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New Articles in PLoS ONE

Published December 08, 2011 to December 14, 2011

If articles are interdisciplinary then they may appear under more than one subject heading in the list below.

Subjects:

Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Additive Antinociceptive Effects of a Combination of Vitamin C and Vitamin E after Peripheral Nerve Injury
Ruirui Lu, Wiebke Kallenborn-Gerhardt, Gerd Geisslinger, Achim Schmidtko

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Biochemistry

Hyperdimensional Analysis of Amino Acid Pair Distributions in Proteins
Svend B. Henriksen, Rasmus J. Mortensen, Henrik M. Geertz-Hansen, Maria Teresa Neves-Petersen, Omar Arnason, Jón Söring, Steffen B. Petersen

Mitochondrial Haplogroups, Control Region Polymorphisms and Malignant Melanoma: A Study in Middle European Caucasians
Sabine Ebner, Roland Lang, Edith E. Mueller, Waltraud Eder, Michaela Oeller, Alexandra Moser, Josef Koller, Bernhard Paulweber, Johannes A. Mayr, Wolfgang Sperl, Barbara Kofler

Osteopontin and Fibronectin Levels Are Decreased in Vitreous of Autoimmune Uveitis and Retinal Expression of Both Proteins Indicates ECM Re-Modeling
Cornelia A. Deeg, Christina Eberhardt, Florian Hofmaier, Barbara Amann, Stefanie M. Hauck

A Crucial Role in Fertility for the Oyster Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Orthologue CgACE
Guillaume Riviere, Alexandre Fellous, Alban Franco, Benoit Bernay, Pascal Favrel

Deriving Mechanisms Responsible for the Lack of Correlation between Hypoxia and Acidity in Solid Tumors
Hamid R. Molavian, Mohammad Kohandel, Michael Milosevic, Sivabal Sivaloganathan

Hypoxia Due to Cardiac Arrest Induces a Time-Dependent Increase in Serum Amyloid β Levels in Humans
Henrik Zetterberg, Erik Mörtberg, Linan Song, Lei Chang, Gail K. Provuncher, Purvish P. Patel, Evan Ferrell, David R. Fournier, Cheuk W. Kan, Todd G. Campbell, Ray Meyer, Andrew J. Rivnak, Brian A. Pink, Kaitlin A. Minnehan, Tomasz Piech, David M. Rissin, David C. Duffy, Sten Rubertsson, David H. Wilson, Kaj Blennow

Skeletal Muscle-Specific Expression of PGC-1α-b, an Exercise-Responsive Isoform, Increases Exercise Capacity and Peak Oxygen Uptake
Miki Tadaishi, Shinji Miura, Yuko Kai, Yutaka Kano, Yuichi Oishi, Osamu Ezaki

Genome Characterization of the Oleaginous Fungus Mortierella alpina
Lei Wang, Wei Chen, Yun Feng, Yan Ren, Zhennan Gu, Haiqin Chen, Hongchao Wang, Michael J. Thomas, Baixi Zhang, Isabelle M. Berquin, Yang Li, Jiansheng Wu, Huanxin Zhang, Yuanda Song, Xiang Liu, James S. Norris, Suriguga Wang, Peng Du, Junguo Shen, Na Wang, Yanlin Yang, Wei Wang, Lu Feng, Colin Ratledge, Hao Zhang, Yong Q. Chen

XPA-Mediated Regulation of Global Nucleotide Excision Repair by ATR Is p53-Dependent and Occurs Primarily in S-Phase
Zhengke Li, Phillip R. Musich, Moises A. Serrano, Zhiping Dong, Yue Zou

Juvenile Hormone (JH) Esterase of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Is Not a Target of the JH Analog Insecticide Methoprene
Shizuo G. Kamita, Aman I. Samra, Jun-Yan Liu, Anthony J. Cornel, Bruce D. Hammock

Development of Derivatives of 3, 3′-Diindolylmethane as Potent Leishmania donovani Bi-Subunit Topoisomerase IB Poisons
Amit Roy, Sayan Chowdhury, Souvik Sengupta, Madhumita Mandal, Parasuraman Jaisankar, Ilda D'Annessa, Alessandro Desideri, Hemanta K. Majumder

N-3 PUFA Supplementation Triggers PPAR-α Activation and PPAR-α/NF-κB Interaction: Anti-Inflammatory Implications in Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Jessica Zúñiga, Milena Cancino, Fernando Medina, Patricia Varela, Romina Vargas, Gladys Tapia, Luis A. Videla, Virginia Fernández

FSP27 Promotes Lipid Droplet Clustering and Then Fusion to Regulate Triglyceride Accumulation
Srikarthika Jambunathan, Jun Yin, Waheed Khan, Yoshikazu Tamori, Vishwajeet Puri

ProKinO: An Ontology for Integrative Analysis of Protein Kinases in Cancer
Gurinder Gosal, Krys J. Kochut, Natarajan Kannan

Cigarette Smoking and p16INK4α Gene Promoter Hypermethylation in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Patients: A Meta-Analysis
Bo Zhang, Wei Zhu, Ping Yang, Tao Liu, Mei Jiang, Zhi-Ni He, Shi-Xin Zhang, Wei-Qing Chen, Wen Chen

Proteome Changes Driven by Phosphorus Deficiency and Recovery in the Brown Tide-Forming Alga Aureococcus anophagefferens
Louie L. Wurch, Erin M. Bertrand, Mak A. Saito, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Sonya T. Dyhrman

The Myxococcus xanthus Spore Cuticula Protein C Is a Fragment of FibA, an Extracellular Metalloprotease Produced Exclusively in Aggregated Cells
Bongsoo Lee, Petra Mann, Vidhi Grover, Anke Treuner-Lange, Jörg Kahnt, Penelope I. Higgs

Mutations Altering the Interplay between GkDnaC Helicase and DNA Reveal an Insight into Helicase Unwinding
Yu-Hua Lo, Shih-Wei Liu, Yuh-Ju Sun, Hung-Wen Li, Chwan-Deng Hsiao

Expression of Mir-21 and Mir-143 in Cervical Specimens Ranging from Histologically Normal through to Invasive Cervical Cancer
Georgios Deftereos, Simon R. Corrie, Qinghua Feng, Janice Morihara, Joshua Stern, Stephen E. Hawes, Nancy B. Kiviat

Chymase-Dependent Generation of Angiotensin II from Angiotensin-(1-12) in Human Atrial Tissue
Sarfaraz Ahmad, Tony Simmons, Jasmina Varagic, Norihito Moniwa, Mark C. Chappell, Carlos M. Ferrario

Angiogenin Enhances Cell Migration by Regulating Stress Fiber Assembly and Focal Adhesion Dynamics
Saisai Wei, Xiangwei Gao, Juan Du, Jinfeng Su, Zhengping Xu

Analyzing and Mapping Sweat Metabolomics by High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy
Viktor P. Kutyshenko, Maxim Molchanov, Peter Beskaravayny, Vladimir N. Uversky, Maria A. Timchenko

A Novel N-Acetylglutamate Synthase Architecture Revealed by the Crystal Structure of the Bifunctional Enzyme from Maricaulis maris
Dashuang Shi, Yongdong Li, Juan Cabrera-Luque, Zhongmin Jin, Xiaolin Yu, Gengxiang Zhao, Nantaporn Haskins, Norma M. Allewell, Mendel Tuchman

An Ebox Element in the Proximal Gata4 Promoter Is Required for Gata4 Expression In Vivo
Alain Boulende Sab, Marie-France Bouchard, Mélanie Béland, Bruno Prud'homme, Ouliana Souchkova, Robert S. Viger, Nicolas Pilon

Chimeras of Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Single-Stranded DNA Binding Proteins: Characterization and Function in Escherichia coli
Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Kervin Rex, Pujari Sreedhar, Neeraja Krishnan, Umesh Varshney

Diverging Mechanisms of Activation of Chemokine Receptors Revealed by Novel Chemokine Agonists
Jose Sarmiento, Christie Shumate, Katsutoshi Suetomi, Aishwarya Ravindran, León Villegas, Krishna Rajarathnam, Javier Navarro

