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BBA Newsletter Issue 18 - December 2009



	Dennis Vance's Editorial
	Biochemistry News
	Reviewer Acknowledgements
	Featured Articles & Reviews
	Selection of Bioinformatics & Systems Biology papers
	Research Articles
	Recently Published BBA Special Issues
	The Author's Shop
	BBA Decoder
	Conference Calendar

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Dennis Vance's Editorial

Editor-in-Chief Dennis E. Vance
Editorial - Guide for careers for young scientists:

In many respects the new generation of scientists has it much easier than when I began as an Assistant Professor. In the 1970s we did have photocopiers but no computers or word processors. Although we did have electric typewriters. Read full editorial >>

Dennis E. Vance
Editor-in-Chief, BBA

Biochemistry News

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was selected as one of the 100 Special Library Association's (SLA) TOP journals in Biology and Medicine. Elsevier Honored as "The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences"

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Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data (STRENDA)

All sections of BBA now follow the recommendations of the STRENDA (Standards for Reporting
Enzymology Data) Commission of the Beilstein-Institut for the reporting of kinetic and equilibrium binding data. Detailed guidelines can be found online or in this pdf file.

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Reviewer Acknowledgements

The Editors acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of all individuals, who reviewed manuscripts for BBA during the past year. The scientific standards of the journal rely upon their generous contribution of time and expertise, and for this we are sincerely grateful.

BBA Bioenergetics
BBA Biomembranes
BBA General Subjects
BBA Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
BBA Proteins and Proteomics

Featured Articles & Interesting Reviews

Selection of Bioinformatics & Systems Biology papers
Know your limits: Assumptions, constraints and interpretation in systems biology (review) Tracing metabolic pathways from enzyme data Metabolic systems biology (review) System-level design of bacterial cell cycle control (review) System-level feedbacks control cell cycle progression (review) A systems biology view of cancer (review) Functionalization of a nanopore: The nuclear pore complex paradigm

Research Articles
Rasosomes spread Ras signals from plasma membrane 'hotspots' with video Microscopic dissection of the process of stress granule assembly with video The human thioredoxin reductase-1 splice variant TXNRD1_v3 is an atypical inducer of cytoplasmic filaments and cell membrane filopodia with video ABIN-1 negatively regulates NF-κB by inhibiting processing of the p105 precursor by Shai Cohen, Aaron Ciechanover et al. Recommendations on the diagnosis and management of Niemann-Pick disease type C, by the NP-C Guidelines Working Group

Recently Published BBA Special Issues
		BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Structure and Function of Regulatory RNA Elements Edited by M. James and J. Yin Volume 1789, Issues 9-10, Pages 493-674 (September-October 2009) Includes an article by Nobel Laureate T. Steitz A structural view on the mechanism of the ribosome-catalyzed peptide bond formation Miljan Simonović, Thomas A. Steitz
		BBA - Biomembranes Includes Special Section: Cardiolipin Edited by T. Haines Volume 1788, Issue 10, Pages 1997-2344 (October 2009)
		BBA - General Subjects Selenoprotein Expression and Function Edited by E. Arner and C.H. Lillig Volume 1790, Issue 11, Pages 1387-1586 (November 2009)
		BBA - General Subjects Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Aging: from Model Systems to Human Longevity Edited by E.J. Masoro Volume 1790, Issue 10, Pages 949-1386 (October 2009)
		BBA - Molecular Basis of Disease Mitochondrial Disease Edited by H.T. Jacobs and J.A.M. Smeitink Volume 1792, Issue 12, Pages 1095-1212 (December 2009)
		BBA - Molecular Basis of Disease Mitochondrial Dysfunction Edited by Dr. Zhu Volume 1802/1, January 2010
		BBA - Proteins and Proteomics Includes Special Section: Protein-Water Interactions Edited by W. Doster and T. Gutberlet Volume 1804, Issue 1, Pages 1-242 (January 2010)
New Special Issue other than BBA
		Methods RNA Dynamics Edited by Nils G. Walter Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 85-216 (October 2009)

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Conference Calendar

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