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March 18, 2008; vol. 105 no. 11

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4075-4076; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti1108105

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    • Long-term enhancement of skeletal muscle mass and strength by single gene administration of myostatin inhibitors
      - Mar 11, 2008
    • Unique SMAD1/5/8 activity at the phalanx-forming region determines digit identity
      - Mar 11, 2008
    • Comparing bird and human soaring strategies
      - Mar 03, 2008
    • Increased amphetamine-induced hyperactivity and reward in mice overexpressing the dopamine transporter
      - Mar 17, 2008
    • Comparative lesion sequencing provides insights into tumor evolution
      - Mar 12, 2008

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    Hibernation can also cause high δ15N values in cave bears: A response to Richards et al
    Aurora Grandal d'Anglade and Daniel Fernández Mosquera
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) E14; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800915105

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    • Reply to Grandal and Fernández: Hibernation can also cause high δ15N values in cave bears
      - Mar 06, 2008
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    Reply to Grandal and Fernández: Hibernation can also cause high δ15N values in cave bears
    Erik Trinkaus and Michael P. Richards
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) E15; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801137105

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    • Hibernation can also cause high δ15N values in cave bears: A response to Richards et al
      - Mar 06, 2008

Commentaries

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    Holocene underkill
    Donald K. Grayson
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4077-4078; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801272105

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    • The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis
      - Mar 11, 2008
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    The “Goldilocks factor” in food webs
    Eric L. Berlow, Ulrich Brose, and Neo D. Martinez
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4079-4080; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800967105

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    • Size, foraging, and food web structure
      - Mar 12, 2008
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    Making autoantibodies safe
    Christopher N. Scanlan, Dennis R. Burton, and Raymond A. Dwek
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4081-4082; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801192105

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    • IgG glycan hydrolysis by a bacterial enzyme as a therapy against autoimmune conditions
      - Mar 10, 2008

Physical Sciences

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      A simple and exact Laplacian clustering of complex networking phenomena: Application to gene expression profiles
      Choongrak Kim, Mookyung Cheon, Minho Kang, and Iksoo Chang
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4083-4087; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708598105
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      The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification
      Syed Alipayam Rizvi, David S. Courson, Valerie A. Keller, Ronald S. Rock, and Sergey A. Kozmin
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4088-4092; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710727105
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      Mass spectrometry identifies and quantifies 74 unique histone H4 isoforms in differentiating human embryonic stem cells
      Doug Phanstiel, Justin Brumbaugh, W. Travis Berggren, Kevin Conard, Xuezhu Feng, Mark E. Levenstein, Graeme C. McAlister, James A. Thomson, and Joshua J. Coon
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4093-4098; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710515105
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      Controlling the rates of biochemical reactions and signaling networks by shape and volume changes
      L. Lizana, B. Bauer, and O. Orwar
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4099-4104; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709932105
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      A disulfide-stabilized conformer of methionine synthase reveals an unexpected role for the histidine ligand of the cobalamin cofactor
      Supratim Datta, Markos Koutmos, Katherine A. Pattridge, Martha L. Ludwig, and Rowena G. Matthews
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4115-4120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800329105

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  • Anthropology

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      The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis
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      T. L. Jones, J. F. Porcasi, J. M. Erlandson, H. Dallas Jr., T. A. Wake, and R. Schwaderer
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4105-4108; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711140105

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      • Holocene underkill
        - Mar 11, 2008
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      A human intracranial study of long-range oscillatory coherence across a frontal–occipital–hippocampal brain network during visual object processing
      Pejman Sehatpour, Sophie Molholm, Theodore H. Schwartz, Jeannette R. Mahoney, Ashesh D. Mehta, Daniel C. Javitt, Patric K. Stanton, and John J. Foxe
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4399-4404; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708418105
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      Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others
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      Adrianna C. Jenkins, C. Neil Macrae, and Jason P. Mitchell
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4507-4512; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708785105
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      Understanding the social context of the Schelling segregation model
      William A. V. Clark and Mark Fossett
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4109-4114; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708155105

