Understanding the transfer reaction network behind the non-processive synthesis of low molecular weight levan catalyzed by Bacillus subtilis levansucrase.

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： Blanco Alvarez S,Brisbois J,Melinte S,Kramer RBG,Silhanek AV

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Moisture in materials can be a source of future outgassing and exacerbate unwanted changes in physical and chemical properties. Here, we investigate the effect of sample size and shape on the moisture transport phenomena through a combined experimental and modeling approach. Several different materials varying in size...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma HN,Sun Y,Glascoe EA

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of a high-serum ferritin with poor outcome showed that iron might play a detrimental role in the brain after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Here, we investigated changes in serum iron, ferritin, transferrin (Tf) and ceruloplasmin (CP) in patients with ICH (n = 100) at day 1 (admission), 3, 7, 14 and 21 an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang G,Hu R,Zhang C,Qian C,Luo QQ,Yung WH,Ke Y,Feng H,Qian ZM

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the association between visual acuity (VA) and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) has been well reported in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), little is known about how unilateral and bilateral VA affects daily performance in such patients. For this cross-sectional study, patients were recruit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liao KM,Wu WC,Jang Y,Su FY,Tsai LT

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PARP inhibitors have shown remarkable efficacy in the clinical management of several BRCA-mutated tumors. This approach is based on the long-standing hypothesis that PARP inhibition will impair the repair of single stranded breaks, causing synthetic lethality in tumors with loss of high-fidelity double-strand break ho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Principe DR,Narbutis M,Koch R,Rana A

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of producing transgenic cloned buffalos by nuclear transfer of fetal fibroblasts expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) was explored in this study. When buffalo fetal fibroblasts (BFFs) isolated from a male buffalo fetus were transfected with pEGFP-N1 (EGFP is driven by CMV and Neo is dri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu F,Luo C,Li N,Liu Q,Wei Y,Deng H,Wang X,Li X,Jiang J,Deng Y,Shi D

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khalid MW,Ahmed R,Yetisen AK,AlQattan B,Butt H

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a combined photoluminescence imaging and atomic force microscopy study of single, isolated self-assembled InAs quantum dots. The motivation of this work is to determine an approach that allows to assess single quantum dots as candidates for quantum nanophotonic devices. By combining optical and scanning p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sapienza L,Liu J,Song JD,Fält S,Wegscheider W,Badolato A,Srinivasan K

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutron grating interferometry (nGI) is a unique technique allowing to probe magnetic and nuclear properties of materials not accessible in standard neutron imaging. The signal-to-noise ratio of an nGI setup is strongly dependent on the achievable visibility. Hence, for analysis of weak signals or short measurement ti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Neuwirth T,Backs A,Gustschin A,Vogt S,Pfeiffer F,Böni P,Schulz M

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated gender differences in the optic nerve head (ONH) microcirculation status in association with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by using laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG). We evaluated 150 men (60.5 ± 11.0 yrs) and 45 women (63.0 ± 10.6 yrs) who underwent overnight polysomnography. The mean blur rate (MBR), m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shiba T,Takahashi M,Matsumoto T,Hori Y

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The transparency of animals is an important biological feature. Ascidian eggs have various degrees of transparency, but this characteristic has not yet been measured quantitatively and comprehensively. In this study, we established a method for evaluating the transparency of eggs to first characterize the transparency...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shito TT,Hasegawa N,Oka K,Hotta K

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection of cancer is essential for effective intervention. Urine has been used to reflect early changes in various tumor-bearing models. However, urine has not been used to predict whether tumors will form in animal models. In this study, a cancer model was established by tail vein injection of 2 million NuTu-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei J,Ni N,Meng W,Huan Y,Gao Y

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Settling due to gravity force is a basic transport mechanism of solid particles in fluids in the Earth. A large portion of particles occurring in nature and used in technical applications are non-spherical. Settling of particles is usually studied in homogeneous ambient conditions, however, stratification is inherent ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mrokowska MM

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the combined effects of stressors on social immunity of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and related gene expression. The interaction between sublethal doses of a neurotoxin, clothianidin, and the ectoparasite, Varroa destructor, was examined by measuring differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in brain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morfin N,Goodwin PH,Hunt GJ,Guzman-Novoa E

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the resistivity (ρ) of Ag-doped Bi2Se3 (AgxBi2-xSe3) shows insulating behavior above 35 K, but below 35 K, ρ suddenly decreases with decreasing temperature, in contrast to the metallic behavior for non-doped Bi2Se3 at 1.5-300 K. This significant change in transport properties from metalli...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Uesugi E,Uchiyama T,Goto H,Ota H,Ueno T,Fujiwara H,Terashima K,Yokoya T,Matsui F,Akimitsu J,Kobayashi K,Kubozono Y

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Water, methane, and ammonia are commonly considered to be the key components of the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. Modelling the planets' internal structure, evolution, and dynamo heavily relies on the properties of the complex mixtures with uncertain exact composition in their deep interiors. Therefore, characteris...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guarguaglini M,Hernandez JA,Okuchi T,Barroso P,Benuzzi-Mounaix A,Bethkenhagen M,Bolis R,Brambrink E,French M,Fujimoto Y,Kodama R,Koenig M,Lefevre F,Miyanishi K,Ozaki N,Redmer R,Sano T,Umeda Y,Vinci T,Ravasio A

