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Volume 6(9);  September 2008
Book Review/Science in the Media
Rebels? No, Simply Scientists
Michel Morange
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e242. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060242.
PMCID: PMC2553848
Synopses
How Signaling Receptors Meet Their End
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e228. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060228.
PMCID: PMC2528053
Slowing Down a Hammerhead Ribozyme Allows Glimpses of It in Action
Robin Meadows
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e244. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060244.
PMCID: PMC2553850
A Molecular Link between Albinism and Visual Deficits
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e248. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060248.
PMCID: PMC2553851
Essay
It's Not How Fat You Are, It's What You Do with It That Counts
Samuel Virtue and Antonio Vidal-Puig
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e237. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060237.
PMCID: PMC2553843
Primer
Getting a Transcription Factor to Only One Nucleus Following Mitosis
Emily J Parnell and David J Stillman
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e229. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060229.
PMCID: PMC2535661
Tolerance to Self: Which Cells Kill
Terri M Laufer
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e241. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060241.
PMCID: PMC2553847
Of Mice and Men, and Chandeliers
Alan Woodruff and Rafael Yuste
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e243. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060243.
PMCID: PMC2553849
Community Page
Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy
Shelley A Batts, Nicholas J Anthis, and Tara C Smith
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e240. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060240.
PMCID: PMC2553846
Research Articles
Redundant Mechanisms Recruit Actin into the Contractile Ring in Silkworm Spermatocytes
Wei Chen, Margit Foss, Kuo-Fu Tseng, and Dahong Zhang
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e209. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060209.
PMCID: PMC2528054
Hrs and SNX3 Functions in Sorting and Membrane Invagination within Multivesicular Bodies
Véronique Pons, Pierre-Philippe Luyet, Etienne Morel, Laurence Abrami, F. Gisou van der Goot, Robert G Parton, and Jean Gruenberg
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e214. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060214.
PMCID: PMC2528051
LTP Promotes a Selective Long-Term Stabilization and Clustering of Dendritic Spines
Mathias De Roo, Paul Klauser, and Dominique Muller
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e219. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060219.
PMCID: PMC2531136
Complex Events Initiated by Individual Spikes in the Human Cerebral Cortex
Gábor Molnár, Szabolcs Oláh, Gergely Komlósi, Miklós Füle, János Szabadics, Csaba Varga, Pál Barzó, and Gábor Tamás
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e222. Published online 2008 September 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060222.
PMCID: PMC2528052
A Genome-Wide RNAi Screen to Dissect Centriole Duplication and Centrosome Maturation in Drosophila
Jeroen Dobbelaere, Filipe Josué, Saskia Suijkerbuijk, Buzz Baum, Nicolas Tapon, and Jordan Raff
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e224. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060224.
PMCID: PMC2535660
A Morning-Specific Phytohormone Gene Expression Program underlying Rhythmic Plant Growth
Todd P Michael, Ghislain Breton, Samuel P Hazen, Henry Priest, Todd C Mockler, Steve A Kay, and Joanne Chory
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e225. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060225.
PMCID: PMC2535664
SARS-Coronavirus Replication Is Supported by a Reticulovesicular Network of Modified Endoplasmic Reticulum
Kèvin Knoops, Marjolein Kikkert, Sjoerd H. E. van den Worm, Jessika C Zevenhoven-Dobbe, Yvonne van der Meer, Abraham J Koster, A. Mieke Mommaas, and Eric J Snijder
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e226. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060226.
PMCID: PMC2535663
Identification of COUP-TFII Orphan Nuclear Receptor as a Retinoic Acid–Activated Receptor
Schoen W Kruse, Kelly Suino-Powell, X. Edward Zhou, Jennifer E Kretschman, Ross Reynolds, Clemens Vonrhein, Yong Xu, Liliang Wang, Sophia Y Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai, and H. Eric Xu
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e227. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060227.
PMCID: PMC2535662
Control of Jasmonate Biosynthesis and Senescence by miR319 Targets
Carla Schommer, Javier F Palatnik, Pooja Aggarwal, Aurore Chételat, Pilar Cubas, Edward E Farmer, Utpal Nath, and Detlef Weigel
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e230. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060230.
PMCID: PMC2553836
Rice XB15, a Protein Phosphatase 2C, Negatively Regulates Cell Death and XA21-Mediated Innate Immunity
Chang-Jin Park, Ying Peng, Xuewei Chen, Christopher Dardick, DeLing Ruan, Rebecca Bart, Patrick E Canlas, and Pamela C Ronald
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e231. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060231.
PMCID: PMC2553837
Interconvertible Lac Repressor–DNA Loops Revealed by Single-Molecule Experiments
Oi Kwan Wong, Martin Guthold, Dorothy A Erie, and Jeff Gelles
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e232. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060232.
PMCID: PMC2553838
Caenorhabditis elegans HCF-1 Functions in Longevity Maintenance as a DAF-16 Regulator
Ji Li, Atsushi Ebata, Yuqing Dong, Gizem Rizki, Terri Iwata, and Siu Sylvia Lee
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e233. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060233.
PMCID: PMC2553839
Capturing Hammerhead Ribozyme Structures in Action by Modulating General Base Catalysis
Young-In Chi, Monika Martick, Monica Lares, Rosalind Kim, William G Scott, and Sung-Hou Kim
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e234. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060234.
PMCID: PMC2553840
A Mutual Support Mechanism through Intercellular Movement of CAPRICE and GLABRA3 Can Pattern the Arabidopsis Root Epidermis
Natasha Saint Savage, Tom Walker, Yana Wieckowski, John Schiefelbein, Liam Dolan, and Nicholas A. M Monk
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e235. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060235.
PMCID: PMC2553841
L-DOPA Is an Endogenous Ligand for OA1
Vanessa M Lopez, Christina L Decatur, W. Daniel Stamer, Ronald M Lynch, and Brian S McKay
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e236. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060236.
PMCID: PMC2553842
Regulatory Hotspots in the Malaria Parasite Genome Dictate Transcriptional Variation
Joseph M Gonzales, Jigar J Patel, Napawan Ponmee, Lei Jiang, Asako Tan, Steven P Maher, Stefan Wuchty, Pradipsinh K Rathod, and Michael T Ferdig
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e238. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060238.
PMCID: PMC2553844
A Specificity Map for the PDZ Domain Family
Raffi Tonikian, Yingnan Zhang, Stephen L Sazinsky, Bridget Currell, Jung-Hua Yeh, Boris Reva, Heike A Held, Brent A Appleton, Marie Evangelista, Yan Wu, Xiaofeng Xin, Andrew C Chan, Somasekar Seshagiri, Laurence A Lasky, Chris Sander, Charles Boone, Gary D Bader, and Sachdev S Sidhu
PLoS Biol. 2008 September; 6(9): e239. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060239.
PMCID: PMC2553845
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