Causality matters in medical imaging.

abstract：:Host dependency factors that are required for influenza A virus infection may serve as therapeutic targets as the virus is less likely to bypass them under drug-mediated selection pressure. Previous attempts to identify host factors have produced largely divergent results, with few overlapping hits across different st...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li B,Clohisey SM,Chia BS,Wang B,Cui A,Eisenhaure T,Schweitzer LD,Hoover P,Parkinson NJ,Nachshon A,Smith N,Regan T,Farr D,Gutmann MU,Bukhari SI,Law A,Sangesland M,Gat-Viks I,Digard P,Vasudevan S,Lingwood D,Dockre

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During epithelial morphogenesis, cell contacts (junctions) are constantly remodeled by mechanical forces that work against adhesive forces. E-cadherin complexes play a pivotal role in this process by providing persistent cell adhesion and by transmitting mechanical tension. In this context, it is unclear how mechanica...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kale GR,Yang X,Philippe JM,Mani M,Lenne PF,Lecuit T

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature has developed striking light-powered proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin, which can convert light energy into conformational changes for biological functions. Such natural machines are a great source of inspiration for creation of their synthetic analogues. However, synthetic molecular machines typically operate...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kuzyk A,Yang Y,Duan X,Stoll S,Govorov AO,Sugiyama H,Endo M,Liu N

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and thrombosis occur together in many diseases. The leukocyte integrin Mac-1 (also known as integrin αMβ2, or CD11b/CD18) is crucial for leukocyte recruitment to the endothelium, and Mac-1 engagement of platelet GPIbα is required for injury responses in diverse disease models. However, the role of Mac-1 i...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang Y,Gao H,Shi C,Erhardt PW,Pavlovsky A,A Soloviev D,Bledzka K,Ustinov V,Zhu L,Qin J,Munday AD,Lopez J,Plow E,Simon DI

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:MAVS and MITA are essential adaptor proteins mediating innate antiviral immune responses against RNA and DNA viruses, respectively. Here we show that RNF115 plays dual roles in response to RNA or DNA virus infections by catalyzing distinct types of ubiquitination of MAVS and MITA at different phases of viral infection...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang ZD,Xiong TC,Yao SQ,Wei MC,Chen M,Lin D,Zhong B

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Some two-dimensional liquid systems are theoretically predicted to have an anomalous phase transition due to unique intermolecular interactions, for example the first-order transition between two-dimensional high-density water and low-density amorphous ice. However, it has never been experimentally observed, to the be...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li W,Kong L,Feng B,Fu H,Li H,Zeng XC,Wu K,Chen L

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer persister cells tolerate anticancer drugs and serve as the founders of acquired resistance and cancer relapse. Here we show that a subpopulation of BRAFV600 mutant melanoma cells that tolerates exposure to BRAF and MEK inhibitors undergoes a reversible remodelling of mRNA translation that evolves in parallel wi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen S,Faouzi S,Bastide A,Martineau S,Malka-Mahieu H,Fu Y,Sun X,Mateus C,Routier E,Roy S,Desaubry L,André F,Eggermont A,David A,Scoazec JY,Vagner S,Robert C

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional epitaxy of semiconductor films requires a compatible single crystalline substrate and precisely controlled growth conditions, which limit the price competitiveness and versatility of the process. We demonstrate substrate-tolerant nano-heteroepitaxy (NHE) of high-quality formamidinium-lead-tri-iodide (FAPb...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee JW,Tan S,Han TH,Wang R,Zhang L,Park C,Yoon M,Choi C,Xu M,Liao ME,Lee SJ,Nuryyeva S,Zhu C,Huynh K,Goorsky MS,Huang Y,Pan X,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging recovers objects using diffusely reflected indirect light using transient illumination devices in combination with a computational inverse method. While capture systems capable of collecting light from the entire NLOS relay surface can be much more light efficient than single pixel poi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu X,Bauer S,Velten A

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:By electrochemically coupling microbial and abiotic catalysts, bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial electrolysis cells and microbial electrosynthesis systems synthesize energy-rich chemicals from energy-poor precursors with unmatched efficiency. However, to circumvent chemical incompatibilities between the mic...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cornejo JA,Sheng H,Edri E,M Ajo-Franklin C,Frei H

