Enthalpy-entropy compensation of atomic diffusion originates from softening of low frequency phonons.

abstract：:Express delivery services are booming in both developed and emerging economies due to their low cost, convenience, and the fast growth in online shopping. The increasing environmental impacts of express delivery services and mitigation potentials, however, remain largely unexplored. Here we addressed such a gap for Ch...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kang P,Song G,Xu M,Miller TR,Wang H,Zhang H,Liu G,Zhou Y,Ren J,Zhong R,Duan H

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bell correlations are a foundational demonstration of how quantum entanglement contradicts the classical notion of local realism. Rigorous validation of quantum nonlocality have only been achieved between solid-state electron spins, internal states of trapped atoms, and photon polarisations, all weakly coupling to gra...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shin DK,Henson BM,Hodgman SS,Wasak T,Chwedeńczuk J,Truscott AG

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Van der Waals materials and heterostructures that manifest strongly bound exciton states at room temperature also exhibit emergent physical phenomena and are of great promise for optoelectronic applications. Here, we demonstrate that nanostructured, multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) by themselves pro...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang H,Abhiraman B,Zhang Q,Miao J,Jo K,Roccasecca S,Knight MW,Davoyan AR,Jariwala D

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-carbon electronics at the scale of several angstroms is an expeimental challenge, which could be overcome by exploiting the versatility of carbon allotropes. Here, we investigate charge transport through graphene/single-fullerene/graphene hybrid junctions using a single-molecule manipulation technique. Such sub-n...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tan Z,Zhang D,Tian HR,Wu Q,Hou S,Pi J,Sadeghi H,Tang Z,Yang Y,Liu J,Tan YZ,Chen ZB,Shi J,Xiao Z,Lambert C,Xie SY,Hong W

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glacier retreat is a worldwide phenomenon with important consequences for the hydrological cycle and downstream ecosystem structure and functioning. To determine the effects of glacier retreat on aquatic communities, we conducted a 4-year flow manipulation in a tropical glacier-fed stream. Compared with an adjacent re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cauvy-Fraunié S,Andino P,Espinosa R,Calvez R,Jacobsen D,Dangles O

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix interactions have essential roles in normal physiology and many pathological processes. Although the importance of extracellular matrix interactions in metastasis is well documented, systematic approaches to identify their roles in distinct stages of tumorigenesis have not been described. Here we ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Reticker-Flynn NE,Malta DF,Winslow MM,Lamar JM,Xu MJ,Underhill GH,Hynes RO,Jacks TE,Bhatia SN

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although soluble inhibitors are frequently used to block cell binding to the extracellular matrix (ECM), mechanical stretching of a protein fibre alone can physically destroy a cell-binding site. Here, we show using binding assays and steered molecular dynamics that mechanical tension along fibronectin (Fn) fibres cau...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chabria M,Hertig S,Smith ML,Vogel V

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional regulation of cellular mRNA is essential for protein synthesis. Here we describe the importance of mRNA translational repression and mRNA subcellular location for protein expression during B lymphocyte activation and the DNA damage response. Cytoplasmic RNA granules are formed upon cell activation...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Díaz-Muñoz MD,Kiselev VY,Le Novère N,Curk T,Ule J,Turner M

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The fossil record of crocodylians and their relatives (pseudosuchians) reveals a rich evolutionary history, prompting questions about causes of long-term decline to their present-day low biodiversity. We analyse climatic drivers of subsampled pseudosuchian biodiversity over their 250 million year history, using a comp...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mannion PD,Benson RBJ,Carrano MT,Tennant JP,Judd J,Butler RJ

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Grains and glasses, widely different materials, arrest their motions upon decreasing temperature and external load, respectively, in common ways, leading to a universal jamming phase diagram conjecture. However, unified theories are lacking, mainly because of the disparate nature of the particle interactions. Here we ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jose PP,Andricioaei I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial particle ices are model systems of constrained, interacting particles. They have been introduced theoretically to study ice-manifolds emergent from frustration, along with domain wall and grain boundary dynamics, doping, pinning-depinning, controlled transport of topological defects, avalanches, and memory ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Libál A,Lee DY,Ortiz-Ambriz A,Reichhardt C,Reichhardt CJO,Tierno P,Nisoli C

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most dramatic events in river environments is the natural diversion, or avulsion, of a channel across its floodplain. Though rarely witnessed, avulsions can cause massive floods, and over geologic time they create most of the fluvial stratigraphic record. Avulsions exhibit behavior ranging from reoccupying ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Valenza JM,Edmonds DA,Hwang T,Roy S

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome-derived metabolites influence intestinal homeostasis and regulate graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but the molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Here we show the metabolite sensor G-protein-coupled receptor 43 (GPR43) is important for attenuation of gastrointestinal GVHD in multiple clinically relevant muri...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fujiwara H,Docampo MD,Riwes M,Peltier D,Toubai T,Henig I,Wu SJ,Kim S,Taylor A,Brabbs S,Liu C,Zajac C,Oravecz-Wilson K,Sun Y,Núñez G,Levine JE,van den Brink MRM,Ferrara JLM,Reddy P

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood brain barrier (BBB) breakdown is not only a consequence of but also contributes to many neurological disorders, including stroke and Alzheimer's disease. How the basement membrane (BM) contributes to the normal functioning of the BBB remains elusive. Here we use conditional knockout mice and an acute adenovirus-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao Y,Chen ZL,Norris EH,Strickland S

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis is mediated by SNARE proteins. Reconstituted SNAREs are constitutively active, so a major focus has been to identify fusion clamps that regulate their activity in synapses: the primary candidates are synaptotagmin (syt) 1 and complexin I/II. Syt1 is a Ca2+ sensor for SV release that bi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Courtney NA,Bao H,Briguglio JS,Chapman ER

