A troodontid dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of India.

abstract：:Therapeutic strategies for spinal cord injury (SCI) commonly focus on regenerating disconnected axons. An alternative approach would be to maintain continuity of damaged axons, especially after contusion. The viability of such neuropreservative strategies depends on the degree to which initially injured axons can reco...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Williams PR,Marincu BN,Sorbara CD,Mahler CF,Schumacher AM,Griesbeck O,Kerschensteiner M,Misgeld T

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Gate operations in a quantum information processor are generally realized by tailoring specific periods of free and driven evolution of a quantum system. Unwanted environmental noise, which may in principle be distinct during these two periods, acts to decohere the system and increase the gate error rate. Although the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yan F,Gustavsson S,Bylander J,Jin X,Yoshihara F,Cory DG,Nakamura Y,Orlando TP,Oliver WD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging recovers objects using diffusely reflected indirect light using transient illumination devices in combination with a computational inverse method. While capture systems capable of collecting light from the entire NLOS relay surface can be much more light efficient than single pixel poi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu X,Bauer S,Velten A

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical Janus colloids was mainly realized using specially engineered magnetic multilayer coatings combined with external magnetic fiel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Simmchen J,Katuri J,Uspal WE,Popescu MN,Tasinkevych M,Sánchez S

更新日期：2016-02-09 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：:Efficient engulfment of apoptotic cells is critical for maintaining tissue homoeostasis. When phagocytes recognize 'eat me' signals presented on the surface of apoptotic cells, this subsequently induces cytoskeletal rearrangement of phagocytes for the engulfment through Rac1 activation. However, the intracellular sign...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nakaya M,Tajima M,Kosako H,Nakaya T,Hashimoto A,Watari K,Nishihara H,Ohba M,Komiya S,Tani N,Nishida M,Taniguchi H,Sato Y,Matsumoto M,Tsuda M,Kuroda M,Inoue K,Kurose H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly sensitive and specific non-invasive molecular imaging methods are particularly desirable for the early detection of cancers. Here we report a near-infrared optical imaging probe highly specific to the hypoxic tumour microenvironment to detect tumour and cancer cells with the sensitivity to a few thousands cance...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zheng X,Wang X,Mao H,Wu W,Liu B,Jiang X

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term stability remains a key issue impeding the commercialization of halide perovskite solar cells (HPVKSCs). The diffusion of molecules and ions causes irreversible degradation to photovoltaic device performance. Here, we demonstrate a facile strategy for producing highly stable HPVKSCs by using a thin but compa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wu S,Chen R,Zhang S,Babu BH,Yue Y,Zhu H,Yang Z,Chen C,Chen W,Huang Y,Fang S,Liu T,Han L,Chen W

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported progressive change of vegetation activity along elevational gradients has important aesthetic and conservation values. With climate change, cooler locations are suggested to warm faster than warmer ones, raising concerns of a more homogenized landscape along the elevation. Here, we use global satellite da...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gao M,Piao S,Chen A,Yang H,Liu Q,Fu YH,Janssens IA

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancers are critical for developmental stage-specific gene expression, but their dynamic regulation in plants remains poorly understood. Here we compare genome-wide localization of H3K27ac, chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic changes during flower development in Arabidopsis. H3K27ac prevalently marks promoter...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yan W,Chen D,Schumacher J,Durantini D,Engelhorn J,Chen M,Carles CC,Kaufmann K

更新日期：2019-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Geranyl-CoA carboxylase (GCC) is essential for the growth of Pseudomonas organisms with geranic acid as the sole carbon source. GCC has the same domain organization and shares strong sequence conservation with the related biotin-dependent carboxylases 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC) and propionyl-CoA carboxylas...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jurado AR,Huang CS,Zhang X,Zhou ZH,Tong L

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cancer vaccines are unsuccessful in eliciting clinically relevant effects. Without using exogenous antigens and adoptive cells, we show a concept of utilizing biologically reprogrammed cytomembranes of the fused cells (FCs) derived from dendritic cells (DCs) and cancer cells as tumor vaccines. The fusion of immun...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu WL,Zou MZ,Liu T,Zeng JY,Li X,Yu WY,Li CX,Ye JJ,Song W,Feng J,Zhang XZ

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of thermal transport in nanomaterials have demonstrated the breakdown of Fourier's law through observations of ballistic transport. Despite its unique features, another instance of the breakdown of Fourier's law, hydrodynamic phonon transport, has drawn less attention because it has been observed only a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee S,Broido D,Esfarjani K,Chen G

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for communication systems since data transmission rates can be maximiz...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Soto MA,Alem M,Amin Shoaie M,Vedadi A,Brès CS,Thévenaz L,Schneider T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin-based vesicular trafficking of Cdc42, leading to a polarized concentration of the GTPase, has been implicated in cell polarization, but it was recently debated whether this mechanism allows stable maintenance of cell polarity. Here we show that endocytosis and exocytosis are spatially segregated in the polar pla...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Slaughter BD,Unruh JR,Das A,Smith SE,Rubinstein B,Li R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) are deadly paediatric brain tumours where needle biopsies help guide diagnosis and targeted therapies. To address spatial heterogeneity, here we analyse 134 specimens from various neuroanatomical structures of whole autopsy brains from nine DIPG patients. Evolutionary reconstr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nikbakht H,Panditharatna E,Mikael LG,Li R,Gayden T,Osmond M,Ho CY,Kambhampati M,Hwang EI,Faury D,Siu A,Papillon-Cavanagh S,Bechet D,Ligon KL,Ellezam B,Ingram WJ,Stinson C,Moore AS,Warren KE,Karamchandani J,Packer

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Under pathophysiological conditions in adults, endothelial cells (ECs) sprout from pre-existing blood vessels to form new ones by a process termed angiogenesis. During embryonic development, Apelin (APLN) is robustly expressed in vascular ECs. In adult mice, however, APLN expression in the vasculature is significantly...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Q,Hu T,He L,Huang X,Tian X,Zhang H,He L,Pu W,Zhang L,Sun H,Fang J,Yu Y,Duan S,Hu C,Hui L,Zhang H,Quertermous T,Xu Q,Red-Horse K,Wythe JD,Zhou B

更新日期：2015-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many voltage-gated potassium channels open in response to membrane depolarization and then inactivate within milliseconds. Neurons use these channels to tune their excitability. In Shaker K(+) channels, inactivation is caused by the cytoplasmic amino terminus, termed the inactivation gate. Despite having four such gat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Venkataraman G,Srikumar D,Holmgren M

更新日期：2014-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Quasicrystals, materials with aperiodic long-range order, have been found in intermetallics, soft materials such as colloids and supermolecules, and also in two-dimensional monolayer films. Here we present the first example of three-dimensional growth of a single-element quasicrystalline film. Using a hitherto unexplo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sharma HR,Nozawa K,Smerdon JA,Nugent PJ,McLeod I,Dhanak VR,Shimoda M,Ishii Y,Tsai AP,McGrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia endangers regional malaria elimination and threatens to spread to other malaria endemic areas. Understanding mechanisms of piperaquine (PPQ) resistance is crucial for tracking its emergence and spread, and to develop effective strategies for overcoming it. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bopp S,Magistrado P,Wong W,Schaffner SF,Mukherjee A,Lim P,Dhorda M,Amaratunga C,Woodrow CJ,Ashley EA,White NJ,Dondorp AM,Fairhurst RM,Ariey F,Menard D,Wirth DF,Volkman SK

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal ions at the active site of an enzyme act as cofactors, and their dynamic fluctuations can potentially influence enzyme activity. Here, we use λ-exonuclease as a model enzyme with two Mg2+ binding sites and probe activity at various concentrations of magnesium by single-molecule-FRET. We find that while MgA2+ and...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hwang W,Yoo J,Lee Y,Park S,Hoang PL,Cho H,Yu J,Hoa Vo TM,Shin M,Jin MS,Park D,Hyeon C,Lee G

