Contents
Vol 6, Issue 302
Contents
Research Article
- Cytokinins Secreted by Agrobacterium Promote Transformation by Repressing a Plant Myb Transcription Factor
Natural bacterial cytokinins may help engineer crops with improved characteristics.
Research Resource
- Protein Interaction Network of the Mammalian Hippo Pathway Reveals Mechanisms of Kinase-Phosphatase Interactions
Phosphoprotein recognition directs kinase-phosphatase interactions at multiple levels in the mammalian Hippo pathway.
Perspective
- Hippo Unleashed! Proteome-Scale Analysis Reveals New Views of Hippo Pathway Biology
Three new studies elucidate the Hippo pathway protein interaction network.
Podcast
- Science Signaling Podcast: 19 November 2013
Bacterially produced cytokinins promote infection by repressing a transcription factor in host plants.
Editors' Choice
- What to Expect When Mom Is Infected
Maternal infection increases the number of neural progenitor cells in adult offspring.
- Programming Neuronal Regeneration
Nerve injury induces a calcium wave that evicts a histone deacetylase from the nucleus, enabling activation of a regenerative transcriptional program.
- Keeping Bone Where Bone Belongs
Activating or inactivating mutations in a Gαs can trigger inappropriate bone formation.
- Answers from Exomes
Gene sequencing of unrelated patients with recurrent airway infections identifies a common underlying mutation.
- Pseudosubstrate-Mediated Inhibition Promotes Migration
A motif in the cell adhesion molecule EpCAM inhibits novel PKCs by mimicking a substrate.
- Slipping the NET
Enzymes secreted by a bacterial pathogen turn immune responses against themselves.
- The Root of the Problem
Restrained growth of a key root tip region involves an interplay between hormonal activation and transcription factor levels.