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May 22, 2012

    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Xiaolei Ma,
    • Elizabeth Helgason,
    • Qui T. Phung,
    • Clifford L. Quan,
    • Rekha S. Iyer,
    • Michelle W. Lee,
    • Krista K. Bowman,
    • Melissa A. Starovasnik,
    • and Erin C. Dueber
    Molecular basis of Tank-binding kinase 1 activation by transautophosphorylation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121552109
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    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Antoine Claessens,
    • Yvonne Adams,
    • Ashfaq Ghumra,
    • Gabriella Lindergard,
    • Caitlin C. Buchan,
    • Cheryl Andisi,
    • Peter C. Bull,
    • Sachel Mok,
    • Archna P. Gupta,
    • Christian W. Wang,
    • Louise Turner,
    • Mònica Arman,
    • Ahmed Raza,
    • Zbynek Bozdech,
    • and J. Alexandra Rowe
    PNAS Plus: A subset of group A-like var genes encodes the malaria parasite ligands for binding to human brain endothelial cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120461109
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    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesGenetics:
    • Zhengjun Xia,
    • Satoshi Watanabe,
    • Tetsuya Yamada,
    • Yasutaka Tsubokura,
    • Hiroko Nakashima,
    • Hong Zhai,
    • Toyoaki Anai,
    • Shusei Sato,
    • Toshimasa Yamazaki,
    • Shixiang Lü,
    • Hongyan Wu,
    • Satoshi Tabata,
    • and Kyuya Harada
    PNAS Plus: Positional cloning and characterization reveal the molecular basis for soybean maturity locus E1 that regulates photoperiodic flowering PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117982109
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    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Morgana Favero,
    • Giuseppe Busetto,
    • and Alberto Cangiano
    PNAS Plus: Spike timing plays a key role in synapse elimination at the neuromuscular junction PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201147109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Iksung Jin,
    • Hiroshi Udo,
    • Joseph B. Rayman,
    • Sathya Puthanveettil,
    • Eric R. Kandel,
    • and Robert D. Hawkins
    Spontaneous transmitter release recruits postsynaptic mechanisms of long-term and intermediate-term facilitation in Aplysia PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206846109
    Correction: Correction Nilmeier et al., Nonequilibrium candidate Monte Carlo is an efficient tool for equilibrium simulation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207617109
    Profile:
    • Prashant Nair
    Profile of Shinya Yamanaka PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121498109
    Biological SciencesPhysiology:
    • Fumiaki Nin,
    • Hiroshi Hibino,
    • Shingo Murakami,
    • Toshihiro Suzuki,
    • Yasuo Hisa,
    • and Yoshihisa Kurachi
    Computational model of a circulation current that controls electrochemical properties in the mammalian cochlea PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120067109
    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Nathalie Daude,
    • Serene Wohlgemuth,
    • Rebecca Brown,
    • Rose Pitstick,
    • Hristina Gapeshina,
    • Jing Yang,
    • George A. Carlson,
    • and David Westaway
    Knockout of the prion protein (PrP)-like Sprn gene does not produce embryonic lethality in combination with PrPC-deficiency PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202130109
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    Biological SciencesPhysiology:
    • Fei Wang,
    • Alison B. Kohan,
    • Tammy L. Kindel,
    • Kathryn L. Corbin,
    • Craig S. Nunemaker,
    • Silvana Obici,
    • Stephen C. Woods,
    • W. Sean Davidson,
    • and Patrick Tso
    Apolipoprotein A-IV improves glucose homeostasis by enhancing insulin secretion PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201433109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistryPhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Mary Grace I. Galinato,
    • Jesse G. Kleingardner,
    • Sarah E. J. Bowman,
    • E. Ercan Alp,
    • Jiyong Zhao,
    • Kara L. Bren,
    • and Nicolai Lehnert
    Heme-protein vibrational couplings in cytochrome c provide a dynamic link that connects the heme-iron and the protein surface PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200345109
    Biological SciencesPharmacology:
    • Bert Billen,
    • Radovan Spurny,
    • Marijke Brams,
    • René van Elk,
    • Soledad Valera-Kummer,
    • Jerrel L. Yakel,
    • Thomas Voets,
    • Daniel Bertrand,
    • August B. Smit,
    • and Chris Ulens
    Molecular actions of smoking cessation drugs at α4β2 nicotinic receptors defined in crystal structures of a homologous binding protein PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116397109
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    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Thomas Lavstsen,
    • Louise Turner,
    • Fredy Saguti,
    • Pamela Magistrado,
    • Thomas S. Rask,
    • Jakob S. Jespersen,
    • Christian W. Wang,
    • Sanne S. Berger,
    • Vito Baraka,
    • Andrea M. Marquard,
    • Andaine Seguin-Orlando,
    • Eske Willerslev,
    • M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
    • John Lusingu,
    • and Thor G. Theander
    PNAS Plus: Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domain cassettes 8 and 13 are associated with severe malaria in children PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120455109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Iksung Jin,
    • Sathya Puthanveettil,
    • Hiroshi Udo,
    • Kevin Karl,
    • Eric R. Kandel,
    • and Robert D. Hawkins
    Spontaneous transmitter release is critical for the induction of long-term and intermediate-term facilitation in Aplysia PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206914109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Marion Avril,
    • Abhai K. Tripathi,
    • Andrew J. Brazier,
    • Cheryl Andisi,
    • Joel H. Janes,
    • Vijaya L. Soma,
    • David J. Sullivan, Jr,
    • Peter C. Bull,
    • Monique F. Stins,
    • and Joseph D. Smith
    PNAS Plus: A restricted subset of var genes mediates adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to brain endothelial cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 22, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120534109

