Molecular probes reveal deviations from Amontons' law in multi-asperity frictional contacts.

abstract：:Metal halide perovskites feature crystalline-like electronic band structures and liquid-like physical properties. The crystal-liquid duality enables optoelectronic devices with unprecedented performance and a unique opportunity to chemically manipulate the structure with low energy input. In this work, we leverage the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rosales BA,Mundt LE,Allen TG,Moore DT,Prince KJ,Wolden CA,Rumbles G,Schelhas LT,Wheeler LM

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) reveal high efficacy in the treatment of B cell malignancies. Here, we report that T cell receptor fusion constructs (TRuCs) comprising an antibody-based binding domain fused to T cell receptor (TCR) subunits can effectively reprogram an intact TCR co...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Baeuerle PA,Ding J,Patel E,Thorausch N,Horton H,Gierut J,Scarfo I,Choudhary R,Kiner O,Krishnamurthy J,Le B,Morath A,Baldeviano GC,Quinn J,Tavares P,Wei Q,Weiler S,Maus MV,Getts D,Schamel WW,Hofmeister R

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle plumes are thought to play a key role in transferring heat from the core-mantle boundary to the lithosphere, where it can significantly influence plate tectonics. On impinging on the lithosphere at spreading ridges or in intra-plate settings, mantle plumes may generate hotspots, large igneous provinces and henc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chang SJ,Ferreira AM,Faccenda M

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome-derived metabolites influence intestinal homeostasis and regulate graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but the molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Here we show the metabolite sensor G-protein-coupled receptor 43 (GPR43) is important for attenuation of gastrointestinal GVHD in multiple clinically relevant muri...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fujiwara H,Docampo MD,Riwes M,Peltier D,Toubai T,Henig I,Wu SJ,Kim S,Taylor A,Brabbs S,Liu C,Zajac C,Oravecz-Wilson K,Sun Y,Núñez G,Levine JE,van den Brink MRM,Ferrara JLM,Reddy P

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) is essential for life, but in excess can cause oxidative cytotoxicity through the generation of Fe-catalyzed reactive oxygen species. It is yet unknown which genes and mechanisms can provide Fe-toxicity tolerance. Here, we identify S-nitrosoglutathione-reductase (GSNOR) variants underlying a major quantitati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li B,Sun L,Huang J,Göschl C,Shi W,Chory J,Busch W

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous systems exhibit myriad cell types, but understanding how this diversity arises is hampered by the difficulty to visualize and genetically-probe specific lineages, especially at early developmental stages prior to expression of unique molecular markers. Here, we use a genetic immortalization method to analyze t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chai PC,Cruchet S,Wigger L,Benton R

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Socioeconomic challenges continue to mount for half a billion residents of central India because of a decline in the total rainfall and a concurrent rise in the magnitude and frequency of extreme rainfall events. Alongside a weakening monsoon circulation, the locally available moisture and the frequency of moisture-la...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Roxy MK,Ghosh S,Pathak A,Athulya R,Mujumdar M,Murtugudde R,Terray P,Rajeevan M

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the microscopic elementary process of chemical reactions, especially in condensed phase, is highly desirable for improvement of efficiencies in industrial chemical processes. Here we show an approach to gaining new insights into elementary reactions in condensed phase by combining quantum chemical calcul...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Y,Song P,Fu Q,Ruan M,Xu W

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene nanopores are potential successors to biological and silicon-based nanopores. For sensing applications, it is however crucial to understand and block the strong nonspecific hydrophobic interactions between DNA and graphene. Here we demonstrate a novel scheme to prevent DNA-graphene interactions, based on a ta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schneider GF,Xu Q,Hage S,Luik S,Spoor JN,Malladi S,Zandbergen H,Dekker C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warming in the Arctic accelerates thawing of permafrost-affected soils, which leads to a release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We do not know whether permafrost thaw also releases non-methane volatile organic compounds that can contribute to both negative and positive radiative forcing on climate. Here we sho...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kramshøj M,Albers CN,Holst T,Holzinger R,Elberling B,Rinnan R

