Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • P. Jeffrey Conn
    • and Colleen M. Niswender

    mGluR7's lucky number

    PNAS 2006 103:251-252; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510051103
    • See companion article on page 18712 in issue 51 of volume 102

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Jennifer D. Tibodeau,
    • Paige M. Fox,
    • Patricia A. Ropp,
    • Elizabeth C. Theil,
    • and H. Holden Thorp

    The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA

    PNAS 2006 103:253-257; published ahead of print December 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509744102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • I-Ren Lee,
    • Wonchul Lee,
    • and Ahmed H. Zewail

    Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function

    PNAS 2006 103:258-262; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510015103

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Doris Meder,
    • Maria Joao Moreno,
    • Paul Verkade,
    • Winchil L. C. Vaz,
    • and Kai Simons

    Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells

    PNAS 2006 103:329-334; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509885103
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Rex A. Kerr,
    • Herbert Levine,
    • Terrence J. Sejnowski,
    • and Wouter-Jan Rappel

    Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2006 103:347-352; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505825102

Social Sciences

Psychology

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience - Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Aubrey L. Gilbert,
    • Terry Regier,
    • Paul Kay,
    • and Richard B. Ivry

    Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left

    PNAS 2006 103:489-494; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509868103

Social Sciences

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Jennifer D. Tibodeau,
    • Paige M. Fox,
    • Patricia A. Ropp,
    • Elizabeth C. Theil,
    • and H. Holden Thorp

    The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA

    PNAS 2006 103:253-257; published ahead of print December 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509744102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hiroshi Abe
    • and Eric T. Kool

    Flow cytometric detection of specific RNAs in native human cells with quenched autoligating FRET probes

    PNAS 2006 103:263-268; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509938103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Eric Beitz,
    • Binghua Wu,
    • Lars M. Holm,
    • Joachim E. Schultz,
    • and Thomas Zeuthen

    Point mutations in the aromatic/arginine region in aquaporin 1 allow passage of urea, glycerol, ammonia, and protons

    PNAS 2006 103:269-274; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507225103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Martin Hahn
    • and Torsten Stachelhaus

    Harnessing the potential of communication-mediating domains for the biocombinatorial synthesis of nonribosomal peptides

    PNAS 2006 103:275-280; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508409103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Natalia A. Ponomarenko,
    • Oxana M. Durova,
    • Ivan I. Vorobiev,
    • Alexey A. Belogurov, Jr.,
    • Inna N. Kurkova,
    • Alexander G. Petrenko,
    • Georgy B. Telegin,
    • Sergey V. Suchkov,
    • Sergey L. Kiselev,
    • Maria A. Lagarkova,
    • Vadim M. Govorun,
    • Marina V. Serebryakova,
    • Bérangère Avalle,
    • Pete Tornatore,
    • Alexander Karavanov,
    • Herbert C. Morse, III,
    • Daniel Thomas,
    • Alain Friboulet,
    • and Alexander G. Gabibov

    Autoantibodies to myelin basic protein catalyze site-specific degradation of their antigen

    PNAS 2006 103:281-286; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509849103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kenji Inaba,
    • Yoh-hei Takahashi,
    • Koreaki Ito,
    • and Shigehiko Hayashi

    Critical role of a thiolate-quinone charge transfer complex and its adduct form in de novo disulfide bond generation by DsbB

    PNAS 2006 103:287-292; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507570103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sayuri Miyamoto,
    • Glaucia R. Martinez,
    • Daniel Rettori,
    • Ohara Augusto,
    • Marisa H. G. Medeiros,
    • and Paolo Di Mascio

    Linoleic acid hydroperoxide reacts with hypochlorous acid, generating peroxyl radical intermediates and singlet molecular oxygen

    PNAS 2006 103:293-298; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508170103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Einav Gross,
    • Carolyn S. Sevier,
    • Nimrod Heldman,
    • Elvira Vitu,
    • Moran Bentzur,
    • Chris A. Kaiser,
    • Colin Thorpe,
    • and Deborah Fass

