Increasing occurrence of cold and warm extremes during the recent global warming slowdown.

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：:Writing artificial logic and dynamic function into complex cellular background to achieve desired phenotypes or improved outputs calls for the development of new genetic tools as well as their innovative use. In this study, we present a sensor-regulator and RNAi-based bifunctional dynamic control network that can prov...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang Y,Lin Y,Wang J,Wu Y,Zhang R,Cheng M,Shen X,Wang J,Chen Z,Li C,Yuan Q,Yan Y

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an ultrasensitive analytical technique with molecular specificity, making it an ideal candidate for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). However, in critical diagnostic media including blood, nonspecific protein adsorption coupled with weak surface affinities and small Raman...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sun F,Hung HC,Sinclair A,Zhang P,Bai T,Galvan DD,Jain P,Li B,Jiang S,Yu Q

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammasomes regulate innate immune responses by facilitating maturation of inflammatory cytokines, interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18. NACHT, LRR and PYD domains-containing protein 7 (NALP7) is one inflammasome constituent, but little is known about its cellular handling. Here we show a mechanism for NALP7 protein stabil...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bednash JS,Weathington N,Londino J,Rojas M,Gulick DL,Fort R,Han S,McKelvey AC,Chen BB,Mallampalli RK

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Generating a comprehensive map of molecular interactions in living cells is difficult and great efforts are undertaken to infer molecular interactions from large-scale perturbation experiments. Here, we develop the analytical and numerical tools to quantify the fundamental limits for inferring transcriptional networks...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blum CF,Heramvand N,Khonsari AS,Kollmann M

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanocarrier administration has primarily been restricted to intermittent bolus injections with limited available options for sustained delivery in vivo. Here, we demonstrate that cylinder-to-sphere transitions of self-assembled filomicelle (FM) scaffolds can be employed for sustained delivery of monodisperse micellar ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Karabin NB,Allen S,Kwon HK,Bobbala S,Firlar E,Shokuhfar T,Shull KR,Scott EA

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological insulators exhibit a metallic surface state in which the directions of the carriers' momentum and spin are locked together. This characteristic property, which lies at the heart of proposed applications of topological insulators, protects carriers in the surface state from back-scattering unless the scatte...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nam MS,Williams BH,Chen Y,Contera S,Yao S,Lu M,Chen YF,Timco GA,Muryn CA,Winpenny REP,Ardavan A

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of high-fat diet (HFD) and postprandial endotoxemia on the development of type 2 diabetes are not fully understood. Here we show that the serine protease prostasin (PRSS8) regulates hepatic insulin sensitivity by modulating Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated signalling. HFD triggers the suppression of PR...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Uchimura K,Hayata M,Mizumoto T,Miyasato Y,Kakizoe Y,Morinaga J,Onoue T,Yamazoe R,Ueda M,Adachi M,Miyoshi T,Shiraishi N,Ogawa W,Fukuda K,Kondo T,Matsumura T,Araki E,Tomita K,Kitamura K

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium ions (Ca(2+)) function as universal second messengers in eukaryotic cells, including immune cells. Ca(2+) is crucial for peripheral T-lymphocyte activation and effector functions, and influences thymocyte selection and motility in the developing thymus. However, the role of Ca(2+) signalling in early T-lymphoc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ouyang K,Leandro Gomez-Amaro R,Stachura DL,Tang H,Peng X,Fang X,Traver D,Evans SM,Chen J

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the global impact of macrophage activation in vascular disease, the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. Here we show, with global proteomic analysis of macrophage cell lines treated with either IFNγ or IL-4, that PARP9 and PARP14 regulate macrophage activation. In primary macrophages, PARP9 and PARP14 have o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iwata H,Goettsch C,Sharma A,Ricchiuto P,Goh WW,Halu A,Yamada I,Yoshida H,Hara T,Wei M,Inoue N,Fukuda D,Mojcher A,Mattson PC,Barabási AL,Boothby M,Aikawa E,Singh SA,Aikawa M

