their short coherence times. Refocusing techniques can overcome these limitations and improve the sensitivity to periodic fields, but they come at the cost of reduced bandwidth and cannot be applied to sense ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Aiello CD,Hirose M,Cappellaro P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of protein N-glycosylation is essential in human cells. However, large-scale, accurate, and site-specific quantification of glycosylation is still technically challenging. We here introduce SugarQuant, an integrated mass spectrometry-based pipeline comprising protein aggregation capture (PAC)-based sample p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fang P,Ji Y,Silbern I,Doebele C,Ninov M,Lenz C,Oellerich T,Pan KT,Urlaub H

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two voltage-gated calcium channel subtypes-CaV1.2 and CaV1.3-underlie the major L-type Ca(2+) currents in the mammalian central nervous system. Owing to their high sequence homology, the two channel subtypes share similar pharmacological properties, and at high doses classic calcium channel blockers, such as dihydropy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang H,Ng CY,Yu D,Zhai J,Lam Y,Soong TW

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T (Treg) cells derived from the thymus (tTreg) and periphery (pTreg) have central and distinct functions in immunosuppression, but mechanisms for the generation and activation of Treg subsets in vivo are unclear. Here, we show that mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) unexpectedly supports the homeostasis...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chapman NM,Zeng H,Nguyen TM,Wang Y,Vogel P,Dhungana Y,Liu X,Neale G,Locasale JW,Chi H

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetic acid is an important bulk chemical that is currently produced via methanol carbonylation using fossil based CO. Synthesis of acetic acid from the renewable and cheap CO2 is of great importance, but state of the art routes encounter difficulties, especially in reaction selectivity and activity. Here we report a ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qian Q,Zhang J,Cui M,Han B

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) reveal high efficacy in the treatment of B cell malignancies. Here, we report that T cell receptor fusion constructs (TRuCs) comprising an antibody-based binding domain fused to T cell receptor (TCR) subunits can effectively reprogram an intact TCR co...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Baeuerle PA,Ding J,Patel E,Thorausch N,Horton H,Gierut J,Scarfo I,Choudhary R,Kiner O,Krishnamurthy J,Le B,Morath A,Baldeviano GC,Quinn J,Tavares P,Wei Q,Weiler S,Maus MV,Getts D,Schamel WW,Hofmeister R

更新日期：2019-05-07 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：:Synapse degeneration is an early and invariant feature of neurodegenerative diseases. Indeed, synapse loss occurs prior to neuronal degeneration and correlates with the symptom severity of these diseases. However, the molecular mechanisms that trigger synaptic loss remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Galli S,Lopes DM,Ammari R,Kopra J,Millar SE,Gibb A,Salinas PC

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte-specific miRNA function remains unclear in mice and worms because loss of Dgcr8 and Dicer from mouse and worm oocytes, respectively, does not yield oogenic defects. These data lead to several models: (a) miRNAs are not generated in oocytes; (b) miRNAs are generated but do not perform an oogenic function; (c) fu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Minogue AL,Tackett MR,Atabakhsh E,Tejada G,Arur S

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During centriole duplication, a single daughter centriole is formed next to the mother centriole. The molecular mechanism that determines a single duplication site remains a long-standing question. Here, we show that intrinsic self-organization of Plk4 is implicated in symmetry breaking in the process of centriole dup...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamamoto S,Kitagawa D

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how archaeal viruses perturb the transcription machinery of their hosts. Here we provide the first example of an archaeo-viral transcription factor that directly targets the host RNA polymerase (RNAP) and efficiently represses its activity. ORF145 from the temperate Acidianus two-tailed virus (AT...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sheppard C,Blombach F,Belsom A,Schulz S,Daviter T,Smollett K,Mahieu E,Erdmann S,Tinnefeld P,Garrett R,Grohmann D,Rappsilber J,Werner F

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the biomolecular interactions between graphene and human immune cells is a prerequisite for its utilization as a diagnostic or therapeutic tool. To characterize the complex interactions between graphene and immune cells, we propose an integrative analytical pipeline encompassing the evaluation of molecul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Orecchioni M,Bedognetti D,Newman L,Fuoco C,Spada F,Hendrickx W,Marincola FM,Sgarrella F,Rodrigues AF,Ménard-Moyon C,Cesareni G,Kostarelos K,Bianco A,Delogu LG

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence is a developmental period in which the mesolimbic dopaminergic "reward" circuitry of the brain, including the nucleus accumbens (NAc), undergoes significant plasticity. Dopamine D1 receptors (D1rs) in the NAc are critical for social behavior, but how these receptors are regulated during adolescence is not ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kopec AM,Smith CJ,Ayre NR,Sweat SC,Bilbo SD

