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March 29, 2011; vol. 108 no. 13
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessOxytocin and intergroup relations: Goodwill is not a fixed pieFrances S. Chen, Robert Kumsta, and Markus Heinrichs
- You have accessReply to Chen et al.: Perhaps goodwill is unlimited but oxytocin-induced goodwill is notCarsten K. W. De Dreu, Lindred L. Greer, Gerben A. Van Kleef, Shaul Shalvi, and Michel J. J. Handgraaf
- You have accessThe teleost agouti-related protein 2 gene is an ohnolog gone missing from the tetrapod genomeIngo Braasch and John H. Postlethwait
- You have accessReply to Braasch and Postlethwait: Evolutionary origin of the teleost A2 agouti genes (agouti signaling protein 2 and agouti-related protein 2) remains unclearHelgi B. Schiöth, Åke Västermark, and Roger D. Cone
QnAs
Feature Article
- Open AccessHunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans
- From the Cover
Brenna M. Henn, Christopher R. Gignoux, Matthew Jobin, Julie M. Granka, J. M. Macpherson, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Laura Rodríguez-Botigué, Sohini Ramachandran, Lawrence Hon, Abra Brisbin, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, David Comas, Kenneth K. Kidd, Paul J. Norman, Peter Parham, Carlos D. Bustamante, Joanna L. Mountain, and Marcus W. Feldman
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessChiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystalsLuana Tortora and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
- You have accessExperimental verification of the rainbow trapping effect in adiabatic plasmonic gratingsQiaoqiang Gan, Yongkang Gao, Kyle Wagner, Dmitri Vezenov, Yujie J. Ding, and Filbert J. Bartoli
Chemistry
- Open AccessPhysical effects underlying the transition from primitive to modern cell membranesItay Budin and Jack W. Szostak
Engineering
- You have accessEntropic effect on the rate of dislocation nucleationSeunghwa Ryu, Keonwook Kang, and Wei Cai
Geology
- You have accessOxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climatesRomain Amiot, Xu Wang, Zhonghe Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Eric Buffetaut, Christophe Lécuyer, Zhongli Ding, Frédéric Fluteau, Tsuyoshi Hibino, Nao Kusuhashi, Jinyou Mo, Varavudh Suteethorn, Yuanqing Wang, Xing Xu, and Fusong Zhang
- You have accessNew host for carbon in the deep EarthEglantine Boulard, Alexandre Gloter, Alexandre Corgne, Daniele Antonangeli, Anne-Line Auzende, Jean-Philippe Perrillat, François Guyot, and Guillaume Fiquet
Physics
- Open AccessThree-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases
- From the Cover
Miha Ravnik, Gareth P. Alexander, Julia M. Yeomans, and Slobodan ŽumerSee companion article:
- You have accessDesign principles for self-assembly with short-range interactionsSahand Hormoz and Michael P. Brenner
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessNetwork structure of productionEnghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, James Roberts, and Chad Syverson
- You have accessSynchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial tradersSerguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty, and Brian Uzzi
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessFiber density between rhinal cortex and activated ventrolateral prefrontal regions predicts episodic memory performance in humansBjörn H. Schott, Christoph Niklas, Jörn Kaufmann, Nils C. Bodammer, Judith Machts, Hartmut Schütze, and Emrah Düzel
Sustainability Science
- You have accessClimate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern HondurasKendra McSweeney and Oliver T. Coomes
- You have accessIdentifying governance strategies that effectively support ecosystem services, resource sustainability, and biodiversityR. E. Kenward, M. J. Whittingham, S. Arampatzis, B. D. Manos, T. Hahn, A. Terry, R. Simoncini, J. Alcorn, O. Bastian, M. Donlan, K. Elowe, F. Franzén, Z. Karacsonyi, M. Larsson, D. Manou, I. Navodaru, O. Papadopoulou, J. Papathanasiou, A. von Raggamby, R. J. A. Sharp, T. Söderqvist, Å. Soutukorva, L. Vavrova, N. J. Aebischer, N. Leader-Williams, and C. Rutz
