This Week in PNAS

Letters (Online Only)

  • Letter:
    • R. H. Belmaker,
    • Galila Agam,
    • and Yuly Bersudsky

    Role of GSK3β in behavioral abnormalities induced by serotonin deficiency

    PNAS 2008 105:E23; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801168105
  • Letter:
    • Jean-Martin Beaulieu,
    • Xiaodong Zhang,
    • Ramona M. Rodriguiz,
    • Tatyana D. Sotnikova,
    • William C. Wetsel,
    • Raul R. Gainetdinov,
    • and Marc G. Caron

    Reply to Belmaker et al. : GSK3β haploinsufficiency results in lithium-like effects in the forced-swim test

    PNAS 2008 105:E24; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803026105

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Carol A. Vandenberg

    Integrins step up the pace of cell migration through polyamines and potassium channels

    PNAS 2008 105:7109-7110; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803231105
    • See companion article on page 7188 in issue 20 of volume 105
  • Commentary:
    • Aaron P. Mitchell

    A VAST staging area for regulatory proteins

    PNAS 2008 105:7111-7112; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803384105
    • See companion article on page 7194 in issue 20 of volume 105
  • Commentary:
    • Byron Caughey
    • and Gerald S. Baron

    Are cheetahs on the run from prion-like amyloidosis?

    PNAS 2008 105:7113-7114; published ahead of print May 16, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803438105
    • See companion article on page 7263 in issue 20 of volume 105

Physical Sciences

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • C.-Q. Jin,
    • J.-S. Zhou,
    • J. B. Goodenough,
    • Q. Q. Liu,
    • J. G. Zhao,
    • L. X. Yang,
    • Y. Yu,
    • R. C. Yu,
    • T. Katsura,
    • A. Shatskiy,
    • and E. Ito

    High-pressure synthesis of the cubic perovskite BaRuO 3 and evolution of ferromagnetism in ARuO 3 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) ruthenates

    PNAS 2008 105:7115-7119; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710928105

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Takasada Shibauchi,
    • Lia Krusin-Elbaum,
    • Masashi Hasegawa,
    • Yuichi Kasahara,
    • Ryuji Okazaki,
    • and Yuji Matsuda

    Field-induced quantum critical route to a Fermi liquid in high-temperature superconductors

    PNAS 2008 105:7120-7123; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712292105

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Ronald Lee

    Sociality, selection, and survival: Simulated evolution of mortality with intergenerational transfers and food sharing

    PNAS 2008 105:7124-7128; published ahead of print May 5, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710234105
    Open Access Article

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Assaf Shechter,
    • Lilah Glazer,
    • Shira Cheled,
    • Eyal Mor,
    • Simy Weil,
    • Amir Berman,
    • Shmuel Bentov,
    • Eliahu D. Aflalo,
    • Isam Khalaila,
    • and Amir Sagi

    A gastrolith protein serving a dual role in the formation of an amorphous mineral containing extracellular matrix

    PNAS 2008 105:7129-7134; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800193105
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Joanne Y. Yew,
    • Robert B. Cody,
    • and Edward A. Kravitz

    Cuticular hydrocarbon analysis of an awake behaving fly using direct analysis in real-time time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    PNAS 2008 105:7135-7140; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802692105
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Erzsébet Fekete,
    • Bernhard Seiboth,
    • Christian P. Kubicek,
    • Attila Szentirmai,
    • and Levente Karaffa

    Lack of aldose 1-epimerase in Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei ): A key to cellulase gene expression on lactose

    PNAS 2008 105:7141-7146; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802789105

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jose C. Juarez,
    • Mari Manuia,
    • Mark E. Burnett,
    • Oscar Betancourt,
    • Benoit Boivin,
    • David E. Shaw,
    • Nicholas K. Tonks,
    • Andrew P. Mazar,
    • and Fernando Doñate

    Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) is essential for H 2 O 2 -mediated oxidation and inactivation of phosphatases in growth factor signaling

    PNAS 2008 105:7147-7152; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709451105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lei Sun,
    • Jinmin Gao,
    • Xin Dong,
    • Min Liu,
    • Dengwen Li,
    • Xingjuan Shi,
    • Jin-Tang Dong,
    • Xianyu Lu,
    • Chunyong Liu,
    • and Jun Zhou

    EB1 promotes Aurora-B kinase activity through blocking its inactivation by protein phosphatase 2A

    PNAS 2008 105:7153-7158; published ahead of print May 13, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710018105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Huan Wang,
    • Martin L. Duennwald,
    • Blake E. Roberts,
    • Leslie M. Rozeboom,
    • Yingxin L. Zhang,
    • Andrew D. Steele,
    • Rajaraman Krishnan,
    • Linhui Julie Su,
    • Drees Griffin,
    • Samrat Mukhopadhyay,
    • Edward J. Hennessy,
    • Peter Weigele,
    • Barbara J. Blanchard,
    • Jonathan King,
    • Ashok A. Deniz,
    • Stephen L. Buchwald,
    • Vernon M. Ingram,
    • Susan Lindquist,
    • and James Shorter

