| Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser. | | | | Volume 482 Number 7385 | | | nature | | The science that matters. Every week. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | GRANT Staying on the cutting edge is all about collaboration. That's why Expression Analysis & Illumina have combined forces to help fuel your research - 3 FULLY-FUNDED RNA-Seq Studies and data analysis at no cost to you. Apply on-line today or call 919-405-2248 * 866-293-6094. | | | | | | | | |
| Jump to the content that matters to you | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts | A screen of 700 yeast strains collected from the wild reveals the presence of natural prions in one third of them. Many endow their hosts with beneficial traits. This means that suggestions that fungal prions might be little more than rare laboratory 'diseases' are wide of the mark. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AIMResearch - Highlighting the latest research from the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan Latest highlights: Thin films: Modulating magnetism | Micromirrors: Metallic glasses begin to shine | Nanoclusters: Steel that breaks the rules | In the spotlight: Materials research like none other (interview) Register today for monthly email alerts and never miss the latest in materials research from the WPI-AIMR! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In this week's podcast: evolution spins into reverse, light echoes spotted from a long-exploded star, and prion proteins show us their useful side. | | | | | | | Specials - Insight: Regulatory RNA | | | | The four specially commissioned reviews in this Nature Insight examine the properties and possible functions of the many non-coding RNAs found in living cells. ▼ more | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Worldwide weapons ▶ | | | Progress towards a United Nations arms-trade treaty is encouraging, but it won't keep weapons out of the hands of human-rights abusers. | | | | | | | | Tough choices ▶ | | | Scientists must find ways to make more efficient use of funds — or politicians may do it for them. | | | | | | | | On the up ▶ | | | The soaring incidence of diabetes is driving the United Arab Emirates' science ambitions. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seven days: 10–16 February 2012 ▶ | | | The week in science: Europe's Vega rocket launches; US approves first new nuclear reactors for three decades; and this year's schedule for the Large Hadron Collider is announced. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prions and chaperones: Outside the fold ▶ | | | Susan Lindquist has challenged conventional thinking on how misfolded proteins drive disease and may power evolution. But she still finds that criticism stings. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Q&A: Transgene curator ▶ | | | Next month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, artist Richard Pell opens the Center for PostNatural History — a museum of bioengineered organisms. He talks about the joys and pitfalls involved in collecting genetically modified maize, mosquitoes and zebrafish. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Regulatory RNA ▶ | | | Angela K. Eggleston, Alex Eccleston, Barbara Marte & Claudia Lupp | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Don't Miss Out! Are you holding the key to a research breakthrough? $3 Million in funding now available in the following areas: -Development of therapeutics that target specific B cell lineages involved in MS pathology -Identification of surrogate or endogenous ligands for Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors(GPCRs) in the CNS Proposals due by May 1, 2012. www.fastforward.org | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clonal selection drives genetic divergence of metastatic medulloblastoma ▶ | | | Xiaochong Wu, Paul A. Northcott, Adrian Dubuc, Adam J. Dupuy, David J. H. Shih et al. | | | In a mouse model and in human medulloblastoma patients, the metastases in an individual have similar genomic alterations and DNA methylation patterns, but these patterns are highly divergent from those of the primary tumour, indicating that therapies will need to be tailored to fit the molecular alterations present in the primary tumour and/or the metastases. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Structural basis for iron piracy by pathogenic Neisseria ▶ | | | Nicholas Noinaj, Nicole C. Easley, Muse Oke, Naoko Mizuno, James Gumbart et al. | | | Structural analysis reveals the iron scavenging mechanism used by Neisseria species, involving TbpA and TbpB proteins, and sheds light on how human transferrin is specifically targeted. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eutrophication causes speciation reversal in whitefish adaptive radiations ▶ | | | P. Vonlanthen, D. Bittner, A. G. Hudson, K. A. Young, R. Müller et al. | | | Historical and contemporary data of whitefish radiations from pre-alpine European lakes and reconstruction of changes in whitefish genetic species differentiation through time show that species diversity may have evolved in response to ecological opportunity, and that eutrophication, by diminishing this opportunity, has driven extinctions through speciation reversal and demographic decline. | | | | | | | | Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts ▶ | | | Randal Halfmann, Daniel F. Jarosz, Sandra K. Jones, Amelia Chang, Alex K. Lancaster et al. | | | Previously thought to be rare laboratory artefacts or diseases of yeast, prions are actually found in one third of 700 wild strains; the prions give their hosts beneficial traits that can be transmitted epigenetically to the next generation, and then fixed in the genome. | | | | | | | | Crystal structure of the channelrhodopsin light-gated cation channel ▶ | | | Hideaki E. Kato, Feng Zhang, Ofer Yizhar, Charu Ramakrishnan, Tomohiro Nishizawa et al. | | | Channelrhodopsins are light-gated cation channels used in optogenetics; here, the high-resolution crystal structure of a channelrhodopsin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is determined. | | | | | | | | DNase I sensitivity QTLs are a major determinant of human expression variation ▶ | | | Jacob F. Degner, Athma A. Pai, Roger Pique-Regi, Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Daniel J. Gaffney et al. | | | In human lymphoblastoid cell lines, 8,902 loci were identified at which genetic variation is significantly associated with local DNase I sensitivity; these variants are responsible for a large fraction of expression quantitative trait loci. | | | | | | | | Extrathymically generated regulatory T cells control mucosal TH2 inflammation ▶ | | | Steven Z. Josefowicz, Rachel E. Niec, Hye Young Kim, Piper Treuting, Takatoshi Chinen et al. | | | Selective impairment of peripheral regulatory T-cell differentiation is found to result in spontaneous allergic TH2-type inflammation in the intestine and lungs, demonstrating the functional heterogeneity of regulatory T cells generated in the thymus and extrathymically in controlling immune mediated inflammation and disease. | | | | | | | | | | | Expression of tumour-specific antigens underlies cancer immunoediting ▶ | | | Michel DuPage, Claire Mazumdar, Leah M. Schmidt, Ann F. Cheung & Tyler Jacks | | | This paper illustrates that immunosurveillance and immunoediting can occur in an oncogene-driven endogenous tumour model provided that the tumours carry strong neoantigens not present in the host. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Structural basis for iron piracy by pathogenic Neisseria ▶ | | | Nicholas Noinaj, Nicole C. Easley, Muse Oke, Naoko Mizuno, James Gumbart et al. | | | Structural analysis reveals the iron scavenging mechanism used by Neisseria species, involving TbpA and TbpB proteins, and sheds light on how human transferrin is specifically targeted. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Brief Communications Arising | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eutrophication causes speciation reversal in whitefish adaptive radiations ▶ | | | P. Vonlanthen, D. Bittner, A. G. Hudson, K. A. Young, R. Müller et al. | | | Historical and contemporary data of whitefish radiations from pre-alpine European lakes and reconstruction of changes in whitefish genetic species differentiation through time show that species diversity may have evolved in response to ecological opportunity, and that eutrophication, by diminishing this opportunity, has driven extinctions through speciation reversal and demographic decline. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Brief Communications Arising | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Pediatric obesity highlights from International Journal of Obesity The International Journal of Obesity highlights a selection of featured articles by leading scientists and researchers that focus on the management, complications, and epidemiology of pediatric obesity. These pediatric obesity highlight issues are published quarterly in both print and online. Click here to check out the latest highlights. | | | | | | | | |
|
| | | | | | | | | Funding: Got to get a grant ▶ | | | A great idea will get applicants only so far. But there are other strategies that can add to the chances of success. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Careers related news & comment | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter. | | | | | | | • Nature events featured events | | | | | | natureevents featured events | | | | | | | Nature events is the premier resource for scientists looking for the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia. Featured across Nature Publishing Group journals and centrally at natureevents.com it is an essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Your email address is in the Nature mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact subscriptions@nature.com For other enquiries, please contact feedback@nature.com | Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA
Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC
Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2012 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment