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PNAS 2007 104: 1443-1444. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Robert M. Stroud

Transmembrane transporters: An open and closed case
PNAS 2007 104: 1445-1446; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610349104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 491 in issue 2 of volume 104

Dickson D. Despommier

Chemical trails and the parasites that follow them
PNAS 2007 104: 1447-1448; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610778104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1627

Hung Fan

A new human retrovirus associated with prostate cancer
PNAS 2007 104: 1449-1450; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610912104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1655

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Physical Sciences

Chemistry

Ivaylo Ivanov, John A. Tainer, and J. Andrew McCammon Unraveling the three-metal-ion catalytic mechanism of the DNA repair enzyme endonuclease IV PNAS 2007 104: 1465-1470; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0603468104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Byunghyuck Jung and Sung Ho Kang

Chiral imine copper chloride-catalyzed enantioselective desymmetrization of 2-substituted 1,2,3-propanetriols
PNAS 2007 104: 1471-1475; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607865104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Rebecca A. Butcher, Frank C. Schroeder, Michael A. Fischbach, Paul D. Straight, Roberto Kolter, Christopher T. Walsh, and Jon Clardy

The identification of bacillaene, the product of the PksX megacomplex in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 2007 104: 1506-1509; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610503104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chia-en A. Chang, Wei Chen, and Michael K. Gilson Ligand configurational entropy and protein binding PNAS 2007 104: 1534-1539; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610494104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Physics

Markus Holzmann, Gordon Baym, Jean-Paul Blaizot, and Franck Laloë

Superfluid transition of homogeneous and trapped two-dimensional Bose gases
PNAS 2007 104: 1476-1481; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609957104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Applied Biological Sciences

Samuel K. Lai, D. Elizabeth O'Hanlon, Suzanne Harrold, Stan T. Man, Ying-Ying Wang, Richard Cone, and Justin Hanes

Rapid transport of large polymeric nanoparticles in fresh undiluted human mucus
PNAS 2007 104: 1482-1487; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608611104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Judit Villén, Sean A. Beausoleil, Scott A. Gerber, and Steven P. Gygi

Large-scale phosphorylation analysis of mouse liver
PNAS 2007 104: 1488-1493; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609836104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biochemistry

Roberta Leonardi, Charles O. Rock, Suzanne Jackowski, and Yong-Mei Zhang

Activation of human mitochondrial pantothenate kinase 2 by palmitoylcarnitine
PNAS 2007 104: 1494-1499; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607621104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marta Fierro-Fernández, Pablo Hernández, Dora B. Krimer, Andrzej Stasiak, and Jorge B. Schvartzman From the Cover: Topological locking restrains replication fork reversal PNAS 2007 104: 1500-1505; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609204104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Rebecca A. Butcher, Frank C. Schroeder, Michael A. Fischbach, Paul D. Straight, Roberto Kolter, Christopher T. Walsh, and Jon Clardy

The identification of bacillaene, the product of the PksX megacomplex in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 2007 104: 1506-1509; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610503104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Xiaojun Lu, Patrick L. Wintrode, and Witold K. Surewicz

-Sheet core of human prion protein amyloid fibrils as determined by hydrogen/deuterium exchange
PNAS 2007 104: 1510-1515; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608447104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R. Ficarella, F. Di Leva, M. Bortolozzi, S. Ortolano, F. Donaudy, M. Petrillo, S. Melchionda, A. Lelli, T. Domi, L. Fedrizzi, D. Lim, G. E. Shull, P. Gasparini, M. Brini, F. Mammano, and E. Carafoli

A functional study of plasma-membrane calcium-pump isoform 2 mutants causing digenic deafness
PNAS 2007 104: 1516-1521; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609775104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Kara Juneau, Curtis Palm, Molly Miranda, and Ronald W. Davis High-density yeast-tiling array reveals previously undiscovered introns and extensive regulation of meiotic splicing PNAS 2007 104: 1522-1527; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610354104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biophysics

Kusai A. Merchant, Robert B. Best, John M. Louis, Irina V. Gopich, and William A. Eaton

Characterizing the unfolded states of proteins using single-molecule FRET spectroscopy and molecular simulations
PNAS 2007 104: 1528-1533; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607097104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chia-en A. Chang, Wei Chen, and Michael K. Gilson Ligand configurational entropy and protein binding PNAS 2007 104: 1534-1539; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610494104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Anna Kloda, Linda Lua, Rhonda Hall, David J. Adams, and Boris Martinac Liposome reconstitution and modulation of recombinant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor channels by membrane stretch PNAS 2007 104: 1540-1545; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609649104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

E. Dalhoff, D. Turcanu, H.-P. Zenner, and A. W. Gummer Distortion product otoacoustic emissions measured as vibration on the eardrum of human subjects PNAS 2007 104: 1546-1551; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610185103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Janna G. Kiselar, Rachel Mahaffy, Thomas D. Pollard, Steven C. Almo, and Mark R. Chance

