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25 February 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Dynamics of short- and long-term association between a bacterial plant pathogen and its arthropod vector ▶     L. R. Shapiro, I. Seidl-Adams, C. M. De Moraes et al.     The dynamics of association between pathogens and vectors can strongly influence epidemiology. It has been proposed that wilt disease epidemics in cucurbit populations are …             Entropy and biological systems: Experimentally-investigated entropy-driven stacking of plant photosynthetic membranes ▶     Husen Jia, John R. Liggins, Wah Soon Chow     According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, an overall increase of entropy contributes to the driving force for any physicochemical process, but entropy has seldom been …             A retinoic acid-enhanced, multicellular human blood-brain barrier model derived from stem cell sources ▶     Ethan S. Lippmann, Abraham Al-Ahmad, Samira M. Azarin et al.     Blood-brain barrier (BBB) models are often used to investigate BBB function and screen brain-penetrating therapeutics, but it has been difficult to construct a human model that …             Nanoscale glucan polymer network causes pathogen resistance ▶     Dennis Eggert, Marcel Naumann, Rudolph Reimer et al.     Successful defence of plants against colonisation by fungal pathogens depends on the ability to prevent initial penetration of the plant cell wall. Here we report that the …             Drug Delivery by Tattooing to Treat Cutaneous Leishmaniasis ▶     Marina Temi Shio, Marilene Paquet, Caroline Martel et al.     This study establishes a proof-of-concept that a tattoo device can target intra-dermal drug delivery against cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). The selected drug is oleylphosphocholine …             Excessive abundance of common resources deters social responsibility ▶     Xiaojie Chen, Matjaž Perc     We study the evolution of cooperation in the collective-risk social dilemma game, where the risk is determined by a collective target that must be reached with individual …             A systems biology-based investigation into the therapeutic effects of Gansui Banxia Tang on reversing the imbalanced network of hepatocellular carcinoma ▶     Yanqiong ZHANG, Xiaodong GUO, Danhua WANG et al.     Several complex molecular events are involved in tumorigenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The interactions of these molecules may constitute the HCC imbalanced network. …             The β-galactosidase (BgaC) of the zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis is a surface protein without the involvement of bacterial virulence ▶     Dan Hu, Fengyu Zhang, Huimin Zhang et al.     Streptococcal pathogens have evolved to express exoglycosidases, one of which is BgaC β-galactosidase, to deglycosidate host surface glycolconjucates with exposure of the …             Genetic variant in SWI/SNF complexes influences hepatocellular carcinoma risk: a new clue for the contribution of chromatin remodeling in carcinogenesis ▶     Rong Zhong, Li Liu, Yao Tian et al.     Chromatin remodeling has been newly established as an important cancer genome characterization and recent exome and whole-genome sequencing studies of hepatocellular carcinoma …             Unique Macrophages Different from M1/M2 Macrophages Inhibit T Cell Mitogenesis while Upregulating Th17 Polarization ▶     Yutaka Tatano, Toshiaki Shimizu, Haruaki Tomioka     Mycobacterial infection induces suppressor macrophages (MΦs), causing disease exacerbation. There are two major MΦ subsets (M1 and M2 MΦs) that are phenotypically and functionally …             The structural basis of an NADP+-independent dithiol oxidase in FK228 biosynthesis ▶     Jie Li, Cheng Wang, Zhi-Min Zhang et al.     The disulfide bond is unusual in natural products and critical for thermal stability, cell permeability and bioactivity. DepH from Chromobacterium violaceum No. 968 is an …             Controlling Magnetotactic Bacteria through an Integrated Nanofabricated Metallic Island and Optical Microscope Approach ▶     Lina M. González, Warren C. Ruder, Philip R. Leduc et al.     Herein, we demonstrate the control of magnetotactic bacteria through the application of magnetic field gradients with real-time visualization. We accomplish this control by …             Serum Helicobacter pylori NapA antibody as a potential biomarker for gastric cancer ▶     Jingjing Liu, Huimin Liu, Tingting Zhang et al.     Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is strongly associated with gastric cancer. However, only a minority of infected individuals ever develop gastric cancer. This risk …             Subcellular glucose exposure biases the spatial distribution of insulin granules in single pancreatic beta cells ▶     Kyohei Terao, Murat Gel, Atsuhito Okonogi et al.     In living tissues, a cell is exposed to chemical substances delivered partially to its surface. Such a heterogeneous chemical environment potentially induces cell polarity. To …             Molecular phylogeny of Myriapoda provides insights into evolutionary patterns of the mode in post-embryonic development ▶     Hideyuki Miyazawa, Chiaki Ueda, Kensuke Yahata et al.     Myriapoda, a subphylum of Arthropoda, comprises four classes, Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla. While recent molecular evidence has shown that Myriapoda is …             Combined haploinsufficiency and purifying selection drive retention of RPL36a paralogs in Arabidopsis ▶     Rubén Casanova-Sáez, Héctor Candela, José Luis Micol     Whole-genome duplication events have driven to a large degree the evolution of angiosperm genomes. Although the majority of redundant gene copies after a genome duplication are …             Identification of a Novel GJA8 (Cx50) Point Mutation Causes Human Dominant Congenital Cataracts ▶     Xiang-Lian Ge, Yilan Zhang, Yaming Wu et al.     Hereditary cataracts are clinically and genetically heterogeneous lens diseases that cause a significant proportion of visual impairment and blindness in children. Human cataracts …             Does DcR1 (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing-ligand Receptor 3) have any role in human AMD pathogenesis? ▶     Akshay Anand, Neel K. Sharma, Ramandeep Singh et al.     It has been postulated that there is a link between age related degenerative diseases and cancer. 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