@article{6144, abstract = {Behaviours evolve by iterations of natural selection, but we have few insights into the molecular and neural mechanisms involved. Here we show that some Caenorhabditis elegans wild strains switch between two foraging behaviours in response to subtle changes in ambient oxygen. This finely tuned switch is conferred by a naturally variable hexacoordinated globin, GLB-5. GLB-5 acts with the atypical soluble guanylate cyclases1,2,3, which are a different type of oxygen binding protein, to tune the dynamic range of oxygen-sensing neurons close to atmospheric (21%) concentrations. Calcium imaging indicates that one group of these neurons is activated when oxygen rises towards 21%, and is inhibited as oxygen drops below 21%. The soluble guanylate cyclase GCY-35 is required for high oxygen to activate the neurons; GLB-5 provides inhibitory input when oxygen decreases below 21%. Together, these oxygen binding proteins tune neuronal and behavioural responses to a narrow oxygen concentration range close to atmospheric levels. The effect of the glb-5 gene on oxygen sensing and foraging is modified by the naturally variable neuropeptide receptor npr-1 (refs 4, 5), providing insights into how polygenic variation reshapes neural circuit function.}, author = {Persson, Annelie and Gross, Einav and Laurent, Patrick and Busch, Karl Emanuel and Bretes, Hugo and de Bono, Mario}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, number = {7241}, pages = {1030--1033}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Natural variation in a neural globin tunes oxygen sensing in wild Caenorhabditis elegans}}, doi = {10.1038/nature07820}, volume = {458}, year = {2009}, } @article{6145, author = {Cohen, Merav and Reale, Vincenzina and Olofsson, Birgitta and Knights, Andrew and Evans, Peter and de Bono, Mario}, issn = {1550-4131}, journal = {Cell Metabolism}, number = {4}, pages = {375--385}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Coordinated regulation of foraging and metabolism in C. elegans by RFamide neuropeptide signaling}}, doi = {10.1016/j.cmet.2009.02.003}, volume = {9}, year = {2009}, } @article{13414, abstract = {Supraspherical aggregates of crosslinked metal nanoparticles are transformed into pancakes and nanorods by mechanical stresses and shears imparted by macroscopic objects (see image). The dimensions of both types of nanostructures can be controlled by the pressures applied.}, author = {Browne, Kevin P. and Klajn, Rafal and Villa, JulieAnn and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1613-6829}, journal = {Small}, keywords = {Biomaterials, Biotechnology, General Materials Science, General Chemistry}, number = {23}, pages = {2656--2658}, publisher = {Wiley}, title = {{Mechanofabrication of pancake and rodlike nanostructures from deformable nanoparticle aggregates}}, doi = {10.1002/smll.200900902}, volume = {5}, year = {2009}, } @article{13415, abstract = {Systems in which nanoscale components of different types can be captured and/or released from organic scaffolds provide a fertile basis for the construction of dynamic, exchangeable functional materials. In such heterogeneous systems, the components interact with one another by means of programmable, noncovalent bonding interactions. Herein, we describe polymers that capture and release functionalized nanoparticles selectively during redox-controlled aggregation and disaggregation, respectively. The interactions between the polymer and the NPs are mediated by the reversible formation of polypseudorotaxanes, and give rise to architectures ranging from short chains composed of few nanoparticles to extended networks of nanoparticles crosslinked by the polymer. In the latter case, the polymer/nanoparticle aggregates precipitate from solution such that the polymer acts as a selective ‘sponge’ for the capture/release of the nanoparticles of different types.}, author = {Klajn, Rafal and Olson, Mark A. and Wesson, Paul J. and Fang, Lei and Coskun, Ali and Trabolsi, Ali and Soh, Siowling and Stoddart, J. Fraser and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1755-4349}, journal = {Nature Chemistry}, keywords = {General Chemical Engineering, General Chemistry}, pages = {733--738}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Dynamic hook-and-eye nanoparticle sponges}}, doi = {10.1038/nchem.432}, volume = {1}, year = {2009}, } @article{13416, abstract = {The reversible molecular template-directed self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), a process which relies solely on noncovalent bonding interactions, has been demonstrated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). By employing a well-known host−guest binding motif, the AuNPs have been systemized into discrete dimers, trimers, and tetramers. These nanoparticulate twins, triplets, and quadruplets, which can be disassembled and reassembled either chemically or electrochemically, can be coalesced into larger, permanent polygonal structures by thermal treatment using a focused HR-TEM electron beam.