Science Signaling Podcast: 17 February 2009

Tomoshige Kino¹ and Annalisa M. VanHook²

¹ Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA.

Abstract: This is a conversation with Tomoshige Kino, corresponding author of a Research Article published in the 10 February issue of Science Signaling. He discusses his group’s findings about how osmotic stress triggers expression of the genes required to restore osmotic balance in cells of the immune system.

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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Osmotic Stress
Brx Mediates the Response of Lymphocytes to Osmotic Stress Through the Activation of NFAT5

Tomoshige Kino, Hiroaki Takatori, Irini Manoli, Yonghong Wang, Anatoly Tiulpakov, Marc R. Blackman, Yan A. Su, George P. Chrousos, Alan H. DeCherney, and James H. Segars (10 February 2009)
Sci. Signal. 2 (57), ra5. [DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2000081]
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PERSPECTIVES
Cell Biology
A Scaffold Makes the Switch

Henrik G. Dohlman (21 October 2008)
Sci. Signal. 1 (42), pe46. [DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.142pe46]
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EDITORS' CHOICE
Cell Biology
How Yeast Responds to Change

L. Bryan Ray (29 January 2008)
Sci. Signal. 1 (4), ec39. [DOI: 10.1126/stke.14ec39]
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PERSPECTIVES
Microbiology
Osmosensing by Bacteria

Janet M. Wood (17 October 2006)
Sci. STKE 2006 (357), pe43. [DOI: 10.1126/stke.3572006pe43]
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EDITORS' CHOICE
Cell Biology
TAO2 Directs TAK1 to JNK

Nancy R. Gough (3 October 2006)
Sci. STKE 2006 (355), tw340. [DOI: 10.1126/stke.3552006tw340]
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