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July 14, 2009; vol. 106 no. 28
This Week in PNAS
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- Dating the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses- Jul 13, 2009
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessInsight learning or shaping?Johan Lind, Stefano Ghirlanda, and Magnus Enquist
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- Reply to Lind et al.: Insight and learning- Jul 01, 2009
- You have accessReply to Lind et al.: Insight and learningChristopher D. Bird and Nathan J. Emery
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- Insight learning or shaping?- Jul 01, 2009
- You have accessc-kit cardiac progenitor cells: What is their potential?Isotta Chimenti, Roberto Gaetani, Lucio Barile, Giacomo Frati, Elisa Messina, and Alessandro Giacomello
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- You have accessReply to Chimenti: c-kit cardiovascular progenitors and post-infarct myogenesisYvonne N. Tallini, Michael Craven, Martin Breitbach, Michael Hesse, Bernd K. Fleischmann, and Michael I. Kotlikoff
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- c-kit cardiac progenitor cells: What is their potential?- Jul 01, 2009
- You have accessOvercoming systemic roadblocks to sustainable healthStefan Knecht
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- Reply to Knecht: Achieving sustainable health- Jul 07, 2009
- You have accessReply to Knecht: Achieving sustainable healthRachael Beddoe, Robert Costanza, Joshua Farley, Eric Garza, Jennifer Kent, Ida Kubiszewski, Luz Martinez, Tracy McCowen, Kathleen Murphy, Norman Myers, Zach Ogden, Kevin Stapleton, and John Woodward
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- Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainable health- Jul 07, 2009
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- Open AccessAssessing the relevance of node features for network structureGinestra Bianconi, Paolo Pin, and Matteo Marsili
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessDynamics of a vesicle in general flowJ. Deschamps, V. Kantsler, E. Segre, and V. Steinberg
- You have accessESR evidence for 2 coexisting liquid phases in deeply supercooled bulk waterD. Banerjee, S. N. Bhat, S. V. Bhat, and D. Leporini
- Open AccessBinding-site geometry and flexibility in DC-SIGN demonstrated with surface force measurementsSindhu Menon, Kenneth Rosenberg, Sarah A. Graham, Eliot M. Ward, Maureen E. Taylor, Kurt Drickamer, and Deborah E. Leckband
Chemistry
- You have accessHigh-pressure photodissociation of water as a tool for hydrogen synthesis and fundamental chemistry
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Matteo Ceppatelli, Roberto Bini, and Vincenzo Schettino - You have accessMetal-independent decomposition of hydroperoxides by halogenated quinones: Detection and identification of a quinone ketoxy radicalBen-Zhan Zhu, Guo-Qiang Shan, Chun-Hua Huang, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Li Mao, and Yu-Guo Du
- Open AccessZinc chlorins for artificial light-harvesting self-assemble into antiparallel stacks forming a microcrystalline solid-state materialSwapna Ganapathy, Sanchita Sengupta, Piotr K. Wawrzyniak, Valerie Huber, Francesco Buda, Ute Baumeister, Frank Würthner, and Huub J. M. de Groot
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Computer Sciences
- Open AccessEfficient computation of optimal actions
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Emanuel TodorovSee companion article:
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Engineering
- You have accessScaling of strength and lifetime probability distributions of quasibrittle structures based on atomistic fracture mechanicsZdeněk P. Bažant, Jia-Liang Le, and Martin Z. Bazant
Geology
- Open AccessWarfare rather than agriculture as a critical influence on fires in the late Holocene, inferred from northern VietnamZhen Li, Yoshiki Saito, Phong X. Dang, Eiji Matsumoto, and Quang Lan Vu
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Geophysics
- You have accessLarge and unexpected enrichment in stratospheric 16O13C18O and its meridional variationLaurence Y. Yeung, Hagit P. Affek, Katherine J. Hoag, Weifu Guo, Aaron A. Wiegel, Elliot L. Atlas, Sue M. Schauffler, Mitchio Okumura, Kristie A. Boering, and John M. Eiler
Mathematics
- You have accessProof of Ira Gessel's lattice path conjectureManuel Kauers, Christoph Koutschan, and Doron Zeilberger
