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Volume 4;  2009
Discovery Notes
Deciphering peculiar protein-protein interacting modules in Deinococcus radiodurans
Karim Mezhoud, Haïtham Sghaier, and Insaf Barkallah
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 12. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-12.
PMCID: PMC2672081
A strain-variable bacteriocin in Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus with repeated Cys-Xaa-Xaa motifs
Daniel H Haft
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 15. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-15.
PMCID: PMC2674419
Research
Genomic analysis of an emerging multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus strain rapidly spreading in cystic fibrosis patients revealed the presence of an antibiotic inducible bacteriophage
Jean-Marc Rolain, Patrice François, David Hernandez, Fadi Bittar, Hervé Richet, Ghislain Fournous, Yves Mattenberger, Emmanuelle Bosdure, Nathalie Stremler, Jean-Christophe Dubus, Jacques Sarles, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert, Stephanie Boniface, Jacques Schrenzel, and Didier Raoult
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 1. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-1.
PMCID: PMC2629466
The human Ago2 MC region does not contain an eIF4E-like mRNA cap binding motif
Lisa N Kinch and Nick V Grishin
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 2. Published online 2009 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-2.
PMCID: PMC2636766
Bioinformatic flowchart and database to investigate the origins and diversity of Clan AA peptidases
Carlos Llorens, Ricardo Futami, Gabriel Renaud, and Andrés Moya
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 3. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-3.
PMCID: PMC2642776
One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation
Andrei S Rodin, Eörs Szathmáry, and Sergei N Rodin
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 4. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-4.
PMCID: PMC2669802
Issues associated with assessing nuclear localization of N-terminally unphosphorylated β-catenin with monoclonal antibody 8E7
Meghan T Maher, Annette S Flozak, Alyssa M Hartsell, Susan Russell, Rohinee Beri, Ofra N Peled, and Cara J Gottardi
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 5. Published online 2009 February 2. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-5.
PMCID: PMC2642777
A simple model for the early events of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: modeling bacterial swarming as the movement of an "activation zone"
Sergiu Netotea, Iris Bertani, Laura Steindler, Ádám Kerényi, Vittorio Venturi, and Sándor Pongor
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 6. Published online 2009 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-6.
PMCID: PMC2660287
A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land
Giovanni Emiliani, Marco Fondi, Renato Fani, and Simonetta Gribaldo
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 7. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-7.
PMCID: PMC2657906
A comparative genomics study of genetic products potentially encoding ladderane lipid biosynthesis
Jayne E Rattray, Marc Strous, Huub JM Op den Camp, Stefan Schouten, Mike SM Jetten, and Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 8. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-8.
PMCID: PMC2649909
The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis
Natalya Yutin, Maxim Y Wolf, Yuri I Wolf, and Eugene V Koonin
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 9. Published online 2009 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-9.
PMCID: PMC2651865
Evolution of DNA polymerases: an inactivated polymerase-exonuclease module in Pol ε and a chimeric origin of eukaryotic polymerases from two classes of archaeal ancestors
Tahir H Tahirov, Kira S Makarova, Igor B Rogozin, Youri I Pavlov, and Eugene V Koonin
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 11. Published online 2009 March 18. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-11.
PMCID: PMC2669801
Transcript length bias in RNA-seq data confounds systems biology
Alicia Oshlack and Matthew J Wakefield
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 14. Published online 2009 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-14.
PMCID: PMC2678084
Correction
Pitfalls of the most commonly used models of context dependent substitution
Helen Lindsay, Von Bing Yap, Hua Ying, and Gavin A Huttley
Biol Direct. 2009; 4: 10. Published online 2009 March 18. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-10.
PMCID: PMC2662811
Corrects: Helen Lindsay, et al. Pitfalls of the most commonly used models of context dependent substitution. Biol Direct. 2008; 3: 52.
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