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Large-scale statistical analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome sequences identifies compensatory mutations associated with multi-drug resistance

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has a significant impact on global health worldwide. The development of multi-drug resistant strains that are resistant to the first-line drugs isoniazid a...

Nina Billows, Jody Phelan, Dong **a, Yonghong Peng, Taane G. Clark… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Above-room-temperature chiral skyrmion lattice and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe_3−xGaTe₂

Skyrmions in existing 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials have primarily been limited to cryogenic temperatures, and the underlying physical mechanism of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI), a crucial ing...

Chenhui Zhang, Ze Jiang, Jiawei Jiang, Wa He, Junwei Zhang… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Universal scaling law for chiral antiferromagnetism

The chiral antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, which have been widely investigated due to their rich physics, such as non-zero Berry phase and topology, provide a platform for the development of antiferromagnet...

Shijie Xu, Bingqian Dai, Yuhao Jiang, Danrong **ong, Houyi Cheng… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Molecular sieving of iso-butene from C₄ olefins with simultaneous high 1,3-butadiene and n-butene uptakes

Iso-butene (iso-C₄H₈) is an important raw material in chemical industry, whereas its efficient separation remains challenging due to similar molecular properties of C₄ olefins. The ideal adsorbent should possess ...

Junhui Liu, Hanting **ong, Hua Shuai, **ng Liu, Yong Peng… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Interaction-selective molecular sieving adsorbent for direct separation of ethylene from senary C₂-C₄ olefin/paraffin mixture

Olefin/paraffin separations are among the most energy-intensive processes in the petrochemical industry, with ethylene being the most widely consumed chemical feedstock. Adsorptive separation utilizing molecul...

Yong Peng, Hanting **ong, Peixin Zhang, Zhiwei Zhao, **ng Liu… in Nature Communications (2024)

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Repression of LSD1 potentiates homologous recombination-proficient ovarian cancer to PARP inhibitors through down-regulation of BRCA1/2 and RAD51

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) are selectively active in ovarian cancer (OC) with homologous recombination (HR) deficiency (HRD) caused by mutations in BRCA1/2 and other DNA repair pathway mem...

Lei Tao, Yue Zhou, **angyu Pan, Yuan Luo, Jiahao Qiu, … in Nature Communications (2023)

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A circular RNA activated by TGFβ promotes tumor metastasis through enhancing IGF2BP3-mediated PDPN mRNA stability

Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related death, where TGFβ-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process confers on cancer cells increased metastatic potential. However, the involvement of c...

Ke Li, Jiawei Guo, Yue Ming, Shuang Chen, Tingting Zhang, Hulin Ma… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Retraction Note: SARI inhibits angiogenesis and tumour growth of human colon cancer through directly targeting ceruloplasmin

Lei Dai, Xueliang Cui, **n Zhang, Lin Cheng, Yi Liu, Yang Yang… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Individualized active surveillance for carbapenem-resistant microorganisms using Xpert Carba-R in intensive care units

Carbapenem antibiotics are widely used in ICU, and the prevalence of carbapenem-resistant microorganisms (CRO) has increased. This study aimed to assess the role of individualized active surveillance using Xpe...

Shuliang Zhou, Sulin Mi, **n Rao, Qi Zhang, Shiwen Wei, Meng **ao… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Haplotype-resolved genome assembly of Coriaria nepalensis a non-legume nitrogen-fixing shrub

Coriaria nepalensis Wall. (Coriariaceae) is a nitrogen-fixing shrub which forms root nodules with the actinomycete Frankia. Oils and extracts of C. nepalensis have been reported to be bacteriostatic and insectici...

Shi-Wei Zhao, **g-Fang Guo, Lei Kong, Shuai Nie, Xue-Mei Yan… in Scientific Data (2023)

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Subgenome-aware analyses suggest a reticulate allopolyploidization origin in three Papaver genomes

Ren-Gang Zhang, Chaoxia Lu, Guang-Yuan Li, Jie Lv, Longxin Wang… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction

Dynamic reconstruction of metal sulphides during electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has hampered the acquisition of legible evidence for comprehensively understanding the phase-transition mechani...

Yang Hu, Yao Zheng, **g **, Yantao Wang, Yong Peng, Jie Yin… in Nature Communications (2023)

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The built-in electric field across FeN/Fe₃N interface for efficient electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to CO

Nanostructured metal-nitrides have attracted tremendous interest as a new generation of catalysts for electroreduction of CO₂, but these structures have limited activity and stability in the reduction condition. ...

Jie Yin, **g **, Zhouyang Yin, Liu Zhu, **n Du, Yong Peng… in Nature Communications (2023)

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PHGDH arginine methylation by PRMT1 promotes serine synthesis and represents a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma

Serine synthesis is crucial for tumor growth and survival, but its regulatory mechanism in cancer remains elusive. Here, using integrative metabolomics and transcriptomics analyses, we show a heterogeneity bet...

Kui Wang, Li Luo, Shuyue Fu, Mao Wang, Zihao Wang, Lixia Dong… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Pan-cancer single-cell analysis reveals the heterogeneity and plasticity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are the predominant components of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and influence cancer hallmarks, but without systematic investigation on their ubiquitous characteristics ...

Han Luo, Xuyang **a, Li-Bin Huang, Hyunsu An, Minyuan Cao… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Freezing solute atoms in nanograined aluminum alloys via high-density vacancies

Low-temperature decomposition of supersaturated solid solution into unfavorable intergranular precipitates is a long-standing bottleneck limiting the practical applications of nanograined aluminum alloys that ...

Shenghua Wu, Hanne S. Soreide, Bin Chen, Jianjun Bian, Chong Yang… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Light-driven transition-metal-free direct decarbonylation of unstrained diaryl ketones via a dual C–C bond cleavage

The cleavage and formation of carbon−carbon bonds have emerged as powerful tools for structural modifications in organic synthesis. Although transition−metal−catalyzed decarbonylation of unstrained diaryl keto...

Dawei Cao, Mohamad Ataya, Zhangpei Chen, Huiying Zeng, Yong Peng… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Association between long noncoding RNA rs944289 and rs7990916 polymorphisms and the risk of colorectal cancer in a Chinese population

Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) play vital roles in the tumorigenesis of many cancers. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the lncRNA also play vital roles in tumorigenesis. We explored lncRNA rs944289 an...

Yan Wang, Zhiyuan Qiu, Guangyu Tian, Qianqian Zhu, Zhao Zhang… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Deep learning-based high-accuracy quantitation for lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration from MRI

To help doctors and patients evaluate lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) accurately and efficiently, we propose a segmentation network and a quantitation method for IVDD from T2MRI. A semantic segm...

Hua-Dong Zheng, Yue-Li Sun, De-Wei Kong, Meng-Chen Yin, Jiang Chen… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Fruiting character variability in wild individuals of Malania oleifera, a highly valued endemic species

Malania oleifera (Olacaceae), a tree species endemic to Southwest China, has seed oils enriched with nervonic acid and is therefore good source of this chemical. Because of this, there are promising industrial pe...

Si-Hai Wang, Jian Chen, Wei Yang, Mei Hua, Yong-Peng Ma in Scientific Reports (2021)