Physics
- Open AccessX-ray cross correlation analysis uncovers hidden local symmetries in disordered matterPeter Wochner, Christian Gutt, Tina Autenrieth, Thomas Demmer, Volodymyr Bugaev, Alejandro Díaz Ortiz, Agnès Duri, Federico Zontone, Gerhard Grübel, and Helmut Dosch
- You have accessMolecular noise of capping protein binding induces macroscopic instability in filopodial dynamicsPavel I. Zhuravlev and Garegin A. Papoian
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
Psychology
- You have accessEvidence for a memory threshold in second-choice recognition memory responsesColleen M. Parks and Andrew P. Yonelinas
Social Sciences
- Open AccessThe private rejection of unfair offers and emotional commitmentToshio Yamagishi, Yutaka Horita, Haruto Takagishi, Mizuho Shinada, Shigehito Tanida, and Karen S. Cook
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessBinding-site geometry and flexibility in DC-SIGN demonstrated with surface force measurementsSindhu Menon, Kenneth Rosenberg, Sarah A. Graham, Eliot M. Ward, Maureen E. Taylor, Kurt Drickamer, and Deborah E. Leckband
- Open AccessUsing adult mosquitoes to transfer insecticides to Aedes aegypti larval habitatsGregor J. Devine, Elvira Zamora Perea, Gerry F. Killeen, Jeffrey D. Stancil, Suzanne J. Clark, and Amy C. Morrison
- You have accessLoss of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase 2α activity causes late onset degeneration of spinal cord axons
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J. Paul Simons, Raya Al-Shawi, Shane Minogue, Mark G. Waugh, Claudia Wiedemann, Stylianos Evangelou, Andrzej Loesch, Talvinder S. Sihra, Rosalind King, Thomas T. Warner, and J. Justin Hsuan
Biochemistry
- Open AccessThe archaeal cofactor F0 is a light-harvesting antenna chromophore in eukaryotesAndreas F. Glas, Melanie J. Maul, Max Cryle, Thomas R. M. Barends, Sabine Schneider, Emine Kaya, Ilme Schlichting, and Thomas Carell
- Open AccessHigh-resolution profiling and discovery of planarian small RNAsMarc R. Friedländer, Catherine Adamidi, Ting Han, Svetlana Lebedeva, Thomas A. Isenbarger, Martin Hirst, Marco Marra, Chad Nusbaum, William L. Lee, James C. Jenkin, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, John K. Kim, and Nikolaus Rajewsky
- You have accessDNA polymerase ζ cooperates with polymerases κ and ι in translesion DNA synthesis across pyrimidine photodimers in cells from XPV patientsOmer Ziv, Nicholas Geacintov, Satoshi Nakajima, Akira Yasui, and Zvi Livneh
- You have accessStructural and molecular basis of the assembly of the TRPP2/PKD1 complexYong Yu, Maximilian H. Ulbrich, Ming-Hui Li, Zafir Buraei, Xing-Zhen Chen, Albert C. M. Ong, Liang Tong, Ehud Y. Isacoff, and Jian Yang
- You have accessThe role of transposable elements in the regulation of IFN-λ1 gene expressionScott J. P. Thomson, Fui G. Goh, Helen Banks, Thomas Krausgruber, Sergei V. Kotenko, Brian M. J. Foxwell, and Irina A. Udalova
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessMolecular noise of capping protein binding induces macroscopic instability in filopodial dynamicsPavel I. Zhuravlev and Garegin A. Papoian
- You have accessFunctional implications of multistage copper binding to the prion proteinMiroslav Hodak, Robin Chisnell, Wenchang Lu, and J. Bernholc
- You have accessA molecular brake, not a clutch, stops the Rhodobacter sphaeroides flagellar motorTeuta Pilizota, Mostyn T. Brown, Mark C. Leake, Richard W. Branch, Richard M. Berry, and Judith P. Armitage
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- You have accessInsertion of short transmembrane helices by the Sec61 transloconSimon Jaud, Mónica Fernández-Vidal, IngMarie Nilsson, Nadja M. Meindl-Beinker, Nadja C. Hübner, Douglas J. Tobias, Gunnar von Heijne, and Stephen H. White
- You have accessLinking molecular affinity and cellular specificity in cadherin-mediated adhesionP. Katsamba, K. Carroll, G. Ahlsen, F. Bahna, J. Vendome, S. Posy, M. Rajebhosale, S. Price, T. M. Jessell, A. Ben-Shaul, L. Shapiro, and Barry H. Honig
Cell Biology
- You have accessAn essential role for ATP binding and hydrolysis in the chaperone activity of GRP94 in cellsOlga Ostrovsky, Catherine A. Makarewich, Erik L. Snapp, and Yair Argon
- You have accessA site-specific, multiplexed kinase activity assay using stable-isotope dilution and high-resolution mass spectrometryYonghao Yu, Rana Anjum, Kazuishi Kubota, John Rush, Judit Villen, and Steven P. Gygi
