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May 23, 2006; vol. 103 no. 21
This Week in PNAS
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women- May 16, 2006
Profile
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessHierarchical structures induce long-range dynamical correlations in written textsE. Alvarez-Lacalle, B. Dorow, J.-P. Eckmann, and E. Moses
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- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessCounterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization and dynamicsThomas E. Angelini, Ramin Golestanian, Robert H. Coridan, John C. Butler, Alexandre Beraud, Michael Krisch, Harald Sinn, Kenneth S. Schweizer, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Chemistry
- You have accessDifferentiation of proteins based on characteristic patterns of association and denaturation in solutions of SDSKatherine L. Gudiksen, Irina Gitlin, and George M. Whitesides
- You have accessTetrahedral structure or chains for liquid waterTeresa Head-Gordon and Margaret E. Johnson
- You have accessUnderstanding the bacterial polysaccharide antigenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae versus Streptococcus pneumoniaeRenuka Kadirvelraj, Jorge Gonzalez-Outeiriño, B. Lachele Foley, Meredith L. Beckham, Harold J. Jennings, Simon Foote, Michael G. Ford, and Robert J. Woods
Physics
- You have accessVelocity of vortices in inhomogeneous Bose–Einstein condensatesHalvor M. Nilsen, Gordon Baym, and C. J. Pethick
- Open AccessSalt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactionsHoria I. Petrache, Thomas Zemb, Luc Belloni, and V. Adrian Parsegian
Statistics
- Open AccessSpin glasses and fragile glasses: Statics, dynamics, and complexity
- Inaugural Article
Giorgio ParisiSee companion article:
- Profile of Giorgio Parisi- May 16, 2006
- You have accessBayesian error analysis model for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networksNing Sun, Raymond J. Carroll, and Hongyu Zhao
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- Open AccessComplex genetic networks underlying the defensive system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzaeZ. K. Li, M. Arif, D. B. Zhong, B. Y. Fu, J. L. Xu, J. Domingo-Rey, J. Ali, C. H. M. Vijayakumar, S. B. Yu, and G. S. Khush
- You have accessκ-Casein-deficient mice fail to lactateP. Chandra Shekar, Sandeep Goel, S. Deepa Selvi Rani, D. Partha Sarathi, Jomini Liza Alex, Shashi Singh, and Satish Kumar
Anthropology
- You have accessHotspots for copy number variation in chimpanzees and humansGeorge H. Perry, Joelle Tchinda, Sean D. McGrath, Junjun Zhang, Simon R. Picker, Angela M. Cáceres, A. John Iafrate, Chris Tyler-Smith, Stephen W. Scherer, Evan E. Eichler, Anne C. Stone, and Charles Lee
- You have accessSerial coalescent simulations suggest a weak genealogical relationship between Etruscans and modern TuscansElise M. S. Belle, Uma Ramakrishnan, Joanna L. Mountain, and Guido Barbujani
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessProduction of knockout mice by random or targeted mutagenesis in spermatogonial stem cells
- From the Cover
Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara, Masahito Ikawa, Masanori Takehashi, Narumi Ogonuki, Hiromi Miki, Kimiko Inoue, Yasuhiro Kazuki, Jiyoung Lee, Shinya Toyokuni, Mitsuo Oshimura, Atsuo Ogura, and Takashi ShinoharaSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
- Rapid expansion of the spermatogonial stem cell tool box- May 16, 2006
- You have accessEvidence that the Y chromosome influences autoimmune disease in male and female miceCory Teuscher, Rajkumar Noubade, Karen Spach, Benjamin McElvany, Janice Y. Bunn, Parley D. Fillmore, James F. Zachary, and Elizabeth P. Blankenhorn
Biochemistry
