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May 01, 2007; vol. 104 no. 18
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks- Apr 24, 2007
- Human relational memory requires time and sleep- Apr 20, 2007
- Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth- Apr 24, 2007
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- Open AccessAn information-theoretic framework for resolving community structure in complex networksMartin Rosvall and Carl T. Bergstrom
- You have accessDeterministic characterization of stochastic genetic circuitsMatthew Scott, Terence Hwa, and Brian Ingalls
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessStructure and tie strengths in mobile communication networksJ.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, J. Hyvönen, G. Szabó, D. Lazer, K. Kaski, J. Kertész, and A.-L. Barabási
- You have accessProtein-induced, previously unidentified twin form of calciteB. Pokroy, M. Kapon, F. Marin, N. Adir, and E. Zolotoyabko
Chemistry
- You have accessWater surface is acidicVictoria Buch, Anne Milet, Robert Vácha, Pavel Jungwirth, and J. Paul Devlin
Physics
- You have accessPhase-separation in ion-containing mixtures in electric fieldsYoav Tsori and Ludwik Leibler
Social Sciences
Political Sciences
Psychology
- You have accessSacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflictJeremy Ginges, Scott Atran, Douglas Medin, and Khalil Shikaki
Social Sciences
- You have accessThe emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination gameReinhard Selten and Massimo Warglien
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessMutational reconstructed ferric chelate reductase confers enhanced tolerance in rice to iron deficiency in calcareous soil
- From the Cover
Yasuhiro Ishimaru, Suyeon Kim, Takashi Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Oki, Takanori Kobayashi, Satoshi Watanabe, Shinpei Matsuhashi, Michiko Takahashi, Hiromi Nakanishi, Satoshi Mori, and Naoko K. NishizawaSee companion article:
Biochemistry
- You have accessFunctional, structural, and spectroscopic characterization of a glutathione-ligated [2Fe–2S] cluster in poplar glutaredoxin C1Nicolas Rouhier, Hideaki Unno, Sibali Bandyopadhyay, Lluis Masip, Sung-Kun Kim, Masakazu Hirasawa, José Manuel Gualberto, Virginie Lattard, Masami Kusunoki, David B. Knaff, George Georgiou, Toshiharu Hase, Michael K. Johnson, and Jean-Pierre Jacquot
- Open AccessThe structure of a birnavirus polymerase reveals a distinct active site topologyJunhua Pan, Vikram N. Vakharia, and Yizhi Jane Tao
- You have accessSelective chemical probe inhibitor of Stat3, identified through structure-based virtual screening, induces antitumor activityKhandaker Siddiquee, Shumin Zhang, Wayne C. Guida, Michelle A. Blaskovich, Benjamin Greedy, Harshani R. Lawrence, M. L. Richard Yip, Richard Jove, Mark M. McLaughlin, Nicholas J. Lawrence, Said M. Sebti, and James Turkson
- Open AccessFollowing evolution's lead to a single residue switch for diterpene synthase product outcomeMeimei Xu, P. Ross Wilderman, and Reuben J. Peters
Biophysics
- You have accessDeterministic characterization of stochastic genetic circuitsMatthew Scott, Terence Hwa, and Brian Ingalls
- You have accessSubpicosecond oxygen trapping in the heme pocket of the oxygen sensor FixL observed by time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopySergei G. Kruglik, Audrius Jasaitis, Klara Hola, Taku Yamashita, Ursula Liebl, Jean-Louis Martin, and Marten H. Vos
