Characterization of a dual function macrocyclase enables design and use of efficient macrocyclization substrates.

abstract：:Tandem organic solar cells are based on the device structure monolithically connecting two solar cells to broaden overall absorption spectrum and utilize the photon energy more efficiently. Herein, we demonstrate a simple strategy of inserting a double bond between the central core and end groups of the small molecule...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jia Z,Qin S,Meng L,Ma Q,Angunawela I,Zhang J,Li X,He Y,Lai W,Li N,Ade H,Brabec CJ,Li Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids are elemental building-block molecules for biological membranes. Biosynthesis of phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylserine requires a central liponucleotide intermediate named cytidine-diphosphate diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG). The CDP-DAG synthetase (Cds) is an integral membrane enzym...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu X,Yin Y,Wu J,Liu Z

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteria, especially Escherichia coli, are abundant in patients with inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is unclear whether cancer is promoted by inflammation-induced expansion of E. coli and/or changes in expression of specific microbial genes. Here we use longitudinal (2, 12 and ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arthur JC,Gharaibeh RZ,Mühlbauer M,Perez-Chanona E,Uronis JM,McCafferty J,Fodor AA,Jobin C

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Van Allen radiation belts are typically two zones of energetic particles encircling the Earth separated by the slot region. How the outer radiation belt electrons are accelerated to relativistic energies remains an unanswered question. Recent studies have presented compelling evidence for the local acceleration by ver...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su Z,Zhu H,Xiao F,Zong QG,Zhou XZ,Zheng H,Wang Y,Wang S,Hao YX,Gao Z,He Z,Baker DN,Spence HE,Reeves GD,Blake JB,Wygant JR

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of water-intake behavior is critical for life because an excessive water intake induces pathological conditions, such as hyponatremia or water intoxication. However, the brain mechanisms controlling water intake currently remain unclear. We previously reported that thirst-driving neurons (water neurons) in...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Matsuda T,Hiyama TY,Kobayashi K,Kobayashi K,Noda M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) causes early brain development impairment by affecting neural progenitor cells (NPCs). Here, we analyze NPCs from three pairs of dizygotic twins discordant for CZS. We compare by RNA-Seq the NPCs derived from CZS-affected and CZS-unaffected twins. Prior to Zika virus (ZIKV) infection the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Caires-Júnior LC,Goulart E,Melo US,Araujo BHS,Alvizi L,Soares-Schanoski A,de Oliveira DF,Kobayashi GS,Griesi-Oliveira K,Musso CM,Amaral MS,daSilva LF,Astray RM,Suárez-Patiño SF,Ventini DC,Gomes da Silva S,Yamamoto GL,Ez

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy blood vessels with a laminar blood flow, the endothelial cell division rate is low, only sufficient to replace apoptotic cells. The division rate significantly increases during embryonic development and under halted or turbulent flow. Cells in barrier tissue are connected and their motility is highly correl...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rossen NS,Tarp JM,Mathiesen J,Jensen MH,Oddershede LB

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotton is an important natural fiber crop, however, its comprehensive and high-resolution gene map is lacking. Here we integrate four complementary high-throughput techniques, including Pacbio long read Iso-seq, strand-specific RNA-seq, CAGE-seq, and PolyA-seq, to systematically explore the transcription landscape acr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang K,Wang D,Zheng X,Qin A,Zhou J,Guo B,Chen Y,Wen X,Ye W,Zhou Y,Zhu Y

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-like ligand 1 A (TL1A) and death receptor 3 (DR3) are a ligand-receptor pair involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) regulate intestinal immunity and highly express DR3. Here, we report that activation of DR3 signaling by an agonistic anti-DR3 antibody incr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li J,Shi W,Sun H,Ji Y,Chen Y,Guo X,Sheng H,Shu J,Zhou L,Cai T,Qiu J

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by the genetic translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) encoding for the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene. However, many molecular mechanisms of the disease progression still remain poorly understood. A growing body of evidence suggests that the epigenetic ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Amabile G,Di Ruscio A,Müller F,Welner RS,Yang H,Ebralidze AK,Zhang H,Levantini E,Qi L,Martinelli G,Brummelkamp T,Le Beau MM,Figueroa ME,Bock C,Tenen DG

更新日期：2015-05-22 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：:Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a premature aging disease in children that leads to early death. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are the most affected cells in HGPS individuals, although the reason for such vulnerability remains poorly understood. In this work, we develop a microfluidic chip formed by HGPS-S...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pitrez PR,Estronca L,Monteiro LM,Colell G,Vazão H,Santinha D,Harhouri K,Thornton D,Navarro C,Egesipe AL,Carvalho T,Dos Santos RL,Lévy N,Smith JC,de Magalhães JP,Ori A,Bernardo A,De Sandre-Giovannoli A,Nissan X,Rosel

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs) generate the myelin wrapping of peripheral nerve axons and are promising candidates for cell therapy. However, to date a renewable source of SCs is lacking. In this study, we show the conversion of skin fibroblasts into induced Schwann cells (iSCs) by driving the expression of two transcription fac...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mazzara PG,Massimino L,Pellegatta M,Ronchi G,Ricca A,Iannielli A,Giannelli SG,Cursi M,Cancellieri C,Sessa A,Del Carro U,Quattrini A,Geuna S,Gritti A,Taveggia C,Broccoli V

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 3. The scale bars in Figs 3c and 3d were incorrectly labelled as 50 μA. In the correct version, the scale bars are labelled as 0.5 μA. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li X,Zhai T,Gao P,Cheng H,Hou R,Lou X,Xia F

