A TAL effector repeat architecture for frameshift binding.

abstract：:For over 50 years, the great tit (Parus major) has been a model species for research in evolutionary, ecological and behavioural research; in particular, learning and cognition have been intensively studied. Here, to provide further insight into the molecular mechanisms behind these important traits, we de novo assemb...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Laine VN,Gossmann TI,Schachtschneider KM,Garroway CJ,Madsen O,Verhoeven KJ,de Jager V,Megens HJ,Warren WC,Minx P,Crooijmans RP,Corcoran P,Great Tit HapMap Consortium.,Sheldon BC,Slate J,Zeng K,van Oers K,Visser ME,Gro

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembly of large multi-component systems is a common strategy for the bottom-up construction of discrete, well-defined, nanoscopic-sized cages. Icosahedral or pseudospherical viral capsids, built up from hundreds of identical proteins, constitute typical examples of the complexity attained by biological self-ass...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pasquale S,Sattin S,Escudero-Adán EC,Martínez-Belmonte M,de Mendoza J

更新日期：2012-04-17 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： 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：2020-01-14 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：:Mercury's crust is mostly the result of partial melting in the mantle associated with solid-state convection. Large impacts induce additional melting by generating subsurface thermal anomalies. By numerically investigating the geodynamical effects of impacts, here we show that impact-generated thermal anomalies intera...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Padovan S,Tosi N,Plesa AC,Ruedas T

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:MCR-1 is a lipid A modifying enzyme that confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin. Here, we analyse the impact of MCR-1 expression on E. coli morphology, fitness, competitiveness, immune stimulation and virulence. Increased expression of mcr-1 results in decreased growth rate, cell viability, competitive ability ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang Q,Li M,Spiller OB,Andrey DO,Hinchliffe P,Li H,MacLean C,Niumsup P,Powell L,Pritchard M,Papkou A,Shen Y,Portal E,Sands K,Spencer J,Tansawai U,Thomas D,Wang S,Wang Y,Shen J,Walsh T

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When assembling individual quantum components into a mesoscopic circuit, the interplay between Coulomb interaction and charge granularity breaks down the classical laws of electrical impedance composition. Here we explore experimentally the thermal consequences, and observe an additional quantum mechanism of electroni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sivre E,Duprez H,Anthore A,Aassime A,Parmentier FD,Cavanna A,Ouerghi A,Gennser U,Pierre F

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that both recipient cells and donor nuclei demonstrate a mitotic advantage as observed in the traditional reprogramming with somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). However, it is not known whether a specific mitotic factor plays a critical role in reprogramming. Here we identify an isoform of human bro...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shao Z,Zhang R,Khodadadi-Jamayran A,Chen B,Crowley MR,Festok MA,Crossman DK,Townes TM,Hu K

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen contamination is a problem which inevitably occurs during severe plastic deformation of metallic powders by exposure to air. Although this contamination can change the morphology and properties of the consolidated materials, there is a lack of detailed information about the behavior of oxygen in nanocrystalline...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Guo J,Haberfehlner G,Rosalie J,Li L,Duarte MJ,Kothleitner G,Dehm G,He Y,Pippan R,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins and nucleic acids are sequence-regulated macromolecules with various properties originating from their perfectly sequenced primary structures. However, the sequence regulation of synthetic polymers, particularly vinyl polymers, has not been achieved and is one of the ultimate goals in polymer chemistry. In th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Satoh K,Ozawa S,Mizutani M,Nagai K,Kamigaito M

更新日期：2010-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In germinal centres (GC) mature B cells undergo intense proliferation and immunoglobulin gene modification before they differentiate into memory B cells or long-lived plasma cells (PC). GC B-cell-to-PC transition involves a major transcriptional switch that promotes a halt in cell proliferation and the production of s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pérez-García A,Marina-Zárate E,Álvarez-Prado ÁF,Ligos JM,Galjart N,Ramiro AR

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, broken symmetry effect induced edge states in two-dimensional electronic systems have attracted great attention. However, whether edge states may exist in strongly correlated oxides is not yet known. In this work, using perovskite manganites as prototype systems, we demonstrate that edge states do exist in s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Du K,Zhang K,Dong S,Wei W,Shao J,Niu J,Chen J,Zhu Y,Lin H,Yin X,Liou SH,Yin L,Shen J

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged cell survival occurs through the expression of specific protein isoforms generated by alternate splicing of mRNA precursors in cancer cells. How alternate splicing regulates tumor development and resistance to targeted therapies in cancer remain poorly understood. Here we show that RNF113A, whose loss-of-fun...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shostak K,Jiang Z,Charloteaux B,Mayer A,Habraken Y,Tharun L,Klein S,Xu X,Duong HQ,Vislovukh A,Close P,Florin A,Rambow F,Marine JC,Büttner R,Chariot A

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The practices of synthetic biology are being integrated into 'multiscale' designs enabling two-way communication across organic and inorganic information substrates in biological, digital and cyber-physical system integrations. Novel applications of 'bio-informational' engineering will arise in environmental monitorin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dixon TA,Williams TC,Pretorius IS

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 2013, a series of earthquakes began along a mapped ancient fault system near Azle, Texas. Here we assess whether it is plausible that human activity caused these earthquakes. Analysis of both lake and groundwater variations near Azle shows that no significant stress changes were associated with the shallow...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hornbach MJ,DeShon HR,Ellsworth WL,Stump BW,Hayward C,Frohlich C,Oldham HR,Olson JE,Magnani MB,Brokaw C,Luetgert JH

