15 May 2008

Nicholas Humphrey, Stefan Mundlos, and Seval Türkmen

Genes and quadrupedal locomotion in humans
PNAS published May 15, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802839105 (Letters) [PDF]  

Kenji Murakami, Murray Stewart, Kayo Nozawa, Kumiko Tomii, Norio Kudou, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yasuo Shirakihara, Soichi Wakatsuki, Takuo Yasunaga, and Takeyuki Wakabayashi

Structural basis for tropomyosin overlap in thin (actin) filaments and the generation of a molecular swivel by troponin-T
PNAS published May 15, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801950105 (Cell Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Frank E. Erfurth, Relja Popovic, Jolanta Grembecka, Tomasz Cierpicki, Catherine Theisler, Zhen-Biao Xia, Tara Stuart, Manuel O. Diaz, John H. Bushweller, and Nancy J. Zeleznik-Le

MLL protects CpG clusters from methylation within the Hoxa9 gene, maintaining transcript expression
PNAS published May 15, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0800090105 (Genetics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Carsten Sachse, Marcus Fändrich, and Nikolaus Grigorieff

Paired β-sheet structure of an Aβ(1–40) amyloid fibril revealed by electron microscopy
PNAS published May 15, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0712290105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF]  

14 May 2008

Jean-Martin Beaulieu, Xiaodong Zhang, Ramona M. Rodriguiz, Tatyana D. Sotnikova, William C. Wetsel, Raul R. Gainetdinov, and Marc G. Caron

Reply to Belmaker et al.: GSK3β haploinsufficiency results in lithium-like effects in the forced-swim test
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0803026105 (Letters) [PDF]  

Ki-Chul Hwang, Ji Young Kim, Woochul Chang, Dae-Sung Kim, Soyeon Lim, Sang-Moon Kang, Byeong-Wook Song, Hye-Yeong Ha, Yong Joon Huh, In-Geol Choi, Dong-Youn Hwang, Heesang Song, Yangsoo Jang, Namsik Chung, Sung-Hou Kim, and Dong-Wook Kim

Chemicals that modulate stem cell differentiation
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802825105 (Cell Biology) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Erzsébet Fekete, Bernhard Seiboth, Christian P. Kubicek, Attila Szentirmai, and Levente Karaffa

Lack of aldose 1-epimerase in Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei): A key to cellulase gene expression on lactose
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802789105 (Applied Biological Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna W. Lee, Andreas Kyrozis, Vivien Chevaleyre, Lee-Ming Kow, Nino Devidze, Qiuyu Zhang, Anne M. Etgen, and Donald W. Pfaff

Estradiol modulation of phenylephrine-induced excitatory responses in ventromedial hypothalamic neurons of female rats
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802760105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter M. Douglas, Sebastian Treusch, Hong-Yu Ren, Randal Halfmann, Martin L. Duennwald, Susan Lindquist, and Douglas M. Cyr

Chaperone-dependent amyloid assembly protects cells from prion toxicity
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802593105 (Cell Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information] [Supporting Information]  

Alim Muhammad, Ingrid Flores, Hong Zhang, Rui Yu, Agnieszka Staniszewski, Emmanuel Planel, Mathieu Herman, Lingling Ho, Robert Kreber, Lawrence S. Honig, Barry Ganetzky, Karen Duff, Ottavio Arancio, and Scott A. Small Retromer deficiency observed in Alzheimer's disease causes hippocampal dysfunction, neurodegeneration, and Aβ accumulation PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802545105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

A. Munitz, E. B. Brandt, M. Mingler, F. D. Finkelman, and M. E. Rothenberg Distinct roles for IL-13 and IL-4 via IL-13 receptor 1 and the type II IL-4 receptor in asthma pathogenesis PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802465105 (Immunology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Mari L. Shinohara, Hye-Jung Kim, June-Ho Kim, Virgilio A. Garcia, and Harvey Cantor

Alternative translation of osteopontin generates intracellular and secreted isoforms that mediate distinct biological activities in dendritic cells
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802301105 (Immunology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Huan Wang, Martin L. Duennwald, Blake E. Roberts, Leslie M. Rozeboom, Yingxin L. Zhang, Andrew D. Steele, Rajaraman Krishnan, Linhui Julie Su, Drees Griffin, Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Edward J. Hennessy, Peter Weigele, Barbara J. Blanchard, Jonathan King, Ashok A. Deniz, Stephen L. Buchwald, Vernon M. Ingram, Susan Lindquist, and James Shorter

