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Understanding materials challenges for rechargeable ion batteries with in situ transmission electron microscopy OPEN
Yifei Yuan, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu & Reza Shahbazian-Yassar

In situ TEM is a powerful tool that helps to understand energy storage behaviors of various materials. This review summarizes the critical discoveries, enabled by in situ TEM, in rechargeable ion batteries, and foresees its bright future for extensive applications.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms15806
Batteries  Energy 
 
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Hydrologic resilience and Amazon productivity OPEN
Anders Ahlström, Josep G. Canadell, Guy Schurgers, Minchao Wu, Joseph A. Berry, Kaiyu Guan & Robert B. Jackson

Earth system model simulations of future climate in the Amazon show little agreement. Here, the authors show that biases in internally generated climate explain most of this uncertainty and that the balance between water-saturated and water-limited evapotranspiration controls the Amazon resilience to climate change.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00306-z
Carbon cycle  Climate and Earth system modelling  Ecological modelling  Hydrology 

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 

Transport and excitations in a negative-U quantum dot at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface OPEN
Guenevere E. D. K. Prawiroatmodjo, Martin Leijnse, Felix Trier, Yunzhong Chen, Dennis V. Christensen, Merlin von Soosten, Nini Pryds & Thomas S. Jespersen

Complex oxide devices provide a platform for studying and making use of strongly correlated electronic behavior. Here the authors present a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 quantum dot and show that its transport behavior is consistent with the presence of attractive electron interactions and the charge Kondo effect.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00495-7
Superconducting devices  Superconducting properties and materials  Surfaces, interfaces and thin films 

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 

On-chip single photon filtering and multiplexing in hybrid quantum photonic circuits OPEN
Ali W. Elshaari, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Andreas Fognini, Michael E. Reimer, Dan Dalacu, Philip J. Poole, Val Zwiller & Klaus D. Jöns

Combining different integration platforms on the same chip is currently one of the main challenges for quantum technologies. Here, Elshaari et al. show III-V Quantum Dots embedded in nanowires operating in a CMOS compatible circuit, with controlled on-chip filtering and tunable routing.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00486-8
Integrated optics  Nanowires  Quantum dots  Single photons and quantum effects 

ATRX is a regulator of therapy induced senescence in human cells OPEN
Marta Kovatcheva, Will Liao, Mary E. Klein, Nicolas Robine, Heather Geiger, Aimee M. Crago, Mark A. Dickson, William D. Tap, Samuel Singer & Andrew Koff

Therapy induced senescence (TIS) is a growth suppressive program activated by cytostatic agents in some cancer cells. Here the authors show that the chromatin remodeling enzyme ATRX is a regulator of TIS and drives cells into this state via multiple mechanisms.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00540-5
Cell-cycle exit  Chromatin remodelling  Senescence 

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 

Hit-and-run programming of therapeutic cytoreagents using mRNA nanocarriers OPEN
H. F. Moffett, M. E. Coon, S. Radtke, S. B. Stephan, L. McKnight, A. Lambert, B. L. Stoddard, H. P. Kiem & M. T. Stephan

Current widely used viral and electroporation methods for creating therapeutic cell-based products are complex and expensive. Here, the authors develop targeted mRNA nanocarriers that can transiently program gene expression by simply mixing them with cells, to improve their therapeutic potential.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00505-8
Gene delivery  Immunotherapy  Nanoparticles 

Photoelectrochemical oxidation of organic substrates in organic media OPEN
Tengfei Li, Takahito Kasahara, Jingfu He, Kevan E. Dettelbach, Glenn M. Sammis & Curtis P. Berlinguette

Photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising method for H2 fuel production, but the O2 by-product generated has little economic value. Here, Berlinguette and colleagues demonstrate that BiVO4 photoanodes immersed in organic media can instead perform valuable alcohol oxidation and C–H functionalization reactions.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00420-y
Electrocatalysis  Materials chemistry  Synthetic chemistry methodology  Photocatalysis 

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 

Artificial web of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals OPEN
Mengfei Wang, Yannian Li & Hiroshi Yokoyama

