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January 06, 2004; vol. 101 no. 1
Editorial
- You have accessPNAS goes weekly in the new yearNicholas R. Cozzarelli, Kenneth R. Fulton, and Diane M. Sullenberger
PNAS Classics
Biography
- You have accessBiography of Constance L. Cepko
- Inaugural Article
Christen BrownleeSee companion article:
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessBiomimetic ratcheting motion of a soft, slender, sessile gel
- From the Cover
L. Mahadevan, S. Daniel, and M. K. Chaudhury
Geophysics
- You have accessCould CO2-induced land-cover feedbacks alter near-shore upwelling regimes?Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Mark A. Snyder, and Lisa C. Sloan
Physics
- You have accessMagnetism in dense hexagonal ironGerd Steinle-Neumann, Lars Stixrude, and Ronald E. Cohen
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
- You have accessGuanylyl cyclase is an ATP sensor coupling nitric oxide signaling to cell metabolismI. Ruiz-Stewart, S. R. Tiyyagura, J. E. Lin, S. Kazerounian, G. M. Pitari, S. Schulz, E. Martin, F. Murad, and S. A. Waldman
- You have accessDominant-negative C/EBP disrupts mitotic clonal expansion and differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytesJiang-Wen Zhang, Qi-Qun Tang, Charles Vinson, and M. Daniel Lane
- You have accessA site-specific factor interacts directly with its cognate RNA editing site in chloroplast transcriptsTetsuya Miyamoto, Junichi Obokata, and Masahiro Sugiura
- You have accessSelective abolition of pancreatic RNase binding to its inhibitor proteinKapil Kumar, Michael Brady, and Robert Shapiro
- You have accessCrystal structure of a central stalk subunit C and reversible association/dissociation of vacuole-type ATPaseMomi Iwata, Hiromi Imamura, Elizabeth Stambouli, Chiyo Ikeda, Masatada Tamakoshi, Koji Nagata, Hisayoshi Makyio, Ben Hankamer, Jim Barber, Masasuke Yoshida, Ken Yokoyama, and So Iwata
- You have accessA deoxyribozyme that harnesses light to repair thymine dimers in DNADaniel J.-F. Chinnapen and Dipankar Sen
- You have accessStructure of HrcQB-C, a conserved component of the bacterial type III secretion systemsVasiliki E. Fadouloglou, Anastasia P. Tampakaki, Nicholas M. Glykos, Marina N. Bastaki, Jonathan M. Hadden, Simon E. Phillips, Nicholas J. Panopoulos, and Michael Kokkinidis
- You have accessATP-dependent interaction of the cytosolic domains of the inwardly rectifying K+ channel Kir6.2 revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transferTakashi Tsuboi, Jonathan D. Lippiat, Frances M. Ashcroft, and Guy A. Rutter
- You have accessLoss of poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase causes progressive neurodegeneration in Drosophila melanogasterShuji Hanai, Masayuki Kanai, Sayaka Ohashi, Keiji Okamoto, Mitsunori Yamada, Hitoshi Takahashi, and Masanao Miwa
- You have accessSequence determinants of amyloid fibril formationManuela López de la Paz and Luis Serrano
- You have accessU4 small nuclear RNA can function in both the major and minor spliceosomesGirish C. Shukla and Richard A. Padgett
- You have accessActivation of Smad transcriptional activity by protein inhibitor of activated STAT3 (PIAS3)Jianyin Long, Guannan Wang, Isao Matsuura, Dongming He, and Fang Liu
Biophysics
- You have accessBiomimetic ratcheting motion of a soft, slender, sessile gel
- From the Cover
L. Mahadevan, S. Daniel, and M. K. Chaudhury - You have accessIntracellular calmodulin availability accessed with two-photon cross-correlationSally A. Kim, Katrin G. Heinze, M. Neal Waxham, and Petra Schwille
- You have accessLocal complexity of amino acid interactions in a protein coreRajul K. Jain and Rama Ranganathan
- You have accessEnergetics of ion conduction through the gramicidin channelToby W. Allen, Olaf S. Andersen, and Benoît Roux
