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November 07, 2006; vol. 103 no. 45

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16617-16618; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti4506103

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    • Nonlinear auditory mechanism enhances female sounds for male mosquitoes
      - Oct 26, 2006
    • Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity
      - Oct 26, 2006
    • Universal scaling for polymer chain scission in turbulence
      - Oct 30, 2006
    • A genetic variant that disrupts MET transcription is associated with autism
      - Oct 19, 2006
    • Wnt and TGF-β signaling are required for the induction of an in vitro model of primitive streak formation using embryonic stem cells
      - Oct 31, 2006

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    A boost for hearing in mosquitoes
    Ron Hoy
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16619-16620; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608105103

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    • Nonlinear auditory mechanism enhances female sounds for male mosquitoes
      - Oct 26, 2006
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    A surprising METamorphosis: Autism genetics finds a common functional variant
    Matthew W. State
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16621-16622; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608027103

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    • A genetic variant that disrupts MET transcription is associated with autism
      - Oct 19, 2006

Perspective

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    A backbone-based theory of protein folding
    George D. Rose, Patrick J. Fleming, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16623-16633; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606843103

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    Profile of F. Stuart Chapin III
    Philip Downey
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16634-16636; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608604103

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    • Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate
      - Sep 28, 2006

Physical Sciences

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      Photoprotection of human retinal pigment epithelium cells against blue light-induced apoptosis by melanin free radicals from Sepia officinalis
      Brandon-Luke L. Seagle, Elzbieta M. Gasyna, William F. Mieler, and James R. Norris Jr.
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16644-16648; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605986103
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      A single dose of doxorubicin-functionalized bow-tie dendrimer cures mice bearing C-26 colon carcinomas
      Cameron C. Lee, Elizabeth R. Gillies, Megan E. Fox, Steven J. Guillaudeu, Jean M. J. Fréchet, Edward E. Dy, and Francis C. Szoka
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16649-16654; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607705103
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      Photoreactivation of DNA by an Archaeal nucleoprotein Sso7d
      Ryu Tashiro, Andrew H.-J. Wang, and Hiroshi Sugiyama
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16655-16659; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603484103
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      Universal scaling for polymer chain scission in turbulence
      Siva A. Vanapalli, Steven L. Ceccio, and Michael J. Solomon
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16660-16665; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607933103

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  • Geology

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      Confirmation of Romer's Gap as a low oxygen interval constraining the timing of initial arthropod and vertebrate terrestrialization
      Peter Ward, Conrad Labandeira, Michel Laurin, and Robert A. Berner
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16818-16822; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607824103
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      Cardiac myosin binding protein c phosphorylation is cardioprotective
      Sakthivel Sadayappan, Hanna Osinska, Raisa Klevitsky, John N. Lorenz, Michelle Sargent, Jeffrey D. Molkentin, Christine E. Seidman, Jonathan G. Seidman, and Jeffrey Robbins
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16918-16923; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607069103

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      A gender- and sexual orientation-dependent spatial attentional effect of invisible images
      Yi Jiang, Patricia Costello, Fang Fang, Miner Huang, and Sheng He
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17048-17052; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605678103
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      Day-to-day dynamics of experience–cortisol associations in a population-based sample of older adults
      Emma K. Adam, Louise C. Hawkley, Brigitte M. Kudielka, and John T. Cacioppo
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17058-17063; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605053103
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      Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate
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      F. Stuart Chapin III, Amy L. Lovecraft, Erika S. Zavaleta, Joanna Nelson, Martin D. Robards, Gary P. Kofinas, Sarah F. Trainor, Garry D. Peterson, Henry P. Huntington, and Rosamond L. Naylor
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16637-16643; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606955103

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      • Profile of F. Stuart Chapin III
        - Oct 31, 2006

Biological Sciences

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      Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity
      David L. Hyten, Qijian Song, Youlin Zhu, Ik-Young Choi, Randall L. Nelson, Jose M. Costa, James E. Specht, Randy C. Shoemaker, and Perry B. Cregan
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16666-16671; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604379103

