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This Week in PNAS
PNAS 2005 102: 18765-18766. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Katherine L. Wilson

Integrity matters: Linking nuclear architecture to lifespan
PNAS 2005 102: 18767-18768; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509224102 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 16690 in issue 46 of volume 102

Lawrence A. Loeb, Douglas C. Wallace, and George M. Martin

The mitochondrial theory of aging and its relationship to reactive oxygen species damage and somatic mtDNA mutations
PNAS 2005 102: 18769-18770; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509776102 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 17993 in issue 50 of volume 102

Gary W. Felton

Indigestion is a plant's best defense
PNAS 2005 102: 18771-18772; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509895102 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 19237

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Chemistry

Abderrazzak Douhal, Mikel Sanz, and Laura Tormo

Femtochemistry of orange II in solution and in chemical and biological nanocavities
PNAS 2005 102: 18807-18812; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507459102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Aleksandra M. Walczak, José N. Onuchic, and Peter G. Wolynes

Absolute rate theories of epigenetic stability
PNAS 2005 102: 18926-18931; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509547102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Engineering

Guive Balooch, Mehdi Balooch, Ravi K. Nalla, Stephen Schilling, Ellen H. Filvaroff, Grayson W. Marshall, Sally J. Marshall, Robert O. Ritchie, Rik Derynck, and Tamara Alliston

TGF- regulates the mechanical properties and composition of bone matrix
PNAS 2005 102: 18813-18818; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507417102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Environmental Sciences

Matthew L. Polizzotto, Charles F. Harvey, Steve R. Sutton, and Scott Fendorf

Processes conducive to the release and transport of arsenic into aquifers of Bangladesh
PNAS 2005 102: 18819-18823; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509539103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Physics

Stefan Kirchner, Lijun Zhu, Qimiao Si, and D. Natelson

Quantum criticality in ferromagnetic single-electron transistors
PNAS 2005 102: 18824-18829; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509519102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Economic Sciences

Psychology

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Agricultural Sciences

Sunghun Park, Jisheng Li, Jon K. Pittman, Gerald A. Berkowitz, Haibing Yang, Soledad Undurraga, Jay Morris, Kendal D. Hirschi, and Roberto A. Gaxiola

Up-regulation of a H⁺-pyrophosphatase (H⁺-PPase) as a strategy to engineer drought-resistant crop plants
PNAS 2005 102: 18830-18835; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509512102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Anthropology

Franck Guy, Daniel E. Lieberman, David Pilbeam, Marcia Ponce de León, Andossa Likius, Hassane T. Mackaye, Patrick Vignaud, Christoph Zollikofer, and Michel Brunet

Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene hominid from Chad) cranium
PNAS 2005 102: 18836-18841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Sudhir Kumar, Alan Filipski, Vinod Swarna, Alan Walker, and S. Blair Hedges Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human–chimpanzee divergence PNAS 2005 102: 18842-18847; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509585102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biochemistry

Denis Vivares, Pascal Arnoux, and David Pignol A papain-like enzyme at work: Native and acyl–enzyme intermediate structures in phytochelatin synthesis PNAS 2005 102: 18848-18853; published online before print December 9 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505833102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Alexander Ungewickell, Christopher Hugge, Marina Kisseleva, Shao-Chun Chang, Jun Zou, Yucheng Feng, Edouard E. Galyov, Monita Wilson, and Philip W. Majerus

The identification and characterization of two phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 4-phosphatases
PNAS 2005 102: 18854-18859; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509740102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

C. Roy D. Lancaster, Ursula S. Sauer, Roland Groß, Alexander H. Haas, Jürgen Graf, Harald Schwalbe, Werner Mäntele, Jörg Simon, and M. Gregor Madej

Experimental support for the "E pathway hypothesis" of coupled transmembrane e^– and H⁺ transfer in dihemic quinol:fumarate reductase
PNAS 2005 102: 18860-18865. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hideyuki Yokote, Koji Fujita, Xuefeng Jing, Takahiro Sawada, Sitai Liang, Li Yao, Xiaomei Yan, Yueqiang Zhang, Joseph Schlessinger, and Kazushige Sakaguchi

