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March 15, 2011; vol. 108 no. 11
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have access2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)–resistant crops and the potential for evolution of 2,4-D–resistant weedsJohn F. Egan, Bruce D. Maxwell, David A. Mortensen, Matthew R. Ryan, and Richard G. Smith
- You have accessReply to Egan et al.: Stewardship for herbicide-resistance crop technologyTerry Wright, Guomin Shan, Terence Walsh, and Mark Peterson
- You have accessRole of the hippocampus in imagination and future thinkingEleanor A. Maguire and Demis Hassabis
- You have accessReply to Maguire and Hassabis: Autobiographical memory and future imaginingLarry R. Squire, Susan G. McDuff, and Jennifer C. Frascino
QnAs
Feature Article
- You have accessTransdifferentiation of glioblastoma cells into vascular endothelial cells
- From the Cover
Yasushi Soda, Tomotoshi Marumoto, Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski, Mie Soda, Fei Liu, Hiroyuki Michiue, Sandra Pastorino, Meng Yang, Robert M. Hoffman, Santosh Kesari, and Inder M. VermaSee companion article:
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessSpatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversityEnrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis, Lorenzo Mari, Amos Maritan, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, and Andrea Rinaldo
- Open AccessReassessing optimal neural population codes with neurometric functionsPhilipp Berens, Alexander S. Ecker, Sebastian Gerwinn, Andreas S. Tolias, and Matthias Bethge
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessAttractive emulsion droplets probe the phase diagram of jammed granular matterIvane Jorjadze, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Katherine A. Newhall, and Jasna Brujić
- Open AccessPlatonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes
- From the Cover
Graziano Vernizzi, Rastko Sknepnek, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Chemistry
- You have accessRational development of a strategy for modifying the aggregatibility of proteinsZhongping Tan, Shiying Shang, and Samuel J. Danishefsky
- You have accessAbundant ammonia in primitive asteroids and the case for a possible exobiology
- From the Cover
Sandra Pizzarello, Lynda B. Williams, Jennifer Lehman, Gregory P. Holland, and Jeffery L. Yarger
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessDirect climate effects of perennial bioenergy crops in the United StatesMatei Georgescu, David B. Lobell, and Christopher B. Field
- You have accessClimate change risks for African agricultureChristoph Müller, Wolfgang Cramer, William L. Hare, and Hermann Lotze-Campen
Social Sciences
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessLanguage processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adultsMarina Bedny, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, David Dodell-Feder, Evelina Fedorenko, and Rebecca Saxe
- You have accessFunctional specialization for auditory–spatial processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind humansOlivier Collignon, Gilles Vandewalle, Patrice Voss, Geneviève Albouy, Geneviève Charbonneau, Maryse Lassonde, and Franco Lepore
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- You have access2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)–resistant crops and the potential for evolution of 2,4-D–resistant weedsJohn F. Egan, Bruce D. Maxwell, David A. Mortensen, Matthew R. Ryan, and Richard G. Smith
- You have accessReply to Egan et al.: Stewardship for herbicide-resistance crop technologyTerry Wright, Guomin Shan, Terence Walsh, and Mark Peterson
- You have accessClimate change risks for African agricultureChristoph Müller, Wolfgang Cramer, William L. Hare, and Hermann Lotze-Campen
Biochemistry
- You have accessRequirement for kinase-induced conformational change in eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) restricts phosphorylation of Ser51Madhusudan Dey, Algirdas Velyvis, John J. Li, Elaine Chiu, David Chiovitti, Lewis E. Kay, Frank Sicheri, and Thomas E. Dever
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessShape of tropoelastin, the highly extensible protein that controls human tissue elasticityClair Baldock, Andres F. Oberhauser, Liang Ma, Donna Lammie, Veronique Siegler, Suzanne M. Mithieux, Yidong Tu, John Yuen Ho Chow, Farhana Suleman, Marc Malfois, Sarah Rogers, Liang Guo, Thomas C. Irving, Tim J. Wess, and Anthony S. Weiss
- You have accessDesign and control of acetylcholine receptor conformational changeSnehal V. Jadey, Prasad Purohit, Iva Bruhova, Timothy M. Gregg, and Anthony Auerbach
- Open AccessActive liquid-like behavior of nucleoli determines their size and shape in Xenopus laevis oocytesClifford P. Brangwynne, Timothy J. Mitchison, and Anthony A. Hyman
