NATURE AND THE NATURE RESEARCH JOURNALS PRESS RELEASE
For papers that will be published online on 09 December 2007
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Behaviour: Insects' life after sex - Nature
Climate policy: Complementing IPCC - Nature Geoscience
Cooling the Cretaceous greenhouse - Nature Geoscience
The pulse of the San Andreas - Nature Geoscience
Re-examining firefly bioluminescence - Nature Photonics
Silicon nanowires restore optical signals - Nature Photonics
How protein modules fit together - Nature Chemical Biology
Compact synchrotron demonstrated - Nature Physics
Pathway to breast cancer - Nature Genetics
You must remember this - Nature Neuroscience
Romancing the fly - Nature Neuroscience
Coding gene regulation - Nature Cell Biology
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[1] Behaviour: Insects' life after sex
DOI: 10.1038/nature06483
The molecular switch that triggers post-mating reproductive behaviour in female fruitfly is identified in an article published online in Nature this week. Many insect females undergo a profound change in their behaviour after mating: mosquitoes seek out a blood meal; other insects prevent further mating and start laying lots of eggs. The discovery could therefore have important implications for strategies to control the reproductive and host-seeking behaviours of agricultural pests and disease carriers.
The behavioural switch had previously been attributed to a molecule from the male seminal fluid - the sex peptide. Now Barry J. Dickson and colleagues have found the receptor for this peptide and find that the neurons where it functions are implicated in other sex-related behaviours.
The authors report that this receptor, SPR, is conserved across insect species. Artificially stimulating it may result in the inhibition of both reproduction and host-seeking behaviour in target insects.
Author contact:
Barry J. Dickson (Institute of Molecular Pathology Vienna, Austria)
Tel: +43 1 797 30 3000; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[2] Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters
DOI: 10.1038/nature06470
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[3] Climate policy: Complementing IPCC
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo.2007.55
Climate services that give policy makers annual assessments of the climatic challenges ahead are needed to complement the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), argues a Commentary published online this week in Nature Geoscience. These climate services should also help with the verification of governments’ self-reported carbon sequestration achievements that are part of the current discussions at the UN climate conference in Bali.
Martin Visbeck proposes that the IPCC should take a step back and change its role to include reviewing the work of the climate services as well as the scientific literature, in a decadal rhythm rather than at the current frequency of 5-6 years.
As the reality of human-made climate change has become increasingly certain, the focus of the research community should shift from confirming the problem to tackling solutions, the author argues. This requires near-continuous updates of the likely future climate evolution, at the regional as well as global scale.
Author contact:
Martin Visbeck (Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany)
Tel. +49 431 600 4100; E-mail: [email protected]
[4] Cooling the Cretaceous greenhouse
DOI:10.1038/ngeo.2007.29
The Earth may not have been such a hot greenhouse world during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, suggests a study published online in Nature Geoscience this week. The research reconciles records of ancient climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels with our understanding of how the two are linked.
Marine data indicate a series of cold spells during the time of the dinosaurs, but these did not seem to tally with records of high carbon dioxide levels, which would suggest higher temperatures and ‘greenhouse’ conditions.
David Beerling and colleagues studied the fossilized remains of ancient liverworts and, using the isotopic composition of the fossils, they reconstructed atmospheric CO2 levels for the period between 200 and 60 million years ago. The new records show lower and more variable CO2 concentrations than previous estimates. These results suggest that carbon dioxide was in fact the main driver of long-term climate change during this period, and that the previously unexplained cold periods were tied to natural decreases in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
Author contact:
David Beerling (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
Tel: +44 114 222 4359; E-mail: [email protected]
[5] The pulse of the San Andreas
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo.2007.36
The existing configuration of earthquake-producing segments and quiet gaps of the San Andreas fault is likely to remain stable in the long term for small- to moderate-sized earthquakes, according to a study online this week in Nature Geoscience. The results suggest that earthquakes of magnitude up to 7 are most likely to occur at places where such earthquakes have occurred before.
Tom Parsons conducted a statistical analysis of all but the largest earthquakes that have occurred along the San Andreas fault - the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. He found that earthquakes up to magnitude 7 cluster in space. Numerical modelling revealed that this can be explained by the fact that some sections of the fault surface are under higher levels of stress than others, and that this distribution of stresses remains stable over tens of thousands of years.
