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The Research Library categorizes, and provides access to, all recent signaling-related research published in the Nature Publishing Group journals. The selection is deliberately broad to facilitate access to all research impacting on the signaling community. Both primary research and review articles are included, as are 'News and Views' articles.

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letters to nature
Regulation of ethylene gas biosynthesis by the Arabidopsis ETO1 protein
Kevin L.-C. Wang , Hitoshi Yoshida , Claire Lurin and Joseph R. Ecker
Nature 428, 945–950
(29 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02516
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letters to nature
Cadherin 23 is a component of the tip link in hair-cell stereocilia
Jan Siemens, Concepcion Lillo, Rachel A. Dumont, Anna Reynolds, David S. Williams, Peter G. Gillespie and Ulrich Müller
Nature 428, 950–955
(29 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02483
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letters to nature
Mutations in cadherin 23 affect tip links in zebrafish sensory hair cells
Christian Söllner, Gerd-Jörg Rauch, Jan Siemens, Robert Geisler, Stephan C. Schuster, the Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium, Ulrich Müller and Teresa Nicolson
Nature 428, 955–959
(29 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02484
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news and views
Hearing: Tightrope act
David P. Corey and Marcos Sotomayor
Nature 428, 901–903
(29 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428901a
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letters to nature
Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization
Olivier Hachet and Anne Ephrussi
Nature 428, 959–963
(29 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02521
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letter
Gating of CFTR by the STAS domain of SLC26 transporters
Shigeru B.H. Ko, Weizhong Zeng, Michael R. Dorwart, Xiang Luo, Kil Hwan Kim, Linda Millen, Hidemi Goto, Satoru Naruse, Abigail Soyombo, Philip J. Thomas and Shmuel Muallem
Nature Cell Biology 6, 343–350
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1115
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news and views
Bicarbonate secretion: it takes two to tango
Michael A. Gray
Nature Cell Biology 6, 292–294
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-292
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news and views
New neurons?
Jack Horne
Nature Cell Biology 6, 287
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-287
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perspectives
Opinion: The biogenesis of multivesicular endosomes
Jean Gruenberg and Harald Stenmark
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 317–323
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1360
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article
Fas ligation on macrophages enhances IL-1R1-Toll-like receptor 4 signaling and promotes chronic inflammation
Yingyu Ma, Hongtao Liu, Hoang Tu-Rapp, Hans-Juergen Thiesen, Saleh M Ibrahim, Shawn M Cole and Richard M Pope
Nature Immunology 5, 380–387
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1054
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article
Continued maturation of thymic emigrants in the periphery
Tamar E Boursalian, Jonathan Golob, David M Soper, Cristine J Cooper and Pamela J Fink
Nature Immunology 5, 418–425
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1049
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review article
Membranes as messengers in T cell adhesion signaling
Michael L Dustin, Trever G Bivona and Mark R Philips
Nature Immunology 5, 363–372
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1057
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review article
Feedback regulation of lymphocyte signalling
Michael Reth and Tilman Brummer
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 269–278
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1335
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letter
Human lupus T cells resist inactivation and escape death by upregulating COX-2
Luting Xu, Li Zhang, Yajun Yi, Hee-Kap Kang and Syamal K Datta
Nature Medicine 10, 411–415
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1005
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news and views
Sporadic ALS: blame it on the editor
Stuart A Lipton
Nature Medicine 10, 347
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0404-347
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review article
Molecular targets in pituitary tumours
Anthony P. Heaney and Shlomo Melmed
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 285–295
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1320
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perspectives
Timeline: The evolution of thalidomide and its IMiD derivatives as anticancer agents
J. Blake Bartlett, Keith Dredge and Angus G. Dalgleish
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 314–322
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1323
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article
Rb regulates proliferation and rod photoreceptor development in the mouse retina
Jiakun Zhang, Jonathan Gray, Lizhao Wu, Gustavo Leone, Sheldon Rowan, Constance L Cepko, Xuemei Zhu, Cheryl M Craft and Michael A Dyer
