A dendrite-suppressing composite ion conductor from aramid nanofibres.

abstract：:Itch, in particular chronic forms, has been widely recognized as an important clinical problem, but much less is known about the mechanisms of itch in comparison with other sensory modalities such as pain. Recently, considerable progress has been made in dissecting the circuit mechanisms of itch at both the spinal and...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen XJ,Sun YG

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Van Allen radiation belts are typically two zones of energetic particles encircling the Earth separated by the slot region. How the outer radiation belt electrons are accelerated to relativistic energies remains an unanswered question. Recent studies have presented compelling evidence for the local acceleration by ver...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su Z,Zhu H,Xiao F,Zong QG,Zhou XZ,Zheng H,Wang Y,Wang S,Hao YX,Gao Z,He Z,Baker DN,Spence HE,Reeves GD,Blake JB,Wygant JR

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rechargeable magnesium batteries are one of the most promising candidates for next-generation battery technologies. Despite recent significant progress in the development of efficient electrolytes, an on-going challenge for realization of rechargeable magnesium batteries remains to overcome the sluggish kinetics cause...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Z,Mu X,Zhao-Karger Z,Diemant T,Behm RJ,Kübel C,Fichtner M

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:GFI1 is a transcriptional regulator expressed in lymphoid cells, and an "oncorequisite" factor required for development and maintenance of T-lymphoid leukemia. GFI1 deletion causes hypersensitivity to ionizing radiation, for which the molecular mechanism remains unknown. Here, we demonstrate that GFI1 is required in T...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Vadnais C,Chen R,Fraszczak J,Yu Z,Boulais J,Pinder J,Frank D,Khandanpour C,Hébert J,Dellaire G,Côté JF,Richard S,Orthwein A,Drobetsky E,Möröy T

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The CCCTC-binding zinc-finger protein (CTCF)-mediated network of long-range chromatin interactions is important for genome organization and function. Although this network has been considered largely invariant, we find that it exhibits extensive cell-type-specific interactions that contribute to cell identity. Here, w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kai Y,Andricovich J,Zeng Z,Zhu J,Tzatsos A,Peng W

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages play crucial roles in host defence and tissue homoeostasis, processes in which both environmental stimuli and intracellularly generated metabolites influence activation of macrophages. Activated macrophages are classified into M1 and M2 macrophages. It remains unclear how intracellular nutrition sufficienc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kimura T,Nada S,Takegahara N,Okuno T,Nojima S,Kang S,Ito D,Morimoto K,Hosokawa T,Hayama Y,Mitsui Y,Sakurai N,Sarashina-Kida H,Nishide M,Maeda Y,Takamatsu H,Okuzaki D,Yamada M,Okada M,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2016-10-12 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：:Regulation of transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is a key regulatory step in gene transcription. Recently, the little elongation complex (LEC)-which contains the transcription elongation factor ELL/EAF-was found to be required for the transcription of Pol II-dependent small nuclear RNA (snRNA) gene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Takahashi H,Takigawa I,Watanabe M,Anwar D,Shibata M,Tomomori-Sato C,Sato S,Ranjan A,Seidel CW,Tsukiyama T,Mizushima W,Hayashi M,Ohkawa Y,Conaway JW,Conaway RC,Hatakeyama S

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing critically relies on selective recognition of target sites. However, despite recent progress, the underlying search mechanism of genome-editing proteins is not fully understood in the context of cellular chromatin environments. Here, we use single-molecule imaging in live cells to directly study the beh...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jain S,Shukla S,Yang C,Zhang M,Fatma Z,Lingamaneni M,Abesteh S,Lane ST,Xiong X,Wang Y,Schroeder CM,Selvin PR,Zhao H

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of disease outside of sophisticated laboratories urgently requires low-cost, user-friendly devices. Disposable, instrument-free testing devices are used for home and physician office testing, but are limited in applicability to a small class of highly abundant analytes. Direct, unambiguous visual read-out is...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Besant JD,Das J,Burgess IB,Liu W,Sargent EH,Kelley SO

