Dynamic urea bond for the design of reversible and self-healing polymers.

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) injuries persist for years, and currently there are no therapeutics that can address the complex injury cascade that develops over this time-scale. 17β-estradiol (E2) has broad tropism within the CNS, targeting and inducing beneficial phenotypic changes in myriad cells following injury. To...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： D'Amato AR,Puhl DL,Ellman SAT,Balouch B,Gilbert RJ,Palermo EF

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A disturbance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis may cause the pathogenesis of many diseases. Inspired by natural photosynthesis, this work proposes a photo-driven H2-evolving liposomal nanoplatform (Lip NP) that comprises an upconversion nanoparticle (UCNP) that is conjugated with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wan WL,Tian B,Lin YJ,Korupalli C,Lu MY,Cui Q,Wan D,Chang Y,Sung HW

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Drosophila antenna, different subtypes of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) housed in the same sensory hair (sensillum) can inhibit each other non-synaptically. However, the mechanisms underlying this underexplored form of lateral inhibition remain unclear. Here we use recordings from pairs of sensilla impaled ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Y,Tsang TK,Bushong EA,Chu LA,Chiang AS,Ellisman MH,Reingruber J,Su CY

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tradeoffs affect resource allocation during development and result in fitness consequences that drive the evolution of life history strategies. Yet despite their importance, we know little about the mechanisms underlying life history tradeoffs. Many species of Colias butterflies exhibit an alternative life history str...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Woronik A,Tunström K,Perry MW,Neethiraj R,Stefanescu C,Celorio-Mancera MP,Brattström O,Hill J,Lehmann P,Käkelä R,Wheat CW

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nano-ordered intermetallic compounds have generated great interest in fuel cell applications. However, the synthesis of non-preciousearly transition metal intermetallic nanoparticles remains a formidable challenge owing to the extremely oxyphilic nature and very negative reduction potentials. Here, we have successfull...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Feng G,An L,Li B,Zuo Y,Song J,Ning F,Jiang N,Cheng X,Zhang Y,Xia D

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal intraepithelial T cells contribute to the regulation of inflammatory responses in the intestine; however, the molecular basis for their development and maintenance is unknown. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor complexes with the aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) and senses environmental fact...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nakajima K,Maekawa Y,Kataoka K,Ishifune C,Nishida J,Arimochi H,Kitamura A,Yoshimoto T,Tomita S,Nagahiro S,Yasutomo K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkali metal vapors enable access to single electron systems, suitable for demonstrating fundamental light-matter interactions and promising for quantum logic operations, storage and sensing. However, progress is hampered by the need for robust and repeatable control over the atomic vapor density and over the associat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rusimova KR,Slavov D,Pradaux-Caggiano F,Collins JT,Gordeev SN,Carbery DR,Wadsworth WJ,Mosley PJ,Valev VK

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Denervation of skeletal muscles induces severe muscle atrophy, which is preceded by cellular alterations such as increased plasma membrane permeability, reduced resting membrane potential and accelerated protein catabolism. The factors that induce these changes remain unknown. Conversely, functional recovery following...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cisterna BA,Vargas AA,Puebla C,Fernández P,Escamilla R,Lagos CF,Matus MF,Vilos C,Cea LA,Barnafi E,Gaete H,Escobar DF,Cardozo CP,Sáez JC

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas immunity is at the forefront of antivirus defense in bacteria and archaea and specifically targets viruses carrying protospacers matching the spacers catalogued in the CRISPR arrays. Here, we perform deep sequencing of the CRISPRome-all spacers contained in a microbiome-associated with hyperthermophilic arc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Medvedeva S,Liu Y,Koonin EV,Severinov K,Prangishvili D,Krupovic M

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult neural stem cells (NSCs) reside in a specialized microenvironment, the subventricular zone (SVZ), which provides them with unique signaling cues to control their basic properties and prevent their exhaustion. While the signaling mechanisms that regulate NSC lineage progression are well characterized, the molecul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chavali M,Klingener M,Kokkosis AG,Garkun Y,Felong S,Maffei A,Aguirre A

