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Visit our open access funding page or contact openaccess@nature.com to learn more about APC funding. | | | | | | Latest Articles | View all Articles | | | | | Fishing down nutrients on coral reefs OPEN | | | Jacob E. Allgeier, Abel Valdivia, Courtney Cox and Craig A. Layman | | | Coral reefs are productive ecosystems due to high levels of nutrient recycling in which fishes play a critical role. This study shows fishing can reduce the amount of nutrients supplied and stored by fishes to coral reefs by nearly half, even when the number of fish species present is largely unchanged. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12461 | | |
| Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England OPEN | | | Ben A. Woodcock, Nicholas J. B. Isaac, James M. Bullock, David B. Roy, David G. Garthwaite, Andrew Crowe and Richard F. Pywell | | | Neonicotinoid as insecticide on oilseed rape can reduce bee colony density, but its effect at a large geographical scale is unclear. This study describes 18-year long wild bee tracking data in England and show neonicotinoid use is correlated with wild bee population declines at real landscape scales. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12459 | | |
| Ovarian fluid allows directional cryptic female choice despite external fertilization OPEN | | | Suzanne H. Alonzo, Kelly A. Stiver and Susan E. Marsh-Rollo | | | In some species with internal fertilization, females can mate with multiple males and then manipulate which sperm fertilize the eggs. Here, Alonzo et al. find that by releasing ovarian fluid along with their eggs, female ocellated wrasse are able to influence paternity despite having external fertilization. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12452 | | |
| Mohawk promotes the maintenance and regeneration of the outer annulus fibrosus of intervertebral discs OPEN | | | Ryo Nakamichi, Yoshiaki Ito, Masafumi Inui, Naoko Onizuka, Tomohiro Kayama, Kensuke Kataoka, Hidetsugu Suzuki, Masaki Mori, Masayo Inagawa, Shizuko Ichinose, Martin K. Lotz, Daisuke Sakai, Koichi Masuda, Toshifumi Ozaki and Hiroshi Asahara | | | Homeobox protein Mohwak (Mkx) is involved in tendon and ligament development. Here the authors show that Mkx in the outer annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc plays a role in maintenance of the IVD, showing that stem cells overexpressing Mkx enhance therapeutic IVD regeneration in mice. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12503 | | |
| Human TRAV1-2-negative MR1-restricted T cells detect S. pyogenes and alternatives to MAIT riboflavin-based antigens OPEN | | | Erin W. Meermeier, Bruno F. Laugel, Andrew K. Sewell, Alexandra J. Corbett, Jamie Rossjohn, James McCluskey, Melanie J. Harriff, Tamera Franks, Marielle C. Gold and David M. Lewinsohn | | | Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells sense riboflavin biosynthetic intermediate antigens with a semi-invariant MR1-restricted T-cell receptor (TCR). Here the authors identify a new MR1-restricted TCR that senses cells infected with S. pyogenes, a bacteria unable to biosynthesize riboflavin. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12506 | | |
| Self-mapping the longitudinal field structure of a nonlinear plasma accelerator cavity OPEN | | | C. E. Clayton, E. Adli, J. Allen, W. An, C. I. Clarke, S. Corde, J. Frederico, S. Gessner, S. Z. Green, M. J. Hogan, C. Joshi, M. Litos, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, X. Xu and V. Yakimenko | | | Extraction of ultra-low emittance bunches is an issue to be addressed for future applications of plasma wakefield accelerators. Here, the authors show that the field structure of the plasma could be suitable for this, by measuring the field's longitudinal variation produced by a relativistic electron bunch. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12483 | | |
| Blocking transport resonances via Kondo many-body entanglement in quantum dots OPEN | | | Michael Niklas, Sergey Smirnov, Davide Mantelli, Magdalena Margańska, Ngoc-Viet Nguyen, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Jean-Pierre Cleuziou and Milena Grifoni | | | The many-body Kondo effect manifests in low-temperature Coulomb blockaded quantum dots as a zero-bias conductance peak, which arises due to charge-fluctuation-driven transport. Here, the authors demonstrate a counterintuitive Kondo effect in which these conduction channels are blocked. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12442 | | |
| Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features OPEN | | | Kun-Hsing Yu, Ce Zhang, Gerald J. Berry, Russ B. Altman, Christopher Ré, Daniel L. Rubin and Michael Snyder | | | Diagnosis of lung cancer through manual histopathology evaluation is insufficient to predict patient survival. Here, the authors use computerized image processing to identify diagnostically relevant image features and use these features to distinguish lung cancer patients with different prognoses. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12474 | | |
| Multiparametric imaging with heterogeneous radiofrequency fields OPEN | | | Martijn A. Cloos, Florian Knoll, Tiejun Zhao, Kai T. Block, Mary Bruno, Graham C. Wiggins and Daniel K. Sodickson | | | Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) requires a uniform B1 + radiofrequency field. Here the authors present plug-n-play MRF, a technique that enables multiparametric imaging with heterogeneous B1 + fields, and demonstrate its utility in the presence of RF distortion caused by a metallic orthopaedic implant. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12445 | | |
| Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse OPEN | | | Max D. Holloway, Louise C. Sime, Joy S. Singarayer, Julia C. Tindall, Pete Bunch and Paul J. Valdes | | | The peak in Antarctic ice core isotope values, 128,000 years before present, was concurrent with a significantly warmer-than-present Antarctic climate. Here, the authors show that this isotope maximum was associated with a major retreat of sea ice and not a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12293 | | |
| Free-electron creation at the 60° twin boundary in Bi2Te3 OPEN | | | Kwang-Chon Kim, Joohwi Lee, Byung Kyu Kim, Won Young Choi, Hye Jung Chang, Sung Ok Won, Beomjin Kwon, Seong Keun Kim, Dow-Bin Hyun, Hyun Jae Kim, Hyun Cheol Koo, Jung-Hae Choi, Dong-Ik Kim, Jin-Sang Kim and Seung-Hyub Baek | | | Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials may offer the opportunity to explore physical phenomena that do not normally occur within the crystal grains. Here, the authors show that twin boundaries in Bi2Te3 works as an electron supply for the whole bulk material. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12449 | | |
| miR-625-3p regulates oxaliplatin resistance by targeting MAP2K6-p38 signalling in human colorectal adenocarcinoma cells OPEN | | | Mads Heilskov Rasmussen, Iben Lyskjær, Rosa Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, Line Schmidt Tarpgaard, Bjarke Primdal-Bengtson, Morten Muhlig Nielsen, Jakob Skou Pedersen, Tine Plato Hansen, Flemming Hansen, Jesper Velgaard Olsen, Per Pfeiffer, Torben Falck Ørntoft and Claus Lindbjerg Andersen | | | Oxaliplatin resistance in colorectal cancers is a major clinical problem, and predictive markers are urgently needed. Here, the authors show that miR-625-3p expression reduces the sensitivity of colorectal cancer cells to oxaliplatin by targeting the kinase MAP2K6, an activator of the MAPK14 pathway. | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12436 | | |
| Fast live-cell conventional fluorophore nanoscopy with ImageJ through super-resolution radial fluctuations OPEN | | | Nils Gustafsson, Siân Culley, George Ashdown, Dylan M. Owen, Pedro Matos Pereira and Ricardo Henriques | | | Super-resolution fluorescent imaging typically makes use of intense phototoxic illumination. Here the authors achieve live-cell super-resolution imaging using low-illumination standard microscopes with the aid of a new analytical approach called Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuations (SRRF), provided as an ImageJ plugin. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12471 | | |
| Zeeman splitting and dynamical mass generation in Dirac semimetal ZrTe5 OPEN | | | Yanwen Liu, Xiang Yuan, Cheng Zhang, Zhao Jin, Awadhesh Narayan, Chen Luo, Zhigang Chen, Lei Yang, Jin Zou, Xing Wu, Stefano Sanvito, Zhengcai Xia, Liang Li, Zhong Wang and Faxian Xiu | | | It has been predicted that the presence of strong electronic correlations may generate new phases in materials with topologically non-trivial band structure. Here, the authors demonstrate the generation of Dirac mass in the correlated Dirac semimetal candidate ZrTe5 under high magnetic fields. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12516 | | |
