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October 27, 2009; vol. 106 no. 43
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Peripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreaders- Oct 19, 2009
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessDo nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to US crop yields under climate change?B. G. Meerburg, A. Verhagen, R. E. E. Jongschaap, A. C. Franke, B. F. Schaap, T. A. Dueck, and A. van der Werf
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- You have accessReply to Meerburg et al.: Growing areas in Brazil and the United States with similar exposure to extreme heat have similar yieldsWolfram Schlenker and Michael J. Roberts
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- You have accessProblems with burden-sharing proposal among one billion high emittersArnulf Grubler and Shonali Pachauri
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- You have accessReply to Grubler and Pachauri: Developing national obligations from individual emissionsShoibal Chakravarty, Ananth Chikkatur, Heleen de Coninck, Stephen Pacala, Robert Socolow, and Massimo Tavoni
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Editorial
- You have accessEvolutionary history and species interactionsDouglas J. Futuyma and Anurag A. Agrawal
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Plant and Insect Biodiversity Special Feature (free online)
Perspective
- You have accessMacroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivoresDouglas J. Futuyma and Anurag A. Agrawal
Research Articles
- You have accessMacroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant–herbivore arms raceJudith X. Becerra, Koji Noge, and D. Lawrence Venable
- You have accessEvidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defensesAnurag A. Agrawal, Mark Fishbein, Rayko Halitschke, Amy P. Hastings, Daniel L. Rabosky, and Sergio Rasmann
- You have accessThe evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus IngaThomas A. Kursar, Kyle G. Dexter, John Lokvam, R. Toby Pennington, James E. Richardson, Marjorie G. Weber, Eric T. Murakami, Camilla Drake, Ruth McGregor, and Phyllis D. Coley
- You have accessPlant sex and the evolution of plant defenses against herbivoresMarc T. J. Johnson, Stacey D. Smith, and Mark D. Rausher
- You have accessMacroevolutionary patterns of defense and pollination in Dalechampia vines: Adaptation, exaptation, and evolutionary noveltyW. Scott Armbruster, Joongku Lee, and Bruce G. Baldwin
- You have accessDivergent investment strategies of Acacia myrmecophytes and the coexistence of mutualists and exploitersMartin Heil, Marcia González-Teuber, Lars W. Clement, Stefanie Kautz, Manfred Verhaagh, and Juan Carlos Silva Bueno
- You have accessPhylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaksIan S. Pearse and Andrew L. Hipp
- You have accessRepeated climate-linked host shifts have promoted diversification in a temperate clade of leaf-mining fliesIsaac S. Winkler, Charles Mitter, and Sonja J. Scheffer
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessBacillus subtilis spreads by surfing on waves of surfactantThomas E. Angelini, Marcus Roper, Roberto Kolter, David A. Weitz, and Michael P. Brenner
- You have accessPeripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreadersLaura Temime, Lulla Opatowski, Yohan Pannet, Christian Brun-Buisson, Pierre Yves Boëlle, and Didier Guillemot
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Chemistry
- You have accessDesign and x-ray crystal structures of high-potency nonsteroidal glucocorticoid agonists exploiting a novel binding site on the receptorKeith Biggadike, Randy K. Bledsoe, Diane M. Coe, Tony W. J. Cooper, David House, Marie A. Iannone, Simon J. F. Macdonald, Kevin P. Madauss, Iain M. McLay, Tracy J. Shipley, Simon J. Taylor, Thuy B. Tran, Iain J. Uings, Victoria Weller, and Shawn P. Williams
- You have accessWater-mediated signal multiplication with Y-shaped carbon nanotubesYusong Tu, Peng Xiu, Rongzheng Wan, Jun Hu, Ruhong Zhou, and Haiping Fang