Visualizing Arp2/3 complex activation mediated by binding of ATP and WASp using structural mass spectrometry
PNAS 2007 104: 1552-1557; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605380104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Cell Biology

Alison E. Meyer, Nai-Jung Hung, Peizhen Yang, Arlen W. Johnson, and Elizabeth A. Craig

The specialized cytosolic J-protein, Jjj1, functions in 60S ribosomal subunit biogenesis
PNAS 2007 104: 1558-1563; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610704104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Diego Gravotta, Ami Deora, Emilie Perret, Claudia Oyanadel, Andrea Soza, Ryan Schreiner, Alfonso Gonzalez, and Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan

AP1B sorts basolateral proteins in recycling and biosynthetic routes of MDCK cells
PNAS 2007 104: 1564-1569; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610700104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Kirsten C. Sadler, Katherine N. Krahn, Naseem A. Gaur, and Chinweike Ukomadu

Liver growth in the embryo and during liver regeneration in zebrafish requires the cell cycle regulator, uhrf1
PNAS 2007 104: 1570-1575; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610774104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Evolution

Jessica C. Flack and Frans de Waal Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication PNAS 2007 104: 1581-1586; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0603565104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Kelly A. Dyer, Brian Charlesworth, and John Jaenike

Chromosome-wide linkage disequilibrium as a consequence of meiotic drive
PNAS 2007 104: 1587-1592; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605578104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Karen Badour, Mary K. H. McGavin, Jinyi Zhang, Spencer Freeman, Claudia Vieira, Dominik Filipp, Michael Julius, Gordon B. Mills, and Katherine A. Siminovitch

Interaction of the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein with sorting nexin 9 is required for CD28 endocytosis and cosignaling in T cells
PNAS 2007 104: 1593-1598; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610543104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Immunology

Roland R. Regoes, Daniel L. Barber, Rafi Ahmed, and Rustom Antia

Estimation of the rate of killing by cytotoxic T lymphocytes in vivo
PNAS 2007 104: 1599-1603; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0508830104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ryan M. O'Connell, Konstantin D. Taganov, Mark P. Boldin, Genhong Cheng, and David Baltimore MicroRNA-155 is induced during the macrophage inflammatory response PNAS 2007 104: 1604-1609; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610731104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Masayuki Tsuji, Reiko Shinkura, Kazuki Kuroda, Daisuke Yabe, and Tasuku Honjo

Msx2-interacting nuclear target protein (Mint) deficiency reveals negative regulation of early thymocyte differentiation by Notch/RBP-J signaling
PNAS 2007 104: 1610-1615; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610520104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Medical Sciences

Ai Kotani, Naoki Kakazu, Tatsuaki Tsuruyama, Il-mi Okazaki, Masamichi Muramatsu, Kazuo Kinoshita, Hitoshi Nagaoka, Daisuke Yabe, and Tasuku Honjo

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) promotes B cell lymphomagenesis in Emu-cmyc transgenic mice
PNAS 2007 104: 1616-1620; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610732104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Li Zhu, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Jie Wu, Hong Jiang, Timothy J. Stalker, Marcin Cieslak, Ran Fan, Laurence Boumsell, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Hitoshi Kikutani, Luca Tamagnone, Denisa D. Wagner, Marcos E. Milla, and Lawrence F. Brass

Regulated surface expression and shedding support a dual role for semaphorin 4D in platelet responses to vascular injury
PNAS 2007 104: 1621-1626; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606344104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daniel Safer, Mario Brenes, Seth Dunipace, and Gerhard Schad From the Cover: Urocanic acid is a major chemoattractant for the skin-penetrating parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis PNAS 2007 104: 1627-1630; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610193104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]   See Commentary on page 1447

Zakir Hossain, Safiah Mohamed Ali, Hui Ling Ko, Jianliang Xu, Chee Peng Ng, Ke Guo, Zeng Qi, Sathivel Ponniah, Wanjin Hong, and Walter Hunziker

Glomerulocystic kidney disease in mice with a targeted inactivation of Wwtr1
PNAS 2007 104: 1631-1636; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605266104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

J. Lee Nelson, Kathleen M. Gillespie, Nathalie C. Lambert, Anne M. Stevens, Laurence S. Loubiere, Joe C. Rutledge, Wendy M. Leisenring, Timothy D. Erickson, Zhen Yan, Meghan E. Mullarkey, Nick D. Boespflug, Polly J. Bingley, and Edwin A. M. Gale

Maternal microchimerism in peripheral blood in type 1 diabetes and pancreatic islet cell microchimerism
PNAS 2007 104: 1637-1642; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606169104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Movies]  

Maria Mirotsou, Zhongyan Zhang, Arjun Deb, Lunan Zhang, Massimiliano Gnecchi, Nicolas Noiseux, Hui Mu, Alok Pachori, and Victor Dzau

