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May 13, 2008; vol. 105 no. 19
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory- Apr 28, 2008
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessReply to Boudreau: Morphologic expression of ferromanganese nodulesCeleste A. Asikainen
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- Nodule morphology and growth model- May 06, 2008
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessEstimating the size of the human interactome
- From the Cover
Michael P. H. Stumpf, Thomas Thorne, Eric de Silva, Ronald Stewart, Hyeong Jun An, Michael Lappe, and Carsten WiufSee companion article:
- A truer measure of our ignorance- May 12, 2008
Chemistry
- You have accessCross-polarized excitons in carbon nanotubesSvetlana Kilina, Sergei Tretiak, Stephen K. Doorn, Zhengtang Luo, Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, Andrei Piryatinski, Avadh Saxena, and Alan R. Bishop
- You have accessMitochondrial copper(I) transfer from Cox17 to Sco1 is coupled to electron transferLucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Simone Ciofi-Baffoni, Theodoros Hadjiloi, Manuele Martinelli, and Peep Palumaa
- You have accessCharacterization of selective binding of alkali cations with carboxylate by x-ray absorption spectroscopy of liquid microjetsJanel S. Uejio, Craig P. Schwartz, Andrew M. Duffin, Walter S. Drisdell, Ronald C. Cohen, and Richard J. Saykally
- You have accessPlatinum-based inhibitors of amyloid-β as therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's diseaseKevin J. Barnham, Vijaya B. Kenche, Giuseppe D. Ciccotosto, David P. Smith, Deborah J. Tew, Xiang Liu, Keyla Perez, Greg A. Cranston, Timothy J. Johanssen, Irene Volitakis, Ashley I. Bush, Colin L. Masters, Anthony R. White, Jeffrey P. Smith, Robert A. Cherny, and Roberto Cappai
Geology
- You have accessA Miocene to Pleistocene climate and elevation record of the Sierra Nevada (California)A. Mulch, A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, M. E. Perkins, and C. P. Chamberlain
Physics
- You have accessElectronic duality in strongly correlated matterT. Park, M. J. Graf, L. Boulaevskii, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson
- You have accessTerahertz radiation from bacteriorhodopsin reveals correlated primary electron and proton transfer processesG. I. Groma, J. Hebling, I. Z. Kozma, G. Váró, J. Hauer, J. Kuhl, and E. Riedle
Social Sciences
Psychology
- You have accessImproving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
- From the Cover
Susanne M. Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Walter J. PerrigSee companion article:
- Increasing fluid intelligence is possible after all- May 12, 2008
- In This Issue- May 13, 2008
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessUnlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamelLouise T. Humphrey, M. Christopher Dean, Teresa E. Jeffries, and Malcolm Penn
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessEndochondral bone tissue engineering using embryonic stem cellsJojanneke M. Jukes, Sanne K. Both, Anouk Leusink, Lotus M. Th. Sterk, Clemens A. van Blitterswijk, and Jan de Boer
Biochemistry
- Open AccessEvidence for the aldo-keto reductase pathway of polycyclic aromatic trans-dihydrodiol activation in human lung A549 cellsJong-Heum Park, Dipti Mangal, Kirk A. Tacka, Amy M. Quinn, Ronald G. Harvey, Ian A. Blair, and Trevor M. Penning
- Open AccessRegression supports two mechanisms of fork processing in phage T4David T. Long and Kenneth N. Kreuzer