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) is a common paediatric musculoskeletal disease that displays a strong female bias. By performing a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 3,102 individuals, we identify significant associations with 20p11.22 SNPs for females (P=6.89 × 10(-9)) but not males (P=0.71). This association with IS ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sharma S,Londono D,Eckalbar WL,Gao X,Zhang D,Mauldin K,Kou I,Takahashi A,Matsumoto M,Kamiya N,Murphy KK,Cornelia R,TSRHC Scoliosis Clinical Group.,Japan Scoliosis Clinical Research Group.,Herring JA,Burns D,Ahituv N,Ike

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial organization of chromosomes has key functional roles, yet how chromosomes fold remains poorly understood at the single-molecule level. Here, we employ models of polymer physics to investigate DNA loci in human HCT116 and IMR90 wild-type and cohesin depleted cells. Model predictions on single-molecule struc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Conte M,Fiorillo L,Bianco S,Chiariello AM,Esposito A,Nicodemi M

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Conducting polymers can be easily obtained by electrochemical oxidation of aromatic monomers on an electrode surface as a film state. To prepare conducting polymer fibres by electropolymerization, templates such as porous membranes are necessary in the conventional methods. Here we report the electropolymerization of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Koizumi Y,Shida N,Ohira M,Nishiyama H,Tomita I,Inagi S

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrins, a family of laminin-related molecules, have been proposed to act as guidance cues either during nervous system development or the establishment of the vascular system. This was clearly demonstrated for netrin-1 via its interaction with the receptors DCC and UNC5s. However, mainly based on shared homologies wi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Reuten R,Patel TR,McDougall M,Rama N,Nikodemus D,Gibert B,Delcros JG,Prein C,Meier M,Metzger S,Zhou Z,Kaltenberg J,McKee KK,Bald T,Tüting T,Zigrino P,Djonov V,Bloch W,Clausen-Schaumann H,Poschl E,Yurchenco PD,Eh

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Martensitic transition is a solid-state phase transition involving cooperative movement of atoms, mostly studied in metallurgy. The main characteristics are low transition barrier, ultrafast kinetics, and structural reversibility. They are rarely observed in molecular crystals, and hence the origin and mechanism are l...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chung H,Dudenko D,Zhang F,D'Avino G,Ruzié C,Richard A,Schweicher G,Cornil J,Beljonne D,Geerts Y,Diao Y

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota composition influences the clinical benefit of immune checkpoints in patients with advanced cancer but mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. Molecular mechanism whereby gut microbiota influences immune responses is mainly assigned to gut microbial metabolites. Short-chain fatty acids (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Coutzac C,Jouniaux JM,Paci A,Schmidt J,Mallardo D,Seck A,Asvatourian V,Cassard L,Saulnier P,Lacroix L,Woerther PL,Vozy A,Naigeon M,Nebot-Bral L,Desbois M,Simeone E,Mateus C,Boselli L,Grivel J,Soularue E,Lepage P,

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trade-offs between photoelectrode efficiency and stability significantly hinder the practical application of silicon-based photoelectrochemical devices. Here, we report a facile approach to decouple the trade-offs of silicon-based photocathodes by employing crystalline TiO2 with graded oxygen defects as protection...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zheng J,Lyu Y,Wang R,Xie C,Zhou H,Jiang SP,Wang S

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs), composed of a cytidine deaminase or an evolved adenine deaminase fused to Cas9 nickase, enable the conversion of C·G to T·A or A·T to G·C base pair in organisms, respectively. Here, we show that BE3 and ABE7.10 systems can achieve a targeted mutation effici...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Z,Chen M,Chen S,Deng J,Song Y,Lai L,Li Z

更新日期：2018-07-13 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：:Topology has an increasingly important role in the physics of condensed matter, quantum systems, material science, photonics and biology, with spectacular realizations of topological concepts in liquid crystals. Here we report on long-lived hidden topological states in thermally quenched, chiral nematic droplets, form...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Posnjak G,Čopar S,Muševič I

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The large interest in chiral magnetic structures for realization of nanoscale magnetic storage or logic devices has necessitated methods which can quantify magnetic interactions at the atomic scale. To overcome the limitations of the typically used current-based sensing of atomic-scale exchange interactions, a force-b...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hauptmann N,Haldar S,Hung TC,Jolie W,Gutzeit M,Wegner D,Heinze S,Khajetoorians AA

