Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 6072-6077 RNA ligase RtcB splices 3'-phosphate and 5'-OH ends via covalent RtcB-(histidinyl)-GMP and polynucleotide-(3')pp(5')G intermediates Anupam K. Chakravartya, Roman Subbotin, Brian T. Chait and Stewart Shuman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 6175-6180 Viral-induced encephalitis initiates distinct and functional CD103+ CD11b+ brain dendritic cell populations within the olfactory bulb Paul M. D'Agostinoa, Changsoo Kwaka, Haley A. Vecchiarellia, Judit Gal Totha, James M. Millera, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 5779-5784 Mutagenesis of pairwise combinations of histone amino-terminal tails reveals functional redundancy in budding yeast Jung-Ae Kima, Jer-Yuan Hsub, M. Mitchell Smithb and C. David Allis

Cori Bargmann, head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at Rockefeller University, will receive the twelfth annual Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award in Basic Biotechnology. Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller and an investigator at H...

Genes & Development 26: 693-704 Quantitative functions of Argonaute proteins in mammalian development Dongmei Wang, Zhaojie Zhang, Evan O'Loughlin, Thomas Lee, Stephane Houel, Dónal O'Carroll, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Natalie G. Ahn and Rui Yi

Science 335: 1617–1621 Control of sleep by cyclin A and its regulator Dragana Rogulja and Michael W. Young We show that cyclin A (CycA) and regulator of cyclin A1, essential cell cycle factors, function in postmitotic neurons to promote sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Reducing the abundance of ...

New England Journal of Medicine 366: 1181–1189 Brodalumab, an anti–interleukin-17–receptor antibody for psoriasis Kim A. Papp, Craig Leonardi, Alan Menter, Jean-Paul Ortonne, James G. Krueger, Gregory Kricorian, Girish Aras, Juan Li, Chris B. Russell, Elizabeth H.Z. Thompson, and Scott Baumgar...

Winners unlock big questions on cells   "Dr. James E. Darnell Jr. and Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D., both of whom work at Rockefeller University in New York City, will receive the [Albany Medical Center] prize during a May 11 ceremony in Albany. The $500,000 prize is the largest award in medicine and s...

Two Rockefeller University pioneers in the field of gene regulation and expression will be honored with the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the nation’s largest prize in medicine. James E. Darnell Jr., head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at Rockefelle...

Pair will receive $250G for outstanding research   "A former student and teacher duo at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive $250,000 from the March of Dimes next month for creating advances in treating skin cancers, severe burns and other skin diseases...[Elaine] Fuchs began wo...