The Arabidopsis alkaline ceramidase TOD1 is a key turgor pressure regulator in plant cells.

abstract：:Flexible, wearable sensing devices can yield important information about the underlying physiology of a human subject for applications in real-time health and fitness monitoring. Despite significant progress in the fabrication of flexible biosensors that naturally comply with the epidermis, most designs measure only a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Imani S,Bandodkar AJ,Mohan AM,Kumar R,Yu S,Wang J,Mercier PP

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen can facilitate the detachment of protective oxide layer off metals and alloys. The degradation is usually exacerbated at elevated temperatures in many industrial applications; however, its origin remains poorly understood. Here by heating hydrogenated aluminium inside an environmental transmission electron mi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li M,Xie DG,Ma E,Li J,Zhang XX,Shan ZW

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Woochul Song, which was incorrectly given as Woochul C. Song. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen YX,Song W,Barden DR,Ren T,Lang C,Feroz H,Henderson CB,Saboe PO,Tsai D,Yan H,Butler PJ,Bazan GC,Phillip WA,Hickey RJ,Cremer PS,Vashisth H,Kumar M

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Omniphobic membranes are attractive for membrane distillation (MD) because of their superior wetting resistance. However, a design framework for MD membrane remains incomplete, due to the complexity of omniphobic membrane fabrication and the lack of fundamental relationship between wetting resistance and water vapor p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang W,Du X,Vahabi H,Zhao S,Yin Y,Kota AK,Tong T

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to their pathogenical role and unique ability to exist both as soluble proteins and transmembrane complexes, pore-forming toxins (PFTs) have been a focus of microbiologists and structural biologists for decades. PFTs are generally secreted as water-soluble monomers and subsequently bind the membrane of target ce...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iacovache I,De Carlo S,Cirauqui N,Dal Peraro M,van der Goot FG,Zuber B

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria encounter structure (ERMES) connects the mitochondrial outer membrane with the ER. Multiple functions have been linked to ERMES, including maintenance of mitochondrial morphology, protein assembly and phospholipid homeostasis. Since the mitochondrial distribution and morphology p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ellenrieder L,Opaliński Ł,Becker L,Krüger V,Mirus O,Straub SP,Ebell K,Flinner N,Stiller SB,Guiard B,Meisinger C,Wiedemann N,Schleiff E,Wagner R,Pfanner N,Becker T

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercooled liquids exhibit spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of their fluctuating atomic arrangements. The length and time scales of the heterogeneous dynamics are central to the glass transition and influence nucleation and growth of crystals from the liquid. Here, we report direct experimental visualization of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang P,Maldonis JJ,Liu Z,Schroers J,Voyles PM

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are essential cellular organelles for generation of energy and their dysfunction may cause diabetes, Parkinson's disease and multi-systemic failure marked by failure to thrive, gastrointestinal problems, lactic acidosis and early lethality. Disease-associated mitochondrial mutations often affect component...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rooijers K,Loayza-Puch F,Nijtmans LG,Agami R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, particularly by Gram-negative pathogens, have become a global healthcare crisis. We report the design of a class of cationic antimicrobial polymers that cluster local facial amphiphilicity from repeating units to enhance interactions with bacterial membranes without requ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rahman MA,Bam M,Luat E,Jui MS,Ganewatta MS,Shokfai T,Nagarkatti M,Decho AW,Tang C

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of domain walls in ferroelectrics is not energetically favourable in low-dimensional systems. Instead, vortex-type structures are formed that are driven by depolarization fields occurring in such systems. Consequently, polarization vortices have only been experimentally found in systems in which these fields...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Peters JJP,Apachitei G,Beanland R,Alexe M,Sanchez AM

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The synergistic interaction among different components in complex catalysts is one of the crucial factors in determining catalytic performance. Here we report the interactions among the three components in controlling the catalytic performance of Cu-ZnO-ZrO2 (CZZ) catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. The in sit...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Kattel S,Gao W,Li K,Liu P,Chen JG,Wang H

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects have presented human society with some of its greatest development challenges by spreading diseases, consuming crops and damaging infrastructure. Despite the massive human and financial toll of invasive insects, cost estimates of their impacts remain sporadic, spatially incomplete and of questionable quality. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bradshaw CJ,Leroy B,Bellard C,Roiz D,Albert C,Fournier A,Barbet-Massin M,Salles JM,Simard F,Courchamp F

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There are established associations between advanced paternal age and offspring risk for psychiatric and developmental disorders. These are commonly attributed to genetic mutations, especially de novo single nucleotide variants (dnSNVs), that accumulate with increasing paternal age. However, the actual magnitude of ris...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Taylor JL,Debost JPG,Morton SU,Wigdor EM,Heyne HO,Lal D,Howrigan DP,Bloemendal A,Larsen JT,Kosmicki JA,Weiner DJ,Homsy J,Seidman JG,Seidman CE,Agerbo E,McGrath JJ,Mortensen PB,Petersen L,Daly MJ,Robinson EB

