| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveSynopses Rousing a Latent Defense Mechanism to Fight HIV Caitlin Sedwick PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000093. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000093.PMCID: PMC2672611 Abl Is Able to Inhibit Cell Engulfment Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000104. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000104.PMCID: PMC2672618 Research Articles A Role for the PERIOD:PERIOD Homodimer in the Drosophila Circadian Clock Johannes Landskron, Ko Fan Chen, Eva Wolf, and Ralf Stanewsky PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000003. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000003.PMCID: PMC2671555 Receptive Fields in Primate Retina Are Coordinated to Sample Visual Space More Uniformly Jeffrey L Gauthier, Greg D Field, Alexander Sher, Martin Greschner, Jonathon Shlens, Alan M Litke, and E. J Chichilnisky PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000063. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000063.PMCID: PMC2672597 Dynamic Control of Cell Cycle and Growth Coupling by Ecdysone, EGFR, and PI3K Signaling in Drosophila Histoblasts Nikolay Ninov, Cristina Manjón, and Enrique Martín-Blanco PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000079. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000079.PMCID: PMC2672598 Impaired Antibody Response Causes Persistence of Prototypic T Cell–Contained Virus Andreas Bergthaler, Lukas Flatz, Admar Verschoor, Ahmed N Hegazy, Martin Holdener, Katja Fink, Bruno Eschli, Doron Merkler, Rami Sommerstein, Edit Horvath, Marylise Fernandez, André Fitsche, Beatrice M Senn, J. Sjef Verbeek, Bernhard Odermatt, Claire-Anne Siegrist, and Daniel D Pinschewer PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000080. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000080.PMCID: PMC2672599 Accelerated Adaptive Evolution on a Newly Formed X Chromosome Doris Bachtrog, Jeffrey D Jensen, and Zhi Zhang PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000082. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000082.PMCID: PMC2672600 Proteomic Studies of a Single CNS Synapse Type: The Parallel Fiber/Purkinje Cell Synapse Fekrije Selimi, Ileana M Cristea, Elizabeth Heller, Brian T Chait, and Nathaniel Heintz PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000083. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000083.PMCID: PMC2672601 Sir2 Paralogues Cooperate to Regulate Virulence Genes and Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum Christopher J Tonkin, Céline K Carret, Manoj T Duraisingh, Till S Voss, Stuart A Ralph, Mirja Hommel, Michael F Duffy, Liliana Mancio da Silva, Artur Scherf, Alasdair Ivens, Terence P Speed, James G Beeson, and Alan F Cowman PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000084. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000084.PMCID: PMC2672602 Coordinated Movement of Cytoplasmic and Transmembrane Domains of RyR1 upon Gating Montserrat Samsó, Wei Feng, Isaac N Pessah, and P. D Allen PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000085. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000085.PMCID: PMC2672603 Cryptochrome Mediates Light-Dependent Magnetosensitivity of Drosophila's Circadian Clock Taishi Yoshii, Margaret Ahmad, and Charlotte Helfrich-Förster PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000086. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000086.PMCID: PMC2667543 Self-Organization of Dynein Motors Generates Meiotic Nuclear Oscillations Sven K Vogel, Nenad Pavin, Nicola Maghelli, Frank Jülicher, and Iva M Tolić-Nørrelykke PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000087. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000087.PMCID: PMC2671556 A Cell Cycle Timer for Asymmetric Spindle Positioning Erin K. McCarthy Campbell, Adam D Werts, and Bob Goldstein PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000088. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000088.PMCID: PMC2671557 From Rapid Place Learning to Behavioral Performance: A Key Role for the Intermediate Hippocampus Tobias Bast, Iain A Wilson, Menno P Witter, and Richard G. M Morris PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000089. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000089.PMCID: PMC2671558 Target Genes of the MADS Transcription Factor SEPALLATA3: Integration of Developmental and Hormonal Pathways in the Arabidopsis Flower Kerstin Kaufmann, Jose M Muiño, Ruy Jauregui, Chiara A Airoldi, Cezary Smaczniak, Pawel Krajewski, and Gerco C Angenent PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000090. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000090.PMCID: PMC2671559 Base Excision by Thymine DNA Glycosylase Mediates DNA-Directed Cytotoxicity of 5-Fluorouracil Christophe Kunz, Frauke Focke, Yusuke Saito, David Schuermann, Teresa Lettieri, Jim Selfridge, and Primo Schär PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000091. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000091.PMCID: PMC2671560 Structural Studies of the Giant Mimivirus Chuan Xiao, Yurii G Kuznetsov, Siyang Sun, Susan L Hafenstein, Victor A Kostyuchenko, Paul R Chipman, Marie Suzan-Monti, Didier Raoult, Alexander McPherson, and Michael G Rossmann PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000092. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000092.PMCID: PMC2671561 Structural and Functional Analyses of PAS Domain Interactions of the Clock Proteins Drosophila PERIOD and Mouse PERIOD2 Sven Hennig, Holger M Strauss, Katja Vanselow, Özkan Yildiz, Sabrina Schulze, Julia Arens, Achim Kramer, and Eva Wolf PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000094. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000094.PMCID: PMC2671562 Reawakening Retrocyclins: Ancestral Human Defensins Active Against HIV-1 Nitya Venkataraman, Amy L Cole, Piotr Ruchala, Alan J Waring, Robert I Lehrer, Olga Stuchlik, Jan Pohl, and Alexander M Cole PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000095. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000095.PMCID: PMC2672613 Global Functional Atlas of Escherichia coli Encompassing Previously Uncharacterized Proteins Pingzhao Hu, Sarath Chandra Janga, Mohan Babu, J. Javier Díaz-Mejía, Gareth Butland, Wenhong Yang, Oxana Pogoutse, Xinghua Guo, Sadhna Phanse, Peter Wong, Shamanta Chandran, Constantine Christopoulos, Anaies Nazarians-Armavil, Negin Karimi Nasseri, Gabriel Musso, Mehrab Ali, Nazila Nazemof, Veronika Eroukova, Ashkan Golshani, Alberto Paccanaro, Jack F Greenblatt, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, and Andrew Emili PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000096. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000096.PMCID: PMC2672614 Identification of Human S100A9 as a Novel Target for Treatment of Autoimmune Disease via Binding to Quinoline-3-Carboxamides Per Björk, Anders Björk, Thomas Vogl, Martin Stenström, David Liberg, Anders Olsson, Johannes Roth, Fredrik Ivars, and Tomas Leanderson PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000097. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000097.PMCID: PMC2671563 Specificity and Plasticity of Thalamocortical Connections in Sema6A Mutant Mice Graham E Little, Guillermina López-Bendito, Annette E Rünker, Noelia García, Maria C Piñon, Alain Chédotal, Zoltán Molnár, and Kevin J Mitchell PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000098. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000098.PMCID: PMC2672616 Abl Kinase Inhibits the Engulfment of Apopotic Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans Michael E Hurwitz, Pamela J Vanderzalm, Laird Bloom, Julia Goldman, Gian Garriga, and H. Robert Horvitz PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000099. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000099.PMCID: PMC2672617 Correction Correction: The Interscutularis Muscle Connectome Ju Lu, Juan Carlos Tapia, Olivia L White, and Jeff W Lichtman PLoS Biol. 2009 April; 7(4): e1000108. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000108.PMCID: PMC2672619 Corrects: Ju Lu, et al. The Interscutularis Muscle Connectome. PLoS Biol. 2009 February; 7(2): e1000032. |