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- Open AccessOn the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in EuropeWil Roebroeks and Paola Villa
Biochemistry
- You have accessViral microRNA target allows insight into the role of translation in governing microRNA target accessibility
- Inaugural Article
Horng-Ru Lin and Don Ganem - You have accessTuning the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA to elongation factor Tu for optimal decodingJared M. Schrader, Stephen J. Chapman, and Olke C. Uhlenbeck
- You have accessRedesigning allosteric activation in an enzyme
- From the Cover
Sadhna Rana, Nicola Pozzi, Leslie A. Pelc, and Enrico Di CeraSee companion article:
- You have accessTemporal dynamics of natural product biosynthesis in marine cyanobacteriaEduardo Esquenazi, Adam C. Jones, Tara Byrum, Pieter C. Dorrestein, and William H. Gerwick
- You have accessStructure of betaglycan zona pellucida (ZP)-C domain provides insights into ZP-mediated protein polymerization and TGF-β bindingS. Jack Lin, YaoXiong Hu, Jie Zhu, Teresa K. Woodruff, and Theodore S. Jardetzky
- You have accessStructural insights into a unique cellulase fold and mechanism of cellulose hydrolysisJoana L. A. Brás, Alan Cartmell, Ana Luísa M. Carvalho, Genny Verzé, Edward A. Bayer, Yael Vazana, Márcia A. S. Correia, José A. M. Prates, Supriya Ratnaparkhe, Alisdair B. Boraston, Maria J. Romão, Carlos M. G. A. Fontes, and Harry J. Gilbert
- You have accessStructure of a Plasmodium falciparum PfEMP1 rosetting domain reveals a role for the N-terminal segment in heparin-mediated rosette inhibitionAlexandre Juillerat, Anita Lewit-Bentley, Micheline Guillotte, Stéphane Gangnard, Audrey Hessel, Bruno Baron, Inès Vigan-Womas, Patrick England, Odile Mercereau-Puijalon, and Graham A. Bentley
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessChiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystalsLuana Tortora and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
- Open AccessPhysical effects underlying the transition from primitive to modern cell membranesItay Budin and Jack W. Szostak
- You have accessAdaptive mechanically controlled lubrication mechanism found in articular joints
- From the Cover
George W. Greene, Xavier Banquy, Dong Woog Lee, Daniel D. Lowrey, Jing Yu, and Jacob N. Israelachvili - Open AccessLarge shifts in pKa values of lysine residues buried inside a proteinDaniel G. Isom, Carlos A. Castañeda, Brian R. Cannon, and Bertrand García-Moreno E.
- Open AccessInterdomain communication revealed in the diabetes drug target mitoNEETElizabeth L. Baxter, Patricia A. Jennings, and José N. Onuchic
- You have accessMechanism for selectivity-inactivation coupling in KcsA potassium channelsWayland W. L. Cheng, Jason G. McCoy, Ameer N. Thompson, Colin G. Nichols, and Crina M. Nimigean
Cell Biology
- You have accessTwo ubiquitin ligases, APC/C-Cdh1 and SKP1-CUL1-F (SCF)-β-TrCP, sequentially regulate glycolysis during the cell cycleSlavica Tudzarova, Sergio L. Colombo, Kai Stoeber, Saul Carcamo, Gareth H. Williams, and Salvador Moncada
- You have accessAn anticlastogenic function for the Polycomb Group gene Bmi1Jalila Chagraoui, Josée Hébert, Simon Girard, and Guy Sauvageau
- You have accessPU.1 and C/EBPα synergistically program distinct response to NF-κB activation through establishing monocyte specific enhancersFulai Jin, Yan Li, Bing Ren, and Rama Natarajan
Ecology
- You have accessSynchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial tradersSerguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty, and Brian Uzzi
- You have accessMore closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental testJean H. Burns and Sharon Y. Strauss