Disclination lines are topological defects in molecular orientation widely found in liquid crystals. Here Wang et al. use a surface patterning technique to produce a very stable freestanding 3D array of ½ twist disclinations, which could be exploited in a variety of nanometre scale applications.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00548-x
Liquid crystals  Structure of solids and liquids 

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 

Asymmetric dynamics of DNA entering and exiting a strongly confining nanopore OPEN
Nicholas A. W. Bell, Kaikai Chen, Sandip Ghosal, Maria Ricci & Ulrich F. Keyser

Translocation of a charged polymer through confined nanoenvironments is highly dependent on their geometrical parameters. Here, the authors investigate experimentally the translocation dynamics of DNA through conical nanopores and provide a quantitative model for the translocation into and out of confinement.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00423-9
Biophysical chemistry  Biosensors  Nanopores 

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 

Correlated electronic states at domain walls of a Mott-charge-density-wave insulator 1T-TaS2  OPEN
Doohee Cho, Gyeongcheol Gye, Jinwon Lee, Sung-Hoon Lee, Lihai Wang, Sang-Wook Cheong & Han Woong Yeom

The electronic states within domain walls in an interacting electronic system remain elusive. Here, Cho et al. report that the domain wall state in a charge-density-wave insulator 1T-TaS2 decomposes into two localized but nonconducting states at the center or edges of domain walls.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00438-2
Electronic properties and materials  Surfaces, interfaces and thin films 

Developing a molecular picture of soil organic matter–mineral interactions by quantifying organo–mineral binding OPEN
C. J. Newcomb, N. P. Qafoku, J. W. Grate, V. L. Bailey & J. J. De Yoreo

Most molecular scale knowledge on soil organo–mineral interactions remains qualitative due to instrument limitations. Here, the authors use force spectroscopy to directly measure free binding energy between organic ligands and minerals and find that both chemistry and environmental conditions affect binding.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00407-9
Carbon cycle  Geochemistry 

Nucleolar expansion and elevated protein translation in premature aging OPEN
Abigail Buchwalter & Martin W. Hetzer

HGPS is a premature aging disease caused by mutations in the nuclear protein lamin A. Here, the authors show that cells from patients with HGPS have expanded nucleoli and increased protein synthesis, and report that nucleoli also expand as aging progresses in cells derived from healthy individuals.

30 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00322-z
Ageing  Mechanisms of disease  Nucleolus  Proteomics 

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 

Agricultural pesticide use and adverse birth outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California OPEN
Ashley E. Larsen, Steven D. Gaines & Olivier Deschênes

The health consequences of exposure to pesticides are uncertain and subject to much debate. Here, the effect of exposure during pregnancy is investigated in an agriculturally dominated residential area, showing that an increase in adverse birth outcomes is observed with very high levels of pesticide exposure.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00349-2
Environmental impact  Sustainability 

Using ALoFT to determine the impact of putative loss-of-function variants in protein-coding genes OPEN
Suganthi Balasubramanian, Yao Fu, Mayur Pawashe, Patrick McGillivray, Mike Jin, Jeremy Liu, Konrad J. Karczewski, Daniel G. MacArthur & Mark Gerstein

Variants causing loss of function (LoF) of human genes have clinical implications. Here, the authors present a method to predict disease-causing potential of LoF variants, ALoFT (annotation of Loss-of-Function Transcripts) and show its application to interpreting LoF variants in different contexts.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00443-5
Computational biology and bioinformatics  Genomic analysis 

Arctic Ocean sea ice cover during the penultimate glacial and the last interglacial OPEN
Ruediger Stein, Kirsten Fahl, Paul Gierz, Frank Niessen & Gerrit Lohmann

Coinciding with global warming, Arctic sea ice has rapidly decreased during the last four decades. Here, using biomarker records, the authors show that permanent sea ice was still present in the central Arctic Ocean during the last interglacial, when high latitudes were warmer than present.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00552-1
Palaeoceanography  Palaeoclimate 

Poliovirus intrahost evolution is required to overcome tissue-specific innate immune responses OPEN
Yinghong Xiao, Patrick Timothy Dolan, Elizabeth Faul Goldstein, Min Li, Mikhail Farkov, Leonid Brodsky & Raul Andino