Cell Biology
- You have accessA target for antiangiogenic therapy: Vascular endothelium derived from glioblastomaAdília Hormigo, Bi-Sen Ding, and Shahin Rafii
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- You have accessTransdifferentiation of glioblastoma cells into vascular endothelial cells
- From the Cover
Yasushi Soda, Tomotoshi Marumoto, Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski, Mie Soda, Fei Liu, Hiroyuki Michiue, Sandra Pastorino, Meng Yang, Robert M. Hoffman, Santosh Kesari, and Inder M. VermaSee companion article:
- You have accessSignaling by vitamin A and retinol-binding protein regulates gene expression to inhibit insulin responsesDaniel C. Berry, Hui Jin, Avijit Majumdar, and Noa Noy
Developmental Biology
- You have accessStrangers no more: Uterine NK cell recognition of the placenta in miceAdrian Erlebacher
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Ecology
- You have accessSpatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversityEnrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis, Lorenzo Mari, Amos Maritan, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, and Andrea Rinaldo
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessNiche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomicsChristopher J. Gobler, Dianna L. Berry, Sonya T. Dyhrman, Steven W. Wilhelm, Asaf Salamov, Alexei V. Lobanov, Yan Zhang, Jackie L. Collier, Louie L. Wurch, Adam B. Kustka, Brian D. Dill, Manesh Shah, Nathan C. VerBerkmoes, Alan Kuo, Astrid Terry, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Erika A. Lindquist, Susan Lucas, Ian T. Paulsen, Theresa K. Hattenrath-Lehmann, Stephanie C. Talmage, Elyse A. Walker, Florian Koch, Amanda M. Burson, Maria Alejandra Marcoval, Ying-Zhong Tang, Gary R. LeCleir, Kathryn J. Coyne, Gry M. Berg, Erin M. Bertrand, Mak A. Saito, Vadim N. Gladyshev, and Igor V. Grigoriev
Genetics
- Open AccessThe serine-threonine kinase LKB1 is essential for survival under energetic stress in zebrafishYme U. van der Velden, Liqin Wang, John Zevenhoven, Ellen van Rooijen, Maarten van Lohuizen, Rachel H. Giles, Hans Clevers, and Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis
- Open AccessTranscriptionally repressed genes become aberrantly methylated and distinguish tumors of different lineages in breast cancerDuncan Sproul, Colm Nestor, Jayne Culley, Jacqueline H. Dickson, J. Michael Dixon, David J. Harrison, Richard R. Meehan, Andrew H. Sims, and Bernard H. Ramsahoye
Immunology
- You have accessPredicting clonal self-renewal and extinction of hematopoietic stem cellsHans B. Sieburg, Betsy D. Rezner, and Christa E. Muller-Sieburg
- Open AccessButyrophilin-like 1 encodes an enterocyte protein that selectively regulates functional interactions with T lymphocytesAnna Bas, Mahima Swamy, Lucie Abeler-Dörner, Gareth Williams, Dick J. Pang, Susannah D. Barbee, and Adrian C. Hayday
Medical Sciences
- You have accessHypoxia and lineage specification of cell line-derived colorectal cancer stem cellsTrevor M. Yeung, Shaan C. Gandhi, and Walter F. Bodmer
- You have accessTransfer of IgG in the female genital tract by MHC class I-related neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) confers protective immunity to vaginal infection
- From the Cover
Zili Li, Senthilkumar Palaniyandi, Rongyu Zeng, Wenbin Tuo, Derry C. Roopenian, and Xiaoping Zhu - Open AccessSmall molecule enoxacin is a cancer-specific growth inhibitor that acts by enhancing TAR RNA-binding protein 2-mediated microRNA processingSonia Melo, Alberto Villanueva, Catia Moutinho, Veronica Davalos, Riccardo Spizzo, Cristina Ivan, Simona Rossi, Fernando Setien, Oriol Casanovas, Laia Simo-Riudalbas, Javier Carmona, Jordi Carrere, August Vidal, Alvaro Aytes, Sara Puertas, Santiago Ropero, Raghu Kalluri, Carlo M. Croce, George A. Calin, and Manel Esteller
Microbiology
- Open AccessSynthetic ozonide drug candidate OZ439 offers new hope for a single-dose cure of uncomplicated malariaSusan A. Charman, Sarah Arbe-Barnes, Ian C. Bathurst, Reto Brun, Michael Campbell, William N. Charman, Francis C. K. Chiu, Jacques Chollet, J. Carl Craft, Darren J. Creek, Yuxiang Dong, Hugues Matile, Melanie Maurer, Julia Morizzi, Tien Nguyen, Petros Papastogiannidis, Christian Scheurer, David M. Shackleford, Kamaraj Sriraghavan, Lukas Stingelin, Yuanqing Tang, Heinrich Urwyler, Xiaofang Wang, Karen L. White, Sergio Wittlin, Lin Zhou, and Jonathan L. Vennerstrom
- You have accessSoil rotifer communities are extremely diverse globally but spatially autocorrelated locallyMichael S. Robeson, Andrew J. King, Kristen R. Freeman, C. William Birky Jr, Andrew P. Martin, and Steven K. Schmidt
- Open AccessAsparagine repeat function in a Plasmodium falciparum protein assessed via a regulatable fluorescent affinity tagVasant Muralidharan, Anna Oksman, Mari Iwamoto, Thomas J. Wandless, and Daniel E. Goldberg
