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14 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               An integrative evolution theory of histo-blood group ABO and related genes ▶     Fumiichiro Yamamoto, Emili Cid, Miyako Yamamoto et al.     The ABO system is one of the most important blood group systems in transfusion/transplantation medicine. However, the evolutionary significance of the ABO gene and its …             Comprehensive characterization of cancer subtype associated long non-coding RNAs and their clinical implications ▶     Weihong Zhao, Jiancheng Luo, Shunchang Jiao     Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a kind of RNAs with regulation that participate fundamental cellular processes via diverse mechanisms. Despite the potential importance of …             Basal ganglia function, stuttering, sequencing, and repair in adult songbirds ▶     Lubica Kubikova, Eva Bosikova, Martina Cvikova et al.     A pallial-basal-ganglia-thalamic-pallial loop in songbirds is involved in vocal motor learning. Damage to its basal ganglia part, Area X, in adult zebra finches has been noted to …             Genome-wide DNA Methylation Profiles and Their Relationships with mRNA and the microRNA Transcriptome in Bovine Muscle Tissue (Bos taurine) ▶     Yong-Zhen Huang, Jia-Jie Sun, Liang-Zhi Zhang et al.     DNA methylation is a key epigenetic modification in mammals and plays important roles in muscle development. We sampled longissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) from a well-known elite …             Discriminative stimulus effects of the novel imidazoline I2 receptor ligand CR4056 in rats ▶     Yanyan Qiu, Xiao-Hua He, Yanan Zhang et al.     This study examined whether a novel imidazoline I2 receptor ligand CR4056 could serve as a discriminative stimulus and whether it shares similar discriminative stimulus effects …             Abnormal Early Cleavage Events Predict Early Embryo Demise: Sperm Oxidative Stress and Early Abnormal Cleavage ▶     Victoria Burruel, Katie Klooster, Christopher M. Barker et al.     Human embryos resulting from abnormal early cleavage can result in aneuploidy and failure to develop normally to the blastocyst stage. The nature of paternal influence on early …             A green approach to the synthesis of novel “Desert rose stone”-like nanobiocatalytic system with excellent enzyme activity and stability ▶     Min Wang, Wen-Jing Bao, Jiong Wang et al.     3D hierarchical layer double hydroxides (LDHs) have attracted extensive interest due to their unique electronic and catalytic properties. Unfortunately, the existing preparation …             Optimization of Evans blue quantitation in limited rat tissue samples ▶     Hwai-Lee Wang, Ted Weita Lai     Evans blue dye (EBD) is an inert tracer that measures plasma volume in human subjects and vascular permeability in animal models. Quantitation of EBD can be difficult when dye …             Transcriptome analysis elucidates key developmental components of bryozoan lophophore development ▶     Yue Him Wong, Taewoo Ryu, Loqmane Seridi et al.     The most recent phylogenomic study suggested that Bryozoa (Ectoprocta), Brachiopoda, and Phoronida are monophyletic, implying that the lophophore of bryozoans, phoronids and …             Structural model of ubiquitin transfer onto an artificial RING finger as an E3 ligase ▶     Kazuhide Miyamoto     The artificial WSTF PHD_EL5 RING finger was designed via “α-helical region substitution”, and its structural model for the attachment of activated ubiquitin has been …             Comprehensive Quantification of Triacylglycerols in Soybean Seeds by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry with Multiple Neutral Loss Scans ▶     Maoyin Li, Emily Butka, Xuemin Wang     Soybean seeds are an important source of vegetable oil and biomaterials. The content of individual triacylglycerol species (TAG) in soybean seeds is difficult to quantify in an …             Reduced neuronal signaling in the ageing apolipoprotein-E4 targeted replacement female mice ▶     Shan-May Yong, Mei-Li Lim, Chian-Ming Low et al.     The effect of ApoE on NMDAR-dependent ERK/CREB signaling is isoform-dependent, and ApoE4 accelerates memory decline in ageing. However, this isoform-dependent function on …             A Halloween gene noppera-bo encodes a glutathione S-transferase essential for ecdysteroid biosynthesis via regulating the behaviour of cholesterol in Drosophila ▶     Sora Enya, Tomotsune Ameku, Fumihiko Igarashi et al.     In insects, the precise timing of moulting and metamorphosis is strictly guided by ecdysteroids that are synthesised from dietary cholesterol in the prothoracic gland (PG). In …             Non-contact fiber-optical trapping of motile bacteria: dynamics observation and energy estimation ▶     Hongbao Xin, Qingyuan Liu, Baojun Li     The dynamics and energy conversion of bacteria are strongly associated with bacterial activities, such as survival, spreading of bacterial diseases and their pathogenesis. …             Phylogeography of the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena): testing the stepwise divergence hypothesis in the northwestern Pacific ▶     Wenzhi Lin, Céline H. Frère, Leszek Karczmarski et al.     We used 344 mitochondrial control region (717 bp) sequences from the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena) from the northwestern Pacific to investigate the extent and manner in …             mtDNA germ line variation mediated ROS generates retrograde signaling and induces pro-cancerous metabolic features ▶     Rajnish Kumar Singh, Archita Srivastava, Ponnusamy Kalaiarasan et al.     mtDNA non-synonymous germ line variation (G10398A; p.A114T) has remained equivocal with least mechanistic understanding in showing an association with cancer. This has …             Increased lodging resistance in long-culm, low-lignin gh2 rice for improved feed and bioenergy production ▶     Taiichiro Ookawa, Kazuya Inoue, Makoto Matsuoka et al.     