Genome analysis of a wild rumen bacterium Enterobacter aerogenes LU2 - a novel bio-based succinic acid producer.

abstract：:A forest of the black coral Antipathella subpinnata was found from 52 to 80 m depth in three different sites at Tremiti Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA; Mediterranean Sea), with two of them hosting a monospecific forest on horizontal and vertical substrates. Colonies of A. subpinnata showed a mean density between 0...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chimienti G,De Padova D,Mossa M,Mastrototaro F

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The near complete genome sequences of ten field avian orthoreovirus (ARV) strains collected from young chicken between 2002 and 2011 in Hungary have been determined in order to explore the genetic diversity and evolutionary mechanisms affecting ARVs in this region. Sequence analyses and phylogenetic calculations revea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Farkas SL,Marton S,Dandár E,Kugler R,Gál B,Jakab F,Bálint Á,Kecskeméti S,Bányai K

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Live birth is the most important concern for assisted reproductive technology (ART) patients. Therefore, in the medical reproductive centre, obstetricians often need to answer the following question: "What are the chances that I will have a healthy baby after ART treatment?" To date, our obstetricians have no referenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao H,Liu DE,Li Y,Wu X,Tan H

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical dissimilarity of tellurium oxide with silica glass increases phase separation and crystallization tendency when mixed and melted for making a glass. We report a novel technique for incorporating an Er(3+)-doped tellurite glass composition into silica substrates through a femtosecond (fs) laser generated plasm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chandrappan J,Murray M,Kakkar T,Petrik P,Agocs E,Zolnai Z,Steenson DP,Jha A,Jose G

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba can cause visually destructive Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in contact lens (CL) users. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Acanthamoeba was present in the CL cases of CL wearers and to develop techniques to prevent the contaminations. To accomplish this, 512 CL case samples were collected f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Miyazaki D,Eguchi H,Kuwahara T,Nakayama-Imaohji H,Inaba M,Itoi M,Ueda K,Ohashi Y,Sado K,Mizutani S,Miyamoto H,Sasaki SI,Shimizu Y,Inoue Y

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine ([18F]FET) as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for brain tumor imaging might have some limitations because of the relatively low affinity for the L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1). To assess the stereospecificity and evaluate the influence of aromatic ring m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Verhoeven J,Hulpia F,Kersemans K,Bolcaen J,De Lombaerde S,Goeman J,Descamps B,Hallaert G,Van den Broecke C,Deblaere K,Vanhove C,Van der Eycken J,Van Calenbergh S,Goethals I,De Vos F

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diets high in advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are thought to be detrimental to cardiovascular health. However, there remains uncertainty about the beneficial effect of a low AGE diet on cardiovascular risk factors and inflammatory markers in overweight individuals. We thus performed a randomised, double blind, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baye E,de Courten MP,Walker K,Ranasinha S,Earnest A,Forbes JM,de Courten B

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the compositions of boron-carbon system, in which the [Formula: see text] compound is identified as structural stability at high pressure. The first-principles calculation is used to identify the phase diagram, electronic structure, and superconductivity of [Formula: see text]. Our results have demons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsuppayakorn-Aek P,Yang X,Pluengphon P,Luo W,Ahuja R,Bovornratanaraks T

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective application of whole-cell devices in synthetic biology and biocatalysis will always require consideration of the uptake of molecules of interest into the cell. Here we demonstrate that the AlkL protein from Pseudomonas putida GPo1 is an alkane import protein capable of industrially relevant rates of uptake o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Grant C,Deszcz D,Wei YC,Martínez-Torres RJ,Morris P,Folliard T,Sreenivasan R,Ward J,Dalby P,Woodley JM,Baganz F

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a degenerative macular disease. The study determined the topographical concordance in the areal extent of PCV, defined by indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), and the corresponding outcomes from spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and microperimetry, in 25 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Acton JH,Ogino K,Akagi Y,Wild JM,Yoshimura N

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of substrate inhibition to prevent its phosphorylation has potential in drug discovery and is envisioned to treat the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis (MS). Glia maturation factor-β (GMF-β) Ser83 phosphorylation by protein kinase A (PKA) is pivotal in the activation of GMF-β-p38MAPK-NFκB biochemical ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vattathara JJ,Prakash O,Subhramanian S,Satheeshkumar MK,Xavier T,Anil M,Pillai GS,Anandakuttan A,Radhakrishnan S,Sivanarayanan TB,Akk U,Mohan CG,Menon KN

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution has been classified as a group 1 carcinogen in humans, but the underlying tumourigenic mechanisms remain unclear. In Xuanwei city of Yunnan Province, the lung cancer incidence is among the highest in China, owing to severe air pollution generated by the combustion of smoky coal, providing a unique opport...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan HL,Wen ZS,Huang YC,Cheng X,Wang GZ,Zhou YC,Wang ZY,Guo YQ,Cao Y,Zhou GB

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the jejunum, PepT1 is particularly enriched in the well-differentiated absorptive epithelial cells in the villi. Studies of expression and function of PepT1 along the crypt-villus axis demonstrated that this protein is crucial to the process of di/tripeptide absorption. We recently exhibited that PepT1 plays an imp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Viennois E,Zhang M,Xiao B,Han MK,Walter L,Garg P,Merlin D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two active-source, high-resolution seismic profiles were acquired in the Solfatara tuff cone in May and November 2014, with dense, wide-aperture arrays. Common Receiver Surface processing was crucial in improving signal-to-noise ratio and reflector continuity. These surveys provide, for the first time, high-resolution...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bruno PPG,Maraio S,Festa G

