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Community annotation in biology
Raja Mazumder, Darren A Natale, Jessica Anne Ecalnir Julio, Lai-Su Yeh, Cathy H Wu
Biology Direct 2010, 5:12 (18 February 2010)
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Proteome changes of Caenorhabditis elegans upon a Staphylococcus aureus infection
Annelies Bogaerts, Isabel Beets, Liesbet Temmerman, Liliane Schoofs, Peter Verleyen
Biology Direct 2010, 5:11 (17 February 2010)
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'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences - a case study of the Z-curve
Eran Elhaik, Dan Graur, Kresimir Josic
Biology Direct 2010, 5:10 (17 February 2010)
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Low level of polymorphism in two putative NPR1 homologs in the Vitaceae family
Karine Bergeault, Christophe Bertsch, Didier Merdinoglu, Bernard Walter
Biology Direct 2010, 5:9 (5 February 2010)
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FOXP3 and GARP (LRRC32): the master and its minion
Michael Probst-Kepper, Jan Buer
Biology Direct 2010, 5:8 (5 February 2010)
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The recent identification of glycoprotein-A repetitions predominant (GARP or LRRC32) as receptors for latent TGFb (which dominantly controls FOXP3 and the regulatory phenotype via a positive feedback loop) provides a missing link in our molecular understanding of FOXP3 in regulatory T cells
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