| | Volume 514 Number 7520 | | | nature | | The science that matters. Every week. | | | | | | | | | | Quickly Identify Disease-Causing Variants. HGMD ® Professional is the most widely used reference on inherited disease mutations. Quickly access detailed reports without time consuming literature searches and verify whether an observed mutation is novel or has been previously described. Doing high-throughput mapping for NGS variant analysis? Learn to prioritize mutations using BIOBASE's companion tool - Genome Trax™. Try it now! | | | | | | | Jump to the content that matters to you | | | | | | | | | | Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp | This study shows that ZMapp, the optimized cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies that has been pressed into clinical use in response to the current Ebola virus disease epidemic, was able to rescue all of 18 Rhesus macaques when treatment was initiated up to five days post-infection. All three controls had died by day eight. | | | | | | | | | Structure and evolution of the lunar Procellarum region as revealed by GRAIL gravity data | Clues about the origin of the Moon's Procellarum – a large region previously interpreted to be an ancient impact basin – are provided in an analysis of data from NASA's GRAIL mission. Analysis of gravity anomalies suggests that surface features, previously interpreted as remnants of an impact basin rim, are instead the remains of the magma plumbing system for much of the volcanism in this region. The pattern of structures is strikingly similar to the structures seen on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which may have experienced a similar geodynamic history. | | | | | | | | | Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake | This paper presents revised estimates of the afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Based on seafloor GPS observations made immediately after the earthquake, Tianhaozhe Sun et al. obtain clear evidence for the dominant role of viscoelastic relaxation in short-term postseismic deformation, rather than elastic afterslip on the fault as is commonly assumed. They conclude that models which erroneously assume an elastic Earth substantially overestimate afterslip downdip of the rupture zone, and underestimate afterslip updip. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In this week's podcast: the bugs that call our skin their home, excessive water use in Asia, and what's made crazy shapes on the surface of the Moon? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Warming up ▶ | | | Prospects for international agreement on combating climate change look brighter. | | | | | | | | BRAIN gain ▶ | | | A mixture of focus and innovation is the way forward for big neuroscience. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seven days: 26 September–2 October ▶ | | | The week in science: Japanese volcano erupts, India's Mars mission enters orbit, and Obama orders massive expansion of marine reserve. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray ▶ | | | The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina has spent almost ten years looking for the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — but to no avail. Now the observatory faces an uncertain future. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Books in brief ▶ | | | Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pulmonary macrophage transplantation therapy ▶ | | | Takuji Suzuki, Paritha Arumugam, Takuro Sakagami et al. | | | This study reports the correction of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) in Csf2rb–/– mice by a single transfer of either wild-type or gene-corrected macrophages directly to the lungs — the transplanted macrophages persisted for at least 1 year; this transplantation strategy obviated the need for myeloablation and immunosuppression and should be a feasible therapy for humans with hereditary PAP. | | | | | | | | The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration ▶ | | | Shuai Zhan, Wei Zhang, Kristjan Niitepõld et al. | | | The monarch butterfly, well known for its spectacular annual migration across North America, is shown by genome sequencing of monarchs from around the world to have been ancestrally migratory and to have dispersed out of North America to occupy its current broad distribution; the authors also discovered signatures of selection associated with migration within loci implicated in flight muscle function, leading to greater flight efficiency. | | | | | | | | An evolutionary arms race between KRAB zinc-finger genes ZNF91/93 and SVA/L1 retrotransposons ▶ | | | Frank M. J. Jacobs, David Greenberg, Ngan Nguyen et al. | | | The authors show that two primate-specific genes encoding KRAB domain containing zinc finger proteins, ZNF91 and ZNF93, have evolved during the last 25 million years to repress retrotransposon families that emerged during this time period; according to the new data KZNF gene expansion limits the activity of newly emerged retrotransposons, which subsequently mutate