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January 18, 2005; vol. 102 no. 3
In This Issue
- You have accessThis Week in PNAS
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- The neocortical microcircuit as a tabula rasa- Jan 03, 2005
Biography
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
- You have accessThe fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) gate: A time-resolved studyQing-Hua Xu, Shu Wang, Dmitry Korystov, Alexander Mikhailovsky, Guillermo C. Bazan, Daniel Moses, and Alan J. Heeger
Physics
- You have accessFormation and structure of ramified charge transportation networks in an electromechanical systemJoseph K. Jun and Alfred H. Hübler
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessA simple test of expected utility theory using professional tradersJohn A. List and Michael S. Haigh
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessMaize diversity and ethnolinguistic diversity in Chiapas, MexicoHugo R. Perales, Bruce F. Benz, and Stephen B. Brush
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 18, 2005
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- You have accessEnhanced in vivo fitness of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter jejuni in the absence of antibiotic selection pressureNaidan Luo, Sonia Pereira, Orhan Sahin, Jun Lin, Shouxiong Huang, Linda Michel, and Qijing Zhang
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessProfiling the humoral immune response to infection by using proteome microarrays: High-throughput vaccine and diagnostic antigen discoveryD. Huw Davies, Xiaowu Liang, Jenny E. Hernandez, Arlo Randall, Siddiqua Hirst, Yunxiang Mu, Kimberly M. Romero, Toai T. Nguyen, Mina Kalantari-Dehaghi, Shane Crotty, Pierre Baldi, Luis P. Villarreal, and Philip L. Felgner
Biochemistry
- You have accessThe carboligation reaction of acetohydroxyacid synthase II: Steady-state intermediate distributions in wild type and mutants by NMRKai Tittmann, Maria Vyazmensky, Gerhard Hübner, Ze'ev Barak, and David M. Chipman
- You have accessAltered pharmacology and distinct coactivator usage for estrogen receptor-dependent transcription through activating protein-1Edwin Cheung, Mari Luz Acevedo, Philip A. Cole, and W. Lee Kraus
- You have accessThe Birc6 (Bruce) gene regulates p53 and the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis and is essential for mouse embryonic developmentJinyu Ren, Mingan Shi, Renshui Liu, Qi-Heng Yang, Teri Johnson, William C. Skarnes, and Chunying Du
- You have accessIn vitro characterization of IroB, a pathogen-associated C-glycosyltransferase
- From the Cover
Michael A. Fischbach, Hening Lin, David R. Liu, and Christopher T. WalshSee companion article:
- This Week in PNAS- Jan 18, 2005
- Accessorizing natural products: Adding to nature's toolbox- Jan 12, 2005
- You have accessActive site restructuring regulates ligand recognition in class A penicillin-binding proteinsPauline Macheboeuf, Anne Marie Di Guilmi, Viviana Job, Thierry Vernet, Otto Dideberg, and Andréa Dessen
- You have accessZinc fingers as protein recognition motifs: Structural basis for the GATA-1/Friend of GATA interactionChu Kong Liew, Raina J. Y. Simpson, Ann H. Y. Kwan, Linda A. Crofts, Fionna E. Loughlin, Jacqueline M. Matthews, Merlin Crossley, and Joel P. Mackay
- You have accessMethods for strand-specific DNA detection with cationic conjugated polymers suitable for incorporation into DNA chips and microarraysBin Liu and Guillermo C. Bazan
- You have accessHeme-assisted S-nitrosation of a proximal thiolate in a nitric oxide transport proteinAndrzej Weichsel, Estelle M. Maes, John F. Andersen, Jesus G. Valenzuela, Tatjana Kh. Shokhireva, F. Ann Walker, and William R. Montfort
- You have accessInsights into the action of the superfamily of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins from studies of intermedilysinGalina Polekhina, Kara Sue Giddings, Rodney K. Tweten, and Michael W. Parker
- You have accessThermodynamic prediction of protein neutralityJesse D. Bloom, Jonathan J. Silberg, Claus O. Wilke, D. Allan Drummond, Christoph Adami, and Frances H. Arnold
Biophysics
- You have accessConformational changes during the nanosecond-to-millisecond unfolding of ubiquitin
- From the Cover
Hoi Sung Chung, Munira Khalil, Adam W. Smith, Ziad Ganim, and Andrei Tokmakoff - You have accessProtein conformational space in higher order ϕ-Ψ mapsGregory E. Sims, In-Geol Choi, and Sung-Hou Kim
