Issue 7 of Molecular BioSystems (Impact Factor 4.121) is now available: just click the cover image above right 

Welcome to issue 7 of Molecular BioSystems!   

Primary research published in this issue includes: a paper by Chan and Yousaf on 'A photo-electroactive surface strategy for for studies of cell polarization', Ellington et al on 'Engineering stochasticity in gene expression', Trau et al on 'Flow cytometric detection of proteolysis in peptide libraries synthesized on optically encoded supports' and Kislinger et al on 'Identification of pathways associated with invasive behaviour by ovarian cancer using MudPIT' . 

Review articles include a Highlight by Paz and Seeberger on 'Deciphering the glycosaminoglycan code with the help of microarrays', 'Mining the archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue proteome' by Banks et al, Nicholson and Mueller's article on 'Post-transcriptional control of animal histone gene expression' and more.          

Outside and inside covers illustrate the review by Becker et al (on Chemical synthesis and semisynthesis of membrane proteins) and the communication by Alexander et al (on Polypeptide vectors for enhanced gene delivery), respectively.        

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