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January 15, 2008; vol. 105 no. 2
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessAncient lineages in the genome: A response to Fagundes et alDaniel Garrigan and Michael F. Hammer
- You have accessReply to Garrigan and Hammer: Ancient lineages and assimilationNelson J. R. Fagundes, Nicolas Ray, Mark Beaumont, Samuel Neuenschwander, Francisco M. Salzano, Sandro L. Bonatto, and Laurent Excoffier
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessNoise in solid-state nanoporesR. M. M. Smeets, U. F. Keyser, N. H. Dekker, and C. Dekker
- Open AccessSingle-shot detection of bacterial endospores via coherent Raman spectroscopyDmitry Pestov, Xi Wang, Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Robert K. Murawski, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Arthur Dogariu, Alexei V. Sokolov, and Marlan O. Scully
Chemistry
- Open AccessDomain requirement of moenomycin binding to bifunctional transglycosylases and development of high-throughput discovery of antibioticsTing-Jen Rachel Cheng, Ming-Ta Sung, Hsin-Yu Liao, Yi-Fan Chang, Chia-Wei Chen, Chia-Ying Huang, Lien-Yang Chou, Yen-Da Wu, Yin-Hsuan Chen, Yih-Shyun E. Cheng, Chi-Huey Wong, Che Ma, and Wei-Chieh Cheng
- You have accessTemperature dependence of the two-dimensional infrared spectrum of liquid H2OD. Kraemer, M. L. Cowan, A. Paarmann, N. Huse, E. T. J. Nibbering, T. Elsaesser, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
- You have accessNanoelectrochemistry of mammalian cellsPeng Sun, François O. Laforge, Thushara P. Abeyweera, Susan A. Rotenberg, James Carpino, and Michael V. Mirkin
- You have accessPreferred side-chain constellations at antiparallel coiled-coil interfacesErik B. Hadley, Oliver D. Testa, Derek N. Woolfson, and Samuel H. Gellman
Geology
- You have accessThe impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems
- From the Cover
Wolfram M. Kürschner, Zlatko Kvaček, and David L. DilcherSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Jan 15, 2008
- Linkages between CO2, climate, and evolution in deep time- Jan 07, 2008
Geophysics
- Open AccessClimate forcing from the transport sectorsJan Fuglestvedt, Terje Berntsen, Gunnar Myhre, Kristin Rypdal, and Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie
Physics
- You have accessAnomalous dynamics of cell migrationPeter Dieterich, Rainer Klages, Roland Preuss, and Albrecht Schwab
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- Open AccessNet energy of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrassM. R. Schmer, K. P. Vogel, R. B. Mitchell, and R. K. Perrin
- You have accessA crop population perspective on maize seed systems in MexicoGeorge A. Dyer and J. Edward Taylor
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessDomain requirement of moenomycin binding to bifunctional transglycosylases and development of high-throughput discovery of antibioticsTing-Jen Rachel Cheng, Ming-Ta Sung, Hsin-Yu Liao, Yi-Fan Chang, Chia-Wei Chen, Chia-Ying Huang, Lien-Yang Chou, Yen-Da Wu, Yin-Hsuan Chen, Yih-Shyun E. Cheng, Chi-Huey Wong, Che Ma, and Wei-Chieh Cheng
- You have accessUltrafast DNA sequencing on a microchip by a hybrid separation mechanism that gives 600 bases in 6.5 minutesChristopher P. Fredlake, Daniel G. Hert, Cheuk-Wai Kan, Thomas N. Chiesl, Brian E. Root, Ryan E. Forster, and Annelise E. Barron
Biochemistry
- Open AccessAssembly of Weibel–Palade body-like tubules from N-terminal domains of von Willebrand factorRen-Huai Huang, Ying Wang, Robyn Roth, Xiong Yu, Angie R. Purvis, John E. Heuser, Edward H. Egelman, and J. Evan Sadler
