OsMYC2, an essential factor for JA-inductive sakuranetin production in rice, interacts with MYC2-like proteins that enhance its transactivation ability.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that duplication/hybridization of functional domains of naturally occurring pellicle peptides amplified the inhibitory effect of hydroxyapatite crystal growth, which is related to enamel remineralization and dental calculus formation. Histatin 3, statherin, their functi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Valente MT,Moffa EB,Crosara KTB,Xiao Y,de Oliveira TM,Machado MAAM,Siqueira WL

更新日期：2018-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The genesis of the hair follicle relies on signals derived from mesenchymal cells in the dermis during skin morphogenesis and regeneration. Multipotent skin-derived precursors (SKPs), which exhibit long term proliferation potential when being cultured in spheroids, have been shown to induce hair genesis and hair folli...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo L,Wang X,Yuan J,Zhu M,Fu X,Xu RH,Wu C,Wu Y

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:C-phycocyanin (C-PC) pigment, as a natural blue dye, has particular applications in various fields. It is a water-soluble protein which has anticancer, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Here, we introduce an efficient procedure for the purification of C-PC pigment, followed by conducting a comprehensive in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Safaei M,Maleki H,Soleimanpour H,Norouzy A,Zahiri HS,Vali H,Noghabi KA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a hepatic phenotype of the metabolic syndrome, and increases the risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although increasing evidence points to the therapeutic implications of certain types of anti-diabetic agents in NASH, it remains to be elucidated whether their e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kawakubo M,Tanaka M,Ochi K,Watanabe A,Saka-Tanaka M,Kanamori Y,Yoshioka N,Yamashita S,Goto M,Itoh M,Shirakawa I,Kanai S,Suzuki H,Sawada M,Ito A,Ishigami M,Fujishiro M,Arima H,Ogawa Y,Suganami T

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Practical applications of bacteriophages in medicine and biotechnology induce a great need for technologies of phage purification. None of the popular methods offer solutions for separation of a phage from another similar phage. We used affinity chromatography combined with competitive phage display (i) to purify T4 b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ceglarek I,Piotrowicz A,Lecion D,Miernikiewicz P,Owczarek B,Hodyra K,Harhala M,Górski A,Dąbrowska K

更新日期：2013-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a precursor phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As current treatments may be effective only at the early stages of AD, it is important to track MCI patients who will convert to AD. The aim of this study is to develop a high performance semi-mechanism based approach to predict the conv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu H,Zhou X,Jiang H,He H,Liu X,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has seen an exponential expansion of interest in conjugating multiple enzymes of cascades in close proximity to each other, with the overarching goal being to accelerate the overall reaction rate. However, some evidence has emerged that there is no effect of proximity channeling on the reaction velocit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuzmak A,Carmali S,von Lieres E,Russell AJ,Kondrat S

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:PDCD4, the protein encoded by the tumor suppressor gene PDCD4 (programmed cell death 4) has been implicated in the control of cellular transcription and translation by modulating the activity of specific transcription factors and suppressing the translation of mRNAs with structured 5'-UTRs. Most studies of human PDCD4...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Haas A,Nilges BS,Leidel SA,Klempnauer KH

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective refraction is the gold-standard for prescribing refractive correction, but its accuracy is limited by patient's subjective judgment about their clarity of vision. We asked if an involuntary eye movement, optokinetic nystagmus (OKN), could serve as an objective measure of visual-clarity, specifically measuri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Doustkouhi SM,Turnbull PRK,Dakin SC

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging provides a noninvasive method for in situ monitoring of electrochemical processes involved in charge/discharge cycling of batteries. Determining how the electrochemical processes become irreversible, ultimately resulting in degraded battery performance, will aid in developing new battery mat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tang JA,Dugar S,Zhong G,Dalal NS,Zheng JP,Yang Y,Fu R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SiO2 is the most significantly used insulator layer in semiconductor devices. Its functionality was recently extended to resistance switching random access memory, where the defective SiO2 played an active role as the resistance switching (RS) layer. In this report, the bias-polarity-dependent RS behaviours in the top...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang H,Li XY,Chen R,Shao XL,Yoon JH,Hu X,Hwang CS,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial genomes exhibit diverse features among eukaryotes in the aspect of gene content, genome structure, and the mobile genetic elements such as introns and plasmids. Although the number of published mitochondrial genomes is increasing at tremendous speed, those of several lineages remain unexplored. Here, we ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nishimura Y,Shiratori T,Ishida KI,Hashimoto T,Ohkuma M,Inagaki Y

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmonics is a rapidly emerging platform for quantum state engineering with the potential for building ultra-compact and hybrid optoelectronic devices. Recent experiments have shown that despite the presence of decoherence and loss, photon statistics and entanglement can be preserved in single plasmonic systems. This...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Asano M,Bechu M,Tame M,Kaya Özdemir Ş,Ikuta R,Güney DÖ,Yamamoto T,Yang L,Wegener M,Imoto N

更新日期：2015-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Barsy M,Herrgott L,Martin V,Pillonel T,Viollier PH,Greub G

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhibiting a red-shifted absorption/scattering feature compared to conventional plasmonic metals, titanium nitride nanoparticles (TiN NPs) look as very promising candidates for biomedical applications, but these applications are still underexplored despite the presence of extensive data for conventional plasmonic coun...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Popov AA,Tselikov G,Dumas N,Berard C,Metwally K,Jones N,Al-Kattan A,Larrat B,Braguer D,Mensah S,Da Silva A,Estève MA,Kabashin AV

