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PNAS 2007 104: 1105-1106. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Donner F. Babcock

Wrath of the wraiths of CatSper3 and CatSper4
PNAS 2007 104: 1107-1108; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610909104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1219

Arnold Ganser, Michael A. Morgan, and Eva M. Weissinger

Going from genes to proteins in myelodysplastic syndromes
PNAS 2007 104: 1109-1110; published online before print January 19 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610831104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1307

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics

June Andrews and J. A. Sethian

Fast marching methods for the continuous traveling salesman problem
PNAS 2007 104: 1118-1123; published online before print January 12 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609910104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Majda and Marcus J. Grote

Explicit off-line criteria for stable accurate time filtering of strongly unstable spatially extended systems
PNAS 2007 104: 1124-1129; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610077104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Applied Physical Sciences

Jingchuan Sun, Chris DuFort, Marie-Christine Daniel, Ayaluru Murali, Chao Chen, Kodetham Gopinath, Barry Stein, Mrinmoy De, Vincent M. Rotello, Andreas Holzenburg, C. Cheng Kao, and Bogdan Dragnea

Core-controlled polymorphism in virus-like particles
PNAS 2007 104: 1354-1359; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610542104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Chemistry

Ki Woong Kim, Min Ku Jeon, Kwang Seok Oh, Tai Suk Kim, Yun Seok Kim, and Seong Ihl Woo Combinatorial approach for ferroelectric material libraries prepared by liquid source misted chemical deposition method PNAS 2007 104: 1134-1139; published online before print January 11 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610146104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Cleo M. Salisbury and Benjamin F. Cravatt

Activity-based probes for proteomic profiling of histone deacetylase complexes
PNAS 2007 104: 1171-1176; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608659104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Engineering

A. Pascal Ngankam and Paul R. Van Tassel

Continuous polyelectrolyte adsorption under an applied electric potential
PNAS 2007 104: 1140-1145; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0603874104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Wei-Heong Tan and Shoji Takeuchi

A trap-and-release integrated microfluidic system for dynamic microarray applications
PNAS 2007 104: 1146-1151; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606625104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Mathematics

William Arveson

Diagonals of normal operators with finite spectrum
PNAS 2007 104: 1152-1158; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605367104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Psychology

Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Naveen Khetarpal

Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space
PNAS 2007 104: 1436-1441; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610341104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

Hélène Rougier, Stefan Milota, Ricardo Rodrigo, Mircea Gherase, Laurentiu Sarcina, Oana Moldovan, João Zilhão, Silviu Constantin, Robert G. Franciscus, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia Ponce de León, and Erik Trinkaus

Petera cu Oase 2 and the cranial morphology of early modern Europeans
PNAS 2007 104: 1165-1170; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610538104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Cleo M. Salisbury and Benjamin F. Cravatt

Activity-based probes for proteomic profiling of histone deacetylase complexes
PNAS 2007 104: 1171-1176; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608659104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Andrea Alfieri, Francesco Fersini, Nantidaporn Ruangchan, Methinee Prongjit, Pimchai Chaiyen, and Andrea Mattevi

Structure of the monooxygenase component of a two-component flavoprotein monooxygenase
PNAS 2007 104: 1177-1182; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608381104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Andrei Chabes and Bruce Stillman

Constitutively high dNTP concentration inhibits cell cycle progression and the DNA damage checkpoint in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 2007 104: 1183-1188; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610585104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Suparna Bhattacharya, Shinako Takada, and Raymond H. Jacobson

Structural analysis and dimerization potential of the human TAF5 subunit of TFIID
PNAS 2007 104: 1189-1194; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610297104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biophysics

Nicholas A. Larsen, Jawdat Al-Bassam, Ronnie R. Wei, and Stephen C. Harrison Structural analysis of Bub3 interactions in the mitotic spindle checkpoint PNAS 2007 104: 1201-1206; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610358104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Rajan P. Kulkarni, Magdalena Bak-Maier, and Scott E. Fraser

Differences in protein mobility between pioneer versus follower growth cones
PNAS 2007 104: 1207-1212; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610142104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Matthew J. Conroy, Anne Durand, Domenico Lupo, Xiao-Dan Li, Per A. Bullough, Fritz K. Winkler, and Mike Merrick

The crystal structure of the Escherichia coli AmtB–GlnK complex reveals how GlnK regulates the ammonia channel
PNAS 2007 104: 1213-1218; published online before print January 12 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610348104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Cell Biology

David Forest, Ryuhei Nishikawa, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Angela Parton, Christopher J. Bayne, and David W. Barnes RNA expression in a cartilaginous fish cell line reveals ancient 3' noncoding regions highly conserved in vertebrates PNAS 2007 104: 1224-1229; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610350104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Xiaoyan Shen, Myoung-Soon Hong, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan

BIG1, a brefeldin A-inhibited guanine nucleotide-exchange protein, is required for correct glycosylation and function of integrin 1
PNAS 2007 104: 1230-1235; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610535104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christopher J. Westlake, Jagath R. Junutula, Glenn C. Simon, Manohar Pilli, Rytis Prekeris, Richard H. Scheller, Peter K. Jackson, and Adam G. Eldridge Identification of Rab11 as a small GTPase binding protein for the Evi5 oncogene PNAS 2007 104: 1236-1241; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610500104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Michelangelo Foti, Geneviève Porcheron, Margot Fournier, Christine Maeder, and Jean-Louis Carpentier

The neck of caveolae is a distinct plasma membrane subdomain that concentrates insulin receptors in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
PNAS 2007 104: 1242-1247; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610523104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lei Wang, Linda Yang, Marcella Debidda, David Witte, and Yi Zheng

Cdc42 GTPase-activating protein deficiency promotes genomic instability and premature aging-like phenotypes
PNAS 2007 104: 1248-1253; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609149104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chia-Ching Wu, Yi-Shuan Li, Jason H. Haga, Roland Kaunas, Jeng-Jiann Chiu, Fong-Chin Su, Shunichi Usami, and Shu Chien

Directional shear flow and Rho activation prevent the endothelial cell apoptosis induced by micropatterned anisotropic geometry
PNAS 2007 104: 1254-1259; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609806104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Vladimir Jankovic, Alessia Ciarrocchi, Piernicola Boccuni, Tony DeBlasio, Robert Benezra, and Stephen D. Nimer

Id1 restrains myeloid commitment, maintaining the self-renewal capacity of hematopoietic stem cells
PNAS 2007 104: 1260-1265; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607894104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ecology

Evolution

Natarajan Kannan, Nina Haste, Susan S. Taylor, and Andrew F. Neuwald

The hallmark of AGC kinase functional divergence is its C-terminal tail, a cis-acting regulatory module
PNAS 2007 104: 1272-1277; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610251104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Appendices]  

Steven J. Franks, Sheina Sim, and Arthur E. Weis

Rapid evolution of flowering time by an annual plant in response to a climate fluctuation
PNAS 2007 104: 1278-1282; published online before print January 12 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608379104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Kai Tan, Tomer Shlomi, Hoda Feizi, Trey Ideker, and Roded Sharan

Transcriptional regulation of protein complexes within and across species
PNAS 2007 104: 1283-1288; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606914104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Immunology

Leonia Bozzacco, Christine Trumpfheller, Frederick P. Siegal, Saurabh Mehandru, Martin Markowitz, Mary Carrington, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Angela Granelli Piperno, and Ralph M. Steinman

DEC-205 receptor on dendritic cells mediates presentation of HIV gag protein to CD8⁺ T cells in a spectrum of human MHC I haplotypes
PNAS 2007 104: 1289-1294; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610383104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

James de Jersey, Sarah L. Snelgrove, Stephanie E. Palmer, Simon A. Teteris, Arno Mullbacher, Jacques F. A. P. Miller, and Robyn M. Slattery Cells cannot directly prime diabetogenic CD8 T cells in nonobese diabetic mice PNAS 2007 104: 1295-1300; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610057104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Munekazu Yamakuchi, Nancy C. Kirkiles-Smith, Marcella Ferlito, Scott J. Cameron, Clare Bao, Karen Fox-Talbot, Barbara A. Wasowska, William M. Baldwin, III, Jordan S. Pober, and Charles J. Lowenstein

Antibody to human leukocyte antigen triggers endothelial exocytosis
PNAS 2007 104: 1301-1306; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0602035104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Medical Sciences

Jonathan C. Choy, Yinong Wang, George Tellides, and Jordan S. Pober

Induction of inducible NO synthase in bystander human T cells increases allogeneic responses in the vasculature
PNAS 2007 104: 1313-1318; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607731104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Andrea Danese, Carmine M. Pariante, Avshalom Caspi, Alan Taylor, and Richie Poulton

Childhood maltreatment predicts adult inflammation in a life-course study
PNAS 2007 104: 1319-1324; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610362104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Tables]  

Mats I. Ekstrand, Mügen Terzioglu, Dagmar Galter, Shunwei Zhu, Christoph Hofstetter, Eva Lindqvist, Sebastian Thams, Anita Bergstrand, Fredrik Sterky Hansson, Aleksandra Trifunovic, Barry Hoffer, Staffan Cullheim, Abdul H. Mohammed, Lars Olson, and Nils-Göran Larsson

Progressive parkinsonism in mice with respiratory-chain-deficient dopamine neurons
PNAS 2007 104: 1325-1330; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605208103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Steven N. Quayle, Nasrin R. Mawji, Jun Wang, and Marianne D. Sadar

Androgen receptor decoy molecules block the growth of prostate cancer
PNAS 2007 104: 1331-1336; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606718104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Shoeb Ahmad, Wenxue Tang, Qing Chang, Yan Qu, Jill Hibshman, Yuhua Li, Goran Söhl, Klaus Willecke, Ping Chen, and Xi Lin

