MHC matching improves engraftment of iPSC-derived neurons in non-human primates OPEN | | Asuka Morizane, Tetsuhiro Kikuchi, Takuya Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuma, Sayuki Takara, Hisashi Doi, Aya Mawatari, Matthew F. Glasser, Takashi Shiina, Hirohito Ishigaki, Yasushi Itoh, Keisuke Okita, Emi Yamasaki, Daisuke Doi, Hirotaka Onoe, Kazumasa Ogasawara, Shinya Yamanaka & Jun Takahashi | | | Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) matching improves graft survival rates after organ transplantation. Here the authors show that in macaques, MHC-matched iPSC-derived neurons provide better engraftment in the brain, with a lower immune response and higher survival of the transplanted neurons. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00926-5 | | Allotransplantation Induced pluripotent stem cells Regeneration and repair in the nervous system Stem-cell research | The onset of widespread marine red beds and the evolution of ferruginous oceans OPEN | | Haijun Song, Ganqing Jiang, Simon W. Poulton, Paul B. Wignall, Jinnan Tong, Huyue Song, Zhihui An, Daoliang Chu, Li Tian, Zhenbing She & Chengshan Wang | | | The evolution of oceanic redox state in the past is poorly known. Here, the authors present a temporal record of banded iron formations and marine red beds, which indicate deep-ocean oxygenation occurred in the middle Ediacaran, coinciding with the onset of widespread marine red beds. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00502-x | | Element cycles Marine chemistry Palaeoceanography | High-quality monolayer superconductor NbSe2 grown by chemical vapour deposition OPEN | | Hong Wang, Xiangwei Huang, Junhao Lin, Jian Cui, Yu Chen, Chao Zhu, Fucai Liu, Qingsheng Zeng, Jiadong Zhou, Peng Yu, Xuewen Wang, Haiyong He, Siu Hon Tsang, Weibo Gao, Kazu Suenaga, Fengcai Ma, Changli Yang, Li Lu, Ting Yu, Edwin Hang Tong Teo et al. | | | Two-dimensional superconductors will likely have applications not only in devices, but also in the study of fundamental physics. Here, Wang et al. demonstrate the CVD growth of superconducting NbSe2 on a variety of substrates, making these novel materials increasingly accessible. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00427-5 | | Superconducting devices Superconductors Two-dimensional materials | Variable repeats in the eukaryotic polyubiquitin gene ubi4 modulate proteostasis and stress survival OPEN | | Rita Gemayel, Yudi Yang, Maria C. Dzialo, Jacek Kominek, Jakob Vowinckel, Veerle Saels, Leen Van Huffel, Elisa van der Zande, Markus Ralser, Jan Steensels, Karin Voordeckers & Kevin J. Verstrepen | | | Eukaryotic cells rely on the ubiquitin-proteasome system for selective degradation of proteins, a process vital to organismal fitness. Here the authors show that the number of repeats in the polyubiquitin gene is evolutionarily unstable within and between yeast species, and that this variability may tune the cell’s capacity to respond to sudden environmental perturbations. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00533-4 | | Evolvability Fungi Ubiquitylation | Small nucleoli are a cellular hallmark of longevity OPEN | | Varnesh Tiku, Chirag Jain, Yotam Raz, Shuhei Nakamura, Bree Heestand, Wei Liu, Martin Späth, H. Eka. D. Suchiman, Roman-Ulrich Müller, P. Eline Slagboom, Linda Partridge & Adam Antebi | | | Animal lifespan is plastic and is regulated by conserved signalling pathways. Here, Tiku et al. show that longevity-enhancing mutations or interventions are associated with reduced nucleolar size in worms, flies, mice and humans, and that nucleolar size can predict life-expectancy in individual worms. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms16083 | | Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans Gene regulation Nucleolus | Blood monocyte transcriptome and epigenome analyses reveal loci associated with human atherosclerosis OPEN | | Yongmei Liu, Lindsay M. Reynolds, Jingzhong Ding, Li Hou, Kurt Lohman, Tracey Young, Wei Cui, Zhiqing Huang, Carole Grenier, Ma Wan, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, David Siscovick, Lifang Hou, Bruce M. Psaty, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Joel D. Kaufman, Gregory L. Burke, Susan Murphy, David R. Jacobs Jr et al. | | | The molecular mechanisms mediating the impact of environmental factors in atherosclerosis are unclear. Here, the authors examine CD14+ blood monocyte’s transcriptome and epigenome signatures to find differential methylation and expression of ARID5B to be associated with human atherosclerosis. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00517-4 | | Atherosclerosis DNA methylation Gene expression profiling Mechanisms of disease Transcriptomics | Chaperones rescue the energetic landscape of mutant CFTR at single molecule and in cell OPEN | | Miklos Bagdany, Guido Veit, Ryosuke Fukuda, Radu G. Avramescu, Tsukasa Okiyoneda, Imad Baaklini, Jay Singh, Guy Sovak, Haijin Xu, Pirjo M. Apaja, Sara Sattin, Lenore K. Beitel, Ariel Roldan, Giorgio Colombo, William Balch, Jason C. Young & Gergely L. Lukacs | | | The F508 deletion (F508del) in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is the most common CF causing mutation. Here the authors show that cytosolic chaperones shift the F508del channel conformation to the native fold by kinetic and thermodynamic remodelling of the gating energetics towards that of wild-type CTFR. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00444-4 | | Chaperones Single-molecule biophysics | Retinol saturase coordinates liver metabolism by regulating ChREBP activity OPEN | | Steffi Heidenreich, Nicole Witte, Pamela Weber, Isabel Goehring, Alexander Tolkachov, Christian von Loeffelholz, Stephanie Döcke, Michael Bauer, Martin Stockmann, Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer, Andreas L. Birkenfeld, Matthias Pietzke, Stefan Kempa, Matthias Muenzner & Michael Schupp | | | Fatty liver is one of the major features of metabolic syndrome and its development is associated with deregulation of systemic lipid and glucose homeostasis. Here Heidenreich et al. show that retinol saturase is implicated in hepatic lipid metabolism by regulating the activity of the transcription factor ChREBP. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00430-w | | Dyslipidaemias Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Type 2 diabetes | Biosynthesis of ilamycins featuring unusual building blocks and engineered production of enhanced anti-tuberculosis agents OPEN | | Junying Ma, Hongbo Huang, Yunchang Xie, Zhiyong Liu, Jin Zhao, Chunyan Zhang, Yanxi Jia, Yun Zhang, Hua Zhang, Tianyu Zhang & Jianhua Ju | | | Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable diseases, novel anti-TB agents are urgently needed due to severe drug resistance and the co-epidemic of TB/HIV. Here, the authors show that anti-mycobacterial ilamycin congeners bearing unusual structural units possess extremely potent anti-tuberculosis activities. | | 30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00419-5 | | Antibiotics Pharmaceutics | VEGF amplifies transcription through ETS1 acetylation to enable angiogenesis OPEN | | Jiahuan Chen, Yi Fu, Daniel S. Day, Ye Sun, Shiyan Wang, Xiaodong Liang, Fei Gu, Fang Zhang, Sean M. Stevens, Pingzhu Zhou, Kai Li, Yan Zhang, Ruei-zeng Lin, Lois E. H. Smith, Jin Zhang, Kun Sun, Juan M. Melero-Martin, Zeguang Han, Peter J. Park, Bing Zhang et al. | | | Promoter proximal RNAPII pausing is a rate-limiting transcriptional mechanism. Chen et al. show that this process is essential in angiogenesis by demonstrating that the endothelial master transcription factor ETS1 promotes global RNAPII pause release, and that this process is governed by VEGF. | | 29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00405-x | | Angiogenesis Transcription | Dispersion engineering and frequency comb generation in thin silicon nitride concentric microresonators OPEN | | Sangsik Kim, Kyunghun Han, Cong Wang, Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas, Xiaoxiao Xue, Chengying Bao, Yi Xuan, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner & Minghao Qi | | | Kerr frequency comb generation from microresonators requires anomalous dispersion, imposing restrictions on materials and resonator design. Here, Kim et al. propose a concentric racetrack-resonator design where the dispersion can be engineered to be anomalous via resonant mode coupling. | | 29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00491-x | | Frequency combs Microresonators Nonlinear optics Solitons | Probing the crystallographic orientation