- Open AccessUncovering pathways in DNA oligonucleotide hybridization via transition state analysisE. J. Sambriski, D. C. Schwartz, and J. J. de Pablo
- You have accessKinetics of hyperpolarized 13C1-pyruvate transport and metabolism in living human breast cancer cellsTalia Harris, Galit Eliyahu, Lucio Frydman, and Hadassa Degani
- You have accessGlycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune responseCheng-Chi Wang, Juine-Ruey Chen, Yung-Chieh Tseng, Che-Hsiung Hsu, Yu-Fu Hung, Shih-Wei Chen, Chin-Mei Chen, Kay-Hooi Khoo, Ting-Jen Cheng, Yih-Shyun E. Cheng, Jia-Tsrong Jan, Chung-Yi Wu, Che Ma, and Chi-Huey Wong
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- You have accessThe electrochemical approach to concerted proton—electron transfers in the oxidation of phenols in waterCyrille Costentin, Cyril Louault, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Savéant
- You have accessSolution structure of a paradigm ArsR family zinc sensor in the DNA-bound stateAlphonse I. Arunkumar, Gregory C. Campanello, and David P. Giedroc
Computer Sciences
- Open AccessMonkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valleyShawn A. Steckenfinger and Asif A. Ghazanfar
Engineering
- Open AccessTracking lineages of single cells in lines using a microfluidic deviceAmy C. Rowat, James C. Bird, Jeremy J. Agresti, Oliver J. Rando, and David A. Weitz
Geology
- You have accessAn independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesisTodd A. Surovell, Vance T. Holliday, Joseph A. M. Gingerich, Caroline Ketron, C. Vance Haynes Jr, Ilene Hilman, Daniel P. Wagner, Eileen Johnson, and Philippe Claeys
Social Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessAn independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesisTodd A. Surovell, Vance T. Holliday, Joseph A. M. Gingerich, Caroline Ketron, C. Vance Haynes Jr, Ilene Hilman, Daniel P. Wagner, Eileen Johnson, and Philippe Claeys
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- Open AccessA consensus genetic map of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L) Walp.] and synteny based on EST-derived SNPsWellington Muchero, Ndeye N. Diop, Prasanna R. Bhat, Raymond D. Fenton, Steve Wanamaker, Marti Pottorff, Sarah Hearne, Ndiaga Cisse, Christian Fatokun, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Philip A. Roberts, and Timothy J. Close
Anthropology
- You have accessAge at first reproduction explains rate variation in the strepsirrhine molecular clockC. Tsantes and M. E. Steiper
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessDesign and x-ray crystal structures of high-potency nonsteroidal glucocorticoid agonists exploiting a novel binding site on the receptorKeith Biggadike, Randy K. Bledsoe, Diane M. Coe, Tony W. J. Cooper, David House, Marie A. Iannone, Simon J. F. Macdonald, Kevin P. Madauss, Iain M. McLay, Tracy J. Shipley, Simon J. Taylor, Thuy B. Tran, Iain J. Uings, Victoria Weller, and Shawn P. Williams
- You have accessSite-specific recombination for the modification of transgenic strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitataMarc F. Schetelig, Francesca Scolari, Alfred M. Handler, Sebastian Kittelmann, Giuliano Gasperi, and Ernst A. Wimmer
Biochemistry
- You have accessSolution structure of a paradigm ArsR family zinc sensor in the DNA-bound stateAlphonse I. Arunkumar, Gregory C. Campanello, and David P. Giedroc
- You have accessEndogenous nitric oxide regulates the recovery of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans from exposure to UV lightBhumit A. Patel, Magali Moreau, Joanne Widom, Huan Chen, Longfei Yin, Yuejin Hua, and Brian R. Crane
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- You have accessLinear group II intron RNAs can retrohome in eukaryotes and may use nonhomologous end-joining for cDNA ligationFanglei Zhuang, Marta Mastroianni, Travis B. White, and Alan M. Lambowitz
- You have accessMultistart simulated annealing refinement of the crystal structure of the 70S ribosomeAndrei Korostelev, Martin Laurberg, and Harry F. Noller