These findings suggest that only the largest earthquakes are capable of propagating into regions of the fault that were previously dormant. In addition, it appears that earthquakes are less likely to be generated in these regions.
Author contact:
Tom Parsons (United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA)
Tel: +1 650 329 5074; E-mail: [email protected]
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[6] Re-examining firefly bioluminescence
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.251
The highest quantum yield of firefly bioluminescence is less than half the previously accepted value of the past 50 years, suggests a report online this week in Nature Photonics.
Bioluminescence - the ability to generate light in living organisms - as well as being intrinsically captivating, is of scientific interest because of its wide applications in the biological and environmental sciences, such as in gene-expression reporting and forensic investigation. In 1951, the highest quantum yield - the probability of photon emission per luciferin molecule - using firefly (Photinus pyralis) luciferase was first reported to be 88%. Although two years later it was said that a re-examination was needed, no further investigations were made.
Yoriko Ando and colleagues carried out a quantitative measurement of the firefly bioluminescence by using a total-photon-flux spectrometer they have developed. This spectrometer directly measures the quantitative luminescence spectra in the bioluminescence total flux, and hence can determine quantum yields. The team discovered that the highest quantum-yield value is actually only 41.0%.
The authors also reveal that the colour change in fireflies is mainly determined by the pH dependence of the green emission, again, totally opposing the widely accepted colour-change mechanism that is based on the chemical equilibrium of yellow-green and red emissions during pH change.
Author contact:
Yoriko Ando (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan)
Tel: +81 4 7136 3387; E-mail: [email protected]
[7] Silicon nanowires restore optical signals
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.249
A system for reconstructing weak or damaged optical data using tiny silicon waveguides could be incorporated into future optical chips for use in world wide communications networks, reports a study online this week in Nature Photonics.
The ability to regenerate weak and distorted optical data is vital for maximizing the performance and transmission span of modern communication systems. Unfortunately, present regenerators have to convert the optical data into electronic signals, process it and then convert it back into the optical domain for re-transmission - a costly and inconvenient approach.
Alexander Gaeta and co-workers have developed an all-optical scheme that can perform complete regeneration (amplification, retiming and reshaping of optical data bits) using silicon waveguides that have nanoscale dimensions. The team used a well-known technique in nonlinear optics called ‘four-wave mixing’ to transfer noisy and degraded data bits from an incoming light beam and convert them into high-quality, clean data bits carried on a second light beam of a different wavelength. The beauty of the approach is that it does not require any electronic circuitry and its tiny size and silicon composition potentially allow integration into optical chips of the future.
The team’s experiments took place at a wavelength of 1,550 nanometres - the region at which the world’s optical networks operate. The next challenge is to make the scheme compatible with multichannel networks that transmit many simultaneous signals, each on its own dedicated wavelength channel.
Author contact:
Alexander Gaeta (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Tel: +1 607 255 9983; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Photonics to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[8] Confocal Brillouin microscopy for three-dimensional mechanical imaging
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.250
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[9] How protein modules fit together
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2007.61
Scientists have defined a new type of protein-protein interaction in tubulysin biosynthesis, according to a paper to be published online this week in Nature Chemical Biology. This discovery will provide important guidelines for engineering cells to create new molecules and potential drugs.
Biosynthesis of small molecules is often done by a huge protein chain that can be conceptually broken down into ‘modules’ that perform specific steps in the overall synthesis. These modules have to communicate to pass along the growing small molecule, but the way in which some modules talk to each other was not known.
Kira Weissman and colleagues present a structure for one piece of a protein that directly talks to another module. They also prove that several amino acids on one side of this structure control communication to the partner protein. By switching these amino acids, then, it may be possible to mix and match modules to make brand new molecules that may be important drugs.
Author contact:
Kira Weissman (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Tel: +49 681 302 5497, Email: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Chemical Biology to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[10] Integrating high-content screening and ligand-target prediction to identify mechanism of action
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2007.53
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[11] Compact synchrotron demonstrated
DOI: 10.1038/nphys811
A synchrotron radiation source hundreds of times smaller than a conventional one is described online this week in Nature Physics. The device could significantly reduce the cost and increase the availability of synchrotron radiation sources, which are increasingly indispensable tools in drug discovery, materials science, biology, nanotechnology and fundamental physics research.
