Scientific Reports Table of Contents e-alert: 20 November 2012

20 November 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             98 days from submission to publication* Scientific Reports is an open access journal publishing technically sound research across all areas of the natural sciences. Submit your next research to Scientific Reports *mean time for papers published in September 2012             Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences         Biological Sciences ▲ top               Hierarchical Modularity in ERα Transcriptional Network Is Associated with Distinct Functions and Implicates Clinical Outcomes ▶     Binhua Tang, Hang-Kai Hsu, Pei-Yin Hsu et al.     Recent genome-wide profiling reveals highly complex regulation networks among ERα and its targets. We integrated estrogen (E2)-stimulated time-series ERα ChIP-seq and gene …             TMV-Gate vectors: Gateway compatible tobacco mosaic virus based expression vectors for functional analysis of proteins ▶     Sateesh Kagale, Shihomi Uzuhashi, Merek Wigness et al.     Plant viral expression vectors are advantageous for high-throughput functional characterization studies of genes due to their capability for rapid, high-level transient expression …             Bacteriophytochrome controls carotenoid-independent response to photodynamic stress in a non-photosynthetic rhizobacterium, Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 ▶     Santosh Kumar, Suneel Kateriya, Vijay Shankar Singh et al.     Ever since the discovery of the role of bacteriophytochrome (BphP) in inducing carotenoid synthesis in Deinococcus radiodurans in response to light the role of BphPs in other …             Enhancing electrochemical detection on graphene oxide-CNT nanostructured electrodes using magneto-nanobioprobes ▶     Priyanka Sharma, Vijayender Bhalla, Vinayak Dravid et al.     Graphene and related materials have come to the forefront of research in electrochemical sensors during recent years due to the promising properties of these nanomaterials. …             Simulating spread of Bluetongue Virus by flying vectors between hosts on pasture ▶     Kaare Græsbøll, René Bødker, Claes Enøe et al.     Bluetongue is a disease of ruminants which reached Denmark in 2007. We present a process-based stochastic simulation model of vector-borne diseases, where host animals are not …             Cell Type-Specific Activation of AKT and ERK Signaling Pathways by Small Negatively-Charged Magnetic Nanoparticles ▶     Jens Rauch, Walter Kolch, Morteza Mahmoudi     The interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with living organisms has become a focus of public and scientific debate due to their potential wide applications in biomedicine, but also …             A Bayesian explanation of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect and related psychological phenomena ▶     Roger K. Moore     There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the ‘uncanny …             DNA Nanostructure-based Interfacial engineering for PCR-free ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis of microRNA ▶     Yanli Wen, Hao Pei, Ye Shen et al.     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as promising cancer biomarkers due to their stable presence in serum. As an alternative to PCR-based homogenous assays, surface-based …             Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap ▶     Siyuan Liu, Ho Ming Chow, Yisheng Xu et al.     The neural correlates of creativity are poorly understood. Freestyle rap provides a unique opportunity to study spontaneous lyrical improvisation, a multidimensional form of …             Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates ▶     Hana M. Weingartl, Carissa Embury-Hyatt, Charles Nfon et al.     Ebola viruses (EBOV) cause often fatal hemorrhagic fever in several species of simian primates including human. While fruit bats are considered natural reservoir, involvement of …             Development of Miniaturized Walking Biological Machines ▶     Vincent Chan, Kidong Park, Mitchell B. Collens et al.     The quest to ‘forward-engineer’ and fabricate biological machines remains a grand challenge. Towards this end, we have fabricated locomotive “bio-bots” from hydrogels and …             Consequences of replacing EGFR juxtamembrane domain with an unstructured sequence ▶     Lijuan He, Kalina Hristova     EGFR is the best studied receptor tyrosine kinase. Yet, a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of EGFR signaling is lacking, despite very active research in the field. In this …             Hkat, a novel nutritionally regulated transmembrane protein in adipose tissues ▶     Ren Zhang     White adipose tissue is an active endocrine organ regulating many aspects of whole body physiology and pathology. Adipogenesis, a process in which premature cells differentiate …             Lipid-coated hydrogel shapes as components of electrical circuits and mechanical devices ▶     K. Tanuj Sapra, Hagan Bayley     Recently, two-dimensional networks of aqueous droplets separated by lipid bilayers, with engineered protein pores as functional elements, were used to construct millimeter-sized …             Exploring the ultrashort pulse laser parameter space for membrane permeabilisation in mammalian cells ▶     Andrew P. Rudhall, Maciej Antkowiak, Xanthi Tsampoula et al.     