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May 26, 2009; vol. 106 no. 21
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- The skeleton of tropical intraseasonal oscillations- May 07, 2009
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessLongevity of Indy mutant Drosophila not attributable to Indy mutationJanne M. Toivonen, David Gems, and Linda Partridge
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- You have accessReply to Partridge et al.: Longevity of Drosophila Indy mutant is influenced by caloric intake and genetic backgroundStephen L. Helfand, Nicola Neretti, Pei-Yu Wang, and Blanka Rogina
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Profile
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- Open AccessThe skeleton of tropical intraseasonal oscillations
- From the Cover
Andrew J. Majda and Samuel N. StechmannSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessHeterogeneous preferences, decision-making capacity, and phase transitions in a complex adaptive systemWei Wang, Yu Chen, and Jiping Huang
- You have accessInteractions between zebrafish pigment cells responsible for the generation of Turing patternsAkiko Nakamasu, Go Takahashi, Akio Kanbe, and Shigeru Kondo
Chemistry
- You have accessCoexistence and transition between Cassie and Wenzel state on pillared hydrophobic surfaceTakahiro Koishi, Kenji Yasuoka, Shigenori Fujikawa, Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, and Xiao Cheng Zeng
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessSelecting global climate models for regional climate change studiesDavid W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Benjamin D. Santer, and Peter J. Gleckler
Geophysics
- Open AccessAnomalous compressibility of ferropericlase throughout the iron spin cross-overR. M. Wentzcovitch, J. F. Justo, Z. Wu, C. R. S. da Silva, D. A. Yuen, and D. Kohlstedt
Physics
- You have accessTurning a plant tissue into a living cell froth through isotropic growth
- From the Cover
Francis Corson, Olivier Hamant, Steffen Bohn, Jan Traas, Arezki Boudaoud, and Yves CouderSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
Statistics
- Open AccessAutomated high-dimensional flow cytometric data analysisSaumyadipta Pyne, Xinli Hu, Kui Wang, Elizabeth Rossin, Tsung-I Lin, Lisa M. Maier, Clare Baecher-Allan, Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Pablo Tamayo, David A. Hafler, Philip L. De Jager, and Jill P. Mesirov
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessHeterogeneous preferences, decision-making capacity, and phase transitions in a complex adaptive systemWei Wang, Yu Chen, and Jiping Huang
Psychology
- You have accessExperience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wanderingKalina Christoff, Alan M. Gordon, Jonathan Smallwood, Rachelle Smith, and Jonathan W. Schooler
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessElucidating geological and biological processes underlying the diversification of Sulawesi tarsiersStefan Merker, Christine Driller, Dyah Perwitasari-Farajallah, Joko Pamungkas, and Hans Zischler
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessDensovirus induces winged morphs in asexual clones of the rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantagineaEugene V. Ryabov, Gary Keane, Neil Naish, Carol Evered, and Doreen Winstanley
Biochemistry
- You have accessSolution conformation of wild-type E. coli Hsp70 (DnaK) chaperone complexed with ADP and substrateEric B. Bertelsen, Lyra Chang, Jason E. Gestwicki, and Erik R. P. Zuiderweg
- You have accessSynthesis of orthogonal transcription-translation networksWenlin An and Jason W. Chin
- You have accessThe tail binds to the head–neck domain, inhibiting ATPase activity of myosin VIIANobuhisa Umeki, Hyun Suk Jung, Shinya Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Sakai, Xiang-dong Li, Reiko Ikebe, Roger Craig, and Mitsuo Ikebe
- You have accessUnique protein architecture of alanyl-tRNA synthetase for aminoacylation, editing, and dimerizationMasahiro Naganuma, Shun-ichi Sekine, Ryuya Fukunaga, and Shigeyuki Yokoyama
- Open AccessA possible mechanism for exonuclease 1-independent eukaryotic mismatch repairFarid A. Kadyrov, Jochen Genschel, Yanan Fang, Elisabeth Penland, Winfried Edelmann, and Paul Modrich
- You have accessThe Drosophila DPP signal is produced by cleavage of its proprotein at evolutionary diversified furin-recognition sitesJaana Künnapuu, Ida Björkgren, and Osamu Shimmi
