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October 27, 2009; vol. 106 no. 43

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18041-18042; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti4309106

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    • Zyklophin, a systemically active selective kappa opioid receptor peptide antagonist with short duration of action
      - Oct 19, 2009
    • Glycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune response
      - Oct 12, 2009
    • Peripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreaders
      - Oct 19, 2009
    • Endogenous nitric oxide regulates the recovery of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans from exposure to UV light
      - Oct 19, 2009
    • Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domain
      - Oct 16, 2009
    • Unraveling the structure of DNA during overstretching by using multicolor, single-molecule fluorescence imaging
      - Oct 19, 2009

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    Do 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
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) E120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910618106

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    • Reply to Meerburg et al.: Growing areas in Brazil and the United States with similar exposure to extreme heat have similar yields
      - Oct 22, 2009
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    Reply to Meerburg et al.: Growing areas in Brazil and the United States with similar exposure to extreme heat have similar yields
    Wolfram Schlenker and Michael J. Roberts
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) E121; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911092106

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    • Do nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to US crop yields under climate change?
      - Oct 22, 2009
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    Problems with burden-sharing proposal among one billion high emitters
    Arnulf Grubler and Shonali Pachauri
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) E122-E123; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909994106

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    • Reply to Grubler and Pachauri: Developing national obligations from individual emissions
      - Oct 22, 2009
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    Reply to Grubler and Pachauri: Developing national obligations from individual emissions
    Shoibal Chakravarty, Ananth Chikkatur, Heleen de Coninck, Stephen Pacala, Robert Socolow, and Massimo Tavoni
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) E124; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911102106

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    • Problems with burden-sharing proposal among one billion high emitters
      - Oct 22, 2009

Editorial

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    Evolutionary history and species interactions
    Douglas J. Futuyma and Anurag A. Agrawal
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18043-18044; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910334106

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    An early productive ocean unfit for aerobics
    Timothy W. Lyons and Christopher T. Reinhard
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18045-18046; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910345106

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    • Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age
      - Sep 28, 2009
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    Peeling back the mystery of DNA overstretching
    Mark C. Williams, Ioulia Rouzina, and Micah J. McCauley
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18047-18048; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910269106

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    • Unraveling the structure of DNA during overstretching by using multicolor, single-molecule fluorescence imaging
      - Oct 19, 2009
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    A transcription switch toggled by noncoding RNAs
    Fred Winston
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18049-18050; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910272106

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    • Toggle involving cis-interfering noncoding RNAs controls variegated gene expression in yeast
      - Sep 30, 2009

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    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18051-18053; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910583106

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    • A mouse forward genetics screen identifies LISTERIN as an E3 ubiquitin ligase involved in neurodegeneration
      - Feb 05, 2009

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      Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores
      Douglas J. Futuyma and Anurag A. Agrawal
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18054-18061; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904106106
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      Macroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant–herbivore arms race
      Judith X. Becerra, Koji Noge, and D. Lawrence Venable
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18062-18066; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904456106
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      Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses
      Anurag A. Agrawal, Mark Fishbein, Rayko Halitschke, Amy P. Hastings, Daniel L. Rabosky, and Sergio Rasmann
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18067-18072; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904862106
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      The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga
      Thomas 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18073-18078; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904786106
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      Plant sex and the evolution of plant defenses against herbivores
      Marc T. J. Johnson, Stacey D. Smith, and Mark D. Rausher
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18079-18084; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904695106
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      Macroevolutionary patterns of defense and pollination in Dalechampia vines: Adaptation, exaptation, and evolutionary novelty
      W. Scott Armbruster, Joongku Lee, and Bruce G. Baldwin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18085-18090; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907051106
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      Divergent investment strategies of Acacia myrmecophytes and the coexistence of mutualists and exploiters
      Martin Heil, Marcia González-Teuber, Lars W. Clement, Stefanie Kautz, Manfred Verhaagh, and Juan Carlos Silva Bueno
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18091-18096; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904304106
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      Phylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaks
      Ian S. Pearse and Andrew L. Hipp
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18097-18102; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904867106
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      Repeated climate-linked host shifts have promoted diversification in a temperate clade of leaf-mining flies
      Isaac S. Winkler, Charles Mitter, and Sonja J. Scheffer
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18103-18108; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904852106

