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Contents: Volume 9, Number 9 (September 2008)
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EDITORIAL
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The missing link.
Frank Gannon
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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CORRESPONDENCE
Transfer RNA genes in pieces are an ancestral character.
Massimo Di Giulio
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Response by Lennart Randau & Dieter Soll.
Lennart Randau & Dieter Soll
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VIEWPOINTS
Synthetic biology: discovering new worlds and new words. The new and not so new aspects of this emerging research field.
Víctor de Lorenzo & Antoine Danchin
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Religion, science and markets. Modern halal production, trade and consumption.
Johan Fischer
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ANALYSES
Up to the challenge? Rising prices for food and oil could herald a renaissance of plant science.
Holger Breithaupt
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Is the grass greener on the other side? Encouraging the development of synthetic biology in Europe.
Mark Greener
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Harnessing Nature's wisdom. Turning to Nature for inspiration and avoiding her follies.
Philip Hunter
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REVIEWS
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MEETING REPORTS
Lymphocytes in action. Symposium on Lymphocyte Activation and Signalling.
Woong-Kyung Suh & Jayanta Chaudhuri
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Basic principles of polarity establishment and maintenance. Conference on Mechanisms of Cell Polarity.
Robert A. Arkowitz & Pablo A. Iglesias
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Battling cancer on many fronts. Meeting on New Battlefields in Human Cancer[mdash]Attacking in Many Fronts.
Fabian Zanella & Amancio Carnero
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REVIEWS
The Atg8 and Atg12 ubiquitin-like conjugation systems in macroautophagy. `Protein Modifications: Beyond the Usual Suspects' Review Series.
Jiefei Geng & Daniel J. Klionsky
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Tyrosine phosphorylation in semaphorin signalling: shifting into overdrive.
Mélanie Franco & Luca Tamagnone
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Dynamic states of the DNA repair enzyme AlkB regulate product release.
Boris Bleijlevens, Tara Shivarattan, Emily Flashman, Yi Yang, Pete J Simpson, Pertti Koivisto, Barbara Sedgwick, Christopher J Schofield & Steve J Matthews
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A new ubiquitin ligase involved in p57KIP2 proteolysis regulates osteoblast cell differentiation.
Minsoo Kim, Takashi Nakamoto, Shigeki Nishimori, Keiji Tanaka & Tomoki Chiba
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SUMO1 modification of NF-[kappa]B2/p100 is essential for stimuli-induced p100 phosphorylation and processing.
Jaya Vatsyayan, Guoliang Qing, Gutian Xiao & Jing Hu
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The juxtaposition of a promoter with a locus control region transcriptional domain activates gene expression.
Yugong Ho, Aleksey Tadevosyan, Stephen A Liebhaber & Nancy E Cooke
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SUMO-modified Sp3 represses transcription by provoking local heterochromatic gene silencing.
Bastian Stielow, Alexandra Sapetschnig, Christina Wink, Imme Kruger & Guntram Suske
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MCPH1/BRIT1 cooperates with E2F1 in the activation of checkpoint, DNA repair and apoptosis.
Shan-Zhong Yang, Fang-Tsyr Lin & Weei-Chin Lin
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PCSK9 is required for the disposal of non-acetylated intermediates of the nascent membrane protein BACE1.
Mary Cabell Jonas, Claudio Costantini & Luigi Puglielli
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Involvement of RhoA, ROCK I and myosin II in inverted orientation of epithelial polarity.
Wei Yu, Annette M Shewan, Paul Brakeman, Dennis J Eastburn, Anirban Datta, David M Bryant, Qi-Wen Fan, William A Weiss, Mirjam M P Zegers & Keith E Mostov
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The tumour suppressor CYLD is a negative regulator of RIG-I-mediated antiviral response.
Constantin S Friedman, Marie Anne O'Donnell, Diana Legarda-Addison, Aylwin Ng, Washington B Cárdenas, Jacob S Yount, Thomas M Moran, Christopher F Basler, Akihiko Komuro, Curt M Horvath, Ramnik Xavier & Adrian T Ting
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