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessIdentifying governance strategies that effectively support ecosystem services, resource sustainability, and biodiversityR. E. Kenward, M. J. Whittingham, S. Arampatzis, B. D. Manos, T. Hahn, A. Terry, R. Simoncini, J. Alcorn, O. Bastian, M. Donlan, K. Elowe, F. Franzén, Z. Karacsonyi, M. Larsson, D. Manou, I. Navodaru, O. Papadopoulou, J. Papathanasiou, A. von Raggamby, R. J. A. Sharp, T. Söderqvist, Å. Soutukorva, L. Vavrova, N. J. Aebischer, N. Leader-Williams, and C. Rutz
Evolution
- You have accessEvolutionary approach to predicting the binding site residues of a protein from its primary sequenceYan Yuan Tseng and Wen-Hsiung Li
- You have accessStepwise assembly of the Nova-regulated alternative splicing network in the vertebrate brainManuel Irimia, Amanda Denuc, Demián Burguera, Ildiko Somorjai, Jose M. Martín-Durán, Grigory Genikhovich, Senda Jimenez-Delgado, Ulrich Technau, Scott W. Roy, Gemma Marfany, and Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
- You have accessResolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number
- From the Cover
Simone Immler, Scott Pitnick, Geoff A. Parker, Kate L. Durrant, Stefan Lüpold, Sara Calhim, and Tim R. Birkhead
Genetics
- Open AccessHunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans
- From the Cover
Brenna M. Henn, Christopher R. Gignoux, Matthew Jobin, Julie M. Granka, J. M. Macpherson, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Laura Rodríguez-Botigué, Sohini Ramachandran, Lawrence Hon, Abra Brisbin, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, David Comas, Kenneth K. Kidd, Paul J. Norman, Peter Parham, Carlos D. Bustamante, Joanna L. Mountain, and Marcus W. Feldman - Open AccessDrug screening in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophyGenri Kawahara, Jeremy A. Karpf, Jennifer A. Myers, Matthew S. Alexander, Jeffrey R. Guyon, and Louis M. Kunkel
- You have accessSuicidal [PSI+] is a lethal yeast prionRyan P. McGlinchey, Dmitry Kryndushkin, and Reed B. Wickner
- You have accessReceptor activator of NF-κB (RANK) stimulates the proliferation of epithelial cells of the epidermo-pilosebaceous unitVincent Duheron, Estelle Hess, Monique Duval, Marion Decossas, Beatriz Castaneda, Jennifer E. Klöpper, Leonela Amoasii, Jean-Baptiste Barbaroux, Ifor R. Williams, Hideo Yagita, Josef Penninger, Yongwon Choi, Frédéric Lézot, Richard Groves, Ralf Paus, and Christopher G. Mueller
Immunology
- Open AccessDeterminism and stochasticity during maturation of the zebrafish antibody repertoireNing Jiang, Joshua A. Weinstein, Lolita Penland, Richard A. White III, Daniel S. Fisher, and Stephen R. Quake
- You have accessMicrobiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infectionTakeshi Ichinohe, Iris K. Pang, Yosuke Kumamoto, David R. Peaper, John H. Ho, Thomas S. Murray, and Akiko Iwasaki
- You have accessTNF-α from inflammatory dendritic cells (DCs) regulates lung IL-17A/IL-5 levels and neutrophilia versus eosinophilia during persistent fungal infectionMingjian Fei, Shikha Bhatia, Timothy B. Oriss, Manohar Yarlagadda, Anupriya Khare, Shizuo Akira, Shinobu Saijo, Yoichiro Iwakura, Beth A. Fallert Junecko, Todd A. Reinhart, Oded Foreman, Prabir Ray, Jay Kolls, and Anuradha Ray
- You have accessRecent thymic emigrants are preferentially incorporated only into the depleted T-cell poolEvan G. Houston Jr., Lauren E. Higdon, and Pamela J. Fink
Medical Sciences
- You have accessHomozygous mutation in SAMHD1 gene causes cerebral vasculopathy and early onset strokeBaozhong Xin, Stephen Jones, Erik G. Puffenberger, Claas Hinze, Alicia Bright, Haiyan Tan, Aimin Zhou, Guiyun Wu, Jilda Vargus-Adams, Dimitris Agamanolis, and Heng Wang
