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PNAS 2007 104: 13211-13212. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz and Aziz Sancar

RNA polymerase: The most specific damage recognition protein in cellular responses to DNA damage?
PNAS 2007 104: 13213-13214; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706316104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 12778 in issue 31 of volume 104

Judith M. Gottwein and Jens Bukh

Hepatitis C virus–host cell interactions uncovered
PNAS 2007 104: 13215-13216; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705890104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 12884 in issue 31 of volume 104

SPECIAL FEATURE

Introduction

Dora L. Costa

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics and demography of aging
PNAS 2007 104: 13217-13218; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702940104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research Articles

Dora L. Costa, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Sven Wilson

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past
PNAS 2007 104: 13219-13224; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611077104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James P. Smith

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Nature and causes of trends in male diabetes prevalence, undiagnosed diabetes, and the socioeconomic status health gradient
PNAS 2007 104: 13225-13231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Angus Deaton

From the Cover: Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Height, health, and development
PNAS 2007 104: 13232-13237; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611500104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k) plans and the pension assets of the baby boom cohort
PNAS 2007 104: 13238-13243; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611596104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David M. Cutler, Grant Miller, and Douglas M. Norton

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Evidence on early-life income and late-life health from America's Dust Bowl era
PNAS 2007 104: 13244-13249; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700035104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James J. Heckman

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation
PNAS 2007 104: 13250-13255; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701362104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Benjamin M. Friedrich and Frank Jülicher

Chemotaxis of sperm cells
PNAS 2007 104: 13256-13261; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703530104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Chemistry

Jason W. Locasale, Andrey S. Shaw, and Arup K. Chakraborty

Scaffold proteins confer diverse regulatory properties to protein kinase cascades
PNAS 2007 104: 13307-13312; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706311104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Engineering

Geology

Geophysics

Sustainability Science

David R. Montgomery

Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability
PNAS 2007 104: 13268-13272; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611508104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Economic Sciences

Dora L. Costa, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Sven Wilson

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past
PNAS 2007 104: 13219-13224; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611077104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James P. Smith

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Nature and causes of trends in male diabetes prevalence, undiagnosed diabetes, and the socioeconomic status health gradient
PNAS 2007 104: 13225-13231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Angus Deaton

From the Cover: Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Height, health, and development
PNAS 2007 104: 13232-13237; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611500104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k) plans and the pension assets of the baby boom cohort
PNAS 2007 104: 13238-13243; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611596104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David M. Cutler, Grant Miller, and Douglas M. Norton

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Evidence on early-life income and late-life health from America's Dust Bowl era
PNAS 2007 104: 13244-13249; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700035104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James J. Heckman

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation
PNAS 2007 104: 13250-13255; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701362104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

M. Martinón-Torres, J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, A. Gómez-Robles, J. L. Arsuaga, E. Carbonell, D. Lordkipanidze, G. Manzi, and A. Margvelashvili

Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene
PNAS 2007 104: 13279-13282; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706152104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biochemistry

Makoto Fujisawa, Masahiro Ito, and Terry A. Krulwich

Three two-component transporters with channel-like properties have monovalent cation/proton antiport activity
PNAS 2007 104: 13289-13294; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703709104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Carole Mathevon, Fabien Pierrel, Jean-Louis Oddou, Ricardo Garcia-Serres, Geneviève Blondin, Jean-Marc Latour, Stéphane Ménage, Serge Gambarelli, Marc Fontecave, and Mohamed Atta

tRNA-modifying MiaE protein from Salmonella typhimurium is a nonheme diiron monooxygenase
PNAS 2007 104: 13295-13300; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704338104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jun-Hyuk Choi, Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz, and Aziz Sancar Reconstitution of a human ATR-mediated checkpoint response to damaged DNA PNAS 2007 104: 13301-13306; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706013104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biophysics

Benjamin M. Friedrich and Frank Jülicher

Chemotaxis of sperm cells
PNAS 2007 104: 13256-13261; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703530104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Jason W. Locasale, Andrey S. Shaw, and Arup K. Chakraborty

Scaffold proteins confer diverse regulatory properties to protein kinase cascades
PNAS 2007 104: 13307-13312; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706311104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jijun Dong, Jeffrey M. Canfield, Anil K. Mehta, Jacob E. Shokes, Bo Tian, W. Seth Childers, James A. Simmons, Zixu Mao, Robert A. Scott, Kurt Warncke, and David G. Lynn

Engineering metal ion coordination to regulate amyloid fibril assembly and toxicity
PNAS 2007 104: 13313-13318; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702669104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jan Saam, Igor Ivanov, Matthias Walther, Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, and Hartmut Kuhn

Molecular dioxygen enters the active site of 12/15-lipoxygenase via dynamic oxygen access channels
PNAS 2007 104: 13319-13324; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702401104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Cell Biology

