A bacterial checkpoint protein for ribosome assembly moonlights as an essential metabolite-proofreading enzyme.

abstract：:Microfluidics by soft lithography has proven to be of key importance for biophysics and life science research. While being based on replicating structures of a master mold using benchtop devices, design modifications are time consuming and require sophisticated cleanroom equipment. Here, we introduce virtual fluidic c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Panhwar MH,Czerwinski F,Dabbiru VAS,Komaragiri Y,Fregin B,Biedenweg D,Nestler P,Pires RH,Otto O

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of a single-cell genome requires DNA amplification, a process prone to introducing bias and errors into the amplified genome. Here we introduce a novel multiple displacement amplification (MDA) method based on the unique DNA primase features of Thermus thermophilus (Tth) PrimPol. TthPrimPol displays a poten...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Picher ÁJ,Budeus B,Wafzig O,Krüger C,García-Gómez S,Martínez-Jiménez MI,Díaz-Talavera A,Weber D,Blanco L,Schneider A

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Most estimates of the burden of malaria are based on its direct impacts; however, its true burden is likely to be greater because of its wider effects on overall health. Here we estimate the indirect impact of malaria on children's health in a case-control study, using the sickle cell trait (HbAS), a condition associa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Uyoga S,Macharia AW,Ndila CM,Nyutu G,Shebe M,Awuondo KO,Mturi N,Peshu N,Tsofa B,Scott JAG,Maitland K,Williams TN

更新日期：2019-02-20 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：: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：: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：: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：:Genetic noise together with genome duplication and volume changes during cell cycle are significant contributors to cell-to-cell heterogeneity. How can cells buffer the effects of these unavoidable epigenetic and genetic variations on phenotypes that are sensitive to such variations? Here we show that a simple network...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Peng W,Song R,Acar M

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials with switchable absorption properties have been widely used for smart window applications to reduce energy consumption and enhance occupant comfort in buildings. In this work, we combine the benefits of smart windows with energy conversion by producing a photovoltaic device with a switchable absorber layer t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wheeler LM,Moore DT,Ihly R,Stanton NJ,Miller EM,Tenent RC,Blackburn JL,Neale NR

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:BRCA2 is essential for maintaining genomic integrity. BRCA2-deficient primary cells are either not viable or exhibit severe proliferation defects. Yet, BRCA2 deficiency contributes to tumorigenesis. It is believed that mutations in genes such as TRP53 allow BRCA2 heterozygous cells to overcome growth arrest when they ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Biswas K,Philip S,Yadav A,Martin BK,Burkett S,Singh V,Babbar A,North SL,Chang S,Sharan SK

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many low-thermal-conductivity (κL) crystals show intriguing temperature (T) dependence of κL: κL ∝ T-1 (crystal-like) at intermediate temperatures whereas weak T-dependence (glass-like) at high temperatures. It has been in debate whether thermal transport can still be described by phonons at the Ioffe-Regel limit. In ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Luo Y,Yang X,Feng T,Wang J,Ruan X

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia telangiectasia is caused by mutations in ATM and represents a paradigm for cancer predisposition and neurodegenerative syndromes linked to deficiencies in the DNA-damage response. The role of ATM as a key regulator of signalling following DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) has been dissected in extraordinary detai...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Álvarez-Quilón A,Serrano-Benítez A,Lieberman JA,Quintero C,Sánchez-Gutiérrez D,Escudero LM,Cortés-Ledesma F

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a Crabtree-positive eukaryal model organism. It is believed that the Crabtree effect has evolved as a competition mechanism by allowing for rapid growth and production of ethanol at aerobic glucose excess conditions. This inherent property of yeast metabolism and the multiple mechanisms und...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dai Z,Huang M,Chen Y,Siewers V,Nielsen J

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding lithospheric plate motions is of paramount importance to geodynamicists. Much effort is going into kinematic reconstructions featuring progressively finer temporal resolution. However, the challenge of precisely identifying ocean-floor magnetic lineations, and uncertainties in geomagnetic reversal timesc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Iaffaldano G,Bodin T,Sambridge M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the potential impact on agriculture and other key human activities, efforts have been dedicated to the local control of precipitation. The most common approach consists of dispersing small particles of dry ice, silver iodide, or other salts in the atmosphere. Here we show, using field experiments conducted ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Henin S,Petit Y,Rohwetter P,Stelmaszczyk K,Hao ZQ,Nakaema WM,Vogel A,Pohl T,Schneider F,Kasparian J,Weber K,Wöste L,Wolf JP

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Within all physical disciplines, it is accepted that wave transport is predetermined by the existence of disorder. In this vein, it is known that ballistic transport is possible only when a structure is ordered, and that disorder is crucial for diffusion or (Anderson-)localization to occur. As this commonly accepted p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Eichelkraut T,Heilmann R,Weimann S,Stützer S,Dreisow F,Christodoulides DN,Nolte S,Szameit A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by mammalian skins, soft hybrids integrating the merits of elastomers and hydrogels have potential applications in diverse areas including stretchable and bio-integrated electronics, microfluidics, tissue engineering, soft robotics and biomedical devices. However, existing hydrogel-elastomer hybrids have limi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuk H,Zhang T,Parada GA,Liu X,Zhao X

