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PNAS 2007 104: 20145-20146. [Full Text] [PDF]  

LETTERS (Online only)

Francis L. Martin and Nigel J. Fullwood

Raman vs. Fourier transform spectroscopy in diagnostic medicine
PNAS 2007 104: E1; published online on December 13, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710307105 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Jianzhi Zhang

The drifting human genome
PNAS 2007 104: 20147-20148. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 20421

Teppei Morita and Hiroji Aiba

Small RNAs making a small protein
PNAS 2007 104: 20149-20150; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710634105 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 20454

PERSPECTIVES

Fletcher A. White, Hosung Jung, and Richard J. Miller

Chemokines and the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain
PNAS 2007 104: 20151-20158; published online on December 14, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709250104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics

Edo Liberty, Franco Woolfe, Per-Gunnar Martinsson, Vladimir Rokhlin, and Mark Tygert

Randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of matrices
PNAS 2007 104: 20167-20172; published online on December 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709640104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Applied Physical Sciences

Sergey V. Buldyrev, Pradeep Kumar, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Peter J. Rossky, and H. Eugene Stanley

Water-like solvation thermodynamics in a spherically symmetric solvent model with two characteristic lengths
PNAS 2007 104: 20177-20182; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708427104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

J. M. Higgins, D. T. Eddington, S. N. Bhatia, and L. Mahadevan

Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device
PNAS 2007 104: 20496-20500; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707122105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Chemistry

Susana Blanco, M. Eugenia Sanz, Juan C. López, and José L. Alonso

Revealing the multiple structures of serine
PNAS 2007 104: 20183-20188; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705676104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Paul Abbyad, William Childs, Xinghua Shi, and Steven G. Boxer

Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants
PNAS 2007 104: 20189-20194; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706185104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Environmental Sciences

Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Filippo Giorgi, Leigh Raymond, and Xunqiang Bi

Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure
PNAS 2007 104: 20195-20198; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706680105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Geophysics

Physics

S. V. Kalinin, B. J. Rodriguez, S. Jesse, Y. H. Chu, T. Zhao, R. Ramesh, S. Choudhury, L. Q. Chen, E. A. Eliseev, and A. N. Morozovska

Intrinsic single-domain switching in ferroelectric materials on a nearly ideal surface
PNAS 2007 104: 20204-20209; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709316104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Statistics

Josée Dupuis, David O. Siegmund, and Benjamin Yakir

A unified framework for linkage and association analysis of quantitative traits
PNAS 2007 104: 20210-20215; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707138105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Alex R. Cook, Wilfred Otten, Glenn Marion, Gavin J. Gibson, and Christopher A. Gilligan

Estimation of multiple transmission rates for epidemics in heterogeneous populations
PNAS 2007 104: 20392-20397; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706461104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Sustainability Science

Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Filippo Giorgi, Leigh Raymond, and Xunqiang Bi

Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure
PNAS 2007 104: 20195-20198; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706680105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr

Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies
PNAS 2007 104: 20216-20219; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708024105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Tanya M. Smith, Michel Toussaint, Donald J. Reid, Anthony J. Olejniczak, and Jean-Jacques Hublin Rapid dental development in a Middle Paleolithic Belgian Neanderthal PNAS 2007 104: 20220-20225; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707051104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biochemistry

Casie E. Soltani, Eileen M. Hotze, Arthur E. Johnson, and Rodney K. Tweten

Structural elements of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins that are responsible for their cholesterol-sensitive membrane interactions
PNAS 2007 104: 20226-20231; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708104105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jungseog Kang, Yue Chen, Yingming Zhao, and Hongtao Yu

Autophosphorylation-dependent activation of human Mps1 is required for the spindle checkpoint
PNAS 2007 104: 20232-20237; published online on December 14, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710519105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Melissa Brazier-Hicks, Wendy A. Offen, Markus C. Gershater, Timothy J. Revett, Eng-Kiat Lim, Dianna J. Bowles, Gideon J. Davies, and Robert Edwards