RNA viruses, such as polioviruses, have a great evolutionary capacity and can adapt quickly during infection. Here, the authors show that poliovirus infection in mice requires adaptation to innate immune microenvironments encountered in different tissues.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00354-5
Viral evolution  Viral pathogenesis 

Multifunctional quantum dot DNA hydrogels OPEN
Libing Zhang, Sae Rin Jean, Sharif Ahmed, Peter M. Aldridge, Xiyan Li, Fengjia Fan, Edward H. Sargent & Shana O. Kelley

The development of nanomaterials for imaging and drug delivery has been of great interest to the field. Here, the authors synthesized multifunctional enzyme-responsive hydrogels with self-assembling quantum dots for nucleic acid and drug delivery as well as having imaging capability.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00298-w
DNA and RNA  Nanoparticles 

Matrix degradability controls multicellularity of 3D cell migration OPEN
Britta Trappmann, Brendon M. Baker, William J. Polacheck, Colin K. Choi, Jason A. Burdick & Christopher S. Chen

The fabrication of vascularized 3D tissues requires an understanding of how material properties govern endothelial cell invasion into the surrounding matrix. Here the authors integrate a non-swelling synthetic hydrogel with a microfluidic device to study chemokine gradient-driven angiogenic sprouting and find that matrix degradability modulates the collectivity of cell migration.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00418-6
Biomaterials  Extracellular matrix  Lab-on-a-chip  Tissue engineering 

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 

Improved split fluorescent proteins for endogenous protein labeling OPEN
Siyu Feng, Sayaka Sekine, Veronica Pessino, Han Li, Manuel D. Leonetti & Bo Huang

Split fluorescent proteins (FPs) have been widely used to visualise proteins in cells. Here the authors develop a screen for engineering new split FPs, and report a yellow-green split-mNeonGreen2 with reduced background, a red split-sfCherry2 for multicolour labeling, and its photoactivatable variant for super-resolution use.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00494-8
Cellular imaging  Fluorescent proteins  Protein design 

Ultrafast carrier thermalization in lead iodide perovskite probed with two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy OPEN
Johannes M. Richter, Federico Branchi, Franco Valduga de Almeida Camargo, Baodan Zhao, Richard H. Friend, Giulio Cerullo & Felix Deschler

Carrier-carrier scattering rates determine the fundamental limits of carrier transport and electronic coherence. Using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with sub-10 fs resolution, Richter and Branchi et al. extract carrier thermalization times of 10 to 85 fs in hybrid perovskites.

29 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00546-z
Semiconductors  Solar cells  Solar energy and photovoltaic technology  Ultrafast lasers 

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 

Thermally-drawn fibers with spatially-selective porous domains OPEN
Benjamin Grena, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Etgar Levy, Alexander M. Stolyarov, John D. Joannopoulos & Yoel Fink

Porous polymer fibers show great potential for a range of applications, but their simple structures typically limit their functionality. Here, the authors combine a thermal drawing process with polymer solution phase separation to fabricate porous multimaterial fibers with complex internal architectures.

28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00375-0
Design, synthesis and processing  Polymers  Porous materials 

Interactions between fibroblastic reticular cells and B cells promote mesenteric lymph node lymphangiogenesis OPEN
Lalit Kumar Dubey, Praneeth Karempudi, Sanjiv A. Luther, Burkhard Ludewig & Nicola L. Harris

The growth of lymph nodes in response to infection requires lymphangiogenesis. Dubey et al. show that the mesenteric lymph node lymphangiogenesis upon helminth infection depends on the signaling loop between the B and fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs), whereby the FRCs respond to lymphotoxin secreted by B cells by releasing B cell activating factor.

