Vulnerability of progeroid smooth muscle cells to biomechanical forces is mediated by MMP13.

abstract：:When our experience violates our predictions, it is adaptive to upregulate encoding of novel information, while down-weighting retrieval of erroneous memory predictions to promote an updated representation of the world. We asked whether mnemonic prediction errors promote hippocampal encoding versus retrieval states, a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bein O,Duncan K,Davachi L

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Roughly 40% of the Earth's total heat flow is powered by radioactive decays in the crust and mantle. Geo-neutrinos produced by these decays provide important clues about the origin, formation and thermal evolution of our planet, as well as the composition of its interior. Previous measurements of geo-neutrinos have al...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Leyton M,Dye S,Monroe J

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of a drug's molecular target often increases drug resistance, offering a pathway for adaptive evolution and a tool for target identification. It is unclear though why this phenomenon applies to some drugs but not others. Here we gradually overexpressed antibiotic targets in Escherichia coli and found th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Palmer AC,Kishony R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing climate will impact species' ranges only when environmental variability directly impacts the demography of local populations. However, measurement of demographic responses to climate change has largely been limited to single species and locations. Here we show that amphibian communities are responsive to clim...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miller DAW,Grant EHC,Muths E,Amburgey SM,Adams MJ,Joseph MB,Waddle JH,Johnson PTJ,Ryan ME,Schmidt BR,Calhoun DL,Davis CL,Fisher RN,Green DM,Hossack BR,Rittenhouse TAG,Walls SC,Bailey LL,Cruickshank SS,Fellers GM,G

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-machine interfaces have benefited from the advent of wireless sensor networks and the internet of things, but rely on wearable/attachable electronics exhibiting stretchability, biocompatibility, and transmittance. Limited by weight and volume, wearable devices should be energy efficient and even self-powered. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee Y,Cha SH,Kim YW,Choi D,Sun JY

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of molecule-surface collisions can be modified by pre-aligning the molecule; however, experiments accomplishing this are rare because of the difficulty of preparing molecules in aligned quantum states. Here we present a general solution to this problem based on magnetic manipulation of the rotational magne...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Godsi O,Corem G,Alkoby Y,Cantin JT,Krems RV,Somers MF,Meyer J,Kroes GJ,Maniv T,Alexandrowicz G

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of impaired skeletal muscle mass and strength during aging are well-studied in healthy populations. Less is known on pathological age-related muscle wasting and weakness termed sarcopenia, which directly impacts physical autonomy and survival. Here, we compare genome-wide transcriptional changes of sarcopen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Migliavacca E,Tay SKH,Patel HP,Sonntag T,Civiletto G,McFarlane C,Forrester T,Barton SJ,Leow MK,Antoun E,Charpagne A,Seng Chong Y,Descombes P,Feng L,Francis-Emmanuel P,Garratt ES,Giner MP,Green CO,Karaz S,Kothandaram

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:When a thin film of active, nematic microtubules and kinesin motor clusters is confined on the surface of a vesicle, four +1/2 topological defects oscillate in a periodic manner between tetrahedral and planar arrangements. Here a theoretical description of nematics, coupled to the relevant hydrodynamic equations, is p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang R,Zhou Y,Rahimi M,de Pablo JJ

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Many glasses exhibit fractional power law (FPL) between the mean atomic volume va and the first diffraction peak position q1, i.e. [Formula: see text] with d ≃ 2.5 deviating from the space dimension D = 3, under compression or composition change. What structural change causes such FPL and whether the FPL and d are uni...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang H,Qiao K,Han Y

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical Wnt signaling is crucial for vascularization of the central nervous system and blood-brain barrier (BBB) formation. BBB formation and modulation are not only important for development, but also relevant for vascular and neurodegenerative diseases. However, there is little understanding of how Wnt signaling c...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hübner K,Cabochette P,Diéguez-Hurtado R,Wiesner C,Wakayama Y,Grassme KS,Hubert M,Guenther S,Belting HG,Affolter M,Adams RH,Vanhollebeke B,Herzog W

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A key question in materials science is how fast properties evolve, which relates to the kinetics of phase transformations. In metals, kinetics is primarily connected to diffusion, which for substitutional elements is enabled via mobile atomic-lattice vacancies. In fact, non-equilibrium vacancies are often required for...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dumitraschkewitz P,Uggowitzer PJ,Gerstl SSA,Löffler JF,Pogatscher S

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to uncover complex network structure and dynamics from data is fundamental to understanding and controlling collective dynamics in complex systems. Despite recent progress in this area, reconstructing networks with stochastic dynamical processes from limited time series remains to be an outstanding problem...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen Z,Wang WX,Fan Y,Di Z,Lai YC

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sunlight is the ultimate driver of biosynthesis but photochemical steps late in biosynthetic pathways are very rare. They appear to play a role in the formation of certain furanocembranoids isolated from Caribbean corals. One of these compounds, intricarene, has been suspected to arise from an intramolecular 1,3-dipol...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stichnoth D,Kölle P,Kimbrough TJ,Riedle E,de Vivie-Riedle R,Trauner D

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many photosynthetic organisms globally, including crops, forests and algae, must grow in environments where the availability of light energy fluctuates dramatically. How photosynthesis maintains high efficiency despite such fluctuations in its energy source remains poorly understood. Here we show that Arabidopsis thal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Armbruster U,Carrillo LR,Venema K,Pavlovic L,Schmidtmann E,Kornfeld A,Jahns P,Berry JA,Kramer DM,Jonikas MC