Secreted frizzled related protein 2 (Sfrp2) is the key Akt-mesenchymal stem cell-released paracrine factor mediating myocardial survival and repair
PNAS 2007 104: 1643-1648; published online before print January 24 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610024104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Laëtitia Michou, Sandra Lasbleiz, Anne-Christine Rat, Paola Migliorini, Alejandro Balsa, René Westhovens, Pilar Barrera, Helena Alves, Céline Pierlot, Elodie Glikmans, Sophie Garnier, Jean Dausset, Carlos Vaz, Manuela Fernandes, Elisabeth Petit-Teixeira, Isabelle Lemaire, Dora Pascual-Salcedo, Stefano Bombardieri, Jan Dequeker, Timothy R. Radstake, Piet Van Riel, Leo van de Putte, Antonio Lopes-Vaz, Bernard Prum, Thomas Bardin, Philippe Dieudé, François Cornélis, and European Consortium on Rheumatoid Arthritis Families

Linkage proof for PTPN22, a rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility gene and a human autoimmunity gene
PNAS 2007 104: 1649-1654; published online before print January 19 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610250104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Beihua Dong, Sanggu Kim, Seunghee Hong, Jaydip Das Gupta, Krishnamurthy Malathi, Eric A. Klein, Don Ganem, Joseph L. DeRisi, Samson A. Chow, and Robert H. Silverman From the Cover: An infectious retrovirus susceptible to an IFN antiviral pathway from human prostate tumors PNAS 2007 104: 1655-1660; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610291104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE   See Commentary on page 1449

Kohji Moriishi, Rika Mochizuki, Kyoji Moriya, Hironobu Miyamoto, Yoshio Mori, Takayuki Abe, Shigeo Murata, Keiji Tanaka, Tatsuo Miyamura, Tetsuro Suzuki, Kazuhiko Koike, and Yoshiharu Matsuura Critical role of PA28 in hepatitis C virus-associated steatogenesis and hepatocarcinogenesis PNAS 2007 104: 1661-1666; published online before print January 18 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607312104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Aziz Taghbalout and Lawrence Rothfield

RNaseE and the other constituents of the RNA degradosome are components of the bacterial cytoskeleton
PNAS 2007 104: 1667-1672; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610491104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Richard Bayliss, Richard Harris, Loic Coutte, Amy Monier, Remi Fronzes, Peter J. Christie, Paul C. Driscoll, and Gabriel Waksman

NMR structure of a complex between the VirB9/VirB7 interaction domains of the pKM101 type IV secretion system
PNAS 2007 104: 1673-1678; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609535104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Ian M. Andolina, Helen E. Jones, Wei Wang, and Adam M. Sillito

Corticothalamic feedback enhances stimulus response precision in the visual system
PNAS 2007 104: 1685-1690; published online before print January 19 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609318104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Maria Becker, Vered Lavie, and Beka Solomon

Stimulation of endogenous neurogenesis by anti-EFRH immunization in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
PNAS 2007 104: 1691-1696; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610180104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Yafell Serulle, Mutsuyuki Sugimori, and Rodolfo R. Llinás

Imaging synaptosomal calcium concentration microdomains and vesicle fusion by using total internal reflection fluorescent microscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 1697-1702; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610741104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andrew B. Barron, Ryszard Maleszka, Robert K. Vander Meer, and Gene E. Robinson Octopamine modulates honey bee dance behavior PNAS 2007 104: 1703-1707; published online before print January 19 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610506104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Plant Biology

Joost J. B. Keurentjes, Jingyuan Fu, Inez R. Terpstra, Juan M. Garcia, Guido van den Ackerveken, L. Basten Snoek, Anton J. M. Peeters, Dick Vreugdenhil, Maarten Koornneef, and Ritsert C. Jansen

Regulatory network construction in Arabidopsis by using genome-wide gene expression quantitative trait loci
PNAS 2007 104: 1708-1713; published online before print January 19 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610429104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Rustem T. Omarov, Jessica J. Ciomperlik, and Herman B. Scholthof

RNAi-associated ssRNA-specific ribonucleases in Tombusvirus P19 mutant-infected plants and evidence for a discrete siRNA-containing effector complex
PNAS 2007 104: 1714-1719; published online before print January 23 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608117104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hélène Javot, R. Varma Penmetsa, Nadia Terzaghi, Douglas R. Cook, and Maria J. Harrison

A Medicago truncatula phosphate transporter indispensable for the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
PNAS 2007 104: 1720-1725; published online before print January 22 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608136104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Psychology

CORRECTIONS

Correction for Wagoner and Baker, Assessing implicit models for nonpolar mean solvation forces: The importance of dispersion and volume terms [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Scheuber et al., Loss of AP-3 function affects spontaneous and evoked release at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]