of two-dimensional atomic crystals with supramolecular self-assembly OPEN | | Jinghui Wang, Hongde Yu, Xu Zhou, Xiaozhi Liu, Renjie Zhang, Zhixing Lu, Jingying Zheng, Lin Gu, Kaihui Liu, Dong Wang & Liying Jiao | | | Identifying the crystallographic orientations of 2D materials is important, but methods to do so are typically destructive. Here, the authors show that the orientational dependency of self-assembled nanoribbons of oleamide molecules can be used to non-invasively probe the lattice orientations of various 2D substrates. | | 29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00329-6 | | Molecular self-assembly Self-assembly Two-dimensional materials | An allosteric ligand-binding site in the extracellular cap of K2P channels OPEN | | Qichao Luo, Liping Chen, Xi Cheng, Yuqin Ma, Xiaona Li, Bing Zhang, Li Li, Shilei Zhang, Fei Guo, Yang Li & Huaiyu Yang | | | TREKs are members of the two-pore domain potassium (K2P) channels, being important clinical targets. Here the authors identify inhibitors of K2P that bind to an allosteric site located in their extracellular cap, suggesting that it might be a promising drug target for these channels. | | 29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00499-3 | | Membrane proteins Potassium channels Target identification | Synthetic lethality between androgen receptor signalling and the PARP pathway in prostate cancer OPEN | | Mohammad Asim, Firas Tarish, Heather I. Zecchini, Kumar Sanjiv, Eleni Gelali, Charles E. Massie, Ajoeb Baridi, Anne Y. Warren, Wanfeng Zhao, Christoph Ogris, Leigh-Anne McDuffus, Patrice Mascalchi, Greg Shaw, Harveer Dev, Karan Wadhwa, Paul Wijnhoven, Josep V. Forment, Scott R. Lyons, Andy G. Lynch, Cormac O’Neill et al. | | | Tumours with homologous recombination (HR) defects become sensitive to PARPi. Here, the authors show that androgen receptor (AR) regulates HR and AR inhibition activates the PARP pathway in vivo, thus inhibition of both AR and PARP is required for effective treatment of high risk prostate cancer. | | 29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00393-y | | Prostate cancer | Redox reactions and weak buffering capacity lead to acidification in the Chesapeake Bay OPEN | | Wei-Jun Cai, Wei-Jen Huang, George W. Luther III, Denis Pierrot, Ming Li, Jeremy Testa, Ming Xue, Andrew Joesoef, Roger Mann, Jean Brodeur, Yuan-Yuan Xu, Baoshan Chen, Najid Hussain, George G. Waldbusser, Jeffrey Cornwell & W. Michael Kemp | | | The potential contribution of redox reactions to acidification in coastal waters is unclear. Here, using measurements from the Chesapeake Bay, the authors show that pH minimum occurs at mid-depths where acids are produced via hydrogen sulfide oxidation in waters mixed upward from anoxic depths. | | 28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00417-7 | | Carbon cycle Marine chemistry | Systems analysis of apoptotic priming in ovarian cancer identifies vulnerabilities and predictors of drug response OPEN | | Ioannis K. Zervantonakis, Claudia Iavarone, Hsing-Yu Chen, Laura M. Selfors, Sangeetha Palakurthi, Joyce F. Liu, Ronny Drapkin, Ursula Matulonis, Joel D. Leverson, Deepak Sampath, Gordon B. Mills & Joan S. Brugge | | | High-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGS-OvCa) frequently develop chemotherapy resistance. Here, the authors through a systematic analysis of proteomic and drug response data of 14 HGS-OvCa PDXs demonstrate that targeting apoptosis regulators can improve response of these tumors to inhibitors of the PI3K/mTOR pathway. | | 28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00263-7 | | Apoptosis Cancer therapeutic resistance Ovarian cancer Systems analysis Tumour biomarkers | HSP70-Hrd1 axis precludes the oncorepressor potential of N-terminal misfolded Blimp-1s in lymphoma cells OPEN | | Wen-Fang Wang, Li Yan, Zhao Liu, Lan-Xuan Liu, Jian Lin, Zhi-Yin Liu, Xiong-Ping Chen, Wu Zhang, Zi-Zhen Xu, Ting Shi, Jun-Min Li, Yi-Lei Zhao, Guoyu Meng, Yi Xia, Jian-Yong Li & Jiang Zhu | | | The transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 has an important role in B-cell differentiation. Here the authors show that lymphoma-associated Blimp-1 mutants are selectively recognized by HSP70-Hrd1, which leads to their accelerated degradation and propose HSP70 inhibition as