This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Zippora Shakked

    Quaternary structure of p53: The light at the end of the tunnel

    PNAS 2007 104:12231-12232; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705319104
    • See companion article on page 12324 in issue 30 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • David E. Alexander

    Ancient Argentavis soars again

    PNAS 2007 104:12233-12234; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705515104
    • See companion article on page 12398 in issue 30 of volume 104

Perspective

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Romeo Alexander
    • and Paul R. Garabedian

    Choice of coils for a fusion reactor

    PNAS 2007 104:12250-12252; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705409104

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sara L. Quaytman
    • and Steven D. Schwartz

    Reaction coordinate of an enzymatic reaction revealed by transition path sampling

    PNAS 2007 104:12253-12258; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704304104

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Christopher G. Knight,
    • Sylvia H. E. Knight,
    • Neil Massey,
    • Tolu Aina,
    • Carl Christensen,
    • Dave J. Frame,
    • Jamie A. Kettleborough,
    • Andrew Martin,
    • Stephen Pascoe,
    • Ben Sanderson,
    • David A. Stainforth,
    • and Myles R. Allen

    Association of parameter, software, and hardware variation with large-scale behavior across 57,000 climate models

    PNAS 2007 104:12259-12264; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608144104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Claudio Bunster
    • and Marc Henneaux

    Inaugural Article: A monopole near a black hole

    PNAS 2007 104:12243-12249; published ahead of print July 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705043104
    • See commentary article on page 9137 in issue 27 of volume 105

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Michael D. Sockol,
    • David A. Raichlen,
    • and Herman Pontzer

    Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the origin of human bipedalism

    PNAS 2007 104:12265-12269; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703267104

Psychology

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Clinton E. Canal,
    • Qing Chang,
    • and Paul E. Gold

    Amnesia produced by altered release of neurotransmitters after intraamygdala injections of a protein synthesis inhibitor

    PNAS 2007 104:12500-12505; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705195104
  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Psychology:
    • Katherine D. Kinzler,
    • Emmanuel Dupoux,
    • and Elizabeth S. Spelke

    The native language of social cognition

    PNAS 2007 104:12577-12580; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705345104

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Gregorio Valdez,
    • Polyxeni Philippidou,
    • Julie Rosenbaum,
    • Wendy Akmentin,
    • Yufang Shao,
    • and Simon Halegoua

    Trk-signaling endosomes are generated by Rac-dependent macroendocytosis

    PNAS 2007 104:12270-12275; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702819104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Gregor Hagelueken,
    • Lutz Wiehlmann,
    • Thorsten M. Adams,
    • Harald Kolmar,
    • Dirk W. Heinz,
    • Burkhard Tümmler,
    • and Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Crystal structure of the electron transfer complex rubredoxin–rubredoxin reductase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    PNAS 2007 104:12276-12281; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702919104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Scott A. Lujan,
    • Laura M. Guogas,
    • Heather Ragonese,
    • Steven W. Matson,
    • and Matthew R. Redinbo

    Disrupting antibiotic resistance propagation by inhibiting the conjugative DNA relaxase

    PNAS 2007 104:12282-12287; published ahead of print July 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702760104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jun Lu,
    • Eng-Hui Chew,
    • and Arne Holmgren

    Targeting thioredoxin reductase is a basis for cancer therapy by arsenic trioxide

    PNAS 2007 104:12288-12293; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701549104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yao-Wen Wu,
    • Kui-Thong Tan,
    • Herbert Waldmann,
    • Roger S. Goody,
    • and Kirill Alexandrov

    Interaction analysis of prenylated Rab GTPase with Rab escort protein and GDP dissociation inhibitor explains the need for both regulators

    PNAS 2007 104:12294-12299; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701817104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Giuseppe D. Tocchini-Valentini,
    • Paolo Fruscoloni,
    • and Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini

    The dawn of dominance by the mature domain in tRNA splicing

    PNAS 2007 104:12300-12305; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705537104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Seth M. Kelly,
    • Suzette A. Pabit,
    • Chad M. Kitchen,
    • Peng Guo,
    • Kavita A. Marfatia,
    • T. J. Murphy,
    • Anita H. Corbett,
    • and Keith M. Berland