- Open AccessIn vitro reconstitution and crystal structure of p-aminobenzoate N-oxygenase (AurF) involved in aureothin biosynthesisYoo Seong Choi, Houjin Zhang, Joseph S. Brunzelle, Satish K. Nair, and Huimin Zhao
- Open AccessCis- and trans-splicing of mRNAs mediated by tRNA sequences in eukaryotic cells
- From the Cover
Gianfranco Di Segni, Serena Gastaldi, and Glauco P. Tocchini-ValentiniSee companion article:
- Long-distance splicing- May 12, 2008
- You have accessHuman biliverdin reductase is an ERK activator; hBVR is an ERK nuclear transporter and is required for MAPK signalingNicole Lerner-Marmarosh, Tihomir Miralem, Peter E. M. Gibbs, and Mahin D. Maines
- You have accessStructure of a TrmA–RNA complex: A consensus RNA fold contributes to substrate selectivity and catalysis in m5U methyltransferasesAkram Alian, Tom T. Lee, Sarah L. Griner, Robert M. Stroud, and Janet Finer-Moore
- You have accessStructural insight into signal conversion and inactivation by NTPDase2 in purinergic signalingMatthias Zebisch and Norbert Sträter
Biophysics
- You have accessTerahertz radiation from bacteriorhodopsin reveals correlated primary electron and proton transfer processesG. I. Groma, J. Hebling, I. Z. Kozma, G. Váró, J. Hauer, J. Kuhl, and E. Riedle
- You have accessDynamics of phosphodiester synthesis by DNA ligaseAurélien Crut, Pravin A. Nair, Daniel A. Koster, Stewart Shuman, and Nynke H. Dekker
- You have accessMolecular mechanism of pH sensing in KcsA potassium channelsAmeer N. Thompson, David J. Posson, Pirooz V. Parsa, and Crina M. Nimigean
- You have accessForce-induced growth of adhesion domains is controlled by receptor mobilityAna-Sunčana Smith, Kheya Sengupta, Stefanie Goennenwein, Udo Seifert, and Erich Sackmann
Cell Biology
- You have accessGlucose sensing by MondoA:Mlx complexes: A role for hexokinases and direct regulation of thioredoxin-interacting protein expressionCarrie A. Stoltzman, Christopher W. Peterson, Kevin T. Breen, Deborah M. Muoio, Andrew N. Billin, and Donald E. Ayer
- You have accessDifferent assemblies of the DAM1 complex follow shortening microtubules by distinct mechanismsE. L. Grishchuk, I. S. Spiridonov, V. A. Volkov, A. Efremov, S. Westermann, D. Drubin, G. Barnes, F. I. Ataullakhanov, and J. R. McIntosh
- Open AccessDachshund inhibits oncogene-induced breast cancer cellular migration and invasion through suppression of interleukin-8Kongming Wu, Sanjay Katiyar, Anping Li, Manran Liu, Xiaoming Ju, Vladimir M. Popov, Xuanmao Jiao, Michael P. Lisanti, Antonella Casola, and Richard G. Pestell
- Open AccessInfluence of genotype and nutrition on survival and metabolism of starving yeastViktor M. Boer, Sasan Amini, and David Botstein
Developmental Biology
- You have accessInhibition of Wnt signaling by the osteoblast-specific transcription factor OsterixChi Zhang, Kyucheol Cho, Yehong Huang, Jon P. Lyons, Xin Zhou, Krishna Sinha, Pierre D. McCrea, and Benoit de Crombrugghe
- You have accessGene-regulation logic in retinal ganglion cell development: Isl1 defines a critical branch distinct from but overlapping with Pou4f2Xiuqian Mu, Xueyao Fu, Phillip D. Beremand, Terry L. Thomas, and William H. Klein
Ecology
- You have accessQuorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals
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Ashley J. W. Ward, David J. T. Sumpter, Iain D. Couzin, Paul J. B. Hart, and Jens Krause
