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Editorial

Delayed impact p925

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-925


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Book Review

The heritage of cells p926

Frank Sauer reviews Epigenetics and Chromatin by Philippe Jeanteur

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-926


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News and Views

How and Y plant microtubules branch pp927 - 929

Richard Cyr

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-927

Plant cortical microtubule arrays influence plant morphogenesis, but the nature of microtubule genesis and self-organization has long puzzled cell biologists. In this issue, Murata and coworkers provide some answers by showing that gamma-tubulin nucleates new microtubules along the lengths of existing microtubules, resulting in dispersed 'Y'-branched organizational centres.

See also: Letter by Murata et al.


More than a separase pp930 - 932

Ethel Queralt & Frank Uhlmann

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-930

Anaphase onset is triggered when the protease separase cleaves the cohesive bond that holds replicated sister chromatids together until metaphase. In budding yeast, separase then also regulates mitotic exit. New findings suggest that in vertebrates, separase also participates in cell-cycle regulation, albeit in an unexpected manner.

See also: Letter by Papi et al.


Tumorigenesis: TCF4 feeds c-Jun p932

Myrto Raftopoulou

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-932


Thieves, assassins and spies of the microbial world pp933 - 934

Hera C. Vlamakis & Roberto Kolter

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-933

Extracellular signalling regulates a plethora of multicellular processes. For microbes, maintaining a specific cell–cell signal in an extracellular environment crowded by other species can be extremely challenging. Two recent papers demonstrate how different bacteria have adapted to avoid, or exploit, species cross-signalling.


Fog shapes up myosin for gastrulation p935

Alison Schuldt

doi:10.1038/ncb1005-935


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Letters

The extracellular matrix guides the orientation of the cell division axis pp947 - 953

Manuel Théry, Victor Racine, Anne Pépin, Matthieu Piel, Yong Chen, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita & Michel Bornens

doi:10.1038/ncb1307


ARHGAP10 is necessary for alpha-catenin recruitment at adherens junctions and for Listeria invasion pp954 - 960

Sandra Sousa, Didier Cabanes, Cristel Archambaud, Frédéric Colland, Emmanuel Lemichez, Michel Popoff, Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis, Edith Gouin, Marc Lecuit, Pierre Legrain & Pascale Cossart

doi:10.1038/ncb1308


Microtubule-dependent microtubule nucleation based on recruitment of bold gamma-tubulin in higher plants pp961 - 968

Takashi Murata, Seiji Sonobe, Tobias I. Baskin, Susumu Hyodo, Seiichiro Hasezawa, Toshiyuki Nagata, Tetsuya Horio & Mitsuyasu Hasebe

doi:10.1038/ncb1306

See also: News and Views by Cyr


Abi1 regulates the activity of N-WASP and WAVE in distinct actin-based processes pp969 - 976

Metello Innocenti, Silke Gerboth, Klemens Rottner, Frank P. L. Lai, Maud Hertzog, Theresia E. B. Stradal, Emanuela Frittoli, Dominique Didry, Simona Polo, Andrea Disanza, Stefanie Benesch, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Marie-France Carlier & Giorgio Scita

doi:10.1038/ncb1304


Abi activates WASP to promote sensory organ development pp977 - 984

Sven Bogdan, Raiko Stephan, Christian Löbke, Alexandra Mertens & Christian Klämbt

doi:10.1038/ncb1305


Genetic isolation of transport signals directing cell surface expression pp985 - 992

Sojin Shikano, Brian Coblitz, Haiyan Sun & Min Li

doi:10.1038/ncb1297


Ubx2 links the Cdc48 complex to ER-associated protein degradation pp993 - 998

Oliver Neuber, Ernst Jarosch, Corinna Volkwein, Jan Walter & Thomas Sommer

doi:10.1038/ncb1298



Ubiquitin ligase component Cul4 associates with Clr4 histone methyltransferase to assemble heterochromatin pp1007 - 1013

Songtao Jia, Ryuji Kobayashi & Shiv I. S. Grewal

doi:10.1038/ncb1300


Neddylation and deneddylation regulate Cul1 and Cul3 protein accumulation pp1014 - 1020

June-Tai Wu, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Yen-Chen Hu & Cheng-Ting Chien

doi:10.1038/ncb1301


The endoplasmic reticulum gateway to apoptosis by Bcl-XL modulation of the InsP3R pp1021 - 1028

Carl White, Chi Li, Jun Yang, Nataliya B. Petrenko, Muniswamy Madesh, Craig B. Thompson & J. Kevin Foskett

doi:10.1038/ncb1302


Multiple roles for separase auto-cleavage during the G2/M transition pp1029 - 1035

Maura Papi, Eli Berdougo, Catherine L. Randall, Sonali Ganguly & Prasad V. Jallepalli

doi:10.1038/ncb1303

See also: News and Views by Queralt & Uhlmann


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Addendum

Addendum p1036

doi:10.1038/ncb1310


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