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tissue, and electronic conduction. It is universally acknowledged that the diffusion approach to describing wave t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shi Z,Genack AZ

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed understanding of the human infectious reservoir is essential for improving malaria transmission-reducing interventions. Here we report a multi-regional assessment of population-wide malaria transmission potential based on 1209 mosquito feeding assays in endemic areas of Burkina Faso and Kenya. Across both s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gonçalves BP,Kapulu MC,Sawa P,Guelbéogo WM,Tiono AB,Grignard L,Stone W,Hellewell J,Lanke K,Bastiaens GJH,Bradley J,Nébié I,Ngoi JM,Oriango R,Mkabili D,Nyaurah M,Midega J,Wirth DF,Marsh K,Churcher TS,Bejon P,Siri

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon dioxide is one of the most abundant natural compounds. Polymorphs of SiO₂ and their phase transitions have long been a focus of great interest and intense theoretical and experimental pursuits. Here, compressing single-crystal coesite SiO₂ under hydrostatic pressures of 26-53 GPa at room temperature, we discov...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hu QY,Shu JF,Cadien A,Meng Y,Yang WG,Sheng HW,Mao HK

更新日期：2015-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian pseudokinase SgK223, and its structurally related homologue SgK269, are oncogenic scaffolds that nucleate the assembly of specific signalling complexes and regulate tyrosine kinase signalling. Both SgK223 and SgK269 form homo- and hetero-oligomers, a mechanism that underpins a diversity of signalling out...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Patel O,Griffin MDW,Panjikar S,Dai W,Ma X,Chan H,Zheng C,Kropp A,Murphy JM,Daly RJ,Lucet IS

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt2 and its downstream effectors mediate insulin-stimulated GLUT4-storage vesicle (GSV) translocation and fusion with the plasma membrane (PM). Using mass spectrometry, we identify actin-capping protein Tropomodulin 3 (Tmod3) as an Akt2-interacting partner in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. We demonstrate that Tmod3 is phosphoryl...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lim CY,Bi X,Wu D,Kim JB,Gunning PW,Hong W,Han W

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as a promising light-harvesting module for artificial photosynthesis and photovoltaics. For efficient generation of free charge carriers, the donor-acceptor (D-A) conjugation has been adopted for two-dimensional (2D) COFs recently. In the 2D D-A COFs, photoexcitation wou...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim TW,Jun S,Ha Y,Yadav RK,Kumar A,Yoo CY,Oh I,Lim HK,Shin JW,Ryoo R,Kim H,Kim J,Baeg JO,Ihee H

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring the Earth's stress state plays a role in our understanding of an earthquake's mechanism and in the distribution of hazards. Crustal deformation due to the July 2019 earthquake sequence in Ridgecrest (California) that culminated in a preceding quake of magnitude (M) 6.4 and a subsequent M7.1 quake caused str...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nanjo KZ

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferromagnetism is usually deemed incompatible with superconductivity. Consequently, the coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism is usually observed only in elegantly designed multi-ingredient structures in which the two competing electronic states originate from separate structural components. Here we repo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhu X,Guo Y,Cheng H,Dai J,An X,Zhao J,Tian K,Wei S,Cheng Zeng X,Wu C,Xie Y

更新日期：2016-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing demand for lithium batteries with higher energy densities requires new electrode chemistries. Lithium metal is a promising candidate as the anode material due to its high theoretical specific capacity, negative electrochemical potential and favorable density. However, during cycling, low and uneven lithium...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen W,Hu Y,Lv W,Lei T,Wang X,Li Z,Zhang M,Huang J,Du X,Yan Y,He W,Liu C,Liao M,Zhang W,Xiong J,Yan C

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytic endfeet cover the entire cerebral vasculature and serve as exchange sites for ions, metabolites and energy substrates from the blood to the brain. They maintain endothelial tight junctions that form the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and release vasoactive molecules that regulate vascular tone. Malignant gliomas...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Watkins S,Robel S,Kimbrough IF,Robert SM,Ellis-Davies G,Sontheimer H

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing 1 (PNPLA1) cause autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis, but the mechanism involved remains unclear. Here we show that PNPLA1, an enzyme expressed in differentiated keratinocytes, plays a crucial role in the biosynthesis of ω-O-acylceramide, a lipid componen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hirabayashi T,Anjo T,Kaneko A,Senoo Y,Shibata A,Takama H,Yokoyama K,Nishito Y,Ono T,Taya C,Muramatsu K,Fukami K,Muñoz-Garcia A,Brash AR,Ikeda K,Arita M,Akiyama M,Murakami M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal decision-making employs short-term rewards and abstract long-term information based on which of these is deemed relevant. Employing short- vs. long-term information is associated with different learning mechanisms, yet neural evidence showing that these two are dissociable is lacking. Here we demonstrate that ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fischer AG,Bourgeois-Gironde S,Ullsperger M

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, males have lower recombination rates than females over the majority of the genome, but the opposite is usually true near the telomeres. These broad-scale differences have been known for decades, yet little is known about differences at the fine scale. By combining data sets, we have collected recombination ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bhérer C,Campbell CL,Auton A

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge in the field of molecular spintronics, and for the design of single-molecule magnet-based devices in particular, is the understanding and control of the molecular coupling at the electrode interfaces. It was demonstrated for the field of molecular electronics that the characterization of the molecule-m...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schwöbel J,Fu Y,Brede J,Dilullo A,Hoffmann G,Klyatskaya S,Ruben M,Wiesendanger R

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkenes are fundamental functionalities in nature and highly useful intermediates in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry and material sciences. Transition-metal-catalyzed Heck couplings with organic halides as electrophiles have been established as a powerful protocol for the synthesis of this valuable building blo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lv L,Zhu D,Li CJ

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipidic cubic phase (LCP) crystallization has proven successful for high-resolution structure determination of challenging membrane proteins. Here we present a technique for extruding gel-like LCP with embedded membrane protein microcrystals, providing a continuously renewed source of material for serial femtosecond c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Weierstall U,James D,Wang C,White TA,Wang D,Liu W,Spence JC,Bruce Doak R,Nelson G,Fromme P,Fromme R,Grotjohann I,Kupitz C,Zatsepin NA,Liu H,Basu S,Wacker D,Han GW,Katritch V,Boutet S,Messerschmidt M,Williams GJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current trends of crop yield improvements are not expected to meet the projected rise in demand. Genomic selection uses molecular markers and machine learning to identify superior genotypes with improved traits, such as growth. Plant growth directly depends on rates of metabolic reactions which transform nutrients...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tong H,Küken A,Nikoloski Z

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Purkinje cells (PCs) in Crus 1 represent whisker movement via linear changes in firing rate, but the circuit mechanisms underlying this coding scheme are unknown. Here we examine the role of upstream inputs to PCs-excitatory granule cells (GCs) and inhibitory molecular layer interneurons-in processing of whisking sign...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen S,Augustine GJ,Chadderton P

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Australopithecus sediba has been hypothesized to be a close relative of the genus Homo. Here we show that MH1, the type specimen of A. sediba, was not optimized to produce high molar bite force and appears to have been limited in its ability to consume foods that were mechanically challenging to eat. Dental microwear ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ledogar JA,Smith AL,Benazzi S,Weber GW,Spencer MA,Carlson KB,McNulty KP,Dechow PC,Grosse IR,Ross CF,Richmond BG,Wright BW,Wang Q,Byron C,Carlson KJ,de Ruiter DJ,Berger LR,Tamvada K,Pryor LC,Berthaume MA,Strait DS

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymocyte-expressed, positive selection-associated 1 (Tespa1) is important in T cell receptor (TCR)-driven thymocyte development. Downstream of the TCR, Tespa1 is a crucial component of the linker for activation of T cells (LAT) signalosome, facilitating calcium signalling and subsequent MAPK activation. However, it i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liang J,Lyu J,Zhao M,Li D,Zheng M,Fang Y,Zhao F,Lou J,Guo C,Wang L,Wang D,Liu W,Lu L

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00