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Notch signaling, the segmentation clock, and the patterning of vertebrate somites
Julian Lewis, Anja Hanisch, Maxine Holder Journal of Biology 2009, 8:44 (22 May 2009)
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Julian Lewis and colleagues review the part played by the Notch signaling pathway in the emergence of somites from the embryonic mesoderm and their later differentiation.
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Oxidative stress, thermogenesis and evolution of uncoupling proteins
Eduardo Rial, Rafael Zardoya Journal of Biology 2009, 8:58 (16 June 2009)
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Suppression of adaptive immunity to heterologous antigens during Plasmodium infection through hemozoin-induced failure of dendritic cell function
Owain R Millington, Caterina Di Lorenzo, R Phillips, Paul Garside, James M Brewer Journal of Biology 2006, 5:5 (12 April 2006)
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Hemozoin pigment, released during malarial infection, is now known to cause dendritic cell failure and subsequent host immunosupression, explaining why people with malaria become prone to infection and respond poorly to vaccines.
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Imp-L2, a putative homolog of vertebrate IGF-binding protein 7, counteracts insulin signaling in Drosophila and is essential for starvation resistance
Basil Honegger, Milos Galic, Katja Köhler, Franz Wittwer, Walter Brogiolo, Ernst Hafen, Hugo Stocker Journal of Biology 2008, 7:10 (15 April 2008)
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The first functional insulin-binding protein identified in invertebrates, Imp-L2, controls Drosophila body size by regulating insulin-mediated growth and is essential for larval survival and dampening insulin signaling under starvation conditions.
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A global analysis of genetic interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans
Alexandra B Byrne, Matthew T Weirauch, Victoria Wong, Martina Koeva, Scott J Dixon, Joshua M Stuart, Peter J Roy Journal of Biology 2007, 6:8 (26 September 2007)
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A C. elegans genetic-interaction network built by combining gene mutants and knockdowns is the largest animal network to date, revealing redundancy among functional modules and surprisingly little conservation of network connections compared to yeast.
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Metabolic reconfiguration is a regulated response to oxidative stress
Chris M Grant Journal of Biology 2008, 7:1 (25 January 2008)
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Promoter architecture and the evolvability of gene expression
Itay Tirosh, Naama Barkai, Kevin J Verstrepen Journal of Biology 2009, 8:95 (14 December 2009)
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Major evolutionary change depends on changes in gene expression. Itay Tirosh and colleagues review recent research on the influence of promoter architecture and mutations in regulatory proteins on divergent expression patterns and suggest what is required for evolvability.
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Making the jump: new insights into the mechanism of trans-translation
Jacek Wower, Iwona K Wower, Christian Zwieb Journal of Biology 2008, 7:17 (30 June 2008)
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ERK1 and ERK2 mitogen-activated protein kinases affect Ras-dependent cell signaling differentially
Chiara Vantaggiato, Ivan Formentini, Attilio Bondanza, Chiara Bonini, Luigi Naldini, Riccardo Brambilla Journal of Biology 2006, 5:14 (28 June 2006)
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The mitogen-activated protein kinases ERK1 and ERK2 have unexpectedly independent roles in normal and malignant Ras-dependent cell proliferation; ERK2 controls normal cell proliferation whereas ERK1 antagonizes ERK2 activity.
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Regulation of metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans longevity
Marco Gallo, Donald L Riddle Journal of Biology 2010, 9:7 (10 February 2010)
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A metabolomic quest for universals in the control of lifespan recently reported in BMC Biology implicates branched-chain amino acid pools. Gallo and Riddle review the lessons from C.elegans in research on longevity, and discuss the implications of the metabolomic research.
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Complementary pathways in mammalian female sex determination
Serge Nef, Jean-Dominique Vassalli Journal of Biology 2009, 8:74 (2 September 2009)
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Nef and Vassalli discuss the molecular basis of female sex determination in the light of a recent BMC Developmental Biology paper identifying two independent and complementary signaling pathways that promote ovarian fate and repress testicular development.
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The cattle genome reveals its secrets
David W Burt Journal of Biology 2009, 8:36 (24 April 2009)
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Burt discusses the impact of the recently sequenced Bovine genome on our understanding of bovine phylogeny and the genomics of domestication.
