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May 13, 2003; 100 (10)
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FROM THE COVER
Rising temperatures and CO2 decrease tree growth
Nanoscale biocomposites are insensitive to internal flaws
Sexual dimorphism correlates with extinction risk
Generating retrotransposon integration specificity
Hypertension treatment and synaptic vesicle release
Commentaries
Commentary
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Nils Chr. Stenseth
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Glenn-Peter Saetre
Sexual selection forms the structure and dynamics of ecological communities
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Richard L. Veech
A humble hexose monophosphate pathway metabolite regulates short- and long-term control of lipogenesis
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Commentary
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Richard G. Walker
More whistles and bells for fly hearing
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Commentary
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James P. Calvet
New insights into ciliary function: Kidney cysts and photoreceptors
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Commentary
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Suzanne Sandmeyer
Integration by design
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Commentary
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Yo Otsu
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Timothy H. Murphy
Mind-altering miniature neurotransmitter release?
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Editorial
Editorial
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Stanley Falkow
“Statement on scientific publication and security” fails to provide necessary guidelines
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May 12, 2003
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Physical Sciences
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics
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David L. Donoho
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Carrie Grimes
Hessian eigenmaps: Locally linear embedding techniques for high-dimensional data
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April 30, 2003
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences
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Huajian Gao
,
Baohua Ji
,
Ingomar L. Jäger
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Eduard Arzt
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and
Peter Fratzl
From the Cover: Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature
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Chemistry
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Igor V. Rubtsov
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Jianping Wang
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and
Robin M. Hochstrasser
Dual-frequency 2D-IR spectroscopy heterodyned photon echo of the peptide bond
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April 22, 2003
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0931292100
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Chetan Lad
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Nicholas H. Williams
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and
Richard Wolfenden
The rate of hydrolysis of phosphomonoester dianions and the exceptional catalytic proficiencies of protein and inositol phosphatases
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Mathematics
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics
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Akos Dobay
,
Jacques Dubochet
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Kenneth Millett
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Pierre-Edouard Sottas
,
and
Andrzej Stasiak
Scaling behavior of random knots
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Social Sciences
Psychology
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Social Sciences - Psychology
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Roy G. D'Andrade
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A. Kimball Romney
Inaugural Article: A quantitative model for transforming reflectance spectra into the Munsell color space using cone sensitivity functions and opponent process weights
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2003
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Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Chetan Lad
,
Nicholas H. Williams
,
and
Richard Wolfenden
The rate of hydrolysis of phosphomonoester dianions and the exceptional catalytic proficiencies of protein and inositol phosphatases
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Eigo Suyama
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Hiroaki Kawasaki
,
Motowo Nakajima
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and
Kazunari Taira
Identification of genes involved in cell invasion by using a library of randomized hybrid ribozymes
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2003
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April 28, 2003
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doi:10.1073/pnas.1035850100
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Kazuya Ueda
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Gregory M. Lipkind
,
An Zhou
,
Xiaorong Zhu
,
Andrey Kuznetsov
,
Louis Philipson
,
Paul Gardner
,
Chunling Zhang
,
and
Donald F. Steiner
Mutational analysis of predicted interactions between the catalytic and P domains of prohormone convertase 3 (PC3/PC1)
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Su Gao
and
M. Daniel Lane
Effect of the anorectic fatty acid synthase inhibitor C75 on neuronal activity in the hypothalamus and brainstem
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2003
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April 30, 2003
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doi:10.1073/pnas.1031698100
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Yasuyuki Irie
,
Makio Saeki
,
Yoshinori Kamisaki
,
Emil Martin
,
and
Ferid Murad
Histone H1.2 is a substrate for denitrase, an activity that reduces nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity in proteins
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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James F. Carey
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Sharon J. Schultz
,
Lisa Sisson
,
Thomas G. Fazzio
,
and
James J. Champoux
DNA relaxation by human topoisomerase I occurs in the closed clamp conformation of the protein
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April 23, 2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Peter S. Brzovic
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Jennifer R. Keeffe
,
Hiroyuki Nishikawa
,
Keiko Miyamoto
,
David Fox, III
,
Mamoru Fukuda
,
Tomohiko Ohta
,
and
Rachel Klevit
Binding and recognition in the assembly of an active BRCA1/BARD1 ubiquitin-ligase complex
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
:
Takashi Moriguchi
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Hozumi Motohashi
,
Tomonori Hosoya
,
Osamu Nakajima
,
Satoru Takahashi
,
Seiichiroh Ohsako
,
Yasunobu Aoki
,
Noriko Nishimura
,
Chiharu Tohyama
,
Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama
,
and
Masayuki Yamamoto
Distinct response to dioxin in an arylhydrocarbon receptor (AHR)-humanized mouse
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Lan Chen
,
Deborah Walker
,
Binyuan Sun
,
Yanan Hu
,
Suzanne Walker
,
and
Daniel Kahne
Vancomycin analogues active against vanA-resistant strains inhibit bacterial transglycosylase without binding substrate