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulses of tree mortality caused by drought have been reported recently in forests around the globe, but large-scale quantitative evidence is lacking for Europe. Analyzing high-resolution annual satellite-based canopy mortality maps from 1987 to 2016 we here show that excess forest mortality (i.e., canopy mortality exc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Senf C,Buras A,Zang CS,Rammig A,Seidl R

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural DNA nanotechnology seeks to build synthetic molecular machinery from DNA. DNA nanomachines are artificially designed assemblies that switch between defined conformations in response to an external cue. Though it has proved possible to create DNA machines and rudimentary walkers, the function of such autonom...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Surana S,Bhat JM,Koushika SP,Krishnan Y

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving and exceeding diversity of colloidal analogs of chemical elements and molecules as building blocks of matter has been the central goal and challenge of colloidal science ever since Einstein introduced the colloidal atom paradigm. Recent advances in colloids assembly have been achieved by exploiting the machi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Senyuk B,Aplinc J,Ravnik M,Smalyukh II

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:URu2Si2 is one of the most enigmatic strongly correlated electron systems and offers a fertile testing ground for new concepts in condensed matter science. In spite of >30 years of intense research, no consensus on the order parameter of its low-temperature hidden-order phase exists. A strong magnetic field transforms...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Knafo W,Duc F,Bourdarot F,Kuwahara K,Nojiri H,Aoki D,Billette J,Frings P,Tonon X,Lelièvre-Berna E,Flouquet J,Regnault LP

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylanolytic enzymes from glycoside hydrolase family 43 (GH43) are involved in the breakdown of hemicellulose, the second most abundant carbohydrate in plants. Here, we kinetically and mechanistically describe the non-reducing-end xylose-releasing exo-oligoxylanase activity and report the crystal structure of a native ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Morais MAB,Coines J,Domingues MN,Pirolla RAS,Tonoli CCC,Santos CR,Correa JBL,Gozzo FC,Rovira C,Murakami MT

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems allowing label-free molecular detection are expected to have enormous impact on biochemical sciences. Research focuses on materials and technologies based on exploiting localized surface plasmon resonances in metallic nanostructures. The reason for this focused attention is their suitability for single-molecul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Maccaferri N,Gregorczyk KE,de Oliveira TV,Kataja M,van Dijken S,Pirzadeh Z,Dmitriev A,Åkerman J,Knez M,Vavassori P

更新日期：2015-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent protein obstacles on genomic DNA, such as DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) and tight nucleoprotein complexes, can block replication forks. DPCs can be removed by the proteolytic activities of the metalloprotease SPRTN or the proteasome in a replication-coupled manner; however, additional proteolytic mechanisms...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kojima Y,Machida Y,Palani S,Caulfield TR,Radisky ES,Kaufmann SH,Machida YJ

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:BRCA1 mutation carriers have a higher risk of developing triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is a refractory disease due to its non-responsiveness to current clinical targeted therapies. Using the Sleeping Beauty transposon system in Brca1-deficient mice, we identified 169 putative cancer drivers, among which ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miao K,Lei JH,Valecha MV,Zhang A,Xu J,Wang L,Lyu X,Chen S,Miao Z,Zhang X,Su SM,Shao F,Rajendran BK,Bao J,Zeng J,Sun H,Chen P,Tan K,Chen Q,Wong KH,Xu X,Deng CX

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapidly growing global air traffic, the impacts of the black carbon (BC) in the aviation exhaust on climate, environment and public health are likely rising. The particle number and size distribution are crucial metrics for toxicological analysis and aerosol-cloud interactions. Here, a size-resolved BC partic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang X,Chen X,Wang J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetostructural coupling between the structural and the magnetic transition has a crucial role in magnetoresponsive effects in a martensitic-transition system. A combination of various magnetoresponsive effects based on this coupling may facilitate the multifunctional applications of a host material. Here we dem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu E,Wang W,Feng L,Zhu W,Li G,Chen J,Zhang H,Wu G,Jiang C,Xu H,de Boer F

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale genetic and genomic data are increasingly available and the major bottleneck in their analysis is a lack of sufficiently scalable computational tools. To address this problem in the context of complex traits analysis, we present DISSECT. DISSECT is a new and freely available software that is able to exploi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Canela-Xandri O,Law A,Gray A,Woolliams JA,Tenesa A

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zheng J,Fan R,Wu H,Yao H,Yan Y,Liu J,Ran L,Sun Z,Yi L,Dang L,Gan P,Zheng P,Yang T,Zhang Y,Tang T,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00