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Biological Sciences

• Biochemistry

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    The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity

    Beatrice Vallone, Karin Nienhaus, Annemarie Matthes, Maurizio Brunori, and G. Ulrich Nienhaus

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17351-17356; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407633101
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    Diffusion of nucleoside triphosphates and role of the entry site to the RNA polymerase II active center

    Nizar N. Batada, Kenneth D. Westover, David A. Bushnell, Michael Levitt, and Roger D. Kornberg

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17361-17364; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408168101
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    The bacteriophage T4 late-transcription coactivator gp33 binds the flap domain of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase

    Sergei Nechaev, Masood Kamali-Moghaddam, Estelle André, Jean-Paul Léonetti, and E. Peter Geiduschek

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17365-17370; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408028101
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    Structure of the streptococcal endopeptidase IdeS, a cysteine proteinase with strict specificity for IgG

    Katja Wenig, Lorenz Chatwell, Ulrich von Pawel-Rammingen, Lars Björck, Robert Huber, and Peter Sondermann

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17371-17376; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407965101

• Biophysics

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    In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization

    B. Urbanc, L. Cruz, S. Yun, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Bitan, D. B. Teplow, and H. E. Stanley

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17345-17350; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408153101
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    Differences in the folding transition state of ubiquitin indicated by φ and ψ analyses

    Tobin R. Sosnick, Robin S. Dothager, and Bryan A. Krantz

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17377-17382; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407683101

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    • Φ value versus ψ analysis

      - Dec 06, 2004
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    Inhaling to mitigate exhaled bioaerosols

    David A. Edwards, Jonathan C. Man, Peter Brand, Jeffrey P. Katstra, K. Sommerer, Howard A. Stone, Edward Nardell, and Gerhard Scheuch

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17383-17388; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408159101
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    Catalysis of protein folding by chaperones in pathogenic bacteria

    James G. Bann, Jerome S. Pinkner, Carl Frieden, and Scott J. Hultgren

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17389-17393; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408072101
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    Protein chemical shifts arising from α-helices and β-sheets depend on solvent exposure

    Franc Avbelj, Darko Kocjan, and Robert L. Baldwin

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17394-17397; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407969101

• Cell Biology

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    Regulation of flagellar dynein activity by a central pair kinesin

    Ruth Yokoyama, Eileen O'Toole, Sudipto Ghosh, and David R. Mitchell

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17398-17403; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0406817101
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    Bcl-2-mediated alterations in endoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ analyzed with an improved genetically encoded fluorescent sensor

    Amy E. Palmer, Can Jin, John C. Reed, and Roger Y. Tsien

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17404-17409; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408030101
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    Structure of the complex between the cytosolic chaperonin CCT and phosducin-like protein

    Jaime Martín-Benito, Sara Bertrand, Ting Hu, Paul J. Ludtke, Joseph N. McLaughlin, Barry M. Willardson, José L. Carrascosa, and José M. Valpuesta

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17410-17415; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405070101
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    IκB kinase β phosphorylates Dok1 serines in response to TNF, IL-1, or γ radiation

    Sanghoon Lee, Charlotte Andrieu, Frédéric Saltel, Olivier Destaing, Jessie Auclair, Véronique Pouchkine, Jocelyne Michelon, Bruno Salaun, Ryuji Kobayashi, Pierre Jurdic, Elliott D. Kieff, and Bakary S. Sylla

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17416-17421; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408061101
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    The Saccharomyces cerevisiae aquaporin Aqy1 is involved in sporulation

    Frédéric Sidoux-Walter, Nina Pettersson, and Stefan Hohmann

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17422-17427; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0404337101
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    Transport of Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein-containing ribonucleoprotein granules by kinesin-1 and cytoplasmic dynein

    Shuo-Chien Ling, Peter S. Fahrner, William T. Greenough, and Vladimir I. Gelfand

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17428-17433; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408114101
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    The kidney-specific WNK1 isoform is induced by aldosterone and stimulates epithelial sodium channel-mediated Na⁺ transport

    Anikó Náray-Fejes-Tóth, Peter M. Snyder, and Géza Fejes-Tóth

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17434-17439; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408146101

• Ecology

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    Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon

    Dora Biro, Jessica Meade, and Tim Guilford

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17440-17443; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0406984101

• Evolution

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    Heterogeneous evolutionary processes affect R gene diversity in natural populations of Solanum pimpinellifolium

    Ana L. Caicedo and Barbara A. Schaal

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17444-17449; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407899101

• Genetics

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    Multiple spatially distinct types of facultative heterochromatin on the human inactive X chromosome

    Brian P. Chadwick and Huntington F. Willard

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17450-17455; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408021101

• Medical Sciences

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    Sole BCR-ABL inhibition is insufficient to eliminate all myeloproliferative disorder cell populations

    S. Wong, J. McLaughlin, D. Cheng, C. Zhang, K. M. Shokat, and O. N. Witte

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17456-17461; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407061101
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    Molecular and genetic analysis of disseminated neoplastic cells in lymphangioleiomyomatosis

    Denise M. Crooks, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Rosamma M. DeCastro, J. Philip McCoy Jr., Ji-an Wang, Fumiyuki Kumaki, Thomas Darling, and Joel Moss

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17462-17467; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407971101
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    15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase, a COX-2 oncogene antagonist, is a TGF-β-induced suppressor of human gastrointestinal cancers