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in magnetized plasma where magnetic energy is converted to plasma energy. Despite huge differences in the physical size of the reconnection layer, remarkably similar characteristics are observed in both laboratory and magnetosphere plasmas. Here we present the comparative...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamada M,Chen LJ,Yoo J,Wang S,Fox W,Jara-Almonte J,Ji H,Daughton W,Le A,Burch J,Giles B,Hesse M,Moore T,Torbert R

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the global impact of macrophage activation in vascular disease, the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. Here we show, with global proteomic analysis of macrophage cell lines treated with either IFNγ or IL-4, that PARP9 and PARP14 regulate macrophage activation. In primary macrophages, PARP9 and PARP14 have o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iwata H,Goettsch C,Sharma A,Ricchiuto P,Goh WW,Halu A,Yamada I,Yoshida H,Hara T,Wei M,Inoue N,Fukuda D,Mojcher A,Mattson PC,Barabási AL,Boothby M,Aikawa E,Singh SA,Aikawa M

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Barbier reaction, a widely utilized reaction for carbon-carbon bond formation, has played important roles in modern organic chemistry for more than a century. Here, we show its successful introduction to polymer chemistry. Through one-pot Barbier polyaddition (both A2+B2 type and AB type) of monomers containing an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sun XL,Liu DM,Tian D,Zhang XY,Wu W,Wan WM

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the non-flammable nature of water-based electrolytes, aqueous lithium-ion batteries are resistant to catching fire. However, they are not immune to the risk of explosion, since the sealing structure adopted by current batteries limits the dissipation of heat and pressure within the cells. Here, we report a safe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen L,Cao L,Ji X,Hou S,Li Q,Chen J,Yang C,Eidson N,Wang C

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Control over interactions with biomolecules holds the key to applications of graphene in biotechnology. One such application is nanopore sequencing, where a DNA molecule is electrophoretically driven through a graphene nanopore. Here we investigate how interactions of single-stranded DNA and a graphene membrane can be...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shankla M,Aksimentiev A

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, electrical signalling occurs with ions and protons, rather than electrons. Artificial devices that can control and monitor ionic and protonic currents are thus an ideal means for interfacing with biological systems. Here we report the first demonstration of a biopolymer protonic field-effect transistor with...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhong C,Deng Y,Roudsari AF,Kapetanovic A,Anantram MP,Rolandi M

更新日期：2011-09-20 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

abstract：:The temporal resolution of ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy experiments is currently limited by the available experimental techniques for the generation and characterization of electron bunches with single femtosecond or attosecond durations. Here, we present proof of principle experiments of an optical g...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kozák M,McNeur J,Leedle KJ,Deng H,Schönenberger N,Ruehl A,Hartl I,Harris JS,Byer RL,Hommelhoff P

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor is a homodimeric receptor tyrosine kinase that signals into pathways directing normal cellular growth, differentiation and proliferation, with aberrant signalling implicated in cancer. Insulin-like growth factor binding is understood to relax conformational restraints w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu Y,Kong GK,Menting JG,Margetts MB,Delaine CA,Jenkin LM,Kiselyov VV,De Meyts P,Forbes BE,Lawrence MC

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, mutations in the PIEZO2 gene, which encodes for a mechanosensitive ion channel, were found to result in skeletal abnormalities including scoliosis and hip dysplasia. Here, we show in mice that loss of Piezo2 expression in the proprioceptive system recapitulates several human skeletal abnormalities. While lo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Assaraf E,Blecher R,Heinemann-Yerushalmi L,Krief S,Carmel Vinestock R,Biton IE,Brumfeld V,Rotkopf R,Avisar E,Agar G,Zelzer E

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:While engineering the phase and structure of electrocatalysts could regulate the performance of many typical electrochemical processes, its importance to the carbon dioxide electroreduction has been largely unexplored. Herein, a series of phase and structure engineered copper-tin dioxide catalysts have been created an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang P,Qiao M,Shao Q,Pi Y,Zhu X,Li Y,Huang X

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phonons are the main source of relaxation in molecular nanomagnets, and different mechanisms have been proposed in order to explain the wealth of experimental findings. However, very limited experimental investigations on phonons in these systems have been performed so far, yielding no information about their dispersi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Garlatti E,Tesi L,Lunghi A,Atzori M,Voneshen DJ,Santini P,Sanvito S,Guidi T,Sessoli R,Carretta S

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The most frequent genetic alterations across multiple human cancers are mutations in TP53 and the activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway, two events crucial for cancer progression. Mutations in TP53 lead to the inhibition of the tumour and metastasis suppressor TAp63, a p53 family member. By performing a mouse-human cross...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Napoli M,Li X,Ackerman HD,Deshpande AA,Barannikov I,Pisegna MA,Bedrosian I,Mitsch J,Quinlan P,Thompson A,Rajapakshe K,Coarfa C,Gunaratne PH,Marchion DC,Magliocco AM,Tsai KY,Flores ER

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid crystalline network (LCN) actuator normally deforms upon thermally or optically induced order-disorder phase transition, switching once between two shapes (shape 1 in LC phase and shape 2 in isotropic state) for each stimulation on/off cycle. Herein, we report an LCN actuator that deforms from shape 1 to shape ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xiao YY,Jiang ZC,Hou JB,Zhao Y

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotidyl cyclase toxin ExoY is one of the virulence factors injected by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system into host cells. Inside cells, it is activated by an unknown eukaryotic cofactor to synthesize various cyclic nucleotide monophosphates. ExoY-like adenylate cyclases are also found in Mul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Belyy A,Raoux-Barbot D,Saveanu C,Namane A,Ogryzko V,Worpenberg L,David V,Henriot V,Fellous S,Merrifield C,Assayag E,Ladant D,Renault L,Mechold U

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00