Robust microscale superlubricity under high contact pressure enabled by graphene-coated microsphere.

abstract：:Arctic warming can influence tundra ecosystem function with consequences for climate feedbacks, wildlife and human communities. Yet ecological change across the Arctic tundra biome remains poorly quantified due to field measurement limitations and reliance on coarse-resolution satellite data. Here, we assess decadal c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Berner LT,Massey R,Jantz P,Forbes BC,Macias-Fauria M,Myers-Smith I,Kumpula T,Gauthier G,Andreu-Hayles L,Gaglioti BV,Burns P,Zetterberg P,D'Arrigo R,Goetz SJ

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a critical need for standard approaches to assess, report and compare the technical performance of genome-scale differential gene expression experiments. Here we assess technical performance with a proposed standard 'dashboard' of metrics derived from analysis of external spike-in RNA control ratio mixtures. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Munro SA,Lund SP,Pine PS,Binder H,Clevert DA,Conesa A,Dopazo J,Fasold M,Hochreiter S,Hong H,Jafari N,Kreil DP,Łabaj PP,Li S,Liao Y,Lin SM,Meehan J,Mason CE,Santoyo-Lopez J,Setterquist RA,Shi L,Shi W,Smyth GK,

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological cellular structures have inspired many scientific disciplines to design synthetic structures that can mimic their functions. Here, we closely emulate biological cellular structures in a rationally designed synthetic multicellular hybrid ion pump, composed of hydrogen-bonded [EMIM+][TFSI-] ion pairs on the s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Amoli V,Kim JS,Jee E,Chung YS,Kim SY,Koo J,Choi H,Kim Y,Kim DH

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation behaviors of electromagnetic waves are governed by the equifrequency surface of the medium. Up to now, ordinary materials, including the medium exist in nature and the man-made metamaterials, always have an equifrequency surface (ellipsoid or hyperboloid) centered at zero k-point. Here we propose a new typ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen WJ,Hou B,Zhang ZQ,Pendry JB,Chan CT

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep subwavelength features are expected to have minimal impact on wave transport. Here we show that in contrast to this common understanding, disorder can have a dramatic effect in a one-dimensional disordered optical system with spatial features a thousand times smaller than the wavelength. We examine a unique regim...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Herzig Sheinfux H,Kaminer I,Genack AZ,Segev M

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the La-H system, we studied the formation of new chemical compounds in the barium-hydrogen system at pressures from 75 to 173 GPa. Using in situ generation of hydrogen from NH3BH3, we synthesized previously unknown superhydride BaH12 with a pseudocubic (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen W,Semenok DV,Kvashnin AG,Huang X,Kruglov IA,Galasso M,Song H,Duan D,Goncharov AF,Prakapenka VB,Oganov AR,Cui T

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus remains the subject of intense speculation. One recent hypothesis is that adult-born neurons contribute to the endocrine and behavioural outputs of the stress response. Here we show a genetic model system to ablate neurogenesis by inducibly deleting Tbr2 gen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tsai CY,Tsai CY,Arnold SJ,Huang GJ

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to quickly spread a liquid across a surface and form a film is fundamental for a diverse range of technological processes, including printing, painting and spraying. Here we show that liquid dielectrophoresis or electrowetting can produce wetting on normally non-wetting surfaces, without needing modificati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： McHale G,Brown CV,Sampara N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akin to single-site homogeneous catalysis, a long sought-after goal is to achieve reaction site precision in heterogeneous catalysis for chemical control over patterns of activity, selectivity and stability. Herein, we report on metal phosphides as a class of material capable of realizing these attributes and unlock t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu YF,Duchesne PN,Wang L,Tavasoli A,Jelle AA,Xia M,Liao JF,Kuang DB,Ozin GA

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing taxonomic diversity but also reshaping ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In particular, they are considered to have driven increased biogeographic cosmopolitanism, but quantitative tests of this hypothesis are rare and have ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Button DJ,Lloyd GT,Ezcurra MD,Butler RJ

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands disperse linearly around pairs of nodes with fixed chirality, the Weyl points. In WSMs, nonorthogonal electric and magnetic fields induce an exotic phenomenon known as the chiral anomaly, resulting in an unconventional negative longitud...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arnold F,Shekhar C,Wu SC,Sun Y,Dos Reis RD,Kumar N,Naumann M,Ajeesh MO,Schmidt M,Grushin AG,Bardarson JH,Baenitz M,Sokolov D,Borrmann H,Nicklas M,Felser C,Hassinger E,Yan B

