Skin-touch-actuated textile-based triboelectric nanogenerator with black phosphorus for durable biomechanical energy harvesting.

abstract：:Species-specific gamete recognition is a key premise to ensure reproductive success and the maintenance of species boundaries. During plant pollen tube (PT) reception, gametophyte interactions likely allow the species-specific recognition of signals from the PT (male gametophyte) by the embryo sac (female gametophyte)...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Müller LM,Lindner H,Pires ND,Gagliardini V,Grossniklaus U

更新日期：2016-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum Hall edge channels offer an efficient and controllable platform to study quantum transport in one dimension. Such channels are a prospective tool for the efficient transfer of quantum information at the nanoscale, and play a vital role in exposing intriguing physics. Electric current along the edge carries ene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Krähenmann T,Fischer SG,Röösli M,Ihn T,Reichl C,Wegscheider W,Ensslin K,Gefen Y,Meir Y

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying a bona fide population of cardiac stem cells (CSCs) is a critical step for developing cell-based therapies for heart failure patients. Previously, cardiac c-kit(+) cells were reported to be CSCs with a potential to become myocardial, endothelial and smooth muscle cells in vitro and after cardiac injury. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sultana N,Zhang L,Yan J,Chen J,Cai W,Razzaque S,Jeong D,Sheng W,Bu L,Xu M,Huang GY,Hajjar RJ,Zhou B,Moon A,Cai CL

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution self-assembly of block copolymers into inverse bicontinuous cubic mesophases is a promising new approach for creating porous polymer films and monoliths with highly organized bicontinuous mesoporous networks. Here we report the direct self-assembly of block copolymers with branched hydrophilic blocks into lar...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Park C,La Y,An TH,Jeong HY,Kang S,Joo SH,Ahn H,Shin TJ,Kim KT

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustical tweezers open major prospects in microbiology for cells and microorganisms contactless manipulation, organization and mechanical properties testing since they are biocompatible, label-free and have the potential to exert forces several orders of magnitude larger than their optical counterpart at equivalent ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Baudoin M,Thomas JL,Sahely RA,Gerbedoen JC,Gong Z,Sivery A,Matar OB,Smagin N,Favreau P,Vlandas A

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the primary cause for mortality in breast cancer. MicroRNAs, gene expression master regulators, constitute an attractive candidate to control metastasis. Here we show that breast cancer metastasis can be prevented by miR-96 or miR-182 treatment, and decipher the mechanism of action. We found that miR-96/...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gilam A,Conde J,Weissglas-Volkov D,Oliva N,Friedman E,Artzi N,Shomron N

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage-mediated inflammation is thought to have a causal role in osteoarthritis-related pain and severity, and has been suggested to be triggered by endotoxins produced by the gastrointestinal microbiome. Here we investigate the relationship between joint pain and the gastrointestinal microbiome composition, and o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Boer CG,Radjabzadeh D,Medina-Gomez C,Garmaeva S,Schiphof D,Arp P,Koet T,Kurilshikov A,Fu J,Ikram MA,Bierma-Zeinstra S,Uitterlinden AG,Kraaij R,Zhernakova A,van Meurs JBJ

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of a drug's molecular target often increases drug resistance, offering a pathway for adaptive evolution and a tool for target identification. It is unclear though why this phenomenon applies to some drugs but not others. Here we gradually overexpressed antibiotic targets in Escherichia coli and found th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Palmer AC,Kishony R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R-loops are stable nucleic acid structures that have important physiological functions, but which also pose a significant threat to genomic stability. Increased R-loops cause replication stress and chromosome fragility and have been associated with diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer. Although excessive R-lo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chakraborty P,Huang JTJ,Hiom K

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:At photonic Dirac points, electromagnetic waves are governed by the same equations as two-component massless relativistic fermions. However, photonic Dirac points are known to occur in pairs in "photonic graphene" and other similar photonic crystals, which necessitates special precautions to excite only one valley sta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu GG,Zhou P,Yang Y,Xue H,Ren X,Lin X,Sun HX,Bi L,Chong Y,Zhang B