Conventional synchrotron sources produce bursts of radiation by accelerating electrons to close to the speed of light in accelerator ring, and then diverting them into an alternating magnetic field produced by a device known as an undulator. An accelerating ring is typically hundreds of metres in diameter and can cost up to $1 billion to build. Dino Jaroszynski and colleagues used a so-called laser-plasma wakefield accelerator that uses a high-intensity laser rather than a ring to generate a beam of high-energy electrons. They demonstrate a source of synchrotron radiation that is potentially far cheaper and could easily fit in the basement of a medium-sized university building.
Author contact:
Dino Jaroszynski (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
Tel: +44 141 548 3057; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Physics to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[12] Hybrid single-electron transistor as a source of quantized electric current
DOI: 10.1038/nphys808
[13] Noise autocorrelation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering
DOI: 10.1038/nphys809
[14] A transient semimetallic layer in detonating nitromethane
DOI: 10.1038/nphys806
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[15] Pathway to breast cancer
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.39
Scientists have identified a particular combination of mutations in hereditary breast cancers that typically have a poor prognosis. The pathway identified by the mutations, published online this week in Nature Genetics, may represent a target for effective therapy.
Women with mutations in the gene BRCA1 are at very high risk of developing basal-like breast cancer, which is one of the subtypes with the worst prognosis. BRCA1 has several roles in the cell, one of which is to promote the repair of damaged DNA. While it is assumed that elevated DNA damage in the absence of normal BRCA1 function must result in additional mutations that promote the development of a tumour, there has been little progress in identifying what these ‘downstream’ mutations might be.
Based on preliminary work studying mammary cancer in mice, Ramon Parsons and colleagues searched for small chromosomal rearrangements in a known tumour suppressor gene called PTEN in a series of human BRCA1-associated breast cancer cell lines and biopsies. In a significant number of cases they found one or more of these rearrangements in PTEN, resulting in a complete loss of its expression in the tumour cells of both hereditary and non-hereditary breast cancers. This is one of the first specific and recurrent consequences of BRCA1 mutation to be identified in breast cancer, and the authors suggest that drugs targeting the PTEN pathway might be effective in treating this particular subtype. The authors also emphasize the importance of searching for structural rearrangements of this kind in other cancer genomes.
Author contact:
Ramon Parsons (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA)
Tel: +1 212 851 5263; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Genetics to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[16] Widespread microRNA repression by Myc contributes to tumorigenesis
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.30
[17] AID is required for germinal center-derived lymphomagenesis
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.35
[18] Ciliary proteins link basal body polarization to planar cell polarity regulation
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.54
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[19] You must remember this
DOI: 10.1038/nn2024
A part of the brain known as the basal ganglia may act to filter out irrelevant information from memory, increasing its apparent capacity, finds a study in the January issue of Nature Neuroscience. The study could help to explain why some people are better at remembering things than others.
The ability to hold information ‘online’ so that it is immediately accessible is known as working memory, and its capacity is strictly limited. These variations are not just due to having a larger or smaller memory store, but also due to differences in how effectively irrelevant items are kept out of memory.
Torkel Klingberg and colleagues find in a functional imaging study that people who can hold more items in working memory have more activity in the basal ganglia when distracting stimuli are present during a task. An auditory cue informed subjects whether an upcoming visual display would contain irrelevant distracters (along with the targets). When this cue occurred, neural activity increased in the basal ganglia and the prefrontal cortex, before the visual display appeared. This increased activity suggests readiness to filter out the upcoming distracters.
Greater activity in the globus pallidus, a subregion of the basal ganglia, correlated with less unnecessary storage in another part of the brain, the posterior parietal cortex, which is sensitive to the amount of information held in memory. Consider the posterior parietal cortex as an exclusive nightclub and the basal ganglia as the bouncer: the size of the nightclub influences its crowding, but the effectiveness of the bouncer is important too.