    Direct and selective elimination of specific prions and amyloids by 4,5-dianilinophthalimide and analogs

    PNAS 2008 105:7159-7164; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801934105

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Pascal Hersen,
    • Megan N. McClean,
    • L. Mahadevan,
    • and Sharad Ramanathan

    Signal processing by the HOG MAP kinase pathway

    PNAS 2008 105:7165-7170; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710770105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Susie Y. Dai,
    • Michael J. Chalmers,
    • John Bruning,
    • Kelli S. Bramlett,
    • Harold E. Osborne,
    • Chahrzad Montrose-Rafizadeh,
    • Robert J. Barr,
    • Yong Wang,
    • Minmin Wang,
    • Thomas P. Burris,
    • Jeffrey A. Dodge,
    • and Patrick R. Griffin

    Prediction of the tissue-specificity of selective estrogen receptor modulators by using a single biochemical method

    PNAS 2008 105:7171-7176; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710802105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Andreas Bernsel,
    • Håkan Viklund,
    • Jenny Falk,
    • Erik Lindahl,
    • Gunnar von Heijne,
    • and Arne Elofsson

    Prediction of membrane-protein topology from first principles

    PNAS 2008 105:7177-7181; published ahead of print May 13, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711151105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sabrina Bédard,
    • Mallela M. G. Krishna,
    • Leland Mayne,
    • and S. Walter Englander

    Protein folding: Independent unrelated pathways or predetermined pathway with optional errors

    PNAS 2008 105:7182-7187; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801864105

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Gregory W. deHart,
    • Taihao Jin,
    • Diane E. McCloskey,
    • Anthony E. Pegg,
    • and Dean Sheppard

    The α9β1 integrin enhances cell migration by polyamine-mediated modulation of an inward-rectifier potassium channel

    PNAS 2008 105:7188-7193; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708044105
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 7109 in issue 20 of volume 105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Rekha Puria,
    • Sara A. Zurita-Martinez,
    • and Maria E. Cardenas

    From the Cover: Nuclear translocation of Gln3 in response to nutrient signals requires Golgi-to-endosome trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    PNAS 2008 105:7194-7199; published ahead of print April 28, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801087105
    • See commentary article on page 7111 in issue 20 of volume 105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Kenji Murakami,
    • Murray Stewart,
    • Kayo Nozawa,
    • Kumiko Tomii,
    • Norio Kudou,
    • Noriyuki Igarashi,
    • Yasuo Shirakihara,
    • Soichi Wakatsuki,
    • Takuo Yasunaga,
    • and Takeyuki Wakabayashi

    Structural basis for tropomyosin overlap in thin (actin) filaments and the generation of a molecular swivel by troponin-T

    PNAS 2008 105:7200-7205; published ahead of print May 15, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801950105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Peter M. Douglas,
    • Sebastian Treusch,
    • Hong-Yu Ren,
    • Randal Halfmann,
    • Martin L. Duennwald,
    • Susan Lindquist,
    • and Douglas M. Cyr

    Chaperone-dependent amyloid assembly protects cells from prion toxicity

    PNAS 2008 105:7206-7211; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802593105

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Douglas Coveney,
    • Jonah Cool,
    • Tim Oliver,
    • and Blanche Capel

    From the Cover: Four-dimensional analysis of vascularization during primary development of an organ, the gonad

    PNAS 2008 105:7212-7217; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707674105

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Han Lin,
    • Ren-Shan Ge,
    • Guo-Rong Chen,
    • Guo-Xin Hu,
    • Lei Dong,
    • Qing-Quan Lian,
    • Dianne O. Hardy,
    • Chantal M. Sottas,
    • Xiao-Kun Li,
    • and Matthew P. Hardy

    Involvement of testicular growth factors in fetal Leydig cell aggregation after exposure to phthalate in utero

    PNAS 2008 105:7218-7222; published ahead of print May 9, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709260105

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Rosa Tarrío,
    • Francisco J. Ayala,
    • and Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles

    From the Cover: Alternative splicing: A missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain

    PNAS 2008 105:7223-7228; published ahead of print May 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802941105
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Thomas Stach,
    • Jonas Winter,
    • Jean-Marie Bouquet,
    • Daniel Chourrout,
    • and Ralf Schnabel

    Embryology of a planktonic tunicate reveals traces of sessility

    PNAS 2008 105:7229-7234; published ahead of print May 19, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710196105

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Mari L. Shinohara,
    • Hye-Jung Kim,
    • June-Ho Kim,
    • Virgilio A. Garcia,
    • and Harvey Cantor

    Alternative translation of osteopontin generates intracellular and secreted isoforms that mediate distinct biological activities in dendritic cells

    PNAS 2008 105:7235-7239; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802301105
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • A. Munitz,
    • E. B. Brandt,
    • M. Mingler,
    • F. D. Finkelman,
    • and M. E. Rothenberg

    Distinct roles for IL-13 and IL-4 via IL-13 receptor α1 and the type II IL-4 receptor in asthma pathogenesis