}, author = {Olson, Mark A. and Coskun, Ali and Klajn, Rafal and Fang, Lei and Dey, Sanjeev K. and Browne, Kevin P. and Grzybowski, Bartosz A. and Stoddart, J. Fraser}, issn = {1530-6992}, journal = {Nano Letters}, keywords = {Mechanical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, General Materials Science, General Chemistry, Bioengineering}, number = {9}, pages = {3185--3190}, publisher = {American Chemical Society}, title = {{Assembly of polygonal nanoparticle clusters directed by reversible noncovalent bonding interactions}}, doi = {10.1021/nl901385c}, volume = {9}, year = {2009}, } @article{13417, abstract = {Mission Impossible: Metal nanoparticles (NPs) coated with photoresponsive ligands are used as “inks” for self-erasing “paper” whereby light-induced self-assembly of the NPs is transduced into local color changes (see picture). Depending on the degree of self-assembly, multicolor images can be written using only one type of NP ink. Duration of image erasure is regulated by the surface concentration of photoactive groups and can range from seconds to days.}, author = {Klajn, Rafal and Wesson, Paul J. and Bishop, Kyle J. M. and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1521-3773}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition}, keywords = {General Chemistry, Catalysis}, number = {38}, pages = {7035--7039}, publisher = {Wiley}, title = {{Writing self-erasing images using metastable nanoparticle “inks”}}, doi = {10.1002/anie.200901119}, volume = {48}, year = {2009}, } @article{13418, abstract = {In traditional photoconductors1,2,3, the impinging light generates mobile charge carriers in the valence and/or conduction bands, causing the material’s conductivity to increase4. Such positive photoconductance is observed in both bulk and nanostructured5,6 photoconductors. Here we describe a class of nanoparticle-based materials whose conductivity can either increase or decrease on irradiation with visible light of wavelengths close to the particles’ surface plasmon resonance. The remarkable feature of these plasmonic materials is that the sign of the conductivity change and the nature of the electron transport between the nanoparticles depend on the molecules comprising the self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)7,8 stabilizing the nanoparticles. For SAMs made of electrically neutral (polar and non-polar) molecules, conductivity increases on irradiation. If, however, the SAMs contain electrically charged (either negatively or positively) groups, conductivity decreases. The optical and electrical characteristics of these previously undescribed inverse photoconductors can be engineered flexibly by adjusting the material properties of the nanoparticles and of the coating SAMs. In particular, in films comprising mixtures of different nanoparticles or nanoparticles coated with mixed SAMs, the overall photoconductance is a weighted average of the changes induced by the individual components. These and other observations can be rationalized in terms of light-induced creation of mobile charge carriers whose transport through the charged SAMs is inhibited by carrier trapping in transient polaron-like states9,10. The nanoparticle-based photoconductors we describe could have uses in chemical sensors and/or in conjunction with flexible substrates.}, author = {Nakanishi, Hideyuki and Bishop, Kyle J. M. and Kowalczyk, Bartlomiej and Nitzan, Abraham and Weiss, Emily A. and Tretiakov, Konstantin V. and Apodaca, Mario M. and Klajn, Rafal and Stoddart, J. Fraser and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1476-4687}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {Multidisciplinary}, number = {7253}, pages = {371--375}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Photoconductance and inverse photoconductance in films of functionalized metal nanoparticles}}, doi = {10.1038/nature08131}, volume = {460}, year = {2009}, } @article{13419, abstract = {Reaction-diffusion (RD) processes initiated from the surfaces of mesoscopic particles can fabricate complex core-and-shell structures. The propagation of a sharp RD front selectively removes metal colloids or nanoparticles from the supporting gel or polymer matrix. Once fabricated, the core structures can be processed “remotely” via galvanic replacement reactions, and the composite particles can be assembled into open-lattice crystals.}, author = {Wesson, Paul J. and Soh, Siowling and Klajn, Rafal and Bishop, Kyle J. M. and Gray, Timothy P. and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1521-4095}, journal = {Advanced Materials}, keywords = {Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, General Materials Science}, number = {19}, pages = {1911--1915}, publisher = {Wiley}, title = {{“Remote” fabrication via three-dimensional reaction-diffusion: Making complex core-and-shell particles and assembling them into open-lattice crystals}}, doi = {10.1002/adma.200802964}, volume = {21}, year = {2009}, } @article{13420, abstract = {Weakly protected metal nanoparticles (MNPs) are used as precursors for the preparation of catenane- and pseudorotaxane-decorated NPs of various compositions (gold, palladium, platinum). When attached to the surface of MNPs, the molecular switches retain their switching abilities. The redox potentials of these switches depend on and can be regulated by the composition of the mixed self-assembled monolayers covering the MNPs.