13 November 2009
This page brings together the current chemistry-related content from Nature and the research journals and is updated every two weeks.
Primary research
Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range
Nicholas M. Marshall, Dewain K. Garner, Tiffany D. Wilson, Yi-Gui Gao, Howard Robinson, Mark J. Nilges & Yi Lu
doi:10.1038/nature08551
Nature 462; 113 - 116 (2009)
Structural basis of inter-protein electron transfer for nitrite reduction in denitrification
Masaki Nojiri, Hiroyasu Koteishi, Takuya Nakagami, Kazuo Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazuya Yamaguchi & Shinnichiro Suzuki
doi:10.1038/nature08507
Nature 462; 117 - 120 (2009)
Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design
Summer B. Thyme, Jordan Jarjour, Ryo Takeuchi, James J. Havranek, Justin Ashworth, Andrew M. Scharenberg, Barry L. Stoddard & David Baker
doi:10.1038/nature08508
Nature 461; 1300 - 1304 (2009)
Microdroplet-based PCR enrichment for large-scale targeted sequencing
Ryan Tewhey, Jason B Warner, Masakazu Nakano, Brian Libby, Martina Medkova, Patricia H David, Steve K Kotsopoulos, Michael L Samuels, J Brian Hutchison, Jonathan W Larson, Eric J Topol, Michael P Weiner, Olivier Harismendy, Jeff Olson, Darren R Link & Kelly A Frazer
doi:10.1038/nbt.1583
Nature Biotechnology 27; 1025 - 1031 (2009)
Published online: 01 November 2009
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An artificial di-iron oxo-protein with phenol oxidase activity
Marina Faiella, Concetta Andreozzi, Rafael Torres Martin de Rosales, Vincenzo Pavone, Ornella Maglio, Flavia Nastri, William F DeGrado & Angela Lombardi
doi:10.1038/nchembio.257
Nature Chemical Biology 5; 882 - 884 (2009)
Published online: 08 November 2009
Brief Communication
Translating metabolic exchange with imaging mass spectrometry
Yu-Liang Yang, Yuquan Xu, Paul Straight & Pieter C Dorrestein
doi:10.1038/nchembio.252
Nature Chemical Biology 5; 885 - 887 (2009)
Published online: 08 November 2009
Primary research
A synergistic small-molecule combination directly eradicates diverse prion strain structures
Blake E Roberts, Martin L Duennwald, Huan Wang, Chan Chung, Nicholas P Lopreiato, Elizabeth A Sweeny, M Noelle Knight & James Shorter
doi:10.1038/nchembio.246
Nature Chemical Biology 5; 936 - 946 (2009)
Published online: 01 November 2009
Moonlighting proteins Hal3 and Vhs3 form a heteromeric PPCDC with Ykl088w in yeast CoA biosynthesis
Amparo Ruiz, Asier González, Ivan Muñoz, Raquel Serrano, J Albert Abrie, Erick Strauss & Joaquín Ariño
doi:10.1038/nchembio.243
Nature Chemical Biology 5; 920 - 928 (2009)
Published online: 01 November 2009
Spatiotemporal modulation of biodiversity in a synthetic chemical-mediated ecosystem
Hao Song, Stephen Payne, Meagan Gray & Lingchong You
doi:10.1038/nchembio.244
Nature Chemical Biology 5; 929 - 935 (2009)
Published online: 01 November 2009
Identification of active Zr–WOx clusters on a ZrO2 support for solid acid catalysts
Wu Zhou, Elizabeth I. Ross-Medgaarden, William V. Knowles, Michael S. Wong, Israel E. Wachs & Christopher J. Kiely
doi:10.1038/nchem.433
Nature Chemistry
Published online: 08 November 2009
Type-zero copper proteins
Kyle M. Lancaster, Serena DeBeer George, Keiko Yokoyama, John H. Richards & Harry B. Gray
doi:10.1038/nchem.412
Nature Chemistry
Published online: 01 November 2009
