@article{9688,
  abstract     = {The properties of the interface between solid and melt are key to solidification and melting, as the interfacial free energy introduces a kinetic barrier to phase transitions. This makes solidification happen below the melting temperature, in out-of-equilibrium conditions at which the interfacial free energy is ill defined. Here we draw a connection between the atomistic description of a diffuse solid-liquid interface and its thermodynamic characterization. This framework resolves the ambiguities in defining the solid-liquid interfacial free energy above and below the melting temperature. In addition, we introduce a simulation protocol that allows solid-liquid interfaces to be reversibly created and destroyed at conditions relevant for experiments. We directly evaluate the value of the interfacial free energy away from the melting point for a simple but realistic atomic potential, and find a more complex temperature dependence than the constant positive slope that has been generally assumed based on phenomenological considerations and that has been used to interpret experiments. This methodology could be easily extended to the study of other phase transitions, from condensation to precipitation. Our analysis can help reconcile the textbook picture of classical nucleation theory with the growing body of atomistic studies and mesoscale models of solidification.},
  author       = {Cheng, Bingqing and Tribello, Gareth A. and Ceriotti, Michele},
  issn         = {1550-235X},
  journal      = {Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
  number       = {18},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Solid-liquid interfacial free energy out of equilibrium}},
  doi          = {10.1103/physrevb.92.180102},
  volume       = {92},
  year         = {2015},
}

@misc{9719,
  abstract     = {Parasitism creates selection for resistance mechanisms in host populations and is hypothesized to promote increased host evolvability. However, the influence of these traits on host evolution when parasites are no longer present is unclear. We used experimental evolution and whole-genome sequencing of Escherichia coli to determine the effects of past and present exposure to parasitic viruses (phages) on the spread of mutator alleles, resistance, and bacterial competitive fitness. We found that mutator alleles spread rapidly during adaptation to any of four different phage species, and this pattern was even more pronounced with multiple phages present simultaneously. However, hypermutability did not detectably accelerate adaptation in the absence of phages and recovery of fitness costs associated with resistance. Several lineages evolved phage resistance through elevated mucoidy, and during subsequent evolution in phage-free conditions they rapidly reverted to nonmucoid, phage-susceptible phenotypes. Genome sequencing revealed that this phenotypic reversion was achieved by additional genetic changes rather than by genotypic reversion of the initial resistance mutations. Insertion sequence (IS) elements played a key role in both the acquisition of resistance and adaptation in the absence of parasites; unlike single nucleotide polymorphisms, IS insertions were not more frequent in mutator lineages. Our results provide a genetic explanation for rapid reversion of mucoidy, a phenotype observed in other bacterial species including human pathogens. Moreover, this demonstrates that the types of genetic change underlying adaptation to fitness costs, and consequently the impact of evolvability mechanisms such as increased point-mutation rates, depend critically on the mechanism of resistance.},
  author       = {Wielgoss, Sébastien and Bergmiller, Tobias and Bischofberger, Anna M. and Hall, Alex R.},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{Data from: Adaptation to parasites and costs of parasite resistance in mutator and non-mutator bacteria}},
  doi          = {10.5061/dryad.cj910},
  year         = {2015},
}

@misc{9721,
  abstract     = {To prevent epidemics, insect societies have evolved collective disease defences that are highly effective at curing exposed individuals and limiting disease transmission to healthy group members. Grooming is an important sanitary behaviour—either performed towards oneself (self-grooming) or towards others (allogrooming)—to remove infectious agents from the body surface of exposed individuals, but at the risk of disease contraction by the groomer. We use garden ants (Lasius neglectus) and the fungal pathogen Metarhizium as a model system to study how pathogen presence affects self-grooming and allogrooming between exposed and healthy individuals. We develop an epidemiological SIS model to explore how experimentally observed grooming patterns affect disease