Patient-derived pancreas-on-a-chip to model cystic fibrosis-related disorders.

abstract：:Solar-driven photocatalysis has attracted significant attention in water splitting, CO2 reduction and organic synthesis. The syntheses of valuable azo- and azoxyaromatic dyes via selective photoreduction of nitroaromatic compounds have been realised using supported plasmonic metal nanoparticles at elevated temperature...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dai Y,Li C,Shen Y,Lim T,Xu J,Li Y,Niemantsverdriet H,Besenbacher F,Lock N,Su R

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of nucleotide building blocks prior to and during S phase facilitates DNA duplication. Herein, we find that the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) synchronizes ribose-5-phosphate levels and DNA synthesis during the cell cycle. In late G1 and S phases, transketolase-like 1 (TKTL1) is overexpresse...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li Y,Yao CF,Xu FJ,Qu YY,Li JT,Lin Y,Cao ZL,Lin PC,Xu W,Zhao SM,Zhao JY

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological clocks have evolved as an adaptation to life on a rhythmic planet, synchronising physiological processes to the environmental light-dark cycle. Here we examine circadian clock function in Mexican blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus and its surface counterpart. In the lab, adult surface fish show robust circad...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Beale A,Guibal C,Tamai TK,Klotz L,Cowen S,Peyric E,Reynoso VH,Yamamoto Y,Whitmore D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of coherent light-matter interactions has recently been extended to the ultrafast control of magnetization. An important but unrealized technique is the manipulation of magnetization vector motion to make it follow an arbitrarily designed multidimensional trajectory. Here we demonstrate a full manipulation...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kanda N,Higuchi T,Shimizu H,Konishi K,Yoshioka K,Kuwata-Gonokami M

更新日期：2011-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD) is a key enzyme that converts 6-phosphogluconate into ribulose-5-phosphate with NADP+ as cofactor in the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). 6PGD is commonly upregulated and plays important roles in many human cancers, while the mechanism underlying such roles of 6PGD remains elusi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu R,Li W,Tao B,Wang X,Yang Z,Zhang Y,Wang C,Liu R,Gao H,Liang J,Yang W

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of Salmonella Typhimurium infection is an acute intestinal inflammatory response, which is mediated through the action of secreted bacterial effector proteins. The pro-inflammatory Salmonella effector SopA is a HECT-like E3 ligase, which was previously proposed to activate host RING ligases TRIM56 and TRI...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fiskin E,Bhogaraju S,Herhaus L,Kalayil S,Hahn M,Dikic I

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese based layered oxides have received increasing attention as cathode materials for sodium ion batteries due to their high theoretical capacities and good sodium ion conductivities. However, the Jahn-Teller distortion arising from the manganese (III) centers destabilizes the host structure and deteriorates the ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang K,Kim D,Hu Z,Park M,Noh G,Yang Y,Zhang J,Lau VW,Chou SL,Cho M,Choi SY,Kang YM

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence suggests that caveolin-1 (Cav1) is associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension. MURC (also called Cavin-4) is a member of the cavin family, which regulates caveolar formation and functions together with caveolins. Here, we show that hypoxia increased Murc mRNA expression in the mouse lung, and th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nakanishi N,Ogata T,Naito D,Miyagawa K,Taniguchi T,Hamaoka T,Maruyama N,Kasahara T,Nishi M,Matoba S,Ueyama T

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Zea mays is an important genetic model for elucidating transcriptional networks. Uncertainties about the complete structure of mRNA transcripts limit the progress of research in this system. Here, using single-molecule sequencing technology, we produce 111,151 transcripts from 6 tissues capturing ∼70% of the genes ann...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang B,Tseng E,Regulski M,Clark TA,Hon T,Jiao Y,Lu Z,Olson A,Stein JC,Ware D

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have attractive optoelectronic properties including exceptional solar cell performance. The improved properties of perovskites have been attributed to polaronic effects involving stabilization of localized charge character by structural deformations and polarizations. Here we exami...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Park M,Neukirch AJ,Reyes-Lillo SE,Lai M,Ellis SR,Dietze D,Neaton JB,Yang P,Tretiak S,Mathies RA

