The role of mechanics in biological and bio-inspired systems.

abstract：:SCRaMbLE (Synthetic Chromosome Rearrangement and Modification by LoxP-mediated Evolution) is a genome restructuring technique that can be used in synthetic genomes such as that of Sc2.0, the synthetic yeast genome, which contains hundreds to thousands of strategically positioned loxPsym sites. SCRaMbLE has been used t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen MJ,Wu Y,Yang K,Li Y,Xu H,Zhang H,Li BZ,Li X,Xiao WH,Zhou X,Mitchell LA,Bader JS,Yuan Y,Boeke JD

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanostructured metasurfaces offer unique capabilities for subwavelength control of optical waves. Based on this potential, a large number of metasurfaces have been proposed recently as alternatives to standard optical elements. In most cases, however, these elements suffer from large chromatic aberrations, thus limiti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Avayu O,Almeida E,Prior Y,Ellenbogen T

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal oxides with a tunnelled structure are attractive as charge storage materials for rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, since the tunnels enable fast reversible insertion/extraction of charge carriers (for example, lithium ions). Common synthesis methods can introduce large cations such as potassium, barium...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuan Y,Zhan C,He K,Chen H,Yao W,Sharifi-Asl S,Song B,Yang Z,Nie A,Luo X,Wang H,Wood SM,Amine K,Islam MS,Lu J,Shahbazian-Yassar R

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal heterogeneity and evolution has major implications for disease progression and relapse in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). To model clonal dynamics in vivo, we serially transplanted 23 AML cases to immunodeficient mice and followed clonal composition for up to 15 months by whole-exome sequencing of 84 xenografts a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sandén C,Lilljebjörn H,Orsmark Pietras C,Henningsson R,Saba KH,Landberg N,Thorsson H,von Palffy S,Peña-Martinez P,Högberg C,Rissler M,Gisselsson D,Lazarevic V,Juliusson G,Ågerstam H,Fioretos T

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetry and topology are two fundamental aspects of many quantum states of matter. Recently new topological materials, higher-order topological insulators, were discovered, featuring bulk-edge-corner correspondence that goes beyond the conventional topological paradigms. Here we discover experimentally that the nonsy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang X,Lin ZK,Wang HX,Xiong Z,Tian Y,Lu MH,Chen YF,Jiang JH

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During centriole duplication, a single daughter centriole is formed next to the mother centriole. The molecular mechanism that determines a single duplication site remains a long-standing question. Here, we show that intrinsic self-organization of Plk4 is implicated in symmetry breaking in the process of centriole dup...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamamoto S,Kitagawa D

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of nucleotide building blocks prior to and during S phase facilitates DNA duplication. Herein, we find that the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) synchronizes ribose-5-phosphate levels and DNA synthesis during the cell cycle. In late G1 and S phases, transketolase-like 1 (TKTL1) is overexpresse...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Y,Yao CF,Xu FJ,Qu YY,Li JT,Lin Y,Cao ZL,Lin PC,Xu W,Zhao SM,Zhao JY

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Break-induced replication (BIR) is a DNA double-strand break repair pathway that leads to genomic instabilities similar to those observed in cancer. BIR proceeds by a migrating bubble where asynchrony between leading and lagging strand synthesis leads to accumulation of long single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). It remains unk...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Elango R,Sheng Z,Jackson J,DeCata J,Ibrahim Y,Pham NT,Liang DH,Sakofsky CJ,Vindigni A,Lobachev KS,Ira G,Malkova A

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting ecological effects of contaminants remains challenging because of the sheer number of chemicals and their ambiguous role in biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships. We evaluate responses of experimental pond ecosystems to standardized concentrations of 12 pesticides, nested in four pesticide classes a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rumschlag SL,Mahon MB,Hoverman JT,Raffel TR,Carrick HJ,Hudson PJ,Rohr JR

