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November 9, 2004; 101 (45)  [Index By Author]  [Cover Photo]  [Masthead (PDF)]

FROM THE COVER

Reprogrammable microfluidic devices

Direct antioxidant mechanism of NO synthase

Screen for alternative splicing regulators

Polymer library aids gene therapy delivery

Conscious knowledge accompanies advantageous choices

COMMENTARIES

PERSPECTIVES

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
    Applied Mathematics
    Applied Physical Sciences
    Chemistry
    Computer Sciences
    Engineering
    Geophysics

SOCIAL SCIENCES
    Psychology

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
    Biochemistry
    Biophysics
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Evolution
    Genetics

    Immunology
    Medical Sciences
    Microbiology
    Neuroscience
    Physiology
    Plant Biology

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COMMENTARIES

James A. Spudich
Two important polymers cross paths
PNAS 2004 101: 15825-15826; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406932101 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 15876

PERSPECTIVES

Robert B. Jackson and William H. Schlesinger
Curbing the U.S. carbon deficit
PNAS 2004 101: 15827-15829; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403631101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics

G. Lin, C. H. Su, and G. E. Karniadakis
The stochastic piston problem
PNAS 2004 101: 15840-15845; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405889101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Applied Physical Sciences

Luis Cruz, Daniel L. Roe, Brigita Urbanc, Howard Cabral, H. E. Stanley, and Douglas L. Rosene
Age-related reduction in microcolumnar structure in area 46 of the rhesus monkey correlates with behavioral decline
PNAS 2004 101: 15846-15851; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407002101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Gheorghiu and Marc-Olivier Coppens
Heterogeneity explains features of "anomalous" thermodynamics and statistics
PNAS 2004 101: 15852-15856; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407191101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chemistry

John P. Dumbacher, Avit Wako, Scott R. Derrickson, Allan Samuelson, Thomas F. Spande, and John W. Daly
Melyrid beetles (Choresine): A putative source for the batrachotoxin alkaloids found in poison-dart frogs and toxic passerine birds
PNAS 2004 101: 15857-15860; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407197101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Computer Sciences

Kevin K. Lin, Darya Chudova, G. Wesley Hatfield, Padhraic Smyth, and Bogi Andersen
Identification of hair cycle-associated genes from time-course gene expression profile data by using replicate variance
PNAS 2004 101: 15955-15960; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407114101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Engineering

Wei Gu, Xiaoyue Zhu, Nobuyuki Futai, Brenda S. Cho, and Shuichi Takayama
From the Cover: Computerized microfluidic cell culture using elastomeric channels and Braille displays
PNAS 2004 101: 15861-15866; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404353101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Geophysics

Wendy L. Mao, Guoyin Shen, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yue Meng, Andrew J. Campbell, Dion L. Heinz, Jinfu Shu, Russell J. Hemley, and Ho-kwang Mao
Ferromagnesian postperovskite silicates in the D'' layer of the Earth
PNAS 2004 101: 15867-15869; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407135101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Psychology

Tiago V. Maia and James L. McClelland
From the Cover: A reexamination of the evidence for the somatic marker hypothesis: What participants really know in the Iowa gambling task
PNAS 2004 101: 16075-16080; published online before print October 22 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406666101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biochemistry

Frederick Berkovitch, Elham Behshad, Kuo-Hsiang Tang, Eva A. Enns, Perry A. Frey, and Catherine L. Drennan
A locking mechanism preventing radical damage in the absence of substrate, as revealed by the x-ray structure of lysine 5,6-aminomutase
PNAS 2004 101: 15870-15875; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407074101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

María R. Gómez-García and Arthur Kornberg
Formation of an actin-like filament concurrent with the enzymatic synthesis of inorganic polyphosphate
PNAS 2004 101: 15876-15880; published online before print October 20 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406923101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See Commentary on page 15825

Madhavan R. Buddha, Kim M. Keery, and Brian R. Crane
An unusual tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase interacts with nitric oxide synthase in Deinococcus radiodurans
PNAS 2004 101: 15881-15886; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405483101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Swarnalatha Y. Reddy and Thomas C. Bruice
Mechanisms of ammonia activation and ammonium ion inhibition of quinoprotein methanol dehydrogenase: A computational approach
PNAS 2004 101: 15887-15892; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407209101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mikael J. Lindberg, Johanna Normark, Arne Holmgren, and Mikael Oliveberg
Folding of human superoxide dismutase: Disulfide reduction prevents dimerization and produces marginally stable monomers
PNAS 2004 101: 15893-15898; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403979101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Scott J. Bornheimer, Mano R. Maurya, Marilyn Gist Farquhar, and Shankar Subramaniam
Computational modeling reveals how interplay between components of a GTPase-cycle module regulates signal transduction
PNAS 2004 101: 15899-15904; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407009101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Biophysics

