A functionally conserved Polycomb response element from mouse HoxD complex responds to heterochromatin factors.

abstract：:Growth cones of extending axons navigate to correct targets by sensing a guidance cue gradient via membrane protein receptors. Although most signaling mechanisms have been clarified using an in vitro approach, it is still difficult to investigate the growth cone behavior in complicated extracellular environment of liv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Endo M,Hattori M,Toriyabe H,Ohno H,Kamiguchi H,Iino Y,Ozawa T

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The push for a semiconductor-based quantum information technology has renewed interest in the spin states and optical transitions of shallow donors in silicon, including the donor bound exciton transitions in the near-infrared and the Rydberg, or hydrogenic, transitions in the mid-infrared. The deepest group V donor i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saeedi K,Szech M,Dluhy P,Salvail JZ,Morse KJ,Riemann H,Abrosimov NV,Nötzel N,Litvinenko KL,Murdin BN,Thewalt ML

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional superconductivity often emerges at the border of long-range magnetic orders. Understanding the low-energy charge dynamics may provide crucial information on the formation of superconductivity. Here we report the unpolarized/polarized optical conductivity study of high quality MnP single crystals at ambi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng P,Xu YJ,Wu W,Xu G,Lv JL,Lin FK,Wang P,Yang YF,Luo JL

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Adulterant herbal materials are a threat to consumer safety. In this study, we used DNA barcoding to investigate the proportions and varieties of adulterant species in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) markets. We used a DNA barcode database of TCM (TCMD) that was established by our group to investigate 1436 samples ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Han J,Pang X,Liao B,Yao H,Song J,Chen S

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid urbanization is a global phenomenon that has altered many ecosystems, generating ecological risks such as causing a decline in many ecosystem services. In this study, ecosystem service oriented risk assessment combined with PSR were quantifying how urbanization influences the ecosystem services about Beijing-Tia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kang P,Chen W,Hou Y,Li Y

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Risks threatening modern societies form an intricately interconnected network that often underlies crisis situations. Yet, little is known about how risk materializations in distinct domains influence each other. Here we present an approach in which expert assessments of likelihoods and influence of risks underlie a q...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Szymanski BK,Lin X,Asztalos A,Sreenivasan S

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of metabolic phenotyping in clinical and epidemiological studies is limited by a poor understanding of inter-individual, intra-individual and temporal variability in metabolic phenotypes. Using 1H NMR spectroscopy we characterised short-term variability in urinary metabolites measured from 20 children ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maitre L,Lau CE,Vizcaino E,Robinson O,Casas M,Siskos AP,Want EJ,Athersuch T,Slama R,Vrijheid M,Keun HC,Coen M

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the synergistic effect on the corrosion protection properties of Mg alloys subjected to plasma electrolytic oxidation and chemically treated with thiourea as an inhibitor is investigated by surface microstructure analysis, evaluation of the electrochemical performance, and chemical quantum calcul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al Zoubi W,Ko YG

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing phenomena in low dimensional systems can generate exotic electronic phases, either through symmetry breaking or a non-trivial topology. In two-dimensional (2D) systems, the interplay between superfluidity, disorder and repulsive interactions is especially fruitful in this respect although both the exact natu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Couëdo F,Crauste O,Drillien AA,Humbert V,Bergé L,Marrache-Kikuchi CA,Dumoulin L

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of clinically relevant models for tumor metastasis and drug testing is a major challenge in cancer research. Here we report a physiologically relevant assay enabling quantitative analysis of metastatic capacity of tumor cells following implantation into the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). Engraftment...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pawlikowska P,Tayoun T,Oulhen M,Faugeroux V,Rouffiac V,Aberlenc A,Pommier AL,Honore A,Marty V,Bawa O,Lacroix L,Scoazec JY,Chauchereau A,Laplace-Builhe C,Farace F

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of a lattice structure in the lightweight design of compressor impellers can reduce their mass and moment of inertia, hence improving the effective carrying of aircraft and reducing the start and braking moments of the impeller. The feasibility of a processing-lattice compressor impeller is the prerequ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia D,Li F,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) may be effective in removing toxic lead and mercury ions (Pb(II) and Hg(II)) from wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater through anaerobic sulfite reduction. To confirm this hypothesis, a sulfite-reducing up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor was set up to treat FGD...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Lin X,Wang J,Jiang F,Wei L,Chen G,Hao X

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and control of heat dissipation is an important challenge in nanoelectronics wherein field-accelerated hot carriers in current-carrying ballistic systems release a large part of the kinetic energy into external bulk phonon baths. Here we report on a physical mechanism of this remote heat dissipation and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsutsui M,Morikawa T,Yokota K,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a mechanism of ultrahigh-Q metallic nanocavity resonances that involves an efficient loss-compensation scheme favorable for room-temperature operation. We theoretically show that surface plasmon-polaritons excited on the entrance and exit interfaces of a metallic nanocavity array efficiently transfer extern...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoon JW,Song SH,Magnusson R

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional expressions of others are salient biological stimuli that automatically capture attention and prepare us for action. We investigated the early cortical dynamics of automatic visual discrimination of fearful body expressions by monitoring cortical activity using magnetoencephalography. We show that right pari...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Meeren HK,Hadjikhani N,Ahlfors SP,Hämäläinen MS,de Gelder B