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      Bacillus subtilis spreads by surfing on waves of surfactant
      Thomas E. Angelini, Marcus Roper, Roberto Kolter, David A. Weitz, and Michael P. Brenner
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18109-18113; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905890106
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      Peripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreaders
      Laura Temime, Lulla Opatowski, Yohan Pannet, Christian Brun-Buisson, Pierre Yves Boëlle, and Didier Guillemot
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18420-18425; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900974106

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      Design and x-ray crystal structures of high-potency nonsteroidal glucocorticoid agonists exploiting a novel binding site on the receptor
      Keith 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18114-18119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909125106
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      Water-mediated signal multiplication with Y-shaped carbon nanotubes
      Yusong Tu, Peng Xiu, Rongzheng Wan, Jun Hu, Ruhong Zhou, and Haiping Fang
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18120-18124; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902676106
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      Uncovering pathways in DNA oligonucleotide hybridization via transition state analysis
      E. J. Sambriski, D. C. Schwartz, and J. J. de Pablo
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18125-18130; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904721106
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      Kinetics of hyperpolarized 13C1-pyruvate transport and metabolism in living human breast cancer cells
      Talia Harris, Galit Eliyahu, Lucio Frydman, and Hadassa Degani
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18131-18136; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909049106
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      Glycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune response
      Cheng-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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18137-18142; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909696106

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      The electrochemical approach to concerted proton—electron transfers in the oxidation of phenols in water
      Cyrille Costentin, Cyril Louault, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Savéant
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18143-18148; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910065106
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      Solution structure of a paradigm ArsR family zinc sensor in the DNA-bound state
      Alphonse I. Arunkumar, Gregory C. Campanello, and David P. Giedroc
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18177-18182; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905558106
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      Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley
      Shawn A. Steckenfinger and Asif A. Ghazanfar
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18362-18366; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910063106
  • Engineering

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      Tracking lineages of single cells in lines using a microfluidic device
      Amy C. Rowat, James C. Bird, Jeremy J. Agresti, Oliver J. Rando, and David A. Weitz
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18149-18154; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903163106
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      An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis
      Todd 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18155-18158; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907857106

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      An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis
      Todd 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18155-18158; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907857106

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      A consensus genetic map of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L) Walp.] and synteny based on EST-derived SNPs
      Wellington 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18159-18164; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905886106
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      Age at first reproduction explains rate variation in the strepsirrhine molecular clock
      C. Tsantes and M. E. Steiper
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18165-18170; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0906686106
  • Applied Biological Sciences

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      Design and x-ray crystal structures of high-potency nonsteroidal glucocorticoid agonists exploiting a novel binding site on the receptor
      Keith 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18114-18119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909125106
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      Site-specific recombination for the modification of transgenic strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata
      Marc F. Schetelig, Francesca Scolari, Alfred M. Handler, Sebastian Kittelmann, Giuliano Gasperi, and Ernst A. Wimmer
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18171-18176; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907264106
  • Biochemistry

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      Solution structure of a paradigm ArsR family zinc sensor in the DNA-bound state
      Alphonse I. Arunkumar, Gregory C. Campanello, and David P. Giedroc
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18177-18182; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905558106
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      Endogenous nitric oxide regulates the recovery of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans from exposure to UV light
      Bhumit A. Patel, Magali Moreau, Joanne Widom, Huan Chen, Longfei Yin, Yuejin Hua, and Brian R. Crane
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18183-18188; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907262106