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity loss can alter ecosystem functioning; however, it remains unclear how it alters decomposition-a critical component of biogeochemical cycles in the biosphere. Here, we provide a global-scale meta-analysis to quantify how changes in the diversity of organic matter derived from plants (i.e. litter) affect ra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mori AS,Cornelissen JHC,Fujii S,Okada KI,Isbell F

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report a rational strategy to orthogonally control assembly and disassembly of DNA-based nanostructures using specific IgG antibodies as molecular inputs. We first demonstrate that the binding of a specific antibody to a pair of antigen-conjugated split DNA input-strands induces their co-localization and recon...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ranallo S,Sorrentino D,Ricci F

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging is an important technique for identifying different types of tissues in a body or spatial information about composite materials. Because temperature is a fundamental parameter reflecting the biological status of the body and individual tissues, it would be helpful to have temperature maps su...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hankiewicz JH,Celinski Z,Stupic KF,Anderson NR,Camley RE

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks of natural protein nanofibrils, such as cytoskeletal filaments, control the shape and the division of cells, yet mimicking this functionality in a synthetic setting has proved challenging. Here, we demonstrate that artificial networks of protein nanofibrils can induce controlled deformation and division of al...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Song Y,Michaels TCT,Ma Q,Liu Z,Yuan H,Takayama S,Knowles TPJ,Shum HC

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The interior of the neuronal cell nucleus is a highly organized three-dimensional (3D) structure where regions of the genome that are linearly millions of bases apart establish sub-structures with specialized functions. To investigate neuronal chromatin organization and dynamics in vivo, we generated bitransgenic mice...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ito S,Magalska A,Alcaraz-Iborra M,Lopez-Atalaya JP,Rovira V,Contreras-Moreira B,Lipinski M,Olivares R,Martinez-Hernandez J,Ruszczycki B,Lujan R,Geijo-Barrientos E,Wilczynski GM,Barco A

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships of passerines (such as the well-studied zebra finch) with non-passerine birds is one of the great enigmas of avian phylogenetic research, because decades of extensive morphological and molecular studies yielded highly inconsistent results between and within data sets. Here we show the first applicati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Suh A,Paus M,Kiefmann M,Churakov G,Franke FA,Brosius J,Kriegs JO,Schmitz J

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of metabolism in macrophage function has been reported, but the in vivo relevance of the in vitro observations is still unclear. Here we show that macrophage metabolites are defined in a specific tissue context, and these metabolites are crucially linked to tissue-resident macrophage functions. We find ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Davies LC,Rice CM,Palmieri EM,Taylor PR,Kuhns DB,McVicar DW

更新日期：2017-12-12 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：:Radioprotectors for acute injuries caused by large doses of ionizing radiation are vital to national security, public health and future development of humankind. Here, we develop a strategy to explore safe and efficient radioprotectors by combining Hantzsch's reaction, high-throughput methods and polymer chemistry. A ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu G,Zeng Y,Lv T,Mao T,Wei Y,Jia S,Gou Y,Tao L

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mesoamerican and Caribbean (MAC) region is characterized by tropical cyclones (TCs), strong El Niño-Southern Oscillation events, and climate variability that bring unique hazards to socio-ecological systems. Here we report the first characterization of the isotopic evolution of a TC (Hurricane Otto, 2016) in the M...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sánchez-Murillo R,Durán-Quesada AM,Esquivel-Hernández G,Rojas-Cantillano D,Birkel C,Welsh K,Sánchez-Llull M,Alonso-Hernández CM,Tetzlaff D,Soulsby C,Boll J,Kurita N,Cobb KM

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratospheric Arctic vortex (SAV) plays a critical role in forecasting cold winters in northern mid-latitudes. Its influence on the tropospheric mid- and high-latitudes has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, the trend in the SAV during the recent two decades is still unknown. Here, using three r...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hu D,Guan Z,Tian W,Ren R

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The flexibility in structural design of organic semiconductors endows organic solar cells (OSCs) not only great function-tunabilities, but also high potential toward practical application. In this work, simple non-fused-ring electron acceptors are developed through two-step synthesis from single aromatic units for con...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu ZP,Liu ZX,Chen FX,Qin R,Lau TK,Yin JL,Kong X,Lu X,Shi M,Li CZ,Chen H

更新日期：2019-05-14 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：:Transposons are known to participate in tissue aging, but their effects on aged stem cells remain unclear. Here, we report that in the Drosophila ovarian germline stem cell (GSC) niche, aging-related reductions in expression of Piwi (a transposon silencer) derepress retrotransposons and cause GSC loss. Suppression of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin KY,Wang WD,Lin CH,Rastegari E,Su YH,Chang YT,Liao YF,Chang YC,Pi H,Yu BY,Chen SH,Lin CY,Lu MY,Su TY,Tzou FY,Chan CC,Hsu HJ

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling the structure of catalysts at the atomic level provides an opportunity to establish detailed understanding of the catalytic form-to-function and realize new, non-equilibrium catalytic structures. Here, advanced thin-film deposition is used to control the atomic structure of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3, a well-known cat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Eom CJ,Kuo DY,Adamo C,Moon EJ,May SJ,Crumlin EJ,Schlom DG,Suntivich J

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For the state-of-the-art quantum dot light-emitting diodes, while the ZnO nanoparticle layers can provide effective electron injections into quantum dots layers, the hole transporting materials usually cannot guarantee sufficient hole injection owing to the deep valence band of quantum dots. Developing proper hole tra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cao W,Xiang C,Yang Y,Chen Q,Chen L,Yan X,Qian L

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00