Direct and selective elimination of specific prions and amyloids by 4,5-dianilinophthalimide and analogs
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801934105 (Biochemistry) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information] [Supporting Information]  

Sabrina Bédard, Mallela M. G. Krishna, Leland Mayne, and S. Walter Englander

Protein folding: Independent unrelated pathways or predetermined pathway with optional errors
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801864105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Philippe Bertolino, Rebecka Holmberg, Eva Reissmann, Olov Andersson, Per-Olof Berggren, and Carlos F. Ibáñez

Activin B receptor ALK7 is a negative regulator of pancreatic β-cell function
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801285105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Olov Andersson, Marion Korach-Andre, Eva Reissmann, Carlos F. Ibáñez, and Philippe Bertolino

Growth/differentiation factor 3 signals through ALK7 and regulates accumulation of adipose tissue and diet-induced obesity
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0800272105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Assaf Shechter, Lilah Glazer, Shira Cheled, Eyal Mor, Simy Weil, Amir Berman, Shmuel Bentov, Eliahu D. Aflalo, Isam Khalaila, and Amir Sagi

A gastrolith protein serving a dual role in the formation of an amorphous mineral containing extracellular matrix
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0800193105 (Applied Biological Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Takasada Shibauchi, Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Masashi Hasegawa, Yuichi Kasahara, Ryuji Okazaki, and Yuji Matsuda

Field-induced quantum critical route to a Fermi liquid in high-temperature superconductors
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0712292105 (Physics) [Abstract] [PDF]  

C.-Q. Jin, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, Q. Q. Liu, J. G. Zhao, L. X. Yang, Y. Yu, R. C. Yu, T. Katsura, A. Shatskiy, and E. Ito

High-pressure synthesis of the cubic perovskite BaRuO₃ and evolution of ferromagnetism in ARuO₃ (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) ruthenates
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710928105 (Geology) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pascal Hersen, Megan N. McClean, L. Mahadevan, and Sharad Ramanathan Signal processing by the HOG MAP kinase pathway PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710770105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Klaus Hellmuth, Stefanie Grosskopf, Ching Tung Lum, Martin Würtele, Nadine Röder, Jens Peter von Kries, Marta Rosario, Jörg Rademann, and Walter Birchmeier

Specific inhibitors of the protein tyrosine phosphatase Shp2 identified by high-throughput docking
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710468105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Jose C. Juarez, Mari Manuia, Mark E. Burnett, Oscar Betancourt, Benoit Boivin, David E. Shaw, Nicholas K. Tonks, Andrew P. Mazar, and Fernando Doñate

Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) is essential for H₂O₂-mediated oxidation and inactivation of phosphatases in growth factor signaling
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0709451105 (Biochemistry) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Gregory W. deHart, Taihao Jin, Diane E. McCloskey, Anthony E. Pegg, and Dean Sheppard The 9β1 integrin enhances cell migration by polyamine-mediated modulation of an inward-rectifier potassium channel PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0708044105 (Cell Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Douglas Coveney, Jonah Cool, Tim Oliver, and Blanche Capel

Four-dimensional analysis of vascularization during primary development of an organ, the gonad
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0707674105 (Developmental Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Carol A. Vandenberg

Integrins step up the pace of cell migration through polyamines and potassium channels
PNAS published May 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0803231105 (Commentary) [PDF]  

13 May 2008

Todd T. Talley, Michal Harel, Ryan E. Hibbs, Zoran Radic, Motohiro Tomizawa, John E. Casida, and Palmer Taylor

Atomic interactions of neonicotinoid agonists with AChBP: Molecular recognition of the distinctive electronegative pharmacophore
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802197105 (Chemistry, Pharmacology) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andy J. Chang and Cornelia I. Bargmann

Hypoxia and the HIF-1 transcriptional pathway reorganize a neuronal circuit for oxygen-dependent behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802164105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Timothy L. Bullock, Annia Rodríguez-Hernández, Eleonora M. Corigliano, and John J. Perona

A rationally engineered misacylating aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0711812105 (Biochemistry) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas Bernsel, Håkan Viklund, Jenny Falk, Erik Lindahl, Gunnar von Heijne, and Arne Elofsson

Prediction of membrane-protein topology from first principles
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0711151105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Dona K. Murphey and John H. R. Maunsell

