Multi-cohort study identifies social determinants of systemic inflammation over the life course.

abstract：:Seed germination and young seedling establishment should be tightly regulated to maximize plant survival and thereby enable successful propagation. Plants have evolved developmental signalling networks to integrate environmental cues for proper control of these critical processes, in which brassinosteroids are known t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ryu H,Cho H,Bae W,Hwang I

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Creating micro/nanostructures on fibers is beneficial for extending the application range of fiber-based devices. To achieve this using thermal fiber drawing is particularly important for the mass production of longitudinally uniform fibers up to tens of kilometers. However, the current thermal fiber drawing technique...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Z,Wu T,Wang Z,Zhang T,Chen M,Zhang J,Liu L,Qi M,Zhang Q,Yang J,Liu W,Chen H,Luo Y,Wei L

更新日期：2020-07-31 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：:Transcriptional regulation by chromatin is a highly dynamic process directed through the recruitment and coordinated action of epigenetic modifiers and readers of these modifications. Using an unbiased proteomic approach to find interactors of H3K36me3, a modification enriched on active chromatin, here we identify PWW...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang T,Wei G,Millard CJ,Fischer R,Konietzny R,Kessler BM,Schwabe JWR,Brockdorff N

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge/discharge of lithium-ion battery cathode material LiFePO4 is mediated by the structure and properties of the interface between delithiated and lithiated phases. Direct observations of the interface in a partially delithiated single crystal as a function of time using scanning transmission electron microscopy an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kobayashi S,Kuwabara A,Fisher CAJ,Ukyo Y,Ikuhara Y

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota composition influences the clinical benefit of immune checkpoints in patients with advanced cancer but mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. Molecular mechanism whereby gut microbiota influences immune responses is mainly assigned to gut microbial metabolites. Short-chain fatty acids (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Coutzac C,Jouniaux JM,Paci A,Schmidt J,Mallardo D,Seck A,Asvatourian V,Cassard L,Saulnier P,Lacroix L,Woerther PL,Vozy A,Naigeon M,Nebot-Bral L,Desbois M,Simeone E,Mateus C,Boselli L,Grivel J,Soularue E,Lepage P,

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) of Bacillus subtilis coordinates cellular functions of fundamental interest, including metabolism, biofilm formation, and sporulation. Here, we use unsupervised machine learning to modularize the transcriptome and quantitatively describe regulatory activity under diverse co...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rychel K,Sastry AV,Palsson BO

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimising the supported modes of atom or ion dispersal onto substrates, to synchronously integrate high reactivity and robust stability in catalytic conversion, is an important yet challenging area of research. Here, theoretical calculations first show that three-coordinated copper (Cu) sites have higher activity tha...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang C,Dong J,Sun W,Xue Z,Ma J,Zheng L,Liu C,Li X,Zhou K,Qiao X,Song Q,Ma W,Zhang L,Lin Z,Wang T

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and assembly of artificial protocell consortia displaying dynamical behaviours and systems-based properties are emerging challenges in bottom-up synthetic biology. Cellular processes such as morphogenesis and differentiation rely in part on reaction-diffusion gradients, and the ability to mimic rudimentary ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tian L,Li M,Patil AJ,Drinkwater BW,Mann S

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are vascular abnormalities that primarily occur in adulthood and cause cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, and seizures. CCMs are thought to be initiated by endothelial cell (EC) loss of any one of the three Ccm genes: CCM1 (KRIT1), CCM2 (OSM), or CCM3 (PDCD10). Here we report that mic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou HJ,Qin L,Jiang Q,Murray KN,Zhang H,Li B,Lin Q,Graham M,Liu X,Grutzendler J,Min W

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Electric eels (Electrophorus electricus) are legendary for their ability to incapacitate fish, humans, and horses with hundreds of volts of electricity. The function of this output as a weapon has been obvious for centuries but its potential role for electroreception has been overlooked. Here it is shown that electric...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Catania KC

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mouse optic nerve (ON) crush as a CNS injury model, we and others have found that activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) in mature retinal ganglion cells by deletion of the negative regulators, phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN), and tuberous sclerosis 1 promotes ON regeneration....

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang L,Miao L,Liang F,Huang H,Teng X,Li S,Nuriddinov J,Selzer ME,Hu Y

更新日期：2014-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are versatile natural building blocks with highly complex and multifunctional architectures, and self-assembled protein structures have been created by the introduction of covalent, noncovalent, or metal-coordination bonding. Here, we report the robust, selective, and reversible metal coordination properties ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang M,Song WJ

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons communicate through chemical synapses and electrical synapses (gap junctions). Although these two types of synapses often coexist between neurons, little is known about whether they interact, and whether any interactions between them are important to controlling synaptic strength and circuit functions. By stud...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu P,Chen B,Mailler R,Wang ZW

更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The spin of a single electron in a semiconductor quantum dot provides a well-controlled and long-lived qubit implementation. The electron charge in turn allows control of the position of individual electrons in a quantum dot array, and enables charge sensors to probe the charge configuration. Here we show that the Cou...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： van Diepen CJ,Hsiao TK,Mukhopadhyay U,Reichl C,Wegscheider W,Vandersypen LMK

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Each skeletal muscle acquires its unique size before birth, when terminally differentiating myocytes fuse to form a defined number of multinucleated myofibres. Although mice in which the transcription factor Myogenin is mutated lack most myogenesis and die perinatally, a specific cell biological role for Myogenin has ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ganassi M,Badodi S,Ortuste Quiroga HP,Zammit PS,Hinits Y,Hughes SM