| Endothelial cells are progenitors of cardiac pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells OPEN | | | Qi Chen, Hui Zhang, Yang Liu, Susanne Adams, Hanna Eilken, Martin Stehling, Monica Corada, Elisabetta Dejana, Bin Zhou and Ralf H. Adams | | | Pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells are crucial for functional blood vessels, but the developmental sources of these cells are incompletely understood. Here, the authors show that endocardial endothelial cells give rise to cardiac mural cells, which are controlled by Wnt signalling. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12422 | | |
| Amine synthesis via iron-catalysed reductive coupling of nitroarenes with alkyl halides OPEN | | | Chi Wai Cheung and Xile Hu | | | Direct synthesis of aryl amines from nitroarenes avoids the waste and potential functional group incompatibility of first reducing to anilines. Here, the authors report an iron catalysed reductive coupling of nitroarenes with alkyl halides to form a wide range of (hetero)aromatic amines. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12494 | | |
| Visualization of anisotropic-isotropic phase transformation dynamics in battery electrode particles OPEN | | | Jiajun Wang, Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, Christopher Eng, Qun Shen and Jun Wang | | | Spatiotemporal phase evolution during transformations impacts materials performance in many systems. Here the authors use lithium iron phosphate particles inside a custom-designed battery to characterize in three dimensions the two-phase configuration at various states of charge via X-ray tomography. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12372 | | |
| Subcompartmentalization by cross-membranes during early growth of Streptomyces hyphae OPEN | | | Paula Yagüe, Joost Willemse, Roman I. Koning, Beatriz Rioseras, María T. López-García, Nathaly Gonzalez-Quiñonez, Carmen Lopez-Iglesias, Pavel V. Shliaha, Adelina Rogowska-Wrzesinska, Abraham J. Koster, Ole N. Jensen, Gilles P. van Wezel and Ángel Manteca | | | Bacteria of the genus Streptomyces form cellular filaments (hyphae) in which sporadic peptidoglycan cell walls separate multinucleate compartments. Here, Yagüe et al. show that young hyphae are further compartmentalized by cross-membranes lacking detectable peptidoglycan. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12467 | | |
| Ultra-fast self-assembly and stabilization of reactive nanoparticles in reduced graphene oxide films OPEN | | | Yanan Chen, Garth C. Egan, Jiayu Wan, Shuze Zhu, Rohit Jiji Jacob, Wenbo Zhou, Jiaqi Dai, Yanbin Wang, Valencia A. Danner, Yonggang Yao, Kun Fu, Yibo Wang, Wenzhong Bao, Teng Li, Michael R. Zachariah and Liangbing Hu | | | Nanoparticles of non-noble metals are useful for many applications but can be prone to sintering or surface oxidation. Here, the authors use a rapid heating-cooling approach to synthesize uniformly distributed nanoparticles in a reduced graphene oxide matrix, and test them as switchable energetic materials. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12332 | | |
| Hydrodynamic dispensing and electrical manipulation of attolitre droplets OPEN | | | Yanzhen Zhang, Benliang Zhu, Yonghong Liu and Gunther Wittstock | | | Dispensing small droplets is essential to many ink printing, chemical and biological technologies, but the conventional orifice-based methods fail when the size of droplets approaches sub-micrometre range. Here, Zhang et al. show dispensing of viscous droplets down to attolitre in a controllable way. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12424 | | |
| Enhancement of Rydberg-mediated single-photon nonlinearities by electrically tuned Förster resonances OPEN | | | H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, P. Bienias, A. Paris-Mandoki, W. Li, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. P. Büchler, I. Lesanovsky and S. Hofferberth | | | Single photon level of light control is possible by using the effective interaction between single photons and Rydberg atoms. Here the authors utilized such interaction of Stark-tuned Forster resonances to boost the gain of a Rydberg single-photon transistor and perform high precision spectroscopy. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12480 | | |
