Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Neal F. Lue
    • and Sulin Jiang

    Reverse transcriptase at bacterial telomeres

    PNAS 2004 101:14307-14308; published online before print September 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406018101
    • See companion article on page 14361 in issue 40 of volume 101

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Jack D. Dunitz
    • and Harold A. Scheraga

    Exercises in prognostication: Crystal structures and protein folding

    PNAS 2004 101:14309-14311; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405744101

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Melissa Marino

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Erin K. O'Shea

    PNAS 2004 101:14312-14314; published online before print September 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406675101
    • See commentary article on page 14315 in issue 40 of volume 101
  • Biography:
    • Tinsley H. Davis

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Vernon M. Ingram

    PNAS 2004 101:14323-14325; published online before print September 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406677101
    • See commentary article on page 14326 in issue 40 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Jean-Pierre Eckmann,
    • Elisha Moses,
    • and Danilo Sergi

    Entropy of dialogues creates coherent structures in e-mail traffic

    PNAS 2004 101:14333-14337; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405728101

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alan R. Fersht

    Relationship of Leffler (Brønsted) α values and protein folding Φ values to position of transition-state structures on reaction coordinates

    PNAS 2004 101:14338-14342; published online before print September 21, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406091101
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Mircea Cotlet,
    • Sadahiro Masuo,
    • Guobin Luo,
    • Johan Hofkens,
    • Mark Van der Auweraer,
    • Jan Verhoeven,
    • Klaus Müllen,
    • Xiaoliang Sunney Xie,
    • and Frans De Schryver

    Probing conformational dynamics in single donor-acceptor synthetic molecules by means of photoinduced reversible electron transfer

    PNAS 2004 101:14343-14348; published online before print September 23, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406119101
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Haitao Li,
    • Xiaojun Ren,
    • Liming Ying,
    • Shankar Balasubramanian,
    • and David Klenerman

    Measuring single-molecule nucleic acid dynamics in solution by two-color filtered ratiometric fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

    PNAS 2004 101:14425-14430; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404295101

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Guy Stecklov
    • and Joshua R. Goldstein

    Terror attacks influence driving behavior in Israel

    PNAS 2004 101:14551-14556; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402483101

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • Joachim Messing,
    • Arvind K. Bharti,
    • Wojciech M. Karlowski,
    • Heidrun Gundlach,
    • Hye Ran Kim,
    • Yeisoo Yu,
    • Fusheng Wei,
    • Galina Fuks,
    • Carol A. Soderlund,
    • Klaus F. X. Mayer,
    • and Rod A. Wing

    Sequence composition and genome organization of maize

    PNAS 2004 101:14349-14354; published online before print September 23, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406163101

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Juan P. Liuzzi,
    • Jeffrey A. Bobo,
    • Louis A. Lichten,
    • Don A. Samuelson,
    • and Robert J. Cousins

    Responsive transporter genes within the murine intestinal-pancreatic axis form a basis of zinc homeostasis

    PNAS 2004 101:14355-14360; published online before print September 20, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406216101

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kai Bao
    • and Stanley N. Cohen

    From the Cover: Reverse transcriptase activity innate to DNA polymerase I and DNA topoisomerase I proteins of Streptomyces telomere complex

    PNAS 2004 101:14361-14366; published online before print September 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404386101
    • See commentary article on page 14307 in issue 40 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sung Chul Ha,
    • Neratur K. Lokanath,
    • Dong Van Quyen,
    • Chun Ai Wu,
    • Ky Lowenhaupt,
    • Alexander Rich,
    • Yang-Gyun Kim,
    • and Kyeong Kyu Kim

    A poxvirus protein forms a complex with left-handed Z-DNA: Crystal structure of a Yatapoxvirus Zα bound to DNA

    PNAS 2004 101:14367-14372; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405586101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jing Song,
    • Linda K. Durrin,
    • Thomas A. Wilkinson,
    • Theodore G. Krontiris,
    • and Yuan Chen

    Identification of a SUMO-binding motif that recognizes SUMO-modified proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:14373-14378; published online before print September 23, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403498101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Devleena Mazumder-Shivakumar
    • and Thomas C. Bruice

    Molecular dynamics studies of ground state and intermediate of the hyperthermophilic indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase

    PNAS 2004 101:14379-14384; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406002101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tim A. Rand,
    • Krzysztof Ginalski,
    • Nick V. Grishin,
    • and Xiaodong Wang

    Biochemical identification of Argonaute 2 as the sole protein required for RNA-induced silencing complex activity

    PNAS 2004 101:14385-14389; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405913101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Krzysztof B. Wicher
    • and Erik Fries

    Prohaptoglobin is proteolytically cleaved in the endoplasmic reticulum by the complement C1r-like protein

    PNAS 2004 101:14390-14395; published online before print September 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405692101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nathan T. Uter
    • and John J. Perona

    Long-range intramolecular signaling in a tRNA synthetase complex revealed by pre-steady-state kinetics

    PNAS 2004 101:14396-14401; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404017101

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alan R. Fersht

    Relationship of Leffler (Brønsted) α values and protein folding Φ values to position of transition-state structures on reaction coordinates

    PNAS 2004 101:14338-14342; published online before print September 21, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406091101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Matteo Levantino,
    • Antonio Cupane,
    • László Zimányi,
    • and Pál Ormos

    Different relaxations in myoglobin after photolysis

    PNAS 2004 101:14402-14407; published online before print September 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406062101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Cristiano Viappiani,
    • Stefano Bettati,
    • Stefano Bruno,
    • Luca Ronda,
    • Stefania Abbruzzetti,
    • Andrea Mozzarelli,
    • and William A. Eaton

    New insights into allosteric mechanisms from trapping unstable protein conformations in silica gels

    PNAS 2004 101:14414-14419; published online before print September 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405987101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mark R. H. Krebs,
    • Cait E. MacPhee,
    • Aline F. Miller,
    • Iain E. Dunlop,
    • Christopher M. Dobson,
    • and Athene M. Donald

    The formation of spherulites by amyloid fibrils of bovine insulin

    PNAS 2004 101:14420-14424; published online before print September 20, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405933101
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Haitao Li,
    • Xiaojun Ren,
    • Liming Ying,
    • Shankar Balasubramanian,
    • and David Klenerman

    Measuring single-molecule nucleic acid dynamics in solution by two-color filtered ratiometric fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

    PNAS 2004 101:14425-14430; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404295101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Carl L. Hansen,
    • Morten O. A. Sommer,
    • and Stephen R. Quake

    From the Cover: Systematic investigation of protein phase behavior with a microfluidic formulator

    PNAS 2004 101:14431-14436; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405847101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Christine B. Karim,
    • Tara L. Kirby,
    • Zhiwen Zhang,
    • Yuri Nesmelov,
    • and David D. Thomas

    Phospholamban structural dynamics in lipid bilayers probed by a spin label rigidly coupled to the peptide backbone

    PNAS 2004 101:14437-14442; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402801101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Rosa M. Marion,
    • Aviv Regev,
    • Eran Segal,
    • Yoseph Barash,
    • Daphne Koller,
    • Nir Friedman,
    • and Erin K. O'Shea

    Inaugural Article: Sfp1 is a stress- and nutrient-sensitive regulator of ribosomal protein gene expression

    PNAS 2004 101:14315-14322; published online before print September 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405353101
    • See commentary article on page 14312 in issue 40 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Yiling Hong
    • and Peter J. Stambrook

    Restoration of an absent G1 arrest and protection from apoptosis in embryonic stem cells after ionizing radiation

    PNAS 2004 101:14443-14448; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401346101

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Huajing Wan,
    • Yan Xu,
    • Machiko Ikegami,
    • Mildred T. Stahlman,
    • Klaus H. Kaestner,
    • Siew-Lan Ang,
    • and Jeffrey A. Whitsett

    Foxa2 is required for transition to air breathing at birth

    PNAS 2004 101:14449-14454; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404424101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • M. C. Leclerc,
    • P. Durand,
    • C. Gauthier,
    • S. Patot,
    • N. Billotte,
    • M. Menegon,
    • C. Severini,
    • F. J. Ayala,
    • and F. Renaud

    From the Cover: Meager genetic variability of the human malaria agent Plasmodium vivax

    PNAS 2004 101:14455-14460; published online before print August 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405186101
    • See commentary article on page 15547 in issue 44 of volume 101

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Sumito Ogawa,
    • Jean Lozach,
    • Kristen Jepsen,
    • Dominique Sawka-Verhelle,
    • Valentina Perissi,
    • Roman Sasik,
    • David W. Rose,
    • Randall S. Johnson,
    • Michael G. Rosenfeld,
    • and Christopher K. Glass