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of personalized and stratified medicine requires label-free, low-cost diagnostic technology capable of monitoring multiple disease biomarkers in parallel. Silicon photonic biosensors combine high-sensitivity analysis with scalable, low-cost manufacturing, but they tend to measure only a single biomarker ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Juan-Colás J,Parkin A,Dunn KE,Scullion MG,Krauss TF,Johnson SD

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is a key component of cell membranes with a proven modulatory role on the function and ligand-binding properties of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Crystal structures of prototypical GPCRs such as the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) have confirmed that cholesterol finds stable binding sites at the recep...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Guixà-González R,Albasanz JL,Rodriguez-Espigares I,Pastor M,Sanz F,Martí-Solano M,Manna M,Martinez-Seara H,Hildebrand PW,Martín M,Selent J

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:As European heatwaves become more severe, summers in the United Kingdom (UK) are also getting warmer. The UK record temperature of 38.7 °C set in Cambridge in July 2019 prompts the question of whether exceeding 40 °C is now within reach. Here, we show how human influence is increasing the likelihood of exceeding 30, 3...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Christidis N,McCarthy M,Stott PA

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetic excitations in the cuprate superconductors might be essential for an understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. In these cuprate superconductors the magnetic excitation spectrum resembles an hour-glass and certain resonant magnetic excitations within are believed to be connected to the pairing m...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Drees Y,Li ZW,Ricci A,Rotter M,Schmidt W,Lamago D,Sobolev O,Rütt U,Gutowski O,Sprung M,Piovano A,Castellan JP,Komarek AC

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy circulation in geospace lies at the heart of space weather research. In the inner magnetosphere, the steep plasmapause boundary separates the cold dense plasmasphere, which corotates with the planet, from the hot ring current/plasma sheet outside. Theoretical studies suggested that plasmapause surface waves rel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： He F,Guo RL,Dunn WR,Yao ZH,Zhang HS,Hao YX,Shi QQ,Rong ZJ,Liu J,Tian AM,Zhang XX,Wei Y,Zhang YL,Zong QG,Pu ZY,Wan WX

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have reported that chromosome synteny in Lepidoptera has been well conserved, yet the number of haploid chromosomes varies widely from 5 to 223. Here we report the genome (393 Mb) of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Nymphalidae), a widely recognized model species in metapopulation ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ahola V,Lehtonen R,Somervuo P,Salmela L,Koskinen P,Rastas P,Välimäki N,Paulin L,Kvist J,Wahlberg N,Tanskanen J,Hornett EA,Ferguson LC,Luo S,Cao Z,de Jong MA,Duplouy A,Smolander OP,Vogel H,McCoy RC,Qian K,Chong W

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the formation chemistry of metal halide perovskites is key to optimizing processing conditions and realizing enhanced optoelectronic properties. Here, we reveal the structure of the crystalline precursor in the formation of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) from the single-step deposition of lead chlor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stone KH,Gold-Parker A,Pool VL,Unger EL,Bowring AR,McGehee MD,Toney MF,Tassone CJ

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying a bona fide population of cardiac stem cells (CSCs) is a critical step for developing cell-based therapies for heart failure patients. Previously, cardiac c-kit(+) cells were reported to be CSCs with a potential to become myocardial, endothelial and smooth muscle cells in vitro and after cardiac injury. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sultana N,Zhang L,Yan J,Chen J,Cai W,Razzaque S,Jeong D,Sheng W,Bu L,Xu M,Huang GY,Hajjar RJ,Zhou B,Moon A,Cai CL

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In germinal centres (GC) mature B cells undergo intense proliferation and immunoglobulin gene modification before they differentiate into memory B cells or long-lived plasma cells (PC). GC B-cell-to-PC transition involves a major transcriptional switch that promotes a halt in cell proliferation and the production of s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pérez-García A,Marina-Zárate E,Álvarez-Prado ÁF,Ligos JM,Galjart N,Ramiro AR