May 21, 2012

    Letter:
    • Gregory Francis
    Evidence that publication bias contaminated studies relating social class and unethical behavior PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203591109
    Letter:
    • Paul K. Piff,
    • Daniel M. Stancato,
    • Stéphane Côté,
    • Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton,
    • and Dacher Keltner
    Reply to Francis: Cumulative power calculations are faulty when based on observed power and a small sample of studies PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205367109
    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Matthieu Delcourt,
    • Mark W. Blows,
    • J. David Aguirre,
    • and Howard D. Rundle
    Evolutionary optimum for male sexual traits characterized using the multivariate Robertson–Price Identity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116828109
    Social SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Gabriella Conti,
    • Christopher Hansman,
    • James J. Heckman,
    • Matthew F. X. Novak,
    • Angela Ruggiero,
    • and Stephen J. Suomi
    Primate evidence on the late health effects of early-life adversity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205340109
    Correction: Correction for Goldfeld et al., Successful prediction of the intra- and extracellular loops of four G-protein-coupled receptors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207511109
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Christina Helbig,
    • Rebecca Gentek,
    • Ronald A. Backer,
    • Yevan de Souza,
    • Ingrid A. M. Derks,
    • Eric Eldering,
    • Koen Wagner,
    • Dragana Jankovic,
    • Thomas Gridley,
    • Perry D. Moerland,
    • Richard A. Flavell,
    • and Derk Amsen
    Notch controls the magnitude of T helper cell responses by promoting cellular longevity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206044109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Ian G. Cowell,
    • Zbyslaw Sondka,
    • Kayleigh Smith,
    • Ka Cheong Lee,
    • Catriona M. Manville,
    • Malgorzata Sidorczuk-Lesthuruge,
    • Holly Ashlene Rance,
    • Kay Padget,
    • Graham Hunter Jackson,
    • Noritaka Adachi,
    • and Caroline A. Austin
    Model for MLL translocations in therapy-related leukemia involving topoisomerase IIβ-mediated DNA strand breaks and gene proximity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204406109
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    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Enrique Peñalver,
    • Conrad C. Labandeira,
    • Eduardo Barrón,
    • Xavier Delclòs,
    • Patricia Nel,
    • André Nel,
    • Paul Tafforeau,
    • and Carmen Soriano
    Thrips pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120499109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesEcology:
    • Mario Kallenbach,
    • Gustavo Bonaventure,
    • Paola A. Gilardoni,
    • Antje Wissgott,
    • and Ian T. Baldwin
    PNAS Plus: Empoasca leafhoppers attack wild tobacco plants in a jasmonate-dependent manner and identify jasmonate mutants in natural populations PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200363109
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    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Wei Liu,
    • Anne Le,
    • Chad Hancock,
    • Andrew N. Lane,
    • Chi V. Dang,
    • Teresa W.-M. Fan,
    • and James M. Phang
    Reprogramming of proline and glutamine metabolism contributes to the proliferative and metabolic responses regulated by oncogenic transcription factor c-MYC PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203244109
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    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Benjamin I. Cook,
    • Elizabeth M. Wolkovich,
    • and Camille Parmesan
    Divergent responses to spring and winter warming drive community level flowering trends PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118364109
    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Patricio Jeraldo,
    • Maksim Sipos,
    • Nicholas Chia,
    • Jennifer M. Brulc,
    • A. Singh Dhillon,
    • Michael E. Konkel,
    • Charles L. Larson,
    • Karen E. Nelson,
    • Ani Qu,
    • Lawrence B. Schook,
    • Fang Yang,
    • Bryan A. White,
    • and Nigel Goldenfeld
    Inaugural Article: Quantification of the relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring gastrointestinal microbiomes PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206721109
    Physical SciencesEnvironmental SciencesBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Daniel J. Redo,
    • H. Ricardo Grau,
    • T. Mitchell Aide,
    • and Matthew L. Clark
    Asymmetric forest transition driven by the interaction of socioeconomic development and environmental heterogeneity in Central America PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201664109
    Commentary:
    • Rui Wang
    Shared signaling pathways among gasotransmitters PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206646109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Bo Zhou,
    • Changdong Liu,
    • Zhiwen Xu,
    • and Guang Zhu
    Structural basis for homeodomain recognition by the cell-cycle regulator Geminin PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200874109
    QnAs:
    • Sandeep Ravindran
    QnAs with Shu Chien PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207436109
    Commentary:
    • Stephen P. Schoenberger
    CD69 guides CD4+ T cells to the seat of memory PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204616109
    Perspective:
    • Terry C. Daniel,
    • Andreas Muhar,
    • Arne Arnberger,
    • Olivier Aznar,
    • James W. Boyd,
    • Kai M. A. Chan,
    • Robert Costanza,
    • Thomas Elmqvist,
    • Courtney G. Flint,
    • Paul H. Gobster,
    • Adrienne Grêt-Regamey,
    • Rebecca Lave,
    • Susanne Muhar,
    • Marianne Penker,
    • Robert G. Ribe,
    • Thomas Schauppenlehner,
    • Thomas Sikor,
    • Ihor Soloviy,
    • Marja Spierenburg,
    • Karolina Taczanowska,
    • Jordan Tam,
    • and Andreas von der Dunk
    Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114773109
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Sabine Muth,
    • Kristian Schütze,
    • Hansjörg Schild,
    • and Hans Christian Probst
    Release of dendritic cells from cognate CD4+ T-cell recognition results in impaired peripheral tolerance and fatal cytotoxic T-cell mediated autoimmunity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1110620109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Miriam Weber,
    • Dirk de Beer,
    • Christian Lott,
    • Lubos Polerecky,
    • Katharina Kohls,
    • Raeid M. M. Abed,
    • Timothy G. Ferdelman,
    • and Katharina E. Fabricius
    PNAS Plus: Mechanisms of damage to corals exposed to sedimentation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1100715109
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    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Richard M. Sibly,
    • Christopher C. Witt,
    • Natalie A. Wright,
    • Chris Venditti,
    • Walter Jetz,
    • and James H. Brown
    Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109
    Biological SciencesSystems BiologyPhysical SciencesPhysics:
    • Dylan Breitkreutz,
    • Lynn Hlatky,
    • Edward Rietman,
    • and Jack A. Tuszynski
    Molecular signaling network complexity is correlated with cancer patient survivability PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201416109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Karnail Singh,
    • Pratima Deshpande,
    • Guangjin Li,
    • Mingcan Yu,
    • Sergey Pryshchep,
    • Mary Cavanagh,
    • Cornelia M. Weyand,
    • and Jörg J. Goronzy
    PNAS Plus: K-RAS GTPase- and B-RAF kinase–mediated T-cell tolerance defects in rheumatoid arthritis PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117640109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Matthew W. Self,
    • Roxana N. Kooijmans,
    • Hans Supèr,
    • Victor A. Lamme,
    • and Pieter R. Roelfsema
    Different glutamate receptors convey feedforward and recurrent processing in macaque V1 PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119527109
    Biological SciencesPharmacology:
    • Sorin Tunaru,
    • Till F. Althoff,
    • Rolf M. Nüsing,
    • Martin Diener,
    • and Stefan Offermanns
    Castor oil induces laxation and uterus contraction via ricinoleic acid activating prostaglandin EP3 receptors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201627109
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    Biological SciencesAgricultural Sciences:
    • Christian Riedelsheimer,
    • Jan Lisec,
    • Angelika Czedik-Eysenberg,
    • Ronan Sulpice,
    • Anna Flis,
    • Christoph Grieder,
    • Thomas Altmann,
    • Mark Stitt,
    • Lothar Willmitzer,
    • and Albrecht E. Melchinger
    Genome-wide association mapping of leaf metabolic profiles for dissecting complex traits in maize PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120813109
    Biological SciencesSystems Biology:
    • Ulrich Schlecht,
    • Molly Miranda,
    • Sundari Suresh,
    • Ronald W. Davis,
    • and Robert P. St.Onge
    Multiplex assay for condition-dependent changes in protein–protein interactions PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204952109
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    Physical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Helen E. K. Smith,
    • Toby Tyrrell,
    • Anastasia Charalampopoulou,
    • Cynthia Dumousseaud,
    • Oliver J. Legge,
    • Sarah Birchenough,
    • Laura R. Pettit,
    • Rebecca Garley,
    • Sue E. Hartman,
    • Mark C. Hartman,
    • Navjit Sagoo,
    • Chris J. Daniels,
    • Eric P. Achterberg,
    • and David J. Hydes
    Predominance of heavily calcified coccolithophores at low CaCO3 saturation during winter in the Bay of Biscay PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117508109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Yao-Ping Lu,
    • You-Rong Lou,
    • Jamie J. Bernard,
    • Qing-Yun Peng,
    • Tao Li,
    • Yong Lin,
    • Weichung Joe Shih,
    • Paul Nghiem,
    • Sue Shapses,
    • George C. Wagner,
    • and Allan H. Conney
    Surgical removal of the parametrial fat pads stimulates apoptosis and inhibits UVB-induced carcinogenesis in mice fed a high-fat diet PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205810109
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    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Elizabeth A. Archie,
    • Jeanne Altmann,
    • and Susan C. Alberts
    Social status predicts wound healing in wild baboons PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206391109
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    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Silmara de Lima,
    • Yoshiki Koriyama,
    • Takuji Kurimoto,
    • Julia Teixeira Oliveira,
    • Yuqin Yin,
    • Yiqing Li,
    • Hui-Ya Gilbert,
    • Michela Fagiolini,
    • Ana Maria Blanco Martinez,
    • and Larry Benowitz
    Full-length axon regeneration in the adult mouse optic nerve and partial recovery of simple visual behaviors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119449109
    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Jon Egil Skjæraasen,
    • Richard D. M. Nash,
    • Knut Korsbrekke,
    • Merete Fonn,
    • Trygve Nilsen,
    • James Kennedy,
    • Kjell H. Nedreaas,
    • Anders Thorsen,
    • Peter R. Witthames,
    • Audrey J. Geffen,
    • Hans Høie,
    • and Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
    Frequent skipped spawning in the world’s largest cod population PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200223109
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    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Agustin Chicas,
    • Avnish Kapoor,
    • Xiaowo Wang,
    • Ozlem Aksoy,
    • Adam G. Evertts,
    • Michael Q. Zhang,
    • Benjamin A. Garcia,
    • Emily Bernstein,
    • and Scott W. Lowe
    H3K4 demethylation by Jarid1a and Jarid1b contributes to retinoblastoma-mediated gene silencing during cellular senescence PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119836109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • David S. Rickman,
    • T. David Soong,
    • Benjamin Moss,
    • Juan Miguel Mosquera,
    • Jan Dlabal,
    • Stéphane Terry,
    • Theresa Y. MacDonald,
    • Joseph Tripodi,
    • Karen Bunting,
    • Vesna Najfeld,
    • Francesca Demichelis,
    • Ari M. Melnick,
    • Olivier Elemento,
    • and Mark A. Rubin
    Oncogene-mediated alterations in chromatin conformation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1112570109
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    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Amélie Leforestier,
    • Nicolas Lemercier,
    • and Françoise Livolant
    Contribution of cryoelectron microscopy of vitreous sections to the understanding of biological membrane structure PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200881109
    Biological SciencesPlant Biology:
    • Ravi Kesari,
    • Jesse R. Lasky,
    • Joji Grace Villamor,
    • David L. Des Marais,
    • Ying-Jiun C. Chen,
    • Tzu-Wen Liu,
    • Wendar Lin,
    • Thomas E. Juenger,
    • and Paul E. Verslues
    Intron-mediated alternative splicing of Arabidopsis P5CS1 and its association with natural variation in proline and climate adaptation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203433109
    Commentary:
    • Job Dekker
    CTCF and cohesin help neurons raise their self-awareness PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206195109
    Biological SciencesEvolutionSocial SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • William H. Press and
    • Freeman J. Dyson
    Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206569109
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    Biological SciencesPhysiologyPhysical SciencesEngineering:
    • Laura Causey,
    • Stephen C. Cowin,
    • and Sheldon Weinbaum
    Quantitative model for predicting lymph formation and muscle compressibility in skeletal muscle during contraction and stretch PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206398109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Patcharee Ritprajak,
    • Morisada Hayakawa,
    • Yasuyo Sano,
    • Kinya Otsu,
    • and Jin Mo Park
    Cell type-specific targeting dissociates the therapeutic from the adverse effects of protein kinase inhibition in allergic skin disease PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202984109
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    Biological SciencesPharmacology:
    • Shlomit Flaisher-Grinberg,
    • Shawna D. Persaud,
    • Horace H. Loh,
    • and Li-Na Wei
    Stress-induced epigenetic regulation of κ-opioid receptor gene involves transcription factor c-Myc PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205565109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Hong Wu,
    • Natasha Moshkina,
    • Jinrong Min,
    • Hong Zeng,
    • Jennifer Joshua,
    • Ming-Ming Zhou,
    • and Alexander N. Plotnikov
    Structural basis for substrate specificity and catalysis of human histone acetyltransferase 1 PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114117109
    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • JanWillem Duitman,
    • Marcel Schouten,
    • Angelique P. Groot,
    • Joost B. Daalhuisen,
    • Sandrine Florquin,
    • Tom van der Poll,
    • and C. Arnold Spek
    CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein δ facilitates bacterial dissemination during pneumococcal pneumonia in a platelet-activating factor receptor-dependent manner PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202641109
    Commentary:
    • Takeshi Noda and
    • Yoshihiro Kawaoka
    Packaging of influenza virus genome: Robustness of selection PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206736109
    Commentary:
    • John H. Werren
    Symbionts provide pesticide detoxification PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206194109
    Commentary:
    • Weiping Han
    Dual functions of adaptor protein, phosphotyrosine interaction, PH domain and leucine zipper containing 1 (APPL1) in insulin signaling and insulin secretion PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206730109
    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Pieter T. J. Johnson and
    • Jason T. Hoverman
    Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201790109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Carl Frieden and
    • Kanchan Garai
    Structural differences between apoE3 and apoE4 may be useful in developing therapeutic agents for Alzheimer’s disease PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207022109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Justin J. Hill,
    • Kunlin Jin,
    • Xiao Ou Mao,
    • Lin Xie,
    • and David A. Greenberg
    Intracerebral chondroitinase ABC and heparan sulfate proteoglycan glypican improve outcome from chronic stroke in rats PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205697109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • David Crews,
    • Ross Gillette,
    • Samuel V. Scarpino,
    • Mohan Manikkam,
    • Marina I. Savenkova,
    • and Michael K. Skinner
    Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of altered stress responses PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118514109
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    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Anke Samel,
    • Alessandro Cuomo,
    • Tiziana Bonaldi,
    • and Ann E. Ehrenhofer-Murray
    Methylation of CenH3 arginine 37 regulates kinetochore integrity and chromosome segregation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120968109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Tatsuya Niwa,
    • Takashi Kanamori,
    • Takuya Ueda,
    • and Hideki Taguchi
    Global analysis of chaperone effects using a reconstituted cell-free translation system PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201380109
    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Karthikeyan Krishnamurthy,
    • Kaushik Vedam,
    • Ragu Kanagasabai,
    • Lawrence J. Druhan,
    • and Govindasamy Ilangovan
    Heat shock factor-1 knockout induces multidrug resistance gene, MDR1b, and enhances P-glycoprotein (ABCB1)-based drug extrusion in the heart PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200731109
    Biological SciencesAnthropologySocial SciencesAnthropology:
    • Greger Larson,
    • Elinor K. Karlsson,
    • Angela Perri,
    • Matthew T. Webster,
    • Simon Y. W. Ho,
    • Joris Peters,
    • Peter W. Stahl,
    • Philip J. Piper,
    • Frode Lingaas,
    • Merete Fredholm,
    • Kenine E. Comstock,
    • Jaime F. Modiano,
    • Claude Schelling,
    • Alexander I. Agoulnik,
    • Peter A. Leegwater,
    • Keith Dobney,
    • Jean-Denis Vigne,
    • Carles Vilà,
    • Leif Andersson,
    • and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
    Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203005109
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    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Gui-Mei Li,
    • Christopher Chiu,
    • Jens Wrammert,
    • Megan McCausland,
    • Sarah F. Andrews,
    • Nai-Ying Zheng,
    • Jane-Hwei Lee,
    • Min Huang,
    • Xinyan Qu,
    • Srilatha Edupuganti,
    • Mark Mulligan,
    • Suman R. Das,
    • Jonathan W. Yewdell,
    • Aneesh K. Mehta,
    • Patrick C. Wilson,
    • and Rafi Ahmed
    Pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine induces a recall response in humans that favors broadly cross-reactive memory B cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118979109
    Commentary:
    • Robert G. Tague
    Small anatomical variant has profound implications for evolution of human birth and brain development PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205763109
    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Edo Bar-Zeev,
    • Ilana Berman-Frank,
    • Olga Girshevitz,
    • and Tom Berman
    Revised paradigm of aquatic biofilm formation facilitated by microgel transparent exopolymer particles PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203708109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesPhysics:
    • Bradley Zamft,
    • Lacramioara Bintu,
    • Toyotaka Ishibashi,
    • and Carlos Bustamante
    Nascent RNA structure modulates the transcriptional dynamics of RNA polymerases PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205063109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesApplied Physical Sciences:
    • Albertus B. Mostert,
    • Benjamin J. Powell,
    • Francis L. Pratt,
    • Graeme R. Hanson,
    • Tadeusz Sarna,
    • Ian R. Gentle,
    • and Paul Meredith
    Role of semiconductivity and ion transport in the electrical conduction of melanin PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119948109
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Xiangsong Lin,
    • Xiangqian Hu,
    • Javier J. Concepcion,
    • Zuofeng Chen,
    • Shubin Liu,
    • Thomas J. Meyer,
    • and Weitao Yang
    Theoretical study of catalytic mechanism for single-site water oxidation process PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118344109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Jan Peter Siebrasse,
    • Tim Kaminski,
    • and Ulrich Kubitscheck
    Nuclear export of single native mRNA molecules observed by light sheet fluorescence microscopy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201781109
    Physical SciencesApplied Physical Sciences:
    • Heng Wang,
    • Yanzhong Pei,
    • Aaron D. LaLonde,
    • and G. Jeffrey Snyder
    Weak electron–phonon coupling contributing to high thermoelectric performance in n-type PbSe PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1111419109
    Physical SciencesChemistry:
    • Keely Glass,
    • Shosuke Ito,
    • Philip R. Wilby,
    • Takayuki Sota,
    • Atsushi Nakamura,
    • C. Russell Bowers,
    • Jakob Vinther,
    • Suryendu Dutta,
    • Roger Summons,
    • Derek E. G. Briggs,
    • Kazumasa Wakamatsu,
    • and John D. Simon
    Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118448109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesEngineering:
    • Rafael D. González-Cruz,
    • Vera C. Fonseca,
    • and Eric M. Darling
    PNAS Plus: Cellular mechanical properties reflect the differentiation potential of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120349109
    Biological SciencesApplied Biological Sciences:
    • Joe Dragavon,
    • Samantha Blazquez,
    • Abdessalem Rekiki,
    • Chelsea Samson,
    • Ioanna Theodorou,
    • Kelly L. Rogers,
    • Régis Tournebize,
    • and Spencer L. Shorte
    In vivo excitation of nanoparticles using luminescent bacteria PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204516109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Physical SciencesPhysicsBiological SciencesEvolution:
    • Haiwei Yin,
    • Biqin Dong,
    • Xiaohan Liu,
    • Tianrong Zhan,
    • Lei Shi,
    • Jian Zi,
    • and Eli Yablonovitch
    Amorphous diamond-structured photonic crystal in the feather barbs of the scarlet macaw PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204383109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesApplied Biological SciencesPhysical SciencesEngineering:
    • Jerome Bonnet,
    • Pakpoom Subsoontorn,
    • and Drew Endy
    Rewritable digital data storage in live cells via engineered control of recombination directionality PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202344109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Physical SciencesPhysics:
    • Yoshiyuki Miyamoto,
    • Hong Zhang,
    • and Angel Rubio
    Pulse-induced nonequilibrium dynamics of acetylene inside carbon nanotube studied by an ab initio approach PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204388109
    Electrochemistry Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Yixian Wang,
    • Jean-Marc Noël,
    • Jeyavel Velmurugan,
    • Wojciech Nogala,
    • Michael V. Mirkin,
    • Cong Lu,
    • Manon Guille Collignon,
    • Frédéric Lemaître,
    • and Christian Amatore
    Nanoelectrodes for determination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species inside murine macrophages PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201552109
    Physical SciencesPhysics:
    • Xiuzhen Yu,
    • Maxim Mostovoy,
    • Yusuke Tokunaga,
    • Weizhu Zhang,
    • Koji Kimoto,
    • Yoshio Matsui,
    • Yoshio Kaneko,
    • Naoto Nagaosa,
    • and Yoshinori Tokura
    Magnetic stripes and skyrmions with helicity reversals PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 21, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118496109

