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19 July 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Chemical Sciences               Molecular Signature of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Simultaneous Nanomolar Detection of Quorum Sensing Signaling Molecules at a Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode ▶     Alyah Buzid, Fengjun Shang, F. Jerry Reen et al.     Electroanalysis was performed using a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode for the simultaneous detection of 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4-quinolone (PQS), 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline …             Fabrication of Mediatorless/Membraneless Glucose/Oxygen Based Biofuel Cell using Biocatalysts Including Glucose Oxidase and Laccase Enzymes ▶     Marcelinus Christwardana, Ki Jae Kim, Yongchai Kwon     Mediatorless and membraneless enzymatic biofuel cells (EBCs) employing new catalytic structure are fabricated. Regarding anodic catalyst, structure consisting of glucose oxidase …             Modular, Antibody-free Time-Resolved LRET Kinase Assay Enabled by Quantum Dots and Tb3+-sensitizing Peptides ▶     Wei Cui, Laurie L. Parker     Fluorescent drug screening assays are essential for tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovery. Here we demonstrate a flexible, antibody-free TR-LRET kinase assay strategy that is …             Thiolate–Protected Gold Nanoparticles Via Physical Approach: Unusual Structural and Photophysical Characteristics ▶     Yohei Ishida, Ikumi Akita, Taiki Sumi et al.     Here we report a novel physical approach for thiolate–protected fluorescent gold nanoparticles with a controlled size of the order of a few nanometers. This approach is based on …             Secondary coordination sphere accelerates hole transfer for enhanced hydrogen photogeneration from [FeFe]-hydrogenase mimic and CdSe QDs in water ▶     Min Wen, Xu-Bing Li, Jing-Xin Jian et al.     Achieving highly efficient hydrogen (H2) evolution via artificial photosynthesis is a great ambition pursued by scientists in recent decades because H2 has high specific enthalpy …             Gas-phase hydrolysis of triplet SO2: A possible direct route to atmospheric acid formation ▶     D. James Donaldson, Jay A. Kroll, Veronica Vaida     Sulfur chemistry is of great interest to the atmospheric chemistry of several planets. In the presence of water, oxidized sulfur can lead to new particle formation, influencing …             Exogenous feeding of immediate precursors reveals synergistic effect on picroside-I biosynthesis in shoot cultures of Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth ▶     Varun Kumar, Neha Sharma, Hemant Sood et al.     In the current study, we asked how the supply of immediate biosynthetic precursors i.e. cinnamic acid (CA) and catalpol (CAT) influences the synthesis of picroside-I (P-I) in …             Strip-Pattern-Spheres Self-Assembled from Polypeptide-Based Polymer Mixtures: Structure and Defect Features ▶     Xingyu Zhu, Zhou Guan, Jiaping Lin et al.     We found that poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) (PBLG-b-PEG) rod-coil block copolymers and polystyrene (PS) homopolymers can cooperatively self-assemble into …             Uncovering the Relationship between Sulphation Patterns and Conformation of Iduronic Acid in Heparan Sulphate ▶     Po-Hung Hsieh, David F. Thieker, Marco Guerrini et al.     The L-iduronic acid (IdoA) residue is a critically important structural component in heparan sulphate polysaccharide for the biological functions. The pyranose ring of IdoA is …             Highly Selective Enrichment of Glycopeptides Based on Zwitterionically Functionalized Soluble Nanopolymers ▶     Weiqian Cao, Jiangming Huang, Biyun Jiang et al.     Efficient glycopeptides enrichment prior to mass spectrometry analysis is essential for glycoproteome study. ZIC-HILIC (zwitterionic hydrophilic interaction liquid …             Methodology for Quantitative Characterization of Fluorophore Photoswitching to Predict Superresolution Microscopy Image Quality ▶     Amy M. Bittel, Andrew Nickerson, Isaac S. Saldivar et al.     Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) image quality and resolution strongly depend on the photoswitching properties of fluorophores used for sample labeling. Development …             Hybrid Cluster Precursors of the LaZrO Insulator for Transistors: Properties of High-Temperature-Processed Films and Structures of Solutions, Gels, and Solids ▶     Jinwang Li, Peixin Zhu, Daisuke Hirose et al.     In the solution processing of oxide electronics, the structure of metal–organic precursors in solution and their effect on processability and on the final structure and …             Radicalization and Radical Catalysis of Biomass Sugars: Insights from First-principles Studies ▶     Gang Yang, Chang Zhu, Xianli Zou et al.     Ab initio and density functional calculations are conducted to investigate the radicalization processes and radical catalysis of biomass sugars. Structural alterations due to …             Influence of Metal Diboride and Dy2O3 Additions on Microstructure and Properties of MgB2 Fabricated at High Temperatures and under Pressure ▶     Y. Yang, M. D. Sumption, E. W. Collings     High temperatures and under pressure (HTP) processing has been used to study the effects of chemical doping in MgB2. ZrB2, TiB2 and NbB2 were selected as additives since, like MgB…             Beyond endoscopic assessment in inflammatory bowel disease: real-time histology of disease activity by non-linear multimodal imaging ▶     Olga Chernavskaia, Sandro Heuke, Michael Vieth et al.     Assessing disease activity is a prerequisite for an adequate treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. In addition to …             Polymeric nanocapsules with up-converting nanocrystals cargo make ideal fluorescent bioprobes ▶     U. Bazylińska, D. Wawrzyńczyk, J. Kulbacka et al.     An innovative approach for up-converting nanoparticles adaptation for bio-related and theranostic applications is presented. We have successfully encapsulated multiple, ~8 nm in …             ZIF-8 Derived, Nitrogen-Doped Porous Electrodes of Carbon Polyhedron Particles for High-Performance Electrosorption of Salt Ions ▶     Nei-Ling Liu, Saikat Dutta, Rahul R. Salunkhe et al.     Three-dimensional (3-D) ZIF-8 derived carbon polyhedrons with high nitrogen (N) content, (denoted as NC-800) are synthesized for their application as high-performance electrodes …             Iron(II) supramolecular helicates interfere with the HIV-1 Tat–TAR RNA interaction critical for viral replication ▶     Jaroslav Malina, Michael J. Hannon, Viktor Brabec     The interaction between the HIV-1 transactivator protein Tat and TAR (transactivation responsive region) RNA, plays a critical role in HIV-1 transcription. Iron(II) …             Atomic-scale Studies of Uranium Oxidation and Corrosion by Water Vapour ▶     T. L. Martin, C. Coe, P. A. J. Bagot et al.     Understanding the corrosion of uranium is important for its safe, long-term storage. Uranium metal corrodes rapidly in air, but the exact mechanism remains subject to debate. …             Promising Tools in Prostate Cancer Research: Selective Non-Steroidal Cytochrome P450 17A1 Inhibitors ▶     Silvia Bonomo, Cecilie H. Hansen, Elyse M. Petrunak et al.     Cytochrome P450 17A1 (CYP17A1) is an important target in the treatment of prostate cancer because it produces androgens required for tumour growth. 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