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25 March 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Induction of nuclear translocation of mutant cytoplasmic p53 by geranylgeranoic acid in a human hepatoma cell line ▶     Chieko Iwao, Yoshihiro Shidoji     Mutant p53 proteins in human hepatoma cell lines such as HuH-7 (Y220C) and PLC/PRF/5 (R249S) accumulate in the cytoplasm, and lose their transcriptional function. Geranylgeranoic …             Label-Free Characterization of Emerging Human Neuronal Networks ▶     Mustafa Mir, Taewoo Kim, Anirban Majumder et al.     The emergent self-organization of a neuronal network in a developing nervous system is the result of a remarkably orchestrated process involving a multitude of chemical, …             Antidepressant-like effects of auraptenol in mice ▶     Xiaosu Gu, Yong Zhou, Xiaomei Wu et al.     Depression is a major psychiatric disorder affecting nearly 21% of the world population and imposes a substantial health burden on society. Current available antidepressants are …             Long-Term Exposure to High Altitude Affects Voluntary Spatial Attention at Early and Late Processing Stages ▶     Yan Wang, Hailin Ma, Shimin Fu et al.     The neurocognitive basis of the effect of long-term high altitude exposure on voluntary attention is unclear. Using event related potentials, the high altitude group (people born …             Moyamoya disease-associated protein mysterin/RNF213 is a novel AAA+ ATPase, which dynamically changes its oligomeric state ▶     Daisuke Morito, Kouki Nishikawa, Jun Hoseki et al.     Moyamoya disease is an idiopathic human cerebrovascular disorder that is characterized by progressive stenosis and abnormal collateral vessels. We recently identified …             Internal translation initiation and eIF4F/ATP-independent scanning of mRNA by eukaryotic ribosomal particles ▶     Sultan Ch. Agalarov, Pavel A. Sakharov, Dina Kh. Fattakhova et al.     The recombinant mRNAs with 5′-untranslated region, called omega leader, of tobacco mosaic virus RNA are known to be well translated in eukaryotic cell-free systems, even if …             Diel nitrogen fixation pattern of Trichodesmium: the interactive control of light and Ni ▶     Irene B. Rodriguez, Tung-Yuan Ho     Trichodesmium, a nonheterocystous cyanobacterium widely abundant in the surface water of the tropical and subtropical ocean, fixes dinitrogen under high light conditions while …             HIV-1 Nef Induces CCL5 production in astrocytes through p38-MAPK and PI3K/Akt pathway and utilizes NF-kB, CEBP and AP-1 transcription factors ▶     Xun Liu, Ankit Shah, Mohitkumar R. Gangwani et al.     The prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) remains high in patients infected with HIV-1. The production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by astrocytes/microglia …             Sound management may sequester methane in grazed rangeland ecosystems ▶     Chengjie Wang, Guodong Han, Shiping Wang et al.     Considering their contribution to global warming, the sources and sinks of methane (CH4) should be accounted when undertaking a greenhouse gas inventory for grazed rangeland …             Structure and Permeability of Ion-channels by Integrated AFM and Waveguide TIRF Microscopy ▶     Srinivasan Ramachandran, Fernando Teran Arce, Nirav R. Patel et al.     Membrane ion channels regulate key cellular functions and their activity is dependent on their 3D structure. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images 3D structure of membrane channels …             Novel Multiplex MethyLight Protocol for Detection of DNA Methylation in Patient Tissues and Bodily Fluids ▶     Ekaterina Olkhov-Mitsel, Darko Zdravic, Ken Kron et al.     Aberrant DNA methylation is a hallmark of cancer and is an important potential biomarker. Particularly, combined analysis of a panel of hypermethylated genes shows the most …             Immune privilege of the CNS is not the consequence of limited antigen sampling ▶     Melissa G. Harris, Paul Hulseberg, Changying Ling et al.     Central nervous system (CNS) immune privilege is complex, and it is still not understood how CNS antigens are sampled by the peripheral immune system under steady state …             Information content and analysis methods for Multi-Modal High-Throughput Biomedical Data ▶     Bisakha Ray, Mikael Henaff, Sisi Ma et al.     The spectrum of modern molecular high-throughput assaying includes diverse technologies such as microarray gene expression, miRNA expression, proteomics, DNA methylation, among …             A novel sodium N-fatty acyl amino acid surfactant using silkworm pupae as stock material ▶     Min-Hui Wu, Liang-Ze Wan, Yu-Qing Zhang     A novel sodium N-fatty acyl amino acid (SFAAA) surfactant was synthesized using pupa oil and pupa protein hydrolysates (PPH) from a waste product of the silk industry. The …             Innovative strategy with potential to increase hemodialysis efficiency and safety ▶     Hsiao-Chien Chen, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Hsi-Hsien Chen et al.     Uremic toxins are mainly represented by blood urine nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (Crea) whose removal is critically important in hemodialysis (HD) for kidney disease. Patients …             Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production ▶     L. Hossard, A. Philibert, M. Bertrand et al.     Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe, farmers are encouraged to reduce their use, and in France a recent environmental policy fixed …             Tea polyphenols induced apoptosis of breast cancer cells by suppressing the expression of Survivin ▶     Xuesong Chen, Yu Li, Qiushi Lin et al.     To study the mechanism of tea polyphenols (TP)-induced apoptosis of breast cancer cells. Proliferation of MCF-7 and SK-BR-3 cells was evaluated by MTT assays. Cellular …             Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response ▶     Jungsul Lee, Junseong Park, Chulhee Choi     Systemic identification of deterministic genes for different phenotypes is a primary application of high-throughput expression profiles. However, gene expression differences …             Genome wide identification of Fruitless targets suggests a role in upregulating genes important for neural circuit formation ▶     Sonja C. Vernes     The fruitless gene (fru) encodes a set of transcription factors (Fru) that display sexually dimorphic gene expression in the brain of the fruit-fly; Drosophila melanogaster. …             Glycosaminoglycan-based hydrogels to modulate heterocellular communication in in vitro angiogenesis models ▶     Karolina Chwalek, Mikhail V. Tsurkan, Uwe Freudenberg et al.     Angiogenesis, the outgrowth of blood vessels, is crucial in development, disease and regeneration. Studying angiogenesis in vitro remains challenging because the capillary …             An evolutionarily conserved protein CHORD regulates scaling of dendritic arbors with body size ▶     Kohei Shimono, Kazuto Fujishima, Takafumi Nomura et al.     Most organs scale proportionally with body size through regulation of individual cell size and/or cell number. Here we addressed how postmitotic and morphologically complex cells …             Hybrid hydrogels containing vertically aligned carbon nanotubes with anisotropic electrical conductivity for muscle myofiber fabrication ▶     Samad Ahadian, Javier Ramón-Azcón, Mehdi Estili et al.     Biological scaffolds with tunable electrical and mechanical properties are of great interest in many different fields, such as regenerative medicine, biorobotics, and biosensing. …             Targeting Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Acidic Microenvironment ▶     Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Christina L. Roland, Defeng Deng et al.     Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the USA, accounting for ~40,000 deaths annually. The dismal prognosis for PDAC is largely …             The DNMT1/PCNA/UHRF1 disruption induces tumorigenesis characterized by similar genetic and epigenetic signatures ▶     Romain Pacaud, Emeline Brocard, Lisenn Lalier et al.     Several genetic and epigenetic signatures characterize cancer cells. However, the relationships (causal or consequence link, existence due to a same origin) between these 2 types …             Evidence For Rapid Spatiotemporal Changes in Genetic Structure of an Alien Whitefly During Initial Invasion ▶     Dong Chu, Dong Guo, Yunli Tao et al.     The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci Q species is a recent invader and important pest of agricultural crops in China. This research tested the hypothesis that the Q populations …             Comprehensive profiling of the vaginal microbiome in HIV positive women using massive parallel semiconductor sequencing ▶     Adam Ameur, Tracy L. Meiring, Ignas Bunikis et al.     Infections by HIV increase the risk of acquiring secondary viral and bacterial infections and methods are needed to determine the spectrum of co-infections for proper treatment. …             Mussels realize Weierstrassian Lévy walks as composite correlated random walks ▶     Andy M. Reynolds     Composite correlated random walks (CCRW) have been posited as a potential replacement for Lévy walks and it has also been suggested that CCRWs have been mistaken for Lévy walks. …             One-step antibody immobilization-based rapid and highly-sensitive sandwich ELISA procedure for potential in vitro diagnostics ▶     Sandeep Kumar Vashist, E. Marion Schneider, Edmond Lam et al.     An improved enzyme-linked immunosorbent (ELISA) assay using one-step antibody immobilization has been developed for the detection of human fetuin A (HFA), a specific biomarker for …             Boundary layer flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid ▶     Khairy Zaimi, Anuar Ishak, Ioan Pop     The steady boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid past a nonlinearly permeable stretching/shrinking sheet is numerically studied. 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