May 18, 2012

    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Eri Taniguchi Ishikawa,
    • Daniel Gonzalez-Nieto,
    • Gabriel Ghiaur,
    • Susan K. Dunn,
    • Ashley M. Ficker,
    • Bhuvana Murali,
    • Malav Madhu,
    • David E. Gutstein,
    • Glenn I. Fishman,
    • Luis C. Barrio,
    • and Jose A. Cancelas
    Connexin-43 prevents hematopoietic stem cell senescence through transfer of reactive oxygen species to bone marrow stromal cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120358109
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Alejandra Garcia-Cattaneo,
    • François-Xavier Gobert,
    • Mélanie Müller,
    • Florent Toscano,
    • Marcella Flores,
    • Aurianne Lescure,
    • Elaine Del Nery,
    • and Philippe Benaroch
    Cleavage of Toll-like receptor 3 by cathepsins B and H is essential for signaling PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1115091109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Ola Larsson,
    • Masahiro Morita,
    • Ivan Topisirovic,
    • Tommy Alain,
    • Marie-Jose Blouin,
    • Michael Pollak,
    • and Nahum Sonenberg
    Distinct perturbation of the translatome by the antidiabetic drug metformin PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201689109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Chris P. Gully,
    • Guermarie Velazquez-Torres,
    • Ji-Hyun Shin,
    • Enrique Fuentes-Mattei,
    • Edward Wang,
    • Colin Carlock,
    • Jian Chen,
    • Daniel Rothenberg,
    • Henry P. Adams,
    • Hyun Ho Choi,
    • Sergei Guma,
    • Liem Phan,
    • Ping-Chieh Chou,
    • Chun-Hui Su,
    • Fanmao Zhang,
    • Jiun-Sheng Chen,
    • Tsung-Ying Yang,
    • Sai-Ching J. Yeung,
    • and Mong-Hong Lee
    PNAS Plus: Aurora B kinase phosphorylates and instigates degradation of p53 PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1110287109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Physical SciencesEarth, Atmospheric, and Planetary SciencesSustainability Science:
    • Kathryn McKain,
    • Steven C. Wofsy,
    • Thomas Nehrkorn,
    • Janusz Eluszkiewicz,
    • James R. Ehleringer,
    • and Britton B. Stephens
    Assessment of ground-based atmospheric observations for verification of greenhouse gas emissions from an urban region PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116645109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Physical SciencesEngineering:
    • Gururaj V. Naik,
    • Jingjing Liu,
    • Alexander V. Kildishev,
    • Vladimir M. Shalaev,
    • and Alexandra Boltasseva
    Demonstration of Al:ZnO as a plasmonic component for near-infrared metamaterials PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121517109
    Physical SciencesApplied MathematicsBiological SciencesEcology:
    • Lionel Roques,
    • Jimmy Garnier,
    • François Hamel,
    • and Etienne K. Klein
    Allee effect promotes diversity in traveling waves of colonization PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201695109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • David Veesler,
    • Silvia Spinelli,
    • Jennifer Mahony,
    • Julie Lichière,
    • Stéphanie Blangy,
    • Gérard Bricogne,
    • Pierre Legrand,
    • Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia,
    • Valérie Campanacci,
    • Douwe van Sinderen,
    • and Christian Cambillau
    Structure of the phage TP901-1 1.8 MDa baseplate suggests an alternative host adhesion mechanism PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200966109
    Electrochemistry Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Yasufumi Takahashi,
    • Andrew I. Shevchuk,
    • Pavel Novak,
    • Babak Babakinejad,
    • Julie Macpherson,
    • Patrick R. Unwin,
    • Hitoshi Shiku,
    • Julia Gorelik,
    • David Klenerman,
    • Yuri E. Korchev,
    • and Tomokazu Matsue
    Topographical and electrochemical nanoscale imaging of living cells using voltage-switching mode scanning electrochemical microscopy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203570109

