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January 8, 2002; 99 (1)
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Retinal photoreceptor differentiation and degeneration
Reevaluating latent versus active p53 regulation
Dynamin's role in actin-based vesicle motility (A)
Dynamin's role in actin-based vesicle motility (B)
Positive selection for dopamine receptors
Brain signatures of artificial language processing
Commentaries
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Edgardo Moreno
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Ignacio Moriyón
Brucella melitensis : A nasty bug with hidden credentials for virulence
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Diane V. Havlir
Structured intermittent treatment for HIV disease: Necessary concession or premature compromise?
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Dennis Bray
Bacterial chemotaxis and the question of gain
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Henry Harpending
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Gregory Cochran
In our genes
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Dongping Zhong
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Samir Kumar Pal
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Deqiang Zhang
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Sunney I. Chan
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Femtosecond dynamics of rubredoxin: Tryptophan solvation and resonance energy transfer in the protein
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Kristi L. Kiick
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Eliana Saxon
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David A. Tirrell
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Incorporation of azides into recombinant proteins for chemoselective modification by the Staudinger ligation
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Chrystèle Sanloup
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Russell J. Hemley
High-pressure transformations in xenon hydrates
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F. S. Tsung
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C. Ren
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L. O. Silva
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W. B. Mori
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T. Katsouleas
Generation of ultra-intense single-cycle laser pulses by using photon deceleration
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Maurice Goldhaber
A closer look at the elementary fermions
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Oris I. Sanjur
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Dolores R. Piperno
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Thomas C. Andres
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Linda Wessel-Beaver
Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin
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Angela D. Friederici
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Karsten Steinhauer
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Erdmut Pfeifer
From the Cover: Brain signatures of artificial language processing: Evidence challenging the critical period hypothesis
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Hsin-Ping Liu
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Maciej A. Pszczolkowski
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Tsai-Feng Fu
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Shu-Ling Chiu
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Glenn L. Holbrook
Insect NMDA receptors mediate juvenile hormone biosynthesis
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Anne C. Stone
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Robert C. Griffiths
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Stephen L. Zegura
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Michael F. Hammer
High levels of Y-chromosome nucleotide diversity in the genus Pan
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Deli Wang
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Frauke Rininsland
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Guillermo C. Bazan
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Alan J. Heeger
Biosensors from conjugated polyelectrolyte complexes
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Tatsuo Ohmichi
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Eric T. Kool
Efficient bacterial transcription of DNA nanocircle vectors with optimized single-stranded promoters
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Yoko Sato
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Masao Sakaguchi
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Shinobu Goshima
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Tatsunosuke Nakamura
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Nobuyuki Uozumi
Integration of Shaker-type K + channel, KAT1, into the endoplasmic reticulum membrane: Synergistic insertion of voltage-sensing segments, S3–S4, and independent insertion of pore-forming segments, S5–P–S6
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Teruhiko Shimokawa
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Effect of a fatty acid synthase inhibitor on food intake and expression of hypothalamic neuropeptides
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Manju Tandon
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Mary L. Kopka
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Richard E. Dickerson
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John A. Hartley
DNA sequence recognition in the minor groove by crosslinked polyamides: The effect of N-terminal head group and linker length on binding affinity and specificity
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Maria A. Schumacher
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Minsun Hong Song
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Kanao Otsu
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Shuren Zhu
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Ronald J. Parry
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Buddy Ullman
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Richard G. Brennan
The structural mechanism of GTP stabilized oligomerization and catalytic activation of the Toxoplasma gondii uracil phosphoribosyltransferase
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Richard A. Eigenheer
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Susan W. Nicolson
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Kathleen M. Schegg
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J. Joe Hull
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David A. Schooley
Identification of a potent antidiuretic factor acting on beetle Malpighian tubules
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Peter L. Nagy
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Joachim Griesenbeck
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Roger D. Kornberg
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A trithorax-group complex purified from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for methylation of histone H3
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From the Cover: Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis fails to support the latency model for regulation of p53 DNA binding activity in vivo
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Gwendolyn M. Wilmes
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The B2 element of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARS1 origin of replication requires specific sequences to facilitate pre-RC formation
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Subrata Adak
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Kulwant S. Aulak
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John F. McDonald
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John A. Tainer
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Elizabeth D. Getzoff
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Brian R. Crane
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Dennis J. Stuehr
Cloning, expression, and characterization of a nitric oxide synthase protein from Deinococcus radiodurans
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Marshall Nirenberg
Regulatory DNA required for vnd/NK-2 homeobox gene expression pattern in neuroblasts
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Stefan Krauss
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Chen-Yu Zhang
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Bradford B. Lowell
A significant portion of mitochondrial proton leak in intact thymocytes depends on expression of UCP2
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Victor Sourjik
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Receptor sensitivity in bacterial chemotaxis
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Gurminder S. Bassi
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Malcolm F. White
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Recruitment of intron-encoded and co-opted proteins in splicing of the bI3 group I intron RNA
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Godwin Pais
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Terrence R. Burke, Jr.