- You have accessTrim24 targets endogenous p53 for degradation
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Kendra Allton, Abhinav K. Jain, Hans-Martin Herz, Wen-Wei Tsai, Sung Yun Jung, Jun Qin, Andreas Bergmann, Randy L. Johnson, and Michelle Craig BartonSee companion article:
- TRIMming p53 for ubiquitination- Jul 07, 2009
Developmental Biology
- You have accessA “latent niche” mechanism for tumor initiationMarie McGovern, Roumen Voutev, John Maciejowski, Ann K. Corsi, and E. Jane Albert Hubbard
- You have accesseIF4A controls germline stem cell self-renewal by directly inhibiting BAM function in the Drosophila ovaryRun Shen, Changjiang Weng, Junjing Yu, and Ting Xie
Ecology
- You have accessBiological consequences of earlier snowmelt from desert dust deposition in alpine landscapesHeidi Steltzer, Chris Landry, Thomas H. Painter, Justin Anderson, and Edward Ayres
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- Open AccessRe-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forestsHeather Keith, Brendan G. Mackey, and David B. Lindenmayer
- You have accessFunctional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effectAmy L. Angert, Travis E. Huxman, Peter Chesson, and D. Lawrence Venable
- You have accessExtinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangarooGavin J. Prideaux, Linda K. Ayliffe, Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Blaine W. Schubert, Peter F. Murray, Michael K. Gagan, and Thure E. CerlingPNAS July 14, 2009 106 (28) 11646-11650; first published June 25, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900956106
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessSubseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific GyreSteven D'Hondt, Arthur J. Spivack, Robert Pockalny, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jan P. Fischer, Jens Kallmeyer, Lewis J. Abrams, David C. Smith, Dennis Graham, Franciszek Hasiuk, Heather Schrum, and Andrea M. Stancin
Evolution
- You have accessExpected rate of fisheries-induced evolution is slowKen H. Andersen and Keith Brander
- You have accessMajor flowering time gene, FLOWERING LOCUS C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thalianaGeorge C. K. Chiang, Deepak Barua, Elena M. Kramer, Richard M. Amasino, and Kathleen Donohue
Genetics
- Open AccessMany human large intergenic noncoding RNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes and affect gene expressionAhmad M. Khalil, Mitchell Guttman, Maite Huarte, Manuel Garber, Arjun Raj, Dianali Rivea Morales, Kelly Thomas, Aviva Presser, Bradley E. Bernstein, Alexander van Oudenaarden, Aviv Regev, Eric S. Lander, and John L. Rinn
Immunology
- You have accessSecretory phospholipase A2-IID is an effector molecule of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cellsCaroline E. von Allmen, Nicole Schmitz, Monika Bauer, Heather J. Hinton, Michael O. Kurrer, Regula B. Buser, Myriam Gwerder, Simone Muntwiler, Tim Sparwasser, Roger R. Beerli, and Martin F. Bachmann
- You have accessSolution structure of the silkworm βGRP/GNBP3 N-terminal domain reveals the mechanism for β-1,3-glucan-specific recognitionKiyohiro Takahasi, Masanori Ochiai, Masataka Horiuchi, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Kenji Ogura, Masaaki Ashida, and Fuyuhiko Inagaki
- You have accessGPR17 is a negative regulator of the cysteinyl leukotriene 1 receptor response to leukotriene D4Akiko Maekawa, Barbara Balestrieri, K. Frank Austen, and Yoshihide Kanaoka
Medical Sciences
- You have accessNPAS3 is a trachealess homolog critical for lung development and homeostasisShutang Zhou, Simone Degan, Erin N. Potts, W. Michael Foster, and Mary E. SundayPNAS July 14, 2009 106 (28) 11691-11696; first published July 6, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902426106
- You have accessInhibition of serine/threonine phosphatase PP2A enhances cancer chemotherapy by blocking DNA damage induced defense mechanismsJie Lu, John S. Kovach, Francis Johnson, Jeffrey Chiang, Richard Hodes, Russell Lonser, and Zhengping Zhuang
- You have accessGNRH1 mutations in patients with idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadismYee-Ming Chan, Adelaide de Guillebon, Mariarosaria Lang-Muritano, Lacey Plummer, Felecia Cerrato, Sarah Tsiaras, Ariana Gaspert, Hélène B. Lavoie, Ching-Hui Wu, William F. Crowley Jr., John K. Amory, Nelly Pitteloud, and Stephanie B. Seminara
