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PNAS 2007 104: 14175-14176. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Daniel T. Blumstein

Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack
PNAS 2007 104: 14177-14178; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707286104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 14372

SPECIAL FEATURE

Introduction

Robin M. Hochstrasser

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14189; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706002104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Perspectives

Robin M. Hochstrasser

From the Cover: Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Two-dimensional spectroscopy at infrared and optical frequencies
PNAS 2007 104: 14190-14196; published online before print July 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704079104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research Articles

Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide
PNAS 2007 104: 14197-14202; published online before print May 14 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700804104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomás Mancal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14203-14208; published online before print June 4 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701201104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dmitry V. Kurochkin, Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty, and Igor V. Rubtsov

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method
PNAS 2007 104: 14209-14214; published online before print June 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700560104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

B. Auer, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt, and J. L. Skinner

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D₂O
PNAS 2007 104: 14215-14220; published online before print June 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701482104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kyungwon Kwak, Sungnam Park, and M. D. Fayer

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents
PNAS 2007 104: 14221-14226; published online before print June 20 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701710104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tianhao Zhang, Irina Kuznetsova, Torsten Meier, Xiaoqin Li, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Thomas, and Steven T. Cundiff

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors
PNAS 2007 104: 14227-14232; published online before print July 13 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701273104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils
PNAS 2007 104: 14233-14236; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700392104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics
PNAS 2007 104: 14237-14242; published online before print June 5 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700959104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, Karin Nienhaus, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, and Peter Hamm

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Protein ligand migration mapped by nonequilibrium 2D-IR exchange spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14243-14248; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607758104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PROFILES

Melissa Marino

Profile of Richard P. Novick
PNAS 2007 104: 14179-14181; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707438104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Chemistry

Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide
PNAS 2007 104: 14197-14202; published online before print May 14 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700804104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomás Mancal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14203-14208; published online before print June 4 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701201104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dmitry V. Kurochkin, Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty, and Igor V. Rubtsov

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method
PNAS 2007 104: 14209-14214; published online before print June 8 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700560104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

B. Auer, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt, and J. L. Skinner

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D₂O
PNAS 2007 104: 14215-14220; published online before print June 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701482104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kyungwon Kwak, Sungnam Park, and M. D. Fayer

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents
PNAS 2007 104: 14221-14226; published online before print June 20 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701710104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils
PNAS 2007 104: 14233-14236; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700392104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics
PNAS 2007 104: 14237-14242; published online before print June 5 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700959104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Matthew Pelton, Glenna Smith, Norbert F. Scherer, and Rudolph A. Marcus

Evidence for a diffusion-controlled mechanism for fluorescence blinking of colloidal quantum dots
PNAS 2007 104: 14249-14254; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706164104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Alessandro Troisi, Jeremy M. Beebe, Laura B. Picraux, Roger D. van Zee, Duncan R. Stewart, Mark A. Ratner, and James G. Kushmerick

Tracing electronic pathways in molecules by using inelastic tunneling spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14255-14259; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704208104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Engineering

Geology

Gregory T. Ventura, Fabien Kenig, Christopher M. Reddy, Juergen Schieber, Glenn S. Frysinger, Robert K. Nelson, Etienne Dinel, Richard B. Gaines, and Philippe Schaeffer

Molecular evidence of Late Archean archaea and the presence of a subsurface hydrothermal biosphere
PNAS 2007 104: 14260-14265; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610903104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Geophysics

S. J. Loyd, T. W. Becker, C. P. Conrad, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and F. A. Corsetti

Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution
PNAS 2007 104: 14266-14271; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706667104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Physics

Tianhao Zhang, Irina Kuznetsova, Torsten Meier, Xiaoqin Li, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Thomas, and Steven T. Cundiff

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors
PNAS 2007 104: 14227-14232; published online before print July 13 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701273104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sustainability Science

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

Damian Evans, Christophe Pottier, Roland Fletcher, Scott Hensley, Ian Tapley, Anthony Milne, and Michael Barbetti

A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia
PNAS 2007 104: 14277-14282; published online before print August 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702525104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Applied Biological Sciences

Manami Takenaka, Toshitaka Horiuchi, and Ryuzo Yanagimachi

Effects of light on development of mammalian zygotes
PNAS 2007 104: 14289-14293; published online before print August 20 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706687104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See Commentary on page 14547

Biochemistry

Kai-Hong Zhao, Ping Su, Jun-Ming Tu, Xing Wang, Hui Liu, Matthias Plöscher, Lutz Eichacker, Bei Yang, Ming Zhou, and Hugo Scheer Phycobilin:cystein-84 biliprotein lyase, a near-universal lyase for cysteine-84-binding sites in cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins PNAS 2007 104: 14300-14305; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706209104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Rick W. Nipper, Karsten H. Siller, Nicholas R. Smith, Chris Q. Doe, and Kenneth E. Prehoda

