Latest Immediate Publications in BJ Central

as at 8 August 2008

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6 August 2008

Accelerated Publication

Apoptotic sensitivity of murine IAP-deficient cells

Julie M Rumble, Mathieu JM Bertrand, Rebecca A Csomos, Casey W Wright, Lori Albert, Tak W Mak, Philip A Barker and Colin S Duckett

Do mammals make all their own inositol hexakisphosphate?

Andrew J Letcher, Michael J Schell and Robin F Irvine

Detection and characterization of proteinase K-sensitive disease-related prion protein with thermolysin

Sabrina Cronier, Nathalie Gros, M. Howard Tattum, Graham S Jackson, Anthony R. Clarke, John Collinge and Jonathan D.F. Wadsworth

5 August 2008

Phosphoregulation of human Mps1 kinase

Rebecca K Tyler, Matthew L H Chu, Hannah Johnson, Edward A McKenzie, Simon J Gaskell and Patrick A Eyers

1 August 2008

PGC-1 alpha induces dynamic protein interactions on the ERR alpha gene multi-hormone response element nucleosome in kidney cells

Liangli Wang, Yin Li, Peng Hu and Christina T Teng

Macrophage activation induces formation of the anti-inflammatory lipid cholesteryl-nitrolinoleate

Ana M Ferreira, Mariana Ferrari, Andrés Trostchansky, Carlos Batthyány, José M. Souza, María N Alvarez, Gloria V López, Paul R Baker, Francisco J Schopfer, V O'Donnell, Bruce A Freeman and Homero Rubbo

Constitutive expression of cyclooxygenase 2 transgene in hepatocytes protects against liver injury

Rafael Mayoral, Belen Mollá, Juana Maria Flores, Lisardo Boscá, Marta Casado and Paloma Martín Sanz

25 July 2008

Atp6v1c1 is an essential component of the osteoclast proton pump and in F-actin ring formation in osteoclasts

Shengmei Feng, Lianfu Deng, Wei Chen, Jianzhong Shao, Guoliang Xu and Yi-Ping Li

SMILE, a new orphan nuclear receptor SHP interacting protein, regulates SHP-repressed estrogen receptor transactivation

Yuan-Bin Xie, Ok-Hee Lee, Balachandar Nedumaran, Hyun-A Seong, Kyeong-Min Lee, Hyunjung Ha, In-Kyu Lee, Yungdae Yun and Hueng-Sik Choi

The 5' - 3' exoribonuclease Pacman is required for normal male fertility and is dynamically localised in cytoplasmic particles in Drosophila testis cells

Maria V. Zabolotskaya, Dominic P. Grima, Ming-Der Lin, Tze-Bin Chou and Sarah F. Newbury

24 July 2008

Tryptophan residues are targets in hypothiocyanous acid-mediated protein oxidation

Clare L Hawkins, David I Pattison, Naomi R Stanley and Michael J Davies

Differential regulation of threonine and tyrosine phosphorylations on protein kinase Cδ by g protein-mediated pathways in platelets

Swaminathan Murugappan, Ramya Chari, Vasu M Palli, Jianguo Jin and Satya P Kunapuli

Transcriptional regulation of the TGF-β1 promoter by androgen receptor

Wei Qi, Shen Gao and Zhengxin Wang

23 July 2008

Protein glycation in vivo: Functional and structural effects on yeast enolase

Ricardo A Gomes, Luís M A Oliveira, Mariana C C Silva, Carla Ascenso, Alexandre Quintas, Gonçalo Costa, Ana V Coelho, Marta Sousa Silva, António E N Ferreira, Ana Ponces Freire and Carlos Cordeiro

Phenolic substrates and suicide inactivation of tyrosinase: kinetics and mechanism

Jose Luis Muñoz-Muñoz, Francisco Garcia-Molina, Pedro Antonio Garcia-Ruiz, Milagros Molina-Alarcon, Jose Tudela, Francisco Garcia-Canovas and Jose Neptuno Rodriguez-Lopez