- You have accessA heme-degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insectGabriela O. Paiva-Silva, Christine Cruz-Oliveira, Ernesto S. Nakayasu, Clarissa M. Maya-Monteiro, Boris C. Dunkov, Hatisaburo Masuda, Igor C. Almeida, and Pedro L. Oliveira
- You have accessL1 retrotransposition in nondividing and primary human somatic cellsShuji Kubo, Maria del Carmen Seleme, Harris S. Soifer, José Luis Garcia Perez, John V. Moran, Haig H. Kazazian Jr., and Noriyuki Kasahara
- You have accessRunaway domain swapping in amyloid-like fibrils of T7 endonuclease IZhefeng Guo and David Eisenberg
- You have accessX-ray structure of a native calicivirus: Structural insights into antigenic diversity and host specificityRong Chen, John D. Neill, Mary K. Estes, and B. V. Venkataram Prasad
Biophysics
- Open AccessSalt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactionsHoria I. Petrache, Thomas Zemb, Luc Belloni, and V. Adrian Parsegian
- You have accessBacksteps induced by nucleotide analogs suggest the front head of kinesin is gated by strainNicholas R. Guydosh and Steven M. Block
- You have accessToward the structural genomics of complexes: Crystal structure of a PE/PPE protein complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosisMichael Strong, Michael R. Sawaya, Shuishu Wang, Martin Phillips, Duilio Cascio, and David Eisenberg
- You have accessThe maximum number of torque-generating units in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli is at least 11Stuart W. Reid, Mark C. Leake, Jennifer H. Chandler, Chien-Jung Lo, Judith P. Armitage, and Richard M. Berry
Cell Biology
- You have accessActivation of FIP1L1-PDGFRα requires disruption of the juxtamembrane domain of PDGFRα and is FIP1L1-independentElizabeth H. Stover, Jing Chen, Cedric Folens, Benjamin H. Lee, Nicole Mentens, Peter Marynen, Ifor R. Williams, D. Gary Gilliland, and Jan Cools
- You have accessFactor B of the alternative complement pathway regulates development of airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammationChristian Taube, Joshua M. Thurman, Katsuyuki Takeda, Anthony Joetham, Nobuaki Miyahara, Michael C. Carroll, Azzeddine Dakhama, Patricia C. Giclas, V. Michael Holers, and Erwin W. Gelfand
Developmental Biology
- You have accessOogenesis requires germ cell-specific transcriptional regulators Sohlh1 and Lhx8Stephanie A. Pangas, Youngsok Choi, Daniel J. Ballow, Yangu Zhao, Heiner Westphal, Martin M. Matzuk, and Aleksandar Rajkovic
Ecology
- You have accessGenetic effects of chronic habitat fragmentation in a wind-pollinated treeAlistair S. Jump and Josep Peñuelas
Evolution
- You have accessBirth of a chimeric primate gene by capture of the transposase gene from a mobile element
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Richard Cordaux, Swalpa Udit, Mark A. Batzer, and Cédric FeschotteSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
- Evolutionary tinkering with transposable elements- May 16, 2006
- You have accessComprehensive mutation identification in an evolved bacterial cooperator and its cheating ancestorGregory J. Velicer, Günter Raddatz, Heike Keller, Silvia Deiss, Christa Lanz, Iris Dinkelacker, and Stephan C. Schuster
- You have accessThe origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA
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Albano Beja-Pereira, David Caramelli, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Cristiano Vernesi, Nuno Ferrand, Antonella Casoli, Felix Goyache, Luis J. Royo, Serena Conti, Martina Lari, Andrea Martini, Lahousine Ouragh, Ayed Magid, Abdulkarim Atash, Attila Zsolnai, Paolo Boscato, Costas Triantaphylidis, Konstantoula Ploumi, Luca Sineo, Francesco Mallegni, Pierre Taberlet, Georg Erhardt, Lourdes Sampietro, Jaume Bertranpetit, Guido Barbujani, Gordon Luikart, and Giorgio Bertorelle
Genetics
- You have accessThe callipyge mutation enhances bidirectional long-range DLK1-GTL2 intergenic transcription in cisHaruko Takeda, Florian Caiment, Maria Smit, Samuel Hiard, Xavier Tordoir, Noelle Cockett, Michel Georges, and Carole Charlier
- You have accessGenetic variants of Tgfb1 act as context-dependent modifiers of mouse skin tumor susceptibilityJian-Hua Mao, Elise F. Saunier, John P. de Koning, Margaret M. McKinnon, Mamie Nakijama Higgins, Kathy Nicklas, Hai-Tao Yang, Allan Balmain, and Rosemary J. Akhurst
- You have accessHsk1 kinase is required for induction of meiotic dsDNA breaks without involving checkpoint kinases in fission yeastKeiko Ogino, Kouji Hirota, Seiji Matsumoto, Tadayuki Takeda, Kunihiro Ohta, Ken-ichi Arai, and Hisao Masai
Immunology
- Open AccessSelective regulatory function of Socs3 in the formation of IL-17-secreting T cellsZhi Chen, Arian Laurence, Yuka Kanno, Margit Pacher-Zavisin, Bing-Mei Zhu, Cristina Tato, Akihiko Yoshimura, Lothar Hennighausen, and John J. O'Shea
- You have accessFluorescence resonance energy transfer in living cells reveals dynamic membrane changes in the initiation of B cell signalingHae Won Sohn, Pavel Tolar, Tian Jin, and Susan K. Pierce
- You have accessUnderstanding the bacterial polysaccharide antigenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae versus Streptococcus pneumoniaeRenuka Kadirvelraj, Jorge Gonzalez-Outeiriño, B. Lachele Foley, Meredith L. Beckham, Harold J. Jennings, Simon Foote, Michael G. Ford, and Robert J. Woods
Medical Sciences
- You have accessLocal myocardial insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) delivery with biotinylated peptide nanofibers improves cell therapy for myocardial infarctionMichael E. Davis, Patrick C. H. Hsieh, Tomosaburo Takahashi, Qing Song, Shuguang Zhang, Roger D. Kamm, Alan J. Grodzinsky, Piero Anversa, and Richard T. Lee
- Open AccessExpression of 5-lipoxygenase and leukotriene A4 hydrolase in human atherosclerotic lesions correlates with symptoms of plaque instabilityHong Qiu, Anders Gabrielsen, Hanna E. Agardh, Min Wan, Anders Wetterholm, Chi-Huey Wong, Ulf Hedin, Jesper Swedenborg, Göran K. Hansson, Bengt Samuelsson, Gabrielle Paulsson-Berne, and Jesper Z. Haeggström
- You have accessComplex genomic alterations and gene expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia with intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21Jon C. Strefford, Frederik W. van Delft, Hazel M. Robinson, Helen Worley, Olga Yiannikouris, Rebecca Selzer, Todd Richmond, Ian Hann, Tony Bellotti, Manoj Raghavan, Bryan D. Young, Vaskar Saha, and Christine J. Harrison
- You have accessThe G12 family of heterotrimeric G proteins promotes breast cancer invasion and metastasisPatrick Kelly, Benjamin J. Moeller, Juhi Juneja, Michelle A. Booden, Channing J. Der, Yehia Daaka, Mark W. Dewhirst, Timothy A. Fields, and Patrick J. Casey
- You have accessSelenoprotein deficiency accelerates prostate carcinogenesis in a transgenic modelVeda Diwadkar-Navsariwala, Gail S. Prins, Steven M. Swanson, Lynn A. Birch, Vera H. Ray, Samad Hedayat, Daniel L. Lantvit, and Alan M. Diamond
- Open AccessHigh-resolution video monitoring of hematopoietic stem cells cultured in single-cell arrays identifies new features of self-renewalBrad Dykstra, John Ramunas, David Kent, Lindsay McCaffrey, Erin Szumsky, Liam Kelly, Kristen Farn, April Blaylock, Connie Eaves, and Eric Jervis
Microbiology
- You have accessThe TodS–TodT two-component regulatory system recognizes a wide range of effectors and works with DNA-bending proteinsJesús Lacal, Andreas Busch, María-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Tino Krell, and Juan L. Ramos