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, yet its pathophysiology is poorly understood due to the high complexity of affected neuronal circuits. To identify dysfunctional neuronal subtypes underlying seizure activity in the human brain, we have performed single-nucleus transcriptomics analysis of >110...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pfisterer U,Petukhov V,Demharter S,Meichsner J,Thompson JJ,Batiuk MY,Asenjo-Martinez A,Vasistha NA,Thakur A,Mikkelsen J,Adorjan I,Pinborg LH,Pers TH,von Engelhardt J,Kharchenko PV,Khodosevich K

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inner hair cells (IHCs) are the primary receptors for hearing. They are housed in the cochlea and convey sound information to the brain via synapses with the auditory nerve. IHCs have been thought to be electrically and metabolically independent from each other. We report that, upon developmental maturation, in mice 3...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jean P,Anttonen T,Michanski S,de Diego AMG,Steyer AM,Neef A,Oestreicher D,Kroll J,Nardis C,Pangršič T,Möbius W,Ashmore J,Wichmann C,Moser T

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor families of the innate immune response engage in 'cross-talk' to tailor optimal immune responses against invading pathogens. However, these responses are subject to multiple levels of regulation to keep in check aberrant inflammatory signals. Here, we describe a role for the orphan receptor interleukin-17 rec...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mellett M,Atzei P,Bergin R,Horgan A,Floss T,Wurst W,Callanan JJ,Moynagh PN

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity are two primary forms of innate immunity in land plants. The molecular components and connecting nodes of pattern-triggered immunity and effector-triggered immunity are not fully understood. Here, we report that the Arabidopsis calcium-dependent protein kinase...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lu YJ,Li P,Shimono M,Corrion A,Higaki T,He SY,Day B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigations on optical angular momenta and their interactions have broadened our knowledge of light's behavior at sub-wavelength scales. Recent studies further unveil the extraordinary characteristics of transverse spin angular momentum in confined light fields and orbital angular momentum in optical vortices. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shao Z,Zhu J,Chen Y,Zhang Y,Yu S

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs), exemestane, letrozole and anastrozole, for breast cancer therapy is associated with severe pain symptoms, the underlying mechanism of which is unknown. The electrophilic nature of AIs suggests that they may target the transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) channel, a major pa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fusi C,Materazzi S,Benemei S,Coppi E,Trevisan G,Marone IM,Minocci D,De Logu F,Tuccinardi T,Di Tommaso MR,Susini T,Moneti G,Pieraccini G,Geppetti P,Nassini R

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell variability (noise) is an important feature of gene expression that impacts cell fitness and development. The regulatory mechanism of this variability is not fully understood. Here we investigate the effect on gene expression noise in divergent gene pairs (DGPs). We generated reporters driven by divergent...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yan C,Wu S,Pocetti C,Bai L

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To cope with the global bacterial multidrug resistance, scientific communities have devoted significant efforts to develop novel antibiotics, particularly those with new modes of actions. Teixobactin, recently isolated from uncultured bacteria, is considered as a promising first-in-class drug candidate for clinical de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jin K,Sam IH,Po KHL,Lin D,Ghazvini Zadeh EH,Chen S,Yuan Y,Li X

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms perform solar energy conversion of water and CO2 to O2 and sugar at a broad range of wavelengths and light intensities. These cells also metabolize sugars using a respiratory system that functionally overlaps the photosynthetic apparatus. In this study, we describe the harvesting of p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Saper G,Kallmann D,Conzuelo F,Zhao F,Tóth TN,Liveanu V,Meir S,Szymanski J,Aharoni A,Schuhmann W,Rothschild A,Schuster G,Adir N

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferon (IFN) is a key driver of immunity to infections and cancer. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are uniquely equipped to produce large quantities of type I IFN but the mechanisms that control this process are poorly understood. Here we report on a droplet-based microfluidic platform to investigate ty...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wimmers F,Subedi N,van Buuringen N,Heister D,Vivié J,Beeren-Reinieren I,Woestenenk R,Dolstra H,Piruska A,Jacobs JFM,van Oudenaarden A,Figdor CG,Huck WTS,de Vries IJM,Tel J

