Distribution of tetraether lipids in sulfide chimneys at the Deyin hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Implication to chimney growing stage.

abstract：:Although the reversible wettability transition between hydrophobic and hydrophilic graphene under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation has been observed, the mechanism for this phenomenon remains unclear. In this work, experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrate that the H2O molecules are split into hydrogen and h...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu Z,Ao Z,Chu D,Younis A,Li CM,Li S

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pregnane X Receptor (PXR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor belonging to the nuclear receptor family. PXR can bind diverse drugs and environmental toxicants with different binding modes, making it an intriguing target for drug discovery. Here we investigated the binding mechanism of the SR12813 ligand to ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Motta S,Callea L,Giani Tagliabue S,Bonati L

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:β-lactam antibiotics act as suicide substrates of transpeptidases responsible for the last cross-linking step of peptidoglycan synthesis in the bacterial cell wall. Nucleophilic attack of the β-lactam carbonyl by the catalytic residue (Ser or Cys) of transpeptidases results in the opening of the β-lactam ring and in t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Edoo Z,Arthur M,Hugonnet JE

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormone auxin is a major determinant and regulatory component important for plant development. Auxin transport between cells is mediated by a complex system of transporters such as AUX1/LAX, PIN, and ABCB proteins, and their localization and activity is thought to be influenced by phosphatases and kinases. Fl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuhn BM,Nodzyński T,Errafi S,Bucher R,Gupta S,Aryal B,Dobrev P,Bigler L,Geisler M,Zažímalová E,Friml J,Ringli C

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional brain connectivity is altered during the pathological processes of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the specific evolutional rules are insufficiently understood. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging indicates that the functional brain networks of individuals with AD tend to be disrupted in hub-l...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li W,Wang M,Zhu W,Qin Y,Huang Y,Chen X

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimonite [Sb(III)]-oxidizing bacteria can transform the toxic Sb(III) into the less toxic antimonate [Sb(V)]. Recently, the cytoplasmic Sb(III)-oxidase AnoA and the periplasmic arsenite [As(III)] oxidase AioAB were shown to responsible for bacterial Sb(III) oxidation, however, disruption of each gene only partially ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Yang B,Shi M,Yuan K,Guo W,Wang Q,Wang G

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To pattern electrical metal contacts, electron beam lithography or photolithography are commonly utilized, and these processes require polymer resists with solvents. During the patterning process the graphene surface is exposed to chemicals, and the residue on the graphene surface was unable to be completely removed b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tien DH,Park JY,Kim KB,Lee N,Seo Y

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A two step excitation scheme in hot atomic sodium vapor is experimentally investigated. The observed effects reflect a coupling between the 32S, 32P and the 32D states. We present the relative dependence on detuning of the two utilized lasers around λ = 589 nm and 819 nm. Unlike expected, we achieve a higher detuning ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Docters B,Wrachtrup J,Gerhardt I

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolding of translated proteins occurs in all domains of life. In most cells, misfolded proteins coalesce in discrete aggregates at distinct cellular locations. In many bacteria, including mycobacteria, protein aggregates are located at the cellular pole. Yet the mechanism by which aggregates are sorted to the mycob...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang YW,Zhu JH,Wang ZQ,Wu Y,Meng X,Zheng X,Javid B

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a proposal to realize the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum Zeno-like effect (QZLE) in a proximal (13)C nuclear spin by controlling a proximal electron spin of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center. The measurement is performed by applying a microwave pulse to induce the transition between different electronic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qiu J,Wang YY,Yin ZQ,Zhang M,Ai Q,Deng FG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous pattern formation in a variety of spatially extended nonlinear systems always occurs through a modulation instability, sometimes called Turing instability: the homogeneous state of the system becomes unstable with respect to growing modulation modes. Therefore, the manipulation of the modulation instabilit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar S,Herrero R,Botey M,Staliunas K

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent migrations and inter-ethnic mating of long isolated populations have resulted in genetically admixed populations. To understand the complex population admixture process, which is critical to both evolutionary and medical studies, here we used admixture induced linkage disequilibrium (LD) to infer continuous adm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Y,Qiu H,Xu S

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS), caused by trisomy of chromosome 21, is one of the most common genetic disorders. Patients with DS display growth retardation and inevitably develop characteristic Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology, including neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques. The expression of amyloid precursor pro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Zhang S,Xu Q,Zou H,Zhou W,Cai F,Li T,Song W

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have advanced the idea that the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) could be microbial in origin. In the present study, we tested the possibility that polymicrobial infections exist in tissue from the entorhinal cortex/hippocampus region of patients with AD using immunohistochemistry (confocal laser s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pisa D,Alonso R,Fernández-Fernández AM,Rábano A,Carrasco L

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic telemetry is one of the primary technologies for studying the behavior and survival of fishes throughout the world. The size and performance of the transmitter are key limiting factors. The newly developed injectable transmitter is the first acoustic transmitter that can be implanted via injection instead of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Deng ZD,Martinez JJ,Li H,Harnish RA,Woodley CM,Hughes JA,Li X,Fu T,Lu J,McMichael GA,Weiland MA,Eppard MB,Skalski JR,Townsend RL

