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07 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Diversity in ATP concentrations in a single bacterial cell population revealed by quantitative single-cell imaging ▶     Hideyuki Yaginuma, Shinnosuke Kawai, Kazuhito V. Tabata et al.     Recent advances in quantitative single-cell analysis revealed large diversity in gene expression levels between individual cells, which could affect the physiology and/or fate of …             Assembly dynamics and the roles of FliI ATPase of the bacterial flagellar export apparatus ▶     Fan Bai, Yusuke V. Morimoto, Shinsuke D. J. Yoshimura et al.     For construction of the bacterial flagellum, FliI ATPase forms the FliH2-FliI complex in the cytoplasm and localizes to the flagellar basal body (FBB) through the interaction of …             A combined method to quantify the retinal metabolic rate of oxygen using photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy and optical coherence tomography ▶     Wei Song, Qing Wei, Wenzhong Liu et al.     Quantitatively determining physiological parameters at a microscopic level in the retina furthers the understanding of the molecular pathways of blinding diseases, such as …             Microfluidic control of axonal guidance ▶     Ling Gu, Bryan Black, Simon Ordonez et al.     The precision of axonal pathfinding and the accurate formation of functional neural circuitry are crucial for an organism during development as well as during adult central and …             Reduced miR-3127-5p expression promotes NSCLC proliferation/invasion and contributes to dasatinib sensitivity via the c-Abl/Ras/ERK pathway ▶     Yifeng Sun, Chang Chen, Peng Zhang et al.     miR-3127-5p is a primate-specific miRNA which is down-regulated in recurrent NSCLC tissue vs. matched primary tumor tissue (N=15) and in tumor tissue vs. normal lung tissue (N …             Improved Assemblies Using a Source-Agnostic Pipeline for MetaGenomic Assembly by Merging (MeGAMerge) of Contigs ▶     Matthew Scholz, Chien-Chi Lo, Patrick S. G. Chain     Assembly of metagenomic samples is a very complex process, with algorithms designed to address sequencing platform-specific issues, (read length, data volume, and/or community …             The subtelomeric region is important for chromosome recognition and pairing during meiosis ▶     María del Carmen Calderón, María-Dolores Rey, Adoración Cabrera et al.     The process of meiosis results in the formation of haploid daughter cells, each of which inherit a half of the diploid parental cells' genetic material. The ordered association …             Bioprocessing of wheat straw into nutritionally rich and digested cattle feed ▶     Bhuvnesh Shrivastava, Kavish Kumar Jain, Anup Kalra et al.     Wheat straw was fermented by Crinipellis sp. RCK-1, a lignin degrading fungus, under solid state fermentation conditions. The fungus degraded 18.38% lignin at the expense of …             Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications ▶     Daniele Canestrelli, Roberta Bisconti, Giuseppe Nascetti     Hybridization and introgression, contrary to previous beliefs, are now considered to be widespread processes even among animal species. Nonetheless, the range of their possible …             Simple knockout by electroporation of engineered endonucleases into intact rat embryos ▶     Takehito Kaneko, Tetsushi Sakuma, Takashi Yamamoto et al.     Engineered endonucleases, such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and the clustered regularly interspaced short …             Three-Dimensional In Vitro Co-Culture Model of Breast Tumor using Magnetic Levitation ▶     Hamsa Jaganathan, Jacob Gage, Fransisca Leonard et al.     In this study, we investigate a novel in vitro model to mimic heterogeneous breast tumors without the use of a scaffold while allowing for cell-cell and tumor-fibroblast …             Structure, function and inhibition of ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum ▶     Wenting Liu, Xinxin Feng, Yingying Zheng et al.     We report the first X-ray crystal structure of ent-kaur-16-ene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum, together with the results of a site-directed mutagenesis investigation into …             Optical trapping reveals propulsion forces, power generation and motility efficiency of the unicellular parasites Trypanosoma brucei brucei ▶     Eric Stellamanns, Sravanti Uppaluri, Axel Hochstetter et al.     Unicellular parasites have developed sophisticated swimming mechanisms to survive in a wide range of environments. Cell motility of African trypanosomes, parasites responsible …             A peptide probe for the detection of neurokinin-1 receptor by disaggregation enhanced fluorescence and magnetic resonance signals ▶     Jingxian Wu, Rongfeng Zou, Qi Wang et al.     We report a novel peptide probe for the detection of neurokinin-1 receptor using disaggregation-caused signal enhancement. The probe was obtained via the aggregation of a …             Differential Contribution of Tryptophans to the Folding and Stability of the Attachment Invasion Locus Transmembrane β-Barrel from Yersinia pestis ▶     Ankit Gupta, Punit Zadafiya, Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi     Attachment invasion locus (Ail) protein of Yersinia pestis is a crucial outer membrane protein for host invasion and determines bacterial survival within the host. Despite its …             Inferring phylogenies of evolving sequences without multiple sequence alignment ▶     Cheong Xin Chan, Guillaume Bernard, Olivier Poirion et al.     Alignment-free methods, in which shared properties of sub-sequences (e.g. identity or match length) are extracted and used to compute a distance matrix, have recently been …             Production of recombinant human proinsulin in the milk of transgenic mice ▶     Xi Qian, Jana Kraft, Yingdong Ni et al.     There is a steady increasing demand for insulin worldwide. Current insulin manufacturing capacities can barely meet this increasing demand. The purpose of this study was to test …             Research of dose-effect relationship parameters of percutaneous microwave ablation for uterine leiomyomas - a quantitative study ▶     Ma Xia, Zhang Jing, Han Zhi-yu et al.     Eighty eight patients with 91 uterine leiomyomas who underwent ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (PMWA) treatment were prospectively included in the study in …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       postdoctoral fellow     Massachusetts General Hospital            Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council            Multiple 4-year PhD studentships     The University of Manchester            PhD Position     University of Fribourg            Research Assistant     Eastern Virginia Medical School            Postdoctoral Researcher     NUI Maynooth            PhD CASE Studentship     University of Birmingham            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     MD Anderson Cancer Center            Francis Crick Institute Four Year PhD Studentships 2015     Francis Crick Institute            Postdoctoral Fellow     Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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