pp 1-1 March 2012

Editorial: Rare Disease Day, our Roma cousins and the power of one

Durgadas P Kasbekar

pp 3-11 March 2012

Commentary: Life in (and on) the rocks

Chakkiath Paul Antony Charles S Cockell Yogesh S Shouche

pp 13-17 March 2012 Series

What history tells us XXVII. A new life for allostery

Michel Morange

pp 19-24 March 2012 Brief communication

Sequence periodic pattern of HERV LTRs: A matrix simulation algorithm

Shihua Zhang Jing Xu Chaoling Wei

pp 25-31 March 2012 Articles

Accumulation of rare earth elements by siderophore-forming Arthrobacter luteolus isolated from rare earth environment of Chavara, India

E S Challaraj Emmanuel T Ananthi B Anandkumar S Maruthamuthu

pp 33-39 March 2012 Articles

TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in pigmentary phenotypes

Kárita Antunes Costa Lidia Andreu Guillo

pp 41-54 March 2012 Articles

Mitogen-activated protein kinases mediate Mycobacterium tuberculosis–induced CD44 surface expression in monocytes

Natarajan Palaniappan S Anbalagan Sujatha Narayanan

pp 55-62 March 2012 Articles

Aged mice have increased inflammatory monocyte concentration and altered expression of cell-surface functional receptors

Kelley Strohacker Whitney L Breslin Katie C Carpenter Brian K McFarlin

pp 63-72 March 2012 Articles

High prevalence of oncogenic HPV-16 in cervical smears of asymptomatic women of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India: A population-based study

Shikha Srivastava Sadhana Gupta Jagat Kumar Roy

pp 73-84 March 2012 Articles

Cytotoxic effects of the novel isoflavone, phenoxodiol, on prostate cancer cell lines

Simon Mahoney Frank Arfuso Pierra Rogers Susan Hisheh David Brown Michael Millward Arun Dharmarajan

pp 85-90 March 2012 Articles

Differential expression of ZFX gene in gastric cancer

Parvaneh Nikpour Modjtaba Emadi-Baygi Faezeh Mohammad-Hashem Mohamad Reza Maracy Shaghayegh Haghjooy-Javanmard

pp 91-101 March 2012 Articles

Leptin regulates proliferation and apoptosis of colorectal carcinoma through PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway

Di Wang Jian Chen Hui Chen Zhi Duan Qimei Xu Meiyan Wei Lianghua Wang Meizuo Zhong

pp 103-113 March 2012 Articles

Expression, purification and characterization of the interferon-inducible, antiviral and tumour-suppressor protein, human RNase L

Ankush Gupta Pramod C Rath

pp 115-123 March 2012 Articles

Corticoadrenal activity in rat regulates betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase expression with opposite effects in liver and kidney

Osvaldo Fridman Analía V Morales Laura E Bortoni Paula C Turk-Noceto Elio A Prieto

pp 125-133 March 2012 Articles

Transient expression of Human papillomavirus type 16 L2 epitope fused to N- and C-terminus of coat protein of Potato virus X in plants

Noemi Cerovska Hana Hoffmeisterova Tomas Moravec Helena Plchova Jitka Folwarczna Helena Synkova Helena Ryslava Viera Ludvikova Michal Smahel

pp 135-147 March 2012 Articles

Development of transgenic finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) resistant to leaf blast disease

S Ignacimuthu S Antony Ceasar

pp 149-155 March 2012 Articles

Molecular cytogenetic identification of a novel dwarf wheat line with introgressed Thinopyrum ponticum chromatin

Guiling Chen Q I Zheng Yinguang Bao Shubing Liu Honggang Wang Xingfeng Li

pp 157-165 March 2012 Review

Autophagy: A double-edged sword in Alzheimer's disease

Ying-Tsen Tung Bo-Jeng Wang Ming-Kuan Hu Wen-Ming Hsu Hsinyu Lee Wei-Pang Huang Yung-Feng Liao

pp 167-197 March 2012 Review

Recent advances in development of marker-free transgenic plants: Regulation and biosafety concern

Narendra Tuteja Shiv Verma Ranjan Kumar Sahoo Sebastian Raveendar In Bheema Lingeshwara Reddy