- You have accessStructure of bacteriophage SPP1 head-to-tail connection reveals mechanism for viral DNA gating
- From the Cover
Sophie Lhuillier, Matthieu Gallopin, Bernard Gilquin, Sandrine Brasilès, Nathalie Lancelot, Guillaume Letellier, Mathilde Gilles, Guillaume Dethan, Elena V. Orlova, Joël Couprie, Paulo Tavares, and Sophie Zinn-JustinSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
- You have accessA tumor suppressive coactivator complex of p53 containing ASC-2 and histone H3-lysine-4 methyltransferase MLL3 or its paralogue MLL4Jeongkyung Lee, Dae-Hwan Kim, Seunghee Lee, Qi-Heng Yang, Dong Kee Lee, Soo-Kyung Lee, Robert G. Roeder, and Jae W. Lee
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- Open AccessAutomated high-dimensional flow cytometric data analysisSaumyadipta Pyne, Xinli Hu, Kui Wang, Elizabeth Rossin, Tsung-I Lin, Lisa M. Maier, Clare Baecher-Allan, Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Pablo Tamayo, David A. Hafler, Philip L. De Jager, and Jill P. Mesirov
- Open AccessAlternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomesSwapna Ganapathy, Gert T. Oostergetel, Piotr K. Wawrzyniak, Michael Reus, Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew, Francesco Buda, Egbert J. Boekema, Donald A. Bryant, Alfred R. Holzwarth, and Huub J. M. de Groot
- You have accessGeometric considerations in virus capsid size specificity, auxiliary requirements, and bucklingRanjan V. Mannige and Charles L. Brooks III
- You have accessElectron transfer in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center assembled with zinc bacteriochlorophyllSu Lin, Paul R. Jaschke, Haiyu Wang, Mark Paddock, Aaron Tufts, James P. Allen, Federico I. Rosell, A. Grant Mauk, Neal W. Woodbury, and J. Thomas Beatty
- You have accessElucidation of a pH-folding switch in the Pseudomonas syringae effector protein AvrPtoJennifer E. Dawson, Jolita Šečkutė, Soumya De, Samuel A. Schueler, Aaron B. Oswald, and Linda K. Nicholson
- You have accessMenaquinone as pool quinone in a purple bacteriumBarbara Schoepp-Cothenet, Clément Lieutaud, Frauke Baymann, André Verméglio, Thorsten Friedrich, David M. Kramer, and Wolfgang Nitschke
- You have accessConserved waters mediate structural and functional activation of family A (rhodopsin-like) G protein-coupled receptorsThomas E. Angel, Mark R. Chance, and Krzysztof Palczewski
- You have accessRole of dimerization and substrate exclusion in the regulation of bone morphogenetic protein-1 and mammalian tolloidRichard Berry, Thomas A. Jowitt, Johanna Ferrand, Manfred Roessle, J. Günter Grossmann, Elizabeth G. Canty-Laird, Richard A. Kammerer, Karl E. Kadler, and Clair Baldock
- You have accessLocation of chloride and its possible functions in oxygen-evolving photosystem II revealed by X-ray crystallographyKeisuke Kawakami, Yasufumi Umena, Nobuo Kamiya, and Jian-Ren Shen
Developmental Biology
- You have accessThalidomide induces limb defects by preventing angiogenic outgrowth during early limb formationChristina Therapontos, Lynda Erskine, Erin R. Gardner, William D. Figg, and Neil Vargesson
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- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
- You have accessScribble participates in Hippo signaling and is required for normal zebrafish pronephros developmentKassiani Skouloudaki, Michael Puetz, Matias Simons, Jean-Remy Courbard, Christopher Boehlke, Björn Hartleben, Christina Engel, Marcus J. Moeller, Christoph Englert, Frank Bollig, Tobias Schäfer, Haribaskar Ramachandran, Marek Mlodzik, Tobias B. Huber, E. Wolfgang Kuehn, Emily Kim, Albrecht Kramer-Zucker, and Gerd Walz
- You have accessA distinct role for secreted fibroblast growth factor-binding proteins in developmentKrissa A. Gibby, Kevin McDonnell, Marcel O. Schmidt, and Anton Wellstein
Evolution
- You have accessCharacterization of arrangement and expression of the T cell receptor γ locus in the sandbar sharkHao Chen, Sarika Kshirsagar, Ingvill Jensen, Kevin Lau, Roman Covarrubias, Samuel F. Schluter, and John J. Marchalonis
- You have accessEvolution of cooperation by phenotypic similarity
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Tibor Antal, Hisashi Ohtsuki, John Wakeley, Peter D. Taylor, and Martin A. NowakSee companion article:
- You have accessEvolutionary dynamics in set structured populationsCorina E. Tarnita, Tibor Antal, Hisashi Ohtsuki, and Martin A. Nowak
- You have accessBiogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pan-genomeMichael L. Reno, Nicole L. Held, Christopher J. Fields, Patricia V. Burke, and Rachel J. Whitaker