May 17, 2012

    Profile:
    • Prashant Nair
    Profile of George M. Church PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204148109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Naofumi Handa,
    • Liang Yang,
    • Mark S. Dillingham,
    • Ichizo Kobayashi,
    • Dale B. Wigley,
    • and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski
    Molecular determinants responsible for recognition of the single-stranded DNA regulatory sequence, χ, by RecBCD enzyme PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206076109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Massimiliano di Pietro,
    • Pierre Lao-Sirieix,
    • Shelagh Boyle,
    • Andy Cassidy,
    • Dani Castillo,
    • Amel Saadi,
    • Ragnhild Eskeland,
    • and Rebecca C. Fitzgerald
    Evidence for a functional role of epigenetically regulated midcluster HOXB genes in the development of Barrett esophagus PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116933109
    Commentary:
    • Carmen Domene
    Voltage-sensor cycle fully described PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205993109
    Biological SciencesAnthropology:
    • Matthew C. Dulik,
    • Amanda C. Owings,
    • Jill B. Gaieski,
    • Miguel G. Vilar,
    • Alestine Andre,
    • Crystal Lennie,
    • Mary Adele Mackenzie,
    • Ingrid Kritsch,
    • Sharon Snowshoe,
    • Ruth Wright,
    • James Martin,
    • Nancy Gibson,
    • Thomas D. Andrews,
    • Theodore G. Schurr,
    • and The Genographic Consortium
    Y-chromosome analysis reveals genetic divergence and new founding native lineages in Athapaskan- and Eskimoan-speaking populations PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118760109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Liang Yang,
    • Naofumi Handa,
    • Bian Liu,
    • Mark S. Dillingham,
    • Dale B. Wigley,
    • and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski
    Alteration of χ recognition by RecBCD reveals a regulated molecular latch and suggests a channel-bypass mechanism for biological control PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206081109

May 16, 2012

    Correction: Correction for Webber et al., Supramolecular nanostructures that mimic VEGF as a strategy for ischemic tissue repair PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207994109
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Tim Willinger and
    • Richard A. Flavell
    Canonical autophagy dependent on the class III phosphoinositide-3 kinase Vps34 is required for naive T-cell homeostasis PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205305109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Marc Aurel Busche,
    • Xiaowei Chen,
    • Horst A. Henning,
    • Julia Reichwald,
    • Matthias Staufenbiel,
    • Bert Sakmann,
    • and Arthur Konnerth
    Critical role of soluble amyloid-β for early hippocampal hyperactivity in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206171109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Yanping Wang,
    • Steven J. Marling,
    • Jinge G. Zhu,
    • Kyle S. Severson,
    • and Hector F. DeLuca
    Development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in mice requires vitamin D and the vitamin D receptor PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206054109
    Correction: Correction for Mistry et al., Glucocerebrosidase gene-deficient mouse recapitulates Gaucher disease displaying cellular and molecular dysregulation beyond the macrophage PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207533109
    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Israel Ausin,
    • Maxim V. C. Greenberg,
    • Dhirendra K. Simanshu,
    • Christopher J. Hale,
    • Ajay A. Vashisht,
    • Stacey A. Simon,
    • Tzuu-fen Lee,
    • Suhua Feng,
    • Sophia D. Española,
    • Blake C. Meyers,
    • James A. Wohlschlegel,
    • Dinshaw J. Patel,
    • and Steven E. Jacobsen
    Inaugural Article: INVOLVED IN DE NOVO 2-containing complex involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206638109
    Biological SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Aaron Kheifets and
    • C. R. Gallistel
    Mice take calculated risks PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205131109
    Biological SciencesDevelopmental Biology:
    • Brian R. Daniels,
    • Richa Rikhy,
    • Malte Renz,
    • Terrence M. Dobrowsky,
    • and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
    Multiscale diffusion in the mitotic Drosophila melanogaster syncytial blastoderm PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204270109
    Biological SciencesDevelopmental Biology:
    • Hui Zhao,
    • Dandan Han,
    • Igor B. Dawid,
    • Tomas Pieler,
    • and Yonglong Chen
    Homeoprotein hhex-induced conversion of intestinal to ventral pancreatic precursors results in the formation of giant pancreata in Xenopus embryos PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206547109
    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Julie Collet,
    • David S. Richardson,
    • Kirsty Worley,
    • and Tommaso Pizzari
    Sexual selection and the differential effect of polyandry PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200219109
    Correction: Correction for Wang et al., Ligand binding to protein-binding pockets with wet and dry regions PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207504109
    Correction: Correction for Beier et al., Anterograde or retrograde transsynaptic labeling of CNS neurons with vesicular stomatitis virus vectors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207087109
    Correction: Correction for Menendez et al., Wnt signaling and a Smad pathway blockade direct the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to multipotent neural crest cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207810109
    Physical SciencesEarth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
    • M. Sinan Özeren
    Crust-mantle mechanical coupling in Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Turkey PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201826109

May 15, 2012

    Letter:
    • Andrea Rossi,
    • Julien Ratelade,
    • Marios C. Papadopoulos,
    • Jeffrey L. Bennett,
    • and A. S. Verkman
    Consequences of NMO-IgG binding to aquaporin-4 in neuromyelitis optica PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203463109
    Letter:
    • Vanda A. Lennon,
    • Shannon R. Hinson,
    • Michael F. Romero,
    • Petra Fallier-Becker,
    • and Claudia F. Lucchinetti
    Reply to Rossi et al.: Immunohistopathological findings in neuromyelitis optica concur with immunobiological observations in vitro PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204361109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesApplied Physical Sciences:
    • Sebastian Aeffner,
    • Tobias Reusch,
    • Britta Weinhausen,
    • and Tim Salditt
    PNAS Plus: Energetics of stalk intermediates in membrane fusion are controlled by lipid composition PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119442109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Chunlin Wang,
    • Sujatha Krishnakumar,
    • Julie Wilhelmy,
    • Farbod Babrzadeh,
    • Lilit Stepanyan,
    • Laura F. Su,
    • Douglas Levinson,
    • Marcelo A. Fernandez-Viña,
    • Ronald W. Davis,
    • Mark M. Davis,
    • and Michael Mindrinos
    High-throughput, high-fidelity HLA genotyping with deep sequencing PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206614109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Danielle K. Rajani,
    • Michael Walch,
    • Denis Martinvalet,
    • Marshall P. Thomas,
    • and Judy Lieberman
    Alterations in RNA processing during immune-mediated programmed cell death PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201327109
    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Amparo Ruiz,
    • Yang Liu,
    • Xinjing Xu,
    • and Marian Carlson
    Heterotrimer-independent regulation of activation-loop phosphorylation of Snf1 protein kinase involves two protein phosphatases PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206280109
    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Jessica V. Hankins,
    • James A. Madsen,
    • David K. Giles,
    • Jennifer S. Brodbelt,
    • and M. Stephen Trent
    Amino acid addition to Vibrio cholerae LPS establishes a link between surface remodeling in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201313109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Oddbjørn Straume,
    • Takeshi Shimamura,
    • Michael J. G. Lampa,
    • Julian Carretero,
    • Anne M. Øyan,
    • Di Jia,
    • Christa L. Borgman,
    • Margaret Soucheray,
    • Sean R. Downing,
    • Sarah M. Short,
    • Soo-Young Kang,
    • Souming Wang,
    • Liang Chen,
    • Karin Collett,
    • Ingeborg Bachmann,
    • Kwok-Kin Wong,
    • Geoffrey I. Shapiro,
    • Karl Henning Kalland,
    • Judah Folkman,
    • Randolph S. Watnick,
    • Lars A. Akslen,
    • and George N. Naumov
    Suppression of heat shock protein 27 induces long-term dormancy in human breast cancer PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 15, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1017909109