- You have accessAn 8-oxo-guanine repair pathway coordinated by MUTYH glycosylase and DNA polymerase λBarbara van Loon and Ulrich Hübscher
- You have accessImmediate mediators of the inflammatory response are poised for gene activation through RNA polymerase II stallingKaren Adelman, Megan A. Kennedy, Sergei Nechaev, Daniel A. Gilchrist, Ginger W. Muse, Yurii Chinenov, and Inez Rogatsky
- You have accessIdentification of a physiological E2 module for the human anaphase-promoting complexAdam Williamson, Katherine E. Wickliffe, Barbara G. Mellone, Ling Song, Gary H. Karpen, and Michael Rape
- You have accessHighly error-free role of DNA polymerase η in the replicative bypass of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in mouse and human cellsJung-Hoon Yoon, Louise Prakash, and Satya Prakash
- You have accessMechanism for the allosteric regulation of phosphodiesterase 2A deduced from the X-ray structure of a near full-length constructJayvardhan Pandit, Michael D. Forman, Kimberly F. Fennell, Keith S. Dillman, and Frank S. Menniti
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessWater-mediated signal multiplication with Y-shaped carbon nanotubesYusong Tu, Peng Xiu, Rongzheng Wan, Jun Hu, Ruhong Zhou, and Haiping Fang
- Open AccessUncovering pathways in DNA oligonucleotide hybridization via transition state analysisE. J. Sambriski, D. C. Schwartz, and J. J. de Pablo
- You have accessKinetics of hyperpolarized 13C1-pyruvate transport and metabolism in living human breast cancer cellsTalia Harris, Galit Eliyahu, Lucio Frydman, and Hadassa Degani
- You have accessUnraveling the structure of DNA during overstretching by using multicolor, single-molecule fluorescence imaging
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Joost van Mameren, Peter Gross, Geraldine Farge, Pleuni Hooijman, Mauro Modesti, Maria Falkenberg, Gijs J. L. Wuite, and Erwin J. G. PetermanSee companion article:
- Peeling back the mystery of DNA overstretching- Oct 21, 2009
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- You have accessPaddling mechanism for the substrate translocation by AAA+ motor revealed by multiscale molecular simulationsNobuyasu Koga, Tomoshi Kameda, Kei-ichi Okazaki, and Shoji Takada
- You have accessSingle-cell response to stiffness exhibits muscle-like behaviorDémosthène Mitrossilis, Jonathan Fouchard, Axel Guiroy, Nicolas Desprat, Nicolas Rodriguez, Ben Fabry, and Atef Asnacios
- You have accessHidden dynamic allostery in a PDZ domainChad M. Petit, Jun Zhang, Paul J. Sapienza, Ernesto J. Fuentes, and Andrew L. Lee
- You have accessMyosin VI undergoes a 180° power stroke implying an uncoupling of the front lever armJeff G. Reifenberger, Erdal Toprak, HyeongJun Kim, Dan Safer, H. Lee Sweeney, and Paul R. Selvin
- Open AccessFibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sitesEnrico Klotzsch, Michael L. Smith, Kristopher E. Kubow, Simon Muntwyler, William C. Little, Felix Beyeler, Delphine Gourdon, Bradley J. Nelson, and Viola Vogel
- You have accessTransient structural distortion of metal-free Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase triggers aberrant oligomerizationKaare Teilum, Melanie H. Smith, Eike Schulz, Lea C. Christensen, Gleb Solomentsev, Mikael Oliveberg, and Mikael Akke
Cell Biology
- Open AccessTracking lineages of single cells in lines using a microfluidic deviceAmy C. Rowat, James C. Bird, Jeremy J. Agresti, Oliver J. Rando, and David A. Weitz
- You have accessMiz1 is a signal- and pathway-specific modulator or regulator (SMOR) that suppresses TNF-α-induced JNK1 activationJing Liu, Yingming Zhao, Martin Eilers, and Anning Lin
- Open AccessStatins inhibit protein lipidation and induce the unfolded protein response in the non-sterol producing nematode Caenorhabditis elegansCatarina Mörck, Louise Olsen, Caroline Kurth, Annelie Persson, Nadia Jin Storm, Emma Svensson, John-Olov Jansson, Marika Hellqvist, Annika Enejder, Nils J. Faergeman, and Marc Pilon
Developmental Biology
