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

abstract：:Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for communication systems since data transmission rates can be maximiz...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Soto MA,Alem M,Amin Shoaie M,Vedadi A,Brès CS,Thévenaz L,Schneider T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cas9 endonuclease can be targeted to genomic sequences by programming the sequence of an associated single guide RNA (sgRNA). For unknown reasons, the activity of these Cas9-sgRNA combinations varies widely at different genomic loci and in different cell types. Thus, disrupting genes in polyploid cell lines or whe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Richardson CD,Ray GJ,Bray NL,Corn JE

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting ecological effects of contaminants remains challenging because of the sheer number of chemicals and their ambiguous role in biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships. We evaluate responses of experimental pond ecosystems to standardized concentrations of 12 pesticides, nested in four pesticide classes a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rumschlag SL,Mahon MB,Hoverman JT,Raffel TR,Carrick HJ,Hudson PJ,Rohr JR

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, to overcome many limitations accompanying current available methods to detect protein-protein interactions (PPIs), we develop a live cell method called Split Intein-Mediated Protein Ligation (SIMPL). In this approach, bait and prey proteins are respectively fused to an intein N-terminal fragment (IN) and C-termi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao Z,Aboualizadeh F,Kroll J,Akula I,Snider J,Lyakisheva A,Tang P,Kotlyar M,Jurisica I,Boxem M,Stagljar I

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically pumped organic lasing is one of the most challenging issues in organic optoelectronics. We present a systematic theoretical investigation to screen out electrical pumping lasing molecules over a wide range of organic materials. With the electronic structure information obtained from time-dependent density...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ou Q,Peng Q,Shuai Z

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowing which proteins and RNAs directly interact is essential for understanding cellular mechanisms. Unfortunately, discovering such interactions is costly and often unreliable. To overcome these limitations, we developed rec-YnH, a new yeast two and three-hybrid-based screening pipeline capable of detecting interact...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang JS,Garriga-Canut M,Link N,Carolis C,Broadbent K,Beltran-Sastre V,Serrano L,Maurer SP

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multiphoton-pumped lasing from a solution of chromophores is important in the emerging fields of nonlinear optofluidics and bio-photonics, conventionally used organic dyes are often rendered unsuitable because of relatively small multiphoton absorption cross-sections and low photostability. Here, we demonstra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li M,Zhi M,Zhu H,Wu WY,Xu QH,Jhon MH,Chan Y

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Profound global loss of DNA methylation is a hallmark of many cancers. One potential consequence of this is the reactivation of transposable elements (TEs) which could stimulate the immune system via cell-intrinsic antiviral responses. Here, we develop REdiscoverTE, a computational method for quantifying genome-wide T...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kong Y,Rose CM,Cass AA,Williams AG,Darwish M,Lianoglou S,Haverty PM,Tong AJ,Blanchette C,Albert ML,Mellman I,Bourgon R,Greally J,Jhunjhunwala S,Chen-Harris H

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous cycles of nucleocytoplasmic transport require disassembly of transport receptor/Ran-GTP complexes in the cytoplasm. A basic disassembly mechanism in all eukaryotes depends on soluble RanGAP and RanBP1. In vertebrates, a significant fraction of RanGAP1 stably interacts with the nucleoporin RanBP2 at a bindin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ritterhoff T,Das H,Hofhaus G,Schröder RR,Flotho A,Melchior F

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-layer structure of functional materials often involves the integration of different crystalline phases. The film growth orientation thus frequently exhibits a transformation, owing to multiple possibilities caused by incompatible in-plane structural symmetry. Nevertheless, the detailed mechanism of the transform...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou H,Wu L,Wang HQ,Zheng JC,Zhang L,Kisslinger K,Li Y,Wang Z,Cheng H,Ke S,Li Y,Kang J,Zhu Y

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoblast fusion is an indispensable step for skeletal muscle development, postnatal growth, and regeneration. Myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88) is an adaptor protein that mediates Toll-like receptors and interleukin-1 receptor signaling. Here we report a cell-autonomous role of MyD88 in the regu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hindi SM,Shin J,Gallot YS,Straughn AR,Simionescu-Bankston A,Hindi L,Xiong G,Friedland RP,Kumar A