May 14, 2012

    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Jaroslaw Jendrzejewski,
    • Huiling He,
    • Hanna S. Radomska,
    • Wei Li,
    • Jerneja Tomsic,
    • Sandya Liyanarachchi,
    • Ramana V. Davuluri,
    • Rebecca Nagy,
    • and Albert de la Chapelle
    The polymorphism rs944289 predisposes to papillary thyroid carcinoma through a large intergenic noncoding RNA gene of tumor suppressor type PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205654109
    Biological SciencesMicrobiologyPhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Fei Sun,
    • Haihua Liang,
    • Xiangqian Kong,
    • Sherrie Xie,
    • Hoonsik Cho,
    • Xin Deng,
    • Quanjiang Ji,
    • Haiyan Zhang,
    • Sophie Alvarez,
    • Leslie M. Hicks,
    • Taeok Bae,
    • Cheng Luo,
    • Hualiang Jiang,
    • and Chuan He
    Quorum-sensing agr mediates bacterial oxidation response via an intramolecular disulfide redox switch in the response regulator AgrA PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200603109
    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Chang Fu Tian,
    • Yuan Jie Zhou,
    • Yan Ming Zhang,
    • Qin Qin Li,
    • Yun Zeng Zhang,
    • Dong Fang Li,
    • Shuang Wang,
    • Jun Wang,
    • Luz B. Gilbert,
    • Ying Rui Li,
    • and Wen Xin Chen
    Comparative genomics of rhizobia nodulating soybean suggests extensive recruitment of lineage-specific genes in adaptations PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120436109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Xulun Zhang,
    • Robert J. Hoey,
    • Guoqing Lin,
    • Akiko Koide,
    • Brenda Leung,
    • Kwangwook Ahn,
    • Georgia Dolios,
    • Marcin Paduch,
    • Takeshi Ikeuchi,
    • Rong Wang,
    • Yue-Ming Li,
    • Shohei Koide,
    • and Sangram S. Sisodia
    Identification of a tetratricopeptide repeat-like domain in the nicastrin subunit of γ-secretase using synthetic antibodies PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202691109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Yu-Jen Lee and
    • Karin Nordström
    Higher-order motion sensitivity in fly visual circuits PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203081109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Emily R. Derbyshire,
    • Miguel Prudêncio,
    • Maria M. Mota,
    • and Jon Clardy
    Liver-stage malaria parasites vulnerable to diverse chemical scaffolds PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118370109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera,
    • Fabricio H. M. Do Monte,
    • and Gregory J. Quirk
    Deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum enhances extinction of conditioned fear PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200782109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Aboudi M. Moabbi,
    • Neha Agarwal,
    • Belal El Kaderi,
    • and Athar Ansari
    Role for gene looping in intron-mediated enhancement of transcription PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1112400109
    Biological SciencesEnvironmental SciencesPhysical SciencesEarth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
    • Harry Oduro,
    • Kathryn L. Van Alstyne,
    • and James Farquhar
    Sulfur isotope variability of oceanic DMSP generation and its contributions to marine biogenic sulfur emissions PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117691109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • John E. Linley,
    • Lezanne Ooi,
    • Louisa Pettinger,
    • Hannah Kirton,
    • John P. Boyle,
    • Chris Peers,
    • and Nikita Gamper
    PNAS Plus: Reactive oxygen species are second messengers of neurokinin signaling in peripheral sensory neurons PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201544109
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    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Yanyan Li,
    • Daniel A. Powell,
    • Scott A. Shaffer,
    • David A. Rasko,
    • Mark R. Pelletier,
    • John D. Leszyk,
    • Alison J. Scott,
    • Ali Masoudi,
    • David R. Goodlett,
    • Xiaoyuan Wang,
    • Christian R. H. Raetz,
    • and Robert K. Ernst
    LPS remodeling is an evolved survival strategy for bacteria PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202908109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Emmanuelle Huillard,
    • Rintaro Hashizume,
    • Joanna J. Phillips,
    • Amélie Griveau,
    • Rebecca A. Ihrie,
    • Yasuyuki Aoki,
    • Theodore Nicolaides,
    • Arie Perry,
    • Todd Waldman,
    • Martin McMahon,
    • William A. Weiss,
    • Claudia Petritsch,
    • C. David James,
    • and David H. Rowitch
    Cooperative interactions of BRAFV600E kinase and CDKN2A locus deficiency in pediatric malignant astrocytoma as a basis for rational therapy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117255109
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    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Aurélie Durand,
    • Bridgitte Donahue,
    • Grégory Peignon,
    • Franck Letourneur,
    • Nicolas Cagnard,
    • Christian Slomianny,
    • Christine Perret,
    • Noah F. Shroyer,
    • and Béatrice Romagnolo
    Functional intestinal stem cells after Paneth cell ablation induced by the loss of transcription factor Math1 (Atoh1) PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201652109
    Social SciencesAnthropology:
    • Randall White,
    • Romain Mensan,
    • Raphaëlle Bourrillon,
    • Catherine Cretin,
    • Thomas F. G. Higham,
    • Amy E. Clark,
    • Matthew L. Sisk,
    • Elise Tartar,
    • Philippe Gardère,
    • Paul Goldberg,
    • Jacques Pelegrin,
    • Hélène Valladas,
    • Nadine Tisnérat-Laborde,
    • Jacques de Sanoit,
    • Dominique Chambellan,
    • and Laurent Chiotti
    Context and dating of Aurignacian vulvar representations from Abri Castanet, France PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119663109
    Social SciencesSocial SciencesBiological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Anton Carl Jonas Lager and
    • Jenny Torssander
    Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1105839109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Paul C. Norris and
    • Edward A. Dennis
    Omega-3 fatty acids cause dramatic changes in TLR4 and purinergic eicosanoid signaling PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200189109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Yun-Gon Kim,
    • Anna Mari Lone,
    • Whitney M. Nolte,
    • and Alan Saghatelian
    Peptidomics approach to elucidate the proteolytic regulation of bioactive peptides PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203195109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Nathan R. Deleault,
    • Justin R. Piro,
    • Daniel J. Walsh,
    • Fei Wang,
    • Jiyan Ma,
    • James C. Geoghegan,
    • and Surachai Supattapone
    Isolation of phosphatidylethanolamine as a solitary cofactor for prion formation in the absence of nucleic acids PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204498109
    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Paul R. McAdam,
    • Kate E. Templeton,
    • Giles F. Edwards,
    • Matthew T. G. Holden,
    • Edward J. Feil,
    • David M. Aanensen,
    • Hiba J. A. Bargawi,
    • Brian G. Spratt,
    • Stephen D. Bentley,
    • Julian Parkhill,
    • Mark C. Enright,
    • Anne Holmes,
    • E. Kirsty Girvan,
    • Paul A. Godfrey,
    • Michael Feldgarden,
    • Angela M. Kearns,
    • Andrew Rambaut,
    • D. Ashley Robinson,
    • and J. Ross Fitzgerald
    Molecular tracing of the emergence, adaptation, and transmission of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202869109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Chao Peng,
    • Jin-Yue Pu,
    • Li-Qiang Song,
    • Xiao-Hong Jian,
    • Man-Cheng Tang,
    • and Gong-Li Tang
    Hijacking a hydroxyethyl unit from a central metabolic ketose into a nonribosomal peptide assembly line PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204232109
    Biological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • William L. Bauerle,
    • Ram Oren,
    • Danielle A. Way,
    • Song S. Qian,
    • Paul C. Stoy,
    • Peter E. Thornton,
    • Joseph D. Bowden,
    • Forrest M. Hoffman,
    • and Robert F. Reynolds
    Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119131109
    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Carrie A. Schloss,
    • Tristan A. Nuñez,
    • and Joshua J. Lawler
    Dispersal will limit ability of mammals to track climate change in the Western Hemisphere PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116791109
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Sonal Srikanth,
    • Marcus Jew,
    • Kyun-Do Kim,
    • Ma-Khin Yee,
    • Jeff Abramson,
    • and Yousang Gwack
    Junctate is a Ca2+-sensing structural component of Orai1 and stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200667109
    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Dominique J.-F. de Quervain,
    • Iris-Tatjana Kolassa,
    • Sandra Ackermann,
    • Amanda Aerni,
    • Peter Boesiger,
    • Philippe Demougin,
    • Thomas Elbert,
    • Verena Ertl,
    • Leo Gschwind,
    • Nils Hadziselimovic,
    • Edveena Hanser,
    • Angela Heck,
    • Petra Hieber,
    • Kim-Dung Huynh,
    • Markus Klarhöfer,
    • Roger Luechinger,
    • Björn Rasch,
    • Klaus Scheffler,
    • Klara Spalek,
    • Christoph Stippich,
    • Christian Vogler,
    • Vanja Vukojevic,
    • Attila Stetak,
    • and Andreas Papassotiropoulos
    PKCα is genetically linked to memory capacity in healthy subjects and to risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in genocide survivors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200857109
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    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Yin Shen,
    • Melissa Ann F. Rampino,
    • Reed C. Carroll,
    • and Scott Nawy
    G-protein–mediated inhibition of the Trp channel TRPM1 requires the Gβγ dimer PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117433109
    Biological SciencesGenetics:
    • Mark Rinnerthaler,
    • Sabrina Büttner,
    • Peter Laun,
    • Gino Heeren,
    • Thomas K. Felder,
    • Harald Klinger,
    • Martin Weinberger,
    • Klaus Stolze,
    • Tomas Grousl,
    • Jiri Hasek,
    • Oldrich Benada,
    • Ivana Frydlova,
    • Andrea Klocker,
    • Birgit Simon-Nobbe,
    • Bettina Jansko,
    • Hannelore Breitenbach-Koller,
    • Tobias Eisenberg,
    • Campbell W. Gourlay,
    • Frank Madeo,
    • William C. Burhans,
    • and Michael Breitenbach
    Yno1p/Aim14p, a NADPH-oxidase ortholog, controls extramitochondrial reactive oxygen species generation, apoptosis, and actin cable formation in yeast PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201629109
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    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Darja Marolt,
    • Iván Marcos Campos,
    • Sarindr Bhumiratana,
    • Ana Koren,
    • Petros Petridis,
    • Geping Zhang,
    • Patrice F. Spitalnik,
    • Warren L. Grayson,
    • and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
    Engineering bone tissue from human embryonic stem cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201830109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesAgricultural Sciences:
    • Joni Macdonald,
    • Lorna Taylor,
    • Adrian Sherman,
    • Koichi Kawakami,
    • Yoshiko Takahashi,
    • Helen M. Sang,
    • and Michael J. McGrew
    PNAS Plus: Efficient genetic modification and germ-line transmission of primordial germ cells using piggyBac and Tol2 transposons PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118715109
    Social SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Stefan M. Wierda,
    • Hedderik van Rijn,
    • Niels A. Taatgen,
    • and Sander Martens
    Pupil dilation deconvolution reveals the dynamics of attention at high temporal resolution PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201858109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Jordi Querol-Audí,
    • Chunli Yan,
    • Xiaojun Xu,
    • Susan E. Tsutakawa,
    • Miaw-Sheue Tsai,
    • John A. Tainer,
    • Priscilla K. Cooper,
    • Eva Nogales,
    • and Ivaylo Ivanov
    Repair complexes of FEN1 endonuclease, DNA, and Rad9-Hus1-Rad1 are distinguished from their PCNA counterparts by functionally important stability PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121116109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Giorgia Quadrato,
    • Marco Benevento,
    • Stefanie Alber,
    • Carolin Jacob,
    • Elisa M. Floriddia,
    • Tuan Nguyen,
    • Mohamed Y. Elnaggar,
    • Christine M. Pedroarena,
    • Jeffrey D. Molkentin,
    • and Simone Di Giovanni
    PNAS Plus: Nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFATc4) is required for BDNF-dependent survival of adult-born neurons and spatial memory formation in the hippocampus PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202068109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesEcology:
    • Jeramie Watrous,
    • Patrick Roach,
    • Theodore Alexandrov,
    • Brandi S. Heath,
    • Jane Y. Yang,
    • Roland D. Kersten,
    • Menno van der Voort,
    • Kit Pogliano,
    • Harald Gross,
    • Jos M. Raaijmakers,
    • Bradley S. Moore,
    • Julia Laskin,
    • Nuno Bandeira,
    • and Pieter C. Dorrestein
    PNAS Plus: Mass spectral molecular networking of living microbial colonies PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203689109
    Biological SciencesMedical Sciences:
    • Dan H. Barouch,
    • Per Johan Klasse,
    • Jason Dufour,
    • Ronald S. Veazey,
    • and John P. Moore
    Macaque studies of vaccine and microbicide combinations for preventing HIV-1 sexual transmission PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203183109
    Biological SciencesPhysiology:
    • Takeshi Nomura,
    • Charles G. Cranfield,
    • Evelyne Deplazes,
    • Dylan M. Owen,
    • Alex Macmillan,
    • Andrew R. Battle,
    • Maryrose Constantine,
    • Masahiro Sokabe,
    • and Boris Martinac
    Differential effects of lipids and lyso-lipids on the mechanosensitivity of the mechanosensitive channels MscL and MscS PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200051109
    Social SciencesEconomic Sciences:
    • Richard A. Easterlin,
    • Robson Morgan,
    • Malgorzata Switek,
    • and Fei Wang
    China’s life satisfaction, 1990–2010 PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205672109
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    Biological SciencesEcology:
    • Jianming Deng,
    • Wenyun Zuo,
    • Zhiqiang Wang,
    • Zhexuan Fan,
    • Mingfei Ji,
    • Genxuan Wang,
    • Jinzhi Ran,
    • Changming Zhao,
    • Jianquan Liu,
    • Karl J. Niklas,
    • Sean T. Hammond,
    • and James H. Brown
    Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205663109
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    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Zachary A. Cheviron,
    • Gwendolyn C. Bachman,
    • Alex D. Connaty,
    • Grant B. McClelland,
    • and Jay F. Storz
    Regulatory changes contribute to the adaptive enhancement of thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120523109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Jane I. Khudyakov,
    • Patrik D’haeseleer,
    • Sharon E. Borglin,
    • Kristen M. DeAngelis,
    • Hannah Woo,
    • Erika A. Lindquist,
    • Terry C. Hazen,
    • Blake A. Simmons,
    • and Michael P. Thelen
    PNAS Plus: Global transcriptome response to ionic liquid by a tropical rain forest soil bacterium, Enterobacter lignolyticus PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1112750109
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    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Haruka Abe,
    • Makoto Okazawa,
    • and Shigetada Nakanishi
    Gene regulation via excitation and BDNF is mediated by induction and phosphorylation of the Etv1 transcription factor in cerebellar granule cells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206418109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Yi-Liang Liu,
    • Francisco Guerra,
    • Ke Wang,
    • Weixue Wang,
    • Jikun Li,
    • Cancan Huang,
    • Wei Zhu,
    • Kevin Houlihan,
    • Zhi Li,
    • Yong Zhang,
    • Satish K. Nair,
    • and Eric Oldfield
    Structure, function and inhibition of the two- and three-domain 4Fe-4S IspG proteins PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121107109
    Physical SciencesApplied Physical SciencesSocial SciencesEconomic Sciences:
    • Ling Feng,
    • Baowen Li,
    • Boris Podobnik,
    • Tobias Preis,
    • and H. Eugene Stanley
    Linking agent-based models and stochastic models of financial markets PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205013109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Mickaël Lelek,
    • Francesca Di Nunzio,
    • Ricardo Henriques,
    • Pierre Charneau,
    • Nathalie Arhel,
    • and Christophe Zimmer
    Superresolution imaging of HIV in infected cells with FlAsH-PALM PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1013267109
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    Physical SciencesApplied Physical Sciences:
    • Loïg Kergoat,
    • Lars Herlogsson,
    • Benoit Piro,
    • Minh Chau Pham,
    • Gilles Horowitz,
    • Xavier Crispin,
    • and Magnus Berggren
    Tuning the threshold voltage in electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120311109
    Physical SciencesApplied MathematicsBiological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Tarn Duong,
    • Bruno Goud,
    • and Kristine Schauer
    Closed-form density-based framework for automatic detection of cellular morphology changes PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117796109
    Physical SciencesChemistryBiological SciencesPlant Biology:
    • Kapil Amarnath,
    • Julia Zaks,
    • Samuel D. Park,
    • Krishna K. Niyogi,
    • and Graham R. Fleming
    Fluorescence lifetime snapshots reveal two rapidly reversible mechanisms of photoprotection in live cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205303109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Hee-Jung Choi,
    • Sabine Pokutta,
    • Gregory W. Cadwell,
    • Andrey A. Bobkov,
    • Laurie A. Bankston,
    • Robert C. Liddington,
    • and William I. Weis
    αE-catenin is an autoinhibited molecule that coactivates vinculin PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203906109
    Biological SciencesApplied Biological Sciences:
    • Silvia Terés,
    • Victoria Lladó,
    • Mónica Higuera,
    • Gwendolyn Barceló-Coblijn,
    • Maria Laura Martin,
    • Maria Antònia Noguera-Salvà,
    • Amaia Marcilla-Etxenike,
    • José Manuel García-Verdugo,
    • Mario Soriano-Navarro,
    • Carlos Saus,
    • Ulises Gómez-Pinedo,
    • Xavier Busquets,
    • and Pablo V. Escribá
    2-Hydroxyoleate, a nontoxic membrane binding anticancer drug, induces glioma cell differentiation and autophagy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118349109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Ivan Rivalta,
    • Mohammad M. Sultan,
    • Ning-Shiuan Lee,
    • Gregory A. Manley,
    • J. Patrick Loria,
    • and Victor S. Batista
    PNAS Plus: Allosteric pathways in imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120536109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Václav Šlouf,
    • Pavel Chábera,
    • John D. Olsen,
    • Elizabeth C. Martin,
    • Pu Qian,
    • C. Neil Hunter,
    • and Tomáš Polívka
    Photoprotection in a purple phototrophic bacterium mediated by oxygen-dependent alteration of carotenoid excited-state properties PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201413109
    Biological SciencesApplied Biological SciencesPhysical SciencesEngineering:
    • Benjamin R. Cipriany,
    • Patrick J. Murphy,
    • James A. Hagarman,
    • Aline Cerf,
    • David Latulippe,
    • Stephen L. Levy,
    • Jaime J. Benítez,
    • Christine P. Tan,
    • Juraj Topolancik,
    • Paul D. Soloway,
    • and Harold G. Craighead
    Real-time analysis and selection of methylated DNA by fluorescence-activated single molecule sorting in a nanofluidic channel PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117549109
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    Biological SciencesApplied Biological Sciences:
    • Shunyi Zhu,
    • Bin Gao,
    • Peta J. Harvey,
    • and David J. Craik
    Dermatophytic defensin with antiinfective potential PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201263109
    Physical SciencesEngineering:
    • Jianyong Tang,
    • Ronald N. Germain,
    • and Meng Cui
    Superpenetration optical microscopy by iterative multiphoton adaptive compensation technique PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119590109
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    Physical SciencesChemistry:
    • Jia Ma,
    • Suranjana Haldar,
    • Mateen A. Khan,
    • Sohani Das Sharma,
    • William C. Merrick,
    • Elizabeth C. Theil,
    • and Dixie J. Goss
    Fe2+ binds iron responsive element-RNA, selectively changing protein-binding affinities and regulating mRNA repression and activation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120045109
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Michael T. Vagnini,
    • Amanda L. Smeigh,
    • James D. Blakemore,
    • Samuel W. Eaton,
    • Nathan D. Schley,
    • Francis D’Souza,
    • Robert H. Crabtree,
    • Gary W. Brudvig,
    • Dick T. Co,
    • and Michael R. Wasielewski
    Ultrafast photodriven intramolecular electron transfer from an iridium-based water-oxidation catalyst to perylene diimide derivatives PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202075109
    Physical SciencesChemistry:
    • Derek J. Bailey,
    • Christopher M. Rose,
    • Graeme C. McAlister,
    • Justin Brumbaugh,
    • Pengzhi Yu,
    • Craig D. Wenger,
    • Michael S. Westphall,
    • James A. Thomson,
    • and Joshua J. Coon
    Instant spectral assignment for advanced decision tree-driven mass spectrometry PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 14, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205292109

