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May 05, 2009; vol. 106 no. 18

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7265-7266; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti1809106

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    • Upstream open reading frames cause widespread reduction of protein expression and are polymorphic among humans
      - Apr 16, 2009
    • Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed
      - Apr 06, 2009
    • Ancient Egyptian herbal wines
      - Apr 13, 2009
    • Disruption of NMDAR-dependent burst firing by dopamine neurons provides selective assessment of phasic dopamine-dependent behavior
      - Apr 02, 2009
    • The universal distribution of evolutionary rates of genes and distinct characteristics of eukaryotic genes of different apparent ages
      - Apr 07, 2009
    • Superconducting characteristics of 4-Å carbon nanotube–zeolite composite
      - Apr 15, 2009

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    Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Effects of the loss of salamander species richness
    Lars Gamfeldt
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) E48; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902579106

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    • Reply to Gamfeldt: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
      - Apr 27, 2009
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    Reply to Gamfeldt: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
    Sean M. Rovito, Gabriela Parra-Olea, Carlos R. Vásquez-Almazán, Theodore Papenfuss, and David Wake
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) E49; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903137106

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    • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Effects of the loss of salamander species richness
      - Apr 27, 2009

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    “To learn, you must pay attention.” Molecular insights into teachers' wisdom
    Marc G. Caron and R. Mark Wightman
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7267-7268; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903306106

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    • Disruption of NMDAR-dependent burst firing by dopamine neurons provides selective assessment of phasic dopamine-dependent behavior
      - Apr 02, 2009
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    Probing marine natural product defenses with DESI-imaging mass spectrometry
    Eduardo Esquenazi, Pieter C. Dorrestein, and William H. Gerwick
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7269-7270; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902840106

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    • Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed
      - Apr 06, 2009
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    Agricultural origins in North China pushed back to the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary
    Gary W. Crawford
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7271-7272; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903375106

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    • Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago
      - Apr 21, 2009

Physical Sciences

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      Newcomer insulin secretory granules as a highly calcium-sensitive pool
      Morten Gram Pedersen and Arthur Sherman
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7432-7436; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901202106
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      Remarkable resilience of teeth
      Herzl Chai, James J.-W. Lee, Paul J. Constantino, Peter W. Lucas, and Brian R. Lawn
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7289-7293; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902466106
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      Bursting of sensitive polymersomes induced by curling
      Elyes Mabrouk, Damien Cuvelier, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre Nassoy, and Min-Hui Li
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7294-7298; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0813157106
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      Superconducting characteristics of 4-Å carbon nanotube–zeolite composite
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      Rolf Lortz, Qiucen Zhang, Wu Shi, Jian Ting Ye, Chunyin Qiu, Zhe Wang, Hongtao He, Ping Sheng, Tiezheng Qian, Zikang Tang, Ning Wang, Xixiang Zhang, Jiannong Wang, and Che Ting Chan
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7299-7303; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0813162106
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      Phonon softening and crystallographic orientation of strained graphene studied by Raman spectroscopy
      Mingyuan Huang, Hugen Yan, Changyao Chen, Daohua Song, Tony F. Heinz, and James Hone
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7304-7308; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811754106
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      Flexible electrical recording from cells using nanowire transistor arrays
      Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Brian P. Timko, Lucien E. Weiss, and Charles M. Lieber
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7309-7313; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902752106
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      Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed
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      Amy L. Lane, Leonard Nyadong, Asiri S. Galhena, Tonya L. Shearer, E. Paige Stout, R. Mitchell Parry, Mark Kwasnik, May D. Wang, Mark E. Hay, Facundo M. Fernandez, and Julia Kubanek
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7314-7319; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812020106