- You have accessDiversity in prion protein oligomerization pathways results from domain expansion as revealed by hydrogen/deuterium exchange and disulfide linkageFrederic Eghiaian, Thorsten Daubenfeld, Yann Quenet, Marieke van Audenhaege, Anne-Pascale Bouin, Guillaume van der Rest, Jeanne Grosclaude, and Human Rezaei
- You have accessAn allosteric model of circadian KaiC phosphorylationJeroen S. van Zon, David K. Lubensky, Pim R. H. Altena, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Cell Biology
- You have accessTransmembrane protein Sun2 is involved in tethering mammalian meiotic telomeres to the nuclear envelopeJohannes Schmitt, Ricardo Benavente, Didier Hodzic, Christer Höög, Colin L. Stewart, and Manfred Alsheimer
- Open AccessβKlotho is required for metabolic activity of fibroblast growth factor 21Yasushi Ogawa, Hiroshi Kurosu, Masaya Yamamoto, Animesh Nandi, Kevin P. Rosenblatt, Regina Goetz, Anna V. Eliseenkova, Moosa Mohammadi, and Makoto Kuro-o
- You have accessAkt1 governs breast cancer progression in vivoXiaoming Ju, Sanjay Katiyar, Chenguang Wang, Manran Liu, Xuanmao Jiao, Shengwen Li, Jie Zhou, Jacob Turner, Michael P. Lisanti, Robert G. Russell, Susette C. Mueller, John Ojeifo, William S. Chen, Nissim Hay, and Richard G. Pestell
- You have accessSmall-molecule synergist of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathwayQisheng Zhang, Michael B. Major, Shinichi Takanashi, Nathan D. Camp, Naoyuki Nishiya, Eric C. Peters, Mark H. Ginsberg, Xiaoying Jian, Paul A. Randazzo, Peter G. Schultz, Randall T. Moon, and Sheng Ding
- You have accessRepression of the PDCD2 gene by BCL6 and the implications for the pathogenesis of human B and T cell lymphomasBeverly W. Baron, Nancy Zeleznik-Le, Miriam J. Baron, Catherine Theisler, Dezheng Huo, Matthew D. Krasowski, Michael J. Thirman, Rebecca M. Baron, and Joseph M. Baron
Developmental Biology
- Open AccessMaternal Nanos represses hid/skl-dependent apoptosis to maintain the germ line in Drosophila embryosKimihiro Sato, Yoshiki Hayashi, Yuichi Ninomiya, Shuji Shigenobu, Kayo Arita, Masanori Mukai, and Satoru Kobayashi
Ecology
- You have accessDepth-mediated reversal of the effects of climate change on long-term growth rates of exploited marine fishRonald E. Thresher, J. A. Koslow, A. K. Morison, and D. C. Smith
- You have accessChanges in nitrogen cycling during the past century in a northern hardwood forestKendra K. McLauchlan, Joseph M. Craine, W. Wyatt Oswald, Peter R. Leavitt, and Gene E. Likens
- You have accessPigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigationDora Biro, Robin Freeman, Jessica Meade, Stephen Roberts, and Tim Guilford
- You have accessStoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growthRoxanne Karimi, Celia Y. Chen, Paul C. Pickhardt, Nicholas S. Fisher, and Carol L. Folt
- Open AccessThe impact of herbivore–plant coevolution on plant community structureJudith X. Becerra
Evolution
- You have accessMore genes underwent positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolutionMargaret A. Bakewell, Peng Shi, and Jianzhi Zhang
- You have accessMultiple molecular evidences for a living mammalian fossilDorothée Huchon, Pascale Chevret, Ursula Jordan, C. William Kilpatrick, Vincent Ranwez, Paulina D. Jenkins, Jürgen Brosius, and Jürgen Schmitz
Immunology
- You have accessNegative regulation of the RIG-I signaling by the ubiquitin ligase RNF125Kei-ichiro Arimoto, Hitoshi Takahashi, Takayuki Hishiki, Hideyuki Konishi, Takashi Fujita, and Kunitada Shimotohno