}, author = {Klajn, Rafal and Fang, Lei and Coskun, Ali and Olson, Mark A. and Wesson, Paul J. and Stoddart, J. Fraser and Grzybowski, Bartosz A.}, issn = {1520-5126}, journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, keywords = {Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Biochemistry, General Chemistry, Catalysis}, number = {12}, pages = {4233--4235}, publisher = {American Chemical Society}, title = {{Metal nanoparticles functionalized with molecular and supramolecular switches}}, doi = {10.1021/ja9001585}, volume = {131}, year = {2009}, } @article{13421, abstract = {Side-chain poly[2]catenanes at the click of a switch! A bistable side-chain poly[2]catenane has been synthesized and found to form hierarchical self-assembled hollow superstructures of nanoscale dimensions in solution. Molecular electromechanical switching (see picture) of the material is demonstrated, and the ground-state equilibrium thermodynamics and switching kinetics are examined as the initial steps towards processible molecular-based electronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems.}, author = {Olson, Mark A. and Braunschweig, Adam B. and Fang, Lei and Ikeda, Taichi and Klajn, Rafal and Trabolsi, Ali and Wesson, Paul J. and Benítez, Diego and Mirkin, Chad A. and Grzybowski, Bartosz A. and Stoddart, J. Fraser}, issn = {1521-3773}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition}, keywords = {General Chemistry, Catalysis}, number = {10}, pages = {1792--1797}, publisher = {Wiley}, title = {{A bistable poly[2]catenane forms nanosuperstructures}}, doi = {10.1002/anie.200804558}, volume = {48}, year = {2009}, } @article{908, abstract = {Although some data link archaeal and eukaryotic translation, the overall mechanism of protein synthesis in archaea remains largely obscure. Both archaeal (aRF1) and eukaryotic (eRF1) single release factors recognize all three stop codons. The archaeal genus Methanosarcinaceae contains two aRF1 homologs, and also uses the UAG stop to encode the 22nd amino acid, pyrrolysine. Here we provide an analysis of the last stage of archaeal translation in pyrrolysine-utilizing species. We demonstrated that only one of two Methanosarcina barkeri aRF1 homologs possesses activity and recognizes all three stop codons. The second aRF1 homolog may have another unknown function. The mechanism of pyrrolysine incorporation in the Methanosarcinaceae is discussed.}, author = {Alkalaeva, Elena Z and Eliseev, Boris D and Ambrogelly, Alexandre and Vlasov, Peter K and Fyodor Kondrashov and Gundllapalli, Sarath B and Frolova, Ludmila Y and Söll, Dieter G and Kisselev, Lev L}, journal = {FEBS Letters}, number = {21}, pages = {3455 -- 3460}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Translation termination in pyrrolysine-utilizing archaea}}, doi = {10.1016/j.febslet.2009.09.044}, volume = {583}, year = {2009}, } @article{9147, abstract = {As part of an ongoing effort to develop a parameterization of wave-induced abyssal mixing, the authors derive an heuristic model for nonlinear wave breaking and energy dissipation associated with internal tides. Then the saturation and dissipation of internal tides for idealized and observed topography samples are investigated. One of the main results is that the wave-induced mixing could be more intense and more confined to the bottom than previously assumed in numerical models. Furthermore, in this model wave breaking and mixing clearly depend on the small scales of the topography below 10 km or so, which is below the current resolution of global bathymetry. This motivates the use of a statistical approach to represent the unresolved topography when addressing the role of internal tides in mixing the deep ocean.}, author = {Muller, Caroline J and Bühler, Oliver}, issn = {1520-0485}, journal = {Journal of Physical Oceanography}, keywords = {Oceanography}, number = {9}, pages = {2077--2096}, publisher = {American Meteorological Society}, title = {{Saturation of the internal tides and induced mixing in the abyssal ocean}}, doi = {10.1175/2009jpo4141.1}, volume = {39}, year = {2009}, } @article{9148, abstract = {Several observational studies have shown a tight relationship between tropical precipitation and column‐integrated water vapor. We show that the observed relationship in the tropics between column‐integrated water vapor, precipitation, and its variance can be qualitatively reproduced by a simple and physically motivated two‐layer model. It has previously been argued that features of this relationship could be explained by analogy with the theory of continuous phase transitions. Instead, our model explicitly assumes that the onset of precipitation is governed by a stability threshold involving boundary‐layer water vapor. This allows us to explain the precipitation‐humidity relationship over a broader range of water vapor values, and may explain the observed temperature dependence of the relationship.