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The exact roles of acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) in synaptic plasticity remain elusive. Here, we address the contribution of ASIC1a to five forms of synaptic plasticity in the mouse hippocampus using an in vitro multi-electrode array recording system. We found that genetic deletion or pharmacological blockade of A...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu MG,Li HS,Li WG,Wu YJ,Deng SN,Huang C,Maximyuk O,Sukach V,Krishtal O,Zhu MX,Xu TL

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of impedance-based label free cell analysis is increasingly popular and has many different applications. Here, we report that a real-time cell analyzer (RTCA) can be used to study the stimulation of Natural Killer (NK) cells. Engagement of NK cells via plate-bound antibodies directed against different activati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fasbender F,Watzl C

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) affecting oncogenic drivers have a firmly established role in promoting cancer. However, no agreed-upon standard exists for calling locus-specific amplifications and deletions in each patient sample. Here, we report the correlative analysis of copy number amplitude and length wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roszik J,Wu CJ,Siroy AE,Lazar AJ,Davies MA,Woodman SE,Kwong LN

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is an emerging infectious pathogen present on every continent except Antarctica. It causes the disease chytridiomycosis in a subset of species but does not always result in disease or death for every host. Ambient temperature influences both amphibian metabol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Campbell L,Bower DS,Clulow S,Stockwell M,Clulow J,Mahony M

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that L-proline is a natural osmoprotectant and an antioxidant to protect cells from injuries such as that caused by freezing and thawing in many species including plant, ram sperm and human endothelial cells. Nevertheless, this nontoxic cryoprotectant has not yet been applied to mammalian ooc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Xue X,Yan J,Yan LY,Jin XH,Zhu XH,He ZZ,Liu J,Li R,Qiao J

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular imaging is a powerful tool for investigating intracellular signalling, but it is difficult to acquire conventional fluorescence imaging from photoreceptive cells. Here we demonstrated that human opsin5 (OPN5) photoreceptor mediates light-induced Ca(2+) response in human embryonic kidney (HEK293) and mouse ne...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sugiyama T,Suzuki H,Takahashi T

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrometers now offer the field strengths necessary to visualize mammalian cells but were not designed to accommodate imaging of live tissues. As such, spectrometers pose significant challenges--the most evident of which are spatial limitations--to conducting experiments in living tissue. This limitation becomes pro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Flint JJ,Menon K,Hansen B,Forder J,Blackband SJ

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of antiretroviral drugs (ARVd) changed the prognosis of HIV infection from a deadly disease to a chronic disease. However, even with undetectable viral loads, patients still develop a wide range of pathologies, including cerebrovascular complications and stroke. It is hypothesized that toxic side effe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bertrand L,Dygert L,Toborek M

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid strategy is the key to the successful management of patients with sepsis. However, previous studies failed to consider individualized treatment strategy, and clinical trials typically included patients with sepsis as a homogeneous study population. We aimed to develop sequential decision rules for managing fluid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Zheng B,Liu N

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaqiri A,Roinishvili M,Grzeczkowski L,Chkonia E,Pilz K,Mohr C,Brand A,Kunchulia M,Herzog MH

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pollination syndrome concept has provided powerful utility in understanding the evolution and adaptation of floral traits. However, the utility of this conception has been questioned on the grounds that flowers usually attract a broader spectrum of visitors than one might expect. Furthermore, the relationship betw...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Wen M,Qian X,Pei N,Zhang D

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve a better understanding of the "vinegar syndrome" phenomenon, which has caused serious damage to triacetyl cellulose-based motion picture films, the white powder obtained from damaged film surfaces was analysed in this study. The powder was found to be soluble in acetone, diethyl ether, dimethylformamide, an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takahashi K,Sasaki M,Hayakawa H,Yajima H,Oda Y

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid foams are classified into a dry foam and a wet foam, empirically judging from the liquid fraction or the shape of the gas bubbles. It is known that physical properties such as elasticity and diffusion are different between the dry foam and the wet foam. Nevertheless, definitions of those states have been vague ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Furuta Y,Oikawa N,Kurita R

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate measurements of autonomic nerve regulation in heart failure (HF) were unresolved. The discriminating performance of deceleration and acceleration capacities of heart rate in HF was evaluated in 130 HF patients and 212 controls. Acceleration capacity and deceleration capacity were independent risk factors for ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu W,Jin X,Zhang P,Yu Q,Yin G,Lu Y,Xiao H,Chen Y,Zhang D

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Legionella pneumophila delivers a large array of the effector proteins into host cells using the Dot/Icm type IVB secretion system. Among the proteins composing the Dot/Icm system, an inner membrane protein DotI is known to be crucial for the secretion function but its structure and role in type IV ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuroda T,Kubori T,Thanh Bui X,Hyakutake A,Uchida Y,Imada K,Nagai H

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamical system is controllable if by imposing appropriate external signals on a subset of its nodes, it can be driven from any initial state to any desired state in finite time. Here we study the impact of various network characteristics on the minimal number of driver nodes required to control a network. We find ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pósfai M,Liu YY,Slotine JJ,Barabási AL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00