- You have accessDistinct functional motifs within the IL-17 receptor regulate signal transduction and target gene expressionAmarnath Maitra, Fang Shen, Walter Hanel, Karen Mossman, Joel Tocker, David Swart, and Sarah L. Gaffen
- You have accessNKG2D recognition mediates Toll-like receptor 3 signaling-induced breakdown of epithelial homeostasis in the small intestines of miceRongbin Zhou, Haiming Wei, Rui Sun, Jian Zhang, and Zhigang Tian
Medical Sciences
- You have accessTargeting the β-catenin/TCF transcriptional complex in the treatment of multiple myelomaKumar Sukhdeo, Mala Mani, Yunyu Zhang, Jui Dutta, Hiroshi Yasui, Melissa D. Rooney, Daniel E. Carrasco, Mei Zheng, Haiying He, Yu-Tzu Tai, Constantine Mitsiades, Kenneth C. Anderson, and Daniel R. Carrasco
- Open AccessNonrandom variations in human cancer ESTs indicate that mRNA heterogeneity increases during carcinogenesisMarie Brulliard, Dalia Lorphelin, Olivier Collignon, Walter Lorphelin, Benoit Thouvenot, Emmanuel Gothié, Sandrine Jacquenet, Virginie Ogier, Olivier Roitel, Jean-Marie Monnez, Pierre Vallois, Frances T. Yen, Olivier Poch, Marc Guenneugues, Gilles Karcher, Pierre Oudet, and Bernard E. Bihain
- You have accessProtection against Escherichia coli infection by antibody to the Staphylococcus aureus poly-N-acetylglucosamine surface polysaccharideNuno Cerca, Tomás Maira-Litrán, Kimberly K. Jefferson, Martha Grout, Donald A. Goldmann, and Gerald B. Pier
- You have accessNitric oxide mediates prostaglandins' deleterious effect on lipopolysaccharide-triggered murine fetal resorptionJ. Aisemberg, C. Vercelli, S. Billi, M. L. Ribeiro, D. Ogando, R. Meiss, S. M. McCann, V. Rettori, and A. M. Franchi
- You have accessFrequency and phenotypic implications of mitochondrial DNA mutations in human squamous cell cancers of the head and neckShaoyu Zhou, Sushant Kachhap, Wenyue Sun, Guojun Wu, Alice Chuang, Luana Poeta, Lawson Grumbine, Suhail K. Mithani, Aditi Chatterjee, Wayne Koch, William H. Westra, Anirban Maitra, Chad Glazer, Michael Carducci, David Sidransky, Thomas McFate, Ajay Verma, and Joseph A. Califano
- You have accessHuman prion proteins with pathogenic mutations share common conformational changes resulting in enhanced binding to glycosaminoglycansShaoman Yin, Nancy Pham, Shuiliang Yu, Chaoyang Li, Poki Wong, Binggong Chang, Shin-Chung Kang, Emiliano Biasini, Po Tien, David A. Harris, and Man-Sun Sy
- Open AccessAdult-onset pulmonary fibrosis caused by mutations in telomeraseKalliopi D. Tsakiri, Jennifer T. Cronkhite, Phillip J. Kuan, Chao Xing, Ganesh Raghu, Jonathan C. Weissler, Randall L. Rosenblatt, Jerry W. Shay, and Christine Kim Garcia
- Open AccessCyclophilin D inactivation protects axons in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of multiple sclerosisMichael Forte, Bruce G. Gold, Gail Marracci, Priya Chaudhary, Emy Basso, Dustin Johnsen, Xiaolin Yu, Jonathan Fowlkes, Paolo Bernardi, and Dennis Bourdette
- Open AccessPoor prognosis in carcinoma is associated with a gene expression signature of aberrant PTEN tumor suppressor pathway activityLao H. Saal, Peter Johansson, Karolina Holm, Sofia K. Gruvberger-Saal, Qing-Bai She, Matthew Maurer, Susan Koujak, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Per Malmström, Lorenzo Memeo, Jorma Isola, Pär-Ola Bendahl, Neal Rosen, Hanina Hibshoosh, Markus Ringnér, Åke Borg, and Ramon Parsons
- Open AccessThe macrophage-stimulating protein pathway promotes metastasis in a mouse model for breast cancer and predicts poor prognosis in humansAlana L. Welm, Julie B. Sneddon, Carmen Taylor, Dimitry S. A. Nuyten, Marc J. van de Vijver, Bruce H. Hasegawa, and J. Michael Bishop
