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August 29, 2006; vol. 103 no. 35
This Week in PNAS
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Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessThe violation of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled waterSow-Hsin Chen, Francesco Mallamace, Chung-Yuan Mou, Matteo Broccio, Carmelo Corsaro, Antonio Faraone, and Li Liu
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- In This Issue- Aug 29, 2006
- You have accessSingle-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesionHaeshin Lee, Norbert F. Scherer, and Phillip B. Messersmith
- You have accessSwimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environmentsKarine Guevorkian and James M. Valles Jr.
Chemistry
- You have accessSpectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes
- Inaugural Article
Michael L. Neidig, Andrea Decker, Oliver W. Choroba, Fanglu Huang, Michael Kavana, Graham R. Moran, Jonathan B. Spencer, and Edward I. SolomonSee companion article:
- Profile of Edward I. Solomon- Aug 21, 2006
- You have accessAmplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditionsRonald Breslow and Mindy S. Levine
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessA climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystemsMarko Scholze, Wolfgang Knorr, Nigel W. Arnell, and I. Colin Prentice
Physics
- You have accessScale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignmentsWilliam Salerno, Paul Havlak, and Jonathan Miller
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- Open AccessOverdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato
- From the Cover
Yaniv Semel, Jonathan Nissenbaum, Naama Menda, Michael Zinder, Uri Krieger, Noa Issman, Tzili Pleban, Zachary Lippman, Amit Gur, and Dani ZamirSee companion article:
- Unraveling the genetic basis of hybrid vigor- Aug 22, 2006
- You have accessOverexpressing a NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC) transcription factor enhances drought resistance and salt tolerance in riceHonghong Hu, Mingqiu Dai, Jialing Yao, Benze Xiao, Xianghua Li, Qifa Zhang, and Lizhong Xiong
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessAdeno-associated virus serotype 9 vectors transduce murine alveolar and nasal epithelia and can be readministeredMaria P. Limberis and James M. Wilson
Biochemistry
- You have accessSingle-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesionHaeshin Lee, Norbert F. Scherer, and Phillip B. Messersmith
- Open AccessQuantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteomeArchana Belle, Amos Tanay, Ledion Bitincka, Ron Shamir, and Erin K. O’Shea
- You have accessMolecular basis for the herbicide resistance of Roundup Ready cropsTodd Funke, Huijong Han, Martha L. Healy-Fried, Markus Fischer, and Ernst Schönbrunn
- You have accessStructure of archaeal translational initiation factor 2 βγ–GDP reveals significant conformational change of the β-subunit and switch 1 regionMasaaki Sokabe, Min Yao, Naoki Sakai, Shingo Toya, and Isao Tanaka
- You have accessStable stem cell commitment to the adipocyte lineage by inhibition of DNA methylation: Role of the BMP-4 geneRobert R. Bowers, Jae Woo Kim, Tamara C. Otto, and M. Daniel Lane
- Open AccessStructural basis for the inhibition of insulin-like growth factors by insulin-like growth factor-binding proteinsTomasz Sitar, Grzegorz M. Popowicz, Igor Siwanowicz, Robert Huber, and Tad A. Holak
- Open AccessKelch-repeat proteins interacting with the Gα protein Gpa2 bypass adenylate cyclase for direct regulation of protein kinase A in yeastTom Peeters, Wendy Louwet, Ruud Geladé, David Nauwelaers, Johan M. Thevelein, and Matthias Versele
Biophysics
- You have accessSpectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes
- Inaugural Article
Michael L. Neidig, Andrea Decker, Oliver W. Choroba, Fanglu Huang, Michael Kavana, Graham R. Moran, Jonathan B. Spencer, and Edward I. SolomonSee companion article:
- Profile of Edward I. Solomon- Aug 21, 2006
- You have accessPrecise adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through “assistance neighborhoods”Robert G. Endres and Ned S. Wingreen
- Open AccessSurface-modulated motion switch: Capture and release of iron–sulfur protein in the cytochrome bc1 complexLothar Esser, Xing Gong, Shaoqing Yang, Linda Yu, Chang-An Yu, and Di Xia
- You have accessSwimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environmentsKarine Guevorkian and James M. Valles Jr.
