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11 February 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Maxwell's Demons Everywhere: Evolving Design as the Arrow of Time ▶     Adrian Bejan     Science holds that the arrow of time in nature is imprinted on one-way (irreversible) phenomena, and is accounted for by the second law of thermodynamics. Here I show that the …             A common fungal volatile organic compound induces a nitric oxide mediated inflammatory response in Drosophila melanogaster ▶     Arati A. Inamdar, Joan W. Bennett     Using a Drosophila model, we previously demonstrated truncated life span and neurotoxicity with exposure to 1-octen-3-ol, the volatile organic compound (VOC) responsible for much …             Predominant Role of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2α in Dioxin-induced Neonatal Hydronephrosis in Mice ▶     Wataru Yoshioka, Tatsuya Kawaguchi, Nozomi Fujisawa et al.     Hydronephrosis is a common disease characterized by dilation of the renal pelvis and calices, resulting in loss of kidney function in the most severe cases. …             Kappe neurons, a novel population of olfactory sensory neurons ▶     Gaurav Ahuja, Shahrzad Bozorg Nia, Veronika Zapilko et al.     Perception of olfactory stimuli is mediated by distinct populations of olfactory sensory neurons, each with a characteristic set of morphological as well as functional parameters. …             Molecular Imprint of Exposure to Naturally Occurring Genetic Variants of Human Cytomegalovirus on the T cell Repertoire ▶     Corey Smith, Stephanie Gras, Rebekah M. Brennan et al.     Exposure to naturally occurring variants of herpesviruses in clinical settings can have a dramatic impact on anti-viral immunity. Here we have evaluated the molecular imprint of …             Enhanced Colorimetric Immunoassay Accompanying with Enzyme Cascade Amplification Strategy for Ultrasensitive Detection of Low-Abundance Protein ▶     Zhuangqiang Gao, Li Hou, Mingdi Xu et al.     Methods based on enzyme labels have been developed for colorimetric immunoassays, but most involve poor sensitivity and are unsuitable for routine use. Herein, we design an …             Transgenic soybean pollen (Glycine max L.) in honey from the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico ▶     R. Villanueva-Gutiérrez, C. Echazarreta-González, D. W. Roubik et al.     Using precise pollen species determination by conventional microscopic methods, accompanied by molecular genetic markers, we found bees collect GMO (genetically modified) soybean …             Compensation for intracellular environment in expression levels of mammalian circadian clock genes ▶     Ritsuko Matsumura, Akihiko Okamoto, Koichi Node et al.     The circadian clock is driven by transcriptional oscillation of clock genes in almost all body cells. To investigate the effect of cell type-specific intracellular environment on …             Monkey see, Monkey reach: Action selection of reaching movements in the macaque monkey ▶     Luisa Sartori, Andrea Camperio-Ciani, Maria Bulgheroni et al.     Highly efficient systems are needed to link perception with action in the context of the highly complex environments in which primates move and interact. Another important …             Dll4-containing exosomes induce capillary sprout retraction in a 3D microenvironment ▶     Soheila Sharghi-Namini, Evan Tan, Lee-Ling Sharon Ong et al.     Delta-like 4 (Dll4), a membrane-bound Notch ligand, plays a fundamental role in vascular development and angiogenesis. Dll4 is highly expressed in capillary endothelial tip cells …             Dependence of cancer cell adhesion kinetics on integrin ligand surface density measured by a high-throughput label-free resonant waveguide grating biosensor ▶     Norbert Orgovan, Beatrix Peter, Szilvia Bősze et al.     A novel high-throughput label-free resonant waveguide grating (RWG) imager biosensor, the Epic® BenchTop (BT), was utilized to determine the dependence of cell spreading kinetics …             Auto-flotation of heterocyst enables the efficient production of renewable energy in cyanobacteria ▶     Ming Chen, Jihong Li, Lei Zhang et al.     