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December 26, 2007; vol. 104 no. 52
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Global topological dominance in the left hemisphere- Dec 18, 2007
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessCould genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?Per J. Palsbøll, Martine Bérubé, and Finn Larsen
- You have accessCould genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?S. E. Alter and S. R. Palumbi
Profiles
- You have accessProfile of George SchatzKaspar Mossman
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- Using theory and computation to model nanoscale properties- Apr 16, 2007
Land Change Science Special Feature (free online)
Perspective
- You have accessThe emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainabilityB. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg
Research Articles
- You have accessThe evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
- From the Cover
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael - You have accessAgent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United StatesSteven M. Manson and Tom Evans
- You have accessIncorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
- Cozzarelli Prize Winner
Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson - You have accessLearning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelandsD. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
- You have accessEcological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forestDeborah Lawrence, Paolo D'Odorico, Lucy Diekmann, Marcia DeLonge, Rishiraj Das, and James Eaton
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessCombinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small moleculesSandeep Krishna, Szabolcs Semsey, and Kim Sneppen
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessEndogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamicsPlamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, Michael F. Hilton, Steven A. Shea, and H. Eugene Stanley
- You have accessSelection of mammalian cells based on their cell-cycle phase using dielectrophoresisUnyoung Kim, Chih-Wen Shu, Karen Y. Dane, Patrick S. Daugherty, Jean Y. J. Wang, and H. T. Soh
Chemistry
- You have accessA synthetic precedent for the [FeIV2(μ-O)2] diamond core proposed for methane monooxygenase intermediate QGenqiang Xue, Dong Wang, Raymond De Hont, Adam T. Fiedler, Xiaopeng Shan, Eckard Münck, and Lawrence Que Jr.
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- You have accessHighly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z
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Manish Kumar, Mariusz Grzelakowski, Julie Zilles, Mark Clark, and Wolfgang MeierSee companion article:
- You have accessDynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxinEduard Schreiner, Nisanth N. Nair, Rodolphe Pollet, Volker Staemmler, and Dominik Marx
- Open AccessChemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assemblyArthur J. Olson, Yunfeng H. E. Hu, and Ehud Keinan
- You have accessAxis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulationRene A. Nome, Jason Ming Zhao, Wouter D. Hoff, and Norbert F. Scherer
Social Sciences
Anthropology
- Open AccessRecent acceleration of human adaptive evolutionJohn Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory M. Cochran, Henry C. Harpending, and Robert K. Moyzis
Social Sciences
- You have accessThe evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
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Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael - You have accessAgent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United StatesSteven M. Manson and Tom Evans
Sustainability Science
- You have accessAgent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United StatesSteven M. Manson and Tom Evans
- You have accessLearning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelandsD. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- Open AccessRecent acceleration of human adaptive evolutionJohn Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory M. Cochran, Henry C. Harpending, and Robert K. Moyzis
Biochemistry
- You have accessCLC Cl−/H+ transporters constrained by covalent cross-linking
