30 November 2008

Letters

The dynein regulatory complex is required for ciliary motility and otolith biogenesis in the inner ear

Jessica R. Colantonio, Julien Vermot, David Wu, Adam D. Langenbacher, Scott Fraser, Jau-Nian Chen & Kent L. Hill

doi:10.1038/nature07520

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Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry

Nels C. Elde, Stephanie J. Child, Adam P. Geballe & Harmit S. Malik

doi:10.1038/nature07529

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Discovery of a sexual cycle in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

Céline M. O'Gorman, Hubert T. Fuller & Paul S. Dyer

doi:10.1038/nature07528

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MicroRNA-21 contributes to myocardial disease by stimulating MAP kinase signalling in fibroblasts

Thomas Thum, Carina Gross, Jan Fiedler, Thomas Fischer, Stephan Kissler, Markus Bussen, Paolo Galuppo, Steffen Just, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Stefan Frantz, Mirco Castoldi, Jürgen Soutschek, Victor Koteliansky, Andreas Rosenwald, M. Albert Basson, Jonathan D. Licht, John T. R. Pena, Sara H. Rouhanifard, Martina U. Muckenthaler, Thomas Tuschl, Gail R. Martin, Johann Bauersachs & Stefan Engelhardt

doi:10.1038/nature07511

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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady, Tanya Yatsunenko, Brandi L. Cantarel, Alexis Duncan, Ruth E. Ley, Mitchell L. Sogin, William J. Jones, Bruce A. Roe, Jason P. Affourtit, Michael Egholm, Bernard Henrissat, Andrew C. Heath, Rob Knight & Jeffrey I. Gordon

doi:10.1038/nature07540

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26 November 2008

Letters

Major gradients in putatively nitrifying and non-nitrifying Archaea in the deep North Atlantic

Hélène Agogué, Maaike Brink, Julie Dinasquet & Gerhard J. Herndl

doi:10.1038/nature07535

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Nuclear receptor corepressor and histone deacetylase 3 govern circadian metabolic physiology

Theresa Alenghat, Katherine Meyers, Shannon E. Mullican, Kirstin Leitner, Adetoun Adeniji-Adele, Jacqueline Avila, Maja Buan, Rexford S. Ahima, Klaus H. Kaestner & Mitchell A. Lazar

doi:10.1038/nature07541

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Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon

Bastien Boussau, Samuel Blanquart, Anamaria Necsulea, Nicolas Lartillot & Manolo Gouy

doi:10.1038/nature07393

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Role for Spi-C in the development of red pulp macrophages and splenic iron homeostasis

Masako Kohyama, Wataru Ise, Brian T. Edelson, Peter R. Wilker, Kai Hildner, Carlo Mejia, William A. Frazier, Theresa L. Murphy & Kenneth M. Murphy

doi:10.1038/nature07472

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Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms

Adrian Marchetti, Micaela S. Parker, Lauren P. Moccia, Ellen O. Lin, Angele L. Arrieta, Francois Ribalet, Michael E. P. Murphy, Maria T. Maldonado & E. Virginia Armbrust

doi:10.1038/nature07539

• PDB code

  • 3E6R
  • 3E6S

• 3D view

  • 3E6R
  • 3E6S

First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (476K) | Supplementary information

23 November 2008

Letters

Analysis of combinatorial cis-regulation in synthetic and genomic promoters

Jason Gertz, Eric D. Siggia & Barak A. Cohen

doi:10.1038/nature07521

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Dynamics of DNA replication loops reveal temporal control of lagging-strand synthesis

Samir M. Hamdan, Joseph J. Loparo, Masateru Takahashi, Charles C. Richardson & Antoine M. van Oijen

doi:10.1038/nature07512

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Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction

Adam C. Martin, Matthias Kaschube & Eric F. Wieschaus

doi:10.1038/nature07522

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Altered circadian rhythms regulate growth vigour in hybrids and allopolyploids

