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18 March 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Morning reduction of photosynthetic capacity before midday depression ▶     Kohei Koyama, Shuhei Takemoto     Midday depression of photosynthesis has important consequences for ecosystem carbon exchange. Recent studies of forest trees have demonstrated that latent reduction of …             Biocompatible and Photostable AIE Dots with Red Emission for In Vivo Two-Photon Bioimaging ▶     Dan Wang, Jun Qian, Wei Qin et al.     Bioimaging systems with cytocompatibility, photostability, red fluorescence, and optical nonlinearity are in great demand. Herein we report such a bioimaging system. Integration …             Cyclic glycine-proline regulates IGF-1 homeostasis by altering the binding of IGFBP-3 to IGF-1 ▶     Jian Guan, Peter Gluckman, Panzao Yang et al.     The homeostasis of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is essential for metabolism, development and survival. Insufficient IGF-1 is associated with poor recovery from wounds …             Near-infrared fluorescence imaging of cancer cells and tumors through specific biosynthesis of silver nanoclusters ▶     Shengping Gao, Donghua Chen, Qiwei Li et al.     Human life toll by cancer, one of the highest among most dreaded diseases in advanced societies, could be reduced by implementing evidence-based strategies for its prevention, …             Interactome analysis of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-α1 and -β1 in INS-1 pancreatic beta-cells by affinity purification-mass spectrometry ▶     Sungyoon Moon, Dohyun Han, Yikwon Kim et al.     The heterotrimeric enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a major metabolic factor that regulates the homeostasis of cellular energy. In particular, AMPK mediates the …             Cell-penetrating peptide (CPP)-conjugated proteins is an efficient tool for manipulation of human mesenchymal stromal cells ▶     Junghyun Jo, Soomin Hong, Won Yun Choi et al.     Delivery of proteins has been regarded as the safest and most useful application in therapeutic application of stem cells, because proteins can regulate gene expression …             CORRIGENDUM: SERPINB3 is associated with longer survival in transgenic mice ▶     Gianmarco Villano, Mariagrazia Ruvoletto, Giulio Ceolotto et al.                 Anti-cancer small molecule JP-8g exhibits potent in vivo anti-inflammatory activity ▶     Yulong Sun, Jia Liu, Tao Sun et al.     Spirooxindoles are a class of compounds with diverse biological activity. Previously, we identified a series of spirooxindole-pyranopyrimidine compounds that exhibited …             Quantitative proteomics of Xenopus laevis embryos: expression kinetics of nearly 4000 proteins during early development ▶     Liangliang Sun, Michelle M. Bertke, Matthew M. Champion et al.     While there is a rich literature on transcription dynamics during the development of many organisms, protein data is limited. We used iTRAQ isotopic labeling and mass spectrometry …             Facile and quantitative electrochemical detection of yeast cell apoptosis ▶     Qiulin Yue, Shiquan Xiong, Dongqing Cai et al.     An electrochemical method based on square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV) was developed to detect the apoptosis of yeast cells conveniently and quantitatively through …             Testing the Low-density Hypothesis for Reversed Sex Change in Polygynous Fish: Experiments in Labroides dimidiatus ▶     Tetsuo Kuwamura, Tatsuru Kadota, Shohei Suzuki     Hermaphroditism is ubiquitous among plants and widespread in the animal kingdom. It is an unsolved problem why reversed sex change has evolved in polygynous and protogynous reef …             Overexpression of a novel MADS-box gene SlFYFL delays senescence, fruit ripening and abscission in tomato ▶     Qiaoli Xie, Zongli Hu, Zhiguo Zhu et al.     MADS-domain proteins are important transcription factors involved in many biological processes of plants. In our study, a tomato MADS-box gene, SlFYFL, was isolated. SlFYFL is …             Counting whales in a challenging, changing environment ▶     R. Williams, N. Kelly, O. Boebel et al.     Estimating abundance of Antarctic minke whales is central to the International Whaling Commission's conservation and management work and understanding impacts of climate change on …             Brain modularity controls the critical behavior of spontaneous activity ▶     R. Russo, H. J. Herrmann, L. de Arcangelis     The human brain exhibits a complex structure made of scale-free highly connected modules loosely interconnected by weaker links to form a small-world network. These features …             ERRATUM: Perception of Direct Gaze Does Not Require Focus of Attention ▶     Takemasa Yokoyama, Hiroki Sakai, Yasuki Noguchi et al.                 