Restoration of connexin26 protein level in the cochlea completely rescues hearing in a mouse model of human connexin30-linked deafness
PNAS 2007 104: 1337-1341; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606855104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Weiling Xu, Thomas Koeck, Abigail R. Lara, Donald Neumann, Frank P. DiFilippo, Michelle Koo, Allison J. Janocha, Fares A. Masri, Alejandro C. Arroliga, Constance Jennings, Raed A. Dweik, Rubin M. Tuder, Dennis J. Stuehr, and Serpil C. Erzurum

Alterations of cellular bioenergetics in pulmonary artery endothelial cells
PNAS 2007 104: 1342-1347; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605080104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Abir Mukherjee, Yisrael Sidis, Amy Mahan, Michael J. Raher, Yin Xia, Evan D. Rosen, Kenneth D. Bloch, Melissa K. Thomas, and Alan L. Schneyer

FSTL3 deletion reveals roles for TGF- family ligands in glucose and fat homeostasis in adults
PNAS 2007 104: 1348-1353; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607966104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Microbiology

Jingchuan Sun, Chris DuFort, Marie-Christine Daniel, Ayaluru Murali, Chao Chen, Kodetham Gopinath, Barry Stein, Mrinmoy De, Vincent M. Rotello, Andreas Holzenburg, C. Cheng Kao, and Bogdan Dragnea

Core-controlled polymorphism in virus-like particles
PNAS 2007 104: 1354-1359; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610542104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Lyle A. Simmons, Alan D. Grossman, and Graham C. Walker

Replication is required for the RecA localization response to DNA damage in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 2007 104: 1360-1365; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607123104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chad A. Rappleye, Linda Groppe Eissenberg, and William E. Goldman

Histoplasma capsulatum -(1,3)-glucan blocks innate immune recognition by the -glucan receptor
PNAS 2007 104: 1366-1370; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609848104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Deborah J. Lenschow, Caroline Lai, Natalia Frias-Staheli, Nadia V. Giannakopoulos, Andrew Lutz, Thorsten Wolff, Anna Osiak, Beth Levine, Robert E. Schmidt, Adolfo García-Sastre, David A. Leib, Andrew Pekosz, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Ivan Horak, and Herbert Whiting Virgin, IV From the cover: IFN-stimulated gene 15 functions as a critical antiviral molecule against influenza, herpes, and Sindbis viruses PNAS 2007 104: 1371-1376; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607038104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]

Neuroscience

Alan N. Hampton and John P. O'Doherty

Decoding the neural substrates of reward-related decision making with functional MRI
PNAS 2007 104: 1377-1382; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606297104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Robert A. Crozier, Yun Wang, Cheng-Hang Liu, and Mark F. Bear

Deprivation-induced synaptic depression by distinct mechanisms in different layers of mouse visual cortex
PNAS 2007 104: 1383-1388; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609596104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. R. Laposa, E. J. Huang, and J. E. Cleaver

Increased apoptosis, p53 up-regulation, and cerebellar neuronal degeneration in repair-deficient Cockayne syndrome mice
PNAS 2007 104: 1389-1394; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610619104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Tansu Celikel and Bert Sakmann

Sensory integration across space and in time for decision making in the somatosensory system of rodents
PNAS 2007 104: 1395-1400; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610267104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

H.-P. Huang, S.-R. Wang, W. Yao, C. Zhang, Y. Zhou, X.-W. Chen, B. Zhang, W. Xiong, L.-Y. Wang, L.-H. Zheng, M. Landry, T. Hökfelt, Z.-Q. D. Xu, and Z. Zhou

Long latency of evoked quantal transmitter release from somata of locus coeruleus neurons in rat pontine slices
PNAS 2007 104: 1401-1406; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608897104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Pharmacology

Fumio Ohta, Tomo Takagi, Hiroyuki Sato, and Louis J. Ignarro

Low-dose L-arginine administration increases microperfusion of hindlimb muscle without affecting blood pressure in rats
PNAS 2007 104: 1407-1411; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610207104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Brian J. McMillan and Christopher A. Bradfield

The Aryl hydrocarbon receptor is activated by modified low-density lipoprotein
PNAS 2007 104: 1412-1417; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607296104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Josep A. Villena, M. Benjamin Hock, William Y. Chang, Joanalyn E. Barcas, Vincent Giguère, and Anastasia Kralli

Orphan nuclear receptor estrogen-related receptor is essential for adaptive thermogenesis
PNAS 2007 104: 1418-1423; published online before print January 17 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607696104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Plant Biology

Bart Van Droogenbroeck, Jingyuan Cao, Johannes Stadlmann, Friedrich Altmann, Sarah Colanesi, Stefan Hillmer, David G. Robinson, Els Van Lerberge, Nancy Terryn, Marc Van Montagu, Mifang Liang, Ann Depicker, and Geert De Jaeger

Aberrant localization and underglycosylation of highly accumulating single-chain Fv-Fc antibodies in transgenic Arabidopsis seeds
PNAS 2007 104: 1430-1435; published online before print January 16 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609997104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

CORRECTIONS

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