Johan Robben

TL;DR: The genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a eukaryote, is sequenced and highly conserved genes important for eukARYotic cell organization including those required for the cytoskeleton, compartmentation, cell-cycle control, proteolysis, protein phosphorylation and RNA splicing are identified.

TL;DR: The organization of protein-coding genes into long, strand-specific, polycistronic clusters and lack of general transcription factors in the L. major, Trypanosoma brucei, and Tritryp genomes suggest that the mechanisms regulating RNA polymerase II–directed transcription are distinct from those operating in other eukaryotes, although the trypanosomatids appear capable of chromatin remodeling.

TL;DR: Analysis of 17.38 megabases of unique sequence, representing about 17% of the Arabidopsis genome, reveals 3,744 protein coding genes, 81 transfer RNAs and numerous repeat elements.

TL;DR: Observations provide evidence that phages infecting diverse hosts have had access to a common genetic pool and indicates that bacteriophage φKZ represents an evolutionary distinctive branch of the Myoviridaefamily.

TL;DR: Prohibitin, stress-70 protein, and adhesion-regulating molecule 1 are reported for the first time as secreted proteins in adipose tissue, indicating a dynamic environment including an actively remodeling extracellular matrix and several factors involved in growth regulation.