Jörg Wiedenmann, Sergey Ivanchenko, Franz Oswald, Florian Schmitt, Carlheinz Röcker, Anya Salih, Klaus-Dieter Spindler, and G. Ulrich Nienhaus
EosFP, a fluorescent marker protein with UV-inducible green-to-red fluorescence conversion
PNAS 2004 101: 15905-15910; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403668101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Christian Laforsch, Wilfred Ngwa, Wolfgang Grill, and Ralph Tollrian
An acoustic microscopy technique reveals hidden morphological defenses in Daphnia
PNAS 2004 101: 15911-15914; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404860101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deguo Du, Yongjin Zhu, Cheng-Yen Huang, and Feng Gai
Understanding the key factors that control the rate of {beta}-hairpin folding
PNAS 2004 101: 15915-15920; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405904101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Deich, E. M. Judd, H. H. McAdams, and W. E. Moerner
Visualization of the movement of single histidine kinase molecules in live Caulobacter cells
PNAS 2004 101: 15921-15926; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404200101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Wei Gu, Xiaoyue Zhu, Nobuyuki Futai, Brenda S. Cho, and Shuichi Takayama
From the Cover: Computerized microfluidic cell culture using elastomeric channels and Braille displays
PNAS 2004 101: 15861-15866; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404353101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Sara Cipolat, Olga Martins de Brito, Barbara Dal Zilio, and Luca Scorrano
OPA1 requires mitofusin 1 to promote mitochondrial fusion
PNAS 2004 101: 15927-15932; published online before print October 27 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407043101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Martijn J. Moné, Tytus Bernas, Christoffel Dinant, Feliks A. Goedvree, Erik M. M. Manders, Marcel Volker, Adriaan B. Houtsmuller, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, Wim Vermeulen, and Roel van Driel
In vivo dynamics of chromatin-associated complex formation in mammalian nucleotide excision repair
PNAS 2004 101: 15933-15937; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403664101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

I. Brust-Mascher, G. Civelekoglu-Scholey, M. Kwon, A. Mogilner, and J. M. Scholey
Model for anaphase B: Role of three mitotic motors in a switch from poleward flux to spindle elongation
PNAS 2004 101: 15938-15943; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407044101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Shakil A. Khan, Kwangho Lee, Khalid M. Minhas, Daniel R. Gonzalez, Shubha V. Y. Raju, Ankit D. Tejani, Dechun Li, Dan E. Berkowitz, and Joshua M. Hare
From the Cover: Neuronal nitric oxide synthase negatively regulates xanthine oxidoreductase inhibition of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling
PNAS 2004 101: 15944-15948; published online before print October 14 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404136101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Nicholas W. Gale, Melissa G. Dominguez, Irene Noguera, Li Pan, Virginia Hughes, David M. Valenzuela, Andrew J. Murphy, Niels C. Adams, Hsin Chieh Lin, Jocelyn Holash, Gavin Thurston, and George D. Yancopoulos
Haploinsufficiency of delta-like 4 ligand results in embryonic lethality due to major defects in arterial and vascular development
PNAS 2004 101: 15949-15954; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407290101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Kevin K. Lin, Darya Chudova, G. Wesley Hatfield, Padhraic Smyth, and Bogi Andersen
Identification of hair cycle-associated genes from time-course gene expression profile data by using replicate variance
PNAS 2004 101: 15955-15960; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407114101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Chiann-mun Chen, Walter Strapps, Andrew Tomlinson, and Gary Struhl
Evidence that the cysteine-rich domain of Drosophila Frizzled family receptors is dispensable for transducing Wingless
PNAS 2004 101: 15961-15966; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407103101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Sofia Berlin and Hans Ellegren
Chicken W: A genetically uniform chromosome in a highly variable genome
PNAS 2004 101: 15967-15969; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405126101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Andrea S. Aspbury and Caitlin R. Gabor
Discriminating males alter sperm production between species
PNAS 2004 101: 15970-15973; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405653101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Jung W. Park, Katherine Parisky, Alicia M. Celotto, Robert A. Reenan, and Brenton R. Graveley
From the Cover: Identification of alternative splicing regulators by RNA interference in Drosophila
PNAS 2004 101: 15974-15979; published online before print October 18 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407004101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Kyungjae Myung, Stephanie Smith, and Richard D. Kolodner
Mitotic checkpoint function in the formation of gross chromosomal rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 2004 101: 15980-15985; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407010101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher N. Topp, Cathy X. Zhong, and R. Kelly Dawe
Centromere-encoded RNAs are integral components of the maize kinetochore
PNAS 2004 101: 15986-15991; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407154101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicola S. Fearnhead, Jennifer L. Wilding, Bruce Winney, Susan Tonks, Sylvia Bartlett, David C. Bicknell, Ian P. M. Tomlinson, Neil J. McC. Mortensen, and Walter F. Bodmer
Multiple rare variants in different genes account for multifactorial inherited susceptibility to colorectal adenomas
PNAS 2004 101: 15992-15997; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407187101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Blanka Rogina and Stephen L. Helfand
Sir2 mediates longevity in the fly through a pathway related to calorie restriction
PNAS 2004 101: 15998-16003; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404184101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Immunology

E. John Wherry, Daniel L. Barber, Susan M. Kaech, Joseph N. Blattman, and Rafi Ahmed
Antigen-independent memory CD8 T cells do not develop during chronic viral infection
PNAS 2004 101: 16004-16009; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407192101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Dong U. Lee and Anjana Rao
Molecular analysis of a locus control region in the T helper 2 cytokine gene cluster: A target for STAT6 but not GATA3
PNAS 2004 101: 16010-16015; published online before print October 26 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407031101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

Ori Brenner, Ditsa Levanon, Varda Negreanu, Olga Golubkov, Ofer Fainaru, Eilon Woolf, and Yoram Groner
Loss of Runx3 function in leukocytes is associated with spontaneously developed colitis and gastric mucosal hyperplasia
PNAS 2004 101: 16016-16021; published online before print October 28 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407180101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Joseph Lotem, Hila Benjamin, Dvir Netanely, Eytan Domany, and Leo Sachs
Induction in myeloid leukemic cells of genes that are expressed in different normal tissues
PNAS 2004 101: 16022-16027; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406966101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Daniel G. Anderson, Weidan Peng, Akin Akinc, Naushad Hossain, Anat Kohn, Robert Padera, Robert Langer, and Janet A. Sawicki
From the Cover: A polymer library approach to suicide gene therapy for cancer
PNAS 2004 101: 16028-16033; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407218101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Microbiology

Tinsley H. Davis
Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:
Inaugural Article: Biography of E. P. Greenberg
PNAS 2004 101: 15830-15832; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407738101 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Schuster, M. L. Urbanowski, and E. P. Greenberg
Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:
Inaugural Article: Promoter specificity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing revealed by DNA binding of purified LasR
PNAS 2004 101: 15833-15839; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407229101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. A. Smith, L. Pomeranz, S. P. Gross, and L. W. Enquist
Local modulation of plus-end transport targets herpesvirus entry and egress in sensory axons
PNAS 2004 101: 16034-16039; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0404686101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Movies]  

Ivan Y. Khudyakov and James W. Golden
Different functions of HetR, a master regulator of heterocyst differentiation in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, can be separated by mutation
PNAS 2004 101: 16040-16045; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405572101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neuroscience

Luis Cruz, Daniel L. Roe, Brigita Urbanc, Howard Cabral, H. E. Stanley, and Douglas L. Rosene
Age-related reduction in microcolumnar structure in area 46 of the rhesus monkey correlates with behavioral decline
PNAS 2004 101: 15846-15851; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407002101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lucia Carvelli, Paul W. McDonald, Randy D. Blakely, and Louis J. DeFelice
Dopamine transporters depolarize neurons by a channel mechanism
PNAS 2004 101: 16046-16051; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403299101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles L. Limoli, Radoslaw Rola, Erich Giedzinski, Sailaja Mantha, Ting-Ting Huang, and John R. Fike
Cell-density-dependent regulation of neural precursor cell function
PNAS 2004 101: 16052-16057; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0407065101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takaomi Sakai, Takuya Tamura, Toshihiro Kitamoto, and Yoshiaki Kidokoro
A clock gene, period, plays a key role in long-term memory formation in Drosophila
PNAS 2004 101: 16058-16063; published online before print November 2 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0401472101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Tiago V. Maia and James L. McClelland
From the Cover: A reexamination of the evidence for the somatic marker hypothesis: What participants really know in the Iowa gambling task
PNAS 2004 101: 16075-16080; published online before print October 22 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406666101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Eric E. Zhang, Emilie Chapeau, Kazuki Hagihara, and Gen-Sheng Feng
Neuronal Shp2 tyrosine phosphatase controls energy balance and metabolism
PNAS 2004 101: 16064-16069; published online before print November 1 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405041101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Plant Biology

M. E. Nasrallah, P. Liu, S. Sherman-Broyles, N. A. Boggs, and J. B. Nasrallah
Natural variation in expression of self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana: Implications for the evolution of selfing
PNAS 2004 101: 16070-16074; published online before print October 25 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0406970101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for Fersht, Relationship of Leffler (Brønsted) {alpha} values and protein folding {Phi} values to position of transition-state structures on reaction coordinates, PNAS 2004 101:14338-14342 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Willer et al., Targeted disruption of the Walker–Warburg syndrome gene Pomt1 in mouse results in embryonic lethality, PNAS 2004 101:14126-14131 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Thiele et al., Contribution of inhibitory mechanisms to direction selectivity and response normalization in macaque middle temporal area, PNAS 2004 101:9810-9815 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RETRACTIONS
Retraction for Chandok et al., Suppression of pathogen-inducible NO synthase (iNOS) activity in tomato increases susceptibility to Pseudomonas syringae, PNAS 2004 101:8239-8244 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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