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This Week in PNAS
PNAS 2006 103: 505-506. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Philip A. Rea

Phytochelatin synthase, papain's cousin, in stereo
PNAS 2006 103: 507-508; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509971102 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Paul W. Frankland and Bruno Bontempi

Fast track to the medial prefrontal cortex
PNAS 2006 103: 509-510; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510133103 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics

I. M. Rouzine, R. A. Sergeev, and A. I. Glushtsov

Two types of cytotoxic lymphocyte regulation explain kinetics of immune response to human immunodeficiency virus
PNAS 2006 103: 666-671; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510016103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Astronomy

Chemistry

Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri, Sidney R. Cohen, Konstantin Gartsman, Viktoria Ivanovskaya, Thomas Heine, Gotthard Seifert, Inna Wiesel, H. Daniel Wagner, and Reshef Tenne

On the mechanical behavior of WS₂ nanotubes under axial tension and compression
PNAS 2006 103: 523-528; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505640103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movie]  

Roel P. A. Dullens, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, and Willem K. Kegel

Direct measurement of the free energy by optical microscopy
PNAS 2006 103: 529-531; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507052103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David F. Perkins, Leonard F. Lindoy, Alexander McAuley, George V. Meehan, and Peter Turner

Manganese(II), iron(II), cobalt(II), and copper(II) complexes of an extended inherently chiral tris-bipyridyl cage
PNAS 2006 103: 532-537; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0508539103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Engineering

Manouk Abkarian, Magalie Faivre, and Howard A. Stone

High-speed microfluidic differential manometer for cellular-scale hydrodynamics
PNAS 2006 103: 538-542; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507171102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Geophysics

Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Taku Tsuchiya, and Jun Tsuchiya

MgSiO₃ postperovskite at D'' conditions
PNAS 2006 103: 543-546; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506879103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Agricultural Sciences

Anthropology

Tom Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Ivor Karavanic, Fred H. Smith, and Erik Trinkaus

Revised direct radiocarbon dating of the Vindija G₁ Upper Paleolithic Neandertals
PNAS 2006 103: 553-557; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510005103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Martin T. Hess, Marc L. Mendillo, Dan J. Mazur, and Richard D. Kolodner

Biochemical basis for dominant mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae MSH6 gene
PNAS 2006 103: 558-563; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510078103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kazunobu Konishi, Takehiro Ohta, Ken-Ichi Oinuma, Yoshiteru Hashimoto, Teizo Kitagawa, and Michihiko Kobayashi

Discovery of a reaction intermediate of aliphatic aldoxime dehydratase involving heme as an active center
PNAS 2006 103: 564-568; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505412103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jennifer A. McCourt, Siew Siew Pang, Jack King-Scott, Luke W. Guddat, and Ronald G. Duggleby

Herbicide-binding sites revealed in the structure of plant acetohydroxyacid synthase
PNAS 2006 103: 569-573; published online before print January 10 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0508701103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Chunyuan Jin and Gary Felsenfeld

Distribution of histone H3.3 in hematopoietic cell lineages
PNAS 2006 103: 574-579; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509974103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Yuka Namiki and Lee Zou

ATRIP associates with replication protein A-coated ssDNA through multiple interactions
PNAS 2006 103: 580-585; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510223103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Samuel S. Cho, Yaakov Levy, and Peter G. Wolynes

P versus Q: Structural reaction coordinates capture protein folding on smooth landscapes
PNAS 2006 103: 586-591; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509768103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ady Vaknin and Howard C. Berg

Osmotic stress mechanically perturbs chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli
PNAS 2006 103: 592-596; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510047103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Naomi E. Chayen, Emmanuel Saridakis, and Richard P. Sear

Experiment and theory for heterogeneous nucleation of protein crystals in a porous medium
PNAS 2006 103: 597-601; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0504860102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

David V. Hansen, Jeffrey J. Tung, and Peter K. Jackson CaMKII and Polo-like kinase 1 sequentially phosphorylate the cytostatic factor Emi2/XErp1 to trigger its destruction and meiotic exit PNAS 2006 103: 608-613; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509549102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Developmental Biology

Anna N. Ripley, Megan E. Osler, Christopher V. E. Wright, and David Bader

Xbves is a regulator of epithelial movement during early Xenopus laevis development
PNAS 2006 103: 614-619; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506095103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Beth E. Thompson, Liana B. Lamont, and Judith Kimble

Germ-line induction of the Caenorhabditis elegans vulva
PNAS 2006 103: 620-625; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510264103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Ecology

Catherine H. Graham, Craig Moritz, and Stephen E. Williams

Habitat history improves prediction of biodiversity in rainforest fauna
PNAS 2006 103: 632-636; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505754103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Evolution

Catherine C. Fernandez, James R. Shevock, Alexander N. Glazer, and John N. Thompson

Cryptic species within the cosmopolitan desiccation-tolerant moss Grimmia laevigata
PNAS 2006 103: 637-642; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510267103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Marcela Salomao, Xiuli An, Xinhua Guo, Walter B. Gratzer, Narla Mohandas, and Anthony J. Baines