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      Linear group II intron RNAs can retrohome in eukaryotes and may use nonhomologous end-joining for cDNA ligation
      Fanglei Zhuang, Marta Mastroianni, Travis B. White, and Alan M. Lambowitz
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18189-18194; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910277106
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      Multistart simulated annealing refinement of the crystal structure of the 70S ribosome
      Andrei Korostelev, Martin Laurberg, and Harry F. Noller
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18195-18200; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909287106
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      An 8-oxo-guanine repair pathway coordinated by MUTYH glycosylase and DNA polymerase λ
      Barbara van Loon and Ulrich Hübscher
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18201-18206; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907280106
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      Immediate mediators of the inflammatory response are poised for gene activation through RNA polymerase II stalling
      Karen Adelman, Megan A. Kennedy, Sergei Nechaev, Daniel A. Gilchrist, Ginger W. Muse, Yurii Chinenov, and Inez Rogatsky
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18207-18212; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910177106
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      Identification of a physiological E2 module for the human anaphase-promoting complex
      Adam Williamson, Katherine E. Wickliffe, Barbara G. Mellone, Ling Song, Gary H. Karpen, and Michael Rape
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18213-18218; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907887106
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      Highly error-free role of DNA polymerase η in the replicative bypass of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in mouse and human cells
      Jung-Hoon Yoon, Louise Prakash, and Satya Prakash
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18219-18224; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910121106
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      Mechanism for the allosteric regulation of phosphodiesterase 2A deduced from the X-ray structure of a near full-length construct
      Jayvardhan Pandit, Michael D. Forman, Kimberly F. Fennell, Keith S. Dillman, and Frank S. Menniti
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18225-18230; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907635106
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      Water-mediated signal multiplication with Y-shaped carbon nanotubes
      Yusong Tu, Peng Xiu, Rongzheng Wan, Jun Hu, Ruhong Zhou, and Haiping Fang
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18120-18124; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902676106
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      Uncovering pathways in DNA oligonucleotide hybridization via transition state analysis
      E. J. Sambriski, D. C. Schwartz, and J. J. de Pablo
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18125-18130; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904721106
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      Kinetics of hyperpolarized 13C1-pyruvate transport and metabolism in living human breast cancer cells
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      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18131-18136; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909049106
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      Unraveling 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. Peterman
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18231-18236; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904322106