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      Role of a distal pocket in the catalytic O2 reduction by cytochrome c oxidase models immobilized on interdigitated array electrodes
      James P. Collman, Richard A. Decréau, Hengwei Lin, Ali Hosseini, Ying Yang, Abhishek Dey, and Todd A. Eberspacher
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7320-7323; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902285106
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      Spatial and seasonal patterns in climate change, temperatures, and precipitation across the United States
      Robert W. Portmann, Susan Solomon, and Gabriele C. Hegerl
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7324-7329; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808533106
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      Fermi surface nesting induced strong pairing in iron-based superconductors
      K. Terashima, Y. Sekiba, J. H. Bowen, K. Nakayama, T. Kawahara, T. Sato, P. Richard, Y.-M. Xu, L. J. Li, G. H. Cao, Z.-A. Xu, H. Ding, and T. Takahashi
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7330-7333; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900469106
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      Statistical estimation of cell-cycle progression and lineage commitment in Plasmodium falciparum reveals a homogeneous pattern of transcription in ex vivo culture
      Jacob E. Lemieux, Natalia Gomez-Escobar, Avi Feller, Celine Carret, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Robert Pinches, Felix Day, Sue A. Kyes, David J. Conway, Chris C. Holmes, and Chris I. Newbold
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7559-7564; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811829106
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      Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate
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      Tim P. Barnett and David W. Pierce
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7334-7338; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812762106

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      Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups
      Thomas E. Currie and Ruth Mace
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7339-7344; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0804698106
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      Spatial ensemble statistics are efficient codes that can be represented with reduced attention
      George A. Alvarez and Aude Oliva
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7345-7350; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808981106
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      Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control within human prefrontal cortex
      Todd S. Braver, Jessica L. Paxton, Hannah S. Locke, and Deanna M. Barch
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7351-7356; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808187106
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      Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone
      Saudamini Das and Jeffrey R. Vincent
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7357-7360; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0810440106

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      Ancient Egyptian herbal wines
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      Patrick E. McGovern, Armen Mirzoian, and Gretchen R. Hall
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7361-7366; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811578106

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      Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago
      Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Kam-biu Liu, Naiqin Wu, Yumei Li, Kunshu Zhou, Maolin Ye, Tianyu Zhang, Haijiang Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Licheng Shen, Deke Xu, and Quan Li
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7367-7372; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900158106

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      • Agricultural origins in North China pushed back to the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary
        - Apr 28, 2009
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      Flexible electrical recording from cells using nanowire transistor arrays
      Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Brian P. Timko, Lucien E. Weiss, and Charles M. Lieber
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7309-7313; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902752106
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      Electrophysiological characterization of LacY
      Juan J. Garcia-Celma, Irina N. Smirnova, H. Ronald Kaback, and Klaus Fendler
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7373-7378; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902471106
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      Mechanism of drug inhibition and drug resistance of influenza A M2 channel
      Rafal M. Pielak, Jason R. Schnell, and James J. Chou
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7379-7384; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902548106
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      Examination of the contributions of size and avidity to the neutralization mechanisms of the anti-HIV antibodies b12 and 4E10
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      STIM protein coupling in the activation of Orai channels
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      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7391-7396; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900293106
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      PPARα blocks glucocorticoid receptor α-mediated transactivation but cooperates with the activated glucocorticoid receptor α for transrepression on NF-κB
      Nadia Bougarne, Réjane Paumelle, Sandrine Caron, Nathalie Hennuyer, Roxane Mansouri, Philippe Gervois, Bart Staels, Guy Haegeman, and Karolien De Bosscher
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7397-7402; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0806742106
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      Insights into pilus assembly and secretion from the structure and functional characterization of usher PapC
      Yihua Huang, Barbara S. Smith, Lucy X. Chen, Richard H. G. Baxter, and Johann Deisenhofer
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7403-7407; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902789106
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      Functional and structural characterization of a dense core secretory granule sorting domain from the PC1/3 protease
      Jimmy D. Dikeakos, Paola Di Lello, Marie-Josée Lacombe, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Pascale Legault, Timothy L. Reudelhuber, and James G. Omichinski
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7408-7413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809576106
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      Charting the molecular network of the drug target Bcr-Abl
      Marc Brehme, Oliver Hantschel, Jacques Colinge, Ines Kaupe, Melanie Planyavsky, Thomas Köcher, Karl Mechtler, Keiryn L. Bennett, and Giulio Superti-Furga
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7414-7419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900653106
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      ERα as ligand-independent activator of CDH-1 regulates determination and maintenance of epithelial morphology in breast cancer cells
      Maria Dafne Cardamone, Chiara Bardella, Arantxa Gutierrez, Luciano Di Croce, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Maria Flavia Di Renzo, and Michele De Bortoli
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7420-7425; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903033106
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      Identification and structural basis of the reaction catalyzed by CYP121, an essential cytochrome P450 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
      Pascal Belin, Marie Hélène Le Du, Alistair Fielding, Olivier Lequin, Mickaël Jacquet, Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Alain Lecoq, Robert Thai, Marie Courçon, Cédric Masson, Christophe Dugave, Roger Genet, Jean-Luc Pernodet, and Muriel Gondry
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7426-7431; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812191106
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      Newcomer insulin secretory granules as a highly calcium-sensitive pool
      Morten Gram Pedersen and Arthur Sherman
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7432-7436; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901202106
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      Crystal structure of human aquaporin 4 at 1.8 Å and its mechanism of conductance
      Joseph D. Ho, Ronald Yeh, Andrew Sandstrom, Ilya Chorny, William E. C. Harries, Rebecca A. Robbins, Larry J. W. Miercke, and Robert M. Stroud
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7437-7442; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902725106
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      Seeded growth of β-amyloid fibrils from Alzheimer's brain-derived fibrils produces a distinct fibril structure
      Anant K. Paravastu, Isam Qahwash, Richard D. Leapman, Stephen C. Meredith, and Robert Tycko
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7443-7448; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812033106
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      Simulating the electrostatic guidance of the vectorial translocations in hexameric helicases and translocases
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      Docking for fragment inhibitors of AmpC β-lactamase
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      Specific glycosphingolipids mediate epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of human and mouse epithelial cell lines
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      Jan Schlueter and Thomas Brand
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7485-7490; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811944106
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      Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed
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      Amy L. Lane, Leonard Nyadong, Asiri S. Galhena, Tonya L. Shearer, E. Paige Stout, R. Mitchell Parry, Mark Kwasnik, May D. Wang, Mark E. Hay, Facundo M. Fernandez, and Julia Kubanek
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      Yuri I. Wolf, Pavel S. Novichkov, Georgy P. Karev, Eugene V. Koonin, and David J. Lipman
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7273-7280; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901808106