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate is both an important nutrient and a signalling molecule for plants. Although several components of the nitrate signalling pathway have been identified, their hierarchical organization remains unclear. Here we show that the localization of NLP7, a member of the RWP-RK transcription factor family, is regulated b...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Marchive C,Roudier F,Castaings L,Bréhaut V,Blondet E,Colot V,Meyer C,Krapp A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective prevention strategies will be essential in reducing disease burden due to bacterial infections. Here we harness the specificity and rapid-acting properties of bacteriophages as a potential prophylaxis therapy for cholera, a severely dehydrating disease caused by Vibrio cholerae. To this end, we test a cockta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yen M,Cairns LS,Camilli A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA exosome provides eukaryotic cells with an essential 3'-5' exoribonucleolytic activity, which processes or eliminates many classes of RNAs. Its nine-subunit core (Exo9) is structurally related to prokaryotic phosphorolytic exoribonucleases. Yet, yeast and animal Exo9s have lost the primordial phosphorolytic cap...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sikorska N,Zuber H,Gobert A,Lange H,Gagliardi D

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancers exhibit genome-wide aberrant DNA methylation patterns. To investigate how these affect the transcriptome and which changes are linked to transformation or progression, we apply genome-wide expression-methylation quantitative trait loci (emQTL) analysis between DNA methylation and gene expression. On a w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fleischer T,Tekpli X,Mathelier A,Wang S,Nebdal D,Dhakal HP,Sahlberg KK,Schlichting E,Oslo Breast Cancer Research Consortium (OSBREAC).,Børresen-Dale AL,Borgen E,Naume B,Eskeland R,Frigessi A,Tost J,Hurtado A,Kristensen VN

更新日期：2017-11-09 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：:The tumour suppressor CYLD is a deubiquitinase previously shown to inhibit NF-κB, MAP kinase and Wnt signalling. However, the tumour suppressing mechanisms of CYLD remain poorly understood. Here we show that loss of CYLD catalytic activity causes impaired DNA damage-induced p53 stabilization and activation in epitheli...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fernández-Majada V,Welz PS,Ermolaeva MA,Schell M,Adam A,Dietlein F,Komander D,Büttner R,Thomas RK,Schumacher B,Pasparakis M

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many small-interfering (si)RNAs are toxic to cancer cells through a 6mer seed sequence (positions 2-7 of the guide strand). Here we performed an siRNA screen with all 4096 6mer seeds revealing a preference for guanine in positions 1 and 2 and a high overall G or C content in the seed of the most toxic siRNAs for four ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gao QQ,Putzbach WE,Murmann AE,Chen S,Sarshad AA,Peter JM,Bartom ET,Hafner M,Peter ME

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling and microRNAs (miRNAs) are important gene regulatory components in cancer. Usually in advanced malignant stages, TGF-β signaling is elevated but global miRNA expression is suppressed. Such a gene expression signature is well illustrated in a fibrosis (or mesenchymal) subt...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ahn JH,Lee HS,Lee JS,Lee YS,Park JL,Kim SY,Hwang JA,Kunkeaw N,Jung SY,Kim TJ,Lee KS,Jeon SH,Lee I,Johnson BH,Choi JH,Lee YS

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a bacterial pathogen that utilises a Type IV secretion (T4S) system to inject effector proteins into human macrophages. Essential to the recruitment and delivery of effectors to the T4S machinery is the membrane-embedded T4 coupling complex (T4CC). Here, we purify an intact T4CC from the Legi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Meir A,Macé K,Lukoyanova N,Chetrit D,Hospenthal MK,Redzej A,Roy C,Waksman G

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium parasites are obligate intracellular protozoa and causative agents of malaria, responsible for half a million deaths each year. The lifecycle progression of the parasite is reliant on cell motility, a process driven by myosin A, an unconventional single-headed class XIV molecular motor. Here we demonstrate ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Robert-Paganin J,Robblee JP,Auguin D,Blake TCA,Bookwalter CS,Krementsova EB,Moussaoui D,Previs MJ,Jousset G,Baum J,Trybus KM,Houdusse A

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between absorbers and plasmonic metasurfaces can give rise to unique optical properties not present for either of the individual materials and can influence the performance of a host of optical sensing and thin-film optoelectronic applications. Here we identify three distinct mode types of absorber-coated...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Petoukhoff CE,O'Carroll DM