Nature Genetics 36, 351–360
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1318
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letter
Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia is caused by mutant valosin-containing protein
Giles D J Watts, Jill Wymer, Margaret J Kovach, Sarju G Mehta, Steven Mumm, Daniel Darvish, Alan Pestronk, Michael P Whyte and Virginia E Kimonis
Nature Genetics 36, 377–381
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1332
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letter
Mutations in VPS33B, encoding a regulator of SNARE-dependent membrane fusion, cause arthrogryposis-renal dysfunction-cholestasis (ARC) syndrome
Paul Gissen, Colin A Johnson, Neil V Morgan, Janneke M Stapelbroek, Tim Forshew, Wendy N Cooper, Patrick J McKiernan, Leo W J Klomp, Andrew A M Morris, James E Wraith, Patricia McClean, Sally A Lynch, Richard J Thompson, Bryan Lo, Oliver W Quarrell, Maja Di Rocco, Richard C Trembath, Hanna Mandel, S Wali, Fiona E Karet, A S Knisely, Roderick H J Houwen, Deirdre A Kelly and Eamonn R Maher
Nature Genetics 36, 400–404
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1325
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news and views
A plethora of sites
Ghia Euskirchen and Michael Snyder
Nature Genetics 36, 325–326
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-325
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article
The X-linked mental retardation protein oligophrenin-1 is required for dendritic spine morphogenesis
Eve-Ellen Govek, Sarah E Newey, Colin J Akerman, Justin R Cross, Lieven Van der Veken and Linda Van Aelst
Nature Neuroscience 7, 364–372
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nn1210
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research article
Reversible site-selective labeling of membrane proteins in live cells
Emmanuel G Guignet, Ruud Hovius and Horst Vogel
Nature Biotechnology 22, 440–444
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt954
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news and views
Finding needles in haystacks
Jonathan A Javitch
Nature Biotechnology 22, 394–396
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt0404-394
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review article
Magic shotguns versus magic bullets: selectively non-selective drugs for mood disorders and schizophrenia
Bryan L. Roth, Douglas J. Sheffler & Wesley K. Kroeze
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 353–359
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrd1346
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article
Structural basis of sugar-recognizing ubiquitin ligase
Tsunehiro Mizushima, Takeshi Hirao, Yukiko Yoshida, Soo Jae Lee, Tomoki Chiba, Kazuhiro Iwai, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Koichi Kato, Tomitake Tsukihara and Keiji Tanaka
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 365–370
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb732
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review article
Cell-cycle progression and the gerneration of asymmetry in Caulobacter Crescentus
Jeffrey M. Skerker & Michael T. Laub
Nature Reviews Microbiology 2, 325–337
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrmicro864
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article
GADD45β/GADD45γ and MEKK 4 comprise a genetic pathway mediating STAT4-independent IFN-γ production in T cells
Hongbo Chi, Binfeng Lu, Mutsuhiro Takekawa, Roger J Davis and Richard A Flavell
EMBO journal 23, 1576–1586
(April 2004); doi: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600173
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letters to nature
Intracellular gate opening in Shaker K+ channels defined by high-affinity metal bridges
Sarah M. Webster, Donato del Camino, John P. Dekker and Gary Yellen
Nature 428, 864–868
(22 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02468
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letters to nature
Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing
Lingchong You, Robert Sidney Cox III, Ron Weiss and Frances H. Arnold
Nature 428, 868–871
(22 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02491
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news and views
Cancer: Enzymes play molecular tag
Deborah K. Morrison
Nature 428, 813–815
(22 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428813a
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article
Delivery of raft-associated, GPI-anchored proteins to the apical surface of polarized MDCK cells by a transcytotic pathway
Roman Polishchuk, Alessio Di Pentima and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Nature Cell Biology 6, 297–307
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1109
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news and views
Unravelling protein sorting
W. James Nelson and Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan
Nature Cell Biology 6, 282–284
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-282
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letter
Dynamin 2 binds γ-tubulin and participates in centrosome cohesion
Heather M. Thompson, Hong Cao, Jing Chen, Ursula Euteneuer and Mark A. McNiven
Nature Cell Biology 6, 335–342
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1112
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review article