    Generating disulfides enzymatically: Reaction products and electron acceptors of the endoplasmic reticulum thiol oxidase Ero1p

    PNAS 2006 103:299-304; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506448103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jarrett J. Adams,
    • Gour Pal,
    • Zongchao Jia,
    • and Steven P. Smith

    Mechanism of bacterial cell-surface attachment revealed by the structure of cellulosomal type II cohesin-dockerin complex

    PNAS 2006 103:305-310; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507109103

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • I-Ren Lee,
    • Wonchul Lee,
    • and Ahmed H. Zewail

    Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function

    PNAS 2006 103:258-262; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510015103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Eric J. Deeds,
    • Orr Ashenberg,
    • and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

    From the Cover: A simple physical model for scaling in protein-protein interaction networks

    PNAS 2006 103:311-316; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509715102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Gisela Brändén,
    • Ashtamurthy S. Pawate,
    • Robert B. Gennis,
    • and Peter Brzezinski

    Controlled uncoupling and recoupling of proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase

    PNAS 2006 103:317-322; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507734103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ariel Fernández,
    • Ridgway Scott,
    • and R. Stephen Berry

    Packing defects as selectivity switches for drug-based protein inhibitors

    PNAS 2006 103:323-328; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509351102

Cell Biology

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Doris Meder,
    • Maria Joao Moreno,
    • Paul Verkade,
    • Winchil L. C. Vaz,
    • and Kai Simons

    Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells

    PNAS 2006 103:329-334; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509885103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Brian T. Kawasaki,
    • Yanhong Liao,
    • and Lutz Birnbaumer

    Role of Src in C3 transient receptor potential channel function and evidence for a heterogeneous makeup of receptor- and store-operated Ca 2+ entry channels

    PNAS 2006 103:335-340; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508030102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Bo Chen,
    • Jennifer Mariano,
    • Yien Che Tsai,
    • Anna H. Chan,
    • Mickael Cohen,
    • and Allan M. Weissman

    The activity of a human endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation E3, gp78, requires its Cue domain, RING finger, and an E2-binding site

    PNAS 2006 103:341-346; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506618103
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Rex A. Kerr,
    • Herbert Levine,
    • Terrence J. Sejnowski,
    • and Wouter-Jan Rappel

    Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2006 103:347-352; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505825102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Runsheng Wang,
    • Phuong Tang,
    • Pei Wang,
    • Raymond E. Boissy,
    • and Hui Zheng

    Regulation of tyrosinase trafficking and processing by presenilins: Partial loss of function by familial Alzheimer's disease mutation

    PNAS 2006 103:353-358; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509822102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Norihito Kanamori,
    • Lene Heegaard Madsen,
    • Simona Radutoiu,
    • Mirela Frantescu,
    • Esben M. H. Quistgaard,
    • Hiroki Miwa,
    • J. Allan Downie,
    • Euan K. James,
    • Hubert H. Felle,
    • Line Lindegaard Haaning,
    • Torben Heick Jensen,
    • Shusei Sato,
    • Yasukazu Nakamura,
    • Satoshi Tabata,
    • Niels Sandal,
    • and Jens Stougaard

    From the Cover: A nucleoporin is required for induction of Ca 2+ spiking in legume nodule development and essential for rhizobial and fungal symbiosis

    PNAS 2006 103:359-364; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508883103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Ren Zhang,
    • Shunichi Murakami,
    • Françoise Coustry,
    • Ying Wang,
    • and Benoit de Crombrugghe

    Constitutive activation of MKK6 in chondrocytes of transgenic mice inhibits proliferation and delays endochondral bone formation

    PNAS 2006 103:365-370; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507979103

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Thure E. Cerling,
    • George Wittemyer,
    • Henrik B. Rasmussen,
    • Fritz Vollrath,
    • Claire E. Cerling,
    • Todd J. Robinson,
    • and Iain Douglas-Hamilton

    Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes

    PNAS 2006 103:371-373; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509606102
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Matías Arim,
    • Sebastián R. Abades,
    • Paula E. Neill,
    • Mauricio Lima,
    • and Pablo A. Marquet

    Spread dynamics of invasive species

    PNAS 2006 103:374-378; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504272102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Manuel J. Salesa,
    • Mauricio Antón,
    • Stéphane Peigné,
    • and Jorge Morales

    Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas

    PNAS 2006 103:379-382; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504899102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jianxin Ma
    • and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

    Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice

    PNAS 2006 103:383-388; published ahead of print December 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509810102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Michal Ronen
    • and David Botstein

    Transcriptional response of steady-state yeast cultures to transient perturbations in carbon source

    PNAS 2006 103:389-394; published ahead of print December 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509978103

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Laura Pasqualucci,
    • Yasuyuki Kitaura,
    • Hua Gu,
    • and Riccardo Dalla-Favera

    From the Cover: PKA-mediated phosphorylation regulates the function of activation-induced deaminase (AID) in B cells

    PNAS 2006 103:395-400; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509969103

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • John C. Morris,
    • John E. Janik,
    • Jeffrey D. White,
    • Thomas A. Fleisher,
    • Margaret Brown,
    • Mitsuru Tsudo,
    • Carolyn K. Goldman,
    • Bonita Bryant,
    • Michael Petrus,
    • Lois Top,
    • Cathryn C. Lee,
    • Wendy Gao,
    • and Thomas A. Waldmann

    Preclinical and phase I clinical trial of blockade of IL-15 using Mikβ1 monoclonal antibody in T cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia

    PNAS 2006 103:401-406; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509575103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Philippe Valadon,
    • Jeff D. Garnett,
    • Jacqueline E. Testa,
    • Marc Bauerle,
    • Phil Oh,
    • and Jan E. Schnitzer

    Screening phage display libraries for organ-specific vascular immunotargeting in vivo

    PNAS 2006 103:407-412; published ahead of print December 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506938103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Wilma C. G. van Staveren,
    • David Weiss Solís,
    • Laurent Delys,
    • David Venet,
    • Matteo Cappello,
    • Guy Andry,
    • Jacques E. Dumont,
    • Frédérick Libert,
    • Vincent Detours,
    • and Carine Maenhaut

    From the Cover: Gene expression in human thyrocytes and autonomous adenomas reveals suppression of negative feedbacks in tumorigenesis

    PNAS 2006 103:413-418; published ahead of print December 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507354102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Carmen Bertoni,
    • Sohail Jarrahian,
    • Thurman M. Wheeler,
    • Yining Li,
    • Eric C. Olivares,
    • Michele P. Calos,
    • and Thomas A. Rando

    Enhancement of plasmid-mediated gene therapy for muscular dystrophy by directed plasmid integration

    PNAS 2006 103:419-424; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504505102

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • John I. Glass,
    • Nacyra Assad-Garcia,
    • Nina Alperovich,
    • Shibu Yooseph,
    • Matthew R. Lewis,
    • Mahir Maruf,
    • Clyde A. Hutchison, III,
    • Hamilton O. Smith,
    • and J. Craig Venter

    Essential genes of a minimal bacterium

    PNAS 2006 103:425-430; published ahead of print January 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510013103
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Ujjini H. Manjunatha,
    • Helena Boshoff,
    • Cynthia S. Dowd,
    • Liang Zhang,
    • Thomas J. Albert,
    • Jason E. Norton,
    • Lacy Daniels,
    • Thomas Dick,
    • Siew Siew Pang,
    • and Clifton E. Barry, III

    Identification of a nitroimidazo-oxazine-specific protein involved in PA-824 resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    PNAS 2006 103:431-436; published ahead of print December 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508392103
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology: