Time-dependent X-ray diffraction studies on urea/hen egg white lysozyme complexes reveal structural changes that indicate onset of denaturation.

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) are purified IgG preparations made from the pooled plasma from thousands of healthy donors and are being tested in preclinical mouse models. Inherent challenges, however, are the pluripotency of IVIG and its xenogeneicity in animals. IVIG can alter the viability of human neutrophils v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schneider C,Wicki S,Graeter S,Timcheva TM,Keller CW,Quast I,Leontyev D,Djoumerska-Alexieva IK,Käsermann F,Jakob SM,Dimitrova PA,Branch DR,Cummings RD,Lünemann JD,Kaufmann T,Simon HU,von Gunten S

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) reached up to 23%, their short lifetime and fast degradation still remain as the main challenges. In this work, a new facile optical method based on the high power UV-irradiation is presented for the recovery of the degraded PSCs. Addition...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arabpour Roghabadi F,Mansour Rezaei Fumani N,Alidaei M,Ahmadi V,Sadrameli SM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of highly efficient and potential material for toxic p-nitrophenol is an important design for sensitive detection of hazardous species from ecology and environment. Here it is developed, an efficient as well as selective of p-nitrophenol using binary material by electrochemical performances, including good...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rahman MM

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder mainly caused by mutations in the gene encoding the transcriptional regulator Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2), located on the X chromosome. Many RTT patients have breathing abnormalities, such as apnea and breathing irregularity, and respiratory infection is th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kida H,Takahashi T,Nakamura Y,Kinoshita T,Hara M,Okamoto M,Okayama S,Nakamura K,Kosai KI,Taniwaki T,Yamashita Y,Matsuishi T

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical Pacific stalagmites are commonly affected by dating uncertainties because of their low U concentration and/or elevated initial 230Th content. This poses problems in establishing reliable trends and periodicities for droughts and pluvial episodes in a region vulnerable to climate change. Here we constrain the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Faraji M,Borsato A,Frisia S,Hellstrom JC,Lorrey A,Hartland A,Greig A,Mattey DP

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key role in innate and adaptive immunity, protecting the host from viral pathogens. We studied the effect of TLR7 polymorphisms on disease susceptibility and progression of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection in Chinese adults. Blood samples were taken from 612 patients with confirmed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu J,Zhang T,Cao L,Li A,Zheng K,Zhang N,Su B,Chen Z,Chen N,Wu H,He Q

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have experimentally demonstrated a strong correlation between the electrical properties of Zn1-xTex Ovonic threshold switching (OTS) selector device and the material properties analysed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), spectroscopic ellipsometry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The correlation and the key ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Koo Y,Hwang H

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:When we feel sad or depressed, our face invariably "drops". Conversely, when we try to cheer someone up, we might tell them "keep your smile up", so presupposing that modifying the configuration of their facial muscles will enhance their mood. A crucial assumption that underpins this hypothesis is that mental states a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bulnes LC,Mariën P,Vandekerckhove M,Cleeremans A

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate analytical methods are needed for the detection of food authentication. We investigated the applicability of a duplex real-time PCR assay targeting chromosome 1 and two singleplex real-time PCR assays targeting chromosome 9, both published recently, for the qualitative and quantitative determination of wil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaltenbrunner M,Mayer W,Kerkhoff K,Epp R,Rüggeberg H,Hochegger R,Cichna-Markl M

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of the lower jaw (mandible) was evolutionarily important for jawed vertebrates. In humans, syndromic craniofacial malformations often accompany jaw anomalies. The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor Hand2, which is conserved among jawed vertebrates, is expressed in the neural crest in the mandibula...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Funato N,Kokubo H,Nakamura M,Yanagisawa H,Saga Y

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependency property and self-recovery of failure nodes both have great effects on the robustness of networks during the cascading process. Existing investigations focused mainly on the failure mechanism of static dependency groups without considering the time-dependency of interdependent nodes and the recovery mec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bai YN,Huang N,Wang L,Wu ZX

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of bovine milk and meat is considered a risk factor for colon- and breast cancer formation, and milk consumption has also been implicated in an increased risk for developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS). A number of highly related virus-like DNAs have been recently isolated from bovine milk and sera and fro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eilebrecht S,Hotz-Wagenblatt A,Sarachaga V,Burk A,Falida K,Chakraborty D,Nikitina E,Tessmer C,Whitley C,Sauerland C,Gunst K,Grewe I,Bund T

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the bioavailability and -accessibility of subsoil phosphorus (P) and how soil moisture affects its utilization by plants is scarce. The current study examined whether and to which degree wheat acquires P from subsoil allocated hydroxyapatite and how this could be affected by soil moisture. We investigat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wolff J,Hofmann D,Koch M,Bol R,Schnepf A,Amelung W

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt crystallization is a major cause of weathering of rocks, artworks and monuments. Damage can only occur if crystals continue to grow in confinement, i.e. within the pore space of these materials, thus generating mechanical stress. We report the direct measurement, at the microscale, of the force exerted by growing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Desarnaud J,Bonn D,Shahidzadeh N

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on the associations between dietary antioxidant vitamins and the risk of cervical cancer remain inconsistent, and little evidence is available for serum antioxidant vitamins, which provide more accurate measurements of these nutrients. We conducted a case-control study of 458 incident cases with invas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo L,Zhu H,Lin C,Che J,Tian X,Han S,Zhao H,Zhu Y,Mao D

