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Table of Contents

July 17, 2007; 104 (29) [Index By Author] [Cover Photo] [Masthead (PDF)]

FROM THE COVER

Copper geochemistry and methanotrophs

Fabricating complex nanoparticles

Fast dynamics of supercoiled DNA

Inhibiting a TB virulence factor

Stem cells reduce primate Parkinson's symptoms

THIS WEEK IN PNAS

COMMENTARIES

PROFILES

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
    Applied Physical Sciences
    Chemistry
    Engineering

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
    Anthropology
    Applied Biological Sciences
    Biochemistry
    Biophysics
    Cell Biology
    Developmental Biology
    Environmental Sciences
    Evolution
    Genetics

    Immunology
    Medical Sciences
    Microbiology
    Neuroscience
    Pharmacology
    Plant Biology
    Psychology

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PNAS 2007 104: 11863-11864. [Full Text] [PDF]

COMMENTARIES

Matthew P. Scott: Developmental genomics of the most dangerous animal
PNAS 2007 104: 11865-11866; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704795104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]
See companion article on page 11304 in issue 27 of volume 104

Ken Nakamura and Robert H. Edwards: Physiology versus pathology in Parkinson's disease
PNAS 2007 104: 11867-11868; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704254104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
See companion article on page 11441 in issue 27 of volume 104

Paul R. Sanberg: Neural stem cells for Parkinson's disease: To protect and repair
PNAS 2007 104: 11869-11870; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704704104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]
See companion article on page 12175

PROFILES

Tinsley H. Davis: Profile of Dolores R. Piperno
PNAS 2007 104: 11871-11873; published online on July 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704904104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Yann Marcy, Cleber Ouverney, Elisabeth M. Bik, Tina Lösekann, Natalia Ivanova, Hector Garcia Martin, Ernest Szeto, Darren Platt, Philip Hugenholtz, David A. Relman, and Stephen R. Quake: Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:; Inaugural Article: Dissecting biological "dark matter" with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth
PNAS 2007 104: 11889-11894; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704662104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Chemistry

François O. Laforge, James Carpino, Susan A. Rotenberg, and Michael V. Mirkin: Electrochemical attosyringe
PNAS 2007 104: 11895-11900; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705102104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Engineering

Julie A. Champion, Yogesh K. Katare, and Samir Mitragotri: From the Cover: Making polymeric micro- and nanoparticles of complex shapes
PNAS 2007 104: 11901-11904; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705326104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]

Benjamin W. Zeff, Brian R. White, Hamid Dehghani, Bradley L. Schlaggar, and Joseph P. Culver: Retinotopic mapping of adult human visual cortex with high-density diffuse optical tomography
PNAS 2007 104: 12169-12174; published online on July 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611266104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

D. R. Piperno, J. E. Moreno, J. Iriarte, I. Holst, M. Lachniet, J. G. Jones, A. J. Ranere, and R. Castanzo: Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:; Inaugural Article: Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico
PNAS 2007 104: 11874-11881; published online on May 30, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703442104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Linda Perry and Kent V. Flannery: Precolumbian use of chili peppers in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
PNAS 2007 104: 11905-11909; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704936104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

Christopher C. Gilbert and James B. Rossie: Congruence of molecules and morphology using a narrow allometric approach
PNAS 2007 104: 11910-11914; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702174104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Applied Biological Sciences

Craig K. Hashi, Yiqian Zhu, Guo-Yuan Yang, William L. Young, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Karin Wang, Benjamin Chu, and Song Li: Antithrombogenic property of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in nanofibrous vascular grafts
PNAS 2007 104: 11915-11920; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704581104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]

Biochemistry

Kazuo Kuwata, Noriyuki Nishida, Tomoharu Matsumoto, Yuji O. Kamatari, Junji Hosokawa-Muto, Kota Kodama, Hironori K. Nakamura, Kiminori Kimura, Makoto Kawasaki, Yuka Takakura, Susumu Shirabe, Jiro Takata, Yasufumi Kataoka, and Shigeru Katamine: Hot spots in prion protein for pathogenic conversion
PNAS 2007 104: 11921-11926; published online on July 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702671104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

