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February 19, 2002; 99 (4)
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FROM THE COVER
Microfabrication with a single multilevel stamp
Measuring posttranslational modifications to within one residue
Tweezing apart the nucleosome
Coaxing stem cells to differentiate into dopamine neurons
Pleistocene hominids' behavior in a nutshell
Commentaries
Commentary
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Joshua M. Farber
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Edward A. Berger
HIV's response to a CCR5 inhibitor: I'd rather tighten than switch!
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Jeffrey J. Hayes
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Jeffrey C. Hansen
New insights into unwrapping DNA from the nucleosome from a single-molecule optical tweezers method
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Curt R. Freed
Will embryonic stem cells be a useful source of dopamine neurons for transplant into patients with Parkinson's disease?
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Joe Tien
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Celeste M. Nelson
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Christopher S. Chen
From the Cover: Fabrication of aligned microstructures with a single elastomeric stamp
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Samir Kumar Pal
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Jorge Peon
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Biological water at the protein surface: Dynamical solvation probed directly with femtosecond resolution
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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M. Ben-Nun
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F. Molnar
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K. Schulten
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Todd J. Martínez
The role of intersection topography in bond selectivity of cis-trans photoisomerization
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Siu Kwan Sze
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Ying Ge
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HanBin Oh
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Fred W. McLafferty
From the Cover: Top-down mass spectrometry of a 29-kDa protein for characterization of any posttranslational modification to within one residue
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Oded Aharonson
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Maria T. Zuber
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Daniel H. Rothman
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Norbert Schorghofer
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and
Kelin X. Whipple
Drainage basins and channel incision on Mars
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Physical Sciences - Geophysics
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Stephen E. Schwartz
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Harshvardhan
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Carmen M. Benkovitz
Influence of anthropogenic aerosol on cloud optical depth and albedo shown by satellite measurements and chemical transport modeling
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Heidi M. Dierssen
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Raymond C. Smith
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Maria Vernet
Glacial meltwater dynamics in coastal waters west of the Antarctic peninsula
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H. Alles
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A. Babkin
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R. Jochemsen
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A. Ya. Parshin
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I. A. Todoshchenko
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and
V. Tsepelin
Faceting on 3 He crystals
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Naama Goren-Inbar
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Gonen Sharon
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Yoel Melamed
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Mordechai Kislev
From the Cover: Nuts, nut cracking, and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
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Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences
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Sanjay Jain
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Sandeep Krishna
Large extinctions in an evolutionary model: The role of innovation and keystone species
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Daniel E. Stafford
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Kurt S. Yanagimachi
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Philip A. Lessard
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Sushil K. Rijhwani
,
Anthony J. Sinskey
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and
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Optimizing bioconversion pathways through systems analysis and metabolic engineering
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Maurizio Bifulco
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Chiara Laezza
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Stefania Stingo
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J. Wolff
2′,3′-Cyclic nucleotide 3′-phosphodiesterase: A membrane-bound, microtubule-associated protein and membrane anchor for tubulin
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Alexander M. Cole
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Teresa Hong
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Lee Ming Boo
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Tung Nguyen
,
Chengquan Zhao
,
Greg Bristol
,
Jerome A. Zack
,
Alan J. Waring
,
Otto O. Yang
,
and
Robert I. Lehrer
Retrocyclin: A primate peptide that protects cells from infection by T- and M-tropic strains of HIV-1
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Makiko Uno
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Koichi Ito
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Yoshikazu Nakamura
Polypeptide release at sense and noncognate stop codons by localized charge-exchange alterations in translational release factors
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Adelinda Yee
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Xiaoqing Chang
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Antonio Pineda-Lucena
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Bin Wu
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Anthony Semesi
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Brian Le
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Theresa Ramelot
,
Gregory M. Lee
,
Sudeepa Bhattacharyya
,
Pablo Gutierrez
,
Aleksej Denisov
,
Chang-Hun Lee
,
John R. Cort
,
Guennadi Kozlov
,
Jack Liao
,
Grzegorz Finak
,
Limin Chen
,
David Wishart
,
Weontae Lee
,
Lawrence P. McIntosh
,
Kalle Gehring
,
Michael A. Kennedy
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Aled M. Edwards
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and
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
An NMR approach to structural proteomics
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Jeffrey L. Urbauer
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Mario F. Simeonov
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Ramona J. Bieber Urbauer
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Karen Adelman
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Joshua M. Gilmore
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and
Edward N. Brody
Solution structure and stability of the anti-sigma factor AsiA: Implications for novel functions
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Günter Fritz
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Annette Roth
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Alexander Schiffer
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Thomas Büchert
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Gleb Bourenkov
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Hans D. Bartunik
,
Harald Huber
,
Karl O. Stetter
,
Peter M. H. Kroneck
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and
Ulrich Ermler
Structure of adenylylsulfate reductase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeoglobus fulgidus at 1.6-Å resolution
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Gaurav Laroia
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Bedabrata Sarkar
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Robert J. Schneider
Ubiquitin-dependent mechanism regulates rapid turnover of AU-rich cytokine mRNAs
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Gregory P. Tochtrop
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Klaus Richter
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Changguo Tang
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James J. Toner
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Douglas F. Covey
