2 May 2008
This page brings together the current chemistry-related content from Nature and the research journals and is updated every two weeks.
Research Highlights
Aromatics stack up
Stuart Cantrill
doi:10.1038/nchem.6
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 02 May 2008
Covert complexes
Stephen Davey
doi:10.1038/nchem.5
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 02 May 2008
Superatomic orbitals
Neil Withers
doi:10.1038/nchem.4
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 02 May 2008
Natural selection
Stephen Davey
doi:10.1038/nchem.2008.3
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 24 April 2008
What lies beneath?
Gavin Armstrong
doi:10.1038/nchem.2008.2
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 24 April 2008
Tomography reveals all
Neil Withers
doi:10.1038/nchem.2008.1
Nature Chemistry (2008)
Published online: 24 April 2008
News
Trigger in heparin deaths confirmed
Rachel Courtland
doi:10.1038/news.2008.774
Nature News (2008)
Published online: 23 April 2008
Buckyballs give flash a boost
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/452921a
Nature News (2008)
Published online: 22 April 2008
Arsenic heats up iron superconductors
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/452922a
Nature News (2008)
Published online: 17 April 2008
News and Views
The sweetest candy for the virus
Andreas O. Frank & Horst Kessler
doi:10.1038/452822a
Nature 452; 822 - 823 (2008)
Published online: 16 April 2008
Primary research
A combinatorial library of lipid-like materials for delivery of RNAi therapeutics
Akin Akinc, Andreas Zumbuehl, Michael Goldberg, Elizaveta S Leshchiner, Valentina Busini, Naushad Hossain, Sergio A Bacallado, David N Nguyen, Jason Fuller, Rene Alvarez, Anna Borodovsky, Todd Borland, Rainer Constien, Antonin de Fougerolles, J Robert Dorkin, K Narayanannair Jayaprakash, Muthusamy Jayaraman, Matthias John, Victor Koteliansky, Muthiah Manoharan, Lubomir Nechev, June Qin, Timothy Racie, Denitza Raitcheva, Kallanthottathil G Rajeev, Dinah W Y Sah, Jürgen Soutschek, Ivanka Toudjarska, Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Tracy S Zimmermann, Robert Langer & Daniel G Anderson
doi:10.1038/nbt1402
Nature Biotechnology 26; 561 - 569 (2008)
Published online: 27 April 2008
Oversulfated chondroitin sulfate is a contaminant in heparin associated with adverse clinical events
Marco Guerrini, Daniela Beccati, Zachary Shriver, Annamaria Naggi, Karthik Viswanathan, Antonella Bisio, Ishan Capila, Jonathan C Lansing, Sara Guglieri, Blair Fraser, Ali Al-Hakim, Nur Sibel Gunay, Zhenqing Zhang, Luke Robinson, Lucinda Buhse, Moheb Nasr, Janet Woodcock, Robert Langer, Ganesh Venkataraman, Robert J Linhardt, Benito Casu, Giangiacomo Torri & Ram Sasisekharan
doi:10.1038/nbt1407
Nature Biotechnology
Published online: 23 April 2008
Protein lysine methyltransferase G9a acts on non-histone targets
Philipp Rathert, Arunkumar Dhayalan, Marie Murakami, Xing Zhang, Raluca Tamas, Renata Jurkowska, Yasuhiko Komatsu, Yoichi Shinkai, Xiaodong Cheng & Albert Jeltsch
doi:10.1038/nchembio.88
Nature Chemical Biology
Published online: 27 April 2008
A global assembly line for cyanobactins
Mohamed S Donia, Jacques Ravel & Eric W Schmidt
doi:10.1038/nchembio.84
Nature Chemical Biology
Published online: 20 April 2008
Activation of the endocannabinoid system by organophosphorus nerve agents
Daniel K Nomura, Jacqueline L Blankman, Gabriel M Simon, Kazutoshi Fujioka, Roger S Issa, Anna M Ward, Benjamin F Cravatt & John E Casida
doi:10.1038/nchembio.86
Nature Chemical Biology
Published online: 27 April 2008
Highly active and selective endopeptidases with programmed substrate specificities
Navin Varadarajan, Sarah Rodriguez, Bum-Yeol Hwang, George Georgiou & Brent L Iverson
