Heterogeneous multi-compartmental hydrogel particles as synthetic cells for incompatible tandem reactions.

abstract：:Stem cell transplantation is a promising strategy for therapeutic cardiac regeneration, but current therapies are limited by inefficient interaction between potentially beneficial cells (either exogenously transplanted or endogenously recruited) and the injured tissue. Here we apply targeted nanomedicine to achieve in...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cheng K,Shen D,Hensley MT,Middleton R,Sun B,Liu W,De Couto G,Marbán E

更新日期：2014-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of temporal cavity solitons in microresonators results in coherent low-noise optical frequency combs that are critical for applications in spectroscopy, astronomy, navigation or telecommunications. Breather solitons also form an important part of many different classes of nonlinear wave systems, manifes...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu M,Jang JK,Okawachi Y,Griffith AG,Luke K,Miller SA,Ji X,Lipson M,Gaeta AL

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, solar-thermal energy storage within phase-change materials relies on adding high thermal-conductivity fillers to improve the thermal-diffusion-based charging rate, which often leads to limited enhancement of charging speed and sacrificed energy storage capacity. Here we report the exploration of a magnetica...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Z,Tong Z,Ye Q,Hu H,Nie X,Yan C,Shang W,Song C,Wu J,Wang J,Bao H,Tao P,Deng T

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR/Cas9 technology offers novel approaches for the development of new therapies for many unmet clinical needs, including a significant number of inherited monogenic diseases. However, in vivo correction of disease-causing genes is still inefficient, especially for those diseases without selective advantage for cor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zabaleta N,Barberia M,Martin-Higueras C,Zapata-Linares N,Betancor I,Rodriguez S,Martinez-Turrillas R,Torella L,Vales A,Olagüe C,Vilas-Zornoza A,Castro-Labrador L,Lara-Astiaso D,Prosper F,Salido E,Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza G,R

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy-level alignment of molecular transistors can be controlled by external gating to move molecular orbitals with respect to the Fermi levels of the source and drain electrodes. Two-terminal molecular tunnelling junctions, however, lack a gate electrode and suffer from Fermi-level pinning, making it difficult t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuan L,Franco C,Crivillers N,Mas-Torrent M,Cao L,Sangeeth CSS,Rovira C,Veciana J,Nijhuis CA

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria generate most cellular energy via oxidative phosphorylation. Twenty-two species of mitochondrial (mt-)tRNAs encoded in mtDNA translate essential subunits of the respiratory chain complexes. mt-tRNAs contain post-transcriptional modifications introduced by nuclear-encoded tRNA-modifying enzymes. They are r...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Suzuki T,Yashiro Y,Kikuchi I,Ishigami Y,Saito H,Matsuzawa I,Okada S,Mito M,Iwasaki S,Ma D,Zhao X,Asano K,Lin H,Kirino Y,Sakaguchi Y,Suzuki T

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurochemical changes underlying human emotions and social behaviour are largely unknown. Here we report on the changes in the levels of two hypothalamic neuropeptides, hypocretin-1 and melanin-concentrating hormone, measured in the human amygdala. We show that hypocretin-1 levels are maximal during positive emoti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blouin AM,Fried I,Wilson CL,Staba RJ,Behnke EJ,Lam HA,Maidment NT,Karlsson KÆ,Lapierre JL,Siegel JM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) is the primary sensor for aberrant intracellular dsDNA producing the cyclic dinucleotide cGAMP, a second messenger initiating cytokine production in subsets of myeloid lineage cell types. Therefore, inhibition of the enzyme cGAS may act anti-inflammatory. Here we report the discovery of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lama L,Adura C,Xie W,Tomita D,Kamei T,Kuryavyi V,Gogakos T,Steinberg JI,Miller M,Ramos-Espiritu L,Asano Y,Hashizume S,Aida J,Imaeda T,Okamoto R,Jennings AJ,Michino M,Kuroita T,Stamford A,Gao P,Meinke P,Glickman