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The prerequisite to prevent childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is to decipher its etiology. The current model suggests that infection triggers B-ALL development through induction of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID; also known as AICDA) in precursor B-cells. This evidence has been largely ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rodríguez-Hernández G,Opitz FV,Delgado P,Walter C,Álvarez-Prado ÁF,González-Herrero I,Auer F,Fischer U,Janssen S,Bartenhagen C,Raboso-Gallego J,Casado-García A,Orfao A,Blanco O,Alonso-López D,Rivas JL,Tena-Dávila SG,Müs

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Single impurities with nonzero spin and multiple ground states offer a degree of freedom that can be utilized to store the quantum information. However, Fe(2+) dopant is known for having a single nondegenerate ground state in the bulk host semiconductors and thus is of little use for spintronic applications. Here we s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Smoleński T,Kazimierczuk T,Kobak J,Goryca M,Golnik A,Kossacki P,Pacuski W

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the resilience of aquatic ectothermic animals to climate warming has been hindered by the absence of experimental systems experiencing warming across relevant timescales (for example, decades). Here, we examine European perch (Perca fluviatilis, L.) from the Biotest enclosure, a unique coastal ecosystem ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sandblom E,Clark TD,Gräns A,Ekström A,Brijs J,Sundström LF,Odelström A,Adill A,Aho T,Jutfelt F

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the observation of the first brown dwarf in 1995, numerous studies have led to a better understanding of the structures of these objects. Here we present a method for studying material resistivity in warm dense plasmas in the laboratory, which we relate to the microphysics of brown dwarfs through viscosity and e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Booth N,Robinson AP,Hakel P,Clarke RJ,Dance RJ,Doria D,Gizzi LA,Gregori G,Koester P,Labate L,Levato T,Li B,Makita M,Mancini RC,Pasley J,Rajeev PP,Riley D,Wagenaars E,Waugh JN,Woolsey NC

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite over a century of interest, the function of zebra stripes has never been examined systematically. Here we match variation in striping of equid species and subspecies to geographic range overlap of environmental variables in multifactor models controlling for phylogeny to simultaneously test the five major expl...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Caro T,Izzo A,Reiner RC Jr,Walker H,Stankowich T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 1 (ULK1) complex plays a central role in the initiation stage of autophagy. However, the function of ULK1 in the late stage of autophagy is unknown. Here, we report that ULK1, a central kinase of the ULK1 complex involved in autophagy initiation, promotes autophagosome-lysos...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang C,Wang H,Zhang D,Luo W,Liu R,Xu D,Diao L,Liao L,Liu Z

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin D1 is one of the most important oncoproteins that drives cancer cell proliferation and associates with tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer. Here, we identify a lncRNA, DILA1, which interacts with Cyclin D1 and is overexpressed in tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells. Mechanistically, DILA1 inhibits the pho...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shi Q,Li Y,Li S,Jin L,Lai H,Wu Y,Cai Z,Zhu M,Li Q,Li Y,Wang J,Liu Y,Wu Z,Song E,Liu Q

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization-driven resistive switching in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs)--structures composed of two electrodes separated by an ultrathin ferroelectric barrier--offers new physics and materials functionalities, as well as exciting opportunities for the next generation of non-volatile memories and logic devices...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lu H,Lipatov A,Ryu S,Kim DJ,Lee H,Zhuravlev MY,Eom CB,Tsymbal EY,Sinitskii A,Gruverman A

更新日期：2014-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Exploitation of drug-drug synergism and allostery could yield superior therapies by capitalizing on the immensely diverse, but highly specific, potential associated with the biological macromolecular landscape. Here we describe a drug-drug synergy mediated by allosteric cross-talk in chromatin, whereby the binding of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Adhireksan Z,Palermo G,Riedel T,Ma Z,Muhammad R,Rothlisberger U,Dyson PJ,Davey CA

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The striking diversity of bird beak shapes is an outcome of natural selection, yet the relative importance of the limitations imposed by the process of beak development on generating such variation is unclear. Untangling these factors requires mapping developmental mechanisms over a phylogeny far exceeding model syste...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fritz JA,Brancale J,Tokita M,Burns KJ,Hawkins MB,Abzhanov A,Brenner MP

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable benzotriazinyl radicals (Blatter's radicals) recently attracted considerable interest as building blocks for functional materials. The existing strategies to derivatize Blatter's radicals are limited, however, and synthetic routes are complex. Here, we report that an inexpensive, commercially available, analyti...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Grant JA,Lu Z,Tucker DE,Hockin BM,Yufit DS,Fox MA,Kataky R,Chechik V,O'Donoghue AC

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor subtype-specific metabolic reprogrammers could serve as targets of therapeutic intervention. Here we show that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) exhibits a hyper-activated cholesterol-biosynthesis program that is strongly linked to nuclear receptor RORγ, compared to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. G...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cai D,Wang J,Gao B,Li J,Wu F,Zou JX,Xu J,Jiang Y,Zou H,Huang Z,Borowsky AD,Bold RJ,Lara PN,Li JJ,Chen X,Lam KS,To KF,Kung HJ,Fiehn O,Zhao R,Evans RM,Chen HW

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the amyloid β-protein (Aβ) is believed to play an initiating role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the molecular characteristics of the key pathogenic Aβ forms are not well understood. As a result, it has proved difficult to identify optimal agents that target disease-relevant forms of Aβ. Here, we combined the u...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jin M,O'Nuallain B,Hong W,Boyd J,Lagomarsino VN,O'Malley TT,Liu W,Vanderburg CR,Frosch MP,Young-Pearse T,Selkoe DJ,Walsh DM

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling the properties of quantum dots at the atomic scale, such as dangling bonds, is a general motivation as they allow studying various nanoscale processes including atomic switches, charge storage, or low binding energy state interactions. Adjusting the coupling of individual silicon dangling bonds to form a 2...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yengui M,Duverger E,Sonnet P,Riedel D

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00