Lignin modification has been a breeding target for the improvements of forage digestibility and energy yields in forage and bioenergy crops, but decreased lignin levels are often …             Splash dispersal of Phyllosticta citricarpa conidia from infected citrus fruit ▶     S. A. M. Perryman, S. J. Clark, J. S. West     Rain-splash dispersal of Phyllosticta citricarpa (syn. Guignardia citricarpa) conidia (pycnidiospores) from infected oranges was studied in still air and combined with wind. High …             Maternally transmitted mitochondrial DNA mutations can reduce lifespan ▶     Jaime M. Ross, Giuseppe Coppotelli, Barry J. Hoffer et al.     We recently showed that germline transmission of mitochondrial DNA mutations via the oocyte cause aggravation of aging phenotypes in prematurely aging mtDNA mutator (PolgAmut/mut…             Contrasting within- and between-host immune selection shapes Neisseria Opa repertoires ▶     Eleanor R. Watkins, Yonatan H. Grad, Sunetra Gupta et al.     Pathogen evolution is influenced strongly by the host immune response. Previous studies of the effects of herd immunity on the population structure of directly transmitted, …             Molecular Characterization of Enteroviruses Including a New Type EV-C99 Isolated from Xinjiang Students in Shandong, China in 2011 ▶     Zexin Tao, Qun Yuan, Xiaojuan Lin et al.     The last case of infection with wild-type poliovirus indigenous to China was reported in 1994. In 2011, a poliomyelitis outbreak caused by imported wide-type poliovirus occurred …             A High-Resolution LC-MS-Based Secondary Metabolite Fingerprint Database of Marine Bacteria ▶     Liang Lu, Jijie Wang, Ying Xu et al.     Marine bacteria are the most widely distributed organisms in the ocean environment and produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites. However, traditional screening for …             Genomic and transcriptome analyses reveal that MAPK- and phosphatidylinositol-signaling pathways mediate tolerance to 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde for industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ▶     Qian Zhou, Z. Lewis Liu, Kang Ning et al.     The industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a traditional ethanologenic agent and a promising biocatalyst for advanced biofuels production using lignocellulose mateials. …             Non-invasive characterization of the adipogenic differentiation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells by HS-SPME/GC-MS ▶     Dong-Kyu Lee, TacGhee Yi, Kyung-Eun Park et al.     A non-invasive method to characterize human mesenchymal stromal cells during adipogenic differentiation was developed for the first time. Seven fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs), …             Elevated serum 1,25(OH)2-vitamin D3 level attenuates renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis induced by unilateral ureteral obstruction in kl/kl mice ▶     Yujing Sun, Gengyin Zhou, Ting Gui et al.     Previous studies have suggested that Klotho provides reno-protection against unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO)-induced renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis (RTF). Because the …             Identification and characterization of OSTL (RNF217) encoding a RING-IBR-RING protein adjacent to a translocation breakpoint involving ETV6 in childhood ALL ▶     Luciana M. Fontanari Krause, Anna Sophia Japp, Alexandre Krause et al.     Genomic aberrations involving ETV6 on band 12p13 are amongst the most common chromosomal abnormalities in human leukemia. The translocation t(6;12)(q23;13) in a childhood B-cell …             Creatine kinase inhibits ADP-induced platelet aggregation ▶     D. L. Horjus, R. Nieuwland, K. B. Boateng et al.     Bleeding risk with antiplatelet therapy is an increasing clinical challenge. However, the inter-individual variation in this risk is poorly understood. We assessed whether the …             Variant adiponutrin confers genetic protection against cholestatic itch ▶     Marcin Krawczyk, Malgorzata Milkiewicz, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall et al.     Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) mediates cholestatic pruritus. Recently the enzyme PNPLA3, expressed in liver and skin, was demonstrated to metabolise LPA. Here we assess the …             Efficient generation of knock-in transgenic zebrafish carrying reporter/driver genes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering ▶     Yukiko Kimura, Yu Hisano, Atsuo Kawahara et al.     The type II bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system is rapidly becoming popular for genome-engineering due to its simplicity, flexibility, and high efficiency. Recently, targeted knock-in …             Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms of embryo abortion during chrysanthemum cross breeding ▶     Fengjiao Zhang, Zhiquan Wang, Wen Dong et al.     Embryo abortion is the main cause of failure in chrysanthemum cross breeding, and the genes and proteins associated with embryo abortion are poorly understood. Here, we applied …             Calcium micro-depositions in jugular truncular venous malformations revealed by Synchrotron-based XRF imaging ▶     Lorella Pascolo, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Clara Rizzardi et al.     It has been recently demonstrated that the internal jugular vein may exhibit abnormalities classified as truncular venous malformations (TVMs). The investigation of possible …             Prostaglandin E2 stimulates β1-integrin expression in hepatocellular carcinoma through the EP1 receptor/PKC/NF-κB pathway ▶     Xiaoming Bai, Jie Wang, Yan Guo et al.     Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has been implicated in cell invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), via increased β1-integrin expression and cell migration; however, the mechanism …             Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths ▶     Jinhui Yin, Xue Yang, Yonggang Zheng     Several attempts have been made to directly date phytoliths, but most 14C results are not consistent with other independent chronologies. Due to the limited dataset, there is not …             The effect of sample storage on the Peroxidation of Leukocytes Index Ratio (PLIR) measure ▶     Ilaria Peluso, Husseen Manafikhi, Fabio Altieri et al.     Delays in processing are frequent because of problems associated with transporting the samples to the laboratory. 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