Author contact:
Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
Tel: +46 8 5177 6118; E-mail: [email protected]
Additional contact for comment on paper:
Edward Awh (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA)
Tel: +1 541 346 4983; E-mail: [email protected]
[20] Romancing the fly
DOI: 10.1038/nn2019
Male Drosophila that lack a transport protein specific to glial cells do not distinguish females from males in their courtship behaviour, reports a paper in the January issue of Nature Neuroscience. These results suggest that glial cells - non neuronal cells that provide support for neurons - have an important function in the brain circuitry that underlies mate recognition.
During courtship, male flies typically serenade females. David Featherstone and colleagues find that when the gene for a glial glutamate transporter was inactivated, the males serenaded other males just as enthusiastically. The mutant males did not respond appropriately to male-specific pheromones, being attracted to one male pheromone that normally suppresses male courtship behaviour.
The importance of glial cells in brain function is often underestimated. This particular glial transporter, which the authors named ‘genderblind’, is responsible for maintaining correct levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the extracellular space. Changes in glutamate would be expected to affect the function of the nerve cells that govern mate recognition, though the exact details of this circuitry remain to be figured out.
Author contact:
David E. Featherstone (University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
Tel: +1 312 413 2516; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Neuroscience to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[21] The representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex is invariant for changes of menu
DOI: 10.1038/nn2020
[22] Netrin signal transduction: the guanine nucleotide exchange factor DOCK180 in attractive signaling
DOI: 10.1038/nn2022
[23] A versatile prion replication assay in organotypic brain slices
DOI: 10.1038/nn2028
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[24], [25] & [26] Coding gene regulation
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1668
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1671
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1674
Three papers published online this week in Nature Cell Biology analyse a component of chromatin - the complex of DNA and protein that makes up chromosomes - and identify two new modifications that expand the ‘chromatin code’. The research also shows that a variant of this component mediates ‘epigenetic memory’ - a process of key importance to cloning.
The DNA of a human cell totals about two meters. To prevent the vast stretches of DNA turning into a tangle, the genome is spooled tightly around protein complexes called histones. Recent research has shown that histones also regulate gene activity and a growing number of reversible chemical modifications of these proteins - collectively called the 'chromatin code' - have been uncovered and found to regulate gene expression.
Roland Schüle and colleagues identify a new letter in the alphabet of the chromatin code in the form of phosphorylation of a histone called H3 and show that this letter allows genes packaged around the phosphorylated H3 to be activated. In a related paper, Michael Rudnicki and colleagues unravel how Pax7, a key regulator of muscle gene activity, works. By recruiting an enzyme that adds another letter, a methyl-group, to H3 it regulates genes that govern the differentiation of certain stem cells into muscle cells. Finally, John Gurdon and colleagues show how a gene maintains its activity status during the cloning procedure, when a nucleus from a differentiated donor tissue is transplanted into an egg. The memory of the gene status is dependent on a specific variant of H3 called H3.3. Remarkably, this memory was shown to be maintained while the cells of the egg multiply twenty four times.
Author contacts:
Author Paper [24]
Roland Schüle (ZKF, Uniklinik-Frauenklinik, Freiburg, Germany)
Tel: +49 7610 270 6310; E-mail: [email protected]
Author Paper [25]
Michael Rudnicki (Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ontario, Canada)
Tel: +1 613 739 6740; E-mail: [email protected]
Author Paper [26]
John Gurdon (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Tel: +44 1223 334 090; E-mail: [email protected]
Other papers from Nature Cell Biology to be published online at the same time and with the same embargo:
[27] Disruption of KIF17-Mint1 interaction by CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation: a molecular model of kinesin-cargo release
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1665