Trans-activation of EphA4 and FGF receptors mediated by direct interactions between their cytoplasmic domains
PNAS 2005 102: 18866-18871; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509741102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Damon Huber, Myoung-il Cha, Laurent Debarbieux, Anne-Gaëlle Planson, Nelly Cruz, Gary López, María Luisa Tasayco, Alain Chaffotte, and Jon Beckwith From the Cover: A selection for mutants that interfere with folding of Escherichia coli thioredoxin-1 in vivo PNAS 2005 102: 18872-18877; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509583102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Jerry H. Brown, Zhaocai Zhou, Ludmilla Reshetnikova, Howard Robinson, Rama D. Yammani, Larry S. Tobacman, and Carolyn Cohen

Structure of the mid-region of tropomyosin: Bending and binding sites for actin
PNAS 2005 102: 18878-18883; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509269102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Zhiqi Yin and Rasika M. Harshey

Enhancer-independent Mu transposition from two topologically distinct synapses
PNAS 2005 102: 18884-18889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Engin Özkan, Hongtao Yu, and Johann Deisenhofer Mechanistic insight into the allosteric activation of a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme by RING-type ubiquitin ligases PNAS 2005 102: 18890-18895; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509418102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kim C. Giese, Eman Basha, Belmund Y. Catague, and Elizabeth Vierling

Evidence for an essential function of the N terminus of a small heat shock protein in vivo, independent of in vitro chaperone activity
PNAS 2005 102: 18896-18901; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506169103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Joon-Hwa Lee, Marella D. Canny, Andrea De Erkenez, Dominik Krilleke, Yin-Shan Ng, David T. Shima, Arthur Pardi, and Fiona Jucker

A therapeutic aptamer inhibits angiogenesis by specifically targeting the heparin binding domain of VEGF₁₆₅
PNAS 2005 102: 18902-18907; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509069102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Biophysics

Dror Tobi and Ivet Bahar

Structural changes involved in protein binding correlate with intrinsic motions of proteins in the unbound state
PNAS 2005 102: 18908-18913; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507603102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Isaac A. Hubner, Eric J. Deeds, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

High-resolution protein folding with a transferable potential
PNAS 2005 102: 18914-18919; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0502181102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Peng Wang, Bo Yan, Jun-tao Guo, Chindo Hicks, and Ying Xu

Structural genomics analysis of alternative splicing and application to isoform structure modeling
PNAS 2005 102: 18920-18925; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506770102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Aleksandra M. Walczak, José N. Onuchic, and Peter G. Wolynes

Absolute rate theories of epigenetic stability
PNAS 2005 102: 18926-18931; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509547102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John K. Lee, David Kozono, Jonathan Remis, Yoshichika Kitagawa, Peter Agre, and Robert M. Stroud

Structural basis for conductance by the archaeal aquaporin AqpM at 1.68 Å
PNAS 2005 102: 18932-18937; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509469102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J. Y. Lee, Burak Okumus, D. S. Kim, and Taekjip Ha Extreme conformational diversity in human telomeric DNA PNAS 2005 102: 18938-18943; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506144102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Reza Khayat, Liang Tang, Eric T. Larson, C. Martin Lawrence, Mark Young, and John E. Johnson From the Cover: Structure of an archaeal virus capsid protein reveals a common ancestry to eukaryotic and bacterial viruses PNAS 2005 102: 18944-18949; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506383102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Chioko Nagao, Tomoki P. Terada, Tetsuya Yomo, and Masaki Sasai

Correlation between evolutionary structural development and protein folding
PNAS 2005 102: 18950-18955; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509163102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Guy Ziv, Gilad Haran, and D. Thirumalai

Ribosome exit tunnel can entropically stabilize -helices
PNAS 2005 102: 18956-18961; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0508234102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Xiaohui Lu, Ross Levine, Wei Tong, Gerlinde Wernig, Yana Pikman, Sara Zarnegar, D. Gary Gilliland, and Harvey Lodish

Expression of a homodimeric type I cytokine receptor is required for JAK2V617F-mediated transformation
PNAS 2005 102: 18962-18967; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509714102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Kenneth R. Rogulski, Debra E. Cohen, David L. Corcoran, Panayiotis V. Benos, and Edward V. Prochownik

Deregulation of common genes by c-Myc and its direct target, MT-MC1
PNAS 2005 102: 18968-18973; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507902102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jean-Marie Peloponese, Jr., Kerstin Haller, Akiko Miyazato, and Kuan-Teh Jeang