}, author = {Muller, Caroline J and Back, Larissa E. and O'Gorman, Paul A. and Emanuel, Kerry A.}, issn = {0094-8276}, journal = {Geophysical Research Letters}, keywords = {General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics}, number = {16}, publisher = {American Geophysical Union}, title = {{A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor}}, doi = {10.1029/2009gl039667}, volume = {36}, year = {2009}, } @article{9453, abstract = {Parent-of-origin-specific (imprinted) gene expression is regulated in Arabidopsis thaliana endosperm by cytosine demethylation of the maternal genome mediated by the DNA glycosylase DEMETER, but the extent of the methylation changes is not known. Here, we show that virtually the entire endosperm genome is demethylated, coupled with extensive local non-CG hypermethylation of small interfering RNA–targeted sequences. Mutation of DEMETER partially restores endosperm CG methylation to levels found in other tissues, indicating that CG demethylation is specific to maternal sequences. Endosperm demethylation is accompanied by CHH hypermethylation of embryo transposable elements. Our findings demonstrate extensive reconfiguration of the endosperm methylation landscape that likely reinforces transposon silencing in the embryo.}, author = {Hsieh, Tzung-Fu and Ibarra, Christian A. and Silva, Pedro and Zemach, Assaf and Eshed-Williams, Leor and Fischer, Robert L. and Zilberman, Daniel}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {Multidisciplinary}, number = {5933}, pages = {1451--1454}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, title = {{Genome-wide demethylation of Arabidopsis endosperm}}, doi = {10.1126/science.1172417}, volume = {324}, year = {2009}, } @inproceedings{964, abstract = {A theory of the fluctuation-induced Nernst efl'ect is developed for a two-dimensional superconductor in a perpendicular magnetic field. First, we derive a simple phenomenological formula for the Nernst coefficient, which naturally explains the giant Nernst signal due to fluctuating Cooper pairs. The latter signal is shown to be large even far from the transition and may exceed by orders of magnitude the Fermi liquid terms. We also present a complete microscopic calculation of the Nernst coefficient for arbitrary magnetic fields and temperatures, which is based on the standard definition of heat current vertices. It is shown that the magnitude and the behavior of the Nernst signal observed experimentally in disordered superconducting films can be well understood on the basis of superconducting fluctuation theory.}, author = {Maksym Serbyn and Skvortsov, Mikhail A and Varlamov, Andrei A and Galitski, Victor M}, pages = {140 -- 145}, publisher = {American Institute of Physics}, title = {{Giant nernst effect due to fluctuating cooper Pairs in superconductors}}, doi = {10.1063/1.3149485}, volume = {1134}, year = {2009}, } @article{1038, abstract = {One possible way to produce ultra-cold, high-phase-space-density quantum gases of molecules in the rovibronic ground state is given by molecule association from quantum-degenerate atomic gases on a Feshbach resonance and subsequent coherent optical multi-photon transfer into the rovibronic ground state. In ultra-cold samples of Cs2 molecules, we observe two-photon dark resonances that connect the intermediate rovibrational level |v=73,J=2 with the rovibrational ground state |v=0,J=0 of the singlet X 1 ∑ g + ground-state potential. For precise dark resonance spectroscopy we exploit the fact that it is possible to efficiently populate the level |v=73,J=2 by two-photon transfer from the dissociation threshold with the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) technique. We find that at least one of the two-photon resonances is sufficiently strong to allow future implementation of coherent STIRAP transfer of a molecular quantum gas to the rovibrational ground state |v=0,J=0.}, author = {Mark, Manfred and Danzl, Johann G and Haller, Elmar and Gustavsson, Mattias and Bouloufa, Nadia and Dulieu, Olivier and Salami, Houssam and Bergeman, Thomas and Ritsch, Helmut and Hart, Russell and Nägerl, Hanns}, journal = {Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics}, number = {2}, pages = {219 -- 225}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {{Dark resonances for ground-state transfer of molecular quantum gases}}, doi = {10.1007/s00340-009-3407-1}, volume = {95}, year = {2009}, } @article{1040, abstract = {Ultracold atomic physics offers myriad possibilities to study strongly correlated many-body systems in lower dimensions. Typically, only ground-state phases are accessible. Using a tunable quantum gas of bosonic cesium atoms, we realized and controlled in one-dimensional geometry a highly excited quantum phase that is stabilized in the presence of attractive interactions by maintaining and strengthening quantum correlations across a confinement-induced resonance. We diagnosed the crossover from repulsive to attractive interactions in terms of the stiffness and energy of the system. Our results open up the experimental study of metastable, excited, many-body phases with strong correlations and their dynamical properties.