| The gravity dual of Rényi entropy OPEN | | | Xi Dong | | | The discovery that the entropy of black holes is given by their horizon area inspired the holographic principle and led to gauge-gravity duality. Here, the author shows that all Rényi entropies satisfy a similar area law in holographic theories and are given by the areas of dual cosmic branes. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12472 | | |
| DELLA proteins are common components of symbiotic rhizobial and mycorrhizal signalling pathways OPEN | | | Yue Jin, Huan Liu, Dexian Luo, Nan Yu, Wentao Dong, Chao Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Huiling Dai, Jun Yang and Ertao Wang | | | Symbiotic associations between legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria are regulated by a CCaMK-IPD3 protein complex which promotes nodule initiation. Here, Jin et al. propose that DELLA proteins positively regulate nodulation by enhancing phosphorylation of IPD3 and acting as a positive regulator of transcription. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12433 | | |
| A robust molecular probe for Ångstrom-scale analytics in liquids OPEN | | | Peter Nirmalraj, Damien Thompson, Christos Dimitrakopoulos, Bernd Gotsmann, Dumitru Dumcenco, Andras Kis and Heike Riel | | | Single-molecule-terminated scanning probes typically operate under ultra-high vacuum conditions at low temperatures. Here, the authors show that tips functionalized with C60 can image single-layer graphene and MoS2 with high definition in a liquid environment at room temperature | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12403 | | |
| Dorsal horn neurons release extracellular ATP in a VNUT-dependent manner that underlies neuropathic pain OPEN | | | Takahiro Masuda, Yui Ozono, Satsuki Mikuriya, Yuta Kohro, Hidetoshi Tozaki-Saitoh, Ken Iwatsuki, Hisayuki Uneyama, Reiko Ichikawa, Michael W. Salter, Makoto Tsuda and Kazuhide Inoue | | | Purinergic receptor activation by extracellular ATP in the dorsal horn contributes to neuropathic pain, but which cell types release ATP in this context is not known. The authors show in a mouse model of neuropathic pain that ATP is released by dorsal horn neurons, a process requiring the vesicular nucleotide transporter, VNUT. | | | 12 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12529 | | |
| Experimental realization of stimulated Raman shortcut-to-adiabatic passage with cold atoms OPEN | | | Yan-Xiong Du, Zhen-Tao Liang, Yi-Chao Li, Xian-Xian Yue, Qing-Xian Lv, Wei Huang, Xi Chen, Hui Yan and Shi-Liang Zhu | | | Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage is a robust approach to realize high-fidelity state transfer, but requires long operation. Here, the authors propose a shortcut-to-adiabatic protocol to speed up such approach by modifying the Raman pulses, and demonstrate it in a cold atomic setup. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12479 | | |
| Environmental change makes robust ecological networks fragile OPEN | | | Giovanni Strona and Kevin D. Lafferty | | | Despite their complexity, ecological networks appear robust to species loss. Here, Strona and Lafferty use artificial life simulations and real-world data to show that such robustness applies to stable conditions, but can collapse when the environment changes. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12462 | | |
| Projected increase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from 2015 to 2040 OPEN | | | Karissa C. Arthur, Andrea Calvo, T. Ryan Price, Joshua T. Geiger, Adriano Chiò and Bryan J. Traynor | | | The socioeconomic burden of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is high, but the projected number of cases in the upcoming years is unclear. Here, the authors estimate the number and distribution of ALS cases to 2040, and show that cases are projected to increase, particularly in developing nations. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12408 | | |
| Blue-sky bifurcation of ion energies and the limits of neutral-gas sympathetic cooling of trapped ions OPEN | | | Steven J. Schowalter, Alexander J. Dunning, Kuang Chen, Prateek Puri, Christian Schneider and Eric R. Hudson | | | Sympathetic cooling of trapped ions with neutral buffer gases is a widespread technique, but its limitations are not entirely understood. Here, the authors examine barion ions immersed in a gas of calcium atoms, and observe nonequlibrium behaviour through bifurcations in the ions steady-state temperatures. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12448 | | |
