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PNAS 2007 104: 1-2. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

R. Dean Astumian

Coupled transport at the nanoscale: The unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium theory
PNAS 2007 104: 3-4; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609754104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 19678 in issue 52 of volume 103

Andrew J. Larson and Robert T. Paine

Ungulate herbivory: Indirect effects cascade into the treetops
PNAS 2007 104: 5-6; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0610198103 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 193

Jeffrey I. Cohen

Varicella-zoster vaccine virus: Evolution in action
PNAS 2007 104: 7-8; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0610016103 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 208

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Chemistry

Aric Opdahl, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Hiromi Kimura-Suda, Michael J. Tarlov, and Lloyd J. Whitman

Independent control of grafting density and conformation of single-stranded DNA brushes
PNAS 2007 104: 9-14; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608568103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Lucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Simone Ciofi-Baffoni, Iliana Leontari, Manuele Martinelli, Peep Palumaa, Rannar Sillard, and Shenlin Wang

Human Sco1 functional studies and pathological implications of the P174L mutant
PNAS 2007 104: 15-20; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606189103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Richard Wolfenden and Yang Yuan

Monoalkyl sulfates as alkylating agents in water, alkylsulfatase rate enhancements, and the "energy-rich" nature of sulfate half-esters
PNAS 2007 104: 83-86; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609644104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tetsunari Kimura, Jennifer C. Lee, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler

Site-specific collapse dynamics guide the formation of the cytochrome c' four-helix bundle
PNAS 2007 104: 117-122; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609413103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Environmental Sciences

Geophysics

Xinlei Sun, Xiaodong Song, Sihua Zheng, and Don V. Helmberger

Evidence for a chemical-thermal structure at base of mantle from sharp lateral P-wave variations beneath Central America
PNAS 2007 104: 26-30; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609143103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Aimin Cao, Yder Masson, and Barbara Romanowicz

Short wavelength topography on the inner-core boundary
PNAS 2007 104: 31-35; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609810104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physics

Santo Fortunato and Marc Barthélemy

Resolution limit in community detection
PNAS 2007 104: 36-41; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605965104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Economic Sciences

Psychology

G. Rowe, J. B. Hirsh, and A. K. Anderson

Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection
PNAS 2007 104: 383-388; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605198104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tali Sharot, Elizabeth A. Martorella, Mauricio R. Delgado, and Elizabeth A. Phelps How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11 PNAS 2007 104: 389-394; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609230103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biochemistry

Aric Opdahl, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Hiromi Kimura-Suda, Michael J. Tarlov, and Lloyd J. Whitman

Independent control of grafting density and conformation of single-stranded DNA brushes
PNAS 2007 104: 9-14; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608568103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Franz Gruswitz, Joseph O'Connell, III, and Robert M. Stroud

Inhibitory complex of the transmembrane ammonia channel, AmtB, and the cytosolic regulatory protein, GlnK, at 1.96 Å
PNAS 2007 104: 42-47; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609796104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Thomas P. Treynor, Christina L. Vizcarra, Daniel Nedelcu, and Stephen L. Mayo

Computationally designed libraries of fluorescent proteins evaluated by preservation and diversity of function
PNAS 2007 104: 48-53; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609647103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

HyunDae D. Cho, Christophe L. M. J. Verlinde, and Alan M. Weiner

Reengineering CCA-adding enzymes to function as (U,G)- or dCdCdA-adding enzymes or poly(C,A) and poly(U,G) polymerases
PNAS 2007 104: 54-59; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606961104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Tao Jiang, Xinfeng Zhou, Koli Taghizadeh, Min Dong, and Peter C. Dedon

N-formylation of lysine in histone proteins as a secondary modification arising from oxidative DNA damage
PNAS 2007 104: 60-65; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606775103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Mikiei Tanaka, P. Boon Chock, and Earl R. Stadtman

Oxidized messenger RNA induces translation errors
PNAS 2007 104: 66-71; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609737104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jiqiang Ling, Hervé Roy, and Michael Ibba

Mechanism of tRNA-dependent editing in translational quality control
PNAS 2007 104: 72-77; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606272104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Natalia Nemeria, Sumit Chakraborty, Ahmet Baykal, Lioubov G. Korotchkina, Mulchand S. Patel, and Frank Jordan

The 1',4'-iminopyrimidine tautomer of thiamin diphosphate is poised for catalysis in asymmetric active centers on enzymes
PNAS 2007 104: 78-82; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609973104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Richard Wolfenden and Yang Yuan

