A unified strategy for the synthesis of highly oxygenated diaryl ethers featured in ellagitannins.

abstract：:Conjugated polymeric molecules have been heralded as promising electrode materials for the next-generation energy-storage technologies owing to their chemical flexibility at the molecular level, environmental benefit, and cost advantage. However, before any practical implementation takes place, the low capacity, poor ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lei Z,Yang Q,Xu Y,Guo S,Sun W,Liu H,Lv LP,Zhang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial molecules containing just one or two electrons provide a powerful platform for studies of orbital and spin quantum dynamics in nanoscale devices. A well-known example of these dynamics is tunnelling of electrons between two coupled quantum dots triggered by mi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schreiber LR,Braakman FR,Meunier T,Calado V,Danon J,Taylor JM,Wegscheider W,Vandersypen LM

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and predicting radiation damage evolution in complex materials is crucial for developing next-generation nuclear energy sources. Here, using a combination of ion beam irradiation, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, we show that, contrary to the behaviour observed in pyrochlores, the ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Uberuaga BP,Tang M,Jiang C,Valdez JA,Smith R,Wang Y,Sickafus KE

更新日期：2015-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in many centriolar protein-encoding genes cause primary microcephaly. Using super-resolution and electron microscopy, we find that the human microcephaly protein, RTTN, is recruited to the proximal end of the procentriole at early S phase, and is located at the inner luminal walls of centrioles. Further stud...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen HY,Wu CT,Tang CC,Lin YN,Wang WJ,Tang TK

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining nanoscale protein distribution via Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM) mandates precise knowledge of the applied fluorophore's blinking properties to counteract overcounting artifacts that distort the resulting biomolecular distributions. Here, we present a readily applicable methodology to deter...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Platzer R,Rossboth BK,Schneider MC,Sevcsik E,Baumgart F,Stockinger H,Schütz GJ,Huppa JB,Brameshuber M

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline solids are generally known as excellent heat conductors, amorphous materials or glasses as thermal insulators. It has thus come as a surprise that certain crystal structures defy this paradigm. A prominent example are type-I clathrates and other materials with guest-host structures. They sustain low-energy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ikeda MS,Euchner H,Yan X,Tomeš P,Prokofiev A,Prochaska L,Lientschnig G,Svagera R,Hartmann S,Gati E,Lang M,Paschen S

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense ultrashort X-ray pulses produced by modern free-electron lasers (FELs) allow one to probe biological systems, inorganic materials and molecular reaction dynamics with nanoscale spatial and femtoscale temporal resolution. These experiments require the knowledge, and possibly the control, of the spectro-temporal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： De Ninno G,Gauthier D,Mahieu B,Ribič PR,Allaria E,Cinquegrana P,Danailov MB,Demidovich A,Ferrari E,Giannessi L,Penco G,Sigalotti P,Stupar M

更新日期：2015-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins are known to have seven serotypes (BoNT/A-G). Here we report a new BoNT serotype, tentatively named BoNT/X, which has the lowest sequence identity with other BoNTs and is not recognized by antisera against known BoNTs. Similar to BoNT/B/D/F/G, BoNT/X cleaves vesicle-associated membrane proteins (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang S,Masuyer G,Zhang J,Shen Y,Lundin D,Henriksson L,Miyashita SI,Martínez-Carranza M,Dong M,Stenmark P

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to establish the ecological and evolutionary drivers of these host-microbe interactions. We show that sponges are a reservoir of exceptional microbia...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Thomas T,Moitinho-Silva L,Lurgi M,Björk JR,Easson C,Astudillo-García C,Olson JB,Erwin PM,López-Legentil S,Luter H,Chaves-Fonnegra A,Costa R,Schupp PJ,Steindler L,Erpenbeck D,Gilbert J,Knight R,Ackermann G,Victor Lopez

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-like protein MreB has been proposed to coordinate the synthesis of the cell wall to determine cell shape in bacteria. MreB is preferentially localized to areas of the cell with specific curved geometries, avoiding the cell poles. It remains unclear whether MreB's curvature preference is regulated by addition...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bratton BP,Shaevitz JW,Gitai Z,Morgenstein RM

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Human intestinal bacteria produce butyrate, which has signalling properties and can be used as energy source by enterocytes thus influencing colonic health. However, the pathways and the identity of bacteria involved in this process remain unclear. Here we describe the isolation from the human intestine of Intestinimo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bui TP,Ritari J,Boeren S,de Waard P,Plugge CM,de Vos WM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipin/Pah phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAPs) generate diacylglycerol to regulate triglyceride synthesis and cellular signaling. Inactivating mutations cause rhabdomyolysis, autoinflammatory disease, and aberrant fat storage. Disease-mutations cluster within the conserved N-Lip and C-Lip regions that are separated b...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Khayyo VI,Hoffmann RM,Wang H,Bell JA,Burke JE,Reue K,Airola MV

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical signals play many roles in cell and developmental biology. Several mechanotransduction pathways have been uncovered, but the mechanisms identified so far only address the perception of stress intensity. Mechanical stresses are tensorial in nature, and thus provide dual mechanical information: stress magnitu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hamant O,Inoue D,Bouchez D,Dumais J,Mjolsness E

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation behaviors of electromagnetic waves are governed by the equifrequency surface of the medium. Up to now, ordinary materials, including the medium exist in nature and the man-made metamaterials, always have an equifrequency surface (ellipsoid or hyperboloid) centered at zero k-point. Here we propose a new typ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen WJ,Hou B,Zhang ZQ,Pendry JB,Chan CT