}, author = {Haller, Elmar and Gustavsson, Mattias and Mark, Manfred and Danzl, Johann G and Hart, Russell and Pupillo, Guido and Nägerl, Hanns}, journal = {Science}, number = {5945}, pages = {1224 -- 1227}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, title = {{Realization of an excited, strongly correlated quantum gas Phase}}, doi = {10.1126/science.1175850}, volume = {325}, year = {2009}, } @article{1041, abstract = {We demonstrate efficient transfer of ultracold molecules into a deeply bound rovibrational level of the singlet ground state potential in the presence of an optical lattice. The overall molecule creation efficiency is 25%, and the transfer efficiency to the rovibrational level |v = 73, J = 2) is above 80%. We find that the molecules in |v = 73, J = 2) are trapped in the optical lattice, and that the lifetime in the lattice is limited by optical excitation by the lattice light. The molecule trapping time for a lattice depth of 15 atomic recoil energies is about 20 ms. We determine the trapping frequency by the lattice phase and amplitude modulation technique. It will now be possible to transfer the molecules to the rovibrational ground state |v = 0, J = 0) in the presence of the optical lattice.}, author = {Danzl, Johann G and Mark, Manfred and Haller, Elmar and Gustavsson, Mattias and Hart, Russell and Liem, Andreas and Zellmer, Holger and Nägerl, Hanns}, journal = {New Journal of Physics}, publisher = {IOP Publishing Ltd.}, title = {{Deeply bound ultracold molecules in an optical lattice}}, doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055036}, volume = {11}, year = {2009}, } @article{1043, abstract = {One possibility for the creation of ultracold, high phase space density quantum gases of molecules in the rovibronic ground state relies on first associating weakly-bound molecules from quantum-degenerate atomic gases on a Feshbach resonance and then transferring the molecules via several steps of coherent two-photon stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) into the rovibronic ground state. Here, in ultracold samples of Cs2 Feshbach molecules produced out of ultracold samples of Cs atoms, we observe several optical transitions to deeply-bound rovibrational levels of the excited 0 u+ molecular potentials with high resolution. At least one of these transitions, although rather weak, allows efficient STIRAP transfer into the deeply-bound vibrational level v = 73> of the singlet X 1Σg+ ground state potential, as recently demonstrated (J. G. Danzl, E. Haller, M. Gustavsson, M. J. Mark, R. Hart, N. Bouloufa, O. Dulieu, H. Ritsch, and H.-C. Nägerl, Science, 2008, 321, 1062). From this level, the rovibrational ground state v = 0, J = 0> can be reached with one more transfer step. In total, our results show that coherent ground state transfer for Cs2 is possible using a maximum of two successive two-photon STIRAP processes or one single four-photon STIRAP process.}, author = {Danzl, Johann G and Mark, Manfred and Haller, Elmar and Gustavsson, Mattias and Bouloufa, Nadia and Dulieu, Olivier and Ritsch, Helmut and Hart, Russell and Nägerl, Hanns}, journal = {Faraday Discussions}, pages = {283 -- 295}, publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry}, title = {{Precision molecular spectroscopy for ground state transfer of molecular quantum gases}}, doi = {10.1039/b820542f}, volume = {142}, year = {2009}, } @inproceedings{11799, abstract = {We study the problem of matching bidders to items where each bidder i has general, strictly monotonic utility functions u i,j (p j ) expressing her utility of being matched to item j at price p j . For this setting we prove that a bidder optimal outcome always exists, even when the utility functions are non-linear and non-continuous. Furthermore, we give an algorithm to find such a solution. Although the running time of this algorithm is exponential in the number of items, it is polynomial in the number of bidders.}, author = {Dütting, Paul and Henzinger, Monika H and Weber, Ingmar}, booktitle = {5th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics}, isbn = {9783642108402}, issn = {1611-3349}, location = {Rome, Italy}, pages = {575--582}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Bidder optimal assignments for general utilities}}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-10841-9_58}, volume = {5929}, year = {2009}, }