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This Week in PNAS
PNAS 2005 102: 11957-11958. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Howard Ochman

Genomes on the shrink
PNAS 2005 102: 11959-11960; published online before print August 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505863102 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 12112

Holger Puchta and Barbara Hohn

Green light for gene targeting in plants
PNAS 2005 102: 11961-11962; published online before print August 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505202102 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 12265

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Douglas B. Weibel, Piotr Garstecki, Declan Ryan, Willow R. DiLuzio, Michael Mayer, Jennifer E. Seto, and George M. Whitesides

Microoxen: Microorganisms to move microscale loads
PNAS 2005 102: 11963-11967; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505481102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Michael N Dawson, Alex Sen Gupta, and Matthew H. England

Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species
PNAS 2005 102: 11968-11973; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503811102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Engineering

Michael J. Vogel, Peter Ehrhard, and Paul H. Steen

The electroosmotic droplet switch: Countering capillarity with electrokinetics
PNAS 2005 102: 11974-11979; published online before print August 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505324102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Geology

Caroline A. E. Strömberg

Decoupled taxonomic radiation and ecological expansion of open-habitat grasses in the Cenozoic of North America
PNAS 2005 102: 11980-11984; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505700102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physics

Mariangela Lisanti, Davide Iannuzzi, and Federico Capasso

Observation of the skin-depth effect on the Casimir force between metallic surfaces
PNAS 2005 102: 11989-11992; published online before print August 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505614102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Applied Biological Sciences

Michael N Dawson, Alex Sen Gupta, and Matthew H. England

Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species
PNAS 2005 102: 11968-11973; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503811102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Srinivas Rao, Stella Hu, Louise McHugh, Kira Lueders, Ken Henry, Qi Zhao, Richard A. Fekete, Sudeshna Kar, Sankar Adhya, and Dean H. Hamer From the Cover: Toward a live microbial microbicide for HIV: Commensal bacteria secreting an HIV fusion inhibitor peptide PNAS 2005 102: 11993-11998; published online before print July 22 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504881102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Materials and Methods]   See Commentary on page 12294

Chunping Qiao, Jianbin Li, Tong Zhu, Romesh Draviam, Simon Watkins, Xiaojing Ye, Chunlian Chen, Juan Li, and Xiao Xiao

Amelioration of laminin-2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy by somatic gene transfer of miniagrin
PNAS 2005 102: 11999-12004; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502137102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Biochemistry

Anna C. Schinzel, Osamu Takeuchi, Zhihong Huang, Jill K. Fisher, Zhipeng Zhou, Jeffery Rubens, Claudio Hetz, Nika N. Danial, Michael A. Moskowitz, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Cyclophilin D is a component of mitochondrial permeability transition and mediates neuronal cell death after focal cerebral ischemia
PNAS 2005 102: 12005-12010; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505294102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lutfi Abu-Elheiga, Martin M. Matzuk, Parichher Kordari, WonKeun Oh, Tattym Shaikenov, Ziwei Gu, and Salih J. Wakil

Mutant mice lacking acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 are embryonically lethal
PNAS 2005 102: 12011-12016; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505714102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David Baram, Erez Pyetan, Assa Sittner, Tamar Auerbach-Nevo, Anat Bashan, and Ada Yonath Structure of trigger factor binding domain in biologically homologous complex with eubacterial ribosome reveals its chaperone action PNAS 2005 102: 12017-12022; published online before print August 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505581102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kenji Nakahara, Kevin Kim, Christin Sciulli, Susan R. Dowd, Jonathan S. Minden, and Richard W. Carthew

Targets of microRNA regulation in the Drosophila oocyte proteome
PNAS 2005 102: 12023-12028; published online before print August 12 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0500053102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Kemberly G. Patteson, Neel Trivedi, and Thressa C. Stadtman Methanococcus vannielii selenium-binding protein (SeBP): Chemical reactivity of recombinant SeBP produced in Escherichia coli PNAS 2005 102: 12029-12034; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505650102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biophysics

Raj Chakrabarti, Alexander M. Klibanov, and Richard A. Friesner

Sequence optimization and designability of enzyme active sites
PNAS 2005 102: 12035-12040; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505397102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Svetlana V. Antonyuk, Richard W. Strange, Gary Sawers, Robert R. Eady, and S. Samar Hasnain

