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21 October 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation reduces the overwhelming distracting power of self-gaze: psychophysical evidence for ‘engazement’ ▶     Giuseppina Porciello, Brittany Serra Holmes, Marco Tullio Liuzza et al.     One's own face and gaze are never seen directly but only in a mirror. Yet, these stimuli capture attention more powerfully than others' face and gaze, suggesting the self is …             Autophagy inhibition sensitizes hepatocellular carcinoma to the multikinase inhibitor linifanib ▶     Hongming Pan, Zhanggui Wang, Liming Jiang et al.     Autophagy is a critical survival pathway for cancer cells under conditions of stress. Thus, induction of autophagy has emerged as a drug resistance mechanism. This study is to …             Higher resolution stimulus facilitates depth perception: MT+ plays a significant role in monocular depth perception ▶     Yoshiaki Tsushima, Kazuteru Komine, Yasuhito Sawahata et al.     Today, we human beings are facing with high-quality virtual world of a completely new nature. For example, we have a digital display consisting of a high enough resolution that …             Effects of let-7b and TLX on the proliferation and differentiation of retinal progenitor cells in vitro ▶     Ni Ni, Dandan Zhang, Qing Xie et al.     MicroRNAs manifest significant functions in brain neural stem cell (NSC) self-renewal and differentiation through the post-transcriptional regulation of neurogenesis genes. …             Methylation of histone H4 at aspartate 24 by Protein L-isoaspartate O-methyltransferase (PCMT1) links histone modifications with protein homeostasis ▶     Burcu Biterge, Florian Richter, Gerhard Mittler et al.     Histone modifications play crucial roles in modulating chromatin function and transcriptional activity. Due to their long half-life, histones can, in addition to …             Water flow modulates the response of coral reef communities to ocean acidification ▶     S. Comeau, P. J. Edmunds, C. A. Lantz et al.     By the end of the century coral reefs likely will be affected negatively by ocean acidification (OA), but both the effects of OA on coral communities and the crossed effects of …             A Novel Algorithm for the Precise Calculation of the Maximal Information Coefficient ▶     Yi Zhang, Shili Jia, Haiyun Huang et al.     Measuring associations is an important scientific task. A novel measurement method maximal information coefficient (MIC) was proposed to identify a broad class of associations. …             Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view ▶     Christoph D. Dahl, Chien-Chung Chen, Malte J. Rasch     The frequency to which an organism is exposed to a particular type of face influences recognition performance. For example, Asians are better in individuating Asian than …             Species sorting during biofilm assembly by artificial substrates deployed in a cold seep system ▶     Wei Peng Zhang, Yong Wang, Ren Mao Tian et al.     Studies focusing on biofilm assembly in deep-sea environments are rarely conducted. To examine the effects of substrate type on microbial community assembly, biofilms were …             Mothers' multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants ▶     Yukari Tanaka, Hirokata Fukushima, Kazuo Okanoya et al.     Social learning in infancy is known to be facilitated by multimodal (e.g., visual, tactile, and verbal) cues provided by caregivers. In parallel with infants' development, recent …             A novel crosstalk between BRCA1 and sirtuin 1 in ovarian cancer ▶     Da Li, Fang-Fang Bi, Na-Na Chen et al.     BRCA mutations are the main known hereditary factors for ovarian cancer. Notably, emerging evidence has led to considerable interest in the role of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) in ovarian …             An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats ▶     Yuji Takano, Masatoshi Ukezono     The mirror system in the brain is considered to be a neural basis of sociality, but previous studies have been limited to primates. Here we report an experimental task to examine …             Development of an Immunologically Tolerated Combination of Fluorescent Proteins for In vivo Two-photon Imaging ▶     Selamawit Gossa, Debasis Nayak, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer et al.     Combinations of fluorescent proteins (FPs) are routinely used for multi-parameter in vivo imaging experiments to visualize tagged proteins or cell populations of interest. …             Production of salidroside in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli ▶     Yanfen Bai, Huiping Bi, Yibin Zhuang et al.     Salidroside (1) is the most important bioactive component of Rhodiola (also called as “Tibetan Ginseng”), which is a valuable medicinal herb exhibiting several adaptogenic …             Bioelectrochemical enhancement of anaerobic methanogenesis for high organic load rate wastewater treatment in a up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor ▶     Zhiqiang Zhao, Yaobin Zhang, Shuo Chen et al.     A coupling process of anaerobic methanogenesis and electromethanogenesis was proposed to treat high organic load rate (OLR) wastewater. During the start-up stage, acetate removal …             Human papillomavirus infection in oral fluids of HIV-1-positive men:prevalence and risk factors ▶     Karen Gaester, Luiz A. M. Fonseca, Olinda Luiz et al.     Human papillomavirus is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases worldwide. The natural history of oral HPV infection is unclear, and its risk factors have not been …             Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology ▶     Irena Jevtov, Tore Samuelsson, Grace Yao et al.     