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January 25, 2005; vol. 102 no. 4
In This Issue
- You have accessThis Week in PNAS
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- The economics of ideas and intellectual property- Jan 18, 2005
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
- You have accessPlanar-to-tubular structural transition in boron clusters: B20 as the embryo of single-walled boron nanotubes
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Boggavarapu Kiran, Satya Bulusu, Hua-Jin Zhai, Soohaeng Yoo, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Lai-Sheng Wang - You have accessA fluorescent probe designed for studying protein conformational changeBruce E. Cohen, Arnd Pralle, XiaoJie Yao, Gayathri Swaminath, Chris S. Gandhi, Yuh Nung Jan, Brian K. Kobilka, Ehud Y. Isacoff, and Lily Y. Jan
- You have accessMesoscopic self-organization of a self-assembled supramolecular rectangle on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and Au(111) surfacesJian-Ru Gong, Li-Jun Wan, Qun-Hui Yuan, Chun-Li Bai, Hershel Jude, and Peter J. Stang
- You have accessDirecting cell migration with asymmetric micropatternsXingyu Jiang, Derek A. Bruzewicz, Amy P. Wong, Matthieu Piel, and George M. Whitesides
Geology
- You have accessNanoscale environments associated with bioweathering of a Mg-Fe-pyroxeneKarim Benzerara, Tae Hyun Yoon, Nicolas Menguy, Tolek Tyliszczak, and Gordon E. Brown Jr.
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessThe economics of ideas and intellectual propertyMichele Boldrin and David K. Levine
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 25, 2005
Psychology
- You have accessRedefining implicit and explicit memory: The functional neuroanatomy of priming, remembering, and control of retrievalBjörn H. Schott, Richard N. Henson, Alan Richardson-Klavehn, Christine Becker, Volker Thoma, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and Emrah Düzel
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessMetabolizing enzyme toxicology assay chip (MetaChip) for high-throughput microscale toxicity analyses
- From the Cover
Moo-Yeal Lee, Chan Beum Park, Jonathan S. Dordick, and Douglas S. Clark
Biochemistry
- You have accessBreaking sieve for steric exclusion of a noncognate amino acid from active site of a tRNA synthetaseManal A. Swairjo and Paul R. Schimmel
- You have accessStatistical coevolution analysis and molecular dynamics: Identification of amino acid pairs essential for catalysisR. August Estabrook, Jia Luo, Matthew M. Purdy, Vyas Sharma, Paul Weakliem, Thomas C. Bruice, and Norbert O. Reich
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 25, 2005
- You have accessHuman maintenance DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase and p53 modulate expression of p53-repressed promotersPierre-Olivier Estève, Hang Gyeong Chin, and Sriharsa Pradhan
- You have accessα-Lytic protease can exist in two separately stable conformations with different His57 mobilities and catalytic activitiesKristin Coffman Haddad, James L. Sudmeier, Daniel A. Bachovchin, and William W. Bachovchin
- You have accessCharacterization of potential selenium-binding proteins in the selenophosphate synthetase systemYuki Ogasawara, Gerard M. Lacourciere, Kazuyuki Ishii, and Thressa C. Stadtman
- You have accessReconstitution of uridine-deletion precleaved RNA editing with two recombinant enzymesXuedong Kang, Kestrel Rogers, Guanghan Gao, Arnold M. Falick, Sharleen Zhou, and Larry Simpson
- You have accessAltering the interaction between σ70 and RNA polymerase generates complexes with distinct transcription-elongation propertiesYvonne Berghöfer-Hochheimer, Chi Zen Lu, and Carol A. Gross
Biophysics
- You have accessA fluorescent probe designed for studying protein conformational changeBruce E. Cohen, Arnd Pralle, XiaoJie Yao, Gayathri Swaminath, Chris S. Gandhi, Yuh Nung Jan, Brian K. Kobilka, Ehud Y. Isacoff, and Lily Y. Jan
- You have accessA partial atomic structure for the flagellar hook of Salmonella typhimuriumTanvir R. Shaikh, Dennis R. Thomas, James Z. Chen, Fadel A. Samatey, Hideyuki Matsunami, Katsumi Imada, Keiichi Namba, and David J. DeRosier
- You have accessThe protein structure prediction problem could be solved using the current PDB libraryYang Zhang and Jeffrey Skolnick
- You have accessProbing counterion modulated repulsion and attraction between nucleic acid duplexes in solutionYu Bai, Rhiju Das, Ian S. Millett, Daniel Herschlag, and Sebastian Doniach