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Motifs, themes and thematic maps of an integrated Saccharomyces cerevisiae interaction network
Lan V Zhang, Oliver D King, Sharyl L Wong, Debra S Goldberg, Amy HY Tong, Guillaume Lesage, Brenda Andrews, Howard Bussey, Charles Boone, Frederick P Roth Journal of Biology 2005, 4:6 (1 June 2005)
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The multiple complex biological interactions in a yeast cell can be mapped in a simple graphical form, enhancing our understanding of the networks of interaction by which components of a cell influence one another.
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A quantitative analysis of the mechanism that controls body size in Manduca sexta
HF Nijhout, G Davidowitz, DA Roff Journal of Biology 2006, 5:16 (2 August 2006)
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Final body size in the moth Manduca sexta can be predicted from the juvenile caterpillar by modeling three key growth measurements to reveal how growth rate, nutrition and temperature determine eventual body size.
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Apical polarity in three-dimensional culture systems: where to now?
Jamie L Inman, Mina J Bissell Journal of Biology 2010, 9:2 (21 January 2010)
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Limb regeneration revisited
Jessica L Whited, Clifford J Tabin Journal of Biology 2009, 8:5 (13 January 2009)
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The phosphatidylserine receptor has essential functions during embryogenesis but not in apoptotic cell removal
Jens Böse, Achim D Gruber, Laura Helming, Stefanie Schiebe, Ivonne Wegener, Martin Hafner, Marianne Beales, Frank Köntgen, Andreas Lengeling Journal of Biology 2004, 3:15 (23 August 2004)
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The phosphatidylserine receptor is not needed for the recognition of dying cells as previously thought, and instead plays a role in the differentiation of a wide range of tissues during embryogenesis.
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Transplanted astrocytes derived from BMP- or CNTF-treated glial-restricted precursors have opposite effects on recovery and allodynia after spinal cord injury
Jeannette E Davies, Christoph Pröschel, Ningzhe Zhang, Mark Noble, Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Stephen JA Davies Journal of Biology 2008, 7:24 (19 September 2008)
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Glial cells can promote the repair of damaged spinal cord, but experiments in rats show that while some promote functional recovery others cause abnormal growth and pain, depending on the growth factor used to cultivate them in culture.
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Exploiting the promiscuity of imatinib
Shun J Lee, Jean YJ Wang Journal of Biology 2009, 8:30 (15 April 2009)
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Lee and Wang discuss how the structural flexibility of the cancer drug imatinib (Gleevec) accounts for the drug's off-target promiscuity, illustrated by a structural study published in BMC Structural Biology.
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Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals
Yuichiro Itoh, Esther Melamed, Xia Yang, Kathy Kampf, Susanna Wang, Nadir Yehya, Atila Van Nas, Kirstin Replogle, Mark R Band, David F Clayton, Eric E Schadt, Aldons J Lusis, Arthur P Arnold Journal of Biology 2007, 6:2 (22 March 2007)
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Male:female ratios of gene expression in zebra finch and chicken reveal that birds, unlike mammals, have surprisingly ineffective sex-chromosome dosage compensation mechanisms resulting in an imbalance between autosomal and sex-linked genes.
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Cryptic biodiversity in a changing world
Luciano B Beheregaray, Adalgisa Caccone Journal of Biology 2007, 6:9 (21 December 2007)
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Dishevelled and Wnt signaling: is the nucleus the final frontier?
Raymond Habas, Igor B Dawid Journal of Biology 2005, 4:2 (17 February 2005)
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Systematic identification of regulatory proteins critical for T-cell activation
Peter Chu, Jorge Pardo, Haoran Zhao, Connie C Li, Erlina Pali, Mary M Shen, Kunbin Qu, Simon X Yu, Betty CB Huang, Peiwen Yu, Esteban S Masuda, Susan M Molineaux, Frank Kolbinger, Gregorio Aversa, Jan de Vries, Donald G Payan, X Charlene Liao Journal of Biology 2003, 2:21 (15 September 2003)
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Mayr, mathematics and the study of evolution
James F Crow Journal of Biology 2009, 8:13 (23 February 2009)
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James Crow picks up the gauntlet thrown down by Mayr at the feet of JBS Haldane, and describes the essential contribution of mathematics to the understanding of evolution from genetic drift to molecular clocks.
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Q&A: Cooperativity
James E Ferrell Journal of Biology 2009, 8:53 (16 June 2009)
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James Ferrell explains in Q&A format how cooperativity can tune the behaviour of biological macromolecules to their physiological functions, and can be achieved in many different ways.
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