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14 January 2009
Letters
Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes
Keun Soo Kim, Yue Zhao, Houk Jang, Sang Yoon Lee, Jong Min Kim, Kwang S. Kim, Jong-Hyun Ahn, Philip Kim, Jae-Young Choi & Byung Hee Hong
doi:10.1038/nature07719
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Ubiquitin-related modifier Urm1 acts as a sulphur carrier in thiolation of eukaryotic transfer RNA
Sebastian Leidel, Patrick G. A. Pedrioli, Tamara Bucher, Renée Brost, Michael Costanzo, Alexander Schmidt, Ruedi Aebersold, Charles Boone, Kay Hofmann & Matthias Peter
doi:10.1038/nature07643
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Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control
Jason S. Rothman, Laurence Cathala, Volker Steuber & R. Angus Silver
doi:10.1038/nature07604
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11 January 2009
Article
Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells
Joseph C. Sun, Joshua N. Beilke & Lewis L. Lanier
doi:10.1038/nature07665
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Letters
Transcriptome sequencing to detect gene fusions in cancer
Christopher A. Maher, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Xuhong Cao, Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram, Bo Han, Xiaojun Jing, Lee Sam, Terrence Barrette, Nallasivam Palanisamy & Arul M. Chinnaiyan
doi:10.1038/nature07638
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Genetic architecture of mouse skin inflammation and tumour susceptibility
David A. Quigley, Minh D. To, Jesús Pérez-Losada, Facundo G. Pelorosso, Jian-Hua Mao, Hiroki Nagase, David G. Ginzinger & Allan Balmain
doi:10.1038/nature07683
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07 January 2009
Article
Intersubunit coordination in a homomeric ring ATPase
Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Yann R. Chemla, K. Aathavan, Shelley Grimes, Paul J. Jardine, Dwight L. Anderson & Carlos Bustamante
doi:10.1038/nature07637
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Letter
Runx1 is required for the endothelial to haematopoietic cell transition but not thereafter
Michael J. Chen, Tomomasa Yokomizo, Brandon M. Zeigler, Elaine Dzierzak & Nancy A. Speck
doi:10.1038/nature07619
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04 January 2009
Letters
Ca2+/calmodulin regulates salicylic-acid-mediated plant immunity
Liqun Du, Gul S. Ali, Kayla A. Simons, Jingguo Hou, Tianbao Yang, A. S. N. Reddy & B. W. Poovaiah
doi:10.1038/nature07612
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Deficiency of a -arrestin-2 signal complex contributes to insulin resistance
Bing Luan, Jian Zhao, Haiya Wu, Baoyu Duan, Guangwen Shu, Xiaoying Wang, Dangsheng Li, Weiping Jia, Jiuhong Kang & Gang Pei
doi:10.1038/nature07617
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31 December 2008
Letters
Casein kinase 1 governs antigen-receptor-induced NF-B activation and human lymphoma cell survival
Nicolas Bidère, Vu N. Ngo, Jeansun Lee, Cailin Collins, Lixin Zheng, Fengyi Wan, R. Eric Davis, Georg Lenz, D. Eric Anderson, Damien Arnoult, Aimé Vazquez, Keiko Sakai, Jun Zhang, Zhaojing Meng, Timothy D. Veenstra, Louis M. Staudt & Michael J. Lenardo
doi:10.1038/nature07613
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Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase–tRNAPyl structure reveals the molecular basis of orthogonality
Kayo Nozawa, Patrick O'Donoghue, Sarath Gundllapalli, Yuhei Araiso, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Takuya Umehara, Dieter Söll & Osamu Nureki
doi:10.1038/nature07611
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The Fas–FADD death domain complex structure unravels signalling by receptor clustering
Fiona L. Scott, Boguslaw Stec, Cristina Pop, Magorzata K. Dobaczewska, JeongEun J. Lee, Edward Monosov, Howard Robinson, Guy S. Salvesen, Robert Schwarzenbacher & Stefan J. Riedl
doi:10.1038/nature07606
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Calcium flickers steer cell migration
Chaoliang Wei, Xianhua Wang, Min Chen, Kunfu Ouyang, Long-Sheng Song & Heping Cheng
doi:10.1038/nature07577
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21 December 2008
Letters
Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell
Christian Eggeling, Christian Ringemann, Rebecca Medda, Günter Schwarzmann, Konrad Sandhoff, Svetlana Polyakova, Vladimir N. Belov, Birka Hein, Claas von Middendorff, Andreas Schönle & Stefan W. Hell
doi:10.1038/nature07596
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Nodal signalling is involved in left–right asymmetry in snails
Cristina Grande & Nipam H. Patel
doi:10.1038/nature07603
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Artificial nanopores that mimic the transport selectivity of the nuclear pore complex
Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman, Jaclyn Tetenbaum-Novatt, Anna Sophia McKenney, Anton Zilman, Reiner Peters, Michael P. Rout & Brian T. Chait
doi:10.1038/nature07600
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A stress-responsive RNA switch regulates VEGFA expression
Partho Sarothi Ray, Jie Jia, Peng Yao, Mithu Majumder, Maria Hatzoglou & Paul L. Fox
doi:10.1038/nature07598
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17 December 2008
Letters
Crypt stem cells as the cells-of-origin of intestinal cancer
Nick Barker, Rachel A. Ridgway, Johan H. van Es, Marc van de Wetering, Harry Begthel, Maaike van den Born, Esther Danenberg, Alan R. Clarke, Owen J. Sansom & Hans Clevers
doi:10.1038/nature07602
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The DNA-encoded nucleosome organization of a eukaryotic genome
Noam Kaplan, Irene K. Moore, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Andrea J. Gossett, Desiree Tillo, Yair Field, Emily M. LeProust, Timothy R. Hughes, Jason D. Lieb, Jonathan Widom & Eran Segal
doi:10.1038/nature07667
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Peptide neurotransmitters activate a cation channel complex of NALCN and UNC-80
Boxun Lu, Yanhua Su, Sudipto Das, Haikun Wang, Yan Wang, Jin Liu & Dejian Ren
doi:10.1038/nature07579
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Prominin 1 marks intestinal stem cells that are susceptible to neoplastic transformation
Liqin Zhu, Paul Gibson, D. Spencer Currle, Yiai Tong, Robert J. Richardson, Ildar T. Bayazitov, Helen Poppleton, Stanislav Zakharenko, David W. Ellison & Richard J. Gilbertson
doi:10.1038/nature07589
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14 December 2008
Article
The unfolded protein response signals through high-order assembly of Ire1
Alexei V. Korennykh, Pascal F. Egea, Andrei A. Korostelev, Janet Finer-Moore, Chao Zhang, Kevan M. Shokat, Robert M. Stroud & Peter Walter
doi:10.1038/nature07661
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Letters
Messenger RNA targeting to endoplasmic reticulum stress signalling sites
Tomás Aragón, Eelco van Anken, David Pincus, Iana M. Serafimova, Alexei V. Korennykh, Claudia A. Rubio & Peter Walter
doi:10.1038/nature07641
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RAD6–RAD18–RAD5-pathway-dependent tolerance to chronic low-dose ultraviolet light
Takashi Hishida, Yoshino Kubota, Antony M. Carr & Hiroshi Iwasaki
doi:10.1038/nature07580
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Signalling through RHEB-1 mediates intermittent fasting-induced longevity in C. elegans
Sakiko Honjoh, Takuya Yamamoto, Masaharu Uno & Eisuke Nishida
doi:10.1038/nature07583
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Sleep and sensorimotor integration during early vocal learning in a songbird
Sylvan S. Shank & Daniel Margoliash
doi:10.1038/nature07615
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10 December 2008
Letters
Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation
Charles K. F. Chan, Ching-Cheng Chen, Cynthia A. Luppen, Jae-Beom Kim, Anthony T. DeBoer, Kevin Wei, Jill A. Helms, Calvin J. Kuo, Daniel L. Kraft & Irving L. Weissman
doi:10.1038/nature07547
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Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs
Gaute Lavik, Torben Stührmann, Volker Brüchert, Anja Van der Plas, Volker Mohrholz, Phyllis Lam, Marc Mumann, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Ulrich Lass & Marcel M. M. Kuypers
doi:10.1038/nature07588
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Frequent somatic mutations of GNAQ in uveal melanoma and blue naevi
Catherine D. Van Raamsdonk, Vladimir Bezrookove, Gary Green, Jürgen Bauer, Lona Gaugler, Joan M. O'Brien, Elizabeth M. Simpson, Gregory S. Barsh & Boris C. Bastian
doi:10.1038/nature07586
