Scientific Reports Biology Table of Contents e-alert: October 2011

03 October 2011      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Biological Sciences               Study of two G-protein coupled receptor variants of human trace amine-associated receptor 5 ▶     Xiaoqiang Wang, Karolina Corin, Cyrus Rich et al.     Here we report the study of two bioengineered variants of human trace amine-associated receptor 5 (hTAAR5) that were expressed in stable tetracycline-inducible HEK293S cell lines. …             Plasticity and rectangularity in survival curves ▶     Byung Mook Weon, Jung Ho Je     Living systems inevitably undergo a progressive deterioration of physiological function with age and an increase of vulnerability to disease and death. To maintain health and …             Synergistic interactions between kainate and mGlu receptors regulate bouton Ca2+ signalling and mossy fibre LTP ▶     Robert Nisticò, Sheila L. Dargan, Mascia Amici et al.     It is currently unknown why glutamatergic presynaptic terminals express multiple types of glutamate receptors. We have addressed this question by studying both acute and long-term …             Are mental properties supervenient on brain properties? ▶     Joshua T. Vogelstein, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Carey E. Priebe     The “mind-brain supervenience” conjecture suggests that all mental properties are derived from the physical properties of the brain. To address the question of whether the mind …             Unified regression model of binding equilibria in crowded environments ▶     Byoungkoo Lee, Philip R. LeDuc, Russell Schwartz     Molecular crowding is a critical feature distinguishing intracellular environments from idealized solution-based environments and is essential to understanding numerous …             DNA mediated chromatin pull-down for the study of chromatin replication ▶     Anna E. Kliszczak, Michael D. Rainey, Brendan Harhen et al.     Chromatin replication involves duplicating DNA while maintaining epigenetic information. These processes are critical for genome stability and for preserving cell-type identity. …             Travel risk, malaria importation and malaria transmission in Zanzibar ▶     Arnaud Le Menach, Andrew J. Tatem, Justin M. Cohen et al.     The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar has reached historic lows. Improving control requires quantifying malaria importation rates, identifying high-risk …             Specific Y14 domains mediate its nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling and association with spliced mRNA ▶     Naoyuki Kataoka, Michael D. Diem, Mayumi Yoshida et al.     Pre-mRNA splicing deposits multi-protein complexes, termed exon junction complexes (EJCs), on mRNAs near exon-exon junctions. The core of EJC consists of four proteins, eIF4AIII, …             Conserved properties of dendritic trees in four cortical interneuron subtypes ▶     Yoshiyuki Kubota, Fuyuki Karube, Masaki Nomura et al.     Dendritic trees influence synaptic integration and neuronal excitability, yet appear to develop in rather arbitrary patterns. Using electron microscopy and serial reconstructions, …             Proteome-wide post-translational modification statistics: frequency analysis and curation of the swiss-prot database ▶     George A. Khoury, Richard C. Baliban, Christodoulos A. Floudas     Post-translational modifications (PTMs) broadly contribute to the recent explosion of proteomic data and possess a complexity surpassing that of protein design. PTMs are the …             Loss of p53 in quaking viable mice leads to Purkinje cell defects and reduced survival ▶     Christina Gavino, Stéphane Richard     The qkv mutation is a one megabase deletion resulting in abnormal expression of the qkI gene. qkv mice exhibit hypomyelination of the central nervous system and display rapid …             Location, location, location: Beneficial effects of autologous fat transplantation ▶     Sarang N. Satoor, Amrutesh S. Puranik, Sandeep Kumar et al.     Visceral adiposity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disorders, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and associated metabolic diseases. Sub-cutaneous fat is believed to be …             The influence of color on snake detection in visual search in human children ▶     S. Hayakawa, N. Kawai, N. Masataka     It is well known that adult humans detect snakes as targets more quickly than flowers as the targets and that how rapidly they detect a snake picture does not differ whether the …             Inhibition of fatty acid metabolism ameliorates disease activity in an animal model of multiple sclerosis ▶     Leah P. Shriver, Marianne Manchester     Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and a leading cause of neurological disability. 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