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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             Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences               Biological Sciences ▲ top               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. The TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has been shown to selectively …                 Nature Neuroscience  FOCUS ON PAIN   Nature Neuroscience presents a focus on pain with a series of reviews synthesizing recent advances in our understanding of the molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain states.         Chemical Sciences ▲ top               Structural and Thermodynamic Factors of Suppressed Interdiffusion Kinetics in Multi-component High-entropy Materials ▶     Shou-Yi Chang, Chen-En Li, Yi-Chung Huang et al.     We report multi-component high-entropy materials as extraordinarily robust diffusion barriers and clarify the highly suppressed interdiffusion kinetics in the multi-component …             New Observations and Insights into the Morphology and Growth Kinetics of Hydrate Films ▶     Sheng-Li Li, Chang-Yu Sun, Bei Liu et al.     The kinetics of film growth of hydrates of methane, ethane, and methane-ethane mixtures were studied by exposing a single gas bubble to water. The morphologies, lateral growth …                     Physical Sciences ▲ top               Structural and Thermodynamic Factors of Suppressed Interdiffusion Kinetics in Multi-component High-entropy Materials ▶     Shou-Yi Chang, Chen-En Li, Yi-Chung Huang et al.     We report multi-component high-entropy materials as extraordinarily robust diffusion barriers and clarify the highly suppressed interdiffusion kinetics in the multi-component …             Multiple π-bands and Bernal stacking of multilayer graphene on C-face SiC, revealed by nano-Angle Resolved Photoemission ▶     Leif I. Johansson, Rickard Armiento, Jose Avila et al.     Only a single linearly dispersing π-band cone, characteristic of monolayer graphene, has so far been observed in Angle Resolved Photoemission (ARPES) experiments on multilayer …             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 …             Observing Optical Plasmons on a Single Nanometer Scale ▶     Moshik Cohen, Reuven Shavit, Zeev Zalevsky     The exceptional capability of plasmonic structures to confine light into deep subwavelength volumes has fashioned rapid expansion of interest from both fundamental and applicative …             Encapsulating Urban Traffic Rhythms into Road Networks ▶     Junjie Wang, Dong Wei, Kun He et al.     Using road GIS (geographical information systems) data and travel demand data for two U.S. urban areas, the dynamical driver sources of each road segment were located. A method to …             Negative and near zero refraction metamaterials based on permanent magnetic ferrites ▶     Ke Bi, Yunsheng Guo, Ji Zhou et al.     Ferrite metamaterials based on the negative permeability of ferromagnetic resonance in ferrites are of great interest. However, such metamaterials face a limitation that the …             Solar thermal polymerase chain reaction for smartphone-assisted molecular diagnostics ▶     Li Jiang, Matthew Mancuso, Zhengda Lu et al.     Nucleic acid-based diagnostic techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are used extensively in medical diagnostics due to their high sensitivity, specificity and …             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 …             New Observations and Insights into the Morphology and Growth Kinetics of Hydrate Films ▶     Sheng-Li Li, Chang-Yu Sun, Bei Liu et al.     The kinetics of film growth of hydrates of methane, ethane, and methane-ethane mixtures were studied by exposing a single gas bubble to water. The morphologies, lateral growth …             Experimental demonstration of a transparent graphene millimetre wave absorber with 28% fractional bandwidth at 140 GHz ▶     Bian Wu, Hatice M. Tuncer, Majid Naeem et al.     The development of transparent radio-frequency electronics has been limited, until recently, by the lack of suitable materials. Naturally thin and transparent graphene may lead to …             Ultrahigh spin thermopower and pure spin current in a single-molecule magnet ▶     Bo Luo, Juan Liu, Jing-Tao Lü et al.     Using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the sequential regime, we studied ultrahigh spin thermopower and pure spin current in single-molecule …             Understanding the antimicrobial mechanism of TiO2-based nanocomposite films in a pathogenic bacterium ▶     Anna Kubacka, María Suárez Diez, David Rojo et al.     