Small molecule regulated sgRNAs enable control of genome editing in E. coli by Cas9.

abstract：:Although brain functionality is often remarkably robust to lesions and other insults, it may be fragile when these take place in specific locations. Previous attempts to quantify robustness and fragility sought to understand how the functional connectivity of brain networks is affected by structural changes, using eit...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Farooq H,Chen Y,Georgiou TT,Tannenbaum A,Lenglet C

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells are essential for maintaining peripheral tolerance and preventing autoimmunity. While genetic factors may predispose for autoimmunity, additional environmental triggers, such as viral infections, are usually required to initiate the onset of disease. Here, we show that viral infection ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schorer M,Lambert K,Rakebrandt N,Rost F,Kao KC,Yermanos A,Spörri R,Oderbolz J,Raeber ME,Keller CW,Lünemann JD,Rogler G,Boyman O,Oxenius A,Joller N

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nano-sized metal particles are attracting much interest in industrial and biomedical applications due to the recent progress and development of nanotechnology, and the surface-modifications by appropriate polymers are key techniques to stably express their characteristics. Herein, we applied cyclic poly(ethylene glyco...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Quinsaat JEQ,Ono T,Maeki M,Tokeshi M,Isono T,Tajima K,Satoh T,Sato SI,Miura Y,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle injury triggers inflammation in which infiltrating mononuclear phagocytes are crucial for tissue regeneration. The interaction of the CCL2/CCR2 and CX3CL1/CX3CR1 chemokine axis that guides phagocyte infiltration is incompletely understood. Here, we show that CX3CR1 deficiency promotes muscle repair and rescues ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arnold L,Perrin H,de Chanville CB,Saclier M,Hermand P,Poupel L,Guyon E,Licata F,Carpentier W,Vilar J,Mounier R,Chazaud B,Benhabiles N,Boissonnas A,Combadiere B,Combadiere C

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, transcription complexes stalled on DNA represent a major source of roadblocks for the DNA replication machinery that must be removed in order to prevent damaging collisions. Gram-positive bacteria contain a transcription factor HelD that is able to remove and recycle stalled complexes, but it was not know...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Newing TP,Oakley AJ,Miller M,Dawson CJ,Brown SHJ,Bouwer JC,Tolun G,Lewis PJ

更新日期：2020-12-18 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：:Precise rare-cell technologies require the blood to be processed immediately or be stabilized with fixatives. Such restrictions limit the translation of circulating tumor cell (CTC)-based liquid biopsy assays that provide accurate molecular data in guiding clinical decisions. Here we describe a method to preserve whol...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wong KHK,Tessier SN,Miyamoto DT,Miller KL,Bookstaver LD,Carey TR,Stannard CJ,Thapar V,Tai EC,Vo KD,Emmons ES,Pleskow HM,Sandlin RD,Sequist LV,Ting DT,Haber DA,Maheswaran S,Stott SL,Toner M

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective prevention strategies will be essential in reducing disease burden due to bacterial infections. Here we harness the specificity and rapid-acting properties of bacteriophages as a potential prophylaxis therapy for cholera, a severely dehydrating disease caused by Vibrio cholerae. To this end, we test a cockta...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yen M,Cairns LS,Camilli A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, molecular assembly pathways for viruses are inferred from high resolution structures of purified stable intermediates, low resolution images of cell sections and genetic approaches. Here, we directly visualise an unsuspected 'single shelled' intermediate for a mammalian orthoreovirus in cryo-preserved i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sutton G,Sun D,Fu X,Kotecha A,Hecksel CW,Clare DK,Zhang P,Stuart DI,Boyce M

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Crucial steps in the miniaturisation of biosensors are the conversion of a biological signal into an electrical current as well as the direct sampling of bodily fluids. Here we show that protein sensors in combination with a nanopore, acting as an electrical transducer, can accurately quantify metabolites in real time...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Galenkamp NS,Soskine M,Hermans J,Wloka C,Maglia G

