Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Richard Cordaux
    • and Mark A. Batzer

    Teaching an old dog new tricks: SINEs of canine genomic diversity

    PNAS 2006 103:1157-1158; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510714103
    • See companion article on page 1376 in issue 5 of volume 103

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Mitsuhiko Ikura
    • and James B. Ames

    Genetic polymorphism and protein conformational plasticity in the calmodulin superfamily: Two ways to promote multifunctionality

    PNAS 2006 103:1159-1164; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508640103

In This Issue

Profile

  • Profile:
    • Regina Nuzzo

    Profile of Chikashi Toyoshima

    PNAS 2006 103:1165-1167; published ahead of print January 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508495103
    • See commentary article on page 14489 in issue 41 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Alexander M. Bronstein,
    • Michael M. Bronstein,
    • and Ron Kimmel

    Generalized multidimensional scaling: A framework for isometry-invariant partial surface matching

    PNAS 2006 103:1168-1172; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508601103

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Cristian A. Solari,
    • Sujoy Ganguly,
    • John O. Kessler,
    • Richard E. Michod,
    • and Raymond E. Goldstein

    Multicellularity and the functional interdependence of motility and molecular transport

    PNAS 2006 103:1353-1358; published ahead of print January 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503810103

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Joseph E. Reiner,
    • Jeffrey M. Wells,
    • Rani B. Kishore,
    • Candace Pfefferkorn,
    • and Kristian Helmerson

    Stable and robust polymer nanotubes stretched from polymersomes

    PNAS 2006 103:1173-1177; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510803103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Vincenzo Balzani,
    • Miguel Clemente-León,
    • Alberto Credi,
    • Belén Ferrer,
    • Margherita Venturi,
    • Amar H. Flood,
    • and J. Fraser Stoddart

    Autonomous artificial nanomotor powered by sunlight

    PNAS 2006 103:1178-1183; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509011103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Harden McConnell
    • and Arun Radhakrishnan

    Theory of the deuterium NMR of sterol–phospholipid membranes

    PNAS 2006 103:1184-1189; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510514103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Takashi Miyata,
    • Masashi Jige,
    • Takeshi Nakaminami,
    • and Tadashi Uragami

    Tumor marker-responsive behavior of gels prepared by biomolecular imprinting

    PNAS 2006 103:1190-1193; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506786103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • S. D. Senanayake
    • and H. Idriss

    Photocatalysis and the origin of life: Synthesis of nucleoside bases from formamide on TiO 2 (001) single surfaces

    PNAS 2006 103:1194-1198; published ahead of print January 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505768103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Chiyoung Park,
    • Im Hae Lee,
    • Sanghwa Lee,
    • Yumi Song,
    • Mikyo Rhue,
    • and Chulhee Kim

    Cyclodextrin-covered organic nanotubes derived from self-assembly of dendrons and their supramolecular transformation

    PNAS 2006 103:1199-1203; published ahead of print January 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505364103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Glauco R. Souza,
    • Dawn R. Christianson,
    • Fernanda I. Staquicini,
    • Michael G. Ozawa,
    • Evan Y. Snyder,
    • Richard L. Sidman,
    • J. Houston Miller,
    • Wadih Arap,
    • and Renata Pasqualini

    Networks of gold nanoparticles and bacteriophage as biological sensors and cell-targeting agents

    PNAS 2006 103:1215-1220; published ahead of print January 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509739103

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Alfredo A. Correa,
    • Stanimir A. Bonev,
    • and Giulia Galli

    Carbon under extreme conditions: Phase boundaries and electronic properties from first-principles theory

    PNAS 2006 103:1204-1208; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510489103

Plant Biology

  • Physical Sciences - Plant Biology - Biological Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Henrik Jönsson,
    • Marcus G. Heisler,
    • Bruce E. Shapiro,
    • Elliot M. Meyerowitz,
    • and Eric Mjolsness

    An auxin-driven polarized transport model for phyllotaxis

    PNAS 2006 103:1633-1638; published ahead of print January 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509839103