- You have accessRegulative recovery in the sea urchin embryo and the stabilizing role of fail-safe gene network wiringJoel Smith and Eric H. Davidson
- You have accessTemporomandibular joint formation requires two distinct hedgehog-dependent stepsPatricia Purcell, Brian W. Joo, Jimmy K. Hu, Pamela V. Tran, Monica L. Calicchio, Daniel J. O'Connell, Richard L. Maas, and Clifford J. Tabin
- You have accessDual role for the methyltransferase G9a in the maintenance of β-globin gene transcription in adult erythroid cellsChandra-Prakash Chaturvedi, Alison M. Hosey, Carmen Palii, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Jeffrey A. Ranish, F. Jeffrey Dilworth, and Marjorie Brand
- You have accessThe keratin-related Ouroboros proteins function as immune antigens mediating tail regression in Xenopus metamorphosisKatsuki Mukaigasa, Akira Hanasaki, Mitsugu Maéno, Hiroshi Fujii, Shin-ichiro Hayashida, Mari Itoh, Makoto Kobayashi, Shin Tochinai, Masayuki Hatta, Kazuya Iwabuchi, Masanori Taira, Kazunori Onoé, and Yumi Izutsu
Ecology
- You have accessDivergent investment strategies of Acacia myrmecophytes and the coexistence of mutualists and exploitersMartin Heil, Marcia González-Teuber, Lars W. Clement, Stefanie Kautz, Manfred Verhaagh, and Juan Carlos Silva Bueno
- You have accessEvidence that chytrids dominate fungal communities in high-elevation soilsK. R. Freeman, A. P. Martin, D. Karki, R. C. Lynch, M. S. Mitter, A. F. Meyer, J. E. Longcore, D. R. Simmons, and S. K. Schmidt
Evolution
- You have accessMacroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant–herbivore arms raceJudith X. Becerra, Koji Noge, and D. Lawrence Venable
- You have accessEvidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defensesAnurag A. Agrawal, Mark Fishbein, Rayko Halitschke, Amy P. Hastings, Daniel L. Rabosky, and Sergio Rasmann
- You have accessThe evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus IngaThomas A. Kursar, Kyle G. Dexter, John Lokvam, R. Toby Pennington, James E. Richardson, Marjorie G. Weber, Eric T. Murakami, Camilla Drake, Ruth McGregor, and Phyllis D. Coley
- You have accessPlant sex and the evolution of plant defenses against herbivoresMarc T. J. Johnson, Stacey D. Smith, and Mark D. Rausher
- You have accessMacroevolutionary patterns of defense and pollination in Dalechampia vines: Adaptation, exaptation, and evolutionary noveltyW. Scott Armbruster, Joongku Lee, and Bruce G. Baldwin
- You have accessPhylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaksIan S. Pearse and Andrew L. Hipp
- You have accessRepeated climate-linked host shifts have promoted diversification in a temperate clade of leaf-mining fliesIsaac S. Winkler, Charles Mitter, and Sonja J. Scheffer
Genetics
- You have accessToggle involving cis-interfering noncoding RNAs controls variegated gene expression in yeast
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Stacie L. Bumgarner, Robin D. Dowell, Paula Grisafi, David K. Gifford, and Gerald R. FinkSee companion article:
- A transcription switch toggled by noncoding RNAs- Oct 21, 2009
Immunology
- You have accessGlycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune responseCheng-Chi Wang, Juine-Ruey Chen, Yung-Chieh Tseng, Che-Hsiung Hsu, Yu-Fu Hung, Shih-Wei Chen, Chin-Mei Chen, Kay-Hooi Khoo, Ting-Jen Cheng, Yih-Shyun E. Cheng, Jia-Tsrong Jan, Chung-Yi Wu, Che Ma, and Chi-Huey Wong
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- You have accessNegative regulation of MyD88-dependent signaling by IL-10 in dendritic cellsJiHoon Chang, Steven L. Kunkel, and Cheong-Hee Chang
- Open AccessAge-associated increase in lifespan of naïve CD4 T cells contributes to T-cell homeostasis but facilitates development of functional defectsHirotake Tsukamoto, Karen Clise-Dwyer, Gail E. Huston, Debra K. Duso, Amanda L. Buck, Lawrence L. Johnson, Laura Haynes, and Susan L. Swain
- You have accessAberrantly resolved RAG-mediated DNA breaks in Atm-deficient lymphocytes target chromosomal breakpoints in cisGrace K. Mahowald, Jason M. Baron, Michael A. Mahowald, Shashikant Kulkarni, Andrea L. Bredemeyer, Craig H. Bassing, and Barry P. Sleckman
