This Week in PNAS

Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Daniel T. Blumstein

    Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack

    PNAS 2007 104:14177-14178; published online before print August 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707286104
    • See companion article on page 14372 in issue 36 of volume 104

Profile

  • Profile:
    • Melissa Marino

    Profile of Richard P. Novick

    PNAS 2007 104:14179-14181; published online before print August 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707438104
    • See commentary article on page 14182 in issue 36 of volume 104

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature

Introduction

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Introduction:
    • Robin M. Hochstrasser

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14189; published online before print August 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706002104

Perspective

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Robin M. Hochstrasser

    From the Cover: Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Two-dimensional spectroscopy at infrared and optical frequencies

    PNAS 2007 104:14190-14196; published online before print July 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704079104

Research Articles

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sang-Hee Shim,
    • David B. Strasfeld,
    • Yun L. Ling,
    • and Martin T. Zanni

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide

    PNAS 2007 104:14197-14202; published online before print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700804104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Elizabeth L. Read,
    • Gregory S. Engel,
    • Tessa R. Calhoun,
    • Tomáš Mančal,
    • Tae Kyu Ahn,
    • Robert E. Blankenship,
    • and Graham R. Fleming

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14203-14208; published online before print June 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701201104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Dmitry V. Kurochkin,
    • Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty,
    • and Igor V. Rubtsov

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method

    PNAS 2007 104:14209-14214; published online before print June 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700560104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • B. Auer,
    • R. Kumar,
    • J. R. Schmidt,
    • and J. L. Skinner

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O

    PNAS 2007 104:14215-14220; published online before print June 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701482104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Kyungwon Kwak,
    • Sungnam Park,
    • and M. D. Fayer

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents

    PNAS 2007 104:14221-14226; published online before print June 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701710104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Tianhao Zhang,
    • Irina Kuznetsova,
    • Torsten Meier,
    • Xiaoqin Li,
    • Richard P. Mirin,
    • Peter Thomas,
    • and Steven T. Cundiff

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors

    PNAS 2007 104:14227-14232; published online before print July 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701273104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wei Zhuang,
    • Darius Abramavicius,
    • Dimitrii V. Voronine,
    • and Shaul Mukamel

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils

    PNAS 2007 104:14233-14236; published online before print August 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700392104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hoi Sung Chung,
    • Ziad Ganim,
    • Kevin C. Jones,
    • and Andrei Tokmakoff

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics

    PNAS 2007 104:14237-14242; published online before print June 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700959104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jens Bredenbeck,
    • Jan Helbing,
    • Karin Nienhaus,
    • G. Ulrich Nienhaus,
    • and Peter Hamm

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Protein ligand migration mapped by nonequilibrium 2D-IR exchange spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14243-14248; published online before print January 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607758104

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sang-Hee Shim,
    • David B. Strasfeld,
    • Yun L. Ling,
    • and Martin T. Zanni

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide

    PNAS 2007 104:14197-14202; published online before print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700804104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Elizabeth L. Read,
    • Gregory S. Engel,
    • Tessa R. Calhoun,
    • Tomáš Mančal,
    • Tae Kyu Ahn,
    • Robert E. Blankenship,
    • and Graham R. Fleming

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14203-14208; published online before print June 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701201104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Dmitry V. Kurochkin,
    • Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty,
    • and Igor V. Rubtsov

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method

    PNAS 2007 104:14209-14214; published online before print June 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700560104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • B. Auer,
    • R. Kumar,
    • J. R. Schmidt,
    • and J. L. Skinner

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O

    PNAS 2007 104:14215-14220; published online before print June 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701482104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Kyungwon Kwak,
    • Sungnam Park,
    • and M. D. Fayer

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents

    PNAS 2007 104:14221-14226; published online before print June 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701710104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wei Zhuang,
    • Darius Abramavicius,
    • Dimitrii V. Voronine,
    • and Shaul Mukamel

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils

    PNAS 2007 104:14233-14236; published online before print August 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700392104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hoi Sung Chung,
    • Ziad Ganim,
    • Kevin C. Jones,
    • and Andrei Tokmakoff

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics

    PNAS 2007 104:14237-14242; published online before print June 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700959104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Matthew Pelton,
    • Glenna Smith,
    • Norbert F. Scherer,
    • and Rudolph A. Marcus

    Evidence for a diffusion-controlled mechanism for fluorescence blinking of colloidal quantum dots

    PNAS 2007 104:14249-14254; published online before print August 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706164104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Alessandro Troisi,
    • Jeremy M. Beebe,
    • Laura B. Picraux,
    • Roger D. van Zee,
    • Duncan R. Stewart,
    • Mark A. Ratner,
    • and James G. Kushmerick

    Tracing electronic pathways in molecules by using inelastic tunneling spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14255-14259; published online before print August 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704208104

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Maung Nyan Win
    • and Christina D. Smolke

    From the Cover: A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function

    PNAS 2007 104:14283-14288; published online before print August 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703961104
    • See commentary article on page 14881 in issue 38 of volume 104

