| | Research Articles Plasmids and Rickettsial Evolution: Insight from Rickettsia felis Joseph J. Gillespie, Magda S. Beier, M. Sayeedur Rahman, Nicole C. Ammerman, Joshua M. Shallom, Anjan Purkayastha, Bruno S. Sobral, and Abdu F. Azad PMCID: PMC1800911 Selective Alpha-Particle Mediated Depletion of Tumor Vasculature with Vascular Normalization Jaspreet Singh Jaggi, Erik Henke, Surya V. Seshan, Barry J. Kappel, Debjit Chattopadhyay, Chad May, Michael R. McDevitt, Daniel Nolan, Vivek Mittal, Robert Benezra, and David A. Scheinberg PMCID: PMC1801076 Tagging Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the BRIP1 Gene and Susceptibility to Breast and Ovarian Cancer Honglin Song, Susan J. Ramus, Susanne Krüger Kjaer, Estrid Hogdall, Richard A. DiCioccio, Alice S. Whittemore, Valerie McGuire, Claus Hogdall, Ian J. Jacobs, Douglas F. Easton, Bruce A.J. Ponder, Alison M. Dunning, Simon A. Gayther, and Paul D.P. Pharoah PMCID: PMC1800910 Ligand Bound β1 Integrins Inhibit Procaspase-8 for Mediating Cell Adhesion-Mediated Drug and Radiation Resistance in Human Leukemia Cells Doris Estrugo, Alexander Fischer, Franziska Hess, Harry Scherthan, Claus Belka, and Nils Cordes PMCID: PMC1800908 Chromodynamics of Cooperation in Finite Populations Arne Traulsen and Martin A. Nowak PMCID: PMC1803018 Adaptation of HIV-1 Depends on the Host-Cell Environment Tim van Opijnen, Anthony de Ronde, Maarten C. Boerlijst, and Ben Berkhout PMCID: PMC1803020 DNA Extraction from Dry Museum Beetles without Conferring External Morphological Damage M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Wendy Moore, Linea Melchior, and Michael Worobey PMCID: PMC1803022 An Assessment of the Role of DNA Adenine Methyltransferase on Gene Expression Regulation in E coli Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee PMCID: PMC1804101 Evolution of Anolis Lizard Dewlap Diversity Kirsten E. Nicholson, Luke J. Harmon, and Jonathan B. Losos PMCID: PMC1803026 In vivo Bioluminescence Imaging of Ca2+ Signalling in the Brain of Drosophila Jean-René Martin, Kelly L. Rogers, Carine Chagneau, and Philippe Brûlet PMCID: PMC1803028 TMS-Induced Cortical Potentiation during Wakefulness Locally Increases Slow Wave Activity during Sleep Reto Huber, Steve K. Esser, Fabio Ferrarelli, Marcello Massimini, Michael J. Peterson, and Giulio Tononi PMCID: PMC1803030 Molecular Diversity of Legume Root-Nodule Bacteria in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia Bénédicte Lafay and Jeremy J. Burdon PMCID: PMC1810432 HIV/AIDS Drugs for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Do Brand and Generic Supply Compare? Colleen V. Chien PMCID: PMC1805689 Cytosolic 5′-Triphosphate Ended Viral Leader Transcript of Measles Virus as Activator of the RIG I-Mediated Interferon Response Sébastien Plumet, Florence Herschke, Jean-Marie Bourhis, Hélène Valentin, Sonia Longhi, and Denis Gerlier PMCID: PMC1804102 Factors Associated with Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Treatment in Pakistan Saman K. Hashmi, Maria B. Afridi, Kanza Abbas, Rubina A. Sajwani, Danish Saleheen, Philippe M. Frossard, Mohammad Ishaq, Aisha Ambreen, and Usman Ahmad PMCID: PMC1805684 Transient Receptor Potential Ion Channels Control Thermoregulatory