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Biological Sciences

• Agricultural Sciences

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    An alternative strategy for sustainable pest resistance in genetically enhanced crops

    Luke Mehlo, Daphrose Gahakwa, Pham Trung Nghia, Nguyen Thi Loc, Teresa Capell, John A. Gatehouse, Angharad M. R. Gatehouse, and Paul Christou

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7812-7816; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502871102

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• Applied Biological Sciences

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    Differential adhesion of amino acids to inorganic surfaces

    R. L. Willett, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, and L. N. Pfeiffer

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7817-7822; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408565102

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• Biochemistry

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    DksA potentiates direct activation of amino acid promoters by ppGpp

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    Brian J. Paul, Melanie B. Berkmen, and Richard L. Gourse

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7823-7828; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501170102

• Biophysics

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    A quantum mechanical polarizable force field for biomolecular interactions

    A. G. Donchev, V. D. Ozrin, M. V. Subbotin, O. V. Tarasov, and V. I. Tarasov

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7829-7834; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502962102
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    Theoretical model of prion propagation: A misfolded protein induces misfolding

    Edyta Małolepsza, Michał Boniecki, Andrzej Kolinski, and Lucjan Piela

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7835-7840; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409389102
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    Topological units of environmental signal processing in the transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli

    G. Balázsi, A.-L. Barabási, and Z. N. Oltvai

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7841-7846; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500365102
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    Stress release drives symmetry breaking for actin-based movement

    Jasper van der Gucht, Ewa Paluch, Julie Plastino, and Cécile Sykes

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7847-7852; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502121102

• Cell Biology

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    A vital role of tubulin-tyrosine-ligase for neuronal organization

    Christian Erck, Leticia Peris, Annie Andrieux, Claire Meissirel, Achim D. Gruber, Muriel Vernet, Annie Schweitzer, Yasmina Saoudi, Hervé Pointu, Christophe Bosc, Paul A. Salin, Didier Job, and Juergen Wehland

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7853-7858; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409626102
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    Targeted expression of the inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor (IP₃R) ligand-binding domain releases Ca²⁺ via endogenous IP₃R channels

    Péter Várnai, András Balla, László Hunyady, and Tamas Balla

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7859-7864; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407535102

• Developmental Biology

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    Epigenetic programming in the preimplantation rat embryo is disrupted by chronic paternal cyclophosphamide exposure

    Tara S. Barton, Bernard Robaire, and Barbara F. Hales

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7865-7870; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501200102

• Ecology

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    Source pool geometry and the assembly of continental avifaunas

    Gary R. Graves and Carsten Rahbek

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7871-7876; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500424102

• Evolution

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    Deep history impacts present-day ecology and biodiversity

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    Laurie J. Vitt and Eric R. Pianka

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7877-7881; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501104102

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      - May 31, 2005
    • Historical influences on community ecology

      - Jun 06, 2005
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    Simultaneous inference of selection and population growth from patterns of variation in the human genome

    Scott H. Williamson, Ryan Hernandez, Adi Fledel-Alon, Lan Zhu, Rasmus Nielsen, and Carlos D. Bustamante

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7882-7887; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502300102

• Genetics

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    Establishing genetic transformation for comparative developmental studies in the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

    Anastasios Pavlopoulos and Michalis Averof

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7888-7893; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501101102
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    A missense mutation in the previously undescribed gene Tmhs underlies deafness in hurry-scurry (hscy) mice

    Chantal M. Longo-Guess, Leona H. Gagnon, Susan A. Cook, Jian Wu, Qing Y. Zheng, and Kenneth R. Johnson

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7894-7899; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500760102
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    Subtree power analysis and species selection for comparative genomics

    Jon D. McAuliffe, Michael I. Jordan, and Lior Pachter

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7900-7905; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502790102
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    No association between microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) haplotype and longevity in humans

    Almut Nebel, Peter J. P. Croucher, Rieke Stiegeler, Susanna Nikolaus, Michael Krawczak, and Stefan Schreiber

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7906-7909; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408670102

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• Immunology

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    Involvement of clathrin and AP-2 in the trafficking of MHC class II molecules to antigen-processing compartments

    Peter J. McCormick, José A. Martina, and Juan S. Bonifacino

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7910-7915; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502206102
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    Characterization of subsets of CD4⁺ memory T cells reveals early branched pathways of T cell differentiation in humans

    Kaimei Song, Ronald L. Rabin, Brenna J. Hill, Stephen C. De Rosa, Stephen P. Perfetto, Hongwei H. Zhang, John F. Foley, Jeffrey S. Reiner, Jie Liu, Joseph J. Mattapallil, Daniel C. Douek, Mario Roederer, and Joshua M. Farber