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Gregory T. Ventura,
    • Fabien Kenig,
    • Christopher M. Reddy,
    • Juergen Schieber,
    • Glenn S. Frysinger,
    • Robert K. Nelson,
    • Etienne Dinel,
    • Richard B. Gaines,
    • and Philippe Schaeffer

    Molecular evidence of Late Archean archaea and the presence of a subsurface hydrothermal biosphere

    PNAS 2007 104:14260-14265; published online before print August 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610903104

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • S. J. Loyd,
    • T. W. Becker,
    • C. P. Conrad,
    • C. Lithgow-Bertelloni,
    • and F. A. Corsetti

    Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:14266-14271; published online before print August 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706667104

Physics

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Tianhao Zhang,
    • Irina Kuznetsova,
    • Torsten Meier,
    • Xiaoqin Li,
    • Richard P. Mirin,
    • Peter Thomas,
    • and Steven T. Cundiff

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors

    PNAS 2007 104:14227-14232; published online before print July 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701273104

Sustainability Science

  • Physical Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Vassilis Spyratos,
    • Patrick S. Bourgeron,
    • and Michael Ghil

    Development at the wildland–urban interface and the mitigation of forest-fire risk

    PNAS 2007 104:14272-14276; published online before print August 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704488104
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Damian Evans,
    • Christophe Pottier,
    • Roland Fletcher,
    • Scott Hensley,
    • Ian Tapley,
    • Anthony Milne,
    • and Michael Barbetti

    A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia

    PNAS 2007 104:14277-14282; published online before print August 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702525104

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Maung Nyan Win
    • and Christina D. Smolke

    From the Cover: A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function

    PNAS 2007 104:14283-14288; published online before print August 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703961104
    • See commentary article on page 14881 in issue 38 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Manami Takenaka,
    • Toshitaka Horiuchi,
    • and Ryuzo Yanagimachi

    Effects of light on development of mammalian zygotes

    PNAS 2007 104:14289-14293; published online before print August 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706687104
    • See commentary article on page 14547 in issue 37 of volume 104

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Wujian Ju,
    • C. Alexander Valencia,
    • Hao Pang,
    • Yan Ke,
    • Weiyi Gao,
    • Biao Dong,
    • and Rihe Liu

    Proteome-wide identification of family member-specific natural substrate repertoire of caspases

    PNAS 2007 104:14294-14299; published online before print August 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702251104
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kai-Hong Zhao,
    • Ping Su,
    • Jun-Ming Tu,
    • Xing Wang,
    • Hui Liu,
    • Matthias Plöscher,
    • Lutz Eichacker,
    • Bei Yang,
    • Ming Zhou,
    • and Hugo Scheer

    Phycobilin:cystein-84 biliprotein lyase, a near-universal lyase for cysteine-84-binding sites in cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins

    PNAS 2007 104:14300-14305; published online before print August 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706209104
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Rick W. Nipper,
    • Karsten H. Siller,
    • Nicholas R. Smith,
    • Chris Q. Doe,
    • and Kenneth E. Prehoda

    Gαi generates multiple Pins activation states to link cortical polarity and spindle orientation in Drosophila neuroblasts

    PNAS 2007 104:14306-14311; published online before print August 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701812104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sonja A. Dames,
    • André Schönichen,
    • Antje Schulte,
    • Matjaz Barboric,
    • B. Matija Peterlin,
    • Stephan Grzesiek,
    • and Matthias Geyer

    Structure of the Cyclin T binding domain of Hexim1 and molecular basis for its recognition of P-TEFb

    PNAS 2007 104:14312-14317; published online before print August 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701848104
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Leticia L. Torres
    • and Graciela L. Salerno

    A metabolic pathway leading to mannosylfructose biosynthesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens uncovers a family of mannosyltransferases

    PNAS 2007 104:14318-14323; published online before print August 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706709104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jun Wang,
    • Gregory J. S. Lohman,
    • and JoAnne Stubbe

    Enhanced subunit interactions with gemcitabine-5′-diphosphate inhibit ribonucleotide reductases

    PNAS 2007 104:14324-14329; published online before print August 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706803104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Joe Carroll,
    • Matthew C. Altman,
    • Ian M. Fearnley,
    • and John E. Walker

    Identification of membrane proteins by tandem mass spectrometry of protein ions

    PNAS 2007 104:14330-14335; published online before print August 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706817104
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biophysics

  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sang-Hee Shim,
    • David B. Strasfeld,
    • Yun L. Ling,
    • and Martin T. Zanni

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide

    PNAS 2007 104:14197-14202; published online before print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700804104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Elizabeth L. Read,
    • Gregory S. Engel,
    • Tessa R. Calhoun,
    • Tomáš Mančal,
    • Tae Kyu Ahn,
    • Robert E. Blankenship,
    • and Graham R. Fleming

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:14203-14208; published online before print June 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701201104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wei Zhuang,
    • Darius Abramavicius,
    • Dimitrii V. Voronine,
    • and Shaul Mukamel

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils

    PNAS 2007 104:14233-14236; published online before print August 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700392104
  • Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hoi Sung Chung,
    • Ziad Ganim,
    • Kevin C. Jones,
    • and Andrei Tokmakoff

    Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics <