Quantum nuclear dynamics in the photophysics of diamondoids.

abstract：:Amontons' law defines the friction coefficient as the ratio between friction force and normal force, and assumes that both these forces depend linearly on the real contact area between the two sliding surfaces. However, experimental testing of frictional contact models has proven difficult, because few in situ experim...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Weber B,Suhina T,Junge T,Pastewka L,Brouwer AM,Bonn D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension induces structural remodelling of arteries, which leads to arteriosclerosis and end-organ damage. Hyperplasia of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and infiltration of immune cells are the hallmark of hypertensive arterial remodelling. However, the precise molecular mechanisms of arterial remodelling re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sumida T,Naito AT,Nomura S,Nakagawa A,Higo T,Hashimoto A,Okada K,Sakai T,Ito M,Yamaguchi T,Oka T,Akazawa H,Lee JK,Minamino T,Offermanns S,Noda T,Botto M,Kobayashi Y,Morita H,Manabe I,Nagai T,Shiojima I,Komuro

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent response of structural materials dominates our aging infrastructure's life expectancy and has important resilience implications. For calcium-silicate-hydrates, the glue of cement, nanoscale mechanisms underlying time-dependent phenomena are complex and remain poorly understood. This complexity origi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Morshedifard A,Masoumi S,Abdolhosseini Qomi MJ

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-binding (CNB) domains allosterically regulate the activity of proteins with diverse functions, but the mechanisms that enable the cyclic nucleotide-binding signal to regulate distant domains are not well understood. Here we use optical tweezers and molecular dynamics to dissect changes in folding ene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hao Y,England JP,Bellucci L,Paci E,Hodges HC,Taylor SS,Maillard RA

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The atmosphere plays a fundamental role in the transport of microbes across the planet but it is often neglected as a microbial habitat. Although the ocean represents two thirds of the Earth's surface, there is little information on the atmospheric microbial load over the open ocean. Here we provide a global estimate ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mayol E,Arrieta JM,Jiménez MA,Martínez-Asensio A,Garcias-Bonet N,Dachs J,González-Gaya B,Royer SJ,Benítez-Barrios VM,Fraile-Nuez E,Duarte CM

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent exposure to man-made endocrine disrupting chemicals during fetal endocrine development may lead to disruption of metabolic homeostasis contributing to childhood obesity. Limited cellular platforms exist to test endocrine disrupting chemical-induced developmental abnormalities in human endocrine tissues. Her...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rajamani U,Gross AR,Ocampo C,Andres AM,Gottlieb RA,Sareen D

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer 5 (L5) cortical projection neurons innervate far-ranging brain areas to coordinate integrative sensory processing and adaptive behaviors. Here, we characterize a plasticity in L5 auditory cortex (ACtx) neurons that innervate the inferior colliculus (IC), thalamus, lateral amygdala and striatum. We track daily ch...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Asokan MM,Williamson RS,Hancock KE,Polley DB

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-specific isotope labeling is a powerful tool to study the structure, dynamics and interactions of large proteins and protein complexes by solution-state NMR. However, widespread applications of this methodology have been limited by challenges in obtaining confident resonance assignments. Here, we present Methyl...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nerli S,De Paula VS,McShan AC,Sgourakis NG

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health concern, and livestock play a significant role in selecting for resistance and maintaining such reservoirs. Here we study the succession of dairy cattle resistome during early life using metagenomic sequencing, as well as the relationship between resistome, gut microb...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu J,Taft DH,Maldonado-Gomez MX,Johnson D,Treiber ML,Lemay DG,DePeters EJ,Mills DA

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained errors in Fig. 3. In panel a, bars from a chart depicting the percentage of antibody-positive individuals in non-infectious and infectious groups were inadvertently included in place of bars depicting the percentage of infectious individuals, as described in the Article a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stone WJR,Campo JJ,Ouédraogo AL,Meerstein-Kessel L,Morlais I,Da D,Cohuet A,Nsango S,Sutherland CJ,van de Vegte-Bolmer M,Siebelink-Stoter R,van Gemert GJ,Graumans W,Lanke K,Shandling AD,Pablo JV,Teng AA,Jones S,de Jong

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:SecB chaperones assist protein export by binding both unfolded proteins and the SecA motor. Certain SecB homologs can also control toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems known to modulate bacterial growth in response to stress. In such TA-chaperone (TAC) systems, SecB assists the folding and prevents degradation of the antitoxi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Guillet V,Bordes P,Bon C,Marcoux J,Gervais V,Sala AJ,Dos Reis S,Slama N,Mares-Mejía I,Cirinesi AM,Maveyraud L,Genevaux P,Mourey L

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed timelike curves are striking predictions of general relativity allowing for time-travel. They are afflicted by notorious causality issues (e.g. grandfather's paradox). Quantum models where a qubit travels back in time solve these problems, at the cost of violating quantum theory's linearity-leading e.g. to univ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Marletto C,Vedral V,Virzì S,Rebufello E,Avella A,Piacentini F,Gramegna M,Degiovanni IP,Genovese M

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Myopia can cause severe visual impairment. Here, we report a two-stage genome-wide association study for three myopia-related traits in 9,804 Japanese individuals, which was extended with trans-ethnic replication in 2,674 Chinese and 2,690 Caucasian individuals. We identify WNT7B as a novel susceptibility gene for axi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miyake M,Yamashiro K,Tabara Y,Suda K,Morooka S,Nakanishi H,Khor CC,Chen P,Qiao F,Nakata I,Akagi-Kurashige Y,Gotoh N,Tsujikawa A,Meguro A,Kusuhara S,Polasek O,Hayward C,Wright AF,Campbell H,Richardson AJ,Schache M

