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PNAS 2007 104: 14545-14546. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RETROSPECTIVE

Randy Schekman

The nine lives of Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. (1920–2007)
PNAS 2007 104: 14551-14552; published online on August 24, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707644104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Richard M. Schultz

Of light and mouse embryos: Less is more
PNAS 2007 104: 14547-14548; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707142104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 14289 in issue 36 of volume 104

Dennis T. Drayna

Absolute pitch: A special group of ears
PNAS 2007 104: 14549-14550; published online on September 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707287104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 14795

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Chemistry

P. J. Roach, A. C. Reber, W. H. Woodward, S. N. Khanna, and A. W. Castleman, Jr.

Al₄H is a resilient building block for aluminum hydrogen cluster materials
PNAS 2007 104: 14565-14569; published online on September 6, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706613104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Peter P.-Y. Chen, Richard B.-G. Yang, Jason C.-M. Lee, and Sunney I. Chan

Facile O-atom insertion into CC and CH bonds by a trinuclear copper complex designed to harness a singlet oxene
PNAS 2007 104: 14570-14575; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707119104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Guoyin Shen, Hanns-Peter Liermann, Stanislav Sinogeikin, Wenge Yang, Xinguo Hong, Choong-Shik Yoo, and Hyunchae Cynn

Distinct thermal behavior of GeO₂ glass in tetrahedral, intermediate, and octahedral forms
PNAS 2007 104: 14576-14579; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703098104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jorge Chahine, Ronaldo J. Oliveira, Vitor B. P. Leite, and Jin Wang

Configuration-dependent diffusion can shift the kinetic transition state and barrier height of protein folding
PNAS 2007 104: 14646-14651; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606506104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Environmental Sciences

Sustainability Science

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Economic Sciences

Kjell Arne Brekke, Bernt Øksendal, and Nils Chr. Stenseth

The effect of climate variations on the dynamics of pasture–livestock interactions under cooperative and noncooperative management
PNAS 2007 104: 14730-14734; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706553104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Social Sciences

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biochemistry

Ching-Hsuan Tsai, Jingyang Chen, and Jack W. Szostak

Enzymatic synthesis of DNA on glycerol nucleic acid templates without stable duplex formation between product and template
PNAS 2007 104: 14598-14603; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704211104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Eric N. Hampton, Mark W. Knuth, Jun Li, Jennifer L. Harris, Scott A. Lesley, and Glen Spraggon

The self-inhibited structure of full-length PCSK9 at 1.9 Å reveals structural homology with resistin within the C-terminal domain
PNAS 2007 104: 14604-14609; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703402104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chandima Abeywickrama, Hiroko Matsuda, Steffen Jockusch, Jilin Zhou, Young P. Jang, Bi-Xing Chen, Yasuhiro Itagaki, Bernard F. Erlanger, Koji Nakanishi, Nicholas J. Turro, and Janet R. Sparrow

Immunochemical recognition of A2E, a pigment in the lipofuscin of retinal pigment epithelial cells
PNAS 2007 104: 14610-14615; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706806104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Adrian W. Briggs, Udo Stenzel, Philip L. F. Johnson, Richard E. Green, Janet Kelso, Kay Prüfer, Matthias Meyer, Johannes Krause, Michael T. Ronan, Michael Lachmann, and Svante Pääbo

Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal
PNAS 2007 104: 14616-14621; published online on August 21, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704665104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Michiyo Mizuuchi, Phoebe A. Rice, Simon J. Wardle, David B. Haniford, and Kiyoshi Mizuuchi Control of transposase activity within a transpososome by the configuration of the flanking DNA segment of the transposon PNAS 2007 104: 14622-14627; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706556104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Emmanuelle Sacco, Adrian Suarez Covarrubias, Helen M. O'Hare, Paul Carroll, Nathalie Eynard, T. Alwyn Jones, Tanya Parish, Mamadou Daffé, Kristina Bäckbro, and Annaïk Quémard

The missing piece of the type II fatty acid synthase system from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PNAS 2007 104: 14628-14633; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704132104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jason Stagno, Inna Aphasizheva, Ruslan Aphasizhev, and Hartmut Luecke