Electrical microstimulation thresholds for behavioral detection and saccades in monkey frontal eye fields
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710820105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lei Sun, Jinmin Gao, Xin Dong, Min Liu, Dengwen Li, Xingjuan Shi, Jin-Tang Dong, Xianyu Lu, Chunyong Liu, and Jun Zhou

EB1 promotes Aurora-B kinase activity through blocking its inactivation by protein phosphatase 2A
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710018105 (Biochemistry) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Nicolas Catz, Peter W. Dicke, and Peter Thier

Cerebellar-dependent motor learning is based on pruning a Purkinje cell population response
PNAS published May 13, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0706032105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

12 May 2008

R. H. Belmaker, Galila Agam, and Yuly Bersudsky

Role of GSK3β in behavioral abnormalities induced by serotonin deficiency
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801168105 (Letters) [PDF]  

Aaron P. Mitchell

A VAST staging area for regulatory proteins
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0803384105 (Commentary) [PDF]  

Joanne Y. Yew, Robert B. Cody, and Edward A. Kravitz

Cuticular hydrocarbon analysis of an awake behaving fly using direct analysis in real-time time-of-flight mass spectrometry
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802692105 (Applied Biological Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Krystian Jazdzewski, Elizabeth L. Murray, Kaarle Franssila, Barbara Jarzab, Daniel R. Schoenberg, and Albert de la Chapelle

Common SNP in pre-miR-146a decreases mature miR expression and predisposes to papillary thyroid carcinoma
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802682105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Anne-Lie Svensson, Nora Bucht, Mathias Hallberg, and Fred Nyberg

Reversal of opiate-induced apoptosis by human recombinant growth hormone in murine foetus primary hippocampal neuronal cell cultures
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802531105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF]  

Beiru Zhang, Yumi Une, Xiaoying Fu, Jingmin Yan, FengXia Ge, Junjie Yao, Jinko Sawashita, Masayuki Mori, Hiroshi Tomozawa, Fuyuki Kametani, and Keiichi Higuchi Fecal transmission of AA amyloidosis in the cheetah contributes to high incidence of disease PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0800367105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Milena Winograd, Alain Destexhe, and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives

Hyperpolarization-activated graded persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0800360105 (Neuroscience) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Susie Y. Dai, Michael J. Chalmers, John Bruning, Kelli S. Bramlett, Harold E. Osborne, Chahrzad Montrose-Rafizadeh, Robert J. Barr, Yong Wang, Minmin Wang, Thomas P. Burris, Jeffrey A. Dodge, and Patrick R. Griffin

Prediction of the tissue-specificity of selective estrogen receptor modulators by using a single biochemical method
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710802105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Banani Chakraborty, Ruojie Sha, and Nadrian C. Seeman

Colloquium Paper: A DNA-based nanomechanical device with three robust states
PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0707681105 (Biophysics, Chemistry) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

Gene Kurosawa, Yasushi Akahori, Miwa Morita, Mariko Sumitomo, Noriko Sato, Chiho Muramatsu, Keiko Eguchi, Kazuki Matsuda, Akihiko Takasaki, Miho Tanaka, Yoshitaka Iba, Susumu Hamada-Tsutsumi, Yoshinori Ukai, Mamoru Shiraishi, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Maiko Kurosawa, Sally Fujiyama, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Ryoichi Kato, Yoshikazu Mizoguchi, Mikihiro Shamoto, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Mototaka Sugiura, Yoshinobu Hattori, Shuichi Miyakawa, Ryoichi Shiroki, Kiyotaka Hoshinaga, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Atsushi Sugioka, and Yoshikazu Kurosawa Comprehensive screening for antigens overexpressed on carcinomas via isolation of human mAbs that may be therapeutic PNAS published May 12, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0712202105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

9 May 2008

Yanan Shen, Tonggang Zhang, and Paul F. Hoffman On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals PNAS published May 9, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802168105 (Evolution, Geology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Han Lin, Ren-Shan Ge, Guo-Rong Chen, Guo-Xin Hu, Lei Dong, Qing-Quan Lian, Dianne O. Hardy, Chantal M. Sottas, Xiao-Kun Li, and Matthew P. Hardy

Involvement of testicular growth factors in fetal Leydig cell aggregation after exposure to phthalate in utero
PNAS published May 9, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0709260105 (Environmental Sciences-Social Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