- You have accessStructural basis for specific lipid recognition by CERT responsible for nonvesicular trafficking of ceramideNorio Kudo, Keigo Kumagai, Nario Tomishige, Toshiyuki Yamaji, Soichi Wakatsuki, Masahiro Nishijima, Kentaro Hanada, and Ryuichi Kato
- You have accessBiosynthesis of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 involves a new branching point in chorismate metabolismSteven G. Van Lanen, Shuangjun Lin, and Ben Shen
- Open AccessCross-crystal averaging reveals that the structure of the peptidyl-transferase center is the same in the 70S ribosome and the 50S subunitMiljan Simonović and Thomas A. Steitz
- You have accessAllosteric cooperativity in protein kinase ALarry R. Masterson, Alessandro Mascioni, Nathaniel J. Traaseth, Susan S. Taylor, and Gianluigi Veglia
- Open AccessIn vitro reconstitution of the human RISC-loading complexIan J. MacRae, Enbo Ma, Min Zhou, Carol V. Robinson, and Jennifer A. Doudna
- You have accessDiscovery of an alternate metabolic pathway for urea synthesis in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoesPatricia Y. Scaraffia, Guanhong Tan, Jun Isoe, Vicki H. Wysocki, Michael A. Wells, and Roger L. Miesfeld
- You have accessD-loop formation by Brh2 protein of Ustilago maydisNayef Mazloum, Qingwen Zhou, and William K. Holloman
Biophysics
- You have accessNoise in solid-state nanoporesR. M. M. Smeets, U. F. Keyser, N. H. Dekker, and C. Dekker
- You have accessAnomalous dynamics of cell migrationPeter Dieterich, Rainer Klages, Roland Preuss, and Albrecht Schwab
- You have accessPreferred side-chain constellations at antiparallel coiled-coil interfacesErik B. Hadley, Oliver D. Testa, Derek N. Woolfson, and Samuel H. Gellman
- You have accessMultiscale complex network of protein conformational fluctuations in single-molecule time seriesChun-Biu Li, Haw Yang, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki
- You have accessConformational changes of calmodulin upon Ca2+ binding studied with a microfluidic mixerHye Yoon Park, Sally A. Kim, Jonas Korlach, Elizabeth Rhoades, Lisa W. Kwok, Warren R. Zipfel, M. Neal Waxham, Watt W. Webb, and Lois Pollack
- You have accessCooperative binding of ATP and RNA induces a closed conformation in a DEAD box RNA helicaseBettina Theissen, Anne R. Karow, Jürgen Köhler, Airat Gubaev, and Dagmar Klostermeier
Developmental Biology
- You have accessHeat-shock protein 90α1 is required for organized myofibril assembly in skeletal muscles of zebrafish embryosShao Jun Du, Huiqing Li, Yuehong Bian, and Yongwang Zhong
Ecology
- You have accessFood limitation leads to behavioral diversification and dietary specialization in sea ottersM. Tim Tinker, Gena Bentall, and James A. Estes
- Open AccessWater shrews detect movement, shape, and smell to find prey underwaterKenneth C. Catania, James F. Hare, and Kevin L. Campbell
- You have accessInteraction location outweighs the competitive advantage of numerical superiority in Cebus capucinus intergroup contestsMargaret C. Crofoot, Ian C. Gilby, Martin C. Wikelski, and Roland W. Kays
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessSingle-shot detection of bacterial endospores via coherent Raman spectroscopyDmitry Pestov, Xi Wang, Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Robert K. Murawski, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Arthur Dogariu, Alexei V. Sokolov, and Marlan O. Scully
Evolution