- You have accessNewcastle disease virus expressing H5 hemagglutinin gene protects chickens against Newcastle disease and avian influenzaJutta Veits, Dorothee Wiesner, Walter Fuchs, Bernd Hoffmann, Harald Granzow, Elke Starick, Egbert Mundt, Horst Schirrmeier, Teshome Mebatsion, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, and Angela Römer-Oberdörfer
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- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
- Open AccessEngineered viral vaccine constructs with dual specificity: Avian influenza and Newcastle disease
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Man-Seong Park, John Steel, Adolfo García-Sastre, David Swayne, and Peter PaleseSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
- You have accessThe positioning of cytoplasmic protein clusters in bacteriaStephen R. Thompson, George H. Wadhams, and Judith P. Armitage
Neuroscience
- You have accessPKCε increases endothelin converting enzyme activity and reduces amyloid plaque pathology in transgenic mice
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Doo-Sup Choi, Dan Wang, Gui-Qui Yu, Guofen Zhu, Viktor N. Kharazia, J. Peter Paredes, Wesley S. Chang, Jason K. Deitchman, Lennart Mucke, and Robert O. MessingSee companion article:
- Another weapon against amyloid- May 16, 2006
- You have accessThe chemokine SDF-1/CXCL12 modulates the firing pattern of vasopressin neurons and counteracts induced vasopressin release through CXCR4Céline Callewaere, Ghazal Banisadr, Michel G. Desarménien, Patricia Mechighel, Patrick Kitabgi, William H. Rostène, and Stéphane Mélik Parsadaniantz
- You have accessSynaptic tetraspan vesicle membrane proteins are conserved but not needed for synaptogenesis and neuronal function in Caenorhabditis elegansChristian Abraham, Harald Hutter, Mark T. Palfreyman, Gabriele Spatkowski, Robby M. Weimer, Reinhard Windoffer, Erik M. Jorgensen, and Rudolf E. Leube
- Open AccessFluoxetine targets early progenitor cells in the adult brainJuan M. Encinas, Anne Vaahtokari, and Grigori Enikolopov
- Open AccessBinding crossmodal object features in perirhinal cortexKirsten I. Taylor, Helen E. Moss, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, and Lorraine K. Tyler
- You have accessA single sodium channel mutation produces hyper- or hypoexcitability in different types of neuronsAnthony M. Rush, Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, Shujun Liu, Theodore R. Cummins, Joel A. Black, and Stephen G. Waxman
- You have accessFrequency-specific and D2 receptor-mediated inhibition of glutamate release by retrograde endocannabinoid signalingHenry H. Yin and David M. Lovinger
- Open AccessMuscle representation in the macaque motor cortex: An anatomical perspectiveJean-Alban Rathelot and Peter L. Strick
- You have accessDirect and fast detection of neuronal activation in the human brain with diffusion MRIDenis Le Bihan, Shin-ichi Urayama, Toshihiko Aso, Takashi Hanakawa, and Hidenao Fukuyama
- You have accessBrain response to putative pheromones in lesbian womenHans Berglund, Per Lindström, and Ivanka Savic
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- In This Issue- May 23, 2006
- You have accessFailing to deactivate: Resting functional abnormalities in autismDaniel P. Kennedy, Elizabeth Redcay, and Eric Courchesne
Plant Biology
- You have accessThe negative regulator of plant cold responses, HOS1, is a RING E3 ligase that mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of ICE1Chun-Hai Dong, Manu Agarwal, Yiyue Zhang, Qi Xie, and Jian-Kang Zhu
- You have accessTomato aromatic amino acid decarboxylases participate in synthesis of the flavor volatiles 2-phenylethanol and 2-phenylacetaldehydeDenise Tieman, Mark Taylor, Nicolas Schauer, Alisdair R. Fernie, Andrew D. Hanson, and Harry J. Klee
Psychology
- You have accessSignature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphinsV. M. Janik, L. S. Sayigh, and R. S. Wells
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