Atomic resolution structures of resting-state, substrate- and product-complexed Cu-nitrite reductase provide insight into catalytic mechanism
PNAS 2005 102: 12041-12046; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504207102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Klaus-Dieter Irrgang, Matthew J. Latimer, Uwe Bergmann, Pieter Glatzel, Yulia Pushkar, Jacek Biesiadka, Bernhard Loll, Kenneth Sauer, Johannes Messinger, Athina Zouni, and Vittal K. Yachandra From the Cover: X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: A case study for metalloprotein crystallography PNAS 2005 102: 12047-12052; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505207102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Mai Marie Holm, Marie-Louise Lunn, Stephen F. Traynelis, Jette S. Kastrup, and Jan Egebjerg

Structural determinants of agonist-specific kinetics at the ionotropic glutamate receptor 2
PNAS 2005 102: 12053-12058; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505522102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Manoranjan P. Singh, Roop Mallik, Steven P. Gross, and Clare C. Yu

Monte Carlo modeling of single-molecule cytoplasmic dynein
PNAS 2005 102: 12059-12064; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0501570102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Cell Biology

Alessia Pascale, Marialaura Amadio, Giovanni Scapagnini, Cristina Lanni, Marco Racchi, Alessandro Provenzani, Stefano Govoni, Daniel L. Alkon, and Alessandro Quattrone

Neuronal ELAV proteins enhance mRNA stability by a PKC-dependent pathway
PNAS 2005 102: 12065-12070; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504702102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Materials and Methods]  

Shigeki Shimba, Norimasa Ishii, Yuki Ohta, Toshiharu Ohno, Yuichi Watabe, Mitsuaki Hayashi, Taira Wada, Toshinori Aoyagi, and Masakatsu Tezuka

Brain and muscle Arnt-like protein-1 (BMAL1), a component of the molecular clock, regulates adipogenesis
PNAS 2005 102: 12071-12076; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502383102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ayala Hezi-Yamit, Paul W. Wong, Nga Bien-Ly, Laszlo G. Komuves, K. S. Srinivasa Prasad, David R. Phillips, and Uma Sinha

Synergistic induction of tissue factor by coagulation factor Xa and TNF: Evidence for involvement of negative regulatory signaling cascades
PNAS 2005 102: 12077-12082; published online before print August 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504526102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jie Zheng, Scott W. Edelman, Grace Tharmarajah, David W. Walker, Scott D. Pletcher, and Laurent Seroude

Differential patterns of apoptosis in response to aging in Drosophila
PNAS 2005 102: 12083-12088; published online before print August 12 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503374102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Shoko Ueki and Vitaly Citovsky

Identification of an interactor of cadmium ion-induced glycine-rich protein involved in regulation of callose levels in plant vasculature
PNAS 2005 102: 12089-12094; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505927102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shailaja Kasibhatla, Katayoun A. Jessen, Sergei Maliartchouk, Jean Yu Wang, Nicole M. English, John Drewe, Ling Qiu, Shannon P. Archer, Anthony E. Ponce, Nilantha Sirisoma, Songchun Jiang, Han-Zhong Zhang, Kurt R. Gehlsen, Sui Xiong Cai, Douglas R. Green, and Ben Tseng

A role for transferrin receptor in triggering apoptosis when targeted with gambogic acid
PNAS 2005 102: 12095-12100; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0406731102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Sandra Pilat, Sebastian Carotta, Bernhard Schiedlmeier, Kenji Kamino, Andreas Mairhofer, Elke Will, Ute Modlich, Peter Steinlein, Wolfram Ostertag, Christopher Baum, Hartmut Beug, and Hannes Klump

HOXB4 enforces equivalent fates of ES-cell-derived and adult hematopoietic cells
PNAS 2005 102: 12101-12106; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505624102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Evolution

Genetics

Giovanni Perini, Daniel Diolaiti, Antonio Porro, and Giuliano Della Valle In vivo transcriptional regulation of N-Myc target genes is controlled by E-box methylation PNAS 2005 102: 12117-12122; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0409097102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

John P. Miller, Russell S. Lo, Asa Ben-Hur, Cynthia Desmarais, Igor Stagljar, William Stafford Noble, and Stanley Fields

Large-scale identification of yeast integral membrane protein interactions
PNAS 2005 102: 12123-12128; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505482102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Mary Tsikitis, Zhikai Zhang, Winfried Edelman, David Zagzag, and Ganjam V. Kalpana