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the clinical success of Androgen Receptor (AR)-targeted therapies, reactivation of AR signalling remains the main driver of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) progression. In this study, we perform a comprehensive unbiased characterisation of LNCaP cells chronically exposed to multiple AR inhibitors (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blomme A,Ford CA,Mui E,Patel R,Ntala C,Jamieson LE,Planque M,McGregor GH,Peixoto P,Hervouet E,Nixon C,Salji M,Gaughan L,Markert E,Repiscak P,Sumpton D,Blanco GR,Lilla S,Kamphorst JJ,Graham D,Faulds K,MacKay GM,

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus closely related to dengue virus that can cause severe disease in humans, including microcephaly in newborns and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. Specific treatments and vaccines for Zika virus are not currently available. Here, we isolate and characterize four monoclonal ant...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bailey MJ,Duehr J,Dulin H,Broecker F,Brown JA,Arumemi FO,Bermúdez González MC,Leyva-Grado VH,Evans MJ,Simon V,Lim JK,Krammer F,Hai R,Palese P,Tan GS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival in complex environments necessitates a flexible navigation system that incorporates memory of recent behavior and associations. Yet, how the hippocampal spatial circuit represents latent information independent of sensory inputs and future goals has not been determined. To address this, we image the activity ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Keinath AT,Nieto-Posadas A,Robinson JC,Brandon MP

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep understanding of the genomic and immunological differences between Chinese and Western lung cancer patients is of great importance for target therapy selection and development for Chinese patients. Here we report an extensive molecular and immune profiling study of 245 Chinese patients with non-small cell lung ca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang XC,Wang J,Shao GG,Wang Q,Qu X,Wang B,Moy C,Fan Y,Albertyn Z,Huang X,Zhang J,Qiu Y,Platero S,Lorenzi MV,Zudaire E,Yang J,Cheng Y,Xu L,Wu YL

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria and most archaea possess a crystalline protein surface layer (S-layer), which surrounds their growing and topologically complicated outer surface. Constructing a macromolecular structure of this scale generally requires localized enzymatic machinery, but a regulatory framework for S-layer assembly has no...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Comerci CJ,Herrmann J,Yoon J,Jabbarpour F,Zhou X,Nomellini JF,Smit J,Shapiro L,Wakatsuki S,Moerner WE

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-inspired parallel computing, which is typically performed using a hardware neural-network platform consisting of numerous artificial synapses, is a promising technology for effectively handling large amounts of informational data. However, the reported nonlinear and asymmetric conductance-update characteristics ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Seo S,Kang BS,Lee JJ,Ryu HJ,Kim S,Kim H,Oh S,Shim J,Heo K,Oh S,Park JH

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly and maturation of synapses at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ) depend on trans-synaptic neurexin/neuroligin signalling, which is promoted by the scaffolding protein Syd-1 binding to neurexin. Here we report that the scaffold protein spinophilin binds to the C-terminal portion of neurexin and is nee...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Muhammad K,Reddy-Alla S,Driller JH,Schreiner D,Rey U,Böhme MA,Hollmann C,Ramesh N,Depner H,Lützkendorf J,Matkovic T,Götz T,Bergeron DD,Schmoranzer J,Goettfert F,Holt M,Wahl MC,Hell SW,Scheiffele P,Walter AM,Loll B

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike microevolutionary processes, little is known about the genetic basis of macroevolutionary processes. One of these magnificent examples is the transition from non-avian dinosaurs to birds that has created numerous evolutionary innovations such as self-powered flight and its associated wings with flight feathers....

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Seki R,Li C,Fang Q,Hayashi S,Egawa S,Hu J,Xu L,Pan H,Kondo M,Sato T,Matsubara H,Kamiyama N,Kitajima K,Saito D,Liu Y,Gilbert MT,Zhou Q,Xu X,Shiroishi T,Irie N,Tamura K,Zhang G

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent and importance of endogenous viral elements have been extensively described in animals but are much less well understood in plants. Here we describe a new genus of Caulimoviridae called 'Florendovirus', members of which have colonized the genomes of a large diversity of flowering plants, sometimes at very h...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Geering AD,Maumus F,Copetti D,Choisne N,Zwickl DJ,Zytnicki M,McTaggart AR,Scalabrin S,Vezzulli S,Wing RA,Quesneville H,Teycheney PY

更新日期：2014-11-10 00:00:00