Gi generates multiple Pins activation states to link cortical polarity and spindle orientation in Drosophila neuroblasts
PNAS 2007 104: 14306-14311; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701812104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Sonja A. Dames, André Schönichen, Antje Schulte, Matjaz Barboric, B. Matija Peterlin, Stephan Grzesiek, and Matthias Geyer Structure of the Cyclin T binding domain of Hexim1 and molecular basis for its recognition of P-TEFb PNAS 2007 104: 14312-14317; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701848104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Leticia L. Torres and Graciela L. Salerno

A metabolic pathway leading to mannosylfructose biosynthesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens uncovers a family of mannosyltransferases
PNAS 2007 104: 14318-14323; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706709104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jun Wang, Gregory J. S. Lohman, and JoAnne Stubbe

Enhanced subunit interactions with gemcitabine-5'-diphosphate inhibit ribonucleotide reductases
PNAS 2007 104: 14324-14329; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706803104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Joe Carroll, Matthew C. Altman, Ian M. Fearnley, and John E. Walker Identification of membrane proteins by tandem mass spectrometry of protein ions PNAS 2007 104: 14330-14335; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706817104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biophysics

Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide
PNAS 2007 104: 14197-14202; published online before print May 14 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700804104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomás Mancal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14203-14208; published online before print June 4 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701201104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils
PNAS 2007 104: 14233-14236; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700392104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics
PNAS 2007 104: 14237-14242; published online before print June 5 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700959104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, Karin Nienhaus, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, and Peter Hamm

Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Protein ligand migration mapped by nonequilibrium 2D-IR exchange spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14243-14248; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607758104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James M. Murphy, Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Derek F. Ceccarelli, Douglas J. Briant, Arash Zarrine-Afsar, Frank Sicheri, Lewis E. Kay, and Tony Pawson

Conformational instability of the MARK3 UBA domain compromises ubiquitin recognition and promotes interaction with the adjacent kinase domain
PNAS 2007 104: 14336-14341; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703012104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Mark L. Paddock, Sandra E. Wiley, Herbert L. Axelrod, Aina E. Cohen, Melinda Roy, Edward C. Abresch, Dominique Capraro, Anne N. Murphy, Rachel Nechushtai, Jack E. Dixon, and Patricia A. Jennings MitoNEET is a uniquely folded 2Fe–2S outer mitochondrial membrane protein stabilized by pioglitazone PNAS 2007 104: 14342-14347; published online before print August 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707189104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Cell Biology

Lin Feng, Xiaoduo Xie, Qiurong Ding, Xiaolin Luo, Jing He, Fengjuan Fan, Weizhong Liu, Zhenzhen Wang, and Yan Chen

Spatial regulation of Raf kinase signaling by RKTG
PNAS 2007 104: 14348-14353; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701298104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Carlotta Costa, Laura Barberis, Chiara Ambrogio, Andrea D. Manazza, Enrico Patrucco, Ornella Azzolino, Paul O. Neilsen, Elisa Ciraolo, Fiorella Altruda, Glenn D. Prestwich, Roberto Chiarle, Matthias Wymann, Anne Ridley, and Emilio Hirsch Negative feedback regulation of Rac in leukocytes from mice expressing a constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase PNAS 2007 104: 14354-14359; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703175104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Orly Ravid, Imad Shams, Nathalie Ben Califa, Eviatar Nevo, Aaron Avivi, and Drorit Neumann

An extracellular region of the erythropoietin receptor of the subterranean blind mole rat Spalax enhances receptor maturation
PNAS 2007 104: 14360-14365; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706777104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Ecology

Mark C. Urban

Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats
PNAS 2007 104: 14377-14382; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704645104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Kevin W. Wanner, Andrew S. Nichols, Kimberly K. O. Walden, Axel Brockmann, Charles W. Luetje, and Hugh M. Robertson

A honey bee odorant receptor for the queen substance 9-oxo-2-decenoic acid
PNAS 2007 104: 14383-14388; published online before print August 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705459104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Evolution

Gregory T. Ventura, Fabien Kenig, Christopher M. Reddy, Juergen Schieber, Glenn S. Frysinger, Robert K. Nelson, Etienne Dinel, Richard B. Gaines, and Philippe Schaeffer

Molecular evidence of Late Archean archaea and the presence of a subsurface hydrothermal biosphere
PNAS 2007 104: 14260-14265; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610903104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Colin E. Hughes, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Ashley Robertson, Denis L. Filer, Stephen A. Harris, and C. Donovan Bailey

