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What are the limits to cell plasticity?
Jane Taylor, Ian Wilmut and Gareth Sullivan

Fountain of Youth: aged blood-forming stem cells could be rejuvenated by young microenvironment
Tong Yin and Linheng Li

Survive an innate immune response through XBP1
Arthur Kaser and Richard S Blumberg

Decoding the dual-coding region: key factors influencing the translational potential of a two-ORF-containing transcript
Han Liang

Mesenchymal stem cells: a new strategy for immunosuppression and tissue repair
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Multifunctionality of the linker histones: an emerging role for protein-protein interactions
Steven J McBryant, Xu Lu and Jeffrey C Hansen

Structural insights into selective histone H3 recognition by the human Polybromo bromodomain 2
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The Arabidopsis P450 protein CYP82C2 modulates jasmonate-induced root growth inhibition, defense gene expression and indole glucosinolate biosynthesis
Fang Liu, Hongling Jiang, Songqing Ye, Wen-Ping Chen, Wenxing Liang, Yingxiu Xu, Bo Sun, Jiaqiang Sun, Qiaomei Wang, Jerry D Cohen and Chuanyou Li

VL30 retrotransposition signals activation of a caspase-independent and p53-dependent death pathway associated with mitochondrial and lysosomal damage
Dimitrios Noutsopoulos, Georgios Markopoulos, Georgios Vartholomatos, Evangelos Kolettas, Nicolaos Kolaitis and Theodore Tzava

Hepatitis B virus X protein promotes liver cell proliferation via a positive cascade loop involving arachidonic acid metabolism and p-ERK1/2
Changliang Shan, Fuqing Xu, Shuai Zhang, Jiacong You, Xiaona You, Liyan Qiu, Jie Zheng, Lihong Ye and Xiaodong Zhang

The BUD2 mutation affects plant architecture through altering cytokinin and auxin responses in Arabidopsis
Xia Cui, Chunmin Ge, Renxiao Wang, Huanzhong Wang, Weiqi Chen, Zhiming Fu, Xiangning Jiang, Jiayang Li and Yonghong Wang

Thyroid hormone controls the gene expression of HSV-1 LAT and ICP0 in neuronal cells
Gautam R Bedadala, Rajeswara C Pinnoji, Jayavardhana R Palem and Shao-Chung V Hsia

The potential role of kinesin and dynein in Golgi scattering and cytoplasmic vacuole formation during acute experimental pancreatitis
Ina A Weber, Igor Buchwalow, Daniela Hahn, Wolfram Domschke, Markus M Lerch and Jürgen Schnekenburger