Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #1

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Welcome to the very first edition of the Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival. We have only three contributors for our inaugural edition, so this is going to be short. But one has to start from somewhere somehow!

Our first contributor is Alex Palazzo, who presents Let7 miRNAs, Lin-28, Cancer and Stem Cells posted at The Daily Transcript. This is one of the first posts going over a recently published Science paper exploring the relationship between regulation of a family of microRNAs and pluripotency.



Tim Sampson then introduces us to new findings showing that A Fatty Acid Synthetase is Necessary for Active TB Infection over at Blogging for Bacteriophages.

I will finally add my own contribution, introducing FAPP2 as a possible gene necessary for proper ciliogenesis, as well as an example of how a gene discovered in a random screen gets characterized by different groups over time.

This concludes our - very short, but intense - first edition. As I am actively looking for hosts for this Carnival, just leave me a message in the comments if you'd like to host the next edition, and feel free to submit your posts using this form. You can find hosting an submission guidelines here.

Citations

Bhatt, A., Fujiwara, N., Bhatt, K., Gurcha, S.S., Kremer, L., Chen, B., Chan, J., Porcelli, S.A., Kobayashi, K., Besra, G.S., Jacobs, W.R. (2007). Deletion of kasB in Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes loss of acid-fastness and subclinical latent tuberculosis in immunocompetent mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(12), 5157-5162. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608654104

Viswanathan, S.R., Daley, G.Q., Gregory, R.I. (2008). Selective Blockade of MicroRNA Processing by Lin28. Science, 320(5872), 97-100. DOI: 10.1126/science.1154040

Vieira, O.V., Gaus, K., Verkade, P., Fullekrug, J., Vaz, W.L., Simons, K. (2006). From the Cover: FAPP2, cilium formation, and compartmentalization of the apical membrane in polarized Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(49), 18556-18561. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608291103

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