- Open AccessBradykinin B1 and B2 receptors both have protective roles in renal ischemia/reperfusion injuryMasao Kakoki, Robert W. McGarrah, Hyung-Suk Kim, and Oliver Smithies
- Open AccessPublic health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic
- From the Cover
Richard J. Hatchett, Carter E. Mecher, and Marc LipsitchPNAS May 1, 2007 104 (18) 7582-7587; first published April 6, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610941104See companion article:
- Pandemic influenza: Studying the lessons of history- Apr 25, 2007
- Open AccessThe effect of public health measures on the 1918 influenza pandemic in U.S. cities
- From the Cover
Martin C. J. Bootsma and Neil M. FergusonSee companion article:
- Pandemic influenza: Studying the lessons of history- Apr 25, 2007
- Open AccessTargeted delivery of proteins across the blood–brain barrier
- Cozzarelli Prize Winner
- From the Cover
Brian J. Spencer and Inder M. VermaSee companion article:
- From the liver to the brain across the blood–brain barrier- Apr 26, 2007
Microbiology
- You have accessThe genome of Syntrophus aciditrophicus: Life at the thermodynamic limit of microbial growthMichael J. McInerney, Lars Rohlin, Housna Mouttaki, UnMi Kim, Rebecca S. Krupp, Luis Rios-Hernandez, Jessica Sieber, Christopher G. Struchtemeyer, Anamitra Bhattacharyya, John W. Campbell, and Robert P. Gunsalus
- You have accessEpstein–Barr virus and virus human protein interaction mapsMichael A. Calderwood, Kavitha Venkatesan, Li Xing, Michael R. Chase, Alexei Vazquez, Amy M. Holthaus, Alexandra E. Ewence, Ning Li, Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa, David E. Hill, Marc Vidal, Elliott Kieff, and Eric Johannsen
- You have accessDiscovery of platencin, a dual FabF and FabH inhibitor with in vivo antibiotic propertiesJun Wang, Srinivas Kodali, Sang Ho Lee, Andrew Galgoci, Ronald Painter, Karen Dorso, Fred Racine, Mary Motyl, Lorraine Hernandez, Elizabeth Tinney, Steven L. Colletti, Kithsiri Herath, Richard Cummings, Oscar Salazar, Ignacio González, Angela Basilio, Francisca Vicente, Olga Genilloud, Fernando Pelaez, Hiranthi Jayasuriya, Katherine Young, Doris F. Cully, and Sheo B. Singh
- You have accessBacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118
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Sinéad C. Corr, Yin Li, Christian U. Riedel, Paul W. O'Toole, Colin Hill, and Cormac G. M. Gahan - Open AccessIn vivo imaging and genetic analysis link bacterial motility and symbiosis in the zebrafish gutJohn F. Rawls, Michael A. Mahowald, Andrew L. Goodman, Chad M. Trent, and Jeffrey I. Gordon
- You have accessA family of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked aspartyl proteases is required for virulence of Candida glabrataRupinder Kaur, Biao Ma, and Brendan P. Cormack
Neuroscience
- You have accessToxicity from different SOD1 mutants dysregulates the complement system and the neuronal regenerative response in ALS motor neurons
- Inaugural Article
Christian S. Lobsiger, Séverine Boillée, and Don W. Cleveland - You have accessCircadian desynchronization of core body temperature and sleep stages in the ratTrinitat Cambras, John R. Weller, Montserrat Anglès-Pujoràs, Michael L. Lee, Andrea Christopher, Antoni Díez-Noguera, James M. Krueger, and Horacio O. de la Iglesia
- You have accessRecruitment of an inhibitory hippocampal network after bursting in a single granule cellMasahiro Mori, Beat H. Gähwiler, and Urs Gerber