- You have accessStructural, dynamic, and energetic aspects of long-range electron transfer in photosynthetic reaction centersJan M. Kriegl and G. Ulrich Nienhaus
- You have accessDetection of bacteria in suspension by using a superconducting quantum interference deviceH. L. Grossman, W. R. Myers, V. J. Vreeland, R. Bruehl, M. D. Alper, C. R. Bertozzi, and John Clarke
Cell Biology
- You have accessAn approach to genomewide screens of expressed small interfering RNAs in mammalian cellsLianxing Zheng, Jun Liu, Sergei Batalov, Demin Zhou, Anthony Orth, Sheng Ding, and Peter G. Schultz
- You have accessEpstein–Barr virus latent infection membrane protein 1 TRAF-binding site induces NIK/IKKα-dependent noncanonical NF-κB activationMicah Luftig, Teruhito Yasui, Vishal Soni, Myung-Soo Kang, Nils Jacobson, Ellen Cahir-McFarland, Brian Seed, and Elliott Kieff
- You have accessDifferentiation stage-specific activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase isoforms in primary human erythroid cellsShahab Uddin, Jeong Ah-Kang, Jodie Ulaszek, Dolores Mahmud, and Amittha Wickrema
- You have accessMono- and multisite phosphorylation enhances Bcl2's antiapoptotic function and inhibition of cell cycle entry functionsXingming Deng, Fengqin Gao, Tammy Flagg, and W. Stratford May Jr.
Developmental Biology
- You have accessA functional genomic screen for cardiogenic genes using RNA interference in developing Drosophila embryosYong-Ou Kim, Sang-Joon Park, Robert S. Balaban, Marshall Nirenberg, and Yongsok Kim
- You have accessThyroid hormone controls the development of connections between the spinal cord and limbs during Xenopus laevis metamorphosisNicholas Marsh-Armstrong, Liquan Cai, and Donald D. Brown
Ecology
- You have accessGenetic introgression as a potential to widen a species' niche: Insights from alpine Carex curvulaP. Choler, B. Erschbamer, A. Tribsch, L. Gielly, and P. Taberlet
- You have accessVariable ecological effects of hurricanes: The importance of seasonal timing for survival of lizards on Bahamian islandsThomas W. Schoener, David A. Spiller, and Jonathan B. Losos
- You have accessAlleviating spatial conflict between people and biodiversityGary W. Luck, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, and Marc Imhoff
Evolution
Genetics
- You have accessMutant human cells with constitutive activation of NF-κBSwati S. Sathe, Nywana Sizemore, Xiaoxia Li, Kalpa Vithalani, Mairead Commane, Shannon M. Swiatkowski, and George R. Stark
- You have accessPharmacogenetic rescue in time and space of the rutabaga memory impairment by using Gene-SwitchZhengmei Mao, Gregg Roman, Lin Zong, and Ronald L. Davis
- You have accessHairpin-bisulfite PCR: Assessing epigenetic methylation patterns on complementary strands of individual DNA molecules
- From the Cover
Charles D. Laird, Nicole D. Pleasant, Aaron D. Clark, Jessica L. Sneeden, K. M. Anwarul Hassan, Nathan C. Manley, Jay C. Vary Jr., Todd Morgan, R. Scott Hansen, and Reinhard StögerSee companion article:
- Methylation and epigenetic fidelity- Dec 26, 2003
Immunology
- You have accessThymic selection can compensate for mutations affecting T cell activation and generate a normal T cell repertoire in mutant miceStephan Kissler, Linrong Lu, and Harvey Cantor
- You have accessThe C-type lectin SIGN-R1 mediates uptake of the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the marginal zone of mouse spleenYoung-Sun Kang, Jae Y. Kim, Sandra A. Bruening, Maggi Pack, Anna Charalambous, Alla Pritsker, Thomas M. Moran, Jutta M. Loeffler, Ralph M. Steinman, and Chae Gyu Park
- You have accessShifting foci of hematopoiesis during reconstitution from single stem cellsYu-An Cao, Amy J. Wagers, Andreas Beilhack, Joan Dusich, Michael H. Bachmann, Robert S. Negrin, Irving L. Weissman, and Christopher H. Contag
