Crystal structure and its bearing towards an understanding of key biological functions of EpCAM.

abstract：:Little is known about how archaeal viruses perturb the transcription machinery of their hosts. Here we provide the first example of an archaeo-viral transcription factor that directly targets the host RNA polymerase (RNAP) and efficiently represses its activity. ORF145 from the temperate Acidianus two-tailed virus (AT...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sheppard C,Blombach F,Belsom A,Schulz S,Daviter T,Smollett K,Mahieu E,Erdmann S,Tinnefeld P,Garrett R,Grohmann D,Rappsilber J,Werner F

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The dipole configuration of the Earth's magnetic field allows for the trapping of highly energetic particles, which form the radiation belts. Although significant advances have been made in understanding the acceleration mechanisms in the radiation belts, the loss processes remain poorly understood. Unique observation...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shprits YY,Drozdov AY,Spasojevic M,Kellerman AC,Usanova ME,Engebretson MJ,Agapitov OV,Zhelavskaya IS,Raita TJ,Spence HE,Baker DN,Zhu H,Aseev NA

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection has the potential to reduce cancer mortality, but an effective screening test must demonstrate asymptomatic cancer detection years before conventional diagnosis in a longitudinal study. In the Taizhou Longitudinal Study (TZL), 123,115 healthy subjects provided plasma samples for long-term storage and w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen X,Gole J,Gore A,He Q,Lu M,Min J,Yuan Z,Yang X,Jiang Y,Zhang T,Suo C,Li X,Cheng L,Zhang Z,Niu H,Li Z,Xie Z,Shi H,Zhang X,Fan M,Wang X,Yang Y,Dang J,McConnell C,Zhang J,Wang J,Yu S,Ye W,Gao Y,

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in transplantation of human stem cells for therapeutic purposes. It would benefit future application if one could achieve their long-term acceptance and functional differentiation in allogeneic hosts using minimal immunosuppression. Allogeneic stem cell transplants differ from conventional...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lui KO,Howie D,Ng SW,Liu S,Chien KR,Waldmann H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) form calcium release channels located in the membranes of the sarcoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum. RyRs play a major role in excitation-contraction coupling and other Ca(2+)-dependent signalling events, and consist of several globular domains that together form a large assembly. Here we d...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuchi Z,Yuen SM,Lau K,Underhill AQ,Cornea RL,Fessenden JD,Van Petegem F

更新日期：2015-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesostriatal dopaminergic neurons possess extensively branched axonal arbours. Whether action potentials are converted to dopamine output in the striatum will be influenced dynamically and critically by axonal properties and mechanisms that are poorly understood. Here, we address the roles for mechanisms governing rel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Condon MD,Platt NJ,Zhang YF,Roberts BM,Clements MA,Vietti-Michelina S,Tseu MY,Brimblecombe KR,Threlfell S,Mann EO,Cragg SJ

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmonics on metal-dielectric interfaces was widely seen as the main route for miniaturization of components and interconnect of photonic circuits. However recently, ultra-confined surface phonon-polaritonics in high-index chalcogenide films of nanometric thickness has emerged as an important alternative to plasmonic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dubrovkin AM,Qiang B,Salim T,Nam D,Zheludev NI,Wang QJ

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Water structure has an essential role in biological assembly. Hydrophobic dewetting has been documented as a general mechanism for the assembly of hydrophobic surfaces; however, the association mechanism of hydrophilic interfaces remains mysterious and cannot be explained by simple continuum water models that ignore t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ahmad M,Gu W,Geyer T,Helms V

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased vascular permeability contributes to many diseases, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, cancer and inflammation. Most past work on vascular barrier function has focused on soluble regulators, such as tumour-necrosis factor-α. Here we show that lung vascular permeability is controlled mechanically ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mammoto A,Mammoto T,Kanapathipillai M,Wing Yung C,Jiang E,Jiang A,Lofgren K,Gee EP,Ingber DE

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The Arctic marine biome, shrinking with increasing temperature and receding sea-ice cover, is tightly connected to lower latitudes through the North Atlantic. By flowing northward through the European Arctic Corridor (the main Arctic gateway where 80% of in- and outflow takes place), the North Atlantic Waters transpor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Oziel L,Baudena A,Ardyna M,Massicotte P,Randelhoff A,Sallée JB,Ingvaldsen RB,Devred E,Babin M

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional materials provide extraordinary opportunities for exploring phenomena arising in atomically thin crystals. Beginning with the first isolation of graphene, mechanical exfoliation has been a key to provide high-quality two-dimensional materials, but despite improvements it is still limited in yield, late...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang Y,Pan YH,Yang R,Bao LH,Meng L,Luo HL,Cai YQ,Liu GD,Zhao WJ,Zhou Z,Wu LM,Zhu ZL,Huang M,Liu LW,Liu L,Cheng P,Wu KH,Tian SB,Gu CZ,Shi YG,Guo YF,Cheng ZG,Hu JP,Zhao L,Yang GH,Sutter E,Sutter P,Wan

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A reliable description of any spatial pattern in species richness requires accurate knowledge about species geographical distribution. However, sampling bias may generate artefactual absences within species range and compromise our capacity to describe biodiversity patterns. Here, we analysed the spatial distribution ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Menegotto A,Rangel TF

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive optics by direct imaging of the wavefront distortions of a laser-induced guide star has long been used in astronomy, and more recently in microscopy to compensate for aberrations in transparent specimens. Here we extend this approach to tissues that strongly scatter visible light by exploiting the reduced sca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang K,Sun W,Richie CT,Harvey BK,Betzig E,Ji N

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol is a biotechnologically promising substitute for food and feed substrates since it can be produced renewably from electricity, water and CO2. Although progress has been made towards establishing Escherichia coli as a platform organism for methanol conversion via the energy efficient ribulose monophosphate (Ru...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Keller P,Noor E,Meyer F,Reiter MA,Anastassov S,Kiefer P,Vorholt JA

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinovirus (RV) infections are major triggers of acute exacerbations of severe respiratory diseases such as pre-school wheeze, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The occurrence of numerous RV types is a major challenge for the identification of the culprit virus types and for the improvement of v...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Niespodziana K,Stenberg-Hammar K,Megremis S,Cabauatan CR,Napora-Wijata K,Vacal PC,Gallerano D,Lupinek C,Ebner D,Schlederer T,Harwanegg C,Söderhäll C,van Hage M,Hedlin G,Papadopoulos NG,Valenta R

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanopatterning by molecular self-assembly has been a topic of intense research in pursuit of 'bottom-up' methods of generating structures for use in nanotechnology. The systems most widely studied have been two- and three-dimensional morphologies of block copolymers. However, T- and X-shaped polyphilic liquid crystals...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu F,Kieffer R,Zeng X,Pelz K,Prehm M,Ungar G,Tschierske C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofabricated and nanopatterned surfaces have revealed the sensitivity of cell adhesion to nanoscale variations in the spacing of adhesive ligands such as the tripeptide arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD). To date, surface characterisation and cell adhesion are often examined in two separate experiments so that the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lu X,Nicovich PR,Zhao M,Nieves DJ,Mollazade M,Vivekchand SRC,Gaus K,Gooding JJ

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the many challenges in building a wireless network at terahertz frequencies, link discovery remains one of the most critical and least explored. In a network of mobile receivers using narrow directional beams, how do the nodes rapidly locate each other? This direction information is crucial for beam forming and ste...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ghasempour Y,Shrestha R,Charous A,Knightly E,Mittleman DM

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs) are a family of transcription factors that regulate lipid biosynthesis and adipogenesis by controlling the expression of several enzymes required for cholesterol, fatty acid, triacylglycerol and phospholipid synthesis. In vertebrates, SREBP activation is mainly contr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bertolio R,Napoletano F,Mano M,Maurer-Stroh S,Fantuz M,Zannini A,Bicciato S,Sorrentino G,Del Sal G

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuum numerical modeling of dynamic crack propagation has been a great challenge over the past decade. This is particularly the case for anticracks in porous materials, as reported in sedimentary rocks, deep earthquakes, landslides, and snow avalanches, as material inter-penetration further complicates the problem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gaume J,Gast T,Teran J,van Herwijnen A,Jiang C

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible organic memory devices are one of the integral components for future flexible organic electronics. However, high-density all-organic memory cell arrays on malleable substrates without cross-talk have not been demonstrated because of difficulties in their fabrication and relatively poor performances to date. H...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ji Y,Zeigler DF,Lee DS,Choi H,Jen AK,Ko HC,Kim TW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) interaction plays a crucial role in tumor-associated immune escape. Here, we verify that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has higher PD-L1 expression than other subtypes. We then discover that nucleophosmin (NPM1) binds to PD-L1 promoter...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qin G,Wang X,Ye S,Li Y,Chen M,Wang S,Qin T,Zhang C,Li Y,Long Q,Hu H,Shi D,Li J,Zhang K,Zhai Q,Tang Y,Kang T,Lan P,Xie F,Lu J,Deng W

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytic transmitter release is regulated by the SNARE complex, which contains a vesicular protein, synaptobrevin2 (Sb2). However, Sb2 vesicular arrangement is unclear. Here we use super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to study the prevalence and distribution of endogenous and exogenous Sb2 in single vesicles of as...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Singh P,Jorgačevski J,Kreft M,Grubišić V,Stout RF Jr,Potokar M,Parpura V,Zorec R

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual cells in clonal populations often respond differently to environmental changes; for binary phenotypes, such as cell death, this can be measured as a fractional response. These types of responses have been attributed to cell-intrinsic stochastic processes and variable abundances of biochemical constituents, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Santos LC,Vogel R,Chipuk JE,Birtwistle MR,Stolovitzky G,Meyer P

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The unusual electronic properties of diamondoids, the nanoscale relatives of diamond, make them attractive for applications ranging from drug delivery to field emission displays. Identifying the fundamental origin of these properties has proven highly challenging, with even the most advanced quantum many-body calculat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Patrick CE,Giustino F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation is known to affect the speed of seed germination, but the molecular regulatory basis of this remains ambiguous. Here we report that loss of function of two histone deacetylase-binding factors, SWI-INDEPENDENT3 (SIN3)-LIKE1 (SNL1) and SNL2, results in accelerated radicle protrusion and growth during...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Z,Chen F,Li X,Cao H,Ding M,Zhang C,Zuo J,Xu C,Xu J,Deng X,Xiang Y,Soppe WJ,Liu Y

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic reprogramming greatly contributes to the regulation of macrophage activation. However, the mechanism of lipid accumulation and the corresponding function in tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) remain unclear. With primary investigation in colon cancer and confirmation in other cancer models, here we determin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xiang W,Shi R,Kang X,Zhang X,Chen P,Zhang L,Hou A,Wang R,Zhao Y,Zhao K,Liu Y,Ma Y,Luo H,Shang S,Zhang J,He F,Yu S,Gan L,Shi C,Li Y,Yang W,Liang H,Miao H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 is well known for its function in double-strand break (DSB) DNA repair. While BRCA1 is also implicated in transcriptional regulation, the physiological significance remains unclear. COBRA1 (also known as NELF-B) is a BRCA1-binding protein that regulates RNA polymerase II (RN...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nair SJ,Zhang X,Chiang HC,Jahid MJ,Wang Y,Garza P,April C,Salathia N,Banerjee T,Alenazi FS,Ruan J,Fan JB,Parvin JD,Jin VX,Hu Y,Li R

更新日期：2016-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As a major CO2 sink, the North Atlantic, especially its subpolar gyre region, is essential for the global carbon cycle. Decadal fluctuations of CO2 uptake in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre region are associated with the evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, oce...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li H,Ilyina T,Müller WA,Sienz F

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00