Characterization of the Partitioning System of Myxococcus Plasmid pMF1
Xia Sun, Xiao-jing Chen, Jing Feng, Jing-yi Zhao, Yue-zhong Li

Premature Decline of Serum Total Testosterone in HIV-Infected Men in the HAART-Era
Vincenzo Rochira, Lucia Zirilli, Gabriella Orlando, Daniele Santi, Giulia Brigante, Chiara Diazzi, Federica Carli, Cesare Carani, Giovanni Guaraldi

BAT3 Guides Misfolded Glycoproteins Out of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Jasper H. L. Claessen, Hidde L. Ploegh

Aspergillus Myosin-V Supports Polarized Growth in the Absence of Microtubule-Based Transport
Jun Zhang, Kaeling Tan, Xufeng Wu, Guifang Chen, Jinjin Sun, Samara L. Reck-Peterson, John A. Hammer, Xin Xiang

Effect of Ca2+ Channel Block on Glycerol Metabolism in Dunaliella salina under Hypoosmotic and Hyperosmotic Stresses
Hui Chen, Shan-Li Chen, Jian-Guo Jiang

Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant
Miki Ben-Dor, Avi Gopher, Israel Hershkovitz, Ran Barkai

Heteromeric Anopheline Odorant Receptors Exhibit Distinct Channel Properties
Gregory M. Pask, Patrick L. Jones, Michael Rützler, David C. Rinker, Laurence J. Zwiebel

Macrophage LRP1 Suppresses Neo-Intima Formation during Vascular Remodeling by Modulating the TGF-β Signaling Pathway
Selen Catania Muratoglu, Shani Belgrave, Anna P. Lillis, Mary Migliorini, Susan Robinson, Elizabeth Smith, Li Zhang, Dudley K. Strickland

GlyGly-CTERM and Rhombosortase: A C-Terminal Protein Processing Signal in a Many-to-One Pairing with a Rhomboid Family Intramembrane Serine Protease
Daniel H. Haft, Neha Varghese

Involvement of Dopamine Receptors in Binge Methamphetamine-Induced Activation of Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondrial Stress Pathways
Genevieve Beauvais, Kenisha Atwell, Subramaniam Jayanthi, Bruce Ladenheim, Jean Lud Cadet

Understanding and Classifying Metabolite Space and Metabolite-Likeness
Julio E. Peironcely, Theo Reijmers, Leon Coulier, Andreas Bender, Thomas Hankemeier

Identification of a Novel Gene for Biosynthesis of a Bacteroid-Specific Electron Carrier Menaquinone
Fuli Xie, Guojun Cheng, Hui Xu, Zhi Wang, Lei Lei, Youguo Li

Branched Chain Fatty Acids Reduce the Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Alter Gastrointestinal Microbial Ecology in a Neonatal Rat Model
Rinat R. Ran-Ressler, Ludmila Khailova, Kelly M. Arganbright, Camille K. Adkins-Rieck, Zeina E. Jouni, Omry Koren, Ruth E. Ley, J. Thomas Brenna, Bohuslav Dvorak

Cationic Amino Acid Transporter 2 Enhances Innate Immunity during Helicobacter pylori Infection
Daniel P. Barry, Mohammad Asim, Brooks P. Scull, M. Blanca Piazuelo, Thibaut de Sablet, Nuruddeen D. Lewis, Lori A. Coburn, Kshipra Singh, Lesley G. Ellies, Alain P. Gobert, Rupesh Chaturvedi, Keith T. Wilson

LPA Is a Chemorepellent for B16 Melanoma Cells: Action through the cAMP-Elevating LPA5 Receptor
Maikel Jongsma, Elisa Matas-Rico, Adrian Rzadkowski, Kees Jalink, Wouter H. Moolenaar

A Novel Neurotrophic Drug for Cognitive Enhancement and Alzheimer's Disease
Qi Chen, Marguerite Prior, Richard Dargusch, Amanda Roberts, Roland Riek, Cédric Eichmann, Chandramouli Chiruta, Tatsuhiro Akaishi, Kazuho Abe, Pamela Maher, David Schubert

Roles of the DYRK Kinase Pom2 in Cytokinesis, Mitochondrial Morphology, and Sporulation in Fission Yeast
Pengcheng Wu, Ran Zhao, Yanfang Ye, Jian-Qiu Wu

Flip-Flop of Phospholipids in Proteoliposomes Reconstituted from Detergent Extract of Chloroplast Membranes: Kinetics and Phospholipid Specificity
Archita Rajasekharan, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi

Development of Allele-Specific Therapeutic siRNA in Meesmann Epithelial Corneal Dystrophy
Haihui Liao, Alan D. Irvine, Caroline J. MacEwen, Kathryn H. Weed, Louise Porter, Laura D. Corden, A. Bethany Gibson, Jonathan E. Moore, Frances J. D. Smith, W. H. Irwin McLean, C. B. Tara Moore

Developmental Defects in Mutants of the PsbP Domain Protein 5 in Arabidopsis thaliana
Johnna L. Roose, Laurie K. Frankel, Terry M. Bricker

Quantification of Trace-Level DNA by Real-Time Whole Genome Amplification
Min-Jung Kang, Hannah Yu, Sook-Kyung Kim, Sang-Ryoul Park, Inchul Yang

An Enhanced Monomeric Blue Fluorescent Protein with the High Chemical Stability of the Chromophore
Oksana M. Subach, Paula J. Cranfill, Michael W. Davidson, Vladislav V. Verkhusha

Essential Factors for Incompatible DNA End Joining at Chromosomal DNA Double Strand Breaks In Vivo
Hideaki Ogiwara, Takashi Kohno

Resveratrol, by Modulating RNA Processing Factor Levels, Can Influence the Alternative Splicing of Pre-mRNAs
M. Andrea Markus, Francine Z. Marques, Brian J. Morris

A Novel Peptide Derived from Human Pancreatitis-Associated Protein Inhibits Inflammation In Vivo and In Vitro and Blocks NF-Kappa B Signaling Pathway
Xiaolu Yang, Huiyi Jin, Kun Liu, Qing Gu, Xun Xu

The Impact of Focused Gene Ontology Curation of Specific Mammalian Systems
Yasmin Alam-Faruque, Rachael P. Huntley, Varsha K. Khodiyar, Evelyn B. Camon, Emily C. Dimmer, Tony Sawford, Maria J. Martin, Claire O'Donovan, Philippa J. Talmud, Peter Scambler, Rolf Apweiler, Ruth C. Lovering

Identifying Hosts of Families of Viruses: A Machine Learning Approach
Anil Raj, Michael Dewar, Gustavo Palacios, Raul Rabadan, Christopher H. Wiggins

Role of Collagens and Perlecan in Microvascular Stability: Exploring the Mechanism of Capillary Vessel Damage by Snake Venom Metalloproteinases
Teresa Escalante, Natalia Ortiz, Alexandra Rucavado, Eladio F. Sanchez, Michael Richardson, Jay W. Fox, José María Gutiérrez

Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Cell Death Process in Candida albicans Treated by Antifungal Agents
Kyung Sook Kim, Young-Sun Kim, Ihn Han, Mi-Hyun Kim, Min Hyung Jung, Hun-Kuk Park

Resting-State Brain Organization Revealed by Functional Covariance Networks
Zhiqiang Zhang, Wei Liao, Xi-Nian Zuo, Zhengge Wang, Cuiping Yuan, Qing Jiao, Huafu Chen, Bharat B. Biswal, Guangming Lu, Yijun Liu

Membrane-Lipid Therapy in Operation: The HSP Co-Inducer BGP-15 Activates Stress Signal Transduction Pathways by Remodeling Plasma Membrane Rafts
Imre Gombos, Tim Crul, Stefano Piotto, Burcin Güngör, Zsolt Török, Gábor Balogh, Mária Péter, J. Peter Slotte, Federica Campana, Ana-Maria Pilbat, Ákos Hunya, Noémi Tóth, Zsuzsanna Literati-Nagy, László Vígh, Attila Glatz, Mario Brameshuber, Gerhard J. Schütz, Andrea Hevener, Mark A. Febbraio, Ibolya Horváth, László Vígh

Androgen Regulation of 5α-Reductase Isoenzymes in Prostate Cancer: Implications for Prostate Cancer Prevention
Jin Li, Zhiyong Ding, Zhengxin Wang, Jing-Fang Lu, Sankar N. Maity, Nora M. Navone, Christopher J. Logothetis, Gordon B. Mills, Jeri Kim

TTF-1 Action on the Transcriptional Regulation of Cyclooxygenase-2 Gene in the Rat Brain
Chang Ho Yun, Jae Geun Kim, Byong Seo Park, Hye Myeong Lee, Dong Hee Kim, Eun Ok Kim, Joong Jean Park, Jeong Woo Park, Giuseppe Damante, Young Il Kim, Byung Ju Lee

Circulating TRAIL Shows a Significant Post-Partum Decline Associated to Stressful Conditions
Giorgio Zauli, Lorenzo Monasta, Erika Rimondi, Liza Vecchi Brumatti, Oriano Radillo, Luca Ronfani, Marcella Montico, Giuseppina D'Ottavio, Salvatore Alberico, Paola Secchiero

Beyond Bacteria: A Study of the Enteric Microbial Consortium in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
Mariam Susan LaTuga, Joseph Christopher Ellis, Charles Michael Cotton, Ronald N. Goldberg, James L. Wynn, Robert B. Jackson, Patrick C. Seed

The Interaction of Canine Plasminogen with Streptococcus pyogenes Enolase: They Bind to One Another but What Is the Nature of the Structures Involved?
M. Judith Kornblatt, Jack A. Kornblatt, Mark A. Hancock

Improved siRNA/shRNA Functionality by Mismatched Duplex
Haoquan Wu, Hongming Ma, Chunting Ye, Danielle Ramirez, Shuiping Chen, Jessica Montoya, Premlata Shankar, Xiaozhong A. Wang, N. Manjunath

PEGylation Potentiates the Effectiveness of an Antagonistic Peptide That Targets the EphB4 Receptor with Nanomolar Affinity
Roberta Noberini, Sayantan Mitra, Ombretta Salvucci, Fatima Valencia, Srinivas Duggineni, Natalie Prigozhina, Ke Wei, Giovanna Tosato, Ziwei Huang, Elena B. Pasquale

Cell-Free Protein Expression under Macromolecular Crowding Conditions
Xumeng Ge, Dan Luo, Jianfeng Xu

Measuring Dissociation Rate Constants of Protein Complexes through Subunit Exchange: Experimental Design and Theoretical Modeling
Chongle Pan

T Cells Recognizing a Peptide Contaminant Undetectable by Mass Spectrometry
Vedran Brezar, Slobodan Culina, Thomas Østerbye, François Guillonneau, Giovanni Chiappetta, Yann Verdier, Joelle Vinh, F. Susan Wong, Søren Buus, Roberto Mallone

Quantification Bias Caused by Plasmid DNA Conformation in Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay
Chih-Hui Lin, Yu-Chieh Chen, Tzu-Ming Pan

Prediction of Protein Modification Sites of Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid Using mRMR Feature Selection and Analysis
Lu-Lu Zheng, Shen Niu, Pei Hao, KaiYan Feng, Yu-Dong Cai, Yixue Li

Exploiting a Reduced Set of Weighted Average Features to Improve Prediction of DNA-Binding Residues from 3D Structures
Yi Xiong, Junfeng Xia, Wen Zhang, Juan Liu

Active Site Detection by Spatial Conformity and Electrostatic Analysis—Unravelling a Proteolytic Function in Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase
Sandeep Chakraborty, Renu Minda, Lipika Salaye, Swapan K. Bhattacharjee, Basuthkar J. Rao

Antitumor Activity of a Novel Oncrasin Analogue Is Mediated by JNK Activation and STAT3 Inhibition
Wei Guo, Shuhong Wu, Li Wang, Xiaoli Wei, Xiaoying Liu, Ji Wang, Zhimin Lu, Melinda Hollingshead, Bingliang Fang

Expression of B-RAF V600E in Type II Pneumocytes Causes Abnormalities in Alveolar Formation, Airspace Enlargement and Tumor Formation in Mice
Emanuele Zanucco, Rudolf Götz, Tamara Potapenko, Irene Carraretto, Semra Ceteci, Fatih Ceteci, Werner Seeger, Rajkumar Savai, Ulf R. Rapp

Uncultivated Microbial Eukaryotic Diversity: A Method to Link ssu rRNA Gene Sequences with Morphology
Marissa B. Hirst, Kelley N. Kita, Scott C. Dawson

Viscoelastic Transition and Yield Strain of the Folded Protein
Yong Wang, Giovanni Zocchi

Paxillin Mediates Sensing of Physical Cues and Regulates Directional Cell Motility by Controlling Lamellipodia Positioning
Julia E. Sero, Charles K. Thodeti, Akiko Mammoto, Chris Bakal, Sheila Thomas, Donald E. Ingber

Revealing the Functions of the Transketolase Enzyme Isoforms in Rhodopseudomonas palustris Using a Systems Biology Approach
Chia-Wei Hu, Ya-Ling Chang, Shiang Jiuun Chen, Ling-Long Kuo-Huang, James C. Liao, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Hsueh-Fen Juan

Conserved BK Channel-Protein Interactions Reveal Signals Relevant to Cell Death and Survival
Bernd Sokolowski, Sandra Orchard, Margaret Harvey, Settu Sridhar, Yoshihisa Sakai

Heterogeneous Role of the Glutathione Antioxidant System in Modulating the Response of ESFT to Fenretinide in Normoxia and Hypoxia
Tapiwanashe Magwere, Susan A. Burchill

Dysferlin Interacts with Histone Deacetylase 6 and Increases alpha-Tubulin Acetylation
Sabrina Di Fulvio, Bilal A. Azakir, Christian Therrien, Michael Sinnreich

The Role of the Transcription Factor SIM2 in Prostate Cancer
Bin Lu, John M. Asara, Martin G. Sanda, Mohamed S. Arredouani

Accuracy in Copy Number Calling by qPCR and PRT: A Matter of DNA
Nora Fernandez-Jimenez, Ainara Castellanos-Rubio, Leticia Plaza-Izurieta, Galder Gutierrez, Iñaki Irastorza, Luis Castaño, Juan Carlos Vitoria, Jose Ramon Bilbao

Radiation–Induced Signaling Results in Mitochondrial Impairment in Mouse Heart at 4 Weeks after Exposure to X-Rays
Zarko Barjaktarovic, Dominik Schmaltz, Alena Shyla, Omid Azimzadeh, Sabine Schulz, Julia Haagen, Wolfgang Dörr, Hakan Sarioglu, Alexander Schäfer, Michael J. Atkinson, Hans Zischka, Soile Tapio

Toxicogenomic and Phenotypic Analyses of Bisphenol-A Early-Life Exposure Toxicity in Zebrafish
Siew Hong Lam, Mya Myintzu Hlaing, Xiaoyan Zhang, Chuan Yan, Zhenghua Duan, Lin Zhu, Choong Yong Ung, Sinnakaruppan Mathavan, Choon Nam Ong, Zhiyuan Gong

Latent Epstein-Barr Virus Can Inhibit Apoptosis in B Cells by Blocking the Induction of NOXA Expression
Jade Yee, Robert E. White, Emma Anderton, Martin J. Allday

Smyd1b_tv1, a Key Regulator of Sarcomere Assembly, Is Localized on the M-Line of Skeletal Muscle Fibers
Huiqing Li, Jin Xu, Yue-Hong Bian, Pep Rotllant, Tiansheng Shen, Wuying Chu, Jianshe Zhang, Martin Schneider, Shao Jun Du