Characterization and engineering of the bifunctional N- and O-glucosyltransferase involved in xenobiotic metabolism in plants
PNAS 2007 104: 20238-20243; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706421104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Julien A. Sebag and Patricia M. Hinkle

Melanocortin-2 receptor accessory protein MRAP forms antiparallel homodimers
PNAS 2007 104: 20244-20249; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708916105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Orsolya Dohán, Carla Portulano, Cécile Basquin, Andrea Reyna-Neyra, L. Mario Amzel, and Nancy Carrasco The Na+/I– symporter (NIS) mediates electroneutral active transport of the environmental pollutant perchlorate PNAS 2007 104: 20250-20255; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707207104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Masashi Toei, Christoph Gerle, Masahiro Nakano, Kazutoshi Tani, Nobuhiko Gyobu, Masatada Tamakoshi, Nobuhito Sone, Masasuke Yoshida, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Kaoru Mitsuoka, and Ken Yokoyama Dodecamer rotor ring defines H+/ATP ratio for ATP synthesis of prokaryotic V-ATPase from Thermus thermophilus PNAS 2007 104: 20256-20261; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706914105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Veronica C. Ardi, Tatyana A. Kupriyanova, Elena I. Deryugina, and James P. Quigley

Human neutrophils uniquely release TIMP-free MMP-9 to provide a potent catalytic stimulator of angiogenesis
PNAS 2007 104: 20262-20267; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706438104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biophysics

Susana Blanco, M. Eugenia Sanz, Juan C. López, and José L. Alonso

Revealing the multiple structures of serine
PNAS 2007 104: 20183-20188; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705676104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Paul Abbyad, William Childs, Xinghua Shi, and Steven G. Boxer

Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants
PNAS 2007 104: 20189-20194; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706185104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Christine Semmrich, Tobias Storz, Jens Glaser, Rudolf Merkel, Andreas R. Bausch, and Klaus Kroy From the Cover: Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions PNAS 2007 104: 20199-20203; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705513104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Moritz Mickler, Ruxandra I. Dima, Hendrik Dietz, Changbong Hyeon, D. Thirumalai, and Matthias Rief

Revealing the bifurcation in the unfolding pathways of GFP by using single-molecule experiments and simulations
PNAS 2007 104: 20268-20273; published online on December 13, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705458104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Philip M. Kim, Jan O. Korbel, and Mark B. Gerstein Positive selection at the protein network periphery: Evaluation in terms of structural constraints and cellular context PNAS 2007 104: 20274-20279; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710183104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Martin F. Richter, Jürgen Baier, June Southall, Richard J. Cogdell, Silke Oellerich, and Jörgen Köhler

Refinement of the x-ray structure of the RC–LH1 core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris by single-molecule spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104: 20280-20284; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704599105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael Schmuker and Gisbert Schneider

Processing and classification of chemical data inspired by insect olfaction
PNAS 2007 104: 20285-20289; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705683104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bernhard Knierim, Klaus Peter Hofmann, Oliver P. Ernst, and Wayne L. Hubbell

Sequence of late molecular events in the activation of rhodopsin
PNAS 2007 104: 20290-20295; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710393104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

Cell Biology

Yoshihisa Kaizuka, Adam D. Douglass, Rajat Varma, Michael L. Dustin, and Ronald D. Vale

Mechanisms for segregating T cell receptor and adhesion molecules during immunological synapse formation in Jurkat T cells
PNAS 2007 104: 20296-20301; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710258105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Hicham Lahlou, Virginie Sanguin-Gendreau, Dongmei Zuo, Robert. D. Cardiff, Gordon W. McLean, Margaret C. Frame, and William J. Muller Mammary epithelial-specific disruption of the focal adhesion kinase blocks mammary tumor progression PNAS 2007 104: 20302-20307; published online on December 3, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710091104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Hari Shroff, Catherine G. Galbraith, James A. Galbraith, Helen White, Jennifer Gillette, Scott Olenych, Michael W. Davidson, and Eric Betzig Dual-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes PNAS 2007 104: 20308-20313; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710517105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Antonio L. Amelio, Loren J. Miraglia, Juliana J. Conkright, Becky A. Mercer, Serge Batalov, Valerie Cavett, Anthony P. Orth, Jennifer Busby, John B. Hogenesch, and Michael D. Conkright