Abnormal centrosome amplification in cells through the targeting of Ran-binding protein-1 by the human T cell leukemia virus type-1 Tax oncoprotein
PNAS 2005 102: 18974-18979; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506659103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Gerdine J. Stout, Daniel Westdijk, Dennis M. Calkhoven, Olaf Pijper, Claude M. P. Backendorf, Rein Willemze, Leon H. F. Mullenders, and Frank R. de Gruijl

Epidermal transit of replication-arrested, undifferentiated keratinocytes in UV-exposed XPC mice: An alternative to in situ apoptosis
PNAS 2005 102: 18980-18985; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505505102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Evolution

Yan Jin, Song Weining, and Eviatar Nevo

A MAPK gene from Dead Sea fungus confers stress tolerance to lithium salt and freezing–thawing: Prospects for saline agriculture
PNAS 2005 102: 18992-18997; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509653102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Zhonghe Zhou and Fucheng Zhang From the Cover: Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiation PNAS 2005 102: 18998-19002; published online before print December 12 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507106102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Patrick O'Donoghue, Anurag Sethi, Carl R. Woese, and Zaida A. Luthey-Schulten

The evolutionary history of Cys-tRNA^Cys formation
PNAS 2005 102: 19003-19008. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Olin K. Silander, Daniel M. Weinreich, Kevin M. Wright, Kara J. O'Keefe, Camilla U. Rang, Paul E. Turner, and Lin Chao

Widespread genetic exchange among terrestrial bacteriophages
PNAS 2005 102: 19009-19014; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0503074102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Genetics

Ben H. Collins, Stephane Dissel, Edward Gaten, Ezio Rosato, and Charalambos P. Kyriacou

Disruption of Cryptochrome partially restores circadian rhythmicity to the arrhythmic period mutant of Drosophila
PNAS 2005 102: 19021-19026; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505392102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Liria M. Masuda-Nakagawa, Nobuaki K. Tanaka, and Cahir J. O'Kane

Stereotypic and random patterns of connectivity in the larval mushroom body calyx of Drosophila
PNAS 2005 102: 19027-19032; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509643102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Immunology

K. Scott Weber, David L. Donermeyer, Paul M. Allen, and David M. Kranz

Class II-restricted T cell receptor engineered in vitro for higher affinity retains peptide specificity and function
PNAS 2005 102: 19033-19038; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507554102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Adriana Flores-Langarica, Selene Meza-Perez, Juana Calderon-Amador, Teresa Estrada-Garcia, Gordon MacPherson, Serge Lebecque, Sem Saeland, Ralph M. Steinman, and Leopoldo Flores-Romo Network of dendritic cells within the muscular layer of the mouse intestine PNAS 2005 102: 19039-19044; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504253102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Rina Aharoni, Raya Eilam, Hagit Domev, Galya Labunskay, Michael Sela, and Ruth Arnon

The immunomodulator glatiramer acetate augments the expression of neurotrophic factors in brains of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis mice
PNAS 2005 102: 19045-19050; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509438102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jennifer A. Westwood, Mark J. Smyth, Michele W. L. Teng, Maria Moeller, Joseph A. Trapani, Andrew M. Scott, Fiona E. Smyth, Glenn A. Cartwright, Barbara E. Power, Dirk Hönemann, H. Miles Prince, Phillip K. Darcy, and Michael H. Kershaw

Adoptive transfer of T cells modified with a humanized chimeric receptor gene inhibits growth of Lewis-Y-expressing tumors in mice
PNAS 2005 102: 19051-19056; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504312102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Michelle A. Lowes, Francesca Chamian, Maria Veronica Abello, Judilyn Fuentes-Duculan, Shao-Lee Lin, Rachel Nussbaum, Inna Novitskaya, Henrietta Carbonaro, Irma Cardinale, Toyoko Kikuchi, Patricia Gilleaudeau, Mary Sullivan-Whalen, Knut M. Wittkowski, Kim Papp, Marvin Garovoy, Wolfgang Dummer, Ralph M. Steinman, and James G. Krueger Increase in TNF- and inducible nitric oxide synthase-expressing dendritic cells in psoriasis and reduction with efalizumab (anti-CD11a) PNAS 2005 102: 19057-19062. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Lalit Kumar, Stefan Feske, Anjana Rao, and Raif S. Geha

A 10-aa-long sequence in SLP-76 upstream of the Gads binding site is essential for T cell development and function
PNAS 2005 102: 19063-19068; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509176102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