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel label-free electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunosensor based on luminol functional-Au NPs@polypyrrole has been developed for the detection of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). In this work, polypyrrole prepared by chemical polymerization provided a large surface area to load amounts of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu W,Wang Q,Ma H,Lv X,Wu D,Sun X,Du B,Wei Q

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily music experience involves synchronizing movements in time with a perceived periodic beat. It has been established for over a century that beat synchronization is less stable for the visual than for the auditory modality. This auditory advantage of beat synchronization gives rise to the hypotheses that the neural...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gan L,Huang Y,Zhou L,Qian C,Wu X

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The niacin receptor HCA2 is implicated in controlling inflammatory host responses with yet poorly understood mechanistic basis. We previously reported that HCA2 in A431 epithelial cells transduced Gβγ-protein kinase C- and Gβγ-metalloproteinase/EGFR-dependent MAPK/ERK signaling cascades. Here, we investigated the role...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi Y,Lai X,Ye L,Chen K,Cao Z,Gong W,Jin L,Wang C,Liu M,Liao Y,Wang JM,Zhou N

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An existence of ions dissolved in water has significant effects on bulk properties of water. Superconcentrated conditions have been recently proposed to provide a new concept of lithium ion batteries in order to overcome limitations for practical applications. In those conditions, water would undergo significant chang...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Han S

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, dominantly inherited neurological disorder caused by an abnormal expansion of polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat within the Huntingtin (Htt) protein with no disease modifying treatments. In a Drosophila model of HD, expression of mutant Huntingtin (Htt) protein with expanded polyQ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chongtham A,Agrawal N

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental neurotoxic compounds impair the developing human nervous system at lower doses than those affecting adults. Standardized test methods for assessing developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) require the use of high numbers of laboratory animals. Here, we use a novel assay that is based on the development of an in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bode K,Nolte L,Kamin H,Desens M,Ulmann A,Bergmann GA,Betker P,Reitmeier J,Ripken T,Stern M,Meyer H,Bicker G

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between aqueous cytokine levels, changes in ocular blood flow, and morphological and functional improvements after intravitreal ranibizumab injection (IRI) in treatment-naïve eyes with center-involving diabetic macular edema (DME). Thirty-three eligible patients with DME (33 eyes) were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mizui T,Noma H,Yasuda K,Kanemaki T,Goto H,Shimura M

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgae and plankton can be a rich source of bioactivity. However, induction of secondary metabolite production in lab conditions can be difficult. One simple way of bypassing this issue is to collect biomass in the field and screen for bioactivity. Therefore, bulk net samples from three areas along the coast of no...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ingebrigtsen RA,Hansen E,Andersen JH,Eilertsen HC

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of β-NaLuF4 crystals were synthesized via a hydrothermal method. Hexagonal phase microdisks, microprisms, and microtubes were achieved by simply changing the amount of citric acid in the initial reaction solution. Pure red upconversion (UC) luminescence can be observed in β-NaLuF4:Yb(3+), Tm(3+), Er(3+) and L...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin H,Xu D,Li A,Teng D,Yang S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional myeloablative conditioning (MAC) regimens often cause severe regimen-related toxicity (RRT). Furthermore, many patients suffer from poor quality of life in accordance with the increase in long-term survivors. We therefore devised a reduced-toxicity myeloablative conditioning (RTMAC) regimen consisting of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hirabayashi K,Nakazawa Y,Sakashita K,Kurata T,Saito S,Yoshikawa K,Tanaka M,Yanagisawa R,Koike K

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic swimming devices hold promise for radically new applications in lab-on-a-chip and microfluidic technology, diagnostics and drug delivery etc. In this paper, we demonstrate the experimental verification of a new class of autonomous ferromagnetic swimming devices, actuated and controlled solely by an oscilla...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamilton JK,Petrov PG,Winlove CP,Gilbert AD,Bryan MT,Ogrin FY

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Extreme differences between the sexes are usually explained by intense sexual selection on male weapons or ornaments. Sexually antagonistic genes, with a positive effect on male traits but a negative effect on female fitness, create a negative inter-sexual correlation for fitness (sexual conflict). However, such antag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Buzatto BA,Clark HL

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) is an inherited disorder that causes progressive kidney damage and renal failure. Mutations in the UMOD gene, encoding uromodulin, lead to ADTKD-UMOD related. Uromodulin is a GPI-anchored protein exclusively produced by epithelial cells of the thick ascendin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Trudu M,Schaeffer C,Riba M,Ikehata M,Brambilla P,Messa P,Martinelli-Boneschi F,Rastaldi MP,Rampoldi L

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on argillite as a possible host rock for nuclear waste disposal is still an open subject since many issues need to be clarified. In the Underground Research Laboratories constructed for this purpose, a damaged zone around the excavation has been systematically observed and characterized by the appearance of m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zaoui A,Sekkal W

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce QuEST, the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit, and compare it to ProjectQ, qHipster and a recent distributed implementation of Quantum++. QuEST is the first open source, hybrid multithreaded and distributed, GPU accelerated simulator of universal quantum circuits. Embodied as a C library, it is designed so ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jones T,Brown A,Bush I,Benjamin SC

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00