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a common brain disorder throughout history. Epilepsy-related ligand-receptor complex, LGI1-ADAM22, regulates synaptic transmission and has emerged as a determinant of brain excitability, as their mutations and acquired LGI1 autoantibodies cause epileptic disorders in human. Here, we report the crystal stru...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yamagata A,Miyazaki Y,Yokoi N,Shigematsu H,Sato Y,Goto-Ito S,Maeda A,Goto T,Sanbo M,Hirabayashi M,Shirouzu M,Fukata Y,Fukata M,Fukai S

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth places infants in an adverse environment that leads to abnormal brain development and cerebral injury through a poorly understood mechanism known to involve neuroinflammation. In this study, we integrate human and mouse molecular and neuroimaging data to investigate the role of microglia in preterm white...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Krishnan ML,Van Steenwinckel J,Schang AL,Yan J,Arnadottir J,Le Charpentier T,Csaba Z,Dournaud P,Cipriani S,Auvynet C,Titomanlio L,Pansiot J,Ball G,Boardman JP,Walley AJ,Saxena A,Mirza G,Fleiss B,Edwards AD,Petretto

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA can form diverse higher-order structures, whose details are greatly dependent on nucleotide sequence. G-rich sequences containing four or more repeats of three guanines are expected to form G-quadruplexes. Here we show that DNA sequences with GGGAGCG repeats found in the regulatory region of the PLEKHG3 gene are c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kocman V,Plavec J

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane transporters actively translocate their substrate by undergoing large-scale structural transitions between inward- (IF) and outward-facing (OF) states ('alternating-access' mechanism). Despite extensive structural studies, atomic-level mechanistic details of such structural transitions, and as importantly, th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Moradi M,Enkavi G,Tajkhorshid E

更新日期：2015-09-29 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：:FoxO proteins are major targets of insulin action. To better define the role of FoxO1 in mediating insulin effects in the liver, we generated liver-specific insulin receptor knockout (LIRKO) and IR/FoxO1 double knockout (LIRFKO) mice. Here we show that LIRKO mice are severely insulin resistant based on glucose, insuli...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： O-Sullivan I,Zhang W,Wasserman DH,Liew CW,Liu J,Paik J,DePinho RA,Stolz DB,Kahn CR,Schwartz MW,Unterman TG

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep understanding of the genomic and immunological differences between Chinese and Western lung cancer patients is of great importance for target therapy selection and development for Chinese patients. Here we report an extensive molecular and immune profiling study of 245 Chinese patients with non-small cell lung ca...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang XC,Wang J,Shao GG,Wang Q,Qu X,Wang B,Moy C,Fan Y,Albertyn Z,Huang X,Zhang J,Qiu Y,Platero S,Lorenzi MV,Zudaire E,Yang J,Cheng Y,Xu L,Wu YL

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA is a promising molecule for applications in molecular electronics because of its unique electronic and self-assembly properties. Here we report that the conductance of DNA duplexes increases by approximately one order of magnitude when its conformation is changed from the B-form to the A-form. This large conductan...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Artés JM,Li Y,Qi J,Anantram MP,Hihath J

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Supersymmetry is a conjectured symmetry between bosons and fermions aiming at solving fundamental questions in string and quantum field theory. Its subsequent application to quantum mechanics led to a ground-breaking analysis and design machinery, later fruitfully extrapolated to photonics. In all cases, the algebraic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： García-Meca C,Ortiz AM,Sáez RL

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding clamps encircle DNA and tether polymerases and other factors to the genomic template. However, the molecular mechanism of clamp sliding on DNA is unknown. Using crystallography, NMR and molecular dynamics simulations, here we show that the human clamp PCNA recognizes DNA through a double patch of basic residue...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： De March M,Merino N,Barrera-Vilarmau S,Crehuet R,Onesti S,Blanco FJ,De Biasio A

