DNA repair factor BRCA1 depletion occurs in Alzheimer brains and impairs cognitive function in mice.

abstract：:Understanding and reshaping cellular behaviors with synthetic gene networks requires the ability to sense and respond to changes in the intracellular environment. Intracellular proteins are involved in almost all cellular processes, and thus can provide important information about changes in cellular conditions such a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Siciliano V,DiAndreth B,Monel B,Beal J,Huh J,Clayton KL,Wroblewska L,McKeon A,Walker BD,Weiss R

更新日期：2018-05-14 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： Glasscott MW,Pendergast AD,Goines S,Bishop AR,Hoang AT,Renault C,Dick JE

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria reduces host fitness and survival by pathogen-mediated damage and inflammation. Disease tolerance mechanisms counter these negative effects without decreasing pathogen load. Here, we demonstrate that in four different mouse models of malaria, adrenal hormones confer disease tolerance and protect against early ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Vandermosten L,Pham TT,Knoops S,De Geest C,Lays N,Van der Molen K,Kenyon CJ,Verma M,Chapman KE,Schuit F,De Bosscher K,Opdenakker G,Van den Steen PE

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological insulators are a new class of materials that exhibit robust and scatter-free transport along their edges - independently of the fine details of the system and of the edge - due to topological protection. To classify the topological character of two-dimensional systems without additional symmetries, one com...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Maczewsky LJ,Zeuner JM,Nolte S,Szameit A

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective mechanism for the degradation of soluble proteins in lysosomes. CMA contributes to cellular quality control and is activated as part of the cellular response to different stressors. Defective CMA has been identified in ageing and different age-related diseases. Until n...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Koga H,Martinez-Vicente M,Macian F,Verkhusha VV,Cuervo AM

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to virus infection, RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs) sense virus RNA and induce MAVS to form prion-like aggregates to further propagate antiviral signalling. Although monomeric MAVS recombinant protein can assemble into prion-like filaments spontaneously in vitro, endogenous MAVS in cells is prevented from aggr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qi N,Shi Y,Zhang R,Zhu W,Yuan B,Li X,Wang C,Zhang X,Hou F

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimensionality reduction is often used to visualize complex expression profiling data. Here, we use the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) method on published transcript profiles of 1484 single gene deletions of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proximity in low-dimensional UMAP space identifies groups of ge...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dorrity MW,Saunders LM,Queitsch C,Fields S,Trapnell C

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale genomic analyses of human cancers have cataloged somatic point mutations thought to initiate tumor development and sustain cancer growth. However, determining the functional significance of specific alterations remains a major bottleneck in our understanding of the genetic determinants of cancer. Here, we ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Winters IP,Chiou SH,Paulk NK,McFarland CD,Lalgudi PV,Ma RK,Lisowski L,Connolly AJ,Petrov DA,Kay MA,Winslow MM

更新日期：2017-12-12 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：:Human height is a representative phenotype to elucidate genetic architecture. However, the majority of large studies have been performed in European population. To investigate the rare and low-frequency variants associated with height, we construct a reference panel (N = 3,541) for genotype imputation by integrating t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Akiyama M,Ishigaki K,Sakaue S,Momozawa Y,Horikoshi M,Hirata M,Matsuda K,Ikegawa S,Takahashi A,Kanai M,Suzuki S,Matsui D,Naito M,Yamaji T,Iwasaki M,Sawada N,Tanno K,Sasaki M,Hozawa A,Minegishi N,Wakai K,Tsugane S

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ciliary kinase NEK8 plays a critical role in situs determination and cystic kidney disease, yet its exact function remains unknown. In this study, we identify ANKS6 as a target and activator of NEK8. ANKS6 requires NEK8 for localizing to the ciliary inversin compartment (IC) and activates NEK8 by binding to its ki...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Czarnecki PG,Gabriel GC,Manning DK,Sergeev M,Lemke K,Klena NT,Liu X,Chen Y,Li Y,San Agustin JT,Garnaas MK,Francis RJ,Tobita K,Goessling W,Pazour GJ,Lo CW,Beier DR,Shah JV

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3) plays a pivotal role in directing the migration of various cellular populations and its over-expression in tumors promotes cell proliferation and invasiveness. The intracellular signaling pathways transducing ACKR3-dependent effects remain poorly characterized, an issue we add...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fumagalli A,Heuninck J,Pizzoccaro A,Moutin E,Koenen J,Séveno M,Durroux T,Junier MP,Schlecht-Louf G,Bachelerie F,Schütz D,Stumm R,Smit MJ,Guérineau NC,Chaumont-Dubel S,Marin P

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ice-shelf channels are long curvilinear tracts of thin ice found on Antarctic ice shelves. Many of them originate near the grounding line, but their formation mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we use ice-penetrating radar data from Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, to infer that the morphology of severa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Drews R,Pattyn F,Hewitt IJ,Ng FSL,Berger S,Matsuoka K,Helm V,Bergeot N,Favier L,Neckel N

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The modern understanding of sleep is based on the classification of sleep into stages defined by their electroencephalography (EEG) signatures, but the underlying brain dynamics remain unclear. Here we aimed to move significantly beyond the current state-of-the-art description of sleep, and in particular to characteri...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stevner ABA,Vidaurre D,Cabral J,Rapuano K,Nielsen SFV,Tagliazucchi E,Laufs H,Vuust P,Deco G,Woolrich MW,Van Someren E,Kringelbach ML

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes have been shown to be essential in vertebrate neural circuit formation and their depletion has resulted in homeotic transformations with neuron loss and miswiring. Here we quantifiy four eye movements in the zebrafish mutant valentino and hox3 knockdowns, and find that contrary to the classical model, oculom...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ma LH,Grove CL,Baker R