The use of ultrashort femtosecond pulsed lasers to effect membrane permeabilisation and initiate both optoinjection and transfection of cells has recently seen immense interest. …             APOBEC3B can impair genomic stability by inducing base substitutions in genomic DNA in human cells ▶     Masanobu Shinohara, Katsuhiro Io, Keisuke Shindo et al.     Human APOBEC3 proteins play pivotal roles in intracellular defense against viral infection by catalyzing deamination of cytidine residues, leading to base substitutions in viral …             Differential network entropy reveals cancer system hallmarks ▶     James West, Ginestra Bianconi, Simone Severini et al.     The cellular phenotype is described by a complex network of molecular interactions. Elucidating network properties that distinguish disease from the healthy cellular state is …             MicroRNA-mediated mRNA Translation Activation in Quiescent Cells and Oocytes Involves Recruitment of a Nuclear microRNP ▶     S. S. Truesdell, R. D. Mortensen, M. Seo et al.     MicroRNAs can promote translation of specific mRNAs in quiescent (G0) mammalian cells and immature Xenopus laevis oocytes. We report that microRNA-mediated upregulation of target …             Dishevelled3 is a novel arginine methyl transferase substrate ▶     Rama Kamesh Bikkavilli, Sreedevi Avasarala, Michelle Vanscoyk et al.     Dishevelled, a phosphoprotein scaffold, is a central component in all the Wnt-sensitive signaling pathways. In the present study, we report that Dishevelled is …             The miR-290-295 cluster suppresses autophagic cell death of melanoma cells ▶     Yong Chen, Ruediger Liersch, Michael Detmar     We compared the expression levels of 307 miRNAs in six different B16F1 melanoma cell lines of differing malignant properties and found that the miR-290–295 cluster showed a strong …             The Evolution of Homophily ▶     Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis et al.     Biologists have devoted much attention to assortative mating or homogamy, the tendency for sexual species to mate with similar others. In contrast, there has been little …             GTPases IF2 and EF-G bind GDP and the SRL RNA in a mutually exclusive manner ▶     Vladimir A. Mitkevich, Viktoriya Shyp, Irina Yu. Petrushanko et al.     Translational GTPases (trGTPases) are involved in all four stages of protein biosynthesis: initiation, elongation, termination and ribosome recycling. The trGTPases Initiation …             Effects of gestational age and surface modification on materno-fetal transfer of nanoparticles in murine pregnancy ▶     Hui Yang, Cuiji Sun, Zhenlin Fan et al.     Nanoparticle exposure in pregnancy may result in placental damage and fetotoxicity; however, the factors that determine fetal nanoparticle exposure are unclear. Here we have …             White Band Disease transmission in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis ▶     S. A. Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Christopher J. Marks, Steven V. Vollmer     The global rise in coral diseases has severely impacted coral reef ecosystems, yet often little is known about these diseases, including how they are transmitted. White Band …                 Chemical Sciences ▲ top               DNA Nanostructure-based Interfacial engineering for PCR-free ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis of microRNA ▶     Yanli Wen, Hao Pei, Ye Shen et al.     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as promising cancer biomarkers due to their stable presence in serum. As an alternative to PCR-based homogenous assays, surface-based …             Correlative light and electron microscopy using cathodoluminescence from nanoparticles with distinguishable colours ▶     D. R. Glenn, H. Zhang, N. Kasthuri et al.     Correlative light and electron microscopy promises to combine molecular specificity with nanoscale imaging resolution. However, there are substantial technical challenges …             Highly Enantioselective Cascade Transformations by Merging Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis with Asymmetric Aminocatalysis ▶     Luca Deiana, Samson Afewerki, Carlos Palo-Nieto et al.     The concept of combining heterogeneous transition metal and amine catalysis for enantioselective cascade reactions has not yet been realized. This is of great advantage since it …             Lipid-coated hydrogel shapes as components of electrical circuits and mechanical devices ▶     K. Tanuj Sapra, Hagan Bayley     Recently, two-dimensional networks of aqueous droplets separated by lipid bilayers, with engineered protein pores as functional elements, were used to construct millimeter-sized …             A facile route for 3D aerogels from nanostructured 1D and 2D materials ▶     Sung Mi Jung, Hyun Young Jung, Mildred S. Dresselhaus et al.     Aerogels have numerous applications due to their high surface area and low densities. However, creating aerogels from a large variety of materials has remained an outstanding …             X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy with a superconducting detector for nitrogen dopants in SiC ▶     M. Ohkubo, S. Shiki, M. Ukibe et al.     