Becky L. Conway-Campbell, Jong Wei Wooh, Andrew J. Brooks, David Gordon, Richard J. Brown, Agnieszka M. Lichanska, Hong Soon Chin, Chenoa L. Barton, Glen M. Boyle, Peter G. Parsons, David A. Jans, and Michael J. Waters

Nuclear targeting of the growth hormone receptor results in dysregulation of cell proliferation and tumorigenesis
PNAS 2007 104: 13331-13336; published online before print August 9 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0600181104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Abha Khandelwal, Dilip Chandu, Catherine M. Roe, Raphael Kopan, and Ralph S. Quatrano

Moonlighting activity of presenilin in plants is independent of -secretase and evolutionarily conserved
PNAS 2007 104: 13337-13342; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702038104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Juan C. del Álamo, Ruedi Meili, Baldomero Alonso-Latorre, Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Alberto Aliseda, Richard A. Firtel, and Juan C. Lasheras Spatio-temporal analysis of eukaryotic cell motility by improved force cytometry PNAS 2007 104: 13343-13348; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705815104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Paul Herzmark, Kyle Campbell, Fei Wang, Kit Wong, Hana El-Samad, Alex Groisman, and Henry R. Bourne Bound attractant at the leading vs. the trailing edge determines chemotactic prowess PNAS 2007 104: 13349-13354; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705889104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Johannes H. Bauer, Chengyi Chang, Siti Nur Sarah Morris, Suzanne Hozier, Sandra Andersen, Joshua S. Waitzman, and Stephen L. Helfand

Expression of dominant-negative Dmp53 in the adult fly brain inhibits insulin signaling
PNAS 2007 104: 13355-13360; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706121104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Servane Tauszig-Delamasure, Li-Ying Yu, Jorge Ruben Cabrera, Jimena Bouzas-Rodriguez, Catherine Mermet-Bouvier, Catherine Guix, Marie-Claire Bordeaux, Urmas Arumäe, and Patrick Mehlen

The TrkC receptor induces apoptosis when the dependence receptor notion meets the neurotrophin paradigm
PNAS 2007 104: 13361-13366; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701243104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Kiwamu Takemoto, Erina Kuranaga, Ayako Tonoki, Takeharu Nagai, Atsushi Miyawaki, and Masayuki Miura

Local initiation of caspase activation in Drosophila salivary gland programmed cell death in vivo
PNAS 2007 104: 13367-13372; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702733104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movie]  

Cristina González-Estévez, Daniel A. Felix, Aziz A. Aboobaker, and Emili Saló

Gtdap-1 promotes autophagy and is required for planarian remodeling during regeneration and starvation
PNAS 2007 104: 13373-13378; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703588104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Raquel Sussman

DNA repair capacity of zebrafish
PNAS 2007 104: 13379-13383; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706157104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ecology

Allen H. Hurlbert and Walter Jetz

Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation
PNAS 2007 104: 13384-13389; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704469104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Evolution

Konstantin Popadin, Leonard V. Polishchuk, Leila Mamirova, Dmitry Knorre, and Konstantin Gunbin

Accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations in mitochondrial protein-coding genes of large versus small mammals
PNAS 2007 104: 13390-13395; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701256104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Liisa Kauppi, Maria Jasin, and Scott Keeney

Meiotic crossover hotspots contained in haplotype block boundaries of the mouse genome
PNAS 2007 104: 13396-13401; published online before print August 9 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701965104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Immunology

Andrés A. Herrada, Francisco J. Contreras, Jaime A. Tobar, Rodrigo Pacheco, and Alexis M. Kalergis

Immune complex-induced enhancement of bacterial antigen presentation requires Fc Receptor III expression on dendritic cells
PNAS 2007 104: 13402-13407; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700999104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Inbal Binsky, Michal Haran, Diana Starlets, Yael Gore, Frida Lantner, Nurit Harpaz, Lin Leng, David M. Goldenberg, Lev Shvidel, Alain Berrebi, Richard Bucala, and Idit Shachar

IL-8 secreted in a macrophage migration-inhibitory factor- and CD74-dependent manner regulates B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia survival
PNAS 2007 104: 13408-13413; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701553104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Maike Heffner and Douglas T. Fearon Loss of T cell receptor-induced Bmi-1 in the KLRG1+ senescent CD8+ T lymphocyte PNAS 2007 104: 13414-13419; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706040104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kim L. Good and Stuart G. Tangye

Decreased expression of Krüppel-like factors in memory B cells induces the rapid response typical of secondary antibody responses
PNAS 2007 104: 13420-13425; published online before print August 2 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703872104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Stefan Freigang, Bruno Eschli, Nicola Harris, Markus Geuking, Katharina Quirin, Sabrina Schrempf, Raphael Zellweger, Jacqueline Weber, Hans Hengartner, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

A lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoprotein variant that is retained in the endoplasmic reticulum efficiently cross-primes CD8⁺ T cell responses
PNAS 2007 104: 13426-13431; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704423104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

