Biased localization of actin binding proteins by actin filament conformation.

abstract：:We previously reported children homozygous for two MC3R sequence variants (C17A+G241A) have greater fat mass than controls. Here we show, using homozygous knock-in mouse models in which we replace murine Mc3r with wild-type human (MC3R(hWT/hWT)) and double-mutant (C17A+G241A) human (MC3R(hDM/hDM)) MC3R, that MC3R(hDM/...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee B,Koo J,Yun Jun J,Gavrilova O,Lee Y,Seo AY,Taylor-Douglas DC,Adler-Wailes DC,Chen F,Gardner R,Koutzoumis D,Sherafat Kazemzadeh R,Roberson RB,Yanovski JA

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gravitational collapse of eruption columns generates ground-hugging pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) with highly variable temperatures, high enough to be a threat for communities surrounding volcanoes. The reasons for such great temperature variability are debated in terms of eruptive versus transport and empla...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Trolese M,Cerminara M,Esposti Ongaro T,Giordano G

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene is a single-atomic-layer material with excellent mechanical properties and has the potential to enhance the strength of composites. Its two-dimensional geometry, high intrinsic strength and modulus can effectively constrain dislocation motion, resulting in the significant strengthening of metals. Here we demo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim Y,Lee J,Yeom MS,Shin JW,Kim H,Cui Y,Kysar JW,Hone J,Jung Y,Jeon S,Han SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacterial cell division, the tubulin-homolog FtsZ forms a ring-like structure at the center of the cell. This Z-ring not only organizes the division machinery, but treadmilling of FtsZ filaments was also found to play a key role in distributing proteins at the division site. What regulates the architecture, dyn...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Caldas P,López-Pelegrín M,Pearce DJG,Budanur NB,Brugués J,Loose M

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to detect and deal with errors when manipulating quantum systems is a fundamental requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Unlike classical bits that are subject to only digital bit-flip errors, quantum bits are susceptible to a much larger spectrum of errors, for which any complete quantum error-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Córcoles AD,Magesan E,Srinivasan SJ,Cross AW,Steffen M,Gambetta JM,Chow JM

更新日期：2015-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human land use may detrimentally affect biodiversity, yet long-term stability of species communities is vital for maintaining ecosystem functioning. Community stability can be achieved by higher species diversity (portfolio effect), higher asynchrony across species (insurance hypothesis) and higher abundance of popula...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blüthgen N,Simons NK,Jung K,Prati D,Renner SC,Boch S,Fischer M,Hölzel N,Klaus VH,Kleinebecker T,Tschapka M,Weisser WW,Gossner MM

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiquity and global abundance of the enzyme, RuBisCO, attests to the crucial and longstanding role it has played in the biogeochemical cycles of Earth over billions of years. The counterproductive oxygenase activity of RuBisCO has persisted over billions of years of evolution, despite its competition with the car...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shih PM,Occhialini A,Cameron JC,Andralojc PJ,Parry MA,Kerfeld CA

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-induced ocean acidification and warming alter seawater carbonate chemistry reducing the calcification of reef-building crustose coralline algae (CCA), which has implications for reef stability. However, due to the presence of multiple carbonate minerals with different solubilities in seawater, the algal mineralo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Diaz-Pulido G,Nash MC,Anthony KR,Bender D,Opdyke BN,Reyes-Nivia C,Troitzsch U

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems comprise diverse effector endonucleases with different targeting ranges, specificities and enzymatic properties, but many of them are inactive in mammalian cells and are thus precluded from genome-editing applications. Here we show that the type II-B FnCas9 from Francisella novicida posses...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen F,Ding X,Feng Y,Seebeck T,Jiang Y,Davis GD

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetic acid is an important bulk chemical that is currently produced via methanol carbonylation using fossil based CO. Synthesis of acetic acid from the renewable and cheap CO2 is of great importance, but state of the art routes encounter difficulties, especially in reaction selectivity and activity. Here we report a ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Qian Q,Zhang J,Cui M,Han B

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterostructured material systems devoid of ferroic components are presumed not to display ordering associated with ferroelectricity. In heterostructures composed of transition metal oxides, however, the disruption introduced by an interface can affect the balance of the competing interactions among electronic spins, ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rogdakis K,Seo JW,Viskadourakis Z,Wang Y,Qune LF,Choi E,Burton JD,Tsymbal EY,Lee J,Panagopoulos C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been marked increase in research aimed to introduce alkali vapours into guided-wave configurations. Owing to the significant reduction in device dimensions, the increase in density of states, the interaction with surfaces and primarily the high intensities carried along the structure, a plet...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Stern L,Desiatov B,Mazurski N,Levy U

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells expressing CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) reveal high efficacy in the treatment of B cell malignancies. Here, we report that T cell receptor fusion constructs (TRuCs) comprising an antibody-based binding domain fused to T cell receptor (TCR) subunits can effectively reprogram an intact TCR co...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Baeuerle PA,Ding J,Patel E,Thorausch N,Horton H,Gierut J,Scarfo I,Choudhary R,Kiner O,Krishnamurthy J,Le B,Morath A,Baldeviano GC,Quinn J,Tavares P,Wei Q,Weiler S,Maus MV,Getts D,Schamel WW,Hofmeister R

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory and metabolic dysfunctions are intertwined phenomena associated with obesity and neurodegenerative diseases; yet how mechanistically olfaction regulates metabolic homeostasis remains unclear. Specificity of olfactory perception integrates diverse environmental odors and olfactory neurons expressing different...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mutlu AS,Gao SM,Zhang H,Wang MC

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension induces structural remodelling of arteries, which leads to arteriosclerosis and end-organ damage. Hyperplasia of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and infiltration of immune cells are the hallmark of hypertensive arterial remodelling. However, the precise molecular mechanisms of arterial remodelling re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sumida T,Naito AT,Nomura S,Nakagawa A,Higo T,Hashimoto A,Okada K,Sakai T,Ito M,Yamaguchi T,Oka T,Akazawa H,Lee JK,Minamino T,Offermanns S,Noda T,Botto M,Kobayashi Y,Morita H,Manabe I,Nagai T,Shiojima I,Komuro

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed germination and young seedling establishment should be tightly regulated to maximize plant survival and thereby enable successful propagation. Plants have evolved developmental signalling networks to integrate environmental cues for proper control of these critical processes, in which brassinosteroids are known t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ryu H,Cho H,Bae W,Hwang I

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To balance immunity and tolerance, the endogenous pool of Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells is tightly controlled, but the underlying mechanisms of this control remain poorly understood. Here we show that the number of Treg cells is negatively regulated by the kinase Lkb1 in dendritic cells (DCs). Conditional knockout ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chen S,Fang L,Guo W,Zhou Y,Yu G,Li W,Dong K,Liu J,Luo Y,Wang B,Li Z,Zhao C,Sun Z,Shen Y,Leng Q,Zhou D,Han Z,Huang H,Ren H,Xu G,Feng X

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-covalent π-π interactions are central to chemical and biological processes, yet the full understanding of their origin that would unite the simplicity of empirical approaches with the accuracy of quantum calculations is still missing. Here we employ a quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian model for van der Waals interact...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hermann J,Alfè D,Tkatchenko A

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the physical connections and allosteric communications in multi-domain nuclear receptor (NR) polypeptides has remained challenging, with few crystal structures available to show their overall structural organizations. Here we report the quaternary architecture of multi-domain retinoic acid receptor β-retinoi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chandra V,Wu D,Li S,Potluri N,Kim Y,Rastinejad F

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the dominant mode of interannual climate variability across the Pacific Ocean basin, with influence on the global climate. The two end members of the cycle, El Niño and La Niña, force anomalous oceanographic conditions and coastal response along the Pacific margin, exposing many hea...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Barnard PL,Hoover D,Hubbard DM,Snyder A,Ludka BC,Allan J,Kaminsky GM,Ruggiero P,Gallien TW,Gabel L,McCandless D,Weiner HM,Cohn N,Anderson DL,Serafin KA

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles have an important function in cellular communication. Here, we show that human and mouse monocytes release TGF-β1-transporting vesicles in response to the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. Soluble β-glucan from C. albicans binds to complement receptor 3 (CR3, also known as CD11b/CD18) on monoc...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Halder LD,Jo EAH,Hasan MZ,Ferreira-Gomes M,Krüger T,Westermann M,Palme DI,Rambach G,Beyersdorf N,Speth C,Jacobsen ID,Kniemeyer O,Jungnickel B,Zipfel PF,Skerka C

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes consistent correlations among a variety of leaf traits that reflect a gradient from conservative to acquisitive plant strategies. So far, whether the LES holds in wetland plants at a global scale has been unclear. Using data on 365 wetland species from 151 studies, we find t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pan Y,Cieraad E,Armstrong J,Armstrong W,Clarkson BR,Colmer TD,Pedersen O,Visser EJW,Voesenek LACJ,van Bodegom PM

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain walls can be driven by current at very high speeds in nanowires formed from ultra-thin, perpendicularly magnetized cobalt layers and cobalt/nickel multilayers deposited on platinum underlayers due to a chiral spin torque. An important feature of this torque is a magnetic chiral exchange field that each domain w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ryu KS,Yang SH,Thomas L,Parkin SS

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Target-centric drug development strategies prioritize single-target potency in vitro and do not account for connectivity and multi-target effects within a signal transduction network. Here, we present a systems biology approach that combines transcriptomic and structural analyses with live-cell imaging to predict smal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pabon NA,Zhang Q,Cruz JA,Schipper DL,Camacho CJ,Lee REC

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Global emergence of Gram-negative bacteria carrying the plasmid-borne resistance genes, blaMBL and mcr, raises a significant challenge to the treatment of life-threatening infections by the antibiotics, carbapenem and colistin (COL). Here, we identify an antirheumatic drug, auranofin (AUR) as a dual inhibitor of metal...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sun H,Zhang Q,Wang R,Wang H,Wong YT,Wang M,Hao Q,Yan A,Kao RY,Ho PL,Li H

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalamic inputs of cells in sensory cortices are outnumbered by local connections. Thus, it was suggested that robust sensory response in layer 4 emerges due to synchronized thalamic activity. To investigate the role of both inputs in the generation of correlated cortical activities, we isolated the thalamic excitator...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cohen-Kashi Malina K,Mohar B,Rappaport AN,Lampl I

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:High-speed light emitters integrated on silicon chips can enable novel architectures for silicon-based optoelectronics, such as on-chip optical interconnects, and silicon photonics. However, conventional light sources based on compound semiconductors face major challenges for their integration with a silicon-based pla...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miyoshi Y,Fukazawa Y,Amasaka Y,Reckmann R,Yokoi T,Ishida K,Kawahara K,Ago H,Maki H

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Several tolerance checkpoints exist throughout B cell development to control autoreactive B cells and prevent the generation of pathogenic autoantibodies. FcγRIIb is an Fc receptor that inhibits B cell activation and, if defective, is associated with autoimmune disease, yet its impact on specific B cell tolerance chec...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Espéli M,Bashford-Rogers R,Sowerby JM,Alouche N,Wong L,Denton AE,Linterman MA,Smith KGC

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav1.5) play an essential role in regulating cardiac electric activity by initiating and propagating action potentials in the heart. Altered Nav1.5 function is associated with multiple cardiac diseases including long-QT3 and Brugada syndrome. Here, we show that Nav1.5 is subject ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pei Z,Xiao Y,Meng J,Hudmon A,Cummins TR

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns in biomass production are determined by resource input (productivity) and trophic transfer efficiency. At fixed resource input, variation in consumer biomass production has been related to food quality, metabolic type and diversity among species. In contrast, intraspecific variation in individual body size be...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Reichstein B,Persson L,De Roos AM

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00