22 July 2008

Mutations linked to interstitial lung disease can abrogate anti-amyloid function of prosurfactant protein C

Charlotte Nerelius, Emily Martin, Siwei Peng, Magnus Gustafsson, Kerstin Nordling, Timothy E Weaver and Jan Johansson

Receptor for Advanced Glycation end products (RAGE) modulates neutrophil adhesion and migration on Glycoxidated extracellular matrix

Fatouma Touré, Jean Marie Zahm, Roselyne Garnotel, Elise Lambert, Noel Bonnet, Ann Marie Schmidt, Fabien Vitry, Jacques Chanard, Philippe Gillery and Philippe Rieu

21 July 2008

A calmodulin antagonist reveals a calmodulin-independent inter-domain interaction essential for activation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors

Yi Sun and Colin W Taylor

Structure-function analysis of plant aquaporin AtPIP2;1 gating by divalent cations and protons

Lionel Verdoucq, Alexandre Grondin and Christophe Maurel

18 July 2008

Growth of β₂-microglobulin-related amyloid fibrils by non-esterified fatty acids at a neutral pH

Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Shinobu Tsutsumi-Yasuhara, Tadakazu Ookoshi, Yumiko Ohhashi, Hideki Kimura, Naoki Takahashi, Haruyoshi Yoshida, Ryoichi Miyazaki, Yuji Goto and Hironobu Naiki

Carotenoid oxygenases involved in plant branching catalyze a highly specific, conserved apocarotenoid cleavage reaction

Adrian Alder, Iris Holdermann, Peter Beyer and Salim Al-Babili

Mapping of the ATP binding domain of human fructosamine-3-kinase related protein by affinity labelling with 5’-[p-(fluorosulphonyl)benzoyl]adenosine

Leo S Payne, Peter M Brown, Martin Middleditch, Edward N. Baker, Garth JS Cooper and Kerry M Loomes

17 July 2008

Regulation of microtubule nucleation from membranes by complexes of membrane-bound γ-tubulin with Fyn kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase

Libor Macurek, Eduarda Dráberová, Věra Richterová, Vadym Sulimenko, Tetyana Sulimenko, Lubica Dráberová, Vladimíra Marková and Pavel Dráber

Architectural factor HMGA induces promoter bending and recruits C/EBP and GATA during silkmoth chorion gene regulation

Argyris Papantonis, Jozef Vanden Broeck and Rena Lecanidou

The Drosophila p21 activated kinase Mbt modulates DE-cadherin mediated cell adhesion by phosphorylation of Armadillo

Nicolas Menzel, Juliane Melzer, Jens Waschke, Christof E Lenz, Heike Wecklein, Guenter Lochnit, Detlev Drenckhahn and Thomas Raabe

C-terminal residues of mature human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 protease are critical for dimerization and catalytic activity

János Kádas, Péter Boross, Irene T Weber, Péter Bagossi, Krisztina Matúz and József Tözsér

Tyrosine modification enhances metal ion binding

Graham S Baldwin, Michael F Bailey, B. Philip Shehan, Ioulia Sims and Raymond S. Norton

15 July 2008

A requirement for thioredoxin in redox-sensitive modulation of T-cadherin expression in endothelial cells

Manjunath B Joshi, Danila Ivanov, Maria Philippova, Emmanouil Kyriakakis, Paul Erne and Thérèse J Resink

14 July 2008

A possible biochemical link between NADPH oxidase (Nox) 1 redox-signaling and ERp72

Wei Chen, Wei Hao Shang, Yoshifumi Adachi, Kunitaka Hirose, David M. Ferrari and Tohru Kamata

11 July 2008

Identification and characterisation of FUS/TLS as a new target of ATM

Mary Gardiner, Rachel Toth, Franck Vandermoere, Nicholas A Morrice and John Rouse

Identification of lysine residues critical for the transcriptional activity and poly-ubiquitination of the NF-κB family member RelB

Julia Leidner, Lysann Palkowitsch, Uta Marienfeld, Dietmar Fischer and Ralf Marienfeld