May 11, 2012

    Letter:
    • Subhabrata Chakrabarti,
    • Muralidhar Ramappa,
    • Sunita Chaurasia,
    • Inderjeet Kaur,
    • and Anil K. Mandal
    FOXC1-associated phenotypes in humans may not always exhibit corneal neovascularization PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 11, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204423109
    Letter:
    • Seungwoon Seo,
    • Hardeep P. Singh,
    • Pedro M. Lacal,
    • Amy Sasman,
    • Anees Fatima,
    • Ting Liu,
    • Kathryn M. Schultz,
    • Douglas W. Losordo,
    • Ordan J. Lehmann,
    • and Tsutomu Kume
    Reply to Chakrabarti et al.: Corneal angiogenesis in patients with null FOXC1 variants PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 11, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204931109
    Biological SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Ronald van den Berg,
    • Hongsup Shin,
    • Wen-Chuang Chou,
    • Ryan George,
    • and Wei Ji Ma
    Variability in encoding precision accounts for visual short-term memory limitations PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 11, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117465109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Lukasz Szpankowski,
    • Sandra E. Encalada,
    • and Lawrence S. B. Goldstein
    Subpixel colocalization reveals amyloid precursor protein-dependent kinesin-1 and dynein association with axonal vesicles PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 11, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120510109

May 10, 2012

    Biological SciencesApplied Biological Sciences:
    • Muthu Kumara Gnanasammandhan Jayakumar,
    • Niagara Muhammad Idris,
    • and Yong Zhang
    Remote activation of biomolecules in deep tissues using near-infrared-to-UV upconversion nanotransducers PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 10, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114551109
    Physical SciencesChemistryBiological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Abdelnasser El Ghazouani,
    • Arnaud Baslé,
    • Joe Gray,
    • David W. Graham,
    • Susan J. Firbank,
    • and Christopher Dennison
    Variations in methanobactin structure influences copper utilization by methane-oxidizing bacteria PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 10, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1112921109
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    Biological SciencesNeuroscienceSocial SciencesPsychological and Cognitive Sciences:
    • Meghana A. Bhatt,
    • Terry Lohrenz,
    • Colin F. Camerer,
    • and P. Read Montague
    Distinct contributions of the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus to suspicion in a repeated bargaining game PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 10, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200738109
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May 9, 2012

    Physical SciencesPhysics:
    • Nicholas P. Butch,
    • Kui Jin,
    • Kevin Kirshenbaum,
    • Richard L. Greene,
    • and Johnpierre Paglione
    Quantum critical scaling at the edge of Fermi liquid stability in a cuprate superconductor PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 9, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1120273109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Benjamin J. Renquist,
    • Jonathan G. Murphy,
    • Emily A. Larson,
    • Dawn Olsen,
    • Robert F. Klein,
    • Kate L. J. Ellacott,
    • and Roger D. Cone
    PNAS Plus: Melanocortin-3 receptor regulates the normal fasting response PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 9, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201994109