spread within the colony, thereby providing a direct link between the expression and direction of sanitary behaviours, and their effects on colony-level epidemiology. We find that fungus-exposed ants increase self-grooming, while simultaneously decreasing allogrooming. This behavioural modulation seems universally adaptive and is predicted to contain disease spread in a great variety of host–pathogen systems. In contrast, allogrooming directed towards pathogen-exposed individuals might both increase and decrease disease risk. Our model reveals that the effect of allogrooming depends on the balance between pathogen infectiousness and efficiency of social host defences, which are likely to vary across host–pathogen systems.},
  author       = {Theis, Fabian and Ugelvig, Line V and Marr, Carsten and Cremer, Sylvia},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{Data from: Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies}},
  doi          = {10.5061/dryad.dj2bf},
  year         = {2015},
}

@misc{9742,
  abstract     = {Repeated pathogen exposure is a common threat in colonies of social insects, posing selection pressures on colony members to respond with improved disease-defense performance. We here tested whether experience gained by repeated tending of low-level fungus-exposed (Metarhizium robertsii) larvae may alter the performance of sanitary brood care in the clonal ant, Platythyrea punctata. We trained ants individually over nine consecutive trials to either sham-treated or fungus-exposed larvae. We then compared the larval grooming behavior of naive and trained ants and measured how effectively they removed infectious fungal conidiospores from the fungus-exposed larvae. We found that the ants changed the duration of larval grooming in response to both, larval treatment and their level of experience: (1) sham-treated larvae received longer grooming than the fungus-exposed larvae and (2) trained ants performed less self-grooming but longer larval grooming than naive ants, which was true for both, ants trained to fungus-exposed and also to sham-treated larvae. Ants that groomed the fungus-exposed larvae for longer periods removed a higher number of fungal conidiospores from the surface of the fungus-exposed larvae. As experienced ants performed longer larval grooming, they were more effective in fungal removal, thus making them better caretakers under pathogen attack of the colony. By studying this clonal ant, we can thus conclude that even in the absence of genetic variation between colony members, differences in experience levels of brood care may affect performance of sanitary brood care in social insects.},
  author       = {Westhus, Claudia and Ugelvig, Line V and Tourdot, Edouard and Heinze, Jürgen and Doums, Claudie and Cremer, Sylvia},
  publisher    = {Dryad},
  title        = {{Data from: Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant}},
  doi          = {10.5061/dryad.7kc79},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{981,
  abstract     = {The tunability of topological surface states and controllable opening of the Dirac gap are of fundamental and practical interest in the field of topological materials. In the newly discovered topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), theory predicts that the Dirac node is protected by a crystalline symmetry and that the surface state electrons can acquire a mass if this symmetry is broken. Recent studies have detected signatures of a spontaneously generated Dirac gap in TCIs; however, the mechanism of mass formation remains elusive. In this work, we present scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) measurements of the TCI Pb 1â'x Sn x Se for a wide range of alloy compositions spanning the topological and non-topological regimes. The STM topographies reveal a symmetry-breaking distortion on the surface, which imparts mass to the otherwise massless Dirac electrons-a mechanism analogous to the long sought-after Higgs mechanism in particle physics. Interestingly, the measured Dirac gap decreases on approaching the trivial phase, whereas the magnitude of the distortion remains nearly constant. Our data and calculations reveal that the penetration depth of Dirac surface states controls the magnitude of the Dirac mass. At the limit of the critical composition, the penetration depth is predicted to go to infinity, resulting in zero mass, consistent with our measurements. Finally, we discover the existence of surface states in the non-topological regime, which have the characteristics of gapped, double-branched Dirac fermions and could be exploited in realizing superconductivity in these materials.},