Plant cell biology: Controlled cell death, plant survival and development
Eric Lam
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 305–315
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1358
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article
ST2 is an inhibitor of interleukin 1 receptor and Toll-like receptor 4 signaling and maintains endotoxin tolerance
Elizabeth K Brint, Damo Xu, Haiying Liu, Aisling Dunne, Andrew N J McKenzie, Luke A J O'Neill and Foo Y Liew
Nature Immunology 5, 373–379
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1050
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article
Locomotion of monocytes on endothelium is a critical step during extravasation
Alan R Schenkel, Zahra Mamdouh and William A Muller
Nature Immunology 5, 393–400
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1051
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news and views
Crawling and INTEGRating apical cues
Ronen Alon and Francis W Luscinskas
Nature Immunology 5, 351–353
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni0404-351
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review article
Developing a new paradigm for thymus organogenesis
C. Clare Blackburn and Nancy R. Manley
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 278–289
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1331
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review article
Immunotherapeutic uses of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides
Dennis M. Klinman
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 249–259
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1329
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brief communication
Effective treatment of an orthologous model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Vicente E Torres, Xiaofang Wang, Qi Qian, Stefan Somlo, Peter C Harris, Vincent H Gattone and II
Nature Medicine 10, 363–364
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1004
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letter
Reduced atherosclerosis in MyD88-null mice links elevated serum cholesterol levels to activation of innate immunity signaling pathways
Harry Björkbacka, Vidya V Kunjathoor, Kathryn J Moore, Stephanie Koehn, Christine M Ordija, Melinda A Lee, Terry Means, Kristen Halmen, Andrew D Luster, Douglas T Golenbock and Mason W Freeman
Nature Medicine 10, 416–421
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1008
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review article
Tracing the network connecting brca and fanconi anaemia proteins
Ashok R. Venkitaraman
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 266–276
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1321
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brief communication
A functional variant of lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase is associated with type I diabetes
Nunzio Bottini, Lucia Musumeci, Andres Alonso, Souad Rahmouni, Konstantina Nika, Masoud Rostamkhani, James MacMurray, Gian Franco Meloni, Paola Lucarelli, Maurizio Pellecchia, George S Eisenbarth, David Comings and Tomas Mustelin
Nature Genetics 36, 337–338
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1323
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letter
Familial combined hyperlipidemia is associated with upstream transcription factor 1 (USF1)
Päivi Pajukanta, Heidi E Lilja, Janet S Sinsheimer, Rita M Cantor, Aldons J Lusis, Massimiliano Gentile, Xiaoqun Joyce Duan, Aino Soro-Paavonen, Jussi Naukkarinen, Janna Saarela, Markku Laakso, Christian Ehnholm, Marja-Riitta Taskinen and Leena Peltonen
Nature Genetics 36, 371–376
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1320
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news and views
USF1 on trial
Carol C Shoulders
Nature Genetics 36, 322–323
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-322
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article
Tenascin-R mediates activity-dependent recruitment of neuroblasts in the adult mouse forebrain
Armen Saghatelyan, Antoine de Chevigny, Melitta Schachner and Pierre-Marie Lledo
Nature Neuroscience 7, 347–356
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nn1211
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review article
Src kinases: a hub for NMDA receptor regulation
Michael W. Salter and Lorraine V. Kalia
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5, 317–328
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrn1368
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research article
The plasma membrane-bound phospholipase Dd enhances freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana
Weiqi Li, Maoyin Li, Wenhua Zhang, Ruth Welti and Xuemin Wang
Nature Biotechnology 22, 427–433
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt949
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research article
Differential quantitative analysis of MHC ligands by mass spectrometry using stable isotope labeling
Claudia Lemmel, Steffen Weik, Ute Eberle, Jörn Dengjel, Thomas Kratt, Horst-Dieter Becker, Hans-Georg Rammensee and Stefan Stevanovic;
Nature Biotechnology 22, 450–454
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt947
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review article
siRNAs: applications in functional genomics and potential as therapeutics
Yair Dorsett and Thomas Tuschl