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      Paddling mechanism for the substrate translocation by AAA+ motor revealed by multiscale molecular simulations
      Nobuyasu Koga, Tomoshi Kameda, Kei-ichi Okazaki, and Shoji Takada
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18237-18242; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904756106
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      Single-cell response to stiffness exhibits muscle-like behavior
      Démosthène Mitrossilis, Jonathan Fouchard, Axel Guiroy, Nicolas Desprat, Nicolas Rodriguez, Ben Fabry, and Atef Asnacios
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18243-18248; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903994106
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      Hidden dynamic allostery in a PDZ domain
      Chad M. Petit, Jun Zhang, Paul J. Sapienza, Ernesto J. Fuentes, and Andrew L. Lee
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18249-18254; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904492106
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      Myosin VI undergoes a 180° power stroke implying an uncoupling of the front lever arm
      Jeff G. Reifenberger, Erdal Toprak, HyeongJun Kim, Dan Safer, H. Lee Sweeney, and Paul R. Selvin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18255-18260; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900005106
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      Mechanochemical model for myosin V
      Erin M. Craig and Heiner Linke
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18261-18266; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0908192106
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      Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites
      Enrico Klotzsch, Michael L. Smith, Kristopher E. Kubow, Simon Muntwyler, William C. Little, Felix Beyeler, Delphine Gourdon, Bradley J. Nelson, and Viola Vogel
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18267-18272; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907518106
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      Transient structural distortion of metal-free Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase triggers aberrant oligomerization
      Kaare Teilum, Melanie H. Smith, Eike Schulz, Lea C. Christensen, Gleb Solomentsev, Mikael Oliveberg, and Mikael Akke
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18273-18278; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907387106
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      Tracking lineages of single cells in lines using a microfluidic device
      Amy C. Rowat, James C. Bird, Jeremy J. Agresti, Oliver J. Rando, and David A. Weitz
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18149-18154; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903163106
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      Miz1 is a signal- and pathway-specific modulator or regulator (SMOR) that suppresses TNF-α-induced JNK1 activation
      Jing Liu, Yingming Zhao, Martin Eilers, and Anning Lin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18279-18284; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0906328106
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      Statins inhibit protein lipidation and induce the unfolded protein response in the non-sterol producing nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
      Catarina 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18285-18290; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907117106
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      Regulative recovery in the sea urchin embryo and the stabilizing role of fail-safe gene network wiring
      Joel Smith and Eric H. Davidson
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18291-18296; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910007106
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      Temporomandibular joint formation requires two distinct hedgehog-dependent steps
      Patricia Purcell, Brian W. Joo, Jimmy K. Hu, Pamela V. Tran, Monica L. Calicchio, Daniel J. O'Connell, Richard L. Maas, and Clifford J. Tabin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18297-18302; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0908836106
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      Dual role for the methyltransferase G9a in the maintenance of β-globin gene transcription in adult erythroid cells
      Chandra-Prakash Chaturvedi, Alison M. Hosey, Carmen Palii, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Jeffrey A. Ranish, F. Jeffrey Dilworth, and Marjorie Brand
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18303-18308; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0906769106
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      The keratin-related Ouroboros proteins function as immune antigens mediating tail regression in Xenopus metamorphosis
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      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18309-18314; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708837106
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      Divergent investment strategies of Acacia myrmecophytes and the coexistence of mutualists and exploiters
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      Evidence that chytrids dominate fungal communities in high-elevation soils
      K. 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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18315-18320; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907303106
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      Macroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant–herbivore arms race
      Judith X. Becerra, Koji Noge, and D. Lawrence Venable
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18062-18066; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904456106
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      Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses
      Anurag A. Agrawal, Mark Fishbein, Rayko Halitschke, Amy P. Hastings, Daniel L. Rabosky, and Sergio Rasmann
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18067-18072; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904862106
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      The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga
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      Plant sex and the evolution of plant defenses against herbivores
      Marc T. J. Johnson, Stacey D. Smith, and Mark D. Rausher
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18079-18084; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904695106
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      Macroevolutionary patterns of defense and pollination in Dalechampia vines: Adaptation, exaptation, and evolutionary novelty
      W. Scott Armbruster, Joongku Lee, and Bruce G. Baldwin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18085-18090; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907051106
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      Phylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaks
      Ian S. Pearse and Andrew L. Hipp
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18097-18102; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904867106
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      Repeated climate-linked host shifts have promoted diversification in a temperate clade of leaf-mining flies
      Isaac S. Winkler, Charles Mitter, and Sonja J. Scheffer
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18103-18108; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904852106
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      Toggle 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. Fink
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18321-18326; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909641106

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      Glycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune response
      Cheng-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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18137-18142; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909696106