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Turgor pressure plays pivotal roles in the growth and movement of walled cells that make up plants and fungi. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating turgor pressure and the coordination between turgor pressure and cell wall remodelling for cell growth remain poorly understood. Here, we report the characterizatio...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen LY,Shi DQ,Zhang WJ,Tang ZS,Liu J,Yang WC

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are produced during embryogenesis from the floor of the dorsal aorta. The localization of HSCs is dependent on the presence of instructive signals on the ventral side of the vessel. The nature of the extrinsic molecular signals that control the aortic haematopoietic niche is currently ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pouget C,Peterkin T,Simões FC,Lee Y,Traver D,Patient R

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins control diverse aspects of RNA metabolism in eukaryotic cells. Although recent computational and structural studies have provided insights into RNA recognition by PPR proteins, their highly insoluble nature and inconsistencies between predicted and observed modes of RNA binding ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Coquille S,Filipovska A,Chia T,Rajappa L,Lingford JP,Razif MF,Thore S,Rackham O

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder is associated with abnormalities in the brain and the immune system. Chronic stress in animals showed that epigenetic and inflammatory mechanisms play important roles in mediating resilience and susceptibility to depression. Here, through a high-throughput screening, we identify two phytochem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang J,Hodes GE,Zhang H,Zhang S,Zhao W,Golden SA,Bi W,Menard C,Kana V,Leboeuf M,Xie M,Bregman D,Pfau ML,Flanigan ME,Esteban-Fernández A,Yemul S,Sharma A,Ho L,Dixon R,Merad M,Han MH,Russo SJ,Pasinetti GM

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 infection is characterized by peak viral load in the upper airway prior to or at the time of symptom onset, an unusual feature that has enabled widespread transmission of the virus and precipitated a global pandemic. How SARS-CoV-2 is able to achieve high titer in the absence of symptoms remains unclear. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mick E,Kamm J,Pisco AO,Ratnasiri K,Babik JM,Castañeda G,DeRisi JL,Detweiler AM,Hao SL,Kangelaris KN,Kumar GR,Li LM,Mann SA,Neff N,Prasad PA,Serpa PH,Shah SJ,Spottiswoode N,Tan M,Calfee CS,Christenson SA,Kistler

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustering of arc volcanoes in subduction zones indicates along-arc variation in the physical condition of the underlying mantle where majority of arc magmas are generated. The sub-arc mantle is brought in from the back-arc largely by slab-driven mantle wedge flow. Dynamic processes in the back-arc, such as small-scal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee C,Wada I

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-nucleotide substitutions are a defining characteristic of cancer genomes. Many single-nucleotide substitutions in cancer genomes arise because of errors in DNA replication, which is spatio-temporally stratified. Here we propose that DNA replication patterns help shape the mutational landscapes of normal and can...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu L,De S,Michor F

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Graphene nanopores are potential successors to biological and silicon-based nanopores. For sensing applications, it is however crucial to understand and block the strong nonspecific hydrophobic interactions between DNA and graphene. Here we demonstrate a novel scheme to prevent DNA-graphene interactions, based on a ta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schneider GF,Xu Q,Hage S,Luik S,Spoor JN,Malladi S,Zandbergen H,Dekker C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The power conversion efficiency of hybrid solid-state solar cells has more than doubled from 7 to 15% over the past year. This is largely as a result of the incorporation of organometallic trihalide perovskite absorbers into these devices. But, as promising as this development is, long-term operational stability is ju...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Leijtens T,Eperon GE,Pathak S,Abate A,Lee MM,Snaith HJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmic rays interact with the Earth's atmosphere to produce 14C, which can be absorbed by trees. Therefore, rapid increases of 14C in tree rings can be used to probe previous cosmic-ray events. By this method, three 14C rapidly increasing events have been found. Plausible causes of these events include large solar pro...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang FY,Yu H,Zou YC,Dai ZG,Cheng KS

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct response of the tropical mixed layer to near-inertial waves (NIWs) has only rarely been observed. Here, we present upper-ocean turbulence data that provide evidence for a strongly elevated vertical diffusive heat flux across the base of the mixed layer in the presence of a NIW, thereby cooling the mixed lay...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hummels R,Dengler M,Rath W,Foltz GR,Schütte F,Fischer T,Brandt P

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Current enhancement without increasing the input power is a critical issue to be pursued for electronic circuits. However, drivability of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors is limited by the source-injection current, and electrons that have passed through the source unavoidably waste their momentum to the pho...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Firdaus H,Watanabe T,Hori M,Moraru D,Takahashi Y,Fujiwara A,Ono Y

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteria, especially Escherichia coli, are abundant in patients with inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is unclear whether cancer is promoted by inflammation-induced expansion of E. coli and/or changes in expression of specific microbial genes. Here we use longitudinal (2, 12 and ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arthur JC,Gharaibeh RZ,Mühlbauer M,Perez-Chanona E,Uronis JM,McCafferty J,Fodor AA,Jobin C

更新日期：2014-09-03 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：: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：:Synapses are constructed with the stability to last a lifetime, yet sufficiently flexible to adapt during injury. Although fundamental pathways that mediate intrinsic responses to neuronal injury have been defined, less is known about how synaptic partners adapt. We have investigated responses in the postsynaptic cell...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Goel P,Dickman D

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00