Microbiology
- Open AccessDating the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses
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Gavin J. D. Smith, Justin Bahl, Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Jinxia Zhang, Leo L. M. Poon, Honglin Chen, Robert G. Webster, J. S. Malik Peiris, and Yi GuanSee companion article:
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- You have accessStructure of the vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsid in complex with the nucleocapsid-binding domain of the small polymerase cofactor, PTodd J. Green and Ming Luo
- You have accessBacteria capture iron from heme by keeping tetrapyrrol skeleton intactSylvie Létoffé, Gesine Heuck, Philippe Delepelaire, Norbert Lange, and Cécile Wandersman
- You have accessToll-like receptor signaling controls reactivation of KSHV from latencySean M. Gregory, John A. West, Patrick J. Dillon, Chelsey Hilscher, Dirk P. Dittmer, and Blossom Damania
Neuroscience
- Open AccessEfficient computation of optimal actions
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Emanuel TodorovSee companion article:
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- Open AccessSite-specific regulation of cell cycle and DNA repair in post-mitotic GABA cells in schizophrenic versus bipolarsFrancine M. Benes, Benjamin Lim, and Sivan Subburaju
- You have accessPersistence of fear memory across time requires the basolateral amygdala complexAndrew M. Poulos, Veronica Li, Sarah S. Sterlace, Fonda Tokushige, Ravikumar Ponnusamy, and Michael S. Fanselow
- Open AccessReliable neuromodulation from circuits with variable underlying structureRachel Grashow, Ted Brookings, and Eve Marder
- Open AccessCognitive fitness of cost-efficient brain functional networksDanielle S. Bassett, Edward T. Bullmore, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, José A. Apud, Daniel R. Weinberger, and Richard Coppola
- You have accessCholinergic filtering in the recurrent excitatory microcircuit of cortical layer 4Emmanuel Eggermann and Dirk Feldmeyer
- You have accessImaging rapid redistribution of sensory-evoked depolarization through existing cortical pathways after targeted stroke in miceAlbrecht Sigler, Majid H. Mohajerani, and Timothy H. Murphy
- Open AccessChanging meaning causes coupling changes within higher levels of the cortical hierarchyT. M. Schofield, P. Iverson, S. J. Kiebel, K. E. Stephan, J. M. Kilner, K. J. Friston, J. T. Crinion, C. J. Price, and A. P. Leff
- You have accessImpaired long-term stability of CA1 place cell representation in mice lacking the transcription factor zif268/egr1Sophie Renaudineau, Bruno Poucet, Serge Laroche, Sabrina Davis, and Etienne Save
- Open AccessANO2 is the cilial calcium-activated chloride channel that may mediate olfactory amplificationAaron B. Stephan, Eleen Y. Shum, Sarah Hirsh, Katherine D. Cygnar, Johannes Reisert, and Haiqing Zhao
- Open AccessDominant mutations in the tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase gene recapitulate in Drosophila features of human Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathyErik Storkebaum, Ricardo Leitão-Gonçalves, Tanja Godenschwege, Leslie Nangle, Monica Mejia, Inge Bosmans, Tinne Ooms, An Jacobs, Patrick Van Dijck, Xiang-Lei Yang, Paul Schimmel, Koen Norga, Vincent Timmerman, Patrick Callaerts, and Albena Jordanova
- You have accessHigh cGMP synthetic activity in carp conesNorihiko Takemoto, Shuji Tachibanaki, and Satoru Kawamura
- You have accessGenomic–anatomic evidence for distinct functional domains in hippocampal field CA1Hong-Wei Dong, Larry W. Swanson, Lin Chen, Michael S. Fanselow, and Arthur W. Toga
Physiology
- Open AccessHypertension of Kcnmb1−/− is linked to deficient K secretion and aldosteronismP. Richard Grimm, Debra L. Irsik, Deann C. Settles, J. David Holtzclaw, and Steven. C. Sansom
Plant Biology
- You have accessAPC/CCCS52A complexes control meristem maintenance in the Arabidopsis rootMarleen Vanstraelen, Mikhail Baloban, Olivier Da Ines, Antonietta Cultrone, Tim Lammens, Véronique Boudolf, Spencer C. Brown, Lieven De Veylder, Peter Mergaert, and Eva Kondorosi
Sustainability Science
- Open AccessLinking social norms to efficient conservation investment in payments for ecosystem servicesXiaodong Chen, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, and Jianguo Liu
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