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      Negative regulation of MyD88-dependent signaling by IL-10 in dendritic cells
      JiHoon Chang, Steven L. Kunkel, and Cheong-Hee Chang
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      Age-associated increase in lifespan of naïve CD4 T cells contributes to T-cell homeostasis but facilitates development of functional defects
      Hirotake Tsukamoto, Karen Clise-Dwyer, Gail E. Huston, Debra K. Duso, Amanda L. Buck, Lawrence L. Johnson, Laura Haynes, and Susan L. Swain
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18333-18338; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910139106
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      Aberrantly resolved RAG-mediated DNA breaks in Atm-deficient lymphocytes target chromosomal breakpoints in cis
      Grace K. Mahowald, Jason M. Baron, Michael A. Mahowald, Shashikant Kulkarni, Andrea L. Bredemeyer, Craig H. Bassing, and Barry P. Sleckman
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18339-18344; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902545106
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      Structural basis of activation-dependent binding of ligand-mimetic antibody AL-57 to integrin LFA-1
      Hongmin Zhang, Jin-huan Liu, Wei Yang, Timothy Springer, Motomu Shimaoka, and Jia-huai Wang
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18345-18350; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909301106
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      Identifying genotype-dependent efficacy of single and combined PI3K- and MAPK-pathway inhibition in cancer
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      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18351-18356; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907325106
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      A wave of nascent transcription on activated human genes
      Youichiro 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
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      Bacillus subtilis spreads by surfing on waves of surfactant
      Thomas E. Angelini, Marcus Roper, Roberto Kolter, David A. Weitz, and Michael P. Brenner
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18109-18113; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905890106
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      Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley
      Shawn A. Steckenfinger and Asif A. Ghazanfar
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18362-18366; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910063106
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      Alzheimer's disease-like pathological features in transgenic mice expressing the APP intracellular domain
      Kaushik Ghosal, Daniel L. Vogt, Man Liang, Yong Shen, Bruce T. Lamb, and Sanjay W. Pimplikar
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18367-18372; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907652106

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      Podosomes are present in a postsynaptic apparatus and participate in its maturation
      Tomasz J. Proszynski, Jacinthe Gingras, Gregorio Valdez, Konrad Krzewski, and Joshua R. Sanes
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18373-18378; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910391106
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      Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys
      M. M. Quallo, C. J. Price, K. Ueno, T. Asamizuya, K. Cheng, R. N. Lemon, and A. Iriki
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18379-18384; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909751106
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      Ca2+-dependent release of Munc18-1 from presynaptic mGluRs in short-term facilitation
      Yoshiaki Nakajima, Sumiko Mochida, Katsuya Okawa, and Shigetada Nakanishi
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18385-18389; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910088106
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      Spatiotemporal precision and hemodynamic mechanism of optical point spreads in alert primates
      Yevgeniy B. Sirotin, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Clemence Bordier, and Aniruddha Das
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18390-18395; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905509106
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      Zyklophin, 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. McLaughlin
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18396-18401; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910180106

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  • Physiology

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      α-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
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18402-18407; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0908207106
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      Nitric oxide permits hypoxia-induced lymphatic perfusion by controlling arterial-lymphatic conduits in zebrafish and glass catfish
      Lasse Dahl Ejby Jensen, Renhai Cao, Eva-Maria Hedlund, Iris Söll, Jon O. Lundberg, Giselbert Hauptmann, John Fleng Steffensen, and Yihai Cao
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18408-18413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0907608106
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      VIP1 response elements mediate mitogen-activated protein kinase 3-induced stress gene expression
      Andrea Pitzschke, Armin Djamei, Markus Teige, and Heribert Hirt
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18414-18419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905599106
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      Peripatetic health-care workers as potential superspreaders
      Laura Temime, Lulla Opatowski, Yohan Pannet, Christian Brun-Buisson, Pierre Yves Boëlle, and Didier Guillemot
      PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18420-18425; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900974106

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Corrections

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    Correction for Jin et al., Endothelial nitric oxide synthase negatively regulates hydrogen peroxide-stimulated AMP-activated protein kinase in endothelial cells
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18426; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911347106
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    Correction for Kang et al., The Corynebacterium diphtheriae shaft pilin SpaA is built of tandem Ig-like modules with stabilizing isopeptide and disulfide bonds
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18427; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911293106
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    Correction for Shi et al., CBP and p300 are cytoplasmic E4 polyubiquitin ligases for p53
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18427; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910983106
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    Correction for Manríquez et al., Adaptive shell color plasticity during the early ontogeny of an intertidal keystone snail
    PNAS October 27, 2009 106 (43) 18427; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910777106
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