Utilizing cyanobacteria as a bioenergy resource is difficult due to the cost and energy consuming harvests of microalgal biomass. In this study, an auto-floating system was …             Breast tumor subgroups reveal diverse clinical prognostic power ▶     Zhaoqi Liu, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Shihua Zhang     Predicting the outcome of cancer therapies using molecular features and clinical observations is a key goal of cancer biology, which has been addressed comprehensively using whole …             A direct molecular link between the autism candidate gene RORa and the schizophrenia candidate MIR137 ▶     Paolo Devanna, Sonja C. Vernes     Retinoic acid-related orphan receptor alpha gene (RORa) and the microRNA MIR137 have both recently been identified as novel candidate genes for neuropsychiatric disorders. RORa …             Comprehensive genome-wide analysis reveals different classes of enigmatic old yellow enzyme in fungi ▶     Shadab Nizam, Sandhya Verma, Nilam Nayan Borah et al.     In this study, we systematically identify Old Yellow Enzymes (OYEs) from a diverse range of economically important fungi representing different ecology and lifestyle. Using active …             A complete ancient RNA genome: identification, reconstruction and evolutionary history of archaeological Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus ▶     Oliver Smith, Alan Clapham, Pam Rose et al.     The origins of many plant diseases appear to be recent and associated with the rise of domestication, the spread of agriculture or recent global movements of crops. Distinguishing …             Ultrasonic force microscopy for nanomechanical characterization of early and late-stage amyloid-β peptide aggregation ▶     Claire Tinker-Mill, Jennifer Mayes, David Allsop et al.     The aggregation of amyloid-β peptides into protein fibres is one of the main neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While imaging of amyloid-β aggregate …             Uterine Selection of Human Embryos at Implantation ▶     Jan J. Brosens, Madhuri S. Salker, Gijs Teklenburg et al.     Human embryos frequently harbor large-scale complex chromosomal errors that impede normal development. Affected embryos may fail to implant although many first breach the …             Evaluation of pleural effusion sCD26 and DPP-IV as diagnostic biomarkers in lung disease ▶     Nuria Sánchez-Otero, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Berrocal, María Páez de la Cadena et al.     In this study, we measured ADA and DPP-IV enzymatic activity and sCD26 concentration in 150 pleural effusion (PE) samples and tested for correlations between these and other …             Predictive Value of Clinicopathological Markers for the Metachronous Bladder Cancer and Prognosis of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma ▶     Chenchen Feng, Lujia Wang, Guanxiong Ding et al.     Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is rare but aggressive with poor prognosis. We aimed to find effective predictive markers for recurrence and prognosis in UTUC patients. In …             A novel cell-cycle-indicator, mVenus-p27K−, identifies quiescent cells and visualizes G0–G1 transition ▶     Toshihiko Oki, Koutarou Nishimura, Jiro Kitaura et al.     The quiescent (G0) phase of the cell cycle is the reversible phase from which the cells exit from the cell cycle. Due to the difficulty of defining the G0 phase, quiescent cells …             Different yawns, different functions? Testing social hypotheses on spontaneous yawning in Theropithecus gelada ▶     Alessia Leone, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Elisabetta Palagi     Here, we tested hypotheses about the potential functions of yawning based on its intensity and social contexts. Due to their spectrum intensity of yawns (covered teeth/YW1; …             Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants ▶     Yingying Jiang, Serdal Kirmizialtin, Isaac C. Sanchez     Globular proteins contain cavities/voids that play specific roles in controlling protein function. Elongated cavities provide migration channels for the transport of ions and …             Fine-tuned Bee-Flower Coevolutionary State Hidden within Multiple Pollination Interactions ▶     Akira Shimizu, Ikumi Dohzono, Masayoshi Nakaji et al.     Relationships between flowers and pollinators are generally considered cases of mutualism since both agents gain benefits. Fine-tuned adaptations are usually found in the form of …             Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach ▶     Etienne Danchin, Eric Wajnberg, Richard H. Wagner     In many circumstances, heritability estimates are subject to two potentially interacting pitfalls: the spatial and the regression to the mean (RTM) fallacies. The spatial fallacy …             Screening and discovery of nitro-benzoxadiazole compounds activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in cancer cells ▶     Vehary Sakanyan, Marie Angelini, Mickael Le Béchec et al.     