- You have accessSolution NMR-derived global fold of a monomeric 82-kDa enzymeVitali Tugarinov, Wing-Yiu Choy, Vladislav Yu. Orekhov, and Lewis E. Kay
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 18, 2005
- You have accessΦ-Value analysis by molecular dynamics simulations of reversible foldingGiovanni Settanni, Francesco Rao, and Amedeo Caflisch
- You have accessAn interlocked dimeric parallel-stranded DNA quadruplex: A potent inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase
- From the Cover
Anh Tuân Phan, Vitaly Kuryavyi, Jin-Biao Ma, Aurélie Faure, Marie-Line Andréola, and Dinshaw J. Patel - You have accessPrion protein NMR structures of cats, dogs, pigs, and sheepDominikus A. Lysek, Christian Schorn, Lucas G. Nivon, Vicent Esteve-Moya, Barbara Christen, Luigi Calzolai, Christine von Schroetter, Francesco Fiorito, Torsten Herrmann, Peter Güntert, and Kurt Wüthrich
- You have accessPrion protein NMR structures of elk and of mouse/elk hybridsAlvar D. Gossert, Sophie Bonjour, Dominikus A. Lysek, Francesco Fiorito, and Kurt Wüthrich
- You have accessPrion protein NMR structures of chickens, turtles, and frogsLuigi Calzolai, Dominikus A. Lysek, Daniel R. Pérez, Peter Güntert, and Kurt Wüthrich
- You have accessMini-thin filaments regulated by troponin–tropomyosinHuiyu Gong, Victoria Hatch, Laith Ali, William Lehman, Roger Craig, and Larry S. Tobacman
Cell Biology
- You have accessMg2+ as activator of uridine phosphorylation in coordination with other cellular responses to growth factorsCharles Vidair and Harry Rubin
- You have accessQuantitative phosphorylation profiling of the ERK/p90 ribosomal S6 kinase-signaling cassette and its targets, the tuberous sclerosis tumor suppressorsBryan A. Ballif, Philippe P. Roux, Scott A. Gerber, Jeffrey P. MacKeigan, John Blenis, and Steven P. Gygi
- You have accessRole of thioredoxin in the response of normal and transformed cells to histone deacetylase inhibitorsJ. S. Ungerstedt, Y. Sowa, W.-S. Xu, Y. Shao, M. Dokmanovic, G. Perez, L. Ngo, A. Holmgren, X. Jiang, and P. A. Marks
Developmental Biology
- You have accessA saturation screen for cis-acting regulatory DNA in the Hox genes of Ciona intestinalisDavid N. Keys, Byung-in Lee, Anna Di Gregorio, Naoe Harafuji, J. Chris Detter, Mei Wang, Orsalem Kahsai, Sylvia Ahn, Cindy Zhang, Sharon A. Doyle, Noriyuki Satoh, Yutaka Satou, Hidetoshi Saiga, Allen T. Christian, Dan S. Rokhsar, Trevor L. Hawkins, Mike Levine, and Paul M. Richardson
Ecology
- You have accessBody sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationshipsJoel E. Cohen, Tomas Jonsson, Christine B. Müller, H. C. J. Godfray, and Van M. Savage
- You have accessCarbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern CaliforniaJoy K. Ward, John M. Harris, Thure E. Cerling, Alex Wiedenhoeft, Michael J. Lott, Maria-Denise Dearing, Joan B. Coltrain, and James R. Ehleringer
- You have accessDiversity–productivity relationships: Initial effects, long-term patterns, and underlying mechanismsJasper van Ruijven and Frank Berendse
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessEnantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticidesWeiping Liu, Jianying Gan, Daniel Schlenk, and William A. Jury
Evolution
- You have accessRapid evolution of expression and regulatory divergences after yeast gene duplicationXun Gu, Zhongqi Zhang, and Wei Huang
Genetics
- You have accessmtDNA mutations increase tumorigenicity in prostate cancerJohn A. Petros, Amanda K. Baumann, Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini, Mahul B. Amin, Carrie Qi Sun, John Hall, SoDug Lim, Muta M. Issa, W. Dana Flanders, Seyed H. Hosseini, Fray F. Marshall, and Douglas C. Wallace
- You have accessSyncytin-A and syncytin-B, two fusogenic placenta-specific murine envelope genes of retroviral origin conserved in MuridaeAnne Dupressoir, Geoffroy Marceau, Cécile Vernochet, Laurence Bénit, Colette Kanellopoulos, Vincent Sapin, and Thierry Heidmann
- You have accessThe p53 regulatory gene MDM2 is a direct transcriptional target of MYCN in neuroblastomaAndrew Slack, Zaowen Chen, Roberto Tonelli, Martin Pule, Lisa Hunt, Andrea Pession, and Jason M. Shohet
- You have accessDistinct DNA-damage-dependent and -independent responses drive the loss of oocytes in recombination-defective mouse mutantsMonica Di Giacomo, Marco Barchi, Frédéric Baudat, Winfried Edelmann, Scott Keeney, and Maria Jasin
- You have accessTwo cleavage products of the Drosophila accessory gland protein ovulin can independently induce ovulationYael Heifetz, Laura N. Vandenberg, Heather I. Cohn, and Mariana F. Wolfner
Medical Sciences
- You have accessMenin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitorsThomas A. Milne, Christina M. Hughes, Ricardo Lloyd, Zhaohai Yang, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Yali Dou, Robert W. Schnepp, Cynthia Krankel, Virginia A. LiVolsi, Denise Gibbs, Xianxin Hua, Robert G. Roeder, Matthew Meyerson, and Jay L. Hess
- You have accessTumor-targeting bacterial therapy with amino acid auxotrophs of GFP-expressing Salmonella typhimuriumMing Zhao, Meng Yang, Xiao-Ming Li, Ping Jiang, Eugene Baranov, Shukuan Li, Mingxu Xu, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman
- You have accessDissecting the molecular control of endothelial NO synthase by caveolin-1 using cell-permeable peptidesPascal N. Bernatchez, Philip M. Bauer, Jun Yu, Jay S. Prendergast, Pingnian He, and William C. Sessa
- You have accessDual oxidase 1-dependent MUC5AC mucin expression in cultured human airway epithelial cellsMatt X. G. Shao and Jay A. Nadel
- You have accessClearance of hepatitis B virus from the liver of transgenic mice by short hairpin RNAsSusan L. Uprichard, Bryan Boyd, Alana Althage, and Francis V. Chisari
- You have accessUse of targeted glycoproteomics to identify serum glycoproteins that correlate with liver cancer in woodchucks and humansTimothy M. Block, Mary Ann Comunale, Melissa Lowman, Laura F. Steel, Patrick R. Romano, Claus Fimmel, Bud C. Tennant, W. Thomas London, Alison A. Evans, Baruch S. Blumberg, Raymond A. Dwek, Tajinder S. Mattu, and Anand S. Mehta
- You have accessHypertension in mice lacking the proatrial natriuretic peptide convertase corinJoyce C. Y. Chan, Ole Knudson, Faye Wu, John Morser, William P. Dole, and Qingyu Wu
- You have accessDistinct roles of insulin and liver X receptor in the induction and cleavage of sterol regulatory elementbinding protein-1c
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Bronwyn D. Hegarty, Alexandre Bobard, Isabelle Hainault, Pascal Ferré, Pascale Bossard, and Fabienne Foufelle - You have accessEvasion of antibody neutralization in emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirusesZhi-yong Yang, Heidi C. Werner, Wing-pui Kong, Kwanyee Leung, Elisabetta Traggiai, Antonio Lanzavecchia, and Gary J. Nabel
- You have accessPhosphatidylinositol 3-kinase mutations identified in human cancer are oncogenicSohye Kang, Andreas G. Bader, and Peter K. Vogt
- You have accessATP flux through creatine kinase in the normal, stressed, and failing human heartRobert G. Weiss, Gary Gerstenblith, and Paul A. Bottomley
Microbiology
- You have accessA genetic approach to the de novo identification of targets of strain-specific immunity in malaria parasitesAxel Martinelli, Sandra Cheesman, Paul Hunt, Richard Culleton, Ahmed Raza, Margaret Mackinnon, and Richard Carter
- You have accessEpstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 does not induce lymphoma in transgenic FVB miceMyung-Soo Kang, Hongxiang Lu, Teruhito Yasui, Arlene Sharpe, Henry Warren, Ellen Cahir-McFarland, Roderick Bronson, Siu Chun Hung, and Elliott Kieff
- You have accessA C-terminal translocation signal required for Dot/Icm-dependent delivery of the Legionella RalF protein to host cellsHiroki Nagai, Eric D. Cambronne, Jonathan C. Kagan, Juan Carlos Amor, Richard A. Kahn, and Craig R. Roy
- You have accessPositive charge is an important feature of the C-terminal transport signal of the VirB/D4-translocated proteins of AgrobacteriumAnnette C. Vergunst, Miranda C. M. van Lier, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Thomas A. Grosse Stüve, Anette Ouwehand, and Paul J. J. Hooykaas
- You have accessThe genome of the heartwater agent Ehrlichia ruminantium contains multiple tandem repeats of actively variable copy numberNicola E. Collins, Junita Liebenberg, Etienne P. de Villiers, Kelly A. Brayton, Elmarié Louw, Alri Pretorius, F. Erika Faber, Henriette van Heerden, Antoinette Josemans, Mirinda van Kleef, Helena C. Steyn, M. Fransie van Strijp, Erich Zweygarth, Frans Jongejan, Jean Charles Maillard, David Berthier, Marli Botha, Fourie Joubert, Craig H. Corton, Nicholas R. Thomson, Maria T. Allsopp, and Basil A. Allsopp
- You have accessComplete genome sequencing of Anaplasma marginale reveals that the surface is skewed to two superfamilies of outer membrane proteinsKelly A. Brayton, Lowell S. Kappmeyer, David R. Herndon, Michael J. Dark, David L. Tibbals, Guy H. Palmer, Travis C. McGuire, and Donald P. Knowles Jr.