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Grown Blood Cultures by Combining Culture and Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Is Rapid and Effective
Judith Beuving, Annelies Verbon, Firza A. Gronthoud, Ellen E. Stobberingh, Petra F. G. Wolffs

Streamlining Homogeneous Glycoprotein Production for Biophysical and Structural Applications by Targeted Cell Line Development
Sonja Wilke, Lothar Groebe, Vitali Maffenbeier, Volker Jäger, Manfred Gossen, Jörn Josewski, Agathe Duda, Lilia Polle, Raymond J. Owens, Dagmar Wirth, Dirk W. Heinz, Joop van den Heuvel, Konrad Büssow

Characterization of Pellicle Inhibition in Gluconacetobacter xylinus 53582 by a Small Molecule, Pellicin, Identified by a Chemical Genetics Screen
Janice L. Strap, Andrew Latos, Isaac Shim, Dario T. Bonetta

Evolution of MicroRNA Genes in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana: An Update of the Inverted Duplication Model
Yun Zhang, Wen-kai Jiang, Li-zhi Gao

Modulation of Phosducin-Like Protein 3 (PhLP3) Levels Promotes Cytoskeletal Remodelling in a MAPK and RhoA-Dependent Manner
Nandini V. L. Hayes, Lyne Jossé, C. Mark Smales, Martin J. Carden

Influence of 17β-Estradiol on Gene Expression of Paracoccidioides during Mycelia-to-Yeast Transition
Jata Shankar, Thomas D. Wu, Karl V. Clemons, Jomar P. Monteiro, Laurence F. Mirels, David A. Stevens

Precise Spatiotemporal Control of Optogenetic Activation Using an Acousto-Optic Device
Kaiyu Wang, Yafeng Liu, Yiding Li, Yanmeng Guo, Peipei Song, Xiaohui Zhang, Shaoqun Zeng, Zuoren Wang

Brucella abortus Choloylglycine Hydrolase Affects Cell Envelope Composition and Host Cell Internalization
María Inés Marchesini, Joseph Connolly, María Victoria Delpino, Pablo C. Baldi, Cesar V. Mujer, Vito G. DelVecchio, Diego J. Comerci

Galectin-1 Is Part of Human Trophoblast Invasion Machinery - A Functional Study In Vitro
Nikola Kolundžić, Žanka Bojić-Trbojević, Tamara Kovačević, Ivana Stefanoska, Toshihiko Kadoya, Ljiljana Vićovac

Prediction of Antibacterial Activity from Physicochemical Properties of Antimicrobial Peptides
Manuel N. Melo, Rafael Ferre, Lídia Feliu, Eduard Bardají, Marta Planas, Miguel A. R. B. Castanho

A Method for the Direct Identification of Differentiating Muscle Cells by a Fluorescent Mitochondrial Dye
Tetsuaki Miyake, John C. McDermott, Anthony O. Gramolini

Nephrin Regulates Lamellipodia Formation by Assembling a Protein Complex That Includes Ship2, Filamin and Lamellipodin
Madhusudan Venkatareddy, Leslie Cook, Kamal Abuarquob, Rakesh Verma, Puneet Garg

Efficient Conversion of Astrocytes to Functional Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons Using a Single Polycistronic Vector
Russell C. Addis, Fu-Chun Hsu, Rebecca L. Wright, Marc A. Dichter, Douglas A. Coulter, John D. Gearhart

The Effect of Arrestin Conformation on the Recruitment of c-Raf1, MEK1, and ERK1/2 Activation
Sergio Coffa, Maya Breitman, Susan M. Hanson, Kari Callaway, Seunghyi Kook, Kevin N. Dalby, Vsevolod V. Gurevich

Quantitative Analysis of miRNA Expression in Seven Human Foetal and Adult Organs
Yanping Tang, Dong Liu, Lijie Zhang, Sigurdur Ingvarsson, Huiping Chen

The Ratio 1660/1690 cm−1 Measured by Infrared Microspectroscopy Is Not Specific of Enzymatic Collagen Cross-Links in Bone Tissue
Delphine Farlay, Marie-Eve Duclos, Evelyne Gineyts, Cindy Bertholon, Stéphanie Viguet-Carrin, Jayakrupakar Nallala, Ganesh D. Sockalingum, Dominique Bertrand, Thierry Roger, Daniel J. Hartmann, Roland Chapurlat, Georges Boivin

Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 Is Associated with Carotid Atherosclerosis and Outcome in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke
Sverre Holm, Thor Ueland, Tuva B. Dahl, Annika E. Michelsen, Mona Skjelland, David Russell, Ståle H. Nymo, Kirsten Krohg-Sørensen, Ole Petter Clausen, Dan Atar, James L. Januzzi, Pål Aukrust, Jesper K. Jensen, Bente Halvorsen

Identifying HER2 Inhibitors from Natural Products Database
Shun-Chieh Yang, Su-Sen Chang, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

The Ankyrin Repeats and DHHC S-acyl Transferase Domain of AKR1 Act Independently to Regulate Switching from Vegetative to Mating States in Yeast
Piers A. Hemsley, Claire S. Grierson

NMR Studies of the C-Terminus of alpha4 Reveal Possible Mechanism of Its Interaction with MID1 and Protein Phosphatase 2A
Haijuan Du, Michael A. Massiah

Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Enzyme ABAD Restores the Amyloid-β-Mediated Deregulation of Estradiol
Yun-An Lim, Amandine Grimm, Maria Giese, Ayikoe Guy Mensah-Nyagan, J. Ernest Villafranca, Lars M. Ittner, Anne Eckert, Jürgen Götz

Phosphorylation of Akt and ERK1/2 Is Required for VEGF-A/VEGFR2-Induced Proliferation and Migration of Lymphatic Endothelium
Michael T. Dellinger, Rolf A. Brekken

Soluble THSD7A Is an N-Glycoprotein That Promotes Endothelial Cell Migration and Tube Formation in Angiogenesis
Meng-Wei Kuo, Chian-Huei Wang, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Shing-Jyh Chang, Yung-Jen Chuang

Dynamics of Responses in Compatible Potato - Potato virus Y Interaction Are Modulated by Salicylic Acid
Špela Baebler, Katja Stare, Maja Kovač, Andrej Blejec, Nina Prezelj, Tjaša Stare, Polona Kogovšek, Maruša Pompe-Novak, Sabine Rosahl, Maja Ravnikar, Kristina Gruden

Identification of Novel Androgen-Regulated Pathways and mRNA Isoforms through Genome-Wide Exon-Specific Profiling of the LNCaP Transcriptome
Prabhakar Rajan, Caroline Dalgliesh, Phillippa J. Carling, Thomas Buist, Chaolin Zhang, Sushma N. Grellscheid, Kelly Armstrong, Jacqueline Stockley, Cedric Simillion, Luke Gaughan, Gabriela Kalna, Michael Q. Zhang, Craig N. Robson, Hing Y. Leung, David J. Elliott

Partner-Aware Prediction of Interacting Residues in Protein-Protein Complexes from Sequence Data
Shandar Ahmad, Kenji Mizuguchi

Polarized Endocytosis of the Keratinocyte Growth Factor Receptor in Migrating Cells: Role of Src-Signaling and Cortactin
Francesca Belleudi, Cristina Scrofani, Maria Rosaria Torrisi, Patrizia Mancini

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Biophysics

Hypoxia Due to Cardiac Arrest Induces a Time-Dependent Increase in Serum Amyloid β Levels in Humans
Henrik Zetterberg, Erik Mörtberg, Linan Song, Lei Chang, Gail K. Provuncher, Purvish P. Patel, Evan Ferrell, David R. Fournier, Cheuk W. Kan, Todd G. Campbell, Ray Meyer, Andrew J. Rivnak, Brian A. Pink, Kaitlin A. Minnehan, Tomasz Piech, David M. Rissin, David C. Duffy, Sten Rubertsson, David H. Wilson, Kaj Blennow

