Dense GeV electron-positron pairs generated by lasers in near-critical-density plasmas.

abstract：:Human land use may detrimentally affect biodiversity, yet long-term stability of species communities is vital for maintaining ecosystem functioning. Community stability can be achieved by higher species diversity (portfolio effect), higher asynchrony across species (insurance hypothesis) and higher abundance of popula...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blüthgen N,Simons NK,Jung K,Prati D,Renner SC,Boch S,Fischer M,Hölzel N,Klaus VH,Kleinebecker T,Tschapka M,Weisser WW,Gossner MM

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible barrier films preventing permeation of gases and moistures are important for many industries ranging from food to medical and from chemical to electronic. From this perspective, graphene has recently attracted particular interest because its defect-free monolayers are impermeable to all atoms and molecules. H...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su Y,Kravets VG,Wong SL,Waters J,Geim AK,Nair RR

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The host-guest recognition between two macrocycles to form hierarchical non-intertwined ring-in-ring assemblies remains an interesting and challenging target in noncovalent synthesis. Herein, we report the design and characterization of a box-in-box assembly on the basis of host-guest radical-pairing interactions betw...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cai K,Lipke MC,Liu Z,Nelson J,Cheng T,Shi Y,Cheng C,Shen D,Han JM,Vemuri S,Feng Y,Stern CL,Goddard WA 3rd,Wasielewski MR,Stoddart JF

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a common brain disorder throughout history. Epilepsy-related ligand-receptor complex, LGI1-ADAM22, regulates synaptic transmission and has emerged as a determinant of brain excitability, as their mutations and acquired LGI1 autoantibodies cause epileptic disorders in human. Here, we report the crystal stru...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamagata A,Miyazaki Y,Yokoi N,Shigematsu H,Sato Y,Goto-Ito S,Maeda A,Goto T,Sanbo M,Hirabayashi M,Shirouzu M,Fukata Y,Fukata M,Fukai S

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are required for skeletal formation, maintenance, and repair throughout life; however, current models posit that postnatally arising long-lived adult MSCs replace transient embryonic progenitor populations. We previously reported exclusive expression and function of the emb...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pineault KM,Song JY,Kozloff KM,Lucas D,Wellik DM

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-induced receptor dimerization has traditionally been viewed as the key event in transmembrane signalling by epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs). Here we show that the Caenorhabditis elegans EGFR orthologue LET-23 is constitutively dimeric, yet responds to its ligand LIN-3 without changing oligomerization ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Freed DM,Alvarado D,Lemmon MA

更新日期：2015-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A key mechanism of bacterial resistance to macrolide antibiotics is the dimethylation of a nucleotide in the large ribosomal subunit by erythromycin resistance methyltransferases. The majority of erm genes are expressed only when the antibiotic is present and the erythromycin resistance methyltransferase activity is c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gupta P,Sothiselvam S,Vázquez-Laslop N,Mankin AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal particles supported on oxide surfaces are used as catalysts for a wide variety of processes in the chemical and energy conversion industries. For catalytic applications, metal particles are generally formed on an oxide support by physical or chemical deposition, or less commonly by exsolution from it. Although f...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Neagu D,Oh TS,Miller DN,Ménard H,Bukhari SM,Gamble SR,Gorte RJ,Vohs JM,Irvine JTS

更新日期：2015-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon promotes hepatic gluconeogenesis and maintains whole-body glucose levels during fasting. The regulatory factors that are involved in fasting glucagon response are not well understood. Here we report a role of p52, a key activator of the noncanonical nuclear factor-kappaB signaling, in hepatic glucagon respons...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang WS,Pan A,Zhang X,Ying A,Ma G,Liu BL,Qi LW,Liu Q,Li P

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is characterized by a chronic, low-grade inflammation, which is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. It remains poorly understood whether pro-inflammatory factors released from non-cardiac tissues contribute to the non-autonomous regulation of age-related cardiac dysfunction. Here, we report that age...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang K,Miao T,Chang K,Kim J,Kang P,Jiang Q,Simmonds AJ,Di Cara F,Bai H

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cycling of iron and organic matter (OM) is thought to have been a major biogeochemical cycle in the early ferruginous oceans which contributed to the deposition of banded iron formations (BIF). However, BIF are deficient in OM, which is postulated to be the result of near-complete oxidation of OM during iron reduc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dodd MS,Papineau D,Pirajno F,Wan Y,Karhu JA

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:While engineering the phase and structure of electrocatalysts could regulate the performance of many typical electrochemical processes, its importance to the carbon dioxide electroreduction has been largely unexplored. Herein, a series of phase and structure engineered copper-tin dioxide catalysts have been created an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang P,Qiao M,Shao Q,Pi Y,Zhu X,Li Y,Huang X

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Coelacanths are known for their evolutionary conservatism, and the body plan seen in Latimeria can be traced to late Middle Devonian Diplocercides, Holopterygius and presumably Euporosteus. However, the group's early history is unclear because of an incomplete fossil record. Until now, the only Early Devonian coelacan...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu M,Yu X,Lu J,Qiao T,Zhao W,Jia L

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric iron affects the global carbon cycle by modulating ocean biogeochemistry through the deposition of soluble iron to the ocean. Iron emitted by anthropogenic (fossil fuel) combustion is a source of soluble iron that is currently considered less important than other soluble iron sources, such as mineral dust ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Matsui H,Mahowald NM,Moteki N,Hamilton DS,Ohata S,Yoshida A,Koike M,Scanza RA,Flanner MG