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 318–329
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrd1345
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brief communication
A receptor for green tea polyphenol EGCG
Hirofumi Tachibana, Kiyoshi Koga, Yoshinori Fujimura and Koji Yamada
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 380–381
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb743
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meeting report
Calcineurin: a central controller of signalling in eukaryotes
José Aramburu, Joseph Heitman & Gerald R. Crabtree
EMBO reports 11, 343–348
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400133
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letters to nature
The endothelial-cell-derived secreted factor Egfl7 regulates vascular tube formation
Leon H. Parker, Maike Schmidt, Suk-Won Jin, Alane M. Gray, Dimitris Beis, Thinh Pham, Gretchen Frantz, Susan Palmieri, Kenneth Hillan, Didier Y. R. Stainier, Frederic J. de Sauvage and Weilan Ye
Nature 428, 754–758
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02416
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letters to nature
Costimulatory signals mediated by the ITAM motif cooperate with RANKL for bone homeostasis
Takako Koga , Masanori Inui, Kazuya Inoue, Sunhwa Kim, Ayako Suematsu, Eiji Kobayashi, Toshio Iwata, Hiroshi Ohnishi, Takashi Matozaki, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Hiroshi Takayanagi and Toshiyuki Takai
Nature 428, 758–763
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02444
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letters to nature
Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception
Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek, Lionel Navarro, Edward J. Oakeley, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Georg Felix and Thomas Boller
Nature 428, 764–767
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02485
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letters to nature
Cdc42 and mDia3 regulate microtubule attachment to kinetochores
Shingo Yasuda, Fabian Oceguera-Yanez, Takayuki Kato, Muneo Okamoto, Shigenobu Yonemura, Yasuhiko Terada, Toshimasa Ishizaki and Shuh Narumiya
Nature 428, 767–771
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02452
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news and views
Cancer: Kip moving
John G. Collard
Nature 428, 705–708
(15 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428705a
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article
A signalling pathway controlling c-Myc degradation that impacts oncogenic transformation of human cells
Elizabeth Yeh, Melissa Cunningham, Hugh Arnold, Dawn Chasse, Teresa Monteith, Giovanni Ivaldi, William C. Hahn, P. Todd Stukenberg, Shirish Shenolikar, Takafumi Uchida, Christopher M. Counter, Joseph R. Nevins, Anthony R. Means and Rosalie Sears
Nature Cell Biology 6, 308–318
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1110
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news and views
PINning down the c-Myc oncoprotein
David Dominguez-Sola and Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Nature Cell Biology 6, 288–289
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-288
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letter
Role of the PAR-3-KIF3 complex in the establishment of neuronal polarity
Takashi Nishimura, Katsuhiro Kato, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Yuko Fukata, Shigeo Ohno and Kozo Kaibuchi
Nature Cell Biology 6, 328–334
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1118
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review article
Biology, structure and mechanism of P-type ATPases
Werner Kühlbrandt
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 282–295
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1354
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article
Defective lipoxin-mediated anti-inflammatory activity in the cystic fibrosis airway
Christopher L Karp, Leah M Flick, Kiwon W Park, Samir Softic, Todd M Greer, Raquel Keledjian, Rong Yang, Jasim Uddin, William B Guggino, Sowsan F Atabani, Yasmine Belkaid, Yan Xu, Jeffrey A Whitsett, Frank J Accurso, Marsha Wills-Karp and Nicos A Petasis
Nature Immunology 5, 388–392
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1056
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news and views
New therapeutic key for cystic fibrosis: a role for lipoxins
Daiya Takai, Takahide Nagase and Takao Shimizu
Nature Immunology 5, 357–358
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni0404-357
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review article
Acquired and natural memory T cells join forces at the mucosal front line
Hilde Cheroutre and Loui Madakamutil
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 290–300
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nri1333
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article
A new role for Nogo as a regulator of vascular remodeling
Lisette Acevedo, Jun Yu, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Robert Qing Miao, Ji-Eun Kim, David Fulton, Paul Tempst, Stephen M Strittmatter and William C Sessa
Nature Medicine 10, 382–388
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1020
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news and views
Nogo puts the brake on vascular lesions
Elaine W Raines
Nature Medicine 10, 348–349
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0404-348
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news and views
Cocaine's long run
Pietro Paolo Sanna and George F Koob
Nature Medicine 10, 340–341
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm0404-340
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review article
The pathobiology of mucositis
Stephen T. Sonis
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 277–284
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1318
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news and views
Shutting down Wnt signal-activated cancer
M Mark Taketo
Nature Genetics 36, 320–322
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-320
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letter
Mutations in the gene encoding filamin B disrupt vertebral segmentation, joint formation and skeletogenesis
Deborah Krakow, Stephen P Robertson, Lily M King, Timothy Morgan, Eiman T Sebald, Cristina Bertolotto, Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Dora Acuna, Sandor S Shapiro, Toshiro Takafuta, Salim Aftimos, Chong Ae Kim, Helen Firth, Carlos E Steiner, Valerie Cormier-Daire, Andrea Superti-Furga, Luisa Bonafe, John M Graham, Jr Arthur Grix, Carlos A Bacino, Judith Allanson, Martin G Bialer, Ralph S Lachman, David L Rimoin and Daniel H Cohn
Nature Genetics 36, 405–410
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1319
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news and views
Phenotype matters
Leslie G Biesecker
Nature Genetics 36, 323–324
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng0404-323
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brief communication
Cholecystokinin-mediated suppression of feeding involves the brainstem melanocortin system
Wei Fan, Kate L J Ellacott, Ilia G Halatchev, Kanji Takahashi, Pinxuan Yu and Roger D Cone
Nature Neuroscience 7, 335–336
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nn1214
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review article
Neural activity and the dynamics of central nervous system development
Jackie Yuanyuan Hua and Stephen J Smith
Nature Neuroscience 7, 327–332
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nn1218
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research article
Capturing and profiling adult hair follicle stem cells
Rebecca J Morris, Yaping Liu, Lee Marles, Zaixin Yang, Carol Trempus, Shulan Li, Jamie S Lin, Janet A Sawicki and George Cotsarelis
Nature Biotechnology 22, 411–417
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt950
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news and views
Profiling epithelial stem cells
Paul A Khavari
Nature Biotechnology 22, 393–394
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nbt0404-393
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review article
Small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions: progressing towards the dream
Michelle R. Arkin and James A. Wells
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 301–317
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrd1343
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article
Regulation of the p300 HAT domain via a novel activation loop
Paul R Thompson, Dongxia Wang, Ling Wang, Marcella Fulco, Natalia Pediconi, Dianzheng Zhang, Woojin An, Qingyuan Ge, Robert G Roeder, Jiemin Wong, Massimo Levrero, Vittorio Sartorelli, Robert J Cotter and Philip A Cole
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 308–315
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb740
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news and views
Is acetylation the key to opening locked gates?
B Franklin Pugh
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 298–300
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb0404-298
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letters to nature
IkB kinase-α acts in the epidermis to control skeletal and craniofacial morphogenesis
Alok K. Sil, Shin Maeda, Yuji Sano, Dennis R. Roop and Michael Karin
Nature 428, 660–664
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02421
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letters to nature
Haematopoietic stem cells do not transdifferentiate into cardiac myocytes in myocardial infarcts
Charles E. Murry, Mark H. Soonpaa, Hans Reinecke, Hidehiro Nakajima, Hisako O. Nakajima, Michael Rubart, Kishore B. S. Pasumarthi, Jitka Ismail Virag, Stephen H. Bartelmez, Veronica Poppa, Gillian Bradford, Joshua D. Dowell, David A. Williams and Loren J. Field
Nature 428, 664–668
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02446
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letters to nature
Haematopoietic stem cells adopt mature haematopoietic fates in ischaemic myocardium
Leora B. Balsam, Amy J. Wagers, Julie L. Christensen, Theo Kofidis, Irving L. Weissman and Robert C. Robbins
Nature 428, 668–673
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02460
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news and views
Stem cells: Lost in translation
Kenneth R. Chien
Nature 428, 607–608
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02500
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news and views
Cell biology: Competitive edge
Amanda Tromans
Nature 428, 609
(08 April 2004); doi:10.1038/428609a
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letter
PKB/Akt modulates TGF-β signalling through a direct interaction with Smad3