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of effective antimicrobial agents continues to be a great challenge, particularly due to the increasing resistance of superbugs and frequent hospital breakouts. There is an urgent need for more potent and safer antibiotics with novel scaffolds. As historically many commercial drugs were derived from natura...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin Z,Xu X,Zhao S,Yang X,Guo J,Zhang Q,Jing C,Chen S,He Y

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic dissection and intramural haematoma comprise an aortopathy involving separation of the aortic wall. Underlying mechanisms of the condition remain unclear. Here we show that granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a triggering molecule for this condition. Transcription factor Krüppel-like fa...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Son BK,Sawaki D,Tomida S,Fujita D,Aizawa K,Aoki H,Akishita M,Manabe I,Komuro I,Friedman SL,Nagai R,Suzuki T

更新日期：2015-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Semiconductor III-V photonic crystal (PC) laser is regarded as a promising ultra-compact light source with unique advantages of ultralow energy consumption and small footprint for the next generation of Si-based on-chip optical interconnects. However, the significant material dissimilarities between III-V materials an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou T,Tang M,Xiang G,Xiang B,Hark S,Martin M,Baron T,Pan S,Park JS,Liu Z,Chen S,Zhang Z,Liu H

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In cancer metastasis, various environmental stressors attack the disseminating cells. The successful colonization of cancer cells in secondary sites therefore requires the ability of the cells to avoid the consequences of such exposure to the stressors. Here we show that orthotopic transplantation of a CD44 variant is...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yae T,Tsuchihashi K,Ishimoto T,Motohara T,Yoshikawa M,Yoshida GJ,Wada T,Masuko T,Mogushi K,Tanaka H,Osawa T,Kanki Y,Minami T,Aburatani H,Ohmura M,Kubo A,Suematsu M,Takahashi K,Saya H,Nagano O

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cas9/gRNA-mediated gene-drive systems have advanced development of genetic technologies for controlling vector-borne pathogen transmission. These technologies include population suppression approaches, genetic analogs of insecticidal techniques that reduce the number of insect vectors, and population modification (rep...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Adolfi A,Gantz VM,Jasinskiene N,Lee HF,Hwang K,Terradas G,Bulger EA,Ramaiah A,Bennett JB,Emerson JJ,Marshall JM,Bier E,James AA

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding the central biological role of the (6-4) photoadduct in the induction of skin cancer by sunlight, crucial mechanistic details about its formation have evaded characterization despite efforts spanning more than half a century. 4-Thiothymidine (4tT) has been widely used as an important model system to st...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ortiz-Rodríguez LA,Reichardt C,Hoehn SJ,Jockusch S,Crespo-Hernández CE

更新日期：2020-07-17 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：:The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft entered orbital phase around Mercury on 18 March 2011. A surprising consistent feature in the data returned is large-scale vortices that form exclusively on the dusk side of the magnetosphere. Here we present global kinetic hy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Paral J,Rankin R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shift from maternal to embryonic control is a critical developmental milestone in preimplantation development. Widespread transcriptomic and epigenetic remodeling facilitate this transition from terminally differentiated gametes to totipotent blastomeres, but the identity of transcription factors (TF) and genomic ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Halstead MM,Ma X,Zhou C,Schultz RM,Ross PJ

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the chemical composition and molecular structure of materials. At the nanometer scale, NMR has the prospect of mapping the atomic-scale structure of individual molecules, provided a method that can sensitively detect single nuclei and mea...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zopes J,Cujia KS,Sasaki K,Boss JM,Itoh KM,Degen CL

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an omega-3 fatty acid, has been widely used to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and treat brain diseases alone or in combination with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). However, the impact of EPA and DHA supplementation on normal cognitive function and the molecular targets of EPA and DHA are...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu JH,Wang Q,You QL,Li ZL,Hu NY,Wang Y,Jin ZL,Li SJ,Li XW,Yang JM,Zhu XH,Dai YF,Xu JP,Bai XC,Gao TM

