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This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2008 105:5283-5284; doi:10.1073/iti1408105

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Uttam L. RajBhandary
- and Dieter Söll
Aminoacyl-tRNAs, the bacterial cell envelope, and antibiotics
PNAS 2008 105:5285-5286; published ahead of print April 2, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801193105
- See companion article on page 4667 in issue 12 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Ulrich G. Mueller
- and Christian Rabeling
A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution
PNAS 2008 105:5287-5288; published ahead of print April 2, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801464105
- See companion article on page 5435 in issue 14 of volume 105

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Eain Murphy,
- Jiří Vaníček,
- Harlan Robins,
- Thomas Shenk,
- and Arnold J. Levine
Suppression of immediate-early viral gene expression by herpesvirus-coded microRNAs: Implications for latency
PNAS 2008 105:5453-5458; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711910105
Open Access Article

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Yossi Weizmann,
- Adam B. Braunschweig,
- Ofer I. Wilner,
- Zoya Cheglakov,
- and Itamar Willner
A polycatenated DNA scaffold for the one-step assembly of hierarchical nanostructures
PNAS 2008 105:5289-5294; published ahead of print April 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800723105
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- David E. Moilanen,
- Emily E. Fenn,
- Yu-Shan Lin,
- J. L. Skinner,
- B. Bagchi,
- and Michael D. Fayer
Water inertial reorientation: Hydrogen bond strength and the angular potential
PNAS 2008 105:5295-5300; published ahead of print April 1, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801554105
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Ping Gong
- and Rastislav Levicky
DNA surface hybridization regimes
PNAS 2008 105:5301-5306; published ahead of print April 1, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709416105

Environmental Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Michael J. Mills,
- Owen B. Toon,
- Richard P. Turco,
- Douglas E. Kinnison,
- and Rolando R. Garcia
From the Cover: Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict
PNAS 2008 105:5307-5312; published ahead of print April 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710058105

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Philip M. Novack-Gottshall
- and Michael A. Lanier
Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods
PNAS 2008 105:5430-5434; published ahead of print March 26, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709645105

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Charles Akemann
- and Nik Weaver
ℬ( H ) has a pure state that is not multiplicative on any masa
PNAS 2008 105:5313-5314; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801176105

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- William N. Duncan,
- Andrew K. Balkansky,
- Kimberly Crawford,
- Heather A. Lapham,
- and Nathan J. Meissner
Human cremation in Mexico 3,000 years ago
PNAS 2008 105:5315-5320; published ahead of print April 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710696105

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Iris Berent,
- Tracy Lennertz,
- Jongho Jun,
- Miguel A. Moreno,
- and Paul Smolensky
Language universals in human brains
PNAS 2008 105:5321-5325; published ahead of print April 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801469105
Open Access Article
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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Wai Ting Siok,
- Zhendong Niu,
- Zhen Jin,
- Charles A. Perfetti,
- and Li Hai Tan
From the Cover: A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers
PNAS 2008 105:5561-5566; published ahead of print April 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801750105

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Aminoacyl-tRNAs, the bacterial cell envelope, and antibiotics

A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution

Suppression of immediate-early viral gene expression by herpesvirus-coded microRNAs: Implications for latency

A polycatenated DNA scaffold for the one-step assembly of hierarchical nanostructures

Water inertial reorientation: Hydrogen bond strength and the angular potential

DNA surface hybridization regimes

From the Cover: Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict

Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

ℬ( H ) has a pure state that is not multiplicative on any masa

Human cremation in Mexico 3,000 years ago

Language universals in human brains

From the Cover: A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers

From the Cover: A global perspective of the richness and evenness of traditional crop-variety diversity maintained by farming communities

Reproductive conflict and the separation of reproductive generations in humans

Identification of a potent synthetic FXR agonist with an unexpected mode of binding and activation

MicroRNA-repressed mRNAs contain 40S but not 60S components

Crystal structure and functional analysis of tetracenomycin ARO/CYC: Implications for cyclization specificity of aromatic polyketides

RTX cytotoxins recognize β 2 integrin receptors through N-linked oligosaccharides

Regulation of polymerase exchange between Polη and Polδ by monoubiquitination of PCNA and the movement of DNA polymerase holoenzyme

TFIID component TAF7 functionally interacts with both TFIIH and P-TEFb

The thermal impulse response of Escherichia coli

The lattice as allosteric effector: Structural studies of αβ- and γ-tubulin clarify the role of GTP in microtubule assembly

Palmitoylation and ubiquitination regulate exit of the Wnt signaling protein LRP6 from the endoplasmic reticulum

The role of filament-packing dynamics in powering amoeboid cell motility

Killin is a p53-regulated nuclear inhibitor of DNA synthesis

Id1 cooperates with oncogenic Ras to induce metastatic mammary carcinoma by subversion of the cellular senescence response

Molecular links among the causative genes for ocular malformation: Otx2 and Sox2 coregulate Rax expression

The Drosophila homolog of human tumor suppressor TSC-22 promotes cellular growth, proliferation, and survival

Complex interplays among population dynamics, environmental forcing, and exploitation in fisheries

Pervasive impact of large-scale edge effects on a beetle community

Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

From the Cover: Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

Detecting evolutionary relationships across existing fold space, using sequence order-independent profile–profile alignments

Evidence that strong positive selection drives neofunctionalization in the tandemly duplicated polyhomeotic genes in Drosophila

Suppression of immediate-early viral gene expression by herpesvirus-coded microRNAs: Implications for latency

The conserved Wobble uridine tRNA thiolase Ctu1–Ctu2 is required to maintain genome integrity

Human glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor ligand regulates its signaling activity through multiple oligomerization states

The lack of anti-idiotypic antibodies, not the presence of the corresponding autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase, defines type 1 diabetes

Regulation of innate immune responses by DAI (DLM-1/ZBP1) and other DNA-sensing molecules