- You have accessSexual maturity in growing dinosaurs does not fit reptilian growth models
- From the Cover
Andrew H. Lee and Sarah Werning - You have accessPhylogeny of endocytic components yields insight into the process of nonendosymbiotic organelle evolutionJoel B. Dacks, Pak P. Poon, and Mark C. Field
- You have accessInteractions between the direct and indirect effects of predators determine life history evolution in a killifishMatthew R. Walsh and David N. Reznick
- You have accessIsotopic evidence for omnivory among European cave bears: Late Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus from the Peştera cu Oase, RomaniaMichael P. Richards, Martina Pacher, Mathias Stiller, Jérôme Quilès, Michael Hofreiter, Silviu Constantin, João Zilhão, and Erik Trinkaus
Genetics
- Open AccessGerm-line mutations, DNA damage, and global hypermethylation in mice exposed to particulate air pollution in an urban/industrial locationCarole Yauk, Aris Polyzos, Andrea Rowan-Carroll, Christopher M. Somers, Roger W. Godschalk, Frederik J. Van Schooten, M. Lynn Berndt, Igor P. Pogribny, Igor Koturbash, Andrew Williams, George R. Douglas, and Olga Kovalchuk
- You have accessHydrogen peroxide scavenging rescues frataxin deficiency in a Drosophila model of Friedreich's ataxiaPeter R. Anderson, Kim Kirby, William C. Orr, Arthur J. Hilliker, and John P. Phillips
- You have accessRequired sample size and nonreplicability thresholds for heterogeneous genetic associationsRamal Moonesinghe, Muin J. Khoury, Tiebin Liu, and John P. A. Ioannidis
Immunology
- You have accessA safeguard eliminates T cell receptor gene-modified autoreactive T cells after adoptive transferElisa Kieback, Jehad Charo, Daniel Sommermeyer, Thomas Blankenstein, and Wolfgang Uckert
- You have accessPlatelets prevent IFN-α/β-induced lethal hemorrhage promoting CTL-dependent clearance of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virusMatteo Iannacone, Giovanni Sitia, Masanori Isogawa, Jason K. Whitmire, Patrizia Marchese, Francis V. Chisari, Zaverio M. Ruggeri, and Luca G. Guidotti
- You have accessEvolution of GITRL immune function: Murine GITRL exhibits unique structural and biochemical properties within the TNF superfamilyKausik Chattopadhyay, Udupi A. Ramagopal, Michael Brenowitz, Stanley G. Nathenson, and Steven C. Almo
- You have accessStructural basis for ligand-mediated mouse GITR activationZhaocai Zhou, Yukiko Tone, Xiaomin Song, Keiji Furuuchi, James D. Lear, Herman Waldmann, Masahide Tone, Mark I. Greene, and Ramachandran Murali
- Open AccessFunctional deficit of T regulatory cells in Fulani, an ethnic group with low susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malariaMaria G. Torcia, Veronica Santarlasci, Lorenzo Cosmi, AnnMaria Clemente, Laura Maggi, Valentina D. Mangano, Federica Verra, Germana Bancone, Issa Nebie, Bienvenu Sodiomon Sirima, Francesco Liotta, Francesca Frosali, Roberta Angeli, Carlo Severini, Anna R. Sannella, Paolo Bonini, Maria Lucibello, Enrico Maggi, Enrico Garaci, Mario Coluzzi, Federico Cozzolino, Francesco Annunziato, Sergio Romagnani, and David Modiano
- You have accessDemonstration of inflammation-induced cancer and cancer immunoediting during primary tumorigenesisJeremy B. Swann, Matthew D. Vesely, Anabel Silva, Janelle Sharkey, Shizuo Akira, Robert D. Schreiber, and Mark J. Smyth
- Open AccessPromiscuous gene expression patterns in single medullary thymic epithelial cells argue for a stochastic mechanismJens Derbinski, Sheena Pinto, Stefanie Rösch, Klaus Hexel, and Bruno Kyewski
Medical Sciences