- You have accessDissociation of transactivation from transrepression by a selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist leads to separation of therapeutic effects from side effectsHeike Schäcke, Arndt Schottelius, Wolf-Dietrich Döcke, Peter Strehlke, Stefan Jaroch, Norbert Schmees, Hartmut Rehwinkel, Hartwig Hennekes, and Khusru Asadullah
- You have accessIFN-regulatory factor 3-dependent gene expression is defective in Tbk1-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts
- From the Cover
Sarah M. McWhirter, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Rosains, Daniel C. Rowe, Douglas T. Golenbock, and Tom Maniatis - You have accessDemonstration of the Burkitt's lymphoma Epstein-Barr virus phenotype in dividing latently infected memory cells in vivoDonna Hochberg, Jaap M. Middeldorp, Michelle Catalina, John L. Sullivan, Katherine Luzuriaga, and David A. Thorley-Lawson
- You have accessT cell chemotaxis to lysophosphatidylcholine through the G2A receptorCaius G. Radu, Li V. Yang, Mireille Riedinger, Matthew Au, and Owen N. Witte
- You have accessDynamic alterations in the conformation of the Ifng gene region during T helper cell differentiationElvira R. Eivazova and Thomas M. Aune
- You have accessThe genomic arrangement of T cell receptor variable genes is a determinant of the developmental rearrangement patternNa Xiong, Jeanne E. Baker, Chulho Kang, and David H. Raulet
Medical Sciences
- You have accessEssential requirement for Wnt signaling in proliferation of adult small intestine and colon revealed by adenoviral expression of Dickkopf-1Frank Kuhnert, Corrine R. Davis, Hsiao-Ting Wang, Pauline Chu, Mark Lee, Jenny Yuan, Roel Nusse, and Calvin J. Kuo
- You have accessA human complement receptor 1 polymorphism that reduces Plasmodium falciparum rosetting confers protection against severe malaria
- From the Cover
Ian A. Cockburn, Margaret J. Mackinnon, Angela O'Donnell, Stephen J. Allen, Joann M. Moulds, Moses Baisor, Moses Bockarie, John C. Reeder, and J. Alexandra Rowe - You have accessLatent infection membrane protein transmembrane FWLY is critical for intermolecular interaction, raft localization, and signalingTeruhito Yasui, Micah Luftig, Vishal Soni, and Elliott Kieff
- You have accessFunctional brain abnormalities in young adults at genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's dementiaEric M. Reiman, Kewei Chen, Gene E. Alexander, Richard J. Caselli, Daniel Bandy, David Osborne, Ann M. Saunders, and John Hardy
- You have accessA Plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine based on a six-antigen polyprotein encoded by recombinant poxvirusesEric Prieur, Sarah C. Gilbert, Joerg Schneider, Anne C. Moore, Eric G. Sheu, Nilu Goonetilleke, Kathryn J. H. Robson, and Adrian V. S. Hill
- You have accessReversing established sepsis with antagonists of endogenous high-mobility group box 1Huan Yang, Mahendar Ochani, Jianhua Li, Xiaoling Qiang, Mahira Tanovic, Helena E. Harris, Srinivas M. Susarla, Luis Ulloa, Hong Wang, Robert DiRaimo, Christopher J. Czura, Haichao Wang, Jesse Roth, H. Shaw Warren, Mitchell P. Fink, Matthew J. Fenton, Ulf Andersson, and Kevin J. Tracey
Microbiology
- You have accessThe crystal structure of Pseudomonas avirulence protein AvrPphB: A papain-like fold with a distinct substrate-binding siteMinfeng Zhu, Feng Shao, Roger W. Innes, Jack E. Dixon, and Zhaohui Xu
- You have access3D structure of the influenza virus polymerase complex: Localization of subunit domainsEstela Area, Jaime Martín-Benito, Pablo Gastaminza, Eva Torreira, José M. Valpuesta, José L. Carrascosa, and Juan Ortín
- You have accessA polyketide synthase catalyzes the last condensation step of mycolic acid biosynthesis in mycobacteria and related organismsDamien Portevin, Célia de Sousa-D'Auria, Christine Houssin, Christine Grimaldi, Mohamed Chami, Mamadou Daffé, and Christophe Guilhot
Neuroscience