Cigarette Smoking and p16INK4α Gene Promoter Hypermethylation in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Patients: A Meta-Analysis
Bo Zhang, Wei Zhu, Ping Yang, Tao Liu, Mei Jiang, Zhi-Ni He, Shi-Xin Zhang, Wei-Qing Chen, Wen Chen

Mutations Altering the Interplay between GkDnaC Helicase and DNA Reveal an Insight into Helicase Unwinding
Yu-Hua Lo, Shih-Wei Liu, Yuh-Ju Sun, Hung-Wen Li, Chwan-Deng Hsiao

Facile Synthesis of Three-Dimensional ZnO Nanostructure: Realization of a Multifunctional Stable Superhydrophobic Surface
Jun Wu, Jun Xia, Wei Lei, Baoping Wang

Expression of Mir-21 and Mir-143 in Cervical Specimens Ranging from Histologically Normal through to Invasive Cervical Cancer
Georgios Deftereos, Simon R. Corrie, Qinghua Feng, Janice Morihara, Joshua Stern, Stephen E. Hawes, Nancy B. Kiviat

Angiogenin Enhances Cell Migration by Regulating Stress Fiber Assembly and Focal Adhesion Dynamics
Saisai Wei, Xiangwei Gao, Juan Du, Jinfeng Su, Zhengping Xu

Analyzing and Mapping Sweat Metabolomics by High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy
Viktor P. Kutyshenko, Maxim Molchanov, Peter Beskaravayny, Vladimir N. Uversky, Maria A. Timchenko

Chimeras of Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Single-Stranded DNA Binding Proteins: Characterization and Function in Escherichia coli
Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Kervin Rex, Pujari Sreedhar, Neeraja Krishnan, Umesh Varshney

Characterization of the Partitioning System of Myxococcus Plasmid pMF1
Xia Sun, Xiao-jing Chen, Jing Feng, Jing-yi Zhao, Yue-zhong Li

BAT3 Guides Misfolded Glycoproteins Out of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Jasper H. L. Claessen, Hidde L. Ploegh

Radiation-Induced Carcinogenesis: Mechanistically Based Differences between Gamma-Rays and Neutrons, and Interactions with DMBA
Igor Shuryak, David J. Brenner, Robert L. Ullrich

LPA Is a Chemorepellent for B16 Melanoma Cells: Action through the cAMP-Elevating LPA5 Receptor
Maikel Jongsma, Elisa Matas-Rico, Adrian Rzadkowski, Kees Jalink, Wouter H. Moolenaar

Flip-Flop of Phospholipids in Proteoliposomes Reconstituted from Detergent Extract of Chloroplast Membranes: Kinetics and Phospholipid Specificity
Archita Rajasekharan, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi

Essential Factors for Incompatible DNA End Joining at Chromosomal DNA Double Strand Breaks In Vivo
Hideaki Ogiwara, Takashi Kohno

Resveratrol, by Modulating RNA Processing Factor Levels, Can Influence the Alternative Splicing of Pre-mRNAs
M. Andrea Markus, Francine Z. Marques, Brian J. Morris

Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Cell Death Process in Candida albicans Treated by Antifungal Agents
Kyung Sook Kim, Young-Sun Kim, Ihn Han, Mi-Hyun Kim, Min Hyung Jung, Hun-Kuk Park

The Anatomy of Onomatopoeia
María Florencia Assaneo, Juan Ignacio Nichols, Marcos Alberto Trevisan

Membrane-Lipid Therapy in Operation: The HSP Co-Inducer BGP-15 Activates Stress Signal Transduction Pathways by Remodeling Plasma Membrane Rafts
Imre Gombos, Tim Crul, Stefano Piotto, Burcin Güngör, Zsolt Török, Gábor Balogh, Mária Péter, J. Peter Slotte, Federica Campana, Ana-Maria Pilbat, Ákos Hunya, Noémi Tóth, Zsuzsanna Literati-Nagy, László Vígh, Attila Glatz, Mario Brameshuber, Gerhard J. Schütz, Andrea Hevener, Mark A. Febbraio, Ibolya Horváth, László Vígh

Integrin-Dependent Activation of the JNK Signaling Pathway by Mechanical Stress
Andrea Maria Pereira, Cicerone Tudor, Johannes S. Kanger, Vinod Subramaniam, Enrique Martin-Blanco

Circulating TRAIL Shows a Significant Post-Partum Decline Associated to Stressful Conditions
Giorgio Zauli, Lorenzo Monasta, Erika Rimondi, Liza Vecchi Brumatti, Oriano Radillo, Luca Ronfani, Marcella Montico, Giuseppina D'Ottavio, Salvatore Alberico, Paola Secchiero

The Interaction of Canine Plasminogen with Streptococcus pyogenes Enolase: They Bind to One Another but What Is the Nature of the Structures Involved?
M. Judith Kornblatt, Jack A. Kornblatt, Mark A. Hancock

PEGylation Potentiates the Effectiveness of an Antagonistic Peptide That Targets the EphB4 Receptor with Nanomolar Affinity
Roberta Noberini, Sayantan Mitra, Ombretta Salvucci, Fatima Valencia, Srinivas Duggineni, Natalie Prigozhina, Ke Wei, Giovanna Tosato, Ziwei Huang, Elena B. Pasquale

Measuring Dissociation Rate Constants of Protein Complexes through Subunit Exchange: Experimental Design and Theoretical Modeling
Chongle Pan

Exploiting a Reduced Set of Weighted Average Features to Improve Prediction of DNA-Binding Residues from 3D Structures
Yi Xiong, Junfeng Xia, Wen Zhang, Juan Liu

Active Site Detection by Spatial Conformity and Electrostatic Analysis—Unravelling a Proteolytic Function in Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase
Sandeep Chakraborty, Renu Minda, Lipika Salaye, Swapan K. Bhattacharjee, Basuthkar J. Rao

Spatial Regulation of Exocytic Site and Vesicle Mobilization by the Actin Cytoskeleton
Jie Wang, David A. Richards

Viscoelastic Transition and Yield Strain of the Folded Protein
Yong Wang, Giovanni Zocchi

Heterogeneous Role of the Glutathione Antioxidant System in Modulating the Response of ESFT to Fenretinide in Normoxia and Hypoxia
Tapiwanashe Magwere, Susan A. Burchill

The Role of the Transcription Factor SIM2 in Prostate Cancer
Bin Lu, John M. Asara, Martin G. Sanda, Mohamed S. Arredouani

Radiation–Induced Signaling Results in Mitochondrial Impairment in Mouse Heart at 4 Weeks after Exposure to X-Rays
Zarko Barjaktarovic, Dominik Schmaltz, Alena Shyla, Omid Azimzadeh, Sabine Schulz, Julia Haagen, Wolfgang Dörr, Hakan Sarioglu, Alexander Schäfer, Michael J. Atkinson, Hans Zischka, Soile Tapio

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Grown Blood Cultures by Combining Culture and Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Is Rapid and Effective
Judith Beuving, Annelies Verbon, Firza A. Gronthoud, Ellen E. Stobberingh, Petra F. G. Wolffs

The Sponge Pump: The Role of Current Induced Flow in the Design of the Sponge Body Plan
Sally P. Leys, Gitai Yahel, Matthew A. Reidenbach, Verena Tunnicliffe, Uri Shavit, Henry M. Reiswig

Prediction of Antibacterial Activity from Physicochemical Properties of Antimicrobial Peptides
Manuel N. Melo, Rafael Ferre, Lídia Feliu, Eduard Bardají, Marta Planas, Miguel A. R. B. Castanho

Quantitative Analysis of miRNA Expression in Seven Human Foetal and Adult Organs
Yanping Tang, Dong Liu, Lijie Zhang, Sigurdur Ingvarsson, Huiping Chen

Identifying HER2 Inhibitors from Natural Products Database
Shun-Chieh Yang, Su-Sen Chang, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

NMR Studies of the C-Terminus of alpha4 Reveal Possible Mechanism of Its Interaction with MID1 and Protein Phosphatase 2A
Haijuan Du, Michael A. Massiah