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyelectrolyte gel diodes that are double layers of two oppositely charged polyelectrolyte gels, sandwiched by two symmetric electrodes, are emergent ionic devices. These diodes are designed to rectify ion currents with a physical mechanism that is analogous to conventional semiconductor diodes-the asymmetry in the p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamamoto T,Doi M

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast lacks dedicated photoreceptors; however, blue light still causes pronounced oscillations of the transcription factor Msn2 into and out of the nucleus. Here we show that this poorly understood phenomenon is initiated by a peroxisomal oxidase, which converts light into a hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) signal that is sen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bodvard K,Peeters K,Roger F,Romanov N,Igbaria A,Welkenhuysen N,Palais G,Reiter W,Toledano MB,Käll M,Molin M

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic annotation studies of genetic risk variants for multiple sclerosis (MS) implicate dysfunctional lymphocytes in MS susceptibility; however, the role of central nervous system (CNS) cells remains unclear. We investigated the effect of the risk variant, rs7665090G, located near NFKB1, on astrocytes. We demonst...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ponath G,Lincoln MR,Levine-Ritterman M,Park C,Dahlawi S,Mubarak M,Sumida T,Airas L,Zhang S,Isitan C,Nguyen TD,Raine CS,Hafler DA,Pitt D

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cation channel TRPM8 plays a central role in the somatosensory system, as a key sensor of innocuously cold temperatures and cooling agents. Although increased functional expression of TRPM8 has been implicated in various forms of pathological cold hypersensitivity, little is known about the cellular and molecular ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ghosh D,Pinto S,Danglot L,Vandewauw I,Segal A,Van Ranst N,Benoit M,Janssens A,Vennekens R,Vanden Berghe P,Galli T,Vriens J,Voets T

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ) bound to the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) replicates the lagging strand and cooperates with flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) to process the Okazaki fragments for their ligation. We present the high-resolution cryo-EM structure of the human processive Pol δ-DNA-PCNA comple...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lancey C,Tehseen M,Raducanu VS,Rashid F,Merino N,Ragan TJ,Savva CG,Zaher MS,Shirbini A,Blanco FJ,Hamdan SM,De Biasio A

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα), an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM)-containing receptor, is an essential negative regulator of leukocyte inflammatory responses. Here we report that SIRPα cytoplasmic signalling ITIMs in neutrophils are cleaved during active inflammation and that the loss of SI...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zen K,Guo Y,Bian Z,Lv Z,Zhu D,Ohnishi H,Matozaki T,Liu Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise gene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jiang X,Finucane HK,Schumacher FR,Schmit SL,Tyrer JP,Han Y,Michailidou K,Lesseur C,Kuchenbaecker KB,Dennis J,Conti DV,Casey G,Gaudet MM,Huyghe JR,Albanes D,Aldrich MC,Andrew AS,Andrulis IL,Anton-Culver H,Antoniou AC

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the high versatility of chiral cyanohydrins, the catalytic asymmetric cyanation reaction of carbonyl compounds has attracted widespread interest. However, efficient protocols that function at a preparative scale with low catalyst loading are still rare. Here, asymmetric counteranion-directed Lewis acid organoca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang Z,Bae HY,Guin J,Rabalakos C,van Gemmeren M,Leutzsch M,Klussmann M,List B

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived kidney cells (hPSC-KCs) have important potential for disease modelling and regeneration. Whether the hPSC-KCs can reconstitute tissue-specific phenotypes is currently unknown. Here we show that hPSC-KCs self-organize into kidney organoids that functionally recapitulate tissue-specif...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Freedman BS,Brooks CR,Lam AQ,Fu H,Morizane R,Agrawal V,Saad AF,Li MK,Hughes MR,Werff RV,Peters DT,Lu J,Baccei A,Siedlecki AM,Valerius MT,Musunuru K,McNagny KM,Steinman TI,Zhou J,Lerou PH,Bonventre JV

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to fabricate nanoscale domains of uniform size in two-dimensional materials could potentially enable new applications in nanoelectronics and the development of innovative metamaterials. However, achieving even minimal control over the growth of two-dimensional lateral heterostructures at such extreme dimen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Camilli L,Jørgensen JH,Tersoff J,Stoot AC,Balog R,Cassidy A,Sadowski JT,Bøggild P,Hornekær L

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial vaginosis is a condition associated with adverse reproductive outcomes and characterized by a shift from a Lactobacillus-dominant vaginal microbiota to a polymicrobial microbiota, consistently colonized by strains of Gardnerella vaginalis. Metronidazole is the first-line treatment; however, treatment failure...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee CY,Cheu RK,Lemke MM,Gustin AT,France MT,Hampel B,Thurman AR,Doncel GF,Ravel J,Klatt NR,Arnold KB

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultralow threshold nanolasers have been sought after as power efficient light sources in photonic integrated circuits. Here a single-cell nanobeam laser with a nanoisland quantum well is proposed and demonstrated. Continuous operation at 1.5 μm is achieved at room temperature with an ultralow lasing threshold of 210 n...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jang H,Karnadi I,Pramudita P,Song JH,Kim KS,Lee YH

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-binding (CNB) domains allosterically regulate the activity of proteins with diverse functions, but the mechanisms that enable the cyclic nucleotide-binding signal to regulate distant domains are not well understood. Here we use optical tweezers and molecular dynamics to dissect changes in folding ene...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hao Y,England JP,Bellucci L,Paci E,Hodges HC,Taylor SS,Maillard RA

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A transparent coating that repels a wide variety of liquids, prevents staining, is capable of self-repair and is robust towards mechanical damage can have a broad technological impact, from solar cell coatings to self-cleaning optical devices. Here we employ colloidal templating to design transparent, nanoporous surfa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Vogel N,Belisle RA,Hatton B,Wong TS,Aizenberg J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gemcitabine is the first-line treatment for locally advanced and metastatic gallbladder cancer (GBC), but poor gemcitabine response is universal. Here, we utilize a genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify that loss of ELP5 reduces the gemcitabine-induced apoptosis in GBC cells in a P53-dependent manner through the Elong...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu S,Zhan M,Jiang C,He M,Yang L,Shen H,Huang S,Huang X,Lin R,Shi Y,Liu Q,Chen W,Mohan M,Wang J

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the concept of metamaterials has offered platforms for unconventional tailoring and manipulation of the light-matter interaction. Here we explore the notion of 'static optics', in which the electricity and magnetism are decoupled, while the fields are temporally dynamic. This occurs when both the rela...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mahmoud AM,Engheta N

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mukherjee A,Caroni P

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of measuring binding of small-molecule drugs to desired targets in live cells could provide a better understanding of drug action. However, current approaches mostly yield static data, require lysis or rely on indirect assays and thus often provide an incomplete understanding of drug action. Here, we p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dubach JM,Vinegoni C,Mazitschek R,Fumene Feruglio P,Cameron LA,Weissleder R

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated polymeric molecules have been heralded as promising electrode materials for the next-generation energy-storage technologies owing to their chemical flexibility at the molecular level, environmental benefit, and cost advantage. However, before any practical implementation takes place, the low capacity, poor ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lei Z,Yang Q,Xu Y,Guo S,Sun W,Liu H,Lv LP,Zhang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks generate reliable ~24-h rhythms despite being based on stochastic biochemical reactions. The circadian clock in Synechococcus elongatus uses a post-translational oscillator that cycles deterministically in a test tube. Because the volume of a single bacterial cell is much smaller than a macroscopic re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chew J,Leypunskiy E,Lin J,Murugan A,Rust MJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00