  author       = {Zeljkovic, Ilija and Okada, Yoshinori and Maksym Serbyn and Sankar, Raman and Walkup, Daniel and Zhou, Wenwen and Liu, Junwei and Chang, Guoqing and Wang, Yungjui and Hasan, Md Z and Chou, Fangcheng and Lin, Hsin and Bansil, Arun and Fu, Liang and Madhavan, Vidya},
  journal      = {Nature Materials},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {318 -- 324},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{Dirac mass generation from crystal symmetry breaking on the surfaces of topological crystalline insulators}},
  doi          = {10.1038/nmat4215},
  volume       = {14},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{982,
  abstract     = {We propose a new approach to probing ergodicity and its breakdown in one-dimensional quantum manybody systems based on their response to a local perturbation. We study the distribution of matrix elements of a local operator between the system's eigenstates, finding a qualitatively different behavior in the manybody localized (MBL) and ergodic phases. To characterize how strongly a local perturbation modifies the eigenstates, we introduce the parameter g(L) = (In (Vnm/δ)) which represents the disorder-averaged ratio of a typical matrix element of a local operator V to energy level spacing δ this parameter is reminiscent of the Thouless conductance in the single-particle localization. We show that the parameter g(L) decreases with system size L in the MBL phase and grows in the ergodic phase. We surmise that the delocalization transition occurs when g(L) is independent of system size, g(L)=gc ~ 1. We illustrate our approach by studying the many-body localization transition and resolving the many-body mobility edge in a disordered one-dimensional XXZ spin-1=2 chain using exact diagonalization and time-evolving block-decimation methods. Our criterion for the MBL transition gives insights into microscopic details of transition. Its direct physical consequences, in particular, logarithmically slow transport at the transition and extensive entanglement entropy of the eigenstates, are consistent with recent renormalization-group predictions.},
  author       = {Maksym Serbyn and Papić, Zlatko and Abanin, Dmitry A},
  journal      = {Physical Review X},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Criterion for many-body localization-delocalization phase transition}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041047},
  volume       = {5},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{99,
  abstract     = {Quasiparticle excitations can compromise the performance of superconducting devices, causing high-frequency dissipation, decoherence in Josephson qubits, and braiding errors in proposed Majorana-based topological quantum computers. Quasiparticle dynamics have been studied in detail in metallic superconductors but remain relatively unexplored in semiconductor-superconductor structures, which are now being intensely pursued in the context of topological superconductivity. To this end, we use a system comprising a gate-confined semiconductor nanowire with an epitaxially grown superconductor layer, yielding an isolated, proximitized nanowire segment. We identify bound states in the semiconductor by means of bias spectroscopy, determine the characteristic temperatures and magnetic fields for quasiparticle excitations, and extract a parity lifetime (poisoning time) of the bound state in the semiconductor exceeding 10 ms.},
  author       = {Higginbotham, Andrew P and Albrecht, S M and Kiršanskas, Gediminas and Chang, W and Kuemmeth, Ferdinand and Krogstrup, Peter and Jespersen, Thomas and Nygård, Jesper and Flensberg, Karsten and Marcus, Charles},
  journal      = {Nature Physics},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {1017 -- 1021},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{Parity lifetime of bound states in a proximitized semiconductor nanowire}},
  doi          = {10.1038/nphys3461},
  volume       = {11},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{388,
  abstract     = {We use ultrafast optical spectroscopy to observe binding of charged single-particle excitations (SE) in the magnetically frustrated Mott insulator Na2IrO3. Above the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature (TN) the system response is due to both Hubbard excitons (HE) and their constituent unpaired SE. The SE response becomes strongly suppressed immediately below TN. We argue that this increase in binding energy is due to a unique interplay between the frustrated Kitaev and the weak Heisenberg-type ordering term in the Hamiltonian, mediating an effective interaction between the spin-singlet SE. This interaction grows with distance causing the SE to become trapped in the HE, similar to quark confinement inside hadrons. This binding of charged particles, induced by magnetic ordering, is a result of a confinement-deconfinement transition of spin excitations. This observation provides evidence for spin liquid type behavior which is expected in Na2IrO3.},
