Silicate deposition during decomposition of cyanobacteria may promote export of picophytoplankton to the deep ocean.

abstract：:Ultrafast materials science promises optical control of physical properties of solids. Continuous-wave circularly polarized laser driving was predicted to induce a light-matter coupled state with an energy gap and a quantum Hall effect, coined Floquet topological insulator. Whereas the envisioned Floquet topological i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sentef MA,Claassen M,Kemper AF,Moritz B,Oka T,Freericks JK,Devereaux TP

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The JmjC histone demethylases (KDMs) are linked to tumour cell proliferation and are current cancer targets; however, very few highly selective inhibitors for these are available. Here we report cyclic peptide inhibitors of the KDM4A-C with selectivity over other KDMs/2OG oxygenases, including closely related KDM4D/E ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kawamura A,Münzel M,Kojima T,Yapp C,Bhushan B,Goto Y,Tumber A,Katoh T,King ON,Passioura T,Walport LJ,Hatch SB,Madden S,Müller S,Brennan PE,Chowdhury R,Hopkinson RJ,Suga H,Schofield CJ

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained an error in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Introduction and incorrectly read 'A proper electron beam control is one of the main challenges towards the Graal of developing a compact alternative of X-ray free-electron lasers by coupling LWFA gigaelectron-vo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： André T,Andriyash IA,Loulergue A,Labat M,Roussel E,Ghaith A,Khojoyan M,Thaury C,Valléau M,Briquez F,Marteau F,Tavakoli K,N'Gotta P,Dietrich Y,Lambert G,Malka V,Benabderrahmane C,Vétéran J,Chapuis L,El Ajjouri T,Se

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) functions as a neurotransmitter for non-histaminergic itch, but its site of action (sensory neurons vs spinal cord) remains controversial. To determine the role of GRP in sensory neurons, we generated a floxed Grp mouse line. We found that conditional knockout of Grp in sensory neurons ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Barry DM,Liu XT,Liu B,Liu XY,Gao F,Zeng X,Liu J,Yang Q,Wilhelm S,Yin J,Tao A,Chen ZF

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovations in soft material synthesis and fabrication technologies have led to the development of integrated soft electronic devices. Such soft devices offer opportunities to interact with biological cells, mimicking their soft environment. However, existing fabrication technologies cannot create the submicron-scale,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim MG,Brown DK,Brand O

更新日期：2020-02-21 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：:The plausibility of any model in science comes from the extent of its interconnections to other models that are grounded in different premises and reasoning. Focusing research on paradoxes in those models, logic whereby they appear to generate unacceptable conclusions from seemingly indisputable premises, helps find t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Benner SA

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanically flexible mobile phones have been long anticipated due to the rapid development of thin-film electronics in the last couple of decades. However, to date, no such phone has been developed, largely due to a lack of flexible electronic components that are fast enough for the required wireless communications, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang J,Li Y,Zhang B,Wang H,Xin Q,Song A

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcephaly is a cortical malformation disorder characterized by an abnormally small brain. Recent studies have revealed severe cases of microcephaly resulting from human mutations in the NDE1 gene, which is involved in the regulation of cytoplasmic dynein. Here using in utero electroporation of NDE1 short hairpin RN...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Doobin DJ,Kemal S,Dantas TJ,Vallee RB

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a globally spreading alphavirus against which there is no commercially available vaccine or therapy. Here we use a genome-wide siRNA screen to identify 156 proviral and 41 antiviral host factors affecting CHIKV replication. We analyse the cellular pathways in which human proviral genes are...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Karlas A,Berre S,Couderc T,Varjak M,Braun P,Meyer M,Gangneux N,Karo-Astover L,Weege F,Raftery M,Schönrich G,Klemm U,Wurzlbauer A,Bracher F,Merits A,Meyer TF,Lecuit M

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:All motile organisms use spatially distributed chemical features of their surroundings to guide their behaviors, but the neural mechanisms underlying such behaviors in mammals have been difficult to study, largely due to the technical challenges of controlling chemical concentrations in space and time during behaviora...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Radvansky BA,Dombeck DA

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress granules (SG) are translationally silent sites of RNA triage induced by environmental stresses including viral infection. Here we show that HIV-1 Gag blocks SG assembly irrespective of eIF2α phosphorylation and even when SG assembly is forced by overexpression of Ras-GAP SH3 domain-binding protein (G3BP1) or TI...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Valiente-Echeverría F,Melnychuk L,Vyboh K,Ajamian L,Gallouzi IE,Bernard N,Mouland AJ

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that beta II protein kinase C (βIIPKC) activity is elevated in failing hearts and contributes to this pathology. Here we report that βIIPKC accumulates on the mitochondrial outer membrane and phosphorylates mitofusin 1 (Mfn1) at serine 86. Mfn1 phosphorylation results in partial loss of its ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ferreira JCB,Campos JC,Qvit N,Qi X,Bozi LHM,Bechara LRG,Lima VM,Queliconi BB,Disatnik MH,Dourado PMM,Kowaltowski AJ,Mochly-Rosen D

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In reducing the high operating temperatures (≥800 °C) of solid-oxide fuel cells, use of protonic ceramics as an alternative electrolyte material is attractive due to their high conductivity and low activation energy in a low-temperature regime (≤600 °C). Among many protonic ceramics, yttrium-doped barium zirconate has...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bae K,Jang DY,Choi HJ,Kim D,Hong J,Kim BK,Lee JH,Son JW,Shim JH

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecularly targeted therapies for advanced prostate cancer include castration modalities that suppress ligand-dependent transcriptional activity of the androgen receptor (AR). However, persistent AR signalling undermines therapeutic efficacy and promotes progression to lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRP...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Henzler C,Li Y,Yang R,McBride T,Ho Y,Sprenger C,Liu G,Coleman I,Lakely B,Li R,Ma S,Landman SR,Kumar V,Hwang TH,Raj GV,Higano CS,Morrissey C,Nelson PS,Plymate SR,Dehm SM

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesive wear process remains one of the least understood areas of mechanics. While it has long been established that adhesive wear is a direct result of contacting surface asperities, an agreed upon understanding of how contacting asperities lead to wear debris particle has remained elusive. This has restricted a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Aghababaei R,Warner DH,Molinari JF

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of chemical probes into proteomic workflows enables the interrogation of protein activity, rather than abundance. Current methods limit the biological contexts that can be addressed due to sample homogenization, signal-averaging, and bias toward abundant proteins. Here we report a platform that integrates ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li G,Montgomery JE,Eckert MA,Chang JW,Tienda SM,Lengyel E,Moellering RE

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:High-angle grain boundaries are always the preferential fatigue cracking sites, while the intrinsic fatigue cracking mechanism of coherent twin boundary remains elusive. Here we systematically investigate the fatigue cracking behaviours of copper bicrystals with a coherent twin boundary as their sole internal boundary...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li LL,Zhang ZJ,Zhang P,Wang ZG,Zhang ZF

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing incidence of inflammatory bowel disorders demands a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying its multifactorial aetiology. Here we demonstrate that mice deficient for REGγ, a proteasome activator, show significantly attenuated intestinal inflammation and colitis-associated cancer in dextr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu J,Zhou L,Ji L,Chen F,Fortmann K,Zhang K,Liu Q,Li K,Wang W,Wang H,Xie W,Wang Q,Liu J,Zheng B,Zhang P,Huang S,Shi T,Zhang B,Dang Y,Chen J,O'Malley BW,Moses RE,Wang P,Li L,Xiao J,Hoffmann A,Li X

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Eumelanin is a ubiquitous biological pigment, and the origin of its broadband absorption spectrum has long been a topic of scientific debate. Here, we report a first-principles computational investigation to explain its broadband absorption feature. These computations are complemented by experimental results showing a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen CT,Chuang C,Cao J,Ball V,Ruch D,Buehler MJ

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns in biomass production are determined by resource input (productivity) and trophic transfer efficiency. At fixed resource input, variation in consumer biomass production has been related to food quality, metabolic type and diversity among species. In contrast, intraspecific variation in individual body size be...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Reichstein B,Persson L,De Roos AM

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Base editors (BEs) are RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas-derived genome editing tools that induce single-nucleotide changes. The limitations of current BEs lie in their low precision (especially when multiple target nucleotides of the deaminase are present within the activity window) and their restriction to targets that are in p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tan J,Zhang F,Karcher D,Bock R

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Superlubricity of graphite and graphene has aroused increasing interest in recent years. Yet how to obtain a long-lasting superlubricity between graphene layers, under high applied normal load in ambient atmosphere still remains a challenge but is highly desirable. Here, we report a direct measurement of sliding frict...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu SW,Wang HP,Xu Q,Ma TB,Yu G,Zhang C,Geng D,Yu Z,Zhang S,Wang W,Hu YZ,Wang H,Luo J

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional RNA modifications play a critical role in the pathogenesis of human mitochondrial disorders, but the mechanisms by which specific modifications affect mitochondrial protein synthesis remain poorly understood. Here we used a quantitative RNA sequencing approach to investigate, at nucleotide resolut...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Richter U,Evans ME,Clark WC,Marttinen P,Shoubridge EA,Suomalainen A,Wredenberg A,Wedell A,Pan T,Battersby BJ

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Puberty is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms and is highly sensitive to metabolic and nutritional cues. However, the epigenetic pathways mediating the effects of nutrition and obesity on pubertal timing are unknown. Here, we identify Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), a fuel-sensing deacetylase, as a molecule that restrains female p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Vazquez MJ,Toro CA,Castellano JM,Ruiz-Pino F,Roa J,Beiroa D,Heras V,Velasco I,Dieguez C,Pinilla L,Gaytan F,Nogueiras R,Bosch MA,Rønnekleiv OK,Lomniczi A,Ojeda SR,Tena-Sempere M

更新日期：2018-10-10 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：:The ability to modulate light at high speeds is of paramount importance for telecommunications, information processing and medical imaging technologies. This has stimulated intense efforts to master optoelectronic switching at visible and near-infrared frequencies, although coping with current computer speeds in integ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Manjavacas A,García de Abajo FJ

更新日期：2014-03-27 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：:The emergence of larger brains with large numbers of neurons is an evolutionary innovation in mammals and birds. However, the corresponding changes in cortical developmental programmes during amniote evolution are poorly understood. Here we examine the cortical development of Madagascar ground geckos, and report uniqu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nomura T,Gotoh H,Ono K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prokaryotic chemotaxis system is arguably the best-understood signaling pathway in biology. In all previously described species, chemoreceptors organize into a hexagonal (P6 symmetry) extended array. Here, we report an alternative symmetry (P2) of the chemotaxis apparatus that emerges from a strict linear organiza...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Muok AR,Ortega DR,Kurniyati K,Yang W,Maschmann ZA,Sidi Mabrouk A,Li C,Crane BR,Briegel A

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00