- You have accessThe role of hydrophobic interactions in initiation and propagation of protein foldingH. Jane Dyson, Peter E. Wright, and Harold A. Scheraga
- You have accessRegulation of outside-in signaling and affinity by the β2 I domain of integrin αLβ2JianFeng Chen, Wei Yang, Minsoo Kim, Christopher V. Carman, and Timothy A. Springer
Cell Biology
- You have accessHuman cytomegalovirus-encoded chemokine receptor US28 promotes tumorigenesisDavid Maussang, Dennis Verzijl, Marijke van Walsum, Rob Leurs, Jens Holl, Olivier Pleskoff, Detlef Michel, Guus A. M. S. van Dongen, and Martine J. Smit
- Open AccessA repressor complex, AP4 transcription factor and geminin, negatively regulates expression of target genes in nonneuronal cellsMi-Young Kim, Byung Chul Jeong, Ji Hee Lee, Hae Jin Kee, Hyun Kook, Nack Sung Kim, Yoon Ha Kim, Jong-Keun Kim, Kyu Youn Ahn, and Kyung Keun Kim
- You have accessThe last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic EonLynn Margulis, Michael Chapman, Ricardo Guerrero, and John Hall
- You have accessDynamic redox control of NF-κB through glutaredoxin-regulated S-glutathionylation of inhibitory κB kinase βNiki L. Reynaert, Albert van der Vliet, Amy S. Guala, Toby McGovern, Milena Hristova, Cristen Pantano, Nicholas H. Heintz, John Heim, Ye-Shih Ho, Dwight E. Matthews, Emiel F. M. Wouters, and Yvonne M. W. Janssen-Heininger
- You have accessHeat-shock transcription factor (HSF)-1 pathway required for Caenorhabditis elegans immunityVarsha Singh and Alejandro Aballay
Developmental Biology
- Open AccessSpermatozoa and spermatids retrieved from frozen reproductive organs or frozen whole bodies of male mice can produce normal offspringNarumi Ogonuki, Keiji Mochida, Hiromi Miki, Kimiko Inoue, Martin Fray, Takamasa Iwaki, Kazuo Moriwaki, Yuichi Obata, Kazuto Morozumi, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, and Atsuo Ogura
Ecology
- You have accessAnnually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditionsJed A. Fuhrman, Ian Hewson, Michael S. Schwalbach, Joshua A. Steele, Mark V. Brown, and Shahid Naeem
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Environmental Sciences
- You have accessPlague dynamics are driven by climate variationNils Chr. Stenseth, Noelle I. Samia, Hildegunn Viljugrein, Kyrre Linné Kausrud, Mike Begon, Stephen Davis, Herwig Leirs, V. M. Dubyanskiy, Jan Esper, Vladimir S. Ageyev, Nikolay L. Klassovskiy, Sergey B. Pole, and Kung-Sik Chan
- You have accessA climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystemsMarko Scholze, Wolfgang Knorr, Nigel W. Arnell, and I. Colin Prentice
Evolution
- You have accessThe last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic EonLynn Margulis, Michael Chapman, Ricardo Guerrero, and John Hall
- You have accessScale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignmentsWilliam Salerno, Paul Havlak, and Jonathan Miller
- Open AccessThe cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesisArmen Y. Mulkidjanian, Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Sergey L. Mekhedov, Alexander Sorokin, Yuri I. Wolf, Alexis Dufresne, Frédéric Partensky, Henry Burd, Denis Kaznadzey, Robert Haselkorn, and Michael Y. Galperin
Immunology
- You have accessA2A adenosine receptor protects tumors from antitumor T cellsAkio Ohta, Elieser Gorelik, Simon J. Prasad, Franca Ronchese, Dmitriy Lukashev, Michael K. K. Wong, Xiaojun Huang, Sheila Caldwell, Kebin Liu, Patrick Smith, Jiang-Fan Chen, Edwin K. Jackson, Sergey Apasov, Scott Abrams, and Michail Sitkovsky
- You have accessOX40 ligand shuts down IL-10-producing regulatory T cellsTomoki Ito, Yui-Hsi Wang, Omar Duramad, Shino Hanabuchi, Olivia A. Perng, Michel Gilliet, F. Xiao-Feng Qin, and Yong-Jun Liu
- You have accessDirect stimulation of T lymphocytes by immunosomes: Virus-like particles decorated with T cell receptor/CD3 ligands plus costimulatory moleculesSophia V. Derdak, Hans J. Kueng, Victoria M. Leb, Alina Neunkirchner, Klaus G. Schmetterer, Edith Bielek, Otto Majdic, Walter Knapp, Brian Seed, and Winfried F. Pickl
Medical Sciences
- You have accessCoactosin-like protein supports 5-lipoxygenase enzyme activity and up-regulates leukotriene A4 productionMarija Rakonjac, Lutz Fischer, Patrick Provost, Oliver Werz, Dieter Steinhilber, Bengt Samuelsson, and Olof Rådmark