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To function, biomolecules require sufficient specificity of interaction as well as stability to live in the cell while still being able to move. Thermodynamic stability of only a limited number of specific structures is important so as to prevent promiscuous interactions. The individual interactions in proteins, there...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen M,Chen X,Schafer NP,Clementi C,Komives EA,Ferreiro DU,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2020-11-23 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：:Cells couple growth with division and regulate size in response to nutrient availability. In rod-shaped fission yeast, cell-size control occurs at mitotic commitment. An important regulator is the DYRK-family kinase Pom1, which forms gradients from cell poles and inhibits the mitotic activator Cdr2, itself localized a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kelkar M,Martin SG

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The early diversification of animals (∼ 630 Ma), and their development into both motile and macroscopic forms (∼ 575-565 Ma), has been linked to stepwise increases in the oxygenation of Earth's surface environment. However, establishing such a linkage between oxygen and evolution for the later Cambrian 'explosion' (54...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen X,Ling HF,Vance D,Shields-Zhou GA,Zhu M,Poulton SW,Och LM,Jiang SY,Li D,Cremonese L,Archer C

更新日期：2015-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel single-cell sequencing protocols represent powerful methods for investigating regulatory relationships, including epigenome-transcriptome interactions. Here, we report a single-cell method for parallel chromatin accessibility, DNA methylation and transcriptome profiling. scNMT-seq (single-cell nucleosome, met...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Clark SJ,Argelaguet R,Kapourani CA,Stubbs TM,Lee HJ,Alda-Catalinas C,Krueger F,Sanguinetti G,Kelsey G,Marioni JC,Stegle O,Reik W

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is a plasma homotetrameric protein implicated in fatal systemic amyloidoses. TTR tetramer dissociation precedes pathological TTR aggregation. Native state stabilizers are promising drugs to treat TTR amyloidoses. Here we repurpose tolcapone, an FDA-approved molecule for Parkinson's disease, as a po...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sant'Anna R,Gallego P,Robinson LZ,Pereira-Henriques A,Ferreira N,Pinheiro F,Esperante S,Pallares I,Huertas O,Almeida MR,Reixach N,Insa R,Velazquez-Campoy A,Reverter D,Reig N,Ventura S

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Trade-offs play an important role in evolution. Without trade-offs, evolution would maximize fitness of all traits leading to a "master of all traits". The shape of trade-offs has been shown to determine evolutionary trajectories and is often assumed to be static and independent of the actual evolutionary process. Her...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang W,Traulsen A,Werner B,Hiltunen T,Becks L

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Methylfurfural (MF) is a very useful chemical. Selective hydrogenation of biomass platform molecule 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) to MF using H2 as the reducing agent is very attractive, but challenging because hydrogenation of C=O bond in HMF is more favourable than C-OH both kinetically and thermodynamically, an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Li S,Dong M,Yang J,Cheng X,Shen X,Liu S,Wang ZQ,Gong XQ,Liu H,Han B

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence supports roles of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) in regulating target gene. Here, we study eRNA regulation and function during skeletal myoblast differentiation. We provide a panoramic view of enhancer transcription and categorization of eRNAs. Master transcription factor MyoD is crucial in activating eRNA pr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao Y,Zhou J,He L,Li Y,Yuan J,Sun K,Chen X,Bao X,Esteban MA,Sun H,Wang H

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The miniaturization of integrated optical circuits below the diffraction limit for high-speed manipulation of information is one of the cornerstones in plasmonics research. By coupling to surface plasmons supported on nanostructured metallic surfaces, light can be confined to the nanoscale, enabling the potential inte...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Raza S,Esfandyarpour M,Koh AL,Mortensen NA,Brongersma ML,Bozhevolnyi SI

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional blood vessel growth depends on generation of distinct but coordinated responses from endothelial cells. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP), part of the TGFβ superfamily, bind receptors to induce phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of SMAD transcription factors (R-SMAD1/5/8) and regulate vessel growth. ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mouillesseaux KP,Wiley DS,Saunders LM,Wylie LA,Kushner EJ,Chong DC,Citrin KM,Barber AT,Park Y,Kim JD,Samsa LA,Kim J,Liu J,Jin SW,Bautch VL

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface and subsurface are commonly considered as separate entities because of the difference in the bonding environment and are often investigated separately due to the experimental challenges in differentiating the surface and subsurface effects. Using in-situ atomic-scale transmission electron microscopy to resolve...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sun X,Zhu W,Wu D,Li C,Wang J,Zhu Y,Chen X,Boscoboinik JA,Sharma R,Zhou G

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Gfi1b is a transcriptional repressor expressed in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and megakaryocytes (MKs). Gfi1b deficiency leads to expansion of both cell types and abrogates the ability of MKs to respond to integrin. Here we show that Gfi1b forms complexes with β-catenin, its co-factors Pontin52, CHD8, TLE3 and CtB...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shooshtarizadeh P,Helness A,Vadnais C,Brouwer N,Beauchemin H,Chen R,Bagci H,Staal FJT,Coté JF,Möröy T

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid phase separation into two or more coexisting phases has emerged as a new paradigm for understanding subcellular organization, prebiotic life, and the origins of disease. The design principles underlying biomolecular phase separation have the potential to drive the development of novel liquid-based organelles an...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Fisher RS,Elbaum-Garfinkle S

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are effectors of transposable element (TE) silencing in the reproductive apparatus. In Drosophila ovarian somatic cells, piRNAs arise from longer single-stranded RNA precursors that are processed in the cytoplasm presumably within the Yb-bodies. piRNA precursors encoded by the flamenco (...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dennis C,Brasset E,Sarkar A,Vaury C

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00