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14 January 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               ERRATUM: Olfactory imprinting is triggered by MHC peptide ligands ▶     Cornelia Hinz, Iori Namekawa, Jasminca Behrmann-Godel et al.                 ERRATUM: A Novel Model of Surgical Injury in Adult Rat Kidney: A “Pouch Model” ▶     Natalia O. Litbarg, Snezana Vujicic, Suman Setty et al.                 Active DNA demethylation is required for complete imprint erasure in primordial germ cells ▶     Yuki Kawasaki, Jiyoung Lee, Ayumi Matsuzawa et al.     In mammalian primordial germ cells (PGCs), DNA demethylation is indispensible for parental imprint erasure, which is a reprogramming process essential for normal developmental …             Novel SCRG1/BST1 axis regulates self-renewal, migration, and osteogenic differentiation potential in mesenchymal stem cells ▶     Emiko Aomatsu, Noriko Takahashi, Shunsuke Sawada et al.     Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) remodel or regenerate various tissues through several mechanisms. Here, we identified the hMSC-secreted protein SCRG1 and its receptor BST1 as …             The Nucleosome Assembly Protein TSPYL2 Regulates the Expression of NMDA Receptor Subunits GluN2A and GluN2B ▶     Ka Hing Tsang, Suk King Lai, Qi Li et al.     TSPYL2 is an X-linked gene encoding a nucleosome assembly protein. TSPYL2 interacts with calmodulin-associated serine/threonine kinase, which is implicated in X-linked mental …             A mass-spring model unveils the morphogenesis of phototrophic Diatoma biofilms ▶     K. Celler, I. Hödl, A. Simone et al.     Diatoms often dominate planktonic communities in the ocean and phototrophic biofilms in streams and rivers, greatly contributing to global biogeochemical fluxes. In pelagic …             Cultured 3T3L1 adipocytes dispose of excess medium glucose as lactate under abundant oxygen availability ▶     David Sabater, Sofía Arriarán, María del Mar Romero et al.     White adipose tissue (WAT) produces lactate in significant amount from circulating glucose, especially in obesity;Under normoxia, 3T3L1 cells secrete large quantities of lactate …             Self-organized patterning through the dynamic segregation of DNA and silica nanoparticles ▶     Rastko Joksimovic, Shun Watanabe, Sven Riemer et al.     Exotic pattern formation as a result of drying of an aqueous solution containing DNA and silica nanoparticles is reported. The pattern due to segregation was found to critically …             Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in brain death ▶     M. Luchtmann, O. Beuing, M. Skalej et al.     Confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of brain death in addition to clinical findings may shorten observation time required in some countries and may add certainty to the diagnosis …             Promotion of quality standard of herbal medicine by constituent removing and adding ▶     Dan Yan, Junxian Li, Yin Xiong et al.     To identify major active constituents and measure their levels in a typical medicinal herb–Rhizoma coptidis, we applied the concept of removing and adding, taking inspiration from …             Tungsten Oxide Nanorods: An Efficient Nanoplatform for Tumor CT Imaging and Photothermal Therapy ▶     Zhiguo Zhou, Bin Kong, Chao Yu et al.     We report here a facile thermal decomposition approach to creating tungsten oxide nanorods (WO2.9 NRs) with a length of 13.1 ± 3.6 nm and a diameter of 4.4 ± 1.5 nm for tumor …             MicroRNA sequence polymorphisms and the risk of different types of cancer ▶     Ye Hu, Chen-Yang Yu, Ji-Lin Wang et al.     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) participate in diverse biological pathways and may act as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in miRNAs (MirSNPs) might …             Conformational flexibility of the oncogenic protein LMO2 primes the formation of the multi-protein transcription complex ▶     H. Sewell, T. Tanaka, K. El Omari et al.     LMO2 was discovered via chromosomal translocations in T-cell leukaemia and shown normally to be essential for haematopoiesis. LMO2 is made up of two LIM only domains (thus it is a …             Pharmacologic IKK/NF-κB inhibition causes antigen presenting cells to undergo TNFα dependent ROS-mediated programmed cell death ▶     Jeremy S. Tilstra, Daniel F. Gaddy, Jing Zhao et al.     Monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells (APC) are central mediators of the innate and adaptive immune response in inflammatory diseases. As such, APC are appropriate targets for …             Paradoxical One-ion Pore Behavior of the Long β-Helical Peptide of Marine Cytotoxic Polytheonamide B ▶     Masayuki Iwamoto, Shigeki Matsunaga, Shigetoshi Oiki     The cytotoxic 48-mer peptide, polytheonamide B (pTB), from a marine sponge forms a β6.3-helix with an inner diameter of 4 Å and a length of 45 Å, features that allow the selective …             CORRIGENDUM: Effect of magnetic dipolar interactions on nanoparticle heating efficiency: Implications for cancer hyperthermia ▶     Luis C. Branquinho, Marcus S. Carrião, Anderson S. Costa et al.                 Aberrant CDK4 Amplification in Refractory Rhabdomyosarcoma as Identified by Genomic Profiling ▶     Silvia Park, Jeeyun Lee, In-Gu Do et al.     Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most commonly occurring type of soft tissue tumor in children. However, it is rare in adults, and therefore, very little is known about the most …             Sensory-motor behavioral characterization of an animal model of Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome (or Mucopolysaccharidosis VI) ▶     Paola Saccone, Gabriella Cotugno, Fabio Russo et al.     Maroteaux-Lamy disease, also known as mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) VI, is an MPS disorder caused by mutations in the ARSB gene encoding for the lysosomal enzyme arysulfatase B …             A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing ▶     Yuanxi Feng, Siliang Zhang, Xin Huang     Recently, transcription activator–like effector nucleases (TALENs) have emerged as a highly effective tool for genomic editing. A pair of TALENs binds to two DNA recognition sites …             Nrf2 Protects Against TWEAK-mediated Skeletal Muscle Wasting ▶     Othman Al-Sawaf, Athanassios Fragoulis, Christian Rosen et al.     Skeletal muscle (SM) regeneration after injury is impaired by excessive inflammation. Particularly, the inflammatory cytokine tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-like weak inducer of …             Metabonomic Analysis Reveals Efficient Ameliorating Effects of Acupoint Stimulations on the Menopause-caused Alterations in Mammalian Metabolism ▶     Limin Zhang, Yulan Wang, Yunxiang Xu et al.     Acupoint stimulations are effective in ameliorating symptoms of menopause which is an unavoidable ageing consequence for women. To understand the mechanistic aspects of such …             Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins ▶     Bin Wu, Jiahao Chen, Robert H. Singer     We describe a technique for imaging single mRNAs in living cells based on fluorescent protein (FP) complementation. We employ the high affinity interaction between the bacterial …             Evolutionary Significance of the Role of Family Units in a Broader Social System ▶     Bradford R. Greening, Nina H. Fefferman     Indirect benefits to individual fitness in social species can be influenced by a variety of behavioral factors. Behaviors which support the fitness of kin provide indirect …             Deterioration of an Etruscan tomb by bacteria from the order Rhizobiales ▶     Marta Diaz-Herraiz, Valme Jurado, Soledad Cuezva et al.     The Etruscan civilisation originated in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century BC and was absorbed by Rome in the first century BC. Etruscan tombs, many of which are …             The antimalarial drug quinine interferes with serotonin biosynthesis and action ▶     Farida Islahudin, Sarah M. Tindall, Ian R. Mellor et al.     The major antimalarial drug quinine perturbs uptake of the essential amino acid tryptophan, and patients with low plasma tryptophan are predisposed to adverse quinine reactions; …             Biological proliferation of cesium-137 through the detrital food chain in a forest ecosystem in Japan ▶     Masashi Murakami, Nobuhito Ohte, Takahiro Suzuki et al.     