Contents
July 2015
Vol 1, Issue 6
Vol 1, Issue 6
Contents
Research Articles
- Quantum unidirectional rotation directly imaged with molecules
High resolution imaging fully characterizes quantum-mechanical signatures of direction-controlled molecular rotational dynamics.
- Genome-environment associations in sorghum landraces predict adaptive traits
Genome-environment associations and phenotypic analyses may reveal the basis of environmental adaptation.
- Structure of transcribed chromatin is a sensor of DNA damage
Small DNA loops formed on transcribed nucleosomes trigger transcriptional arrest on damaged DNA and reveal hidden DNA breaks.
- Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time using polynomial resources and collective states
Demonstration of computing with memory points to a new route for solving hard problems faster.
- Rapid eye movement sleep promotes cortical plasticity in the developing brain
Rapid eye movement sleep plays a critical role in shaping developing circuits in the cerebral cortex.
- Molecular overlap in the regulation of SK channels by small molecules and phosphoinositides
NS309 enhances PIP2 interactions and activity of SK channels.
- Mini-ISES identifies promising carbafructopyranose-based salens for asymmetric catalysis: Tuning ligand shape via the anomeric effect
Enzymes lead to the discovery of new, shape-tunable ligands for controlling catalytic chemistry.
- A vanished history of skeletonization in Cambrian comb jellies
Early evolution of the basal animal phylum illuminated by sclerotized and armored ctenophore species from early Cambrian period.
- The valence-fluctuating ground state of plutonium
Determination of plutonium’s fluctuating electronic and magnetic ground state resolves long-standing “missing” magnetism puzzle.
- High geothermal heat flux measured below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
First direct measurements of heat flux from Lake Whillans may explain abundance of subglacial lakes and ice streams in region.
- Controlling the metal-to-insulator relaxation of the metastable hidden quantum state in 1T-TaS2
Revealing the relaxation mechanisms of hidden states in transition metal dichalcogenides leads to control of metastability.
- Natural aerosols explain seasonal and spatial patterns of Southern Ocean cloud albedo
Sulfate and organic mass in sea spray explain more than half of the variability in Southern Ocean cloud droplet concentration.
- Local variations of HER2 dimerization in breast cancer cells discovered by correlative fluorescence and liquid electron microscopy
New microscopy method reveals local variations of functional state of membrane protein associated with cancer cell growth.
- Mast cell degranulation by a hemolytic lipid toxin decreases GBS colonization and infection
GBS hemolytic lipid/pigment and hyperpigmented GBS activate mast cells triggering the release of preformed and proinflammatory mediators.
- Engineered binding to erythrocytes induces immunological tolerance to E. coli asparaginase
Humoral immune tolerance to the therapeutic enzyme E. coli l-asparaginase was induced by engineering the enzyme for in vivo erythrocyte binding.
- Structural basis for recognition of diverse transcriptional repressors by the TOPLESS family of corepressors
Groucho-related corepressors in plants bind a peptide motif found in numerous repressors through a novel peptide recognition fold.
- Translational control by lysine-encoding A-rich sequences
Conserved poly(A) tracks in coding regions are attenuators of translation.
- Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential
A near exact solution is revealed for a single impurity strongly interacting with a one-dimensional trapped quantum gas.
- The rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine-sulfated protein from a Gram-negative bacterium
A sulfated peptide activates a rice immune receptor.
- Cystic fibrosis–adapted Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing lasR mutants cause hyperinflammatory responses
Cystic fibrosis–adapted Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasR quorum sensing mutants cause hyperinflammation contributing to chronic lung disease.
- Trading biodiversity for pest problems
Decisions that reduce insect diversity and decrease the network strength in insect communities result in higher pest abundance.
- Atomically thin layers of B–N–C–O with tunable composition
Atomically thin quaternary alloy of boron, nitrogen, carbon and oxygen, 2D-BNCO with tunable composition.
- Ultrahigh-mobility graphene devices from chemical vapor deposition on reusable copper
A novel dry transfer technique opens the door to large-scale CVD graphene with carrier mobilities of up to several 100,000 cm2 V−1 s−1.
- Prefrontal inputs to the amygdala instruct fear extinction memory formation
Traumatic fear memories are extinguished by a discrete brain circuit comprising inputs from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala.
- Hierarchical multiscale hyperporous block copolymer membranes via tunable dual-phase separation
A new class of amphiphilic block copolymer–based porous membranes is fabricated via tunable dual-phase separation.