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft particulate media include a wide range of systems involving athermal dissipative particles both in non-living and biological materials. Characterization of flows of particulate media is of great practical and theoretical importance. A fascinating feature of these systems is the existence of a critical rigidity tr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rahbari SHE,Saberi AA,Park H,Vollmer J

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent levelling of global mean temperatures after the late 1990s, the so-called global warming hiatus or slowdown, ignited a surge of scientific interest into natural global mean surface temperature variability, observed temperature biases, and climate communication, but many questions remain about how these find...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Johnson NC,Xie SP,Kosaka Y,Li X

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres are specified epigenetically through the deposition of the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CENP-A. However, how additional epigenetic features are involved in centromere specification is unknown. Here, we find that histone H4 Lys5 and Lys12 acetylation (H4K5ac and H4K12ac) primarily occur within the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shang WH,Hori T,Westhorpe FG,Godek KM,Toyoda A,Misu S,Monma N,Ikeo K,Carroll CW,Takami Y,Fujiyama A,Kimura H,Straight AF,Fukagawa T

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane cold seep systems typically exhibit extensive buildups of authigenic carbonate minerals, resulting from local increases in alkalinity driven by methane oxidation. Here, we demonstrate that modern seep authigenic carbonates exhibit anomalously low clumped isotope values (Δ47), as much as ∼0.2‰ lower than expect...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Loyd SJ,Sample J,Tripati RE,Defliese WF,Brooks K,Hovland M,Torres M,Marlow J,Hancock LG,Martin R,Lyons T,Tripati AE

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's coastal zones are experiencing rapid development and an increase in storms and flooding. These hazards put coastal communities at heightened risk, which may increase with habitat loss. Here we analyse globally the role and cost effectiveness of coral reefs in risk reduction. Meta-analyses reveal that coral...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ferrario F,Beck MW,Storlazzi CD,Micheli F,Shepard CC,Airoldi L

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Resident tissue macrophages (RTM) can fulfill various tasks during development, homeostasis, inflammation and repair. In the lung, non-alveolar RTM, called interstitial macrophages (IM), importantly contribute to tissue homeostasis but remain little characterized. Here we show, using single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schyns J,Bai Q,Ruscitti C,Radermecker C,De Schepper S,Chakarov S,Farnir F,Pirottin D,Ginhoux F,Boeckxstaens G,Bureau F,Marichal T

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Epistasis emerges when the effects of an amino acid depend on the identities of interacting residues. This phenomenon shapes fitness landscapes, which have the power to reveal evolutionary paths and inform evolution of desired functions. However, there is a need for easily implemented, high-throughput methods to captu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yoo JI,Daugherty PS,O'Malley MA

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene and carbon nanotubes are envisaged as suitable materials for the fabrication of the new generation of nanoelectronics. The controlled patterning of such nanostructures with metal nanoparticles is conditioned by the transfer between a recipient and the surface to pattern. Electromigration under the impact of a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Melinte G,Moldovan S,Hirlimann C,Liu X,Bégin-Colin S,Bégin D,Banhart F,Pham-Huu C,Ersen O

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, plant tendrils can produce two fundamental motion modes, bending and chiral twisting (helical curling) distortions, under the stimuli of sunlight, humidity, wetting or other atmospheric conditions. To date, many artificial plant-like mechanical machines have been developed. Although some previously reported...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang M,Lin BP,Yang H

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Coalescence is an essential phenomenon that governs the equilibrium behaviour in a variety of systems from intercellular transport to planetary formation. In this report, we study coalescence pathways of circularly shaped two-dimensional colloidal membranes, which are one rod-length-thick liquid-like monolayers of ali...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zakhary MJ,Gibaud T,Kaplan CN,Barry E,Oldenbourg R,Meyer RB,Dogic Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular signaling is indispensable for single cells to form complex biological structures, such as biofilms, tissues and organs. The genetic tools available for engineering intercellular signaling, however, are quite limited. Here we exploit the chemical diversity of biological small molecules to de novo design ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Du P,Zhao H,Zhang H,Wang R,Huang J,Tian Y,Luo X,Luo X,Wang M,Xiang Y,Qian L,Chen Y,Tao Y,Lou C

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00