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Body weight (BW) is regulated in age-dependent manner; it continues to increase during growth period, and reaches a plateau once reaching adulthood. However, its underlying mechanism remains unknown. Regarding such mechanisms in the brain, we here report that neural circuits from the hypothalamus (paraventricular nucl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maejima Y,Kato S,Horita S,Ueta Y,Takenoshita S,Kobayashi K,Shimomura K

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:KIBRA has been suggested as a key regulator of the hippo pathway, regulating organ size, cell contact inhibition as well as tissue regeneration and tumorigenesis. Recently, alterations of KIBRA expression caused by promotor methylation have been reported for several types of cancer. Our current study aimed to design a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schelleckes K,Schmitz B,Lenders M,Mewes M,Brand SM,Brand E

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents the first comprehensive investigation of phonon-electron interactions in bulk acoustic standing wave (BAW) resonators made from piezoelectric semiconductor (PS) materials. We show that these interactions constitute a significant energy loss mechanism and can set practical loss limits lower than anha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gokhale VJ,Rais-Zadeh M

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactor units that generated large amounts of airborne discharges during the period of March 12-21, 2011 were identified individually by analyzing the combination of measured (134)Cs/(137)Cs depositions on ground surfaces and atmospheric transport and deposition simulations. Because...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chino M,Terada H,Nagai H,Katata G,Mikami S,Torii T,Saito K,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium wilt is one of the major biotic stresses reducing chickpea productivity. The use of wilt-resistant cultivars is the most appropriate means to combat the disease and secure productivity. As a step towards understanding the molecular basis of wilt resistance in chickpea, we investigated the transcriptomes of wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Upasani ML,Limaye BM,Gurjar GS,Kasibhatla SM,Joshi RR,Kadoo NY,Gupta VS

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxalase pathway plays an important role in stress adaptation and many clinical disorders. The first enzyme of this pathway, glyoxalase I (GlxI), uses methylglyoxal as a substrate and requires either Ni(II)/Co(II) or Zn(II) for activity. Here we have investigated the origin of different metal ion specificities of Gl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaur C,Vishnoi A,Ariyadasa TU,Bhattacharya A,Singla-Pareek SL,Sopory SK

更新日期：2013-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal rectifiers whose forward heat fluxes are greater than reverse counterparts have been extensively studied. Here we have discovered, idealized, and derived the ultimate limit of such rectification ratios, which are partially validated by numerical simulations, experiments, and micro-scale Hamiltonian-oscillator ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shih TM,Gao Z,Guo Z,Merlitz H,Pagni PJ,Chen Z

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In large random networks, each eigenvector of the Laplacian matrix tends to localize on a subset of network nodes having similar numbers of edges, namely, the components of each Laplacian eigenvector take relatively large values only on a particular subset of nodes whose degrees are close. Although this localization p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hata S,Nakao H

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung fibrosis is an unabated wound healing response characterized by the loss and aberrant function of lung epithelial cells. Herein, we report that extracellular Clusterin promoted epithelial cell apoptosis whereas intracellular Clusterin maintained epithelium viability during lung repair. Unlike normal and COPD lung...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Habiel DM,Camelo A,Espindola M,Burwell T,Hanna R,Miranda E,Carruthers A,Bell M,Coelho AL,Liu H,Pilataxi F,Clarke L,Grant E,Lewis A,Moore B,Knight DA,Hogaboam CM,Murray LA

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenome studies are becoming increasingly widespread, yielding important insights into microbial communities covering diverse environments from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to human skin and gut. With the advent of high-throughput sequencing platforms, the use of large scale shotgun sequencing approaches is n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lindgreen S,Adair KL,Gardner PP

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular tests hold great potential for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, but are costly, time consuming, and HIV-infected patients are often sputum scarce. Therefore, alternative approaches are needed. We evaluated automated digital chest radiography (ACR) as a rapid and cheap pre-screen test prior to Xpert MTB/RIF (Xper...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Philipsen RH,Sánchez CI,Maduskar P,Melendez J,Peters-Bax L,Peter JG,Dawson R,Theron G,Dheda K,van Ginneken B

更新日期：2015-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cardiac pathologies involve changes in tissue structure. Conventional analysis of structural features is extremely time-consuming and subject to observer bias. The possibility to determine spatial interrelations between these features is often not fully exploited. We developed a staining protocol and an ImageJ-ba...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Winters J,von Braunmuhl ME,Zeemering S,Gilbers M,Brink TT,Scaf B,Guasch E,Mont L,Batlle M,Sinner M,Hatem S,Mansour MK,Fabritz L,Sommerfeld LC,Kirchhof P,Isaacs A,Stoll M,Schotten U,Verheule S

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses against gene therapy products limit its therapeutic efficacy and present a safety risk. Identification of agents that blunt immune reactions may aid in developing novel immunomodulatory therapies. Fingolimod (FTY720) is an FDA approved immunomodulatory drug for treating multiple sclerosis that inhibit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baer A,Colon-Moran W,Bhattarai N

更新日期：2018-07-19 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： Arntzen JW,van Belkom J

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00