Two-dimensional hyper-branched gold nanoparticles synthesized on a two-dimensional oil/water interface.

abstract：:The discovery of the insertion of IbT-DNA1 and IbT-DNA2 into the cultivated (hexaploid) sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] genome constitutes a clear example of an ancient event of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT). However, it remains unknown whether the acquisition of both IbT-DNAs by the cultivated sweetpotato oc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Quispe-Huamanquispe DG,Gheysen G,Yang J,Jarret R,Rossel G,Kreuze JF

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:HUWE1 is a HECT domain containing ubiquitin ligase implicated in neurogenesis, spermatogenesis and cancer development. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the role of HUWE1 in early embryo development. Here we demonstrate that Huwe1 is expressed in both nucleus and cytoplasm of preimplantation mouse emb...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen LJ,Xu WM,Yang M,Wang K,Chen Y,Huang XJ,Ma QH

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are increasingly used as a versatile research tool to investigate membrane structure, morphology and phase state. In these studies, GUV preparation is typically enhanced by an externally applied electric field, a process called electroformation. We find that upon osmotic deflation, GU...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Steinkühler J,De Tillieux P,Knorr RL,Lipowsky R,Dimova R

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to predict the magnitude of an earthquake caused by deep fluid injections is an important factor for assessing the safety of the reservoir storage and the seismic hazard. Here, we propose a new approach to evaluate the seismic energy released during fluid injection by integrating injection parameters, indu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： De Barros L,Cappa F,Guglielmi Y,Duboeuf L,Grasso JR

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene has been identified as an emerging horizon for a nanoscale photonic platform because the Fermi level of intrinsic graphene can be engineered to support surface plasmons (SPs). The current solid back electrical gating and chemical doping methods cannot facilitate the demonstration of graphene SPs at the near-i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Q,Li X,Hossain MM,Xue Y,Zhang J,Song J,Liu J,Turner MD,Fan S,Bao Q,Gu M

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing amount of research work in surface studies, a more effective method of producing patterned microstructures is highly desired due to the geometric limitations and complex fabricating process of current techniques. This paper presents an efficient and cost-effective method to generate customizable mi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He R,Wang S,Andrews G,Shi W,Liu Y

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Major overturn within a magma chamber can bring together felsic and mafic magmas, prompting de-volatilisation and acting as the driver for Plinian eruptions. Until now identification of mixing has been limited to analysis of lavas or individual crystals ejected during eruptions. We have recovered partially developed c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stock MJ,Taylor RN,Gernon TM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysteine-rich PLAC8 domain of unknown function occurs in proteins found in most Eukaryotes. PLAC8-proteins play important yet diverse roles in different organisms, such as control of cell proliferation in animals and plants or heavy metal resistance in plants and fungi. Mammalian Onzin can be either pro-proliferat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Daghino S,Di Vietro L,Petiti L,Martino E,Dallabona C,Lodi T,Perotto S

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude, footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems and have changed over time, resulting in new challenges and threats to marine ecosystems. A fundamental gap in understanding how humanity is af...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Halpern BS,Frazier M,Afflerbach J,Lowndes JS,Micheli F,O'Hara C,Scarborough C,Selkoe KA

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing demands in security and reliability of infrastructures call for the optimal design of their embedded complex networks topologies. The following question then arises: what is the optimal layout to fulfill best all the demands? Here we present a general solution for this problem with scale-free networks, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sampaio Filho CI,Moreira AA,Andrade RF,Herrmann HJ,Andrade JS Jr

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, great strides were made in the development of novel implants for the treatment of bone defects. The increasing versatility and complexity of these implant designs request for concurrent advances in means to assess in vivo the course of induced bone formation in preclinical models. Since its disc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lienemann PS,Metzger S,Kiveliö AS,Blanc A,Papageorgiou P,Astolfo A,Pinzer BR,Cinelli P,Weber FE,Schibli R,Béhé M,Ehrbar M

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between vascular plants through volatile organic compounds (VOCs) impacts on ecosystem functioning. However, nothing is known about that between non-vascular plants. To investigate plant-plant VOCs interaction in bryophytes we exposed rare peatland moss Hamatocaulis vernicosus to VOCs of its common compe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vicherová E,Glinwood R,Hájek T,Šmilauer P,Ninkovic V

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitters and peptide hormones are secreted into outside the cell by a vesicle fusion process. Although non-coding RNA (ncRNA) that include microRNA (miRNA) regulates gene expression inside the cell where they are transcribed, extracellular miRNA has been recently discovered outside the cells, proposing that m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gümürdü A,Yildiz R,Eren E,Karakülah G,Ünver T,Genç Ş,Park Y

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mulching with organic materials is a management practice with long history for weed suppression, soil water conservation and erosion control. Its potential impact on crop pests is less well explored. Here we report its utility for reducing crop damage by the serious pest, sweetpotato weevil (Cylas formicarius). Labora...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rehman M,Liu J,Johnson AC,Dada TE,Gurr GM

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Uric acid (UA) has been proposed as an important risk factor for cardiovascular and renal morbidity. We conducted an interventional trial to assess effects of altered salt intake on plasma and urine UA levels and the relationship between UA levels and salt sensitivity in humans. Ninety subjects (18-65 years old) were ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Chu C,Wang KK,Hu JW,Yan Y,Lv YB,Cao YM,Zheng WL,Dang XL,Xu JT,Chen W,Yuan ZY,Mu JJ