28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00504-9
Imaging the immune system  Lymph node  Lymphangiogenesis  Parasitic infection 

Observation of ultrahigh mobility surface states in a topological crystalline insulator by infrared spectroscopy OPEN
Ying Wang, Guoyu Luo, Junwei Liu, R. Sankar, Nan-Lin Wang, Fangcheng Chou, Liang Fu & Zhiqiang Li

Probing optical and transport properties of the surface states in topological crystalline insulators remains a challenge. Here, Wang et al. demonstrate that the far-infrared conductivity of Pb1−x Sn x Se (x = 0.23−0.25) single crystals is dominated by the surface states where carriers show a high surface mobility of 40,000 cm2 V−1 s−1.

28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00446-2
Electronic properties and materials  Surfaces, interfaces and thin films  Topological insulators 

A reporter system coupled with high-throughput sequencing unveils key bacterial transcription and translation determinants OPEN
Eva Yus, Jae-Seong Yang, Adrià Sogues & Luis Serrano

Quantitative analysis of how DNA sequence determines transcription and translation regulation is of interest to systems and synthetic biologists. Here the authors present ELM-seq, which uses Dam activity as reporter for high-throughput analysis of promoter and 5’-UTR regions.

28 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00239-7
Bacterial transcription  Systems analysis  Transcription  Translation 

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 

Conformal metasurface-coated dielectric waveguides for highly confined broadband optical activity with simultaneous low-visibility and reduced crosstalk OPEN
Zhi Hao Jiang, Lei Kang & Douglas H. Werner

Controlling all the optical properties of dielectric waveguides is a challenging task and often requires complicated core- and cladding designs. Here, Jiang et al. demonstrate that a thin metasurface coating can control several optical properties simultaneously over a broad frequency range.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00391-0
Electrical and electronic engineering  Metamaterials  Microwave photonics 

A probabilistic assessment of the rapidity of PETM onset OPEN
Sandra Kirtland Turner, Pincelli M. Hull, Lee R. Kump & Andy Ridgwell

Single-foraminifera measurements of the PETM carbon isotope excursion from Maud Rise have been interpreted as indicating geologically instantaneous carbon release. Here, the authors explain these records using an Earth system model and a sediment-mixing model and extract the likely PETM onset duration.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00292-2
Palaeoceanography  Palaeoclimate 

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 

Tumor-selective catalytic nanomedicine by nanocatalyst delivery OPEN
Minfeng Huo, Liying Wang, Yu Chen & Jianlin Shi

The specific metabolism of cancer cells may allow for selective tumor therapeutics. Here, the authors show that a suitable combination of an enzyme and iron nanoparticles loaded on dendritic silica induces apoptosis of cancer cells in response to the glucose-reliant and mild acidic microenvironment.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00424-8
Biocatalysis  Cancer therapy  Drug delivery  Chemical synthesis 

Nanodiamonds suppress the growth of lithium dendrites OPEN
Xin-Bing Cheng, Meng-Qiang Zhao, Chi Chen, Amanda Pentecost, Kathleen Maleski, Tyler Mathis, Xue-Qiang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jianjun Jiang & Yury Gogotsi

Lithium metal is an ideal anode material for rechargeable batteries but suffer from the growth of lithium dendrites and low Coulombic efficiency. Here the authors show that nanodiamonds serve as an electrolyte additive to co-deposit with lithium metal and suppress the formation of dendrites.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00519-2
Batteries  Nanoparticles 

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 

Ultra-large single crystals by abnormal grain growth OPEN
Tomoe Kusama, Toshihiro Omori, Takashi Saito, Sumio Kise, Toyonobu Tanaka, Yoshikazu Araki & Ryosuke Kainuma

Growing large single crystals cheaply and reliably for structural applications remains challenging. Here, the authors combine accelerated abnormal grain growth and cyclic heat treatments to grow a superelastic shape memory alloy single crystal to 70 cm.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00383-0
Mechanical engineering  Mechanical properties  Metals and alloys 

Hierarchically self-assembled hexagonal honeycomb and kagome superlattices of binary 1D colloids OPEN
Sung-Hwan Lim, Taehoon Lee, Younghoon Oh, Theyencheri Narayanan, Bong June Sung & Sung-Min Choi

Binary mixtures of 1D particles are rarely observed to cooperatively self-assemble into binary superlattices, as the particle types separate into phases. Here, the authors design a system that avoids phase separation, obtaining binary superlattices with different symmetries by simply tuning the particle diameter and mixture composition.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00512-9
Nanoparticles  Self-assembly 