W. H. Bisson, A. V. Cheltsov, N. Bruey-Sedano, B. Lin, J. Chen, N. Goldberger, L. T. May, A. Christopoulos, J. T. Dalton, P. M. Sexton, X.-K. Zhang, and R. Abagyan: Discovery of antiandrogen activity of nonsteroidal scaffolds of marketed drugs
PNAS 2007 104: 11927-11932; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609752104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Shandiz Tehrani, Nenad Tomasevic, Scott Weed, Roman Sakowicz, and John A. Cooper: Src phosphorylation of cortactin enhances actin assembly
PNAS 2007 104: 11933-11938; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701077104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Anthony Argentaro, Ji-Chun Yang, Lynda Chapman, Monika S. Kowalczyk, Richard J. Gibbons, Douglas R. Higgs, David Neuhaus, and Daniela Rhodes: Structural consequences of disease-causing mutations in the ATRX-DNMT3-DNMT3L (ADD) domain of the chromatin-associated protein ATRX
PNAS 2007 104: 11939-11944; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704057104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Jennifer B. Ptacek, Anne P. B. Edwards, Lisa L. Freeman-Cook, and Daniel DiMaio: Packing contacts can mediate highly specific interactions between artificial transmembrane proteins and the PDGF $beta$ receptor
PNAS 2007 104: 11945-11950; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704348104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]

Michael A. Fischbach, Jonathan R. Lai, Eric D. Roche, Christopher T. Walsh, and David R. Liu: Directed evolution can rapidly improve the activity of chimeric assembly-line enzymes
PNAS 2007 104: 11951-11956; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705348104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Biophysics

Aurélien Crut, Daniel A. Koster, Ralf Seidel, Chris H. Wiggins, and Nynke H. Dekker: From the Cover: Fast dynamics of supercoiled DNA revealed by single-molecule experiments
PNAS 2007 104: 11957-11962; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700333104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Patrick A. Alexander, Yanan He, Yihong Chen, John Orban, and Philip N. Bryan
The design and characterization of two proteins with 88% sequence identity but different structure and function
PNAS 2007 104: 11963-11968; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700922104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Debra S. Touw, Christer E. Nordman, Jeanne A. Stuckey, and Vincent L. Pecoraro: Identifying important structural characteristics of arsenic resistance proteins by using designed three-stranded coiled coils
PNAS 2007 104: 11969-11974; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701979104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Miyeon Kim, Gail E. Fanucci, and David S. Cafiso: Substrate-dependent transmembrane signaling in TonB-dependent transporters is not conserved
PNAS 2007 104: 11975-11980; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702172104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Eric D. Watt, Hiroko Shimada, Evgenii L. Kovrigin, and J. Patrick Loria: The mechanism of rate-limiting motions in enzyme function
PNAS 2007 104: 11981-11986; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702551104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

S. Banu Ozkan, G. Albert Wu, John D. Chodera, and Ken A. Dill: Protein folding by zipping and assembly
PNAS 2007 104: 11987-11992; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703700104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Hua Li and Carl Frieden: Observation of sequential steps in the folding of intestinal fatty acid binding protein using a slow folding mutant and ¹⁹F NMR
PNAS 2007 104: 11993-11998; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705253104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Cell Biology

Eleonora Candi, Alessandro Rufini, Alessandro Terrinoni, Alessandro Giamboi-Miraglia, Anna Maria Lena, Roberto Mantovani, Richard Knight, and Gerry Melino: ${Delta}$ Np63 regulates thymic development through enhanced expression of FgfR2 and Jag2
PNAS 2007 104: 11999-12004; published online on July 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703458104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Emeline F. Nandrot, Monika Anand, Dena Almeida, Kamran Atabai, Dean Sheppard, and Silvia C. Finnemann: Essential role for MFG-E8 as ligand for ${alpha}$ v $beta$ 5 integrin in diurnal retinal phagocytosis
PNAS 2007 104: 12005-12010; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704756104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Kunhong Xiao, Daniel B. McClatchy, Arun K. Shukla, Yang Zhao, Minyong Chen, Sudha K. Shenoy, John R. Yates, III, and Robert J. Lefkowitz
Functional specialization of $beta$ -arrestin interactions revealed by proteomic analysis
PNAS 2007 104: 12011-12016; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704849104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Sibylle Jäger, Christoph Handschin, Julie St.-Pierre, and Bruce M. Spiegelman: AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) action in skeletal muscle via direct phosphorylation of PGC-1 ${alpha}$
PNAS 2007 104: 12017-12022; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705070104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Inna Hughes, Mitsuyoshi Saito, Paul H. Schlesinger, and David M. Ornitz: Otopetrin 1 activation by purinergic nucleotides regulates intracellular calcium
PNAS 2007 104: 12023-12028; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705182104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Developmental Biology

