THE NATURE RESEARCH JOURNALS PRESS RELEASE

For papers that will be published online on 5 March 2006 in Nature Materials; Nature Chemical Biology; Nature Genetics; Nature Neuroscience; Nature Immunology; Nature Cell Biology;Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

THE NATURE RESEARCH JOURNALS PRESS RELEASE

For papers that will be published online on 5 March 2006

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NATURE MATERIALS (<http://www.nature.com/naturematerials>)

[1] Combinatorial search of thermoelastic shape memory alloys with extremely
small hysteresis width
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1593

[2] Multiphase imaging of gas flow in a nanoporous material using
remote-detection NMR
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1598

Nature CHEMICAL BIOLOGY (http://www.nature.com/nchembio
<http://www.nature.com/natureneuroscience>)

[3] Virtual and biomolecular screening converge on a selective agonist for
GPR30
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio775

NATURE GENETICS (<http://www.nature.com/naturegenetics>)

[4] Variation in factor B (BF) and complement component 2 (C2) genes is
associated with age-related macular degeneration
DOI: 10.1038/ng1750

[5] Genetic regulators of large-scale transcriptional signatures in cancer
DOI: 10.1038/ng1752

[6] The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network regulates pluripotency in mouse
embryonic stem cells
DOI: 10.1038/ng1760

Nature NEUROSCIENCE (<http://www.nature.com/natureneuroscience>)

[7] CREB modulates excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons
DOI: 10.1038/nn1661

[8] Mechanisms underlying cross-orientation suppression in cat visual cortex
DOI: 10.1038/nn1660

[9] High-throughput random mutagenesis screen reveals TRPM8 residues
specifically required for activation by menthol
DOI: 10.1038/nn1665

[10] UNC-6/Netrin induces neuronal asymmetry and defines the site of axon
formation
DOI: 10.1038/nn1666

Nature IMMUNOLOGY (<http://www.nature.com/natureimmunology>)

[11] Hedgehog signaling controls thymocyte progenitor homeostasis and
differentiation in the thymus
DOI: 10.1038/ni1313

[12] Early hematopoietic lineage restrictions directed by Ikaros
DOI: 10.1038/ni1314

NATURE CELL BIOLOGY (<http://www.nature.com/naturecellbiology>)

[13] Sizzled controls dorso-ventral polarity by repressing cleavage of the
Chordin protein
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1379

[14] Coordination of microtubule and microfilament dynamics by Drosophila
Rho1, Spire and Cappuccino
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1385

[15] Arabidopsis HT1 kinase controls stomatal movements in response to CO2
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1387

Nature STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(<http://www.nature.com/natstructmolbiol>)

[16] Regulation of histone acetylation and nucleosome assembly by
transcription factor JDP2
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1063

[17] Structure of a membrane-based steric chaperone in complex with its
lipase substrate
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1065

[18] Structure of the ubiquitous 3' processing enzyme RNase Z bound to
transfer RNA
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1066

[19] Chromatin remodeling by ISW2 and SWI/SNF requires DNA translocation
inside the nucleosome
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1071

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GEOGRAPHICAL LISTING OF AUTHORS

The following list of places refers to the whereabouts of authors on the
papers numbered in this release. The listing may be for an author's main
affiliation, or for a place where they are working temporarily. Please see
the PDF of the paper for full details.

BELGIUM
Brussels: 17
Ghent: 17

CANADA
Toronto: 12

CHINA
Shanghai: 16
Shenyang: 16

FRANCE
Paris: 18

GERMANY
Bochum: 1
Bonn: 1

JAPAN
Aichi: 13
Fukuoka: 15
Hirosaki: 1
Hyogo: 13
Ibaraki: 16
Nagasaki: 16
Tokyo: 16
Tsukuba: 16

SINGAPORE
Singapore: 6

MOROCCO
Casablanca: 11

SWITZERLAND
Basel: 17

THE NETHERANDS
Amsterdam: 5
Utrecht: 17

UNITED KINGDOM
Nottingham: 2

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
California
Berkeley: 2
La Jolla: 9, 15
Los Angeles: 16
Palo Alto: 7
San Diego: 3, 9
Stanford: 5
Illinois
Argonne: 1
Carbondale: 19
Chicago: 11
Evanston: 8
Iowa
Iowa City: 4
Maryland
Bethesda: 16, 19
College Park: 1
Frederick: 4
Massachusetts
Boston: 6
Cambridge: 7
Charlestown: 12
Lexington: 2
Minnesota
Minneapolis: 1
New Mexico
Albuquerque: 3
Las Cruces: 3
New York
Niskayuan: 1
New York: 4, 10, 19
Pennsylvania
York: 4
Texas
Dallas: 7
Washington
Seattle: 14
Wisconsin
Madison: 13

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