Release of free-volume bubbles by cooperative-rearrangement regions during the deposition growth of a colloidal glass OPEN
Xin Cao, Huijun Zhang & Yilong Han

Vapor deposition can produce ultrastable glasses similar to conventional glasses aged over thousands of years. Here authors study deposition growth kinetics of a two-dimensional colloidal glass and report relatively frequent occurrence of large and anisotropic regions of cooperative rearrangements at intermediate depths from the surface.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00428-4
Colloids  Glasses  Two-dimensional materials 

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 

Modifying electron transfer between photoredox and organocatalytic units via framework interpenetration for β-carbonyl functionalization OPEN
Zhengqiang Xia, Cheng He, Xiaoge Wang & Chunying Duan

Metal organic frameworks are promising catalysts due to their porous structure and the possible incorporation of multiple active sites. Here, the authors show that interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks containing both a photocatalyst and an organocatalyst catalyse the β-alkylation of carbonyl compounds.

25 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00416-8
Coordination chemistry  Heterogeneous catalysis  Photocatalysis 

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 

USP26 functions as a negative regulator of cellular reprogramming by stabilising PRC1 complex components OPEN
Bo Ning, Wei Zhao, Chen Qian, Pinghua Liu, Qingtian Li, Wenyuan Li & Rong-Fu Wang

The ubiquitin-proteasome system regulates cellular reprogramming by degradation of key pluripotency factors. Here the authors report that the post-translational regulation of PRC1 components CBX4 and CBX6 by ubiquitination influences reprogramming.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00301-4
Epigenetics  Reprogramming  Ubiquitylation 

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 

In vivo cation exchange in quantum dots for tumor-specific imaging OPEN
Xiangyou Liu, Gary B. Braun, Mingde Qin, Erkki Ruoslahti & Kazuki N. Sugahara

The imaging of tumors in vivo using nanoprobes has been challenging due to the lack of sufficient tumor specificity. Here, the authors develop a tumor-specific quantum dot system that permits in vivo cation exchange to achieve selective background quenching and high tumor-specific imaging.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00153-y
Biomedical materials  Cancer imaging  Nanobiotechnology  Quantum dots 

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 

Nickel-catalyzed synthesis of 1,1-diborylalkanes from terminal alkenes OPEN
Lei Li, Tianjun Gong, Xi Lu, Bin Xiao & Yao Fu

1,1-diborylalkanes are useful building blocks in synthetic chemistry. Here, the authors present a highly chemo- and regioselective Ni-catalyzed reaction for the synthesis of 1,1-diborylalkanes from a wide variety of readily available terminal alkenes.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00363-4
Homogeneous catalysis  Synthetic chemistry methodology 

Energetics of Baird aromaticity supported by inversion of photoexcited chiral [4n]annulene derivatives OPEN
Michihisa Ueda, Kjell Jorner, Young Mo Sung, Tadashi Mori, Qi Xiao, Dongho Kim, Henrik Ottosson, Takuzo Aida & Yoshimitsu Itoh

Baird’s rule applies to cyclic π-conjugated molecules in their excited state, yet a quantification of the involved energetics is elusive. Here, the authors show the ring inversion kinetics of two nonplanar and chiral [4n]annulenes to support Baird’s rule from an energetic point of view.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00382-1
Computational chemistry  Organic chemistry  Photochemistry 

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 

On the performance of pre-microRNA detection algorithms OPEN
Müşerref Duygu Saçar Demirci, Jan Baumbach & Jens Allmer

As the experimental discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) is cumbersome, computational tools have been developed for the prediction of pre-miRNAs. Here the authors develop a framework to assess the performance of existing and novel pre-miRNA prediction tools and provide guidelines for selecting an appropriate approach for a given data set.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00403-z
Data mining  Software 

Reinforcement determines the timing dependence of corticostriatal synaptic plasticity in vivo OPEN
Simon D. Fisher, Paul B. Robertson, Melony J. Black, Peter Redgrave, Mark A. Sagar, Wickliffe C. Abraham & John N.J. Reynolds

Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) has been studied extensively in slices but whether such pairings can induce plasticity in vivo is not known. Here the authors report an experimental paradigm that achieves bidirectional corticostriatal STDP in vivo through modulation by behaviourally relevant reinforcement signals, mediated by dopamine and adenosine signaling.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00394-x
Operant learning  Reward  Spike-timing-dependent plasticity 

Identification of an insect-produced olfactory cue that primes plant defenses OPEN
Anjel M. Helms, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Armin Tröger, Hans T. Alborn, Wittko Francke, John F. Tooker & Mark C. Mescher

Plants are able to prime anti-herbivore defenses in response to olfactory cues of insect pests. Here, Helms et al. identify the insect pheromone E,S-conophthorin produced by the goldenrod gall fly as the specific chemical component that elicits this priming response in goldenrod plants.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00335-8
Chemical ecology  Plant sciences 

Biochemical phosphates observed using hyperpolarized 31P in physiological aqueous solutions OPEN
Atara Nardi-Schreiber, Ayelet Gamliel, Talia Harris, Gal Sapir, Jacob Sosna, J. Moshe Gomori & Rachel Katz-Brull

Real-time monitoring of phosphate metabolism and distribution in the live body without ionizing radiation is highly desirable. Here, the authors show dissolution-dynamic nuclear polarization technology can enable nuclear magnetic resonance detection of hyperpolarized 31P of important biological phosphates in aqueous solutions.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00364-3
Biophysics  Diagnostic markers 

Anomalous Dirac point transport due to extended defects in bilayer graphene OPEN
Sam Shallcross, Sangeeta Sharma & Heiko B. Weber

In seemingly indistinguishable bilayer graphene samples, two distinct transport regimes, insulating and metallic, have been identified experimentally. Here, the authors demonstrate that these two states originate from the interplay between extended defects and evanescent modes at the Dirac point.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00397-8
Electronic properties and devices  Quantum simulation 

Glutamine metabolism regulates autophagy-dependent mTORC1 reactivation during amino acid starvation OPEN
Hayden Weng Siong Tan, Arthur Yi Loong Sim & Yun Chau Long

mTORC1 is a critical kinase that regulates cell growth and proliferation. Here the authors show that glutamine metabolism is sufficient to restore mTORC1 activity during prolonged amino acid starvation in an autophagy-dependent manner.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00369-y
Macroautophagy  Nutrient signalling 

Phytochrome-interacting factors directly suppress MIR156 expression to enhance shade-avoidance syndrome in Arabidopsis  OPEN
Yurong Xie, Yang Liu, Hai Wang, Xiaojing Ma, Baobao Wang, Guangxia Wu & Haiyang Wang

Plants employ developmental strategies to avoid shade and compete with neighbors for light. Here, Xie et al. show that phytochrome-interacting factors, which are regulated in a light-dependent manner, directly repress MIR156 genes and promote the expression of SPL genes to enhance shade-avoidance responses.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00404-y
Leaf development  Light responses 

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 

Whi7 is an unstable cell-cycle repressor of the Start transcriptional program OPEN
Mercè Gomar-Alba, Ester Méndez, Inma Quilis, M. Carmen Bañó & J. Carlos Igual

The commitment of cells to a new cycle of division involves inactivation of the Start transcriptional repressor Whi5. Here the authors show that the sequence related protein Whi7 associates to G1/S gene promoters in late G1 and collaborates with Whi5 in Start repression.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00374-1
Cell division 

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 

A versatile platform for precise synthesis of asymmetric molecular brush in one shot OPEN
Binbin Xu, Chun Feng & Xiaoyu Huang

Producing well-defined polymer compositions and structures facilitates their use in many different applications. Here the authors show the synthesis of well-defined asymmetric double-brushes by a one-pot concurrent atom transfer radical polymerization and Cu-catalyzed Click reaction.

24 August 2017 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00365-2
Polymer synthesis  Polymerization mechanisms 
 
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Atomistic models  Graphene  Mass spectrometry  Transmission electron microscopy 

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