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the Hippo pathway effector Yap underlies many liver cancers, however no germline or somatic mutations have been identified. Autophagy maintains essential metabolic functions of the liver, and autophagy-deficient murine models develop benign adenomas and hepatomegaly, which have been attributed to activat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee YA,Noon LA,Akat KM,Ybanez MD,Lee TF,Berres ML,Fujiwara N,Goossens N,Chou HI,Parvin-Nejad FP,Khambu B,Kramer EGM,Gordon R,Pfleger C,Germain D,John GR,Campbell KN,Yue Z,Yin XM,Cuervo AM,Czaja MJ,Fiel MI,Hosh

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium ions (Ca(2+)) function as universal second messengers in eukaryotic cells, including immune cells. Ca(2+) is crucial for peripheral T-lymphocyte activation and effector functions, and influences thymocyte selection and motility in the developing thymus. However, the role of Ca(2+) signalling in early T-lymphoc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ouyang K,Leandro Gomez-Amaro R,Stachura DL,Tang H,Peng X,Fang X,Traver D,Evans SM,Chen J

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although, a number of pathogenic mutations have been found for Alzheimer's disease (AD), only one protective mutation has been identified so far in humans. Here we identify possible protective deletion mutations in the 3'-UTR of the amyloid precursor protein (App) gene in mice. We use an App knock-in mouse model carry...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nagata K,Takahashi M,Matsuba Y,Okuyama-Uchimura F,Sato K,Hashimoto S,Saito T,Saido TC

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Epistasis emerges when the effects of an amino acid depend on the identities of interacting residues. This phenomenon shapes fitness landscapes, which have the power to reveal evolutionary paths and inform evolution of desired functions. However, there is a need for easily implemented, high-throughput methods to captu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yoo JI,Daugherty PS,O'Malley MA

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate measurement of microscopic force fields is crucial in many branches of science and technology, from biophotonics and mechanobiology to microscopy and optomechanics. These forces are often probed by analysing their influence on the motion of Brownian particles. Here we introduce a powerful algorithm for mi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pérez García L,Donlucas Pérez J,Volpe G,V Arzola A,Volpe G

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma accelerators driven by particle beams are a very promising future accelerator technology as they can sustain high accelerating fields over long distances with high energy efficiency. They rely on the excitation of a plasma wave in the wake of a drive beam. To generate the plasma, a neutral gas can be field-ioni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Corde S,Adli E,Allen JM,An W,Clarke CI,Clausse B,Clayton CE,Delahaye JP,Frederico J,Gessner S,Green SZ,Hogan MJ,Joshi C,Litos M,Lu W,Marsh KA,Mori WB,Vafaei-Najafabadi N,Walz D,Yakimenko V

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Earth's core is composed of iron (Fe) alloyed with light elements, e.g., silicon (Si). Its thermal conductivity critically affects Earth's thermal structure, evolution, and dynamics, as it controls the magnitude of thermal and compositional sources required to sustain a geodynamo over Earth's history. Here we directly...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hsieh WP,Goncharov AF,Labrosse S,Holtgrewe N,Lobanov SS,Chuvashova I,Deschamps F,Lin JF

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessel expansion is driven by sprouting angiogenesis of endothelial cells, and is essential for development, wound healing and disease. Membrane-localized vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 (mVEGFR1) is an endothelial cell-intrinsic decoy receptor that negatively modulates blood vessel morphogenesis. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Boucher JM,Clark RP,Chong DC,Citrin KM,Wylie LA,Bautch VL

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated populations can empower the identification of rare variation associated with complex traits through next generation association studies, but the generalizability of such findings remains unknown. Here we genotype 1,267 individuals from a Greek population isolate on the Illumina HumanExome Beadchip, in search ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tachmazidou I,Dedoussis G,Southam L,Farmaki AE,Ritchie GR,Xifara DK,Matchan A,Hatzikotoulas K,Rayner NW,Chen Y,Pollin TI,O'Connell JR,Yerges-Armstrong LM,Kiagiadaki C,Panoutsopoulou K,Schwartzentruber J,Moutsianas L,UK1

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity changes are lagging behind current climate warming. The underlying determinants of this climatic debt are unknown and yet critical to understand the impacts of climate change on the present biota and improve forecasts of biodiversity changes. Here we assess determinants of climatic debt accumulated in Fre...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bertrand R,Riofrío-Dillon G,Lenoir J,Drapier J,de Ruffray P,Gégout JC,Loreau M

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are associated with the largest climate perturbations in Earth's history. The North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) and Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) constitute an exemplar of this association. As yet we have no means to reconstruct the pacing of LIP greenhouse gas emissions f...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jones SM,Hoggett M,Greene SE,Dunkley Jones T

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The sudden deterioration of patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into critical illness is of major concern. It is imperative to identify these patients early. We show that a deep learning-based survival model can predict the risk of COVID-19 patients developing critical illness based on clinical cha...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liang W,Yao J,Chen A,Lv Q,Zanin M,Liu J,Wong S,Li Y,Lu J,Liang H,Chen G,Guo H,Guo J,Zhou R,Ou L,Zhou N,Chen H,Yang F,Han X,Huan W,Tang W,Guan W,Chen Z,Zhao Y,Sang L,Xu Y,Wang W,Li S,Lu L,Zhang N

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds with incommensurate structural modulations have been extensively studied in last several decades. However, the relationship between structurally incommensurate/commensurate phases and associated electronic states remains enigmatic. Here we report the coexisting of complex incommensurate structures and highly...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Q,Lin W,Yan J,Chen X,Gianfrancesco AG,Singh DJ,Mandrus D,Kalinin SV,Pan M

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:One prominent hallmark of topological semimetals is the existence of unusual topological surface states known as Fermi arcs. Nevertheless, the Fermi-arc superconductivity remains elusive. Here, we report the critical current oscillations from surface Fermi arcs in Nb-Dirac semimetal Cd3As2-Nb Josephson junctions. The ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li CZ,Wang AQ,Li C,Zheng WZ,Brinkman A,Yu DP,Liao ZM

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrosome number is tightly controlled during the cell cycle to ensure proper spindle assembly and cell division. However, the underlying mechanism that controls centrosome number remains largely unclear. We show herein that the DNA replication licensing factor Cdc6 is recruited to the proximal side of the centrioles...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu X,Huang S,Zhang B,Huang F,Chi W,Fu J,Wang G,Li S,Jiang Q,Zhang C

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and thrombosis occur together in many diseases. The leukocyte integrin Mac-1 (also known as integrin αMβ2, or CD11b/CD18) is crucial for leukocyte recruitment to the endothelium, and Mac-1 engagement of platelet GPIbα is required for injury responses in diverse disease models. However, the role of Mac-1 i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Gao H,Shi C,Erhardt PW,Pavlovsky A,A Soloviev D,Bledzka K,Ustinov V,Zhu L,Qin J,Munday AD,Lopez J,Plow E,Simon DI

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The spikelet is the basal unit of inflorescence in grasses, and its formation is crucial for reproductive success and cereal yield. Here, we report a previously unknown role of the plant hormone jasmonic acid (JA) in determining rice (Oryza sativa) spikelet morphogenesis. The extra glume 1 (eg1) and eg2 mutants exhibi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cai Q,Yuan Z,Chen M,Yin C,Luo Z,Zhao X,Liang W,Hu J,Zhang D

更新日期：2014-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of chromosomes plays an important role in gene expression regulation and also influences the repair of radiation-induced DNA damage. Genomic aberrations that disrupt chromosome spatial domains can lead to diseases including cancer, but how the 3D genome structure responds to DNA damage ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sanders JT,Freeman TF,Xu Y,Golloshi R,Stallard MA,Hill AM,San Martin R,Balajee AS,McCord RP

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) is closely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) and other synucleinopathies. Several single amino-acid mutations (e.g. E46K) of α-syn have been identified causative to the early onset of familial PD. Here, we report the cryo-EM structure of an α-syn fibril formed by N-ter...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao K,Li Y,Liu Z,Long H,Zhao C,Luo F,Sun Y,Tao Y,Su XD,Li D,Li X,Liu C

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles attached just above a flat metallic surface can trap optical fields in the nanoscale gap. This enables local spectroscopy of a few molecules within each coupled plasmonic hotspot, with near thousand-fold enhancement of the incident fields. As a result of non-radiative relaxation pathways, the plasmons in...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： de Nijs B,Benz F,Barrow SJ,Sigle DO,Chikkaraddy R,Palma A,Carnegie C,Kamp M,Sundararaman R,Narang P,Scherman OA,Baumberg JJ

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00