Asymmetric assembly of high-value α-functionalized organic acids using a biocatalytic chiral-group-resetting process.

abstract：:Several tolerance checkpoints exist throughout B cell development to control autoreactive B cells and prevent the generation of pathogenic autoantibodies. FcγRIIb is an Fc receptor that inhibits B cell activation and, if defective, is associated with autoimmune disease, yet its impact on specific B cell tolerance chec...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Espéli M,Bashford-Rogers R,Sowerby JM,Alouche N,Wong L,Denton AE,Linterman MA,Smith KGC

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid quantum systems are essential for the realization of distributed quantum networks. In particular, piezo-mechanics operating at typical superconducting qubit frequencies features low thermal excitations, and offers an appealing platform to bridge superconducting quantum processors and optical telecommunication c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Han X,Fu W,Zhong C,Zou CL,Xu Y,Sayem AA,Xu M,Wang S,Cheng R,Jiang L,Tang HX

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves lose approximately 400 H2O molecules for every 1 CO2 gained during photosynthesis. Most long-distance water transport in plants, or xylem sap flow, serves to replace this water to prevent desiccation. Theory predicts that the largest vessels contribute disproportionately to overall sap flow because flow in pipe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bouda M,Windt CW,McElrone AJ,Brodersen CR

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic spinal cord injury results in severe and irreversible loss of function. The injury triggers a complex cascade of inflammatory and pathological processes, culminating in formation of a scar. While traditionally referred to as a glial scar, the spinal injury scar in fact comprises multiple cellular and extrace...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bradbury EJ,Burnside ER

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The manipulation of crystal orientation from the thermodynamic equilibrium states is desired in layered hybrid perovskite films to direct charge transport and enhance the perovskite devices performance. Here we report a templated growth mechanism of layered perovskites from 3D-like perovskites which can be a general d...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang J,Luo S,Lin Y,Chen Y,Deng Y,Li Z,Meng K,Chen G,Huang T,Xiao S,Huang H,Zhou C,Ding L,He J,Huang J,Yuan Y

更新日期：2020-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Semiconductor nanowires offer the opportunity to incorporate novel structures and functionality into electronic and optoelectronic devices. A clear understanding of the nanowire growth mechanism is essential for well-controlled growth of structures with desired properties, but the understanding is currently limited by...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Maliakkal CB,Jacobsson D,Tornberg M,Persson AR,Johansson J,Wallenberg R,Dick KA

更新日期：2019-10-08 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：:The human brain is inherently limited in the information it can make consciously accessible. When people monitor a rapid stream of visual items for two targets, they typically fail to see the second target if it occurs within 200-500 ms of the first, a phenomenon called the attentional blink (AB). The neural basis for...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tang MF,Ford L,Arabzadeh E,Enns JT,Visser TAW,Mattingley JB

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Vortices in quantum condensates exist owing to a macroscopic phase coherence. Here we show, both experimentally and theoretically, that a quantum vortex with a well-defined core can exist in a rather thick normal metal, proximized with a superconductor. Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy we reveal a proximity vorte...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stolyarov VS,Cren T,Brun C,Golovchanskiy IA,Skryabina OV,Kasatonov DI,Khapaev MM,Kupriyanov MY,Golubov AA,Roditchev D

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using time-domain thermoreflectance, the thermal conductivity and elastic properties of a sputter deposited LiCoO2 film, a common lithium-ion cathode material, are measured as a function of the degree of lithiation. Here we report that via in situ measurements during cycling, the thermal conductivity of a LiCoO2 catho...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cho J,Losego MD,Zhang HG,Kim H,Zuo J,Petrov I,Cahill DG,Braun PV

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotational invariance strongly constrains the viscosity tensor of classical fluids. When this symmetry is broken in anisotropic materials a wide array of novel phenomena become possible. We explore electron fluid behaviors arising from the most general viscosity tensors in two and three dimensions, constrained only th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Varnavides G,Jermyn AS,Anikeeva P,Felser C,Narang P

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A phase transition is often accompanied by the appearance of an order parameter and symmetry breaking. Certain magnetic materials exhibit exotic hidden-order phases, in which the order parameters are not directly accessible to conventional magnetic measurements. Thus, experimental identification and theoretical unders...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen Y,Liu C,Qin Y,Shen S,Li YD,Bewley R,Schneidewind A,Chen G,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell variability plays a critical role in cellular responses and decision-making in a population, and transcriptional bursting has been broadly studied by experimental and theoretical approaches as the potential source of cell-to-cell variability. Although molecular mechanisms of transcriptional bursting have ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fujita K,Iwaki M,Yanagida T

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of quantum gravity imply a fundamental revision of our description of position and momentum that manifests in modifications of the canonical commutation relations. Experimental tests of such modifications remain an outstanding challenge. These corrections scale with the mass of test particles, which motivates e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kumar SP,Plenio MB

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismic tomography provides unique constraints on the morphology, the deformation, and (indirectly) the rheology of subducting slabs. We use teleseismic double-difference P-wave tomography to image with unprecedented clarity the structural complexity of the Izu-Bonin slab. We resolve a tear in the slab in the mantle t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang H,Wang F,Myhill R,Guo H

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex polyketides are typically associated with microbial metabolism. Here, we report that animals also make complex, microbe-like polyketides. We show there is a widespread branch of fatty acid synthase- (FAS)-like polyketide synthase (PKS) proteins, which sacoglossan animals use to synthesize complex products. The...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Torres JP,Lin Z,Winter JM,Krug PJ,Schmidt EW