- You have accessDevelopment and evaluation of a microdevice for amino acid biomarker detection and analysis on MarsAlison M. Skelley, James R. Scherer, Andrew D. Aubrey, William H. Grover, Robin H. C. Ivester, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Frank J. Grunthaner, Jeffrey L. Bada, and Richard A. Mathies
- You have accessIn vivo modulation of morphogenetic movements in Drosophila embryos with femtosecond laser pulsesWilly Supatto, Delphine Débarre, Bruno Moulia, Eric Brouzés, Jean-Louis Martin, Emmanuel Farge, and Emmanuel Beaurepaire
- You have accessThe N-terminal to C-terminal motif in protein folding and functionMallela M. G. Krishna and S. Walter Englander
Cell Biology
- You have accessTargeting gene expression selectively in cancer cells by using the progression-elevated gene-3 promoterZhao-Zhong Su, Devanand Sarkar, Luni Emdad, Gregory J. Duigou, Charles S. H. Young, Joy Ware, Aaron Randolph, Kristoffer Valerie, and Paul B. Fisher
- You have accessDNA damage-induced mitotic catastrophe is mediated by the Chk1-dependent mitotic exit DNA damage checkpointXingxu Huang, Thanh Tran, Lingna Zhang, Rashieda Hatcher, and Pumin Zhang
- You have accessAge-specific incidence of inherited versus sporadic cancers: A test of the multistage theory of carcinogenesisSteven A. Frank
Developmental Biology
- You have accessEssential role of Flk-1 (VEGF receptor 2) tyrosine residue 1173 in vasculogenesis in miceYoshiko Sakurai, Kaori Ohgimoto, Yuki Kataoka, Nobuaki Yoshida, and Masabumi Shibuya
- You have accessRequirement for serum response factor for skeletal muscle growth and maturation revealed by tissue-specific gene deletion in miceShijie Li, Michael P. Czubryt, John McAnally, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, James A. Richardson, Franziska F. Wiebel, Alfred Nordheim, and Eric N. Olson
Ecology
- You have accessRecent biological invasion may hasten invasional meltdown by accelerating historical introductionsEdwin D. Grosholz
Evolution
- You have accessElevated evolutionary rates in the laboratory strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiaeZhenglong Gu, Lior David, Dmitri Petrov, Ted Jones, Ronald W. Davis, and Lars M. Steinmetz
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 25, 2005
Genetics
- You have accessAbelson-interactor-1 promotes WAVE2 membrane translocation and Abelson-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation required for WAVE2 activationYan Leng, Jinyi Zhang, Karen Badour, Enrico Arpaia, Spencer Freeman, Pam Cheung, Michael Siu, and Katherine Siminovitch
- You have accessAML1-ETO and C-KIT mutation/overexpression in t(8;21) leukemia: Implication in stepwise leukemogenesis and response to GleevecYue-Ying Wang, Guang-Biao Zhou, Tong Yin, Bing Chen, Jing-Yi Shi, Wen-Xue Liang, Xiao-Long Jin, Jian-Hua You, Guang Yang, Zhi-Xiang Shen, Jue Chen, Shu-Min Xiong, Guo-Qiang Chen, Feng Xu, Yi-Wei Liu, Zhu Chen, and Sai-Juan Chen
- You have accessHuman Fanconi anemia monoubiquitination pathway promotes homologous DNA repairKoji Nakanishi, Yun-Gui Yang, Andrew J. Pierce, Toshiyasu Taniguchi, Martin Digweed, Alan D. D'Andrea, Zhao-Qi Wang, and Maria Jasin
Immunology
- You have accessA coreceptor interaction between the CD28 and TNF receptor family members B and T lymphocyte attenuator and herpesvirus entry mediatorLino C. Gonzalez, Kelly M. Loyet, Jill Calemine-Fenaux, Vandana Chauhan, Bernd Wranik, Wenjun Ouyang, and Dan L. Eaton
- You have accessDrosophila peptidoglycan recognition protein LC (PGRP-LC) acts as a signal-transducing innate immune receptorKwang-Min Choe, Hyangkyu Lee, and Kathryn V. Anderson
- You have accessGlycolipid presentation to natural killer T cells differs in an organ-dependent fashionJohn Schmieg, Guangli Yang, Richard W. Franck, Nico Van Rooijen, and Moriya Tsuji
Medical Sciences
- You have accessDirecting oncogenic fusion genes into stem cells via an SCL enhancerMariko Eguchi, Minenori Eguchi-Ishimae, Anthony Green, Tariq Enver, and Mel Greaves
- You have accessClonal expansion of hepatocytes during chronic woodchuck hepatitis virus infectionWilliam S. Mason, Allison R. Jilbert, and Jesse Summers
- You have accessImaging bacterial infections with radiolabeled 1-(2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-β-D-arabinofuranosyl)-5-iodouracil
