This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Sheng He

    Holes, objects, and the left hemisphere

    PNAS 2008 105:1103-1104; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710631105
    • See companion article on page 21014 in issue 52 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • D. A. Weitz
    • and P. A. Janmey

    The soft framework of the cellular machine

    PNAS 2008 105:1105-1106; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711639105
    • See companion article on page 889 in issue 3 of volume 105
  • Commentary:
    • Derk-Jan Dijk

    Slow-wave sleep, diabetes, and the sympathetic nervous system

    PNAS 2008 105:1107-1108; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711635105
    • See companion article on page 1044 in issue 3 of volume 105
  • Commentary:
    • Scott F. Dowell
    • and Joseph S. Bresee

    Pandemic lessons from Iceland

    PNAS 2008 105:1109-1110; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711535105
    • See companion article on page 1303 in issue 4 of volume 105

From the Academy

Editorial

  • From the Academy - Editorial:
    • Chunli Bai
    • and Jinghua Cao

    Crossing borders, challenging boundaries: Reflections on a decade of exchange at the Chinese–American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium

    PNAS 2008 105:1101-1102; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0712220105

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Martin Rosvall
    • and Carl T. Bergstrom

    Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure

    PNAS 2008 105:1118-1123; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706851105
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt

    Energy of Tycho's Supernova Remnant is increasing with time

    PNAS 2008 105:1124-1125; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711339105

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Ting Xue

    Nilpotent orbits in classical Lie algebras over F 2 n and the Springer correspondence

    PNAS 2008 105:1126-1128; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709626104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Giuliano Zanchetta,
    • Michi Nakata,
    • Marco Buscaglia,
    • Tommaso Bellini,
    • and Noel A. Clark

    Inaugural Article: Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers

    PNAS 2008 105:1111-1117; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711319105
    Open Access Article

Physiology

  • Physical Sciences - Physiology - Biological Sciences - Engineering:
    • X. Zhang,
    • R. H. Adamson,
    • F. E. Curry,
    • and S. Weinbaum

    Transient regulation of transport by pericytes in venular microvessels via trapped microdomains

    PNAS 2008 105:1374-1379; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710986105

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Peter Halfmann,
    • Jin Hyun Kim,
    • Hideki Ebihara,
    • Takeshi Noda,
    • Gabriele Neumann,
    • Heinz Feldmann,
    • and Yoshihiro Kawaoka

    Generation of biologically contained Ebola viruses

    PNAS 2008 105:1129-1133; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708057105

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anutosh Chakraborty,
    • Michael A. Koldobskiy,
    • Katherine M. Sixt,
    • Krishna R. Juluri,
    • Asif K. Mustafa,
    • Adele M. Snowman,
    • Damian B. van Rossum,
    • Randen L. Patterson,
    • and Solomon H. Snyder

    From the Cover: HSP90 regulates cell survival via inositol hexakisphosphate kinase-2

    PNAS 2008 105:1134-1139; published ahead of print January 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711168105
    • See commentary article on page 1389 in issue 5 of volume 105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xiang-dong Li,
    • Hyun Suk Jung,
    • Qizhi Wang,
    • Reiko Ikebe,
    • Roger Craig,
    • and Mitsuo Ikebe

    The globular tail domain puts on the brake to stop the ATPase cycle of myosin Va

    PNAS 2008 105:1140-1145; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709741105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Matthew P. Meyer,
    • Diana R. Tomchick,
    • and Judith P. Klinman

    Enzyme structure and dynamics affect hydrogen tunneling: The impact of a remote side chain (I553) in soybean lipoxygenase-1

    PNAS 2008 105:1146-1151; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710643105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • S. M. Simon,
    • F. J. R. Sousa,
    • R. Mohana-Borges,
    • and G. C. Walker

    Regulation of Escherichia coli SOS mutagenesis by dimeric intrinsically disordered umuD gene products

    PNAS 2008 105:1152-1157; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706067105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sachin Kale,
    • Gözde Ulas,
    • Jaeyoung Song,
    • Gary W. Brudvig,
    • William Furey,
    • and Frank Jordan

    Efficient coupling of catalysis and dynamics in the E1 component of Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex

    PNAS 2008 105:1158-1163; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709328105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Walid Awad,
    • Isaac Estrada,
    • Ying Shen,
    • and Linda M. Hendershot

