Table of Contents

November 6, 2001; 98 (23)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Henk J. Franssen
- and Ton Bisseling
Peptide signaling in plants
PNAS 2001 98:12855-12856; doi:10.1073/pnas.231490798
- See companion article on page 7623 in issue 15 of volume 93
- See companion article on page 12843 in issue 22 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Anne E. Houde
Sex roles, ornaments, and evolutionary explanation
PNAS 2001 98:12857-12859; doi:10.1073/pnas.241503598
- See companion article on page 13155 in issue 23 of volume 98
Commentary:
- R. R. Laposa
- and J. E. Cleaver
DNA repair on the brain
PNAS 2001 98:12860-12862; doi:10.1073/pnas.241519498
- See companion article on page 13379 in issue 23 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Lili Xie
- and Wilfred A. van der Donk
Homemade cofactors: Self-processing in galactose oxidase
PNAS 2001 98:12863-12865; doi:10.1073/pnas.231485998
- See companion article on page 12932 in issue 23 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Alan G. Hinnebusch
Unleashing yeast genetics on a factor-independent mechanism of internal translation initiation
PNAS 2001 98:12866-12868; doi:10.1073/pnas.241517998
- See companion article on page 12972 in issue 23 of volume 98

From the Academy

U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium

From the Academy - U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
From the Academy: Introduction to Frontiers of Science
PNAS 2001 98:12869; published ahead of print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.241391198
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From the Academy - U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
- Nicole S. Sampson,
- Milan Mrksich,
- and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
From the Academy: Surface molecular recognition
PNAS 2001 98:12870-12871; published ahead of print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231391398
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From the Academy - U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
- Jared C. Bronski,
- Mordechai Segev,
- and Michael I. Weinstein
From the Academy: Mathematical frontiers in optical solitons
PNAS 2001 98:12872-12873; published ahead of print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231499298
From the Academy - U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
- Jenny R. Saffran,
- Ann Senghas,
- and John C. Trueswell
From the Academy: The acquisition of language by children
PNAS 2001 98:12874-12875; published ahead of print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231498898
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From the Academy - U.S. Frontiers Of Science Symposium:
- Martin H. Visbeck,
- James W. Hurrell,
- Lorenzo Polvani,
- and Heidi M. Cullen
From the Academy: The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and future
PNAS 2001 98:12876-12877; published ahead of print October 30, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231391598

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- G. I. Barenblatt
Self-similar intermediate asymptotics for nonlinear degenerate parabolic free-boundary problems that occur in image processing
PNAS 2001 98:12878-12881; published ahead of print October 23, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.241501698

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Scott Ahlgren
- and Ken Ono
From the Cover: Congruence properties for the partition function
PNAS 2001 98:12882-12884; published ahead of print October 23, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.191488598

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Anthropology - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Linda Vigilant,
- Michael Hofreiter,
- Heike Siedel,
- and Christophe Boesch
Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities
PNAS 2001 98:12890-12895; published ahead of print October 23, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.231320498
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Biological Sciences - Microbiology - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Timothy R. Filley,
- Robert A. Blanchette,
- Elizabeth Simpson,
- and Marilyn L. Fogel
Nitrogen cycling by wood decomposing soft-rot fungi in the “King Midas tomb,” Gordion, Turkey
PNAS 2001 98:13346-13350; published ahead of print October 23, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.221299598
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Biological Sciences - Genetics - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Cristiano Vernesi,
- Giulietta Di Benedetto,
- David Caramelli,
- Erica Secchieri,
- Lucia Simoni,
- Emile Katti,
- Patrizia Malaspina,
- Andrea Novelletto,
- Vito Terribile Wiel Marin,
- and Guido Barbujani
Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke
PNAS 2001 98:13460-13463; published ahead of print October 16, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.211540498

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Willem J. M. Levelt
Inaugural Article: Spoken word production: A theory of lexical access
PNAS 2001 98:13464-13471; doi:10.1073/pnas.231459498

FROM THE COVER

Peptide signaling in plants

Sex roles, ornaments, and evolutionary explanation

DNA repair on the brain

Homemade cofactors: Self-processing in galactose oxidase

Unleashing yeast genetics on a factor-independent mechanism of internal translation initiation

From the Academy: Introduction to Frontiers of Science

From the Academy: Surface molecular recognition

From the Academy: Mathematical frontiers in optical solitons

From the Academy: The acquisition of language by children

From the Academy: The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and future

Self-similar intermediate asymptotics for nonlinear degenerate parabolic free-boundary problems that occur in image processing

From the Cover: Congruence properties for the partition function

Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities

Nitrogen cycling by wood decomposing soft-rot fungi in the “King Midas tomb,” Gordion, Turkey

Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke

Inaugural Article: Spoken word production: A theory of lexical access

A phylogenetic approach to following West Nile virus in Connecticut

Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities

Structural genomics of enzymes involved in sterol/isoprenoid biosynthesis

COMPASS: A complex of proteins associated with a trithorax-related SET domain protein

Activation of the Akt-related cytokine-independent survival kinase requires interaction of its phox domain with endosomal phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate

Position within the host intron is critical for efficient processing of box C/D snoRNAs in mammalian cells

Methionine sulfoxide reductase (MsrA) is a regulator of antioxidant defense and lifespan in mammals

Intermediates in V(D)J recombination: A stable RAG1/2 complex sequesters cleaved RSS ends

From the Cover: Crystal structure of the precursor of galactose oxidase: An unusual self-processing enzyme

YC-1 activation of human soluble guanylyl cyclase has both heme-dependent and heme-independent components

Metal ion cooperativity in ribozyme cleavage of RNA

The crystal structure of human protein farnesyltransferase reveals the basis for inhibition by CaaX tetrapeptides and their mimetics

T7 phage display: A novel genetic selection system for cloning RNA-binding proteins from cDNA libraries

Cell-type specificity of short-range transcriptional repressors

HIV-1 protease cleaves eukaryotic initiation factor 4G and inhibits cap-dependent translation

Internal initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mediated by an initiator tRNA/eIF2-independent internal ribosome entry site element

A PP2C-type phosphatase dephosphorylates the PII signaling protein in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803

Enzyme interactions in heparan sulfate biosynthesis: Uronosyl 5-epimerase and 2- O -sulfotransferase interact in vivo

Engineering a nicking endonuclease N. Alw I by domain swapping

Kinetics of duplex formation for individual DNA strands within a single protein nanopore

Ultrafast folding of WW domains without structured aromatic clusters in the denatured state

Using flexible loop mimetics to extend Φ-value analysis to secondary structure interactions

Constructing, verifying, and dissecting the folding transition state of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 with all-atom simulations

Support for the multigenic hypothesis of amyloidosis: The binding stoichiometry of retinol-binding protein, vitamin A, and thyroid hormone influences transthyretin amyloidogenicity in vitro

The NMR structure of the 47-kDa dimeric enzyme 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase and ligand binding studies reveal the location of the active site

Differentially expressed late constituents of the epidermal cornified envelope

From the Cover: Identification of sites for exponential translation in living dendrites

Design of a retroviral-mediated ecdysone-inducible system and its application to the expression profiling of the PTEN tumor suppressor

A uniform extracellular stimulus triggers distinct cAMP signals in different compartments of a simple cell