  author       = {Alpichshev, Zhanybek and Mahmood, Fahad and Cao, Gang and Gedik, Nuh},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Confinement deconfinement transition as an indication of spin liquid type behavior in Na2IrO3}},
  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.017203},
  volume       = {114},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{473,
  abstract     = {We prove that nonlinear Gibbs measures can be obtained from the corresponding many-body, grand-canonical, quantum Gibbs states, in a mean-field limit where the temperature T diverges and the interaction strength behaves as 1/T. We proceed by characterizing the interacting Gibbs state as minimizing a functional counting the free-energy relatively to the non-interacting case. We then perform an infinite-dimensional analogue of phase-space semiclassical analysis, using fine properties of the quantum relative entropy, the link between quantum de Finetti measures and upper/lower symbols in a coherent state basis, as well as Berezin-Lieb type inequalities. Our results cover the measure built on the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger functional on a finite interval, as well as smoother interactions in dimensions d 2.},
  author       = {Lewin, Mathieu and Phan Thanh, Nam and Rougerie, Nicolas},
  journal      = {Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques},
  pages        = {65 -- 115},
  publisher    = {Ecole Polytechnique},
  title        = {{Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics}},
  doi          = {10.5802/jep.18},
  volume       = {2},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{523,
  abstract     = {We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives coincide, we show that in contrast to multi-dimensional mean-payoff games that are known to be coNP-complete, multi-dimensional total-payoff games are undecidable. We introduce conservative approximations of these objectives, where the payoff is considered over a local finite window sliding along a play, instead of the whole play. For single dimension, we show that (i) if the window size is polynomial, deciding the winner takes polynomial time, and (ii) the existence of a bounded window can be decided in NP ∩ coNP, and is at least as hard as solving mean-payoff games. For multiple dimensions, we show that (i) the problem with fixed window size is EXPTIME-complete, and (ii) there is no primitive-recursive algorithm to decide the existence of a bounded window.},
  author       = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent and Randour, Mickael and Raskin, Jean},
  journal      = {Information and Computation},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {25 -- 52},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010},
  volume       = {242},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{524,
  abstract     = {We consider concurrent games played by two players on a finite-state graph, where in every round the players simultaneously choose a move, and the current state along with the joint moves determine the successor state. We study the most fundamental objective for concurrent games, namely, mean-payoff or limit-average objective, where a reward is associated to each transition, and the goal of player 1 is to maximize the long-run average of the rewards, and the objective of player 2 is strictly the opposite (i.e., the games are zero-sum). The path constraint for player 1 could be qualitative, i.e., the mean-payoff is the maximal reward, or arbitrarily close to it; or quantitative, i.e., a given threshold between the minimal and maximal reward. We consider the computation of the almost-sure (resp. positive) winning sets, where player 1 can ensure that the path constraint is satisfied with probability 1 (resp. positive probability). Almost-sure winning with qualitative constraint exactly corresponds to the question of whether there exists a strategy to ensure that the payoff is the maximal reward of the game. Our main results for qualitative path constraints are as follows: (1) we establish qualitative determinacy results that show that for every state either player 1 has a strategy to ensure almost-sure (resp. positive) winning against all player-2 strategies, or player 2 has a spoiling strategy to falsify almost-sure (resp. positive) winning against all player-1 strategies; (2) we present optimal strategy complexity results that precisely characterize the classes of strategies required for almost-sure and positive winning for both players; and (3) we present quadratic time algorithms to compute the almost-sure and the positive winning sets, matching the best known bound of the algorithms for much simpler problems (such as reachability objectives). For quantitative constraints we show that a polynomial time solution for the almost-sure or the positive winning set would imply a solution to a long-standing open problem (of solving the value problem of turn-based deterministic mean-payoff games) that is not known to be solvable in polynomial time.},
