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April 28, 2009; 106 (17)

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This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2009 106:6881-6882; doi:10.1073/iti1709106

Editorial

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Editorial:
- Alan Fersht
The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor
PNAS 2009 106:6883-6884; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903307106

Commentaries

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Commentary:
- Tom Misteli
Self-organization in the genome
PNAS 2009 106:6885-6886; published online before print April 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902010106
- See companion article on page 6679 in issue 16 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Buyong Ma
- and Ruth Nussinov
Amplification of signaling via cellular allosteric relay and protein disorder
PNAS 2009 106:6887-6888; published online before print April 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903024106
- See companion article on page 6927 in issue 17 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Thierry Roger
- and Thierry Calandra
TLR2-mediated neutrophil depletion exacerbates bacterial sepsis
PNAS 2009 106:6889-6890; published online before print April 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902770106
- See companion article on page 7107 in issue 17 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Michael Chorny
- and Robert J. Levy
Site-specific analgesia with sustained release liposomes
PNAS 2009 106:6891-6892; published online before print April 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903079106
- See companion article on page 7125 in issue 17 of volume 106
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Commentary:
- Klaas M. Pos
Trinity revealed: Stoichiometric complex assembly of a bacterial multidrug efflux pump
PNAS 2009 106:6893-6894; published online before print April 22, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902837106
- See companion article on page 7173 in issue 17 of volume 106

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- Lawrence Sirovich
- and Marsha Meytlis
Symmetry, probability, and recognition in face space
PNAS 2009 106:6895-6899; published online before print April 13, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0812680106

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Jayanth R. Banavar,
- Marek Cieplak,
- Trinh Xuan Hoang,
- and Amos Maritan
First-principles design of nanomachines
PNAS 2009 106:6900-6903; published online before print April 9, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901429106

Astronomy

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Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
- Matthieu Gounelle,
- Marc Chaussidon,
- Alessandro Morbidelli,
- Jean-Alix Barrat,
- Cécile Engrand,
- Michael E. Zolensky,
- and Kevin D. McKeegan
From the Cover: A unique basaltic micrometeorite expands the inventory of solar system planetary crusts
PNAS 2009 106:6904-6909; published online before print April 6, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900328106

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Beatrix M. Ueberheide,
- David Fenyö,
- Paul F. Alewood,
- and Brian T. Chait
Rapid sensitive analysis of cysteine rich peptide venom components
PNAS 2009 106:6910-6915; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900745106
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics and Computational Biology:
- Sungwook Choi,
- Andre Isaacs,
- Dylan Clements,
- Dahui Liu,
- Hyemin Kim,
- Richard W. Scott,
- Jeffrey D. Winkler,
- and William F. DeGrado
De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers
PNAS 2009 106:6968-6973; published online before print April 9, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811818106
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- Tin-Lun Ho
- and Qi Zhou
Squeezing out the entropy of fermions in optical lattices
PNAS 2009 106:6916-6920; published online before print April 13, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809862105
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Statistics

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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Valérie Ventura
Traditional waveform based spike sorting yields biased rate code estimates
PNAS 2009 106:6921-6926; published online before print April 16, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901771106

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

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Social Sciences - Economic Sciences - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Philippe N. Tobler,
- George I. Christopoulos,
- John P. O'Doherty,
- Raymond J. Dolan,
- and Wolfram Schultz
Risk-dependent reward value signal in human prefrontal cortex
PNAS 2009 106:7185-7190; published online before print April 15, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0809599106

Retractions

Biochemistry

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Retraction - Biochemistry:
- Alexander Litovchick
- and Jack W. Szostak
Retraction for Litovchick and Szostak, Selection of cyclic peptide aptamers to HCV IRES RNA using mRNA display
PNAS 2009 106:7263; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903110106

Physiology

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Retraction - Physiology:
- Frances M. Ashcroft
- and Lejla Zubcevic
Retraction for Ma et al., Glucose regulates the effects of leptin on hypothalamic POMC neurons
PNAS 2009 106:7263; published online before print April 20, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0902342106

Correction

Cell Biology

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Correction - Cell Biology:
Correction for Wang et al., Identification of small-molecule inducers of pancreatic β-cell expansion
PNAS 2009 106:7264; published online before print April 17, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901524106

