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)

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (365K)

      • 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)

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,187K)

      • 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)

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (971K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (883K)

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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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (524K)

    • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (541K)

    • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,931K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,177K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (551K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,865K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (460K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (249K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (608K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (931K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (801K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,466K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,342K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,566K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,327K)

      • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (651K)

    • 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

        Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,282K)


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