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February 5, 2002; 99 (3)
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FROM THE COVER
Intron ancestors of molluscs and mammals
Collagen's isothermal instability at 36°C
Methylator meets the terminator
Cysteine availability and T cell proliferation
Olfaction in malaria-vector mosquito
Commentaries
Commentary
:
Charles L. Brooks III
Viewing protein folding from many perspectives
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Commentary
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Anton V. Persikov
and
Barbara Brodsky
Unstable molecules form stable tissues
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Steven Clarke
The methylator meets the terminator
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Commentary
:
Aimee L. Edinger
and
Craig B. Thompson
Antigen-presenting cells control T cell proliferation by regulating amino acid availability
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Commentary
:
Nancy C. Martin
Location alters tRNA identity:
Trypanosoma brucei's
cytosolic elongator tRNA
Met
is both the initiator and elongator in mitochondria
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Commentary
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A. Nighorn
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J. G. Hildebrand
Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of olfaction in a malaria-vector mosquito
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Review
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Review
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Ernesto Carafoli
Calcium signaling: A tale for all seasons
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Andrew J. Majda
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Boualem Khouider
Stochastic and mesoscopic models for tropical convection
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Physical Sciences - Physics
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Eran Rabani
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David R. Reichman
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Goran Krilov
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Bruce J. Berne
The calculation of transport properties in quantum liquids using the maximum entropy numerical analytic continuation method: Application to liquid
para
-hydrogen
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Social Sciences - Psychology
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Mariano Sigman
and
Guillermo A. Cecchi
Global organization of the Wordnet lexicon
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Daniel E. Lieberman
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Brandeis M. McBratney
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Gail Krovitz
The evolution and development of cranial form in
Homo
sapiens
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Sozos Ch. Papasozomenos
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Alikunju Shanavas
Testosterone prevents the heat shock-induced overactivation of glycogen synthase kinase-3β but not of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 and c-Jun NH
2
-terminal kinase and concomitantly abolishes hyperphosphorylation of τ: Implications for Alzheimer's disease
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Kenji Ohe
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Enzo Lalli
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Paolo Sassone-Corsi
A direct role of SRY and SOX proteins in pre-mRNA splicing
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Timothy H. P. Tan
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Natacha Bochud-Allemann
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Elke K. Horn
,
and
André Schneider
Eukaryotic-type elongator tRNA
Met
of
Trypanosoma brucei
becomes formylated after import into mitochondria
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Felix Rohdich
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Stefan Hecht
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Katrin Gärtner
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Petra Adam
,
Cornelia Krieger
,
Sabine Amslinger
,
Duilio Arigoni
,
Adelbert Bacher
,
and
Wolfgang Eisenreich
Studies on the nonmevalonate terpene biosynthetic pathway: Metabolic role of IspH (LytB) protein
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Jurate Bitinaite
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Ira Schildkraut
Self-generated DNA termini relax the specificity of
Sgr
AI restriction endonuclease
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Fernando Ortega
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Luis Acerenza
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Hans V. Westerhoff
,
Francesc Mas
,
and
Marta Cascante
Product dependence and bifunctionality compromise the ultrasensitivity of signal transduction cascades
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Sun Hur
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Thomas C. Bruice
The mechanism of catalysis of the chorismate to prephenate reaction by the
Escherichia coli
mutase enzyme
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Zhong-Hua Gao
,
Joni M. Seeling
,
Virginia Hill
,
April Yochum
,
and
David M. Virshup
Casein kinase I phosphorylates and destabilizes the β-catenin degradation complex
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Jianjun Wang
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Brian D. Sykes
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Robert O. Ryan
Structural basis for the conformational adaptability of apolipophorin III, a helix-bundle exchangeable apolipoprotein
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Dana T. Minnick
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Lixing Liu
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Nigel D. F. Grindley
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Thomas A. Kunkel
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and
Catherine M. Joyce
Discrimination against purine–pyrimidine mispairs in the polymerase active site of DNA polymerase I: A structural explanation
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Tianxin Chen
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Carl S. Parker
Dynamic association of transcriptional activation domains and regulatory regions in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
heat shock factor
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Aya Fukuda
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Yasuhisa Nogi
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Koji Hisatake
The regulatory role for the ERCC3 helicase of general transcription factor TFIIH during promoter escape in transcriptional activation
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Nobuo Maita
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Kengo Okada
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Kazuyuki Hatakeyama
,
and
Toshio Hakoshima
Crystal structure of the stimulatory complex of GTP cyclohydrolase I and its feedback regulatory protein GFRP
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David A. Bushnell
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Patrick Cramer
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Roger D. Kornberg
Structural basis of transcription: α-Amanitin–RNA polymerase II cocrystal at 2.8 Å resolution
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Hitoshi Sawada
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Naoyuki Sakai
