Molecular parallelism in fast-twitch muscle proteins in echolocating mammals.

abstract：:Natively paired sequencing (NPS) of B cell receptors [variable heavy (VH) and light (VL)] and T cell receptors (TCRb and TCRa) is essential for the understanding of adaptive immunity in health and disease. Despite many recent technical advances, determining the VH:VL or TCRb:a repertoire with high accuracy and through...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tanno H,McDaniel JR,Stevens CA,Voss WN,Li J,Durrett R,Lee J,Gollihar J,Tanno Y,Delidakis G,Pothukuchy A,Ellefson JW,Goronzy JJ,Maynard JA,Ellington AD,Ippolito GC,Georgiou G

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has posed a serious threat to public health across the globe, calling for the development of effective diagnostic markers and therapeutics. Here, we report a...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Park HH,Kim HN,Kim H,Yoo Y,Shin H,Choi EY,Bae JS,Lee W

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most plausible scenarios of the origin of life assumes the preceding prebiotic autotrophic metabolism in sulfide-rich hydrothermal vent environments. However, geochemical mechanisms to harness the reductive power provided by hydrothermal systems remain to be elucidated. Here, we show that, under a geoelectr...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kitadai N,Nakamura R,Yamamoto M,Takai K,Yoshida N,Oono Y

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) genes are assembled by two sequential DNA rearrangement events that are initiated by recombination activating gene products (RAG) 1 and 2. Diversity (DH) gene segments rearrange first, followed by variable (VH) gene rearrangements. Here, we provide evidence that each rearrangement step...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Qiu X,Ma F,Zhao M,Cao Y,Shipp L,Liu A,Dutta A,Singh A,Braikia FZ,De S,Wood WH 3rd,Becker KG,Zhou W,Ji H,Zhao K,Atchison ML,Sen R

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive declines in population abundances of marine animals have been documented over century-long time scales. However, analogous loss of spatial extent of habitat-forming organisms is less well known because georeferenced data are rare over long time scales, particularly in subtidal, tropical marine regions. We use ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： McClenachan L,O'Connor G,Neal BP,Pandolfi JM,Jackson JBC

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Perovskite oxides exhibit potential for use as electrocatalysts in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, their low specific surface area is the main obstacle to realizing a high mass-specific activity that is required to be competitive against the state-of-the-art precious metal-based catalysts. We report the ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Chen G,Zhou W,Guan D,Sunarso J,Zhu Y,Hu X,Zhang W,Shao Z

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Weyl semimetals are of great interest because they provide the first realization of the Weyl fermion, exhibit exotic quantum anomalies, and host Fermi arc surface states. The separation between Weyl nodes of opposite chirality gives a measure of the robustness of the Weyl semimetal state. To exploit the novel phenomen...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Chang G,Xu SY,Sanchez DS,Huang SM,Lee CC,Chang TR,Bian G,Zheng H,Belopolski I,Alidoust N,Jeng HT,Bansil A,Lin H,Hasan MZ

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Paleogene surface height and paleoenvironment for the core area of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) remain critically unresolved. Here, we report the discovery of the youngest well-preserved fossil palm leaves from Tibet. They were recovered from the Late Paleogene (Chattian), ca. 25.5 ± 0.5 million years, p...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Su T,Farnsworth A,Spicer RA,Huang J,Wu FX,Liu J,Li SF,Xing YW,Huang YJ,Deng WY,Tang H,Xu CL,Zhao F,Srivastava G,Valdes PJ,Deng T,Zhou ZK

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Planarians exhibit traits of cephalization but are unique among bilaterians in that they ingest food by means of goal-directed movements of a trunk-positioned pharynx, following protrusion of the pharynx out of the body, raising the question of how planarians control such a complex set of body movements for achieving ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Miyamoto M,Hattori M,Hosoda K,Sawamoto M,Motoishi M,Hayashi T,Inoue T,Umesono Y

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravel-bed river floodplains in mountain landscapes disproportionately concentrate diverse habitats, nutrient cycling, productivity of biota, and species interactions. Although stream ecologists know that river channel and floodplain habitats used by aquatic organisms are maintained by hydrologic regimes that mobilize...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Hauer FR,Locke H,Dreitz VJ,Hebblewhite M,Lowe WH,Muhlfeld CC,Nelson CR,Proctor MF,Rood SB

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Active materials are capable of converting free energy into directional motion, giving rise to notable dynamical phenomena. Developing a general understanding of their structure in relation to the underlying nonequilibrium physics would provide a route toward control of their dynamic behavior and pave the way for pote...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kumar N,Zhang R,de Pablo JJ,Gardel ML

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In retinal detachment (RD), photoreceptor death and permanent vision loss are caused by neurosensory retina separating from the retinal pigment epithelium because of subretinal fluid (SRF), and successful surgical reattachment is not predictive of total visual recovery. As retinal iron overload exacerbates cell death ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Daruich A,Le Rouzic Q,Jonet L,Naud MC,Kowalczuk L,Pournaras JA,Boatright JH,Thomas A,Turck N,Moulin A,Behar-Cohen F,Picard E

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft robotics may enable many new technologies in which humans and robots physically interact, yet the necessary high-performance soft actuators still do not exist. The optimal soft actuators need to be fast and forceful and have programmable shape changes. Furthermore, they should be energy efficient for untethered a...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Davidson ZS,Shahsavan H,Aghakhani A,Guo Y,Hines L,Xia Y,Yang S,Sitti M

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Over millions of years, the oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks is one of the main sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, yet the controls on this emission remain poorly constrained. We use rhenium to track the oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon in the mountain watersheds of New Ze...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Horan K,Hilton RG,Selby D,Ottley CJ,Gröcke DR,Hicks M,Burton KW

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosynthetic isotope variability among solar system objects provides insights into the accretion history of terrestrial planets. We report on the nucleosynthetic Fe isotope composition (μ54Fe) of various meteorites and show that the only material matching the terrestrial composition is CI (Ivuna-type) carbonaceous ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Schiller M,Bizzarro M,Siebert J

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of the FMR1 premutation on human health is the subject of considerable controversy. A fundamental unanswered question is whether carrying the premutation allele is directly correlated with clinical phenotypes. A challenging problem in past genotype-phenotype studies of the FMR1 premutation is ascertainment ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Movaghar A,Page D,Brilliant M,Baker MW,Greenberg J,Hong J,DaWalt LS,Saha K,Kuusisto F,Stewart R,Berry-Kravis E,Mailick MR

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing cost-effective, active, and durable electrocatalysts is one of the most important issues for the commercialization of fuel cells. Ultrathin Pt-Mo-Ni nanowires (NWs) with a diameter of ~2.5 nm and lengths of up to several micrometers were synthesized via a H2-assisted solution route (HASR). This catalyst was...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Mao J,Chen W,He D,Wan J,Pei J,Dong J,Wang Y,An P,Jin Z,Xing W,Tang H,Zhuang Z,Liang X,Huang Y,Zhou G,Wang L,Wang D,Li Y

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell lines are commonly used as cancer models. The tissue of origin provides context for understanding biological mechanisms and predicting therapy response. We therefore systematically examined whether cancer cell lines exhibit features matching the presumed cancer type of origin. Gene expression and DNA methylation ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Salvadores M,Fuster-Tormo F,Supek F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of previous neuroimaging studies suggests that multiple languages are processed and organized in a single neuroanatomical system in the bilingual brain, although differential activation may be seen in some studies because of different proficiency levels and/or age of acquisition of the two languages. Howe...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Xu M,Baldauf D,Chang CQ,Desimone R,Tan LH