Radionuclides, including 137Cs, were released from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and had been deposited broadly over forested areas of north-eastern Honshu …             Comparable Stability of Hoogsteen and Watson–Crick Base Pairs in Ionic Liquid Choline Dihydrogen Phosphate ▶     Hisae Tateishi-Karimata, Miki Nakano, Naoki Sugimoto     The instability of Hoogsteen base pairs relative to Watson–Crick base pairs has limited biological applications of triplex-forming oligonucleotides. Hydrated ionic liquids (ILs) …             A novel efficient feeder-free culture system for the derivation of human induced pluripotent stem cells ▶     Masato Nakagawa, Yukimasa Taniguchi, Sho Senda et al.     In order to apply human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to regenerative medicine, the cells should be produced under restricted conditions …             Freezing period strongly impacts the emergence of a global consensus in the voter model ▶     Zhen Wang, Yi Liu, Lin Wang et al.     It is well known that human beings do not always change opinions or attitudes, since the duration of interaction with others usually has a significant impact on one's …             In situ environment rather than substrate type dictates microbial community structure of biofilms in a cold seep system ▶     On On Lee, Yong Wang, Renmao Tian et al.     Using microscopic and molecular techniques combined with computational analysis, this study examined the structure and composition of microbial communities in biofilms that formed …             Mutation in ST6GALNAC5 identified in family with coronary artery disease ▶     Kolsoum InanlooRahatloo, Amir Farhang Zand Parsa, Klaus Huse et al.     We aimed to identify the genetic cause of coronary artery disease (CAD) in an Iranian pedigree. Genetic linkage analysis identified three loci with an LOD score of 2.2. Twelve …             Different suitability of improved irrigation channels as reproductive sites for Cyprininae and Silurus asotus ▶     Toshinori Funao, Takayoshi Nishida, Yoshimasa Kurashige et al.     Irrigation channels around paddy fields have been drastically improved over the past several decades in Japan. This has been accomplished exclusively by covering all the sides of …             Dispersal-induced destabilization of metapopulations and oscillatory Turing patterns in ecological networks ▶     Shigefumi Hata, Hiroya Nakao, Alexander S. Mikhailov     As shown by Alan Turing in 1952, differential diffusion may destabilize uniform distributions of reacting species and lead to emergence of patterns. While stationary Turing …             Innexin gap junctions in nerve cells coordinate spontaneous contractile behavior in Hydra polyps ▶     Yasuharu Takaku, Jung Shan Hwang, Alexander Wolf et al.     Nerve cells and spontaneous coordinated behavior first appeared near the base of animal evolution in the common ancestor of cnidarians and bilaterians. Experiments on the …             HE4 (WFDC2) gene overexpression promotes ovarian tumor growth ▶     Richard G. Moore, Emily K. Hill, Timothy Horan et al.     Selective overexpression of Human epididymal secretory protein E4 (HE4) points to a role in ovarian cancer tumorigenesis but little is known about the role the HE4 gene or the …             More than apples and oranges - Detecting cancer with a fruit fly's antenna ▶     Martin Strauch, Alja Lüdke, Daniel Münch et al.     Cancer cells and non-cancer cells differ in their metabolism and they emit distinct volatile compound profiles, allowing to recognise cancer cells by their scent. Insect odorant …             Anti-melanoma activity of T cells redirected with a TCR-like chimeric antigen receptor ▶     Ge Zhang, Lei Wang, Honglian Cui et al.     Genetically modified T cells to recognize tumor-associated antigens by transgenic TCRs or chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) have been successfully applied in clinical trials. …             Artificial photosynthesis of oxalate and oxalate-based polymer by a photovoltaic reactor ▶     Guangzai Nong, Shan Chen, Yuanjin Xu et al.     A photovoltaic reactor was designed for artificial photosynthesis, based on the reactions involved in high energy hydrogen atoms, which were produced from water electrolysis. …             Non-Enzymatic-Browning-Reaction: A Versatile Route for Production of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots with Tunable Multicolor Luminescent Display ▶     Weili Wei, Can Xu, Li Wu et al.     The non-enzymatic browning, namely Maillard reaction is commonly invoked to account for abiotic chemical transformations of organic matter. 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