    BiP mutants that are unable to interact with endoplasmic reticulum DnaJ proteins provide insights into interdomain interactions in BiP

    PNAS 2008 105:1164-1169; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702132105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Vincent Pagès,
    • Robert E. Johnson,
    • Louise Prakash,
    • and Satya Prakash

    Mutational specificity and genetic control of replicative bypass of an abasic site in yeast

    PNAS 2008 105:1170-1175; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711227105

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Giuliano Zanchetta,
    • Michi Nakata,
    • Marco Buscaglia,
    • Tommaso Bellini,
    • and Noel A. Clark

    Inaugural Article: Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers

    PNAS 2008 105:1111-1117; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711319105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jonas Korlach,
    • Patrick J. Marks,
    • Ronald L. Cicero,
    • Jeremy J. Gray,
    • Devon L. Murphy,
    • Daniel B. Roitman,
    • Thang T. Pham,
    • Geoff A. Otto,
    • Mathieu Foquet,
    • and Stephen W. Turner

    Selective aluminum passivation for targeted immobilization of single DNA polymerase molecules in zero-mode waveguide nanostructures

    PNAS 2008 105:1176-1181; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710982105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Junhua Yuan
    • and Howard C. Berg

    Resurrection of the flagellar rotary motor near zero load

    PNAS 2008 105:1182-1185; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711539105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Eleonore von Castelmur,
    • Marco Marino,
    • Dmitri I. Svergun,
    • Laurent Kreplak,
    • Zöhre Ucurum-Fotiadis,
    • Petr V. Konarev,
    • Alexandre Urzhumtsev,
    • Dietmar Labeit,
    • Siegfried Labeit,
    • and Olga Mayans

    A regular pattern of Ig super-motifs defines segmental flexibility as the elastic mechanism of the titin chain

    PNAS 2008 105:1186-1191; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707163105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jingzhi Pu
    • and Martin Karplus

    How subunit coupling produces the γ-subunit rotary motion in F 1 -ATPase

    PNAS 2008 105:1192-1197; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708746105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jochen S. Hub
    • and Bert L. de Groot

    Mechanism of selectivity in aquaporins and aquaglyceroporins

    PNAS 2008 105:1198-1203; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707662104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Dina T. Mirijanian
    • and Gregory A. Voth

    Unique elastic properties of the spectrin tetramer as revealed by multiscale coarse-grained modeling

    PNAS 2008 105:1204-1208; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707500105

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Edward C. Hsiao,
    • Benjamin M. Boudignon,
    • Wei C. Chang,
    • Margaret Bencsik,
    • Jeffrey Peng,
    • Trieu D. Nguyen,
    • Carlota Manalac,
    • Bernard P. Halloran,
    • Bruce R. Conklin,
    • and Robert A. Nissenson

    From the Cover: Osteoblast expression of an engineered G s -coupled receptor dramatically increases bone mass

    PNAS 2008 105:1209-1214; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707457105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Thomas M. Johnson,
    • Kristin Meade,
    • Navneeta Pathak,
    • Michelle R. Marques,
    • and Laura D. Attardi

    Knockin mice expressing a chimeric p53 protein reveal mechanistic differences in how p53 triggers apoptosis and senescence

    PNAS 2008 105:1215-1220; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706764105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Barbara L. Barbeta,
    • Alan T. Marshall,
    • Amanda D. Gillon,
    • David J. Craik,
    • and Marilyn A. Anderson

    Plant cyclotides disrupt epithelial cells in the midgut of lepidopteran larvae

    PNAS 2008 105:1221-1225; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710338104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Paola Aguiari,
    • Sara Leo,
    • Barbara Zavan,
    • Vincenzo Vindigni,
    • Alessandro Rimessi,
    • Katiuscia Bianchi,
    • Chiara Franzin,
    • Roberta Cortivo,
    • Marco Rossato,
    • Roberto Vettor,
    • Giovanni Abatangelo,
    • Tullio Pozzan,
    • Paolo Pinton,
    • and Rosario Rizzuto

    High glucose induces adipogenic differentiation of muscle-derived stem cells

    PNAS 2008 105:1226-1231; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711402105

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • M. Ballerini,
    • N. Cabibbo,
    • R. Candelier,
    • A. Cavagna,
    • E. Cisbani,
    • I. Giardina,
    • V. Lecomte,
    • A. Orlandi,
    • G. Parisi,
    • A. Procaccini,
    • M. Viale,
    • and V. Zdravkovic