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic conjugated polymers demonstrate great potential in transistors, solar cells and light-emitting diodes, whose performances are fundamentally governed by charge transport. However, the morphology-property relationships and the underpinning charge transport mechanisms remain unclear. Particularly, whether the non...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang J,Niu J,Shao B,Yang G,Lu C,Li M,Zhou Z,Chuai X,Chen J,Lu N,Huang B,Wang Y,Li L,Liu M

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy perturbation represents an emerging therapeutic strategy in cancer. Although LATS1 and LATS2 kinases, core components of the mammalian Hippo pathway, have been shown to exert tumor suppressive activities, here we report a pro-survival role of LATS1 but not LATS2 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. Speci...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tang F,Gao R,Jeevan-Raj B,Wyss CB,Kalathur RKR,Piscuoglio S,Ng CKY,Hindupur SK,Nuciforo S,Dazert E,Bock T,Song S,Buechel D,Morini MF,Hergovich A,Matthias P,Lim DS,Terracciano LM,Heim MH,Hall MN,Christofori G

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Health risk factors such as body mass index (BMI) and serum cholesterol are associated with many common diseases. It often remains unclear whether the risk factors are cause or consequence of disease, or whether the associations are the result of confounding. We develop and apply a method (called GSMR) that performs a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu Z,Zheng Z,Zhang F,Wu Y,Trzaskowski M,Maier R,Robinson MR,McGrath JJ,Visscher PM,Wray NR,Yang J

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-based nanopores are synthetic biomolecular membrane pores, whose geometry and chemical functionality can be tuned using the tools of DNA nanotechnology, making them promising molecular devices for applications in single-molecule biosensing and synthetic biology. Here we introduce a large DNA membrane channel with ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Krishnan S,Ziegler D,Arnaut V,Martin TG,Kapsner K,Henneberg K,Bausch AR,Dietz H,Simmel FC

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystems are composed of complex networks of many species interacting in different ways. While ecologists have long studied food webs of feeding interactions, recent studies increasingly focus on mutualistic networks including plants that exchange food for reproductive services provided by animals such as pollinator...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hale KRS,Valdovinos FS,Martinez ND

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Radiotherapy is not currently informed by the genetic composition of an individual patient's tumour. To identify genetic features regulating survival after DNA damage, here we conduct large-scale profiling of cellular survival after exposure to radiation in a diverse collection of 533 genetically annotated human tumou...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yard BD,Adams DJ,Chie EK,Tamayo P,Battaglia JS,Gopal P,Rogacki K,Pearson BE,Phillips J,Raymond DP,Pennell NA,Almeida F,Cheah JH,Clemons PA,Shamji A,Peacock CD,Schreiber SL,Hammerman PS,Abazeed ME

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Anion-π interactions occur on the surface of π-acidic aromatic planes with positive quadrupole moments. Their ability to contribute to the binding and transport of anions has been demonstrated recently. However, their ability to stabilize anionic reactive intermediates and transition states remains essentially unexplo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao Y,Sakai N,Matile S

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutagenesis causes premature aging in mice, and mtDNA damage accumulates in the human brain with aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson disease (PD). Here, we study the complete spectrum of mtDNA changes, including deletions, copy-number variation and point ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dölle C,Flønes I,Nido GS,Miletic H,Osuagwu N,Kristoffersen S,Lilleng PK,Larsen JP,Tysnes OB,Haugarvoll K,Bindoff LA,Tzoulis C

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The change of global-mean precipitation under global warming and interannual variability is predominantly controlled by the change of atmospheric longwave radiative cooling. Here we show that tightening of the ascending branch of the Hadley Circulation coupled with a decrease in tropical high cloud fraction is key in ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su H,Jiang JH,Neelin JD,Shen TJ,Zhai C,Yue Q,Wang Z,Huang L,Choi YS,Stephens GL,Yung YL

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The force generated by the actomyosin cytoskeleton controls focal adhesion dynamics during cell migration. This process is thought to involve the mechanical unfolding of talin to expose cryptic vinculin-binding sites. However, the ability of the actomyosin cytoskeleton to directly control the formation of a talin-vinc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ciobanasu C,Faivre B,Le Clainche C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All-optical approaches to particle acceleration are currently attracting a significant research effort internationally. Although characterized by exceptional transverse and longitudinal emittance, laser-driven ion beams currently have limitations in terms of peak ion energy, bandwidth of the energy spectrum and beam d...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kar S,Ahmed H,Prasad R,Cerchez M,Brauckmann S,Aurand B,Cantono G,Hadjisolomou P,Lewis CL,Macchi A,Nersisyan G,Robinson AP,Schroer AM,Swantusch M,Zepf M,Willi O,Borghesi M

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of CD8 coreceptor levels can profoundly affect T-cell sensitivity to antigen. Here we show that the heritable downregulation of CD8 during type 2 polarization of murine CD8(+) effector T cells in vitro and in vivo is associated with CpG methylation of several regions of the Cd8a locus. These epigenetic modi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Harland KL,Day EB,Apte SH,Russ BE,Doherty PC,Turner SJ,Kelso A

更新日期：2014-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomarkers are needed for predicting the effectiveness of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Here, using functional lipid mediator profiling and deeply phenotyped patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we observe that peripheral blood  specialized pro-resolving mediator (SPM) concentrations are li...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gomez EA,Colas RA,Souza PR,Hands R,Lewis MJ,Bessant C,Pitzalis C,Dalli J

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of human genomes being genotyped or sequenced increases exponentially and efficient haplotype estimation methods able to handle this amount of data are now required. Here we present a method, SHAPEIT4, which substantially improves upon other methods to process large genotype and high coverage sequencing dat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Delaneau O,Zagury JF,Robinson MR,Marchini JL,Dermitzakis ET

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00