Dysfunctional mucus barriers can result in important pulmonary and gastrointestinal conditions, but model systems to study the underlying causes are largely missing. We …             Profiling individual human red blood cells using common-path diffraction optical tomography ▶     Youngchan Kim, Hyoeun Shim, Kyoohyun Kim et al.     Due to its strong correlation with the pathophysiology of many diseases, information about human red blood cells (RBCs) has a crucial function in hematology. Therefore, measuring …             The Role of Surface Chemistry in Adhesion and Wetting of Gecko Toe Pads ▶     Ila Badge, Alyssa Y. Stark, Eva L. Paoloni et al.     An array of micron-sized setal hairs offers geckos a unique ability to walk on vertical surfaces using van der Waals interactions. Although many studies have focused on the role …             Cancer-driven dynamics of immune cells in a microfluidic environment ▶     Elena Agliari, Elena Biselli, Adele De Ninno et al.     Scope of the present work is to infer the migratory ability of leukocytes by stochastic processes in order to distinguish the spontaneous organization of immune cells against an …             Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of TCP transcription factors in Gossypium raimondii ▶     Jun Ma, Qinglian Wang, Runrun Sun et al.     Plant-specific TEOSINTE-BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) transcription factors play versatile functions in multiple aspects of plant growth and development. However, no systematical …             DNA phosphorothioate modifications influence the global transcriptional response and protect DNA from double-stranded breaks ▶     Rui Gan, Xiaolin Wu, Wei He et al.     The modification of DNA by phosphorothioate (PT) occurs when the non-bridging oxygen in the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA is replaced with sulfur. This DNA backbone …             Crystal structure of the phosphate-binding protein (PBP-1) of an ABC-type phosphate transporter from Clostridium perfringens ▶     Daniel Gonzalez, Magali Richez, Celine Bergonzi et al.     Phosphate limitation is an important environmental stress that affects the metabolism of various organisms and, in particular, can trigger the virulence of numerous bacterial …             Effect of additive oxygen gas on cellular response of lung cancer cells induced by atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet ▶     Hea Min Joh, Ji Ye Choi, Sun Ja Kim et al.     The atmospheric pressure helium plasma jet driven by pulsed dc voltage was utilized to treat human lung cancer cells in vitro. The properties of plasma plume were adjusted by the …             Self-assembling choline mimicks with enhanced binding affinities to C-LytA protein ▶     Yang Shi, Hao Zhou, Xiaoli Zhang et al.     Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) causes multiple illnesses in humans. Exploration of effective inhibitors with multivalent attachment sites for choline-binding modules is …             High expression of MAGE-A9 correlates with unfavorable survival in hepatocellular carcinoma ▶     Xuefeng Gu, Maoying Fu, Zhijun Ge et al.     Melanoma-associated antigens (MAGE)-A9 has been reported to play important roles in the development of human cancers. However, the association between MAGE-A9 expression and the …             Introduction of impermeable actin-staining molecules to mammalian cells by optoporation ▶     Kamal Dhakal, Bryan Black, Samarendra Mohanty     The selective insertion of foreign materials, such as fluorescent markers or plasmids, into living cells has been a challenging problem in cell biology due to the cell membrane's …             Improving femtosecond laser pulse delivery through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally focused two-photon endomicroscopy ▶     Heejin Choi, Peter T. C. So     In this paper, we present a strategy to improve delivery of femtosecond laser pulses from a regenerative amplifier through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally …             Combined biophysical and soluble factor modulation induces cardiomyocyte differentiation from human muscle derived stem cells ▶     Jason Tchao, Lu Han, Bo Lin et al.     Cellular cardiomyoplasty has emerged as a novel therapy to restore contractile function of injured failing myocardium. Human multipotent muscle derived stem cells (MDSC) can be a …             CORRIGENDUM: Analysis of interactions between SNARE proteins using imaging ellipsometer coupled with microfluidic array ▶     Cai Qi, Hong Zhang, Li Liu et al.                 IL1RAPL1 knockout mice show spine density decrease, learning deficiency, hyperactivity and reduced anxiety-like behaviours ▶     Misato Yasumura, Tomoyuki Yoshida, Maya Yamazaki et al.     IL-1 receptor accessory protein-like 1 (IL1RAPL1) is responsible for nonsyndromic intellectual disability and is associated with autism. IL1RAPL1 mediates excitatory synapse …             A designed peptide targeting CXCR4 displays anti-acute myelocytic leukemia activity in vitro and in vivo ▶     Xiaojin Li, Hua Guo, Yanlian Yang et al.     Leukemia cells highly expressing chemokine receptor CXCR4 can actively response to stroma derived factor 1α (CXCL12), trafficking and homing to the marrow microenvironment, which …             In situ drug-receptor binding kinetics in single cells: a quantitative label-free study of anti-tumor drug resistance ▶     Wei Wang, Linliang Yin, Laura Gonzalez-Malerva et al.     Many drugs are effective in the early stage of treatment, but patients develop drug resistance after a certain period of treatment, causing failure of the therapy. 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