    From the Cover: Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: Evidence from a field study

    PNAS 2008 105:1232-1237; published ahead of print January 28, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711437105
    Open Access Article

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Physiology - Biological Sciences - Engineering:
    • X. Zhang,
    • R. H. Adamson,
    • F. E. Curry,
    • and S. Weinbaum

    Transient regulation of transport by pericytes in venular microvessels via trapped microdomains

    PNAS 2008 105:1374-1379; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710986105

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Timothy Rowe,
    • Thomas H. Rich,
    • Patricia Vickers-Rich,
    • Mark Springer,
    • and Michael O. Woodburne

    The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergence timing of the platypus and echidna clades

    PNAS 2008 105:1238-1242; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706385105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Ran Kafri,
    • Orna Dahan,
    • Jonathan Levy,
    • and Yitzhak Pilpel

    Preferential protection of protein interaction network hubs in yeast: Evolved functionality of genetic redundancy

    PNAS 2008 105:1243-1248; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711043105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Alexander G. Ophir,
    • Jerry O. Wolff,
    • and Steven M. Phelps

    Variation in neural V1aR predicts sexual fidelity and space use among male prairie voles in semi-natural settings

    PNAS 2008 105:1249-1254; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709116105

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Kazuhide Asakawa,
    • Maximiliano L. Suster,
    • Kanta Mizusawa,
    • Saori Nagayoshi,
    • Tomoya Kotani,
    • Akihiro Urasaki,
    • Yasuyuki Kishimoto,
    • Masahiko Hibi,
    • and Koichi Kawakami

    Genetic dissection of neural circuits by Tol2 transposon-mediated Gal4 gene and enhancer trapping in zebrafish

    PNAS 2008 105:1255-1260; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704963105
    Open Access Article

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Claudia R. Oliva,
    • Melissa K. Swiecki,
    • Corinne E. Griguer,
    • Mark W. Lisanby,
    • Daniel C. Bullard,
    • Charles L. Turnbough, Jr.,
    • and John F. Kearney

    The integrin Mac-1 (CR3) mediates internalization and directs Bacillus anthracis spores into professional phagocytes

    PNAS 2008 105:1261-1266; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709321105
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Jannek Hauser,
    • Natalia Sveshnikova,
    • Anders Wallenius,
    • Sanna Baradaran,
    • Juha Saarikettu,
    • and Thomas Grundström

    B-cell receptor activation inhibits AID expression through calmodulin inhibition of E-proteins

    PNAS 2008 105:1267-1272; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708220105
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • André Veillette,
    • Shaohua Zhang,
    • Xiaochu Shi,
    • Zhongjun Dong,
    • Dominique Davidson,
    • and Ming-Chao Zhong

    SAP expression in T cells, not in B cells, is required for humoral immunity

    PNAS 2008 105:1273-1278; published ahead of print January 22, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710698105
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Stuart Bloor,
    • Grigor Ryzhakov,
    • Sebastian Wagner,
    • P. Jonathan G. Butler,
    • David L. Smith,
    • Rebekka Krumbach,
    • Ivan Dikic,
    • and Felix Randow

    Signal processing by its coil zipper domain activates IKKγ

    PNAS 2008 105:1279-1284; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706552105
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Masahisa Jinushi,
    • Matthew Vanneman,
    • Nikhil C. Munshi,
    • Yu-Tzu Tai,
    • Rao H. Prabhala,
    • Jerome Ritz,
    • Donna Neuberg,
    • Kenneth C. Anderson,
    • Daniel Ruben Carrasco,
    • and Glenn Dranoff

    MHC class I chain-related protein A antibodies and shedding are associated with the progression of multiple myeloma

    PNAS 2008 105:1285-1290; published ahead of print January 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711293105

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Jennifer R. Gatchel,
    • Kei Watase,
    • Christina Thaller,
    • James P. Carson,
    • Paymaan Jafar-Nejad,
    • Chad Shaw,
    • Tao Zu,
    • Harry T. Orr,
    • and Huda Y. Zoghbi

    The insulin-like growth factor pathway is altered in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and type 7

    PNAS 2008 105:1291-1296; published ahead of print January 23, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711257105