A general method for controlling and resolving rotational orientation of molecules in molecule-surface collisions.

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a large family of receptors that activate intracellular signaling pathways upon detecting specific extracellular ligands. While many aspects of GPCR signaling have been uncovered through decades of studies, some fundamental properties, like its channel capacity-a measure ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Keshelava A,Solis GP,Hersch M,Koval A,Kryuchkov M,Bergmann S,Katanaev VL

更新日期：2018-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has explored the spatiotemporal modulation of permittivity to break Lorentz reciprocity in a manner compatible with integrated-circuit fabrication. However, permittivity modulation is inherently weak and accompanied by loss due to carrier injection, particularly at higher frequencies, resulting in larg...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dinc T,Tymchenko M,Nagulu A,Sounas D,Alu A,Krishnaswamy H

更新日期：2017-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection rules are of vital importance in determining the basic optical properties of atoms, molecules and semiconductors. They provide general insights into the symmetry of the system and the nature of relevant electronic states. A two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field is a model system where optical tran...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ju L,Wang L,Li X,Moon S,Ozerov M,Lu Z,Taniguchi T,Watanabe K,Mueller E,Zhang F,Smirnov D,Rana F,McEuen PL

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how cellular functions emerge from the underlying molecular mechanisms is a key challenge in biology. This will require computational models, whose predictive power is expected to increase with coverage and precision of formulation. Genome-scale models revolutionised the metabolic field and made the firs...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Münzner U,Klipp E,Krantz M

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembly of large multi-component systems is a common strategy for the bottom-up construction of discrete, well-defined, nanoscopic-sized cages. Icosahedral or pseudospherical viral capsids, built up from hundreds of identical proteins, constitute typical examples of the complexity attained by biological self-ass...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pasquale S,Sattin S,Escudero-Adán EC,Martínez-Belmonte M,de Mendoza J

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-effect transistors based on carbon nanotubes have been shown to be faster and less energy consuming than their silicon counterparts. However, ensuring these advantages are maintained for integrated circuits is a challenge. Here we demonstrate that a significant reduction in the use of field-effect transistors ca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ding L,Zhang Z,Liang S,Pei T,Wang S,Li Y,Zhou W,Liu J,Peng LM

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammary gland undergoes cycles of growth and regeneration throughout reproductive life, a process that requires mammary stem cells (MaSCs). Whilst recent genetic fate-mapping studies using lineage-specific promoters have provided valuable insights into the mammary epithelial hierarchy, the true differentiation pot...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Davis FM,Lloyd-Lewis B,Harris OB,Kozar S,Winton DJ,Muresan L,Watson CJ

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological insulators interacting with magnetic impurities have been reported to host several unconventional effects. These phenomena are described within the framework of gapping Dirac quasiparticles due to broken time-reversal symmetry. However, the overwhelming majority of studies demonstrate the presence of a fin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sessi P,Biswas RR,Bathon T,Storz O,Wilfert S,Barla A,Kokh KA,Tereshchenko OE,Fauth K,Bode M,Balatsky AV

更新日期：2016-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Under hypoxia, most of glucose is converted to secretory lactate, which leads to the overuse of glutamine-carbon. However, under such a condition how glutamine nitrogen is disposed to avoid over-accumulating ammonia remains to be determined. Here we identify a metabolic flux of glutamine to secretory dihydroorotate, w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Bai C,Ruan Y,Liu M,Chu Q,Qiu L,Yang C,Li B

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The only known compound of sodium and hydrogen is archetypal ionic NaH. Application of high pressure is known to promote states with higher atomic coordination, but extensive searches for polyhydrides with unusual stoichiometry have had only limited success in spite of several theoretical predictions. Here we report t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Struzhkin VV,Kim DY,Stavrou E,Muramatsu T,Mao HK,Pickard CJ,Needs RJ,Prakapenka VB,Goncharov AF

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of protein oligomerization has benefited greatly from Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) measurements. Although donors and acceptors are typically fluorescent molecules with different spectra, homo-FRET can occur between fluorescent molecules of the same type if the emission spectrum overlaps with the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ojha N,Rainey KH,Patterson GH

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospun nanofibres are promising in biomedical applications to replicate features of the natural extracellular matrix (ECM). However, nearly all electrospun scaffolds are either non-degradable or degrade hydrolytically, whereas natural ECM degrades proteolytically, often through matrix metalloproteinases. Here we ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wade RJ,Bassin EJ,Rodell CB,Burdick JA

更新日期：2015-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as drug-delivery carriers have been mostly evaluated in vitro due to the lack of COFs nanocarriers that are suitable for in vivo studies. Here we develop a series of water-dispersible polymer-COF nanocomposites through the assembly of polyethylene-glycol-modified monofunctional curcu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang G,Li X,Liao Q,Liu Y,Xi K,Huang W,Jia X

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Both anti-PD1/PD-L1 therapy and oncolytic virotherapy have demonstrated promise, yet have exhibited efficacy in only a small fraction of cancer patients. Here we hypothesized that an oncolytic poxvirus would attract T cells into the tumour, and induce PD-L1 expression in cancer and immune cells, leading to more suscep...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Z,Ravindranathan R,Kalinski P,Guo ZS,Bartlett DL

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations in Valosin-Containing Protein (VCP) are linked to diverse degenerative diseases including IBMPFD, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), muscular dystrophy and Parkinson's disease. Here, we characterize a VCP-binding co-factor (SVIP) that specifically recruits VCP to lysosomes. SVIP is essential for l...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Johnson AE,Orr BO,Fetter RD,Moughamian AJ,Primeaux LA,Geier EG,Yokoyama JS,Miller BL,Davis GW