Yan Li, Wei Yin, Xia Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Yijun Huang, and Guangmei Yan Cholera toxin induces malignant glioma cell differentiation via the PKA/CREB pathway PNAS 2007 104: 13438-13443; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701990104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Li Guo, Thomas E. Salt, Vy Luong, Nicholas Wood, William Cheung, Annelie Maass, Giulio Ferrari, Françoise Russo-Marie, Adam M. Sillito, Michael E. Cheetham, Stephen E. Moss, Frederick W. Fitzke, and M. Francesca Cordeiro Targeting amyloid- in glaucoma treatment PNAS 2007 104: 13444-13449; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703707104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movie] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Christian Hafner, Elena López-Knowles, Nuno M. Luis, Agustí Toll, Eulàlia Baselga, Alex Fernández-Casado, Silvia Hernández, Adriana Ribé, Thomas Mentzel, Robert Stoehr, Ferdinand Hofstaedter, Michael Landthaler, Thomas Vogt, Ramòn M. Pujol, Arndt Hartmann, and Francisco X. Real

Oncogenic PIK3CA mutations occur in epidermal nevi and seborrheic keratoses with a characteristic mutation pattern
PNAS 2007 104: 13450-13454; published online before print August 2 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705218104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Microbiology

Rhoel R. Dinglasan, Dario E. Kalume, Stefan M. Kanzok, Anil K. Ghosh, Olga Muratova, Akhilesh Pandey, and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Disruption of Plasmodium falciparum development by antibodies against a conserved mosquito midgut antigen
PNAS 2007 104: 13461-13466; published online before print August 2 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702239104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Mélanie Anne Hamon, Eric Batsché, Béatrice Régnault, To Nam Tham, Stéphanie Seveau, Christian Muchardt, and Pascale Cossart

Histone modifications induced by a family of bacterial toxins
PNAS 2007 104: 13467-13472; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702729104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Erin H. Norris and Sidney Strickland

Modulation of NR2B-regulated contextual fear in the hippocampus by the tissue plasminogen activator system
PNAS 2007 104: 13473-13478; published online before print August 2 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705848104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Takashi Okuda, Lily M. Y. Yu, Lorenzo A. Cingolani, Rolf Kemler, and Yukiko Goda

-Catenin regulates excitatory postsynaptic strength at hippocampal synapses
PNAS 2007 104: 13479-13484; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702334104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Nicholas Furl, Nicola J. van Rijsbergen, Alessandro Treves, Karl J. Friston, and Raymond J. Dolan

Experience-dependent coding of facial expression in superior temporal sulcus
PNAS 2007 104: 13485-13489; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702548104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Adriano B. L. Tort, Horacio G. Rotstein, Tamar Dugladze, Tengis Gloveli, and Nancy J. Kopell

On the formation of gamma-coherent cell assemblies by oriens lacunosum-moleculare interneurons in the hippocampus
PNAS 2007 104: 13490-13495; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705708104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Thomas A. Carlson, George A. Alvarez, and Patrick Cavanagh Quadrantic deficit reveals anatomical constraints on selection PNAS 2007 104: 13496-13500; published online before print August 2 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702685104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Tania Rinaldi, Karina Kulangara, Katia Antoniello, and Henry Markram

Elevated NMDA receptor levels and enhanced postsynaptic long-term potentiation induced by prenatal exposure to valproic acid
PNAS 2007 104: 13501-13506; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704391104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Damien A. Fair, Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Jessica A. Church, Alexander L. Cohen, Shefali Brahmbhatt, Francis M. Miezin, Deanna M. Barch, Marcus E. Raichle, Steven E. Petersen, and Bradley L. Schlaggar Development of distinct control networks through segregation and integration PNAS 2007 104: 13507-13512; published online before print August 6 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705843104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Pharmacology

Prasun J. Mishra, Rita Humeniuk, Pravin J. Mishra, Giuseppe S. A. Longo-Sorbello, Debabrata Banerjee, and Joseph R. Bertino

A miR-24 microRNA binding-site polymorphism in dihydrofolate reductase gene leads to methotrexate resistance
PNAS 2007 104: 13513-13518; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706217104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Physiology

Marcello Trevisani, Jan Siemens, Serena Materazzi, Diana M. Bautista, Romina Nassini, Barbara Campi, Noritaka Imamachi, Eunice Andrè, Riccardo Patacchini, Graeme S. Cottrell, Raffaele Gatti, Allan I. Basbaum, Nigel W. Bunnett, David Julius, and Pierangelo Geppetti

4-Hydroxynonenal, an endogenous aldehyde, causes pain and neurogenic inflammation through activation of the irritant receptor TRPA1
PNAS 2007 104: 13519-13524; published online before print August 7 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705923104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Colleen R. McNamara, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Diana M. Bautista, Jan Siemens, Kari L. Deranian, Michael Zhao, Neil J. Hayward, Jayhong A. Chong, David Julius, Magdalene M. Moran, and Christopher M. Fanger TRPA1 mediates formalin-induced pain PNAS 2007 104: 13525-13530; published online before print August 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705924104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Psychology

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