articles of interest for biology/structural biology EM:
- Brown, P.J.B., de Pedro, M.A., Kysela, D.T., Van der Henst, C., Kim, J., De Bolle, X., Fuqua, C. and Brun, Y.V. (2012) Polar growth in the Alphaproteobacterial order Rhizobiales. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 1697-1701.
- Cunningham, J.A., Thomas, C.W., Bengtson, S., Marone, F., Stampanoni, M., Turner, F.R., Bailey, J.V., Raff, R.A., Raff, E.C. and Donoghue, P.C.J (2012) Experimental taphonomy of giant sulphur bacteria: implications for the interpretation of the embryo-like Ediacaran Doushantuo fossils. Proc. Royal Soc. B. Biol. Sci. 279, 1857-1864.
- Ding, W.-X., Li, M., Blazik, J.M., Morgan, D.G., Guo, F., Ni, H.-M., Goheen, M., Eskelinen, E.L., and Yin, X.-M. (2012) Electron microscopic analysis of a spherical mitochondrial structure. J. Biol. Chem. 287, 42373-42378.
- Dhasan R.S., Wang J.C., Hagan M.F., and Zlotnick A. (2012) Differential assembly of Hepatitis B virus core protein on single- and double-stranded nucleic acid suggest the dsDNA-filled core is spring-loaded. Virology 430, 20-29.
- Katz, G., Wei, H., Alimova, A., Katz, A., Morgan, D.G. and Gottlieb, P. (2012) Protein P7 of the cystovirus φ6 is located at the three-fold axis of the unexpanded procapsid. PLoS One 7, e47489.
- Kler, S., Asor, R., Li, C., Ginsburg, A., Harries, D., Oppenheim, A., Zlotnick, A. and Raviv, U. (2012) RNA encapsidation by SV40-derived nanoparticles follows a rapid two-state mechanism. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 8823-8830.
- Li, C., Wang, J.C., Taylor, M.W. and Zlotnick, A. (2012) In vitro assembly of an empty picornavirus capsid follows a dodecahedral path. J. Virol. 86, 13062-13069.
- Mim, C., Cui, H., Gawronski-Salerno, J.A., Frost, A., Lyman, E., Voth, G.A. and Unger, V.M. (2012) Structural basis of membrane bending by the N-BAR protein endophilin. Cell 149, 137-146.
- Ni, P., Wang, Z., Ma, X., Das, N.C., Sokol, P., Chiu, W., Dragnea, B., Hagan, M. and Kao, C.C. (2012) An examination of the electrostatic interactions between the N-terminal tail of the brome mosaic virus coat protein and encapsidated RNAs. J. Mol. Biol. 419, 284-300.
- Snyder, A. J. and Mukhopadhyay, S. (2012) The alphavirus E3 protein functions in a clade-specific manner. J. Virol. 86, 13609-13620.
- Snyder, A.J., Sokoloski, K.J. and Mukhopadhyay, S. (2012) Mutating conserved cysteines in the alphavirus E2 glycoprotein causes virus-specific assembly defects. J. Virol. 86, 3100-3111.
- Subba-Reddy, C.V., Tragesser, B., Xu, Z., Stein, B., Ranjith-Kumar, C.T. and Kao, C.C. (2012) RNA synthesis by the brome mosaic virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in human cells reveals requirements for de novo initiation and protein-protein interaction. J. Virol. 86, 4317-4327.
- Terrell, D., Xie, B.T., Workman, M., Mahato, S., Zelhof, A., Gebelein, B. and Cook, T. (2012) OTX2 and CRX rescue overlapping and photoreceptor-specific functions in the Drosophila eye. Dev. Dynamics 241, 215-228.
- van Eldijk, M.B., Wang, J.C.-Y., Minten, I.J., Li, C., Zlotnick, A., Nolte, R.J.M., Cornelissen, J.J.L.M. and van Hest, J.C.M. (2012) Designing two self-assembly mechanisms into one viral capsid protein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 18506-18509.
- Wang, J.C., Dhasan, R.S., and Zlotnick, A. (2012) Structural organization of pregenomic RNA and the carboxy-terminal domain of the capsid protein of hepatitis B virus. PLoS Pathog. 8, e1002919.
articles of interest for materials science EM:
- Budgin, A.M., Kabachii, Y.A.,; Shifrina, Z.B., Valetsky, P.M., Kochev, S.S., Stein, B.D., Malyutin, A. and Bronstein, L.M. (2012) Functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles with amphiphilic block copolymers: self-assembled thermoresponsive submicrometer particles. Langmuir 28, 4142-4151.
- DeSantis, C.J. and Skrabalak, S.E. (2012) Size-controlled synthesis of Au/Pd octopods with high refractive index sensitivity. Langmuir 28, 9055-9062.
- DeSantis, C.J. Sue, A.C. Bower, M.M. and Skrabalak, S.E. (2012) Seed-mediated co-reduction: a versatile route to architecturally controlled bimetallic nanostructures. ACS Nano 6, 2617–2628.
- Kuchkina, N.V., Morgan, D.G., Stein, B.D., Puntus, L.N., Sergeev, A.M., Peregudov, A.S., Bronstein, L.M. and Shifrina, Z.B. (2012) Polyphenylenepyridyl dendrimers as stabilizing and controlling agents for CdS nanoparticle formation. Nanoscale 4, 2378-2386.
- Mann, A.K.P., Steinmiller, E.M.P. and Skrabalak, S.E. (2012) Elucidating the structure-dependent photocatalytic properties of Bi2WO6: a synthesis guided investigation. Dalton Transactions 41 (issue called New Talents: Americas), 7939-7945.
- Tsvetkova, I.B., Matveeva, V.G., Doluda, V.Y., Bykov, A.V., Sidorov, A.I., Schennikov, S.V., Sulman, M.G., Valetsky, P.M., Stein, B.D., Chen, C.H., Sulman, E.M. and Bronstein, L.M. (2012) Pd(II) nanoparticles in porous polystyrene: factors influencing the nanoparticle size and catalytic properties. J. Mat. Chem. 22, 6441-6448.