Monoalkyl sulfates as alkylating agents in water, alkylsulfatase rate enhancements, and the "energy-rich" nature of sulfate half-esters
PNAS 2007 104: 83-86; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609644104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Michael Vershinin, Brian C. Carter, David S. Razafsky, Stephen J. King, and Steven P. Gross

Multiple-motor based transport and its regulation by Tau
PNAS 2007 104: 87-92; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607919104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Rahul Das, Veronica Esposito, Mona Abu-Abed, Ganesh S. Anand, Susan S. Taylor, and Giuseppe Melacini

cAMP activation of PKA defines an ancient signaling mechanism
PNAS 2007 104: 93-98; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609033103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Karin Kühnel, Etienne Derat, James Terner, Sason Shaik, and Ilme Schlichting

Structure and quantum chemical characterization of chloroperoxidase compound 0, a common reaction intermediate of diverse heme enzymes
PNAS 2007 104: 99-104; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606285103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Armin Hoffmann, Avinash Kane, Daniel Nettels, David E. Hertzog, Peter Baumgärtel, Jan Lengefeld, Gerd Reichardt, David A. Horsley, Robert Seckler, Olgica Bakajin, and Benjamin Schuler

Mapping protein collapse with single-molecule fluorescence and kinetic synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 105-110; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0604353104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Phuong H. Nguyen, Mai Suan Li, Gerhard Stock, John E. Straub, and D. Thirumalai

Monomer adds to preformed structured oligomers of A-peptides by a two-stage dock–lock mechanism
PNAS 2007 104: 111-116; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607440104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Tetsunari Kimura, Jennifer C. Lee, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler

Site-specific collapse dynamics guide the formation of the cytochrome c' four-helix bundle
PNAS 2007 104: 117-122; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609413103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Fang Huang, Satoshi Sato, Timothy D. Sharpe, Liming Ying, and Alan R. Fersht

Distinguishing between cooperative and unimodal downhill protein folding
PNAS 2007 104: 123-127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stefano Gianni, Christian D. Geierhaas, Nicoletta Calosci, Per Jemth, Geerten W. Vuister, Carlo Travaglini-Allocatelli, Michele Vendruscolo, and Maurizio Brunori

A PDZ domain recapitulates a unifying mechanism for protein folding
PNAS 2007 104: 128-133; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0602770104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Stefanie Klemm, Stephanie Zimmermann, Christian Peschel, Tak W. Mak, and Jürgen Ruland

Bcl10 and Malt1 control lysophosphatidic acid-induced NF-B activation and cytokine production
PNAS 2007 104: 134-138; published online before print November 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608388103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Linda M. McAllister-Lucas, Jürgen Ruland, Katy Siu, Xiaohong Jin, Shufang Gu, David S. L. Kim, Peter Kuffa, Dawn Kohrt, Tak W. Mak, Gabriel Nuñez, and Peter C. Lucas

CARMA3/Bcl10/MALT1-dependent NF-B activation mediates angiotensin II-responsive inflammatory signaling in nonimmune cells
PNAS 2007 104: 139-144; published online before print November 13 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0601947103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Donghai Wang, Yun You, Pei-Chun Lin, Liquan Xue, Stephan W. Morris, Hu Zeng, Renren Wen, and Xin Lin

Bcl10 plays a critical role in NF-B activation induced by G protein-coupled receptors
PNAS 2007 104: 145-150; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0601894104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Xuemin Guo, Jing Ma, Jing Sun, and Guangxia Gao

The zinc-finger antiviral protein recruits the RNA processing exosome to degrade the target mRNA
PNAS 2007 104: 151-156; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607063104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David F. Chang, Narasimhaswamy S. Belaguli, Jiang Chang, and Robert J. Schwartz

LIM-only protein, CRP2, switched on smooth muscle gene activity in adult cardiac myocytes
PNAS 2007 104: 157-162; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605635103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Bryon S. Donohoe, Byung-Ho Kang, and L. Andrew Staehelin

Identification and characterization of COPIa- and COPIb-type vesicle classes associated with plant and algal Golgi
PNAS 2007 104: 163-168; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609818104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Takuya Sugiyama, Ryan T. Rodriguez, Graeme W. McLean, and Seung K. Kim Conserved markers of fetal pancreatic epithelium permit prospective isolation of islet progenitor cells by FACS PNAS 2007 104: 175-180; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609490104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Devon A. Lawson, Li Xin, Rita U. Lukacs, Donghui Cheng, and Owen N. Witte Isolation and functional characterization of murine prostate stem cells PNAS 2007 104: 181-186; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609684104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Melissa E. Pepling, James E. Wilhelm, Ashley L. O'Hara, Grant W. Gephardt, and Allan C. Spradling

