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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Paul A. Janmey
Creating a niche in the cytoskeleton: Actin reorganization by a protein kinase
PNAS 2001 98:14745-14747; doi:10.1073/pnas.011601598
- See companion article on page 14865 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Rakesh K. Jain
- and Neil S. Forbes
Can engineered bacteria help control cancer?
PNAS 2001 98:14748-14750; doi:10.1073/pnas.261606598
- See companion article on page 15155 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Jeverson Frazzon
- and Dennis R. Dean
Feedback regulation of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis
PNAS 2001 98:14751-14753; doi:10.1073/pnas.011579098
- See companion article on page 14895 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- John M. Scott
Genetic diversity and disease: Opportunities and challenge
PNAS 2001 98:14754-14756; doi:10.1073/pnas.011601398
- See companion article on page 14853 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Avijit Chakrabartty
Progress in transthyretin fibrillogenesis research strengthens the amyloid hypothesis
PNAS 2001 98:14757-14759; doi:10.1073/pnas.261596398
- See companion article on page 14943 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Stuart M. Levitz
Does amoeboid reasoning explain the evolution and maintenance of virulence factors in Cryptococcus neoformans ?
PNAS 2001 98:14760-14762; doi:10.1073/pnas.261612398
- See companion article on page 15245 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Kay Huebner
Tumor suppressors on 3p: A neoclassic quartet
PNAS 2001 98:14763-14765; doi:10.1073/pnas.261586598
- See companion article on page 15062 in issue 26 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Judith P. Klinman
How many ways to craft a cofactor?
PNAS 2001 98:14766-14768; doi:10.1073/pnas.011602498
- See companion article on page 14268 in issue 25 of volume 98

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Robert M. Jones,
- Liangde Lu,
- Roger Helgeson,
- Troy S. Bergstedt,
- Duncan W. McBranch,
- and David G. Whitten
Building highly sensitive dye assemblies for biosensing from molecular building blocks
PNAS 2001 98:14769-14772; published ahead of print December 11, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.251555298
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Antonio Bedalov,
- Tonibelle Gatbonton,
- William P. Irvine,
- Daniel E. Gottschling,
- and Julian A. Simon
Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of Sir2p
PNAS 2001 98:15113-15118; doi:10.1073/pnas.261574398

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- Eliot Fried
- and Russell E. Todres
Prediction of disclinations in nematic elastomers
PNAS 2001 98:14773-14777; doi:10.1073/pnas.261395098

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- James E. Hansen
- and Makiko Sato
Trends of measured climate forcing agents
PNAS 2001 98:14778-14783; doi:10.1073/pnas.261553698
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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- R. B. Myneni,
- J. Dong,
- C. J. Tucker,
- R. K. Kaufmann,
- P. E. Kauppi,
- J. Liski,
- L. Zhou,
- V. Alexeyev,
- and M. K. Hughes
A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests
PNAS 2001 98:14784-14789; published ahead of print December 11, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.261555198

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Robert Kurzban,
- John Tooby,
- and Leda Cosmides
Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization
PNAS 2001 98:15387-15392; published ahead of print December 11, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.251541498

FROM THE COVER

Creating a niche in the cytoskeleton: Actin reorganization by a protein kinase

Can engineered bacteria help control cancer?

Feedback regulation of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis

Genetic diversity and disease: Opportunities and challenge

Progress in transthyretin fibrillogenesis research strengthens the amyloid hypothesis

Does amoeboid reasoning explain the evolution and maintenance of virulence factors in Cryptococcus neoformans ?

Tumor suppressors on 3p: A neoclassic quartet

How many ways to craft a cofactor?

Building highly sensitive dye assemblies for biosensing from molecular building blocks

Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of Sir2p

Prediction of disclinations in nematic elastomers

Trends of measured climate forcing agents

A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Structural basis for the activation of human procaspase-7

Combining multiple structure and sequence alignments to improve sequence detection and alignment: Application to the SH2 domains of Janus kinases

The remarkable structural and functional organization of the eukaryotic pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes

Crystal structure of the macrocycle-forming thioesterase domain of the erythromycin polyketide synthase: Versatility from a unique substrate channel

Extension of the Drosophila lifespan by overexpression of a protein repair methyltransferase

betawrap : Successful prediction of parallel β-helices from primary sequence reveals an association with many microbial pathogens

Side-chain repacking calculations for predicting structures and stabilities of heterodimeric coiled coils

RNase P-mediated inhibition of cytomegalovirus protease expression and viral DNA encapsidation by oligonucleotide external guide sequences

Studies on the nonmevalonate pathway to terpenes: The role of the GcpE (IspG) protein

Partial purification and identification of GDP-mannose 3",5"-epimerase of Arabidopsis thaliana , a key enzyme of the plant vitamin C pathway

A “master” in base unpairing during isomerization of a promoter upon RNA polymerase binding

Effects of common polymorphisms on the properties of recombinant human methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase

The temperature-signaling cascade in sponges involves a heat-gated cation channel, abscisic acid, and cyclic ADP-ribose

From the Cover: The Abl-related gene (Arg) nonreceptor tyrosine kinase uses two F-actin-binding domains to bundle F-actin

Arp2/3 complex requires hydrolyzable ATP for nucleation of new actin filaments

Oligomeric structure of virion-associated and soluble forms of the simian immunodeficiency virus envelope protein in the prefusion activated conformation

DNA supercoiling allows enhancer action over a large distance

β-Arrestin1 modulates lymphoid enhancer factor transcriptional activity through interaction with phosphorylated dishevelled proteins

From the Cover: IscR, an Fe-S cluster-containing transcription factor, represses expression of Escherichia coli genes encoding Fe-S cluster assembly proteins

Glycopeptide antibiotic biosynthesis: Enzymatic assembly of the dedicated amino acid monomer ( S )-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine

Cell behavior in traveling wave patterns of myxobacteria

Pattern formation and traveling waves in myxobacteria: Theory and modeling

Multiparticle adhesive dynamics: Hydrodynamic recruitment of rolling leukocytes

From the Cover: Cryoelectron microscopy of λ phage DNA condensates in vitreous ice: The fine structure of DNA toroids

The free energy landscape for β hairpin folding in explicit water

Computational study of protein specificity: The molecular basis of HIV-1 protease drug resistance

The V122I cardiomyopathy variant of transthyretin increases the velocity of rate-limiting tetramer dissociation, resulting in accelerated amyloidosis

Mapping the actin filament with myosin

Wild-type PrP and a mutant associated with prion disease are subject to retrograde transport and proteasome degradation

Gαi3 binding to calnuc on Golgi membranes in living cells monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer of green fluorescent protein fusion proteins

Tumor induction by an Lck-MyrAkt transgene is delayed by mechanisms controlling the size of the thymus

Elevated expression of axin2 and hnkd mRNA provides evidence that Wnt/β-catenin signaling is activated in human colon tumors