| Identification of Siglec-1 null individuals infected with HIV-1 OPEN | | | Javier Martinez-Picado, Paul J. McLaren, Itziar Erkizia, Maureen P. Martin, Susana Benet, Margalida Rotger, Judith Dalmau, Dan Ouchi, Steven M. Wolinsky, Sudhir Penugonda, Huldrych F. Günthard, Jacques Fellay, Mary Carrington, Nuria Izquierdo-Useros and Amalio Telenti | | | Binding of virus, HIV-1, to cellular protein Siglec-1 is important for infection of immune cells. Here the authors show that a natural mutation leading to production of truncated Siglec-1 reduces HIV binding and infectivity transfer in vitro, but does not substantially affect infection or AIDS outcome in patients. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12412 | | |
| Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP2S6 ultrathin flakes OPEN | | | Fucai Liu, Lu You, Kyle L. Seyler, Xiaobao Li, Peng Yu, Junhao Lin, Xuewen Wang, Jiadong Zhou, Hong Wang, Haiyong He, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Wu Zhou, Pradeep Sharma, Xiaodong Xu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Junling Wang and Zheng Liu | | | Two dimensional materials are promising for electronic applications, which await the exploration of cooperative phenomena. Here, Liu et al. report switchable ferroelectric polarization in thin CuInP2S6 film at room temperature, demonstrating good memory behaviour with on/off ratio of ∼100 based on two-dimensional ferroelectricity. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12357 | | |
| Adaptation to elevated CO2 in different biodiversity contexts OPEN | | | Elizabeth J. Kleynhans, Sarah P. Otto, Peter B. Reich and Mark Vellend | | | How do species adapt to environmental change when living with different kinds of competitors? Through a reciprocal transplant experiment, the authors show that competitive community alters the nature of selection so that species adapt to elevated CO2 in different ways in varying community contexts. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12358 | | |
| Hyperphosphorylation amplifies UPF1 activity to resolve stalls in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay OPEN | | | Sébastien Durand, Tobias M. Franks and Jens Lykke-Andersen | | | Gene expression is regulated by a range of mechanisms, including post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation. Here the authors present evidence for a feedback mechanism whereby hyperphosphorylation of UPF1 in response to delays in nonsense-mediated decay enhances recruitment of mRNA decay machinery. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12434 | | |
| Regulation of energy homeostasis by the ubiquitin-independent REGγ proteasome OPEN | | | Lianhui Sun, Guangjian Fan, Peipei Shan, Xiaoying Qiu, Shuxian Dong, Lujian Liao, Chunlei Yu, Tingting Wang, Xiaoyang Gu, Qian Li, Xiaoyu Song, Liu Cao, Xiaotao Li, Yongping Cui, Shengping Zhang and Chuangui Wang | | | In conditions of energy stress cells reduce transcription of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) to maintain cell survival. Here, the authors show that energy stress induces an AMPK-dependent phosphorylation of Sirt7, which promotes its ubiquitin-independent degradation by REGγ, resulting in the down-regulation of rRNA transcription and cell survival. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12497 | | |
| Autophagy initiation by ULK complex assembly on ER tubulovesicular regions marked by ATG9 vesicles OPEN | | | Eleftherios Karanasios, Simon A. Walker, Hanneke Okkenhaug, Maria Manifava, Eric Hummel, Hans Zimmermann, Qashif Ahmed, Marie-Charlotte Domart, Lucy Collinson and Nicholas T. Ktistakis | | | The ULK1 complex is required during autophagosome nucleation, but where autophagic membranes initiate is unknown. Here the authors use super-resolution microscopy to propose that autophagosomes originate from tubulovesicular structures in the ER that align with ATG9 vesicles and recruit ULK1. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12420 | | |
| Fenamate NSAIDs inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome and protect against Alzheimer’s disease in rodent models OPEN | | | Michael J. D. Daniels, Jack Rivers-Auty, Tom Schilling, Nicholas G. Spencer, William Watremez, Victoria Fasolino, Sophie J. Booth, Claire S. White, Alex G. Baldwin, Sally Freeman, Raymond Wong, Clare Latta, Shi Yu, Joshua Jackson, Nicolas Fischer, Violette Koziel, Thierry Pillot, James Bagnall, Stuart M. Allan, Pawel Paszek et al. | | | NSAID-induced analgesia is typically induced by inhibition of COX enzymes. Here the authors show instead that fenamate NSAIDs inhibit the Nlrp3 inflammasome via an effect on volume-regulated anion channel function and also repurpose these drugs for therapeutic effect in rodent models of Alzheimer disease. | | | 11 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12504 | | |