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and
David P. Cistola
Energetics by NMR: Site-specific binding in a positively cooperative system
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Berit Olsen Krogh
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Stewart Shuman
A poxvirus-like type IB topoisomerase family in bacteria
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João A. R. G. Barbosa
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J. Sivaraman
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Yunge Li
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Robert Larocque
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Allan Matte
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Joseph D. Schrag
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and
Miroslaw Cygler
Mechanism of action and NAD + -binding mode revealed by the crystal structure of l -histidinol dehydrogenase
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Francesco Contegno
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Mario Cioce
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Pier Giuseppe Pelicci
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Saverio Minucci
Targeting protein inactivation through an oligomerization chain reaction
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Tory M. Hagen
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Jiankang Liu
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Jens Lykkesfeldt
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Carol M. Wehr
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Russell T. Ingersoll
,
Vladimir Vinarsky
,
James C. Bartholomew
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and
Bruce N. Ames
Feeding acetyl- l -carnitine and lipoic acid to old rats significantly improves metabolic function while decreasing oxidative stress
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Jiankang Liu
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David W. Killilea
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Bruce N. Ames
Age-associated mitochondrial oxidative decay: Improvement of carnitine acetyltransferase substrate-binding affinity and activity in brain by feeding old rats acetyl- l - carnitine and/or R -α-lipoic acid
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Isabelle Harvey
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Philippe Garneau
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Jerry Pelletier
Forced engagement of a RNA/protein complex by a chemical inducer of dimerization to modulate gene expression
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Dona N. Ho
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Glen A. Coburn
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Yibin Kang
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Bryan R. Cullen
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Millie M. Georgiadis
The crystal structure and mutational analysis of a novel RNA-binding domain found in the human Tap nuclear mRNA export factor
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Chi-Yong Eom
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The human DnaJ protein, hTid-1, enhances binding of a multimer of the herpes simplex virus type 1 UL9 protein to ori s , an origin of viral DNA replication
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Kristine N. Brazin
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Robert J. Mallis
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D. Bruce Fulton
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Amy H. Andreotti
Regulation of the tyrosine kinase Itk by the peptidyl-prolyl isomerase cyclophilin A
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Irina G. Minko
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Yue Zou
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R. Stephen Lloyd
Incision of DNA–protein crosslinks by UvrABC nuclease suggests a potential repair pathway involving nucleotide excision repair
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M. Todd Washington
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Robert E. Johnson
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Louise Prakash
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Satya Prakash
Human DINB1 -encoded DNA polymerase κ is a promiscuous extender of mispaired primer termini
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Horst Röhrig
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Jürgen Schmidt
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Edvins Miklashevichs
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Jeff Schell
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Michael John
Soybean ENOD40 encodes two peptides that bind to sucrose synthase
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Monica V. Kumar
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Teruhiko Shimokawa
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Tim R. Nagy
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M. Daniel Lane
Differential effects of a centrally acting fatty acid synthase inhibitor in lean and obese mice
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Samir Kumar Pal
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Jorge Peon
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Biological water at the protein surface: Dynamical solvation probed directly with femtosecond resolution
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Stephen H. Loukin
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Junyu Lin
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Umair Athar
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Christopher Palmer
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Yoshiro Saimi
The carboxyl tail forms a discrete functional domain that blocks closure of the yeast K + channel
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Wenbing Zhang
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Shi-Jie Chen
RNA hairpin-folding kinetics
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Piotr Arłukowicz
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Cezary Czaplewski
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Stanisław Ołdziej
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Jarosław Pillardy
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Harold A. Scheraga
A method for optimizing potential-energy functions by a hierarchical design of the potential-energy landscape: Application to the UNRES force field
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Sumie Manno
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Yuichi Takakuwa
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Narla Mohandas
Identification of a functional role for lipid asymmetry in biological membranes: Phosphatidylserine-skeletal protein interactions modulate membrane stability
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Yufeng Shen
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Yifei Kong
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Jianpeng Ma
Intrinsic flexibility and gating mechanism of the potassium channel KcsA
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Eva-Maria Frickel
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Roland Riek
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Ilian Jelesarov
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Ari Helenius
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Kurt Wüthrich
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Lars Ellgaard
TROSY-NMR reveals interaction between ERp57 and the tip of the calreticulin P-domain
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Brent D. Brower-Toland
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Corey L. Smith
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Richard C. Yeh
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John T. Lis
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Craig L. Peterson
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Michelle D. Wang
From the Cover: Mechanical disruption of individual nucleosomes reveals a reversible multistage release of DNA
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Meshell D. Johnson
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Jonathan H. Widdicombe
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Lennell Allen
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Pascal Barbry
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Leland G. Dobbs
Alveolar epithelial type I cells contain transport proteins and transport sodium, supporting an active role for type I cells in regulation of lung liquid homeostasis
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Carson H. Thomas
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Joel H. Collier
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Charles S. Sfeir
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Kevin E. Healy
Engineering gene expression and protein synthesis by modulation of nuclear shape
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