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, organellar proteome biogenesis is pivotal for cellular function. Chloroplasts contain a complex proteome, the biogenesis of which includes post-translational import of nuclear-encoded proteins. However, the mechanisms determining when and how nascent chloroplast-targeted proteins are sorted in the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim DH,Lee JE,Xu ZY,Geem KR,Kwon Y,Park JW,Hwang I

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual role played by symmetry in many-body physics manifests itself through two fundamental mechanisms: spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological symmetry protection. These two concepts, ubiquitous in both condensed matter and high energy physics, have been applied successfully in the last decades to unravel a ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： González-Cuadra D,Bermudez A,Grzybowski PR,Lewenstein M,Dauphin A

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen of humans, uses quorum sensing (QS) to regulate the production of extracellular products that can benefit all members of the population. P. aeruginosa can police QS-deficient cheaters by producing hydrogen cyanide, which is also QS regulated; however, the mechanism by ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yan H,Asfahl KL,Li N,Sun F,Xiao J,Shen D,Dandekar AA,Wang M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeowners around the world elevate houses to manage flood risks. Deciding how high to elevate a house poses a nontrivial decision problem. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommends elevating existing houses to the Base Flood Elevation (the elevation of the 100-year flood) plus a freeboard. This r...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zarekarizi M,Srikrishnan V,Keller K

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drugs bind to and activate human pregnane X receptor (hPXR) to upregulate drug-metabolizing enzymes, resulting in decreased drug efficacy and increased resistance. This suggests that hPXR antagonists have therapeutic value. Here we report that SPA70 is a potent and selective hPXR antagonist. SPA70 inhibits hPXR i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lin W,Wang YM,Chai SC,Lv L,Zheng J,Wu J,Zhang Q,Wang YD,Griffin PR,Chen T

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is most highly expressed in rapidly growing bacteria and is drastically downregulated under stress conditions by the global transcriptional regulator DksA and the alarmone ppGpp. Here, we determined cryo-electron microscopy structures of the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase (RNAP) σ70 holoenzyme du...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shin Y,Qayyum MZ,Pupov D,Esyunina D,Kulbachinskiy A,Murakami KS

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease manifest with the neuronal accumulation of toxic proteins. Since autophagy upregulation enhances the clearance of such proteins and ameliorates their toxicities in animal models, we and others have sought to re-position/r...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Siddiqi FH,Menzies FM,Lopez A,Stamatakou E,Karabiyik C,Ureshino R,Ricketts T,Jimenez-Sanchez M,Esteban MA,Lai L,Tortorella MD,Luo Z,Liu H,Metzakopian E,Fernandes HJR,Bassett A,Karran E,Miller BL,Fleming A,Rubinsztei

更新日期：2019-04-18 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：:Recently, surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoprobes have shown tremendous potential in oncological imaging owing to the high sensitivity and specificity of their fingerprint-like spectra. As current Raman scanners rely on a slow, point-by-point spectrum acquisition, there is an unmet need for faster imaging to cove...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pal S,Ray A,Andreou C,Zhou Y,Rakshit T,Wlodarczyk M,Maeda M,Toledo-Crow R,Berisha N,Yang J,Hsu HT,Oseledchyk A,Mondal J,Zou S,Kircher MF

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants can produce organs throughout their entire life from pluripotent stem cells located at their growing tip, the shoot apical meristem (SAM). At the time of flowering, the SAM of Arabidopsis thaliana switches fate and starts producing flowers instead of leaves. Correct timing of flowering in part determines reprod...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： You Y,Sawikowska A,Neumann M,Posé D,Capovilla G,Langenecker T,Neher RA,Krajewski P,Schmid M

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetics enables manipulation of biological processes with light at high spatio-temporal resolution to control the behavior of cells, networks, or even whole animals. In contrast to the performance of excitatory rhodopsins, the effectiveness of inhibitory optogenetic tools is still insufficient. Here we report a t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bernal Sierra YA,Rost BR,Pofahl M,Fernandes AM,Kopton RA,Moser S,Holtkamp D,Masala N,Beed P,Tukker JJ,Oldani S,Bönigk W,Kohl P,Baier H,Schneider-Warme F,Hegemann P,Beck H,Seifert R,Schmitz D