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      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7495-7500; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811117106
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      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7565-7570; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900877106
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      Site-specific integration of adeno-associated virus involves partial duplication of the target locus
      Els Henckaerts, Nathalie Dutheil, Nadja Zeltner, Steven Kattman, Erik Kohlbrenner, Peter Ward, Nathalie Clément, Patricia Rebollo, Marion Kennedy, Gordon M. Keller, and R. Michael Linden
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7571-7576; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0806821106
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      Roles for endocytic trafficking and phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III alpha in hepatitis C virus replication
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      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7577-7582; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902693106
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      Regulated expression of the Leishmania major surface virulence factor lipophosphoglycan using conditionally destabilized fusion proteins
      Luciana Madeira da Silva, Katherine L. Owens, Silvane M. F. Murta, and Stephen M. Beverley
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7583-7588; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901698106
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      Disruption of NMDAR-dependent burst firing by dopamine neurons provides selective assessment of phasic dopamine-dependent behavior
      Larry S. Zweifel, Jones G. Parker, Collin J. Lobb, Aundrea Rainwater, Valerie Z. Wall, Jonathan P. Fadok, Martin Darvas, Min J. Kim, Sheri J. Y. Mizumori, Carlos A. Paladini, Paul E. M. Phillips, and Richard D. Palmiter
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7281-7288; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0813415106