Eugenia M. del Pino, Michael Venegas-Ferrín, Andrés Romero-Carvajal, Paola Montenegro-Larrea, Natalia Sáenz-Ponce, Iván M. Moya, Ingrid Alarcón, Norihiro Sudou, Shinji Yamamoto, and Masanori Taira: Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:; Inaugural Article: A comparative analysis of frog early development
PNAS 2007 104: 11882-11888; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705092104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Tomomi Haremaki, Stuart T. Fraser, Yien-Ming Kuo, Margaret H. Baron, and Daniel C. Weinstein: Vertebrate Ctr1 coordinates morphogenesis and progenitor cell fate and regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation
PNAS 2007 104: 12029-12034; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701413104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Environmental Sciences

D. R. Piperno, J. E. Moreno, J. Iriarte, I. Holst, M. Lachniet, J. G. Jones, A. J. Ranere, and R. Castanzo: Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:; Inaugural Article: Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico
PNAS 2007 104: 11874-11881; published online on May 30, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703442104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Derek P. Manzello, Marilyn Brandt, Tyler B. Smith, Diego Lirman, James C. Hendee, and Richard S. Nemeth: Hurricanes benefit bleached corals
PNAS 2007 104: 12035-12039; published online on July 2, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701194104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Charles W. Knapp, David A. Fowle, Ezra Kulczycki, Jennifer A. Roberts, and David W. Graham
From the Cover: Methane monooxygenase gene expression mediated by methanobactin in the presence of mineral copper sources
PNAS 2007 104: 12040-12045; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702879104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Evolution

Oliver Piskurek and Norihiro Okada: Poxviruses as possible vectors for horizontal transfer of retroposons from reptiles to mammals
PNAS 2007 104: 12046-12051; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700531104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]

Thomas Pfeiffer and Robert Hoffmann: Temporal patterns of genes in scientific publications
PNAS 2007 104: 12052-12056; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701315104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Justin O. Borevitz, Samuel P. Hazen, Todd P. Michael, Geoffrey P. Morris, Ivan R. Baxter, Tina T. Hu, Huaming Chen, Jonathan D. Werner, Magnus Nordborg, David E. Salt, Steve A. Kay, Joanne Chory, Detlef Weigel, Jonathan D. G. Jones, and Joseph R. Ecker
Genome-wide patterns of single-feature polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana
PNAS 2007 104: 12057-12062; published online on July 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705323104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Genetics

Akinori Kato, Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, and Eduardo A. Groisman: A connector of two-component regulatory systems promotes signal amplification and persistence of expression
PNAS 2007 104: 12063-12068; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704462104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Joseph C. Corbo, Connie A. Myers, Karen A. Lawrence, Ashutosh P. Jadhav, and Constance L. Cepko
A typology of photoreceptor gene expression patterns in the mouse
PNAS 2007 104: 12069-12074; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705465104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Immunology

Rajesh Ravindran, Lori Rusch, Andrea Itano, Marc K. Jenkins, and Stephen J. McSorley: CCR6-dependent recruitment of blood phagocytes is necessary for rapid CD4 T cell responses to local bacterial infection
PNAS 2007 104: 12075-12080; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701363104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kym R. Garrod, Sindy H. Wei, Ian Parker, and Michael D. Cahalan: Natural killer cells actively patrol peripheral lymph nodes forming stable conjugates to eliminate MHC-mismatched targets
PNAS 2007 104: 12081-12086; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702867104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movies]

