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April 03, 2007; vol. 104 no. 14
This Week in PNAS
Physical sciences
Environmental sciences
- You have accessHomogenization of regional river dynamics by dams and global biodiversity implications
- From the Cover
N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, David M. Merritt, and David M. PepinSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- Homogenous rivers, homogenous faunas- Mar 28, 2007
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessMicromechanical control of cell–cell interactions
- From the Cover
Elliot E. Hui and Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Chemistry
- Open AccessHigh-pressure/low-temperature neutron scattering of gas inclusion compounds: Progress and prospectsYusheng Zhao, Hongwu Xu, Luke L. Daemen, Konstantin Lokshin, Kimberly T. Tait, Wendy L. Mao, Junhua Luo, Robert P. Currier, and Donald D. Hickmott
- You have accessDestruction of long-range interactions by a single mutation in lysozymeRuhong Zhou, Maria Eleftheriou, Ajay K. Royyuru, and Bruce J. Berne
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessProjected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 ADJohn W. Williams, Stephen T. Jackson, and John E. Kutzbach
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- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- You have access20th-Century doubling in dust archived in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core parallels climate change and desertification in South AmericaJoseph R. McConnell, Alberto J. Aristarain, J. Ryan Banta, P. Ross Edwards, and Jefferson C. Simões
Geophysics
- Open AccessThermodynamic constraints on stochastic acceleration in compressional turbulenceLennard A. Fisk and George Gloeckler
Physics
- You have accessEstimation of critical exponents from cluster coefficients and the application of this estimation to hard spheresE. Eisenberg and A. Baram
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
- Open AccessAbscisic acid is an endogenous cytokine in human granulocytes with cyclic ADP-ribose as second messengerSantina Bruzzone, Iliana Moreschi, Cesare Usai, Lucrezia Guida, Gianluca Damonte, Annalisa Salis, Sonia Scarfì, Enrico Millo, Antonio De Flora, and Elena Zocchi
- You have accessThe p23 molecular chaperone promotes functional telomerase complexes through DNA dissociationOyetunji A. Toogun, Will Zeiger, and Brian C. Freeman
- Open AccessCoordinate expression and functional profiling identify an extracellular proteolytic signaling pathwayAmi S. Bhatt, Alana Welm, Christopher J. Farady, Maximiliano Vásquez, Keith Wilson, and Charles S. Craik
- You have accessStructural basis for the selection of glycosylated substrates by SCFFbs1 ubiquitin ligaseTsunehiro Mizushima, Yukiko Yoshida, Taichi Kumanomidou, Yuko Hasegawa, Atsuo Suzuki, Takashi Yamane, and Keiji Tanaka
- You have accessStructural insight into substrate specificity of phosphodiesterase 10
- From the Cover
Huanchen Wang, Yudong Liu, Jing Hou, Meiyan Zheng, Howard Robinson, and Hengming Ke - Open AccessReconfiguration of yeast 40S ribosomal subunit domains by the translation initiation multifactor complexRobert J. C. Gilbert, Yulya Gordiyenko, Tobias von der Haar, Andreas F.-P. Sonnen, Gregor Hofmann, Maria Nardelli, David I. Stuart, and John E. G. McCarthy
- You have accessEstrogen receptor α is a putative substrate for the BRCA1 ubiquitin ligaseCatherine M. Eakin, Michael J. MacCoss, Gregory L. Finney, and Rachel E. Klevit
- You have accessInterdomain communication in calcium pump as revealed in the crystal structures with transmembrane inhibitorsMihoko Takahashi, Youhei Kondou, and Chikashi Toyoshima
- You have accessExtrachromosomal element capture and the evolution of multiple replication origins in archaeal chromosomesNicholas P. Robinson and Stephen D. Bell
- You have accessChemical inhibition of the TFIIH-associated kinase Cdk7/Kin28 does not impair global mRNA synthesisElenita I. Kanin, Ryan T. Kipp, Charles Kung, Matthew Slattery, Agnes Viale, Steven Hahn, Kevan M. Shokat, and Aseem Z. Ansari