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Emitted from the oceans, iodine-bearing molecules are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and a source of new atmospheric aerosol particles of potentially global significance. However, its inclusion in atmospheric models is hindered by a lack of understanding of the first steps of the photochemical gas-to-particle conversion...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gómez Martín JC,Lewis TR,Blitz MA,Plane JMC,Kumar M,Francisco JS,Saiz-Lopez A

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing earth-abundant, active and stable electrocatalysts which operate in the same electrolyte for water splitting, including oxygen evolution reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction, is important for many renewable energy conversion processes. Here we demonstrate the improvement of catalytic activity when trans...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang H,Lee HW,Deng Y,Lu Z,Hsu PC,Liu Y,Lin D,Cui Y

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAcylation has been implicated in the tumorigenesis of various tissue origins, but its function in liver tumorigenesis is not clear. Here, we demonstrate that O-GlcNAcylation can enhance the expression, stability and function of Yes-associated protein (YAP), the downstream transcriptional regulator of the Hippo p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang X,Qiao Y,Wu Q,Chen Y,Zou S,Liu X,Zhu G,Zhao Y,Chen Y,Yu Y,Pan Q,Wang J,Sun F

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lanthanide compounds show much higher energy barriers to magnetic relaxation than 3d-block compounds, and this has led to speculation that they could be used in molecular spintronic devices. Prototype molecular spin valves and molecular transistors have been reported, with remarkable experiments showing the influence ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Moreno Pineda E,Chilton NF,Marx R,Dörfel M,Sells DO,Neugebauer P,Jiang SD,Collison D,van Slageren J,McInnes EJ,Winpenny RE

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic apoptosis is critical to prevent tumor formation and is engaged by many anti-cancer agents to eliminate tumor cells. BAX and BAK, the two essential mediators of apoptosis, are thought to be regulated through similar mechanisms and act redundantly to drive apoptotic cell death. From an unbiased genome-wide CR...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chin HS,Li MX,Tan IKL,Ninnis RL,Reljic B,Scicluna K,Dagley LF,Sandow JJ,Kelly GL,Samson AL,Chappaz S,Khaw SL,Chang C,Morokoff A,Brinkmann K,Webb A,Hockings C,Hall CM,Kueh AJ,Ryan MT,Kluck RM,Bouillet P,Herold

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid catalysis by hydronium ions is ubiquitous in aqueous-phase organic reactions. Here we show that hydronium ion catalysis, exemplified by intramolecular dehydration of cyclohexanol, is markedly influenced by steric constraints, yielding turnover rates that increase by up to two orders of magnitude in tight confines...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shi H,Eckstein S,Vjunov A,Camaioni DM,Lercher JA

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein integration into biological membranes is a vital cellular event for all organisms. We previously reported an integration factor in the inner membrane of Escherichia coli, named MPIase (membrane protein integrase). Here we show that in contrast to previously identified integration factors that are proteins, MPI...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nishiyama K,Maeda M,Yanagisawa K,Nagase R,Komura H,Iwashita T,Yamagaki T,Kusumoto S,Tokuda H,Shimamoto K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense ultrashort X-ray pulses produced by modern free-electron lasers (FELs) allow one to probe biological systems, inorganic materials and molecular reaction dynamics with nanoscale spatial and femtoscale temporal resolution. These experiments require the knowledge, and possibly the control, of the spectro-temporal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： De Ninno G,Gauthier D,Mahieu B,Ribič PR,Allaria E,Cinquegrana P,Danailov MB,Demidovich A,Ferrari E,Giannessi L,Penco G,Sigalotti P,Stupar M

更新日期：2015-08-20 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：:Despite highly promising characteristics of three-dimensionally (3D) nanostructured catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs), universal design rules for maximizing their performance have not been explored. Here we show that woodpile (WP)-structured ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim YJ,Lim A,Kim JM,Lim D,Chae KH,Cho EN,Han HJ,Jeon KU,Kim M,Lee GH,Lee GR,Ahn HS,Park HS,Kim H,Kim JY,Jung YS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystalline phase transitions caused by external stimuli have been used to detect physical changes in the solid-state properties. This study presents the mechanical switching of crystals of ferrocene-containing rotaxane controlled by focused laser light. The expansion and contraction of the crystals can be driven by t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen KJ,Tsai YC,Suzaki Y,Osakada K,Miura A,Horie M