Complete chiral symmetry breaking of an amino acid derivative directed by circularly polarized light
Wim L. Noorduin, Arno A. C. Bode, Maarten van der Meijden, Hugo Meekes, Albert F. van Etteger, Willem J. P. van Enckevort, Peter C. M. Christianen, Bernard Kaptein, Richard M. Kellogg, Theo Rasing & Elias Vlieg
doi:10.1038/nchem.416
Nature Chemistry
Published online: 01 November 2009
Anhydrous proton conduction at 150 °C in a crystalline metal–organic framework
Jeff A. Hurd, Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Venkataraman Thangadurai, Christopher I. Ratcliffe, Igor L. Moudrakovski & George K. H. Shimizu
doi:10.1038/nchem.402
Nature Chemistry
Published online: 18 October 2009
Gold nanocages covered by smart polymers for controlled release with near-infrared light
Mustafa S. Yavuz, Yiyun Cheng, Jingyi Chen, Claire M. Cobley, Qiang Zhang, Matthew Rycenga, Jingwei Xie, Chulhong Kim, Kwang H. Song, Andrea G. Schwartz, Lihong V. Wang & Younan Xia
doi:10.1038/nmat2564
Nature Materials
Published online: 01 November 2009
Self-assembling chimeric polypeptide–doxorubicin conjugate nanoparticles that abolish tumours after a single injection
J. Andrew MacKay, Mingnan Chen, Jonathan R. McDaniel, Wenge Liu, Andrew J. Simnick & Ashutosh Chilkoti
doi:10.1038/nmat2569
Nature Materials
Published online: 08 November 2009
Metastable and unstable cellular solidification of colloidal suspensions
Sylvain Deville, Eric Maire, Guillaume Bernard-Granger, Audrey Lasalle, Agnès Bogner, Catherine Gauthier, Jérôme Leloup & Christian Guizard
doi:10.1038/nmat2571
Nature Materials
Published online: 08 November 2009
Large modulation of carrier transport by grain-boundary molecular packing and microstructure in organic thin films
Jonathan Rivnay, Leslie H. Jimison, John E. Northrup, Michael F. Toney, Rodrigo Noriega, Shaofeng Lu, Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti & Alberto Salleo
doi:10.1038/nmat2570
Nature Materials
Published online: 08 November 2009
Nanostructured arrays of semiconducting octahedral molecular sieves by pulsed-laser deposition
Anais E. Espinal, Lichun Zhang, Chun-Hu Chen, Aimee Morey, Yuefeng Nie, Laura Espinal, Barrett O. Wells, Raymond Joesten, Mark Aindow & Steven L. Suib
doi:10.1038/nmat2567
Nature Materials
Published online: 01 November 2009
Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates
Hareem T. Maune, Si-ping Han, Robert D. Barish, Marc Bockrath, William A. Goddard III, Paul W. K. Rothemund & Erik Winfree
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.311
Nature Nanotechnology
Published online: 08 November 2009
True solutions of single-walled carbon nanotubes for assembly into macroscopic materials
Virginia A. Davis, A. Nicholas G. Parra-Vasquez, Micah J. Green, Pradeep K. Rai, Natnael Behabtu, Valentin Prieto, Richard D. Booker, Judith Schmidt, Ellina Kesselman, Wei Zhou, Hua Fan, W. Wade Adams, Robert H. Hauge, John E. Fischer, Yachin Cohen, Yeshayahu Talmon, Richard E. Smalley & Matteo Pasquali
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.302
Nature Nanotechnology
Published online: 01 November 2009
Protocol
Continuous-flow bioseparation using microfabricated anisotropic nanofluidic sieving structures
Jianping Fu, Pan Mao & Jongyoon Han
doi:10.1038/nprot.2009.176
Nature Protocols 4; 1681 - 1698 (2009)
Published online: 29 October 2009