to evade repression. | | | | | | | | Loss of signalling via Gα13 in germinal centre B-cell-derived lymphoma ▶ | | | Jagan R. Muppidi, Roland Schmitz, Jesse A. Green et al. | | | Inactivation of the S1PR2–Gα13–ARHGEF1 signalling pathway in mice allows Akt activation and promotes dissemination of germinal centre B cells, consistent with a role of function-disrupting mutations in the systemic dissemination of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. | | | | | | | | Programmable RNA recognition and cleavage by CRISPR/Cas9 ▶ | | | Mitchell R. O’Connell, Benjamin L. Oakes, Samuel H. Sternberg et al. | | | In the presence of a short DNA oligonucleotide containing a protospacer adjacent motif, a guide-RNA-programmed Cas9 is able to specifically bind and/or cleave single-stranded RNA—this system can be used to isolate specific endogenous RNA transcripts from a cell lysate without any tag or modification. | | | | | | | | Dietary modulation of the microbiome affects autoinflammatory disease ▶ | | | John R. Lukens, Prajwal Gurung, Peter Vogel et al. | | | Pstpip2-mutant mice fed a high-fat diet are protected against inflammatory bone disease and bone erosion; this protection is associated with reductions in intestinal Prevotella levels and pro-IL-1β expression, and is dependent on the deletion of both caspases 1 and 8. | | | | | | | | Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions ▶ | | | Jonathan N. Pruitt, Charles J. Goodnight | | | Here, colonies of social spiders are used to investigate the evolution of a group-level trait, the ratio of individuals with the ‘docile’ versus ‘aggressive’ phenotype in a colony; experimental colonies were generated with varying ratios and established in the wild, revealing group-level selection. | | | | | | | | Mitochondrial UPR-regulated innate immunity provides resistance to pathogen infection ▶ | | | Mark W. Pellegrino, Amrita M. Nargund, Natalia V. Kirienko et al. | | | A link between an intracellular stress response, bacterial infection and triggering of the innate immune response is shown in Caenorhabditis elegans; exposure to the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa caused activation of the transcription factor ATFS-1 and innate immunity that is regulated by the mitochondrial unfolded protein response. | | | | | | | | | | | The complete structure of the large subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome ▶ | | | Basil J. Greber, Daniel Boehringer, Marc Leibundgut et al. | | | The structure of the 39S large mitoribosome subunit is solved by cryo-electron microscopy at an impressive 3.4 Å resolution, revealing the location of 50 ribosomal proteins, the peptidyl transferase centre, the tRNAs within this active site, and the nascent peptide chain within the exit tunnel. | | | | | | | | | | | Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp ▶ | | | Xiangguo Qiu, Gary Wong, Jonathan Audet et al. | | | A new treatment, containing an optimized cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies against Ebola virus, provided full protection and disease reversal in rhesus monkeys when given under conditions in which controls succumbed by day 8; this new therapy may be a good candidate for treating Ebola virus infection in human patients. | | | | | | | | | | | Non-cell-autonomous driving of tumour growth supports sub-clonal heterogeneity ▶ | | | Andriy Marusyk, Doris P. Tabassum, Philipp M. Altrock et al. | | | To investigate the role of sub-clonal tumour heterogeneity in cancer progression, a mouse xenograft model was used which revealed that tumour growth can be driven by a minor cell subpopulation by a non-cell-autonomous mechanism, although this minor subpopulation can be outcompeted by faster proliferating competitors. | | | | | | | | Biogeography and individuality shape function in the human skin metagenome ▶ | | | Julia Oh, Allyson L. Byrd, Clay Deming et al. | | | Previous work has shown that human skin is home to a rich and varied microbiota; here a metagenomic approach for samples from physiologically diverse body sites illuminates that the skin microbiota, including bacterial, fungal and viral members, is shaped by the local biogeography and yet marked by strong individuality. | | | | | | | | Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche ▶ | | | John R. B. Perry, Felix Day, Cathy E. Elks et al. | | | Here 106 genomic loci associated with age at menarche, a marker of puberty timing in females, are identified; these loci show enrichment for genes involved in nuclear hormone receptor function, body mass index, and rare disorders of puberty, and for genes located in imprinted regions, with parent-of-origin specific effects at several loci. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Endothelial-cell FAK targeting sensitizes tumours to DNA-damaging therapy ▶ | | | Bernardo Tavora, Louise E. Reynolds, Silvia Batista et al. | | | The tumour microenvironment can influence its response to anticancer therapies; here, the enzyme FAK in endothelial cells is shown to have a role in the induction of a number of cytokines during chemotherapy or irradiation, which in turn protect tumours from DNA-damaging agents. | | | | | | | | | | | Sae2 promotes dsDNA endonuclease activity within Mre11–Rad50–Xrs2 to resect DNA breaks ▶ | | | Elda Cannavo, Petr Cejka | | | The MRX complex, required for double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination, has 3′ to 5′ exonuclease activity, but homologous recombination at a DSB uses a 3′-tailed molecule, which requires resection of the 5′ strand; here it is shown that in yeast, Sae2 nuclease promotes MRX to make an initial endonucleolytic cut on the 5′ strand that may allow MRX to digest the 5′ strand back to the end in a 3′ to 5′ fashion. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Brief Communications Arising | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nature Communications soon to be fully open access: From 20th October Nature Communications, will become fully open access for all new submissions. If an author has a manuscript they wish to submit to the journal via the subscription route, they must submit before 20th October. After this date all new submissions, if accepted, will be published open access and an article processing charge (APC) will apply. For any questions on the switch, open access or advice on policies and funding, visit our website, read the press release or contact our dedicated support team at openaccess@nature.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loss of signalling via Gα13 in germinal centre B-cell-derived lymphoma ▶ | | | Jagan R. Muppidi, Roland Schmitz, Jesse A. Green et al. | | | Inactivation of the S1PR2–Gα13–ARHGEF1 signalling pathway in mice allows Akt activation and promotes dissemination of germinal centre B cells, consistent with a role of function-disrupting mutations in the systemic dissemination of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. | | | | | | | | | | | Non-cell-autonomous driving of tumour growth supports sub-clonal heterogeneity ▶ | | | Andriy Marusyk, Doris P. Tabassum, Philipp M. Altrock et al. | | | To investigate the role of sub-clonal tumour heterogeneity in cancer progression, a mouse xenograft model was used which revealed that tumour growth can be driven by a minor cell subpopulation by a non-cell-autonomous mechanism, although this minor subpopulation can be outcompeted by faster proliferating competitors. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Endothelial-cell FAK targeting sensitizes tumours to DNA-damaging therapy ▶ | | | Bernardo Tavora, Louise E. Reynolds, Silvia Batista et al. | | | The tumour microenvironment can influence its response to anticancer therapies; here, the enzyme FAK in endothelial cells is shown to have a role in the induction of a number of cytokines during chemotherapy or irradiation, which in turn protect tumours from DNA-damaging agents. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HCN ice in Titan’s high-altitude southern polar cloud ▶ | | | Remco J. de Kok, Nicholas A. Teanby, Luca Maltagliati et al. | | | The cloud that appeared above the south pole of Saturn’s satellite Titan in early 2012 is found to be composed of micrometre-sized particles of frozen hydrogen cyanide, indicating a dramatic cooling of Titan’s atmosphere to temperatures about 100 degrees less than predicted by atmospheric circulation models. | | | | | | | | Experimental realization of universal geometric quantum gates with solid-state spins ▶ | | | C. Zu, W.-B. Wang, L. He et al. | | | The manipulation of spins in a solid-state system — nitrogen–vacancy defects in diamond — allows the experimental realization of a universal set of geometric quantum gates using holonomies, that is, non-Abelian generalizations of the Berry phase, and offers a scalable platform with the potential for room-temperature quantum computing. | | | | | | | | Evanescent-wave and ambient chiral sensing by signal-reversing cavity ringdown polarimetry ▶ | | | Dimitris Sofikitis, Lykourgos Bougas, Georgios E. Katsoprinakis et al. | | | By passing light through a chiral sample — here vapours and solutions — in a specially designed ring cavity, the resulting chiral signals can be isolated from the achiral backgrounds and enhanced by a factor of more than 1,000, making them detectable in situations where conventional means of measurement fail. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake ▶ | | | Tianhaozhe Sun, Kelin Wang, Takeshi Iinuma et al. | | | Seafloor Global Positioning System observations immediately after the great 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake provide unambiguous evidence for the dominant role of viscoelastic relaxation in short-term postseismic deformation, rather than just afterslip on the fault as is commonly assumed. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A picture of health n a series of four films reporter Lorna Stewart travels to the German island of Lindau to meet 600 of science’s brightest young minds and 37 rock stars – Nobel laureates. 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