Desynchronized liquid crystalline network actuators with deformation reversal capability.

abstract：:Lanthanide compounds show much higher energy barriers to magnetic relaxation than 3d-block compounds, and this has led to speculation that they could be used in molecular spintronic devices. Prototype molecular spin valves and molecular transistors have been reported, with remarkable experiments showing the influence ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Moreno Pineda E,Chilton NF,Marx R,Dörfel M,Sells DO,Neugebauer P,Jiang SD,Collison D,van Slageren J,McInnes EJ,Winpenny RE

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-sugar diet has been associated with reduced lifespan in organisms ranging from worms to mammals. However, the mechanisms underlying the harmful effects of glucose are poorly understood. Here we establish a causative relationship between endogenous glucose storage in the form of glycogen, resistance to oxidative...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gusarov I,Pani B,Gautier L,Smolentseva O,Eremina S,Shamovsky I,Katkova-Zhukotskaya O,Mironov A,Nudler E

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The divalent carbene carbon centre in cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs) is known to exhibit transition-metal-like insertion into E-H σ-bonds (E = H, N, Si, B, P, C, O) with formation of new, strong C-E and C-H bonds. Although subsequent transformations of the products represent an attractive strategy for metal-fre...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Oldroyd NL,Chitnis SS,Annibale VT,Arz MI,Sparkes HA,Manners I

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to simultaneously image multiple biomolecules in biologically relevant three-dimensional (3D) cell culture environments would contribute greatly to the understanding of complex cellular mechanisms and cell-material interactions. Here, we present a computational framework for label-free quantitative volumet...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kallepitis C,Bergholt MS,Mazo MM,Leonardo V,Skaalure SC,Maynard SA,Stevens MM

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nacre-mimetics hold great promise as mechanical high-performance and functional materials. Here we demonstrate large progress of mechanical and functional properties of self-assembled polymer/nanoclay nacre-mimetics by using synthetic nanoclays with aspect ratios covering three orders in magnitude (25-3,500). We estab...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Das P,Malho JM,Rahimi K,Schacher FH,Wang B,Demco DE,Walther A

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant advances in the fabrication and applications of graphene-like materials, it remains a challenge to prepare single-layered metallic materials, which have great potential applications in physics, chemistry and material science. Here we report the fabrication of poly(vinylpyrrolidone)-supported single...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Duan H,Yan N,Yu R,Chang CR,Zhou G,Hu HS,Rong H,Niu Z,Mao J,Asakura H,Tanaka T,Dyson PJ,Li J,Li Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is essential for tissue development, wound healing and tissue perfusion, with its dysregulation linked to tumorigenesis, rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease. Here we show that pro-angiogenic stimuli couple to NADPH oxidase-dependent generation of oxidants that catalyse an activating intermolecular-disu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Burgoyne JR,Rudyk O,Cho HJ,Prysyazhna O,Hathaway N,Weeks A,Evans R,Ng T,Schröder K,Brandes RP,Shah AM,Eaton P

更新日期：2015-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of artemisinin and its derivatives, the most potent of the anti-malarial drugs, is not completely understood. Here we present an unbiased chemical proteomics analysis to directly explore this mechanism in Plasmodium falciparum. We use an alkyne-tagged artemisinin analogue coupled with biotin to...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang J,Zhang CJ,Chia WN,Loh CC,Li Z,Lee YM,He Y,Yuan LX,Lim TK,Liu M,Liew CX,Lee YQ,Zhang J,Lu N,Lim CT,Hua ZC,Liu B,Shen HM,Tan KS,Lin Q

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive efforts have been expended in developing hybrid quantum systems to overcome the short coherence time of superconducting circuits by introducing the naturally long-lived spin degree of freedom. Among all the possible materials, single-crystal yttrium iron garnet has shown up recently as a promising candidate ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhang X,Zou CL,Zhu N,Marquardt F,Jiang L,Tang HX

