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Editorial

Thank you ! pE21

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e21


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Letters to Editor

Localizing the EGF receptor pE22

M. Oksvold, H. Huitfeldt, E. Stang & I. Madshus

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e22a


Localizing the EGF receptor - Reply ppE22 - E23

Lilly Bourguignon, Keng-hsueh Lan, Patrick Singleton, Shiaw-Yih Lin, Dihua Yu & Mien-Chie Hung

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e22b


Cells and gels pE23

Gerald H. Pollack

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e23


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Commentary

Limits to lifespan ppE25 - E27

Alison C. Lloyd

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e25

It has long-been accepted that normal somatic cells have intrinsic mechanisms that limit their proliferative lifespan. Recent work has now challenged this view by demonstrating that extrinsic factors might be determining proliferative potential.


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News and Views

Formin' actin filament bundles ppE29 - E30

Daniel J. Lew

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e29

The formin family of proteins have been implicated in regulation of cell polarity and cytoskeletal function in fungal and animal cells, but the manner in which they affect these processes has been mysterious. Two new studies report that formins in budding yeast are specifically required for the assembly of bundles of parallel actin filaments known as cables.


Hip, Hip, Hippi! pE30

Valerie Ferrier

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e30

See also: Article by Gervais et al.


Ignition of a cellular machine ppE31 - E33

Mara Kreishman-Deltrick & Michael K. Rosen

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e31

The Arp2/3 complex has emerged as a key regulator of signal-dependent changes in the actin cytoskeleton. Recent biochemical and structural studies provide a wealth of information about how the assembly is regulated by WASP family members and actin filaments, and raise important new questions about this cellular machine.


'Rab'ing up endosomal membrane transport ppE33 - E35

Magda Deneka & Peter van der Sluijs

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e33

Early endosomes are the first sorting station from which endocytosed materials are targeted to various intracellular destinations. Recent work has identified the FYVE-domain protein rabenosyn-5 as a bifunctional effector of the GTPases rab5 and rab4, physically connecting entry and recycling sites on early endosomes.

See also: Article by Paulson et al.


Proteomics of the nucleolus pE35

Alison Schuldt

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e35


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Book Reviews

The enfant terrible of genetics pE36

John White reviews My Life in Science by Sydney Brenner

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e36


Conditional truths pE37

Johan Paulsson reviews Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference by Bill Shipley

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e37


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Review

Establishing cell polarity in development ppE39 - E44

Andreas Wodarz

doi:10.1038/ncb0202-e39


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Articles

Recruitment and activation of caspase-8 by the Huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1 and a novel partner Hippi pp95 - 105

François G. Gervais, Roshni Singaraja, Steven Xanthoudakis, Claire-Anne Gutekunst, Blair R. Leavitt, Martina Metzler, Abigail S. Hackam, John Tam, John P. Vaillancourt, Vicky Houtzager, Dita M. Rasper, Sophie Roy, Michael R. Hayden & Donald W. Nicholson

doi:10.1038/ncb735

See also: News and Views by Ferrier


Metabolic-energy-dependent movement of PML bodies within the mammalian cell nucleus pp106 - 110

Masafumi Muratani, Daniel Gerlich, Susan M. Janicki, Matthias Gebhard, Roland Eils & David L. Spector

doi:10.1038/ncb740


Akt inhibits Myt1 in the signalling pathway that leads to meiotic G2/M-phase transition pp111 - 116

Eiichi Okumura, Takeshi Fukuhara, Hitoshi Yoshida, Shin-ichiro Hanada, Rie Kozutsumi, Masashi Mori, Kazunori Tachibana & Takeo Kishimoto

doi:10.1038/ncb741


A transmembrane ubiquitin ligase required to sort membrane proteins into multivesicular bodies pp117 - 123

Fulvio Reggiori & Hugh R. B. Pelham

doi:10.1038/ncb743


Divalent Rab effectors regulate the sub-compartmental organization and sorting of early endosomes pp124 - 133

Stefano De Renzis, Birte Sönnichsen & Marino Zerial

doi:10.1038/ncb744


Protein dislocation from the ER requires polyubiquitination and the AAA-ATPase Cdc48 pp134 - 139

Ernst Jarosch, Christof Taxis, Corinna Volkwein, Javier Bordallo, Daniel Finley, Dieter H. Wolf & Thomas Sommer

doi:10.1038/ncb746


IFN-Stimulated transcription through a TBP-free acetyltransferase complex escapes viral shutoff pp140 - 147

Matthew Paulson, Carolyn Press, Eric Smith, Naoko Tanese & David E. Levy

doi:10.1038/ncb747

See also: News and Views by Deneka & van der Sluijs


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Brief Communications

A functional screen identifies hDRIL1 as an oncogene that rescues RAS-induced senescence pp148 - 153

Daniel S. Peeper, Avi Shvarts, Thijn Brummelkamp, Sirith Douma, Eugene Y. Koh, George Q. Daley & René Bernards

doi:10.1038/ncb742


AP-4 binds basolateral signals and participates in basolateral sorting in epithelial MDCK cells pp154 - 159

Thomas Simmen, Stefan Höning, Ann Icking, Ritva Tikkanen & Walter Hunziker

doi:10.1038/ncb745


alpha-Synuclein is phosphorylated in synucleinopathy lesions pp160 - 164

Hideo Fujiwara, Masato Hasegawa, Naoshi Dohmae, Akiko Kawashima, Eliezer Masliah, Matthew S. Goldberg, Jie Shen, Koji Takio & Takeshi Iwatsubo

doi:10.1038/ncb748


Identification of Sef, a novel modulator of FGF signalling pp165 - 169

Michael Tsang, Robert Friesel, Tetsuhiro Kudoh & Igor B Dawid

doi:10.1038/ncb749


Sef is a feedback-induced antagonist of Ras/MAPK-mediated FGF signalling pp170 - 174

Maximilian Fürthauer, Wei Lin, Siew-Lan Ang, Bernard Thisse & Christine Thisse

doi:10.1038/ncb750


IAPs are essential for GDNF-mediated neuroprotective effects in injured motor neurons in vivo pp175 - 179

D. Perrelet, A. Ferri, P. Liston, P. Muzzin, R.G. Korneluk & A.C. Kato

doi:10.1038/ncb751


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Erratum

Erratum p179

doi:10.1038/ncb752


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