更新日期：2015-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the perovskite oxide family, KTaO3 (KTO) has recently attracted considerable interest as a possible system for the realization of the Rashba effect. In this work, we report a novel conducting interface by placing KTO with another insulator, LaVO3 (LVO) and report planar Hall effect (PHE) and anisotropic magnetor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wadehra N,Tomar R,Varma RM,Gopal RK,Singh Y,Dattagupta S,Chakraverty S

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensory cortex participates in emotional memory but its role is poorly understood. Here we show that inactivation of the higher order auditory cortex Te2 in rats during early memory consolidation impairs remote first- and second-order fear memories but not the association between two neutral cues. Furthermore, Te2...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Grosso A,Cambiaghi M,Renna A,Milano L,Roberto Merlo G,Sacco T,Sacchetti B

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar-driven electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is capable of producing value-added chemicals and represents a potential route to alleviate carbon footprint in the global environment. However, the ever-changing sunlight illumination presents a substantial impediment of maintaining high electrocatalytic eff...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Liu J,Wang Y,Wang Y,Zheng G

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian pseudokinase SgK223, and its structurally related homologue SgK269, are oncogenic scaffolds that nucleate the assembly of specific signalling complexes and regulate tyrosine kinase signalling. Both SgK223 and SgK269 form homo- and hetero-oligomers, a mechanism that underpins a diversity of signalling out...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Patel O,Griffin MDW,Panjikar S,Dai W,Ma X,Chan H,Zheng C,Kropp A,Murphy JM,Daly RJ,Lucet IS

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that synaptic potentiation during waking is offset by a homoeostatic reduction in net synaptic strength during sleep. However, molecular mechanisms to support such a process are lacking. Here we demonstrate that deficiencies in the RNA-editing gene Adar increase sleep due to synaptic dysfunction...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Robinson JE,Paluch J,Dickman DK,Joiner WJ

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Acenes are an important class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which have recently gained exceptional attention due to their potential as functional organic semiconductors. Fundamentally, they are important systems to study the convergence of physico-chemical properties of all-carbon sp2-frameworks in the one-dimen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Urgel JI,Mishra S,Hayashi H,Wilhelm J,Pignedoli CA,Di Giovannantonio M,Widmer R,Yamashita M,Hieda N,Ruffieux P,Yamada H,Fasel R

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought comprehensively affects different interlinked aspects of the terrestrial water cycle, which have so far been mostly investigated without direct comparison. Resolving the partitioning of water deficit during drought into blue-water runoff and green-water evapotranspiration fluxes is critical, as anomalies in th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Orth R,Destouni G

更新日期：2018-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cascade reactions initiated by radical addition to alkynes are synthetically very attractive because they enable access to highly complex molecular skeletons in only few synthetic steps under usually mild conditions. Here we report a general radical cascade reaction of alkynes, N-fluoroarylsulfonimides and alcohols, e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zheng G,Li Y,Han J,Xiong T,Zhang Q

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) can, in part, be considered a metabolic disease. Besides age, female sex and APOE ε4 genotype represent strong risk factors for AD that also give rise to large metabolic differences. We systematically investigated group-specific metabolic alterations by conducting stratified associa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arnold M,Nho K,Kueider-Paisley A,Massaro T,Huynh K,Brauner B,MahmoudianDehkordi S,Louie G,Moseley MA,Thompson JW,John-Williams LS,Tenenbaum JD,Blach C,Chang R,Brinton RD,Baillie R,Han X,Trojanowski JQ,Shaw LM,Martin

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) represents a global threat to health. Here, we used whole genome sequencing to characterise Pseudomonas aeruginosa MDR clinical isolates from a hospital in Thailand. Using long-read sequence data we obtained complete sequences of two closely related megaplasmids (>420 kb) carrying large arra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cazares A,Moore MP,Hall JPJ,Wright LL,Grimes M,Emond-Rhéault JG,Pongchaikul P,Santanirand P,Levesque RC,Fothergill JL,Winstanley C

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00