Nobody likes to receive a letter from the editor of your favorite journal letting you know that your paper was rejected. Some journals have begun including reviewers’ comments with accepted papers to make the views of experts available to the reader. However, often the paper has been submitted to several journals and rejected before it is finally accepted. The rejection letters and comments are equally useful in helping to judge what kind of papers might be acceptable to a journal, and what kind of comments lead to rejections. Rather than hiding these low points in the trajectory of a scientific paper, this forum offers a place to publish these letters and comments to educate others.
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Rejections
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Ultimately Published In |
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14 Sep 2012 |
Cryoelectron tomography reveals doublet-specific structures and unique interactions in the I1 dynein |
J. Cell Biol. |
2012, PNAS 109:E2067-76 |
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31 Aug 2012 |
Movies of ice-embedded particles enhance resolution in electron cryo-microscopy |
PNAS, Nature Methods |
2012, Structure |
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2 Mar 2012 |
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) machinery recruitment by the transcription-repair coupling factor involves unmasking of a conserved intramolecular interface |
NSMB, Mol. Cell |
2012, PNAS 109:3353–3358 |
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14 Dec 2010 |
Atomic model of an infectious rotavirus particle |
Science |
2011, EMBO J. 30:408-416 |
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29 Jul 2010 |
Aβ(1-40) Fibril Polymorphism Implies Diverse Interaction Patterns in Amyloid Fibrils |
EMBO J, PLoS, JBC, JACS |
2009, J. Mol. Biol. 386:869–877 |
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28 Jul 2010 |
Molecular interactions in rotavirus assembly and uncoating seen by high-resolution cryo-EM |
Science |
2009, PNAS 106:10644–10648 |
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28 Jul 2010 |
Paired β-sheet structure of an Aβ(1-40) amyloid fibril revealed by electron microscopy |
Nature, Science |
2008, PNAS 105:7462–7466 |
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28 Jul 2010 |
Three-Dimensional Structure of a Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel at 2.5 nm Resolution |
Nature, NSMB |
2001, Structure 9:215–220 |
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28 Jul 2010 |
Ito Channels Are Octomeric Complexes with Four Subunits of Each Kv4.2 and K+ Channel-interacting Protein 2 |
Nature Neuroscience |
2004, J. Biol. Chem. 279:5549–5554 |
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28 Jul 2010 |
Three-Dimensional Structure of Ito: Kv4.2-KChIP2 Ion Channels by Electron Microscopy at 21Å Resolution |
Nature |
2004, Neuron 41:513–519 |
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