    PNAS 2008 105:7240-7245; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802465105
    Open Access Article

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Philippe Bertolino,
    • Rebecka Holmberg,
    • Eva Reissmann,
    • Olov Andersson,
    • Per-Olof Berggren,
    • and Carlos F. Ibáñez

    Activin B receptor ALK7 is a negative regulator of pancreatic β-cell function

    PNAS 2008 105:7246-7251; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801285105
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Olov Andersson,
    • Marion Korach-Andre,
    • Eva Reissmann,
    • Carlos F. Ibáñez,
    • and Philippe Bertolino

    Growth/differentiation factor 3 signals through ALK7 and regulates accumulation of adipose tissue and diet-induced obesity

    PNAS 2008 105:7252-7256; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800272105
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Jonathan D. Roth,
    • Barbara L. Roland,
    • Rebecca L. Cole,
    • James L. Trevaskis,
    • Christian Weyer,
    • Joy E. Koda,
    • Christen M. Anderson,
    • David G. Parkes,
    • and Alain D. Baron

    Leptin responsiveness restored by amylin agonism in diet-induced obesity: Evidence from nonclinical and clinical studies

    PNAS 2008 105:7257-7262; published ahead of print May 5, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706473105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Beiru Zhang,
    • Yumi Une,
    • Xiaoying Fu,
    • Jingmin Yan,
    • FengXia Ge,
    • Junjie Yao,
    • Jinko Sawashita,
    • Masayuki Mori,
    • Hiroshi Tomozawa,
    • Fuyuki Kametani,
    • and Keiichi Higuchi

    From the Cover: Fecal transmission of AA amyloidosis in the cheetah contributes to high incidence of disease

    PNAS 2008 105:7263-7268; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800367105
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 7113 in issue 20 of volume 105
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Krystian Jazdzewski,
    • Elizabeth L. Murray,
    • Kaarle Franssila,
    • Barbara Jarzab,
    • Daniel R. Schoenberg,
    • and Albert de la Chapelle

    Common SNP in pre-miR-146a decreases mature miR expression and predisposes to papillary thyroid carcinoma

    PNAS 2008 105:7269-7274; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802682105
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Klaus Hellmuth,
    • Stefanie Grosskopf,
    • Ching Tung Lum,
    • Martin Würtele,
    • Nadine Röder,
    • Jens Peter von Kries,
    • Marta Rosario,
    • Jörg Rademann,
    • and Walter Birchmeier

    Specific inhibitors of the protein tyrosine phosphatase Shp2 identified by high-throughput docking

    PNAS 2008 105:7275-7280; published ahead of print May 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710468105
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ramakrishnaiah Siddappa,
    • Anton Martens,
    • Joyce Doorn,
    • Anouk Leusink,
    • Cristina Olivo,
    • Ruud Licht,
    • Linda van Rijn,
    • Claudia Gaspar,
    • Riccardo Fodde,
    • Frank Janssen,
    • Clemens van Blitterswijk,
    • and Jan de Boer

    cAMP/PKA pathway activation in human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro results in robust bone formation in vivo

    PNAS 2008 105:7281-7286; published ahead of print May 19, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711190105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Gene Kurosawa,
    • Yasushi Akahori,
    • Miwa Morita,
    • Mariko Sumitomo,
    • Noriko Sato,
    • Chiho Muramatsu,
    • Keiko Eguchi,
    • Kazuki Matsuda,
    • Akihiko Takasaki,
    • Miho Tanaka,
    • Yoshitaka Iba,
    • Susumu Hamada-Tsutsumi,
    • Yoshinori Ukai,
    • Mamoru Shiraishi,
    • Kazuhiro Suzuki,
    • Maiko Kurosawa,
    • Sally Fujiyama,
    • Nobuhiro Takahashi,
    • Ryoichi Kato,
    • Yoshikazu Mizoguchi,
    • Mikihiro Shamoto,
    • Hiroyuki Tsuda,
    • Mototaka Sugiura,
    • Yoshinobu Hattori,
    • Shuichi Miyakawa,
    • Ryoichi Shiroki,
    • Kiyotaka Hoshinaga,
    • Nobuhiro Hayashi,
    • Atsushi Sugioka,
    • and Yoshikazu Kurosawa

    Comprehensive screening for antigens overexpressed on carcinomas via isolation of human mAbs that may be therapeutic

    PNAS 2008 105:7287-7292; published ahead of print May 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712202105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Karoly Toth,
    • Jacqueline F. Spencer,
    • Debanjan Dhar,
    • John E. Sagartz,
    • R. Mark L. Buller,
    • George R. Painter,
    • and William S. M. Wold

    Hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir, CMX001, prevents adenovirus-induced mortality in a permissive, immunosuppressed animal model

    PNAS 2008 105:7293-7297; published ahead of print May 19, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800200105

Neuroscience

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Milena Winograd,
    • Alain Destexhe,
    • and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives

    Hyperpolarization-activated graded persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex

    PNAS 2008 105:7298