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The phase diagram of BaPb(1-x)Bi(x)O3 exhibits a superconducting dome in the proximity of a charge density wave phase. For the superconducting compositions, the material coexists as two structural polymorphs. Here we show, via high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, that the structural dimorphism is accommod...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Giraldo-Gallo P,Zhang Y,Parra C,Manoharan HC,Beasley MR,Geballe TH,Kramer MJ,Fisher IR

更新日期：2015-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer-by-layer-stacked chemical vapour deposition (CVD) graphene films find applications as transparent and conductive electrodes in solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes and touch panels. Common to lamellar-type systems with anisotropic electron delocalization, the plane-to-plane (vertical) conductivity in such ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Y,Yuan L,Yang M,Zheng Y,Li L,Gao L,Nerngchamnong N,Nai CT,Sangeeth CS,Feng YP,Nijhuis CA,Loh KP

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The naked mole-rat (NMR, Heterocephalus glaber), which is the longest-lived rodent species, exhibits extraordinary resistance to cancer. Here we report that NMR somatic cells exhibit a unique tumour-suppressor response to reprogramming induction. In this study, we generate NMR-induced pluripotent stem cells (NMR-iPSCs...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miyawaki S,Kawamura Y,Oiwa Y,Shimizu A,Hachiya T,Bono H,Koya I,Okada Y,Kimura T,Tsuchiya Y,Suzuki S,Onishi N,Kuzumaki N,Matsuzaki Y,Narita M,Ikeda E,Okanoya K,Seino K,Saya H,Okano H,Miura K

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are essential cellular organelles for generation of energy and their dysfunction may cause diabetes, Parkinson's disease and multi-systemic failure marked by failure to thrive, gastrointestinal problems, lactic acidosis and early lethality. Disease-associated mitochondrial mutations often affect component...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rooijers K,Loayza-Puch F,Nijtmans LG,Agami R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis-associated recurrence is the major cause of poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), however, the underlying mechanisms remain largely elusive. In this study, we report that expression of choroideremia-like (CHML) is increased in HCC, associated with poor survival, early recurrence and more satelli...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen TW,Yin FF,Yuan YM,Guan DX,Zhang E,Zhang FK,Jiang H,Ma N,Wang JJ,Ni QZ,Qiu L,Feng J,Zhang XL,Bao Y,Wang K,Cheng SQ,Wang XF,Wang X,Li JJ,Xie D

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous SAR11 and Prochlorococcus bacteria manage to maintain a sufficient supply of phosphate in phosphate-poor surface waters of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Furthermore, it seems that their phosphate uptake may counter-intuitively be lower in more productive tropical waters, as if their cellular dema...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zubkov MV,Martin AP,Hartmann M,Grob C,Scanlan DJ

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original version of this Article, the title of the legend to Fig. 7 incorrectly read 'Knockdown of B55α increases breast cancer metastasis' instead of 'Knockdown of B55α decreases breast cancer metastasis'. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang L,Zhou H,Li X,Vartuli RL,Rowse M,Xing Y,Rudra P,Ghosh D,Zhao R,Ford HL

更新日期：2018-09-17 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：: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：:The temperature-jump technique, in which the sample is rapidly heated by a powerful laser pulse, has been widely used to probe the fast dynamics of folding of proteins and nucleic acids. However, the existing temperature-jump setups tend to involve sophisticated and expensive instrumentation, while providing only mode...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Polinkovsky ME,Gambin Y,Banerjee PR,Erickstad MJ,Groisman A,Deniz AA

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted tremendous attention due to its promising applications in high-performance field-effect transistors, phototransistors, spintronic devices and nonlinear optics. The enhanced photoluminescence effect in monolayer MoS2 was discovered and, as a strong tool, was employed ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Z,Amani M,Najmaei S,Xu Q,Zou X,Zhou W,Yu T,Qiu C,Birdwell AG,Crowne FJ,Vajtai R,Yakobson BI,Xia Z,Dubey M,Ajayan PM,Lou J

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyborylated organic compounds have been emerging as versatile building blocks in chemical synthesis. Here we report a selective cobalt-catalyzed deoxygenative 1,1,3-triborylation reaction of allylic ethers with pinacolborane to prepare 1,1,3-triborylalkane compounds. With naturally abundant and/or synthetic cinnamic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Teo WJ,Yang X,Poon YY,Ge S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are clinically distinctive diseases that feature a common neuropathological hallmark of aggregated α-synuclein. Little is known about how differences in α-synuclein aggregate structure affect disease phenotype. Here, we amplified α-synuclein aggregates from PD...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Strohäker T,Jung BC,Liou SH,Fernandez CO,Riedel D,Becker S,Halliday GM,Bennati M,Kim WS,Lee SJ,Zweckstetter M

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate mineralized skeleton is known to have first emerged as an exoskeleton that extensively covered the fossil jawless fish. The evolutionary origin of this exoskeleton has long been attributed to the emergence of the neural crest, but experimental evaluation for this is still poor. Here we determine the emb...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shimada A,Kawanishi T,Kaneko T,Yoshihara H,Yano T,Inohaya K,Kinoshita M,Kamei Y,Tamura K,Takeda H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-binding (CNB) domains allosterically regulate the activity of proteins with diverse functions, but the mechanisms that enable the cyclic nucleotide-binding signal to regulate distant domains are not well understood. Here we use optical tweezers and molecular dynamics to dissect changes in folding ene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hao Y,England JP,Bellucci L,Paci E,Hodges HC,Taylor SS,Maillard RA

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00