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Navin Elango,
    • James W. Thomas,
    • NISC Comparative Sequencing Program,
    • and Soojin V. Yi

    Variable molecular clocks in hominoids

    PNAS 2006 103:1370-1375; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510716103

Economic Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences - Political Sciences:
    • Roger Stern

    Oil market power and United States national security

    PNAS 2006 103:1650-1655; published ahead of print January 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503705102

Political Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences - Political Sciences:
    • Roger Stern

    Oil market power and United States national security

    PNAS 2006 103:1650-1655; published ahead of print January 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503705102

Biological Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Plant Biology - Biological Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Henrik Jönsson,
    • Marcus G. Heisler,
    • Bruce E. Shapiro,
    • Elliot M. Meyerowitz,
    • and Eric Mjolsness

    An auxin-driven polarized transport model for phyllotaxis

    PNAS 2006 103:1633-1638; published ahead of print January 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509839103

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Glauco R. Souza,
    • Dawn R. Christianson,
    • Fernanda I. Staquicini,
    • Michael G. Ozawa,
    • Evan Y. Snyder,
    • Richard L. Sidman,
    • J. Houston Miller,
    • Wadih Arap,
    • and Renata Pasqualini

    Networks of gold nanoparticles and bacteriophage as biological sensors and cell-targeting agents

    PNAS 2006 103:1215-1220; published ahead of print January 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509739103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Annette Granéli,
    • Caitlyn C. Yeykal,
    • Ragan B. Robertson,
    • and Eric C. Greene

    Long-distance lateral diffusion of human Rad51 on double-stranded DNA

    PNAS 2006 103:1221-1226; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508366103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Grace W. Yu,
    • Stefan Rudiger,
    • Dmitry Veprintsev,
    • Stefan Freund,
    • M. Rosario Fernandez-Fernandez,
    • and Alan R. Fersht

    The central region of HDM2 provides a second binding site for p53

    PNAS 2006 103:1227-1232; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510343103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lulu Huang,
    • Lou Massa,
    • and Jerome Karle

    The Kernel Energy Method: Application to a tRNA

    PNAS 2006 103:1233-1237; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510342103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mary C. Corbett,
    • Yilin Hu,
    • Aaron W. Fay,
    • Markus W. Ribbe,
    • Britt Hedman,
    • and Keith O. Hodgson

    Structural insights into a protein-bound iron-molybdenum cofactor precursor

    PNAS 2006 103:1238-1243; published ahead of print January 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507853103

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Joseph E. Reiner,
    • Jeffrey M. Wells,
    • Rani B. Kishore,
    • Candace Pfefferkorn,
    • and Kristian Helmerson

    Stable and robust polymer nanotubes stretched from polymersomes

    PNAS 2006 103:1173-1177; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510803103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Harden McConnell
    • and Arun Radhakrishnan

    Theory of the deuterium NMR of sterol–phospholipid membranes

    PNAS 2006 103:1184-1189; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510514103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hendrik Dietz
    • and Matthias Rief

    Protein structure by mechanical triangulation

    PNAS 2006 103:1244-1247; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509217103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Young-Jun Park
    • and Karolin Luger

    The structure of nucleosome assembly protein 1

    PNAS 2006 103:1248-1253; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508002103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Robert A. Goldbeck,
    • Shyam Bhaskaran,
    • Cheri Ortega,
    • Juan L. Mendoza,
    • John S. Olson,
    • Jayashree Soman,
    • David S. Kliger,
    • and Raymond M. Esquerra

    Water and ligand entry in myoglobin: Assessing the speed and extent of heme pocket hydration after CO photodissociation

    PNAS 2006 103:1254-1259; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507840103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jianhua Xing,
    • Fan Bai,
    • Richard Berry,
    • and George Oster

    Torque–speed relationship of the bacterial flagellar motor

    PNAS 2006 103:1260-1265; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507959103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Matthew J. Schellenberg,
    • Ross A. Edwards,
    • Dustin B. Ritchie,
    • Oliver A. Kent,
    • Monika M. Golas,
    • Holger Stark,
    • Reinhard Lührmann,
    • J. N. Mark Glover,
    • and Andrew M. MacMillan