Soluble THSD7A Is an N-Glycoprotein That Promotes Endothelial Cell Migration and Tube Formation in Angiogenesis
Meng-Wei Kuo, Chian-Huei Wang, Hsiao-Chun Wu, Shing-Jyh Chang, Yung-Jen Chuang

Partner-Aware Prediction of Interacting Residues in Protein-Protein Complexes from Sequence Data
Shandar Ahmad, Kenji Mizuguchi

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Biotechnology

Development of Phage-Based Single Chain Fv Antibody Reagents for Detection of Yersinia pestis
Antonietta M. Lillo, Joanne E. Ayriss, Yulin Shou, Steven W. Graves, Andrew R. M. Bradbury

Juvenile Hormone (JH) Esterase of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Is Not a Target of the JH Analog Insecticide Methoprene
Shizuo G. Kamita, Aman I. Samra, Jun-Yan Liu, Anthony J. Cornel, Bruce D. Hammock

Accumulation of Biomass and Mineral Elements with Calendar Time by Corn: Application of the Expanded Growth Model
Allen R. Overman, Richard V. Scholtz

Heritable Targeted Inactivation of Myostatin Gene in Yellow Catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) Using Engineered Zinc Finger Nucleases
Zhangji Dong, Jiachun Ge, Kui Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Dong Liang, Jingyun Li, Junbo Li, Wenshuang Jia, Yuehua Li, Xiaohua Dong, Shasha Cao, Xiaoxiao Wang, Jianlin Pan, Qingshun Zhao

Facile Synthesis of Three-Dimensional ZnO Nanostructure: Realization of a Multifunctional Stable Superhydrophobic Surface
Jun Wu, Jun Xia, Wei Lei, Baoping Wang

Saturation of an Intra-Gene Pool Linkage Map: Towards a Unified Consensus Linkage Map for Fine Mapping and Synteny Analysis in Common Bean
Carlos H. Galeano, Andrea C. Fernandez, Natalia Franco-Herrera, Karen A. Cichy, Phillip E. McClean, Jos Vanderleyden, Matthew W. Blair

Selection-Independent Generation of Gene Knockout Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Using Zinc-Finger Nucleases
Anna Osiak, Frank Radecke, Eva Guhl, Sarah Radecke, Nadine Dannemann, Fabienne Lütge, Silke Glage, Cornelia Rudolph, Tobias Cantz, Klaus Schwarz, Regine Heilbronn, Toni Cathomen

Abnormal Reorganization of Functional Cortical Small-World Networks in Focal Hand Dystonia
Seung-Hyun Jin, Peter Lin, Mark Hallett

A Novel Neurotrophic Drug for Cognitive Enhancement and Alzheimer's Disease
Qi Chen, Marguerite Prior, Richard Dargusch, Amanda Roberts, Roland Riek, Cédric Eichmann, Chandramouli Chiruta, Tatsuhiro Akaishi, Kazuho Abe, Pamela Maher, David Schubert

Roles of the DYRK Kinase Pom2 in Cytokinesis, Mitochondrial Morphology, and Sporulation in Fission Yeast
Pengcheng Wu, Ran Zhao, Yanfang Ye, Jian-Qiu Wu

Differential Expression of miRNAs in Response to Topping in Flue-Cured Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Roots
Hongxiang Guo, Yunchao Kan, Weiqun Liu

Quantification of Trace-Level DNA by Real-Time Whole Genome Amplification
Min-Jung Kang, Hannah Yu, Sook-Kyung Kim, Sang-Ryoul Park, Inchul Yang

An Enhanced Monomeric Blue Fluorescent Protein with the High Chemical Stability of the Chromophore
Oksana M. Subach, Paula J. Cranfill, Michael W. Davidson, Vladislav V. Verkhusha

Intraocular Pressure Changes: An Important Determinant of the Biocompatibility of Intravitreous Implants
Ling Zou, Ashwin Nair, Hong Weng, Yi-Ting Tsai, Zhibing Hu, Liping Tang

Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Cell Death Process in Candida albicans Treated by Antifungal Agents
Kyung Sook Kim, Young-Sun Kim, Ihn Han, Mi-Hyun Kim, Min Hyung Jung, Hun-Kuk Park

Distinct Expression Profiles and Different Functions of Odorant Binding Proteins in Nilaparvata lugens Stål
Peng He, Jin Zhang, Nai-Yong Liu, Ya-Nan Zhang, Ke Yang, Shuang-Lin Dong

GmFT2a, a Soybean Homolog of FLOWERING LOCUS T, Is Involved in Flowering Transition and Maintenance
Hongbo Sun, Zhen Jia, Dong Cao, Bingjun Jiang, Cunxiang Wu, Wensheng Hou, Yike Liu, Zhihong Fei, Dazhong Zhao, Tianfu Han

A Metabolic Index of Ischemic Injury for Perfusion-Recovery of Cadaveric Rat Livers
Sinem Perk, Maria-Louisa Izamis, Herman Tolboom, Basak Uygun, Francois Berthiaume, Martin L. Yarmush, Korkut Uygun

Cell-Free Protein Expression under Macromolecular Crowding Conditions
Xumeng Ge, Dan Luo, Jianfeng Xu

Genetics of Resistance to the Rust Fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae in Three Species of Morning Glory (Ipomoea)
Thomas M. Chappell, Mark D. Rausher

Informal "Seed" Systems and the Management of Gene Flow in Traditional Agroecosystems: The Case of Cassava in Cauca, Colombia
George A. Dyer, Carolina González, Diana Carolina Lopera

Quantification Bias Caused by Plasmid DNA Conformation in Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay
Chih-Hui Lin, Yu-Chieh Chen, Tzu-Ming Pan

A Large Maize (Zea mays L.) SNP Genotyping Array: Development and Germplasm Genotyping, and Genetic Mapping to Compare with the B73 Reference Genome
Martin W. Ganal, Gregor Durstewitz, Andreas Polley, Aurélie Bérard, Edward S. Buckler, Alain Charcosset, Joseph D. Clarke, Eva-Maria Graner, Mark Hansen, Johann Joets, Marie-Christine Le Paslier, Michael D. McMullen, Pierre Montalent, Mark Rose, Chris-Carolin Schön, Qi Sun, Hildrun Walter, Olivier C. Martin, Matthieu Falque

Antitumor Activity of a Novel Oncrasin Analogue Is Mediated by JNK Activation and STAT3 Inhibition
Wei Guo, Shuhong Wu, Li Wang, Xiaoli Wei, Xiaoying Liu, Ji Wang, Zhimin Lu, Melinda Hollingshead, Bingliang Fang

A Phosphate-Regulated Promoter for Fine-Tuned and Reversible Overexpression in Ostreococcus: Application to Circadian Clock Functional Analysis
El Batoul Djouani-Tahri, Frédéric Sanchez, Jean-Claude Lozano, François-Yves Bouget

A MITF Mutation Associated with a Dominant White Phenotype and Bilateral Deafness in German Fleckvieh Cattle
Ute Philipp, Bettina Lupp, Stefanie Mömke, Veronika Stein, Andrea Tipold, Johanna Corinna Eule, Jürgen Rehage, Ottmar Distl

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies
Patrick D. Schloss, Dirk Gevers, Sarah L. Westcott

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Grown Blood Cultures by Combining Culture and Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Is Rapid and Effective
Judith Beuving, Annelies Verbon, Firza A. Gronthoud, Ellen E. Stobberingh, Petra F. G. Wolffs

Characterization of Pellicle Inhibition in Gluconacetobacter xylinus 53582 by a Small Molecule, Pellicin, Identified by a Chemical Genetics Screen
Janice L. Strap, Andrew Latos, Isaac Shim, Dario T. Bonetta

Modulation of Phosducin-Like Protein 3 (PhLP3) Levels Promotes Cytoskeletal Remodelling in a MAPK and RhoA-Dependent Manner
Nandini V. L. Hayes, Lyne Jossé, C. Mark Smales, Martin J. Carden