a therapeutic approach for certain lymphomas. | | 25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00476-w | | B-cell lymphoma Chaperones Sumoylation Targeted therapies Ubiquitylation | CDYL suppresses epileptogenesis in mice through repression of axonal Nav1.6 sodium channel expression OPEN | | Yongqing Liu, Shirong Lai, Weining Ma, Wei Ke, Chan Zhang, Shumeng Liu, Yu Zhang, Fei Pei, Shaoyi Li, Ming Yi, Yousheng Shu, Yongfeng Shang, Jing Liang & Zhuo Huang | | | Alterations in intrinsic plasticity are important in epilepsy. Here the authors show that the epigenetic factor CDYL regulates the gene expression of the voltage gated sodium channel, Nav1.6, which contributes to seizures in a rat model of epilepsy. | | 25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00368-z | | Epigenetics and plasticity Epilepsy | Regulation of RIPK1 activation by TAK1-mediated phosphorylation dictates apoptosis and necroptosis OPEN | | Jiefei Geng, Yasushi Ito, Linyu Shi, Palak Amin, Jiachen Chu, Amanda Tomie Ouchida, Adnan Kasim Mookhtiar, Heng Zhao, Daichao Xu, Bing Shan, Ayaz Najafov, Guangping Gao, Shizuo Akira & Junying Yuan | | | TNFα can promote three distinct mechanisms of cell death: necroptosis, RIPK1-independent and dependent apoptosis. Here the authors show that TNFα-induced phosphorylation of RIPK1 in the intermediate domain by TAK1 plays a key role in regulating this decision. | | 25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00406-w | | Apoptosis Necroptosis | Multi-orbital charge transfer at highly oriented organic/metal interfaces OPEN | | Giovanni Zamborlini, Daniel Lüftner, Zhijing Feng, Bernd Kollmann, Peter Puschnig, Carlo Dri, Mirko Panighel, Giovanni Di Santo, Andrea Goldoni, Giovanni Comelli, Matteo Jugovac, Vitaliy Feyer & Claus Michael Schneider | | | Charge transfer at molecule-metal interfaces affects the overall physical and magnetic properties of organic-based devices, and ultimately their performance. Here, the authors report evidence of a pronounced charge transfer involving nickel tetraphenyl porphyrin molecules adsorbed on copper. | | 25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00402-0 | | Chemical physics Surface spectroscopy | Construction and in vivo assembly of a catalytically proficient and hyperthermostable de novo enzyme OPEN | | Daniel W. Watkins, Jonathan M. X. Jenkins, Katie J. Grayson, Nicola Wood, Jack W. Steventon, Kristian K. Le Vay, Matthew I. Goodwin, Anna S. Mullen, Henry J. Bailey, Matthew P. Crump, Fraser MacMillan, Adrian J. Mulholland, Gus Cameron, Richard B. Sessions, Stephen Mann & J. L. Ross Anderson | | | Catalytic mechanisms of enzymes are well understood, but achieving diverse reaction chemistries in re-engineered proteins can be difficult. Here the authors show a highly efficient and thermostable artificial enzyme that catalyzes a diverse array of substrate oxidations coupled to the reduction of H2O2. | | 25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00541-4 | | Oxidoreductases Protein design | An integrated bioinformatics platform for investigating the human E3 ubiquitin ligase-substrate interaction network OPEN | | Yang Li, Ping Xie, Liang Lu, Jian Wang, Lihong Diao, Zhongyang Liu, Feifei Guo, Yangzhige He, Yuan Liu, Qin Huang, Han Liang, Dong Li & Fuchu He | | | Protein stability modulation by E3 ubiquitin ligases is an important layer of functional regulation, but screening for E3 ligase-substrate interactions is time-consuming and costly. Here, the authors take an in silico naïve Bayesian classifier approach to integrate multiple lines of evidence for E3-substrate prediction, enabling prediction of the proteome-wide human E3 ligase interaction network. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00299-9 | | Protein function predictions Ubiquitin ligases | Piezo1 channels sense whole body physical activity to reset cardiovascular homeostasis and enhance performance OPEN | | Baptiste Rode, Jian Shi, Naima Endesh, Mark J. Drinkhill, Peter J. Webster, Sabine J. Lotteau, Marc A. Bailey, Nadira Y. Yuldasheva, Melanie J. Ludlow, Richard M. Cubbon, Jing Li, T. Simon Futers, Lara Morley, Hannah J. Gaunt, Katarzyna Marszalek, Hema Viswambharan, Kevin Cuthbertson, Paul D. Baxter, Richard Foster, Piruthivi Sukumar et al. | | | The mechanisms that regulate the body’s response to exercise are poorly understood. Here, Rode et al. show that the mechanically activated cation channel Piezo1 is a molecular sensor of physical exercise in the endothelium that triggers endothelial communication to mesenteric vessel muscle cells, leading to vasoconstriction. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00429-3 | | Cardiovascular biology Membrane biophysics | Glycoprotein 2 is a specific cell surface marker of human pancreatic progenitors OPEN | | Kathryn F. Cogger, Ankit Sinha, Farida Sarangi, Emily C. McGaugh, Diane Saunders, Craig Dorrell, Salvador Mejia-Guerrero, Yasaman Aghazadeh, Jillian L. Rourke, Robert A. Screaton, Markus Grompe, Philip R. Streeter, Alvin C. Powers, Marcela Brissova, Thomas Kislinger & M. Cristina Nostro | | | Pancreatic progenitors (PPs) can be derived from human pluripotent stem cells in vitro but efficiency of differentiation varies, making it hard to sort for insulin-producing cells. Here, the authors use a proteomic approach to identify the secretory granule membrane glycoprotein 2 as a marker for PDX1+/NKX6-1+ PPs. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00561-0 | | Stem-cell differentiation Type 1 diabetes | Fast kinetics of magnesium monochloride cations in interlayer-expanded titanium disulfide for magnesium rechargeable batteries OPEN | | Hyun Deog Yoo, Yanliang Liang, Hui Dong, Junhao Lin, Hua Wang, Yisheng Liu, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Yifei Li, Qiang Ru, Yan Jing, Qinyou An, Wu Zhou, Jinghua Guo, Jun Lu, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Xiaofeng Qian & Yan Yao | | | Magnesium rechargeable batteries potentially offer high-energy density, safety, and low cost. Here the authors show a battery that reversibly intercalates magnesium monochloride cations with excellent rate and cycle performances in addition to the large capacity. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00431-9 | | Batteries Two-dimensional materials | Smac mimetics and oncolytic viruses synergize in driving anticancer T-cell responses through complementary mechanisms OPEN | | Dae-Sun Kim, Himika Dastidar, Chunfen Zhang, Franz J. Zemp, Keith Lau, Matthias Ernst, Andrea Rakic, Saif Sikdar, Jahanara Rajwani, Victor Naumenko, Dale R. Balce, Ben W. Ewanchuk, Pankaj Taylor, Robin M. Yates, Craig Jenne, Chris Gafuik & Douglas J. Mahoney | | | Oncolytic viruses (OV) and second mitochondrial activator of caspase (Smac)-mimetic compounds (SMC) synergistically kill cancer cells directly. Here, the authors show that SMC and OV therapies combination also synergize in vivo by promoting anticancer immunity through an increase in CD8+ T-cell response. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00324-x | | Cancer immunotherapy Tumour immunology | Exploiting a novel conformational switch to control innate immunity mediated by complement protein C3a OPEN | | Rink-Jan Lohman, Johan K. Hamidon, Robert C. Reid, Jessica A. Rowley, Mei-Kwan Yau, Maria A. Halili, Daniel S. Nielsen, Junxian Lim, Kai-Chen Wu, Zhixuan Loh, Anh Do, Jacky Y. Suen, Abishek Iyer & David P. Fairlie | | | Complement C3a is an important protein in innate and adaptive immunity, but its roles in vivo are unclear. Here the authors develop novel chemical agonists and antagonists for the C3a receptor, and show that they modulate mast cell degranulation and inflammation in a rat paw edema model | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00414-w | | Complement Granulocytes Small molecules | Interfacial charge distributions in carbon-supported palladium catalysts OPEN | | Radhika G. Rao, Raoul Blume, Thomas W. Hansen, Erika Fuentes, Kathleen Dreyer, Simona Moldovan, Ovidiu Ersen, David D. Hibbitts, Yves J. Chabal, Robert Schlögl & Jean-Philippe Tessonnier | | | Control over charge transfer in carbon-supported metal nanoparticles is essential for designing new catalysts. Here, the authors show that thermal treatments effectively tune the interfacial charge distribution in carbon-supported palladium catalysts with consequential changes in hydrogenation performance. | | 24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00421-x | | Catalytic mechanisms Heterogeneous catalysis Nanoscale materials | | | |
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