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Volume 99 Issue 5: September 8, 2010
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On the cover: Specific contacts between distant regions of a protein sequence are responsible for enhancing the secondary structure of the interacting residues. The collapse-dependent increase in helicity of acid-unfolded apomyoglobin results from the random meanderings of the snakelike chains occasionally colliding and coalescing into a primordial structure. These events are captured by the snake charmer via the special flute, able to generate information-rich NMR free induction. Artwork created by Daria V. Fedyukina. See the article by Fedyukina et al. for more details.

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Kappel

Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Supramolecular Assemblies

An Unusual Hydrophobic Core Confers Extreme Flexibility to HEAT Repeat Proteins

Christian Kappel, Ulrich Zachariae, Nicole Dölker, and Helmut Grubmüller

Bohn

Cell Biophysics

Localization Microscopy Reveals Expression-Dependent Parameters of Chromatin Nanostructure

Manfred Bohn, Philipp Diesinger, Rainer Kaufmann, Yanina Weiland, Patrick Müller, Manuel Gunkel, Alexa von Ketteler, Paul Lemmer, Michael Hausmann, Dieter W. Heermann, and Christoph Cremer

Markvoort

Membranes

Self-Reproduction of Fatty Acid Vesicles: A Combined Experimental and Simulation Study

Albert J. Markvoort, Nicole Pfleger, Rutger Staffhorst, Peter A.J. Hilbers, Rutger A. van Santen, J. Antoinette Killian, and Ben de Kruijff

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Fast Folding of an RNA Tetraloop on a Rugged Energy Landscape Detected by a Stacking-Sensitive Probe
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Diffusion of Large Molecules into Assembling Nuclei Revealed Using an Optical Highlighting Technique
Satoshi Shimozono, Hidekazu Tsutsui, Atsushi Miyawaki

Contact-Mode High-Resolution High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Movies of the Purple Membrane
Ignacio Casuso, Noriyuki Kodera, Christian Le Grimellec, Toshio Ando, Simon Scheuring

Flux-Concentration Duality in Dynamic Nonequilibrium Biological Networks
Neema Jamshidi, Bernhard O. Palsson


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