更新日期：2016-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosemary extracts containing the phenolic diterpenes carnosic acid and its derivative carnosol are approved food additives used in an increasingly wide range of products to enhance shelf-life, thanks to their high anti-oxidant activity. We describe here the elucidation of the complete biosynthetic pathway of carnosic ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Scheler U,Brandt W,Porzel A,Rothe K,Manzano D,Božić D,Papaefthimiou D,Balcke GU,Henning A,Lohse S,Marillonnet S,Kanellis AK,Ferrer A,Tissier A

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained an error in the last sentence of the second paragraph of the 'Atmospheric rarefaction effects' section of the Results, which incorrectly read 'The other one emulates the rarefied, CO2-rich Martian atmosphere (μ♂ = 1.3 × 10-5 N s m-2) at 6.9 mbar and 210 K, which gives ρ♂ ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Di Renzo M,Urzay J

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Th9 cells protect hosts against helminthic infection but also mediate allergic disease. Here we show that nitric oxide (NO) promotes Th9 cell polarization of murine and human CD4(+) T cells. NO de-represses the tumour suppressor gene p53 via nitrosylation of Mdm2. NO also increases p53-mediated IL-2 production, STAT5 ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Niedbala W,Besnard AG,Nascimento DC,Donate PB,Sonego F,Yip E,Guabiraba R,Chang HD,Fukada SY,Salmond RJ,Schmitt E,Bopp T,Ryffel B,Liew FY

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive brain networks such as the default-mode network (DMN), frontoparietal network, and salience network, are key functional networks of the human brain. Here we show that the rapid evolutionary cortical expansion of cognitive networks in the human brain, and most pronounced the DMN, runs parallel with high expre...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wei Y,de Lange SC,Scholtens LH,Watanabe K,Ardesch DJ,Jansen PR,Savage JE,Li L,Preuss TM,Rilling JK,Posthuma D,van den Heuvel MP

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data accumulated over more than 120 years show not only that diffusion coefficients of impurities ordinarily obey the Arrhenius law in crystalline solids, but also that diffusion pre-exponential factors measured in a same solid increase exponentially with activation energies. This so-called compensation e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gelin S,Champagne-Ruel A,Mousseau N

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal cloaks have aroused tremendous research interest in both optical physics and optical communications, unfolding a distinct approach to conceal temporal events from an interrogating optical field. The state-of-the-art temporal cloaks exhibit picosecond-scale and static cloaking window, owing to significantly li...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou F,Yan S,Zhou H,Wang X,Qiu H,Dong J,Zhou L,Ding Y,Qiu CW,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gluconeogenesis is a fundamental metabolic process that allows organisms to make sugars from non-carbohydrate stores such as lipids and protein. In eukaryotes only one gluconeogenic route has been described from organic acid intermediates and this relies on the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK). Here we s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Eastmond PJ,Astley HM,Parsley K,Aubry S,Williams BP,Menard GN,Craddock CP,Nunes-Nesi A,Fernie AR,Hibberd JM

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain identifies potentially salient features within continuous information streams to process hierarchical temporal events. This requires the compression of information streams, for which effective computational principles are yet to be explored. Backpropagating action potentials can induce synaptic plasticity in...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Asabuki T,Fukai T

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of the Earth has been marked by major ecological transitions, driven by metabolic innovation, that radically reshaped the composition of the oceans and atmosphere. The nature and magnitude of the earliest transitions, hundreds of million years before photosynthesis evolved, remain poorly understood. Using ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sauterey B,Charnay B,Affholder A,Mazevet S,Ferrière R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric iron affects the global carbon cycle by modulating ocean biogeochemistry through the deposition of soluble iron to the ocean. Iron emitted by anthropogenic (fossil fuel) combustion is a source of soluble iron that is currently considered less important than other soluble iron sources, such as mineral dust ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Matsui H,Mahowald NM,Moteki N,Hamilton DS,Ohata S,Yoshida A,Koike M,Scanza RA,Flanner MG

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of intrinsic properties of graphene during the transfer process constitutes a major challenge in graphene device fabrication, stimulating the need for direct growth of graphene on dielectric substrates. Previous attempts of metal-induced transformation of diamond and silicon carbide into graphene suffe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Berman D,Deshmukh SA,Narayanan B,Sankaranarayanan SK,Yan Z,Balandin AA,Zinovev A,Rosenmann D,Sumant AV

更新日期：2016-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer is a major contributor to the evolution of bacterial genomes and can facilitate the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes between environmental reservoirs and potential pathogens. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are believed to play a central role in the dissemination of antibiotic ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Munck C,Albertsen M,Telke A,Ellabaan M,Nielsen PH,Sommer MOA

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The change of global-mean precipitation under global warming and interannual variability is predominantly controlled by the change of atmospheric longwave radiative cooling. Here we show that tightening of the ascending branch of the Hadley Circulation coupled with a decrease in tropical high cloud fraction is key in ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Su H,Jiang JH,Neelin JD,Shen TJ,Zhai C,Yue Q,Wang Z,Huang L,Choi YS,Stephens GL,Yung YL

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00