Genetic ablation of Cyclin D1 abrogates genesis of rhabdoid tumors resulting from Ini1 loss
PNAS 2005 102: 12129-12134; published online before print August 12 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505300102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Elizabeth P. Murchison, Janet F. Partridge, Oliver H. Tam, Sihem Cheloufi, and Gregory J. Hannon Characterization of Dicer-deficient murine embryonic stem cells PNAS 2005 102: 12135-12140; published online before print August 12 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505479102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Silvia Herranz, José M. Rodríguez, Henk-Jan Bussink, Juan C. Sánchez-Ferrero, Herbert N. Arst, Jr., Miguel A. Peñalva, and Olivier Vincent

Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi
PNAS 2005 102: 12141-12146; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504776102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M. Anaul Kabir, Ausaf Ahmad, Jay R. Greenberg, Ying-Kai Wang, and Elena Rustchenko

Loss and gain of chromosome 5 controls growth of Candida albicans on sorbose due to dispersed redundant negative regulators
PNAS 2005 102: 12147-12152; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505625102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Immunology

Eli C. Lewis, Leland Shapiro, Owen J. Bowers, and Charles A. Dinarello

1-Antitrypsin monotherapy prolongs islet allograft survival in mice
PNAS 2005 102: 12153-12158; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505579102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See Commentary on page 12651

Medical Sciences

Zhiqiang Chen, Matthew W. Foster, Jian Zhang, Lan Mao, Howard A. Rockman, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kyoko Kitagawa, Keiichi I. Nakayama, Douglas T. Hess, and Jonathan S. Stamler

An essential role for mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase in nitroglycerin bioactivation
PNAS 2005 102: 12159-12164; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503723102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Gary R. Small, Patrick W. F. Hadoke, Isam Sharif, Anna R. Dover, Danielle Armour, Christopher J. Kenyon, Gillian A. Gray, and Brian R. Walker

Preventing local regeneration of glucocorticoids by 11-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enhances angiogenesis
PNAS 2005 102: 12165-12170; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0500641102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jia-Ling Teo, Hong Ma, Cu Nguyen, Crystal Lam, and Michael Kahn

Specific inhibition of CBP/-catenin interaction rescues defects in neuronal differentiation caused by a presenilin-1 mutation
PNAS 2005 102: 12171-12176; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504600102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fumitaka Takeshita, Yoshiko Minakuchi, Shunji Nagahara, Kimi Honma, Hideo Sasaki, Kotaro Hirai, Takumi Teratani, Nachi Namatame, Yusuke Yamamoto, Koji Hanai, Takashi Kato, Akihiko Sano, and Takahiro Ochiya Efficient delivery of small interfering RNA to bone-metastatic tumors by using atelocollagen in vivo PNAS 2005 102: 12177-12182; published online before print August 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0501753102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Suneil Malik, Laurent Abel, Heather Tooker, Audrey Poon, Leah Simkin, Manon Girard, Gerald J. Adams, Jeffrey R. Starke, Kimberly C. Smith, Edward A. Graviss, James M. Musser, and Erwin Schurr

Alleles of the NRAMP1 gene are risk factors for pediatric tuberculosis disease
PNAS 2005 102: 12183-12188; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503368102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Xu Song, Ying Sun, and Alan Garen From The Cover: Roles of PSF protein and VL30 RNA in reversible gene regulation PNAS 2005 102: 12189-12193; published online before print August 3 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505179102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]   See Commentary on page 12292

Microbiology

Melissa R. van Dijk, Bruno Douradinha, Blandine Franke-Fayard, Volker Heussler, Maaike W. van Dooren, Ben van Schaijk, Geert-Jan van Gemert, Robert W. Sauerwein, Maria M. Mota, Andrew P. Waters, and Chris J. Janse

Genetically attenuated, P36p-deficient malarial sporozoites induce protective immunity and apoptosis of infected liver cells
PNAS 2005 102: 12194-12199; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0500925102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Rowan P. Morris, Liem Nguyen, John Gatfield, Kevin Visconti, Kien Nguyen, Dirk Schnappinger, Sabine Ehrt, Yang Liu, Leonid Heifets, Jean Pieters, Gary Schoolnik, and Charles J. Thompson Ancestral antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PNAS 2005 102: 12200-12205; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505446102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Michal Feldman, Tal Zusman, Shelly Hagag, and Gil Segal

