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Impact of impurities on crystal growth

Crystallization processes are influenced by the presence of impurities. Colloid experiments now reveal two distinct types of growth mode that depend on the extent to which a crystallizing system can remove impurity particles from its growth front.

Qiong Gao
Huang Fang
Peng Tan
Research15 Apr 2025
Nature Physics

Volume: 21, P: 938-946
Author Correction: Phase separation drives the self-assembly of mitochondrial nucleoids for transcriptional modulation

Qi Long
Yanshuang Zhou
Xingguo Liu
Amendments and Corrections01 Dec 2021
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Volume: 28, P: 1050
Dynamic and asymmetric colloidal molecules

Colloidal molecules (CMs) are artificial clusters that possess molecule-like geometries and dynamic properties. The authors reveal the intrinsic asymmetry in the dynamic structures of CMs, illustrating how their angular symmetry evolves through a process of continuous ordering.

Huang Fang
Qiong Gao
Peng Tan
ResearchOpen Access21 Mar 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Phase separation drives the self-assembly of mitochondrial nucleoids for transcriptional modulation

Fluorescence imaging and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching assays reveal that the mitochondrial nucleoid forms a suborganelle via liquid–liquid phase separation interactions between mitochondrial DNA and the mitochondrial transcriptional machinery.

Qi Long
Yanshuang Zhou
Xingguo Liu
Research28 Oct 2021
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Volume: 28, P: 900-908
Development and validation of a logistic regression model for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer

Cong Li
Weili Zhang
Xiaojun Wu
ResearchOpen Access28 Apr 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Author Correction: Glis1 facilitates induction of pluripotency via an epigenome–metabolome–epigenome signalling cascade

Linpeng Li
Keshi Chen
Xingguo Liu
Amendments and Corrections08 Oct 2020
Nature Metabolism

Volume: 2, P: 1179
Visualizing slow internal relaxations in a two-dimensional glassy system

Glasses relax internally even when their structure is frozen. Observations of a two-dimensional glass former now show that although structure relaxation freezes with the glass transition, non-constrained bonds survive; this accounts for persisting internal relaxation.

Yanshuang Chen
Zefang Ye
Peng Tan
Research20 Apr 2023
Nature Physics

Volume: 19, P: 969-977
Nuclear localization of mitochondrial TCA cycle enzymes modulates pluripotency via histone acetylation

Cellular metabolism is important in pluripotency and cell fate regulation. Here, authors observe chromatin remodeling followed by TCA enzyme translocation from the mitochondria to the nucleus, demonstrating pluripotency regulation by mitochondria to nucleus retrograde signaling.

Wei Li
Qi Long
Xingguo Liu
ResearchOpen Access02 Dec 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-15
Revealing thermally-activated nucleation pathways of diffusionless solid-to-solid transition

Normally the diffusionless solid-to-solid transition between phases are driven by athermal processes, due to strain being overwhelmingly dominant. Here, the authors present a unique series of in-situ particle level observations of the solid-to-solid transition in colloidal particles suspended in a solvent, revealing new transition pathways.

Minhuan Li
Zhengyuan Yue
Peng Tan
ResearchOpen Access30 Jun 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-13
Morphology selection kinetics of crystallization in a sphere

The authors investigate the role of spherical confinement and curvature-induced topological defects on the crystallization of charged colloids. They conclude that crystallization in spherical confinement is due to a combination of thermodynamics and kinetic pathways.

Yanshuang Chen
Zhenwei Yao
Peng Tan
Research21 Sept 2020
Nature Physics

Volume: 17, P: 121-127
Fast crystal growth at ultra-low temperatures

Charged colloidal systems undergo fast crystallization under deep supercooling due to a coupled mechanism involving the discrete advancement of the crystal growth front and defect repair inside the recently formed solid phase.

Qiong Gao
Jingdong Ai
Peng Tan
Research06 May 2021
Nature Materials

Volume: 20, P: 1431-1439
Glis1 facilitates induction of pluripotency via an epigenome–metabolome–epigenome signalling cascade

The reprogramming factor Glis1 is shown to drive cellular metabolic changes that in turn promote epigenetic alterations that facilitate induction of pluripotency.

Linpeng Li
Keshi Chen
Xingguo Liu
Research24 Aug 2020
Nature Metabolism

Volume: 2, P: 882-892
Correction to: MAP2K6 remodels chromatin and facilitates reprogramming by activating Gatad2b-phosphorylation dependent heterochromatin loosening

Guangsuo Xing
Zichao Liu
Keshi Chen
Amendments and Corrections10 Dec 2021
Cell Death & Differentiation

Volume: 29, P: 2333
MAP2K6 remodels chromatin and facilitates reprogramming by activating Gatad2b-phosphorylation dependent heterochromatin loosening

Guangsuo Xing
Zichao Liu
Keshi Chen
Research24 Nov 2021
Cell Death & Differentiation

Volume: 29, P: 1042-1054
Tubules of plant reoviruses exploit tropomodulin to regulate actin-based tubule motility in insect vector

Qian Chen
Linghua Zhang
Taiyun Wei
ResearchOpen Access09 Jan 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Klotho-beta attenuates Rab8a-mediated exosome regulation and promotes prostate cancer progression

Tingyu Wu
Yanshuang Zhang
Weiliang Xia
Research15 Aug 2023
Oncogene

Volume: 42, P: 2801-2815

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