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April 24, 2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Robert E. Moore
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Youngwoo Kim
,
and
Caroline C. Philpott
The mechanism of ferrichrome transport through Arn1p and its metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS
2003
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April 29, 2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Devkumar Mustafi
,
Angela Bekesi
,
Beata G. Vertessy
,
and
Marvin W. Makinen
Catalytic and structural role of the metal ion in dUTP pyrophosphatase
PNAS
2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Liang Feng
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Debra Tumbula-Hansen
,
Helen Toogood
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and
Dieter Söll
Expanding tRNA recognition of a tRNA synthetase by a single amino acid change
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Randy M. Berka
,
Xianju Cui
,
and
Charles Yanofsky
Genomewide transcriptional changes associated with genetic alterations and nutritional supplementation affecting tryptophan metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Bao D. Nguyen
,
Karen L. Abbott
,
Krzysztof Potempa
,
Michael S. Kobor
,
Jacques Archambault
,
Jack Greenblatt
,
Pascale Legault
,
and
James G. Omichinski
NMR structure of a complex containing the TFIIF subunit RAP74 and the RNA polymerase II carboxyl-terminal domain phosphatase FCP1
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Andreas C. Joerger
,
Sebastian Mayer
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Alan R. Fersht
Mimicking natural evolution in vitro : An N -acetylneuraminate lyase mutant with an increased dihydrodipicolinate synthase activity
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Mahadeb Pal
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Donal S. Luse
The initiation–elongation transition: Lateral mobility of RNA in RNA polymerase II complexes is greatly reduced at +8/+9 and absent by +23
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Jeanette I. Webster
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Leonardo H. Tonelli
,
Mahtab Moayeri
,
S. Stoney Simons, Jr.
,
Stephen H. Leppla
,
and
Esther M. Sternberg
Anthrax lethal factor represses glucocorticoid and progesterone receptor activity
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Ka Bian
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Zhonghong Gao
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Norman Weisbrodt
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and
Ferid Murad
The nature of heme/iron-induced protein tyrosine nitration
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Sunitha M. Singh
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Neal F. Lue
Ever shorter telomere 1 ( EST1 )-dependent reverse transcription by Candida telomerase in vitro : Evidence in support of an activating function
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Ralph Feltens
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Markus Gößringer
,
Dagmar K. Willkomm
,
Henning Urlaub
,
and
Roland K. Hartmann
An unusual mechanism of bacterial gene expression revealed for the RNase P protein of Thermus strains
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Ana-Rosa Viguera
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Luis Serrano
Hydrogen-exchange stability analysis of Bergerac -Src homology 3 variants allows the characterization of a folding intermediate in equilibrium
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Neali Armstrong
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Mark Mayer
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Eric Gouaux
Tuning activation of the AMPA-sensitive GluR2 ion channel by genetic adjustment of agonist-induced conformational changes
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Franc Avbelj
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Robert L. Baldwin
Role of backbone solvation and electrostatics in generating preferred peptide backbone conformations: Distributions of phi
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2003
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April 22, 2003
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Roland Thar
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Michael Kühl
Bacteria are not too small for spatial sensing of chemical gradients: An experimental evidence
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics
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Maša Čemažar
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Sotir Zahariev
,
Jakob J. Lopez
,
Oliviero Carugo
,
Jonathan A. Jones
,
P. J. Hore
,
and
Sándor Pongor
Oxidative folding intermediates with nonnative disulfide bridges between adjacent cysteine residues
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2003
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S. Vorobiev
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B. Strokopytov
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D. G. Drubin
,
C. Frieden
,
S. Ono
,
J. Condeelis
,
P. A. Rubenstein
,
and
S. C. Almo
The structure of nonvertebrate actin: Implications for the ATP hydrolytic mechanism
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2003
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Mario Milani
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Pierre-Yves Savard
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Hugues Ouellet
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Paolo Ascenzi
,
Michel Guertin
,
and
Martino Bolognesi
A TyrCD1/TrpG8 hydrogen bond network and a TyrB10—TyrCD1 covalent link shape the heme distal site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoglobin O
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2003
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Buyong Ma
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Tal Elkayam
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Haim Wolfson
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and
Ruth Nussinov
Protein–protein interactions: Structurally conserved residues distinguish between binding sites and exposed protein surfaces
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2003
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
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Nick Devoogdt
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Gholamreza Hassanzadeh Ghassabeh
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Jing Zhang
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Lea Brys
,
Patrick De Baetselier
,
and
Hilde Revets
Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor promotes the tumorigenic and metastatic potential of cancer cells
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2003
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Sojin Shikano
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Min Li
Membrane receptor trafficking: Evidence of proximal and distal zones conferred by two independent endoplasmic reticulum localization signals
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2003
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Xiaoqi Liu
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Raymond L. Erikson
Polo-like kinase (Plk)1 depletion induces apoptosis in cancer cells
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2003
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Sebastian Schuck
,
Masanori Honsho
,
Kim Ekroos
,
Andrej Shevchenko
,
and
Kai Simons
Resistance of cell membranes to different detergents
PNAS
2003
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