- Inaugural Article
Wang Nguitragool and Christopher Miller - Open AccessUbc13/Rnf8 ubiquitin ligases control foci formation of the Rap80/Abraxas/Brca1/Brcc36 complex in response to DNA damageBin Wang and Stephen J. Elledge
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- Launching a ubiquitination cascade at DNA breaks- Dec 19, 2007
- You have accessStructural basis for the high all-trans-retinaldehyde reductase activity of the tumor marker AKR1B10Oriol Gallego, F. Xavier Ruiz, Albert Ardèvol, Marta Domínguez, Rosana Alvarez, Angel R. de Lera, Carme Rovira, Jaume Farrés, Ignacio Fita, and Xavier Parés
- You have accessThiamine biosynthesis in algae is regulated by riboswitchesMartin T. Croft, Michael Moulin, Michael E. Webb, and Alison G. Smith
- You have accessThe product of uncI gene in F1Fo-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assemblyToshiharu Suzuki, Yoko Ozaki, Nobuhito Sone, Boris A. Feniouk, and Masasuke Yoshida
- You have accessTransmembrane domains of the syndecan family of growth factor coreceptors display a hierarchy of homotypic and heterotypic interactionsIan C. Dews and Kevin R. MacKenzie
- Open AccessFolding trajectories of human dihydrofolate reductase inside the GroEL–GroES chaperonin cavity and free in solutionReto Horst, Wayne A. Fenton, S. Walter Englander, Kurt Wüthrich, and Arthur L. Horwich
- You have accessSUMOylation of pontin chromatin-remodeling complex reveals a signal integration code in prostate cancer cellsJung Hwa Kim, Ji Min Lee, Hye Jin Nam, Hee June Choi, Jung Woo Yang, Jason S. Lee, Mi Hyang Kim, Su-Il Kim, Chin Ha Chung, Keun Il Kim, and Sung Hee Baek
Biophysics
- You have accessDynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxinEduard Schreiner, Nisanth N. Nair, Rodolphe Pollet, Volker Staemmler, and Dominik Marx
- Open AccessChemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assemblyArthur J. Olson, Yunfeng H. E. Hu, and Ehud Keinan
- You have accessAxis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulationRene A. Nome, Jason Ming Zhao, Wouter D. Hoff, and Norbert F. Scherer
- Open AccessMolecular dynamics simulations suggest a mechanism for translocation of the HIV-1 TAT peptide across lipid membranesHenry D. Herce and Angel E. Garcia
- You have accessNanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome bo3Audrius Jasaitis, Mikael P. Johansson, Mårten Wikström, Marten H. Vos, and Michael I. Verkhovsky
Cell Biology
- You have accessCombinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small moleculesSandeep Krishna, Szabolcs Semsey, and Kim Sneppen
- You have accessDifferential Apaf-1 levels allow cytochrome c to induce apoptosis in brain tumors but not in normal neural tissuesCarrie E. Johnson, Yolanda Y. Huang, Amanda B. Parrish, Michelle I. Smith, Allyson E. Vaughn, Qian Zhang, Kevin M. Wright, Terry Van Dyke, Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Sally Kornbluth, and Mohanish Deshmukh
- Open AccessRegulation of p53 tetramerization and nuclear export by ARCRoger S.-Y. Foo, Young-Jae Nam, Marc Jason Ostreicher, Mark D. Metzl, Russell S. Whelan, Chang-Fu Peng, Anthony W. Ashton, Weimin Fu, Kartik Mani, Suet-Feung Chin, Elena Provenzano, Ian Ellis, Nichola Figg, Sarah Pinder, Martin R. Bennett, Carlos Caldas, and Richard N. Kitsis
- You have accessThree-dimensional structure of cytoplasmic dynein bound to microtubulesNaoko Mizuno, Akihiro Narita, Takahide Kon, Kazuo Sutoh, and Masahide Kikkawa
Chemistry
- You have accessA synthetic host-guest system achieves avidin-biotin affinity by overcoming enthalpy–entropy compensationMikhail V. Rekharsky, Tadashi Mori, Cheng Yang, Young Ho Ko, N. Selvapalam, Hyunuk Kim, David Sobransingh, Angel E. Kaifer, Simin Liu, Lyle Isaacs, Wei Chen, Sarvin Moghaddam, Michael K. Gilson, Kimoon Kim, and Yoshihisa Inoue
- Open AccessA potent cytotoxic photoactivated platinum complexFiona S. Mackay, Julie A. Woods, Pavla Heringová, Jana Kašpárková, Ana M. Pizarro, Stephen A. Moggach, Simon Parsons, Viktor Brabec, and Peter J. Sadler
- You have accessAn extended dynamical hydration shell around proteinsSimon Ebbinghaus, Seung Joong Kim, Matthias Heyden, Xin Yu, Udo Heugen, Martin Gruebele, David M. Leitner, and Martina Havenith
Developmental Biology