Dual role of the RNA substrate in selectivity and catalysis by terminal uridylyl transferases
PNAS 2007 104: 14634-14639; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704259104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Jinzhong Lin, Tao Zhou, Keqiong Ye, and Jinfeng Wang

Crystal structure of human mitoNEET reveals distinct groups of iron–sulfur proteins
PNAS 2007 104: 14640-14645; published online on August 31, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702426104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biophysics

Jorge Chahine, Ronaldo J. Oliveira, Vitor B. P. Leite, and Jin Wang

Configuration-dependent diffusion can shift the kinetic transition state and barrier height of protein folding
PNAS 2007 104: 14646-14651; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606506104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Paul Grayson, Lin Han, Tabita Winther, and Rob Phillips From the Cover: Real-time observations of single bacteriophage DNA ejections in vitro PNAS 2007 104: 14652-14657; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703274104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Thomas Hellerer, Claes Axäng, Christian Brackmann, Per Hillertz, Marc Pilon, and Annika Enejder

Monitoring of lipid storage in Caenorhabditis elegans using coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 14658-14663; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703594104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Rhiju Das and David Baker Automated de novo prediction of native-like RNA tertiary structures PNAS 2007 104: 14664-14669; published online on August 28, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703836104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Bhupesh Taneja, Bernhard Schnurr, Alexei Slesarev, John F. Marko, and Alfonso Mondragón

Topoisomerase V relaxes supercoiled DNA by a constrained swiveling mechanism
PNAS 2007 104: 14670-14675; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701989104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Nathaniel J. Traaseth, Raffaello Verardi, Kurt D. Torgersen, Christine B. Karim, David D. Thomas, and Gianluigi Veglia

Spectroscopic validation of the pentameric structure of phospholamban
PNAS 2007 104: 14676-14681; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0701016104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Xiong Ye, Dan Ionascu, Florin Gruia, Anchi Yu, Abdelkrim Benabbas, and Paul M. Champion

Temperature-dependent heme kinetics with nonexponential binding and barrier relaxation in the absence of protein conformational substates
PNAS 2007 104: 14682-14687; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702622104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Yuko Murakami-Tonami, Chisato Yamada-Namikawa, Akiko Tochigi, Norio Hasegawa, Hisae Kojima, Mitoshi Kunimatsu, Makoto Nakanishi, and Hiroshi Murakami

Mei4p coordinates the onset of meiosis I by regulating cdc25⁺ in fission yeast
PNAS 2007 104: 14688-14693; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702906104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Johanna I. Partanen, Anni I. Nieminen, Tomi P. Mäkelä, and Juha Klefstrom

Suppression of oncogenic properties of c-Myc by LKB1-controlled epithelial organization
PNAS 2007 104: 14694-14699; published online on August 31, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704677104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] [Online Correction to Supporting Text]  

Minke E. Binnerts, Kyung-Ah Kim, Jessica M. Bright, Sejal M. Patel, Karolyn Tran, Mei Zhou, John M. Leung, Yi Liu, Woodrow E. Lomas, III, Melissa Dixon, Sophie A. Hazell, Marie Wagle, Wen-Sheng Nie, Nenad Tomasevic, Jason Williams, Xiaoming Zhan, Michael D. Levy, Walter D. Funk, and Arie Abo R-Spondin1 regulates Wnt signaling by inhibiting internalization of LRP6 PNAS 2007 104: 14700-14705; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702305104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Suzanne Furuyama and Sue Biggins

Centromere identity is specified by a single centromeric nucleosome in budding yeast
PNAS 2007 104: 14706-14711; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706985104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

T. Katherine Tamai, Lucy C. Young, and David Whitmore

Light signaling to the zebrafish circadian clock by Cryptochrome 1a
PNAS 2007 104: 14712-14717; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704588104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Developmental Biology

Yuxin Feng, David Manka, Kay-Uwe Wagner, and Sohaib A. Khan

Estrogen receptor- expression in the mammary epithelium is required for ductal and alveolar morphogenesis in mice
PNAS 2007 104: 14718-14723; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706933104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Kjell Arne Brekke, Bernt Øksendal, and Nils Chr. Stenseth