Behaviour in Reptiles Frank Seebacher and Shauna A. Murray PMCID: PMC1804099 Theory versus Data: How to Calculate R0? Romulus Breban, Raffaele Vardavas, and Sally Blower PMCID: PMC1804098 Genesis of a Fungal Non-Self Recognition Repertoire Mathieu Paoletti, Sven J. Saupe, and Corinne Clavé PMCID: PMC1805685 Single Feature Polymorphism Discovery in Rice Rajesh Kumar, Jing Qiu, Trupti Joshi, Babu Valliyodan, Dong Xu, and Henry T. Nguyen PMCID: PMC1808426 Variation in GYS1 Interacts with Exercise and Gender to Predict Cardiovascular Mortality Jenny Fredriksson, Dragi Anevski, Peter Almgren, Marketa Sjögren, Valeriya Lyssenko, Joyce Carlson, Bo Isomaa, Marja-Riitta Taskinen, Leif Groop, Marju Orho-Melander, and for the Botnia Study Group PMCID: PMC1805686 A Practical Genome Scan for Population-Specific Strong Selective Sweeps That Have Reached Fixation Ryosuke Kimura, Akihiro Fujimoto, Katsushi Tokunaga, and Jun Ohashi PMCID: PMC1805687 Redundancy in Genotyping Arrays Scott Smemo and Justin O. Borevitz PMCID: PMC1805688 Aversive Learning in Honeybees Revealed by the Olfactory Conditioning of the Sting Extension Reflex Vanina Vergoz, Edith Roussel, Jean-Christophe Sandoz, and Martin Giurfa PMCID: PMC1810431 ADRB2 Arg16Gly Polymorphism, Lung Function, and Mortality: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Jill M. Ferdinands, David M. Mannino, Marta L. Gwinn, and Molly S. Bray PMCID: PMC1808432 Stability of mRNA/DNA and DNA/DNA Duplexes Affects mRNA Transcription Rayna I. Kraeva, Dragomir B. Krastev, Assen Roguev, Anna Ivanova, Marina N. Nedelcheva-Veleva, and Stoyno S. Stoynov PMCID: PMC1808433 Tetrahymena Metallothioneins Fall into Two Discrete Subfamilies Silvia Díaz, Francisco Amaro, Daniel Rico, Virginia Campos, Laura Benítez, Ana Martín-González, Eileen P. Hamilton, Eduardo Orias, and Juan C. Gutiérrez PMCID: PMC1808422 Increased Expression of the Auxiliary β2-subunit of Ventricular L-type Ca2+ Channels Leads to Single-Channel Activity Characteristic of Heart Failure Roger Hullin, Jan Matthes, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Ilona Bodi, Marta Rubio, Karen D'Souza, Ismail Friedrich Khan, Dennis Rottländer, Uta C. Hoppe, Paul Mohacsi, Eva Schmitteckert, Ralf Gilsbach, Moritz Bünemann, Lutz Hein, Arnold Schwartz, and Stefan Herzig PMCID: PMC1808423 Precancerous Stem Cells Have the Potential for both Benign and Malignant Differentiation Li Chen, Rulong Shen, Yin Ye, Xin-An Pu, Xingluo Liu, Wenrui Duan, Jing Wen, Jason Zimmerer, Ying Wang, Yan Liu, Larry C. Lasky, Nyla A. Heerema, Danilo Perrotti, Keiko Ozato, Satomi Kuramochi-Miyagawa, Toru Nakano, Allen J. Yates, William E. Carson III, Haifan Lin, Sanford H. Barsky, and Jian-Xin Gao PMCID: PMC1808425 Global Identification and Characterization of Transcriptionally Active Regions in the Rice Genome Lei Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Rajkumar Sasidharan, Viktor Stolc, Wei Deng, Hang He, Jan Korbel, Xuewei Chen, Waraporn Tongprasit, Pamela Ronald, Runsheng Chen, Mark Gerstein, and Xing Wang Deng PMCID: PMC1808428 Invasions and Extinctions Reshape Coastal Marine Food Webs Jarrett E. Byrnes, Pamela L. Reynolds, and John J. Stachowicz PMCID: PMC1808429 Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny Nick J.B. Isaac, Samuel T. Turvey, Ben Collen, Carly Waterman, and Jonathan E.M. Baillie PMCID: PMC1808424 Bats Avoid Radar Installations: Could Electromagnetic Fields Deter Bats from Colliding with Wind Turbines? Barry Nicholls and Paul A. Racey PMCID: PMC1808427 Tripotential Differentiation of Adherently Expandable Neural Stem (NS) Cells Tamara Glaser, Steven M. Pollard, Austin Smith, and Oliver Brüstle PMCID: PMC1808430 Multiple-Color Optical Activation, Silencing, and Desynchronization of Neural Activity, with Single-Spike Temporal Resolution Xue Han and Edward S. Boyden PMCID: PMC1808431 The Role of Cytokines which Signal through the Common γ Chain Cytokine Receptor in the Reversal of HIV Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cell Anergy Xiao Xiao Jenny Gu, Feng Yun Yue, Colin M. Kovacs, and Mario A. Ostrowski PMCID: PMC1810433 Breakage-Reunion Domain of Streptococcus pneumoniae Topoisomerase IV: Crystal Structure of a Gram-Positive Quinolone Target Ivan Laponogov, Dennis A. Veselkov, Maninder K. Sohi, Xiao-Su Pan, Aniruddha Achari, Cheng Yang, Joseph D. Ferrara, L. Mark Fisher, and Mark R. Sanderson PMCID: PMC1810434 A Positive Regulatory Loop between foxi3a and foxi3b Is Essential for Specification and Differentiation of Zebrafish Epidermal Ionocytes Chung-Der Hsiao, May-Su You, Ying-Jey Guh, Ming Ma, Yun-Jin Jiang, and Pung-Pung Hwang PMCID: PMC1810426 MLN51 Stimulates the RNA-Helicase Activity of eIF4AIII Christian G. Noble and Haiwei Song PMCID: PMC1810427 Natural Epigenetic Protection against the I-factor, a Drosophila LINE Retrotransposon, by Remnants of Ancestral Invasions Xavier Dramard, Thierry Heidmann, and Silke Jensen PMCID: PMC1810428 Heteropolymeric Triplex-Based Genomic Assay® to Detect Pathogens or Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human Genomic Samples Jasmine I. Daksis and Glen H. Erikson PMCID: PMC1810429 Transcriptional Repressor Gfi1 Integrates Cytokine-Receptor Signals Controlling B-Cell Differentiation Chozhavendan Rathinam and Christoph Klein PMCID: PMC1810430 Response Properties of Human Amygdala Subregions: Evidence Based on Functional MRI Combined with Probabilistic Anatomical Maps Tonio Ball, Benjamin Rahm, Simon B. Eickhoff, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Oliver Speck, and Isabella Mutschler PMCID: PMC1819558 Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate Heather A. Piwowar, Roger S. Day, and Douglas B. Fridsma PMCID: PMC1817752 Multiple Antimicrobial Resistance in Plague: An Emerging Public Health Risk Timothy J. Welch, W. Florian Fricke, Patrick F. McDermott, David G. White, Marie-Laure Rosso, David A. Rasko, Mark K. Mammel, Mark Eppinger, M.J. Rosovitz, David Wagner, Lila Rahalison, J. Eugene LeClerc, Jeffrey M. Hinshaw, Luther E. Lindler, Thomas A. Cebula, Elisabeth Carniel, and Jacques Ravel PMCID: PMC1819562 Genes Involved in the Balance between Neuronal Survival and Death during Inflammation Isaias Glezer, Ariel Chernomoretz, Samuel David, Marie-Michèle Plante, and Serge Rivest PMCID: PMC1819560 Simulation Modifies Prehension: Evidence for a Conjoined Representation of the Graspable Features of an Object and the Action of Grasping It Victor Frak, Isabelle