    Recognition of polyadenosine RNA by zinc finger proteins

    PNAS 2007 104:12306-12311; published ahead of print July 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701244104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nazish Sayed,
    • Padmamalini Baskaran,
    • Xiaolei Ma,
    • Focco van den Akker,
    • and Annie Beuve

    Desensitization of soluble guanylyl cyclase, the NO receptor, by S-nitrosylation

    PNAS 2007 104:12312-12317; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703944104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ken Higashimoto,
    • Peter Kuhn,
    • Dhaval Desai,
    • Xiaodong Cheng,
    • and Wei Xu

    Phosphorylation-mediated inactivation of coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1

    PNAS 2007 104:12318-12323; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610792104

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sara L. Quaytman
    • and Steven D. Schwartz

    Reaction coordinate of an enzymatic reaction revealed by transition path sampling

    PNAS 2007 104:12253-12258; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704304104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Henning Tidow,
    • Roberto Melero,
    • Efstratios Mylonas,
    • Stefan M. V. Freund,
    • J. Guenter Grossmann,
    • José María Carazo,
    • Dmitri I. Svergun,
    • Mikel Valle,
    • and Alan R. Fersht

    From the Cover: Quaternary structures of tumor suppressor p53 and a specific p53–DNA complex

    PNAS 2007 104:12324-12329; published ahead of print July 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705069104
    • See commentary article on page 12231 in issue 30 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sebastian Kmiecik
    • and Andrzej Kolinski

    Characterization of protein-folding pathways by reduced-space modeling

    PNAS 2007 104:12330-12335; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702265104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Michael T. Sykes
    • and Michael Levitt

    Simulations of RNA base pairs in a nanodroplet reveal solvation-dependent stability

    PNAS 2007 104:12336-12340; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705573104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Amy M. Ruschak
    • and Andrew D. Miranker

    Fiber-dependent amyloid formation as catalysis of an existing reaction pathway

    PNAS 2007 104:12341-12346; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703306104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Roberto Araya,
    • Volodymyr Nikolenko,
    • Kenneth B. Eisenthal,
    • and Rafael Yuste

    Sodium channels amplify spine potentials

    PNAS 2007 104:12347-12352; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705282104
    Open Access Article

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hongchuan Jin,
    • Xian Wang,
    • Jianming Ying,
    • Ada H. Y. Wong,
    • Yan Cui,
    • Gopesh Srivastava,
    • Zhong-Ying Shen,
    • En-Min Li,
    • Qian Zhang,
    • Jie Jin,
    • Sabine Kupzig,
    • Anthony T. C. Chan,
    • Peter J. Cullen,
    • and Qian Tao

    Epigenetic silencing of a Ca 2+ -regulated Ras GTPase-activating protein RASAL defines a new mechanism of Ras activation in human cancers

    PNAS 2007 104:12353-12358; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700153104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Enric Zelazny,
    • Jan Willem Borst,
    • Mélanie Muylaert,
    • Henri Batoko,
    • Marcus A. Hemminga,
    • and François Chaumont

    FRET imaging in living maize cells reveals that plasma membrane aquaporins interact to regulate their subcellular localization

    PNAS 2007 104:12359-12364; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701180104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Yunyuan V. Wang,
    • Mark Wade,
    • EeTsin Wong,
    • Yao-Cheng Li,
    • Luo Wei Rodewald,
    • and Geoffrey M. Wahl

    Quantitative analyses reveal the importance of regulated Hdmx degradation for P53 activation

    PNAS 2007 104:12365-12370; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701497104

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Joanne L. Attema,
    • Peter Papathanasiou,
    • E. Camilla Forsberg,
    • Jian Xu,
    • Stephen T. Smale,
    • and Irving L. Weissman

    Epigenetic characterization of hematopoietic stem cell differentiation using miniChIP and bisulfite sequencing analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:12371-12376; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704468104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jian Xu,
    • Scott D. Pope,
    • Ali R. Jazirehi,
    • Joanne L. Attema,
    • Peter Papathanasiou,
    • Jason A. Watts,
    • Kenneth S. Zaret,
    • Irving L. Weissman,
    • and Stephen T. Smale