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial autotransporters comprise a 12-stranded membrane-embedded β-barrel domain, which must be folded in a process that entraps segments of an N-terminal passenger domain. This first stage of autotransporter folding determines whether subsequent translocation can deliver the N-terminal domain to its functional for...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Leyton DL,Johnson MD,Thapa R,Huysmans GH,Dunstan RA,Celik N,Shen HH,Loo D,Belousoff MJ,Purcell AW,Henderson IR,Beddoe T,Rossjohn J,Martin LL,Strugnell RA,Lithgow T

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A collective order of spin and charge degrees of freedom into stripes has been predicted to be a possible ground state of hole-doped CuO(2) planes, which are the building blocks of high-temperature superconductors. In fact, stripe-like spin and charge order has been observed in various layered cuprate systems. For the...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wu HH,Buchholz M,Trabant C,Chang CF,Komarek AC,Heigl F,Zimmermann MV,Cwik M,Nakamura F,Braden M,Schüßler-Langeheine C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central spin decoherence caused by nuclear spin baths is often a critical issue in various quantum computing schemes, and it has also been used for sensing single-nuclear spins. Recent theoretical studies suggest that central spin decoherence can act as a probe of many-body physics in spin baths; however, identificati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ma WL,Wolfowicz G,Zhao N,Li SS,Morton JJ,Liu RB

更新日期：2014-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Electric gating can strongly modulate a wide variety of physical properties in semiconductors and insulators, such as significant changes of conductivity in silicon, appearance of superconductivity in SrTiO3, the paramagnet-ferromagnet transition in (In,Mn)As, and so on. The key to such modulation is charge accumulati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dushenko S,Hokazono M,Nakamura K,Ando Y,Shinjo T,Shiraishi M

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Janus, patchy, stripe-like, or random arrangements of molecules within the ligand shell of nanoparticles affect many properties. Among all existing ligand shell morphology characterization methods, the one based on mass spectroscopy is arguably the simplest. Its greatest limitation is that the results are qualitative....

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Luo Z,Zhao Y,Darwish T,Wang Y,Hou J,Stellacci F

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Decoherence originates from the leakage of quantum information into external degrees of freedom. For a qubit, the two main decoherence channels are relaxation and dephasing. Here, we report an experiment on a superconducting qubit where we retrieve part of the lost information in both of these channels. We demonstrate...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ficheux Q,Jezouin S,Leghtas Z,Huard B

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses cause 10-15% of all human cancers. Massively parallel sequencing has recently proved effective for uncovering novel viruses and virus-tumour associations, but this approach has not yet been applied to comprehensive patient cohorts. Here we screen a diverse landscape of human cancer, encompassing 4,433 tumours ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tang KW,Alaei-Mahabadi B,Samuelsson T,Lindh M,Larsson E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this Article contained an error in Eq. 1. The arrows between the symbols "T" and "B", and "B" and "T", were written "↔" but should have been "→", and incorrectly read: IEBIC=IEBAC+ISEE+I(e↔h)+IEBICT↔B+IESEEB↔T The correct from of the Eq. 1 is as follows:IEBIC=IEBAC+ISEE+I(e↔h)+IEBICT→B+IESEEB→T...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hoskins BD,Adam GC,Strelcov E,Zhitenev N,Kolmakov A,Strukov DB,McClelland JJ

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dead Sea is one of the most hypersaline habitats on Earth. The fungus Eurotium rubrum (Eurotiomycetes) is among the few species able to survive there. Here we highlight its adaptive strategies, based on genome analysis and transcriptome profiling. The 26.2 Mb genome of E. rubrum shows, for example, gains in gene f...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kis-Papo T,Weig AR,Riley R,Peršoh D,Salamov A,Sun H,Lipzen A,Wasser SP,Rambold G,Grigoriev IV,Nevo E

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Oceanic anoxic events have been associated with warm climates in Earth history, and there are concerns that current ocean deoxygenation may eventually lead to anoxia. Here we show results of a multi-millennial global-warming simulation that reveal, after a transitory deoxygenation, a marine oxygen inventory 6% higher ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Oschlies A,Koeve W,Landolfi A,Kähler P