Genetics
- Open AccessAnalysis of genomic diversity in Mexican Mestizo populations to develop genomic medicine in MexicoIrma Silva-Zolezzi, Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, Jesus Estrada-Gil, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Laura Uribe-Figueroa, Alejandra Contreras, Eros Balam-Ortiz, Laura del Bosque-Plata, David Velazquez-Fernandez, Cesar Lara, Rodrigo Goya, Enrique Hernandez-Lemus, Carlos Davila, Eduardo Barrientos, Santiago March, and Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez
- You have accessAutoregulation of antibiotic biosynthesis by binding of the end product to an atypical response regulatorLinqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian, Juan Wang, Haihua Yang, Keqiang Fan, Gangming Xu, Keqian Yang, and Huarong Tan
Immunology
- You have accessHigh antigen levels are the cause of T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infectionScott N. Mueller and Rafi Ahmed
- Open AccessV-region mutation in vitro, in vivo, and in silico reveal the importance of the enzymatic properties of AID and the sequence environmentThomas MacCarthy, Susan L. Kalis, Sergio Roa, Phuong Pham, Myron F. Goodman, Matthew D. Scharff, and Aviv Bergman
- You have accessHuman memory FOXP3+ Tregs secrete IL-17 ex vivo and constitutively express the TH17 lineage-specific transcription factor RORγtMaha Ayyoub, Florence Deknuydt, Isabelle Raimbaud, Christelle Dousset, Lucie Leveque, Gilles Bioley, and Danila Valmori
- You have accessIntrathymic proliferation wave essential for Vα14+ natural killer T cell development depends on c-MycMarei Dose, Barry P. Sleckman, Jin Han, Andrea L. Bredemeyer, Albert Bendelac, and Fotini Gounari
- You have accessAbortive activation of CD4 T cell responses during competitive priming in vivoJason M. Weaver, Francisco A. Chaves, and Andrea J. Sant
- You have accessERIS, an endoplasmic reticulum IFN stimulator, activates innate immune signaling through dimerizationWenxiang Sun, Yang Li, Lu Chen, Huihui Chen, Fuping You, Xiang Zhou, Yi Zhou, Zhonghe Zhai, Danying Chen, and Zhengfan Jiang
Medical Sciences
- You have accessEmbryonic pig pancreatic tissue for the treatment of diabetes in a nonhuman primate model
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Gil Hecht, Smadar Eventov-Friedman, Chava Rosen, Elias Shezen, Dalit Tchorsh, Anna Aronovich, Enrique Freud, Hana Golan, Ronit El-Hasid, Helena Katchman, Bernhard J. Hering, Amnon Zung, Zipi Kra-Oz, Pninit Shaked-Mishan, Alex Yusim, Alex Shtabsky, Pavel Idelevitch, Ana Tobar, Alon Harmelin, Esther Bachar-Lustig, and Yair ReisnerSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
- Open AccessAntioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humansMichael Ristow, Kim Zarse, Andreas Oberbach, Nora Klöting, Marc Birringer, Michael Kiehntopf, Michael Stumvoll, C. Ronald Kahn, and Matthias Blüher
- You have accessChromosomal instability determines taxane responseCharles Swanton, Barbara Nicke, Marion Schuett, Aron C. Eklund, Charlotte Ng, Qiyuan Li, Thomas Hardcastle, Alvin Lee, Rajat Roy, Philip East, Maik Kschischo, David Endesfelder, Paul Wylie, Se Nyun Kim, Jie-Guang Chen, Michael Howell, Thomas Ried, Jens K. Habermann, Gert Auer, James D. Brenton, Zoltan Szallasi, and Julian Downward
- Open AccessMig-6 modulates uterine steroid hormone responsiveness and exhibits altered expression in endometrial diseaseJae-Wook Jeong, Hee Sun Lee, Kevin Y. Lee, Lisa D. White, Russell R. Broaddus, Yu-Wen Zhang, George F. Vande Woude, Linda C. Giudice, Steven L. Young, Bruce A. Lessey, Sophia Y. Tsai, John P. Lydon, and Francesco J. DeMayo
- Open AccessAntitumorigenesis of antioxidants in a transgenic Rac1 model of Kaposi's sarcomaQi Ma, Lucas E. Cavallin, Bin Yan, Shoukang Zhu, Elda Margarita Duran, Huili Wang, Laura P. Hale, Chunming Dong, Ethel Cesarman, Enrique A. Mesri, and Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont
- You have accessPDK1 coordinates survival pathways and β-adrenergic response in the heartKaoru Ito, Hiroshi Akazawa, Masaji Tamagawa, Kensuke Furukawa, Wataru Ogawa, Noritaka Yasuda, Yoko Kudo, Chien-hui Liao, Rie Yamamoto, Toshiaki Sato, Jeffery D. Molkentin, Masato Kasuga, Tetsuo Noda, Haruaki Nakaya, and Issei Komuro
- Open AccessRNAi screen for rapid therapeutic target identification in leukemia patientsJeffrey W. Tyner, Michael W. Deininger, Marc M. Loriaux, Bill H. Chang, Jason R. Gotlib, Stephanie G. Willis, Heidi Erickson, Tibor Kovacsovics, Thomas O'Hare, Michael C. Heinrich, and Brian J. Druker