| Taming contact line instability for pattern formation OPEN | | | A. Deblais, R. Harich, A. Colin and H. Kellay | | | Coating flows on surfaces are very useful in many industrial applications such as printing organic electronics, but it is challenging to control the process owing to unstable flow. Here, Deblais et al. take advantage of this instability to prepare tunable patterns composed of oriented, well-spaced lines. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12458 | | |
| Writing of H3K4Me3 overcomes epigenetic silencing in a sustained but context-dependent manner OPEN | | | David Cano-Rodriguez, Rutger A F. Gjaltema, Laura J Jilderda, Pytrick Jellema, Jelleke Dokter-Fokkens, Marcel H J. Ruiters and Marianne G Rots | | | Epigenome editing by zinc finger (ZF) and CRISPR-dCas9 technologies can induce or repress gene expression. Here, the authors show that histone methyltransferase PRDM9 fused to either dCas9 or ZF proteins can sustain gene re-expression, and H3K79me is required for stable gene re-expression. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12284 | | |
| Enhancing quantum sensing sensitivity by a quantum memory OPEN | | | Sebastian Zaiser, Torsten Rendler, Ingmar Jakobi, Thomas Wolf, Sang-Yun Lee, Samuel Wagner, Ville Bergholm, Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen, Philipp Neumann and Jörg Wrachtrup | | | In quantum sensing, memories have been used to enhance measurement precision. Here, the authors demonstrate the use of a memory to increase sensitivity of single 13C nuclear spins spectroscopy by storing the full sensor state and entangling memory and sensor. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12279 | | | Physical Sciences Applied physics Condensed matter Theoretical physics |
| The severity of hereditary porphyria is modulated by the porphyrin exporter and Lan antigen ABCB6 OPEN | | | Yu Fukuda, Pak Leng Cheong, John Lynch, Cheryl Brighton, Sharon Frase, Vasileios Kargas, Evadnie Rampersaud, Yao Wang, Vijay G. Sankaran, Bing Yu, Paul A. Ney, Mitchell J. Weiss, Peter Vogel, Peter J. Bond, Robert C. Ford, Ronald J. Trent and John D. Schuetz | | | Accumulation of intermediates of haem biosynthesis, porphyrins, is harmful and usually inherited, but it is unclear how the same mutation may make some individuals more ill than others. Here, the authors show that a porphyrin transporter ABCB6 is a modulator of porphyria, and that patients with functionally defective ABCB6 show more severe symptoms. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12353 | | |
| Turning the respiratory flexibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against itself OPEN | | | Dirk A. Lamprecht, Peter M. Finin, Md. Aejazur Rahman, Bridgette M. Cumming, Shannon L. Russell, Surendranadha R. Jonnala, John H. Adamson and Adrie J. C. Steyn | | | Several inhibitors of the electron transport chain (ETC) are active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here, Lamprecht et al. show that a combination of known inhibitors (bedaquiline, Q203 and clofazimine) displays synergistic effects on the M. tuberculosis ETC and improved antibacterial activity in vitro. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12393 | | |
| MEF2C protects bone marrow B-lymphoid progenitors during stress haematopoiesis OPEN | | | Wenyuan Wang, Tonis Org, Amélie Montel-Hagen, Peter D. Pioli, Dan Duan, Edo Israely, Daniel Malkin, Trent Su, Johanna Flach, Siavash K. Kurdistani, Robert H. Schiestl and Hanna K. A. Mikkola | | | MEF2C is a transcription factor required for B-cell proliferation. Here the authors show that MEF2C is also needed in B-cell development and recovery from stress by inducing expression of DNA repair factors that prevent double stranded breaks and enable VDJ recombination. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12376 | | |
| Ultrafast formation of air-processable and high-quality polymer films on an aqueous substrate OPEN | | | Jonghyeon Noh, Seonju Jeong and Jung-Yong Lee | | | There is a continual effort to improve the power conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells and here, Lee and others have produced a device with 8.44% efficiency. This was achieved by using a spontaneous spreading phenomenon to form uniform, high quality films with finely separated phase domains. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12374 | | |