    Pioneer factor interactions and unmethylated CpG dinucleotides mark silent tissue-specific enhancers in embryonic stem cells

    PNAS 2007 104:12377-12382; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704579104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Roger Revilla-i-Domingo,
    • Paola Oliveri,
    • and Eric H. Davidson

    A missing link in the sea urchin embryo gene regulatory network: hesC and the double-negative specification of micromeres

    PNAS 2007 104:12383-12388; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705324104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Arata Honda,
    • Michiko Hirose,
    • Kenshiro Hara,
    • Shogo Matoba,
    • Kimiko Inoue,
    • Himomi Miki,
    • Hitoshi Hiura,
    • Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara,
    • Yoshiakira Kanai,
    • Tomohiro Kono,
    • Takashi Shinohara,
    • and Atsuo Ogura

    Isolation, characterization, and in vitro and in vivo differentiation of putative thecal stem cells

    PNAS 2007 104:12389-12394; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703787104

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • John P. Smol
    • and Marianne S. V. Douglas

    Crossing the final ecological threshold in high Arctic ponds

    PNAS 2007 104:12395-12397; published ahead of print July 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702777104

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Sankar Chatterjee,
    • R. Jack Templin,
    • and Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.

    From the Cover: The aerodynamics of Argentavis , the world's largest flying bird from the Miocene of Argentina

    PNAS 2007 104:12398-12403; published ahead of print July 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702040104
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 12233 in issue 30 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Michael J. O'Neill,
    • Betty R. Lawton,
    • Mariana Mateos,
    • Dawn M. Carone,
    • Gianni C. Ferreri,
    • Tomas Hrbek,
    • Robert W. Meredith,
    • David N. Reznick,
    • and Rachel J. O'Neill

    From the Cover: Ancient and continuing Darwinian selection on insulin-like growth factor II in placental fishes

    PNAS 2007 104:12404-12409; published ahead of print July 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705048104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Saurabh Asthana,
    • William S. Noble,
    • Gregory Kryukov,
    • Charles E. Grant,
    • Shamil Sunyaev,
    • and John A. Stamatoyannopoulos

    Widely distributed noncoding purifying selection in the human genome

    PNAS 2007 104:12410-12415; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705140104

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • László Sipos,
    • Gabriella Kozma,
    • Enikő Molnár,
    • and Welcome Bender

    In situ dissection of a Polycomb response element in Drosophila melanogaster

    PNAS 2007 104:12416-12421; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703144104
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jiang Han,
    • Daniel Kim,
    • and Kevin V. Morris

    Promoter-associated RNA is required for RNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

    PNAS 2007 104:12422-12427; published ahead of print July 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701635104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Dongmei Wang,
    • Li-En Jao,
    • Naizhong Zheng,
    • Kyle Dolan,
    • Jessica Ivey,
    • Seth Zonies,
    • Xiaolin Wu,
    • Kangmai Wu,
    • Hongbo Yang,
    • Qingchao Meng,
    • Zuoyan Zhu,
    • Bo Zhang,
    • Shuo Lin,
    • and Shawn M. Burgess

    Efficient genome-wide mutagenesis of zebrafish genes by retroviral insertions

    PNAS 2007 104:12428-12433; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705502104
    Open Access Article

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Hans-Willi Mittrücker,
    • Ulrich Steinhoff,
    • Anne Köhler,
    • Marion Krause,
    • Doris Lazar,
    • Peggy Mex,
    • Delia Miekley,
    • and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

    Poor correlation between BCG vaccination-induced T cell responses and protection against tuberculosis

    PNAS 2007 104:12434-12439; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703510104
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Hilary Sandig,
    • Joanne McDonald,
    • Jane Gilmour,
    • Matthew Arno,
    • Tak H. Lee,
    • and David J. Cousins

    Human Th2 cells selectively express the orexigenic peptide, pro-melanin-concentrating hormone

    PNAS 2007 104:12440-12444; published ahead of print July 18, 2007