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      Changing green leaf volatile biosynthesis in plants: An approach for improving plant resistance against both herbivores and pathogens
      Kaori Shiojiri, Kyutaro Kishimoto, Rika Ozawa, Soichi Kugimiya, Soichi Urashimo, Genichiro Arimura, Junichiro Horiuchi, Takaaki Nishioka, Kenji Matsui, and Junji Takabayashi
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16672-16676; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607780103
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      Single-step electronic detection of femtomolar DNA by target-induced strand displacement in an electrode-bound duplex
      Yi Xiao, Arica A. Lubin, Brian R. Baker, Kevin W. Plaxco, and Alan J. Heeger
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16677-16680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607693103
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      A neuroinductive biomaterial based on dopamine
      Jin Gao, Yu Mi Kim, Herna Coe, Blaine Zern, Barbara Sheppard, and Yadong Wang
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16681-16686; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606237103
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      The 39-kDa poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase ARH3 hydrolyzes O-acetyl-ADP-ribose, a product of the Sir2 family of acetyl-histone deacetylases
      Tohru Ono, Atsushi Kasamatsu, Shunya Oka, and Joel Moss
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16687-16691; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607911103
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      A Ras-induced conformational switch in the Ras activator Son of sevenless
      Tanya S. Freedman, Holger Sondermann, Gregory D. Friedland, Tanja Kortemme, Dafna Bar-Sagi, Susan Marqusee, and John Kuriyan
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16692-16697; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608127103
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      Nonspecific binding to structured RNA and preferential unwinding of an exposed helix by the CYT-19 protein, a DEAD-box RNA chaperone
      Pilar Tijerina, Hari Bhaskaran, and Rick Russell
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16698-16703; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603127103
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      Coupling of STIM1 to store-operated Ca2+ entry through its constitutive and inducible movement in the endoplasmic reticulum
      Yoshihiro Baba, Kenji Hayashi, Yoko Fujii, Akiko Mizushima, Hiroshi Watarai, Minoru Wakamori, Takuro Numaga, Yasuo Mori, Masamitsu Iino, Masaki Hikida, and Tomohiro Kurosaki
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16704-16709; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608358103
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      Combinatorial methods for small-molecule placement in computational enzyme design
      Jonathan Kyle Lassila, Heidi K. Privett, Benjamin D. Allen, and Stephen L. Mayo
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16710-16715; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607691103
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      Haploinsufficiency of the corepressor of estrogen receptor activity (REA) enhances estrogen receptor function in the mammary gland
      Paola Mussi, Lan Liao, Seong-Eun Park, Paolo Ciana, Adriana Maggi, Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Jianming Xu, and Bert W. O'Malley
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16716-16721; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607768103
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      Disulfide cross-linking indicates that FlgM-bound and free σ28 adopt similar conformations
      Margareta K. Sorenson and Seth A. Darst
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16722-16727; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606482103
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      Identification of a starter unit acyl-carrier protein transacylase domain in an iterative type I polyketide synthase
      Jason M. Crawford, Blair C. R. Dancy, Eric A. Hill, Daniel W. Udwary, and Craig A. Townsend
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16728-16733; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604112103
  • Biophysics

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      Nonlinear auditory mechanism enhances female sounds for male mosquitoes
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      Joseph C. Jackson and Daniel Robert
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16734-16739; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606319103