8 May 2008

Xiaofei Yu, Li Li, Lei Li, Michelle Guo, Joanne Chory, and Yanhai Yin

Modulation of brassinosteroid-regulated gene expression by jumonji domain-containing proteins ELF6 and REF6 in Arabidopsis
PNAS published May 8, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802254105 (Plant Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

7 May 2008

Rosa Tarrío, Francisco J. Ayala, and Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles

Alternative splicing: A missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain
PNAS published May 7, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0802941105 (Evolution) [Abstract] [PDF]  

6 May 2008

Jonathan D. Roth, Barbara L. Roland, Rebecca L. Cole, James L. Trevaskis, Christian Weyer, Joy E. Koda, Christen M. Anderson, David G. Parkes, and Alain D. Baron Leptin responsiveness restored by amylin agonism in diet-induced obesity: Evidence from nonclinical and clinical studies PNAS published May 5, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0706473105 (Medical Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

5 May 2008

Ronald Lee

Sociality, selection, and survival: Simulated evolution of mortality with intergenerational transfers and food sharing
PNAS published May 5, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710234105 (Social Sciences) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

28 April 2008

Rekha Puria, Sara A. Zurita-Martinez, and Maria E. Cardenas

Nuclear translocation of Gln3 in response to nutrient signals requires Golgi-to-endosome trafficking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS published April 28, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0801087105 (Cell Biology) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

16 April 2008

C. H. A. Cheng, L. H. Kellogg, S. Shkoller, and D. L. Turcotte

A liquid-crystal model for friction
PNAS published April 16, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0710990105 (Geophysics) [Abstract] [PDF]  

11 April 2008

Sandipan Mohanty, Jan H. Meinke, Olav Zimmermann, and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

Simulation of Top7-CFr: A transient helix extension guides folding
PNAS published April 11, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0708411105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

3 April 2008

Pablo R. Castello, Dong Kyun Woo, Kerri Ball, Jay Wojcik, Laura Liu, and Robert O. Poyton

Oxygen-regulated isoforms of cytochrome c oxidase have differential effects on its nitric oxide production and on hypoxic signaling
PNAS published April 3, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0709461105 (Biochemistry, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF]  

31 March 2008

Lizzia Raffaghello, Changhan Lee, Fernando M. Safdie, Min Wei, Federica Madia, Giovanna Bianchi, and Valter D. Longo

Starvation-dependent differential stress resistance protects normal but not cancer cells against high-dose chemotherapy
PNAS published March 31, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0708100105 (Medical Sciences, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

21 March 2008

M. G. L. Van den Heuvel, M. P. de Graaff, and C. Dekker

Microtubule curvatures under perpendicular electric forces reveal a low persistence length
PNAS published March 21, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0704169105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

11 March 2008

Paige M. Shaklee, Timon Idema, Gerbrand Koster, Cornelis Storm, Thomas Schmidt, and Marileen Dogterom

Bidirectional membrane tube dynamics driven by nonprocessive motors
PNAS published March 10, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0709677105 (Biophysics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

28 February 2008

Weinan E, Tiejun Li, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Optimal partition and effective dynamics of complex networks
PNAS published February 26, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0707563105 (Applied Mathematics) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

14 February 2008

Lars I. Leichert, Florian Gehrke, Harini V. Gudiseva, Tom Blackwell, Marianne Ilbert, Angela K. Walker, John R. Strahler, Philip C. Andrews, and Ursula Jakob

Quantifying changes in the thiol redox proteome upon oxidative stress in vivo
PNAS published February 14, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0707723105 (Biochemistry, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Information]  

22 January 2008

Todd F. Markle, Ian J. Rhile, Antonio G. DiPasquale, and James M. Mayer

Probing concerted proton–electron transfer in phenol–imidazoles
PNAS published January 22, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0708967105 (Biochemistry, Chemistry, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Appendix]  

3 January 2008

Martin Newcomb, James A. Halgrimson, John H. Horner, Erik C. Wasinger, Lin X. Chen, and Stephen G. Sligar

X-ray absorption spectroscopic characterization of a cytochrome P450 compound II derivative
PNAS published January 3, 2008, 10.1073/pnas.0708299105 (Biochemistry, Chemistry, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF] [Supporting Table]  

28 December 2007

Derek Parsonage, P. Andrew Karplus, and Leslie B. Poole

Substrate specificity and redox potential of AhpC, a bacterial peroxiredoxin
PNAS published December 28, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0708308105 (Biochemistry, Special Feature) [Abstract] [PDF]  

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