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      The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification
      Syed Alipayam Rizvi, David S. Courson, Valerie A. Keller, Ronald S. Rock, and Sergey A. Kozmin
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4088-4092; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710727105
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      Mass spectrometry identifies and quantifies 74 unique histone H4 isoforms in differentiating human embryonic stem cells
      Doug Phanstiel, Justin Brumbaugh, W. Travis Berggren, Kevin Conard, Xuezhu Feng, Mark E. Levenstein, Graeme C. McAlister, James A. Thomson, and Joshua J. Coon
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4093-4098; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710515105
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      A disulfide-stabilized conformer of methionine synthase reveals an unexpected role for the histidine ligand of the cobalamin cofactor
      Supratim Datta, Markos Koutmos, Katherine A. Pattridge, Martha L. Ludwig, and Rowena G. Matthews
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4115-4120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800329105
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      Crystal structure of the [2Fe-2S] oxidative-stress sensor SoxR bound to DNA
      Satoshi Watanabe, Akiko Kita, Kazuo Kobayashi, and Kunio Miki
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4121-4126; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709188105
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      Contribution of positively charged flanking residues to the insertion of transmembrane helices into the endoplasmic reticulum
      Mirjam Lerch-Bader, Carolina Lundin, Hyun Kim, IngMarie Nilsson, and Gunnar von Heijne
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4127-4132; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711580105
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      Confinement of caspase-12 proteolytic activity to autoprocessing
      Sophie Roy, Jeffrey R. Sharom, Caroline Houde, Thomas P. Loisel, John P. Vaillancourt, Wei Shao, Maya Saleh, and Donald W. Nicholson
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4133-4138; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706658105
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      Comparing bird and human soaring strategies
      Zsuzsa Ákos, Máté Nagy, and Tamás Vicsek
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4139-4143; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707711105

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      Structural inference of native and partially folded RNA by high-throughput contact mapping
      Rhiju Das, Madhuri Kudaravalli, Magdalena Jonikas, Alain Laederach, Robert Fong, Jason P. Schwans, David Baker, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Russ B. Altman, and Daniel Herschlag
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4144-4149; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709032105
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      Manipulation of the mechanical properties of a virus by protein engineering
      Carolina Carrasco, Milagros Castellanos, Pedro J. de Pablo, and Mauricio G. Mateu
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4150-4155; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708017105
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      Fluorescence resonance energy transfer in near-infrared fluorescent oligonucleotide probes for detecting protein–DNA interactions
      Surong Zhang, Valeri Metelev, David Tabatadze, Paul C. Zamecnik, and Alexei Bogdanov Jr
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4156-4161; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800162105
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      Isoform-specific monoubiquitination, endocytosis, and degradation of alternatively spliced ErbB4 isoforms
      Maria Sundvall, Anna Korhonen, Ilkka Paatero, Eugenio Gaudio, Gerry Melino, Carlo M. Croce, Rami I. Aqeilan, and Klaus Elenius
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4162-4167; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708333105
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      Specific requirement of the chromatin modifier mSin3B in cell cycle exit and cellular differentiation
      Gregory David, Kathryn B. Grandinetti, Patricia M. Finnerty, Natalie Simpson, Gerald C. Chu, and Ronald A. DePinho
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4168-4172; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710285105
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      NFAR-1 and -2 modulate translation and are required for efficient host defense
      Ingrid Pfeifer, Rachel Elsby, Marilyn Fernandez, Paula A. Faria, Daniel R. Nussenzveig, Izidor S. Lossos, Beatriz M. A. Fontoura, W. David Martin, and Glen N. Barber
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4173-4178; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711222105
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      Histone deacetylase 3 localizes to the mitotic spindle and is required for kinetochore–microtubule attachment
      Sumiyasu Ishii, Yasuhiro Kurasawa, Jiemin Wong, and Li-yuan Yu-Lee
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4179-4184; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710140105
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      Unique SMAD1/5/8 activity at the phalanx-forming region determines digit identity
      Takayuki Suzuki, Sean M. Hasso, and John F. Fallon
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4185-4190; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707899105

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        - Mar 18, 2008
  • Ecology

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      Size, foraging, and food web structure
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      Owen L. Petchey, Andrew P. Beckerman, Jens O. Riede, and Philip H. Warren
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4191-4196; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710672105