- You have accessAntidiabetic and antisteatotic effects of the selective fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor platensimycin in mouse models of diabetesMargaret Wu, Sheo B. Singh, Jun Wang, Christine C. Chung, Gino Salituro, Bindhu V. Karanam, Sang Ho Lee, Maryann Powles, Kenneth P. Ellsworth, Michael E. Lassman, Corey Miller, Robert W. Myers, Michael R. Tota, Bei B. Zhang, and Cai Li
- You have accessHigh levels of the Mps1 checkpoint protein are protective of aneuploidy in breast cancer cellsJewel Daniel, Jonathan Coulter, Ju-Hyung Woo, Kathleen Wilsbach, and Edward Gabrielson
- You have accessCellular copper levels determine the phenotype of the Arg875 variant of ATP7B/Wilson disease proteinArnab Gupta, Ashima Bhattacharjee, Oleg Y. Dmitriev, Sergiy Nokhrin, Lelita Braiterman, Ann L. Hubbard, and Svetlana Lutsenko
- You have accessIntestinal epithelial cells as producers but not targets of chronic TNF suffice to cause murine Crohn-like pathologyManolis Roulis, Maria Armaka, Menelaos Manoloukos, Maria Apostolaki, and George Kollias
Microbiology
- You have accessIron enzyme ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase in Escherichia coli is rapidly damaged by hydrogen peroxide but can be protected by manganeseJason M. Sobota and James A. Imlay
Neuroscience
- You have accessFiber density between rhinal cortex and activated ventrolateral prefrontal regions predicts episodic memory performance in humansBjörn H. Schott, Christoph Niklas, Jörn Kaufmann, Nils C. Bodammer, Judith Machts, Hartmut Schütze, and Emrah Düzel
- You have accessFunctional inactivation of the rat hippocampus disrupts avoidance of a moving objectPetr Telensky, Jan Svoboda, Karel Blahna, Jan Bureš, Stepan Kubik, and Ales Stuchlik
- Open AccessA synaptic organizing principle for cortical neuronal groupsRodrigo Perin, Thomas K. Berger, and Henry Markram
- You have accessGenetic visualization with an improved GCaMP calcium indicator reveals spatiotemporal activation of the spinal motor neurons in zebrafishAkira Muto, Masamichi Ohkura, Tomoya Kotani, Shin-ichi Higashijima, Junichi Nakai, and Koichi Kawakami
- You have accessGlucose transporters and ATP-gated K+ (KATP) metabolic sensors are present in type 1 taste receptor 3 (T1r3)-expressing taste cellsKaren K. Yee, Sunil K. Sukumaran, Ramana Kotha, Timothy A. Gilbertson, and Robert F. Margolskee
- You have accessCompensatory network changes in the dentate gyrus restore long-term potentiation following ablation of neurogenesis in young-adult miceBenjamin H. Singer, Amy E. Gamelli, Cynthia L. Fuller, Stephanie J. Temme, Jack M. Parent, and Geoffrey G. Murphy
- You have accessVoltage-gated potassium channel KCNV2 (Kv8.2) contributes to epilepsy susceptibilityBenjamin S. Jorge, Courtney M. Campbell, Alison R. Miller, Elizabeth D. Rutter, Christina A. Gurnett, Carlos G. Vanoye, Alfred L. George Jr., and Jennifer A. Kearney
Physiology
- Open AccessMaternal diet and aging alter the epigenetic control of a promoter–enhancer interaction at the Hnf4a gene in rat pancreatic isletsIonel Sandovici, Noel H. Smith, Marloes Dekker Nitert, Matthew Ackers-Johnson, Santiago Uribe-Lewis, Yoko Ito, R. Huw Jones, Victor E. Marquez, William Cairns, Mohammed Tadayyon, Laura P. O’Neill, Adele Murrell, Charlotte Ling, Miguel Constância, and Susan E. Ozanne
Plant Biology
- You have accessIdentity, regulation, and activity of inducible diterpenoid phytoalexins in maizeEric A. Schmelz, Fatma Kaplan, Alisa Huffaker, Nicole J. Dafoe, Martha M. Vaughan, Xinzhi Ni, James R. Rocca, Hans T. Alborn, and Peter E. Teal
- You have accessSeedless fruits and the disruption of a conserved genetic pathway in angiosperm ovule developmentJorge Lora, José I. Hormaza, María Herrero, and Charles S. Gasser
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessRisk preference following adolescent alcohol use is associated with corrupted encoding of costs but not rewards by mesolimbic dopamineNicholas A. Nasrallah, Jeremy J. Clark, Annie L. Collins, Christina A. Akers, Paul E. Phillips, and Ilene L. Bernstein
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