Serendipitous backyard hybridization and the origin of crops
PNAS 2007 104: 14389-14394; published online before print August 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702193104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Derek E. Wildman, Monica Uddin, Juan C. Opazo, Guozhen Liu, Vincent Lefort, Stephane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel, Lawrence I. Grossman, Roberto Romero, and Morris Goodman Genomics, biogeography, and the diversification of placental mammals PNAS 2007 104: 14395-14400; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704342104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Sarah Stewart Johnson, Martin B. Hebsgaard, Torben R. Christensen, Mikhail Mastepanov, Rasmus Nielsen, Kasper Munch, Tina Brand, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Maria T. Zuber, Michael Bunce, Regin Rønn, David Gilichinsky, Duane Froese, and Eske Willerslev Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair PNAS 2007 104: 14401-14405; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706787104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Genetics

Alexander Gragerov, Kyoji Horie, Maria Pavlova, Linda Madisen, Hongkui Zeng, Galina Gragerova, Alex Rhode, Io Dolka, Patricia Roth, Amanda Ebbert, Stephanie Moe, Christopher Navas, Eric Finn, John Bergmann, Demetrios K. Vassilatis, George N. Pavlakis, and George A. Gaitanaris

Large-scale, saturating insertional mutagenesis of the mouse genome
PNAS 2007 104: 14406-14411; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700608104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Peng Y. Woon, Pamela J. Kaisaki, José Bragança, Marie-Thérèse Bihoreau, Jonathan C. Levy, Martin Farrall, and Dominique Gauguier Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-like (BMAL1) is associated with susceptibility to hypertension and type 2 diabetes PNAS 2007 104: 14412-14417; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703247104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Immunology

Ariel Quintana, Christian Schwindling, Anna S. Wenning, Ute Becherer, Jens Rettig, Eva C. Schwarz, and Markus Hoth

T cell activation requires mitochondrial translocation to the immunological synapse
PNAS 2007 104: 14418-14423; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703126104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  
See Commentary on page 15171

Medical Sciences

Heike Runne, Alexandre Kuhn, Edward J. Wild, Wirahpati Pratyaksha, Mark Kristiansen, Jeremy D. Isaacs, Etienne Régulier, Mauro Delorenzi, Sarah J. Tabrizi, and Ruth Luthi-Carter

Analysis of potential transcriptomic biomarkers for Huntington's disease in peripheral blood
PNAS 2007 104: 14424-14429; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703652104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Haruhisa Inoue, Ling Lin, Xinhua Lee, Zhaohui Shao, Shannon Mendes, Pamela Snodgrass-Belt, Harry Sweigard, Tom Engber, Blake Pepinsky, Lichuan Yang, M. Flint Beal, Sha Mi, and Ole Isacson Inhibition of the leucine-rich repeat protein LINGO-1 enhances survival, structure, and function of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease models PNAS 2007 104: 14430-14435; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700901104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Weiguo Cui, Esteban Cuartas, Juan Ke, Qing Zhang, Halldor B. Einarsson, Jonathon D. Sedgwick, Jun Li, and Agnès Vignery CD200 and its receptor, CD200R, modulate bone mass via the differentiation of osteoclasts PNAS 2007 104: 14436-14441; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702811104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Hiroshi Nakanishi, Tatsuya Nakamura, Eli Canaani, and Carlo M. Croce

ALL1 fusion proteins induce deregulation of EphA7 and ERK phosphorylation in human acute leukemias
PNAS 2007 104: 14442-14447; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703211104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Andrew Advani, Darren J. Kelly, Suzanne L. Advani, Alison J. Cox, Kerri Thai, Yuan Zhang, Kathryn E. White, Renae M. Gow, Sally M. Marshall, Brent M. Steer, Philip A. Marsden, P. Elizabeth Rakoczy, and Richard E. Gilbert

Role of VEGF in maintaining renal structure and function under normotensive and hypertensive conditions
PNAS 2007 104: 14448-14453; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703577104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Miriam Breunig, Uta Lungwitz, Renate Liebl, and Achim Goepferich

Breaking up the correlation between efficacy and toxicity for nonviral gene delivery
PNAS 2007 104: 14454-14459; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703882104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Michelle L. Kerns, Daryle DePianto, Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova, Paul Talalay, and Pierre A. Coulombe

Reprogramming of keratin biosynthesis by sulforaphane restores skin integrity in epidermolysis bullosa simplex
PNAS 2007 104: 14460-14465; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706486104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Monica Dentice, Cristina Luongo, Stephen Huang, Raffaele Ambrosio, Antonia Elefante, Delphine Mirebeau-Prunier, Ann Marie Zavacki, Gianfranco Fenzi, Marina Grachtchouk, Mark Hutchin, Andrzej A. Dlugosz, Antonio C. Bianco, Caterina Missero, P. Reed Larsen, and Domenico Salvatore

Sonic hedgehog-induced type 3 deiodinase blocks thyroid hormone action enhancing proliferation of normal and malignant keratinocytes
PNAS 2007 104: 14466-14471; published online before print August 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706754104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Sashwati Roy, Darshan Patel, Savita Khanna, Gayle M. Gordillo, Sabyasachi Biswas, Avner Friedman, and Chandan K. Sen

Transcriptome-wide analysis of blood vessels laser captured from human skin and chronic wound-edge tissue
PNAS 2007 104: 14472-14477; published online before print August 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706793104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Vince Pozsgay, Joanna Kubler-Kielb, Rachel Schneerson, and John B. Robbins Effect of the nonreducing end of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 O-specific oligosaccharides on their immunogenicity as conjugates in mice PNAS 2007 104: 14478-14482; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706969104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Microbiology

Masahiro Asakura, Atsushi Hinenoya, Mohammad S. Alam, Kensuke Shima, Shamim Hasan Zahid, Lei Shi, Norihiko Sugimoto, A. N. Ghosh, T. Ramamurthy, Shah M. Faruque, G. Balakrish Nair, and Shinji Yamasaki

An inducible lambdoid prophage encoding cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt-I) and a type III effector protein in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
PNAS 2007 104: 14483-14488; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706695104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Masaaki Komatsu, Qing Jun Wang, Gay R. Holstein, Victor L. Friedrich, Jr., Jun-ichi Iwata, Eiki Kominami, Brian T. Chait, Keiji Tanaka, and Zhenyu Yue

Essential role for autophagy protein Atg7 in the maintenance of axonal homeostasis and the prevention of axonal degeneration
PNAS 2007 104: 14489-14494; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701311104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Sean M. Montgomery and György Buzsáki

Gamma oscillations dynamically couple hippocampal CA3 and CA1 regions during memory task performance
PNAS 2007 104: 14495-14500; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701826104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Takatoshi Hikida, Hanna Jaaro-Peled, Saurav Seshadri, Kenichi Oishi, Caroline Hookway, Stephanie Kong, Di Wu, Rong Xue, Manuella Andradé, Stephanie Tankou, Susumu Mori, Michela Gallagher, Koko Ishizuka, Mikhail Pletnikov, Satoshi Kida, and Akira Sawa From the Cover: Dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mice display schizophrenia-associated phenotypes detected by measures translatable to humans PNAS 2007 104: 14501-14506; published online before print August 3 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704774104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Trese Leinders-Zufall, Renee E. Cockerham, Stylianos Michalakis, Martin Biel, David L. Garbers, Randall R. Reed, Frank Zufall, and Steven D. Munger

Contribution of the receptor guanylyl cyclase GC-D to chemosensory function in the olfactory epithelium
PNAS 2007 104: 14507-14512; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704965104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Oana Tudusciuc and Andreas Nieder

Neuronal population coding of continuous and discrete quantity in the primate posterior parietal cortex
PNAS 2007 104: 14513-14518; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705495104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Yong-Jing Gao, Yan-Gang Sun, Cheng-Shui Zhao, Robert W. Gereau, IV, and Zhou-Feng Chen

Central serotonergic neurons are differentially required for opioid analgesia but not for morphine tolerance or morphine reward
PNAS 2007 104: 14519-14524; published online before print August 27 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705740104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Pharmacology

Hemant Varma, Richard Cheng, Cindy Voisine, Anne C. Hart, and Brent R. Stockwell

Inhibitors of metabolism rescue cell death in Huntington's disease models
PNAS 2007 104: 14525-14530; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704482104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Plant Biology

Sabine Frietsch, Yong-Fei Wang, Chris Sladek, Lisbeth R. Poulsen, Shawn M. Romanowsky, Julian I. Schroeder, and Jeffrey F. Harper

A cyclic nucleotide-gated channel is essential for polarized tip growth of pollen
PNAS 2007 104: 14531-14536; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701781104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Walter Dewitte, Simon Scofield, Annette A. Alcasabas, Spencer C. Maughan, Margit Menges, Nils Braun, Carl Collins, Jeroen Nieuwland, Els Prinsen, Venkatesan Sundaresan, and James A. H. Murray

Arabidopsis CYCD3 D-type cyclins link cell proliferation and endocycles and are rate-limiting for cytokinin responses
PNAS 2007 104: 14537-14542; published online before print August 28 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704166104 [Abstract]