Structure-function relationships in Escherichia coli adenylyl cyclase

Jürgen U. Linder

10 July 2008

Role of the domain encompassing Arg³⁰⁴ to Ile³²⁸ in rat P2X₂ receptor conformation revealed by alterations in complex glycosylation at Asn²⁹⁸

Mark T Young, Yi-Hong Zhang, Lishuang Cao, Helen Broomhead and Lin-Hua Jiang

8 July 2008

Chromium (VI) inhibits mouse metallothionein-I gene transcription by preventing the zinc-dependent formation of an MTF-1–p300 complex

Tomoki Kimura, Yong Li, Fumika Okumura, Norio Itoh, Tsuyoshi Nakanishi, Tomomichi Sone, Masakazu Isobe and Glen K. Andrews

Phosphorylation of hepatitis B virus core C-terminally truncated protein (Cp149) by PKC increases capsid assembly and stability

Hang Kang, Jaehoon Yu and Guhung Jung

Mg²⁺ dependent ATP occlusion at the first nucleotide binding domain (NBD1) of CFTR does not require the second (NBD2)

Luba A Aleksandrov, Andrei A Aleksandrov and John R Riordan

4 July 2008

Structural and kinetic differences between human and Aspergillus fumigatus glucosamine N-acetyl transferase

Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, Olawale G. Raimi, Jinrong Ming, Hong Zeng, Laura Vallius, Sharon M. Shepherd, Adel F.M. Ibrahim, Hong Wu, Alexander Plotnikov and Daan MF van Aalten

Probing the interaction of tetraspanin CD151 with integrin α3β1 using a panel of monoclonal antibodies with distinct reactivities toward the CD151-integrin α3β1 complex

Masashi Yamada, Yumiko Tamura, Noriko Sanzen, Ryoko Sato-Nishiuchi, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Leonie K Ashman, Eric Rubinstein, María Yáñez-Mó, Francisco Sánchez-Madrid and Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi

Ypp1/YGR198w plays an essential role in phosphoinositide signalling at the plasma membrane

Chao Zhai, Kuoyu Li, Valentini Markaki, John P Phelan, Katherine Bowers, Frank T Cooke and Barry Panaretou

Positional-scanning fluorogenic substrate libraries reveal unexpected specificity determinants of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs)

Marcin Drag, Jowita Mikolajczyk, Miklos Bekes, Francisca Reyes-Turcu, Jonathan Ellman, Keith Wilkinson and Guy Salvesen

Asp-218 participates with asp-213 to bind a ca²⁺ atom into the S1 subsite of aminopeptidase A: a key element for substrate specificity

Cédric Claperon, Raphael Rozenfeld, Xavier Iturrioz, Nicolas Inguimbert, Mayumi Okada, Bernard Roques, Bernard Maigret and Catherine Llorens-Cortes

An exceptional salt tolerant antimicrobial peptide derived from a novel gene family of hemocytes of the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis

Henning Fedders, Matthias Michalek, Joachim Grötzinger and Matthias Leippe

3 July 2008

The Leishmania infantum cytosolic SIR2 related protein 1 (LiSIR2RP1) is an NAD⁺-dependent deacetylase and ADP-ribosyltransferase

Joana Tavares, Ali Ouaissi, Nuno Santarém, Denis Sereno, Baptiste Vergnes, Paula Sampaio and Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva

Accelerated Publication

Arf family GTP loading is activated by, and generates, positive membrane curvature

Richard Lundmark, Gary J Doherty, Yvonne Vallis, Brian J Peter and Harvey T McMahon

1 July 2008

Gln-181 is crucial in the enzymatic activity and substrate specificity of human endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase-1

Yoshikuni Goto, Hiroe Tanji, Akira Hattori and Masafumi Tsujimoto

30 June 2008

Adaptor protein Lnk associates with Y568 in c-Kit

Saskia Gueller, Sigal Gery, Verena Nowak, Liqin Liu, Hubert Serve and H. Phillip Koeffler

ERα suppresses slug expression directly by transcriptional repression

Yin Ye, Yi Xiao, Wenting Wang, Kurtis Yearsley, Jian-Xin Gao and Sanford H. Barsky

Human pancreatic β-cell glucokinase: subcellular localization and glucose repression signalling function in the yeast cell

Alberto Riera, Deifilia Ahuatzi, Pilar Herrero, Maria Adelaida Garcia-Gimeno, Pascual Sanz and Fernando Moreno

Comparison of the EGFR resistance mutation profiles generated by EGFR targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors and the impact of drug combinations

Egle Avizienyte, Richard A Ward and Andrew P Garner

The selectivity of inhibitors of protein kinase CK2. An update.

