The first two authors contributed equally to this manuscript. Address correspondence to: Maggi Fabrizio, M.D., Ph.D., Virology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Via San Zeno, 35-37, 56127 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Received 28 January 2008. Revision requested 14 February 2008. Accepted 7 March 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISSN 0041-1337/...

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*Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92103; †College of Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210041, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041; ‡Comparative Biosciences, Inc., 2672 Bayshore Parkway, Suite 515, Mountain View, California 94043; and §University of Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 245024, Tucso...

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Departamento de Nutrición Vegetal, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Apartado 13034, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain; CSICUAB Proteomics Laboratory, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Barcelona-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain; Universidad de Vigo, Campus As Lagoas, 36200 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University ...