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FROM THE COVER

This Week in PNAS

In This Issue

Editorial

The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor

Commentaries

Self-organization in the genome

Amplification of signaling via cellular allosteric relay and protein disorder

TLR2-mediated neutrophil depletion exacerbates bacterial sepsis

Site-specific analgesia with sustained release liposomes

Trinity revealed: Stoichiometric complex assembly of a bacterial multidrug efflux pump

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

Symmetry, probability, and recognition in face space

Applied Physical Sciences

First-principles design of nanomachines

Astronomy

From the Cover: A unique basaltic micrometeorite expands the inventory of solar system planetary crusts

Chemistry

Rapid sensitive analysis of cysteine rich peptide venom components

De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers

Physics

Squeezing out the entropy of fermions in optical lattices

Statistics

Traditional waveform based spike sorting yields biased rate code estimates

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

Risk-dependent reward value signal in human prefrontal cortex

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

Structural basis for cAMP-mediated allosteric control of the catabolite activator protein

The structural role of the zinc ion can be dispensable in prokaryotic zinc-finger domains

A single amino acid change converts Aurora-A into Aurora-B-like kinase in terms of partner specificity and cellular function

Oligosaccharyltransferase directly binds to ribosome at a location near the translocon-binding site

The protein disulfide isomerase AGR2 is essential for production of intestinal mucus

Control of transcriptional elongation and cotranscriptional histone modification by the yeast BUR kinase substrate Spt5

Functional motifs in the (6-4) photolyase crystal structure make a comparative framework for DNA repair photolyases and clock cryptochromes

Biophysics and Computational Biology

De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers

Dissection of the high rate constant for the binding of a ribotoxin to the ribosome

Structural and dynamic aspects related to oligomerization of apo SOD1 and its mutants

Mechanisms of chiral discrimination by topoisomerase IV

Single molecule mechanics of the kinesin neck

Cell Biology

The augmin complex plays a critical role in spindle microtubule generation for mitotic progression and cytokinesis in human cells

Insulin-modulated Akt subcellular localization determines Akt isoform-specific signaling

Endocytosis is required for E-cadherin redistribution at mature adherens junctions

Cell–cell contact globally activates microRNA biogenesis

Developmental Biology

Dissecting genetic requirements of human breast tumorigenesis in a tissue transgenic model of human breast cancer in mice

Progressive lengthening of 3′ untranslated regions of mRNAs by alternative polyadenylation during mouse embryonic development

Requirement for balanced Ca/NFAT signaling in hematopoietic and embryonic development

Ecology

A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

Propagule supply controls grazer community structure and primary production in a benthic marine ecosystem

Predicting spatial similarity of freshwater fish biodiversity

Environmental Sciences

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming

Evolution

Signatures of natural selection are not uniform across genes of innate immune system, but purifying selection is the dominant signature

Rapid repetitive element-mediated expansion of piRNA clusters in mammalian evolution

Temporal lags and overlap in the diversification of weevils and flowering plants

Activated cAMP receptors switch encystation into sporulation

Genetics

From the Cover: Phycomyces MADB interacts with MADA to form the primary photoreceptor complex for fungal phototropism

Bmi1 lineage tracing identifies a self-renewing pancreatic acinar cell subpopulation capable of maintaining pancreatic organ homeostasis

Immunology

From the Cover: Innate immune-induced depletion of bone marrow neutrophils aggravates systemic bacterial infections

Inositol phosphatase SHIP1 is a primary target of miR-155

IL-1 acts directly on CD4 T cells to enhance their antigen-driven expansion and differentiation

Medical Sciences

Prolonged duration local anesthesia with minimal toxicity

Association of survival and disease progression with chromosomal instability: A genomic exploration of colorectal cancer

Small interfering RNA-induced TLR3 activation inhibits blood and lymphatic vessel growth

Experimentally observed phenomena on cardiac energetics in heart failure emerge from simulations of cardiac metabolism

Oxytocin is an anabolic bone hormone

PALB2 is an integral component of the BRCA complex required for homologous recombination repair