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Chetan Bettegowda, Catherine A. Foss, Ian Cheong, Yuchuan Wang, Luis Diaz, Nishant Agrawal, James Fox, James Dick, Long H. Dang, Shibin Zhou, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, and Martin G. Pomper - You have accessMutation of the androgen receptor causes oncogenic transformation of the prostateGuangzhou Han, Grant Buchanan, Michael Ittmann, Jonathan M. Harris, Xiaoqing Yu, Francesco J. DeMayo, Wayne Tilley, and Norman M. Greenberg
Microbiology
- You have accessAltering the interaction between σ70 and RNA polymerase generates complexes with distinct transcription-elongation propertiesYvonne Berghöfer-Hochheimer, Chi Zen Lu, and Carol A. Gross
- You have accessPathogenic hantaviruses bind plexin–semaphorin–integrin domains present at the apex of inactive, bent αvβ3 integrin conformersTracy Raymond, Elena Gorbunova, Irina N. Gavrilovskaya, and Erich R. Mackow
- You have accessEsxA and EsxB are secreted by an ESAT-6-like system that is required for the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infectionsMonica L. Burts, Wade A. Williams, Kristin DeBord, and Dominique M. Missiakas
- You have accessExpression of a viral polymerase-bound host factor turns human cell lines permissive to a plant- and insect-infecting virusRicardo B. de Medeiros, Juliana Figueiredo, Renato de O. Resende, and Antonio C. De Avila
Neuroscience
- You have accessVisual speech speeds up the neural processing of auditory speechVirginie van Wassenhove, Ken W. Grant, and David Poeppel
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- This Week in PNAS- Jan 25, 2005
- You have accessA form of DISC1 enriched in nucleus: Altered subcellular distribution in orbitofrontal cortex in psychosis and substance/alcohol abuseNaoya Sawamura, Takako Sawamura-Yamamoto, Yuji Ozeki, Christopher A. Ross, and Akira Sawa
- You have accessLoss of perivascular aquaporin 4 may underlie deficient water and K+ homeostasis in the human epileptogenic hippocampusTore Eid, Tih-Shih W. Lee, Marion J. Thomas, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Lars P. Bjørnsen, Dennis D. Spencer, Peter Agre, Ole P. Ottersen, and Nihal C. de Lanerolle
- You have accessGlutamate regulation of DARPP-32 phosphorylation in neostriatal neurons involves activation of multiple signaling cascadesAkinori Nishi, Yasuo Watanabe, Hideho Higashi, Masatoshi Tanaka, Angus C. Nairn, and Paul Greengard
- You have accessGenetic deletion of the Nogo receptor does not reduce neurite inhibition in vitro or promote corticospinal tract regeneration in vivo
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Binhai Zheng, Jasvinder Atwal, Carole Ho, Lauren Case, Xiao-lin He, K. Christopher Garcia, Oswald Steward, and Marc Tessier-LavigneSee companion article:
- This Week in PNAS- Jan 25, 2005
- You have accessGene delivery of human apolipoprotein E alters brain Aβ burden in a mouse model of Alzheimer's diseaseJean-Cosme Dodart, Robert A. Marr, Milla Koistinaho, Beth M. Gregersen, Seema Malkani, Inder M. Verma, and Steven M. Paul
- You have accessRhabdomeric phototransduction initiated by the vertebrate photopigment melanopsinMauro Cesar Isoldi, Mark D. Rollag, Ana Maria de Lauro Castrucci, and Ignacio Provencio
- You have accessMelatonin synthesis: 14-3-3-dependent activation and inhibition of arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase mediated by phosphoserine-205Surajit Ganguly, Joan L. Weller, Anthony Ho, Philippe Chemineau, Benoit Malpaux, and David C. Klein
- You have accessNatural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientationCatherine Q. Howe and Dale Purves
- You have accessThe Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image–source relationshipsCatherine Q. Howe and Dale Purves
- You have accessRedefining implicit and explicit memory: The functional neuroanatomy of priming, remembering, and control of retrievalBjörn H. Schott, Richard N. Henson, Alan Richardson-Klavehn, Christine Becker, Volker Thoma, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and Emrah Düzel
Physiology
- You have accessInsulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) mediates hypoxia-induced embryonic growth and developmental retardation
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Shingo Kajimura, Katsumi Aida, and Cunming Duan
Psychology
Commentary
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