- You have accessElectroporation and RNA interference in the rodent retina in vivo and in vitroTakahiko Matsuda and Constance L. Cepko
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- Biography of Constance L. Cepko- Dec 26, 2003
- You have accessDistinct forms of cholinergic modulation in parallel thalamic sensory pathwaysD. M. Mooney, L. Zhang, C. Basile, V. V. Senatorov, J. Ngsee, A. Omar, and B. Hu
- You have accessMotor training compensates for cerebellar dysfunctions caused by oligodendrocyte ablationLudovic Collin, Alessandro Usiello, Eric Erbs, Carole Mathis, and Emiliana Borrelli
- You have accessNeurotoxic effects of polymorphonuclear granulocytes on hippocampal primary culturesKlaus Dinkel, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, and Robert M. Sapolsky
- You have accessLearning rules and network repair in spike-timing-based computation networksJ. J. Hopfield and Carlos D. Brody
- You have accessIncreased hippocampal neurogenesis in Alzheimer's diseaseKunlin Jin, Alyson L. Peel, Xiao Ou Mao, Lin Xie, Barbara A. Cottrell, David C. Henshall, and David A. Greenberg
- You have accessDNA-methyltransferase 1 mRNA is selectively overexpressed in telencephalic GABAergic interneurons of schizophrenia brainsM. Veldic, H. J. Caruncho, W. S. Liu, J. Davis, R. Satta, D. R. Grayson, A. Guidotti, and E. Costa
- You have accessEnhanced hippocampal noradrenaline and serotonin release in galanin-overexpressing mice after repeated forced swimming testTakashi Yoshitake, Fu-Hua Wang, Eugenia Kuteeva, Kristina Holmberg, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Jacqueline N. Crawley, Robert Steiner, Tamas Bartfai, Sven Ove Ögren, Tomas Hökfelt, and Jan Kehr
- You have accessIdentification of many microRNAs that copurify with polyribosomes in mammalian neuronsJohn Kim, Anna Krichevsky, Yonatan Grad, Gabriel D. Hayes, Kenneth S. Kosik, George M. Church, and Gary Ruvkun
- You have accessAn egalitarian network model for the emergence of simple and complex cells in visual cortexLouis Tao, Michael Shelley, David McLaughlin, and Robert Shapley
- You have accessRole of serotonin in cocaine effects in mice with reduced dopamine transporter functionYolanda Mateo, Evgeny A. Budygin, Carrie E. John, and Sara R. Jones
Pharmacology
- You have accessHeptahelical domain of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 behaves like rhodopsin-like receptorsCyril Goudet, Florence Gaven, Julie Kniazeff, Claire Vol, Jiangfeng Liu, Martin Cohen-Gonsaud, Francine Acher, Laurent Prézeau, and Jean Philippe Pin
Physiology
- You have accessChronic exposure to nitric oxide alters the free iron pool in endothelial cells: Role of mitochondrial respiratory complexes and heat shock proteinsAnup Ramachandran, Erin Ceaser, and Victor M. Darley-Usmar
- You have accessStimulatory and inhibitory protein kinase C consensus sequences regulate the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulatorValerie Chappe, Deborah A. Hinkson, L. Daniel Howell, Alexandra Evagelidis, Jie Liao, Xiu-Bao Chang, John R. Riordan, and John W. Hanrahan
- You have accessCell swelling, heat, and chemical agonists use distinct pathways for the activation of the cation channel TRPV4J. Vriens, H. Watanabe, A. Janssens, G. Droogmans, T. Voets, and B. Nilius
Plant Biology
- You have accessThe Arabidopsis LUT1 locus encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 family that is required for carotenoid ε-ring hydroxylation activityLi Tian, Valeria Musetti, Joonyul Kim, Maria Magallanes-Lundback, and Dean DellaPenna
Population Biology
- You have accessAnatomy of a chaotic attractor: Subtle model-predicted patterns revealed in population dataAaron A. King, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, Shandelle M. Henson, Robert A. Desharnais, and Brian Dennis
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