doi:10.1038/nchembio.80
Nature Chemical Biology 4; 290 - 294 (2008)
Published online: 23 March 2008
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Novel targets for Huntington's disease in an mTOR-independent autophagy pathway
Andrea Williams, Sovan Sarkar, Paul Cuddon, Evangelia K Ttofi, Shinji Saiki, Farah H Siddiqi, Luca Jahreiss, Angeleen Fleming, Dean Pask, Paul Goldsmith, Cahir J O'Kane, Rodrigo Andres Floto & David C Rubinsztein
doi:10.1038/nchembio.79
Nature Chemical Biology 4; 295 - 305 (2008)
Published online: 23 March 2008
Electronic structures of interfacial states formed at polymeric semiconductor heterojunctions
Ya-shih Huang, Sebastian Westenhoff, Igor Avilov, Paiboon Sreearunothai, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Caroline Deleener, Richard H. Friend & David Beljonne
doi:10.1038/nmat2182
Nature Materials
Published online: 27 April 2008
Probing the structure of heterogeneous diluted materials by diffraction tomography
Pierre Bleuet, Eléonore Welcomme, Eric Dooryhée, Jean Susini, Jean-Louis Hodeau & Philippe Walter
doi:10.1038/nmat2168
Nature Materials
Published online: 20 April 2008
High-frequency micromechanical resonators from aluminium–carbon nanotube nanolaminates
Jung Hoon Bak, Young Duck Kim, Seung Sae Hong, Byung Yang Lee, Seung Ran Lee, Jae Hyuck Jang, Miyoung Kim, Kookrin Char, Seunghun Hong & Yun Daniel Park
doi:10.1038/nmat2181
Nature Materials
Published online: 20 April 2008
Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy lab-on-a-chip for in vivo nerve regeneration studies
Samuel X Guo, Frederic Bourgeois, Trushal Chokshi, Nicholas J Durr, Massimo A Hilliard, Nikos Chronis & Adela Ben-Yakar
doi:10.1038/nmeth.1203
Nature Methods
Published online: 13 April 2008
Monovalent, reduced-size quantum dots for imaging receptors on living cells
Mark Howarth, Wenhao Liu, Sujiet Puthenveetil, Yi Zheng, Lisa F Marshall, Michael M Schmidt, K Dane Wittrup, Moungi G Bawendi & Alice Y Ting
doi:10.1038/nmeth.1206
Nature Methods 5; 397 - 399 (2008)
Published online: 20 April 2008
Fluorescent protein FRET pairs for ratiometric imaging of dual biosensors
Hui-wang Ai, Kristin L Hazelwood, Michael W Davidson & Robert E Campbell
doi:10.1038/nmeth.1207
Nature Methods 5; 401 - 403 (2008)
Published online: 20 April 2008
Straightforward ladder sequencing of peptides using a Lys-N metalloendopeptidase
Nadia Taouatas, Madalina M Drugan, Albert J R Heck & Shabaz Mohammed
doi:10.1038/nmeth.1204
Nature Methods 5; 405 - 407 (2008)
Published online: 20 April 2008
Mass production and dynamic imaging of fluorescent nanodiamonds
Yi-Ren Chang, Hsu-Yang Lee, Kowa Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Dung-Sheng Tsai, Chi-Cheng Fu, Tsong-Shin Lim, Yan-Kai Tzeng, Chia-Yi Fang, Chau-Chung Han, Huan-Cheng Chang & Wunshain Fann
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.99
Nature Nanotechnology
Published online: 27 April 2008
Label-free detection of DNA hybridization based on hydration-induced tension in nucleic acid films
Johann Mertens, Celia Rogero, Montserrat Calleja, Daniel Ramos, Jose Angel Martín-Gago, Carlos Briones & Javier Tamayo
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.91
Nature Nanotechnology
Published online: 20 April 2008
Review
Reconciling the chemistry and biology of reactive oxygen species
Christine C Winterbourn
doi:10.1038/nchembio.85
Nature Chemical Biology 4; 278 - 286 (2008)
Published online: 17 April 2008
Protocol
Fluorescent high-throughput screening of chemical inducers of neuronal differentiation in skeletal muscle cells
Darren R Williams, Gun-Hee Kim, Myung-Ryul Lee & Injae Shin
doi:10.1038/nprot.2008.47
Nature Protocols 3; 835 - 839 (2008)
Published online: 17 April 2008