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in nanofabrication is to pattern unconventional substrates that cannot be processed for a variety of reasons, such as incompatibility with spin coating, electron beam lithography, optical lithography, or wet chemical steps. Here, we present a versatile nanofabrication method based on re-usable silico...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Bayn I,Lu M,Nam CY,Schröder T,Stein A,Harris NC,Englund D

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides a pore-scale investigation of two-phase flow dynamics during primary drainage in a realistic heterogeneous rock sample. Using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a series of three-dimensional (3D) immiscible displacement simulations are conducted and three typical flow patterns are identified and ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bakhshian S,Hosseini SA,Shokri N

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising global temperatures are proving to be detrimental for the agriculture. Hence, strategies are needed to induce thermotolerance in food crops to sustain the food production. GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid), a non-protein amino acid, can partially protect plants from high-temperature stress. This study hypothesises tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Priya M,Sharma L,Kaur R,Bindumadhava H,Nair RM,Siddique KHM,Nayyar H

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Most large carnivore populations currently occur in heterogeneous landscapes, with source populations embedded in a matrix of human-dominated habitats. Understanding changes in distribution of endangered carnivores is critical for prioritizing and implementing conservation strategies. We examined distribution and dyna...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Srivathsa A,Karanth KU,Kumar NS,Oli MK

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial effects of CO2 on photosynthetic organisms will be a key driver of ecosystem change under ocean acidification. Predicting the responses of macroalgal species to ocean acidification is complex, but we demonstrate that the response of assemblages to elevated CO2 are correlated with inorganic carbon physiology...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cornwall CE,Revill AT,Hall-Spencer JM,Milazzo M,Raven JA,Hurd CL

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) has been characterized for its interfacial activation as well as inhibition by detergent micelles and lipoprotein particles. The enzyme has been shown to bind on the surfaces of hydrophobic aggregates, such as detergent micelles, lipoprotein particles and even polystyr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhuo S,Yuan C

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The access and recycling of the base cations are essential processes for the long-lasting functioning of forest ecosystems. While the role of soil bacterial communities has been demonstrated in mineral weathering and tree nutrition, our understanding of the link between the availability of base cations and the functio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nicolitch O,Feucherolles M,Churin JL,Fauchery L,Turpault MP,Uroz S

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study, we analyzed role of p53 in predicting outcome in visceral metastasis breast cancer (VMBC) patients. 97 consecutive VMBC patients were studied. P53 positivity rate was 29.9%. In the p53-negative group, median disease free survival (DFS), and time from primary breast cancer diagnosis to death (OS1), time f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang P,Du CW,Kwan M,Liang SX,Zhang GJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is recently appreciated that many bacterial chemoreceptors have ligand-binding domains (LBD) of the dCACHE family, a structure with two PAS-like subdomains, one membrane-proximal and the other membrane-distal. Previous studies had implicated only the membrane-distal subdomain in ligand recognition. Here, we report ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Machuca MA,Johnson KS,Liu YC,Steer DL,Ottemann KM,Roujeinikova A

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable interest in how early life experiences shape behavioural development. For example, the socialisation of unfamiliar pigs pre-weaning has been suggested to decrease aggression during later life. However, the behavioural mechanisms behind this socialisation effect remain unexplored. We allowed 12 li...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weller JE,Camerlink I,Turner SP,Farish M,Arnott G

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence visualization devices (FVs) are useful for detecting malignant lesions because of their simple and noninvasive application. However, their quantitative application has been challenging. This study aimed to quantitatively and statistically evaluate the change in fluorescence intensity (FI) during the progr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kosugi A,Kasahara M,Yang L,Nakamura-Takahashi A,Shibahara T,Mori T

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals perceive the wor(l)d hierarchically. Firsty, the global visual scene is processed by the right hemisphere, and later, the local features are perceived by the left hemisphere. Based on this hierarchical analysis, humans evolved unique communication ability: reading. However, for about 10% of people reading ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franceschini S,Bertoni S,Gianesini T,Gori S,Facoetti A

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The secreted Ly-6/uPAR Related Protein-1 (SLURP1) is an immunomodulatory protein that promotes corneal immune- and angiogenic-privilege. Here, we have examined the influence of SLURP1 on neutrophil-vascular endothelial cell interactions using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and differentiated neutrophil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Swamynathan S,Tiwari A,Loughner CL,Gnalian J,Alexander N,Jhanji V,Swamynathan SK

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac contractility is enhanced by phosphorylation of myosin light chain 2 (MLC2) by cardiac-specific MLC kinase (cMLCK), located at the neck region of myosin heavy chain. In normal mouse and human hearts, the level of phosphorylation is maintained relatively constant, at around 30-40% of total MLC2, likely by well-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： X Cai L,Tanada Y,D Bello G,C Fleming J,F Alkassis F,Ladd T,Golde T,Koh J,Chen S,Kasahara H

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) are the most frequent pituitary tumors. The elucidation of the mechanisms of aggressive NFPAs in bone destruction is required in order to guide the clinical diagnosis and treatment of NFPAs. In the present study, we investigated the differential proteomics of fibroblasts isol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang LY,Ge XL,Li Z,Tang YJ,Xiong YY,Li XJ,Liu JF,Wanggou SY,Li CT,Yang K,Chen X,Hu ZL,Liu YS,Liu ZX

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00