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NATURE MATERIALS (http://www.nature.com/naturematerials)
[28] Atomic-scale study of electric dipoles near charged and uncharged domain walls in ferroelectric films
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2080
[29] Cell and biomolecular mechanics in silico
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2040
[30] Parallel cylindrical water nanochannels in Nafion fuel-cell membranes
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2074
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY (http://www.nature.com/nnano)
[31] Nanotube-assisted protein deactivation
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.386
[32] Plumbing carbon nanotubes
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.406
Nature MEDICINE (http://www.nature.com/naturemedicine)
[33] The lysophosphatidic acid receptor LPA1 links pulmonary fibrosis to lung injury by mediating fibroblast recruitment and vascular leak
DOI: 10.1038/nm1685
[34] Prevention of acute and chronic allograft rejection with CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T lymphocytes
DOI: 10.1038/nm1688
[35] Purging metastases in lymphoid organs using a combination of antigen-nonspecific adoptive T cell therapy, oncolytic virotherapy and immunotherapy
DOI: 10.1038/nm1681
Nature IMMUNOLOGY (http://www.nature.com/natureimmunology)
[36] Akirins are highly conserved nuclear proteins required for NF-kappaB-dependent gene expression in drosophila and mice
DOI: 10.1038/ni1543
[37] Unique functions of the type II interleukin 4 receptor identified in mice lacking the interleukin 13 receptor alpha1 chain
DOI: 10.1038/ni1544
Nature STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (http://www.nature.com/natstructmolbiol)
[38] Structural and functional studies of ALIX interactions with YPXnL late domains of HIV-1 and EIAV
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1319
[39] Structural basis for the coevolution of a viral RNA–protein complex
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1327
[40] Pot1 and cell cycle progression cooperate in telomere length regulation
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1331
[41] NMD factors UPF2 and UPF3 bridge UPF1 to the exon junction complex and stimulate its RNA helicase activity
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1330
[42] Crystal structure of SopA, a Salmonella effector protein mimicking a eukaryotic ubiquitin ligase
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1346
NATURE METHODS (http://www.nature.com/nmeth)
[43] Targeting pre-mRNA modification: an approach to gene silencing and regulation
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1142
[44] Bottom-up genome assembly using the Bacillus subtilis genome vector
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1143
[45] In vivo imaging of Drosophila melanogaster pupae with mesoscopic fluorescence tomography
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1149
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GEOGRAPHICAL LISTING OF AUTHORS
The following list of places refers to the whereabouts of authors on the papers numbered in this release. The listing may be for an author's main affiliation, or for a place where they are working temporarily. Please see the PDF of the paper for full details.
AUSTRIA
Vienna: 1
CANADA:
Ottawa: 25
Vancouver: 13
CHINA
Beijing: 2, 22
FINLAND
Helsinki: 12
Seinajoki: 15
Tampere: 15
FRANCE
Dijon: 20
Gif-sur-Yvette: 41
Lyon: 41
Paris: 18, 34
Strasbourg: 24, 36
Toulouse: 34
GERMANY
Berlin: 23
Bonn: 24
Freiburg: 24
Halle: 28
Heidelberg: 36
Jena: 11
Julich: 28
Kiel: 3
Martinsried: 41
Munich: 9
Neuherberg: 45
Saarbrucken: 9
INDIA
Bangalore: 29
ITALY
Catania: 15
JAPAN
Chiba: 6
Hokkaido: 6
Kanazawa: 17
Kyoto: 17
Osaka: 6, 36
Sendai: 36
Tokyo: 6, 27, 44
Tsukuba: 32
Yamagata: 44
MEXICO
Mexico City: 33
SOUTH AFRICA
Matieland: 11
SWEDEN
Lund: 15
Stockholm: 19
SWITZERLAND
Lausanne: 20
Zurich: 23
UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham: 2
Cambridge: 9, 26
Daresbury: 2
Glasgow: 11
Leeds: 35
London: 34, 35
Sheffield: 4
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Alabama
Birmingham: 18
California
La Jolla: 33
Livermore: 14
Menlo Park: 5
Connecticut
New Haven: 4
Florida
Miami: 35
Georgia
Atlanta: 18
Augusta: 22
Illinois
Chicago: 20, 22
Indiana
Indianapolis: 33
West Lafayette: 42
Iowa
Ames: 30
Maryland
Baltimore: 16
Beltsville: 37
Bethesda: 17, 37
Rockville: 37
Massachusetts
Boston: 8, 10, 21, 24, 33, 45
Cambridge: 10, 14, 29
Charlestown: 33, 45
Michigan
Detroit: 15
Minnesota
Rochester: 35
New York
Bronx: 39
Ithaca: 7
New York: 15, 17
Rochester: 43
Stony Brook: 12
Tarrytown: 37
Troy: 31
Ohio
Cincinnati: 40
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: 16
Tennessee
Nashville: 33
Texas
Austin: 42
Utah
Salt Lake City: 38
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