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we demonstrate a novel dual-pump approach to generate robust optical frequency comb with varying free spectral range (FSR) spacing in a CMOS-compatible high-Q micro-ring resonator (MRR). The frequency spacing of the comb can be tuned by an integer number FSR of the MRR freely in our dual-pump scheme. Th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Chu ST,Little BE,Pasquazi A,Wang Y,Wang L,Zhang W,Wang L,Hu X,Wang G,Hu H,Su Y,Li F,Liu Y,Zhao W

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of oligomeric proteins form clusters which have rotational or dihedral symmetry. Despite the many advantages of symmetric packing, protein oligomers are only nearly symmetric, and the origin of this phenomenon is still in need to be fully explored. Here we apply near-symmetry analyses by the Continuous Sy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bonjack M,Avnir D

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The global loss of biodiversity can be attributed to numerous threats. While pioneer studies have investigated their relative importance, the majority of those studies are restricted to specific geographic regions and/or taxonomic groups and only consider a small subset of threats, generally in isolation despite their...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leclerc C,Courchamp F,Bellard C

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mont-Blanc massif, being iconic with its large glaciers and peaks of over 4,000 m, will experience a sharp increase in summer temperatures during the twenty-first century. By 2100, the impact of climate change on the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the Alps is expected to lead to a decrease in annual river discharge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Laurent L,Buoncristiani JF,Pohl B,Zekollari H,Farinotti D,Huss M,Mugnier JL,Pergaud J

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells regulate their intracellular mRNA levels by using specific ribonucleases. Oligoribonuclease (ORN) is a 3'-5' exoribonuclease for small RNA molecules, important in RNA degradation and re-utilisation. However, there is no structural information on the ligand-binding form of ORNs. In this study, the crystal structu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee CW,Park SH,Jeong CS,Cha SS,Park H,Lee JH

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth in energy devices and the role of supercapacitors are increasingly important in today's world. Designing an electrode material for supercapacitors using metals that have high performance, superior structure, are eco-friendly, inexpensive and highly abundant is essentially required for commercialization. In ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Isacfranklin M,Yuvakkumar R,Ravi G,Hong SI,Shini F,Thambidurai M,Dang C,Velauthapillai D

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:When estimating national PM2.5 concentrations, the results of traditional interpolation algorithms are unreliable due to a lack of monitoring sites and heterogeneous spatial distributions. PM2.5 spatial distribution is strongly correlated to elevation, and the information diffusion algorithm has been shown to be highl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma L,Gao Y,Fu T,Cheng L,Chen Z,Li M

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phomopsis sp. XP-8, an endophytic fungus from the bark of Tu-Chung (Eucommia ulmoides Oliv) showed capability to biosynthesize pinoresinol (Pin) and pinoresinol diglucoside (PDG) from glucose (glu) and phenylalanine (Phe). To verify the mass flow in the biosynthesis pathway, [13C6]-labeled glu and [13C6]-labeled Phe w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Shi J,Ni Y,Liu Y,Zhao Z,Zhao X,Gao Z

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We engineered a transdermal neuromodulation approach that targets peripheral (cranial and spinal) nerves and utilizes their afferent pathways as signaling conduits to influence brain function. We investigated the effects of this transdermal electrical neurosignaling (TEN) method on sympathetic physiology under differe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tyler WJ,Boasso AM,Mortimore HM,Silva RS,Charlesworth JD,Marlin MA,Aebersold K,Aven L,Wetmore DZ,Pal SK

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex networks are ubiquitous in biological, physical and social sciences. Network robustness research aims at finding a measure to quantify network robustness. A number of Wiener type indices have recently been incorporated as distance-based descriptors of complex networks. Wiener type indices are known to depend b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma J,Shi Y,Wang Z,Yue J

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new technique to observe macroautophagy in the brain in vivo, and examined whether fasting induced macroautophagy in neurons and how the induction was different between Alzheimer's disease (AD) model and control mice. Lentivirus for EGFP-LC3 injected into the brain successfully visualized autophagosome ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen X,Kondo K,Motoki K,Homma H,Okazawa H

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that 2015 was the international year of light, no mention was made of the fact that radiation contains entropy as well as energy, with different spectral distributions. Whereas the energy function has been vastly studied, the radiation entropy distribution has not been analysed at the same speed. The ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Delgado-Bonal A

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present theoretical results on the high-temperature phase stability and phonon spectra of paramagnetic bcc iron which explicitly take into account many-body effects. Several peculiarities, including a pronounced softening of the [110] transverse (T1) mode and a dynamical instability of the bcc lattice in harmonic a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leonov I,Poteryaev AI,Gornostyrev YN,Lichtenstein AI,Katsnelson MI,Anisimov VI,Vollhardt D

更新日期：2014-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), predominantly occurs among infants and children. Previous studies have shown that suitable, stable temperatures favor HFMD virus reproduction; however, temperature fluctuations also affect virus transmission, and there are, so far, no studies concerning the association between suc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu C,Zhang X,Wang L,Zhou Y,Xiao G,Liao J

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in fused in sarcoma (FUS), a DNA/RNA binding protein, are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, little is known about how ALS-causing mutations alter protein-protein and protein-RNA complexes and contribute to neurodegeneration. In this study, we identified protein arginine m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jun MH,Ryu HH,Jun YW,Liu T,Li Y,Lim CS,Lee YS,Kaang BK,Jang DJ,Lee JA

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00