A coactivator trap identifies NONO (p54^nrb) as a component of the cAMP-signaling pathway
PNAS 2007 104: 20314-20319; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707999105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Brian D. Slaughter, Joel W. Schwartz, and Rong Li

Mapping dynamic protein interactions in MAP kinase signaling using live-cell fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and imaging
PNAS 2007 104: 20320-20325; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710336105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Christina M. Hester and Joe Lutkenhaus

Soj (ParA) DNA binding is mediated by conserved arginines and is essential for plasmid segregation
PNAS 2007 104: 20326-20331; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705196105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Margot G. Paulick, Martin B. Forstner, Jay T. Groves, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi

A chemical approach to unraveling the biological function of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor
PNAS 2007 104: 20332-20337; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710139104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Minna Thullberg, Annica Gad, Sylvie Le Guyader, and Staffan Strömblad

Oncogenic H-Ras V12 promotes anchorage-independent cytokinesis in human fibroblasts
PNAS 2007 104: 20338-20343; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706609105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jörg Weiske, Kai Frederik Albring, and Otmar Huber

The tumor suppressor Fhit acts as a repressor of β-catenin transcriptional activity
PNAS 2007 104: 20344-20349; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703664105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Daniel Y. Lee, Zhaoqun Deng, Chia-Hui Wang, and Burton B. Yang

MicroRNA-378 promotes cell survival, tumor growth, and angiogenesis by targeting SuFu and Fus-1 expression
PNAS 2007 104: 20350-20355; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706901104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Sandhya R. Pulivarthy, Nobushige Tanaka, David K. Welsh, Luciano De Haro, Inder M. Verma, and Satchidananda Panda

Reciprocity between phase shifts and amplitude changes in the mammalian circadian clock
PNAS 2007 104: 20356-20361; published online on December 7, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708877104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Yongqiang Feng and Kenneth D. Irvine

Fat and Expanded act in parallel to regulate growth through Warts
PNAS 2007 104: 20362-20367; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706722105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Toshia R. Myers and Iva Greenwald

Wnt signal from multiple tissues and lin-3/EGF signal from the gonad maintain vulval precursor cell competence in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 2007 104: 20368-20373; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709989104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Brinda Dass, Steve Tardif, Ji Yeon Park, Bin Tian, Harry M. Weitlauf, Rex A. Hess, Kay Carnes, Michael D. Griswold, Christopher L. Small, and Clinton C. MacDonald Loss of polyadenylation protein CstF-64 causes spermatogenic defects and male infertility PNAS 2007 104: 20374-20379; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707589104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Tracy Haynes, Christian Gutierrez, Juan-Carlos Aycinena, Panagiotis A. Tsonis, and Katia Del Rio-Tsonis

BMP signaling mediates stem/progenitor cell-induced retina regeneration
PNAS 2007 104: 20380-20385; published online on December 14, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708202104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Zhendong Ma, Yimei Gong, Vishal Patel, Courtney M. Karner, Evelyne Fischer, Thomas Hiesberger, Thomas J. Carroll, Marco Pontoglio, and Peter Igarashi

Mutations of HNF-1β inhibit epithelial morphogenesis through dysregulation of SOCS-3
PNAS 2007 104: 20386-20391; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705957104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Ecology

Alex R. Cook, Wilfred Otten, Glenn Marion, Gavin J. Gibson, and Christopher A. Gilligan

Estimation of multiple transmission rates for epidemics in heterogeneous populations
PNAS 2007 104: 20392-20397; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706461104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Wan-chun Liu and Fernando Nottebohm

A learning program that ensures prompt and versatile vocal imitation
PNAS 2007 104: 20398-20403; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710067104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Katleen Van der Gucht, Karl Cottenie, Koenraad Muylaert, Nele Vloemans, Sylvie Cousin, Steven Declerck, Erik Jeppesen, Jose-Maria Conde-Porcuna, Klaus Schwenk, Gabriel Zwart, Hanne Degans, Wim Vyverman, and Luc De Meester