Croteau, Daniel Bourbonnais, Christian Duval, Cyril Duclos, and Henri Cohen PMCID: PMC1819563 LPS Responsiveness and Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vivo Require PMN MMP-8 Activity Angus M. Tester, Jennifer H. Cox, Andrea R. Connor, Amanda E. Starr, Richard A. Dean, Xose S. Puente, Carlos López-Otín, and Christopher M. Overall PMCID: PMC1819564 A Key Role of Dendritic Cells in Probiotic Functionality Benoit Foligne, Georgia Zoumpopoulou, Joelle Dewulf, Amena Ben Younes, Fabrice Chareyre, Jean-Claude Sirard, Bruno Pot, and Corinne Grangette PMCID: PMC1819555 XIAP Protection of Photoreceptors in Animal Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa Kevin C. Leonard, Dino Petrin, Stuart G. Coupland, Adam N. Baker, Brian C. Leonard, Eric C. LaCasse, William W. Hauswirth, Robert G. Korneluk, and Catherine Tsilfidis PMCID: PMC1819556 A Glimpse of Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome from Comparative Genomics of S. suis 2 Chinese Isolates Chen Chen, Jiaqi Tang, Wei Dong, Changjun Wang, Youjun Feng, Jing Wang, Feng Zheng, Xiuzhen Pan, Di Liu, Ming Li, Yajun Song, Xinxing Zhu, Haibo Sun, Tao Feng, Zhaobiao Guo, Aiping Ju, Junchao Ge, Yaqing Dong, Wen Sun, Yongqiang Jiang, Jun Wang, Jinghua Yan, Huanming Yang, Xiaoning Wang, George F. Gao, Ruifu Yang, Jian Wang, and Jun Yu PMCID: PMC1820848 Identification of a Small TAF Complex and Its Role in the Assembly of TAF-Containing Complexes Màté A. Demény, Evi Soutoglou, Zita Nagy, Elisabeth Scheer, Àgnes Jànoshàzi, Magalie Richardot, Manuela Argentini, Pascal Kessler, and Laszlo Tora PMCID: PMC1820849 Ribonuclease Activity of Dis3 Is Required for Mitotic Progression and Provides a Possible Link between Heterochromatin and Kinetochore Function Hiroaki Murakami, Derek B. Goto, Takashi Toda, Ee Sin Chen, Shiv I. Grewal, Robert A. Martienssen, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida PMCID: PMC1820850 Cohesin Is Dispensable for Centromere Cohesion in Human Cells Laura A. Díaz-Martínez, Juan F. Giménez-Abián, and Duncan J. Clarke PMCID: PMC1820851 Spike Timing and Reliability in Cortical Pyramidal Neurons: Effects of EPSC Kinetics, Input Synchronization and Background Noise on Spike Timing Victor M. Rodriguez-Molina, Ad Aertsen, and Detlef H. Heck PMCID: PMC1828624 Competing Neural Responses for Auditory and Visual Decisions Grit Hein, Arjen Alink, Andreas Kleinschmidt, and Notger G. Müller PMCID: PMC1824707 Fully Differentiated HIV-1 Specific CD8+ T Effector Cells Are More Frequently Detectable in Controlled than in Progressive HIV-1 Infection Marylyn M. Addo, Rika Draenert, Almas Rathod, Cori L. Verrill, Benjamin T. Davis, Rajesh T. Gandhi, Gregory K. Robbins, Nesli O. Basgoz, David R. Stone, Daniel E. Cohen, Mary N. Johnston, Theresa Flynn, Alysse G. Wurcel, Eric S. Rosenberg, Marcus Altfeld, and Bruce D. Walker PMCID: PMC1824710 Genome-Wide Analysis of Nucleotide-Level Variation in Commonly Used Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains Joseph Schacherer, Douglas M. Ruderfer, David Gresham, Kara Dolinski, David Botstein, and Leonid Kruglyak PMCID: PMC1829191 Gene Expression Patterns in Pancreatic Tumors, Cells and Tissues Anson W. Lowe, Mari Olsen, Ying Hao, Sum P. Lee, Kyu