Zhongfu Ni, Eun-Deok Kim, Misook Ha, Erika Lackey, Jianxin Liu, Yirong Zhang, Qixin Sun & Z. Jeffrey Chen

doi:10.1038/nature07523

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19 November 2008

Article

The replisome uses mRNA as a primer after colliding with RNA polymerase

Richard T. Pomerantz & Mike O'Donnell

doi:10.1038/nature07527

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Letters

Successful range-expanding plants experience less above-ground and below-ground enemy impact

Tim Engelkes, Elly Morriën, Koen J. F. Verhoeven, T. Martijn Bezemer, Arjen Biere, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Lauren M. McIntyre, Wil L. M. Tamis & Wim H. van der Putten

doi:10.1038/nature07474

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Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data

Jeremy Ginsberg, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Rajan S. Patel, Lynnette Brammer, Mark S. Smolinski & Larry Brilliant

doi:10.1038/nature07634

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Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes

Yan Karklin & Michael S. Lewicki

doi:10.1038/nature07481

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Frequent in-frame somatic deletions activate gp130 in inflammatory hepatocellular tumours

Sandra Rebouissou, Mohamed Amessou, Gabrielle Couchy, Karine Poussin, Sandrine Imbeaud, Camilla Pilati, Tina Izard, Charles Balabaud, Paulette Bioulac-Sage & Jessica Zucman-Rossi

doi:10.1038/nature07475

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16 November 2008

Letters

Suppression of Myc oncogenic activity by ribosomal protein haploinsufficiency

Maria Barna, Aya Pusic, Ornella Zollo, Maria Costa, Nadya Kondrashov, Eduardo Rego, Pulivarthi H. Rao & Davide Ruggero

doi:10.1038/nature07449

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Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis

Jiyun V. Kim, Silvia S. Kang, Michael L. Dustin & Dorian B. McGavern

doi:10.1038/nature07591

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Low conservation of gene content in the Drosophila Y chromosome

Leonardo B. Koerich, Xiaoyun Wang, Andrew G. Clark & Antonio Bernardo Carvalho

doi:10.1038/nature07463

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Structural recognition and functional activation of FcR by innate pentraxins

Jinghua Lu, Lorraine L. Marnell, Kristopher D. Marjon, Carolyn Mold, Terry W. Du Clos & Peter D. Sun

doi:10.1038/nature07468

• PDB code

  • 3D5O

• 3D view

  • 3D5O

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Highly efficient molybdenum-based catalysts for enantioselective alkene metathesis

Steven J. Malcolmson, Simon J. Meek, Elizabeth S. Sattely, Richard R. Schrock & Amir H. Hoveyda

doi:10.1038/nature07594

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12 November 2008

Letters

Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits

Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer & Mark Hübener

doi:10.1038/nature07487

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Regulation of ERBB2 by oestrogen receptor–PAX2 determines response to tamoxifen

Antoni Hurtado, Kelly A. Holmes, Timothy R. Geistlinger, Iain R. Hutcheson, Robert I. Nicholson, Myles Brown, Jie Jiang, William J. Howat, Simak Ali & Jason S. Carroll

doi:10.1038/nature07483

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Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird

Georg B. Keller & Richard H. R. Hahnloser

doi:10.1038/nature07467

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Memory CD8 T-cell compartment grows in size with immunological experience

Vaiva Vezys, Andrew Yates, Kerry A. Casey, Gibson Lanier, Rafi Ahmed, Rustom Antia & David Masopust

doi:10.1038/nature07486

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09 November 2008

Letters

A role for VEGF as a negative regulator of pericyte function and vessel maturation

Joshua I. Greenberg, David J. Shields, Samuel G. Barillas, Lisette M. Acevedo, Eric Murphy, Jianhua Huang, Lea Scheppke, Christian Stockmann, Randall S. Johnson, Niren Angle & David A. Cheresh

doi:10.1038/nature07424

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Immune control of an SIV challenge by a T-cell-based vaccine in rhesus monkeys

Jinyan Liu, Kara L. O'Brien, Diana M. Lynch, Nathaniel L. Simmons, Annalena La Porte, Ambryice M. Riggs, Peter Abbink, Rory T. Coffey, Lauren E. Grandpre, Michael S. Seaman, Gary Landucci, Donald N. Forthal, David C. Montefiori, Angela Carville, Keith G. Mansfield, Menzo J. Havenga, Maria G. Pau, Jaap Goudsmit & Dan H. Barouch

doi:10.1038/nature07469

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Role for perinuclear chromosome tethering in maintenance of genome stability

Karim Mekhail, Jan Seebacher, Steven P. Gygi & Danesh Moazed

doi:10.1038/nature07460

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Deletion of vascular endothelial growth factor in myeloid cells accelerates tumorigenesis

Christian Stockmann, Andrew Doedens, Alexander Weidemann, Na Zhang, Norihiko Takeda, Joshua I. Greenberg, David A. Cheresh & Randall S. Johnson

doi:10.1038/nature07445

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05 November 2008

Letters

X-ray structure of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in an apparently open conformation

Nicolas Bocquet, Hugues Nury, Marc Baaden, Chantal Le Poupon, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Marc Delarue & Pierre-Jean Corringer

doi:10.1038/nature07462

• PDB code

  • 3eam

• 3D view

  • 3eam

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X-ray structure of NS1 from a highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus

Zachary A. Bornholdt & B. V. Venkataram Prasad

doi:10.1038/nature07444

• PDB code

  • 3EU6

• 3D view

  • 3EU6

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WNT11 acts as a directional cue to organize the elongation of early muscle fibres

Jérôme Gros, Olivier Serralbo & Christophe Marcelle

doi:10.1038/nature07564

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Structure of a potentially open state of a proton-activated pentameric ligand-gated ion channel

Ricarda J. C. Hilf & Raimund Dutzler

doi:10.1038/nature07461

• PDB code

  • 3EHZ
  • 3EI0

• 3D view

  • 3EHZ
  • 3EI0

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G protein G_i functions immediately downstream of Smoothened in Hedgehog signalling

Stacey K. Ogden, Dennis Liang Fei, Neal S. Schilling, Yashi F. Ahmed, John Hwa & David J. Robbins

doi:10.1038/nature07459

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02 November 2008

Letters

A human natural killer cell subset provides an innate source of IL-22 for mucosal immunity

Marina Cella, Anja Fuchs, William Vermi, Fabio Facchetti, Karel Otero, Jochen K. M. Lennerz, Jason M. Doherty, Jason C. Mills & Marco Colonna

doi:10.1038/nature07537

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A structural explanation for the binding of endocytic dileucine motifs by the AP2 complex

Bernard T. Kelly, Airlie J. McCoy, Kira Späte, Sharon E. Miller, Philip R. Evans, Stefan Höning & David J. Owen

doi:10.1038/nature07422

• PDB code

  • 2jkr
  • 2jkt

• 3D view

  • 2jkr
  • 2jkt

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Coordinate control of synaptic-layer specificity and rhodopsins in photoreceptor neurons

Marta Morey, Susan K. Yee, Tory Herman, Aljoscha Nern, Enrique Blanco & S. Lawrence Zipursky

doi:10.1038/nature07419

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Temporal identity in axonal target layer recognition

Milan Petrovic & Thomas Hummel

doi:10.1038/nature07407

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29 October 2008

Article

Brain metabolism dictates the polarity of astrocyte control over arterioles

Grant R. J. Gordon, Hyun B. Choi, Ravi L. Rungta, Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies & Brian A. MacVicar

doi:10.1038/nature07525

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Letters

Incorporation of a non-human glycan mediates human susceptibility to a bacterial toxin

Emma Byres, Adrienne W. Paton, James C. Paton, Jonas C. Löfling, David F. Smith, Matthew C. J. Wilce, Ursula M. Talbot, Damien C. Chong, Hai Yu, Shengshu Huang, Xi Chen, Nissi M. Varki, Ajit Varki, Jamie Rossjohn & Travis Beddoe

doi:10.1038/nature07428

• PDB code

  • 3DWA
  • 3DWP
  • 3DWQ

• 3D view

  • 3DWA
  • 3DWP
  • 3DWQ

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The insect nephrocyte is a podocyte-like cell with a filtration slit diaphragm

