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Volume 5(2);  February 2007
Editorial
Open Access to Research Is in the Public Interest
Bevin P Engelward and Richard J Roberts
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e48. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050048.
PMCID: PMC1796937
Synopses
Evolutionary Influences on Proteins
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e26. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050026.
PMCID: PMC1790954
Diverse Toxic Chemicals Disrupt Cell Function through a Common Path
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e41. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050041.
PMCID: PMC1790949
Central and Peripheral Signals Set the Circadian Liver Clock
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e50. Published online 2007 January 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050050.
PMCID: PMC1783673
Combinatorial Coding for Drosophila Neurons
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e51. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050051.
PMCID: PMC1790956
Both Barriers and Trait Complementarity Govern Pollination Network Structure
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e54. Published online 2007 January 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050054.
PMCID: PMC1779814
Essay
Evolution by Any Other Name: Antibiotic Resistance and Avoidance of the E-Word
Janis Antonovics, Jessica L Abbate, Christi Howell Baker, Douglas Daley, Michael E Hood, Christina E Jenkins, Louise J Johnson, James J Murray, Vijay Panjeti, Volker H. W Rudolf, Dan Sloan, and Joanna Vondrasek
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e30. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050030.
PMCID: PMC1796926
Primer
Sing the Genome Electric: Excited Cells Adjust Their Splicing
Manuel Ares, Jr.
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e55. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050055.
PMCID: PMC1796941
Research Articles
Rate of Evolution in Brain-Expressed Genes in Humans and Other Primates
Hurng-Yi Wang, Huan-Chieh Chien, Naoki Osada, Katsuyuki Hashimoto, Sumio Sugano, Takashi Gojobori, Chen-Kung Chou, Shih-Feng Tsai, Chung-I Wu, and C.-K. James Shen
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e13. Published online 2006 December 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050013.
PMCID: PMC1717015
Splicing and the Evolution of Proteins in Mammals
Joanna L Parmley, Araxi O Urrutia, Lukasz Potrzebowski, Henrik Kaessmann, and Laurence D Hurst
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e14. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050014.
PMCID: PMC1790955
Active Spatial Perception in the Vibrissa Scanning Sensorimotor System
Samar B Mehta, Diane Whitmer, Rodolfo Figueroa, Ben A Williams, and David Kleinfeld
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e15. Published online 2007 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050015.
PMCID: PMC1769422
Shifts in Coding Properties and Maintenance of Information Transmission during Adaptation in Barrel Cortex
Miguel Maravall, Rasmus S Petersen, Adrienne L Fairhall, Ehsan Arabzadeh, and Mathew E Diamond
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e19. Published online 2007 January 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050019.
PMCID: PMC1779810
Different Quaternary Structures of Human RECQ1 Are Associated with Its Dual Enzymatic Activity
Laura Muzzolini, Fabienne Beuron, Ardan Patwardhan, Venkateswarlu Popuri, Sheng Cui, Benedetta Niccolini, Mathieu Rappas, Paul S Freemont, and Alessandro Vindigni
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e20. Published online 2007 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050020.
PMCID: PMC1769423
Intermolecular Failure of L-type Ca2+ Channel and Ryanodine Receptor Signaling in Hypertrophy
Ming Xu, Peng Zhou, Shi-Ming Xu, Yin Liu, Xinheng Feng, Shu-Hua Bai, Yan Bai, Xue-Mei Hao, Qide Han, Youyi Zhang, and Shi-Qiang Wang
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e21. Published online 2007 January 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050021.
PMCID: PMC1764437
The Costs of Carnivory
Chris Carbone, Amber Teacher, and J. Marcus Rowcliffe
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e22. Published online 2007 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050022.
PMCID: PMC1769424
The Crystal Structure of the SV40 T-Antigen Origin Binding Domain in Complex with DNA
Gretchen Meinke, Paul Phelan, Stephanie Moine, Elena Bochkareva, Alexey Bochkarev, Peter A Bullock, and Andrew Bohm
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e23. Published online 2007 January 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050023.
PMCID: PMC1779811
Hsp104-Dependent Remodeling of Prion Complexes Mediates Protein-Only Inheritance
Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan, Sara X Langseth, and Tricia R Serio
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e24. Published online 2007 January 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050024.
PMCID: PMC1779812
Discrete States of a Protein Interaction Network Govern Interphase and Mitotic Microtubule Dynamics
Philipp Niethammer, Iva Kronja, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Sonja Rybina, Philippe Bastiaens, and Eric Karsenti
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e29. Published online 2007 January 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050029.
PMCID: PMC1769425
Linkage Rules for Plant–Pollinator Networks: Trait Complementarity or Exploitation Barriers?
Luis Santamaría and Miguel A Rodríguez-Gironés
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e31. Published online 2007 January 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050031.
PMCID: PMC1779813
System-Driven and Oscillator-Dependent Circadian Transcription in Mice with a Conditionally Active Liver Clock
Benoît Kornmann, Olivier Schaad, Hermann Bujard, Joseph S Takahashi, and Ueli Schibler
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e34. Published online 2007 January 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050034.
PMCID: PMC1783671
Chemically Diverse Toxicants Converge on Fyn and c-Cbl to Disrupt Precursor Cell Function
Zaibo Li, Tiefei Dong, Chris Pröschel, and Mark Noble
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e35. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050035.
PMCID: PMC1790953
Exon Silencing by UAGG Motifs in Response to Neuronal Excitation
Ping An and Paula J Grabowski
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e36. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050036.
PMCID: PMC1790952
Specification of Neuronal Identities by Feedforward Combinatorial Coding
Magnus Baumgardt, Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Daniel Karlsson, Helen Ekman, and Stefan Thor
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e37. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050037.
PMCID: PMC1790951
Epigenetic Control of the foxp3 Locus in Regulatory T Cells
Stefan Floess, Jennifer Freyer, Christiane Siewert, Udo Baron, Sven Olek, Julia Polansky, Kerstin Schlawe, Hyun-Dong Chang, Tobias Bopp, Edgar Schmitt, Stefan Klein-Hessling, Edgar Serfling, Alf Hamann, and Jochen Huehn
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e38. Published online 2007 January 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050038.
PMCID: PMC1783672
Depolarization and CaM Kinase IV Modulate NMDA Receptor Splicing through Two Essential RNA Elements
Ji-Ann Lee, Yi Xing, David Nguyen, Jiuyong Xie, Christopher J Lee, and Douglas L Black
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e40. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050040.
PMCID: PMC1790950
Bioassay-Guided Evolution of Glycosylated Macrolide Antibiotics in Escherichia coli
Ho Young Lee and Chaitan Khosla
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e45. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050045.
PMCID: PMC1790958
Pre-Steady-State Decoding of the Bicoid Morphogen Gradient
Sven Bergmann, Oded Sandler, Hila Sberro, Sara Shnider, Eyal Schejter, Ben-Zion Shilo, and Naama Barkai
PLoS Biol. 2007 February; 5(2): e46. Published online 2007 February 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050046.
PMCID: PMC1790957
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