    Crystal structure of a core spliceosomal protein interface

    PNAS 2006 103:1266-1271; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508048103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Franc Avbelj,
    • Simona Golic Grdadolnik,
    • Joze Grdadolnik,
    • and Robert L. Baldwin

    Intrinsic backbone preferences are fully present in blocked amino acids

    PNAS 2006 103:1272-1277; published ahead of print January 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510420103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • John Sleep,
    • Alexandre Lewalle,
    • and David Smith

    Reconciling the working strokes of a single head of skeletal muscle myosin estimated from laser-trap experiments and crystal structures

    PNAS 2006 103:1278-1282; published ahead of print January 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506272103

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jeffrey L. Spees,
    • Scott D. Olson,
    • Mandolin J. Whitney,
    • and Darwin J. Prockop

    Mitochondrial transfer between cells can rescue aerobic respiration

    PNAS 2006 103:1283-1288; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510511103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Sohye Kang,
    • Adam Denley,
    • Bart Vanhaesebroeck,
    • and Peter K. Vogt

    Oncogenic transformation induced by the p110β, -γ, and -δ isoforms of class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase

    PNAS 2006 103:1289-1294; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510772103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Gaofeng Wang,
    • Nader H. Moniri,
    • Kentaro Ozawa,
    • Jonathan S. Stamler,
    • and Yehia Daaka

    Nitric oxide regulates endocytosis by S -nitrosylation of dynamin

    PNAS 2006 103:1295-1300; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508354103

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Richard S. Smith,
    • Soazig Guyomarc'h,
    • Therese Mandel,
    • Didier Reinhardt,
    • Cris Kuhlemeier,
    • and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

    A plausible model of phyllotaxis

    PNAS 2006 103:1301-1306; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510457103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Philippos Mourikis,
    • Gregory D. Hurlbut,
    • and Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

    Enigma, a mitochondrial protein affecting lifespan and oxidative stress response in Drosophila

    PNAS 2006 103:1307-1312; published ahead of print January 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510564103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Yoshito Masamizu,
    • Toshiyuki Ohtsuka,
    • Yoshiki Takashima,
    • Hiroki Nagahara,
    • Yoshiko Takenaka,
    • Kenichi Yoshikawa,
    • Hitoshi Okamura,
    • and Ryoichiro Kageyama

    Real-time imaging of the somite segmentation clock: Revelation of unstable oscillators in the individual presomitic mesoderm cells

    PNAS 2006 103:1313-1318; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508658103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Weihong Ge,
    • Fei He,
    • Kevin J. Kim,
    • Bruno Blanchi,
    • Volkan Coskun,
    • Laurent Nguyen,
    • Xiangbing Wu,
    • Jing Zhao,
    • Julian Ik-Tsen Heng,
    • Keri Martinowich,
    • Jifang Tao,
    • Hao Wu,
    • Diogo Castro,
    • Magdi M. Sobeih,
    • Gabriel Corfas,
    • Joseph G. Gleeson,
    • Michael E. Greenberg,
    • Francois Guillemot,
    • and Yi E. Sun

    Coupling of cell migration with neurogenesis by proneural bHLH factors

    PNAS 2006 103:1319-1324; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510419103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Gergana Galabova-Kovacs,
    • Dana Matzen,
    • Daniela Piazzolla,
    • Katrin Meissl,
    • Tatiana Plyushch,
    • Adele P. Chen,
    • Alcino Silva,
    • and Manuela Baccarini

    Essential role of B-Raf in ERK activation during extraembryonic development

    PNAS 2006 103:1325-1330; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507399103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Claudiu A. Giurumescu,
    • Paul W. Sternberg,
    • and Anand R. Asthagiri

    Intercellular coupling amplifies fate segregation during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development

    PNAS 2006 103:1331-1336; published ahead of print January 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506476103