Taek Lee, Xin Chen, Matt van de Rijn, and Patrick O. Brown PMCID: PMC1824711 Large-Scale Comparative Genomic Ranking of Taxonomically Restricted Genes (TRGs) in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes Gareth A. Wilson, Edward J. Feil, Andrew K. Lilley, and Dawn Field PMCID: PMC1824705 DNA Barcodes Provide a Quick Preview of Mitochondrial Genome Composition Xiang Jia Min and Donal A. Hickey PMCID: PMC1828616 Serial Killing of Tumor Cells by Human Natural Killer Cells – Enhancement by Therapeutic Antibodies Rauf Bhat and Carsten Watzl PMCID: PMC1828617 Clinical Implementation of Chromosomal Microarray Analysis: Summary of 2513 Postnatal Cases Xinyan Lu, Chad A. Shaw, Ankita Patel, Jiangzhen Li, M. Lance Cooper, William R. Wells, Cathy M. Sullivan, Trilochan Sahoo, Svetlana A. Yatsenko, Carlos A. Bacino, Pawel Stankiewicz, Zhishu Ou, A. Craig Chinault, Arthur L. Beaudet, James R. Lupski, Sau W. Cheung, and Patricia A. Ward PMCID: PMC1828620 Ultrastructural Characterization of the Giant Volcano-like Virus Factory of Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus Marie Suzan-Monti, Bernard La Scola, Lina Barrassi, Leon Espinosa, and Didier Raoult PMCID: PMC1828621 Anthrax Toxin Receptor 2 Determinants that Dictate the pH Threshold of Toxin Pore Formation Heather M. Scobie, John M. Marlett, G. Jonah A. Rainey, D. Borden Lacy, R. John Collier, and John A.T. Young PMCID: PMC1824706 Hepatitis C Lipo-Viro-Particle from Chronically Infected Patients Interferes with TLR4 Signaling in Dendritic Cell Sophie Agaugué, Laure Perrin-Cocon, Patrice André, and Vincent Lotteau PMCID: PMC1828622 Reproductive Phase Locking of Mosquito Populations in Response to Rainfall Frequency Jeffrey Shaman and Jonathan F. Day PMCID: PMC1824708 Statistical Reviewers Improve Reporting in Biomedical Articles: A Randomized Trial Erik Cobo, Albert Selva-O'Callagham, Josep-Maria Ribera, Francesc Cardellach, Ruth Dominguez, and Miquel Vilardell PMCID: PMC1824709 A Bayesian Perceptual Model Replicates the Cutaneous Rabbit and Other Tactile Spatiotemporal Illusions Daniel Goldreich PMCID: PMC1828626 Mechanisms of Copper Ion Mediated Huntington's Disease Progression Jonathan H. Fox, Jibrin A. Kama, Gregory Lieberman, Raman Chopra, Kate Dorsey, Vanita Chopra, Irene Volitakis, Robert A. Cherny, Ashley I. Bush, and Steven Hersch PMCID: PMC1828629 Rich-Club Phenomenon in the Interactome of P. falciparum—Artifact or Signature of a Parasitic Life Style? Stefan Wuchty PMCID: PMC1829176 Reduced Plasmodium vivax Erythrocyte Infection in PNG Duffy-Negative Heterozygotes Laurin J. Kasehagen, Ivo Mueller, Benson Kiniboro, Moses J. Bockarie, John C. Reeder, James W. Kazura, Will Kastens, David T. McNamara, Charles H. King, Christopher C. Whalen, and Peter A. Zimmerman PMCID: PMC1829178 Probabilistic Protein Function Prediction from Heterogeneous Genome-Wide Data Naoki Nariai, Eric D. Kolaczyk, and Simon Kasif PMCID: PMC1828618 Protection of Visual Functions by Human Neural Progenitors in a Rat Model of Retinal Disease David M. Gamm, Shaomei Wang, Bin Lu, Sergei Girman, Toby Holmes, Nicholas Bischoff, Rebecca L. Shearer, Yves Sauvé, Elizabeth Capowski, Clive N. Svendsen, and Raymond D. Lund PMCID: PMC1828619 |