- You have accessThe thyroid hormone mimetic compound KB2115 lowers plasma LDL cholesterol and stimulates bile acid synthesis without cardiac effects in humans
- From the Cover
Anders Berkenstam, Jens Kristensen, Karin Mellström, Bo Carlsson, Johan Malm, Stefan Rehnmark, Neeraj Garg, Carl Magnus Andersson, Mats Rudling, Folke Sjöberg, Bo Angelin, and John D. BaxterSee companion article:
- You have accessAddressing the health benefits and risks, involving vitamin D or skin cancer, of increased sun exposure
- From the Cover
Johan Moan, Alina Carmen Porojnicu, Arne Dahlback, and Richard B. SetlowSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Jan 15, 2008
- Open AccessICA512 signaling enhances pancreatic β-cell proliferation by regulating cyclins D through STATsHassan Mziaut, Stephan Kersting, Klaus-Peter Knoch, Wan-Hung Fan, Mirko Trajkovski, Katja Erdmann, Hendrik Bergert, Florian Ehehalt, Hans-Detlev Saeger, and Michele Solimena
- Open AccessEoxins are proinflammatory arachidonic acid metabolites produced via the 15-lipoxygenase-1 pathway in human eosinophils and mast cellsStina Feltenmark, Narinder Gautam, Åsa Brunnström, William Griffiths, Linda Backman, Charlotte Edenius, Lennart Lindbom, Magnus Björkholm, and Hans-Erik Claesson
- You have accessActivation of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1α pathway accelerates bone regenerationChao Wan, Shawn R. Gilbert, Ying Wang, Xuemei Cao, Xing Shen, Girish Ramaswamy, Kimberly A. Jacobsen, Zainab S. Alaql, Alan W. Eberhardt, Louis C. Gerstenfeld, Thomas A. Einhorn, Lianfu Deng, and Thomas L. Clemens
- You have accessSignaling networks assembled by oncogenic EGFR and c-MetAilan Guo, Judit Villén, Jon Kornhauser, Kimberly A. Lee, Matthew P. Stokes, Klarisa Rikova, Anthony Possemato, Julie Nardone, Gregory Innocenti, Randall Wetzel, Yi Wang, Joan MacNeill, Jeffrey Mitchell, Steven P. Gygi, John Rush, Roberto D. Polakiewicz, and Michael J. Comb
- You have accessHigh field gradient targeting of magnetic nanoparticle-loaded endothelial cells to the surfaces of steel stentsBoris Polyak, Ilia Fishbein, Michael Chorny, Ivan Alferiev, Darryl Williams, Ben Yellen, Gary Friedman, and Robert J. Levy
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- In This Issue- Jan 15, 2008
Microbiology
- Open AccessDifferential response of the plant Medicago truncatula to its symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti or an exopolysaccharide-deficient mutantKathryn M. Jones, Natalya Sharopova, Dasharath P. Lohar, Jennifer Q. Zhang, Kathryn A. VandenBosch, and Graham C. Walker
- You have accessRole for lysosomal enzyme β-hexosaminidase in the control of mycobacteria infectionIngrid Chou Koo, Yamini M. Ohol, Ping Wu, J. Hiroshi Morisaki, Jeffery S. Cox, and Eric J. Brown
Neuroscience
- Open AccessSpecific expression of long noncoding RNAs in the mouse brainTim R. Mercer, Marcel E. Dinger, Susan M. Sunkin, Mark F. Mehler, and John S. Mattick
- You have accessHigh-frequency HTR3B variant associated with major depression dramatically augments the signaling of the human 5-HT3AB receptorKaren Krzywkowski, Paul A. Davies, Paula L. Feinberg-Zadek, Hans Bräuner-Osborne, and Anders A. Jensen
- You have accessHypothesis-based RNAi screening identifies neuroprotective genes in a Parkinson's disease modelShusei Hamamichi, Renee N. Rivas, Adam L. Knight, Songsong Cao, Kim A. Caldwell, and Guy A. Caldwell