Helen Weavers, Silvia Prieto-Sánchez, Ferdinand Grawe, Amparo Garcia-López, Ruben Artero, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Mar Ruiz-Gómez, Helen Skaer & Barry Denholm

doi:10.1038/nature07526

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26 October 2008

Letter

Generation of cell polarity in plants links endocytosis, auxin distribution and cell fate decisions

Pankaj Dhonukshe, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tatsuaki Goh, Kazuo Ebine, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Kalika Prasad, Ikram Blilou, Niko Geldner, Jian Xu, Tomohiro Uemura, Joanne Chory, Takashi Ueda, Akihiko Nakano, Ben Scheres & Jií Friml

doi:10.1038/nature07409

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22 October 2008

Letters

Transcription inactivation through local refolding of the RNA polymerase structure

Georgiy A. Belogurov, Marina N. Vassylyeva, Anastasiya Sevostyanova, James R. Appleman, Alan X. Xiang, Ricardo Lira, Stephen E. Webber, Sergiy Klyuyev, Evgeny Nudler, Irina Artsimovitch & Dmitry G. Vassylyev

doi:10.1038/nature07510

• PDB code

  • 3EQL

• 3D view

  • 3EQL

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Generation of a prostate from a single adult stem cell

Kevin G. Leong, Bu-Er Wang, Leisa Johnson & Wei-Qiang Gao

doi:10.1038/nature07427

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Experience with moving visual stimuli drives the early development of cortical direction selectivity

Ye Li, Stephen D. Van Hooser, Mark Mazurek, Leonard E. White & David Fitzpatrick

doi:10.1038/nature07417

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19 October 2008

Letters

Sox18 induces development of the lymphatic vasculature in mice

Mathias François, Andrea Caprini, Brett Hosking, Fabrizio Orsenigo, Dagmar Wilhelm, Catherine Browne, Karri Paavonen, Tara Karnezis, Ramin Shayan, Meredith Downes, Tara Davidson, Desmond Tutt, Kathryn S. E. Cheah, Steven A. Stacker, George E. O. Muscat, Marc G. Achen, Elisabetta Dejana & Peter Koopman

doi:10.1038/nature07391

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Strong effect of dispersal network structure on ecological dynamics

Matthew D. Holland & Alan Hastings

doi:10.1038/nature07395

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15 October 2008

Article

Centrosome misorientation reduces stem cell division during ageing

Jun Cheng, Nezaket Türkel, Nahid Hemati, Margaret T. Fuller, Alan J. Hunt & Yukiko M. Yamashita

doi:10.1038/nature07386

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Letter

Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons

Chet T. Moritz, Steve I. Perlmutter & Eberhard E. Fetz

doi:10.1038/nature07418

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12 October 2008

Letter

DNA double-strand breaks activate a multi-functional genetic program in developing lymphocytes

Andrea L. Bredemeyer, Beth A. Helmink, Cynthia L. Innes, Boris Calderon, Lisa M. McGinnis, Grace K. Mahowald, Eric J. Gapud, Laura M. Walker, Jennifer B. Collins, Brian K. Weaver, Laura Mandik-Nayak, Robert D. Schreiber, Paul M. Allen, Michael J. May, Richard S. Paules, Craig H. Bassing & Barry P. Sleckman

doi:10.1038/nature07392

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28 September 2008

Letter

The ectodomain of Toll-like receptor 9 is cleaved to generate a functional receptor

Sarah E. Ewald, Bettina L. Lee, Laura Lau, Katherine E. Wickliffe, Guo-Ping Shi, Harold A. Chapman & Gregory M. Barton

doi:10.1038/nature07405

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21 September 2008

Letter

The pectoral fin of Panderichthys and the origin of digits

Catherine A. Boisvert, Elga Mark-Kurik & Per E. Ahlberg

doi:10.1038/nature07339

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