Coordinated activation of a cluster of MMP genes in response to UVB radiation.

abstract：:Many species of chiton are known to deposit magnetite (Fe3O4) within the cusps of their heavily mineralized and ultrahard radular teeth. Recently, much attention has been paid to the ultrastructural design and superior mechanical properties of these radular teeth, providing a promising model for the development of nov...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nemoto M,Ren D,Herrera S,Pan S,Tamura T,Inagaki K,Kisailus D

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, minocycline, a tetracycline antibiotic, has been reported to improve symptoms of psychiatric disorders and to facilitate sober decision-making in healthy human subjects. Here we show that minocycline also reduces the risk of the 'honey trap' during an economic exchange. Males tend to cooperate with physicall...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Watabe M,Kato TA,Tsuboi S,Ishikawa K,Hashiya K,Monji A,Utsumi H,Kanba S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium and selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) are extensively used in biomedicine, electronics and some other industrial applications. The bioproduction of SeNPs is gaining interest as a green method to manufacture these biotechnologically relevant products. Several microorganisms have been used for the production of Se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fernández-Llamosas H,Castro L,Blázquez ML,Díaz E,Carmona M

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is a histone demethylase that participates in transcriptional repression or activation. Recent studies reported that LSD1 is involved in learning and memory. Although LSD1 phosphorylation by PKCα was implicated in circadian rhythmicity, the importance of LSD1 phosphorylation in lea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim CS,Nam HJ,Lee J,Kim D,Choi JE,Kang SJ,Kim S,Kim H,Kwak C,Shim KW,Kim S,Ko HG,Lee RU,Jang EH,Yoo J,Shim J,Islam MA,Lee YS,Lee JH,Baek SH,Kaang BK

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acclimation and adaptation, which are key to species survival in a changing climate, can be observed in terms of membrane lipid composition. Remodelling membrane lipids, via homeoviscous adaptation (HVA), counteracts membrane dysfunction due to temperature in poikilotherms. In order to assess the potential for acclima...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Muir AP,Nunes FL,Dubois SF,Pernet F

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A gas of magnons in magnetic films differs from all other known systems demonstrating Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), since it possesses two energetically degenerate lowest-energy quantum states with non-zero wave vectors ±k(BEC). Therefore, BEC in this system results in a spontaneously formed two-component Bose-Ein...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nowik-Boltyk P,Dzyapko O,Demidov VE,Berloff NG,Demokritov SO

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors affect host susceptibility to pathogens. In this population-based case control study, we explored the genetic polymorphisms of IL-17, TLR4 and miR-146a in association with pulmonary tuberculosis in a Chinese Han population. We recruited 1601 pulmonary tuberculosis patients matched with 1526 healthy con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Xu G,Lü L,Xu K,Chen Y,Pan H,Burstrom B,Burstrom K,Wang J

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes (CRYs) are an ubiquitously occurring class of photoreceptors, which are important for regulating the circadian rhythm of animals via a time-delayed transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL). Due to their protein architecture and common FAD chromophore, they belong to the same superfamily as photolya...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franz-Badur S,Penner A,Straß S,von Horsten S,Linne U,Essen LO

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the effect of temperature on the interaction of polydisperse mixtures of nonionic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymers of different average molar masses with the biological nanopore α-hemolysin. In contrast with what has been previously observed with various nanopores and analytes, we find that, for PEGs la...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Piguet F,Ouldali H,Discala F,Breton MF,Behrends JC,Pelta J,Oukhaled A

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Random lasers consisting of slab waveguides with two-dimensional disordered wrinkling patterns that act as scattering resonators are reported. As active material 2,2',7,7'-tetraphenyl-9,9'-spirobifluorene is used which is sandwiched between an oxidized silicon wafer and a cladding with higher glass transition temperat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hoinka NM,Ostwald C,Fuhrmann-Lieker T

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) play important roles in insecticide/drug resistance and stress response. Medically, GSTs of house dust mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Blomia tropicalis) and German cockroach (Blattella germanica) are human allergens. In this study, classes, isoforms and B-cell and al...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sookrung N,Reamtong O,Poolphol R,Indrawattana N,Seesuay W,Saelim N,Tantilipikorn P,Bunnag C,Chaicumpa W,Tungtrongchitr A

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies focusing on biofilm assembly in deep-sea environments are rarely conducted. To examine the effects of substrate type on microbial community assembly, biofilms were developed on different substrates for different durations at two locations in the Red Sea: in a brine pool and in nearby bottom water (NBW) adjacen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang WP,Wang Y,Tian RM,Bougouffa S,Yang B,Cao HL,Zhang G,Wong YH,Xu W,Batang Z,Al-Suwailem A,Zhang XX,Qian PY

更新日期：2014-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-area, pinhole-free CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin films were successfully fabricated on 5 cm × 5 cm flexible indium tin oxide coated polyethylene naphthalate (ITO-PEN) substrates through a sequential evaporation/spin-coating deposition method in this research. The influence of the rate-controlled evaporation of PbI2...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li K,Xiao J,Yu X,Li T,Xiao D,He J,Zhou P,Zhang Y,Li W,Ku Z,Zhong J,Huang F,Peng Y,Cheng Y

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental assumption in bioacoustics is that large animals tend to produce vocalizations with lower frequencies than small animals. This inverse relationship between body size and vocalization frequencies is widely considered to be foundational in animal communication, with prominent theories arguing that it playe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bowling DL,Garcia M,Dunn JC,Ruprecht R,Stewart A,Frommolt KH,Fitch WT

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Moyamoya disease is an idiopathic human cerebrovascular disorder that is characterized by progressive stenosis and abnormal collateral vessels. We recently identified mysterin/RNF213 as its first susceptibility gene, which encodes a 591-kDa protein containing enzymatically active P-loop ATPase and ubiquitin ligase dom...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morito D,Nishikawa K,Hoseki J,Kitamura A,Kotani Y,Kiso K,Kinjo M,Fujiyoshi Y,Nagata K

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine CCL3 is frequently overexpressed in malignancies and overexpression leads to microenvironmental dysfunction. In murine models of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), CCL3 is critical for the maintenance of a leukemia stem cell population, and leukemia progression. With CCL3 implicated as a potentially via...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Staversky RJ,Byun DK,Georger MA,Zaffuto BJ,Goodman A,Becker MW,Calvi LM,Frisch BJ

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention can be allocated to mental representations to select information from working memory. To date, it remains ambiguous whether such retroactive shifts of attention involve the inhibition of irrelevant information or the prioritization of relevant information. Investigating asymmetries in posterior alpha-band os...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Klatt LI,Getzmann S,Begau A,Schneider D

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Angelman syndrome (AS) are characterized by severe cognitive impairments alongside an enhanced drive for social engagement. As knowledge on imitation skills in this population is limited, we conducted the first controlled study of imitation in AS. We examined how 23 individuals with AS and 21 typicall...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Micheletti S,Vivanti G,Renzetti S,Martelli P,Calza S,“Imitation in Angelman” Study Group.,Fazzi E

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:While the feasibility of transpapillary drug delivery has previously been established, localized transport via the mammary ducts may be improved with tailored drug delivery formulations. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of nanoemulsion encapsulation on transpapillary delivery in vitro. Nanoemu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kurtz SL,Lawson LB

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultra-short proton pulses originating from laser-plasma accelerators can provide instantaneous dose rates at least 10(7)-fold in excess of conventional, continuous proton beams. The impact of such extremely high proton dose rates on A549 human lung cancer cells was compared with conventionally accelerated protons and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raschke S,Spickermann S,Toncian T,Swantusch M,Boeker J,Giesen U,Iliakis G,Willi O,Boege F

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes provide a promising tool for human developmental biology, regenerative therapies, disease modeling, and drug discovery. As human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes remain functionally fetal-type, close monitoring of electrophysiological maturation is critical for their furthe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu H,Scharnhorst KS,Stieg AZ,Gimzewski JK,Minami I,Nakatsuji N,Nakano H,Nakano A

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the performance of solar photovoltaic devices one should mitigate three types of losses: optical, electrical and thermal. However, further reducing the optical and electrical losses in modern photovoltaic devices is becoming increasingly costly. Therefore, there is a rising interest in minimizing the therma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vaillon R,Dupré O,Cal RB,Calaf M

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive alien species are regarded a nuisance. This extends into a lack of conservation efforts in their native range. As a consequence, conservation of e.g. range-edge populations is neglected. Gobiidae have many representatives of alien species in European freshwaters, and therefore they have a bad reputation. Obje...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kukuła K,Ortyl B,Bylak A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tudor domain containing protein 3 (TDRD3) is a modular protein identified based on its ability to recognize methylated arginine motifs through its Tudor domain. We have previously shown that TDRD3 localizes to cytoplasmic stress granules, a structure shown to promote survival upon treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morettin A,Paris G,Bouzid Y,Baldwin RM,Falls TJ,Bell JC,Côté J

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroplasmy is the existence of more than one mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variant within a cell. The evolutionary mechanisms of heteroplasmy are not fully understood, despite being a very common phenomenon. Here we combined heteroplasmy measurements using high throughput sequencing on green turtles (Chelonia mydas) wit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tikochinski Y,Carreras C,Tikochinski G,Vilaça ST

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methods for the direct reprogramming of human somatic cells have been developed. However, a therapeutic method to reprogram and eliminate human solid tumor cells has not been developed. Here we show a novel therapeutic method to reprogram and eliminate human solid tumor cells with chemicals. This therapeutic m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moriguchi H,Zhang Y,Mihara M,Sato C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (grade IV glioma) is the most common and aggressive adult brain tumor. A better understanding of the biology of glioblastoma cells is crucial to identify molecular targets stimulating cell death. NPM1 (nucleophosmin) is a multifunctional chaperone that plays an important role in cancer development. Herein...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Holmberg Olausson K,Elsir T,Moazemi Goudarzi K,Nistér M,Lindström MS

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A fracture is the most dangerous complication of osteoporosis in patients because the associated disability and mortality rates are high. Osteoporosis impairs fracture healing and prognosis, but how intramembranous ossification (IO) or endochondral ossification (EO) during fracture healing are affected and whether the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Shi X,Wang L,Li X,Zheng C,Gao B,Xu X,Lin X,Wang J,Lin Y,Shi J,Huang Q,Luo Z,Yang L

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sp-Hybridized carbon atomic wires are appealing systems with large property tunability. In particular, their electronic properties are intimately related to length, structure, and type of functional end-groups as well as to other effects such as the intermolecular charge transfer with metal nanoparticles. Here, by a c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Milani A,Barbieri V,Facibeni A,Russo V,Li Bassi A,Lucotti A,Tommasini M,Tzirakis MD,Diederich F,Casari CS

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Though carbon (C): nitrogen (N) stoichiometry has been widely studied in terrestrial ecosystems, little is known about its variation following afforestation. By synthesizing the results of 53 studies, we examined temporal and spatial variation in C: N ratios and in N-C scaling relationships of both the organic and the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu X,Li D,Cheng X,Ruan H,Luo Y

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00