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23 September 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               A sensitive method for the quantification of virion-sense and complementary-sense DNA strands of circular single-stranded DNA viruses ▶     Edgar A. Rodríguez-Negrete, Sonia Sánchez-Campos, M. Carmen Cañizares et al.     Circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes. High recombination and mutation rates have conferred these viruses with an …             The role of institutional incentives and the exemplar in promoting cooperation ▶     Jia-Jia Wu, Cong Li, Bo-Yu Zhang et al.     People on average do not play their individually rational Nash equilibrium (NE) strategy in game experiments based on the public goods game (PGG) that model social dilemmas. …             Human germ cell formation in xenotransplants of induced pluripotent stem cells carrying X chromosome aneuploidies ▶     Antonia A. Dominguez, H. Rosaria Chiang, Meena Sukhwani et al.     Turner syndrome is caused by complete or partial loss of the second sex chromosome and is characterized by spontaneous fetal loss in >90% of conceptions. Survivors possess an …             Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate inhibits DNA replication leading to hyperPARylation, SIRT1 attenuation, and mitochondrial dysfunction in the testis ▶     Xiaolin Li, Evandro Fei Fang, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen et al.     Di-(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate (DEHP) is a ubiquitously used endocrine disruptor.There is widespread exposure to DEHP in the general population which has raised substantial public …             Serum Stable Natural Peptides Designed by mRNA Display ▶     Shannon M. Howell, Stephen V. Fiacco, Terry T. Takahashi et al.     Peptides constructed with the 20 natural amino acids are generally considered to have little therapeutic potential because they are unstable in the presence of proteases and …             CORRIGENDUM: CCL2 enhances pluripotency of human induced pluripotent stem cells by activating hypoxia related genes ▶     Yuki Hasegawa, Dave Tang, Naoko Takahashi et al.                 An Efficient Genotyping Method for Genome-modified Animals and Human Cells Generated with CRISPR/Cas9 System ▶     Xiaoxiao Zhu, Yajie Xu, Shanshan Yu et al.     The rapid generation of various species and strains of laboratory animals using CRISPR/Cas9 technology has dramatically accelerated the interrogation of gene function in vivo. So …             Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix ▶     Febriyani F. R. Damanik, Tonia C. Rothuizen, Clemens van Blitterswijk et al.     Despite various studies to minimize host reaction following a biomaterial implantation, an appealing strategy in regenerative medicine is to actively use such an immune response …             Mechanosensitive Kinases Regulate Stiffness-Induced Cardiomyocyte Maturation ▶     Jennifer L. Young, Kyle Kretchmer, Matthew G. Ondeck et al.     Cells secrete and assemble extracellular matrix throughout development, giving rise to time-dependent, tissue-specific stiffness. Mimicking myocardial matrix stiffening, i.e. …             Multiple interacting brain areas underlie successful spatiotemporal memory retrieval in humans ▶     Amber M. Schedlbauer, Milagros S. Copara, Andrew J. Watrous et al.     Emerging evidence suggests that our memories for recent events depend on a dynamic interplay between multiple cortical brain regions, although previous research has also …             Cell-surface receptor control that depends on the size of a synthetic equilateral-triangular RNA-protein complex ▶     Yoshihiko Fujita, Rie Furushima, Hirohisa Ohno et al.     A human cell surface displays many complex-structured receptors for receiving extracellular signals to regulate cellular functions. The use of precisely regulated signal-controls …             siRNAs targeted to Smad4 prevent renal fibrosis in vivo ▶     Yoshiyuki Morishita, Hiromichi Yoshizawa, Minami Watanabe et al.     Renal fibrosis is the final common pathway leading to decreased renal function. No therapy has been established to prevent it. In order to establish a therapeutic approach and …             Prediction of post-earthquake depressive and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal resting-state fMRI study ▶     Jinyi Long, Xiaoqi Huang, Yi Liao et al.     Neurobiological markers of stress symptom progression for healthy survivors from a disaster (e.g., an earthquake) would greatly help with early intervention to prevent the …             Impact of Recombinant Globular Adiponectin on Early Warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Rat Bile Duct after Liver Transplantation ▶     Yang Xia, Jian-Ping Gong     Adiponectin (APN) is an adipocyte protein with anti-diabetic properties, which has been recently revealed to have anti-inflammatory activity in organ ischemia- reperfusion injury …             Pathogenic Eukaryotes in Gut Microbiota of Western Lowland Gorillas as Revealed by Molecular Survey ▶     Ibrahim Hamad, Mamadou B. Keita, Martine Peeters et al.     