Mario A Pagano, Jenny Bain, Zygmunt Kazimierczuk, Stefania Sarno, Maria Ruzzene, Giovanni Di Maira, Matthew Elliott, Andrzej Orzeszko, Giorgio Cozza, Flavio Meggio and Lorenzo A Pinna

27 June 2008

Phospholipase Cδ1 regulates cell proliferation and cell cycle progression from G1 to S phase by control of cyclin E/CDK2 activity

Katherine A Kaproth-Joslin, Xiangquan Li, Sarah E Reks and Grant G. Kelley

Characterization of the DNA binding motif of the arsenic-responsive transcription factor Yap8p

Yulia Ilina, Ewa Sloma, Ewa Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska, Marian Novotny, Michael Thorsen, Robert Wysocki and Markus J. Tamás

26 June 2008

Crystal structures of starch binding domain from Rhizopus oryzae glucoamylase reveal a polysaccharide binding path

Jung-Yu Tung, Margaret Dah-Tsyr Chang, Wei-I Chou, Yen-Yi Liu, Yi-Hung Yeh, Fan-Yu Chang, Shu-Chuan Lin, Zhen-Liang Qiu and Yuh Ju Sun

Structure and function of SirC from Bacillus megaterium - a metal binding precorrin-2 dehydrogenase

Heidi L Schubert, Ruth S Rose, Helen K Leech, Amanda A Brindley, Christopher P Hill, Stephen E. J. Rigby and Martin J Warren

Metabolic pathways in Anopheles stephensi mitochondria

Cecilia Giulivi, Catherine Ross-Inta, Ashley A Horton and Shirley Luckhart

20 June 2008

Identification of the human N^α-acetyltransferase complex B (hNatB) – a complex important for cell cycle progression

Kristian K Starheim, Thomas Arnesen, Darina Gromyko, Anita Ryningen, Jan Erik Varhaug and JR Lillehaug

Dipeptidyl-peptidase I does not functionally compensate for the loss of tripeptidyl-peptidase I in the neurodegenerative disease late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

Kwi-Hye Kim, Christine Pham, David E Sleat and Peter Lobel

A novel protein phosphatase indirectly regulates phytochrome interacting factor 3 via phytochrome

Bong-Kwan Phee, Jeong-Il Kim, Dong Ho Shin, Jihye Yoo, Kyoung-Jin Park, Yun-Jeong Han, Yong-Kook Kwon, Man-Ho Cho, Jong-Seong Jeon, Seong Hee Bhoo and Tae-Ryong Hahn

19 June 2008

Urokinase induces survival or pro-apoptotic signal in human mesangial cells depending on the apoptotic stimulus

Natalia Tkachuk, Julia Kiyan, Sergey Tkachuk, Roman Kiyan, Nelli Shushakova, Hermann Haller and Inna Dumler

18 June 2008

Role of Fyn and PI3 kinase in H₂O₂-induced inhibition of apical Cl^-/OH^- exchange activity in human intestinal epithelial cells

Seema Saksena, Ravinder K Gill, Sangeeta Tyagi, Waddah A Alrefai, Krishnamurthy Ramaswamy and Pradeep K Dudeja

Effects of phosphatidylethanolamine glycation on lipid-protein interactions and membrane protein thermal stability

Valeria Levi, Ana Maria Villamil Giraldo, Pablo Raul Castello, Juan Pablo F.C. Rossi and F. Luis González-Flecha

Anti-cooperative assembly of the SRP19 and SRP68/72 components of the signal recognition particle