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional nanomaterials such as MoS2 are of great interest both because of their novel physical properties and their applications potential. Liquid exfoliation, an important production method, is limited by our inability to quickly and easily measure nanosheet size, thickness or concentration. Here we demonstrat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Backes C,Smith RJ,McEvoy N,Berner NC,McCloskey D,Nerl HC,O'Neill A,King PJ,Higgins T,Hanlon D,Scheuschner N,Maultzsch J,Houben L,Duesberg GS,Donegan JF,Nicolosi V,Coleman JN

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous opioid peptides and prescription opioid drugs modulate pain, anxiety and stress by activating opioid receptors, currently classified into four subtypes. Here we demonstrate that ACKR3/CXCR7, hitherto known as an atypical scavenger receptor for chemokines, is a broad-spectrum scavenger of opioid peptides. Ph...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Meyrath M,Szpakowska M,Zeiner J,Massotte L,Merz MP,Benkel T,Simon K,Ohnmacht J,Turner JD,Krüger R,Seutin V,Ollert M,Kostenis E,Chevigné A

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-covalent π-π interactions are central to chemical and biological processes, yet the full understanding of their origin that would unite the simplicity of empirical approaches with the accuracy of quantum calculations is still missing. Here we employ a quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian model for van der Waals interact...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hermann J,Alfè D,Tkatchenko A

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cancer vaccines are unsuccessful in eliciting clinically relevant effects. Without using exogenous antigens and adoptive cells, we show a concept of utilizing biologically reprogrammed cytomembranes of the fused cells (FCs) derived from dendritic cells (DCs) and cancer cells as tumor vaccines. The fusion of immun...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu WL,Zou MZ,Liu T,Zeng JY,Li X,Yu WY,Li CX,Ye JJ,Song W,Feng J,Zhang XZ

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparation and characterization of polariton Bose-Einstein condensates in micro-cavities of high quality are at the frontier of contemporary solid state physics. Here, we report on three-dimensional polariton condensation and confinement in pseudo-spherical ZnO microcrystals. The boundary of micro-spherical ZnO resem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Volkov VV,Oliver DJ,Perry CC

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged as a powerful technology that relies on Cas9/sgRNA ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs) to target and edit DNA. However, many therapeutic targets cannot currently be accessed due to the lack of carriers that can deliver RNPs systemically. Here, we report a generalizable methodology that allows en...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wei T,Cheng Q,Min YL,Olson EN,Siegwart DJ

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting and controlling quantum mechanical phenomena require knowledge of the system Hamiltonian. A detailed understanding of the quantum pathways used to construct the Hamiltonian is essential for deterministic control and improved performance of coherent control schemes. In complex systems, parameters characteriz...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li H,Bristow AD,Siemens ME,Moody G,Cundiff ST

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective thermal emission in a useful range of energies from a material operating at high temperatures is required for effective solar thermophotovoltaic energy conversion. Three-dimensional metallic photonic crystals can exhibit spectral emissivity that is modified compared with the emissivity of unstructured metals...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arpin KA,Losego MD,Cloud AN,Ning H,Mallek J,Sergeant NP,Zhu L,Yu Z,Kalanyan B,Parsons GN,Girolami GS,Abelson JR,Fan S,Braun PV

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) initiates both antibody class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) in antibody diversification. DNA double-strand break response (DSBR) factors promote rearrangement in CSR, while translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases generate mutations in SHM. REV7, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang D,Sun Y,Chen J,Zhang Y,Fan S,Huang M,Xie X,Cai Y,Shang Y,Gui T,Sun L,Hu J,Dong J,Yeap LS,Wang X,Xiao W,Meng FL