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      Amide vibrations are delocalized across the hydrophobic interface of a transmembrane helix dimer
      Chong Fang, Alessandro Senes, Lidia Cristian, William F. DeGrado, and Robin M. Hochstrasser
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16740-16745; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608243103
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      Phase knowledge enables rational screens for protein crystallization
      Megan J. Anderson, Carl L. Hansen, and Stephen R. Quake
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16746-16751; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605293103
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      Statistics of cellular signal transduction as a race to the nucleus by multiple random walkers in compartment/phosphorylation space
      Ting Lu, Tongye Shen, Chenghang Zong, Jeff Hasty, and Peter G. Wolynes
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16752-16757; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607698103
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      Modeling dual pathways for the metazoan spindle assembly checkpoint
      Richard P. Sear and Martin Howard
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16758-16763; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603174103
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      Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy shows that monomeric polyglutamine molecules form collapsed structures in aqueous solutions
      Scott L. Crick, Murali Jayaraman, Carl Frieden, Ronald Wetzel, and Rohit V. Pappu
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16764-16769; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608175103
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      An in vitro assay reveals a role for the diaphragm protein PV-1 in endothelial fenestra morphogenesis
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      Sofia Ioannidou, Katrin Deinhardt, Jadwiga Miotla, John Bradley, Eunice Cheung, Steven Samuelsson, Yin-Shan Ng, and David T. Shima
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16770-16775; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603501103
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      Essential role of RGS-PX1/sorting nexin 13 in mouse development and regulation of endocytosis dynamics
      Bin Zheng, Tingdong Tang, Nan Tang, Krystyna Kudlicka, Kazuaki Ohtsubo, Phuong Ma, Jamey D. Marth, Marilyn G. Farquhar, and Eero Lehtonen
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16776-16781; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607974103
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      Some C. elegans class B synthetic multivulva proteins encode a conserved LIN-35 Rb-containing complex distinct from a NuRD-like complex
      Melissa M. Harrison, Craig J. Ceol, Xiaowei Lu, and H. Robert Horvitz
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16782-16787; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608461103
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      Molecular interactions between Tbx3 and Bmp4 and a model for dorsoventral positioning of mammary gland development
      Kyoung-Won Cho, Jae-Young Kim, Soo-Jin Song, Elizabeth Farrell, Maxwell C. Eblaghie, Hee-Jin Kim, Cheryll Tickle, and Han-Sung Jung
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16788-16793; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604645103
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      Mutation of TweedleD, a member of an unconventional cuticle protein family, alters body shape in Drosophila
      Xiao Guan, Brooke W. Middlebrooks, Sherry Alexander, and Steven A. Wasserman
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16794-16799; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607616103
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      Vertebrate MAX-1 is required for vascular patterning in zebrafish
      Hanbing Zhong, Xinrong Wu, Haigen Huang, Qichang Fan, Zuoyan Zhu, and Shuo Lin
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16800-16805; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603959103
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      Wnt and TGF-β signaling are required for the induction of an in vitro model of primitive streak formation using embryonic stem cells
      Paul Gadue, Tara L. Huber, Patrick J. Paddison, and Gordon M. Keller
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16806-16811; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603916103

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  • Ecology

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      Modern Quaternary plant lineages promote diversity through facilitation of ancient Tertiary lineages
      Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, Adolfo Vital Rumebe, Miguel Verdú, and Ragan M. Callaway
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16812-16817; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604933103
  • Evolution

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      Confirmation of Romer's Gap as a low oxygen interval constraining the timing of initial arthropod and vertebrate terrestrialization
      Peter Ward, Conrad Labandeira, Michel Laurin, and Robert A. Berner
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16818-16822; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607824103
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      The dynamics of Machiavellian intelligence
      Sergey Gavrilets and Aaron Vose
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16823-16828; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0601428103
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      Hagfish and lancelet fibrillar collagens reveal that type II collagen-based cartilage evolved in stem vertebrates
      GuangJun Zhang and Martin J. Cohn
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16829-16833; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605630103
  • Genetics

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      A genetic variant that disrupts MET transcription is associated with autism
      Daniel B. Campbell, James S. Sutcliffe, Philip J. Ebert, Roberto Militerni, Carmela Bravaccio, Simona Trillo, Maurizio Elia, Cindy Schneider, Raun Melmed, Roberto Sacco, Antonio M. Persico, and Pat Levitt
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16834-16839; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605296103