Anna Andersson, Tor Olofsson, David Lindgren, Björn Nilsson, Cecilia Ritz, Patrik Edén, Carin Lassen, Johan Råde, Magnus Fontes, Helena Mörse, Jesper Heldrup, Mikael Behrendtz, Felix Mitelman, Mattias Höglund, Bertil Johansson, and Thoas Fioretos

Molecular signatures in childhood acute leukemia and their correlations to expression patterns in normal hematopoietic subpopulations
PNAS 2005 102: 19069-19074; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506637102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Huiling He, Krystian Jazdzewski, Wei Li, Sandya Liyanarachchi, Rebecca Nagy, Stefano Volinia, George A. Calin, Chang-gong Liu, Kaarle Franssila, Saul Suster, Richard T. Kloos, Carlo M. Croce, and Albert de la Chapelle

The role of microRNA genes in papillary thyroid carcinoma
PNAS 2005 102: 19075-19080; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509603102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Yuan Wang, Frank Yates, Olaia Naveiras, Patricia Ernst, and George Q. Daley

Embryonic stem cell-derived hematopoietic stem cells
PNAS 2005 102: 19081-19086; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506127102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Olga Kovbasnjuk, Rakhilya Mourtazina, Boris Baibakov, Thomas Wang, Christian Elowsky, Michael A. Choti, Anne Kane, and Mark Donowitz

The glycosphingolipid globotriaosylceramide in the metastatic transformation of colon cancer
PNAS 2005 102: 19087-19092; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506474102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Donald C. Malins, Naomi K. Gilman, Virginia M. Green, Thomas M. Wheeler, Edward A. Barker, and Katie M. Anderson

A cancer DNA phenotype in healthy prostates, conserved in tumors and adjacent normal cells, implies a relationship to carcinogenesis
PNAS 2005 102: 19093-19096; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509630102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Carmen M. Barnés, Sui Huang, Arja Kaipainen, Despina Sanoudou, Emy J. Chen, Gabriel S. Eichler, Yuchun Guo, Ying Yu, Donald E. Ingber, John B. Mulliken, Alan H. Beggs, Judah Folkman, and Steven J. Fishman

Evidence by molecular profiling for a placental origin of infantile hemangioma
PNAS 2005 102: 19097-19102; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509579102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Microbiology

Christian L. Barrett, Christopher D. Herring, Jennifer L. Reed, and Bernhard O. Palsson

The global transcriptional regulatory network for metabolism in Escherichia coli exhibits few dominant functional states
PNAS 2005 102: 19103-19108; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505231102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Gary J. Vora, Carolyn E. Meador, Michele M. Bird, Cheryl A. Bopp, Joanne D. Andreadis, and David A. Stenger

Microarray-based detection of genetic heterogeneity, antimicrobial resistance, and the viable but nonculturable state in human pathogenic Vibrio spp.
PNAS 2005 102: 19109-19114; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505033102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Neuroscience

Paul Berghuis, Marton B. Dobszay, Xinyu Wang, Sabrina Spano, Fernanda Ledda, Kyle M. Sousa, Gunnar Schulte, Patrik Ernfors, Ken Mackie, Gustavo Paratcha, Yasmin L. Hurd, and Tibor Harkany

Endocannabinoids regulate interneuron migration and morphogenesis by transactivating the TrkB receptor
PNAS 2005 102: 19115-19120; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509494102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Yu-Dong Zhou, Corey D. Acker, Theoden I. Netoff, Kamal Sen, and John A. White

Increasing Ca²⁺ transients by broadening postsynaptic action potentials enhances timing-dependent synaptic depression
PNAS 2005 102: 19121-19125; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509856103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Celine Perier, Kim Tieu, Christelle Guégan, Casper Caspersen, Vernice Jackson-Lewis, Valerio Carelli, Andrea Martinuzzi, Michio Hirano, Serge Przedborski, and Miquel Vila

Complex I deficiency primes Bax-dependent neuronal apoptosis through mitochondrial oxidative damage
PNAS 2005 102: 19126-19131; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0508215102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Noboru Hiroi, Hongwen Zhu, MoonSook Lee, Birgit Funke, Makoto Arai, Masanari Itokawa, Raju Kucherlapati, Bernice Morrow, Takehito Sawamura, and Soh Agatsuma

A 200-kb region of human chromosome 22q11.2 confers antipsychotic-responsive behavioral abnormalities in mice
PNAS 2005 102: 19132-19137; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509635102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

