Atomically defined angstrom-scale all-carbon junctions.

abstract：:The impact of discontinuation of anti-VEGF cancer therapy in promoting cancer metastasis is unknown. Here we show discontinuation of anti-VEGF treatment creates a time-window of profound structural changes of liver sinusoidal vasculatures, exhibiting hyper-permeability and enlarged open-pore sizes of the fenestrated e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang Y,Zhang Y,Iwamoto H,Hosaka K,Seki T,Andersson P,Lim S,Fischer C,Nakamura M,Abe M,Cao R,Skov PV,Chen F,Chen X,Lu Y,Nie G,Cao Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential components of animal behaviour are modulated by dopaminergic (DA) and noradrenergic circuitry. In this study, we reveal at cellular resolution the complete set of projections ('projectome') of every single type of DA and noradrenergio neurons in the central nervous system of zebrafish larvae. The most extens...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tay TL,Ronneberger O,Ryu S,Nitschke R,Driever W

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance is ancient and widespread in environmental bacteria. These are therefore reservoirs of resistance elements and reflective of the natural history of antibiotics and resistance. In a previous study, we discovered that multi-drug resistance is common in bacteria isolated from Lechuguilla Cave, an un...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pawlowski AC,Wang W,Koteva K,Barton HA,McArthur AG,Wright GD

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving and exceeding diversity of colloidal analogs of chemical elements and molecules as building blocks of matter has been the central goal and challenge of colloidal science ever since Einstein introduced the colloidal atom paradigm. Recent advances in colloids assembly have been achieved by exploiting the machi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Senyuk B,Aplinc J,Ravnik M,Smalyukh II

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryo-electron microscopy can determine the structure of biological matter in vitrified liquids. However, structure alone is insufficient to understand the function of native and engineered biomolecules. So far, their mechanical properties have mainly been probed at room temperature using tens of pico-newton forces wit...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pawlak R,Vilhena JG,Hinaut A,Meier T,Glatzel T,Baratoff A,Gnecco E,Pérez R,Meyer E

更新日期：2019-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported atomic clusters with uniform metal sites and definite low-nuclearity are intermediate states between single-atom catalysts (SACs) and nanoparticles in size. Benefiting from the presence of metal-metal bonds, supported atomic clusters can trigger synergistic effects among every metal atom, which contributes t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rong H,Ji S,Zhang J,Wang D,Li Y

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to the advantages of integration and being magnet-free and light-weight, the switched-capacitor-convertor plays an increasing role compared to traditional transformer in some specific power supply systems. However, the high output impedance and switching loss largely reduces its power efficiency, due to imperfec...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu W,Wang Z,Wang G,Zeng Q,He W,Liu L,Wang X,Xi Y,Guo H,Hu C,Wang ZL

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in northeast Mongolia is, to our knowledge, the only Pleistocene hominin fossil found in the country. It was initially described as an individual with possible archaic affinities, but its ancestry has been debated since the discovery. Here, we determine the age of the Salkhit sku...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Devièse T,Massilani D,Yi S,Comeskey D,Nagel S,Nickel B,Ribechini E,Lee J,Tseveendorj D,Gunchinsuren B,Meyer M,Pääbo S,Higham T

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-molecule inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) antagonists, called Smac mimetic compounds (SMCs), sensitize tumours to TNF-α-induced killing while simultaneously blocking TNF-α growth-promoting activities. SMCs also regulate several immunomodulatory properties within immune cells. We report that SMCs synergize with innat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Beug ST,Beauregard CE,Healy C,Sanda T,St-Jean M,Chabot J,Walker DE,Mohan A,Earl N,Lun X,Senger DL,Robbins SM,Staeheli P,Forsyth PA,Alain T,LaCasse EC,Korneluk RG

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Confined samples of liquid crystals are characterized by a variety of topological defects and can be exposed to external constraints such as extreme confinements with nontrivial topology. Here we explore the intrinsic structure of smectic colloidal layers dictated by the interplay between entropy and an imposed extern...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wittmann R,Cortes LBG,Löwen H,Aarts DGAL