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 is an intracellular parasite that recognizes its host via its tail and tail fiber proteins, known as receptor-binding proteins (RBPs). The RBPs attach to specific lipopolysaccharide (LPS) features on the host. Various studies have shown expansion of the phage's host range via mutations in the genes en...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Holtzman T,Globus R,Molshanski-Mor S,Ben-Shem A,Yosef I,Qimron U

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:New techniques for the field detection of inorganic improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are urgently developed. Although ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has been proved to be the most effective method for screening organic explosives, it still faces a major challenge to detect inorganic explosives owing to their low v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng L,Hua L,Wang W,Zhou Q,Li H

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a long-standing puzzle why buckled dimers of the Si(001) surface appeared symmetric below ~20 K in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments. Although such symmetric dimer images were concluded to be due to an artifact induced by STM measurements, its underlying mechanism is still veiled. Here, we de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren XY,Kim HJ,Niu CY,Jia Y,Cho JH

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersion properties of metamaterials and photonic crystals (PhCs) lead to an intensive research in the development of cavity resonators for the confinement of electromagnetic (e-m) radiation. In this work, we investigate the formation of Fabry-Pérot (FP) modes associated with hyperbolic-like dispersion (HLD) reg...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Darthy RR,Venkateswaran C,Subramanian V,Ouyang Z,Yogesh N

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-availability of an ideal alternative for autografts in treating critical-size bone defects is a major challenge in orthopedics. Phytocompounds have been proven to enhance osteogenesis via various osteogenic signaling pathways, but its decreased bioavailability and increased renal clearance limit its application. I...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chandran SV,Vairamani M,Selvamurugan N

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptivity is a limited time in which uterine endometrium can establish a successful dialogue with blastocyst. This study was to investigate the effect of asynchronous embryo transfer on uterine receptivity in mice. Embryos under different stages were transferred into two oviduct sides of a recipient mouse on day 1 o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li SJ,Wang TS,Qin FN,Huang Z,Liang XH,Gao F,Song Z,Yang ZM

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of flooding are expected to rise due to population increases, economic growth and climate change. Hence, understanding the physical and spatiotemporal characteristics of risk drivers (hazard, exposure and vulnerability) is required to develop effective flood mitigation measures. Here, the long-term trend i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanoue M,Hirabayashi Y,Ikeuchi H

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct visualization and assessment of the iridocorneal angle (ICA) region with high resolution is important for the clinical evaluation of glaucoma. However, the current clinical imaging systems for ICA do not provide sufficient structural details due to their poor resolution. The key challenges in achieving high qua...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Perinchery SM,Shinde A,Fu CY,Jeesmond Hong XJ,Baskaran M,Aung T,Murukeshan VM

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one cause of death worldwide. The majority of CAD-induced deaths are due to the rupture of vulnerable plaques. Accurate assessment of plaques is crucial to optimize treatment and prevent death in patients with CAD. Current diagnostic techniques are often limi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Ma T,Mohar D,Steward E,Yu M,Piao Z,He Y,Shung KK,Zhou Q,Patel PM,Chen Z

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), which can promote genomic instability when dysfunctional, is a major DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway. Although ubiquitylation of the core NHEJ factor, Ku (Ku70-Ku80), which senses broken DNA ends, is important for its removal from sites of damage upon completion of NHEJ,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nishi R,Wijnhoven PWG,Kimura Y,Matsui M,Konietzny R,Wu Q,Nakamura K,Blundell TL,Kessler BM

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ti-24Nb-4Zr-8Sn (Ti2448), a new β-type Ti alloy, consists of nontoxic elements and exhibits a low uniaxial tensile elastic modulus of approximately 45 GPa for biomedical implant applications. Nevertheless, the bio-corrosion resistance and biocompatibility of Ti2448 alloys must be improved for long-term clinical use. I...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu CF,Lee TH,Liu JF,Hou WT,Li SJ,Hao YL,Pan H,Huang HH

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is characterized by high infiltration and rapid growth. The function of the stem cell population is to control and maintain cell regeneration. Therefore, it is necessary to study the prognostic value of stem cell-related genes in LUAD. Signature genes were screened out from 166 stem cell-rel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang Z,Shi M,Zhou H,Wang J,Zhang HJ,Shi J-

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are the most frequent cause of sepsis, which urgently demanding new drugs for treating infection. Two homologous insect CSαβ peptides-DLP2 and DLP4 from Hermetia illucens were firstly expressed in Pichia pastoris, with the yields of 873.5 and 801.3 mg/l, respectively...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Z,Mao R,Teng D,Hao Y,Chen H,Wang X,Wang X,Yang N,Wang J

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, slow earthquakes (slow EQ) have received much attention relative to understanding the mechanisms underlying large earthquakes and to detecting their precursors. Low-frequency earthquakes (LFE) are a specific type of slow EQ. In the present paper, we reveal the relevance of LFEs to the 11 March 2011 Great Toh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tokuda T,Shimada H

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00