Sjoerd H. van der Burg, Sytse J. Piersma, Annemieke de Jong, Jeanette M. van der Hulst, Kitty M. C. Kwappenberg, Muriel van den Hende, Marij J. P. Welters, Jon J. Van Rood, Gert Jan Fleuren, Cornelis J. M. Melief, Gemma G. Kenter, and Rienk Offringa: Association of cervical cancer with the presence of CD4⁺ regulatory T cells specific for human papillomavirus antigens
PNAS 2007 104: 12087-12092; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704672104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Yijin Li, Lianli Ma, Jikun Shen, and Anita S. Chong: Peripheral deletion of mature alloreactive B cells induced by costimulation blockade
PNAS 2007 104: 12093-12098; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705240104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Akihiro Kimura, Tetsuji Naka, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto: IL-6-dependent and -independent pathways in the development of interleukin 17-producing T helper cells
PNAS 2007 104: 12099-12104; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705268104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Marisa M. Juntilla, Jessica A. Wofford, Morris J. Birnbaum, Jeffrey C. Rathmell, and Gary A. Koretzky: Akt1 and Akt2 are required for ${alpha}$ $beta$ thymocyte survival and differentiation
PNAS 2007 104: 12105-12110; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705285104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Medical Sciences

Xiaoling Liu, Henne Holstege, Hanneke van der Gulden, Marcelle Treur-Mulder, John Zevenhoven, Arno Velds, Ron M. Kerkhoven, Martin H. van Vliet, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Johannes L. Peterse, Anton Berns, and Jos Jonkers: Somatic loss of BRCA1 and p53 in mice induces mammary tumors with features of human BRCA1-mutated basal-like breast cancer
PNAS 2007 104: 12111-12116; published online on July 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702969104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Sven Rottenberg, Anders O. H. Nygren, Marina Pajic, Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen, Ingrid van der Heijden, Koen van de Wetering, Xiaoling Liu, Karin E. de Visser, Kenneth G. Gilhuijs, Olaf van Tellingen, Jan P. Schouten, Jos Jonkers, and Piet Borst
Selective induction of chemotherapy resistance of mammary tumors in a conditional mouse model for hereditary breast cancer
PNAS 2007 104: 12117-12122; published online on July 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702955104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Zhongyu Zhu, Samitabh Chakraborti, Yuxian He, Anjeanette Roberts, Tim Sheahan, Xiaodong Xiao, Lisa E. Hensley, Ponraj Prabakaran, Barry Rockx, Igor A. Sidorov, Davide Corti, Leatrice Vogel, Yang Feng, Jae-Ouk Kim, Lin-Fa Wang, Ralph Baric, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Kristopher M. Curtis, Gary J. Nabel, Kanta Subbarao, Shibo Jiang, and Dimiter S. Dimitrov: Potent cross-reactive neutralization of SARS coronavirus isolates by human monoclonal antibodies
PNAS 2007 104: 12123-12128; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701000104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]

Arthur P. Grollman, Shinya Shibutani, Masaaki Moriya, Frederick Miller, Lin Wu, Ute Moll, Naomi Suzuki, Andrea Fernandes, Thomas Rosenquist, Zvonimir Medverec, Krunoslav Jakovina, Branko Brdar, Neda Slade, Robert J. Turesky, Angela K. Goodenough, Robert Rieger, Mato Vukelic, and Bojan Jelakovic
Aristolochic acid and the etiology of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy
PNAS 2007 104: 12129-12134; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701248104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Omer T. Njajou, Richard M. Cawthon, Coleen M. Damcott, Shih-Hsuan Wu, Sandy Ott, Michael J. Garant, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Braxton D. Mitchell, Alan R. Shuldiner, and Wen-Chi Hsueh: Telomere length is paternally inherited and is associated with parental lifespan
PNAS 2007 104: 12135-12139; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702703104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Huixia Lu, Xinsheng Xu, Mei Zhang, Renhai Cao, Ebba Bråkenhielm, Changjiang Li, Huili Lin, Guihua Yao, Huiwen Sun, Lihang Qi, Mengxiong Tang, Hongyan Dai, Yanen Zhang, Runyi Su, Yanwen Bi, Yun Zhang, and Yihai Cao
Combinatorial protein therapy of angiogenic and arteriogenic factors remarkably improves collaterogenesis and cardiac function in pigs
PNAS 2007 104: 12140-12145; published online on July 16, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704966104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Microbiology

Yann Marcy, Cleber Ouverney, Elisabeth M. Bik, Tina Lösekann, Natalia Ivanova, Hector Garcia Martin, Ernest Szeto, Darren Platt, Philip Hugenholtz, David A. Relman, and Stephen R. Quake: Inaugural Article by a Recently Elected Academy Member:; Inaugural Article: Dissecting biological "dark matter" with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth
PNAS 2007 104: 11889-11894; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704662104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Takaki, Shigeru Shimamura, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Ken Takai, and Koki Horikoshi
Deep-sea vent ${varepsilon}$ -proteobacterial genomes provide insights into emergence of pathogens
PNAS 2007 104: 12146-12150; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700687104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Nicole Scherr, Srinivas Honnappa, Gabriele Kunz, Philipp Mueller, Rajesh Jayachandran, Fritz Winkler, Jean Pieters, and Michel O. Steinmetz
From the Cover: Structural basis for the specific inhibition of protein kinase G, a virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PNAS 2007 104: 12151-12156; published online on July 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702842104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

