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December
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Skin antibiotics get in the loop
Elizabeth Kopp and Ruslan Medzhitov
Nature Medicine 8, 1359–1360
(December 2002); doi:10.1038/nm1202-1359
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letters to nature
CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells control Leishmania major persistence and immunity
Yasmine Belkaid, Ciriaco A. Piccirillo, Susana Mendez, Ethan M. Shevach and David L. Sacks
Nature 420, 502–507
(05 December 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01152
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review article
Oncolytic viruses
E. Antonio Chiocca
Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 938–950
(December 2002); doi:10.1038/nrc948
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November
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HIV-specific CD8+ T cell proliferation is coupled to perforin expression and is maintained in nonprogressors
Stephen A. Migueles, Alisha C. Laborico, W. Lesley Shupert, M. Shirin Sabbaghian, Ronald Rabin, Claire W. Hallahan, Debbie Van Baarle, Stefan Kostense, Frank Miedema, Mary McLaughlin, Linda Ehler, Julia Metcalf, Shuying Liu and Mark Connors
Nature Immunology 3, 1061–1068
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni845
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review article
Viral interference with antigen presentation
Jonathan W. Yewdell and Ann B. Hill
Nature Immunology 3, 1019–1025
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1019
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review article
Bacterial strategies for overcoming host innate and adaptive immune responses
Mathias W. Hornef, Mary Jo Wick, Mikael Rhen and Staffan Normark
Nature Immunology 3, 1033–1040
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1033
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review article
To kill or be killed: viral evasion of apoptosis
Chris A. Benedict, Paula S. Norris and Carl F. Ware
Nature Immunology 3, 1013–1018
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1013
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review article
Evasion of innate immunity by parasitic protozoa
David Sacks and Alan Sher
Nature Immunology 3, 1041–1047
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1041
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letters to nature
Non-redundant role of the long pentraxin PTX3 in anti-fungal innate immune response
Cecilia Garlanda, Emilio Hirsch, Silvia Bozza, Antonietta Salustri, Marika De Acetis, Rachele Nota, Alessia Maccagno, Federica Riva, Barbara Bottazzi, Giuseppe Peri, Andrea Doni, Luca Vago, Marina Botto, Rita De Santis, Paolo Carminati, Gregorio Siracusa, Fiorella Altruda, Annunciata Vecchi, Luigina Romani and Alberto Mantovani
Nature 420, 182–186
(14 November 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01195
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review article
Viral evasion of natural killer cells
Jordan S. Orange, Marlys S. Fassett, Louise A. Koopman, Jonathan E. Boyson and Jack L. Strominger
Nature Immunology 3, 1006–1012
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1006
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review article
Chronic bacterial infections: living with unwanted guests
Douglas Young, Tracy Hussell and Gordon Dougan
Nature Immunology 3, 1026–1032
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/ni1102-1026
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review article
The immunology of susceptibility and resistance to leishmania major in mice
David Sacks and Nancy Noben-Trauth
Nature Reviews Immunology 2, 845–858
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/nri933
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Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli
Mario de Bono, David M. Tobin, M. Wayne Davis, Leon Avery and Cornelia I. Bargmann
Nature 419, 899–903
(31 October 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01169
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letters to nature
Antagonistic pathways in neurons exposed to body fluid regulate social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans
Juliet C. Coates and Mario de Bono
Nature 419, 925–929
(31 October 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01170
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Neurobiology: Social eating for stress
Marla B. Sokolowski
Nature 419, 893–894
(31 October 2002); doi:10.1038/419893a
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Spotlight on receptor/transducer interaction
John Spudich
Nature Structural Biology 9, 797–799
(November 2002); doi:10.1038/nsb1102-797
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October
letters to nature
A biological role for prokaryotic ClC chloride channels
Ramkumar Iyer, Tina M. Iverson, Alessio Accardi and Christopher Miller
Nature 419, 715–718
(17 October 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01000
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letters to nature
ERAAP customizes peptides for MHC class I molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum
Thomas Serwold, Federico Gonzalez, Jennifer Kim, Richard Jacob and Nilabh Shastri
Nature 419, 480–483
(03 October 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01074
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news and views
Immunology: Survival of the fitters
Hans-Georg Rammensee
Nature 419, 443–445
(03 October 2002); doi:10.1038/419443a
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letters to nature
Molecular basis of transmembrane signalling by sensory rhodopsin II-transducer complex
Valentin I. Gordeliy, Jörg Labahn, Rouslan Moukhametzianov, Rouslan Efremov, Joachim Granzin, Ramona Schlesinger, Georg Büldt, Tudor Savopol, Axel J. Scheidig, Johann P. Klare and Martin Engelhard
Nature 419, 484–487
(03 October 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01109
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Elimination of host cell PtdIns(4,5)P2 by bacterial SigD promotes membrane fission during invasion by Salmonella
Mauricio R. Terebiznik, Otilia V. Vieira, Sandra L. Marcus, Andrea Slade, Christopher M. Yip, William S. Trimble, Tobias Meyer, B. Brett Finlay and Sergio Grinstein
Nature Cell Biology 4, 766–773
(October 2002); doi:10.1038/ncb854
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news and views
Quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae
Miguel Cámara, Andrea Hardman, Paul Williams and Debra Milton
Nature Genetics 32, 217–218
(October 2002); doi:10.1038/ng1002-217
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review article
The Yersinia Ysc-Yop 'Type III' weaponry
Guy R. Cornelis
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 3, 742–754
(October 2002); doi:10.1038/nrm932
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September
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Virology: Ins and outs
Amanda Tromans
Nature 419, 349
(26 September 2002); doi:10.1038/419349a
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review article
Listening in on bacteria: acyl-homoserine lactone signalling
Clay Fuqua and E. Peter Greenberg
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 3, 685–695
(September 2002); doi:10.1038/nrm907
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letters to nature
Protective role of phospholipid oxidation products in endotoxin-induced tissue damage
Valery N. Bochkov, Alexandra Kadl, Joakim Huber, Florian Gruber, Bernd R. Binder and Norbert Leitinger
Nature 419, 77–81
(05 September 2002); doi:10.1038/nature01023
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Genetics, cytokines and human infectious disease: lessons from weakly pathogenic mycobacteria and salmonellae
Tom H.M. Ottenhoff, Frank A.W. Verreck, Elgin G.R. Lichtenauer-Kaligis, Marieke A. Hoeve, Ozden Sanal and Jaap T. van Dissel
Nature Genetics 32, 97–105
(September 2002); doi:10.1038/ng0902-97
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Lethal H5N1 influenza viruses escape host anti-viral cytokine responses
Sang Heui Seo, Erich Hoffmann and Robert G. Webster
Nature Medicine 8, 950–954
(September 2002); doi:10.1038/nm757
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The makings of a killer
Peter Palese, Christopher F. Basler and Adolfo García-Sastre
Nature Medicine 8, 927–928
(September 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0902-927
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review article
Viruses and interferon: A fight for supremacy
Michael G. Katze, Yupeng He and Michael Gale Jr
Nature Reviews Immunology 2, 675–687
(September 2002); doi:10.1038/nri888
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August
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Chromosome instability: lessons from HIV
Jan Paul Medema and René H. Medema
Nature Cell Biology 4, E191
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/ncb0802-e191b
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Hyporesponsiveness to vaccination with Borrelia burgdorferi OspA in humans and in TLR1- and TLR2-deficient mice
Lena Alexopoulou, Venetta Thomas, Markus Schnare, Yves Lobet, Juan Anguita, Robert T. Schoen, Ruslan Medzhitov, Erol Fikrig and Richard A. Flavell
Nature Medicine 8, 878–884
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/nm732
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letter
Structure and catalytic mechanism of the E. coli chemotaxis phosphatase CheZ
Rui Zhao, Edward J. Collins, Robert B. Bourret and Ruth E. Silversmith
Nature Structural Biology 9, 570–575
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/nsb816
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Last, but not least
Philip Matsumura
Nature Structural Biology 9, 563–564
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/nsb0802-563
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Disulfide exchange in domain 2 of CD4 is required for entry of HIV-1
Lisa J. Matthias, Patricia T.W. Yam, Xing-Mai Jiang, Nick Vandegraaff, Peng Li, Pantelis Poumbourios, Neil Donoghue and Philip J. Hogg
Nature Immunology 3, 727–732
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/ni815
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HIV entry: are all receptors created equal?
Mark A. Goldsmith and Robert W. Doms
Nature Immunology 3, 709–710
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/ni819
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review article
Asthma: an epidemic of dysregulated immunity
Dale T. Umetsu, Jennifer J. McIntire, Omid Akbari, Claudia Macaubas and Rosemarie H. DeKruyff
Nature Immunology 3, 715–720
(August 2002); doi:10.1038/ni0802-715
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July
review article
Charting HIV's remarkable voyage through the cell: Basic science as a passport to future therapy
Warner C. Greene and B. Matija Peterlin
Nature Medicine 8, 673–680
(July 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0702-673
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letter to nature
Adenovirus oncoproteins inactivate the Mre11-Rad50-NBS1 DNA repair complex
Travis H. Stracker, Christian T. Carson and Matthew D. Weitzman
Nature 418, 348–352
(18 July 2002); doi:10.1038/nature00863
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letter to nature
NMR analysis of a 900K GroEL-GroES complex
Jocelyne Fiaux, Eric B. Bertelsen, Arthur L. Horwich and Kurt Wüthrich
Nature 418, 207–211
(11 July 2002); doi:10.1038/nature00860
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Staphylococcus aureus extracellular adherence protein serves as anti-inflammatory factor by inhibiting the recruitment of host leukocytes
Triantafyllos Chavakis, Muzaffar Hussain, Sandip M. Kanse, Georg Peters, Reinhard G. Bretzel, Jan-Ingmar Flock, Mathias Herrmann and Klaus T. Preissner
Nature Medicine 8, 687–693
(July 2002); doi:10.1038/nm728
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June
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A plant receptor-like kinase required for both bacterial and fungal symbiosis
Silke Stracke, Catherine Kistner, Satoko Yoshida, Lonneke Mulder, Shusei Sato, Takakazu Kaneko, Satoshi Tabata, Niels Sandal, Jens Stougaard, Krzysztof Szczyglowski and Martin Parniske
Nature 417, 959–962
(27 June 2002); doi:10.1038/nature00841
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A receptor kinase gene regulating symbiotic nodule development
Gabriella Endre, Attila Kereszt, Zoltán Kevei, Sorina Mihacea, Péter Kaló and György B. Kiss
Nature 417, 962–966
(27 June 2002); doi:10.1038/nature00842
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Plant-microbe interactions: A receptor in symbiotic dialogue
Herman P. Spaink
Nature 417, 910–911
(27 June 2002); doi:10.1038/417910a
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Structure of a bacterial quorum-sensing transcription factor complexed with pheromone and DNA
Rong-guang Zhang, Terina Pappas, Jennifer L. Brace, Paula C. Miller, Tim Oulmassov, John M. Molyneaux, John C. Anderson, James K. Bashkin, Stephen C. Winans and Andrzej Joachimiak
Nature 417, 971–974
(27 June 2002); doi:10.1038/nature00833
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CD1d-dependent macrophage-mediated clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from lung
Edward E.S. Nieuwenhuis, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Mark Exley, Robbert A. Schleipman, Jonathan Glickman, Dan T. Bailey, Nadia Corazza, Sean P. Colgan, Andrew B. Onderdonk and Richard S. Blumberg
Nature Medicine 8, 588–593
(June 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0602-588
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Suppression of airway eosinophilia by killed Mycobacterium vaccae-induced allergen-specific regulatory T-cells
Claudia Zuany-Amorim, Elzbieta Sawicka, Corinne Manlius, Alain Le Moine, Laura R. Brunet, David M. Kemeny, Gareth Bowen, Graham Rook and Christoph Walker
Nature Medicine 8, 625–629
(June 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0602-625
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Alternate replication in B cells and epithelial cells switches tropism of Epstein-Barr virus
Corina M. Borza and Lindsey M. Hutt-Fletcher
Nature Medicine 8, 594–599
(June 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0602-594
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Cell-switching and kissing
Paul J. Farrell
Nature Medicine 8, 559–560
(June 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0602-559
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review article
Novel animal-health drug targets from ligand-gated chloride channels
Valérie Raymond and David B. Sattelle
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 1, 427–436
(June 2002); doi:10.1038/nrd821
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May
letters to nature
Functional relationship of cytochrome c6 and plastocyanin in Arabidopsis
Rajeev Gupta, Zengyong He and Sheng Luan
Nature 417, 567–571
(May 2002); doi:10.1038/417567a
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letters to nature
Neutrophil elastase targets virulence factors of enterobacteria
Yvette Weinrauch, Doreen Drujan, Steven D. Shapiro, Jerrold Weiss and Arturo Zychlinsky
Nature 417, 91–94
(May 2002); doi:10.1038/417091a
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news and views
A new blueprint for plant pathogen resistance
Heribert Hirt
Nature Biotechnology 20, 450–451
(May 2002); doi:10.1038/nbt0502-450
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review article
Papillomaviruses and cancer: from basic studies to clinical application
Harald zur Hausen
Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 342–350
(May 2002); doi:10.1038/nrc798
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April
news and views
Type 1 diabetes: virus infection or autoimmune disease?
DeLisa Fairweather and Noel R. Rose
Nature Immunology 3, 338–340
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/ni0402-338
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Target cell defense prevents the development of diabetes after viral infection
Malin Flodström, Amy Maday, Deepika Balakrishna, Mary Malo Cleary, Akihiko Yoshimura and Nora Sarvetnick
Nature Immunology 3, 373–382
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/ni771
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Human Toll-like receptor 4 recognizes host-specific LPS modifications
Adeline M. Hajjar, Robert K. Ernst and Jeff H. Tsai, Christopher B. Wilson and Samuel I. Miller
Nature Immunology 3, 354–359
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/ni777
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review article
Papillomaviruses and cancer: from basic studies to clinical application
Harald zur Hausen
Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 342–350
(May 2002); doi:10.1038/nrc798
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Herpesvirus hijacks an integrin
Glen R. Nemerow and David A. Cheresh
Nature Cell Biology 4, E69
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/ncb0402-e69
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letters to nature
The Drosophila immune response against Gram-negative bacteria is mediated by a peptidoglycan recognition protein
Marie Gottar, Vanessa Gobert, Tatiana Michel, Marcia Belvin, Geoffrey Duyk, Jules A. Hoffmann, Dominique Ferrandon and Julien Royet
Nature 416, 640–644
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/nature734
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letters to nature
Functional genomic analysis of phagocytosis and identification of a Drosophila receptor for E. coli
Mika Rämet, Pascal Manfruelli, Alan Pearson, Bernard Mathey-Prevot and R. Alan B. Ezekowitz
Nature 416, 644–648
(April 2002); doi:10.1038/nature735
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March
letter
Structural basis for CDK6 activation by a virus-encoded cyclin
Ursula Schulze-Gahmen and Sung-Hou Kim
Nature Structural Biology 9, 177–181
(March 2002); doi:10.1038/nsb756
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letters to nature
Involvement of receptor-interacting protein 2 in innate and adaptive immune responses
Arnold I. Chin, Paul W. Dempsey, Kevin Bruhn, Jeff F. Miller, Yang Xu and Genhong Cheng
Nature 416, 190–194
(March 2002); doi:10.1038/416190a
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February
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Tumor viral escape from inhibited T cells
Raymond M. Welsh, Susan E. Stepp, Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda and Craig D. Peacock
Nature Immunology 3, 112–114
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/ni0202-112
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CD94-NKG2A receptors regulate antiviral CD8+ T cell responses
Janice M. Moser, James Gibbs, Peter E. Jensen and Aron E. Lukacher
Nature Immunology 3, 189–195
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/ni757
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insight
The pathogenic basis of malaria
Louis H. Miller, Dror I. Baruch, Kevin Marsh and Ogobara K. Doumbo
Nature 415, 673–679
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/415673a
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MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity
Tsuneaki Asai, Guillaume Tena, Joulia Plotnikova, Matthew R. Willmann, Wan-Ling Chiu, Lourdes Gomez-Gomez, Thomas Boller, Frederick M. Ausubel and Jen Sheen
Nature 415, 977–983
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/415977a
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letters to nature
A blue-light-activated adenylyl cyclase mediates photoavoidance in Euglena gracilis
Mineo Iseki, Shigeru Matsunaga, Akio Murakami, Kaoru Ohno, Kiyoshi Shiga, Kazuichi Yoshida, Michizo Sugai, Tetsuo Takahashi, Terumitsu Hori and Masakatsu Watanabe
Nature 415, 1047–1051
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/4151047a
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January
review article
HELICOBACTER PYLORI AND GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT ADENOCARCINOMAS
Richard M. Peek & Martin J. Blaser
Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 28–37
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/nrc703
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Platelet-activating factor receptor and ADAM10 mediate responses to Staphylococcus aureus in epithelial cells
Hassan Lemjabbar and Carol Basbaum
Nature Medicine 8, 41–46
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0102-41
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Respiratory syncytial virus infection suppresses lung CD8+ T-cell effector activity and peripheral CD8+ T-cell memory in the respiratory tract
Jun Chang and Thomas J. Braciale
Nature Medicine 8, 54–60
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/nm0102-54
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Structural basis for the activation of anthrax adenylyl cyclase exotoxin by calmodulin
Chester L. Drum, Shui-Zhong Yan, Joel Bard, Yue-Quan Shen, Dan Lu, Sandriyana Soelaiman, Zenon Grabarek, Andrew Bohm and Wei-Jen Tang
Nature 415, 396–402
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415396a
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Anthrax: A molecular full nelson
Robert C. Liddington,
Nature 415, 373–374
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415373a
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Bacterial behaviour: Function by serendipity
Dagmar Ringe
Nature 415, 488–489
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415488b
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Bacterial Esperanto
Stephen C. Winans
Nature Structural Biology 9, 83–84
(February 2002); doi:10.1038/nsb0202-83
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letters to nature
Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron
Xin Chen, Stephan Schauder, Noelle Potier, Alain Van Dorsselaer, István Pelczer, Bonnie L. Bassler and Frederick M. Hughson
Nature 415, 545–549
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415545a
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Microbiology: Group effort in toxin synthesis
Gary M. Dunny
Nature 415, 33–34
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415033a
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letters to nature
Inter-receptor communication through arrays of bacterial chemoreceptors
Jason E. Gestwicki and Laura L. Kiessling
Nature 415, 81–84
(January 2002); doi:10.1038/415081a
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