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Small Phytoplankton and Carbon Export from the Surface Ocean
Tammi L. Richardson and George A. Jackson
Science 9 February 2007: 838-840.
Abundant picoplankton, thought to be too small to settle in the ocean, actually contribute to the flux of carbon to the depths in an amount proportional to their production.
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Integration of TGF-ß and Ras/MAPK Signaling Through p53 Phosphorylation
Michelangelo Cordenonsi, Marco Montagner, Maddalena Adorno, Luca Zacchigna, Graziano Martello, Anant Mamidi, Sandra Soligo, Sirio Dupont, and Stefano Piccolo
Science 9 February 2007: 840-843.
Published online 18 January 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1135961] (in Science Express Reports)
Two prominent signaling pathways important for cell growth and development intersect at a common tumor suppressor, p53.
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Structure of the Prefusion Form of the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Glycoprotein G
Stéphane Roche, Félix A. Rey, Yves Gaudin, and Stéphane Bressanelli
Science 9 February 2007: 843-848.
Despite the reversibility of the process, the protein that fuses rabies-like viruses with cell membranes during infection undergoes a dramatic reorganization upon fusion.
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Relative Impact of Nucleotide and Copy Number Variation on Gene Expression Phenotypes
Barbara E. Stranger, Matthew S. Forrest, Mark Dunning, Catherine E. Ingle, Claude Beazley, Natalie Thorne, Richard Redon, Christine P. Bird, Anna de Grassi, Charles Lee, Chris Tyler-Smith, Nigel Carter, Stephen W. Scherer, Simon Tavaré, Panagiotis Deloukas, Matthew E. Hurles, and Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Science 9 February 2007: 848-853.
Variation in gene expression among humans is caused by differences in single nucleotides as well as in the number of copies of genes.
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Evidence That Focal Adhesion Complexes Power Bacterial Gliding Motility
Tâm Mignot, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Patricia L. Hartzell, and David R. Zusman
Science 9 February 2007: 853-856.
Unexpectedly, bacteria can move as eukaryotes do, by adhering to the surface via transient adhesion sites that continually replenish at the forward end.
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Apoptosis Initiated When BH3 Ligands Engage Multiple Bcl-2 Homologs, Not Bax or Bak
Simon N. Willis, Jamie I. Fletcher, Thomas Kaufmann, Mark F. van Delft, Lin Chen, Peter E. Czabotar, Helen Ierino, Erinna F. Lee, W. Douglas Fairlie, Philippe Bouillet, Andreas Strasser, Ruth M. Kluck, Jerry M. Adams, and David C. S. Huang
Science 9 February 2007: 856-859.
Two cell death-related proteins need to be constantly inhibited by prosurvival proteins to prevent death by default in human cells.
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CPD Damage Recognition by Transcribing RNA Polymerase II
Florian Brueckner, Ulrich Hennecke, Thomas Carell, and Patrick Cramer
Science 9 February 2007: 859-862.
The damage induced in DNA by ultraviolet light causes transcribing polymerase to insert uridine, an abnormal nucleotide, halting progress and initiating DNA repair.
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Antennal Mechanosensors Mediate Flight Control in Moths
Sanjay P. Sane, Alexandre Dieudonné, Mark A. Willis, and Thomas L. Daniel
Science 9 February 2007: 863-866.
Moths' antennae detect rotational motion and relay this mechanosensory input to neural centers to maintain stability during flight.
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Technical Comments
Comment on "Obestatin, a Peptide Encoded by the Ghrelin Gene, Opposes Ghrelin's Effects on Food Intake"
N. Chartrel, R. Alvear-Perez, J. Leprince, X. Iturrioz, A. Reaux-Le Goazigo, V. Audinot, P. Chomarat, F. Coge, O. Nosjean, M. Rodriguez, J. P. Galizzi, J. A. Boutin, H. Vaudry, and C. Llorens-Cortes
Science 9 February 2007: 766.
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Response to Comment on "Obestatin, a Peptide Encoded by the Ghrelin Gene, Opposes Ghrelin's Effects on Food Intake"
Jian V. Zhang, Cynthia Klein, Pei-Gen Ren, Stefan Kass, Luc Ver Donck, Dieder Moechars, and Aaron J. W. Hsueh
Science 9 February 2007: 766.
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