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    Min Yan, Ronald M. Rerko, Petra Platzer, Dawn Dawson, Joseph Willis, Min Tong, Earl Lawrence, James Lutterbaugh, Shilong Lu, James K. V. Willson, Guangbin Luo, Jack Hensold, Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Keith Wilson, and Sanford D. Markowitz

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17468-17473; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0406142101

• Microbiology

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    Cell-surface expression of a mutated Epstein–Barr virus glycoprotein B allows fusion independent of other viral proteins

    Marisa P. McShane and Richard Longnecker

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17474-17479; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0404535101
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    Three-dimensional structure and organization of a receptor/signaling complex

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    Noreen R. Francis, Peter M. Wolanin, Jeffry B. Stock, David J. DeRosier, and Dennis R. Thomas

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17480-17485; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407826101
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    Subcellular distribution of enzyme I of the Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate:glycose phosphotransferase system depends on growth conditions

    Himatkumar V. Patel, Kavita A. Vyas, Xibing Li, Regina Savtchenko, and Saul Roseman

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17486-17491; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407865101
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    Vi polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi targets the prohibitin family of molecules in intestinal epithelial cells and suppresses early inflammatory responses

    Amita Sharma and Ayub Qadri

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17492-17497; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407536101
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    Use of herpes simplex virus and pseudorabies virus chimeric glycoprotein D molecules to identify regions critical for membrane fusion

    Anna Zago, Cheryl R. Jogger, and Patricia G. Spear

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17498-17503; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408186101

• Neuroscience

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    Fragile X mental retardation protein is necessary for neurotransmitter-activated protein translation at synapses

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    Ivan Jeanne Weiler, Chad C. Spangler, Anna Y. Klintsova, Aaron W. Grossman, Soong Ho Kim, Valerie Bertaina-Anglade, Hooma Khaliq, Froukje E. de Vries, Femke A. E. Lambers, Fatima Hatia, Christine K. Base, and William T. Greenough

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17504-17509; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407533101

    See companion article:

    • Fragile X syndrome: (What's) lost in translation?

      - Dec 06, 2004
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    Lentiviral vector delivery of parkin prevents dopaminergic degeneration in an α-synuclein rat model of Parkinson's disease

    Christophe Lo Bianco, Bernard L. Schneider, Matthias Bauer, Ali Sajadi, Alexis Brice, Takeshi Iwatsubo, and Patrick Aebischer

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17510-17515; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405313101
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    Toward an evolutionary perspective on conceptual representation: Species-specific calls activate visual and affective processing systems in the macaque

    Ricardo Gil-da-Costa, Allen Braun, Marco Lopes, Marc D. Hauser, Richard E. Carson, Peter Herscovitch, and Alex Martin

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17516-17521; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408077101
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    Evidence that injury-induced changes in hippocampal neuronal calcium dynamics during epileptogenesis cause acquired epilepsy

    Mohsin Raza, Robert E. Blair, Sompong Sombati, Dawn S. Carter, Laxmikant S. Deshpande, and Robert J. DeLorenzo

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17522-17527; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408155101
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    Radial glia give rise to adult neural stem cells in the subventricular zone

    Florian T. Merkle, Anthony D. Tramontin, José Manuel García-Verdugo, and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17528-17532; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407893101

• Physiology

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    Na_v1.5 E1053K mutation causing Brugada syndrome blocks binding to ankyrin-G and expression of Na_v1.5 on the surface of cardiomyocytes

    Peter J. Mohler, Ilaria Rivolta, Carlo Napolitano, Guy LeMaillet, Stephen Lambert, Silvia G. Priori, and Vann Bennett

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17533-17538; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403711101
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    Molecular basis of Kir6.2 mutations associated with neonatal diabetes or neonatal diabetes plus neurological features

    Peter Proks, Jennifer F. Antcliff, Jon Lippiat, Anna L. Gloyn, Andrew T. Hattersley, and Frances M. Ashcroft

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17539-17544; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0404756101
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    Common scale-invariant patterns of sleep–wake transitions across mammalian species

    Chung-Chuan Lo, Thomas Chou, Thomas Penzel, Thomas E. Scammell, Robert E. Strecker, H. Eugene Stanley, and Plamen Ch. Ivanov

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17545-17548; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408242101

• Plant Biology

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    Biography of J. Clark Lagarias

    • Inaugural Article

    Tinsley H. Davis

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17331-17333; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408338102

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    • Harnessing phytochrome's glowing potential

      - Nov 17, 2004
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    Harnessing phytochrome's glowing potential

    • Inaugural Article

    Amanda J. Fischer and J. Clark Lagarias

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17334-17339; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407645101

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    • Biography of J. Clark Lagarias

      - Dec 06, 2004
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    Two perfectly conserved arginine residues are required for substrate binding in a high-affinity nitrate transporter

    Shiela E. Unkles, Duncan A. Rouch, Ye Wang, M. Yaeesh Siddiqi, Anthony D. M. Glass, and James R. Kinghorn

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17549-17554; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405054101
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    Evolution of xylem lignification and hydrogel transport regulation

    C. Kevin Boyce, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, George D. Cody, Chris Jacobsen, Sue Wirick, Andrew H. Knoll, and N. Michele Holbrook

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17555-17558; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408024101

• Population Biology

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    Regulation of behavioral maturation by a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees

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    Isabelle Leoncini, Yves Le Conte, Guy Costagliola, Erika Plettner, Amy L. Toth, Mianwei Wang, Zachary Huang, Jean-Marc Bécard, Didier Crauser, Keith N. Slessor, and Gene E. Robinson

    PNAS December 14, 2004 101 (50) 17559-17564; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407652101