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal quantum dots have emerged as a material platform for low-cost high-performance optoelectronics. At the heart of optoelectronic devices lies the formation of a junction, which requires the intimate contact of n-type and p-type semiconductors. Doping in bulk semiconductors has been largely deployed for many de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stavrinadis A,Rath AK,de Arquer FP,Diedenhofen SL,Magén C,Martinez L,So D,Konstantatos G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symmetric or asymmetric positioning of intracellular structures including the nucleus and mitotic spindle steers various biological processes such as cell migration, division, and embryogenesis. In typical animal cells, both a sparse actomyosin meshwork in the cytoplasm and a dense actomyosin cortex underneath the cel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sakamoto R,Tanabe M,Hiraiwa T,Suzuki K,Ishiwata S,Maeda YT,Miyazaki M

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple hypotheses propose an ostensibly disparate array of drivers of food chain length (FCL), with contradictory support from natural settings. Here we posit that the magnitude of vertical energy flux in food webs underlies several drivers of FCL. We show that rising energy flux fuels top-heavy biomass pyramids, pr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ward CL,McCann KS

更新日期：2017-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of the enormous amount of reactive nitrogen released to the environment by human activities in India is unknown. Here we show occurrence of seasonal stratification and generally low concentrations of dissolved inorganic combined nitrogen, and high molecular nitrogen (N2) to argon ratio, thus suggesting season...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Naqvi SWA,Lam P,Narvenkar G,Sarkar A,Naik H,Pratihary A,Shenoy DM,Gauns M,Kurian S,Damare S,Duret M,Lavik G,Kuypers MMM

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR/Cas9 system is a powerful tool for studying gene function. Here, we describe a method that allows temporal control of CRISPR/Cas9 activity based on conditional Cas9 destabilization. We demonstrate that fusing an FKBP12-derived destabilizing domain to Cas9 (DD-Cas9) enables conditional Cas9 expression and te...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Senturk S,Shirole NH,Nowak DG,Corbo V,Pal D,Vaughan A,Tuveson DA,Trotman LC,Kinney JB,Sordella R

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining nanoscale protein distribution via Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM) mandates precise knowledge of the applied fluorophore's blinking properties to counteract overcounting artifacts that distort the resulting biomolecular distributions. Here, we present a readily applicable methodology to deter...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Platzer R,Rossboth BK,Schneider MC,Sevcsik E,Baumgart F,Stockinger H,Schütz GJ,Huppa JB,Brameshuber M

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of super-resolution imaging (SRI) has created a need for optimized labelling strategies. We present a new method relying on fluorophore-conjugated monomeric streptavidin (mSA) to label membrane proteins carrying a short, enzymatically biotinylated tag, compatible with SRI techniques including uPAINT, STED a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chamma I,Letellier M,Butler C,Tessier B,Lim KH,Gauthereau I,Choquet D,Sibarita JB,Park S,Sainlos M,Thoumine O

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To cope with the global bacterial multidrug resistance, scientific communities have devoted significant efforts to develop novel antibiotics, particularly those with new modes of actions. Teixobactin, recently isolated from uncultured bacteria, is considered as a promising first-in-class drug candidate for clinical de...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jin K,Sam IH,Po KHL,Lin D,Ghazvini Zadeh EH,Chen S,Yuan Y,Li X

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the pioneering proposal of the replicon model of DNA replication 50 years ago, the predicted replicons have not been identified and quantified at the cellular level. Here, we combine conventional and super-resolution microscopy of replication sites in live and fixed cells with computational image analysis. We co...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chagin VO,Casas-Delucchi CS,Reinhart M,Schermelleh L,Markaki Y,Maiser A,Bolius JJ,Bensimon A,Fillies M,Domaing P,Rozanov YM,Leonhardt H,Cardoso MC

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of conjugated polymer devices is largely dictated by charge transport processes. However, it is difficult to obtain a clear relationship between conjugated polymer structures and charge transport properties, due to the complexity of the structure and the dispersive nature of charge transport in conjuga...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jiang Y,McNeill J

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy induces and promotes innate and adaptive immunity in which host STING plays an important role. However, radioresistance in irradiated tumors can also develop, resulting in relapse. Here we report a mechanism by which extrinsic resistance develops after local ablative radiation that relies on the immunosup...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liang H,Deng L,Hou Y,Meng X,Huang X,Rao E,Zheng W,Mauceri H,Mack M,Xu M,Fu YX,Weichselbaum RR

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a method based on symmetry to predict the structure of self-assembling, multicomponent colloidal mixtures. This method allows us to feasibly enumerate candidate structures from all symmetry groups and is many orders of magnitude more computationally efficient than combinatorial enumeration of these cand...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mahynski NA,Pretti E,Shen VK,Mittal J

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid β (Aβ) oligomer-induced aberrant neurotransmitter release is proposed to be a crucial early event leading to synapse dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the present study, we report that the release probability (Pr) at the synapse between the Schaffer collateral (SC) and CA1 pyramidal neurons is signif...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： He Y,Wei M,Wu Y,Qin H,Li W,Ma X,Cheng J,Ren J,Shen Y,Chen Z,Sun B,Huang FD,Shen Y,Zhou YD

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodynamic responses from three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the universal magnetoelectric term constituent of the Lagrangian formalism. The quantized magnetoelectric coupling, which is generally referred to as topological magnetoelectric effect, has been predicted to induce exotic pheno...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Okada KN,Takahashi Y,Mogi M,Yoshimi R,Tsukazaki A,Takahashi KS,Ogawa N,Kawasaki M,Tokura Y

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00