- You have accessEmbryonic stromal clones reveal developmental regulators of definitive hematopoietic stem cellsCharles Durand, Catherine Robin, Karine Bollerot, Margaret H. Baron, Katrin Ottersbach, and Elaine Dzierzak
- You have accessAn intragenic MEF2-dependent enhancer directs muscle-specific expression of microRNAs 1 and 133Ning Liu, Andrew H. Williams, Yuri Kim, John McAnally, Svetlana Bezprozvannaya, Lillian B. Sutherland, James A. Richardson, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, and Eric N. Olson
- Open AccessSite-directed, virus-free, and inducible RNAi in embryonic stem cellsJianlong Wang, Thorold W. Theunissen, and Stuart H. Orkin
Ecology
- You have accessIncorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
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Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson - You have accessTrophic ecology of invasive Argentine ants in their native and introduced rangesChadwick V. Tillberg, David A. Holway, Edward G. LeBrun, and Andrew V. Suarez
- You have accessSpatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island systemMatt J. Rayner, Mark E. Hauber, Michael J. Imber, Rosalie K. Stamp, and Mick N. Clout
- You have accessCold- and exercise-induced peak metabolic rates in tropical birdsPopko Wiersma, Mark A. Chappell, and Joseph B. Williams
Genetics
- Open AccessAssociation of yeast Upf1p with direct substrates of the NMD pathwayMarcus J. O. Johansson, Feng He, Phyllis Spatrick, Chunfang Li, and Allan Jacobson
Immunology
- You have accessTherapeutic B cell depletion impairs adaptive and autoreactive CD4+ T cell activation in miceJean-David Bouaziz, Koichi Yanaba, Guglielmo M. Venturi, Yaming Wang, Roland M. Tisch, Jonathan C. Poe, and Thomas F. Tedder
- You have accessCirculating tumor antigen-specific regulatory T cells in patients with metastatic melanomaLuis Vence, A. Karolina Palucka, Joseph W. Fay, Tomoki Ito, Yong-Jun Liu, Jacques Banchereau, and Hideki Ueno
Medical Sciences
- You have accessEndogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamicsPlamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, Michael F. Hilton, Steven A. Shea, and H. Eugene Stanley
- You have accessThe lipodystrophy protein seipin is found at endoplasmic reticulum lipid droplet junctions and is important for droplet morphologyKimberly M. Szymanski, Derk Binns, René Bartz, Nick V. Grishin, Wei-Ping Li, Anil K. Agarwal, Abhimanyu Garg, Richard G. W. Anderson, and Joel M. Goodman
- You have accessAn extremes of outcome strategy provides evidence that multiple sclerosis severity is determined by alleles at the HLA-DRB1 locusG. C. DeLuca, S. V. Ramagopalan, B. M. Herrera, D. A. Dyment, M. R. Lincoln, A. Montpetit, M. Pugliatti, M. C. N. Barnardo, N. J. Risch, A. D. Sadovnick, M. Chao, S. Sotgiu, T. J. Hudson, and G. C. Ebers
- Open AccessDefects in XRCC4 and KU80 differentially affect the joining of distal nonhomologous endsJosée Guirouilh-Barbat, Emilie Rass, Isabelle Plo, Pascale Bertrand, and Bernard S. Lopez
- Open AccessPrion strain discrimination in cell culture: The cell panel assaySukhvir P. Mahal, Christopher A. Baker, Cheryl A. Demczyk, Emery W. Smith, Christian Julius, and Charles Weissmann
- You have accessPrion detection by an amyloid seeding assayDavid W. Colby, Qiang Zhang, Shuyi Wang, Darlene Groth, Giuseppe Legname, Detlev Riesner, and Stanley B. Prusiner
- You have accessEmbryonic stem cell-derived tissues are immunogenic but their inherent immune privilege promotes the induction of toleranceNathan J. Robertson, Frances A. Brook, Richard L. Gardner, Stephen P. Cobbold, Herman Waldmann, and Paul J. Fairchild
- You have accessEnhanced sensitivity to IGF-II signaling links loss of imprinting of IGF2 to increased cell proliferation and tumor riskAtsushi Kaneda, Chiaochun J. Wang, Raymond Cheong, Winston Timp, Patrick Onyango, Bo Wen, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Rolf Ohlsson, Rita Andraos, Mark A. Pearson, Alexei A. Sharov, Dan L. Longo, Minoru S. H. Ko, Andre Levchenko, and Andrew P. Feinberg
- Open AccessMET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinibJames Bean, Cameron Brennan, Jin-Yuan Shih, Gregory Riely, Agnes Viale, Lu Wang, Dhananjay Chitale, Noriko Motoi, Janos Szoke, Stephen Broderick, Marissa Balak, Wen-Cheng Chang, Chong-Jen Yu, Adi Gazdar, Harvey Pass, Valerie Rusch, William Gerald, Shiu-Feng Huang, Pan-Chyr Yang, Vincent Miller, Marc Ladanyi, Chih-Hsin Yang, and William Pao