The effect of climate variations on the dynamics of pasture–livestock interactions under cooperative and noncooperative management
PNAS 2007 104: 14730-14734; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706553104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Evolution

Genetics

John V. Raelson, Randall D. Little, Andreas Ruether, Hélène Fournier, Bruno Paquin, Paul Van Eerdewegh, W. E. C. Bradley, Pascal Croteau, Quynh Nguyen-Huu, Jonathan Segal, Sophie Debrus, René Allard, Philip Rosenstiel, Andre Franke, Gunnar Jacobs, Susanna Nikolaus, Jean-Michel Vidal, Peter Szego, Nathalie Laplante, Hilary F. Clark, René J. Paulussen, John W. Hooper, Tim P. Keith, Abdelmajid Belouchi, and Stefan Schreiber From the Cover: Genome-wide association study for Crohn's disease in the Quebec Founder Population identifies multiple validated disease loci PNAS 2007 104: 14747-14752; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706645104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Immunology

Roberto Bonasio, Christopher V. Carman, Enoch Kim, Peter T. Sage, Kerry R. Love, Thorsten R. Mempel, Timothy A. Springer, and Ulrich H. von Andrian

Specific and covalent labeling of a membrane protein with organic fluorochromes and quantum dots
PNAS 2007 104: 14753-14758; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705201104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Frederic Sierro, Christine Biben, Laura Martínez-Muñoz, Mario Mellado, Richard M. Ransohoff, Meizhang Li, Blanche Woehl, Helen Leung, Joanna Groom, Marcel Batten, Richard P. Harvey, Carlos Martínez-A, Charles R. Mackay, and Fabienne Mackay

Disrupted cardiac development but normal hematopoiesis in mice deficient in the second CXCL12/SDF-1 receptor, CXCR7
PNAS 2007 104: 14759-14764; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702229104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Nobuki Hayashi, Tomohiro Yoshimoto, Kenji Izuhara, Kiyoshi Matsui, Toshio Tanaka, and Kenji Nakanishi

T helper 1 cells stimulated with ovalbumin and IL-18 induce airway hyperresponsiveness and lung fibrosis by IFN- and IL-13 production
PNAS 2007 104: 14765-14770; published online on August 31, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706378104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Medical Sciences

Aaron D. Tward, Kirk D. Jones, Stephen Yant, Siu Tim Cheung, Sheung Tat Fan, Xin Chen, Mark A. Kay, Rong Wang, and J. Michael Bishop Distinct pathways of genomic progression to benign and malignant tumors of the liver PNAS 2007 104: 14771-14776; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706578104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kathryn X. Wang, Yufang Shi, and David T. Denhardt

Osteopontin regulates hindlimb-unloading-induced lymphoid organ atrophy and weight loss by modulating corticosteroid production
PNAS 2007 104: 14777-14782; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703236104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Julia Chamot-Rooke, Benoit Rousseau, Fanny Lanternier, Guillain Mikaty, Emilie Mairey, Christian Malosse, Guy Bouchoux, Vladimir Pelicic, Luc Camoin, Xavier Nassif, and Guillaume Duménil

Alternative Neisseria spp. type IV pilin glycosylation with a glyceramido acetamido trideoxyhexose residue
PNAS 2007 104: 14783-14788; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705335104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Masaaki Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Kenji Nakamura, Jun Kitano, Kenryo Furushima, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Rika Nakayama, Kazuki Nakao, Koki Moriyoshi, and Shigetada Nakanishi

Altered sensitivities to morphine and cocaine in scaffold protein tamalin knockout mice
PNAS 2007 104: 14789-14794; published online on August 31, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706945104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

E. Alexandra Athos, Barbara Levinson, Amy Kistler, Jason Zemansky, Alan Bostrom, Nelson Freimer, and Jane Gitschier From the Cover: Dichotomy and perceptual distortions in absolute pitch ability PNAS 2007 104: 14795-14800; published online on August 27, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703868104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE   See Commentary on page 14549