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer evolution is fueled by epigenetic as well as genetic diversity. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), intra-tumoral DNA methylation (DNAme) heterogeneity empowers evolution. Here, to comprehensively study the epigenetic dimension of cancer evolution, we integrate DNAme analysis with histone modification mappin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pastore A,Gaiti F,Lu SX,Brand RM,Kulm S,Chaligne R,Gu H,Huang KY,Stamenova EK,Béguelin W,Jiang Y,Schulman RC,Kim KT,Alonso A,Allan JN,Furman RR,Gnirke A,Wu CJ,Melnick AM,Meissner A,Bernstein BE,Abdel-Wahab O,L

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:During epithelial morphogenesis, cell contacts (junctions) are constantly remodeled by mechanical forces that work against adhesive forces. E-cadherin complexes play a pivotal role in this process by providing persistent cell adhesion and by transmitting mechanical tension. In this context, it is unclear how mechanica...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kale GR,Yang X,Philippe JM,Mani M,Lenne PF,Lecuit T

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous cycles of nucleocytoplasmic transport require disassembly of transport receptor/Ran-GTP complexes in the cytoplasm. A basic disassembly mechanism in all eukaryotes depends on soluble RanGAP and RanBP1. In vertebrates, a significant fraction of RanGAP1 stably interacts with the nucleoporin RanBP2 at a bindin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ritterhoff T,Das H,Hofhaus G,Schröder RR,Flotho A,Melchior F

更新日期：2016-05-10 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：:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the chemical composition and molecular structure of materials. At the nanometer scale, NMR has the prospect of mapping the atomic-scale structure of individual molecules, provided a method that can sensitively detect single nuclei and mea...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zopes J,Cujia KS,Sasaki K,Boss JM,Itoh KM,Degen CL

更新日期：2018-11-08 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：: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：:SIRT1, the founding member of the mammalian family of seven NAD(+)-dependent sirtuins, is composed of 747 amino acids forming a catalytic domain and extended N- and C-terminal regions. We report the design and characterization of an engineered human SIRT1 construct (mini-hSIRT1) containing the minimal structural eleme...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dai H,Case AW,Riera TV,Considine T,Lee JE,Hamuro Y,Zhao H,Jiang Y,Sweitzer SM,Pietrak B,Schwartz B,Blum CA,Disch JS,Caldwell R,Szczepankiewicz B,Oalmann C,Yee Ng P,White BH,Casaubon R,Narayan R,Koppetsch K,Bourb

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Purely organic room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) has attracted wide attention recently due to its various application potentials. However, ultralong RTP (URTP) with high efficiency is still rarely achieved. Herein, by dissolving 1,8-naphthalic anhydride in certain organic solid hosts, URTP with a lifetime of over...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang X,Du L,Zhao W,Zhao Z,Xiong Y,He X,Gao PF,Alam P,Wang C,Li Z,Leng J,Liu J,Zhou C,Lam JWY,Phillips DL,Zhang G,Tang BZ

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bell correlations are a foundational demonstration of how quantum entanglement contradicts the classical notion of local realism. Rigorous validation of quantum nonlocality have only been achieved between solid-state electron spins, internal states of trapped atoms, and photon polarisations, all weakly coupling to gra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shin DK,Henson BM,Hodgman SS,Wasak T,Chwedeńczuk J,Truscott AG

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fate determination requires the cooperation between extrinsic signals and intrinsic molecules including transcription factors as well as epigenetic regulators. Nevertheless, how neural fate commitment is regulated by epigenetic modifications remains largely unclear. Here we show that transient histone deacetylati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu P,Dou X,Liu C,Wang L,Xing C,Peng G,Chen J,Yu F,Qiao Y,Song L,Wu Y,Yue C,Li J,Han JD,Tang K,Jing N

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the pursuit of quantum advantages in various applications, the power of quantum computers in executing neural network has mostly remained unknown, primarily due to a missing tool that effectively designs a neural network suitable for quantum circuit. Here, we present a neural network and quantum circuit co-des...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jiang W,Xiong J,Shi Y

更新日期：2021-01-25 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： Abbey-Lee RN,Dingemanse NJ

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of eukaryotic protein-coding genes requires passage of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) through nucleosomes, but it is unclear how this is achieved. Here we report the cryo-EM structure of transcribing Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol II engaged with a downstream nucleosome core particle at an overall resolution o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Farnung L,Vos SM,Cramer P

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordination of ciliary beating is essential to ensure mucus clearance in the airway tract. The orientation and synchronization of ciliary motion responds in part to the organization of the underlying cytoskeletal networks. Using electron tomography on mouse trachea, we show that basal bodies are collectively hooked a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Clare DK,Magescas J,Piolot T,Dumoux M,Vesque C,Pichard E,Dang T,Duvauchelle B,Poirier F,Delacour D

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation and recombination of electrons and holes in organic solar cells occurs via charge transfer states located at the donor/acceptor interface. The energy of these charge transfer states is a crucial factor for the attainable open-circuit voltage and its correct determination is thus of utmost importance for a d...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： List M,Sarkar T,Perkhun P,Ackermann J,Luo C,Würfel U

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00