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7916-7921; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409720102
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    Autophagy promotes MHC class II presentation of peptides from intracellular source proteins

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    Jörn Dengjel, Oliver Schoor, Rainer Fischer, Michael Reich, Marianne Kraus, Margret Müller, Katharina Kreymborg, Florian Altenberend, Jens Brandenburg, Hubert Kalbacher, Roland Brock, Christoph Driessen, Hans-Georg Rammensee, and Stefan Stevanovic

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7922-7927; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501190102

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    • Autophagy and intracellular surveillance: Modulating MHC class II antigen presentation with stress

      - May 23, 2005
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    Activated antigen-presenting cells select and present chemically modified peptides recognized by unique CD4 T cells

    Jeremy Herzog, Yoichi Maekawa, Thomas P. Cirrito, Beverly S. Illian, and Emil R. Unanue

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7928-7933; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502255102
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    A critical role of T cell antigen receptor-transduced MHC class I-restricted helper T cells in tumor protection

    Emma C. Morris, Aristotle Tsallios, Gavin M. Bendle, Shao-an Xue, and Hans J. Stauss

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7934-7939; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500357102
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    Identification of cancer/testis-antigen genes by massively parallel signature sequencing

    Yao-Tseng Chen, Matthew J. Scanlan, Charis A. Venditti, Ramon Chua, Gregory Theiler, Brian J. Stevenson, Christian Iseli, Ali O. Gure, Tom Vasicek, Robert L. Strausberg, C. Victor Jongeneel, Lloyd J. Old, and Andrew J. G. Simpson

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7940-7945; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502583102

• Medical Sciences

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    Cell membrane-specific epitopes on CD30: Potentially superior targets for immunotherapy

    Satoshi Nagata, Tomoko Ise, Masanori Onda, Kazuyasu Nakamura, Mitchell Ho, Andrew Raubitschek, and Ira H. Pastan

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7946-7951; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502975102
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    Microbes on the human vaginal epithelium

    Richard W. Hyman, Marilyn Fukushima, Lisa Diamond, Jochen Kumm, Linda C. Giudice, and Ronald W. Davis

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7952-7957; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503236102
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    Anthrax lethal factor inhibition

    W. L. Shoop, Y. Xiong, J. Wiltsie, A. Woods, J. Guo, J. V. Pivnichny, T. Felcetto, B. F. Michael, A. Bansal, R. T. Cummings, B. R. Cunningham, A. M. Friedlander, C. M. Douglas, S. B. Patel, D. Wisniewski, G. Scapin, S. P. Salowe, D. M. Zaller, K. T. Chapman, E. M. Scolnick, D. M. Schmatz, K. Bartizal, M. MacCoss, and J. D. Hermes

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7958-7963; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502159102
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    Cell-replacement therapy for diabetes: Generating functional insulin-producing tissue from adult human liver cells

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    Tamar Sapir, Keren Shternhall, Irit Meivar-Levy, Tamar Blumenfeld, Hamutal Cohen, Ehud Skutelsky, Smadar Eventov-Friedman, Iris Barshack, Iris Goldberg, Sarah Pri-Chen, Lya Ben-Dor, Sylvie Polak-Charcon, Avraham Karasik, Ilan Shimon, Eytan Mor, and Sarah Ferber

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7964-7969; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405277102

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      - May 23, 2005
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    MB06322 (CS-917): A potent and selective inhibitor of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase for controlling gluconeogenesis in type 2 diabetes

    Mark D. Erion, Paul D. van Poelje, Qun Dang, Srinivas Rao Kasibhatla, Scott C. Potter, M. Rami Reddy, K. Raja Reddy, Tao Jiang, and William N. Lipscomb

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7970-7975; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502983102
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    Synergistic effects of light-emitting probes and peptides for targeting and monitoring integrin expression

    Samuel Achilefu, Sharon Bloch, Mary A. Markiewicz, Tuoxiu Zhong, Yunpeng Ye, Richard B. Dorshow, Britton Chance, and Kexian Liang

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7976-7981; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503500102

• Microbiology

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    The antiretroviral activity of APOBEC3 is inhibited by the foamy virus accessory Bet protein

    Martin Löchelt, Fabian Romen, Patrizia Bastone, Heide Muckenfuss, Nadine Kirchner, Yong-Boum Kim, Uwe Truyen, Uwe Rösler, Marion Battenberg, Ali Saib, Egbert Flory, Klaus Cichutek, and Carsten Münk

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7982-7987; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501445102
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    Human coronavirus NL63 employs the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus receptor for cellular entry

    Heike Hofmann, Krzysztof Pyrc, Lia van der Hoek, Martina Geier, Ben Berkhout, and Stefan Pöhlmann