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is associated with 5.1% mortality. Although the virological, epidemiological, clinical, and management outcome features of COVID-19 patients have been defined rapidly, the inflammatory and immune profiles require definition as they influence pathogenesis and clinical expression of COVID-19. Here we show lymph...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Song JW,Zhang C,Fan X,Meng FP,Xu Z,Xia P,Cao WJ,Yang T,Dai XP,Wang SY,Xu RN,Jiang TJ,Li WG,Zhang DW,Zhao P,Shi M,Agrati C,Ippolito G,Maeurer M,Zumla A,Wang FS,Zhang JY

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA has emerged as a promising material for nanostructure and microstructure engineering. Although rare, some macroscopic RNA structures have also been constructed using lipid or polymer materials. Here, we report the first example of an enzymatically generated RNA membrane. This robust and free-standing RNA membrane ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Han D,Park Y,Kim H,Lee JB

更新日期：2014-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest the emerging roles of armadillo (ARM) family proteins in tumor progression. However, the functions and underlying mechanisms of ARM members in tumorigenesis and aggressiveness of neuroblastoma (NB) remain to be determined. Herein, we identify armadillo repeat containing 12 (ARMC12) as an ARM mem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li D,Song H,Mei H,Fang E,Wang X,Yang F,Li H,Chen Y,Huang K,Zheng L,Tong Q

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Organolead halide perovskites have attracted substantial attention because of their excellent physical properties, which enable them to serve as the active material in emerging hybrid solid-state solar cells. Here we investigate the phototransistors based on hybrid perovskite films and provide direct evidence for thei...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li F,Ma C,Wang H,Hu W,Yu W,Sheikh AD,Wu T

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesa structures made of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ high-temperature superconductor represent stacks of atomic scale intrinsic Josephson junctions. They can be used for generation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves. Here we analyze Josephson emission from small-but-high mesas (with a small area, but containing many stacked j...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Borodianskyi EA,Krasnov VM

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The central phenomenon in the field of organic spintronics is the large magnetoresistance in thick organic spin valves. A prerequisite for understanding the magnetoresistance is a reliable description of the device resistance, or the I-V characteristics. Here I show that the observed I-V characteristics in the organic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu ZG

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:FDA proactively invests in tools to support innovation of emerging technologies, such as infectious disease next generation sequencing (ID-NGS). Here, we introduce FDA-ARGOS quality-controlled reference genomes as a public database for diagnostic purposes and demonstrate its utility on the example of two use cases. We...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sichtig H,Minogue T,Yan Y,Stefan C,Hall A,Tallon L,Sadzewicz L,Nadendla S,Klimke W,Hatcher E,Shumway M,Aldea DL,Allen J,Koehler J,Slezak T,Lovell S,Schoepp R,Scherf U

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophosphorylation of amino-acid residues is part of the folding process of various protein kinases. Conventional chemical screening of mature kinases has missed inhibitors that selectively interfere with the folding process. Here we report a cell-based assay that evaluates inhibition of a kinase at a transitional st...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kii I,Sumida Y,Goto T,Sonamoto R,Okuno Y,Yoshida S,Kato-Sumida T,Koike Y,Abe M,Nonaka Y,Ikura T,Ito N,Shibuya H,Hosoya T,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary bone tumor with poor prognosis. Through RNA-sequencing of 100,987 individual cells from 7 primary, 2 recurrent, and 2 lung metastatic osteosarcoma lesions, 11 major cell clusters are identified based on unbiased clustering of gene expression profiles and canonical markers. The...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou Y,Yang D,Yang Q,Lv X,Huang W,Zhou Z,Wang Y,Zhang Z,Yuan T,Ding X,Tang L,Zhang J,Yin J,Huang Y,Yu W,Wang Y,Zhou C,Su Y,He A,Sun Y,Shen Z,Qian B,Meng W,Fei J,Yao Y,Pan X,Chen P,Hu H

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00