Nanoparticle Induced Cell Magneto-Rotation: Monitoring Morphology, Stress and Drug Sensitivity of a Suspended Single Cancer Cell
Remy Elbez, Brandon H. McNaughton, Lalit Patel, Kenneth J. Pienta, Raoul Kopelman

Prediction of Antibacterial Activity from Physicochemical Properties of Antimicrobial Peptides
Manuel N. Melo, Rafael Ferre, Lídia Feliu, Eduard Bardají, Marta Planas, Miguel A. R. B. Castanho

Actin Nemaline Myopathy Mouse Reproduces Disease, Suggests Other Actin Disease Phenotypes and Provides Cautionary Note on Muscle Transgene Expression
Gianina Ravenscroft, Connie Jackaman, Caroline A. Sewry, Elyshia McNamara, Sarah E. Squire, Allyson C. Potter, John Papadimitriou, Lisa M. Griffiths, Anthony J. Bakker, Kay E. Davies, Nigel G. Laing, Kristen J. Nowak

Surgical Membranes as Directional Delivery Devices to Generate Tissue: Testing in an Ovine Critical Sized Defect Model
Melissa L. Knothe Tate, Hana Chang, Shannon R. Moore, Ulf R. Knothe

Global Analysis of Arabidopsis/Downy Mildew Interactions Reveals Prevalence of Incomplete Resistance and Rapid Evolution of Pathogen Recognition
Ksenia V. Krasileva, Connie Zheng, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Sandra Goritschnig, Douglas Dahlbeck, Brian J. Staskawicz

Identifying HER2 Inhibitors from Natural Products Database
Shun-Chieh Yang, Su-Sen Chang, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Enzyme ABAD Restores the Amyloid-β-Mediated Deregulation of Estradiol
Yun-An Lim, Amandine Grimm, Maria Giese, Ayikoe Guy Mensah-Nyagan, J. Ernest Villafranca, Lars M. Ittner, Anne Eckert, Jürgen Götz

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Cell Biology

GABA Regulates the Multidirectional Tangential Migration of GABAergic Interneurons in Living Neonatal Mice
Hiroyuki Inada, Miho Watanabe, Taku Uchida, Hitoshi Ishibashi, Hiroaki Wake, Tomomi Nemoto, Yuchio Yanagawa, Atsuo Fukuda, Junichi Nabekura

Osteopontin and Fibronectin Levels Are Decreased in Vitreous of Autoimmune Uveitis and Retinal Expression of Both Proteins Indicates ECM Re-Modeling
Cornelia A. Deeg, Christina Eberhardt, Florian Hofmaier, Barbara Amann, Stefanie M. Hauck

XPA-Mediated Regulation of Global Nucleotide Excision Repair by ATR Is p53-Dependent and Occurs Primarily in S-Phase
Zhengke Li, Phillip R. Musich, Moises A. Serrano, Zhiping Dong, Yue Zou

TROP2 Expressed in the Trunk of the Ureteric Duct Regulates Branching Morphogenesis during Kidney Development
Yuko Tsukahara, Minoru Tanaka, Atsushi Miyajima

Generation of Stratified Squamous Epithelial Progenitor Cells from Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Satoru Yoshida, Miyuki Yasuda, Hideyuki Miyashita, Yoko Ogawa, Tetsu Yoshida, Yumi Matsuzaki, Kazuo Tsubota, Hideyuki Okano, Shigeto Shimmura

The Myxococcus xanthus Spore Cuticula Protein C Is a Fragment of FibA, an Extracellular Metalloprotease Produced Exclusively in Aggregated Cells
Bongsoo Lee, Petra Mann, Vidhi Grover, Anke Treuner-Lange, Jörg Kahnt, Penelope I. Higgs

Glial Hsp70 Protects K+ Homeostasis in the Drosophila Brain during Repetitive Anoxic Depolarization
Gary A. B. Armstrong, Chengfeng Xiao, Jennifer L. Krill, Laurent Seroude, Ken Dawson-Scully, R. Meldrum Robertson

Stretch-Induced Hypertrophy Activates NFkB-Mediated VEGF Secretion in Adult Cardiomyocytes
Anna Leychenko, Eugene Konorev, Mayumi Jijiwa, Michelle L. Matter

Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of CD105 Expression with a 64Cu-Labeled Monoclonal Antibody: NOTA Is Superior to DOTA
Yin Zhang, Hao Hong, Jonathan W. Engle, Jero Bean, Yunan Yang, Bryan R. Leigh, Todd E. Barnhart, Weibo Cai

IL-7 Promotes CD95-Induced Apoptosis in B Cells via the IFN-γ/STAT1 Pathway
Stefano Sammicheli, Linh Dang Vu Phuong, Nicolas Ruffin, Thang Pham Hong, Rebecka Lantto, Nancy Vivar, Francesca Chiodi, Bence Rethi

An Off-Target Nucleostemin RNAi Inhibits Growth in Human Glioblastoma-Derived Cancer Stem Cells
Jon Gil-Ranedo, Marina Mendiburu-Eliçabe, Mercedes García-Villanueva, Diego Medina, Marta del Álamo, Marta Izquierdo

Combined Boyden-Flow Cytometry Assay Improves Quantification and Provides Phenotypification of Leukocyte Chemotaxis
Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Felipe Vadillo-Ortega, Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez

Angiogenin Enhances Cell Migration by Regulating Stress Fiber Assembly and Focal Adhesion Dynamics
Saisai Wei, Xiangwei Gao, Juan Du, Jinfeng Su, Zhengping Xu

Selection-Independent Generation of Gene Knockout Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Using Zinc-Finger Nucleases
Anna Osiak, Frank Radecke, Eva Guhl, Sarah Radecke, Nadine Dannemann, Fabienne Lütge, Silke Glage, Cornelia Rudolph, Tobias Cantz, Klaus Schwarz, Regine Heilbronn, Toni Cathomen

Systems Biology Modeling Reveals a Possible Mechanism of the Tumor Cell Death upon Oncogene Inactivation in EGFR Addicted Cancers
Jian-Ping Zhou, Xin Chen, Shan Feng, Shi-Dong Luo, You-Li Pan, Lei Zhong, Pan Ji, Ze-Rong Wang, Shuang Ma, Lin-Li Li, Yu-Quan Wei, Sheng-Yong Yang

Red and Green Algal Origin of Diatom Membrane Transporters: Insights into Environmental Adaptation and Cell Evolution
Cheong Xin Chan, Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Debashish Bhattacharya

Diverging Mechanisms of Activation of Chemokine Receptors Revealed by Novel Chemokine Agonists
Jose Sarmiento, Christie Shumate, Katsutoshi Suetomi, Aishwarya Ravindran, León Villegas, Krishna Rajarathnam, Javier Navarro

The Influence of Different Stresses on Glomalin Levels in an Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus—Salinity Increases Glomalin Content
Edith C. Hammer, Matthias C. Rillig

BAT3 Guides Misfolded Glycoproteins Out of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Jasper H. L. Claessen, Hidde L. Ploegh

Aspergillus Myosin-V Supports Polarized Growth in the Absence of Microtubule-Based Transport
Jun Zhang, Kaeling Tan, Xufeng Wu, Guifang Chen, Jinjin Sun, Samara L. Reck-Peterson, John A. Hammer, Xin Xiang

Oleanolic Acid Initiates Apoptosis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Lines and Reduces Metastasis of a B16F10 Melanoma Model In Vivo
Kelly Araújo Lúcio, Gleice da Graça Rocha, Leonardo Campos Monção-Ribeiro, Janaina Fernandes, Christina Maeda Takiya, Cerli Rocha Gattass

Effect of Ca2+ Channel Block on Glycerol Metabolism in Dunaliella salina under Hypoosmotic and Hyperosmotic Stresses
Hui Chen, Shan-Li Chen, Jian-Guo Jiang

Transient Activation of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells by IFNγ during Acute Bacterial Infection
Katherine C. MacNamara, Maura Jones, Olga Martin, Gary M. Winslow