Coevolution between nonhomologous but functionally similar proteins and their conserved partners in the Legionella pathogenesis system
PNAS 2005 102: 12206-12211; published online before print August 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0501850102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

David S. Tuch, David H. Salat, Jonathan J. Wisco, Alexandra K. Zaleta, Nathanael D. Hevelone, and H. Diana Rosas

Choice reaction time performance correlates with diffusion anisotropy in white matter pathways supporting visuospatial attention
PNAS 2005 102: 12212-12217; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0407259102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Delphine Charvin, Peter Vanhoutte, Christiane Pagès, Emilliana Borrelli, and Jocelyne Caboche

Unraveling a role for dopamine in Huntington's disease: The dual role of reactive oxygen species and D2 receptor stimulation
PNAS 2005 102: 12218-12223; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502698102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Turhan Canli, Kazufumi Omura, Brian W. Haas, Andreas Fallgatter, R. Todd Constable, and Klaus Peter Lesch

Beyond affect: A role for genetic variation of the serotonin transporter in neural activation during a cognitive attention task
PNAS 2005 102: 12224-12229; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503880102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Kyung-Min Noh, Hidenori Yokota, Toshihiro Mashiko, Pablo E. Castillo, R. Suzanne Zukin, and Michael V. L. Bennett

Blockade of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors protects hippocampal neurons against global ischemia-induced death
PNAS 2005 102: 12230-12235; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505408102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Materials and Methods]  

E. J. Ramcharan, J. W. Gnadt, and S. M. Sherman

Higher-order thalamic relays burst more than first-order relays
PNAS 2005 102: 12236-12241; published online before print August 11 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502843102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wei Huang, John B. Fileta, Adam Dobberfuhl, Theodoros Filippopolous, Yan Guo, Gina Kwon, and Cynthia L. Grosskreutz Calcineurin cleavage is triggered by elevated intraocular pressure, and calcineurin inhibition blocks retinal ganglion cell death in experimental glaucoma PNAS 2005 102: 12242-12247; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505138102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Pharmacology

Diana M. Bautista, Pouya Movahed, Andrew Hinman, Helena E. Axelsson, Olov Sterner, Edward D. Högestätt, David Julius, Sven-Eric Jordt, and Peter M. Zygmunt

Pungent products from garlic activate the sensory ion channel TRPA1
PNAS 2005 102: 12248-12252; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505356102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Physiology

R. Todd Alexander, Wendy Furuya, Katalin Szászi, John Orlowski, and Sergio Grinstein

Rho GTPases dictate the mobility of the Na/H exchanger NHE3 in epithelia: Role in apical retention and targeting
PNAS 2005 102: 12253-12258; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0409197102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Kunfu Ouyang, Hui Zheng, Xiaomei Qin, Chen Zhang, Dongmei Yang, Xian Wang, Caihong Wu, Zhuan Zhou, and Heping Cheng

Ca²⁺ sparks and secretion in dorsal root ganglion neurons
PNAS 2005 102: 12259-12264; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0408494102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Hezi Shaked, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, and Avraham A. Levy

High-frequency gene targeting in Arabidopsis plants expressing the yeast RAD54 gene
PNAS 2005 102: 12265-12269; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502601102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See Commentary on page 11961

Jian Mao, Yan-Chun Zhang, Yi Sang, Qing-Hua Li, and Hong-Quan Yang From The Cover: A role for Arabidopsis cryptochromes and COP1 in the regulation of stomatal opening PNAS 2005 102: 12270-12275; published online before print August 10 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0501011102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Junpei Takano, Kyoko Miwa, Lixing Yuan, Nicolaus von Wirén, and Toru Fujiwara

Endocytosis and degradation of BOR1, a boron transporter of Arabidopsis thaliana, regulated by boron availability
PNAS 2005 102: 12276-12281; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502060102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yan Fu, Scott J. Emrich, Ling Guo, Tsui-Jung Wen, Daniel A. Ashlock, Srinivas Aluru, and Patrick S. Schnable Quality assessment of maize assembled genomic islands (MAGIs) and large-scale experimental verification of predicted genes PNAS 2005 102: 12282-12287; published online before print August 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503394102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

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