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Yukichi Abe
,
Etsuko Tanaka
,
Youko Takahashi
,
Junko Fujino
,
Eri Kodama
,
Satoshi Takizawa
,
and
Hideyoshi Yokosawa
Extracellular ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation of the ascidian sperm receptor
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Hugues Lortat-Jacob
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Aurélien Grosdidier
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Anne Imberty
Structural diversity of heparan sulfate binding domains in chemokines
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Yinghui Mao
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Issac R. Mehl
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Mark T. Muller
Subnuclear distribution of topoisomerase I is linked to ongoing transcription and p53 status
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
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Jae-Hyun Kim
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William S. Lane
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and
Danny Reinberg
Human Elongator facilitates RNA polymerase II transcription through chromatin
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Rahul M. Kohli
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Junichi Takagi
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Christopher T. Walsh
The thioesterase domain from a nonribosomal peptide synthetase as a cyclization catalyst for integrin binding peptides
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Akiko Koide
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Stacy Abbatiello
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Lisa Rothgery
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and
Shohei Koide
Probing protein conformational changes in living cells by using designer binding proteins: Application to the estrogen receptor
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Martin Ott
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John D. Robertson
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Vladimir Gogvadze
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Boris Zhivotovsky
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and
Sten Orrenius
Cytochrome
c
release from mitochondria proceeds by a two-step process
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Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay
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James E. Garrett
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Reshma P. Shetty
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Tyler Keate
,
Craig S. Walker
,
and
Baldomero M. Olivera
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γ-Glutamyl carboxylation: An extracellular posttranslational modification that antedates the divergence of molluscs, arthropods, and chordates
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Bartosz A. Grzybowski
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Alexey V. Ishchenko
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Chu-Young Kim
,
George Topalov
,
Robert Chapman
,
David W. Christianson
,
George M. Whitesides
,
and
Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Combinatorial computational method gives new picomolar ligands for a known enzyme
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Bertil Halle
Flexibility and packing in proteins
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Patrice Koehl
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Protein topology and stability define the space of allowed sequences
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Stephen L. Slatin
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Angèle Nardi
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Karen S. Jakes
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Daniel Baty
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and
Denis Duché
Translocation of a functional protein by a voltage-dependent ion channel
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Muriel Golzio
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Justin Teissié
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Marie-Pierre Rols
Direct visualization at the single-cell level of electrically mediated gene delivery
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Maria M. Lopez
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Der-Hang Chin
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Robert L. Baldwin
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George I. Makhatadze
The enthalpy of the alanine peptide helix measured by isothermal titration calorimetry using metal-binding to induce helix formation
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Gerald R. Nakamura
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Mark E. Reynolds
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Yvonne M. Chen
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Melissa A. Starovasnik
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and
Henry B. Lowman
Stable “zeta” peptides that act as potent antagonists of the high-affinity IgE receptor
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Franc Avbelj
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Role of backbone solvation in determining thermodynamic β propensities of the amino acids
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E. Leikina
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M. V. Mertts
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N. Kuznetsova
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S. Leikin
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Type I collagen is thermally unstable at body temperature
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Stefan Weber
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Christopher W. M. Kay
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Heike Mögling
,
Klaus Möbius
,
Kenichi Hitomi
,
and
Takeshi Todo
Photoactivation of the flavin cofactor in
Xenopus laevis
(6–4) photolyase: Observation of a transient tyrosyl radical by time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance
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Marie-Louise Groot
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Marten H. Vos
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Ilme Schlichting
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Frank van Mourik
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Manuel Joffre
,
Jean-Christophe Lambry
,
and
Jean-Louis Martin
Coherent infrared emission from myoglobin crystals: An electric field measurement
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Shuji Akiyama
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Satoshi Takahashi
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Tetsunari Kimura
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Koichiro Ishimori
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Isao Morishima
,
Yukihiro Nishikawa
,
and
Tetsuro Fujisawa
Conformational landscape of cytochrome
c
folding studied by microsecond-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering
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Yih-Cherng Liou
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Akihide Ryo
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Han-Kuei Huang
,
Pei-Jung Lu
,
Roderick Bronson
,
Fumihiro Fujimori
,
Takafumi Uchida
,
Tony Hunter
,
and
Kun Ping Lu
Loss of Pin1 function in the mouse causes phenotypes resembling cyclin D1-null phenotypes
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