Selected Papers 012111

biophysics
Mitotic Membrane Helps to Focus and Stabilize the Mitotic Spindle

biochemistry
Membrane Curvature during Peroxisome Fission Requires Pex11
Cell-free Fusion of Bacteria-containing Phagosomes with Endocytic Compartments
Tracking and Visualizing the Circadian Ticking of the Cyanobacterial Clock Protein KaiC in Solution
Nonspecific Binding Limits the Number of Proteins in a Cell and Shapes Their Interaction Networks

autophagy
p62 Targeting to the Autophagosome Formation Site Requires Self-oligomerization but not LC3 Binding
Autophagic Substrate Clearance Requires Activity of the Syntaxin-5 SNARE Complex
Mechanisms of Mitophagy [review]

cell biology
Mechanisms Determining the Morphology of the Peripheral ER
Cdc42 Localization and Cell Polarity Depend on Membrane Traffic
Spatial Gradient of Protein Phosphorylation Underlies Replicative Asymmetry in a Bacterium
Driving the Cell Cycle with a Minimal CDK Control Network
Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Cell Life and Death [review]
Membrane Budding [review]
Asymmetric Cell Division: Recent Developments and Their Implications for Tumour Biology [review]

cell biology, modeling
Bimodal Gene Expression in Noncooperative Regulatory Systems
Robust Circadian Clocks from Coupled Protein-modification and Transcription–translation Cycles
Stochastic Reaction-diffusion Kinetics in the Microscopic Limit
A Computational Model Predicts Xenopus Meiotic Spindle Organization

evolution, modeling
Dynamical Phase Transition in a Model for Evolution with Migration

imaging
Single-molecule Imaging Reveals Mechanisms of Protein Disruption by a DNA Translocase
Single SNARE-Mediated Vesicle Fusion Observed In Vitro by Polarized TIRFM
Protein Localization in Electron Micrographs Using Fluorescence Nanoscopy