Mouse oocytes within germ cell cysts and primordial follicles contain a Balbiani body
PNAS 2007 104: 187-192; published online before print December 22 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609923104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Ecology

Rebecca A. Sherry, Xuhui Zhou, Shiliang Gu, John A. Arnone, III, David S. Schimel, Paul S. Verburg, Linda L. Wallace, and Yiqi Luo Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming PNAS 2007 104: 198-202; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605642104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Environmental Sciences

Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, and David C. Finnoff

Risk assessment for invasive species produces net bioeconomic benefits
PNAS 2007 104: 203-207; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605787104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Evolution

Bart A. Pannebakker, Benjamin Loppin, Coen P. H. Elemans, Lionel Humblot, and Fabrice Vavre

Parasitic inhibition of cell death facilitates symbiosis
PNAS 2007 104: 213-215; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607845104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Genetics

Bethany E. Dutra, Vincent A. Sutera, Jr., and Susan T. Lovett

RecA-independent recombination is efficient but limited by exonucleases
PNAS 2007 104: 216-221; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608293104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Kishore Nannapaneni, Thomas L. Casavant, Todd E. Scheetz, and Michael J. Welsh Eukaryotic operon-like transcription of functionally related genes in Drosophila PNAS 2007 104: 222-227; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609683104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

C. C. Oakes, S. La Salle, D. J. Smiraglia, B. Robaire, and J. M. Trasler

A unique configuration of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in the testis
PNAS 2007 104: 228-233; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607521104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Immunology

Julia J. Unternaehrer, Amy Chow, Marc Pypaert, Kayo Inaba, and Ira Mellman

The tetraspanin CD9 mediates lateral association of MHC class II molecules on the dendritic cell surface
PNAS 2007 104: 234-239; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609665104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Elena Goicoechea de Jorge, Claire L. Harris, Jorge Esparza-Gordillo, Luis Carreras, Elena Aller Arranz, Cynthia Abarrategui Garrido, Margarita López-Trascasa, Pilar Sánchez-Corral, B. Paul Morgan, and Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba

Gain-of-function mutations in complement factor B are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
PNAS 2007 104: 240-245; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0603420103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Huynh-Hoa Bui, Bjoern Peters, Erika Assarsson, Innocent Mbawuike, and Alessandro Sette

Ab and T cell epitopes of influenza A virus, knowledge and opportunities
PNAS 2007 104: 246-251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Takashi Akazawa, Takashi Ebihara, Manabu Okuno, Yu Okuda, Masashi Shingai, Kunio Tsujimura, Toshitada Takahashi, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Norimitsu Inoue, Miki Okamoto-Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Ishizaki, Jun Miyoshi, Misako Matsumoto, and Tsukasa Seya

Antitumor NK activation induced by the Toll-like receptor 3-TICAM-1 (TRIF) pathway in myeloid dendritic cells
PNAS 2007 104: 252-257; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605978104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

Stefanie Klemm, Stephanie Zimmermann, Christian Peschel, Tak W. Mak, and Jürgen Ruland

Bcl10 and Malt1 control lysophosphatidic acid-induced NF-B activation and cytokine production
PNAS 2007 104: 134-138; published online before print November 9 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608388103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ing-Marie Jonsson, Margareta Verdrengh, Mikael Brisslert, Sofia Lindblad, Maria Bokarewa, Ulrika Islander, Hans Carlsten, Claes Ohlsson, Kutty Selva Nandakumar, Rikard Holmdahl, and Andrej Tarkowski From the Cover: Ethanol prevents development of destructive arthritis PNAS 2007 104: 258-263; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608620104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Silvia Brunelli, Clara Sciorati, Giuseppe D'Antona, Anna Innocenzi, Diego Covarello, Beatriz G. Galvez, Cristiana Perrotta, Angela Monopoli, Francesca Sanvito, Roberto Bottinelli, Ennio Ongini, Giulio Cossu, and Emilio Clementi

Nitric oxide release combined with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory activity prevents muscular dystrophy pathology and enhances stem cell therapy
PNAS 2007 104: 264-269; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608277104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Anna V. Galkin, Jonathan S. Melnick, Sungjoon Kim, Tami L. Hood, Nanxin Li, Lintong Li, Gang Xia, Ruo Steensma, Greg Chopiuk, Jiqing Jiang, Yongqin Wan, Peter Ding, Yi Liu, Fangxian Sun, Peter G. Schultz, Nathanael S. Gray, and Markus Warmuth

Identification of NVP-TAE684, a potent, selective, and efficacious inhibitor of NPM-ALK
PNAS 2007 104: 270-275; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609412103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

