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In order to make the editorial process more understandable and transparent, the online supplement of all articles published in The EMBO Journal now contains a transcript of reviewer comments, editor's letters, and author responses connected to the respective manuscript. For interesting examples of a constructive review process and/or good discussion, take a look at the Review Process Files for Liu et al., Bhatia et al., Quian et al. or Azar et al.!
You can further find updated statistics on overall timings and manuscript flow in 2008 as well as the results of a new retrospective analysis of the fate of manuscripts submitted to and rejected by The EMBO Journal in 2007.
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Top of pageOncogene and tumour suppressor: the two faces of SnoN
SnoN is known to function as an oncogene and as a repressor of TGFβ/Smad signalling. A study in this issue of The EMBO Journal now reveals that SnoN can also work as a tumour suppressor, independent of its role in Smad signalling.
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- 26 November 2009
Structural insights into the dual nucleotide exchange and GDI displacement activity of SidM/DrrA
The recent discovery of microbial effectors with both GEF and GDI displacement activity for Rab proteins has added another layer of complexity to small GTPase regulation. A structural study by Oh and colleagues now offers first insights into how one such effector may actually exert these dual roles.
Analysis of small RNA in fission yeast; centromeric siRNAs are potentially generated through a structured RNA
Ekwall and colleagues report high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs from S. pombe, known to be involved in centromeric heterochromatin formation in this organism. This analysis shows that siRNAs arise mainly from well-conserved sequences within the centromeric repeats, and further suggests that they are generated by dicer-mediated cleavage of a double-stranded secondary structure formed by the reverse transcript, implying a pathway independent of heterochromatin, RITS and Rdp1 activity.
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Web Focus Collections
Top of pageThe Middle & The End
This is a 2009 review series containing nine articles on different aspects of the most distinctive regions of eukaryotic chromosomes, centromeres and telomeres.
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Quality control in an unreliable world
This 2008 collection of eight review articles highlights different aspects of cellular quality control and their potential relevance for human diseases.
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Let's go to the movies
This review series highlights imaging of biological membranes, the dynamics of protein structure, gene expression, cell polarity and cell migration — accompanied by a selection of movies from our archive, linked to the articles in which they originally appeared.
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From the organization that brings you The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports provides sharply focused short papers and review articles in all areas of molecular biology.
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Molecular Systems Biology
Molecular Systems Biology is an open access online only journal covering all aspects of the rapidly growing and interdisciplinary field of systems biology at the molecular levels.
