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THIS WEEK IN PNAS

In This Issue
PNAS 2007 104: 1735-1736. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIAL

William C. Clark

Sustainability Science: A room of its own
PNAS 2007 104: 1737-1738. [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

James N. Petitte and Paul E. Mozdziak

The incredible, edible, and therapeutic egg
PNAS 2007 104: 1739-1740; published online before print February 1 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611652104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1771

Maitreya J. Dunham

Synthetic ecology: A model system for cooperation
PNAS 2007 104: 1741-1742; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611067104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1877

Ralf R. Schumann

Malarial fever: Hemozoin is involved but Toll-free
PNAS 2007 104: 1743-1744; published online before print February 1 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610874104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  
See companion article on page 1919

PERSPECTIVES

Amro Hamdoun and David Epel

Embryo stability and vulnerability in an always changing world
PNAS 2007 104: 1745-1750; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610108104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PROFILES

Tinsley H. Davis

Profile of James P. Kennett
PNAS 2007 104: 1751-1753; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609142104 [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics

Applied Physical Sciences

Evan R. McCarney, Brandon D. Armstrong, Mark D. Lingwood, and Songi Han

Hyperpolarized water as an authentic magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent
PNAS 2007 104: 1754-1759; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610540104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Physics

Statistics

S. A. Sisson, Y. Fan, and Mark M. Tanaka

Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihoods
PNAS 2007 104: 1760-1765; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607208104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Agricultural Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

Natalie C. Duarte, Scott A. Becker, Neema Jamshidi, Ines Thiele, Monica L. Mo, Thuy D. Vo, Rohith Srivas, and Bernhard Ø. Palsson

Global reconstruction of the human metabolic network based on genomic and bibliomic data
PNAS 2007 104: 1777-1782; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610772104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Biochemistry

Johanna Napetschnig, Günter Blobel, and André Hoelz

Crystal structure of the N-terminal domain of the human protooncogene Nup214/CAN
PNAS 2007 104: 1783-1788; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610828104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Amy Medlock, Larkin Swartz, Tamara A. Dailey, Harry A. Dailey, and William N. Lanzilotta

Substrate interactions with human ferrochelatase
PNAS 2007 104: 1789-1793; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606144104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Li Li, Narayana N. Rao, and Arthur Kornberg

Inorganic polyphosphate essential for lytic growth of phages P1 and fd
PNAS 2007 104: 1794-1799; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610763104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jae-woo Kim, Qi-Qun Tang, Xi Li, and M. Daniel Lane

Effect of phosphorylation and S–S bond-induced dimerization on DNA binding and transcriptional activation by C/EBP
PNAS 2007 104: 1800-1804; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0611137104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mark D. Benson, Qiu-Ju Li, Katherine Kieckhafer, David Dudek, Matthew R. Whorton, Roger K. Sunahara, Jorge A. Iñiguez-Lluhí, and Jeffrey R. Martens

SUMO modification regulates inactivation of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.5
PNAS 2007 104: 1805-1810; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606702104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Daniela Barillà, Emma Carmelo, and Finbarr Hayes

The tail of the ParG DNA segregation protein remodels ParF polymers and enhances ATP hydrolysis via an arginine finger-like motif
PNAS 2007 104: 1811-1816; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607216104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Leonid P. Savtchenko and Dmitri A. Rusakov The optimal height of the synaptic cleft PNAS 2007 104: 1823-1828; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606636104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Cell Biology

Maximiliano Gabriel Gutierrez, Hector Alex Saka, Isabel Chinen, Felipe C. M. Zoppino, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Jose Luis Bocco, and María Isabel Colombo

Protective role of autophagy against Vibrio cholerae cytolysin, a pore-forming toxin from V. cholerae
PNAS 2007 104: 1829-1834; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0601437104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Helge Amthor, Raymond Macharia, Roberto Navarrete, Markus Schuelke, Susan C. Brown, Anthony Otto, Thomas Voit, Francesco Muntoni, Gerta Vrbóva, Terence Partridge, Peter Zammit, Lutz Bunger, and Ketan Patel

Lack of myostatin results in excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation
PNAS 2007 104: 1835-1840; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0604893104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Junli Yan, Jianming Jiang, Ching Aeng Lim, Qiang Wu, Huck-Hui Ng, and Keh-Chuang Chin BLIMP1 regulates cell growth through repression of p53 transcription PNAS 2007 104: 1841-1846; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605562104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Wendy C. Zimmerman and Raymond L. Erikson

Polo-like kinase 3 is required for entry into S phase
PNAS 2007 104: 1847-1852; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610856104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Neal Satterly, Pei-Ling Tsai, Jan van Deursen, Daniel R. Nussenzveig, Yaming Wang, Paula A. Faria, Agata Levay, David E. Levy, and Beatriz M. A. Fontoura

Influenza virus targets the mRNA export machinery and the nuclear pore complex
PNAS 2007 104: 1853-1858; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610977104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figure]  

Shihoko Kojima, Ken Matsumoto, Matsumi Hirose, Miyuki Shimada, Mamoru Nagano, Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, Shin-ichi Hoshino, Kumiko Ui-Tei, Kaoru Saigo, Carla B. Green, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, and Hajime Tei

LARK activates posttranscriptional expression of an essential mammalian clock protein, PERIOD1
PNAS 2007 104: 1859-1864; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0607567104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Developmental Biology

Sau Nguyen Huu, Michèle Oster, Serge Uzan, Fabrice Chareyre, Sélim Aractingi, and Kiarash Khosrotehrani

Maternal neoangiogenesis during pregnancy partly derives from fetal endothelial progenitor cells
PNAS 2007 104: 1871-1876; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606490104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Ecology

Eric E. Allen, Gene W. Tyson, Rachel J. Whitaker, John C. Detter, Paul M. Richardson, and Jillian F. Banfield

Genome dynamics in a natural archaeal population
PNAS 2007 104: 1883-1888; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0604851104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Evolution

Ellen J. Pritham and Cédric Feschotte

Massive amplification of rolling-circle transposons in the lineage of the bat Myotis lucifugus
PNAS 2007 104: 1895-1900; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609601104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Genetics

Brian P. Higgins, Chandra D. Carpenter, and Anna C. Karls

Chromosomal context directs high-frequency precise excision of IS492 in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica
PNAS 2007 104: 1901-1906; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608633104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jamie M. Bacher and Paul Schimmel

An editing-defective aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase is mutagenic in aging bacteria via the SOS response
PNAS 2007 104: 1907-1912; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610835104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Immunology

Sunshin Kim, Isabelle Millet, Hun Sik Kim, Ja Young Kim, Myoung Sook Han, Moon-Kyu Lee, Kwang-Won Kim, Robert S. Sherwin, Michael Karin, and Myung-Shik Lee

NF-B prevents cell death and autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice
PNAS 2007 104: 1913-1918; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610690104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Medical Sciences

Hirotaka Masuda, Tetsuo Maruyama, Emi Hiratsu, Junichi Yamane, Akio Iwanami, Takashi Nagashima, Masanori Ono, Hiroyuki Miyoshi, Hirotaka James Okano, Mamoru Ito, Norikazu Tamaoki, Tatsuji Nomura, Hideyuki Okano, Yumi Matsuzaki, and Yasunori Yoshimura

Noninvasive and real-time assessment of reconstructed functional human endometrium in NOD/SCID/ immunodeficient mice
PNAS 2007 104: 1925-1930; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0604310104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Emanuela Giacometti, Sandra Luikenhuis, Caroline Beard, and Rudolf Jaenisch

Partial rescue of MeCP2 deficiency by postnatal activation of MeCP2
PNAS 2007 104: 1931-1936; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610593104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures]  

Caius G. Radu, Chengyi J. Shu, Stephanie M. Shelly, Michael E. Phelps, and Owen N. Witte Positron emission tomography with computed tomography imaging of neuroinflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis PNAS 2007 104: 1937-1942; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610544104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Stefan Buchholz, Andrew V. Schally, Jörg B. Engel, Florian Hohla, Elmar Heinrich, Frank Koester, Jozsef L. Varga, and Gabor Halmos

Potentiation of mammary cancer inhibition by combination of antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone with docetaxel
PNAS 2007 104: 1943-1946; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610860104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Robert Van der Geize, Katherine Yam, Thomas Heuser, Maarten H. Wilbrink, Hirofumi Hara, Matthew C. Anderton, Edith Sim, Lubbert Dijkhuizen, Julian E. Davies, William W. Mohn, and Lindsay D. Eltis

A gene cluster encoding cholesterol catabolism in a soil actinomycete provides insight into Mycobacterium tuberculosis survival in macrophages
PNAS 2007 104: 1947-1952; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0605728104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Neuroscience

Thomas A. Cleland, Brett A. Johnson, Michael Leon, and Christiane Linster

Relational representation in the olfactory system
PNAS 2007 104: 1953-1958; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608564104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Veronica Setola, Mineko Terao, Denise Locatelli, Stefania Bassanini, Enrico Garattini, and Giorgio Battaglia

Axonal-SMN (a-SMN), a protein isoform of the survival motor neuron gene, is specifically involved in axonogenesis
PNAS 2007 104: 1959-1964; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610660104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Laura Manuelidis, Zhoa-Xue Yu, Nuria Barquero, and Brian Mullins

Cells infected with scrapie and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease agents produce intracellular 25-nm virus-like particles
PNAS 2007 104: 1965-1970; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610999104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Angela Hornsten, Jason Lieberthal, Shruti Fadia, Richard Malins, Lawrence Ha, Xiaomeng Xu, Isabelle Daigle, Mindy Markowitz, Gregory O'Connor, Ronald Plasterk, and Chris Li

APL-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans protein related to the human -amyloid precursor protein, is essential for viability
PNAS 2007 104: 1971-1976; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0603997104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Michelle Smeyne, Justin Boyd, Kennie Raviie Shepherd, Yun Jiao, Brooks Barnes Pond, Matthew Hatler, Roland Wolf, Colin Henderson, and Richard Jay Smeyne GST expression mediates dopaminergic neuron sensitivity in experimental parkinsonism PNAS 2007 104: 1977-1982; published online before print January 31 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610978104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Figures] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Andrew D. Steele, Walker S. Jackson, Oliver D. King, and Susan Lindquist

The power of automated high-resolution behavior analysis revealed by its application to mouse models of Huntington's and prion diseases
PNAS 2007 104: 1983-1988; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610779104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Karl D. Murray, Prabhakara V. Choudary, and Edward G. Jones Nucleus- and cell-specific gene expression in monkey thalamus PNAS 2007 104: 1989-1994; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610742104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Marcello D'Ascenzo, Tommaso Fellin, Miho Terunuma, Raquel Revilla-Sanchez, David F. Meaney, Yves P. Auberson, Stephen J. Moss, and Philip G. Haydon

mGluR5 stimulates gliotransmission in the nucleus accumbens
PNAS 2007 104: 1995-2000; published online before print January 26 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0609408104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Pharmacology

Christopher A. Johnston and David P. Siderovski

Structural basis for nucleotide exchange on G_i subunits and receptor coupling specificity
PNAS 2007 104: 2001-2006; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0608599104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Physiology

Flavie Sicard, Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein, Denis Corbeil, Simone Sperber, Alexander W. Krug, Christian G. Ziegler, Valeria Rettori, Samuel M. McCann, and Stefan R. Bornstein

Age-dependent regulation of chromaffin cell proliferation by growth factors, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and DHEA sulfate
PNAS 2007 104: 2007-2012; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610898104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hon-Wai Koon, Dezheng Zhao, Yanai Zhan, Mary P. Moyer, and Charalabos Pothoulakis

Substance P mediates antiapoptotic responses in human colonocytes by Akt activation
PNAS 2007 104: 2013-2018; published online before print January 30 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610664104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Plant Biology

Stephan Pollmann, Armin Springer, Frank Buhr, Abder Lahroussi, Iga Samol, Jean-Marc Bonneville, Gabrielle Tichtinsky, Diter von Wettstein, Christiane Reinbothe, and Steffen Reinbothe

A plant porphyria related to defects in plastid import of protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A
PNAS 2007 104: 2019-2023; published online before print January 29 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0610934104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for Zeri et al., Structure of the coat protein in fd filamentous bacteriophage particles determined by solid-state NMR spectroscopy [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Correction for Wang et al., Bcl10 plays a critical role in NF-B activation induced by G protein-coupled receptors [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Wedmann et al., The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Casola et al., Tracking germinal center B cells expressing germ-line immunoglobulin 1 transcripts by conditional gene targeting [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for Galkin et al., Identification of NVP-TAE684, a potent, selective, and efficacious inhibitor of NPM-ALK [Full Text] [PDF]