    A nuclear receptor corepressor transcriptional checkpoint controlling activator protein 1-dependent gene networks required for macrophage activation

    PNAS 2004 101:14461-14466; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405786101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Mitsutoshi Matsuo,
    • Yasuhiro Nagata,
    • Eiichi Sato,
    • Djordje Atanackovic,
    • Danila Valmori,
    • Yao-Tseng Chen,
    • Gerd Ritter,
    • Ira Mellman,
    • Lloyd J. Old,
    • and Sacha Gnjatic

    IFN-γ enables cross-presentation of exogenous protein antigen in human Langerhans cells by potentiating maturation

    PNAS 2004 101:14467-14472; published online before print September 21, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405947101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Helene C. Dujardin,
    • Odile Burlen-Defranoux,
    • Laurent Boucontet,
    • Paulo Vieira,
    • Ana Cumano,
    • and Antonio Bandeira

    Regulatory potential and control of Foxp3 expression in newborn CD4+ T cells

    PNAS 2004 101:14473-14478; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403303101

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Jing Chen,
    • Daniel J. DeAngelo,
    • Jeffery L. Kutok,
    • Ifor R. Williams,
    • Benjamin H. Lee,
    • Martha Wadleigh,
    • Nicole Duclos,
    • Sarah Cohen,
    • Jennifer Adelsperger,
    • Rachel Okabe,
    • Allison Coburn,
    • Ilene Galinsky,
    • Brian Huntly,
    • Pamela S. Cohen,
    • Thomas Meyer,
    • Doriano Fabbro,
    • Johannes Roesel,
    • Lolita Banerji,
    • James D. Griffin,
    • Sheng Xiao,
    • Jonathan A. Fletcher,
    • Richard M. Stone,
    • and D. Gary Gilliland

    PKC412 inhibits the zinc finger 198-fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 fusion tyrosine kinase and is active in treatment of stem cell myeloproliferative disorder

    PNAS 2004 101:14479-14484; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404438101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Sudha K. Iyengar,
    • Barbara E. K. Klein,
    • Ronald Klein,
    • Gyungah Jun,
    • James H. Schick,
    • Christopher Millard,
    • Rachel Liptak,
    • Karlie Russo,
    • Kristine E. Lee,
    • and Robert C. Elston

    Identification of a major locus for age-related cortical cataract on chromosome 6p12-q12 in the Beaver Dam Eye Study

    PNAS 2004 101:14485-14490; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400778101

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • George Y. Liu,
    • Kelly S. Doran,
    • Toby Lawrence,
    • Nicole Turkson,
    • Manuela Puliti,
    • Luciana Tissi,
    • and Victor Nizet

    Sword and shield: Linked group B streptococcal β-hemolysin/cytolysin and carotenoid pigment function to subvert host phagocyte defense

    PNAS 2004 101:14491-14496; published online before print September 20, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406143101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Neeraj K. Surana,
    • Susan Grass,
    • Gail G. Hardy,
    • Huilin Li,
    • David G. Thanassi,
    • and Joseph W. St. Geme III

    Evidence for conservation of architecture and physical properties of Omp85-like proteins throughout evolution

    PNAS 2004 101:14497-14502; published online before print September 20, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404679101

Neuroscience

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Barbara J. Blanchard,
    • Albert Chen,
    • Leslie M. Rozeboom,
    • Kate A. Stafford,
    • Peter Weigele,
    • and Vernon M. Ingram

    Inaugural Article: Efficient reversal of Alzheimer's disease fibril formation and elimination of neurotoxicity by a small molecule

    PNAS 2004 101:14326-14332; published online before print September 23, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405941101
    • See commentary article on page 14323 in issue 40 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Henry Haeberle,
    • Mika Fujiwara,
    • Jody Chuang,
    • Michael M. Medina,
    • Mayuri V. Panditrao,
    • Susanne Bechstedt,
    • Jonathon Howard,
    • and Ellen A. Lumpkin

    Molecular profiling reveals synaptic release machinery in Merkel cells

    PNAS 2004 101:14503-14508; published online before print September 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406308101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Hiroshi Yamazaki,
    • Mariko Sekiguchi,
    • Masako Takamatsu,
    • Yasuto Tanabe,
    • and Shigetada Nakanishi

    Distinct ontogenic and regional expressions of newly identified Cajal-Retzius cell-specific genes during neocorticogenesis

    PNAS 2004 101:14509-14514; published online before print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406295101