Tuhin S Maity, Howard M Fried and Kevin M Weeks

Diffusible amyloid oligomers trigger systemic amyloidosis in mice

Sivanesan Senthilkumar, Edwin Chang and Rajadas Jayakumar

Post-translational enzyme modification by the phosphopantetheinyl transferase is required for lysine and penicillin biosynthesis but not for roquefortine or fatty acid formation in Penicillium chrysogenum

Carlos García-Estrada, Ricardo V. Ullán, Tania Velasco-Conde, Ramiro P. Godio, Fernando Teijeira, Inmaculada Vaca, Raúl Feltrer, Katarina Kosalková, Elba Mauriz and Juan F. Martín

16 June 2008

PKCβII modulates translation independently from mTOR and through RACK1

Stefano Grosso, Viviana Volta, Leonardo A Sala, Marina Vietri, Pier Carlo Marchisio, Dorit Ron and Stefano Biffo

Ability of PknA, a mycobacterial eukaryotic-type serine/threonine kinase to transphosphorylate MurD, a ligase involved in the process of peptidoglycan biosynthesis

Meghna Thakur and Pradip K. Chakraborti

Lipidomic analysis of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites rhoptries: further insights into the role of cholesterol

Sébastien Besteiro, Justine Bertrand-Michel, Maryse Lebrun, Henri Vial and Jean-François Dubremetz

13 June 2008

Prohormone convertases 1/3 and 2 together orchestrate the site-specific cleavages of progastrin to release gastrin-34 and gastrin-17

Jens F. Rehfeld, Xiaorong Zhu, Christina Norrbom, Jens R Bundgaard, Anders H Johnsen, John E Nielsen, Jonas Vikesaa, Jeffrey Stein, Arunangsu Dey, Donald F Steiner and Lennart Friis-Hansen

How do surfactants and DTT, affect the size, dynamics, activity and growth of soluble lysozyme aggregates?

Satish Kumar, Vijay Kumar Ravi and Rajaram Swaminathan

11 June 2008

Characterization of the topology and functional domains of RKTG

Xiaolin Luo, Lin Feng, Xiaomeng Jiang, Fei Xiao, Zhenzhen Wang, Gen-Sheng Feng and Yan Chen

9 June 2008

G-protein binding features and regulation of the RalGDS family member, RGL2

Elisa Ferro, David Magrini, Paolo Guazzi, Thomas H Fischer, Sara Pistolesi, Rebecca Pogni, Gilbert C. White II and Lorenza Trabalzini

4 June 2008

Rab Geranylgeranylation occurs preferentially via the pre-formed REP:RGGT complex and is regulated by geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate

Rudi A. Baron and Miguel C Seabra

The secretion inhibitor Exo2 perturbs trafficking of Shiga toxin between endosomes and the trans-Golgi network

Robert A Spooner, Peter D Watson, Daniel C Smith, Frédéric Boal, Mohammed Amessou, Ludger Johannes, Guy J Clarkson, J. Michael Lord, David J Stephens and Lynne M Roberts

Structural and mechanistic insights into type II trypanosomatid tryparedoxin-dependant peroxidases

Magnus S Alphey, Janine Konig and Alan H Fairlamb

3 June 2008

Interaction of tryptophan derivatives with SLC6A14 (ATB^0,+) reveals the potential of the transporter as a drug target for cancer chemotherapy

Senthil Karunakaran, Nagavedi S Umapathy, Muthusamy Thangaraju, Takahiro Hatanaka, Shiro Itagaki, David H Munn, Puttur D Prasad and Vadivel Ganapathy

Caffeine induces Ca²⁺ release by reducing the threshold for luminal Ca²⁺ activation of the ryanodine receptor

Huihui Kong, Peter P Jones, Andrea Koop, Lin Zhang, Henry J Duff and S.R. Wayne Chen

2 June 2008

Activation of NADPH oxidase 1 in tumor colon epithelial cell

Yukio Nisimoto, Ryoko Tsubouchi, Becky A. Diebold, Shanlou Qiao, Hisamitsu Ogawa, Takuya Ohara and Minoru Tamura