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedimentary rocks are the archives of environmental conditions and ancient planetary surface processes that led to their formation. Reconstructions of Earth's past surface behaviour from the physical sedimentary record remain controversial, however, in part because we lack a quantitative framework to deconvolve intern...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ganti V,Lamb MP,McElroy B

更新日期：2014-02-28 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：:The separation of immiscible liquids has significant implications for magma evolution and the formation of magmatic ore deposits. We combine high-resolution imaging and electron probe microanalysis with the first use of atom probe tomography on tholeiitic basaltic glass from Hawaii, the Snake River Plain, and Iceland,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Honour VC,Holness MB,Charlier B,Piazolo SC,Namur O,Prosa TJ,Martin I,Helz RT,Maclennan J,Jean MM

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rechargeable magnesium batteries are one of the most promising candidates for next-generation battery technologies. Despite recent significant progress in the development of efficient electrolytes, an on-going challenge for realization of rechargeable magnesium batteries remains to overcome the sluggish kinetics cause...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Z,Mu X,Zhao-Karger Z,Diemant T,Behm RJ,Kübel C,Fichtner M

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:NHE9 (SLC9A9) is an endosomal cation/proton antiporter with orthologues in yeast and bacteria. Rare, missense substitutions in NHE9 are genetically linked with autism but have not been functionally evaluated. Here we use evolutionary conservation analysis to build a model structure of NHE9 based on the crystal structu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kondapalli KC,Hack A,Schushan M,Landau M,Ben-Tal N,Rao R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The combined effects of anthropogenic and biological CO2 inputs may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean. It is less clear, however, how redox reactions would contribute to acidification. Here we report estuarine acidification dynamics based on oxygen, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cai WJ,Huang WJ,Luther GW 3rd,Pierrot D,Li M,Testa J,Xue M,Joesoef A,Mann R,Brodeur J,Xu YY,Chen B,Hussain N,Waldbusser GG,Cornwell J,Kemp WM

更新日期：2017-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles hosted in conductive matrices are ubiquitous in electrochemical energy storage, catalysis and energetic devices. However, agglomeration and surface oxidation remain as two major challenges towards their ultimate utility, especially for highly reactive materials. Here we report uniformly distributed nanop...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen Y,Egan GC,Wan J,Zhu S,Jacob RJ,Zhou W,Dai J,Wang Y,Danner VA,Yao Y,Fu K,Wang Y,Bao W,Li T,Zachariah MR,Hu L

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated macrophages affect tumor progression and resistance to immune checkpoint therapy. Here, we identify the chemokine signal regulator FROUNT as a target to control tumor-associated macrophages. The low level FROUNT expression in patients with cancer correlates with better clinical outcomes. Frount-defici...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Terashima Y,Toda E,Itakura M,Otsuji M,Yoshinaga S,Okumura K,Shand FHW,Komohara Y,Takeda M,Kokubo K,Chen MC,Yokoi S,Rokutan H,Kofuku Y,Ohnishi K,Ohira M,Iizasa T,Nakano H,Okabe T,Kojima H,Shimizu A,Kanegasaki S,

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared light detection and sensing is deeply embedded in modern technology and human society and its development has always been benefitting from the discovery of various photoelectric materials. The rise of two-dimensional materials, thanks to their distinct electronic structures, extreme dimensional confinement an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yin J,Tan Z,Hong H,Wu J,Yuan H,Liu Y,Chen C,Tan C,Yao F,Li T,Chen Y,Liu Z,Liu K,Peng H

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids and amphiphilic block copolymers spontaneously self-assemble in water to form a plethora of micelles and vesicles. They are typically fluidic in nature and often mechanically weak for applications such as drug delivery and gene therapeutics. Mechanical properties of polymeric materials could be improved by form...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang W,Qi H,Zhou T,Mei S,Han L,Higuchi T,Jinnai H,Li CY

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00