David B. Arthur, Katerina Akassoglou, and Paul A. Insel

P2Y₂ receptor activates nerve growth factor/TrkA signaling to enhance neuronal differentiation
PNAS 2005 102: 19138-19143; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505913102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Jane E. Lauckner, Bertil Hille, and Ken Mackie

The cannabinoid agonist WIN55,212-2 increases intracellular calcium via CB₁ receptor coupling to G_q/11 G proteins
PNAS 2005 102: 19144-19149; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509588102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Joseph F. Cheer, Michael L. A. V. Heien, Paul A. Garris, Regina M. Carelli, and R. Mark Wightman

Simultaneous dopamine and single-unit recordings reveal accumbens GABAergic responses: Implications for intracranial self-stimulation
PNAS 2005 102: 19150-19155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

F. Strata, A. R. deIpolyi, B. H. Bonham, E. F. Chang, R. C. Liu, H. Nakahara, and M. M. Merzenich

Perinatal anoxia degrades auditory system function in rats
PNAS 2005 102: 19156-19161; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509520102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zhongju Xiao and Nobuo Suga

Asymmetry in corticofugal modulation of frequency-tuning in mustached bat auditory system
PNAS 2005 102: 19162-19167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Benjamin Boutrel, Paul J. Kenny, Sheila E. Specio, Rémi Martin-Fardon, Athina Markou, George F. Koob, and Luis de Lecea

Role for hypocretin in mediating stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior
PNAS 2005 102: 19168-19173; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507480102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

J.-C. Platel, S. Boisseau, A. Dupuis, J. Brocard, A. Poupard, M. Savasta, M. Villaz, and M. Albrieux

Na⁺ channel-mediated Ca²⁺ entry leads to glutamate secretion in mouse neocortical preplate
PNAS 2005 102: 19174-19179; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504540102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sho Kakizawa, Taisuke Miyazaki, Dai Yanagihara, Masamitsu Iino, Masahiko Watanabe, and Masanobu Kano

Maintenance of presynaptic function by AMPA receptor-mediated excitatory postsynaptic activity in adult brain
PNAS 2005 102: 19180-19185; published online before print December 15 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0504359103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Amir A. Levine, Zhonghui Guan, Angel Barco, Shiqin Xu, Eric R. Kandel, and James H. Schwartz

CREB-binding protein controls response to cocaine by acetylating histones at the fosB promoter in the mouse striatum
PNAS 2005 102: 19186-19191. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Benoît Zuber, Irina Nikonenko, Paul Klauser, Dominique Muller, and Jacques Dubochet

The mammalian central nervous synaptic cleft contains a high density of periodically organized complexes
PNAS 2005 102: 19192-19197; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509527102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Xu Yue, Melissa Lu, Techie Lancaster, Phillip Cao, Shin-Ichiro Honda, Matthias Staufenbiel, Nobuhiro Harada, Zhenyu Zhong, Yong Shen, and Rena Li

Brain estrogen deficiency accelerates A plaque formation in an Alzheimer's disease animal model
PNAS 2005 102: 19198-19203; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0505203102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Henk Karst, Stefan Berger, Marc Turiault, Francois Tronche, Günther Schütz, and Marian Joëls

Mineralocorticoid receptors are indispensable for nongenomic modulation of hippocampal glutamate transmission by corticosterone
PNAS 2005 102: 19204-19207; published online before print December 16 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507572102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Pharmacology

David J. Daniels, Natalie R. Lenard, Chris L. Etienne, Ping-Yee Law, Sandra C. Roerig, and Philip S. Portoghese

Opioid-induced tolerance and dependence in mice is modulated by the distance between pharmacophores in a bivalent ligand series
PNAS 2005 102: 19208-19213; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506627102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Guive Balooch, Mehdi Balooch, Ravi K. Nalla, Stephen Schilling, Ellen H. Filvaroff, Grayson W. Marshall, Sally J. Marshall, Robert O. Ritchie, Rik Derynck, and Tamara Alliston

TGF- regulates the mechanical properties and composition of bone matrix
PNAS 2005 102: 18813-18818; published online before print December 14 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0507417102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nico Melzer, Delany Torres-Salazar, and Christoph Fahlke

A dynamic switch between inhibitory and excitatory currents in a neuronal glutamate transporter
PNAS 2005 102: 19214-19218; published online before print December 19 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0508837103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

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