Fluorescence-yield X-ray absorption fine structure (FY-XAFS) is extensively used for investigating atomic-scale local structures around specific elements in functional materials. …             Nano-materials Enabled Thermoelectricity from Window Glasses ▶     Salman B. Inayat, Kelly R. Rader, Muhammad M. Hussain     With a projection of nearly doubling up the world population by 2050, we need wide variety of renewable and clean energy sources to meet the increased energy demand. Solar energy …             Effects of gestational age and surface modification on materno-fetal transfer of nanoparticles in murine pregnancy ▶     Hui Yang, Cuiji Sun, Zhenlin Fan et al.     Nanoparticle exposure in pregnancy may result in placental damage and fetotoxicity; however, the factors that determine fetal nanoparticle exposure are unclear. Here we have …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.               Physical Sciences ▲ top               Constitutive Law and Flow Mechanism in Diamond Deformation ▶     Xiaohui Yu, Paul Raterron, Jianzhong Zhang et al.     Constitutive laws and crystal plasticity in diamond deformation have been the subjects of substantial interest since synthetic diamond was made in 1950's. To date, however, little …             Enhancing electrochemical detection on graphene oxide-CNT nanostructured electrodes using magneto-nanobioprobes ▶     Priyanka Sharma, Vijayender Bhalla, Vinayak Dravid et al.     Graphene and related materials have come to the forefront of research in electrochemical sensors during recent years due to the promising properties of these nanomaterials. …             Delocalized single-photon Dicke states and the Leggett-Garg inequality in solid state systems ▶     Guang-Yin Chen, Neill Lambert, Che-Ming Li et al.     We show how to realize a single-photon Dicke state in a large one-dimensional array of two-level systems, and discuss how to test its quantum properties. The realization of …             Stretchable and highly sensitive graphene-on-polymer strain sensors ▶     Xiao Li, Rujing Zhang, Wenjian Yu et al.     The use of nanomaterials for strain sensors has attracted attention due to their unique electromechanical properties. However, nanomaterials have yet to overcome many …             DNA Nanostructure-based Interfacial engineering for PCR-free ultrasensitive electrochemical analysis of microRNA ▶     Yanli Wen, Hao Pei, Ye Shen et al.     MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as promising cancer biomarkers due to their stable presence in serum. As an alternative to PCR-based homogenous assays, surface-based …             Cell Type-Specific Activation of AKT and ERK Signaling Pathways by Small Negatively-Charged Magnetic Nanoparticles ▶     Jens Rauch, Walter Kolch, Morteza Mahmoudi     The interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with living organisms has become a focus of public and scientific debate due to their potential wide applications in biomedicine, but also …             A Bayesian explanation of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect and related psychological phenomena ▶     Roger K. Moore     There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the ‘uncanny …             Network Cosmology ▶     Dmitri Krioukov, Maksim Kitsak, Robert S. Sinkovits et al.     Prediction and control of the dynamics of complex networks is a central problem in network science. Structural and dynamical similarities of different real networks suggest that …             Correlative light and electron microscopy using cathodoluminescence from nanoparticles with distinguishable colours ▶     D. R. Glenn, H. Zhang, N. Kasthuri et al.     Correlative light and electron microscopy promises to combine molecular specificity with nanoscale imaging resolution. However, there are substantial technical challenges …             New Thermodynamical Force in Plasma Phase Space that Controls Turbulence and Turbulent Transport ▶     Sanae-I. Itoh, Kimitaka Itoh     Physics of turbulence and turbulent transport has been developed on the central dogma that spatial gradients constitute the controlling parameters, such as Reynolds number and …             Initial geometries, interaction mechanism and high stability of silicene on Ag(111) surface ▶     Junfeng Gao, Jijun Zhao     Using ab initio methods, we have investigated the structures and stabilities of SiN clusters (N ≤ 24) on Ag(111) surface as the initial stage of silicene growth. Unlike the …             Development of Miniaturized Walking Biological Machines ▶     Vincent Chan, Kidong Park, Mitchell B. Collens et al.     The quest to ‘forward-engineer’ and fabricate biological machines remains a grand challenge. Towards this end, we have fabricated locomotive “bio-bots” from hydrogels and …             Highly Enantioselective Cascade Transformations by Merging Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis with Asymmetric Aminocatalysis ▶     Luca Deiana, Samson Afewerki, Carlos Palo-Nieto et al.     The concept of combining heterogeneous transition metal and amine catalysis for enantioselective cascade reactions has not yet been realized. This is of great advantage since it …             Active dielectric antenna on chip for spatial light modulation ▶     Ciyuan Qiu, Jianbo Chen, Yang Xia et al.     Integrated photonic resonators are widely used to manipulate light propagation in an evanescently-coupled waveguide. While the evanescent coupling scheme works well for planar …             Rogue events in the group velocity horizon ▶     Ayhan Demircan, Shalva Amiranashvili, Carsten Brée et al.     