Late June 2009 papers

I am so slow this month. Hmmm, I spent almost all my free time looking for stuffs we want to buy before EOF. I will try to catch up.

GFP: Lighting up life, Martin Chalfie, PNAS 106(25):10073-10080.

Starch as a major integrator in the regulation of plant growth, Ronan Sulpice, Eva-Theresa Pyl, Hirofumi Ishihara, et. al., PNAS 106(25):10348-10353.

Elimination of antiviral defense by viral RNase III, Wilmer J. Cuellar, Jan F. Kreuze, Minna-Liisa Rajamäki, Karin R. Cruzado, Milton Untiveros, and Jari P. T. Valkonen, PNAS 106(25):10354-10358

A common toxin fold mediates microbial attack and plant defense, Christian Ottmann, Borries Luberacki, et. al., PNAS 106(25):10359-10364.

Green jobs growing, but destroying others? Karen Kaplan, Nature 459:1156.

Antibiotics in Nature: Beyond Biological Warfare, Science 324(5935):1637 - 1639.
A body of evidence emerges that the infection-quelling miracle drugs of biomedicine play more basic roles in the metabolism of microbial communities.

Seeing Green and Red in Diatom Genomes, T. Dagan and W. Martin, Science 324(5935):1651 - 1652.
Diatom genomes contain remnants of both green and red algal genomes, hinting at a complex evolutionary past.

Auxin at the Evo-Devo Intersection, William E. Friedman, Science 324(5935):1652 - 1653.
The female gametophyte of flowering plants may have evolved through iteration of a modular structure and a gradient of the hormone auxin.

Identification of the Arabidopsis dry2/sqe1-5 mutant reveals a central role for sterols in drought tolerance and regulation of reactive oxygen species, David Posé, Itziar Castanedo, Omar Borsani, Benjamín Nieto, Abel Rosado, Ludivine Taconnat, Albert Ferrer, Liam Dolan, Victoriano Valpuesta, Miguel A. Botella, The Plant Journal 59(1):63 - 76.

Transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana fluorescent marker lines provides enhanced definition of protein localization, movement and interactions in planta, Kathleen Martin, Kristin Kopperud, Romit Chakrabarty, Rituparna Banerjee, Robert Brooks, Michael M. Goodin, The Plant Journal 59(1):150-162.

Arabidopsis RNA immunoprecipitation, Lionel C. Terzi, Gordon G Simpson, The Plant Journal 59(1): 163-168.

Rapid, combinatorial analysis of membrane compartments in intact plants with a multicolor marker set, Niko Geldner, Valérie Dénervaud-Tendon, Derek L. Hyman, Ulrike Mayer, York-Dieter Stierhof, Joanne Chory, The Plant Journal 59(1):169-178.

Limitations and possibilities of small RNA digital gene expression profiling, Sam E V Linsen, Elzo de Wit, Georges Janssens, Sheila Heater, Laura Chapman, Rachael K Parkin, Brian Fritz, Stacia K Wyman, Ewart de Bruijn, Emile E Voest, Scott Kuersten, Muneesh Tewari and Edwin Cuppen, Nature Methods 6(7):474 - 476

RNAiCut: automated detection of significant genes from functional genomic screens, Irene M Kaplow, Rohit Singh, Adam Friedman, Chris Bakal, Norbert Perrimon and Bonnie Berger, Nature Methods 6(7):476 - 477

Genomics: catch me if you can, Nathan Blow, Nature Methods 6(7):539 - 544.
Next-generation sequencing has made decoding entire genomes cheaper and faster. But what about those researchers who only want to sequence a small section of a genome or focus on a couple thousand specific exons? A wave of new technologies has recently emerged that should help these scientists target their sequencing efforts to sequences of interest.