Publish or Perish: August-September 2011

Ambrose RL, Mackenzie JM. La Trobe University, VIC A conserved peptide in West Nile Virus NS4A protein contributes to proteolytic processing and is essential for replication. J Virol. 2011 Aug 31.

Benyamin B, Middelberg RP, Lind PA, Valle AM, Gordon S, Nyholt DR, Medland SE, Henders AK, Heath AC, Madden PA, Visscher PM, O'Connor DT, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Whitfield JB. Queensland Institute of Medical Research, QLD GWAS of butyrylcholinesterase activity identifies four novel loci, independent effects within BCHE, and secondary associations with metabolic risk factors. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Aug 23.

Booth DR, Heard RN, Stewart GJ, Broadley SA, Butzkueven H, Kilpatrick TJ, Marriott M, Rubio JP, Butzkueven H, Kilpatrick TJ, Marriott M, Tubridy N, Butzkueven H, Carroll WM, Kermode AG, Cox MB, Lechner-Scott JS, Scott RJ, Foote S, Stankovich J, Taylor B, Blackwell JM, Brown MA. Florey Neuroscience Institutes, VIC Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. Nature. 2011 Aug 10.

Borneman AR, Desany BA, Riches D, Affourtit JP, Forgan AH, Pretorius IS, Egholm M, Chambers PJ. Australian Wine Research Institute, SA Whole-Genome Comparison Reveals Novel Genetic Elements That Characterize the Genome of Industrial Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 2011 Feb 3.

Cascales L, Henriques ST, Kerr MC, Huang YH, Sweet MJ, Daly NL, Craik DJ. University of Queensland, QLD Identification and characterization of a new family of cell penetrating peptides: Cyclic cell penetrating peptides. J Biol Chem. 2011 Aug 26.

Davies G, Tenesa A, Payton A, Yang J, Harris SE, Liewald D, Ke X, Le Hellard S, Christoforou A, Luciano M, McGhee K, Lopez L, Gow AJ, Corley J, Redmond P, Fox HC, Haggarty P, Whalley LJ, McNeill G, Goddard ME, Espeseth T, Lundervold AJ, Reinvang I, Pickles A, Steen VM, Ollier W, Porteous DJ, Horan M, Starr JM, Pendleton N, Visscher PM, Deary IJ. Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic. Mol Psychiatry. 2011 Aug 9.

Day EB, Guillonneau C, Gras S, La Gruta NL, Vignali DA, Doherty PC, Purcell AW, Rossjohn J, Turner SJ. University of Melbourne, VIC Structural basis for enabling T-cell receptor diversity within biased virus-specific CD8+ T-cell responses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jun 7.

Denton AE, Russ BE, Doherty PC, Rao S, Turner SJ. University of Melbourne, VIC Differentiation-dependent functional and epigenetic landscapes for cytokine genes in virus-specific CD8+ T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 29.

Enriori PJ, Sinnayah P, Simonds SE, Garcia Rudaz C, Cowley MA. Monash University & Victoria University, VIC Leptin Action in the Dorsomedial Hypothalamus Increases Sympathetic Tone to Brown Adipose Tissue in Spite of Systemic Leptin Resistance. J Neurosci. 2011 Aug 24.

Frezza C, Zheng L, Folger O, Rajagopalan KN, MacKenzie ED, Jerby L, Micaroni M, Chaneton B, Adam J, Hedley A, Kalna G, Tomlinson IPM, Pollard PJ, Watson DG, Deberardinis RJ, Shlomi T, Ruppin E, Gottlieb E. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, QLD Haem oxygenase is synthetically lethal with the tumour suppressor fumarate hydratase. Nature. 2011 Aug 17.

Gebhardt T, Whitney PG, Zaid A, Mackay LK, Brooks AG, Heath WR, Carbone FR, Mueller SN. University of Melbourne, VIC Different patterns of peripheral migration by memory CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Nature. 2011 Aug 14.

Godfrey DI, Rossjohn J. University of Melbourne, VIC New ways to turn on NKT cells. J Exp Med. 2011 Jun 6.

Gray DJ, Ross AG, Li Y, McManus DP. Queensland Institute of Medical Research, QLD Diagnosis and management of schistosomiasis. BMJ. 2011 May 21.

Hahn CN, Chong C, Carmichael CL, Wilkins EJ, Brautigan PJ, Li X, Babic M, Lin M, Carmagnac A, Lee YK, Kok CH, Gagliardi L, Friend KL, Ekert PG, Butcher CM, Brown AL, Lewis ID, To LB, Timms AE, Storek J, Moore S, Altree M, Escher R, Bardy PG, Suthers GK, D'Andrea RJ, Horwitz MS, Scott HS. Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Heritable GATA2 mutations associated with familial myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. Nat. Genetics. 2011 Sept 4.

Hitchins MP, Rapkins RW, Kwok C, Srivastava S, Wong JJL, Khachigian LM, Polly P, Goldblatt J, Ward RL. University of New South Wales, NSW Dominantly inherited constitutional epigenetic silencing of MLH1 in a cancer-affected family is linked to a single nucleotide variant within the 5’UTR. Can. Cell. 2011 Aug 16.

Hussain M, Frentiu FD, Moreira LA, O'Neill SL, Asgari S. University of Queensland, QLD Wolbachia uses host microRNAs to manipulate host gene expression and facilitate colonization of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 May 31.

Kleist L, Stahlschmidt W, Bulut H, Gromova K, PuchkovD, Robertson MJ, MacGregor KA, Tomlin N, Pechstein A, Chau N, Chircop M, Sakoff J, Kries J, Saenger W, Kräusslich H, Shupliakov O, Robinson PJ, McCluskey A, Haucke V. Children’s Medical Research Institute & University of Newcastle, NSW Essential Role of the Clathrin Terminal Domain in Regulating Coated Pit Dynamics Revealed by Small Molecule Inhibition. Cell. 2011 Aug 5.

Mercer TR, Neph S, Dinger ME, Crawford J, Smith MA, Shearwood AM, Haugen E, Bracken CP, Rackham O, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Filipovska A, Mattick JS. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, QLD The human mitochondrial transcriptome. Cell. 2011 Aug 19.

Murchison EP, Adams DJ. Sequencing skippy: the genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii. Genome Biol. 2011 Aug 19.

Murray JM, Kelleher AD, Cooper DA. University of New South Wales, NSW Timing of the Components of the HIV Life Cycle in Productively Infected CD4+ T Cells in Populations of HIV Infected Individuals. J Virol. 2011 Aug 10.

Pope PB, Smith W, Denman SE, Tringe SG, Barry K, Hugenholtz P, McSweeney CS, McHardy AC, Morrison M. CSIRO Livestock Industries, QLD Isolation of Succinivibrionaceae implicated in low methane emissions from Tammar wallabies. Science. 2011 Jul 29.

Walker T, Johnson PH, Moreira LA, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Frentiu FD, McMeniman CJ, Leong YS, Dong Y, Axford J, Kriesner P, Lloyd AL, Ritchie SA, O'Neill SL, Hoffmann AA. University of Queensland, QLD The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations. Nature. 2011 Aug 24.