Ingrid Remy, Annie Montmarquette and Stephen W. Michnick
Nature Cell Biology 6, 358–365
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1113
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letter
Akt interacts directly with Smad3 to regulate the sensitivity to TGF-β-induced apoptosis
Andrew R. Conery, Yanna Cao, E. Aubrey Thompson, Courtney M. Townsend, Jr Tien C. Ko and Kunxin Luo
Nature Cell Biology 6, 366–372
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1117
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news and views
Getting connected
Alison Schuldt
Nature Cell Biology 6, 281
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ncb0404-281
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review article
Working out the strength and flexibility of desmosomes
Spiro Getsios, Arthur C. Huen and Kathleen J. Green
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 271–281
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrm1356
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article
Distinct regions in the CD28 cytoplasmic domain are required for T helper type 2 differentiation
Pietro G Andres, Kimberly C Howland, Ajay Nirula, Lawrence P Kane, Luke Barron, Douglas Dresnek, Ali Sadra, John Imboden, Arthur Weiss and Abul K Abbas
Nature Immunology 5, 435–442
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ni1044
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Human thymic stromal lymphopoietin promotes dendritic cell-mediated CD4+ T cell homeostatic expansion
Norihiko Watanabe, Shino Hanabuchi, Vassili Soumelis, Wei Yuan, Stephen Ho, Rene de Waal Malefyt and Yong-Jun Liu
Nature Immunology 5, 426–434
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Clinical islet transplantation: advances and immunological challenges
Camillo Ricordi and Terry B. Strom
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 259–268
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CDC91L1 (PIG-U) is a newly discovered oncogene in human bladder cancer
Zhongmin Guo, Jürgen F. Linn, Guojun Wu, Sarah L Anzick, Claus F Eisenberger, Sarel Halachmi, Yoram Cohen, Alexey Fomenkov, Mohammad Obaidul Hoque, Kenji Okami, Gabriel Steiner, James M Engles, Motonabu Osada, Chulso Moon, Edward Ratovitski, Jeffrey M Trent, Paul S Meltzer, William H Westra, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Mark P Schoenberg, David Sidransky and Barry Trink
Nature Medicine 10, 374–381
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nm1010
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Embedding T cells in the matrix
Liisa K Selin and Markus Cornberg
Nature Medicine 10, 343–345
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Opinion: Rules of evidence for cancer molecular-marker discovery and validation
David F. Ransohoff
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 309–314
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/nrc1322
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Inactivation of the Wip1 phosphatase inhibits mammary tumorigenesis through p38 MAPK-mediated activation of the p16Ink4a-p19Arf pathway
Dmitry V Bulavin, Crissy Phillips, Bonnie Nannenga, Oleg Timofeev, Larry A Donehower, Carl W Anderson, Ettore Appella and Albert J Fornace Jr.
Nature Genetics 36, 343–350
(April 2004); doi:10.1038/ng1317
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Wip-ing out cancer
René Bernards
Nature Genetics 36, 319–320
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Science and society: Shaping science policy in the age of genomics
Richard R. Sharp, Michael A. Yudell and Samuel H. Wilson
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 311–315
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Dopamine neurons release transmitter via a flickering fusion pore
Roland G W Staal, Eugene V Mosharov and David Sulzer
Nature Neuroscience 7, 341–346
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Synaptic vesicles really do kiss and run
R Mark Wightman and Christy L Haynes
Nature Neuroscience 7, 321–322
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Genes and ligands for odorant, vomeronasal and taste receptors
Peter Mombaerts
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5, 263–278
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Unshackling expression profiling arrays
Darrell P Chandler
Nature Biotechnology 22, 396–397
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An improved cyan fluorescent protein variant useful for FRET
Mark A Rizzo, Gerald H Springer, Butch Granada and David W Piston
Nature Biotechnology 22, 445–449
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Targeting IL-1 in inflammatory disease: new opportunities for therapeutic intervention
Martin Braddock and Anthony Quinn
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 330–340
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The Mad2 spindle checkpoint protein has two distinct natively folded states
Xuelian Luo, Zhanyun Tang, Guohong Xia, Katja Wassmann, Tomohiro Matsumoto, Josep Rizo and Hongtao Yu
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 338–345
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Differentiating germ cells can revert into functional stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries
Toshie Kai and Allan Spradling
Nature 428, 564–569
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AMP-kinase regulates food intake by responding to hormonal and nutrient signals in the hypothalamus