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Yves Pommier
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Nouri Neamati
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Martin Gellert
Effect of HIV integrase inhibitors on the RAG1/2 recombinase
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Zei-Wei Gu
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Salih J. Wakil
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Wah Chiu
Quaternary structure of human fatty acid synthase by electron cryomicroscopy
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Robert A. Mitchell
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J. Chesney
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Jianlin Han
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Carlos G. Gartner
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Sidney D. Nelson
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George J. Todaro
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Richard Bucala
Inhibition of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) tautomerase and biological activities by acetaminophen metabolites
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Dongping Zhong
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Samir Kumar Pal
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Deqiang Zhang
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Sunney I. Chan
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Femtosecond dynamics of rubredoxin: Tryptophan solvation and resonance energy transfer in the protein
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Winnie Yong
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Aleksey Lomakin
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Marina D. Kirkitadze
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David B. Teplow
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Sow-Hsin Chen
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George B. Benedek
Structure determination of micelle-like intermediates in amyloid β-protein fibril assembly by using small angle neutron scattering
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Rick Russell
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Xiaowei Zhuang
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Hazen P. Babcock
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Ian S. Millett
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Sebastian Doniach
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Steven Chu
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Daniel Herschlag
Exploring the folding landscape of a structured RNA
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Eunkyung Lee
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Pietro De Camilli
From the Cover: Dynamin at actin tails
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From the Cover: The large GTPase dynamin regulates actin comet formation and movement in living cells
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Atsushi Otani
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Martin Friedlander
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David A. Cheresh
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Paul Schimmel
A human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase as a regulator of angiogenesis
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Michael I. Dorrell
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John Hood
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Karen Kinder
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Karla L. Ewalt
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David Cheresh
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Paul Schimmel
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Martin Friedlander
A fragment of human TrpRS as a potent antagonist of ocular angiogenesis
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Albert J. Fornace, Jr.
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Maurice B. Burg
Rapid activation of G 2 /M checkpoint after hypertonic stress in renal inner medullary epithelial (IME) cells is protective and requires p38 kinase
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Herbert W. Virgin, IV
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David A. Leib
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Donalyn Scheuner
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Randal J. Kaufman
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Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
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Beth Levine
Regulation of starvation- and virus-induced autophagy by the eIF2α kinase signaling pathway
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Spyros Artavanis–Tsakonas
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Jozsef L. Varga
Expression of a splice variant of the receptor for GHRH in 3T3 fibroblasts activates cell proliferation responses to GHRH analogs
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Translocation of Cockayne syndrome group A protein to the nuclear matrix: Possible relevance to transcription-coupled DNA repair
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Songyun Zhu
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Kyungsil Yoon
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Esta Sterneck
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Peter F. Johnson
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Robert C. Smart
CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-β is a mediator of keratinocyte survival and skin tumorigenesis involving oncogenic Ras signaling
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Marek Malecki
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Annie Hsu
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Lynn Truong
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Sylvia Sanchez
Molecular immunolabeling with recombi