- You have accessE1- and ubiquitin-like proteins provide a direct link between protein conjugation and sulfur transfer in archaeaHugo V. Miranda, Nikita Nembhard, Dan Su, Nathaniel Hepowit, David J. Krause, Jonathan R. Pritz, Cortlin Phillips, Dieter Söll, and Julie A. Maupin-Furlow
Neuroscience
- You have accessRole of the hippocampus in imagination and future thinkingEleanor A. Maguire and Demis Hassabis
- You have accessReply to Maguire and Hassabis: Autobiographical memory and future imaginingLarry R. Squire, Susan G. McDuff, and Jennifer C. Frascino
- Open AccessReassessing optimal neural population codes with neurometric functionsPhilipp Berens, Alexander S. Ecker, Sebastian Gerwinn, Andreas S. Tolias, and Matthias Bethge
- You have accessLanguage processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adultsMarina Bedny, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, David Dodell-Feder, Evelina Fedorenko, and Rebecca Saxe
- You have accessFunctional specialization for auditory–spatial processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind humansOlivier Collignon, Gilles Vandewalle, Patrice Voss, Geneviève Albouy, Geneviève Charbonneau, Maryse Lassonde, and Franco Lepore
- Open AccessA neurodegenerative disease mutation that accelerates the clearance of apoptotic cellsAimee W. Kao, Robin J. Eisenhut, Lauren Herl Martens, Ayumi Nakamura, Anne Huang, Josh A. Bagley, Ping Zhou, Alberto de Luis, Lukas J. Neukomm, Juan Cabello, Robert V. Farese Jr., and Cynthia Kenyon
- Open AccessDeficiency of Dgcr8, a gene disrupted by the 22q11.2 microdeletion, results in altered short-term plasticity in the prefrontal cortexKarine Fénelon, Jun Mukai, Bin Xu, Pei-Ken Hsu, Liam J. Drew, Maria Karayiorgou, Gerald D. Fischbach, Amy B. MacDermott, and Joseph A. Gogos
- Open AccessHedgehog-responsive candidate cell of origin for diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomaMichelle Monje, Siddhartha S. Mitra, Morgan E. Freret, Tal B. Raveh, James Kim, Marilyn Masek, Joanne L. Attema, Gordon Li, Terri Haddix, Michael S. B. Edwards, Paul G. Fisher, Irving L. Weissman, David H. Rowitch, Hannes Vogel, Albert J. Wong, and Philip A. Beachy
- You have accessExtrasynaptic δ-containing GABAA receptors in the nucleus accumbens dorsomedial shell contribute to alcohol intake
- From the Cover
Hong Nie, Mridula Rewal, T. Michael Gill, Dorit Ron, and Patricia H. JanakSee companion article:
- You have accessBinge alcohol drinking is associated with GABAA α2-regulated Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expression in the central amygdalaJuan Liu, Andrew R. Yang, Timothy Kelly, Adam Puche, Chioma Esoga, Harry L. June Jr., Ahmed Elnabawi, Istvan Merchenthaler, Werner Sieghart, Harry L. June Sr., and Laure Aurelian
- You have accessOrexin receptor 2 expression in the posterior hypothalamus rescues sleepiness in narcoleptic miceTakatoshi Mochizuki, Elda Arrigoni, Jacob N. Marcus, Erika L. Clark, Mihoko Yamamoto, Michael Honer, Edilio Borroni, Bradford B. Lowell, Joel K. Elmquist, and Thomas E. Scammell
- You have accessSynaptic neuropeptide release induced by octopamine without Ca2+ entry into the nerve terminalDinara Shakiryanova, Geoffrey M. Zettel, Tingting Gu, Randall S. Hewes, and Edwin S. Levitan
- Open AccessSonic hedgehog signaling is decoded by calcium spike activity in the developing spinal cordYesser H. Belgacem and Laura N. Borodinsky
Plant Biology
- Open AccessAnalysis of natural allelic variation in Arabidopsis using a multiparent recombinant inbred line populationXueqing Huang, Maria-João Paulo, Martin Boer, Sigi Effgen, Paul Keizer, Maarten Koornneef, and Fred A. van Eeuwijk
Population Biology
- You have accessCryptic planktonic diatom challenges phytoplankton ecologistsTheodore J. Smayda
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- Open AccessNeisseria meningitidis is structured in clades associated with restriction modification systems that modulate homologous recombinationSonia Budroni, Emilio Siena, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Kate L. Seib, Davide Serruto, Chiara Nofroni, Maurizio Comanducci, David R. Riley, Sean C. Daugherty, Samuel V. Angiuoli, Antonello Covacci, Mariagrazia Pizza, Rino Rappuoli, E. Richard Moxon, Hervé Tettelin, and Duccio Medini
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessDistinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adultsJennifer Y. Lau, Jennifer C. Britton, Eric E. Nelson, Adrian Angold, Monique Ernst, Michelle Goldwin, Christian Grillon, Ellen Leibenluft, Shmuel Lissek, Maxine Norcross, Nina Shiffrin, and Daniel S. Pine
- You have accessSubjective and objective learning effects dissociate in space and in timeCaspar M. Schwiedrzik, Wolf Singer, and Lucia Melloni
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