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Enhancing SIV-specific immunity in vivo by PD-1 blockade
Vijayakumar Velu, Kehmia Titanji, Baogong Zhu, Sajid Husain, Annette Pladevega, Lilin Lai, Thomas H. Vanderford, Lakshmi Chennareddi, Guido Silvestri, Gordon J. Freeman, Rafi Ahmed & Rama Rao Amara
doi:10.1038/nature07662
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07 December 2008
Letters
Chlamydia causes fragmentation of the Golgi compartment to ensure reproduction
Dagmar Heuer, Anette Rejman Lipinski, Nikolaus Machuy, Alexander Karlas, Andrea Wehrens, Frank Siedler, Volker Brinkmann & Thomas F. Meyer
doi:10.1038/nature07578
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ABIN-1 is a ubiquitin sensor that restricts cell death and sustains embryonic development
Shigeru Oshima, Emre E. Turer, Joseph A. Callahan, Sophia Chai, Rommel Advincula, Julio Barrera, Nataliya Shifrin, Bettina Lee, Benjamin Yen, Tammy Woo, Barbara A. Malynn & Averil Ma
doi:10.1038/nature07575
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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli EtpA mediates adhesion between flagella and host cells
Koushik Roy, George M. Hilliard, David J. Hamilton, Jiwen Luo, Marguerite M. Ostmann & James M. Fleckenstein
doi:10.1038/nature07568
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Allergenicity resulting from functional mimicry of a Toll-like receptor complex protein
Aurelien Trompette, Senad Divanovic, Alberto Visintin, Carine Blanchard, Rashmi S. Hegde, Rajat Madan, Peter S. Thorne, Marsha Wills-Karp, Theresa L. Gioannini, Jerry P. Weiss & Christopher L. Karp
doi:10.1038/nature07548
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Counting RAD51 proteins disassembling from nucleoprotein filaments under tension
Joost van Mameren, Mauro Modesti, Roland Kanaar, Claire Wyman, Erwin J. G. Peterman & Gijs J. L. Wuite
doi:10.1038/nature07581
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03 December 2008
Letter
A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks
Serguei Saavedra, Felix Reed-Tsochas & Brian Uzzi
doi:10.1038/nature07532
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30 November 2008
Letters
Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry
Nels C. Elde, Stephanie J. Child, Adam P. Geballe & Harmit S. Malik
doi:10.1038/nature07529
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Discovery of a sexual cycle in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus
Céline M. O'Gorman, Hubert T. Fuller & Paul S. Dyer
doi:10.1038/nature07528
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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady, Tanya Yatsunenko, Brandi L. Cantarel, Alexis Duncan, Ruth E. Ley, Mitchell L. Sogin, William J. Jones, Bruce A. Roe, Jason P. Affourtit, Michael Egholm, Bernard Henrissat, Andrew C. Heath, Rob Knight & Jeffrey I. Gordon
doi:10.1038/nature07540
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26 November 2008
Letter
Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms
Adrian Marchetti, Micaela S. Parker, Lauren P. Moccia, Ellen O. Lin, Angele L. Arrieta, Francois Ribalet, Michael E. P. Murphy, Maria T. Maldonado & E. Virginia Armbrust
doi:10.1038/nature07539
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23 November 2008
Letter
Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction
Adam C. Martin, Matthias Kaschube & Eric F. Wieschaus
doi:10.1038/nature07522
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19 November 2008
Letter
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data
Jeremy Ginsberg, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Rajan S. Patel, Lynnette Brammer, Mark S. Smolinski & Larry Brilliant
doi:10.1038/nature07634
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05 November 2008
Letter
WNT11 acts as a directional cue to organize the elongation of early muscle fibres
Jérôme Gros, Olivier Serralbo & Christophe Marcelle
doi:10.1038/nature07564
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02 November 2008
Letter
A human natural killer cell subset provides an innate source of IL-22 for mucosal immunity
Marina Cella, Anja Fuchs, William Vermi, Fabio Facchetti, Karel Otero, Jochen K. M. Lennerz, Jason M. Doherty, Jason C. Mills & Marco Colonna
doi:10.1038/nature07537
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