- You have accessEvidence for proton transfer in the rate-limiting step of a fast-cleaving Varkud satellite ribozymeM. Duane Smith and Richard A. Collins
Biophysics
- You have accessDestruction of long-range interactions by a single mutation in lysozymeRuhong Zhou, Maria Eleftheriou, Ajay K. Royyuru, and Bruce J. Berne
- Open AccessCorrelation between mechanical strength of messenger RNA pseudoknots and ribosomal frameshiftingThomas M. Hansen, S. Nader S. Reihani, Lene B. Oddershede, and Michael A. Sørensen
Cell Biology
- You have accessCCR4/NOT complex associates with the proteasome and regulates histone methylationR. Nicholas Laribee, Yoichiro Shibata, Douglas P. Mersman, Sean R. Collins, Patrick Kemmeren, Assen Roguev, Jonathan S. Weissman, Scott D. Briggs, Nevan J. Krogan, and Brian D. Strahl
- You have accessUnc-51-like kinase 1/2-mediated endocytic processes regulate filopodia extension and branching of sensory axonsXiang Zhou, J. Ramesh Babu, Susana da Silva, Qing Shu, Isabella A. Graef, Tim Oliver, Toshifumi Tomoda, Tomomi Tani, Marie W. Wooten, and Fan Wang
- Open AccessHepatitis C virus production by human hepatocytes dependent on assembly and secretion of very low-density lipoproteins
- From the Cover
Hua Huang, Fang Sun, David M. Owen, Weiping Li, Yan Chen, Michael Gale Jr., and Jin YeSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- You have accessMorlin, an inhibitor of cortical microtubule dynamics and cellulose synthase movementSeth DeBolt, Ryan Gutierrez, David W. Ehrhardt, Carlos V. Melo, Loretta Ross, Sean R. Cutler, Christopher Somerville, and Dario Bonetta
- You have accessMultiple reaction monitoring for robust quantitative proteomic analysis of cellular signaling networksAlejandro Wolf-Yadlin, Sampsa Hautaniemi, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, and Forest M. White
- You have accessSignaling-dependent and coordinated regulation of transcription, splicing, and translation resides in a single coregulator, PCBP1Qingchang Meng, Suresh K. Rayala, Anupama E. Gururaj, Amjad H. Talukder, Bert W. O'Malley, and Rakesh Kumar
- Open AccessRab27b regulates number and secretion of platelet dense granulesTanya Tolmachova, Magnus Åbrink, Clare E. Futter, Kalwant S. Authi, and Miguel C. Seabra
- Open AccessIdentification of a new intrinsically timed developmental checkpoint that reprograms key hematopoietic stem cell propertiesMichelle B. Bowie, David G. Kent, Brad Dykstra, Kristen D. McKnight, Lindsay McCaffrey, Pamela A. Hoodless, and Connie J. Eaves
- You have accessMolecular and electrophysiological characterization of a mechanosensitive channel expressed in the chloroplasts of ChlamydomonasYoshitaka Nakayama, Kenta Fujiu, Masahiro Sokabe, and Kenjiro Yoshimura
- You have accessElucidation of intracellular recycling pathways leading to exocytosis of the Fc receptor, FcRn, by using multifocal plane microscopyPrashant Prabhat, Zhuo Gan, Jerry Chao, Sripad Ram, Carlos Vaccaro, Steven Gibbons, Raimund J. Ober, and E. Sally Ward
Developmental Biology
- Open AccessMelanomas require HEDGEHOG-GLI signaling regulated by interactions between GLI1 and the RAS-MEK/AKT pathwaysBarbara Stecca, Christophe Mas, Virginie Clement, Marie Zbinden, Rafael Correa, Vincent Piguet, Friedrich Beermann, and Ariel Ruiz i Altaba
- You have accessnanos function is essential for development and regeneration of planarian germ cellsYuying Wang, Ricardo M. Zayas, Tingxia Guo, and Phillip A. Newmark
- You have accessCranial muscle defects of Pitx2 mutants result from specification defects in the first branchial archHung Ping Shih, Michael K. Gross, and Chrissa Kioussi
- Open AccessJagged-mediated Notch signaling maintains proliferating neural progenitors and regulates cell diversity in the ventral spinal cordSang-Yeob Yeo and Ajay B. Chitnis
- You have accessCrucial roles of Foxa2 in mouse anterior–posterior axis polarization via regulation of anterior visceral endoderm-specific genesChiharu Kimura-Yoshida, E. Tian, Hiroshi Nakano, Saori Amazaki, Kayo Shimokawa, Janet Rossant, Shinichi Aizawa, and Isao Matsuo