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      • The “Goldilocks factor” in food webs
        - Mar 11, 2008
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      A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont
      Brian Beckage, Ben Osborne, Daniel G. Gavin, Carolyn Pucko, Thomas Siccama, and Timothy Perkins
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4197-4202; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708921105
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      Heat stress causes inhibition of the de novo synthesis of antenna proteins and photobleaching in cultured Symbiodinium
      Shunichi Takahashi, Spencer Whitney, Shigeru Itoh, Tadashi Maruyama, and Murray Badger
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4203-4208; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708554105
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      Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches
      Roman Stocker, Justin R. Seymour, Azadeh Samadani, Dana E. Hunt, and Martin F. Polz
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4209-4214; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709765105
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      Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos
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      Ardian Jusufi, Daniel I. Goldman, Shai Revzen, and Robert J. Full
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4215-4219; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711944105
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      Possible involvement of SINEs in mammalian-specific brain formation
      Takeshi Sasaki, Hidenori Nishihara, Mika Hirakawa, Koji Fujimura, Mikiko Tanaka, Nobuhiro Kokubo, Chiharu Kimura-Yoshida, Isao Matsuo, Kenta Sumiyama, Naruya Saitou, Tomomi Shimogori, and Norihiro Okada
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4220-4225; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709398105
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      Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies
      Seth A. Ament, Miguel Corona, Henry S. Pollock, and Gene E. Robinson
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4226-4231; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800630105
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      Mutations in the very low-density lipoprotein receptor VLDLR cause cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in humans
      Tayfun Ozcelik, Nurten Akarsu, Elif Uz, Safak Caglayan, Suleyman Gulsuner, Onur Emre Onat, Meliha Tan, and Uner Tan
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4232-4236; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710010105
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      A mitotic recombination system for mouse chromosome 17
      Lei Sun, Xiaohui Wu, Min Han, Tian Xu, and Yuan Zhuang
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4237-4241; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800798105
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      Bardet–Biedl syndrome proteins are required for the localization of G protein-coupled receptors to primary cilia
      Nicolas F. Berbari, Jacqueline S. Lewis, Georgia A. Bishop, Candice C. Askwith, and Kirk Mykytyn
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4242-4246; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711027105
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      Distinct effects of the recurrent Mlh1G67R mutation on MMR functions, cancer, and meiosis
      Elena Avdievich, Cora Reiss, Stefan J. Scherer, Yongwei Zhang, Sandra M. Maier, Bo Jin, Harry Hou Jr, Andreas Rosenwald, Hubertus Riedmiller, Raju Kucherlapati, Paula E. Cohen, Winfried Edelmann, and Burkhard Kneitz
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4247-4252; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800276105
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      Genomic imprinting effects on adult body composition in mice
      James M. Cheverud, Reinmar Hager, Charles Roseman, Gloria Fawcett, Bing Wang, and Jason B. Wolf
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4253-4258; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706562105
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      Bystander B cells rapidly acquire antigen receptors from activated B cells by membrane transfer
      Ben J. C. Quah, Vaughan P. Barlow, Virginia McPhun, Klaus I. Matthaei, Mark D. Hulett, and Christopher R. Parish
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4259-4264; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800259105
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      IgG glycan hydrolysis by a bacterial enzyme as a therapy against autoimmune conditions
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      Mattias Collin, Oonagh Shannon, and Lars Björck
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4265-4270; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711271105