Sachiko Nishimura-Akiyoshi, Kimie Niimi, Toshiaki Nakashiba, and Shigeyoshi Itohara Axonal netrin-Gs transneuronally determine lamina-specific subdendritic segments PNAS 2007 104: 14801-14806; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706919104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Eva Andres-Mateos, Celine Perier, Li Zhang, Beatrice Blanchard-Fillion, Todd M. Greco, Bobby Thomas, Han Seok Ko, Masayuki Sasaki, Harry Ischiropoulos, Serge Przedborski, Ted M. Dawson, and Valina L. Dawson

DJ-1 gene deletion reveals that DJ-1 is an atypical peroxiredoxin-like peroxidase
PNAS 2007 104: 14807-14812; published online on August 31, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703219104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, Laurie Beth J. Morales, Ruri Lee, and Rhonda R. Voskuhl

Differential neuroprotective and antiinflammatory effects of estrogen receptor (ER) and ER ligand treatment
PNAS 2007 104: 14813-14818; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703783104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Motokazu Tsujikawa, Yoshihiro Omori, Janisha Biyanwila, and Jarema Malicki

Mechanism of positioning the cell nucleus in vertebrate photoreceptors
PNAS 2007 104: 14819-14824; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0700178104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Philip Van Damme, Elke Bogaert, Maarten Dewil, Nicole Hersmus, Dora Kiraly, Wendy Scheveneels, Ilse Bockx, Dries Braeken, Nathalie Verpoorten, Kristien Verhoeven, Vincent Timmerman, Paul Herijgers, Geert Callewaert, Peter Carmeliet, Ludo Van Den Bosch, and Wim Robberecht From the Cover: Astrocytes regulate GluR2 expression in motor neurons and their vulnerability to excitotoxicity PNAS 2007 104: 14825-14830; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705046104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

János Szabadics, Gábor Tamás, and Ivan Soltesz Different transmitter transients underlie presynaptic cell type specificity of GABAA,slow and GABAA,fast PNAS 2007 104: 14831-14836; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707204104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE   See Commentary on page 16723

Anne Sophie Champod and Michael Petrides

Dissociable roles of the posterior parietal and the prefrontal cortex in manipulation and monitoring processes
PNAS 2007 104: 14837-14842; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607101104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Pharmacology

Lucila Kargieman, Noemí Santana, Guadalupe Mengod, Pau Celada, and Francesc Artigas

Antipsychotic drugs reverse the disruption in prefrontal cortex function produced by NMDA receptor blockade with phencyclidine
PNAS 2007 104: 14843-14848; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704848104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Hendrica Belge, Philippe Gailly, Beat Schwaller, Johannes Loffing, Huguette Debaix, Eva Riveira-Munoz, Renaud Beauwens, Jean-Pierre Devogelaer, Joost G. Hoenderop, René J. Bindels, and Olivier Devuyst

Renal expression of parvalbumin is critical for NaCl handling and response to diuretics
PNAS 2007 104: 14849-14854; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702810104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ilwola Mattagajasingh, Cuk-Seong Kim, Asma Naqvi, Tohru Yamamori, Timothy A. Hoffman, Saet-Byel Jung, Jeremy DeRicco, Kenji Kasuno, and Kaikobad Irani

SIRT1 promotes endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation by activating endothelial nitric oxide synthase
PNAS 2007 104: 14855-14860; published online on September 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704329104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Jennifer M. Lorang, Teresa A. Sweat, and Thomas J. Wolpert

Plant disease susceptibility conferred by a "resistance" gene
PNAS 2007 104: 14861-14866; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0702572104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Hiroshi Nagasaki, Jun-ichi Itoh, Katsunobu Hayashi, Ken-ichiro Hibara, Namiko Satoh-Nagasawa, Misuzu Nosaka, Motohiro Mukouhata, Motoyuki Ashikari, Hidemi Kitano, Makoto Matsuoka, Yasuo Nagato, and Yutaka Sato

The small interfering RNA production pathway is required for shoot meristem initiation in rice
PNAS 2007 104: 14867-14871; published online on September 5, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704339104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Population Biology

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