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of promising battery systems is being intensified to fulfil the needs of long-driving-ranged electric vehicles. The successful candidates for new generation batteries should have higher energy densities than those of currently used batteries and reasonable rechargeability. Here we report that aqueous lithi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao Y,Wang L,Byon HR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant at amino acid 47 in human TP53 exists predominantly in individuals of African descent. P47S human and mouse cells show increased cancer risk due to defective ferroptosis. Here, we show that this ferroptotic defect causes iron accumulation in P47S macrophages. This high iron content alters macrophage cytokine...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Singh KS,Leu JI,Barnoud T,Vonteddu P,Gnanapradeepan K,Lin C,Liu Q,Barton JC,Kossenkov AV,George DL,Murphy ME,Dotiwala F

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor MafB is expressed by monocytes and macrophages. Efferocytosis (apoptotic cell uptake) by macrophages is important for inhibiting the development of autoimmune diseases, and is greatly reduced in Mafb-deficient macrophages. Here, we show the expression of the first protein in the classical comp...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tran MTN,Hamada M,Jeon H,Shiraishi R,Asano K,Hattori M,Nakamura M,Imamura Y,Tsunakawa Y,Fujii R,Usui T,Kulathunga K,Andrea CS,Koshida R,Kamei R,Matsunaga Y,Kobayashi M,Oishi H,Kudo T,Takahashi S

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Woody (lignocellulosic) plant biomass is an abundant renewable feedstock, rich in polysaccharides that are bound into an insoluble fiber composite with lignin. Marine crustacean woodborers of the genus Limnoria are among the few animals that can survive on a diet of this recalcitrant material without relying on gut re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Besser K,Malyon GP,Eborall WS,Paro da Cunha G,Filgueiras JG,Dowle A,Cruz Garcia L,Page SJ,Dupree R,Kern M,Gomez LD,Li Y,Elias L,Sabbadin F,Mohamad SE,Pesante G,Steele-King C,Ribeiro de Azevedo E,Polikarpov I,Dupree

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the dominant mode of interannual climate variability across the Pacific Ocean basin, with influence on the global climate. The two end members of the cycle, El Niño and La Niña, force anomalous oceanographic conditions and coastal response along the Pacific margin, exposing many hea...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Barnard PL,Hoover D,Hubbard DM,Snyder A,Ludka BC,Allan J,Kaminsky GM,Ruggiero P,Gallien TW,Gabel L,McCandless D,Weiner HM,Cohn N,Anderson DL,Serafin KA

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of Hevea brasiliensis rubber plantations is a resurgent driver of deforestation, carbon emissions, and biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian rubber extent is massive, equivalent to 67% of oil palm, with rapid further expansion predicted. Results-based carbon finance could dis-incentivise fores...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Warren-Thomas EM,Edwards DP,Bebber DP,Chhang P,Diment AN,Evans TD,Lambrick FH,Maxwell JF,Nut M,O'Kelly HJ,Theilade I,Dolman PM

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism is remodeled in cancer, but the global pattern of cancer-specific metabolic changes remains unclear. Here we show, using the comprehensive measurement of metabolic enzymes by large-scale targeted proteomics, that the metabolism both carbon and nitrogen is altered during the malignant progression of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kodama M,Oshikawa K,Shimizu H,Yoshioka S,Takahashi M,Izumi Y,Bamba T,Tateishi C,Tomonaga T,Matsumoto M,Nakayama KI

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The amniote middle ear is a classical example of the evolutionary novelty. Although paleontological evidence supports the view that mammals and diapsids (modern reptiles and birds) independently acquired the middle ear after divergence from their common ancestor, the developmental bases of these transformations remain...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kitazawa T,Takechi M,Hirasawa T,Adachi N,Narboux-Nême N,Kume H,Maeda K,Hirai T,Miyagawa-Tomita S,Kurihara Y,Hitomi J,Levi G,Kuratani S,Kurihara H

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Incited by public fascination and engineering application, water-skipping of rigid stones and spheres has received considerable study. While these objects can be coaxed to ricochet, elastic spheres demonstrate superior water-skipping ability, but little is known about the effect of large material compliance on water i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Belden J,Hurd RC,Jandron MA,Bower AF,Truscott TT

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00