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases (PMCAs) are key regulators of global Ca2+ homeostasis and local intracellular Ca2+ dynamics. Recently, Neuroplastin (NPTN) and basigin were identified as previously unrecognized obligatory subunits of PMCAs that dramatically increase the efficiency of PMCA-mediated Ca2+ clearance. Here, we...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gong D,Chi X,Ren K,Huang G,Zhou G,Yan N,Lei J,Zhou Q

更新日期：2018-09-06 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：:Notwithstanding the central biological role of the (6-4) photoadduct in the induction of skin cancer by sunlight, crucial mechanistic details about its formation have evaded characterization despite efforts spanning more than half a century. 4-Thiothymidine (4tT) has been widely used as an important model system to st...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ortiz-Rodríguez LA,Reichardt C,Hoehn SJ,Jockusch S,Crespo-Hernández CE

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interactions in the so-called spin-ice compounds stabilize a frustrated ground state with finite zero-point entropy and, interestingly, emergent magnetic monopole excitations. The properties of these monopoles are at the focus of recent research with particular emphasis on their quantum dynamics. It is predi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Grams CP,Valldor M,Garst M,Hemberger J

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton conduction is a fundamental process in biology and in devices such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells. To maximize proton conduction, three-dimensional conduction pathways are preferred over one-dimensional pathways, which prevent conduction in two dimensions. Many crystalline porous solids to date show one...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu M,Chen L,Lewis S,Chong SY,Little MA,Hasell T,Aldous IM,Brown CM,Smith MW,Morrison CA,Hardwick LJ,Cooper AI

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Even as the study of plant genomics rapidly develops through the use of high-throughput sequencing techniques, traditional plant phenotyping lags far behind. Here we develop a high-throughput rice phenotyping facility (HRPF) to monitor 13 traditional agronomic traits and 2 newly defined traits during the rice growth p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang W,Guo Z,Huang C,Duan L,Chen G,Jiang N,Fang W,Feng H,Xie W,Lian X,Wang G,Luo Q,Zhang Q,Liu Q,Xiong L

更新日期：2014-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell variability plays a critical role in cellular responses and decision-making in a population, and transcriptional bursting has been broadly studied by experimental and theoretical approaches as the potential source of cell-to-cell variability. Although molecular mechanisms of transcriptional bursting have ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fujita K,Iwaki M,Yanagida T

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode neurons generally produce graded potentials instead of action potentials. It is unclear how the graded potentials control postsynaptic cells under physiological conditions. Here we show that postsynaptic currents frequently occur in bursts at the neuromuscular junction of Caenorhabditis elegans. Cholinergic b...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu P,Chen B,Wang ZW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD1 proteins are expressed on dendritic cells, where they display lipid antigens to T-cell receptors (TCRs). Here we describe T-cell autoreactivity towards ubiquitous human membrane phospholipids presented by CD1b. These T-cells discriminate between two major types of lipids, sphingolipids and phospholipids, but were ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shahine A,Reinink P,Reijneveld JF,Gras S,Holzheimer M,Cheng TY,Minnaard AJ,Altman JD,Lenz S,Prandi J,Kubler-Kielb J,Moody DB,Rossjohn J,Van Rhijn I

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original version of this Article, an incorrect sample size was provided for the number of relict species (443 instead of 442) and the number of relict forests (423 instead of 422). These errors have been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tang CQ,Matsui T,Ohashi H,Dong YF,Momohara A,Herrando-Moraira S,Qian S,Yang Y,Ohsawa M,Luu HT,Grote PJ,Krestov PV,LePage B,Werger M,Robertson K,Hobohm C,Wang CY,Peng MC,Chen X,Wang HC,Su WH,Zhou R,Li S,He LY

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene has various potential applications owing to its unique electronic, optical, mechanical and chemical properties, which are primarily based on its two-dimensional nature. Graphene-based vertical devices can extend the investigations and potential applications range to three dimensions, while interfacial propert...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen JJ,Meng J,Zhou YB,Wu HC,Bie YQ,Liao ZM,Yu DP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches to monitor and quantify cell division in live cells, and reliably distinguish between acytokinesis and endoreduplication, are limited and complicate determination of stem cell pool identities. Here we overcome these limitations by generating an in vivo reporter system using the scaffolding protein a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hesse M,Raulf A,Pilz GA,Haberlandt C,Klein AM,Jabs R,Zaehres H,Fügemann CJ,Zimmermann K,Trebicka J,Welz A,Pfeifer A,Röll W,Kotlikoff MI,Steinhäuser C,Götz M,Schöler HR,Fleischmann BK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by muscle degeneration and progressive weakness. There is considerable inter-patient variability in disease onset and progression, which can confound the results of clinical trials. Here we show that a common null polymorphism (R577X) in ACTN3 results in significantly...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hogarth MW,Houweling PJ,Thomas KC,Gordish-Dressman H,Bello L,Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group (CINRG).,Pegoraro E,Hoffman EP,Head SI,North KN

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant splicing is frequently found in cancer, yet the biological consequences of such alterations are mostly undefined. Here we report that the Hippo-YAP signalling, a key pathway that regulates cell proliferation and organ size, is under control of a splicing switch. We show that TEAD4, the transcription factor th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qi Y,Yu J,Han W,Fan X,Qian H,Wei H,Tsai YH,Zhao J,Zhang W,Liu Q,Meng S,Wang Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state quantum acoustodynamic (QAD) systems provide a compact platform for quantum information storage and processing by coupling acoustic phonon sources with superconducting or spin qubits. The multi-mode composite high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator (HBAR) is a popular phonon source well suited for QAD. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gokhale VJ,Downey BP,Katzer DS,Nepal N,Lang AC,Stroud RM,Meyer DJ

更新日期：2020-05-08 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