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      Spatial ensemble statistics are efficient codes that can be represented with reduced attention
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      Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control within human prefrontal cortex
      Todd S. Braver, Jessica L. Paxton, Hannah S. Locke, and Deanna M. Barch
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      Feedback inactivation of D-serine synthesis by NMDA receptor-elicited translocation of serine racemase to the membrane
      Livia Balan, Veronika N. Foltyn, Martin Zehl, Elena Dumin, Elena Dikopoltsev, Diana Knoh, Yusuke Ohno, Akio Kihara, Ole N. Jensen, Inna S. Radzishevsky, and Herman Wolosker
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      Netrin-1–α3β1 integrin interactions regulate the migration of interneurons through the cortical marginal zone
      Amelia Stanco, Charles Szekeres, Nikhil Patel, Sarada Rao, Kenneth Campbell, Jordan A. Kreidberg, Franck Polleux, and E. S. Anton
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      Simplified and effective motor control based on muscle synergies to exploit musculoskeletal dynamics
      Max Berniker, Anthony Jarc, Emilio Bizzi, and Matthew C. Tresch
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7601-7606; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901512106
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      Aberrant cleavage of TDP-43 enhances aggregation and cellular toxicity
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      Efficient production of mesencephalic dopamine neurons by Lmx1a expression in embryonic stem cells
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      Molecular dissection of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology by depletion of serum amyloid P component
      Simon E. Kolstoe, Basil H. Ridha, Vittorio Bellotti, Nan Wang, Carol V. Robinson, Sebastian J. Crutch, Geoffrey Keir, Riitta Kukkastenvehmas, J. Ruth Gallimore, Winston L. Hutchinson, Philip N. Hawkins, Stephen P. Wood, Martin N. Rossor, and Mark B. Pepys
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      Transcriptome transfer produces a predictable cellular phenotype
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      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7624-7629; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902161106
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      A gain in GABAA receptor synaptic strength in thalamus reduces oscillatory activity and absence seizures
      Claude M. Schofield, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Uwe Rudolph, and John R. Huguenard
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7630-7635; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811326106
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      Ablation of triadin causes loss of cardiac Ca2+ release units, impaired excitation–contraction coupling, and cardiac arrhythmias
      Nagesh Chopra, Tao Yang, Parisa Asghari, Edwin D. Moore, Sabine Huke, Brandy Akin, Robert A. Cattolica, Claudio F. Perez, Thinn Hlaing, Barbara E. C. Knollmann-Ritschel, Larry R. Jones, Isaac N. Pessah, Paul D. Allen, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, and Björn C. Knollmann
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7636-7641; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902919106
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      Hv1 proton channels are required for high-level NADPH oxidase-dependent superoxide production during the phagocyte respiratory burst
      I. Scott Ramsey, Evelyne Ruchti, J. Stefan Kaczmarek, and David E. Clapham
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7642-7647; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902761106
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      Three related receptor-like kinases are required for optimal cell elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana
      Hongqing Guo, Lei Li, Huaxun Ye, Xiaofei Yu, Alexandria Algreen, and Yanhai Yin
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7648-7653; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812346106
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      PIF3 is a repressor of chloroplast development
      Patrick G. Stephenson, Christian Fankhauser, and Matthew J. Terry
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7654-7659; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811684106
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      Phytochromes promote seedling light responses by inhibiting four negatively-acting phytochrome-interacting factors
      Jieun Shin, Keunhwa Kim, Hyojin Kang, Ismayil S. Zulfugarov, Gabyong Bae, Choon-Hwan Lee, Doheon Lee, and Giltsu Choi
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7660-7665; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812219106
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      Integration of evolutionary and desolvation energy analysis identifies functional sites in a plant immunity protein
      Manuela Casasoli, Luca Federici, Francesco Spinelli, Adele Di Matteo, Nicoletta Vella, Flavio Scaloni, Juan Fernandez-Recio, Felice Cervone, and Giulia De Lorenzo
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7666-7671; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812625106
  • Population Biology

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      Averting epidemics of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
      Sanjay Basu, Gerald H. Friedland, Jan Medlock, Jason R. Andrews, N. Sarita Shah, Neel R. Gandhi, Anthony Moll, Prashini Moodley, A. Willem Sturm, and Alison P. Galvani
      PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7672-7677; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812472106

Corrections

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    Correction for Sato et al., Synchronization of chaotic early afterdepolarizations in the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902120106
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    Correction for Chen et al., Computational structure-based redesign of enzyme activity
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902117106
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    Correction for Reed et al., Defined tuberculosis vaccine, Mtb72F/AS02A, evidence of protection in cynomolgus monkeys
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901917106
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    Correction for De Felice et al., Protection of synapses against Alzheimer's-linked toxins: Insulin signaling prevents the pathogenic binding of Aβ oligomers
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902058106
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    Correction for Poon and Chen, Retinoic acid-gated sequence-specific translational control by RARα
    PNAS May 5, 2009 106 (18) 7679; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901888106
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