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      Template disruptions and failure of double Holliday junction dissolution during double-strand break repair in Drosophila BLM mutants
      Dena Johnson-Schlitz and William R. Engels
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16840-16845; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607904103
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      Quantum dot/peptide-MHC biosensors reveal strong CD8-dependent cooperation between self and viral antigens that augment the T cell response
      Nadia Anikeeva, Tatiana Lebedeva, Aaron R. Clapp, Ellen R. Goldman, Michael L. Dustin, Hedi Mattoussi, and Yuri Sykulev
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16846-16851; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607771103
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      Responses of IL-18- and IL-18 receptor-deficient pancreatic islets with convergence of positive and negative signals for the IL-18 receptor
      Eli C. Lewis and Charles A. Dinarello
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16852-16857; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607917103
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      Increased melanizing activity in Anopheles gambiae does not affect development of Plasmodium falciparum
      Kristin Michel, Chansak Suwanchaichinda, Isabelle Morlais, Louis Lambrechts, Anna Cohuet, Parfait H. Awono-Ambene, Frederic Simard, Didier Fontenille, Michael R. Kanost, and Fotis C. Kafatos
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16858-16863; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608033103
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      Photoprotection of human retinal pigment epithelium cells against blue light-induced apoptosis by melanin free radicals from Sepia officinalis
      Brandon-Luke L. Seagle, Elzbieta M. Gasyna, William F. Mieler, and James R. Norris Jr.
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16644-16648; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605986103
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      Fibrosis, not cell size, delineates β-myosin heavy chain reexpression during cardiac hypertrophy and normal aging in vivo
      Kumar Pandya, Hyung-Suk Kim, and Oliver Smithies
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16864-16869; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607700103
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      Targeting multiple kinase pathways in leukemic progenitors and stem cells is essential for improved treatment of Ph+ leukemia in mice
      Yiguo Hu, Sarah Swerdlow, Theodore M. Duffy, Roberto Weinmann, Francis Y. Lee, and Shaoguang Li
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      Depression induces bone loss through stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system
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      Raz Yirmiya, Inbal Goshen, Alon Bajayo, Tirzah Kreisel, Sharon Feldman, Joseph Tam, Victoria Trembovler, Valér Csernus, Esther Shohami, and Itai Bab
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      Sjögren's syndrome-like disease in mice with T cells lacking class 1A phosphoinositide-3-kinase
      Jean S. Oak, Jonathan A. Deane, Michael G. Kharas, Ji Luo, Thomas E. Lane, Lewis C. Cantley, and David A. Fruman
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16882-16887; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607984103
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      CLA-1 and its splicing variant CLA-2 mediate bacterial adhesion and cytosolic bacterial invasion in mammalian cells
      Tatyana G. Vishnyakova, Roger Kurlander, Alexander V. Bocharov, Irina N. Baranova, Zhigang Chen, Mones S. Abu-Asab, Maria Tsokos, Daniela Malide, Federica Basso, Alan Remaley, Gyorgy Csako, Thomas L. Eggerman, and Amy P. Patterson
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16888-16893; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0602126103
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      Interaction of GATA-3/T-bet transcription factors regulates expression of sialyl Lewis X homing receptors on Th1/Th2 lymphocytes
      Guo-Yun Chen, Hirotaka Osada, Luis F. Santamaria-Babi, and Reiji Kannagi
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16894-16899; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607926103
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      The role of platelet adhesion receptor GPIbα far exceeds that of its main ligand, von Willebrand factor, in arterial thrombosis
      Wolfgang Bergmeier, Crystal L. Piffath, Tobias Goerge, Stephen M. Cifuni, Zaverio M. Ruggeri, Jerry Ware, and Denisa D. Wagner
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16900-16905; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608207103
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      Akt1 deficiency affects neuronal morphology and predisposes to abnormalities in prefrontal cortex functioning
      Wen-Sung Lai, Bin Xu, Koen G. C. Westphal, Marta Paterlini, Berend Olivier, Paul Pavlidis, Maria Karayiorgou, and Joseph A. Gogos
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16906-16911; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604994103
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      Vitamin C mediates chemical aging of lens crystallins by the Maillard reaction in a humanized mouse model
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      Cdx4 dysregulates Hox gene expression and generates acute myeloid leukemia alone and in cooperation with Meis1a in a murine model
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      J. A. Kennedy, F. Barabé, B. J. Patterson, J. Bayani, J. A. Squire, D. L. Barber, and J. E. Dick
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      Emergence and predominance of an H5N1 influenza variant in China
      G. J. D. Smith, X. H. Fan, J. Wang, K. S. Li, K. Qin, J. X. Zhang, D. Vijaykrishna, C. L. Cheung, K. Huang, J. M. Rayner, J. S. M. Peiris, H. Chen, R. G. Webster, and Y. Guan
