EDITOR PICKS - EMBO PUBLICATIONS
In each issue of EMBOencounters, the editors of The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports and Molecular Systems Biology highlight particularly interesting papers.

THE EMBO JOURNAL

EMBO reports

Molecular Systems Biology

research articles

Regulation of endocytic recycling by C. elegans Rab35 and its regulator RME-4, a coated-pit protein
Sato M, Sato K, Liou W, Pant S, Harada A, Grant BD
EMBO J 27(8): 1183 –1196

VE-cadherin is a critical endothelial
regulator of TGF-β signalling

Rudini N, Felici A, Giampietro C, Lampugnani M, Corada M, Swirsding K, Garrè M, Liebner S, Letarte M, ten Dijke P, Dejana E
EMBO J 27(7): 993 –1004

ShcA signalling is essential for tumour progression in mouse models of human breast cancer
Ursini-Siegel J, Hardy WR, Zuo D, Lam SH, Sanguin-Gendreau V, Cardiff RD, Pawson T, Muller WJ
EMBO J 27(6): 910 – 920

TLC1 RNA nucleo-cytoplasmic traffi cking links telomerase biogenesis to its recruitment to telomeres
Gallardo F, Olivier C, Dandjinou AT, Wellinger RJ, Chartrand P
EMBO J 27(5): 748 –757

The mammalian formin FHOD1 is activated through phosphorylation by ROCK and mediates thrombin-induced stress fibre formation in endothelial cells
Takeya R, Taniguchi K, Narumiya S,
Sumimoto H
EMBO J 27(4): 618 – 628

Cohesins localize with CTCF at the KSHV latency control region and at cellular c-myc and H19/Igf2 insulators
Stedman W, Kang H, Lin S, Kissil JL, Bartolomei MS, Lieberman PM
EMBO J 27(4): 654 – 666

science & society


How do we ask for money? A view of funding for basic research
Schvartzman J-M & Schvartzman J-B
EMBO rep 9: 216 – 220

A question of method. The ethics of managing conflicts of interest
Hurst SA & Mauron A
EMBO rep 9: 119 – 123

reviews


ChIPping away at gene regulation

Massie CE & Mills IG
EMBO rep 9: 337 – 343

Second meiotic arrest and exit in frogs and mice
Perry ACF & Verlhac M-H
EMBO rep 9: 246 – 251

scientific reports

Enzyme structural plasticity and the emergence of broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance
Maurice F, Broutin I, Podglajen I, Benas P, Collatz E, Dardel F
EMBO rep 9: 344 – 349

Lentivector-mediated rescue from cerebellar ataxia in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia
Torashima T, Koyama C, Iizuka A, Mitsumura K, Takayama K, Yanagi S, Oue M, Yamaguchi H, Hirai H
EMBO rep 9: 393 – 399


review

Theoretical and experimental approaches to understand morphogen gradients
Ibañes M & Izpisúa-Belmonte JC
Molecular Systems Biology 4:176
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.14

reports

A synthetic Escherichia coli predator – prey ecosystem
Balagaddé FK, Song H, Ozaki J, Collins CH, Barnet M, Arnold FH, Quake SR, You L
Molecular Systems Biology 4: 187
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.24

Ultrasensitive gene regulation by positive feedback loops in nucleosome modifi cation
Sneppen K, Micheelsen MA, Dodd IB
Molecular Systems Biology 4:182
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.21

research articles

Probiotic modulation of symbiotic gut microbial–host metabolic interactions in a humanized microbiome mouse model
Martin F-PJ, Wang Y, Sprenger N, Yap IKS, Lundstedt T, Lek P, Rezzi S, Ramadan Z, van Bladeren P, Fay LB, Kochhar S, Lindon JC, Holmes E, Nicholson JK
Molecular Systems Biology 4: 157
doi:10.1038/msb4100190

Genomic analysis of estrogen cascade reveals histone variant H2A. Z associated with breast cancer progression
Hua S, Kallen CB, Dhar R, Baquero MT, Mason CE, Russell BA, Shah PK, Liu J, Khramtsov A, Tretiakova MS, Krausz TN, Olopade OI, Rimm DL, White KP
Molecular Systems Biology 4: 188
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.25

 

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