- You have accessStructural basis of activation-dependent binding of ligand-mimetic antibody AL-57 to integrin LFA-1Hongmin Zhang, Jin-huan Liu, Wei Yang, Timothy Springer, Motomu Shimaoka, and Jia-huai Wang
Medical Sciences
- Open AccessIdentifying genotype-dependent efficacy of single and combined PI3K- and MAPK-pathway inhibition in cancerMartin L. Sos, Stefanie Fischer, Roland Ullrich, Martin Peifer, Johannes M. Heuckmann, Mirjam Koker, Stefanie Heynck, Isabel Stückrath, Jonathan Weiss, Florian Fischer, Kathrin Michel, Aviva Goel, Lucia Regales, Katerina A. Politi, Samanthi Perera, Matthäus Getlik, Lukas C. Heukamp, Sascha Ansén, Thomas Zander, Rameen Beroukhim, Hamid Kashkar, Kevan M. Shokat, William R. Sellers, Daniel Rauh, Christine Orr, Klaus P. Hoeflich, Lori Friedman, Kwok-Kin Wong, William Pao, and Roman K. Thomas
- Open AccessA wave of nascent transcription on activated human genesYouichiro Wada, Yoshihiro Ohta, Meng Xu, Shuichi Tsutsumi, Takashi Minami, Kenji Inoue, Daisuke Komura, Jun'ichi Kitakami, Nobuhiko Oshida, Argyris Papantonis, Akashi Izumi, Mika Kobayashi, Hiroko Meguro, Yasuharu Kanki, Imari Mimura, Kazuki Yamamoto, Chikage Mataki, Takao Hamakubo, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Hiroshi Kimura, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Peter R. Cook, and Sigeo Ihara
Microbiology
- You have accessBacillus subtilis spreads by surfing on waves of surfactantThomas E. Angelini, Marcus Roper, Roberto Kolter, David A. Weitz, and Michael P. Brenner
Neuroscience
- Open AccessMonkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valleyShawn A. Steckenfinger and Asif A. Ghazanfar
- Open AccessAlzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domainKaushik Ghosal, Daniel L. Vogt, Man Liang, Yong Shen, Bruce T. Lamb, and Sanjay W. Pimplikar
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- You have accessPodosomes are present in a postsynaptic apparatus and participate in its maturationTomasz J. Proszynski, Jacinthe Gingras, Gregorio Valdez, Konrad Krzewski, and Joshua R. Sanes
- Open AccessGray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeysM. M. Quallo, C. J. Price, K. Ueno, T. Asamizuya, K. Cheng, R. N. Lemon, and A. Iriki
- You have accessCa2+-dependent release of Munc18-1 from presynaptic mGluRs in short-term facilitationYoshiaki Nakajima, Sumiko Mochida, Katsuya Okawa, and Shigetada Nakanishi
- You have accessSpatiotemporal precision and hemodynamic mechanism of optical point spreads in alert primatesYevgeniy B. Sirotin, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Clemence Bordier, and Aniruddha Das
Pharmacology
- You have accessZyklophin, a systemically active selective kappa opioid receptor peptide antagonist with short duration of action
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Jane V. Aldrich, Kshitij A. Patkar, and Jay P. McLaughlinSee companion article:
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Physiology
- You have accessα-Actinin2 cytoskeletal protein is required for the functional membrane localization of a Ca2+-activated K+ channel (SK2 channel)Ling Lu, Valeriy Timofeyev, Ning Li, Sassan Rafizadeh, Anil Singapuri, Todd R. Harris, and Nipavan Chiamvimonvat
- You have accessNitric oxide permits hypoxia-induced lymphatic perfusion by controlling arterial-lymphatic conduits in zebrafish and glass catfishLasse Dahl Ejby Jensen, Renhai Cao, Eva-Maria Hedlund, Iris Söll, Jon O. Lundberg, Giselbert Hauptmann, John Fleng Steffensen, and Yihai Cao
Plant Biology
- Open AccessVIP1 response elements mediate mitogen-activated protein kinase 3-induced stress gene expressionAndrea Pitzschke, Armin Djamei, Markus Teige, and Heribert Hirt
Population Biolgoy
- You have accessPeripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreadersLaura Temime, Lulla Opatowski, Yohan Pannet, Christian Brun-Buisson, Pierre Yves Boëlle, and Didier Guillemot
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