Although gorillas regarded as the largest extant species of primates and have a close phylogenetic relationship with humans, eukaryotic communities have not been previously …             Novel lentiviral vectors with mutated reverse transcriptase for mRNA delivery of TALE nucleases ▶     Ulrike Mock, Kristoffer Riecken, Belinda Berdien et al.     TAL-effector nucleases (TALENs) are attractive tools for sequence-specific genome modifications, but their delivery still remains problematic. It is well known that the presence …             A miR-199a/miR-214 Self-Regulatory Network via PSMD10, TP53 and DNMT1 in Testicular Germ Cell Tumor ▶     Bi-Feng Chen, Yick-Keung Suen, Shen Gu et al.     It was previously demonstrated that microRNA-199a (miR-199a) was down-regulated in testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) partially caused by hypermethylation of its promoter. …             Describing Myxococcus xanthus Aggregation Using Ostwald Ripening Equations for Thin Liquid Films ▶     Fatmagül Bahar, Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga, Stuart Angus et al.     When starved, a swarm of millions of Myxococcus xanthus cells coordinate their movement from outward swarming to inward coalescence. The cells then execute a synchronous program …             A broad spectrum of genomic changes in latinamerican patients with EXT1/EXT2-CDG ▶     M. A. Delgado, G. Martinez-Domenech, P. Sarrión et al.     Multiple osteochondromatosis (MO), or EXT1/EXT2-CDG, is an autosomal dominant O-linked glycosylation disorder characterized by the formation of multiple cartilage-capped tumors …             Aggregation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 sequesters its specific interacting partners into inclusions: Implication in a loss-of-function pathology ▶     Hui Yang, Jing-Jing Li, Shuai Liu et al.     Expansion of polyglutamine (polyQ) tract may cause protein misfolding and aggregation that lead to cytotoxicity and neurodegeneration, but the underlying mechanism remains to be …             A gene expression signature-based approach reveals the mechanisms of action of the Chinese herbal medicine berberine ▶     Kuen-Haur Lee, Hsiang-Ling Lo, Wan-Chun Tang et al.     Berberine (BBR), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, was shown to display anticancer activity. In this study, we attempted to provide a global view of the molecular pathways …             On-chip immobilization of planarians for in vivo imaging ▶     Joseph P. Dexter, Mary B. Tamme, Christine H. Lind et al.     Planarians are an important model organism for regeneration and stem cell research. A complete understanding of stem cell and regeneration dynamics in these animals requires …             Histone deacetylases inhibition by SAHA/Vorinostat normalizes the glioma microenvironment via xCT equilibration ▶     Ines M. L. Wolf, Zheng Fan, Manfred Rauh et al.     Malignant gliomas are characterized by neurodegenerative actions leading to the destruction of surrounding brain parenchyma. The disturbance in glutamate homeostasis caused by …             Micromonospora from nitrogen fixing nodules of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). A new promising Plant Probiotic Bacteria. ▶     Pilar Martínez-Hidalgo, Purificación Galindo-Villardón, José M. Igual et al.     Biotic interactions can improve agricultural productivity without costly and environmentally challenging inputs. Micromonospora strains have recently been reported as natural …             Rapid comparison and correlation analysis among massive number of microbial community samples based on MDV data model ▶     Xiaoquan Su, Jianqiang Hu, Shi Huang et al.     The research in microbial communities would potentially impact a vast number of applications in “bio”-related disciplines. Large-scale analyses became a clear trend in microbial …             Nickel oxide nanoparticles film produced by dead biomass of filamentous fungus ▶     Marcia Regina Salvadori, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa     The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles in film form using dead biomass of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus aculeatus as reducing agent represents an environmentally …             Real Time Ligand-Induced Motion Mappings of AChBP and nAChR Using X-ray Single Molecule Tracking ▶     Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Yasuhito Suzuki, Yuri Nishino et al.     We observed the dynamic three-dimensional (3D) single molecule behaviour of acetylcholine-binding protein (AChBP) and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) using a single …             Stem cell senescence. Effects of REAC technology on telomerase-independent and telomerase-dependent pathways ▶     S. Rinaldi, M. Maioli, G. Pigliaru et al.     Decline in the gene expression of senescence repressor Bmi1, and telomerase, together with telomere shortening, underlay senescence of stem cells cultured for multiple passages. …             Demographic response of cutlassfish (Trichiurus japonicus and T. nanhaiensis) to fluctuating palaeo-climate and regional oceanographic conditions in the China seas ▶     Lijun He, Aibing Zhang, David Weese et al.     Glacial cycles of the Quaternary have heavily influenced the demographic history of various species. 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