Microbiology
- You have accessDifferential neutralization efficiency of hemagglutinin epitopes, antibody interference, and the design of influenza vaccinesWilfred Ndifon, Ned S. Wingreen, and Simon A. Levin
- You have accessAlphaherpesvirus US3-mediated reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton is mediated by group A p21-activated kinasesCéline Van den Broeke, Maria Radu, Matthias Deruelle, Hans Nauwynck, Clemens Hofmann, Zahara M. Jaffer, Jonathan Chernoff, and Herman W. Favoreel
- You have accessA precise reconstruction of the emergence and constrained radiations of Escherichia coli O157 portrayed by backbone concatenomic analysisShana R. Leopold, Vincent Magrini, Nicholas J. Holt, Nurmohammad Shaikh, Elaine R. Mardis, Joseph Cagno, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Atsushi Iguchi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Alexander Mellmann, Helge Karch, Thomas E. Besser, Stanley A. Sawyer, Thomas S. Whittam, and Phillip I. Tarr
Neuroscience
- You have accessExperience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wanderingKalina Christoff, Alan M. Gordon, Jonathan Smallwood, Rachelle Smith, and Jonathan W. Schooler
- Open AccessSuppressed Ca2+/CaM/CaMKII-dependent KATP channel activity in primary afferent neurons mediates hyperalgesia after axotomyTakashi Kawano, Vasiliki Zoga, Geza Gemes, J. Bruce McCallum, Hsiang-En Wu, Danijel Pravdic, Mei-Ying Liang, Wai-Meng Kwok, Quinn Hogan, and Constantine Sarantopoulos
- Open AccessSynaptic activation modifies microtubules underlying transport of postsynaptic cargoChristoph Maas, Dorthe Belgardt, Han Kyu Lee, Frank F. Heisler, Corinna Lappe-Siefke, Maria M. Magiera, Juliette van Dijk, Torben J. Hausrat, Carsten Janke, and Matthias Kneussel
- Open AccessMidbrain dopamine neurons reflect affiliation phenotypes in finches and are tightly coupled to courtshipJames L. Goodson, David Kabelik, Aubrey M. Kelly, Jacob Rinaldi, and James D. Klatt
- You have accessStrengthening of lateral activation in adult rat visual cortex after retinal lesions captured with voltage-sensitive dye imaging in vivoGanna Palagina, Ulf T. Eysel, and Dirk Jancke
- Open AccessA rodent model for the study of invariant visual object recognitionDavide Zoccolan, Nadja Oertelt, James J. DiCarlo, and David D. Cox
- You have accessDopamine-induced proliferation of adult neural precursor cells in the mammalian subventricular zone is mediated through EGFGráinne C. O'Keeffe, Pam Tyers, Dag Aarsland, Jeffrey W. Dalley, Roger A. Barker, and Maeve A. Caldwell
Pharmacology
- You have accessGenetic and pharmacological inhibition of JNK ameliorates hypoxia-induced retinopathy through interference with VEGF expressionMonica Guma, Jordi Rius, Karen X. Duong-Polk, Gabriel G. Haddad, James D. Lindsey, and Michael Karin
Physiology
- You have accessNeurotensin induces IL-6 secretion in mouse preadipocytes and adipose tissues during 2,4,6,-trinitrobenzensulphonic acid-induced colitisHon-Wai Koon, You Sun Kim, Hua Xu, Aatish Kumar, Dezheng Zhao, Iordanes Karagiannides, Paul R. Dobner, and Charalabos Pothoulakis
Plant Biology
- You have accessHaplotype structure strongly affects recombination in a maize genetic interval polymorphic for Helitron and retrotransposon insertions
- Inaugural Article
Limei He and Hugo K. Dooner - You have accessTurning a plant tissue into a living cell froth through isotropic growth
- From the Cover
Francis Corson, Olivier Hamant, Steffen Bohn, Jan Traas, Arezki Boudaoud, and Yves CouderSee companion article:
- In This Issue- May 26, 2009
- You have accessAltered interactions within FY/AtCPSF complexes required for Arabidopsis FCA-mediated chromatin silencingDavid Manzano, Sebastian Marquardt, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Isabel Bäurle, Fuquan Liu, and Caroline Dean
- Open AccessAn inhibitory interaction between viral and cellular proteins underlies the resistance of tomato to nonadapted tobamovirusesKazuhiro Ishibashi, Satoshi Naito, Tetsuo Meshi, and Masayuki Ishikawa
Psychology
- You have accessBrain systems mediating semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers: Biological invariance and modality specificityCheryl M. Capek, Giordana Grossi, Aaron J. Newman, Susan L. McBurney, David Corina, Brigitte Roeder, and Helen J. Neville
Commentaries
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