Ecology
- You have accessHomogenization of regional river dynamics by dams and global biodiversity implications
- From the Cover
N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, David M. Merritt, and David M. PepinSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- Homogenous rivers, homogenous faunas- Mar 28, 2007
- You have accessProjected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 ADJohn W. Williams, Stephen T. Jackson, and John E. Kutzbach
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- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- You have accessGlobal patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversityHolger Kreft and Walter Jetz
- You have accessCoarse-grained analysis of stochasticity-induced switching between collective motion statesAllison Kolpas, Jeff Moehlis, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Evolution
- You have accessHigh-resolution species trees without concatenationScott V. Edwards, Liang Liu, and Dennis K. Pearl
- You have accessTransgenerational epigenetic imprints on mate preferenceDavid Crews, Andrea C. Gore, Timothy S. Hsu, Nygerma L. Dangleben, Michael Spinetta, Timothy Schallert, Matthew D. Anway, and Michael K. Skinner
Genetics
- You have accessRegulation of Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan by a proteasomal E3 ligase complexArjumand Ghazi, Sivan Henis-Korenblit, and Cynthia Kenyon
- You have accessRiboflavin activated by ultraviolet A1 irradiation induces oxidative DNA damage-mediated mutations inhibited by vitamin CAhmad Besaratinia, Sang-in Kim, Steven E. Bates, and Gerd P. Pfeifer
- Open AccessMetagene projection for cross-platform, cross-species characterization of global transcriptional statesPablo Tamayo, Daniel Scanfeld, Benjamin L. Ebert, Michael A. Gillette, Charles W. M. Roberts, and Jill P. Mesirov
- You have accessMeiotic recombination-related DNA synthesis and its implications for cross-over and non-cross-over recombinant formationMasahiro Terasawa, Hideyuki Ogawa, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Miki Shinohara, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Nancy Kleckner, and Tomoko Ogawa
Immunology
- You have accessImplications for invariant natural killer T cell ligands due to the restricted presence of isoglobotrihexosylceramide in mammals
- From the Cover
Anneliese O. Speak, Mariolina Salio, David C. A. Neville, Josette Fontaine, David A. Priestman, Nick Platt, Tanya Heare, Terry D. Butters, Raymond A. Dwek, Francois Trottein, Mark A. Exley, Vincenzo Cerundolo, and Frances M. PlattSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- Natural killer T cells: Know thyself- Mar 27, 2007
- You have accessNormal development and function of invariant natural killer T cells in mice with isoglobotrihexosylceramide (iGb3) deficiency
- From the Cover
Stefan Porubsky, Anneliese O. Speak, Bruno Luckow, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Frances M. Platt, and Hermann-Josef GröneSee companion article:
- Natural killer T cells: Know thyself- Mar 27, 2007
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- You have accessFolding of an MHC class II-restricted tumor antigen controls its antigenicity via MHC-guided processingYusuke Mimura, Yuka Mimura-Kimura, Katie Doores, Denise Golgher, Benjamin G. Davis, Raymond A. Dwek, Pauline M. Rudd, and Tim Elliott
- You have accessCostimulatory ligand CD70 is delivered to the immunological synapse by shared intracellular trafficking with MHC class II moleculesAnna M. Keller, Tom A. Groothuis, Elise A. M. Veraar, Marije Marsman, Lucas Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Hans Janssen, Jacques Neefjes, and Jannie Borst
Medical Sciences
- You have accessExercise reverses preamyloid oligomer and prolongs survival in αB-crystallin-based desmin-related cardiomyopathyAlina Maloyan, James Gulick, Charles G. Glabe, Rakez Kayed, and Jeffrey Robbins