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiencies of green and red perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have been increased close to their theoretical upper limit, while the efficiency of blue PeLEDs is lagging far behind. Here we report enhancing the efficiency of sky-blue PeLEDs by overcoming a major hurdle of low photoluminescence quantum eff...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Q,Wang X,Yang Z,Zhou N,Deng Y,Zhao J,Xiao X,Rudd P,Moran A,Yan Y,Huang J

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pre-implantation embryonic development involves extensive changes in chromatin structure and transcriptional activity. Here, we report on LiCAT-seq, a technique that enables simultaneous profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression with ultra-low input of cells, and map the chromatin accessibility an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu L,Leng L,Liu C,Lu C,Yuan Y,Wu L,Gong F,Zhang S,Wei X,Wang M,Zhao L,Hu L,Wang J,Yang H,Zhu S,Chen F,Lu G,Shang Z,Lin G

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-like protein MreB has been proposed to coordinate the synthesis of the cell wall to determine cell shape in bacteria. MreB is preferentially localized to areas of the cell with specific curved geometries, avoiding the cell poles. It remains unclear whether MreB's curvature preference is regulated by addition...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bratton BP,Shaevitz JW,Gitai Z,Morgenstein RM

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The gravitational collapse of eruption columns generates ground-hugging pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) with highly variable temperatures, high enough to be a threat for communities surrounding volcanoes. The reasons for such great temperature variability are debated in terms of eruptive versus transport and empla...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Trolese M,Cerminara M,Esposti Ongaro T,Giordano G

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The resting-state human brain networks underlie fundamental cognitive functions and consist of complex interactions among brain regions. However, the level of complexity of the resting-state networks has not been quantified, which has prevented comprehensive descriptions of the brain activity as an integrative system....

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Watanabe T,Hirose S,Wada H,Imai Y,Machida T,Shirouzu I,Konishi S,Miyashita Y,Masuda N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By providing broad resistance to environmental biocides, transporters from the small multidrug resistance (SMR) family drive the spread of multidrug resistance cassettes among bacterial populations. A fundamental understanding of substrate selectivity by SMR transporters is needed to identify the types of selective pr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kermani AA,Macdonald CB,Burata OE,Ben Koff B,Koide A,Denbaum E,Koide S,Stockbridge RB

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast function requires the coordinated action of nuclear- and chloroplast-derived proteins, including several hundred nuclear-encoded pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins that regulate plastid mRNA metabolism. Despite their large number and importance, regulatory mechanisms controlling PPR expression are poo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bailey M,Ivanauskaite A,Grimmer J,Akintewe O,Payne AC,Osborne R,Labandera AM,Etherington RD,Rantala M,Baginsky S,Mulo P,Gibbs DJ

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Berry phase associated with energy bands in crystals can lead to quantised observables like quantised dipole polarizations in one-dimensional topological insulators. Recent theories have generalised the concept of quantised dipoles to multipoles, resulting in the discovery of multipole topological insulators which exh...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xue H,Ge Y,Sun HX,Wang Q,Jia D,Guan YJ,Yuan SQ,Chong Y,Zhang B

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying regions important for spreading and mediating perturbations is crucial to assess the susceptibilities of spatio-temporal complex systems such as the Earth's climate to volcanic eruptions, extreme events or geoengineering. Here a data-driven approach is introduced based on a dimension reduction, causal reco...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Runge J,Petoukhov V,Donges JF,Hlinka J,Jajcay N,Vejmelka M,Hartman D,Marwan N,Paluš M,Kurths J

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), the interaction between an atomic transition and the cavity field is measured by the vacuum Rabi frequency Ω(0). The analogous term 'circuit QED' has been introduced for Josephson junctions, because superconducting circuits behave as artificial atoms coupled to the bosonic fiel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nataf P,Ciuti C

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-activated sodium channel ASIC1 belongs to the ENaC/Degenerins family of ion channels. Little is known about gating of the pore in any member of this class. Here we outline the shape of the ion pathway of ASIC1 in the open and closed conformations by measuring apparent rates of cysteine modification by thiol...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li T,Yang Y,Canessa CM

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00