May 8, 2012

    Letter:
    • Klaus Brettel and
    • Martin Byrdin
    DNA photolyase: Is the nonproductive back electron transfer really much slower than forward transfer? PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202795109
    Letter:
    • Dongping Zhong,
    • Aziz Sancar,
    • and Alexei Stuchebrukhov
    Reply to Brettel and Byrdin: On the efficiency of DNA repair by photolyase PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204602109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Andreas M. Rauschecker,
    • Reno F. Bowen,
    • Josef Parvizi,
    • and Brian A. Wandell
    PNAS Plus: Position sensitivity in the visual word form area PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121304109
    Correction: Correction for Bouwman et al., Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206191109
    Biological SciencesPharmacology:
    • Ciro Coletta,
    • Andreas Papapetropoulos,
    • Katalin Erdelyi,
    • Gabor Olah,
    • Katalin Módis,
    • Panagiotis Panopoulos,
    • Antonia Asimakopoulou,
    • Domokos Gerö,
    • Iraida Sharina,
    • Emil Martin,
    • and Csaba Szabo
    Hydrogen sulfide and nitric oxide are mutually dependent in the regulation of angiogenesis and endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202916109
    Livestock and Global Change Special FeatureBiological SciencesSustainability Science:
    • Lex Bouwman,
    • Kees Klein Goldewijk,
    • Klaas W. Van Der Hoek,
    • Arthur H. W. Beusen,
    • Detlef P. Van Vuuren,
    • Jaap Willems,
    • Mariana C. Rufino,
    • and Elke Stehfest
    Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print May 16, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1012878108

May 7, 2012

    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesPlant Biology:
    • Stephane Bentolila,
    • Wade P. Heller,
    • Tao Sun,
    • Arianne M. Babina,
    • Giulia Friso,
    • Klaas J. van Wijk,
    • and Maureen R. Hanson
    PNAS Plus: RIP1, a member of an Arabidopsis protein family, interacts with the protein RARE1 and broadly affects RNA editing PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121465109
    Correction: Correction for Barrington et al., Game-powered machine learning PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205806109
    Biological SciencesBiochemistry:
    • Kenneth K. Y. Cheng,
    • Karen S. L. Lam,
    • Donghai Wu,
    • Yu Wang,
    • Gary Sweeney,
    • Ruby L. C. Hoo,
    • Jialiang Zhang,
    • and Aimin Xu
    APPL1 potentiates insulin secretion in pancreatic β cells by enhancing protein kinase Akt-dependent expression of SNARE proteins in mice PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202435109
    Social SciencesAnthropology:
    • Jean-Denis Vigne,
    • François Briois,
    • Antoine Zazzo,
    • George Willcox,
    • Thomas Cucchi,
    • Stéphanie Thiébault,
    • Isabelle Carrère,
    • Yodrik Franel,
    • Régis Touquet,
    • Chloé Martin,
    • Christophe Moreau,
    • Clothilde Comby,
    • and Jean Guilaine
    First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201693109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Jessica K. Ma,
    • Mia Y. Platt,
    • Jeffrey Eastham-Anderson,
    • Jeoung-Sook Shin,
    • and Ira Mellman
    Inaugural Article: MHC class II distribution in dendritic cells and B cells is determined by ubiquitin chain length PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202977109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Katrine T.-B. G. Schjoldager,
    • Sergey Y. Vakhrushev,
    • Yun Kong,
    • Catharina Steentoft,
    • Aaron S. Nudelman,
    • Nis B. Pedersen,
    • Hans H. Wandall,
    • Ulla Mandel,
    • Eric P. Bennett,
    • Steven B. Levery,
    • and Henrik Clausen
    Probing isoform-specific functions of polypeptide GalNAc-transferases using zinc finger nuclease glycoengineered SimpleCells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203563109
    QnAs:
    • Nicholette Zeliadt
    QnAs with Ruth S. DeFries PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206100109
    Biological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Tatiana Kisseleva,
    • Min Cong,
    • YongHan Paik,
    • David Scholten,
    • Chunyan Jiang,
    • Chris Benner,
    • Keiko Iwaisako,
    • Thomas Moore-Morris,
    • Brian Scott,
    • Hidekazu Tsukamoto,
    • Sylvia M. Evans,
    • Wolfgang Dillmann,
    • Christopher K. Glass,
    • and David A. Brenner
    Myofibroblasts revert to an inactive phenotype during regression of liver fibrosis PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1201840109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesAnthropology:
    • Dean Falk,
    • Christoph P. E. Zollikofer,
    • Naoki Morimoto,
    • and Marcia S. Ponce de León
    Metopic suture of Taung (Australopithecus africanus) and its implications for hominin brain evolution PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119752109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Byron H. Farnum,
    • Jeffrey J. Jou,
    • and Gerald J. Meyer
    Visible light generation of I–I bonds by Ru-tris(diimine) excited states PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118340109
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Jackson D. Megiatto, Jr.,
    • Antaeres Antoniuk-Pablant,
    • Benjamin D. Sherman,
    • Gerdenis Kodis,
    • Miguel Gervaldo,
    • Thomas A. Moore,
    • Ana L. Moore,
    • and Devens Gust
    Mimicking the electron transfer chain in photosystem II with a molecular triad thermodynamically capable of water oxidation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118348109

May 4, 2012

    Letter:
    • Huabin Zhao and
    • Jianzhi Zhang
    Mismatches between feeding ecology and taste receptor evolution: An inconvenient truth PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 4, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205205109
    Letter:
    • Peihua Jiang,
    • Jesusa Josue,
    • Xia Li,
    • Dieter Glaser,
    • Weihua Li,
    • Joseph G. Brand,
    • Robert F. Margolskee,
    • Danielle R. Reed,
    • and Gary K. Beauchamp
    Reply to Zhao and Zhang: Loss of taste receptor function in mammals is directly related to feeding specializations PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 4, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205581109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Hubert M. Piwonski,
    • Mila Goomanovsky,
    • David Bensimon,
    • Amnon Horovitz,
    • and Gilad Haran
    PNAS Plus: Allosteric inhibition of individual enzyme molecules trapped in lipid vesicles PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 4, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116670109

May 3, 2012

    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Jun Liu,
    • Bo Hu,
    • Dustin R. Morado,
    • Sneha Jani,
    • Michael D. Manson,
    • and William Margolin
    PNAS Plus: Molecular architecture of chemoreceptor arrays revealed by cryoelectron tomography of Escherichia coli minicells PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 3, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200781109

May 2, 2012

    Letter:
    • Bradley G. Ridoutt and
    • Jing Huang
    Environmental relevance—the key to understanding water footprints PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203809109
    Letter:
    • Arjen Y. Hoekstra and
    • Mesfin M. Mekonnen
    Reply to Ridoutt and Huang: From water footprint assessment to policy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205186109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Agnieszka Kolano,
    • Stéphane Brunet,
    • Alain D. Silk,
    • Don W. Cleveland,
    • and Marie-Hélène Verlhac
    PNAS Plus: Error-prone mammalian female meiosis from silencing the spindle assembly checkpoint without normal interkinetochore tension PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204686109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Biological SciencesImmunology:
    • Nadine Bollig,
    • Anne Brüstle,
    • Kerstin Kellner,
    • Waltraud Ackermann,
    • Elfadil Abass,
    • Hartmann Raifer,
    • Bärbel Camara,
    • Cornelia Brendel,
    • Gavin Giel,
    • Evita Bothur,
    • Magdalena Huber,
    • Christoph Paul,
    • Alexandra Elli,
    • Richard A. Kroczek,
    • Roza Nurieva,
    • Chen Dong,
    • Ralf Jacob,
    • Tak W. Mak,
    • and Michael Lohoff
    Transcription factor IRF4 determines germinal center formation through follicular T-helper cell differentiation PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205834109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

May 1, 2012

    Biological SciencesNeuroscience:
    • Kevin Monahan,
    • Noam D. Rudnick,
    • Polina D. Kehayova,
    • Florencia Pauli,
    • Kimberly M. Newberry,
    • Richard M. Myers,
    • and Tom Maniatis
    Role of CCCTC binding factor (CTCF) and cohesin in the generation of single-cell diversity of Protocadherin-α gene expression PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print May 1, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205074109

April 30, 2012

    Biological SciencesMicrobiology:
    • Yi-ying Chou,
    • Reza Vafabakhsh,
    • Sultan Doğanay,
    • Qinshan Gao,
    • Taekjip Ha,
    • and Peter Palese
    One influenza virus particle packages eight unique viral RNAs as shown by FISH analysis PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206069109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesCell Biology:
    • Min Jie Alvin Tan,
    • Elizabeth A. White,
    • Mathew E. Sowa,
    • J. Wade Harper,
    • Jon C. Aster,
    • and Peter M. Howley
    PNAS Plus: Cutaneous β-human papillomavirus E6 proteins bind Mastermind-like coactivators and repress Notch signaling PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205991109
    QnAs:
    • Nicholette Zeliadt
    QnAs with Kirk R. Smith PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1205540109
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Yixin Zhao,
    • John R. Swierk,
    • Jackson D. Megiatto, Jr,
    • Benjamin Sherman,
    • W. Justin Youngblood,
    • Dongdong Qin,
    • Deanna M. Lentz,
    • Ana L. Moore,
    • Thomas A. Moore,
    • Devens Gust,
    • and Thomas E. Mallouk
    Improving the efficiency of water splitting in dye-sensitized solar cells by using a biomimetic electron transfer mediator PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118339109
    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Natasha Mhatre,
    • Fernando Montealegre-Z,
    • Rohini Balakrishnan,
    • and Daniel Robert
    PNAS Plus: Changing resonator geometry to boost sound power decouples size and song frequency in a small insect PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 30, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200192109

April 27, 2012

    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Shunichi Fukuzumi,
    • Kaoru Doi,
    • Akinori Itoh,
    • Tomoyoshi Suenobu,
    • Kei Ohkubo,
    • Yusuke Yamada,
    • and Kenneth D. Karlin
    Formation of a long-lived electron-transfer state in mesoporous silica-alumina composites enhances photocatalytic oxygenation reactivity PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1119994109
    Fostering Advance in Interdisciplinary Climate Science Sackler ColloquiumPhysical SciencesEarth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
    • Carling C. Hay,
    • Eric Morrow,
    • Robert E. Kopp,
    • and Jerry X. Mitrovica
    Fostering Advance in Interdisciplinary Climate Science Sackler Colloquium: Estimating the sources of global sea level rise with data assimilation techniques PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117683109