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- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- You have accessOtt1(Rbm15) has pleiotropic roles in hematopoietic developmentGlen D. Raffel, Thomas Mercher, Hirokazu Shigematsu, Ifor R. Williams, Dana E. Cullen, Koichi Akashi, Olivier A. Bernard, and D. Gary Gilliland
- Open AccessCorrection of prototypic ATM splicing mutations and aberrant ATM function with antisense morpholino oligonucleotidesLiutao Du, Julianne M. Pollard, and Richard A. Gatti
- You have accessTiming of estrogen therapy after ovariectomy dictates the efficacy of its neuroprotective and antiinflammatory actionsShotaro Suzuki, Candice M. Brown, Christopher D. Dela Cruz, Enhua Yang, David A. Bridwell, and Phyllis M. Wise
- You have accessToll-like receptor-MyD88 and Fc receptor pathways of mast cells mediate the thyroid dysfunctions observed during nonthyroidal illnessRoberto Rocchi, Hiroaki Kimura, Shey-Cherng Tzou, Koichi Suzuki, Noel R. Rose, Aldo Pinchera, Paul W. Ladenson, and Patrizio Caturegli
- You have accessRapid induction of virus-neutralizing antibodies and viral clearance in a single-source outbreak of hepatitis CJan M. Pestka, Mirjam B. Zeisel, Edith Bläser, Peter Schürmann, Birke Bartosch, Francois-Loïc Cosset, Arvind H. Patel, Helga Meisel, Jens Baumert, Sergei Viazov, Kay Rispeter, Hubert E. Blum, Michael Roggendorf, and Thomas F. Baumert
Microbiology
- You have accessLysosomal killing of Mycobacterium mediated by ubiquitin-derived peptides is enhanced by autophagySylvie Alonso, Kevin Pethe, David G. Russell, and Georgiana E. Purdy
- Open AccessIn vivo negative selection screen identifies genes required for Francisella virulenceDavid S. Weiss, Anna Brotcke, Thomas Henry, Jeffrey J. Margolis, Kaman Chan, and Denise M. Monack
- You have accessCombinatorial transcriptional control of the lactose operon of Escherichia coliThomas Kuhlman, Zhongge Zhang, Milton H. Saier Jr., and Terence Hwa
- Open AccessViral activation and recruitment of metacaspases in the unicellular coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyiKay D. Bidle, Liti Haramaty, Joana Barcelos e Ramos, and Paul Falkowski
Neuroscience
- You have accessHomer 1a uncouples metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 from postsynaptic effectorsPaul J. Kammermeier and Paul F. Worley
- You have accessNaloxone acts as a potent analgesic in transgenic mouse models of sickle cell anemiaMary M. Lunzer, Ajay Yekkirala, Robert P. Hebbel, and Philip S. Portoghese
- You have accessNeural encoding of the concept of nest in the mouse brainLongnian Lin, Guifen Chen, Hui Kuang, Dong Wang, and Joe Z. Tsien
- You have accessOverexpression of CCS in G93A-SOD1 mice leads to accelerated neurological deficits with severe mitochondrial pathologyMarjatta Son, Krishna Puttaparthi, Hibiki Kawamata, Bhagya Rajendran, Philip J. Boyer, Giovanni Manfredi, and Jeffrey L. Elliott
- You have accessCytosolic phospholipase A2 alpha mediates electrophysiologic responses of hippocampal pyramidal neurons to neurotoxic NMDA treatmentYing Shen, Koji Kishimoto, David J. Linden, and Adam Sapirstein
Pharmacology
- Open AccessAdministration in non-human primates of escalating intravenous doses of targeted nanoparticles containing ribonucleotide reductase subunit M2 siRNA
- Inaugural Article
Jeremy D. Heidel, Zhongping Yu, Joanna Yi-Ching Liu, Shyam M. Rele, Yongchao Liang, Ryan K. Zeidan, Douglas J. Kornbrust, and Mark E. Davis
Psychology
- You have accessGenomic imprinting mediates sexual experience-dependent olfactory learning in male miceWilliam T. Swaney, James P. Curley, Frances A. Champagne, and Eric B. Keverne
Sustainability Science
- You have accessHomogenization of regional river dynamics by dams and global biodiversity implications
- From the Cover
N. LeRoy Poff, Julian D. Olden, David M. Merritt, and David M. PepinSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Apr 03, 2007
- Homogenous rivers, homogenous faunas- Mar 28, 2007
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