- You have accessOn BC1 RNA and the fragile X mental retardation proteinAnna Iacoangeli, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, Natalia Dolzhanskaya, Barthélémy Tournier, Janin Schütt, Jürgen Brosius, Robert B. Denman, Edouard W. Khandjian, Stefan Kindler, and Henri Tiedge
- You have accessNogo receptor antagonizes p75NTR-dependent motor neuron deathLuc Dupuis, Mariana Pehar, Patricia Cassina, Frédérique Rene, Raquel Castellanos, Caroline Rouaux, Mandi Gandelman, Leda Dimou, Martin E. Schwab, Jean-Philippe Loeffler, Luis Barbeito, and Jose-Luis Gonzalez de Aguilar
- You have accessDendritic glutamate release produces autocrine activation of mGluR1 in cerebellar Purkinje cellsJung Hoon Shin, Yu Shin Kim, and David J. Linden
- You have accessIL-1β is an essential mediator of the antineurogenic and anhedonic effects of stressJa Wook Koo and Ronald S. Duman
- You have accessUnfolded protein response transcription factor XBP-1 does not influence prion replication or pathogenesisClaudio Hetz, Ann-Hwee Lee, Dennisse Gonzalez-Romero, Peter Thielen, Joaquín Castilla, Claudio Soto, and Laurie H. Glimcher
- You have accessThe phosphorylation state of Ser-129 in human α-synuclein determines neurodegeneration in a rat model of Parkinson diseaseOleg S. Gorbatyuk, Shoudong Li, Layla F. Sullivan, Weijun Chen, Galina Kondrikova, Fredric P. Manfredsson, Ronald J. Mandel, and Nicholas Muzyczka
- Open AccessLearning-related long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses in the cerebellar cortexBibiana Scelfo, Benedetto Sacchetti, and Piergiorgio Strata
- You have accessHomeostatic regulation of AMPA receptor expression at single hippocampal synapsesQingming Hou, Dawei Zhang, Larissa Jarzylo, Richard L. Huganir, and Heng-Ye Man
- You have accessRapid cell-cycle reentry and cell death after acute inactivation of the retinoblastoma gene product in postnatal cochlear hair cellsThomas Weber, Mary K. Corbett, Lionel M. L. Chow, Marcus B. Valentine, Suzanne J. Baker, and Jian Zuo
- You have accessOpioid neuropeptide genotypes in relation to heroin abuse: Dopamine tone contributes to reversed mesolimbic proenkephalin expressionAndrej Nikoshkov, Katarina Drakenberg, Xinyu Wang, Monika Cs. Horvath, Eva Keller, and Yasmin L. Hurd
Physiology
- You have accessThe A2b adenosine receptor protects against vascular injuryDan Yang, Milka Koupenova, Donald J. McCrann, Katherine J. Kopeikina, Herbert M. Kagan, Barbara M. Schreiber, and Katya Ravid
Plant Biology
- You have accessHistone arginine methylation is required for vernalization-induced epigenetic silencing of FLC in winter-annual Arabidopsis thaliana
- Inaugural Article
Robert J. Schmitz, Sibum Sung, and Richard M. Amasino - You have accessRespiratory metabolism of illuminated leaves depends on CO2 and O2 conditionsGuillaume Tcherkez, Richard Bligny, Elizabeth Gout, Aline Mahé, Michael Hodges, and Gabriel Cornic
- You have accessCell-specific nitrogen responses mediate developmental plasticityMiriam L. Gifford, Alexis Dean, Rodrigo A. Gutierrez, Gloria M. Coruzzi, and Kenneth D. Birnbaum
Psychology
- You have accessA predisposition for biological motion in the newborn babyFrancesca Simion, Lucia Regolin, and Hermann Bulf
- You have accessBinaural jitter improves interaural time-difference sensitivity of cochlear implantees at high pulse rates
- From the Cover
Bernhard Laback and Piotr MajdakSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Jan 15, 2008
Sustainability Science
- You have accessDifficulties in tracking the long-term global trend in tropical forest areaAlan Grainger
Commentaries
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