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-bound pyrophosphatases (M-PPases), which couple proton/sodium ion transport to pyrophosphate synthesis/hydrolysis, are important in abiotic stress resistance and in the infectivity of protozoan parasites. Here, three M-PPase structures in different catalytic states show that closure of the substrate-binding p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li KM,Wilkinson C,Kellosalo J,Tsai JY,Kajander T,Jeuken LJ,Sun YJ,Goldman A

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which the impact of regulatory genetic variants may depend on other factors, such as the expression levels of upstream transcription factors, remains poorly understood. Here we report a framework in which regulatory variants are first aggregated into sets, and using these as estimates of the total cis-ge...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wragg D,Liu Q,Lin Z,Riggio V,Pugh CA,Beveridge AJ,Brown H,Hume DA,Harris SE,Deary IJ,Tenesa A,Prendergast JGD

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The work content of non-equilibrium systems in relation to a heat bath is often analysed in terms of expectation values of an underlying random work variable. However, when optimizing the expectation value of the extracted work, the resulting extraction process is subject to intrinsic fluctuations, uniquely determined...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Aberg J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observing the crucial first few femtoseconds of photochemical reactions requires tools typically not available in the femtochemistry toolkit. Such dynamics are now within reach with the instruments provided by attosecond science. Here, we apply experimental and theoretical methods to assess the ultrafast nonadiabatic ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Galbraith MCE,Scheit S,Golubev NV,Reitsma G,Zhavoronkov N,Despré V,Lépine F,Kuleff AI,Vrakking MJJ,Kornilov O,Köppel H,Mikosch J

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pachytene piRNAs are the most abundant piRNAs in mammalian adult testes. They are generated from long precursor transcripts by the primary piRNA biogenesis pathway but the factors involved in pachytene piRNA precursors processing are poorly understood. Here we show that the Tudor domain-containing 5 (TDRD5) protein is...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ding D,Liu J,Midic U,Wu Y,Dong K,Melnick A,Latham KE,Chen C

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To colonise their host, pathogens must counter local environmental and immunological challenges. Here, we reveal that the fungal pathogen Candida albicans exploits diverse host-associated signals to promote immune evasion by masking of a major pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP), β-glucan. Certain nutrients, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pradhan A,Avelar GM,Bain JM,Childers D,Pelletier C,Larcombe DE,Shekhova E,Netea MG,Brown GD,Erwig L,Gow NAR,Brown AJP

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:When assembling individual quantum components into a mesoscopic circuit, the interplay between Coulomb interaction and charge granularity breaks down the classical laws of electrical impedance composition. Here we explore experimentally the thermal consequences, and observe an additional quantum mechanism of electroni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sivre E,Duprez H,Anthore A,Aassime A,Parmentier FD,Cavanna A,Ouerghi A,Gennser U,Pierre F

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective delivery of therapeutics to disease sites significantly contributes to drug efficacy, toxicity and clearance. Here we demonstrate that clinically approved iron oxide nanoparticles (Ferumoxytol) can be utilized to carry one or multiple drugs. These so called 'nanophores' retain their cargo within their po...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kaittanis C,Shaffer TM,Ogirala A,Santra S,Perez JM,Chiosis G,Li Y,Josephson L,Grimm J

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal cellular epigenome may serve as biomarker of airway disease and environmental response. Here we collect nasal swabs from the anterior nares of 547 children (mean-age 12.9 y), and measure DNA methylation (DNAm) with the Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip. We perform nasal Epigenome-Wide Association analyses (E...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cardenas A,Sordillo JE,Rifas-Shiman SL,Chung W,Liang L,Coull BA,Hivert MF,Lai PS,Forno E,Celedón JC,Litonjua AA,Brennan KJ,DeMeo DL,Baccarelli AA,Oken E,Gold DR

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystems are composed of complex networks of many species interacting in different ways. While ecologists have long studied food webs of feeding interactions, recent studies increasingly focus on mutualistic networks including plants that exchange food for reproductive services provided by animals such as pollinator...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hale KRS,Valdovinos FS,Martinez ND

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of visual attention postulate the existence of a saliency map whose function is to guide attention and gaze to the most conspicuous regions in a visual scene. Although cortical representations of saliency have been reported, there is mounting evidence for a subcortical saliency mechanism, which pre-dates the ev...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： White BJ,Berg DJ,Kan JY,Marino RA,Itti L,Munoz DP

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic biology method based on heterologous biosynthesis coupled with genome mining is a promising approach for increasing the opportunities to rationally access natural product with novel structures and biological activities through total biosynthesis and combinatorial biosynthesis. Here, we demonstrate the adva...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tsukada K,Shinki S,Kaneko A,Murakami K,Irie K,Murai M,Miyoshi H,Dan S,Kawaji K,Hayashi H,Kodama EN,Hori A,Salim E,Kuraishi T,Hirata N,Kanda Y,Asai T

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks of natural protein nanofibrils, such as cytoskeletal filaments, control the shape and the division of cells, yet mimicking this functionality in a synthetic setting has proved challenging. Here, we demonstrate that artificial networks of protein nanofibrils can induce controlled deformation and division of al...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Song Y,Michaels TCT,Ma Q,Liu Z,Yuan H,Takayama S,Knowles TPJ,Shum HC

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The original HTML version of this Article had an incorrect Published online date of 20 March 2019; it should have been 18 March 2019. This has been corrected in the HTML version of the Article. The PDF version was correct from the time of publication. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hu Z,Wessels HJCT,van Alen T,Jetten MSM,Kartal B

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic reprogramming greatly contributes to the regulation of macrophage activation. However, the mechanism of lipid accumulation and the corresponding function in tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) remain unclear. With primary investigation in colon cancer and confirmation in other cancer models, here we determin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xiang W,Shi R,Kang X,Zhang X,Chen P,Zhang L,Hou A,Wang R,Zhao Y,Zhao K,Liu Y,Ma Y,Luo H,Shang S,Zhang J,He F,Yu S,Gan L,Shi C,Li Y,Yang W,Liang H,Miao H

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:With damage tolerance rivalling advanced engineering alloys and thermoplastic forming capabilities analogous to conventional plastics, metallic glasses are emerging as a modern engineering material. Here, we take advantage of their unique electrical and rheological properties along with the classic Lorentz force conce...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kaltenboeck G,Demetriou MD,Roberts S,Johnson WL

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies virus (RABV) causes fatal encephalitis in more than 59,000 people yearly. Upon the bite of an infected animal, the development of clinical disease can be prevented with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which includes the administration of Rabies immunoglobulin (RIG). However, the high cost and limited availabil...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hellert J,Buchrieser J,Larrous F,Minola A,de Melo GD,Soriaga L,England P,Haouz A,Telenti A,Schwartz O,Corti D,Bourhy H,Rey FA

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent crystal structures of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have revealed ordered internal water molecules, raising questions about the functional role of those waters for receptor activation that could not be answered by the static structures. Here, we used molecular dynamics simulations to monitor--at atomic an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yuan S,Filipek S,Palczewski K,Vogel H

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The interoceanic transfer of seawater between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, 'Agulhas leakage', forms a choke point for the overturning circulation in the global ocean. Here, by combining output from a series of high-resolution ocean and climate models with in situ and satellite observations, we construct a time s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Biastoch A,Durgadoo JV,Morrison AK,van Sebille E,Weijer W,Griffies SM

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory and metabolic dysfunctions are intertwined phenomena associated with obesity and neurodegenerative diseases; yet how mechanistically olfaction regulates metabolic homeostasis remains unclear. Specificity of olfactory perception integrates diverse environmental odors and olfactory neurons expressing different...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mutlu AS,Gao SM,Zhang H,Wang MC

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00