A. A. Bazzini, H. E. Hopp, R. N. Beachy, and S. Asurmendi: Infection and coaccumulation of tobacco mosaic virus proteins alter microRNA levels, correlating with symptom and plant development
PNAS 2007 104: 12157-12162; published online on July 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705114104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Brunella Taddeo, Maria Teresa Sciortino, Weiran Zhang, and Bernard Roizman: Interaction of herpes simplex virus RNase with VP16 and VP22 is required for the accumulation of the protein but not for accumulation of mRNA
PNAS 2007 104: 12163-12168; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705245104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Neuroscience

Benjamin W. Zeff, Brian R. White, Hamid Dehghani, Bradley L. Schlaggar, and Joseph P. Culver: Retinotopic mapping of adult human visual cortex with high-density diffuse optical tomography
PNAS 2007 104: 12169-12174; published online on July 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611266104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., Kimberly B. Bjugstad, Yang D. Teng, Vaclav Ourednik, Jitka Ourednik, Dustin R. Wakeman, Xuejun H. Parsons, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Barbara C. Blanchard, Seung U. Kim, Zezong Gu, Stuart A. Lipton, Eleni A. Markakis, Robert H. Roth, John D. Elsworth, John R. Sladek, Jr., Richard L. Sidman, and Evan Y. Snyder
From the Cover: Behavioral improvement in a primate Parkinson's model is associated with multiple homeostatic effects of human neural stem cells
PNAS 2007 104: 12175-12180; published online on June 22, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704091104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
See Commentary on page 11869

Paulo S. Pinheiro, David Perrais, Françoise Coussen, Jacques Barhanin, Bernhard Bettler, Jeffrey R. Mann, João O. Malva, Stephen F. Heinemann, and Christophe Mulle: GluR7 is an essential subunit of presynaptic kainate autoreceptors at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
PNAS 2007 104: 12181-12186; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608891104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

M. Boly, E. Balteau, C. Schnakers, C. Degueldre, G. Moonen, A. Luxen, C. Phillips, P. Peigneux, P. Maquet, and S. Laureys: Baseline brain activity fluctuations predict somatosensory perception in humans
PNAS 2007 104: 12187-12192; published online on July 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611404104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Xin Yu, Dan H. Sanes, Orlando Aristizabal, Youssef Zaim Wadghiri, and Daniel H. Turnbull
Large-scale reorganization of the tonotopic map in mouse auditory midbrain revealed by MRI
PNAS 2007 104: 12193-12198; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700960104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movies] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Pharmacology

Jim F. White, Justin Grodnitzky, John M. Louis, Loc B. Trinh, Joseph Shiloach, Joanne Gutierrez, John K. Northup, and Reinhard Grisshammer: Dimerization of the class A G protein-coupled neurotensin receptor NTS1 alters G protein interaction
PNAS 2007 104: 12199-12204; published online on July 9, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705312104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Plant Biology

Pramod Kaitheri Kandoth, Stefanie Ranf, Suchita S. Pancholi, Sastry Jayanty, Michael D. Walla, Wayne Miller, Gregg A. Howe, David E. Lincoln, and Johannes W. Stratmann: Tomato MAPKs LeMPK1, LeMPK2, and LeMPK3 function in the systemin-mediated defense response against herbivorous insects
PNAS 2007 104: 12205-12210; published online on July 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700344104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Sushma Naithani, Thanat Chookajorn, Daniel R. Ripoll, and June B. Nasrallah: Structural modules for receptor dimerization in the S-locus receptor kinase extracellular domain
PNAS 2007 104: 12211-12216; published online on July 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705186104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Antje Heese, Dagmar R. Hann, Selena Gimenez-Ibanez, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Kai He, Jia Li, Julian I. Schroeder, Scott C. Peck, and John P. Rathjen: The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is a central regulator of innate immunity in plants
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