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical to somatic cell reprogramming into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), however, exactly how miRNA expression changes support the transition to pluripotency requires further investigation. Here we use a murine secondary reprogramming system to sample cellular trajectories towards iPS...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Clancy JL,Patel HR,Hussein SM,Tonge PD,Cloonan N,Corso AJ,Li M,Lee DS,Shin JY,Wong JJ,Bailey CG,Benevento M,Munoz J,Chuah A,Wood D,Rasko JE,Heck AJ,Grimmond SM,Rogers IM,Seo JS,Wells CA,Puri MC,Nagy A,Preiss

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human C-terminal binding protein (CtBP)-interacting protein (CtIP) is a central regulator to initiate DNA end resection and homologous recombination (HR). Several studies have shown that post-translational modifications control the activity or expression of CtIP. However, it remains unclear whether and how cells restr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gao M,Guo G,Huang J,Kloeber JA,Zhao F,Deng M,Tu X,Kim W,Zhou Q,Zhang C,Yin P,Luo K,Lou Z

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Herpesviridae, including the medically important alphaherpesvirus varicella-zoster virus (VZV), induce fusion of the virion envelope with cell membranes during entry, and between cells to form polykaryocytes in infected tissues. The conserved glycoproteins, gB, gH and gL, are the core functional protein...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Oliver SL,Xing Y,Chen DH,Roh SH,Pintilie GD,Bushnell DA,Sommer MH,Yang E,Carfi A,Chiu W,Arvin AM

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The atmosphere plays a fundamental role in the transport of microbes across the planet but it is often neglected as a microbial habitat. Although the ocean represents two thirds of the Earth's surface, there is little information on the atmospheric microbial load over the open ocean. Here we provide a global estimate ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mayol E,Arrieta JM,Jiménez MA,Martínez-Asensio A,Garcias-Bonet N,Dachs J,González-Gaya B,Royer SJ,Benítez-Barrios VM,Fraile-Nuez E,Duarte CM

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intricate biomineralization processes in molluscs engineer hierarchical structures with meso-, nano- and atomic architectures that give the final composite material exceptional mechanical strength and optical iridescence on the macroscale. This multiscale biological assembly inspires new synthetic routes to complex ma...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hovden R,Wolf SE,Holtz ME,Marin F,Muller DA,Estroff LA

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) arrests cells in mitosis by sensing unattached kinetochores, until all chromosomes are bi-oriented by spindle microtubules. Kinetochore accumulation of the SAC component Mad1-Mad2 is crucial for SAC activation. However, the mechanism by which Mad1-Mad2 accumulation at kinetochores...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou H,Wang T,Zheng T,Teng J,Chen J

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing demand for lithium batteries with higher energy densities requires new electrode chemistries. Lithium metal is a promising candidate as the anode material due to its high theoretical specific capacity, negative electrochemical potential and favorable density. However, during cycling, low and uneven lithium...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen W,Hu Y,Lv W,Lei T,Wang X,Li Z,Zhang M,Huang J,Du X,Yan Y,He W,Liu C,Liao M,Zhang W,Xiong J,Yan C

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tie receptors with their Angiopoietin ligands act as regulators of angiogenesis and vessel maturation. Tie2 exerts its functions through its supposed endothelial-specific expression. Yet, Tie2 is also expressed at lower levels by pericytes and it has not been unravelled through which mechanisms pericyte Angiopoiet...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Teichert M,Milde L,Holm A,Stanicek L,Gengenbacher N,Savant S,Ruckdeschel T,Hasanov Z,Srivastava K,Hu J,Hertel S,Bartol A,Schlereth K,Augustin HG

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chirality and liquid crystals are both widely expressed in nature and biology. Helical assembly of mesophasic molecules and colloids may produce intriguing chiral liquid crystals. To date, chiral liquid crystals of 2D colloids have not been explored. As a typical 2D colloid, graphene is now receiving unprecedented att...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xu Z,Gao C

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00