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Deforestation alters species interactions 森林砍伐改变了物种间的相互作用

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220027

Benjamin Howes, Manuela González‐Suárez, H. Jensen, L. Anjos, P. Develey, J. Hatfield, J. C. Morante‐Filho, Alexandre Uezu, Cristina Banks‐Leite

引用次数: 2

Bioorthogonal chemical imaging of solid lipid nanoparticles with minimal labeling by stimulated Raman scattering microscopy 受激拉曼散射显微镜下固体脂质纳米颗粒最小标记的生物正交化学成像

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.202103304

Xiaoqi Lang, Xin Gao, Mian Wei, Naixin Qian, Wei Min

引用次数: 2

Link between anisotropic electrochemistry and surface transformations at single‐crystal silicon electrodes: Implications for lithium‐ion batteries 单晶硅电极的各向异性电化学和表面转化之间的联系:对锂离子电池的影响

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20210607

Daniel Martín‐Yerga, M. Bahri, M. Curd, Xiangdong Xu, Weiqun Li, T. Burnett, P. Withers, B. Mehdi, N. Browning, P. Unwin

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引用次数: 3

Design strategies of the mantis shrimp spike: How the crustacean cuticle became a remarkable biological harpoon 螳螂虾刺的设计策略:甲壳类动物角质层如何成为一个非凡的生物鱼叉

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220060

Yann Delaunois, A. Tits, Q. Grossman, S. Smeets, C. Malherbe, G. Eppe, G. V. van Lenthe, D. Ruffoni, P. Compère

引用次数: 0

Prevalent use and evolution of exonic regulatory sequences in the human genome 外显子调控序列在人类基因组中的普遍使用和进化

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220058

Jing Chen, Pengyu Ni, Siwen Wu, Meng Niu, Jun‐tao Guo, Zhengsheng Su

{"title":"Prevalent use and evolution of exonic regulatory sequences in the human genome","authors":"Jing Chen, Pengyu Ni, Siwen Wu, Meng Niu, Jun‐tao Guo, Zhengsheng Su","doi":"10.1002/ntls.20220058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20220058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It has long been known that exons can serve as cis‐ regulatory sequences, such as enhancers. However, the prevalence of such dual‐use of exons and how they evolve remain elusive. Based on our recently predicted, highly accurate large sets of cis ‐regulatory module candidates (CRMCs) and non‐CRMCs in the human genome, we find that exonic transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) occupy at least a third of the total exon lengths, and 96.7% of genes have exonic TFBSs. Both A/T and C/G in exonic TFBSs are more likely under evolutionary constraints than those in non‐CRMC exons. Exonic TFBSs in codons tend to encode loops rather than more critical helices and strands in protein structures, while exonic TFBSs in untranslated regions (UTRs) tend to avoid positions where known UTR‐related functions are located. Moreover, active exonic TFBSs tend to be in close physical proximity to distal promoters whose genes have elevated transcription levels. These results suggest that exonic TFBSs might be more prevalent than originally thought and likely in dual‐use. We proposed a parsimonious model that well explains the observed evolutionary behaviors of exonic TFBS as well as how a stretch of codons evolve into a TFBS. Key points There are more exonic regulatory sequences in the human genome than originally thought. Exonic transcription factor binding sites are more likely under negative selection or positive selection than counterpart nonregulatory sequences. Exonic transcription factor binding sites tend to be located in genome sequences that encode less critical loops in protein structures, or in less critical parts in 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions.","PeriodicalId":74244,"journal":{"name":"Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135036386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Wafer‐scale single‐crystalline MoSe 2 and WSe 2 monolayers grown by molecular‐beam epitaxy at low‐temperature — the role of island‐substrate interaction and surface steps 低温下分子束外延生长的硅片级单晶MoSe 2和WSe 2单层-岛-衬底相互作用和表面步骤的作用

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220059

Yipu Xia, Degong Ding, Ke Xiao, Junqiu Zhang, Shaogang Xu, Daliang He, Xingyu Yue, Q. Rao, Xiong Wang, Sujuan Ding, Guoyun Gao, Hongxia Xue, Yueyang Wang, Mengfei Yuan, W. Ho, Dong-Keun Ki, Hu Xu, X. Cui, C. Jin, M. Xie

引用次数: 4

Mid‐infrared dual‐comb polarimetry of anisotropic samples 各向异性样品的中红外双梳偏振法

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220056

K. Hinrichs, Brianna Blevins, A. Furchner, N. S. Yadavalli, Sergiy Minko, R. Horvath, Markus Mangold

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引用次数: 5

Noncovalent chalcogen and tetrel bonding interactions: Spectroscopic study of halide–carbonyl sulfide complexes 非共价键与四烷基键的相互作用:卤化物-羰基硫化物配合物的光谱研究

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220057

Christian T. Haakansson, Peter D. Watson, Timothy R. Corkish, H. T. Robinson, A. McKinley, D. Wild

引用次数: 0

Identification of end‐stage renal disease metabolic signatures from human perspiration 从人体汗液中鉴定终末期肾脏疾病的代谢特征

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220048

Vishnu Shankar, Basil Michael, A. Celli, Zhenpeng Zhou, Melanie D. Ashland, R. Tibshirani, M. Snyder, R. Zare

{"title":"Identification of end‐stage renal disease metabolic signatures from human perspiration","authors":"Vishnu Shankar, Basil Michael, A. Celli, Zhenpeng Zhou, Melanie D. Ashland, R. Tibshirani, M. Snyder, R. Zare","doi":"10.1002/ntls.20220048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20220048","url":null,"abstract":"End stage renal disease (ESRD), characterized by cessation in kidney function, has been linked to severe metabolic disturbances, caused by buildup of toxic solutes in blood. To remove these solutes, ESRD patients undergo dialysis. As a proof of concept, we tested whether ESRD-related metabolic signatures can be detected in perspiration samples using a combined methodology. Our rapid methodology involves swabbing a glass slide across the patient’s forehead, detecting the metabolites in the imprint using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, and identifying the key differences using machine learning methods. Based on collecting 42 healthy and 27 ESRD samples, we find saturated fatty acids are consistently suppressed in ESRD patients, with little change after dialysis. Also, our method enables the detection of uremic solutes, where we find elevated levels of uric acid (6.7 fold higher on average) that sharply decrease after dialysis. Beyond the study of individual metabolites, we find that a lasso model, which selects for 8 m/z fragments from 24,602 detected analytes, achieves area under the curve performance of 0.85 and 0.87 on training (n=52) and validation sets (n=17) respectively. Together, these results suggest that this methodology is promising for detecting signatures relevant for Precision Health. Hosted file VShankar_Sweat_Analysis_Paper_Final.docx available at https://authorea.com/users/509712/ articles/587032-identification-of-end-stage-renal-disease-metabolic-signatures-fromhuman-perspiration","PeriodicalId":74244,"journal":{"name":"Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany)","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91360630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Control of lipid metabolism by the dynamic and nutrient‐dependent post‐translational modification O ‐GlcNAcylation 通过动态和营养依赖的翻译后修饰O - glcn酰化控制脂质代谢

Natural sciences (Weinheim, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.1002/ntls.20220006

C. Schulz, Q. Lemaire, A. Berthier, Amandine Descat, M. Kouach, A. Vercoutter‐Edouart, Ikram El Yazidi‐Belkoura, Stéphan Hardivillé, J. Goossens, P. Lefebvre, T. Lefebvre

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