Peptide ligand-induced dimerization of the extracellular region of the epidermal growth factor receptor (sEGFR) is central to the signal transduction of many cellular processes. A …             Regulating the Transport of DNA through Biofriendly Nanochannels in a Thin Solid Membrane ▶     Deqiang Wang, Stefan Harrer, Binquan Luan et al.     Channels formed by membrane proteins regulate the transport of water, ions or nutrients that are essential to cells' metabolism. Recent advances in nanotechnology allow us to …             Electrochemical monitoring of an important biomarker and target protein: VEGFR2 in cell lysates ▶     Tianxiang Wei, Wenwen Tu, Bo Zhao et al.     Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) is a potential cell-type biomarker in clinical diagnoses. Besides, it's the target protein of many tyrosine kinase …             Striatal dopamine D1 receptor is essential for contextual fear conditioning ▶     Masaru Ikegami, Takeshi Uemura, Ayumi Kishioka et al.     Fear memory is critical for animals to trigger behavioural adaptive responses to potentially threatening stimuli, while too much or inappropriate fear may cause psychiatric …             Generation and characterization of regulatory dendritic cells derived from murine induced pluripotent stem cells ▶     Qi Zhang, Masayuki Fujino, Shizue Iwasaki et al.     Regulatory dendritic cells (DCregs) represent a potential therapeutic tool for assessing a variety of immune overreaction conditions; however, current approaches for generating …             Limited geographic distribution of the novel cyclovirus CyCV-VN ▶     Le Van Tan, Menno D. de Jong, Nguyen Van Kinh et al.     A novel cyclovirus, CyCV-VN, was recently identified in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with central nervous system (CNS) infections in central and southern Vietnam. To …             Enhanced Bio-hydrogen Production from Protein Wastewater by Altering Protein Structure and Amino Acids Acidification Type ▶     Naidong Xiao, Yinguang Chen, Aihui Chen et al.     Enhanced bio-hydrogen production from protein wastewater by altering protein structure and amino acids acidification type via pH control was investigated. The hydrogen production …             Insights into the distribution and abundance of the ubiquitous Candidatus Saccharibacteria phylum following tag pyrosequencing ▶     Belinda Ferrari, Tristrom Winsley, Mukan Ji et al.     The phylum candidatus Saccharibacteria formerly known as Candidate Division TM7 is a highly ubiquitous phylum with 16S rRNA gene sequences reported in soils, sediments, wastewater …             Expression of OsMATE1 and OsMATE2 alters development, stress responses and pathogen susceptibility in Arabidopsis ▶     Manish Tiwari, Deepika Sharma, Munna Singh et al.     Multidrug and Toxic compound Extrusion proteins (MATE) are a group of secondary active transporters with ubiquitous occurrences in all domains of life. This is a newly …             Silicon enhances the growth of Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin under green light and low temperature ▶     Peipei Zhao, Wenhui Gu, Songcui Wu et al.     Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin is an ideal model diatom; its complete genome is known, and it is an important economic microalgae. Although silicon is not required in laboratory …             Identification of germline transcriptional regulatory elements in Aedes aegypti ▶     Omar S. Akbari, Philippos A. Papathanos, Jeremy E. Sandler et al.     The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the principal vector for the yellow fever and dengue viruses, and is also responsible for recent outbreaks of the alphavirus chikungunya. Vector …             Hes1 is involved in the self-renewal and tumourigenicity of stem-like cancer cells in colon cancer ▶     Fei Gao, YuQin Zhang, ShengChun Wang et al.     A small subpopulation of cancer cells with stem cell-like features might be responsible for tumour generation, progression, and chemoresistance. Hes1 influences the maintenance of …             Reconstitution of coronary vasculature by an active fraction of Geum japonicum in ischemic hearts ▶     Hao Chen, Lei Cheng, Xiaoli Lin et al.     Chronic coronary heart disease (cCHD) is characterized by atherosclerosis, which progressively narrows the coronary artery lumen and impairs myocardial blood flow. 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