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15 January 2013  • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now. Jump to the content that matters to you ? Biological Sciences ? Chemical Sciences ? Physical Sciences ? Earth & Environmental Sciences Biological Sciences ? top Surprise maximization reveals the community structure of complex networks ? Rodrigo Aldecoa, Ignacio Marín How to determine the community structure of complex networks is an open question. It is critical to establish the best strategies for community detection in networks of unknown … CSN5 specifically interacts with CDK2 and controls senescence in a cytoplasmic cyclin E-mediated manner ? Akihiro Yoshida, Noriko Yoneda-Kato, Jun-ya Kato The fifth component (CSN5) of the mammalian COP9 signalosome complex plays an essential role in cell proliferation and senescence, but its molecular mediator remains to be … The VMP1-Beclin 1 interaction regulates autophagy induction ? Maria I. Molejon, Alejandro Ropolo, Andrea Lo Re et al. The Vacuole Membrane Protein 1 -VMP1- is a pancreatitis-associated transmembrane protein whose expression triggers autophagy in several human diseases. In the current study, we … Controlled variations in stimulus similarity during learning determine visual discrimination capacity in freely moving mice ? Mario Treviño, Tatiana Oviedo, Patrick Jendritza et al. The mouse is receiving growing interest as a model organism for studying visual perception. However, little is known about how discrimination and learning interact to produce … Functional multiplex reporter assay using tagged Gaussia luciferase ? Sjoerd van Rijn, Jonas Nilsson, David P. Noske et al. We have developed a multiplex reporter system to monitor multiple biological variables in real-time. The secreted Gaussialuciferase was fused to ten different epitope tags (Gluc… Long-term change in a meso-predator community in response to prolonged and heterogeneous human impact ? Francesco Ferretti, Giacomo C. Osio, Chris J. Jenkins et al. Sharks and rays' abundance can decline considerably with fishing. Community changes, however, are more complex because of species interactions, and variable vulnerability and … Viewing men's faces does not lead to accurate predictions of trustworthiness ? Charles Efferson, Sonja Vogt The evolution of cooperation requires some mechanism that reduces the risk of exploitation for cooperative individuals. Recent studies have shown that men with wide faces are … Cholera in Haiti: Reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates ? Zindoga Mukandavire, David L. Smith, J. Glenn Morris Jr Cholera reappeared in Haiti in October, 2010 after decades of absence. Cases were first detected in Artibonite region and in the ensuing months the disease spread to every … Immune profiling with a Salmonella Typhi antigen microarray identifies new diagnostic biomarkers of human typhoid ? Li Liang, Silvia Juarez, Tran Vu Thieu Nga et al. Current serological diagnostic assays for typhoid fever are based on detecting antibodies against Salmonella LPS or flagellum, resulting in a high false-positive rate. Here we … Murine Colitis is Mediated by Vimentin ? Nirit Mor-Vaknin, Maureen Legendre, Yue Yu et al. Vimentin, an abundant intermediate filament protein, presumably has an important role in stabilizing intracellular architecture, but its function is otherwise poorly understood. … Developmental processes in face perception ? Christoph D. Dahl, Malte J. Rasch, Masaki Tomonaga et al. Understanding the developmental origins of face recognition has been the goal of many studies of various approaches. Contributions of experience-expectant mechanisms (early … Genetic origins of social networks in rhesus macaques ? Lauren J. N. Brent, Sarah R. Heilbronner, Julie E. Horvath et al. Sociality is believed to have evolved as a strategy for animals to cope with their environments. Yet the genetic basis of sociality remains unclear. Here we provide evidence that … p38 MAPK mediates calcium oxalate crystal-induced tight junction disruption in distal renal tubular epithelial cells ? Paleerath Peerapen, Visith Thongboonkerd We examined whether p38 MAPK plays role in calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystal-induced tight junction disruption. Polarized MDCK cells were pretreated with or without 20 µM … ERRATUM: Acquired immunity of transgenic torenia plants overexpressing agmatine coumaroyltransferase to pathogens and herbivore pests ? Atsushi Muroi, Kenji Matsui, Takeshi Shimoda et al. Function of Shaker potassium channels produced by cell-free translation upon injection intoXenopus oocytes ? Brian W. Jarecki, Shin-ichi Makino, Emily T. Beebe et al. Voltage-gated ion channels are a class of membrane proteins that temporally orchestrate the ion flux critical for chemical and electrical signaling in excitable cells. Current … Competition Drives Clumpy Species Coexistence in Estuarine Phytoplankton ? A. M. Segura, C. Kruk, D. Calliari et al. Understanding the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity is a fundamental problem in ecology. Competition is thought to reduce diversity, but hundreds of microbial aquatic primary … Increased NR2A:NR2B ratio compresses long-term depression range and constrains long-term memory ? Zhenzhong Cui, Ruiben Feng, Stephanie Jacobs et al. The NR2A:NR2B subunit ratio of the NMDA receptors is widely known to increase in the brain from postnatal development to sexual maturity and to aging, yet its impact on memory … Discovery of highly potent acid ceramidase inhibitors with in vitro tumor chemosensitizing activity ? Natalia Realini, Carlos Solorzano, Chiara Pagliuca et al. The expression of acid ceramidase (AC) – a cysteine amidase that hydrolyses the proapoptotic lipid ceramide – is abnormally high in several human tumors, which is suggestive of a … Blockade of CD47 increases survival of mice exposed to lethal total body irradiation ? David R. Soto-Pantoja, Lisa A. Ridnour, David A. Wink et al. Accidental or therapeutic total body exposure to ionizing radiation has profound pathophysiological consequences including acute radiation syndrome. Currently only investigational … Applying Shannon's information theory to bacterial and phage genomes and metagenomes ? Sajia Akhter, Barbara A. Bailey, Peter Salamon et al. All sequence data contain inherent information that can be measured by Shannon's uncertainty theory. Such measurement is valuable in evaluating large data sets, such as … Chemical Sciences ? top Stable acyclic aliphatic solid enols: synthesis, characterization, X-ray structure analysis and calculations ? Yu-Qiang Zhou, Nai-Xing Wang, Yalan Xing et al. A synthetic approach to stable enols was introduced and series of acyclic aliphatic solid enols were obtained and characterized. Relationship between the structure and the … Control Self-Assembly of Hydrazide-Based Cyclic Hexamers: In or Out ? Yong Yang, Fei Huang, Chuan-Feng Chen et al. By moving the alkoxy group on the spacer from position 5 to position 4 to add another protocol for the algorithm for intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding … Ionic Liquid Co-catalyzed Artificial Photosynthesis of CO ? Jinliang Lin, Zhengxin Ding, Yidong Hou et al. The conversion of CO2 to chemical feedstocks is of great importance, which yet requires the activation of thermodynamically-stable CO2 by metal catalysts or metalloenzymes. … Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cell with Unprecedentedly High Photocurrent ? Jin-Wook Lee, Dae-Yong Son, Tae Kyu Ahn et al. The reported photocurrent density (JSC) of PbS quantum dot (QD)-sensitized solar cell was less than 19 mA/cm2 despite the capability to generate 38 mA/cm2, which results from … Physical Sciences ? top Stable acyclic aliphatic solid enols: synthesis, characterization, X-ray structure analysis and calculations ? Yu-Qiang Zhou, Nai-Xing Wang, Yalan Xing et al. A synthetic approach to stable enols was introduced and series of acyclic aliphatic solid enols were obtained and characterized. Relationship between the structure and the … Control Self-Assembly of Hydrazide-Based Cyclic Hexamers: In or Out ? Yong Yang, Fei Huang, Chuan-Feng Chen et al. By moving the alkoxy group on the spacer from position 5 to position 4 to add another protocol for the algorithm for intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding … Perfect anti-reflection from first principles ? Kyoung-Ho Kim, Q-Han Park Reducing unwanted reflections through impedance matching, called anti-reflection, has long been an important challenge in optics and electrical engineering. Beyond trial and error … Direct observation of Lomer-Cottrell Locks during strain hardening in nanocrystalline nickel byin situ TEM ? Joon Hwan Lee, Troy B. Holland, Amiya K. Mukherjee et al. Strain hardening capability is critical for metallic materials to achieve high ductility during plastic deformation. A majority of nanocrystalline metals, however, have inherently …