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7988-7993; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409465102
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    Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters

    Nathan D. Wolfe, Walid Heneine, Jean K. Carr, Albert D. Garcia, Vedapuri Shanmugam, Ubald Tamoufe, Judith N. Torimiro, A. Tassy Prosser, Matthew LeBreton, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole, Francine E. McCutchan, Deborah L. Birx, Thomas M. Folks, Donald S. Burke, and William M. Switzer

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 7994-7999; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501734102
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    Resting naïve CD4⁺ T cells are massively infected and eliminated by X4-tropic simian–human immunodeficiency viruses in macaques

    Yoshiaki Nishimura, Charles R. Brown, Joseph J. Mattapallil, Tatsuhiko Igarashi, Alicia Buckler-White, Bernard A. P. Lafont, Vanessa M. Hirsch, Mario Roederer, and Malcolm A. Martin

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8000-8005; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503233102
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    ExsE, a secreted regulator of type III secretion genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Arne Rietsch, Isabelle Vallet-Gely, Simon L. Dove, and John J. Mekalanos

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8006-8011; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503005102
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    Rapid identification and strain-typing of respiratory pathogens for epidemic surveillance

    David J. Ecker, Rangarajan Sampath, Lawrence B. Blyn, Mark W. Eshoo, Cristina Ivy, Joseph A. Ecker, Brian Libby, Vivek Samant, Kristin A. Sannes-Lowery, Rachael E. Melton, Kevin Russell, Nikki Freed, Chris Barrozo, Jianguo Wu, Karl Rudnick, Anjali Desai, Emily Moradi, Duane J. Knize, David W. Robbins, James C. Hannis, Patina M. Harrell, Christian Massire, Thomas A. Hall, Yun Jiang, Raymond Ranken, Jared J. Drader, Neill White, John A. McNeil, Stanley T. Crooke, and Steven A. Hofstadler

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8012-8017; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409920102
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    Conserved modular design of an oxygen sensory/signaling network with species-specific output

    Sean Crosson, Patrick T. McGrath, Craig Stephens, Harley H. McAdams, and Lucy Shapiro

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8018-8023; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503022102

• Neuroscience

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    Increased glutathione S-transferase activity rescues dopaminergic neuron loss in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease

    Alexander J. Whitworth, Dorothy A. Theodore, Jessica C. Greene, Helen Beneš, Paul D. Wes, and Leo J. Pallanck

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8024-8029; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501078102
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    Carbonic anhydrase XIV is enriched in specific membrane domains of retinal pigment epithelium, Müller cells, and astrocytes

    Erlend A. Nagelhus, Thomas M. Mathiisen, Allen C. Bateman, Finn-M. Haug, Ole P. Ottersen, Jeffrey H. Grubb, Abdul Waheed, and William S. Sly

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8030-8035; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503021102
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    Replaceable neurons and neurodegenerative disease share depressed UCHL1 levels

    Anthony J. Lombardino, Xiao-Ching Li, Moritz Hertel, and Fernando Nottebohm

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8036-8041; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503239102

• Pharmacology

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    P2Y₁ receptor signaling is controlled by interaction with the PDZ scaffold NHERF-2

    Sami R. Fam, Maryse Paquet, Amanda M. Castleberry, Heide Oller, C. Justin Lee, Stephen F. Traynelis, Yoland Smith, C. Chris Yun, and Randy A. Hall

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8042-8047; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408818102

• Physiology

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    Epidermal growth factor prevents prepartum luteolysis in the rat

    M. L. Ribeiro, J. Aisemberg, S. Billi, M. G. Farina, R. Meiss, S. McCann, V. Rettori, M. Villalón, and A. M. Franchi

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8048-8053; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502899102

• Plant Biology

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    A central role for S-nitrosothiols in plant disease resistance

    Angela Feechan, Eunjung Kwon, Byung-Wook Yun, Yiqin Wang, Jacqueline A. Pallas, and Gary J. Loake

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8054-8059; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501456102
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    Loblolly pine abietadienol/abietadienal oxidase PtAO (CYP720B1) is a multifunctional, multisubstrate cytochrome P450 monooxygenase

    Dae-Kyun Ro, Gen-Ichiro Arimura, Stephen Y. W. Lau, Edward Piers, and Jörg Bohlmann

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8060-8065; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500825102
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    Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization

    Sonia Güimil, Hur-Song Chang, Tong Zhu, Ane Sesma, Anne Osbourn, Christophe Roux, Vassilios Ioannidis, Edward J. Oakeley, Mylène Docquier, Patrick Descombes, Steven P. Briggs, and Uta Paszkowski

    PNAS May 31, 2005 102 (22) 8066-8070; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502999102