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      Vaccine assembly from surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus
      Yukiko K. Stranger-Jones, Taeok Bae, and Olaf Schneewind
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16942-16947; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606863103
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      Ute Müh, Brian J. Hare, Breck A. Duerkop, Martin Schuster, Brian L. Hanzelka, Roger Heim, Eric R. Olson, and E. Peter Greenberg
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      Legionella pneumophila glucosyltransferase inhibits host elongation factor 1A
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      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16959-16964; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608289103
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      Activity-dependent gene regulation in skeletal muscle is mediated by a histone deacetylase (HDAC)-Dach2-myogenin signal transduction cascade
      Huibin Tang and Daniel Goldman
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      Activation of estrogen receptor α increases and estrogen receptor β decreases apolipoprotein E expression in hippocampus in vitro and in vivo
      Jun Ming Wang, Ronald W. Irwin, and Roberta Diaz Brinton
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      Use of polysialic acid in repair of the central nervous system
      Abderrahman El Maarouf, Athanasios K. Petridis, and Urs Rutishauser
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      MyoD expression restores defective myogenic differentiation of human mesoangioblasts from inclusion-body myositis muscle
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      Navigation-associated medial parietal neurons in monkeys
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      Valence-sensitive neurons exhibit divergent functional profiles in gregarious and asocial species
      James L. Goodson and Yiwei Wang
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      Endothelial cellular senescence is inhibited by nitric oxide: Implications in atherosclerosis associated with menopause and diabetes
      Toshio Hayashi, Hisako Matsui-Hirai, Asaka Miyazaki-Akita, Akiko Fukatsu, Jun Funami, Qun-Fang Ding, Sumitra Kamalanathan, Yuichi Hattori, Louis J. Ignarro, and Akihisa Iguchi
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      Atherosclerosis-related molecular alteration of the human CaV1.2 calcium channel α1C subunit
      Swasti Tiwari, Yuwei Zhang, Jennifer Heller, Darrell R. Abernethy, and Nikolai M. Soldatov
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      μO-conotoxin MrVIB selectively blocks Nav1.8 sensory neuron specific sodium channels and chronic pain behavior without motor deficits
      J. Ekberg, A. Jayamanne, C. W. Vaughan, S. Aslan, L. Thomas, J. Mould, R. Drinkwater, M. D. Baker, B. Abrahamsen, J. N. Wood, D. J. Adams, M. J. Christie, and R. J. Lewis
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17030-17035; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0601819103
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      Cryptochrome-1-dependent execution of programmed cell death induced by singlet oxygen in Arabidopsis thaliana
      Antoine Danon, Núria Sánchez Coll, and Klaus Apel
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17036-17041; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608139103
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      Cloning of DOG1, a quantitative trait locus controlling seed dormancy in Arabidopsis
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      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17042-17047; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607877103
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      A gender- and sexual orientation-dependent spatial attentional effect of invisible images
      Yi Jiang, Patricia Costello, Fang Fang, Miner Huang, and Sheng He
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17048-17052; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605678103
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      Self-recognition in an Asian elephant
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      Joshua M. Plotnik, Frans B. M. de Waal, and Diana Reiss
      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17053-17057; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608062103
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      Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate
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      PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 16637-16643; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606955103

      See companion article:

      • Profile of F. Stuart Chapin III
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Corrections

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    Correction for Wada et al., A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17064; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608997103
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    Correction for Street et al., A molecular mechanism for osmolyte-induced protein stability
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17064; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608836103
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    Correction for Kadener et al., Neurotoxic protein expression reveals connections between the circadian clock and mating behavior in Drosophila
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17065; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608504103
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    Correction for Deshpande et al., A bio-chemo-mechanical model for cell contractility
    PNAS November 7, 2006 103 (45) 17065; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0608707103
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