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      PPARδ regulates multiple proinflammatory pathways to suppress atherosclerosis
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      PPARδ-mediated antiinflammatory mechanisms inhibit angiotensin II-accelerated atherosclerosis
      Yasunori Takata, Joey Liu, Fen Yin, Alan R. Collins, Christopher J. Lyon, Chih-Hao Lee, Annette R. Atkins, Michael Downes, Grant D. Barish, Ronald M. Evans, Willa A. Hsueh, and Rajendra K. Tangirala
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4277-4282; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708647105
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      Comparative lesion sequencing provides insights into tumor evolution
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      Intermittent recombinant TSH injections prevent ovariectomy-induced bone loss
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      Correctly folded Pfs48/45 protein of Plasmodium falciparum elicits malaria transmission-blocking immunity in mice
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      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4301-4305; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800459105
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      Mutational load distribution analysis yields metrics reflecting genetic instability during pancreatic carcinogenesis
      Gemma Tarafa, David Tuck, Daniela Ladner, Mark Topazian, Randall Brand, Carolyn Deters, Victor Moreno, Gabriel Capella, Henry Lynch, Paul Lizardi, and Jose Costa
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4306-4311; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708250105
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      Anthrax lethal toxin and Salmonella elicit the common cell death pathway of caspase-1-dependent pyroptosis via distinct mechanisms
      Susan L. Fink, Tessa Bergsbaken, and Brad T. Cookson
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4312-4317; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0707370105
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      Long-term enhancement of skeletal muscle mass and strength by single gene administration of myostatin inhibitors
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      Network properties of genes harboring inherited disease mutations
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      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4323-4328; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0701722105
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      Human embryonic stem cell microenvironment suppresses the tumorigenic phenotype of aggressive cancer cells
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      p72 DEAD box RNA helicase is required for optimal function of the zinc-finger antiviral protein
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      Helicobacter pylori evolution during progression from chronic atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer and its impact on gastric stem cells
      Marios Giannakis, Swaine L. Chen, Sherif M. Karam, Lars Engstrand, and Jeffrey I. Gordon
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      Jan-Willem Veening, Eric J. Stewart, Thomas W. Berngruber, François Taddei, Oscar P. Kuipers, and Leendert W. Hamoen
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      Increased amphetamine-induced hyperactivity and reward in mice overexpressing the dopamine transporter
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      Enduring effects of early structured noise exposure on temporal modulation in the primary auditory cortex
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      Alzheimer's disease is associated with reduced expression of energy metabolism genes in posterior cingulate neurons
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      The distribution of category and location information across object-selective regions in human visual cortex
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      Organization of the core structure of the postsynaptic density
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      Experience is required for the maintenance and refinement of FM sweep selectivity in the developing auditory cortex
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      Kuan-Cheng Chang, Andreas S. Barth, Tetsuo Sasano, Eddy Kizana, Yuji Kashiwakura, Yiqiang Zhang, D. Brian Foster, and Eduardo Marbán
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      P-Rex2 regulates Purkinje cell dendrite morphology and motor coordination
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      Auxin transport inhibitors impair vesicle motility and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in diverse eukaryotes
      Pankaj Dhonukshe, Ilya Grigoriev, Rainer Fischer, Motoki Tominaga, David G. Robinson, Jiří Hašek, Tomasz Paciorek, Jan Petrášek, Daniela Seifertová, Ricardo Tejos, Lee A. Meisel, Eva Zažímalová, Theodorus W. J. Gadella Jr, York-Dieter Stierhof, Takashi Ueda, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Anna Akhmanova, Roland Brock, Anne Spang, and Jiří Friml
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      Integration of light and abscisic acid signaling during seed germination and early seedling development
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      RNAi-mediated suppression of p-coumaroyl-CoA 3′-hydroxylase in hybrid poplar impacts lignin deposition and soluble secondary metabolism
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      Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others
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      Adrianna C. Jenkins, C. Neil Macrae, and Jason P. Mitchell
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4507-4512; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708785105
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      Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River
      Simon D. Donner and Christopher J. Kucharik
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4513-4518; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708300105
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      Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests
      Gregory P. Asner, R. Flint Hughes, Peter M. Vitousek, David E. Knapp, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Joseph Boardman, Roberta E. Martin, Michael Eastwood, and Robert O. Green
      PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4519-4523; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710811105
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      Plants can use protein as a nitrogen source without assistance from other organisms
      Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne, Thierry G. A. Lonhienne, Doris Rentsch, Nicole Robinson, Michael Christie, Richard I. Webb, Harshi K. Gamage, Bernard J. Carroll, Peer M. Schenk, and Susanne Schmidt
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    Correction for He et al., Bcl-xL overexpression blocks bax-mediated mitochondrial contact site formation and apoptosis in rod photoreceptors of lead-exposed mice
    PNAS March 18, 2008 105 (11) 4530; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801422105
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