The concept of rogue waves arises from a mysterious and potentially calamitous phenomenon of oceanic surfaces. There is mounting evidence that they are actually commonplace in a …             Tunable and sizable band gap in silicene by surface adsorption ▶     Ruge Quhe, Ruixiang Fei, Qihang Liu et al.     Opening a sizable band gap without degrading its high carrier mobility is as vital for silicene as for graphene to its application as a high-performance field effect transistor …             X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy with a superconducting detector for nitrogen dopants in SiC ▶     M. Ohkubo, S. Shiki, M. Ukibe et al.     Fluorescence-yield X-ray absorption fine structure (FY-XAFS) is extensively used for investigating atomic-scale local structures around specific elements in functional materials. …             Tunable acoustic double negativity metamaterial ▶     Z. Liang, M. Willatzen, J. Li et al.     Man-made composite materials called “metamaterials” allow for the creation of unusual wave propagation behavior. Acoustic and elastic metamaterials in particular, can pave the way …             A facile route for 3D aerogels from nanostructured 1D and 2D materials ▶     Sung Mi Jung, Hyun Young Jung, Mildred S. Dresselhaus et al.     Aerogels have numerous applications due to their high surface area and low densities. However, creating aerogels from a large variety of materials has remained an outstanding …             Super elastic strain limit in metallic glass films ▶     Q. K. Jiang, P. Liu, Y. Ma et al.     On monolithic Ni-Nb metallic glass films, we experimentally revealed 6.6% elastic strain limit by in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations. The origin of high elastic …             Exploring the ultrashort pulse laser parameter space for membrane permeabilisation in mammalian cells ▶     Andrew P. Rudhall, Maciej Antkowiak, Xanthi Tsampoula et al.     The use of ultrashort femtosecond pulsed lasers to effect membrane permeabilisation and initiate both optoinjection and transfection of cells has recently seen immense interest. …             Lipid-coated hydrogel shapes as components of electrical circuits and mechanical devices ▶     K. Tanuj Sapra, Hagan Bayley     Recently, two-dimensional networks of aqueous droplets separated by lipid bilayers, with engineered protein pores as functional elements, were used to construct millimeter-sized …             Spatial organization of foreshocks as a tool to forecast large earthquakes ▶     E. Lippiello, W. Marzocchi, L. de Arcangelis et al.     An increase in the number of smaller magnitude events, retrospectively named foreshocks, is often observed before large earthquakes. We show that the linear density probability of …             Nano-materials Enabled Thermoelectricity from Window Glasses ▶     Salman B. Inayat, Kelly R. Rader, Muhammad M. Hussain     With a projection of nearly doubling up the world population by 2050, we need wide variety of renewable and clean energy sources to meet the increased energy demand. Solar energy …             Effects of gestational age and surface modification on materno-fetal transfer of nanoparticles in murine pregnancy ▶     Hui Yang, Cuiji Sun, Zhenlin Fan et al.     Nanoparticle exposure in pregnancy may result in placental damage and fetotoxicity; however, the factors that determine fetal nanoparticle exposure are unclear. Here we have …             The Evolution of Homophily ▶     Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis et al.     Biologists have devoted much attention to assortative mating or homogamy, the tendency for sexual species to mate with similar others. In contrast, there has been little …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               Constitutive Law and Flow Mechanism in Diamond Deformation ▶     Xiaohui Yu, Paul Raterron, Jianzhong Zhang et al.     Constitutive laws and crystal plasticity in diamond deformation have been the subjects of substantial interest since synthetic diamond was made in 1950's. To date, however, little …             Enhancing electrochemical detection on graphene oxide-CNT nanostructured electrodes using magneto-nanobioprobes ▶     Priyanka Sharma, Vijayender Bhalla, Vinayak Dravid et al.     Graphene and related materials have come to the forefront of research in electrochemical sensors during recent years due to the promising properties of these nanomaterials. …             Spatial organization of foreshocks as a tool to forecast large earthquakes ▶     E. Lippiello, W. Marzocchi, L. de Arcangelis et al.     An increase in the number of smaller magnitude events, retrospectively named foreshocks, is often observed before large earthquakes. We show that the linear density probability of …             White Band Disease transmission in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis ▶     S. A. Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Christopher J. Marks, Steven V. Vollmer     The global rise in coral diseases has severely impacted coral reef ecosystems, yet often little is known about these diseases, including how they are transmitted. White Band …             The Evolution of Homophily ▶     Feng Fu, Martin A. Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis et al.     Biologists have devoted much attention to assortative mating or homogamy, the tendency for sexual species to mate with similar others. 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