Involvement of Dopamine Receptors in Binge Methamphetamine-Induced Activation of Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondrial Stress Pathways
Genevieve Beauvais, Kenisha Atwell, Subramaniam Jayanthi, Bruce Ladenheim, Jean Lud Cadet

FAK Deletion Promotes p53-Mediated Induction of p21, DNA-Damage Responses and Radio-Resistance in Advanced Squamous Cancer Cells
Kathryn Graham, Kim Moran-Jones, Owen J. Sansom, Valerie G. Brunton, Margaret C. Frame

Roles of the DYRK Kinase Pom2 in Cytokinesis, Mitochondrial Morphology, and Sporulation in Fission Yeast
Pengcheng Wu, Ran Zhao, Yanfang Ye, Jian-Qiu Wu

Flip-Flop of Phospholipids in Proteoliposomes Reconstituted from Detergent Extract of Chloroplast Membranes: Kinetics and Phospholipid Specificity
Archita Rajasekharan, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi

Disruption of Microtubule Network Rescues Aberrant Actin Comets in Dynamin2-Depleted Cells
Yuji Henmi, Kenji Tanabe, Kohji Takei

Inducible Genetic Lineage Tracing of Cortical Hem Derived Cajal-Retzius Cells Reveals Novel Properties
Xiaochun Gu, Bin Liu, Xiaojing Wu, Yan Yan, Ying Zhang, Yiquan Wei, Samuel J. Pleasure, Chunjie Zhao

Regulation of Apoptotic Pathways by Stylophora pistillata (Anthozoa, Pocilloporidae) to Survive Thermal Stress and Bleaching
Hagit Kvitt, Hanna Rosenfeld, Keren Zandbank, Dan Tchernov

An Enhanced Monomeric Blue Fluorescent Protein with the High Chemical Stability of the Chromophore
Oksana M. Subach, Paula J. Cranfill, Michael W. Davidson, Vladislav V. Verkhusha

Essential Factors for Incompatible DNA End Joining at Chromosomal DNA Double Strand Breaks In Vivo
Hideaki Ogiwara, Takashi Kohno

Role of Collagens and Perlecan in Microvascular Stability: Exploring the Mechanism of Capillary Vessel Damage by Snake Venom Metalloproteinases
Teresa Escalante, Natalia Ortiz, Alexandra Rucavado, Eladio F. Sanchez, Michael Richardson, Jay W. Fox, José María Gutiérrez

Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Cell Death Process in Candida albicans Treated by Antifungal Agents
Kyung Sook Kim, Young-Sun Kim, Ihn Han, Mi-Hyun Kim, Min Hyung Jung, Hun-Kuk Park

Ursodeoxycholic Acid Is Conjugated with Taurine to Promote Secretin-Stimulated Biliary Hydrocholeresis in the Normal Rat
Miriam Úriz, Elena Sáez, Jesús Prieto, Juan F. Medina, Jesús M. Banales

Resting-State Brain Organization Revealed by Functional Covariance Networks
Zhiqiang Zhang, Wei Liao, Xi-Nian Zuo, Zhengge Wang, Cuiping Yuan, Qing Jiao, Huafu Chen, Bharat B. Biswal, Guangming Lu, Yijun Liu

TTF-1 Action on the Transcriptional Regulation of Cyclooxygenase-2 Gene in the Rat Brain
Chang Ho Yun, Jae Geun Kim, Byong Seo Park, Hye Myeong Lee, Dong Hee Kim, Eun Ok Kim, Joong Jean Park, Jeong Woo Park, Giuseppe Damante, Young Il Kim, Byung Ju Lee

Integrin-Dependent Activation of the JNK Signaling Pathway by Mechanical Stress
Andrea Maria Pereira, Cicerone Tudor, Johannes S. Kanger, Vinod Subramaniam, Enrique Martin-Blanco

The Antidiabetic Drug Ciglitazone Induces High Grade Bladder Cancer Cells Apoptosis through the Up-Regulation of TRAIL
Marie-Laure Plissonnier, Sylvie Fauconnet, Hugues Bittard, Isabelle Lascombe

PEGylation Potentiates the Effectiveness of an Antagonistic Peptide That Targets the EphB4 Receptor with Nanomolar Affinity
Roberta Noberini, Sayantan Mitra, Ombretta Salvucci, Fatima Valencia, Srinivas Duggineni, Natalie Prigozhina, Ke Wei, Giovanna Tosato, Ziwei Huang, Elena B. Pasquale

AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) Mediates Nutrient Regulation of Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein (TXNIP) in Pancreatic Beta-Cells
Maayan Shaked, Mali Ketzinel-Gilad, Erol Cerasi, Nurit Kaiser, Gil Leibowitz

Antitumor Activity of a Novel Oncrasin Analogue Is Mediated by JNK Activation and STAT3 Inhibition
Wei Guo, Shuhong Wu, Li Wang, Xiaoli Wei, Xiaoying Liu, Ji Wang, Zhimin Lu, Melinda Hollingshead, Bingliang Fang

Spatial Regulation of Exocytic Site and Vesicle Mobilization by the Actin Cytoskeleton
Jie Wang, David A. Richards

A miR-200b/200c/429-Binding Site Polymorphism in the 3′ Untranslated Region of the AP-2α Gene Is Associated with Cisplatin Resistance
Yuan Wu, Yuzhong Xiao, Xiaofeng Ding, Yiming Zhuo, Peng Ren, Chang Zhou, Jianlin Zhou

Paxillin Mediates Sensing of Physical Cues and Regulates Directional Cell Motility by Controlling Lamellipodia Positioning
Julia E. Sero, Charles K. Thodeti, Akiko Mammoto, Chris Bakal, Sheila Thomas, Donald E. Ingber

Conserved BK Channel-Protein Interactions Reveal Signals Relevant to Cell Death and Survival
Bernd Sokolowski, Sandra Orchard, Margaret Harvey, Settu Sridhar, Yoshihisa Sakai

Heterogeneous Role of the Glutathione Antioxidant System in Modulating the Response of ESFT to Fenretinide in Normoxia and Hypoxia
Tapiwanashe Magwere, Susan A. Burchill

Dysferlin Interacts with Histone Deacetylase 6 and Increases alpha-Tubulin Acetylation
Sabrina Di Fulvio, Bilal A. Azakir, Christian Therrien, Michael Sinnreich

Drosophila melanogaster dHCF Interacts with both PcG and TrxG Epigenetic Regulators
Sara Rodriguez-Jato, Ana Busturia, Winship Herr

Radiation–Induced Signaling Results in Mitochondrial Impairment in Mouse Heart at 4 Weeks after Exposure to X-Rays
Zarko Barjaktarovic, Dominik Schmaltz, Alena Shyla, Omid Azimzadeh, Sabine Schulz, Julia Haagen, Wolfgang Dörr, Hakan Sarioglu, Alexander Schäfer, Michael J. Atkinson, Hans Zischka, Soile Tapio

Interactions between β-Catenin and the HSlo Potassium Channel Regulates HSlo Surface Expression
Shumin Bian, Jun-Ping Bai, Hannah Chapin, Cathy Le Moellic, Huiping Dong, Michael Caplan, Fred J. Sigworth, Dhasakumar S. Navaratnam

Smyd1b_tv1, a Key Regulator of Sarcomere Assembly, Is Localized on the M-Line of Skeletal Muscle Fibers
Huiqing Li, Jin Xu, Yue-Hong Bian, Pep Rotllant, Tiansheng Shen, Wuying Chu, Jianshe Zhang, Martin Schneider, Shao Jun Du

Human Cardiac-Derived Adherent Proliferating Cells Reduce Murine Acute Coxsackievirus B3-Induced Myocarditis
Kapka Miteva, Marion Haag, Jun Peng, Kostas Savvatis, Peter Moritz Becher, Martina Seifert, Katrin Warstat, Dirk Westermann, Jochen Ringe, Michael Sittinger, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe, Sophie Van Linthout

A Novel Conserved Isoform of the Ubiquitin Ligase UFD2a/UBE4B Is Expressed Exclusively in Mature Striated Muscle Cells
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