- You have accessDiscovery of a free-living chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium with a hybrid proteobacterial/cyanobacterial small-subunit rRNA geneScott R. Miller, Sunny Augustine, Tien Le Olson, Robert E. Blankenship, Jeanne Selker, and A. Michelle Wood
- You have accessA bipartite signal mediates the transfer of type IV secretion substrates of Bartonella henselae into human cellsRalf Schulein, Patrick Guye, Thomas A. Rhomberg, Michael C. Schmid, Gunnar Schröder, Annette C. Vergunst, Ilaria Carena, and Christoph Dehio
Neuroscience
- You have accessMicrostimulation of the superior colliculus focuses attention without moving the eyes
- Inaugural Article
James R. Müller, Marios G. Philiastides, and William T. NewsomeSee companion article:
- Biography of William T. Newsome- Jan 12, 2005
- You have accessA hematopoietic growth factor, thrombopoietin, has a proapoptotic role in the brainHannelore Ehrenreich, Martin Hasselblatt, Friederike Knerlich, Nico von Ahsen, Sonja Jacob, Swetlana Sperling, Helge Woldt, Katalin Vehmeyer, Klaus-Armin Nave, and Anna-Leena Sirén
- You have accessCalcineurin/NFAT-induced up-regulation of the Fas ligand/Fas death pathway is involved in methamphetamine-induced neuronal apoptosisSubramaniam Jayanthi, Xiaolin Deng, Bruce Ladenheim, Michael T. McCoy, Andrew Cluster, Ning-sheng Cai, and Jean Lud Cadet
- You have accessA role for galanin in antidepressant actions with a focus on the dorsal raphe nucleusXiaoying Lu, Alasdair M. Barr, Jefferson W. Kinney, Pietro Sanna, Bruno Conti, M. Margarita Behrens, and Tamas Bartfai
- You have accessThe neocortical microcircuit as a tabula rasaNir Kalisman, Gilad Silberberg, and Henry Markram
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 18, 2005
- You have accessNotch-1 activation and dendritic atrophy in prion diseaseNako Ishikura, Jared L. Clever, Essia Bouzamondo-Bernstein, Erik Samayoa, Stanley B. Prusiner, Eric J. Huang, and Stephen J. DeArmond
- You have accessA potent small molecule inhibits polyglutamine aggregation in Huntington's disease neurons and suppresses neurodegeneration in vivoXiaoqian Zhang, Donna L. Smith, Anatoli B. Meriin, Sabine Engemann, Deborah E. Russel, Margo Roark, Shetia L. Washington, Michele M. Maxwell, J. Lawrence Marsh, Leslie Michels Thompson, Erich E. Wanker, Anne B. Young, David E. Housman, Gillian P. Bates, Michael Y. Sherman, and Aleksey G. Kazantsev
- You have accessA cortico-cortical mechanism mediating object-driven grasp in humansL. Cattaneo, M. Voss, T. Brochier, G. Prabhu, D. M. Wolpert, and R. N. Lemon
Pharmacology
- You have accessEndothelial nitric oxide synthase activation is critical for vascular leakage during acute inflammation in vivoMariarosaria Bucci, Fiorentina Roviezzo, Inmaculada Posadas, Jun Yu, Luca Parente, William C. Sessa, Louis J. Ignarro, and Giuseppe Cirino
- You have accessPhosphodiesterase 4D is required for β2 adrenoceptor subtype-specific signaling in cardiac myocytesYang Xiang, Fabio Naro, Maria Zoudilova, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marco Conti, and Brian Kobilka
- You have accessDifferent GABAA receptor subtypes mediate the anxiolytic, abuse-related, and motor effects of benzodiazepine-like drugs in primatesJames K. Rowlett, Donna M. Platt, Snjezana Lelas, John R. Atack, and Gerard R. Dawson
Physiology
- You have accessFluorescent imaging of Cl- in Amphiuma red blood cells: How the nuclear exclusion of Cl- affects the plasma membrane potentialJoseph F. Hoffman and John P. Geibel
- You have accessRapid hyperosmotic coinduction of two tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) transcription factors in gill cellsDiego F. Fiol and Dietmar Kültz
Plant Biology
- You have accessThe nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowers
- From the Cover
Natalia Dudareva, Susanna Andersson, Irina Orlova, Nathalie Gatto, Michael Reichelt, David Rhodes, Wilhelm Boland, and Jonathan Gershenzon
Psychology
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