Yasuhiko Minokoshi, Thierry Alquier, Noboru Furukawa, Young-Bum Kim, Anna Lee, Bingzhong Xue, James Mu, Fabienne Foufelle, Pascal Ferré, Morris J. Birnbaum, Bettina J. Stuck and Barbara B. Kahn
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From molecular noise to behavioural variability in a single bacterium
Ekaterina Korobkova, Thierry Emonet, Jose M. G. Vilar, Thomas S. Shimizu and Philippe Cluzel
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Designing materials for biology and medicine
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Abi1 is essential for the formation and activation of a WAVE2 signalling complex
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Simone L. Blagg and Robert H. Insall
Nature Cell Biology 6, 279–281
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SREBPs suppress IRS-2-mediated insulin signalling in the liver
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Nature Cell Biology 6, 351–357
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Endothelial cell-cell junctions: happy together
Elisabetta Dejana
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 261–270
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Induction of T cell development and establishment of T cell competence from embryonic stem cells differentiated in vitro
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Nature Immunology 5, 410–417
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From totipotency to T in a dish
Ellen V Rothenberg
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The STAT3 isoforms α and β have unique and specific functions
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Nature Immunology 5, 401–409
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Timeline: Jurkat T cells and development of the T-cell receptor signalling paradigm
Robert T. Abraham and Arthur Weiss
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 301–308
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Neutralization of CD95 ligand promotes regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury
Deana Demjen, Stefan Klussmann, Susanne Kleber, Cecilia Zuliani, Bram Stieltjes, Corinna Metzger, Ulrich A Hirt, Henning Walczak, Werner Falk, Marco Essig, Lutz Edler, Peter H Krammer and Ana Martin-Villalba
Nature Medicine 10, 389–395
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Spinal cord alive and kicking
Catherine Barthélémy and Christopher E Henderson
Nature Medicine 10, 339–340
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Cancer's sphere of influence
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Nature Medicine 10, 349
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Microtubules as a target for anticancer drugs
Mary Ann Jordan and Leslie Wilson
Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 253–265
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Epigenetic inactivation of SFRP genes allows constitutive WNT signaling in colorectal cancer
Hiromu Suzuki, D Neil Watkins, Kam-Wing Jair, Kornel E Schuebel, Sanford D Markowitz, Wei Dong Chen, Theresa P Pretlow, Bin Yang, Yoshimitsu Akiyama, Manon van Engeland, Minoru Toyota, Takashi Tokino, Yuji Hinoda, Kohzoh Imai, James G Herman and Stephen B Baylin
Nature Genetics 36, 417–422
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ABCC9 mutations identified in human dilated cardiomyopathy disrupt catalytic KATP channel gating
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Nature Genetics 36, 382–387
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Chemogenomics: an emerging strategy for rapid target and drug discovery
Markus Bredel and Edgar Jacoby
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 262–275
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Stability of dendritic spines and synaptic contacts is controlled by αN-catenin
Kentaro Abe, Osamu Chisaka, Frans van Roy and Masatoshi Takeichi
Nature Neuroscience 7, 357–363
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Stiffening the spines
Annette Markus
Nature Neuroscience 7, 322
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Expression profiling using a hexamer-based universal microarray
Matthew E Roth, Li Feng, Kevin J McConnell, Paul J Schaffer, Cesar E Guerra, Jason P Affourtit, Kevin R Piper, Lorri Guccione, Jayashree Hariharan, Maura J Ford, Stephen W Powell, Harish Krishnaswamy, Jennifer Lane, Lisa Guccione, Gino Intrieri, Jane S Merkel, Clotilde Perbost, Anthony Valerio, Brenda Zolla, Carol D Graham, Jonathan Hnath, Chris Michaelson, Rixin Wang, Baoge Ying, Conrad Halling, Craig E Parman, Debasish Raha, Brent Orr, Barbara Jedrzkiewicz, Ji Liao, Anton Tevelev, Martin J Mattessich, David M Kranz, Michelle Lacey, Joseph C Kaufman, Junhyong Kim, Darin R Latimer and Paul M Lizardi
Nature Biotechnology 22, 418–426
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AMP kinase and malonyl-CoA: targets for therapy of the metabolic syndrome
Neil Ruderman and Marc Prentki
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 3, 340–351
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p27 binds cyclin-CDK complexes through a sequential mechanism involving binding-induced protein folding
Eilyn R Lacy, Igor Filippov, William S Lewis, Steve Otieno, Limin Xiao, Sonja Weiss, Ludger Hengst and Richard W Kriwacki
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 11, 358–364
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