CORRIGENDUM: Analyses of Interactions Between Heparin and the Apical Surface Proteins of Plasmodium falciparum ▶     Kyousuke Kobayashi, Ryo Takano, Hitoshi Takemae et al.                 Lysosomal-specific Cholesterol Reduction by Biocleavable Polyrotaxanes for Ameliorating Niemann-Pick Type C Disease ▶     Atsushi Tamura, Nobuhiko Yui     Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease is an autosomal recessive lysosomal trafficking disorder, in which the cholesterols are abnormally accumulated in lysosomes. Recently, the …             Identification of Genes with Consistent Methylation Levels across Different Human Tissues ▶     Tzu-Pin Lu, Kevin T. Chen, Mong-Hsun Tsai et al.     DNA methylation plays an important role in regulating cell growth and disease development. Methylation profiles are examined by bisulfite conversion; however, the lack of markers …             DNA microarray analysis reveals that antibiotic resistance-gene diversity in human gut microbiota is age related ▶     Na Lu, Yongfei Hu, Liying Zhu et al.     The human gut is a reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes. In this report, we used a DNA microarray chip covering 369 resistance types to investigate the relationship between …             Soybean greatly reduces valproic acid plasma concentrations: A food–drug interaction study ▶     Anu Marahatta, Bidur Bhandary, Seul-Ki Jeong et al.     The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of soy on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of valproic acid (VPA). In a preclinical study, rats were pretreated with …             Partial Somatic to Stem Cell Transformations Induced By Cell-Permeable Reprogramming Factors ▶     Junghee Lim, Junghee Kim, Jinsun Kang et al.     The production of pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for therapeutic applications will require practical methods to achieve tight temporal and quantitative control of reprogramming …             PSF decomposition of nanoscopy images via Bayesian analysis unravels distinct molecular organization of the cell membrane ▶     Carlo Manzo, Thomas S. van Zanten, Suvrajit Saha et al.     The spatial organization of membrane receptors at the nanoscale has major implications in cellular function and signaling. The advent of super-resolution techniques has greatly …             Circular Dichroism studies on the interactions of antimicrobial peptides with bacterial cells ▶     Concetta Avitabile, Luca Domenico D'Andrea, Alessandra Romanelli     Studying how antimicrobial peptides interact with bacterial cells is pivotal to understand their mechanism of action. In this paper we explored the use of Circular Dichroism to …             Damaging Effects of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Pregnant Mice with Different Pregnancy Times ▶     Wei Qi, Juanjuan Bi, Xiaoyong Zhang et al.     The mechanism by which nanoparticles cross the placental barrier was studied by using isotopic tracers. The abortion rates and other related data were counted and analysed in …             Nitric Oxide Inhibits Hetero-adhesion of Cancer Cells to Endothelial Cells: Restraining Circulating Tumor Cells from Initiating Metastatic Cascade ▶     Yusheng Lu, Ting Yu, Haiyan Liang et al.     Adhesion of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to vascular endothelial bed becomes a crucial starting point in metastatic cascade. We hypothesized that nitric oxide (NO) may prevent …             An extended steepness model for leg-size determination based on Dachsous/Fat trans-dimer system ▶     Hiroshi Yoshida, Tetsuya Bando, Taro Mito et al.     What determines organ size has been a long-standing biological question. Lawrence et al. (2008) proposed the steepness hypothesis suggesting that the protocadherin Dachsous/Fat …             Modeling the Impact of Antibiotic Exposure on Human Microbiota ▶     Jiangchao Zhao, Susan Murray, John J. LiPuma     Human-associated microbial communities play important roles in health and disease. Antibiotic administration is arguably one of the most important modifiable determinants of the …             Changes in IgG and total plasma protein glycomes in acute systemic inflammation ▶     Mislav Novokmet, Edita Lukić, Frano Vučković et al.     Recovery after cardiac surgery is a complex process that has to compensate for both individual variability and extensive tissue damage in the context of systemic inflammation. …             Human dopamine receptor nanovesicles for gate-potential modulators in high-performance field-effect transistor biosensors ▶     Seon Joo Park, Hyun Seok Song, Oh Seok Kwon et al.     The development of molecular detection that allows rapid responses with high sensitivity and selectivity remains challenging. 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