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A difficult problem in quantum network communications is how to efficiently transmit quantum information over large-scale networks with common channels. We propose a solution by developing a quantum encoding approach. Different quantum states are encoded into a coherent superposition state using quantum linear optics....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luo MX,Xu G,Chen XB,Yang YX,Wang X

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate expression of protein-coding genes in cis through chromatin modifications including DNA methylation. Here we interrogated whether lncRNA genes may regulate transcription and methylation of their flanking or overlapping protein-coding genes in livers of mice exposed to a 12-week ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Silva JP,van Booven D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar powered hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is one of the key reactions in solar-to-chemical energy conversion. It is desirable to develop photocathodic materials that exhibit high activity toward photoelectrochemical (PEC) HER at more positive potentials because a higher potential means a lower overpotential for ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang Y,Xu D,Wu Q,Diao P

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is induced when pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) bind host pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). Polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] is a synthetic analogue of viral dsRNA that acts as a PAMP, inducing type I interferons (IFNs) in vertebrates. In the present study, the immunostimu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alkie TN,de Jong J,Jenik K,Klinger KM,DeWitte-Orr SJ

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV subtypes or clades differentially induce HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and substance abuse is known to accelerate HIV disease progression. The HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 plays a major role in binding and budding in the central nervous system (CNS) and impacts dopaminergic functions. However, the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Samikkannu T,Rao KVK,Salam AAA,Atluri VSR,Kaftanovskaya EM,Agudelo M,Perez S,Yoo C,Raymond AD,Ding H,Nair MPN

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The surfactant and colloidal nanoparticles has been considered for various applications because of interaction of both complex mixtures. The hydrophilic SiO2 nanoparticle could not be surface active behavior at the liquid/air interface. In this study, the SiO2 nanoparticles have been modified with 3-isocyanatopropyltr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi M,Choi WK,Jung CH,Kim SB

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated that different post-translational modifications (PTMs) synergistically orchestrate specific biological processes by crosstalks. However, the preference of the crosstalk among different PTMs and the evolutionary constraint on the PTM crosstalk need further dissections. In this study, the i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan Z,Liu Z,Cheng H,Wang Y,Gao T,Ullah S,Ren J,Xue Y

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The combustion of candles exhibits a variety of dynamical behaviors. Binding several candles together will result in flickering of candle flames, which is generally described as a nonlinear oscillator. The impact on the frequency of the flame by several factors, such as the arrangement, the number and the asymmetry of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen T,Guo X,Jia J,Xiao J

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoelectrics is a challenging issue for modern and future energy conversion and recovery technology. Carbon nanotubes are promising active thermoelectic materials owing to their narrow bandgap energy and high charge carrier mobility, and they can be integrated into flexible thermoelectrics that can recover any wast...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nonoguchi Y,Ohashi K,Kanazawa R,Ashiba K,Hata K,Nakagawa T,Adachi C,Tanase T,Kawai T

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:As a human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans can cause a wide variety of disease conditions ranging from superficial to systemic infections. Many of these infections are caused by an inherent ability of the pathogen to form biofilms on medical devices resulting in high mortality. Biofilms formed by C. albicans are a c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kakade P,Sadhale P,Sanyal K,Nagaraja V

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis induced cardiac dysfunction (SIC) is a severe complication to sepsis which significantly worsens patient outcomes. It is known that bacteria have the capacity to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), which are nano-sized bilayered vesicles composed of lipids and proteins, that can induce a fatal inflammatory ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Svennerholm K,Park KS,Wikström J,Lässer C,Crescitelli R,Shelke GV,Jang SC,Suzuki S,Bandeira E,Olofsson CS,Lötvall J

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium sp. strain TCM1 can degrade tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) to inorganic phosphate and 2-chloroethanol. A phosphotriesterase (PTE), phosphodiesterase (PDE) and phosphomonoesterase (PME) are believed to be involved in the degradation of TCEP. The PTE and PME that respectively catalyze the first and thi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abe K,Mukai N,Morooka Y,Makino T,Oshima K,Takahashi S,Kera Y

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing demand for healthy baked goods boosted studies on sourdough microbiota with beneficial metabolic traits, to be used as potential functional starters. Here, 139 yeasts isolated from cereal-based fermented foods were in vitro characterized for their phytase and antioxidant activities. The molecular charac...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Palla M,Blandino M,Grassi A,Giordano D,Sgherri C,Quartacci MF,Reyneri A,Agnolucci M,Giovannetti M

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Organometallic trihalide perovskites are promising materials for photovoltaic applications, which have demonstrated a rapid rise in photovoltaic performance in a short period of time. We report a facile one-step method to fabricate planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tavakoli MM,Gu L,Gao Y,Reckmeier C,He J,Rogach AL,Yao Y,Fan Z

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a deep learning model - Probabilistic Prognostic Estimates of Survival in Metastatic Cancer Patients (PPES-Met) for estimating short-term life expectancy (>3 months) of the patients by analyzing free-text clinical notes in the electronic medical record, while maintaining the temporal visit sequence. In a si...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee I,Gensheimer MF,Wood DJ,Henry S,Aggarwal S,Chang DT,Rubin DL

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00