The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales
PNAS 2007 104: 20404-20409; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707200104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Environmental Sciences

Ji-Hoon Lee, Min-Gyu Kim, Bongyoung Yoo, Nosang V. Myung, Jongsun Maeng, Takhee Lee, Alice C. Dohnalkova, James K. Fredrickson, Michael J. Sadowsky, and Hor-Gil Hur

Biogenic formation of photoactive arsenic-sulfide nanotubes by Shewanella sp. strain HN-41
PNAS 2007 104: 20410-20415; published online on December 7, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707595104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Z. V. Finkel, J. Sebbo, S. Feist-Burkhardt, A. J. Irwin, M. E. Katz, O. M. E. Schofield, J. R. Young, and P. G. Falkowski

A universal driver of macroevolutionary change in the size of marine phytoplankton over the Cenozoic
PNAS 2007 104: 20416-20420; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709381104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Text]  

Evolution

Christopher W. Wheat, Heiko Vogel, Ute Wittstock, Michael F. Braby, Dessie Underwood, and Thomas Mitchell-Olds

The genetic basis of a plant–insect coevolutionary key innovation
PNAS 2007 104: 20427-20431; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706229104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Nicola M. Anthony, Mireille Johnson-Bawe, Kathryn Jeffery, Stephen L. Clifford, Kate A. Abernethy, Caroline E. Tutin, Sally A. Lahm, Lee J. T. White, John F. Utley, E. Jean Wickings, and Michael W. Bruford

The role of Pleistocene refugia and rivers in shaping gorilla genetic diversity in central Africa
PNAS 2007 104: 20432-20436; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704816105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Martin Jaekel and David B. Wake

Developmental processes underlying the evolution of a derived foot morphology in salamanders
PNAS 2007 104: 20437-20442; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710216105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Sergey I. Nikolaev, Juan I. Montoya-Burgos, Konstantin Popadin, Leila Parand, Elliott H. Margulies, National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center Comparative Sequencing Program, and Stylianos E. Antonarakis

Life-history traits drive the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding and noncoding genomic elements
PNAS 2007 104: 20443-20448; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705658104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

John W. Pinney, Grigoris D. Amoutzias, Magnus Rattray, and David L. Robertson

Reconstruction of ancestral protein interaction networks for the bZIP transcription factors
PNAS 2007 104: 20449-20453; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0706339104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Immunology

Shulamit B. Wallach-Dayan, Regina Golan-Gerstl, and Raphael Breuer

Evasion of myofibroblasts from immune surveillance: A mechanism for tissue fibrosis
PNAS 2007 104: 20460-20465; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705582104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Salomon Amar, Qingde Zhou, Yazdani Shaik-Dasthagirisaheb, and Susan Leeman From the Cover: Diet-induced obesity in mice causes changes in immune responses and bone loss manifested by bacterial challenge PNAS 2007 104: 20466-20471; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710335105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Weiling Chen, Linging Zhang, Bitao Liang, Yvonne Saenger, Jianfeng Li, Leonard Chess, and Hong Jiang Perceiving the avidity of T cell activation can be translated into peripheral T cell regulation PNAS 2007 104: 20472-20477; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709878104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Jenny Hallgren, Tatiana G. Jones, J. Pablo Abonia, Wei Xing, Alison Humbles, K. Frank Austen, and Michael F. Gurish

Pulmonary CXCR2 regulates VCAM-1 and antigen-induced recruitment of mast cell progenitors
PNAS 2007 104: 20478-20483; published online on December 10, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709651104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Zeliha Oruc, Ahmed Boumédiène, Marc Le Bert, and Ahmed Amine Khamlichi

Replacement of I3 germ-line promoter by I1 inhibits class-switch recombination to IgG3
PNAS 2007 104: 20484-20489; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608364104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Mariolina Salio, Anneliese O. Speak, Dawn Shepherd, Paolo Polzella, Petr A. Illarionov, Natacha Veerapen, Gurdyal S. Besra, Frances M. Platt, and Vincenzo Cerundolo

