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March 21, 2006; 103 (12)
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FROM THE COVER
Fungal phototropism
Eocene tarsier cranial morphology
Flexibility of receptor-ligand interactions
Immunodominant epitope of myelin basic protein
Nodule bacteria and vitamin B12 synthesis
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How bile acids confer gut mucosal protection against bacteria
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Michael L. Dustin
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Cheng Zhu
T cells like a firm molecular handshake
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John J. Turchi
Nitric oxide and cisplatin resistance: NO easy answers
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Cynthia Husted
Structural insight into the role of myelin basic protein in multiple sclerosis
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Alexandre Arenas
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Alexandre J. Chorin
On the existence and scaling of structure functions in turbulence according to the data
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Kristopher Josephson
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Jack W. Szostak
Enzymatic aminoacylation of tRNA with unnatural amino acids
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Suppressing Brownian motion of individual biomolecules in solution
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Sripad Ram
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E. Sally Ward
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Beyond Rayleigh's criterion: A resolution measure with application to single-molecule microscopy
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Environmental Sciences
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Yan Huang
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Robert E. Dickinson
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William L. Chameides
Impact of aerosol indirect effect on surface temperature over East Asia
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Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo
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Pierpaolo Petrone
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Lucia Pappalardo
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Michael F. Sheridan
The Avellino 3780-yr-B.P. catastrophe as a worst-case scenario for a future eruption at Vesuvius
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Yan Huang
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Robert E. Dickinson
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William L. Chameides
Impact of aerosol indirect effect on surface temperature over East Asia
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Nadine Unger
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Drew T. Shindell
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Dorothy M. Koch
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David G. Streets
Cross influences of ozone and sulfate precursor emissions changes on air quality and climate
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William H. McClain
Surprising contribution to aminoacylation and translation of non-Watson–Crick pairs in tRNA
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James B. Rossie
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Xijun Ni
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K. Christopher Beard
From the Cover: Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier
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Matthew C. T. Hartman
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Kristopher Josephson
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Jack W. Szostak
Enzymatic aminoacylation of tRNA with unnatural amino acids
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2006
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Jochen Wuerges
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Gianpiero Garau
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Silvano Geremia
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Sergey N. Fedosov
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Torben E. Petersen
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and
Lucio Randaccio
Structural basis for mammalian vitamin B 12 transport by transcobalamin
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Olga Amosova
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Richard Coulter
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Jacques R. Fresco
Self-catalyzed site-specific depurination of guanine residues within gene sequences
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Atsushi Ohnishi
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J. Joe Hull
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Shogo Matsumoto
Targeted disruption of genes in the Bombyx mori sex pheromone biosynthetic pathway
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Samy O. Meroueh
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Krisztina Z. Bencze
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Dusan Hesek
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Mijoon Lee
,
Jed F. Fisher
,
Timothy L. Stemmler
,
and
Shahriar Mobashery
Three-dimensional structure of the bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan
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W. E. Moerner
Suppressing Brownian motion of individual biomolecules in solution
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Christopher L. Colbert
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Qiong Wu
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Paul J. A. Erbel
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Kevin H. Gardner
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Johann Deisenhofer
Mechanism of substrate specificity in Bacillus subtilis ResA, a thioredoxin-like protein involved in cytochrome c maturation
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Shuyan Qi
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Michelle Krogsgaard
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Mark M. Davis
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Arup K. Chakraborty
From the Cover: Molecular flexibility can influence the stimulatory ability of receptor–ligand interactions at cell–cell junctions
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2006
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Abdiwahab A. Musse
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Joan M. Boggs
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George Harauz
From the Cover: Deimination of membrane-bound myelin basic protein in multiple sclerosis exposes an immunodominant epitope
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2006
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Gregory E. Sims
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Sung-Hou Kim
A method for evaluating the structural quality of protein models by using higher-order φ–ψ pairs scoring
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George Stan
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Bernard R. Brooks
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George H. Lorimer
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D. Thirumalai
Residues in substrate proteins that interact with GroEL in the capture process are buried in the native state
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Vasisht R. Tadigotla
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Anirvan M. Sengupta
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Vitaly Epshtein
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Richard H. Ebright
,
Evgeny Nudler
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and
Andrei E. Ruckenstein
Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of transcriptional pausing
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David W. Knowles
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Carol Bator-Kelly
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Mina J. Bissell
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Sophie A. Lelièvre
Automated local bright feature image analysis of nuclear protein distribution identifies changes in tissue phenotype
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Belinda Bullard
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Tzintzuni Garcia
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Vladimir Benes
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Mark C. Leake
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Wolfgang A. Linke
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and
Andres F. Oberhauser
The molecular elasticity of the insect flight muscle proteins projectin and kettin
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Raimund J. Ober
Beyond Rayleigh's criterion: A resolution measure with application to single-molecule microscopy
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Cell Biology
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Deborah N. Chadee
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Dazhong Xu
,
Gene Hung
,
Ali Andalibi
,
David J. Lim
,
Zhijun Luo
,
David H. Gutmann
,
and
John M. Kyriakis
Mixed-lineage kinase 3 regulates B-Raf through maintenance of the B-Raf/Raf-1 complex and inhibition by the NF2 tumor suppressor protein
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Patricia L. Lakin-Thomas
Circadian clock genes frequency and white collar-1 are not essential for entrainment to temperature cycles in Neurospora crassa
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Mauricio A. Retamal
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Constanza J. Cortés
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Luis Reuss
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Michael V. L. Bennett
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Juan C. Sáez
S-nitrosylation and permeation through connexin 43 hemichannels in astrocytes: Induction by oxidant stress and reversal by reducing agents
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Jacob Ilany
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Philip J. Bilan
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Sonia Kapur
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James S. Caldwell
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Mary-Elizabeth Patti
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Andre Marette
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C. Ronald Kahn
Overexpression of Rad in muscle worsens diet-induced insulin resistance and glucose intolerance and lowers plasma triglyceride level
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2006
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André P. Gerber
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Stefan Luschnig
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Mark A. Krasnow
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Patrick O. Brown
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Daniel Herschlag
Genome-wide identification of mRNAs associated with the translational regulator PUMILIO in Drosophila melanogaster
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2006
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Bedrick B. Gadea
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Joan V. Ruderman
Aurora B is required for mitotic chromatin-induced phosphorylation of Op18/Stathmin
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Xuguo Zhou
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Michael E. Scharf
Social exploitation of hexamerin: RNAi reveals a major caste-regulatory factor in termites
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Xingbin Ai
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Gwendolyn M. Haines
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Charles P. Emerson, Jr.
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase and Akt are essential for Sonic Hedgehog signaling
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Denis Duboule
A mouse model for human short-stature syndromes identifies Shox2 as an upstream regulator of Runx2 during long-bone development
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David Chang
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Joe Marx
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Lei Wei
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Eric N. Olson
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Michael S. Parmacek
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Ashok Balasubramanyam
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and
Robert J. Schwartz
Serum response factor MADS box serine -162 phosphorylation switches proliferation and myogenic gene programs
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Sasha B. Kramer
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John P. Reganold
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Jerry D. Glover
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Brendan J. M. Bohannan
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Harold A. Mooney
Reduced nitrate leaching and enhanced denitrifier activity and efficiency in organically fertilized soils
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2006
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Yuji Inagaki
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Edward Susko
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Andrew J. Roger
Recombination between elongation factor 1α genes from distantly related archaeal lineages
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2006
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