- You have accessMyeloid lineage progenitors give rise to vascular endothelium
- From the Cover
Alexis S. Bailey, Holger Willenbring, Shuguang Jiang, Daniel A. Anderson, David A. Schroeder, Melissa H. Wong, Markus Grompe, and William H. FlemingSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Aug 29, 2006
- My O'Myeloid, a tale of two lineages- Aug 21, 2006
- Open AccessEstrogen receptor (ER)-β isoforms: A key to understanding ER-β signalingYuet-Kin Leung, Paul Mak, Sazzad Hassan, and Shuk-Mei Ho
- You have accessSide population in adult murine epidermis exhibits phenotypic and functional characteristics of keratinocyte stem cellsRichard P. Redvers, Amy Li, and Pritinder Kaur
- You have accessSynergy between immune cells and adult neural stem/progenitor cells promotes functional recovery from spinal cord injuryYaniv Ziv, Hila Avidan, Stefano Pluchino, Gianvito Martino, and Michal Schwartz
- Open AccessAlveolar epithelial cell mesenchymal transition develops in vivo during pulmonary fibrosis and is regulated by the extracellular matrixKevin K. Kim, Matthias C. Kugler, Paul J. Wolters, Liliane Robillard, Michael G. Galvez, Alexis N. Brumwell, Dean Sheppard, and Harold A. Chapman
Microbiology
- You have accessA proteomic study of Methylobacterium extorquens reveals a response regulator essential for epiphytic growthBenjamin Gourion, Michel Rossignol, and Julia A. Vorholt
- You have accessApicoplast fatty acid synthesis is essential for organelle biogenesis and parasite survival in Toxoplasma gondiiJolly Mazumdar, Emma H. Wilson, Kate Masek, Christopher A. Hunter, and Boris Striepen
Neuroscience
- You have accessEvidence for stroke-induced neurogenesis in the human brainKunlin Jin, Xiaomei Wang, Lin Xie, Xiao Ou Mao, Wei Zhu, Yin Wang, Jianfeng Shen, Ying Mao, Surita Banwait, and David A. Greenberg
- You have accessAn internally controlled peripheral biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease: Erk1 and Erk2 responses to the inflammatory signal bradykininTapan K. Khan and Daniel L. Alkon
- You have accessTransgenic brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression causes both anxiogenic and antidepressant effectsArvind Govindarajan, B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao, Deepti Nair, Mimi Trinh, Nadya Mawjee, Susumu Tonegawa, and Sumantra Chattarji
- You have accessSpontaneous and evoked synaptic rewiring in the neonatal neocortex
- From the Cover
Jean-Vincent Le Bé and Henry MarkramSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Aug 29, 2006
Pharmacology
- Open AccessEffective countermeasure against poisoning by organophosphorus insecticides and nerve agentsEdson X. Albuquerque, Edna F. R. Pereira, Yasco Aracava, William P. Fawcett, Maristela Oliveira, William R. Randall, Tracey A. Hamilton, Robert K. Kan, James A. Romano Jr., and Michael Adler
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- In This Issue- Aug 29, 2006
- Overcoming inhibitions- Aug 28, 2006
Physiology
- You have accessVaccination against weight gain
- From the Cover
Eric P. Zorrilla, Shinichi Iwasaki, Jason A. Moss, Jason Chang, Jonathan Otsuji, Koki Inoue, Michael M. Meijler, and Kim D. JandaSee companion article:
- You have accessLocal subplasma membrane Ca2+ signals detected by a tethered Ca2+ sensorMoo Yeol Lee, Hong Song, Junichi Nakai, Masamichi Ohkura, Michael I. Kotlikoff, Stephen P. Kinsey, Vera A. Golovina, and Mordecai P. Blaustein
Plant Biology
- You have accessPartially redundant functions of two SET-domain polycomb-group proteins in controlling initiation of seed development in ArabidopsisDongfang Wang, Mark D. Tyson, Shawn S. Jackson, and Ramin Yadegari
- You have accessNon-cell-autonomous rescue of anaphase-promoting complex function revealed by mosaic analysis of HOBBIT, an Arabidopsis CDC27 homologOlivier Serralbo, José Manuel Pérez-Pérez, Renze Heidstra, and Ben Scheres
Psychology
- Open AccessTranscranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjectsRon Kupers, Arnaud Fumal, Alain Maertens de Noordhout, Albert Gjedde, Jean Schoenen, and Maurice Ptito
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