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) are deadly paediatric brain tumours where needle biopsies help guide diagnosis and targeted therapies. To address spatial heterogeneity, here we analyse 134 specimens from various neuroanatomical structures of whole autopsy brains from nine DIPG patients. Evolutionary reconstr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nikbakht H,Panditharatna E,Mikael LG,Li R,Gayden T,Osmond M,Ho CY,Kambhampati M,Hwang EI,Faury D,Siu A,Papillon-Cavanagh S,Bechet D,Ligon KL,Ellezam B,Ingram WJ,Stinson C,Moore AS,Warren KE,Karamchandani J,Packer

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational dynamics plays an important role in enzyme catalysis, allosteric regulation of protein functions and assembly of macromolecular complexes. Despite these well-established roles, such information has yet to be exploited for drug design. Here we show by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that inhibito...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee CJ,Liang X,Wu Q,Najeeb J,Zhao J,Gopalaswamy R,Titecat M,Sebbane F,Lemaitre N,Toone EJ,Zhou P

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The flexibility in structural design of organic semiconductors endows organic solar cells (OSCs) not only great function-tunabilities, but also high potential toward practical application. In this work, simple non-fused-ring electron acceptors are developed through two-step synthesis from single aromatic units for con...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu ZP,Liu ZX,Chen FX,Qin R,Lau TK,Yin JL,Kong X,Lu X,Shi M,Li CZ,Chen H

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are unusually fertile soils characterised by elevated concentrations of microscopic charcoal particles, which confer their distinctive colouration. Frequent occurrences of pre-Columbian artefacts at ADE sites led to their ubiquitous classification as Anthrosols (soils of anthropic origin)....

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Silva LCR,Corrêa RS,Wright JL,Bomfim B,Hendricks L,Gavin DG,Muniz AW,Martins GC,Motta ACV,Barbosa JZ,Melo VF,Young SD,Broadley MR,Santos RV

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular crystals can be bent elastically by expansion or plastically by delamination into slabs that glide along slip planes. Here we report that upon bending, terephthalic acid crystals can undergo a mechanically induced phase transition without delamination and their overall crystal integrity is retained. Such pla...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ahmed E,Karothu DP,Warren M,Naumov P

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Age, as a threshold of floral competence acquisition, prevents precocious flowering when there is insufficient biomass, and ensures flowering independent of environmental conditions; however, the underlying regulatory mechanisms are largely unknown. In this study, silencing the expression of a nuclear factor gene, CmN...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wei Q,Ma C,Xu Y,Wang T,Chen Y,Lü J,Zhang L,Jiang CZ,Hong B,Gao J

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer evolution is fueled by epigenetic as well as genetic diversity. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), intra-tumoral DNA methylation (DNAme) heterogeneity empowers evolution. Here, to comprehensively study the epigenetic dimension of cancer evolution, we integrate DNAme analysis with histone modification mappin...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pastore A,Gaiti F,Lu SX,Brand RM,Kulm S,Chaligne R,Gu H,Huang KY,Stamenova EK,Béguelin W,Jiang Y,Schulman RC,Kim KT,Alonso A,Allan JN,Furman RR,Gnirke A,Wu CJ,Melnick AM,Meissner A,Bernstein BE,Abdel-Wahab O,L

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:While erythropoietin (EPO) constitutes the major treatment for anemia, a range of anemic disorders remain resistant to EPO treatment. The need for alternative therapeutic strategies requires the identification of mechanisms that physiologically restrain erythropoiesis. Here we show that P38α restrains erythropoiesis i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hu P,Nebreda AR,Hanenberg H,Kinnebrew GH,Ivan M,Yoder MC,Filippi MD,Broxmeyer HE,Kapur R

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We study spin transport in a fully hBN encapsulated monolayer-graphene van der Waals heterostructure at room temperature. A top-layer of bilayer-hBN is used as a tunnel barrier for spin-injection and detection in graphene with ferromagnetic cobalt electrodes. We report surprisingly large and bias-induced (differential...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gurram M,Omar S,Wees BJV

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00