Papers to Watch

"This paper reports the first high resolution crystal structure of an ABC transporter carrying out multidrug efflux. This structure from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus may be useful to interpret the mechanism of cystic fibrosis and other human diseases."
Andr￨ Goffeau
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

"This paper details findings resulting from what is truly a technical tour de force, namely the high-resolution mapping of cytosine methylation patterns across the entire annotated Arabidopsis genome, at 35 base pair resolution, using whole-genome tiling microarrays."
Craig Pikaard
Washington University, USA

"Here, the authors further our understanding of plant responses to environmental factors by presenting evidence for "transgeneration memory" of stress in plants that may increase the potential for adaptation."
Michael Thomashow
Michigan State University, USA

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a web-based literature awareness tool (www.f1000biology.com).