Titania (TiO2)-based nanocomposites subjected to light excitation are remarkably effective in eliciting microbial death. However, the mechanism by which these materials induce …             Control of hot-carrier relaxation for realizing ideal quantum-dot intermediate-band solar cells ▶     David M. Tex, Itaru Kamiya, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu     For intermediate-band solar cells, the broad absorption spectrum of quantum dots (QDs) offers a favorable conversion efficiency, and photocurrent generation via efficient two-step …             Arbitrary photonic wave plate operations on chip: Realizing Hadamard, Pauli-X, and rotation gates for polarisation qubits ▶     René Heilmann, Markus Gräfe, Stefan Nolte et al.     Chip-based photonic quantum computing is an emerging technology that promises much speedup over conventional computers at small integration volumes. Particular interest is thereby …             Atomic-scale mapping of dipole frustration at 90° charged domain walls in ferroelectric PbTiO3 films ▶     Y. L. Tang, Y. L. Zhu, Y. J. Wang et al.     The atomic-scale structural and electric parameters of the 90° domain-walls in tetragonal ferroelectrics are of technological importance for exploring the ferroelectric switching …             Complex structures of different CaFe2As2 samples ▶     Bayrammurad Saparov, Claudia Cantoni, Minghu Pan et al.     The interplay between magnetism and crystal structures in three CaFe2As2 samples is studied. For the nonmagnetic quenched crystals, different crystalline domains with varying …             Bistability of Hydrogen in ZnO: Origin of Doping Limit and Persistent Photoconductivity ▶     Ho-Hyun Nahm, C. H. Park, Yong-Sung Kim     Substitutional hydrogen at oxygen site (HO) is well-known to be a robust source of n-type conductivity in ZnO, but a puzzling aspect is that the doping limit by hydrogen is only …             Optical spectroscopy of single Si nanocylinders with magnetic and electric resonances ▶     Andrey B. Evlyukhin, René L. Eriksen, Wei Cheng et al.     Resonant electromagnetic properties of nanoparticles fabricated from high-index semiconductor or dielectric materials are very promising for the realization of novel nanoantennas …             Picosecond electric field pulse induced coherent magnetic switching in MgO/FePt/Pt(001)-based tunnel junctions: a multiscale study ▶     Wanjiao Zhu, Dun Xiao, Yaowen Liu et al.     Combined methods of first-principles calculations and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) macrospin simulations are performed to investigate the coherent magnetization switching in the …             Networks from Flows - From Dynamics to Topology ▶     Nora Molkenthin, Kira Rehfeld, Norbert Marwan et al.     Complex network approaches have recently been applied to continuous spatial dynamical systems, like climate, successfully uncovering the system's interaction structure. However …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               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 …             Anoxia/high temperature double whammy during the Permian-Triassic marine crisis and its aftermath ▶     Haijun Song, Paul B. Wignall, Daoliang Chu et al.     The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was the most severe biotic crisis in the past 500 million years. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the crisis, but few account for …             Networks from Flows - From Dynamics to Topology ▶     Nora Molkenthin, Kira Rehfeld, Norbert Marwan et al.     Complex network approaches have recently been applied to continuous spatial dynamical systems, like climate, successfully uncovering the system's interaction structure. However …               Health Sciences ▲ top               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. …             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 …             Impact of better and worse eye damage on quality of life in advanced glaucoma ▶     Mizu Okamoto, Kenji Sugisaki, Hiroshi Murata et al.     The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of VF and the VA on vision related quality of life (VRQoL) in advanced glaucoma. Subjects consist of 50 glaucoma patients …             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 …             Solar thermal polymerase chain reaction for smartphone-assisted molecular diagnostics ▶     Li Jiang, Matthew Mancuso, Zhengda Lu et al.     Nucleic acid-based diagnostic techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are used extensively in medical diagnostics due to their high sensitivity, specificity and …             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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