April 25, 2012

    Letter:
    • Damian Scarf,
    • Kana Imuta,
    • Michael Colombo,
    • and Harlene Hayne
    Golden Rule or valence matching? Methodological problems in Hamlin et al. PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 25, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204123109
    Letter:
    • J. Kiley Hamlin,
    • Karen Wynn,
    • and Paul Bloom
    Reply to Scarf et al.: Nuanced social evaluation: Association doesn’t compute PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 25, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204712109
    Biological SciencesBiophysics and Computational Biology:
    • Ulrike Henrion,
    • Jakob Renhorn,
    • Sara I. Börjesson,
    • Erin M. Nelson,
    • Christine S. Schwaiger,
    • Pär Bjelkmar,
    • Björn Wallner,
    • Erik Lindahl,
    • and Fredrik Elinder
    Tracking a complete voltage-sensor cycle with metal-ion bridges PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 25, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116938109

April 23, 2012

    Biological SciencesEvolution:
    • Yoshitomo Kikuchi,
    • Masahito Hayatsu,
    • Takahiro Hosokawa,
    • Atsushi Nagayama,
    • Kanako Tago,
    • and Takema Fukatsu
    Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 23, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1200231109
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Samantha Horvath,
    • Laura E. Fernandez,
    • Alexander V. Soudackov,
    • and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special Feature: Insights into proton-coupled electron transfer mechanisms of electrocatalytic H2 oxidation and production PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 23, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118333109

April 16, 2012

    PNAS PlusBiological SciencesPhysiology:
    • Michelle L. Milstein,
    • Hassan Musa,
    • Daniela Ponce Balbuena,
    • Justus M. B. Anumonwo,
    • David S. Auerbach,
    • Philip B. Furspan,
    • Luqia Hou,
    • Bin Hu,
    • Sarah M. Schumacher,
    • Ravi Vaidyanathan,
    • Jeffrey R. Martens,
    • and José Jalife
    PNAS Plus: Dynamic reciprocity of sodium and potassium channel expression in a macromolecular complex controls cardiac excitability and arrhythmia PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 16, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1109370109

April 6, 2012

    Chemical Physics of Protein Folding Special FeatureBiological SciencesBiophysics and Computational BiologyPhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Andrea Soranno,
    • Brigitte Buchli,
    • Daniel Nettels,
    • Ryan R. Cheng,
    • Sonja Müller-Späth,
    • Shawn H. Pfeil,
    • Armin Hoffmann,
    • Everett A. Lipman,
    • Dmitrii E. Makarov,
    • and Benjamin Schuler
    Quantifying internal friction in unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins with single-molecule spectroscopy PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 6, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117368109

April 2, 2012

    Chemical Approaches to Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special FeaturePhysical SciencesChemistry:
    • Bruno Grimm,
    • Julia Schornbaum,
    • Hannelore Jasch,
    • Olga Trukhina,
    • Florian Wessendorf,
    • Andreas Hirsch,
    • Tomas Torres,
    • and Dirk M. Guldi
    Step-by-step self-assembled hybrids that feature control over energy and charge transfer PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1113753109

March 27, 2012

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Helen K. White,
    • Pen-Yuan Hsing,
    • Walter Cho,
    • Timothy M. Shank,
    • Erik E. Cordes,
    • Andrea M. Quattrini,
    • Robert K. Nelson,
    • Richard Camilli,
    • Amanda W. J. Demopoulos,
    • Christopher R. German,
    • James M. Brooks,
    • Harry H. Roberts,
    • William Shedd,
    • Christopher M. Reddy,
    • and Charles R. Fisher
    Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print March 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118029109

February 6, 2012

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental SciencesPhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Gina M. Ylitalo,
    • Margaret M. Krahn,
    • Walton W. Dickhoff,
    • John E. Stein,
    • Calvin C. Walker,
    • Cheryl L. Lassitter,
    • E. Spencer Garrett,
    • Lisa L. Desfosse,
    • Karen M. Mitchell,
    • Brandi T. Noble,
    • Steven Wilson,
    • Nancy B. Beck,
    • Ronald A. Benner,
    • Peter N. Koufopoulos,
    • and Robert W. Dickey
    Federal seafood safety response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print February 6, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1108886109

February 3, 2012

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Christopher M. Reddy,
    • J. Samuel Arey,
    • Jeffrey S. Seewald,
    • Sean P. Sylva,
    • Karin L. Lemkau,
    • Robert K. Nelson,
    • Catherine A. Carmichael,
    • Cameron P. McIntyre,
    • Judith Fenwick,
    • G. Todd Ventura,
    • Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy,
    • and Richard Camilli
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print July 18, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1101242108

January 23, 2012

    Livestock and Global Change Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental SciencesPhysical SciencesSustainability Science:
    • Rob Alkemade,
    • Robin S. Reid,
    • Maurits van den Berg,
    • Jan de Leeuw,
    • and Michel Jeuken
    Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print January 23, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1011013108

January 19, 2012

    Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler ColloquiumSocial SciencesSustainability SciencePhysical SciencesSustainability Science:
    • James Buizer,
    • Katharine Jacobs,
    • and David Cash
    Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler Colloquium: Making short-term climate forecasts useful: Linking science and action PNAS 2010 ; published ahead of print January 28, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900518107

January 17, 2012

    Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler ColloquiumSocial SciencesSustainability Science:
    • Lorrae van Kerkhoff and
    • Nicole A. Szlezák
    Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler Colloquium: The role of innovative global institutions in linking knowledge and action PNAS 2010 ; published ahead of print March 1, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900541107
    Fostering Advance in Interdisciplinary Climate Science Sackler ColloquiumBiological SciencesPopulation BiologyPhysical SciencesGeophysics:
    • Jeffrey Shaman and
    • Marc Lipsitch
    Fostering Advance in Interdisciplinary Climate Science Sackler Colloquium: The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)–pandemic Influenza connection: Coincident or causal? PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print January 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1107485109

January 10, 2012

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental SciencesPhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • David L. Valentine,
    • Igor Mezić,
    • Senka Maćešić,
    • Nelida Črnjarić-Žic,
    • Stefan Ivić,
    • Patrick J. Hogan,
    • Vladimir A. Fonoberov,
    • and Sophie Loire
    Dynamic autoinoculation and the microbial ecology of a deep water hydrocarbon irruption PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print January 10, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1108820109
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePerspective:
    • Thomas B. Ryerson,
    • Richard Camilli,
    • John D. Kessler,
    • Elizabeth B. Kujawinski,
    • Christopher M. Reddy,
    • David L. Valentine,
    • Elliot Atlas,
    • Donald R. Blake,
    • Joost de Gouw,
    • Simone Meinardi,
    • David D. Parrish,
    • Jeff Peischl,
    • Jeffrey S. Seewald,
    • and Carsten Warneke
    Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print January 10, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1110564109

January 5, 2012

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Ann M. Middlebrook,
    • Daniel M. Murphy,
    • Ravan Ahmadov,
    • Elliot L. Atlas,
    • Roya Bahreini,
    • Donald R. Blake,
    • Jerome Brioude,
    • Joost A. de Gouw,
    • Fred C. Fehsenfeld,
    • Gregory J. Frost,
    • John S. Holloway,
    • Daniel A. Lack,
    • Justin M. Langridge,
    • Rich A. Lueb,
    • Stuart A. McKeen,
    • James F. Meagher,
    • Simone Meinardi,
    • J. Andrew Neuman,
    • John B. Nowak,
    • David D. Parrish,
    • Jeff Peischl,
    • Anne E. Perring,
    • Ilana B. Pollack,
    • James M. Roberts,
    • Thomas B. Ryerson,
    • Joshua P. Schwarz,
    • J. Ryan Spackman,
    • Carsten Warneke,
    • and A. R. Ravishankara
    Air quality implications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print December 28, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1110052108

December 20, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePerspective:
    • Marcia K. McNutt,
    • Rich Camilli,
    • Timothy J. Crone,
    • George D. Guthrie,
    • Paul A. Hsieh,
    • Thomas B. Ryerson,
    • Omer Savas,
    • and Frank Shaffer
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Review of flow rate estimates of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print December 20, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1112139108

December 13, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePhysical SciencesApplied Physical Sciences:
    • Thomas C. Weber,
    • Alex De Robertis,
    • Samuel F. Greenaway,
    • Shep Smith,
    • Larry Mayer,
    • and Glen Rice
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Estimating oil concentration and flow rate with calibrated vessel-mounted acoustic echo sounders PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print December 13, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1108771108

December 1, 2011

    Correction: Correction for Whitehead et al., Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print December 1, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118844109

October 3, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Molly C. Redmond and
    • David L. Valentine
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Natural gas and temperature structured a microbial community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print October 3, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1108756108

September 26, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeatureBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Andrew Whitehead,
    • Benjamin Dubansky,
    • Charlotte Bodinier,
    • Tzintzuni I. Garcia,
    • Scott Miles,
    • Chet Pilley,
    • Vandana Raghunathan,
    • Jennifer L. Roach,
    • Nan Walker,
    • Ronald B. Walter,
    • Charles D. Rice,
    • and Fernando Galvez
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print September 26, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1109545108

September 8, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Richard Camilli,
    • Daniela Di Iorio,
    • Andrew Bowen,
    • Christopher M. Reddy,
    • Alexandra H. Techet,
    • Dana R. Yoerger,
    • Louis L. Whitcomb,
    • Jeffrey S. Seewald,
    • Sean P. Sylva,
    • and Judith Fenwick
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Acoustic measurement of the Deepwater Horizon Macondo well flow rate PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print September 8, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1100385108

August 15, 2011

    Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler ColloquiumSocial SciencesSustainability ScienceBiological SciencesAgricultural Sciences:
    • William C. Clark,
    • Thomas P. Tomich,
    • Meine van Noordwijk,
    • David Guston,
    • Delia Catacutan,
    • Nancy M. Dickson,
    • and Elizabeth McNie
    Inaugural Article: Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Special Feature Sackler Colloquium: Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print August 15, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.0900231108

July 5, 2011

    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special FeaturePhysical SciencesEnvironmental Sciences:
    • Curtis M. Oldenburg,
    • Barry M. Freifeld,
    • Karsten Pruess,
    • Lehua Pan,
    • Stefan Finsterle,
    • and George J. Moridis
    Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Numerical simulations of the Macondo well blowout reveal strong control of oil flow by reservoir permeability and exsolution of gas PNAS 2011 ; published ahead of print July 5, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1105165108

June 13, 2011

    Agriculture Development and Nutrition Security Special FeatureSocial SciencesSustainability Science:
    • Paola Perez-Aleman
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