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia synthesis consumes 3 to 5% of the world's natural gas, making it a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Strategies for synthesizing ammonia that are not dependent on the energy-intensive and methane-based Haber-Bosch process are critically important for reducing global energy consumption and mi...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Song Y,Johnson D,Peng R,Hensley DK,Bonnesen PV,Liang L,Huang J,Yang F,Zhang F,Qiao R,Baddorf AP,Tschaplinski TJ,Engle NL,Hatzell MC,Wu Z,Cullen DA,Meyer HM 3rd,Sumpter BG,Rondinone AJ

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) blockade in cancer immunotherapy is limited because of multiple immune evasion mechanisms. Here, a previously unknown strategy is proposed to synergize the nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) inhibition and PD-1 blockade for antitumor immun...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Xiao Z,Su Z,Han S,Huang J,Lin L,Shuai X

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Meteorite impact craters are one of the most common geological features in the solar system. An impact event is a near-instantaneous process that releases a huge amount of energy over a very small region on a planetary surface. This results in characteristic changes in the target rocks, from vaporization and melting t...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Osinski GR,Ferrière L

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors control gene expression in all life. This raises the question of what is the smallest protein that can support such activity. In nature, Cro from bacteriophage λ is one of the smallest known repressors (66 amino acids), and activators are typically much larger (e.g., λ cI, 237 amino acids). Previ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Brödel AK,Rodrigues R,Jaramillo A,Isalan M

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Students from underrepresented groups start college with the same level of interest in STEM majors as their peers, but leave STEM at higher rates. We tested the hypothesis that low grades in general chemistry contribute to this "weeding," using records from 25,768 students. In the first course of a general chemistry s...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Harris RB,Mack MR,Bryant J,Theobald EJ,Freeman S

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in biodiversity, large and small, pervade the fossil record, yet we do not understand the processes generating them. Here, we extend theory from nonequilibrium statistical physics to describe the fat-tailed form of fluctuations in Phanerozoic marine invertebrate richness. Using this theory, known as super...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Rominger AJ,Fuentes MA,Marquet PA

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing occurrence of moderate to severe intrauterine adhesion (IUA) is seriously affecting the quality of human life. The aim of the study was to establish IUA models in nonhuman primates and to explore the dual repair effects of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (huMSCs) loaded on autocrosslinke...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang L,Yu C,Chang T,Zhang M,Song S,Xiong C,Su P,Xiang W

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative disorders are caused by progressive neuronal loss, and there is no complete treatment available yet. Neuroinflammation is a common feature across neurodegenerative disorders and implicated in the progression of neurodegeneration. Dysregulated activation of microglia causes neuroinflammation and has b...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Nakano-Kobayashi A,Fukumoto A,Morizane A,Nguyen DT,Le TM,Hashida K,Hosoya T,Takahashi R,Takahashi J,Hori O,Hagiwara M

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic carbonyl compounds represent a promising class of electrode materials for secondary batteries; however, the storage mechanism still remains unclear. We take Na2C6H2O4 as an example to unravel the mechanism. It consists of alternating Na-O octahedral inorganic layer and π-stacked benzene organic layer in spatia...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wu X,Jin S,Zhang Z,Jiang L,Mu L,Hu YS,Li H,Chen X,Armand M,Chen L,Huang X

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium/potassium-transporting adenosine triphosphatase (Na+/K+-ATPase) is one of the most abundant cell membrane proteins and is essential for eukaryotes. Endogenous negative regulators have long been postulated to play an important role in regulating the activity and stability of Na+/K+-ATPase, but characterization o...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Chin AC,Gao Z,Riley AM,Furkert D,Wittwer C,Dutta A,Rojas T,Semenza ER,Felder RA,Pluznick JL,Jessen HJ,Fiedler D,Potter BVL,Snyder SH,Fu C

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic aperture radar is a well-known technique for improving resolution in radio imaging. Extending these synthetic aperture techniques to the visible light domain is not straightforward because optical receivers cannot measure phase information. We propose to use macroscopic Fourier ptychography (FP) as a practic...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Holloway J,Wu Y,Sharma MK,Cossairt O,Veeraraghavan A

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00