September 2009 Volume 10 Number 9, pp 935-1066
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Contents: Volume 10, Number 9 (September 2009)
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EDITORIAL
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Short is sweet.
Howy Jacobs
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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OPINIONS
On track to tenure-track.
Volker Dotsch
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The jugglery of a mythophilic animal.
Ladislav Kovác
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CORRESPONDENCE
Response to "Causal reasoning: the `magical number' three".
Sean M Davidson
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Brief response from Ladislav Kovác.
Ladislav Kovác
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Science and politics.
Yongsheng Liu, Baoyin Li & Qinglian Wang
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GMO assessment in Norway: societal utility and sustainable development.
G Kristin Rosendal & Anne Ingeborg Myhr
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VIEWPOINTS
The case for open-access chemical biology. A strategy for pre-competitive medicinal chemistry to promote drug discovery.
Johan Weigelt
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Of plants and people. Why do we care about dignity?.
Shawn HE Harmon
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ANALYSIS
Robust yet flexible. In biological systems, resistance to change and innovation in the light of it go hand in hand.
Philip Hunter
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REVIEWS
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MEETING REPORTS
The complexity of living: when biology meets theory. Conference on Systems Dynamics of Intracellular Communication.
Sara Salinas & Nir Gov
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Constructing a road map from synapses to behaviour. Meeting on Synapses: From Molecules to Circuits & Behavior.
Hee Jung Chung & Hey-Kyoung Lee
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LITERATURE REPORT
NALCN: a regulated leak channel.
Patrick Gilon & Patrik Rorsman
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CONCEPT
Melanoma-initiating cells: a compass needed.
Yosef Refaeli, Anindita Bhoumik, Dennis R Roop & Ze'ev A Ronai
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REVIEW
Pervasive transcription constitutes a new level of eukaryotic genome regulation.
Julia Berretta & Antonin Morillon
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Recognition of an intra-chain tandem 14-3-3 binding site within PKC[epsiv].
Brenda Kostelecky, Adrian T Saurin, Andrew Purkiss, Peter J Parker & Neil Q McDonald
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Structural basis for recruitment of BRCA2 by PALB2.
Antony W Oliver, Sally Swift, Christopher J Lord, Alan Ashworth & Laurence H Pearl
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The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase in complex with the essential transcription elongation factor NusA.
Xiao Yang, Seeseei Molimau, Geoff P Doherty, Elecia B Johnston, Jon Marles-Wright, Rosalba Rothnagel, Ben Hankamer, Richard J Lewis & Peter J Lewis
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The SPX domain of the yeast low-affinity phosphate transporter Pho90 regulates transport activity.
Hans Caspar Hurlimann, Benoit Pinson, Martha Stadler-Waibel, Samuel C Zeeman & Florian M Freimoser
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HAT[ndash]HDAC interplay modulates global histone H3K14 acetylation in gene-coding regions during stress.
Anna Johnsson, Mickael Durand-Dubief, Yongtao Xue-Franzén, Michelle Ronnerblad, Karl Ekwall & Anthony Wright
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Induction of RNA-directed DNA methylation upon decondensation of constitutive heterochromatin.
Vera K Schoft, Nina Chumak, Magdalena Mosiolek, Lucyna Slusarz, Vukoslav Komnenovic, Lynette Brownfield, David Twell, Tetsuji Kakutani & Hisashi Tamaru
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Bub1 and Bub3 promote the conversion from monopolar to bipolar chromosome attachment independently of shugoshin.
Hanna Windecker, Maria Langegger, Stephanie Heinrich & Silke Hauf
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Cdc5L interacts with ATR and is required for the S-phase cell-cycle checkpoint.
Nianxiang Zhang, Ramandeep Kaur, Shamima Akhter & Randy J Legerski
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ARF stimulates XPC to trigger nucleotide excision repair by regulating the repressor complex of E2F4.
Carmen Dominguez-Brauer, Yi-Ju Chen, Patrick M Brauer, Julia Pimkina & Pradip Raychaudhuri
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The SCAR and WASp nucleation-promoting factors act sequentially to mediate Drosophila myoblast fusion.
Boaz Gildor, R'ada Massarwa, Ben-Zion Shilo & Eyal D Schejter
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The position and function of the Notch-mediated eye growth organizer: the roles of JAK/STAT and four-jointed.
Francisco Jose Gutierrez-Avino, Dolors Ferres-Marco & Maria Dominguez
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A functional antagonism between the pgc germline repressor and torso in the development of somatic cells.
José Manuel de las Heras, Rui Goncalo Martinho, Ruth Lehmann & Jordi Casanova
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REVIEWS
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CORRIGENDUM
Regulation of actin function by protein kinase A-mediated phosphorylation of Limk1.
Kiran S Nadella, Motoyasu Saji, Naduparambil K Jacob, Emilia Pavel, Matthew D Ringel & Lawrence S Kirschner
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