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common form of acute viral encephalitis in industrialized countries. Type I interferon (IFN) is important for control of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) in the central nervous system (CNS). Here we show that microglia are the main source of HSV-induced type I IFN expression i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Reinert LS,Lopušná K,Winther H,Sun C,Thomsen MK,Nandakumar R,Mogensen TH,Meyer M,Vægter C,Nyengaard JR,Fitzgerald KA,Paludan SR

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) is a key enzyme that converts 6-phosphogluconate into ribulose-5-phosphate with NADP+ as cofactor in the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). 6PGD is commonly upregulated and plays important roles in many human cancers, while the mechanism underlying such roles of 6PGD remains elusi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu R,Li W,Tao B,Wang X,Yang Z,Zhang Y,Wang C,Liu R,Gao H,Liang J,Yang W

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, to overcome many limitations accompanying current available methods to detect protein-protein interactions (PPIs), we develop a live cell method called Split Intein-Mediated Protein Ligation (SIMPL). In this approach, bait and prey proteins are respectively fused to an intein N-terminal fragment (IN) and C-termi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao Z,Aboualizadeh F,Kroll J,Akula I,Snider J,Lyakisheva A,Tang P,Kotlyar M,Jurisica I,Boxem M,Stagljar I

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining vapour sensors into arrays is an accepted compromise to mitigate poor selectivity of conventional sensors. Here we show individual nanofabricated sensors that not only selectively detect separate vapours in pristine conditions but also quantify these vapours in mixtures, and when blended with a variable mois...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Potyrailo RA,Bonam RK,Hartley JG,Starkey TA,Vukusic P,Vasudev M,Bunning T,Naik RR,Tang Z,Palacios MA,Larsen M,Le Tarte LA,Grande JC,Zhong S,Deng T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria can exchange genetic material through horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mediated by plasmids and plasmid-borne transposable elements. Here, we study the population structure and dynamics of over 10,000 bacterial plasmids, by quantifying their genetic similarities and reconstructing a network based on their ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Acman M,van Dorp L,Santini JM,Balloux F

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA silencing inhibits mRNA translation. While mRNA translation accounts for the majority of cellular energy expenditure, it is unclear if RNA silencing regulates energy homeostasis. Here, we report that hepatic Argonaute 2 (Ago2)-mediated RNA silencing regulates both intrinsic energy production and consumption and di...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang C,Seo J,Murakami K,Salem ESB,Bernhard E,Borra VJ,Choi K,Yuan CL,Chan CC,Chen X,Huang T,Weirauch MT,Divanovic S,Qi NR,Thomas HE,Mercer CA,Siomi H,Nakamura T

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Turn-on fluorescence imaging is routinely studied; however, turn-on chemiluminescence has been rarely explored for in vivo imaging. Herein, we report the design and validation of chemiluminescence probe ADLumin-1 as a turn-on probe for amyloid beta (Aβ) species. Two-photon imaging indicates that ADLumin-1 can efficien...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang J,Yin W,Van R,Yin K,Wang P,Zheng C,Zhu B,Ran K,Zhang C,Kumar M,Shao Y,Ran C

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant halogenated natural products are rare and harbor various interesting bioactivities, yet the biochemical basis for the involved halogenation chemistry is unknown. While a handful of Fe(II)- and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent halogenases (2ODHs) have been found to catalyze regioselective halogenation of unactivated C-H ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim CY,Mitchell AJ,Glinkerman CM,Li FS,Pluskal T,Weng JK

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-symmorphic chiral topological crystals host exotic multifold fermions, and their associated Fermi arcs helically wrap around and expand throughout the Brillouin zone between the high-symmetry center and surface-corner momenta. However, Fermi-arc splitting and realization of the theoretically proposed maximal Chern...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao M,Manna K,Yang Q,Fedorov A,Voroshnin V,Valentin Schwarze B,Hornung J,Chattopadhyay S,Sun Z,Guin SN,Wosnitza J,Borrmann H,Shekhar C,Kumar N,Fink J,Sun Y,Felser C

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00