Publisher Correction: A portable epigenetic switch for bistable gene expression in bacteria.

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journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fülep C,Kovács I,Kránitz K,Erdei G

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The decomposition of methane (CH4) is a catalytically important reaction in the production of syngas that is used to make a wide spectrum of hydrocarbons and alcohols, and a principal carbon deposition pathway in methane reforming. Literatures suggest that stepped Ni surface is uniquely selective toward methane decomp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arevalo RL,Aspera SM,Escaño MCS,Nakanishi H,Kasai H

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and sinking of particulate black carbon (PBC) were examined for the first time in the western Arctic and Subarctic Oceans. In the central Arctic Ocean, high PBC concentrations with a mean of 0.021 ± 0.016 μmol L(-1) were observed in the marginal ice zone (MIZ). A number of parameters, including temperatu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fang Z,Yang W,Chen M,Zheng M,Hu W

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotrophin (PTN) is a cytokine that is upregulated in different neuroinflammatory disorders. Using mice with transgenic PTN overexpression in the brain (Ptn-Tg), we have found a positive correlation between iNos and Tnfα mRNA and Ptn mRNA levels in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of LPS-treated mice. PTN is an inhibitor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fernández-Calle R,Galán-Llario M,Gramage E,Zapatería B,Vicente-Rodríguez M,Zapico JM,de Pascual-Teresa B,Ramos A,Ramos-Álvarez MP,Uribarri M,Ferrer-Alcón M,Herradón G

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anfinsen hypothesis, the demonstration of which led to the Nobel prize in Chemistry, posits that all information required to determine a proteins' three dimensional structure is contained within its amino acid sequence. This suggests that it should be possible, in theory, to fold any protein in vitro. In practice,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Biter AB,de la Peña AH,Thapar R,Lin JZ,Phillips KJ

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamical polarization of nuclear spin ensembles is of central importance for magnetic resonance studies, precision sensing and for applications in quantum information theory. Here we propose a scheme to generate long-lived singlet pairs in an unpolarized nuclear spin ensemble which is dipolar coupled to the electron ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Greiner JN,Dasari DBR,Wrachtrup J

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Training the capacity to self-generate emotions can be a potent "vaccine" against negative stressors and be an effective intervention for affective psychopathology. However, due to a lack of knowledge about sources of individual differences in generation abilities, it is unclear how to optimally design such interventi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engen H,Kanske P,Singer T

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystallization characteristics in supercooled liquid Zn during isothermal relaxation were investigated using molecular dynamics simulations by adopting the cluster-type index method (CTIM) and the tracing method. Results showed that the crystallization process undergo three different stages. The size of the criti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou LL,Liu RS,Tian ZA,Liu HR,Hou ZY,Peng P

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of 4 aeration levels (varied by injection of air to the soil through subsurface irrigation lines) at two subsurface irrigation line depths (15 and 40 cm) on plant growth, yield and nutritional quality of greenhouse tomato. In all experiments, fruit number, width and length, yield, v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Y,Niu W,Dyck M,Wang J,Zou X

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we propose a novel sensitive solid-based immunosensor developed on a plasmonic nanopaper platform for the detection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This plasmonic nanopaper that comprises of carboxylated bacterial cellulose (CBC) impregnated with gold nanoparticles (AuNP-CBC), employed as a quen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heli B,Ajji A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion protein (PrPC), a mainly neuronal protein, is known to modulate glucose homeostasis in mouse models. We explored the underlying mechanism in mouse models and the human pancreatic β-cell line 1.1B4. We report expression of PrPC on mouse pancreatic β-cells, where it promoted uptake of iron through divalent-met...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ashok A,Singh N

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Early fruit development is crucial for crop production in tomato. After fertilization, the ovary undergoes cell division and cell expansion before maturation. Although the roles of regulatory signals such as hormone and carbohydrate during early fruit development have been studied, the spatial distribution and the seq...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang S,Xu M,Qiu Z,Wang K,Du Y,Gu L,Cui X

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are utilized extensively for biomedical imaging, sensing, and therapeutic applications, yet the molecular weight of UCNPs has not previously been reported. Herein, we present a theory based upon the crystal structure of UCNPs to estimate the molecular weight of UCNPs: enabling insigh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mackenzie LE,Goode JA,Vakurov A,Nampi PP,Saha S,Jose G,Millner PA

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbicides are the most commonly used means of controlling weeds. Recently, there has been growing concern over the potential impacts of global climate change, specifically, increasing temperatures and elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, on the sensitivity of weeds to herbicides. Here, glyphosate response of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matzrafi M,Brunharo C,Tehranchian P,Hanson BD,Jasieniuk M

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Triassic archosaurs and stem-archosaurs show a remarkable disparity in their ankle and pelvis morphologies. However, the implications of these different morphologies for specific functions are still poorly understood. Here, we present the first quantitative analysis into the locomotor abilities of a stem-archosaur app...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Demuth OE,Rayfield EJ,Hutchinson JR

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between maternal cadmium (Cd) exposure during pregnancy and the increased risk of fetal growth restriction (FGR) remains controversial. The present study evaluated the association between maternal serum Cd level and risk of small for gestational age (SGA) infants in a Chinese population. The present st...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang H,Liu L,Hu YF,Hao JH,Chen YH,Su PY,Fu L,Yu Z,Zhang GB,Wang L,Tao FB,Xu DX

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain high performance CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells, it is highly important to realise a high open-circuit voltage. Calculation results based on a modified diode model have indicated that a low bare ratio ϕ of the perovskite film is the most important factor determining the open-circuit voltage, where ϕ is de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Y,Ding B,Chu QQ,Yang GJ,Wang M,Li CX,Li CJ

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and mechanical properties of tissue and the interplay between them play a critical role in tissue function. We introduce the optomechanogram, a combined quantitative and qualitative visualization of spatially co-registered measurements of the microstructural and micromechanical properties of any tissue....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee W,Ostadi Moghaddam A,Shen S,Phillips H,McFarlin BL,Wagoner Johnson AJ,Toussaint KC Jr

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbed blood flow (d-flow) induces atherosclerosis by altering the expression of mechanosensitive genes in the arterial endothelium. Previously, we identified >580 mechanosensitive genes in the mouse arterial endothelium, but their role in endothelial inflammation is incompletely understood. From this set, we obtai...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar S,Jang IH,Kim CW,Kang DW,Lee WJ,Jo H

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins, such as Phe-Gly repeat domains, alters drastically when they are confined in, and tethered to, nan channels. This has challenged our understanding of how they serve to selectively facilitate translocation of nuclear transport receptor (NTR)-bearing macromol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moussavi-Baygi R,Mofrad MR

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication-incompetent adenovirus (Ad) vector is one of the most promising vectors for gene therapy; however, systemic administration of Ad vectors results in severe hepatotoxicities, partly due to the leaky expression of Ad genes in the liver. Here we show that nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) mediates the leaky e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Machitani M,Sakurai F,Wakabayashi K,Nakatani K,Shimizu K,Tachibana M,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait reflecting excitement in response to novel stimuli. High NS is usually a predictor of risky behaviour such as drug abuse. However, the relationships between NS and risk-related cognitive processes, including individual risk preference and the brain activation associated with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Liu Y,Yang L,Gu F,Li X,Zha R,Wei Z,Pei Y,Zhang P,Zhou Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Outdoor air pollution is a growing public health concern, particularly in urban settings. However, there are limited epidemiological data on outdoor air pollution in rural areas with substantial levels of air pollution attributed to solid fuel burning for household cooking and heating. Xuanwei and Fuyuan are rural cou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu W,Downward G,Wong JYY,Reiss B,Rothman N,Portengen L,Li J,Jones RR,Huang Y,Yang K,Chen Y,Xu J,He J,Bassig B,Seow WJ,Hosgood HD,Zhang L,Wu G,Wei F,Vermeulen R,Lan Q

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) results in lung functional impairment and there are no surrogate markers to monitor the extent of lung involvement. We investigated the clinical significance of S100A12 and soluble receptor for advanced glycation end-products (sRAGE) for predicting the extent of lung involvement. We perfor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Berrocal-Almanza LC,Goyal S,Hussain A,Klassert TE,Driesch D,Grozdanovic Z,Sumanlatha G,Ahmed N,Valluri V,Conrad ML,Dittrich N,Schumann RR,Lala B,Slevogt H

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Consecutive eight study phases under the successive presence and absence of UV irradiation, water vapor, and oxygen were conducted to characterize surface changes in the photocatalytic TiO2 powder using near-ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Both Ti 2p and O 1s spectra show hysteresis through th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Krishnan P,Liu M,Itty PA,Liu Z,Rheinheimer V,Zhang MH,Monteiro PJ,Yu LE

更新日期：2017-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated self-induced retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) with functional axons from human induced pluripotent stem cells. After development of the optic vesicle from the induced stem cell embryoid body in three-dimensional culture, conversion to two-dimensional culture, achieved by supplementation with BDNF, resulted i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanaka T,Yokoi T,Tamalu F,Watanabe S,Nishina S,Azuma N

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed fisheries are the dominant type of fishery worldwide. Overexploitation in mixed fisheries occurs when catches continue for available quota species while low quota species are discarded. As EU fisheries management moves to count all fish caught against quota (the "landing obligation"), the challenge is to catch a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dolder PJ,Thorson JT,Minto C

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated photonics promises solutions to questions of stability, complexity, and size in quantum optics. Advances in tunable and non-planar integrated platforms, such as laser-inscribed photonics, continue to bring the realisation of quantum advantages in computation and metrology ever closer, perhaps most easily se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chaboyer Z,Meany T,Helt LG,Withford MJ,Steel MJ

更新日期：2015-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared commercial kits for extraction of genomic DNA from the Gram-negative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae for subsequent Miseq sequencing. Purification of DNA was based on matrix binding (silica or anion exchange resin) or differential precipitation (salting out), respectively. The choice of extraction kit had ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Becker L,Steglich M,Fuchs S,Werner G,Nübel U

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim is to design a patient-specific instrument (PSI) for multilevel cervical pedicle screw placement from C2 to C7, as well as verifying reliability and reproducibility. Computed tomography (CT) scans were obtained from 7 cadaveric cervical spines. Using Mimics software, semiautomatic segmentation was performed fo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sallent A,Ramírez M,Catalá J,Rodríguez-Baeza A,Bagó J,de Albert M,Vélez R

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00