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale deep-coverage whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is now feasible and offers potential advantages for locus discovery. We perform WGS in 16,324 participants from four ancestries at mean depth >29X and analyze genotypes with four quantitative traits-plasma total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (L...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Natarajan P,Peloso GM,Zekavat SM,Montasser M,Ganna A,Chaffin M,Khera AV,Zhou W,Bloom JM,Engreitz JM,Ernst J,O'Connell JR,Ruotsalainen SE,Alver M,Manichaikul A,Johnson WC,Perry JA,Poterba T,Seed C,Surakka IL,Esko T

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic genetic circuits allow us to modify the behavior of living cells. However, changes in environmental conditions and unforeseen interactions with the host cell can cause deviations from a desired function, resulting in the need for time-consuming reassembly to fix these issues. Here, we use a regulatory motif ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bartoli V,Meaker GA,di Bernardo M,Gorochowski TE

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In social species, the phenotype and fitness of an individual depend in part on the genotype of its social partners. However, how these indirect genetic effects affect genotype fitness in competitive situations is poorly understood in animal societies. We therefore studied phenotypic plasticity and fitness of two clon...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Teseo S,Châline N,Jaisson P,Kronauer DJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a key variance partitioning tool, linear mixed models (LMMs) using genome-based restricted maximum likelihood (GREML) allow both fixed and random effects. Classic LMMs assume independence between random effects, which can be violated, causing bias. Here we introduce a generalized GREML, named CORE GREML, that expli...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou X,Im HK,Lee SH

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are model organisms for photosynthesis and are attractive for biotechnology applications. To aid investigation of genotype-phenotype relationships in cyanobacteria, we develop an inducible CRISPRi gene repression library in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, where we aim to target all genes for repression. We t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yao L,Shabestary K,Björk SM,Asplund-Samuelsson J,Joensson HN,Jahn M,Hudson EP

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruddlesden-Popper halide perovskites are 2D solution-processed quantum wells with a general formula A2A'n-1M n X3n+1, where optoelectronic properties can be tuned by varying the perovskite layer thickness (n-value), and have recently emerged as efficient semiconductors with technologically relevant stability. However,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blancon JC,Stier AV,Tsai H,Nie W,Stoumpos CC,Traoré B,Pedesseau L,Kepenekian M,Katsutani F,Noe GT,Kono J,Tretiak S,Crooker SA,Katan C,Kanatzidis MG,Crochet JJ,Even J,Mohite AD

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biochemical reactions in living cells rely on diffusive search for target molecules or regions in a heterogeneous overcrowded cytoplasmic medium. Rapid rearrangements of the medium constantly change the effective diffusivity felt locally by a diffusing particle and thus impact the distribution of the first-passag...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lanoiselée Y,Moutal N,Grebenkov DS

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests. Using systematic sampling of forest structure measured by LiDAR waveforms from 2003 to 2008, here we show a significant loss ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang Y,Saatchi SS,Xu L,Yu Y,Choi S,Phillips N,Kennedy R,Keller M,Knyazikhin Y,Myneni RB

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing using sequencing technologies such as Illumina enables the accurate detection of small-scale variants but provides limited information about haplotypes and variants in repetitive regions of the human genome. Single-molecule sequencing (SMS) technologies such as Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Na...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Edge P,Bansal V

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:SCRaMbLE (Synthetic Chromosome Rearrangement and Modification by LoxP-mediated Evolution) is a genome restructuring technique that can be used in synthetic genomes such as that of Sc2.0, the synthetic yeast genome, which contains hundreds to thousands of strategically positioned loxPsym sites. SCRaMbLE has been used t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shen MJ,Wu Y,Yang K,Li Y,Xu H,Zhang H,Li BZ,Li X,Xiao WH,Zhou X,Mitchell LA,Bader JS,Yuan Y,Boeke JD

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of transcription factors classified as neural crest 'specifiers' are also core epithelial-mesenchymal transition regulatory factors, both in the neural crest and in tumour progression. The bHLH factor Twist is among the least well studied of these factors. Here we demonstrate that Twist is required for crania...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lander R,Nasr T,Ochoa SD,Nordin K,Prasad MS,Labonne C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are used in stroke rehabilitation to translate brain signals into intended movements of the paralyzed limb. However, the efficacy and mechanisms of BCI-based therapies remain unclear. Here we show that BCI coupled to functional electrical stimulation (FES) elicits significant, clinicall...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Biasiucci A,Leeb R,Iturrate I,Perdikis S,Al-Khodairy A,Corbet T,Schnider A,Schmidlin T,Zhang H,Bassolino M,Viceic D,Vuadens P,Guggisberg AG,Millán JDR

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between metal nanoparticles and support materials can strongly influence the performance of catalysts. In particular, reducible oxidic supports can form suboxides that can decorate metal nanoparticles and enhance catalytic performance or block active sites. Therefore, tuning this metal-support interaction...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hernández Mejía C,van Deelen TW,de Jong KP

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Skill learning is instantiated by changes to functional connectivity within premotor circuits, but whether the specificity of learning depends on structured changes to inhibitory circuitry remains unclear. We used slice electrophysiology to measure connectivity changes associated with song learning in the avian analog...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miller MN,Cheung CYJ,Brainard MS

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs), composed of a cytidine deaminase or an evolved adenine deaminase fused to Cas9 nickase, enable the conversion of C·G to T·A or A·T to G·C base pair in organisms, respectively. Here, we show that BE3 and ABE7.10 systems can achieve a targeted mutation effici...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Liu Z,Chen M,Chen S,Deng J,Song Y,Lai L,Li Z

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently garnered consideration as an attractive solid substrate because the highly tunable MOF framework can not only serve as an inert host but also enhance the selectivity, stability, and/or activity of the enzymes. Herein, we demonstrate the advantages of using a mechanochemica...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wei TH,Wu SH,Huang YD,Lo WS,Williams BP,Chen SY,Yang HC,Hsu YS,Lin ZY,Chen XH,Kuo PE,Chou LY,Tsung CK,Shieh FK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00