- Open AccessStaged in vitro reconstitution and implantation of engineered rat kidney tissueE. Rosines, R. V. Sampogna, K. Johkura, D. A. Vaughn, Y. Choi, H. Sakurai, M. M. Shah, and S. K. Nigam
- You have accessGABAA-current rundown of temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with repetitive activation of GABAA “phasic” receptorsEleonora Palma, Cristina Roseti, Francesca Maiolino, Sergio Fucile, Katiuscia Martinello, Manuela Mazzuferi, Eleonora Aronica, Mario Manfredi, Vincenzo Esposito, Gianpaolo Cantore, Ricardo Miledi, Michele Simonato, and Fabrizio Eusebi
Microbiology
- You have accessIdentification of H2N3 influenza A viruses from swine in the United StatesWenjun Ma, Amy L. Vincent, Marie R. Gramer, Christy B. Brockwell, Kelly M. Lager, Bruce H. Janke, Phillip C. Gauger, Devi P. Patnayak, Richard J. Webby, and Jürgen A. Richt
Neuroscience
- You have accessAmygdala depotentiation and fear extinctionJeongyeon Kim, Sukwon Lee, Kyungjoon Park, Ingie Hong, Beomjong Song, Gihoon Son, Heewoo Park, Woon Ryoung Kim, Eunjin Park, Han Kyung Choe, Hyun Kim, Changjoong Lee, Woong Sun, Kyungjin Kim, Ki Soon Shin, and Sukwoo Choi
- You have accessEvoked brain responses are generated by feedback loopsMarta I. Garrido, James M. Kilner, Stefan J. Kiebel, and Karl J. Friston
- You have accessEvidence for a vascular contribution to diffusion FMRI at high b valueKarla L. Miller, Daniel P. Bulte, Hannah Devlin, Matthew D. Robson, Richard G. Wise, Mark W. Woolrich, Peter Jezzard, and Timothy E. J. Behrens
- Open AccessNck adaptor proteins control the organization of neuronal circuits important for walkingJames P. Fawcett, John Georgiou, Julie Ruston, Friedhelm Bladt, Andrew Sherman, Neil Warner, Bechara J. Saab, Rizaldy Scott, John C. Roder, and Tony Pawson
Pharmacology
- Open AccessHematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase controls the onset and resolution of acute inflammation through PGD2 and 15-deoxyΔ12–14 PGJ2
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Physiology
- You have accessUniversal scaling law of electrical turbulence in the mammalian heartSami F. Noujaim, Omer Berenfeld, Jérôme Kalifa, Marina Cerrone, Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, Felipe Atienza, Javier Moreno, Sergey Mironov, and José Jalife
- Open AccessMutation of an A-kinase-anchoring protein causes long-QT syndromeLei Chen, Michelle L. Marquardt, David J. Tester, Kevin J. Sampson, Michael J. Ackerman, and Robert S. Kass
Plant Biology
- You have accessOscillations in extracellular pH and reactive oxygen species modulate tip growth of Arabidopsis root hairs
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G. B. Monshausen, T. N. Bibikova, M. A. Messerli, C. Shi, and S. GilroySee companion article:
- New ideas on root hair growth appear from the flanks- Dec 19, 2007
- You have accessArabidopsis CBF1 and CBF3 have a different function than CBF2 in cold acclimation and define different gene classes in the CBF regulonFernando Novillo, Joaquín Medina, and Julio Salinas
- You have accessThe subunit composition of hinokiresinol synthase controls geometrical selectivity in norlignan formationShiro Suzuki, Masaomi Yamamura, Takefumi Hattori, Tomoyuki Nakatsubo, and Toshiaki Umezawa
Psychology
- You have accessGlobal topological dominance in the left hemisphereBo Wang, Tian Gang Zhou, Yan Zhuo, and Lin Chen
Sustainability Science
- You have accessThe evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
- From the Cover
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael - You have accessIncorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
- Cozzarelli Prize Winner
Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson - You have accessLearning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelandsD. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
- You have accessEcological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forestDeborah Lawrence, Paolo D'Odorico, Lucy Diekmann, Marcia DeLonge, Rishiraj Das, and James Eaton
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