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:SIRT1 is the most evolutionarily conserved mammalian sirtuin, and it plays a vital role in the regulation of metabolism, stress responses, genome stability, and ageing. As a stress sensor, SIRT1 deacetylase activity is significantly increased during stresses, but the molecular mechanisms are not yet fully clear. Here,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Han C,Gu Y,Shan H,Mi W,Sun J,Shi M,Zhang X,Lu X,Han F,Gong Q,Yu W

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial scaling of stability is key to understanding ecological sustainability across scales and the sensitivity of ecosystems to habitat destruction. Here we propose the invariability-area relationship (IAR) as a novel approach to investigate the spatial scaling of stability. The shape and slope of IAR are largel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang S,Loreau M,Arnoldi JF,Fang J,Rahman KA,Tao S,de Mazancourt C

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrafast materials science promises optical control of physical properties of solids. Continuous-wave circularly polarized laser driving was predicted to induce a light-matter coupled state with an energy gap and a quantum Hall effect, coined Floquet topological insulator. Whereas the envisioned Floquet topological i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sentef MA,Claassen M,Kemper AF,Moritz B,Oka T,Freericks JK,Devereaux TP

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, electrical signalling occurs with ions and protons, rather than electrons. Artificial devices that can control and monitor ionic and protonic currents are thus an ideal means for interfacing with biological systems. Here we report the first demonstration of a biopolymer protonic field-effect transistor with...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhong C,Deng Y,Roudsari AF,Kapetanovic A,Anantram MP,Rolandi M

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chemical vapor deposition methods for transition metal dichalcogenides use an extremely small amount of precursor to render large single-crystal flakes, which usually causes low coverage of the materials on the substrate. In this study, a self-capping vapor-liquid-solid reaction is proposed to fabricate large-gra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chang MC,Ho PH,Tseng MF,Lin FY,Hou CH,Lin IK,Wang H,Huang PP,Chiang CH,Yang YC,Wang IT,Du HY,Wen CY,Shyue JJ,Chen CW,Chen KH,Chiu PW,Chen LC

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hidden hearing loss (HHL) is a recently described auditory neuropathy believed to contribute to speech discrimination and intelligibility deficits in people with normal audiological tests. Animals and humans with HHL have normal auditory thresholds but defective cochlear neurotransmission, that is, reduced suprathresh...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wan G,Corfas G

更新日期：2017-02-17 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 coupled translocation of transfer RNA and messenger RNA through the ribosome entails large-scale structural rearrangements, including step-wise movements of the tRNAs. Recent structural work has visualized intermediates of translocation induced by elongation factor G (EF-G) with tRNAs trapped in chimeric states wi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Adio S,Senyushkina T,Peske F,Fischer N,Wintermeyer W,Rodnina MV

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In cancer metastasis, various environmental stressors attack the disseminating cells. The successful colonization of cancer cells in secondary sites therefore requires the ability of the cells to avoid the consequences of such exposure to the stressors. Here we show that orthotopic transplantation of a CD44 variant is...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yae T,Tsuchihashi K,Ishimoto T,Motohara T,Yoshikawa M,Yoshida GJ,Wada T,Masuko T,Mogushi K,Tanaka H,Osawa T,Kanki Y,Minami T,Aburatani H,Ohmura M,Kubo A,Suematsu M,Takahashi K,Saya H,Nagano O

更新日期：2012-06-06 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：:Tomography--cross-sectional imaging based on measuring radiation transmitted through an object along different directions--enables non-invasive imaging of hidden stationary objects, such as internal bodily organs, from their sequentially measured projections. Here we adapt tomographic methods to visualize--in one lase...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Z,Zgadzaj R,Wang X,Chang YY,Downer MC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single spins in the solid state offer a unique opportunity to store and manipulate quantum information, and to perform quantum-enhanced sensing of local fields and charges. Optical control of these systems using techniques developed in atomic physics has yet to exploit all the advantages of the solid state. Here we de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bennett AJ,Pooley MA,Cao Y,Sköld N,Farrer I,Ritchie DA,Shields AJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective reduction of ketone/aldehydes to alcohols is of great importance in green chemistry and chemical engineering. Highly efficient catalysts are still demanded to work under mild conditions, especially at room temperature. Here we present a synergistic function of single-atom palladium (Pd1) and nanoparticles (P...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kuai L,Chen Z,Liu S,Kan E,Yu N,Ren Y,Fang C,Li X,Li Y,Geng B

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Primitive carbonaceous chondrites contain a large array of organic compounds dominated by insoluble organic matter (IOM). A striking feature of this IOM is the systematic enrichment in deuterium compared with the solar hydrogen reservoir. This enrichment has been taken as a sign of low-temperature ion-molecule or gas-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Laurent B,Roskosz M,Remusat L,Robert F,Leroux H,Vezin H,Depecker C,Nuns N,Lefebvre JM

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is highly desirable as a dielectric substrate for the fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, the controllable synthesis of multilayer h-BN in large areas is still limited in terms of crystallinity, thickness and stacking order. Here...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shi Z,Wang X,Li Q,Yang P,Lu G,Jiang R,Wang H,Zhang C,Cong C,Liu Z,Wu T,Wang H,Yu Q,Xie X

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) Th17 are heterogeneous in terms of cytokine production and capacity to initiate autoimmune diseases, such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Here we demonstrate that experimental priming of encephalitogenic Th cells expressing RORγt and T-bet and producing IL-17A, IFN-γ and GM-CSF but not IL-10...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ronchi F,Basso C,Preite S,Reboldi A,Baumjohann D,Perlini L,Lanzavecchia A,Sallusto F

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00