| Photonic Weyl degeneracies in magnetized plasma OPEN | | | Wenlong Gao, Biao Yang, Mark Lawrence, Fengzhou Fang, Benjamin Béri and Shuang Zhang | | | Weyl particles are massless relativistic fermions recently observed in solid-state materials where they are characterized by Weyl points: topologically protected crossings in their band structure. Here, the authors demonstrate a novel type of plasmonic Weyl point in a magnetized plasma. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12435 | | |
| Ordered chromatin changes and human X chromosome reactivation by cell fusion-mediated pluripotent reprogramming OPEN | | | Irene Cantone, Hakan Bagci, Dirk Dormann, Gopuraja Dharmalingam, Tatyana Nesterova, Neil Brockdorff, Claire Rougeulle, Celine Vallot, Edith Heard, Ronan Chaligne, Matthias Merkenschlager and Amanda G. Fisher | | | Reactivation of the inactive X chromosome (Xi) has modelled epigenetic reprogramming in mouse. Here, by using cell fusion between human female fibroblasts and mouse embryonic stem cells, the authors show a complex hierarchy of epigenetic changes that are required to reactivate the genes on the human Xi chromosome. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12354 | | |
| Phytochrome B and REVEILLE1/2-mediated signalling controls seed dormancy and germination in Arabidopsis OPEN | | | Zhimin Jiang, Gang Xu, Yanjun Jing, Weijiang Tang and Rongcheng Lin | | | Seed dormancy prevents germination under adverse environmental conditions. Here the authors show that the RVE1 and RVE2 transcription factors suppress biosynthesis of the germination-promoting hormone GA and act downstream of phytochrome signalling to promote dormancy and repress light-induced germination. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12377 | | |
| Early programming of the oocyte epigenome temporally controls late prophase I transcription and chromatin remodelling OPEN | | | Paulo Navarro-Costa, Alicia McCarthy, Pedro Prudêncio, Christina Greer, Leonardo G. Guilgur, Jörg D. Becker, Julie Secombe, Prashanth Rangan and Rui G. Martinho | | | Meiotically arrested oocytes retain transcriptional ability despite chromosome condensation. Here, the authors show that Drosophila oocytes regulate meiotic transcription and chromatin remodelling through the programming, in early oogenesis, of an extremely diversified epigenome. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12331 | | |
| Probiotic-derived ferrichrome inhibits colon cancer progression via JNK-mediated apoptosis OPEN | | | Hiroaki Konishi, Mikihiro Fujiya, Hiroki Tanaka, Nobuhiro Ueno, Kentaro Moriichi, Junpei Sasajima, Katsuya Ikuta, Hiroaki Akutsu, Hiroki Tanabe and Yutaka Kohgo | | | Probiotics have tumour-suppressive effects in cancer cell lines and in animal models. In this study, the authors demonstrate that ferrichrome produced by Lactobacillus casei ATCC334 can suppress colon cancer growth inducing apoptosis via the JNK pathway. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12365 | | |
| Solvent-driven electron trapping and mass transport in reduced graphites to access perfect graphene OPEN | | | Philipp Vecera, Johannes Holzwarth, Konstantin F. Edelthalhammer, Udo Mundloch, Herwig Peterlik, Frank Hauke and Andreas Hirsch | | | Graphite intercalation compounds are promising precursors for the reductive exfoliation of graphene. Here, the authors unveil the discharging mechanism of reduced graphitic compounds in a solid/liquid phase reaction, and further demonstrate its practical use for graphene production. | | | 10 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12411 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Latest Corrigenda | | | | | | Corrigendum: Long-lived antigen-induced IgM plasma cells demonstrate somatic mutations and contribute to long-term protection OPEN | | | Caitlin Bohannon, Ryan Powers, Lakshmipriyadarshini Satyabhama, Ang Cui, Christopher Tipton, Miri Michaeli, Ioanna Skountzou, Robert S. Mittler, Steven H. Kleinstein, Ramit Mehr, Frances Eun-Hyung Lee, Ignacio Sanz and Joshy Jacob | | | 16 August 2016 | doi: 10.1038/ncomms12687 | | | Biological Sciences Immunology |
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