Downregulation of hepatic nuclear factor 4α on expression of human hepatic stimulator substance via its action on the proximal promoter in HepG2 cells

Duo Guo, Ling-yue Dong, Yuan Wu, Lin Yang and Wei An

30 May 2008

Localization and characterization of the novel protein encoded by C20orf3

Aysegul Ilhan, Wolfgang Gartner, Anastasiya Nabokikh, Teodora Daneva, Otto Majdic, Gerald Cohen, Georg A. Böhmig, Wolfgang Base, Walter H. Hörl and Ludwig Wagner

Modulation of hepatocyte nuclear factor-4α function by the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator-1α in the acute phase response

Zhongyan Wang and Peter A. Burke

27 May 2008

Regulation of a Drosophila cGMP-PDE by prenylation and interaction with a prenyl-binding protein

Jonathan P Day, Vaughn Cleghon, Miles Douglas Houslay and Shireen A. Davies

23 May 2008

Molecular basis of the substrate specificity and the catalytic mechanism of citramalate synthase from Leptospira interrogans

Jun Ma, Peng Zhang, Zilong Zhang, Manwu Zha, Hai Xu, Guoping Zhao and Jianping Ding

Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase A overexpression induces cytoskeletal re-organization and increases migration via a kinase-independent mechanism

Sabine Windhorst, Christine Blechner, Hong-Ying Lin, Christian Elling, Marcus Nalaskowski, Tanja Kirchberger, Andreas H Guse and Georg W Mayr

Acellular hemoglobin attenuates hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1α) and its target genes in hemodiluted rats

Dominador J Manalo, Paul W Buehler, Jin Hyen Baek, Omer Butt, Felice D Agnillo and Abdu I Alayash

22 May 2008

A chemical screen in diverse breast cancer cell lines reveals genetic enhancers and suppressors of sensitivity to PI3K isotype-selective inhibition.

Neil E Torbett, Antonio Luna, Zachary A Knight, Andrew Houk, Mark Moasser, William Weiss, Kevan M Shokat and David Stokoe

Regulation of Nedd4-2 self-ubiquitylation and stability by a PY motif located within its HECT-domain

Christine Bruce, Voula Kanelis, Fatemeh Fouladkou, Anne Debonneville, Olivier Staub and Daniela Rotin

Transaldolase deficiency influences the pentose phosphate pathway, mitochondrial homeostasis, and apoptosis signal processing

Yueming Qian, Sanjay Banerjee, Craig E Grossman, Wendy Amidon, Gyorgy Nagy, Maureen Barcza, Brian Niland, David R. Karp, Frank Middleton, Katalin Banki and Andras Perl

In vivo modular control analysis of energy metabolism in contracting skeletal muscle

Laurent M Arsac, Christophe Beuste, Sylvain Miraux, Veronique Deschodt-Arsac, Eric Thiaudière, Jean-Michel Franconi and Philippe H Diolez

The crucial role of the carboxyl terminus of PTEN in antagonizing NEDD4-1-mediated PTEN ubiquitination and degradation

Xinjiang Wang, Yuji Shi, Junru Wang, Guochang Huang and Xuejun Jiang

21 May 2008

Critical roles of actin-interacting protein 1 in cytokinesis and chemotactic migration of mammalian cells

Asuka Kato, Souichi Kurita, Aya Hayashi, Noriko Kaji, Kazumasa Ohashi and Kensaku Mizuno

20 May 2008

Biochemical characterisation of the initial steps of the kennedy pathway in Trypanosoma brucei - the ethanolamine and choline kinases

Federica Gibellini, William N Hunter and Terry K Smith

Dissecting isoform selectivity of PI3 kinase inhibitors. The role of non-conserved residues in the catalytic pocket

Mark Frazzetto, Cenk Suphioglu, Jiuxiang Zhu, Oleg Schmidt-Kittler, Ian G Jennings, Susan L Cranmer, Shaun P Jackson, Kenneth W Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein and Philip Evan Thompson