V. Fernández-Majada, C. Aguilera, A. Villanueva, F. Vilardell, A. Robert-Moreno, A. Aytés, F. X. Real, G. Capella, M. W. Mayo, L. Espinosa, and A. Bigas

Nuclear IKK activity leads to dysregulated Notch-dependent gene expression in colorectal cancer
PNAS 2007 104: 276-281; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606476104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Virginie Carriere, Lucie Roussel, Nathalie Ortega, Delphine-Armelle Lacorre, Laure Americh, Luc Aguilar, Gérard Bouche, and Jean-Philippe Girard

IL-33, the IL-1-like cytokine ligand for ST2 receptor, is a chromatin-associated nuclear factor in vivo
PNAS 2007 104: 282-287; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606854104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Erik R. Vandendries, Justin R. Hamilton, Shaun R. Coughlin, Bruce Furie, and Barbara C. Furie

Par4 is required for platelet thrombus propagation but not fibrin generation in a mouse model of thrombosis
PNAS 2007 104: 288-292; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0610188104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Joanna Kubler-Kielb, Fathy Majadly, Yimin Wu, David L. Narum, Chunyan Guo, Louis H. Miller, Joseph Shiloach, John B. Robbins, and Rachel Schneerson

Long-lasting and transmission-blocking activity of antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum elicited in mice by protein conjugates of Pfs25
PNAS 2007 104: 293-298; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609885104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Paul D. Straight, Michael A. Fischbach, Christopher T. Walsh, David Z. Rudner, and Roberto Kolter

A singular enzymatic megacomplex from Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 2007 104: 305-310; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609073103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Elizabeth M. Moritz and Paul J. Hergenrother

Toxin–antitoxin systems are ubiquitous and plasmid-encoded in vancomycin-resistant enterococci
PNAS 2007 104: 311-316; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0601168104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Galina N. Nikolenko, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Sarah Palmer, Frank Maldarelli, Matthew J. Fivash, Jr., John M. Coffin, and Vinay K. Pathak

Mutations in the connection domain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase increase 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine resistance
PNAS 2007 104: 317-322; published online before print December 19 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609642104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Neuroscience

Philipp Sterzer and Andreas Kleinschmidt

A neural basis for inference in perceptual ambiguity
PNAS 2007 104: 323-328; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609006104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Francine Côté, Cécile Fligny, Elisa Bayard, Jean-Marie Launay, Michael D. Gershon, Jacques Mallet, and Guilan Vodjdani From the Cover: Maternal serotonin is crucial for murine embryonic development PNAS 2007 104: 329-334; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0606722104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Laura N. Borodinsky and Nicholas C. Spitzer Activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching at the neuromuscular junction PNAS 2007 104: 335-340; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0607450104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Andrei T. Popescu, Aleksandr A. Saghyan, and Denis Paré

NMDA-dependent facilitation of corticostriatal plasticity by the amygdala
PNAS 2007 104: 341-346; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609831104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Artur Luczak, Peter Barthó, Stephan L. Marguet, György Buzsáki, and Kenneth D. Harris

Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo
PNAS 2007 104: 347-352; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605643104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jonathan T. Ting, Brooke G. Kelley, Talley J. Lambert, David G. Cook, and Jane M. Sullivan

Amyloid precursor protein overexpression depresses excitatory transmission through both presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms
PNAS 2007 104: 353-358; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0608807104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Andreas Rummel, Timo Eichner, Tanja Weil, Tino Karnath, Aleksandrs Gutcaits, Stefan Mahrhold, Konrad Sandhoff, Richard L. Proia, K. Ravi Acharya, Hans Bigalke, and Thomas Binz Identification of the protein receptor binding site of botulinum neurotoxins B and G proves the double-receptor concept PNAS 2007 104: 359-364; published online before print December 21 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609713104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Nozomi Nishimura, Chris B. Schaffer, Beth Friedman, Patrick D. Lyden, and David Kleinfeld

Penetrating arterioles are a bottleneck in the perfusion of neocortex
PNAS 2007 104: 365-370; published online before print December 26 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609551104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

G. Rowe, J. B. Hirsh, and A. K. Anderson

Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection
PNAS 2007 104: 383-388; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0605198104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tali Sharot, Elizabeth A. Martorella, Mauricio R. Delgado, and Elizabeth A. Phelps How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11 PNAS 2007 104: 389-394; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609230103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Physiology

M. Liu, G. A. Walter, N. C. Pathare, R. E. Forster, and K. Vandenborne

A quantitative study of bioenergetics in skeletal muscle lacking carbonic anhydrase III using ³¹P magnetic resonance spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 371-376; published online before print December 20 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0609870104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

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