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessIodide accumulation provides kelp with an inorganic antioxidant impacting atmospheric chemistryFrithjof C. Küpper, Lucy J. Carpenter, Gordon B. McFiggans, Carl J. Palmer, Tim J. Waite, Eva-Maria Boneberg, Sonja Woitsch, Markus Weiller, Rafael Abela, Daniel Grolimund, Philippe Potin, Alison Butler, George W. Luther III, Peter M. H. Kroneck, Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke, and Martin C. Feiters
Evolution
- You have accessEstimating the size of the human interactome
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Michael P. H. Stumpf, Thomas Thorne, Eric de Silva, Ronald Stewart, Hyeong Jun An, Michael Lappe, and Carsten WiufSee companion article:
- A truer measure of our ignorance- May 12, 2008
- You have accessDirect phylogenetic evidence for lateral transfer of elongation factor-like geneRyoma Kamikawa, Yuji Inagaki, and Yoshihiko Sako
- Open AccessArbovirus evolution in vivo is constrained by host alternationLark L. Coffey, Nikos Vasilakis, Aaron C. Brault, Ann M. Powers, Frédéric Tripet, and Scott C. Weaver
- You have accessThe evolution of modularity in bacterial metabolic networksAnat Kreimer, Elhanan Borenstein, Uri Gophna, and Eytan Ruppin
- You have accessNull mutations in human and mouse orthologs frequently result in different phenotypesBen-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang
- You have accessCentrosomal RNA correlates with intron-poor nuclear genes in Spisula oocytesMark C. Alliegro and Mary Anne Alliegro
Genetics
- You have accessPromoter polymorphism of the erythropoietin gene in severe diabetic eye and kidney complicationsZongzhong Tong, Zhenglin Yang, Shrena Patel, Haoyu Chen, Daniel Gibbs, Xian Yang, Vincent S. Hau, Yuuki Kaminoh, Jennifer Harmon, Erik Pearson, Jeanette Buehler, Yuhong Chen, Baifeng Yu, Nicholas H. Tinkham, Norman A. Zabriskie, Jiexi Zeng, Ling Luo, Jennifer K. Sun, Manvi Prakash, Rola N. Hamam, Stephen Tonna, Ryan Constantine, Cecinio C. Ronquillo, SriniVas Sadda, Robert L. Avery, John M. Brand, Nyall London, Alfred L. Anduze, George L. King, Paul S. Bernstein, Scott Watkins, Genetics of Diabetes, and Diabetic Complication Study Groupn, Lynn B. Jorde, Dean Y. Li, Lloyd Paul Aiello, Martin R. Pollak, and Kang Zhang
- You have accessGenomic and epigenetic alterations deregulate microRNA expression in human epithelial ovarian cancerLin Zhang, Stefano Volinia, Tomas Bonome, George Adrian Calin, Joel Greshock, Nuo Yang, Chang-Gong Liu, Antonis Giannakakis, Pangiotis Alexiou, Kosei Hasegawa, Cameron N. Johnstone, Molly S. Megraw, Sarah Adams, Heini Lassus, Jia Huang, Sippy Kaur, Shun Liang, Praveen Sethupathy, Arto Leminen, Victor A. Simossis, Raphael Sandaltzopoulos, Yoshio Naomoto, Dionyssios Katsaros, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Angela DeMichele, Qihong Huang, Ralf Bützow, Anil K. Rustgi, Barbara L. Weber, Michael J. Birrer, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou, Carlo M. Croce, and George Coukos
Immunology
- You have accessDendritic cell-mediated NK cell activation is controlled by Jagged2–Notch interactionMika Kijima, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Chieko Ishifune, Yoichi Maekawa, Akemi Koyanagi, Hideo Yagita, Shigeru Chiba, Kenji Kishihara, Mitsuo Shimada, and Koji Yasutomo
- Open AccessIdentification of innate immunity genes and pathways using a comparative genomics approachScott Alper, Rebecca Laws, Brad Lackford, Windy A. Boyd, Paul Dunlap, Jonathan H. Freedman, and David A. Schwartz
Medical Sciences
- You have accessExpression of an estrogen receptor agonist in differentiating osteoblast culturesThomas L. McCarthy, Mary E. Clough, Caren M. Gundberg, and Michael Centrella