19 May 2008

Evolving improved Synechococcus Rubisco functional expression in Escherichia coli

Oliver Mueller-Cajar and Spencer Whitney

16 May 2008

Assembly of a membrane receptor complex: roles of the uroplakin II prosequence in regulating uroplakin bacterial receptor oligomerization

Chih-Chi Andrew Hu, Thomas Bachmann, Ge Zhou, Feng-Xia Liang, Jorge Ghiso, Gert Kreibich and Tung-Tien Sun

14 May 2008

A ternary complex of Hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA Hydratase-Lyase (HCHL) with acetyl-Coenzyme A and vanillin gives insights into substrate specificity and mechanism.

Joseph P. Bennett, Lucille Bertin, Benjamin Moulton, Ian J.S. Fairlamb, A. Marek Brzozowski, Nicholas J. Walton and Gideon Grogan

A dileucine signal situated in the C-terminal tail of the lysosomal membrane protein p40 is responsible for its targeting to lysosomes

Marielle Boonen, Roberta Rezende de Castro, Gaëlle Cuvelier, Isabelle Hamer and Michel Jadot

Significance of α-Crystallin Heteropolymer with 3:1 αA to αB ratio: Chaperone-like Activity, Structure and Hydrophobicity

PNBS Srinivas, P. Yadagiri Reddy and G. Bhanuprakash Reddy

13 May 2008

The HIV-1 p6/EIAV p9 docking site in Alix is autoinhibited as revealed by a conformation-sensitive anti-Alix monoclonal antibody

Xi Zhou, Shujuan Pan, Le Sun, Joe Corvera, Sue-Hwa Lin and Jian Kuang

12 May 2008

Two zinc finger transcription factors, CrzA and SltA, are involved in cation homeostasis and detoxification in Aspergillus nidulans

Anja Spielvogel, Helen Findon, Herbert N. Arst, Jr., Lidia Araújo-Bazán, Patricia Hernández-Ortíz, Ulf Stahl, Vera Meyer and Eduardo A. Espeso

The dimeric form of Ca²⁺-ATPase is involved in Ca²⁺-transport in the sarcoplasmic reticulum

Makoto Ushimaru and Yoshihiro Fukushima

8 May 2008

Mutation of Trp 29 of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 alters affinity for coronary vasodilator drugs and nucleoside selectivity

Robert J. Paproski, Frank Visser, Jing Zhang, Tracey Tackaberry, Vijaya Damaraju, Steve A Baldwin, James D. Young and Carol E. Cass

7 May 2008

The presence of an ER exit signal determines the protein sorting upon ER exit in yeast

Reika Watanabe, Guillaume A. Castillon, Anja Meury and Howard Riezman

HOSCN is a more potent inducer of apoptosis and protein thiol depletion in murine macrophage cells than HOCl or HOBr

Mitchell M Lloyd, David M van Reyk, Michael J Davies and Clare L Hawkins

Identification of essential amino acid residues in a sterol 8,7-isomerase from Zea mays reveals functional homology and diversity with the isomerases of animal and fungi origin

Alain Rahier, Sylvain Pierre, Geneviève Riveill and Francis Karst

25 April 2008

Contribution of Yap1 towards S. cerevisiae adaptation to arsenic mediated oxidative stress

Regina A Menezes, Catarina Amaral, Liliana Batista-Nascimento, Claudia Santos, Ricardo Boavida Ferreira, Fréderic Devaux, Elis C.A. Eleutherio and Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada

24 April 2008

SOX9 transduction increases chondroitin sulphate synthesis in cultured human articular chondrocytes without altering glycosyltransferase and sulfotransferase transcription

Simon R Tew, Peraphan Pothacharoen, Theoni Katopodi and Timothy E Hardingham

15 April 2008

An amino acid at position 142 in nitrilase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous ATCC 33278 determines the substrate specificity for aliphatic and aromatic nitriles

Soo-Jin Yeom, Hye-Jung Kim, Jung-Kul Lee, Dong-Eun Kim and Deok-Kun Oh