- Open AccessPerinatal exposure to a noncoplanar polychlorinated biphenyl alters tonotopy, receptive fields, and plasticity in rat primary auditory cortexT. Kenet, R. C. Froemke, C. E. Schreiner, I. N. Pessah, and M. M. Merzenich
- You have accessPatterning of frontal cortex subdivisions by Fgf17Jeremy A. Cholfin and John L. R. Rubenstein
- You have accessOn-beam synchrony in the cerebellum as the mechanism for the timing and coordination of movementD. H. Heck, W. T. Thach, and J. G. Keating
- Open AccessSeparate oscillating cell groups in mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus couple photoperiodically to the onset and end of daily activityNatsuko Inagaki, Sato Honma, Daisuke Ono, Yusuke Tanahashi, and Ken-ichi Honma
- You have accessDemonstration of artificial visual percepts generated through thalamic microstimulationJohn S. Pezaris and R. Clay Reid
- You have accessCoherent neural representation of hand speed in humans revealed by MEG imagingKarim Jerbi, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Karim N′Diaye, Dimitrios Pantazis, Richard M. Leahy, Line Garnero, and Sylvain Baillet
Pharmacology
- You have accessA monomeric G protein-coupled receptor isolated in a high-density lipoprotein particle efficiently activates its G proteinMatthew R. Whorton, Michael P. Bokoch, Søren G. F. Rasmussen, Bo Huang, Richard N. Zare, Brian Kobilka, and Roger K. Sunahara
Physiology
- Open AccessKSper, a pH-sensitive K+ current that controls sperm membrane potentialBetsy Navarro, Yuriy Kirichok, and David E. Clapham
- You have accessNonmammalian orthologs of prestin (SLC26A5) are electrogenic divalent/chloride anion exchangersThorsten J. Schaechinger and Dominik Oliver
- You have accessFatal gastrointestinal obstruction and hypertension in mice lacking nitric oxide-sensitive guanylyl cyclaseAndreas Friebe, Evanthia Mergia, Oliver Dangel, Alexander Lange, and Doris Koesling
Plant Biology
- Open AccessThe tiny eukaryote Ostreococcus provides genomic insights into the paradox of plankton speciationBrian Palenik, Jane Grimwood, Andrea Aerts, Pierre Rouzé, Asaf Salamov, Nicholas Putnam, Chris Dupont, Richard Jorgensen, Evelyne Derelle, Stephane Rombauts, Kemin Zhou, Robert Otillar, Sabeeha S. Merchant, Sheila Podell, Terry Gaasterland, Carolyn Napoli, Karla Gendler, Andrea Manuell, Vera Tai, Olivier Vallon, Gwenael Piganeau, Séverine Jancek, Marc Heijde, Kamel Jabbari, Chris Bowler, Martin Lohr, Steven Robbens, Gregory Werner, Inna Dubchak, Gregory J. Pazour, Qinghu Ren, Ian Paulsen, Chuck Delwiche, Jeremy Schmutz, Daniel Rokhsar, Yves Van de Peer, Hervé Moreau, and Igor V. Grigoriev
Population Biology
- Open AccessThe generation of influenza outbreaks by a network of host immune responses against a limited set of antigenic typesMario Recker, Oliver G. Pybus, Sean Nee, and Sunetra Gupta
- You have accessSynchronous cycles of domestic dog rabies in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact of control effortsKatie Hampson, Jonathan Dushoff, John Bingham, Gideon Brückner, Y. H. Ali, and Andy Dobson
Psychology
- You have accessHuman relational memory requires time and sleep
- From the Cover
Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, Peter T. Hu, Jessica D. Payne, Debra Titone, and Matthew P. WalkerSee companion article:
- To sleep, perchance to integrate- Apr 27, 2007
Sustainability Science
- You have accessDepth-mediated reversal of the effects of climate change on long-term growth rates of exploited marine fishRonald E. Thresher, J. A. Koslow, A. K. Morison, and D. C. Smith
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