- You have accessSildenafil and cardiomyocyte-specific cGMP signaling prevent cardiomyopathic changes associated with dystrophin deficiencyM. Khairallah, R. J. Khairallah, M. E. Young, B. G. Allen, M. A. Gillis, G. Danialou, C. F. Deschepper, B. J. Petrof, and C. Des Rosiers
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- You have accessInterferon signaling and treatment outcome in chronic hepatitis CMagdalena Sarasin-Filipowicz, Edward J. Oakeley, Francois H. T. Duong, Verena Christen, Luigi Terracciano, Witold Filipowicz, and Markus H. Heim
- Open AccessThe basal-like mammary carcinomas induced by Brca1 or Bard1 inactivation implicate the BRCA1/BARD1 heterodimer in tumor suppressionReena Shakya, Matthias Szabolcs, Ellen McCarthy, Elson Ospina, Katia Basso, Subhadra Nandula, Vundavalli Murty, Richard Baer, and Thomas Ludwig
- You have accessTissue-engineered endothelial and epithelial implants differentially and synergistically regulate airway repairBrett G. Zani, Koji Kojima, Charles A. Vacanti, and Elazer R. Edelman
Microbiology
- You have accessDiverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomicsAnnelie Pernthaler, Anne E. Dekas, C. Titus Brown, Shana K. Goffredi, Tsegereda Embaye, and Victoria J. Orphan
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- You have accessHost and invader impact of transfer of the clc genomic island into Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1Muriel Gaillard, Nataskha Pernet, Christelle Vogne, Otto Hagenbüchle, and Jan Roelof van der Meer
- You have accessRhizobium cellulase CelC2 is essential for primary symbiotic infection of legume host rootsM. Robledo, J. I. Jiménez-Zurdo, E. Velázquez, M. E. Trujillo, J. L. Zurdo-Piñeiro, M. H. Ramírez-Bahena, B. Ramos, J. M. Díaz-Mínguez, F. Dazzo, E. Martínez-Molina, and P. F. Mateos
Neuroscience
- You have accessPink1 regulates mitochondrial dynamics through interaction with the fission/fusion machineryYufeng Yang, Yingshi Ouyang, Lichuan Yang, M. Flint Beal, Angus McQuibban, Hannes Vogel, and Bingwei Lu
- Open AccessA mutation in mouse Disc1 that models a schizophrenia risk allele leads to specific alterations in neuronal architecture and cognitionMirna Kvajo, Heather McKellar, P. Alexander Arguello, Liam J. Drew, Holly Moore, Amy B. MacDermott, Maria Karayiorgou, and Joseph A. Gogos
Pharmacology
- Open AccessA soluble activin Type IIA receptor induces bone formation and improves skeletal integrityR. Scott Pearsall, Ernesto Canalis, Milton Cornwall-Brady, Kathryn W. Underwood, Brendan Haigis, Jeffrey Ucran, Ravindra Kumar, Eileen Pobre, Asya Grinberg, Eric D. Werner, Vaida Glatt, Lisa Stadmeyer, Deanna Smith, Jasbir Seehra, and Mary L. Bouxsein
Physiology
- Open AccessHuman ApoD, an apolipoprotein up-regulated in neurodegenerative diseases, extends lifespan and increases stress resistance in DrosophilaJulien Muffat, David W. Walker, and Seymour Benzer
- You have accessProteasomal adaptation to environmental stress links resistance to proteotoxicity with longevity in Caenorhabditis elegansChi Yun, Ariel Stanhill, Yun Yang, Yuhong Zhang, Cole M. Haynes, Chong-Feng Xu, Thomas A. Neubert, Adam Mor, Mark R. Philips, and David Ron
Plant Biology
- You have accessCOI1 is a critical component of a receptor for jasmonate and the bacterial virulence factor coronatine
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Leron Katsir, Anthony L. Schilmiller, Paul E. Staswick, Sheng Yang He, and Gregg A. Howe
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