Mammalian I-spectrin is a neofunctionalized polypeptide adapted to small highly deformable erythrocytes
PNAS 2006 103: 643-648; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507661103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Andrew W. Norris and C. Ronald Kahn

Analysis of gene expression in pathophysiological states: Balancing false discovery and false negative rates
PNAS 2006 103: 649-653; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510115103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Melanie J. Percy, Quan Zhao, Adrian Flores, Claire Harrison, Terence R. J. Lappin, Patrick H. Maxwell, Mary Frances McMullin, and Frank S. Lee From the Cover: A family with erythrocytosis establishes a role for prolyl hydroxylase domain protein 2 in oxygen homeostasis PNAS 2006 103: 654-659; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0508423103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Immunology

Lindsey S. Garver, Junlin Wu, and Louisa P. Wu

The peptidoglycan recognition protein PGRP-SC1a is essential for Toll signaling and phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus in Drosophila
PNAS 2006 103: 660-665; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506182103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

I. M. Rouzine, R. A. Sergeev, and A. I. Glushtsov

Two types of cytotoxic lymphocyte regulation explain kinetics of immune response to human immunodeficiency virus
PNAS 2006 103: 666-671; published online before print January 5 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510016103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chia-Lin Hsu, Angela G. King-Fleischman, Anne Y. Lai, Yukie Matsumoto, Irving L. Weissman, and Motonari Kondo

Antagonistic effect of CCAAT enhancer-binding protein- and Pax5 in myeloid or lymphoid lineage choice in common lymphoid progenitors
PNAS 2006 103: 672-677; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510304103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Patricio T. Huerta, Czeslawa Kowal, Lorraine A. DeGiorgio, Bruce T. Volpe, and Betty Diamond

Immunity and behavior: Antibodies alter emotion
PNAS 2006 103: 678-683; published online before print January 4 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510055103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Chittoor P. Swaminathan, Patrick H. Brown, Abhijit Roychowdhury, Qian Wang, Rongjin Guan, Neal Silverman, William E. Goldman, Geert-Jan Boons, and Roy A. Mariuzza

Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs)
PNAS 2006 103: 684-689; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507656103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

Robert B. West, Brian P. Rubin, Melinda A. Miller, Subbaya Subramanian, Gulsah Kaygusuz, Kelli Montgomery, Shirley Zhu, Robert J. Marinelli, Alessandro De Luca, Erinn Downs-Kelly, John R. Goldblum, Christopher L. Corless, Patrick O. Brown, C. Blake Gilks, Torsten O. Nielsen, David Huntsman, and Matt van de Rijn A landscape effect in tenosynovial giant-cell tumor from activation of CSF1 expression by a translocation in a minority of tumor cells PNAS 2006 103: 690-695; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507321103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Orr Ofek, Meliha Karsak, Nathalie Leclerc, Meirav Fogel, Baruch Frenkel, Karen Wright, Joseph Tam, Malka Attar-Namdar, Vardit Kram, Esther Shohami, Raphael Mechoulam, Andreas Zimmer, and Itai Bab

Peripheral cannabinoid receptor, CB2, regulates bone mass
PNAS 2006 103: 696-701; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0504187103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Vladimir Kepe, Jorge R. Barrio, Sung-Cheng Huang, Linda Ercoli, Prabha Siddarth, Kooresh Shoghi-Jadid, Gregory M. Cole, Nagichettiar Satyamurthy, Jeffrey L. Cummings, Gary W. Small, and Michael E. Phelps

Serotonin 1A receptors in the living brain of Alzheimer's disease patients
PNAS 2006 103: 702-707; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510237103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Maria G. Mason, Peter Nicholls, Michael T. Wilson, and Christopher E. Cooper

Nitric oxide inhibition of respiration involves both competitive (heme) and noncompetitive (copper) binding to cytochrome c oxidase
PNAS 2006 103: 708-713; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506562103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Laura C. Greaves, Sean L. Preston, Paul J. Tadrous, Robert W. Taylor, Martin J. Barron, Dahmane Oukrif, Simon J. Leedham, Maesha Deheragoda, Peter Sasieni, Marco R. Novelli, Janusz A. Z. Jankowski, Douglass M. Turnbull, Nicholas A. Wright, and Stuart A. C. McDonald Mitochondrial DNA mutations are established in human colonic stem cells, and mutated clones expand by crypt fission PNAS 2006 103: 714-719; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505903103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Yorifumi Satou, Jun-ichirou Yasunaga, Mika Yoshida, and Masao Matsuoka

HTLV-I basic leucine zipper factor gene mRNA supports proliferation of adult T cell leukemia cells
PNAS 2006 103: 720-725; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507631103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Microbiology

Andrew J. Phillips, Jonathan D. Crowe, and Mark Ramsdale

Ras pathway signaling accelerates programmed cell death in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans
PNAS 2006 103: 726-731; published online before print January 10 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506405103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Elisabeth M. Bik, Paul B. Eckburg, Steven R. Gill, Karen E. Nelson, Elizabeth A. Purdom, Fritz Francois, Guillermo Perez-Perez, Martin J. Blaser, and David A. Relman Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach PNAS 2006 103: 732-737; published online before print January 4 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506655103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Rebecca D. Wiley and Suryaram Gummuluru

Immature dendritic cell-derived exosomes can mediate HIV-1 trans infection
PNAS 2006 103: 738-743; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507995103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Pierre Cavaillès, Véronique Sergent, Cordelia Bisanz, Olivier Papapietro, Céline Colacios, Magali Mas, Jean-François Subra, Dominique Lagrange, Maryline Calise, Sylvie Appolinaire, Thomas Faraut, Philippe Druet, Abdelhadi Saoudi, Marie-Hélène Bessieres, Bernard Pipy, Marie-France Cesbron-Delauw, and Gilbert J. Fournié

The rat Toxo1 locus directs toxoplasmosis outcome and controls parasite proliferation and spreading by macrophage-dependent mechanisms
PNAS 2006 103: 744-749; published online before print January 6 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0506643103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ingrid Chou Koo, Don Walthers, P. Scott Hefty, Linda J. Kenney, and Richard S. Stephens ChxR is a transcriptional activator in Chlamydia PNAS 2006 103: 750-755; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509690103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Neuroscience

Lena Scott, Sergey Zelenin, Seth Malmersjö, Jacob M. Kowalewski, Eivor Zettergren Markus, Angus C. Nairn, Paul Greengard, Hjalmar Brismar, and Anita Aperia

Allosteric changes of the NMDA receptor trap diffusible dopamine 1 receptors in spines
PNAS 2006 103: 762-767; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505557103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

T. Satoh, S.-i. Okamoto, J. Cui, Y. Watanabe, K. Furuta, M. Suzuki, K. Tohyama, and S. A. Lipton From the Cover: Activation of the Keap1/Nrf2 pathway for neuroprotection by electrophillic phase II inducers PNAS 2006 103: 768-773; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505723102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Anke Tappe and Rohini Kuner Regulation of motor performance and striatal function by synaptic scaffolding proteins of the Homer1 family PNAS 2006 103: 774-779; published online before print January 4 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505900103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Gerd Kempermann, Elissa J. Chesler, Lu Lu, Robert W. Williams, and Fred H. Gage Natural variation and genetic covariance in adult hippocampal neurogenesis PNAS 2006 103: 780-785; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510291103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Mutsuo Nuriya, Jiang Jiang, Boaz Nemet, Kenneth B. Eisenthal, and Rafael Yuste

Imaging membrane potential in dendritic spines
PNAS 2006 103: 786-790; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510092103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tej K. Pareek, Jason Keller, Sashi Kesavapany, Harish C. Pant, Michael J. Iadarola, Roscoe O. Brady, and Ashok B. Kulkarni Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activity regulates pain signaling PNAS 2006 103: 791-796; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510405103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Pharmacology

Motohiko Sato, Mary J. Cismowski, Eiji Toyota, Alan V. Smrcka, Pamela A. Lucchesi, William M. Chilian, and Stephen M. Lanier

Identification of a receptor-independent activator of G protein signaling (AGS8) in ischemic heart and its interaction with G
PNAS 2006 103: 797-802; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507467103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Katharina J. Honegger, Paola Capuano, Christian Winter, Desa Bacic, Gerti Stange, Carsten A. Wagner, Jürg Biber, Heini Murer, and Nati Hernando

Regulation of sodium-proton exchanger isoform 3 (NHE3) by PKA and exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (EPAC)
PNAS 2006 103: 803-808; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0503562103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Robin M. McAllen, Michael Farrell, John M. Johnson, David Trevaks, Leonie Cole, Michael J. McKinley, Graeme Jackson, Derek A. Denton, and Gary F. Egan

Human medullary responses to cooling and rewarming the skin: A functional MRI study
PNAS 2006 103: 809-813; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0509862103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Hyo Jung Kim, Hojin Ryu, Sung Hyun Hong, Hye Ryun Woo, Pyung Ok Lim, In Chul Lee, Jen Sheen, Hong Gil Nam, and Ildoo Hwang

Cytokinin-mediated control of leaf longevity by AHK3 through phosphorylation of ARR2 in Arabidopsis
PNAS 2006 103: 814-819; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0505150103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Population Biology

William Amos and Andrea Manica

Global genetic positioning: Evidence for early human population centers in coastal habitats
PNAS 2006 103: 820-824; published online before print January 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0507991103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for Vo et al., From The Cover: A cAMP-response element binding protein-induced microRNA regulates neuronal morphogenesis, PNAS 2005 102:16426-16431 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Correction for Fukami-Kobayashi et al., Genomic evolution of MHC class I region in primates, PNAS 2005 102:9230-9234 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Shepherd et al., From The Cover: Microevolution and mega-icebergs in the Antarctic, PNAS 2005 102:16717-16722 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Gautier et al., Direct interaction of the human I-mfa domain-containing protein, HIC, with HIV-1 Tat results in cytoplasmic sequestration and control of Tat activity, PNAS 2005 102:16362-16367 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]