  author       = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus},
  journal      = {Information and Computation},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {2 -- 24},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009},
  volume       = {242},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{2085,
  abstract     = {We study the spectrum of a large system of N identical bosons interacting via a two-body potential with strength 1/N. In this mean-field regime, Bogoliubov's theory predicts that the spectrum of the N-particle Hamiltonian can be approximated by that of an effective quadratic Hamiltonian acting on Fock space, which describes the fluctuations around a condensed state. Recently, Bogoliubov's theory has been justified rigorously in the case that the low-energy eigenvectors of the N-particle Hamiltonian display complete condensation in the unique minimizer of the corresponding Hartree functional. In this paper, we shall justify Bogoliubov's theory for the high-energy part of the spectrum of the N-particle Hamiltonian corresponding to (non-linear) excited states of the Hartree functional. Moreover, we shall extend the existing results on the excitation spectrum to the case of non-uniqueness and/or degeneracy of the Hartree minimizer. In particular, the latter covers the case of rotating Bose gases, when the rotation speed is large enough to break the symmetry and to produce multiple quantized vortices in the Hartree minimizer. },
  author       = {Nam, Phan and Seiringer, Robert},
  journal      = {Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {381 -- 417},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Collective excitations of Bose gases in the mean-field regime}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00205-014-0781-6},
  volume       = {215},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{2166,
  abstract     = {We consider the spectral statistics of large random band matrices on mesoscopic energy scales. We show that the correlation function of the local eigenvalue density exhibits a universal power law behaviour that differs from the Wigner-Dyson- Mehta statistics. This law had been predicted in the physics literature by Altshuler and Shklovskii in (Zh Eksp Teor Fiz (Sov Phys JETP) 91(64):220(127), 1986); it describes the correlations of the eigenvalue density in general metallic sampleswith weak disorder. Our result rigorously establishes the Altshuler-Shklovskii formulas for band matrices. In two dimensions, where the leading term vanishes owing to an algebraic cancellation, we identify the first non-vanishing term and show that it differs substantially from the prediction of Kravtsov and Lerner in (Phys Rev Lett 74:2563-2566, 1995). The proof is given in the current paper and its companion (Ann. H. Poincaré. arXiv:1309.5107, 2014). },
  author       = {Erdös, László and Knowles, Antti},
  journal      = {Communications in Mathematical Physics},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {1365 -- 1416},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{The Altshuler-Shklovskii formulas for random band matrices I: the unimodular case}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00220-014-2119-5},
  volume       = {333},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{2271,
  abstract     = {A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. Finite-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational costs and general-valued constraint languages contain functions that take on rational or infinite costs. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of functions from the language with the goal to minimise the sum. This framework includes and generalises well-studied constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and maximum constraint satisfaction problems (Max-CSPs).
Our main result is a precise algebraic characterisation of valued constraint languages whose instances can be solved exactly by the basic linear programming relaxation (BLP). For a general-valued constraint language Γ, BLP is a decision procedure for Γ if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of every arity. For a finite-valued constraint language Γ, BLP is a decision procedure if and only if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of some arity, or equivalently, if Γ admits a symmetric fractional polymorphism of arity 2.
Using these results, we obtain tractability of several novel and previously widely-open classes of VCSPs, including problems over valued constraint languages that are: (1) submodular on arbitrary lattices; (2) bisubmodular (also known as k-submodular) on arbitrary finite domains; (3) weakly (and hence strongly) tree-submodular on arbitrary trees. },
  author       = {Kolmogorov, Vladimir and Thapper, Johan and Živný, Stanislav},
  journal      = {SIAM Journal on Computing},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {1 -- 36},
  publisher    = {SIAM},
  title        = {{The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs}},
  doi          = {10.1137/130945648},
  volume       = {44},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{257,
  abstract     = {For suitable pairs of diagonal quadratic forms in eight variables we use the circle method to investigate the density of simultaneous integer solutions and relate this to the problem of estimating linear correlations among sums of two squares.},
  author       = {Timothy Browning and Munshi, Ritabrata},
  journal      = {Forum Mathematicum},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {2025 -- 2050},
  publisher    = {Walter de Gruyter GmbH},
  title        = {{Pairs of diagonal quadratic forms and linear correlations among sums of two squares}},
  doi          = {10.1515/forum-2013-6024},
  volume       = {27},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{271,
  abstract     = {We show that a non-singular integral form of degree d is soluble non-trivially over the integers if and only if it is soluble non-trivially over the reals and the p-adic numbers, provided that the form has at least (d-\sqrt{d}/2)2^d variables. This improves on a longstanding result of Birch.},
  author       = {Browning, Timothy D and Prendiville, Sean},
  issn         = {0075-4102},
  journal      = {Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik},
  number       = {731},
  pages        = {203 -- 234},
  publisher    = {Walter de Gruyter},
  title        = {{Improvements in Birch's theorem on forms in many variables}},
  doi          = {10.1515/crelle-2014-0122},
  volume       = {2017},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{11073,
  abstract     = {Human cancer cells bear complex chromosome rearrangements that can be potential drivers of cancer development. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these rearrangements have been unclear. Zhang et al. use a new technique combining live-cell imaging and single-cell sequencing to demonstrate that chromosomes mis-segregated to micronuclei frequently undergo chromothripsis-like rearrangements in the subsequent cell cycle.},
  author       = {Hatch, Emily M. and HETZER, Martin W},
  issn         = {0092-8674},
  journal      = {Cell},
  keywords     = {General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {1502--1504},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Linking micronuclei to chromosome fragmentation}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.005},
  volume       = {161},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{11074,
  author       = {Hatch, Emily M. and HETZER, Martin W},
  issn         = {0960-9822},
  journal      = {Current Biology},
  keywords     = {General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology},
  number       = {10},
  pages        = {PR397--R399},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Chromothripsis}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.033},
  volume       = {25},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{11076,
  abstract     = {Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are composed of several copies of ∼30 different proteins called nucleoporins (Nups). NPCs penetrate the nuclear envelope (NE) and regulate the nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of macromolecules. Beyond this vital role, NPC components influence genome functions in a transport-independent manner. Nups play an evolutionarily conserved role in gene expression regulation that, in metazoans, extends into the nuclear interior. Additionally, in proliferative cells, Nups play a crucial role in genome integrity maintenance and mitotic progression. Here we discuss genome-related functions of Nups and their impact on essential DNA metabolism processes such as transcription, chromosome duplication, and segregation.},
  author       = {Ibarra, Arkaitz and HETZER, Martin W},
  issn         = {1549-5477},
  journal      = {Genes & Development},
  keywords     = {Developmental Biology, Genetics},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {337--349},
  publisher    = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
  title        = {{Nuclear pore proteins and the control of genome functions}},
  doi          = {10.1101/gad.256495.114},
  volume       = {29},
  year         = {2015},
}

@article{11077,
  abstract     = {Nucleoporins (Nups) are a family of proteins best known as the constituent building blocks of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), membrane-embedded channels that mediate nuclear transport across the nuclear envelope. Recent evidence suggests that several Nups have additional roles in controlling the activation and silencing of developmental genes; however, the mechanistic details of these functions remain poorly understood. Here, we show that depletion of Nup153 in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) causes the derepression of developmental genes and induction of early differentiation. This loss of stem cell identity is not associated with defects in the nuclear import of key pluripotency factors. Rather, Nup153 binds around the transcriptional start site (TSS) of developmental genes and mediates the recruitment of the polycomb-repressive complex 1 (PRC1) to a subset of its target loci. Our results demonstrate a chromatin-associated role of Nup153 in maintaining stem cell pluripotency by functioning in mammalian epigenetic gene silencing.},
  author       = {Jacinto, Filipe V. and Benner, Chris and HETZER, Martin W},
  issn         = {1549-5477},
  journal      = {Genes & Development},
  keywords     = {Developmental Biology, Genetics},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {1224--1238},
  publisher    = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
  title        = {{The nucleoporin Nup153 regulates embryonic stem cell pluripotency through gene silencing}},
  doi          = {10.1101/gad.260919.115},
  volume       = {29},
  year         = {2015},
}

