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N Hebert, Mark Y Stoeckle, Tyler S Zemlak, and Charles M Francis PMCID: PMC518999 Mechanism of Association and Reciprocal Activation of Two GTPases Shu-ou Shan, Robert M Stroud, and Peter Walter PMCID: PMC517823 Mechanism of Prion Propagation: Amyloid Growth Occurs by Monomer Addition Sean R Collins, Adam Douglass, Ronald D Vale, and Jonathan S Weissman PMCID: PMC517824 The Program of Gene Transcription for a Single Differentiating Cell Type during Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, and Richard Losick PMCID: PMC517825 A Neuroeconomics Approach to Inferring Utility Functions in Sensorimotor Control Konrad P Körding, Izumi Fukunaga, Ian S Howard, James N Ingram, and Daniel M Wolpert PMCID: PMC517826 Correction Correction: Nicotine's Defensive Function in Nature PMCID: PMC521734 Corrects: Anke Steppuhn, et al. Nicotine's Defensive Function in Nature. PLoS Biol. 2004 August; 2(8): e217. |