Modulation of human natural killer T cell ligands on TLR-mediated antigen-presenting cell activation
PNAS 2007 104: 20490-20495; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710145104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Medical Sciences

J. M. Higgins, D. T. Eddington, S. N. Bhatia, and L. Mahadevan

Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device
PNAS 2007 104: 20496-20500; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707122105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jami McLaughlin, Donghui Cheng, Oded Singer, Rita U. Lukacs, Caius G. Radu, Inder M. Verma, and Owen N. Witte Sustained suppression of Bcr-Abl-driven lymphoid leukemia by microRNA mimics PNAS 2007 104: 20501-20506; published online on December 13, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710532105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Karl-Dimiter Bissig, Tam T. Le, Niels-Bjarne Woods, and Inder M. Verma

Repopulation of adult and neonatal mice with human hepatocytes: A chimeric animal model
PNAS 2007 104: 20507-20511; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0710528105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nellie Kalcheva, Jiaxiang Qu, Nefthi Sandeep, Luis Garcia, Jie Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Paul D. Lampe, Sylvia O. Suadicani, David C. Spray, and Glenn I. Fishman Gap junction remodeling and cardiac arrhythmogenesis in a murine model of oculodentodigital dysplasia PNAS 2007 104: 20512-20516; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0705472105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Yan G. Ni, Na Wang, Dian J. Cao, Nita Sachan, David J. Morris, Robert D. Gerard, Makoto Kuro-o, Beverly A. Rothermel, and Joseph A. Hill

FoxO transcription factors activate Akt and attenuate insulin signaling in heart by inhibiting protein phosphatases
PNAS 2007 104: 20517-20522; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610290104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Oleg Fedorov, Brian Marsden, Vanda Pogacic, Peter Rellos, Susanne Müller, Alex N. Bullock, Juerg Schwaller, Michael Sundström, and Stefan Knapp A systematic interaction map of validated kinase inhibitors with Ser/Thr kinases PNAS 2007 104: 20523-20528; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708800104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Microbiology

J. Kirk Harris, Mary Ann De Groote, Scott D. Sagel, Edith T. Zemanick, Robert Kapsner, Churee Penvari, Heidi Kaess, Robin R. Deterding, Frank J. Accurso, and Norman R. Pace

Molecular identification of bacteria in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from children with cystic fibrosis
PNAS 2007 104: 20529-20533; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709804104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Marianne Mangeney, Martial Renard, Géraldine Schlecht-Louf, Isabelle Bouallaga, Odile Heidmann, Claire Letzelter, Aurélien Richaud, Bertrand Ducos, and Thierry Heidmann

Placental syncytins: Genetic disjunction between the fusogenic and immunosuppressive activity of retroviral envelope proteins
PNAS 2007 104: 20534-20539; published online on December 12, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707873105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Damià Garriga, Aitor Navarro, Jordi Querol-Audí, Fernando Abaitua, José F. Rodríguez, and Núria Verdaguer

Activation mechanism of a noncanonical RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
PNAS 2007 104: 20540-20545; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0704447104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Natasja J. G. Maandag, Daniel Coman, Basavaraju G. Sanganahalli, Peter Herman, Arien J. Smith, Hal Blumenfeld, Robert G. Shulman, and Fahmeed Hyder

Energetics of neuronal signaling and fMRI activity
PNAS 2007 104: 20546-20551; published online on December 13, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0709515104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ying Zhang, Alessandro Bertolino, Leonardo Fazio, Giuseppe Blasi, Antonio Rampino, Raffaella Romano, Mei-Ling T. Lee, Tao Xiao, Audrey Papp, Danxin Wang, and Wolfgang Sadée

Polymorphisms in human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory
PNAS 2007 104: 20552-20557; published online on December 11, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0707106104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Joshua J. Breunig, John Silbereis, Flora M. Vaccarino, Nenad Sestan, and Pasko Rakic

Notch regulates cell fate and dendrite morphology of newborn neurons in the postnatal dentate gyrus
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