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have extended patient survival across multiple cancer lineages, but there is a heated debate on whether cancer immunotherapy efficacy is different between male and female patients. We summarize the existing meta-analysis to show inconsistent conclusions for whether gender is associ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ye Y,Jing Y,Li L,Mills GB,Diao L,Liu H,Han L

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful mitigation of emerging wildlife diseases may involve controversial host culling. For livestock, 'preemptive host culling' is an accepted practice involving the removal of herds with known contact to infected populations. When applied to wildlife, this proactive approach comes in conflict with biodiversi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mysterud A,Hopp P,Alvseike KR,Benestad SL,Nilsen EB,Rolandsen CM,Strand O,Våge J,Viljugrein H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photocatalytic formation of hydrocarbons using solar energy via artificial photosynthesis is a highly desirable renewable-energy source for replacing conventional fossil fuels. Using an L-cysteine-based hydrothermal process, here we synthesize a carbon-doped SnS2 (SnS2-C) metal dichalcogenide nanostructure, which exhi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shown I,Samireddi S,Chang YC,Putikam R,Chang PH,Sabbah A,Fu FY,Chen WF,Wu CI,Yu TY,Chung PW,Lin MC,Chen LC,Chen KH

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-healing materials are highly desirable because they allow products to maintain their performance. Typical stimuli used for self-healing are heat and light, despite being unsuitable for materials used in certain products as heat can damage other components, and light cannot reach materials located within a product...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Miwa Y,Taira K,Kurachi J,Udagawa T,Kutsumizu S

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary membrane composition is controlled by transition zone (TZ) proteins such as RPGRIP1, RPGRIPL and NPHP4, which are vital for balanced coordination of diverse signalling systems like the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway. Activation of this pathway involves Shh-induced ciliary accumulation of Smoothened (SMO), which ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Schou KB,Mogensen JB,Morthorst SK,Nielsen BS,Aleliunaite A,Serra-Marques A,Fürstenberg N,Saunier S,Bizet AA,Veland IR,Akhmanova A,Christensen ST,Pedersen LB

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A reliable description of any spatial pattern in species richness requires accurate knowledge about species geographical distribution. However, sampling bias may generate artefactual absences within species range and compromise our capacity to describe biodiversity patterns. Here, we analysed the spatial distribution ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Menegotto A,Rangel TF

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:R-loops are stable nucleic acid structures that have important physiological functions, but which also pose a significant threat to genomic stability. Increased R-loops cause replication stress and chromosome fragility and have been associated with diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer. Although excessive R-lo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chakraborty P,Huang JTJ,Hiom K

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of high-fat diet (HFD) and postprandial endotoxemia on the development of type 2 diabetes are not fully understood. Here we show that the serine protease prostasin (PRSS8) regulates hepatic insulin sensitivity by modulating Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated signalling. HFD triggers the suppression of PR...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Uchimura K,Hayata M,Mizumoto T,Miyasato Y,Kakizoe Y,Morinaga J,Onoue T,Yamazoe R,Ueda M,Adachi M,Miyoshi T,Shiraishi N,Ogawa W,Fukuda K,Kondo T,Matsumura T,Araki E,Tomita K,Kitamura K

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Working memory is critical to cognition, decoupling behavior from the immediate world. Yet, it is imperfect; internal noise introduces errors into memory representations. Such errors have been shown to accumulate over time and increase with the number of items simultaneously held in working memory. Here, we show that ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Panichello MF,DePasquale B,Pillow JW,Buschman TJ

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase separation of specific biomolecules into liquid droplet-like condensates is a key mechanism to form membrane-less organelles, which spatio-temporally organize diverse biochemical processes in cells. To investigate the working principles of these biomolecular condensates as dynamic reaction centers, precise contr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hong K,Song D,Jung Y

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell identity is specified in the early mammalian embryo by the generation of precursors for two cell lineages: the pluripotent inner cell mass and differentiating trophectoderm. Here we identify Angiomotin as a key regulator of this process. We show that the loss of Angiomotin, together with Angiomotin-like 2, leads ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Leung CY,Zernicka-Goetz M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00